 er are moments in history which represent a fundamental turning point. The economic crash of 2008 represents to suddenly such a turning point. We have to understand that that was not a normal crisis. It represents a fundamental break in this situation. Now Marx explained, de kapitulis systeem woest door boens en sluips. Er zal altijd dit cycle van boens en sluips tot die kapitulis systeem no longer exist. In de kase van de laatste 200-duit-duit-kantinutie om op en op te doen, dat is het normaal ekonomiek systeem. Als u de historie van de kapitulis, van de laatste 200-duit-kantinutie, speciaal van die laatste systeem. In de kase van die boens en sluips, u ziet iets anders. Er zijn ongelooflijke periode die er anders is in karakter. Periode 4-1914 was een periode van een lang systeem van de productievoers. Die was ook aangebouwd door een enorm strentheling van reformiste terrens. Die was tragically beveiligd in de summe van 1914. Een uiteindelijk ander periode die tot 1939 was aangebouwd, tot die nieuw wereld. De 20- en 30-duit-kantinutie was een periode van konvulsieens, die was nie gezien in die systeem. Maar dat was weer aangebouwd door die procesen die we uitgespeeld hebben. En na de tweede wereld, die kapitulis systeem was aangebouwd en er was een nieuw periode van grof van Upswig, die tot approximately 1970, 1974, was in 1970 weer een periode van een ekonomische crisis en een groot klasper. Revolusieens in Upswig, in Gries, in Spelen, in Italyse, groot klasperiode in Franse, want het begann in 1968. En in Brits, een periode van een klasperiode van die maasorganisaties, maasleukwings en zo. Maar die periode was aangebouwd, omdat die trexureste politie van de laberleeders, de soosnist en de so-called communist leeders, kon die verhuigd en verhuigd te doen, die ongemaakt de kapitulis systeem te aangebouwd was. Dat leidde tot een periode van relatief ekonomische equilibriëntie, die verhuigd was in die boosmuseum, en die ekonomische politieens. En ook de so-called laf, de so-called laf leeders. De aluusieens in reformisme was ongemaakt. Ze dacht dat dit boem te verhuigd was, want die hadden altijd hetleens die aluusieens, die vrouw en die vrouw, moet die vrouw verhaal. En daar hadden we dit tremendous klas, de klas van 2008, was de grootste ekonomische crisis in 200 jaar. Dat klas volledig verhuigde de ekonomische equilibriëntie, die die verhuigd was, en 7 jaar later, 7 jaar van verhuigd, van verhuigd, die was gesproken om nie te systeem te doen, van visse taxen van leeders, verhuigd, verhuigd, van miljoenen van mensen, as in Griece, die ik met die later ongemaat, 7 jaar van verhuigd, en ek sal die volgende vraag. Has die boesieens gesproken na 7 jaar in verhuigd die ekonomische equilibriëntie, die verhuigd is gesproken om die vrouw te doen, in fatigale, nie, nie gesproken in verhuigd, ongemaakt die ekonomische equilibriëntie, met die, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie, nie. Eensie beacon, die OECD, dat is die organisatie blijk om die vorste uitleiding in de landen, toedoxt, is net vir die 50 jaar gesproken. Gie met die boesieens, is ook die�sterens perspectieve, nie just die marx korst. En die meer hynde boesieens, die goede�es, die er een ander koeien houden, van de marx korst, van die verhuigd. en die werken op het perspectie van de volgende 50 jaar, van de werelde economie, van meer dan 3 dagen en die get dat genoemd. Maar wat op het perspectie, op het volgende 50 jaar, van het werelde economie, dat het perspectie van de OECD is, nie grooth, op het volgende 50 jaar, dat is het perspectie. Als u dat accepteert, en ik doe, die nieu katsfrije is, nu is het seksuele stagnations, seksuele stagnations, dat is het. Ze openen dit op het perspectie, wat is dat perspectie? Het is een perspectie van kutten, aakten en volgende levingstanders van de volgende 2 generaties, dat is het perspectie. Dat betekent dat het een einde resepie is, maar een verleving van de kutte struyde in elk dat is wat het me, Ter Graam houdt dat we, we gaan eindigen, we gaan eindigen in het meest terbuleerde periode in de Humanistische Monde, we moeten nie het in de toekomst verhaal, we hebben eindigen in het meest terbuleerde periode in de Humanistische Monde, dat is het periode dat we nu leven en u ziet dat het verhaal verhaal, Lenin zei dat politiek koncentratieke economie is. Eén van de representaties van de Boas was die. Die is nie de cleverste, eentje. In feite is die stupide. Mr. Donald Tusk, of 2 Schaske Boas is gesproken. Heb je het nie heen? He is een poorish right-wing politiek. Die is nu, ek believer, de president van de Europese Union. Verder is het het waarom die euriebeerde eurie dit in crisis is, he? Deze gentleman, wat ik sag is stupig!Because the bourgeois politicians should never say what you think. You don't do this. It's not done. It's not done. But Mr. Tusk, by the way playing a leading role in this Greek so-called theme, one of the main vicious hard liners vir dit Grieke crisis. It's an interresting observation, en die goes on. It was always the same game before the biggest tragedies in our European history. This tactical alliance between radicals from all sides, today for sure, we can observe the same political phenomenon. en hij continues. Voor mij is de