«Mr Mitsotakis has essentially done nothing more than presenting as a salutary “medicine” for the people's problems the very “poison” that causes them, since the growth he promises does not bring a “dividend for all”, but profits for the few and new burdens on the backs of the many,» the KKE said in a comment on the prime minister's interview.
«-This is why everything it presents as ’relief for workers and households“ has been more than wiped out by the ”tsunami“ of price rises, which is not a ”sky-high“, but a product of the dominant policy and the capitalist economy.
-This is why the government's measures -minimal ones- for the huge increases in energy and fuel are a mockery, when it is the very policy of energy liberalisation, de-lignification and tariffs, served by all governments, which leads to widespread energy poverty.
-This is why the announcement of the ’increase of the minimum wage“ is a mockery, when, under the responsibility of the ND, PASOK and SYRIZA governments, the labour jungle prevails, with the minimum wage far below the levels of a decade ago, with the generalization of flexible work and with a framework of undermining collective bargaining and struggles, which is constantly reinforced by the current ND government.
-This is the policy that today puts on the street and the farmers, whom Mr Mitsotakis defiantly dubs “professional demonstrators’, adds the KKE in its commentary and concludes:
«All the above confirms, again and again, that the solutions to the people's problems are not on the road of capitalist growth, EU commitments and the Recovery Fund packages that constitute the new super-memorandum for the peoples of Europe. Only the people with their struggle can impose relief measures, such as the abolition of anti-people's taxes and graft, substantial increases in wages and pensions, support for the public health system, etc., aiming at a radical change of course, development based on the needs of the people and not on greedy profit.».
