Barbarity on the border between Turkey and Greece
Human rights and lives of refugees and immigrants are worth very little for the EU imperialist bloc.
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, He opened the border with Greece to allow the passage of thousands of refugees and said "Hereinafter, no longer close the border. This will continue going. Why? Because Europe must keep his word. We are not in able to meet and feed many refugees ". A) Yes, he put an end to the pact with the EU through which received 6.000 million euros to act as wall flow migration. Erdogan linked the policy shift with support, his trial, many countries have provided to the Kurdish militias in Syria.
The response of the Greek government to "I safeguard the borders" Do not be late. The Coast Guard and police fired shots suppressed in Evros and Lesbos. Women and children, they are in a more vulnerable, They have suffered racist and xenophobic attacks. Until today, They have killed a man and a child. The aggression, to which in some cases fascist groups are added, also target journalists and NGO solidarity. Neither Turkish nor Greek government cares about the lives of Syrian refugees, Afghans, Libyans, Somali or any other nationality. Both use people desperate to promote their economic and geopolitical interests. They take them as hostages of their decisions on the war fronts and to position itself to the world powers.
Another key player is the European Union. With the approval of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrel; They flew on the ground and checkpoints visited the presidents of the European Council, Charles Michel; European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and the European Parliament, David Sassoli. They did not do it for humanitarian reasons, but to support politically and logistically the "firm hand" del primer ministro Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Because, Von of the Leyen expressed "I thank Greece is the shield of Europe". The entourage promised to collaborate with 100 border guards, 7 boats, a helicopter, a plane, various patrol vehicles and 700 millions of euros. They do so with the excuse to continue to protect a welfare state assumption of Europe at the expense of the lives of vulnerable people.
The anti-immigrant EU policy has been expressed in punishment NGOs lifesaving in the Mediterranean Sea and the abandonment of people fleeing the horror in makeshift boats. The Greek position to suspend the right to asylum has a basis in the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights. This endorsed the hot return of two men, made by Spain in 2014, after they jump the Melilla fence. The European body presented as a guarantee of respect for human rights is the first is to put them aside. Such nonsense was welcomed by Interior Minister Fernando Great of the "Progressive coalition government" PSOE-Can, who has accelerated deportations and he is working on a new asylum law, more restrictive yet. The Spanish State has activated readmission agreements with Mauritania and Senegal, countries to which it has sent Somali immigrants, Malians and other nationalities.
The bourgeois governments and their accomplices present the European Union as the paradigm "Advanced democracies". It is a big lie: the imperialist bloc has increasingly reactionary institutions, that cut or eliminate elementary social and human rights. In this there is a great distance between"Eurosceptics" Y "Europeanist" with whom we share nothing. We propose the immediate cessation of the repression on the Turkish-Greek border; We condemn police brutality and abuse of state power by which claim to defend human rights, but only defend European privileges. We reject the xenophobic attacks, racists, macho and hot returns. We demand the immediate provision of humanitarian aid by the states involved and the EU, respect for the right of asylum and entry to Europe with full rights for refugees and immigrants. For these reasons, on Tuesday 3 We have participated in the demonstration held in front of the European Commission in Barcelona and in the court of Passeig de Gràcia. What is happening is an example of the barbarism to which leads the capitalist-imperialist system, with wars, exploitation, oppression and national boundaries. They are either them or us. Because, we have to organize to defeat them, break with the EU and build socialism. It is what we promote from the International Socialist League.
