The P&R of Greece celebrate the International Day of Struggle with 10 days of actions

Athens, 25/09/2017
10-Day Action Of Pensioners Across Greece
Against The Anti-Pensioners, Anti-Popular Policies and The New Deadly Measures Of The SYRIZA-ANEL Government.

The Government of SYRZA-ANEL imposes the new anti-pensioners measures of the third
memorandum with direct cuts in primary and supplementary pensions by applying the “personal
gap”, further reducing of the Pensioners Allowance (EKAS,) until its complete abolition, of family
allowances.
These cuts are added on the fatal cuts of the previous years and they degrade our pensions to
social benefits and follows the automatic “cutter”, taxes and new anti-popular - anti-workers - antipensioners
measures for the following years.
RISE UP- ORGANIZATION – STRUGGLE
TO STOP THEIR ANTI-POPULAR AND ANTI-PENSIONERS POLICIES
We demand our pensionable earnings. The 13th and 14th pension, the direct reimbursement of
one-off payment pensions-dividends, EKAS, our rights to healthcare, and everything else that has
been taken from us, to be given back in their total, because we have paid for them during all our
life. We do not owe them to any lender.
We demand the abolition of all anti-insurance - anti-popular - tax laws. The deadly provisions about
widowhood. Return in full what was illegally withheld for healthcare. Recapitalisation of our
insurance funds. We do not legitimize any cuts in our consciousness. We reject the government's
philosophy of development and stability as a way out, because they are only a way out for the
profits of the business groups for which our pensions and all the rights of the working class and the
people are being sacrificed.
We denounce their nerve that we should be grateful and pleased that they will cut down another
18% of our already reduced pensions, based on the “personal gap”, and the abolition of family
allowances. We do not adopt and we do not accept their disorienting tactics. Since the government
is ready to grab the rest of what is left, as they usually do, they offer few things that they had
previously taken from us (e.g. retention for healthcare), with the support of the trade unions that
are controlled by the government. The news is not what they offer, but what they are about to steal
from what is left. Our demand is to abolish any retention for health and medical care in primary and
supplementary pensions.
We all fight together. We are and we continue to the path of struggle, with decisive, unceasing
massive action to defend our lives, the lives of our children, of the working-class family. We do not
tolerate any of the government's deadly measures. We are waging war against the indifference, the
complacency, the impassiveness, the disappointment, the fear.
Against the logic of "nothing can be done, they are all the same".
We do not acquit anyone. The parties that voted the 3rd Memorandum are also responsible. The
unions controlled by the government cultivate illusions that pensioners will solve their problems
through courts, making rich some large law firms and they acquit the government. We continue the
struggle with greater determination, organizing national action of Pensioners’ Organizations in all
regions of the country.
WE ARE CERTAIN THAT WE WILL WIN ONLY BY INTENSIFYING OUR FIGHT – STRUGGLES –
THE MASSIVE ACTION AND WE WILL OVERTHROW THE ANTI-WORKERS ANTI-POPULAR
POLICIES FOR A BETTER LIFE BY SATISFYING OUR MODERN NEEDS.
Rallies And Demonstrations for 10 Days All Over Greece