The construction of a fence at Evros, one more repressive
measure of the capitalistic crisis.
The erection will be accompanied either with voluntary
repatriation or with mandatory expulsion as applied until date. The
Panhellenic Association of Engineers Contractors of Public Works has already
come to the aid of the Government by declaring that it supplies its members for
the repair of camps for the reception of refugees, as well as for the erection
of a wall for the protection of the borders, due to the emergency. The
immigrants and refugees are becoming the scapegoats of the 2008 crisis (of
the iconic, speculative capital as the central strategic of accumulation),
while the 2001 census brought in light the fact that in Greece were living
800.000 immigrants and not 250.000 who were until then legalized. It is
officially recorded the contribution of immigrants in the development of the
old EU members in public works of infrastructure the last 50 years, in the big
industries and mines of these countries, the contribution of immigrant women as
housekeepers, for the care of elders and chronic patients, as cleaners e.t.c to
the same countries, as well as their major contribution to population
increment, which, indicatively, at the EU of the 15 soar between 1991 and 2009
to 73,7% (95,8% in Greece) as opposed to the natural increment that was only
26,3% (4,2% in Greece).
It is incorporated in the Greek law the EU Directive for
the imprisonment of immigrants without papers up to 18 months, the Greek
Presidents Decree 81/2009 for the reformation of the Asylum for Refugees, its
essential abolition, we witness the neo-fascist decision of the Council of
State under which it is judged illegal for children of immigrants who were born
here and continue to live in Greece for at least 5 years to obtain Greek
citizenship. The Evros Fence is the governmental complement of the
inauguration in October 2010 at Piraeus, with national expenses, of the
district office of the FRONTEX and its forces for fast intervention, the
consent to act in national infrastructures with restriction of access even for
the Greek authorities, under a regime of exterritoritality for its personnel,
with the Greek courts non qualified for its actions, with greater privileges
from those standing until date for NATOs installations, foretelling what is
coming next; we witness the constitutionment of poverty and abjection for the
European South with acceptance, protection and unconcealed backing of the
plutocracy, of the capital interests and its inner fights, charged on the
working class of the country.
In front of these practices we owe to look with diligent
eye the instances and facts at our working and social environments, away from
micro-political and guild logics. The Greek Committee of International
Democratic Solidarity calls all employed and unemployed people, greeks and
foreigners, men and women to stand for the rights of the immigrants and
refugees to Asylum, to human living conditions at our country for those who
want to stay here, to the facilitation of the travel for those who want to
leave for other countries.
We say no to the Europe - Fortress / Greeks and
foreigners workers united.
February 13, 2011
February 13, 2011
