The
Memorandum Laws and the
impoverishment tactics
imposed by the European Union and the IMF, through our subject
- and in question
- emergency government,
unleash a brutal and unending assault on the
lower and middle classes.
While the burden of the banks’ debts
is loaded on the people’s shoulders in
the invocation of "public debt" and "financial
restoration",
bankers, ship owners and industrialists are vested with all legal
provisions and guarantees to help them accumulate more wealth.
Because “financial growth” and other economic terms used by the
State and the capitalists, mean even greater losses for the low-class
people, even more profits for the
high classes.
While society is experiencing misery in every aspect: unemployment,
dark ages for the working people and violent impoverishment, the
government completely undermines social benefits
such as education and health, the destruction of which is presented
as "restoring moves".
Under the pretence
of normality and social peace, repression is intensified, every
strike is declared illegal, every
person fighting is prosecuted,
new type C
(Guantanamo) prisons are
built, but eminent representatives of the domestic capital are still
not prosecuted for
embezzling millions of
public wealth or are exempt from their crimes against society, their
lawyers being prominent party officials and government Ministers.
At a time when there are extreme cuts on
wages and pensions and public insurance funds collapse, huge amounts
of money are provided for armament
programs and for
the reinforcement-even
with human resources- of
operations carried out by "coalition forces" in third
countries.
They promise economic recovery through
tourism while they impose the destruction of the natural resources of
the country, either by destroying the highly dangerous chemical
weapons of Syria at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea or in the
form of "investments" such as the one in Skouries,
Halkidiki, as well as by selling out every piece of public land and
public asset: from water, electric power, roads, ports and airports,
to whole islands, shores and forests.
It is
now the time for Corfu to pay a heavy toll to this extraordinary
sellout. It seems that Corfu has been put on sale from North to
South: from the rare wetland Erimitis to the Natura protected habitat
of Issos, and from the historic building of the Old Psychiatric
Hospital –where, not only mental health services are still
delivered, but also three Ionian University departments are housed-
to Mpouka beach in Lefkimmi.
But
the tourism industry, the development and the investments that they
promise -and some can only dream of- include all the provisions
necessary for the investors: expropriation of neighboring regions,
favorable loans and tax regulations, local and foreign workers on
starvation wages, slavery working conditions. Anyone who hopes to be
saved by those responsible for our devastation is utterly deluded.
The public land and property does not belong to governments,
investors, speculators, economic growth seekers or people serving
small and large interests. It belongs to us all. We will not allow
for the public land and property to be sold out or disposed of, not
only because it is not a product for creating wealth, but also,
because it does not belong to anyone, therefore, it cannot be sold.
This fight is given by
all of us for all of us, without petty political interests. We are
horizontally organized, determined to take our lives in our hands.
This struggle is a struggle for Life, Land, Freedom and Dignity. It
is a fight that should be given by everyone, with respect to the
nature, the history and the tradition of Corfu island and its
society.
Corfu
will not be sold out!
Open meeting
every Wednesday at 19.30 at the premises of the Old Psychiatric
Hospital.
Corfu
residents’ “Initiative Against Sell-out
and Repression/Submission”
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