Thousands strike against Greek anti-union laws (continued)
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ATHENS, JUNE 4 members (who have been those involved in voting in the past) but 51% of all those on the union's books.
Articles one, two and three are designed to back up these measures. PASOK doesn't call the measures 'workers participation", but "socialisation" - although almost all of the services involved are already nationalised or controlied by local government.
PASOK presents "worker participation in the most radical terms, not just as "socialisation" but as a part of Papandreou's "third road to socialism" (neither the road of Western social democracy not Eastern stateism). He even presents it as "socialism according to Marx."
In fact the measures are simply crude class collaboration:
They make an interesting comparison with attempted anti-union laws of the Wilson Labour government of 1966-70 and some of the policies of the 1974-79 Labour government, particularly • the 'workers participation" introduced into BL by Tony Benn and the creation of the National Enterprise Board (PASOK is in the process of establishing an NEB type body).
The size of the class response to the measures marks an important change in the relationship between PASOK and the Greek working class and opens up new conditions for struggle against this social democratic government.
This is important because PASOK came to power in October 1981 on a very radical - albeit extremely nationalist