- Irish people can vote against the treaty in the knowing that their opposition is shared by millions of working people and unemployed across Europe

Last Sunday’s Greek general election saw the annihilation of the two major establishment parties, New Democracy and PASOK that have dominated the Greek political scene for more than 3 decades. The radical left coalition, Syriza achieved an historic second position increasing its vote fourfold on the last general election in 2009.

Paul Murphy MEP commented:

‘The way that the Greek voters have punished all parties that keep insisting on the necessity of austerity and follow policies favouring bankers and speculators nationally and internationally was an act of great resistance. With countless general strikes, protests, workplace occupations and sit ins, the Greek people when asked to vote could not but pay back those responsible for the suffering forced upon them.

“Over the last week we have seen a rejection by tens of millions of Europeans of a Europe built in the interests of the bankers and speculators. This capitalist Europe has delivered mass unemployment of 25 million people and attacks on living standards. Irish people have a unique opportunity to reject austerity and fight for radically different policies and a fundamentally different socialist Europe, where the millions come before the millionaires.”

Richard Boyd Barrett TD  commented: