The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) expresses its solidarity and support to the mobilizations of the poor and medium sized farmers in Greece, who for days now have been blocking the national highways, demanding what’s rightfully theirs.
More than 10.000 tractors are on the streets and the Greek farmers are protesting against the policy of EU and the government of SYRIZA and the racist ultra right wing party of ANEL. The policy of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU implemented by the Greek government drives the poor farmers away from their land, imposes new bigger taxes, raises the price of fuel for farmers, reduces farmer pensions, raises the cost of production for the poor farmers, while supporting the monopolies, the cartels and multinational corporations. This policy promotes the even bigger concentration of land in the hands of the few and rich businesspersons and multinationals of the agro-alimentary sector, according to the directions of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
The WFTU and the World Class Oriented Trade Union Movement are on the side of the poor farmers of Greece and express their solidarity with their just struggle.
Until today, the farmers have demonstrated combativeness and every day more farmers with their tractors and agricultural machinery join the struggle and get to the central highways and the squares of their villages in the rural areas.
We, the workers and unemployed, the 92 million members of the WFTU from all over the world, we join our voice with the voices of the poor and medium sized farmers of Greece, fighting so that their land will not been taken from their hands, against the new anti-farmer measures decided by the IMF, EU, the SYRIZA – ANEL government and the multinational cartel of the agroalimentary sector.
THE SECRETARIAT
