*From The International Marxist Tendency- The Struggle In Greece- a Guest Commentary

Click on the headline to link to a "In Defense Of Marxism" entry from the International Marxist Tendency on the current situation in Greece.

Markin comment:

This guest commentary makes the right point about the limits of a general strike strategy without the goal of a struggle for state power. Two thing stick out-immediately. We are in a pre-revolutionary situation in Greece, whether we are prepared for it or not. The need to create workers councils down at the base and for revolutionaries to fight for their program in them is paramount. Secondly, to break the hold of the Stalinist and ex-Stalinist parties on the Greek working class, and that sit just to the left of the governing Socialist Party, in order get on that road to socialism it is time for revolutionaries to call for the formation of a workers government. If the Stalinist and others will not do fight for that, we will. Given the relationship of forces this is a propaganda call today, but the situation in Greece is so fluid things could turn around quickly. For A KKE-SYRIZA government!