São os limites limitadíssimos do jornalismo. «Comunicação» diz-se hoje, propaganda, dizia-se ontem. E estávamos mais próximos da nossa verdade. Assim, segundo nos comunicam os meios de comunicação social, a casta política dominante na Europa tem nestes dias algumas dificuldades na Grécia. Os agentes locais da Eurolândia arrastam os pés, hesitam em assinar mais um plano de recessão. Que, como diz a propaganda, vai, enfim, resolver os problemas, O problema. Qual problema, é outra historia. Mas por que diabo a hesitação desta nobre gente ? Dóceis servos da lei do lucro, funcionários bem pagos do sistema que mete agua…
Sem nos alargarmos muito no assunto, aqui vai uma sugestão de explicação para esta hesitação. E se fosse a velha chata da luta de classes? Eu sei que isto soa mal e é quase um palavrão ! O futuro, dizem os sabidos, é a submissão à miséria. Evidente. Mas, e se o futuro fosse, pelo contrário, o regresso deste animal que faz buracos onde menos se espera, a amiga toupeira ? Dito de outra maneira, se fosse pôr de lado estes choros e lamentações de tipo jesuítico e optar por agir colectivamente, autonomamente, positivamente. Construir, ir para a frente, não continuar lamentosamente a pedir (a quem ?) que se volte ao passado que, já se sabe, foi tão harmonioso… É isto a luta de classes. Da qual a «comunicação» não pode falar, porque pode perturbar o juizinho de que falava o O’Neil. Na Grécia, passam-se coisas. Não falo de peditórios, abaixo assinados, manifestações tristes, choros e missas de finados. Falo de acção concreta, pensada, organizada, para começar a repensar o mundo. E se fosse o medo desta postura que começa a paralisar o Sr. Papadoraioqueoparta e os seus colegas socialistas, fascistas, centristas etc. e tal ? E se fosse mesmo isso o sinal que se chegou a um limite ?
The general hospital of Kilkis in Greece is now under workers control. The workers at the hospital have declared that the long-lasting problems of the National Health System (ESY) cannot be resolved.
The workers have responded to the regime’s acceleration of fascism by occupying the hospital and outing it under direct and complete control by the workers. All decisions will be made by a ‘workers general assembly’.
The hospital has stated that. “The government is not acquitted of its financial responsibilities, and if their demands are not met, they will turn to the local and wider community for support in every possible way to save the hospital defend free public healthcare, to overthrow the government and every neo-liberal policy.”
From the 6th February, hospital workers will only deal with emergencies until their wages, and monies owed have been paid. They are also demanding a return to wage levels prior to the implementation of austerity measures.
The next general assembly will take place on the 13th, and a related press conference will be given on the 15th.
The following statement has been issued by the workers:
1. We recognize that the current and enduring problems of Ε.Σ.Υ (the national health system) and related organizations cannot be solved with specific and isolated demands or demands serving our special interests, since these problems are a product of a more general anti-popular governmental policy and of the bold global neoliberalism.
2. We recognize, as well, that by insisting in the promotion of that kind of demands we essentially participate in the game of the ruthless authority. That authority which, in order to face its enemy - i.e. the people- weakened and fragmented, wishes to prevent the creation of a universal labour and popular front on a national and global level with common interests and demands against the social impoverishment that the authority's policies bring.
3. For this reason, we place our special interests inside a general framework of political and economic demands that are posed by a huge portion of the Greek people that today is under the most brutal capitalist attack; demands that in order to be fruitful must be promoted until the end in cooperation with the middle and lower classes of our society.
4. The only way to achieve this is to question, in action, not only its political legitimacy, but also the legality of the arbitrary authoritarian and anti-popular power and hierarchy which is moving towards totalitarianism with accelerating pace.
5. The workers at the General Hospital of Kilkis answer to this totalitarianism with democracy. We occupy the public hospital and put it under our direct and absolute control. The Γ.N. of Kilkis will henceforth be self-governed and the only legitimate means of administrative decision making will be the General Assembly of its workers.
6. The government is not released of its economic obligations of staffing and supplying the hospital, but if they continue to ignore these obligations, we will be forced to inform the public of this and ask the local government but most importantly the society to support us in any way possible for: (a) the survival of our hospital (b) the overall support of the right for public and free healthcare (c) the overthrow, through a common popular struggle, of the current government and any other neoliberal policy, no matter where it comes from (d) a deep and substantial democratization, that is, one that will have society, rather than a third party, responsible for making decisions for its own future.
