{"id":4719,"date":"2017-08-06T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-inon.gr\/magazine\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2017-08-06T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T11:16:09","slug":"the-world-never-changes-if-we-simply-stuggle-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-inon.gr\/magazine\/2017\/08\/06\/the-world-never-changes-if-we-simply-stuggle-for-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"The world never changes if we simply stuggle for survival\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nadia Valavani<\/strong>
\nThe Cretan writer<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe world never changes if we simply struggle for survival\u2026\u201d is the message of the new book \u201cBREAD AND ROSES\u201d, underlined in an interview to \u201cIn-On\u201d magazine, the Cretan writer Nadia Valavani.
\nShe also mentioned that \u201cAll the issues revolve around the focal question whether a \u201ccivilized\u201d society in the future could exist without a cultural revolution today. In those dark ages today, we can find ourselves behind the line of struggle that the impoverished labor workers of Lawrence Massachusetts in the clothing industry set, when they rebelled in\u00a0 1911 requesting \u00abwe want bread but\u00a0 we also need roses\u201d.
\nQuestion:<\/strong> Tell us the views and the role of the Audit Committee of Debt so as to overcome the crisis in Greece.
\nAnswer:<\/strong> The Committee for the Accounting control on the Creek Government Debt was established on March 3rd 2011 through a declaration with 100 Greek and 120 international signatures. The declaration demanded the \u201copening\u201d of the books of the public debt, identification of the \u201codious debt\u201d (a product trade according to the German courts for instance all the contracts signed with SIEMENS or the naval submarines), as well as invoking emergency aiming at its active deletion. It was asked by any Greek government to proceed to (external) default [\u201cdeclaration of default\u201d] so as to stop mortgaging our natural resources for the benefit of\u00a0 our \u201cinstitutional gamblers\u201d (\u201cfinancial markets\u201d) until they accept the \u201chaircut\u201d. It also called the people and youth collectives to take action regarding the issue of debt. In May 2011, during an international conference in Athens the creation of ELE was established as well as in other European countries. Today, there are Committees in Ireland (a report has already been given), in Portugal, in Spain, in Belgium and will soon be established in France and Italy.
\nSo far, the declaration has been signed by 80.000 people, half through the net and the other half in Syntagma square among the squats. Along with the Committee regarding the German debts to Greece we highlighted the issue of \u201ccleaning\u201d with the huge, today, compulsory occupation loan that Germany took from Greece (!), which is \u201cregistered\u201d in the balance sheets of the Bank of Greece without any attempt to claim it. We were the first to introduce the international term \u201chaircut\u201d in the Greek vocabulary, while through the documentary \u201cDebtocracy\u201d 2.500.000 Greeks realized the recent international experience regarding default and debt write-off.
\nMoreover, recently the Mass Media mocked our representatives with \u201carguments\u201d of this kind: In case of a default, neither salaries nor pensions will be paid. Or: \u201cHaircut\u201d can be implemented only in South American countries. However, this systematic kind of lie has a short life. Due to the disastrous policy of the Memorandum and the Medium Term (which in fact, sells off all the Greek public assets, apart from the \u201cantiquities\u201d) \u00a0a mandatory \u201cprimary surplus\u201d was imposed since 2012 \u2013 in other words, salaries and pensions are not covered by loaning: In case the money from the national Budget is not enough, there will be a constant \u201chaircut\u201d in the salaries and pensions\u2026 The Greek public debt reached 118% in\u00a0 2009, and it is scheduled to become 120% in \u20262020: First, it will reach its peak\u00a0 and then there will be a \u201cvoluntarily\u201d haircut at 50% concerning the banks and the insurance funds (the latter are not exempt, as opposed to the reality in the \u00abhaircuts\u00bb in the south American countries that were caused by the national governments \u2026). However, just before this extremely dubious \u201cnegotiation\u201d with the banks, the International Monetary Fund already declares that this is not enough, while the scenario of a \u201chaircut\u201d up to 80% with the activation of the CDS appears for the first time (we act as guinea pigs so as conclusions are drawn for the function of the global financial system) \u2013 namely for an \u201cofficial\u201d default in or out the Euro zone \u2026
\nQuestion:<\/strong> Tell us your suggestions for the present situation and for the economic crisis of the country.
\nAnswer:<\/strong> The people should get the situation in their hands, through the creation of a social and political front, not involved in Memoranda, new loans and \u201cGreek\u201d governments-representatives of the bankers. We should declare default alleging the \u2013 recognized by the UN \u2013 \u201cstate of emergency need\u201d: The priority is the survival of the people of a country against its \u201cobligations\u201d towards its lenders.
\nThis has to be accompanied with the nationalization of the Greek banks and large strategic companies (literally redeemed through \u201chelp packets\u201d), guarantee of the bank deposits with a parallel \u201cseisachtheia\u201d of the internal debts, as well as the exercise of a financial, fiscal, and developmental policy towards a radically different direction: Enough is enough for a policy that threw in the street 1.000.000 people devastating the life of many million people and the country itself. There should be a reverse situation of the current relay from those in the \u201cbottom\u201d to those in the \u201ctop\u201d along with those that are \u201cout\u201d.
\nWe need a friendly kind of development for the laborer and the environment, supporting the real cooperative and small and medium entrepreneurship in fields that Greece can have comparative benefits: Agriculture, Tourism, Shipping, Energy, Ores, Mineral Wealth, light industry and services. These are the very fields that the big German businesses ask a \u201cspecial wage and financial status\u201d, in order to import from Greece with wages that exist in Bulgaria and tax-free \u2013 calling them \u201cGreek exports\u201d.
\nQuestion:<\/strong> What messages are conveyed in your new book?
\nAnswer:<\/strong>\u00a0 As opposed to what is implied by a first look, a book that deals with \u201cart issues and politics\u201d, such as \u201cBREAD AND ROSES\u201d, which was published by \u201cTaxideftis\u201d Publications, does not constitute a luxury. The book addresses to an audience of \u201cartists of the act\u201d: people that think and struggle, mixing topics that either were first set by Brecht or Rose Luxembourg or the Russian artistic Avant \u2013Garde in October or even the relation of the Left Wing with the Art, modernity or postmodernism today.
\nAll the issues revolve around the focal question whether there could be a \u201ccivilized\u201d society in the future without a cultural revolution today. In\u00a0\u00a0 those dark ages today, we can find ourselves behind the line of struggle that the impoverished labor workers of Lawrence Massachusetts in the clothing industry set, when they rebelled in\u00a0 1911 requesting \u201cwe want bread but\u00a0 we also need roses\u201d. Because the world never changes when struggling for mere survival\u2026<\/p>\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/strong>
\nNadia Valavani is an economist, writer and researcher of the work of Brecht. She was born in Herakleion in 1954.Her rich work involves a novel entitled \u201cThe Vespers guests\u201d (Dolphin, 1996, Stachi, 1999), three poetry collections (the last one is \u201cThe Great Era\u201d, 2009), \u201cThe necessary war\u201d (Stachi, 1999), an album about the war in Yugoslavia\u00a0 and a collection of texts entitled \u201cBread and Roses\u201d \u2013 \u201cArt and political issues\u201d (Taxideftis, 2011). She has designed the international version of Bertolt Brecht \u2013 Critical approaches (Polytropon, 2004) as well four performances of speech and music. Her articles and texts are published in daily newspapers along with the newspapers of the left wing as well as in scientific and art magazines.<\/p>\n

Source of publication\u00a016th issue In-On<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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