Tens of thousands of workers sent this message. Workers who participated in the strike rallies of the All-workers’ Militant Front (PAME) in 76 cities all over Greece. Together with self-employed, women and young people they declared their determination not to tolerate the continuation of the anti-people political line, which is being advanced in the negotiations of the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government with the Eurozone and IMF.

The May 1 rally in Athens was magnificent in Syntagama square, outside the parliament building. Giorgos Perros, member of the Executive Secretariat of PAME, noted the following in his speech to the rally: “The escalation of our struggle is a primary duty for our future activity. We are preparing ourselves. With mass collective processes, general assemblies, meetings, rallies. We discuss and take measures to raise our class up, to respond militantly to any agreements and measures in the next period.

We are preparing for a strike as a response which must have mass and decisive characteristics. We struggle for the workers’ income, for the Collective Labour Agreements. Our central slogans and goals: wage increases, the recovery of the losses now. Restoration of the Collective Labour agreements now! The government has gifted the employers 14 billion euros, which was acquired from the wage cuts of recent years that were imposed by the anti-worker laws! They drove us to debt and poverty. We do not give these things up, we demand them, we want them back.”

Dimitris Koutsoumpas, GS of the CC of the KKE, who attended the rally of PAME in Athens stated to the mass media: “the only realistic, certain and hopeful path for our people today is the path that leads to the exit from the memoranda and the application laws. It is the path that leads to the development of the class struggle, for the workers’ income, for Collective Labour Agreements. It is the path that leads to rupture with the EU, capital and its power. This is the message of today’s Red Workers’ May 1.”

04.05.2015