As they resort to the “rescue plan” of the EU and the IMF which is usury of the worst degree, the government, the bourgeoisie and their political mouthpieces in the media cultivate a climate of unprecedented psychological terrorism towards the working class.

Every day, they are trying to persuade us that the crisis was caused by the “affluent lifestyle of the Greeks” and its our duty to “lower our standard of living for the benefit of our country”. Never in the last 30 years has there been a campaign with such huge and blatant lies and hypocrisy.

Indeed the crisis was caused by the affluent lifestyle, the lifestyle of the capitalists in Greece and worldwide. It was the greedy and exploitative nature of capitalism in the past decades that plunged the workers into misery on a world scale and led the economy to a dead end.

The Venezuelan revolution has inspired the workers, peasants and youth of all Latin America and on a world scale. Over the past decade the revolutionary masses have achieved miracles. But the Venezuelan revolution is not completed. It cannot be completed until it expropriates the oligarchy and nationalizes the land, the banks and the key industries that remain in private hands. After almost a decade this task has not been accomplished and this represents a threat to the future of the revolution.