atmosfëer een beetje simele tot die tijd na 1968 in Europa, 1968, zoals u probleem niet, was het het periode in het jaar van het grootste, het meest revolutiele generale struik in Bisterie in Frans. Dat is wat hy referieert. Hij gaat op. Ik kan voel. Hij voel wat, want hij denk niet, maar voel het. Ik voel, may nie een revolutionaar voel, may nie een revolutionaar voel, maar iets like wide spread in patiëns en het houdt dat het het meest interessant is. Je kan het houdt, het glimel van het intelligentie in dit man's dim bruin. In patiëns becomes not an individual, maar a social experience of feeling. This is the introduction for revolutions. What Tus said, which he shouldn't have said, is what the others are thinking. The strategists of capital understand what we understand. And they're absolutely terrified of the future. The reason why they're terrified is that they've never been in a city waste like this before, ever, never. There's never been an economic crisis like this. With a huge mountain of debts, which is weighing the economy down like a heavy storm. And they've never faced a working class as powerful as this. As a result of the development of the productive forces for the last 50 years. The strength of the working class is a thousand times greater than what was in the past. And the social reserves of reaction are weaker than what they've ever been in the past. 50 years ago, there was a very big peasantry in it. 50 years ago there was a huge peasantry in Greece and in France. And even in Germany. It's a very small section of society. And that was one of the main reserves of fascism and bonapartism in the past. How the Italian bulls were is forced to carry out cuts at the times. All the capitalists in the entire world are compelled to carry out cuts, deep cuts. Far deeper than what you've seen so far. One week ago, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer was talking about a 40% cut in social spending. 40%. And from a capitalist point of view, that's absolutely necessary. Because of these huge debts. They must do this. The problem on their face is that the working class is bigger and stronger than what it's ever been in history. When they try to carry out these cuts, it will lead to one explosion after another. We expressed this a few years ago as a kind of equation, if you like. We said after the crisis of 2008, I make no apology for repeatedly. All the attempts of the bulls were to restore the economic equilibrium will destroy the social and political equilibrium. And that is precisely what has happened in one country after another. The social and political equilibrium has been destroyed or is being destroyed producing enormous political instability. That is what Tusk is and the others are terrified. And yet despite all the efforts they've not succeeded in their intention of restoring economic equilibrium. They were talking about recovery. Where is the recovery? You'd have to take a powerful microscope to examine the figures to see a genuine recovery. Anywhere. In America, there's been a slight recovery. The masses do not feel that there's a recovery. Anywhere. They don't believe it. They don't feel it. Where's the recovery? The bulls were economists are talking about a new recession in the near future. This so-called recovery is so fragile. Any shock can cause a slug. That's why they were terrified of the position in Greece. Which came very close to being driven out of the Eurozone. And in my view that is still inevitable anyway. That would have meant an economic catastrophe in Greece, of course. But what frightened them was the effects in the Eurozone. It could have detonated a series of crises in Spain which is only one step behind Greece and in Italy which is only one step behind Spain. You could see the collapse of the Euro in one country after another and the collapse of the common currency itself. And that would undoubtedly provoke a massive international recession. There's no question about it. That's why Obama was constantly on the phone to Angela Merkel. You've got to solve the deep question. You've got to do something, you've got to make concessions. You've got to give them some money because he could see the effects of the United States. There wasn't a problem with that piece of very good advice. Obama wouldn't have to put his hand in his pocket to pay for the money. The Germans would have to pay. The Germans wouldn't have to pay. In over many years I have realized that one of the most pleasant experiences in life was other people's money. A very enjoyable experience. Yes, but the Germans were not amused. And they said, danker, aber nein danker. No, thank you, but no thanks. I'm going to Greece a little bit later. Or China, never mind. Everyone's looking at Greece. A few people are looking at China. You should look at China. Chinese economy is in a very precarious position. Rob just showed me today's headlines in the financial times. This is the front page headline. Shanghai is 8.54, a bloem for Beijing. You understand my sentence? Shanghai Stock Exchange is just formed by 8.57. The subheading is, second biggest fall in markets history, a support effort fails. That should put the fear of God into the news. Chinese bourgeois, leaders