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Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release  24th of February 2012

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 03 9354 0544 Fax: 03 9354 0166
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au
 

Isherwood: I support the Greek people against fascist banker tyranny

Australians who were relieved at the news of the latest Greek bailout have swallowed the lie that their own financial security hinges on supporting the IMF policy to grind the Greek people into suffocating poverty and even death in order to prop up the global financial system, Citizens Electoral Council leader Craig Isherwood asserted today.

Isherwood declared, “This is not a bailout of Greece, it is a bailout of the City of London banking system by crushing the people of Greece, and I fully support their resistance against it.

“Moreover, it won’t even work—that was obvious in the first 24 hours when expectations of its failure sparked a panic in credit default swaps and gold speculation. It is also a fraud, because the 53.5 per cent so-called ‘haircut’ for bondholders is on Greek debt that was already massively discounted, i.e. the bondholders still get most of their money, but the Greek people and government get nothing.

“What is being done to Greece by the EU, ECB and IMF is fascism, a re-run of the Nazi occupation of Greece during WWII, and that is how the Greek people see it,” emphasised Isherwood.

He observed that the present resistance among the Greek population is being led by elderly Greeks who were resistance fighters against the Nazis in WWII, such as Mikis Theodorakis, 87, and Manolis Glezos, 90. Both were the targets of attempted assassinations during the Feb. 12 mass demonstration in Athens, when riot police fired teargas canisters directly at their feet.

Prior to attending that rally, renowned musician Theodorakis, the composer of “Zorba the Greek”, issued “The Truth About Greece, An Open Letter to International Public Opinion”, stating: “There is a global conspiracy to achieve the destruction of my country. They started in 1975, aiming at the modern Greek culture, continued with the distortion of our modern history and our national identity and now, they’re also trying to achieve our physical elimination with unemployment, hunger and misery. If the Greek people don’t show the will to stand up united and stop them, there is a serious, real risk, for Greece's extinction. I believe, this will take place within the next ten years. From all of us, the Greeks, all that will remain is the memory of our civilization and our struggles in history for freedom.”

The statement calls for forming a “Resistance and Solidarity Front” of all political forces “to drive off the Troika”, the occupation force comprised of the IMF, the EU Commission, and European Central Bank. The three-page letter slams the European banks and their Troika for having destroyed people’s lives and sinking Greece into a “new dark age” comparable to the Nazi occupation, during which 300,000 Greeks died of starvation: “The phantom of hunger returns to our slandered and wretched country”. But, he emphasised, against the Nazis Greece “chose the path of Sacrifice and Freedom, and simultaneously the path of Survival”, and the Greek people are rising now once again: “they hit us without a cause and we responded with Solidarity and Resistance… and we survived. The same we do now….

“There is another solution! And this is to change radically our nation’s course and turn to Russia for economic cooperation and create economic partnerships that will help us grow the natural wealth of our country, with terms that ensure our national interest.” In an earlier appeal he had called for opening immediate discussions with both Russia and China toward that end.

Theodorakis concludes: “To this purpose … I am totally and completely committing myself and I believe ultimately, I’ll be vindicated. I fought, bearing arms against Hitler’s Occupation. I've spent time in the dungeons of the Gestapo…

“Today, I am 87 years old and it’s very likely I’m not going to live to see the salvation of my beloved country. But I will die with my conscience clear, because I'm still doing my Duty to the ideals of Liberty and the Law, to the end!”

Isherwood challenged Australians to get behind the Greek people’s revolt, by supporting the fight of Lyndon LaRouche and the CEC for a global Glass-Steagall reorganisation of the financial system.

“A financial system that destroys people to survive has no legitimacy, and must be scrapped,” he said. “The fight of the Greek people against fascist austerity and British imperial policies of systematic genocide, is the same as that of Australia’s farmers who are being crushed by Coles and Woolworths; it is the same fight as that of the 2 million Australians in the Murray-Darling Basin whose towns are being remorselessly shut down under phony “green” pretexts; it is the same fight waged by Victoria’s nurses against the cuts to nurse-patient ratios; and on and on. It is the same fight facing all Australians. Our economy is being smashed by cheap imports, skyrocketing costs and stretched electricity, water and transport infrastructure, because of three decades of free trade, deregulation and privatisation policies to boost bankers and speculators.

“The CEC’s policies will fix it: a Glass-Steagall banking reorganisation to cancel speculation and save legitimate local banks as specified in our 2008 Homeowners and Bank Protection Bill (HBPB), and a government-owned national bank to finance major infrastructure development as the centerpiece of rebuilding our agro-industrial physical economy.” Isherwood concluded, “Join the fight for these policies now. Don’t wait for the Greek crisis—whose first stages are here already—to slam into Australia with full force. This is the worst financial collapse in all of human history, far worse than that of the 14th century, which carried off one-third or more of the entire population of Europe. You either fight with us, or, very likely, you will die. We expect to hear from you.”

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