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Greece's
former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis offered "the Greek
people's solidarity with the people of Britain," over the battle
against austerity championed by new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn,
during an address at the People's Assembly in London, Monday.
Varoufakis
made an attempt to transfer the Greek experience and urged the Labour
to take action and fight the austerity.
In a
characteristic part of his speech, Varoufakis warned the British
audience that they are now on a path that will not be rosy and will
be mined and undermined by a toxic media campaign against this
magnificent effort. One of the instruments that the media are going
to use is Greece, he said.
'You will
be told that if Corbyn gets elected, Labour will be like SYRIZA and
the United Kingdom will be like Greece. I urge you to use Greece as
an example by which to fight the forces of austerity and the forces
of regression. Don't shunt Greece, use it, because Greece is the
laboratory of austerity.'
He urged the
Labour to take action, saying it's time to defend its leap.
'For 30
years now, the only party in Britain that has disowned the class
struggle is Labour. The conservatives are amazing class warriors.',
he said.
And he is
right. If not now, under Corbyn leadership, and Cameron attacking
British society with a new cruel round of austerity, when?
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