of the so-called Chinese Communist Party, some Communist Party, a bourgeois power, which has been pursuing capitalist policy for a total of a decade now. By opening up the Chinese economy, it undoubtedly helped the Chinese capitalist world. And it helped the West, healthy Americans, the Germans and so on. New markets, new fields of investment, huge profits at the expense of the terrible exploitation of the Chinese working class. We were working in the conditions like those that Marx described in the first volume of Capital, or Charles Dickens described in his novels about Victorian England on the basis of squeezing the Chinese working class. They got huge profits from it. Both of the Chinese capitalists and of course the American and German and European capitalists had to a big development of the productive forces in China this Sunday night. And everyone was happy. China was producing a vast amount, and it still is producing a vast amount of cheap goods, not just ladies' underwear and tennis rackets and toys, but high-tech goods. There isn't a single mobile phone in this whole, I hope this switched off by the way, or a single laptop that isn't full of equipment made in China. But of course there's a problem here. And by the way, for those companies who were worried about the development of the productive forces in China, I said please don't worry, don't lose any sleep over this. We should be delighted at the development of industry in China. Absolutely delighted. Because it's created the biggest and most powerful working class in the world, that has got revolutionary implications. And furthermore, this process now has reached its limits. You see, the Chinese market, although it's grown quite a lot, it's true, it's too narrow to contain this massive goods which they're producing. China must export or die, and they've been exporting massively to Europe and the United States in particular. The problem is, it's not difficult, it's not rocket science. If Europe and America are not consuming as they consumed in the past, China cannot produce where they're going to export to the moon perhaps, or maybe to the planet Pluto. They're investing, perhaps there's a market there, I don't know. There's nowhere else they can export to. Therefore the Chinese economy for some time actually, for some time, it's not a new thing, has been faced with overproduction. They've been factory closers. Deuts are not paid. There's a huge amount of unpaid debts in a sharp slowing down of the Chinese economy. And the Chinese officials themselves, the Chinese government itself, in the past said that any growth less than 8% per annum would be a disaster for China. It's now 7% officially, and I believe it's less than that. You can't trust the Chinese figures. You can't trust them. And that's been reflected in big falls of the stock exchange in China. In recent months. A couple of months. This latest figure is only the most recent, but it's the most significant figure. In the last few months the Chinese stock market have lost 30% of their value. 30%? That's trillions of dollars. Millions and millions of poor Chinese people, small business people, the savings wiped out. And the stock exchange, it doesn't represent the real economy, that's true. But it's a parameter which roughly tells us where the economy is heading. Hanging over the whole thing in China. Hanging over all this business. There's a massive, what do they call it, a housing bubble. The same as what existed, the same that existed in America, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, before the collapse of 2000. The same. The Chinese government is alarmed. They're right to be alarmed. And they spent huge amounts of money to prop up the stock exchange. Huge amounts of money. Don't know how much this is. It's true that the Chinese got huge reserves. They built up huge reserves. But all the reserves in the world will not save them once the thing begins to collapse. They won't stop it sometimes in the game. I just read it. The rescue attempt has failed. They failed. They spent vast amounts of money, they failed. And a serious crisis in China that would spell a big slump in the world of government. Be sure of it. They had the delusion, they became delusional. They really have. They were going to save it. Twenty years ago, I remember I had an argument that he's now an ex-comrade in Spain. He used to be a personal friend of mine. But he went a bit crazy after the fact of the fall of the Soviet Union. He was aggrig, oh look, capitalism going to exist for almost indefinitely because there's Asia, there's new markets, there's China, look it, Asia, Asia, Asia. I had to tell him the facts of life and that was 20 years. He fell for the boozewell propaganda. What's the position now in Asia? What's the position of the so-called BRICS the emerging economies as they used to call them. Now they're more like the sub-merging economies. The slowdown in China, even before a serious crisis has had a devastating effect in countries like Brazil, Argentina, Australia, all the BRICS that they crisis, the Russian economies crisis and therefore the world economy will not be saved by those people. On the contrary dialectics teaches us that sooner or later things