7. The labour union of the Γ.N. of Kilkis will begin, from 6 February, the retention of work, serving only emergency incidents in our hospital until the complete payment for the hours worked, and the rise of our income to the levels it was before the arrival of the troika (EU-ECB-IMF). Meanwhile, knowing fully well what our social mission and moral obligations are, we will protect the health of the citizens that come to the hospital by providing free healthcare to those in need, accommodating and calling the government to finally accept its responsibilities, overcoming even in the last minute its immoderate social ruthlessness.
8. We decide that a new general assembly will take place, on Monday 13 February in the assembly hall of the new building of the hospital at 11 am, in order to decide the procedures that are needed to efficiently implement the occupation of the administrative services and to successfully realise the self-governance of the hospital, which will start from that day. The general assemblies will take place daily and will be the paramount instrument for decision making regarding the employees and the operation of the hospital.
We ask for the solidarity of the people and workers from all fields, the collaboration of all workers' unions and progressive organizations, as well as the support from any media organization that chooses to tell the truth. We are determined to continue until the traitors that sell out our country and our people leave. It's either them or us!
The above decisions will be made public through a news conference to which all the Mass Media (local and national) will be invited on Wednesday 15/2/2012 at 12.30. Our daily assemblies begin on 13 February. We will inform the citizens about every important event taking place in our hospital by means of news releases and conferences. Furthermore, we will use any means available to publicise these events in order to make this mobilization successful.
We call
a) Our fellow citizens to show solidarity to our effort,
b) Every unfairly treated citizen of our country in contestation and opposition, with actions, against his'/her's oppressors,
c) Our fellow workers from other hospitals to make similar decisions,
d) the employees in other fields of the public and private sector and the participants in labour and progressive organizations to act likewise, in order to help our mobilization take the form of a universal labour and popular resistance and uprising, until our final victory against the economic and political elite that today oppresses our country and the whole world.
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6 de Dezembro de 2008. se uma revolta indómita pode alastrar a uma via revolucionária...
Ora aqui está um case-study sobre a(s) oportunidade(s)- necessária(s) mas não suficiente(s)- de eclosão de um processo instituinte de construção dos Conselhos Operários. Onde sobressai o grau muito apurado de consciência de classe dos revoltados gregos e a demarcação implacável perante as miragens de cópias insustentáveis do tipo partido-Estado manipulado pelas burocracias mais inoperantes e sinistras que tentam espalhar as " ilusões revolucionárias ". Recorramos a Castoriadis, que integra as " lições " de Pannekoek, Mattick e Victor Serge sobre a heterodoxia e o devir da autonomia: " Os elementos democráticos que subsistem nas sociedade ocidentais ricas de hoje não são produto do capitalismo, mas resíduos das lutas democráticas dos povos, e muito particularmente do movimento operário. Mas este movimento foi a partir de certo momento desviado pelo marxismo, depois pelo marxismo-leninismo, que nele introduziram a ideia de ortodoxia, a ideia de um papel dirigente( e, de facto, a ditadura) do Partido, um messianismo mistificador e pseudo-religioso, o desprezo pela actividade criadora do povo, e o imaginário tipicamente capitalista do carácter central da economia e da produção. Se tudo o que nos interessa é o aumento da produção e do consumo, podemos ficar com o capitalismo; são coisas que ele consegue fazer bastante bem. Se o que nos interessa é a liberdade, teremos de mudar de sociedade. ( ...) As lutas operárias mostraram as imensas capacidades de auto-organização que o povo possui, criaram formas que mantêm para nós um valor de exemplo- caso dos Conselhos Operários ". Niet
A pergunta como lembrou W. Reich não é "porque roubam os pobres"mas precisamente a inversa "porque não roubam os pobres"...
Dito isto seria interessante discutirmos porque os portugueses, ou seja nós, somos tão acomodados (?),fatalistas (?),submissos (?), respeitadores dos poderosos (?), crentes numa salvação que nos vem de fora. Que elementos da nossa cultura e da nossa história nos condicionaram a sermos assim?
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