Wednesday’s general strike in Greece, involving 2 million workers in the public and private sectors, marks a turning point in the political situation throughout Europe. It represents the most significant manifestation of a growing movement of resistance to the attempt by Europe’s governments and corporations to make workers pay for the economic crisis and the multi-billion-euro bailout of the banks.
At the very onset of this new movement of the working class, two fundamental characteristics have emerged: the movement assumes a cross-border and international character, and the workers immediately come up against the bankruptcy of their old trade union and political organizations—all of which are wedded to a nationalist program.'
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Look, Friedrich Engels argued you cannot legislate against economic laws. that's exactly what these Greek unions try to do. Marx would dismiss them in exactly the same manner as he made short shrift with the Gotha programme! Solidarity with blockheads does a movement no good!
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