change into their opposite. Chinese economy and Asia was it's true for a period one of the main motorforces of the world economy. Now the same thing that pushed the world economy is going to drag it down and that will have a huge effect. Inside China you see sometimes people ask me well if things are so bad for the Chinese working class why don't they repair? Why isn't there a revolution in China? Good question. It's an interesting phenomenon. These workers in China are peasants they come from the villages where the conditions are really bad really appalling to this and therefore however bad they might be in the fact that in Shanghai or Guangdong the better off than what they were in the village they work hard long hours but they send a little bit of money back to their families and of course there's always the hope that things will get better there's the hope. In fact wages were rising somewhat in China in the recent period they had to increase wages which is another reason why there's a crisis. When there's a slump a deep slump mass unemployment these people have driven back to a life of poverty in the villages what happens then? Now you see you don't know what's happening inside neither do I it's a totalitarian regime and that information is tightly controlled so it's difficult to know exactly what's occurring but the limited information that has come out of China shows that there's been an increase in strikes passion uprisings riots over land and other things I know it a couple of years I think it's two years ago but for the first time in history China spends more on internal security than it does on external defence and it spends a lot of money on external defence the Chinese ruling class has got a very good idea of what's happening in the factories they got spies everywhere there's a little question of inequality in socialist China run by a communist party can you imagine China is one of the most unequal countries on earth and yet it's supposed to be socialist they still got the cheek to call themselves socialist communists there's extreme poverty on the one hand an extreme exploitation and on the other extreme there's the most obscene luxury you couldn't imagine ostentatious luxury China's imported a lot of luxury cars Rolls Royce says they're importing all these what's this Italian luxury car Pepe's got Ferrari, I know it in other words Bugatti is it, I don't know what they got yeah Bugatti, I knew I was right Pepe's got it imported into socialist China I'll just give you one example the son of one of the richest type who is in China recently he must be crazy, he put on facebook he put on the web a photograph of a dog it's a husky dog actually what the asking was using so he's got a dog as a pet so the communists say well what's wrong with that the man can have a dog if he wants it yes but if you look closely at this photograph on both poles the dog's got a watch as a copy said he must be a watch dog not just any watch not just any watch what do they call them apple watches, I don't know what an apple watch is obviously the dog needs to tell the time not only tell the time it has to surf the net it must be a clever dog each of these watches cost ten thousand dollars that gives you an idea of the ostentatious luxury of these gangsters who of course are linked to the Chinese so-called communist party and the leadership of the communist party you can be sure that among the Chinese workers there must be a seething indignation seething indignation which must be expressed in an explosion which I will predict will occur when nobody expects it when you least expect it precisely because it is a totalitarian museum there will be no warning on this the words of Napoleon the Chinese proletariat is a sleeping dragon when this dragon awakes the world will tremble now I think I've said I don't understand any more on the economic question but it's clear that we're facing another deep dump you see that in the crisis of the eurozone the so-called agreement with Greece has solved absolutely nothing it could exist as long as there was an economic upswing it could continue to exist because when there's plenty of markets and so on the gangsters could reach an agreement like the gangsters in Chicago it could reach an amicable agreement but we said let there be a a severe dump and all the national contradictions would re-apport research and the euro at a certain stage we predicted this before I remember the precise phrase that we used will break up amidst mutual recriminations blaming each other that was sung by the greek crisis the european boers were split right down the middle a section particularly france and Italy but also spain but also spain but also spain was arguing that they should make concessions to Greece give them some money make concessions by the way they could have reached a deal the difference was very small because Tsipras made in every conceivable concession he surrendered actually as a typical reformist couldn't have reached a compromise as they've done in the past that's why the frans and the italians Renzi was desperate to get a deal because Italy is in a very serious economic crisis this so called progressive Renzi he's carried out a series of cuts but now I