Statement of the Press Office concerning the agreements with China
The package of agreements that were signed between the Greek and Chinese governments which are a treasure trove for certain sections of the plutocracy and nothing more. The popular strata should not believe the government’s propaganda and the celebrations of the plutocracy.
The notorious Chinese investment
plan of 5 billion is nothing more than a shot in the arm for the Greek
ship owners by the Chinese government in order that they have hundreds
of ships built in China, and that Greece becomes China’s stepping
stone into Europe.
The concession of infrastructure,
ports, railways, shipbuilding facilities to Chinese transnational corporations
so that they can be used to transport goods, will create very few jobs
in the face of the unemployment which the mass elimination of medium
and small businesses will cause. The expansion and strengthening of
the activity of transnational capital in vital areas of infrastructure
has as a result even cheaper workers without labor rights, with wages
at Chinese levels.
The big businessmen who control
the olive oil exports will be the ones who profit from the export of
this product to China and not the poor farmers whose position will continue
to deteriorate.
The people must learn from this.
Development which benefits big capital is the bearer of poverty and
unemployment for the people. It undermines the productive capabilities
of the country, and entangles it in dangerous inter-imperialist rivalries.
Athens 4/10/2010
THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE CC OF THE KKE
e-mail:cpg@int.kke.gr