Nationalism - The Only Answer for Greek Workers

The working class has been the bedrock of Greek Nationalism, and neither the communists of the left nor the conservatives on the right can claim to have any historical precedent in uplifting workers to the full extent that Nationalism has done in Greece.

The supposed leftist holiday of May Day is another example of fake workers’ rights advocates flaunting their ignorance in the controlled media/regime of modern Greece. It’s a hard fact that May Day is another important historical detail of the 4^th of August Regime in Greece, celebrated and institutionalised by non-other than Nationalist leader Ioannis Metaxas.

It was the Nationalists of the 4^th of August Regime who inspired Greece’s speeches, inaugurations and enthusiastic processions on the first of May, visiting factory floors among the proud workers of Greece. Ioannis Metaxas proclamation on the 14 of August 1837 declared himself the Proto Ergatis (the 1^st Worker)-:

‘Working People of Greece, I am now a colleague of yours; you paid me the greatest honour ever bestowed on a human being: Because for a man, there is no greater honour than the honour of being a worker. Now you, the Workers of Greece, come along and attribute this status me: This is the greatest satisfaction which I have a human being’.

Besides the national celebration of workers, the Nationalist also instituted economic policies to better the plight of workers across all of Greece. The 4^th of August regime legislated the following:

·         Introduction of a minimum wage

•         Unemployment insurance and the creation of a public employment agency
•          Maternity leave
•          A 5 day, 40 hour week
•          Guaranteed 2 week annual leave, in addition to all public and religious holidays
•          Foundation of the regime Worker’s Center

Rejecting individualism and class struggle, Metaxas harmonised the different classes in Greece through a national conscious. Per capita income increased rapidly, and unemployment declined, while the Nationalists also provided debt relief to poor farmers.

Today the leftists ‘radical socialists’ of Syriza have not only done nothing to better the plight of workers, they have legislated burdening taxes to working and middle class families, while the international bankers continue to profit from Greece’s misery. Only Nationalism can deliver a free and sovereign Greece, where the priority remains with the Greek worker and families.

How can the left seriously claim that they are pro-workers, when they call for open boarders, mass 3^rd world immigration, institutionalised feminism, and other anti-worker policies that directly bring down the living wages of Greek families? The truth is that they are neither pro-worker, nor socialists in any real sense, as their only agenda is to create a Greece which is no longer Greek.