think he's afraid the procedure he would like to reflate the economy he would like to get the italian economy moving he wants to decrease taxes some taxes but the italian debt is 130% of the gross domestic product as far as I remember it's nearly 2 trillion isn't it Pippin the italian debt the italian debt is nearly 2 trillion isn't it yes it's the italian debt is nearly 2 trillion euros and there's a class now between Italy and Brussels actually the union doesn't want Renzi they want them to continue to cut that's why Renzi wanted to make concessions to the Greeks that's the reason they could have reached a deal so why didn't they reach a deal the german bulls machine not only the german but particularly the german bulls machine was determined to sabotage the deal determined from the beginning they demand that Cyprus continues and deepens the policy of austerity in cuts a policy which by the way has clearly failed it's clearly failed even from a capitalist point of view it's failed in 5 years of brutal vicious savage attacks against living standards which is to reduce the people of Greece to a state of abject poverty of beggary I think comrades don't understand the degree of desperation that exists in Greece schools without books hospitals without drugs during the referendum doctors were coming on to the television saying we must say no in my hospital we don't have any drugs and yet after 5 years of all these attacks which is supposed to solve the deficit supposed to solve the debt what has happened in Greece at the beginning of the crisis I think the debt was 120% of the GDP which means Italy is more than it was at that time vicious cuts it's now 180% more than 180% who destroy employment you destroy people's living standards people can't consume can't pay taxes how you're going to pay this debt and the an optimistic gentleman obviously recently said about last week last week he said don't worry the Greek debt will peak when it reaches 200% of the GDP this is madness it's madness it's the economics of the madhouse and let's be clear about this Greece can never pay this debt not in a thousand years they can not pay and yet the German boys who have showed themselves to be absolutely ruthless pitiless Merke is supposed to be the pleasant face of the German capitalist supposed to be look at the face of this monster soy black the finance minister as I like to call him the poison dwarf it's the face of a cruel pitiless merciless ruling class where the mentality of the most primitive kind of user you know a user that comes to suddenly this house who owes money to the debt pay me sell your television sell your car sell your furniture you still can't pay I'll take your house live on the streets that has occurred not just in Greece that has occurred it's occurred in Spain massively I don't know how many families in Spain hundreds of thousands of people have been kicked out of there by the banks kicked out of their houses thrown in the streets I've learned and pointed out it's on the agenda of the school question of imperialism and war that in the he described the present period as the the period of monopoly capitalism as the highest stage of capitalism is developed and he pointed out that one of the one of the key elements of this period is the domination of finance cap the crushing domination of the big banks the dictatorship of the big banks the dictatorship of the big banks who decide everything elected governments decide nothing and what this Greek situation is clearly revealed is precisely that fact ever since 2008 it's been absolutely clear everywhere the bankers rule national sovereignty is an empty empty phrase means nothing and so called democratic government means nothing you can elect whatever government you like a small creek of bankers will decide what happens in Greece it's reblated it's clear on January the 25th the people of Greece voted massively for a series of government pledged to the end of austerity and there's a very important point which you have to realise sometimes Congress is a bit impatient with the working class who doesn't seem to be moving why aren't the workers moving and it's true nobody likes to struggle with it people don't like change as a matter of fact normally people like a quiet life and yes workers will accept and accept and accept and bow their heads and accept because they are afraid of losing their jobs they are afraid of being sacked they are afraid the factory will be closed the capitalists will move to China although you find it a bit difficult now to move to China yes they will accept and accept but you know there are limits to all things there are limits to all things the working class can tolerate in Greece that limit has been passed a long time ago I've lost count of how many general strikes to placing this I don't know how many 30 more than 30 accountants past demonstrations yes but even that is not sufficient in this position it's not sufficient even the most powerful general strike in and of itself doesn't solve anything it doesn't solve anything it pauses the question of power but you need a party and a leadership that's prepared to take up so the workers voted massively for the series of governments and by the way here's another lesson in this turbulent period of class we get violent swings to the left and to the right because the masses are desperately looking for a way they're looking for a solution but there is no solution on a capitalist so we test one political party after another one leader after another one program after another and then they will reject it the series were struggling to get 4% of the votes the Pesok seemed to be the main party in the Greek working class millions of supporters a trade union base the Pesok entered a government that was carrying out cuts it's got a good lesson in what the Pesok reformists stood for now the Pesok has been crashed it's been wiped out almost wiped out when they can come back maybe not and the series are from a small sect almost like a sect masterfully won the election but because the leaders of the series are they are reformists left reformists and Trotsky pointed out we must remember this betrayal is inherent in reformism all reformism I would say particularly left reformism now it isn't that they consciously set up to betray they don't I actually met Cyprus when he came to London last year he seemed a nice young man seemed to be honest enough doesn't beat his wife doesn't kick the cat helps old ladies to cross the road well full of good intentions and I'm sure that Cyprus wanted to help the Greek people out of London but the problem is this if you accept the capitalist system you must accept the laws of the capitalist system and it doesn't matter you give it into power either the government of series it was going to take serious measures against capitalism in Greece it was going to take serious measures against capitalism in Greece exproperate the parasites the bankers and the capitalists wish they could have done easily or more than one occasion easily I have come to the conclusion that I am firmly convinced all of them the even the most left of them Jeremy Corbyn in Britain but you must understand you must understand all these ladies in general are profoundly convinced to the bottom of their soul that the working class cannot run society they don't trust the working class they have a contempt for the working class they treat them like little children that they have to give give a few sweets give a few concessions and all these before this are profoundly convinced that only the bourgeoisie has the right to run society they have got no doubt about this they believe this they believe it and Cyprus believes it that's why he acted as he did and these people they think they are clever but they are very stupid people he thought we have to negotiate with the Germans with the Varoufakis we would be nice to them maybe make a few concessions we would smile and they would smile back to us and we would make a few concessions they would make some concessions and everyone would be happy big mistake big mistake these negotiations were not negotiations at all the Germans had no intention of negotiating with Cyprus the intention from the very beginning was to crush Cyprus to crush Jerusalem to force them to carry out to do the dirty work and carry out deep cuts because you get someone to carry out cuts on your behalf back the advantage that you destroy the image of socialism in the eyes of the masses you see you wanted socialism that socialism way for a swing to the right that's the role of reforms that's the role historically to demoralise and disappoint the working class and prepare a swing to the right and Cyprus and Varoufakis they were like little children like a lamb going to the slaughterhouse from the beginning it was clear they were going to get nothing we predicted that called referendum by the way it was the correct it was the right thing to do in february when it was clear that he wasn't going to get any concessions I said if I was with Cyprus I would call a referendum get the support of the Greek people to take action so that was something he did that was correct but you saw what happened by the way the result of that referendum was astounding but it's 60% almost 62% voted no to these monstrous conditions not just the working class but big sections of the middle class even the islands voted massively no and that was in spite of an atrocious press campaign again it shows the reality of the so-called free press all the media all the press was pressing for a yes vote and trying to make people afraid of the results the catastrophe if you vote no the european union deliberately forced the banks to close during the campaign deliberately to create an atmosphere of fear and despite all these things the Greek people massively voted no an act of defiance not only that but there were huge demonstrations the mood in these demonstrations was electric completely electric I have not the slightest doubt one word from Cyprus if you would have appeared and said now the only way to deal with this by friends is we must take power into our own hands take over the banks expropriate all these parasites that don't pay tax the big ship owners and all these people set billions outside of Greece wrecking the greek economy you could have had a peaceful revolution in Greece nobody would have resisted it by the way the golden dawn the golden dawn also supported the no there's no alternative this is another little observation here you know it isn't only the performers that have a contempt for the word the big majority of the so-called left and so-called Marxists also have a contempt for the word don't believe them just think all this time all these idiots what was the prospectus for Greece fascism of course what else the golden dawn fascism fascism I was interviewed on several cases by greek newspapers even in the official paper of a series and the nice young lady interviewed me she was quite friendly what about the new don't you think this is the risk of fascism this was just before Cyprus was elected I said don't be serious don't be silly the whole the pendulum in Greece is swinging far to the left not to the right our prospectus was only to be correct it isn't to say that you can't have a turn to the right in the future that's a different matter that's inevitable at a certain stage but at this stage Cyprus could have taken power easily what was the problem being a reformist he didn't see the referendum as a means of mobilizing the masses and they did mobilize the masses but there's a means of putting pressure on the Germans and they negotiate you call millions of people on the streets to negotiate he must have said now it's over now it's over now it's over now they make concessions didn't they make concessions they imposed far worst harsher terms than what they previously turned out and what did Cyprus do naturally he signed he signed a complete capitulation a complete betrayal naturally I repeat betrayal is inherent in reformism and Greece is a clear indication of that you see why did they take this position why did Merkeld and Cyprus take this position why didn't they do a deal well it's partly what I said to the economics greed mentality but there was another reason more important reason which our Polish friend explained it was tough to explain that Cyprus got away with anything it would have a big effect in other countries and by the way it's not only Greece where people are up to here with austerity not only in Greece it's everywhere and they didn't want for example Podemos in Spain they would be enthused by this the left over Europe would be enthused by this encouraged by it to step up the fight against Australia and therefore they had to crush the series of government it was an attempted coup regime change regime change they were open about it quite open about it we must replace this government a democratically electric government must be replaced because we say so underpaste by another government may be a national unity government it's a complete negation of the democratic rights of the Greek people it shows you just how much spools what democracy is worth it's not worth anything of course that had a very demoralising effect in Greece many people now are in a complete despair you can't trust anybody there's a kind of fatalistic what can we do, what can we do but on the other hand there's a very angry mood very angry mood particularly among the activists and inside Syriza there's a mood of fury today the leader of the so-called left of Syriza Lafazanes is calling a massive rally was it yesterday or 2000 people per person I thought it was today but it is Tuesday and yesterday perhaps in the ask and give us a report of that but the support for the left is increasing in reality Cyprus now only controls the parliamentary group the youth of Syriza has come out against the deal the branch of Piraeus the proletarian heart of Athens has come out against the deal I think most if not all of Syriza has come out against the deal the central committee has come out against the deal so what's the problem the problem here is the left the cowardice of the left the left of the left if you like let's be clear about it there is no future for Greece on a capitalist basis whether inside or outside of the European Union Lafazanes Syriza is entirely false if Greece leaves the EU and I think it's inevitable at a certain stage they'll be pushed out anyway the Trachma if they call it that would call it what they like it will fall like a stone worthless Greece has got to import almost everything there will be massive inflation and even hyperinflation like Germany in 1923 the big economy will collapse unless they take socialist measures that's the only solution which none of these gentlemen is seriously putting forth the expropriation of the bankers and capitalists if the boss is threatened to close the factories occupy the bankers none of them is putting this forth and of course the future of Greece will be a very turbulent future there will be massive swings to the left and to the right and a polarization a sharp polarization to the left and to the right some comrades thought wrongly that the Greek Communist Party the Kukui was finished I heard even an experienced government saying that because the Kukui had a very sectarian ultraland position instead of a proposal against the United Front that's what they should have done they had a hostile they were opposed citizens all the time they refused to participate in joint demonstrations they called separate demonstrations of the Kukui and even in the referendum they didn't support the Novels in effect upstate spoil the pay basis which which is a crazy position it's an ultraland position which failed but it failed incidentally because 80% of the voters of the Kukui voted no in the referendum quite right and therefore some comrades said do the inclusion of the Kukui was finished I said you're wrong not finished on the contrary on the contrary the Kukui will grow now in spite of their ultralandism and their sectarianism paradoxically because of their sectarianism and ultralandism now there's such fury at the betrayal that's in us the people was here the Kukui was right the communists were right this man is a traitor and I believe the Kukui is growing and it will grow on the left and that's why your comrades correctly have oriented towards the Kukui that's the correctness and the golden dawn will grow on the right be sure of it it will grow I think they probably changed the name they probably fused with other words because it smells too much of fascism Greek people don't like fascism I won't say anything more on Greece except that there will be big possibilities for our comrades if they were correct which they are doing I make no apologies for concentrating on Greece because Greece shows you the future of every country in Europe that's the future and therefore you have to study it closely we have a similar situation developing in Spain and you saw an enormous swing to the left in Spain just a couple of months ago in the local and regional directions and you see be clear on this comrades comrades everything has changed as I said in Greece the Pesachus collapsed and that also collapsed in Spain two years ago Podemos did not exist now it's the main force of the left and the socialist party I won't say that it's completely liquidated but it's very close to it and our comrades in Spain have correctly turned towards Podemos which has mobilized hundreds of thousands including the most radical elements of the youth of the working class the left in these local and regional directions the left won decisive victories in all the big cities in Spain all of them including Madrid Barcelona Valencia Tarawatha they won in Galicia if you know Spain it seems unthinkable Galicia was always a backward area where the popular party the right wing and the strong base they were defeated in Zamora backward agriculture there I think it's the only place where the united left that's the former former communist party and a few others they won in Zamora I was in Galicia on holiday at the time of the election just after the election and we visited a tiny village where Anna's family lived 40 years ago in Frankfurt in the backward agriculture area I think only 60 people lived there there was only one electoral poster and that was the socialist party which is very left wing for that place and outside the bar outside the bar there was a republican flag astonishing there's a big movement especially among the youth against the monarchy public administration my friend Pepe Blannes I don't think he's here we were together and Anna and Mila in the underground for a long time Pepe said you can't imagine the situation in Spain there's only one historical parallel that occurs to me and that's April of 1931 31 that's when there was a big victory in the left in the sources of republicans in the municipal elections which led to the collapse of the monarchy at the beginning of the Spanish Revolution now I don't know maybe Pepe is a little bit maybe it's not quite at that level but it's certainly moving in that direction certainly Barcelona Barcelona was always controlled the council of Barcelona always controlled by the nationalist party the CIA the few who was the nationalist party they were for the first time they were beaten by the left a very left candidate a woman called Ada Colau who's famous because she led the struggle against people being against evictions she stood on the platform against evictions, against the banks against corruption and the first thing she did when she was elected there was a huge rally by the way but it really was to get elected the first thing she did was to vote or pass a vote taking over, cutting her wage by 3 quarters cut her wages her own wages cut by 3 quarters to 2200 just compare that to our British democracy where these gangsters just voted themselves a wage increase of 10% the first thing they did and how much did they earn £74,000 that's more than 80,000 euros at the same time they're preparing a raw almost outlawed strikes to make strikes almost impossible they think, they hope they vote in practice and a wage limit in the public sector no more than 1% pay increase to the next 4 years I could say more about these elections and spend a lot of time just one point in Navarra which has been controlled for a long time by the UPN which is an extreme right-wing Navarese nationalist outfit the elections were won by Bildu that's the radical mass left-wing party I mean that seems incredible to me you'd hardly believe it so frankly comrades we're in a period here of sharp and sudden changes in the situation and you must expect the unexpected by the way the common feature of all these cities in all countries is that beneath the surface and perhaps not so far beneath the surface among the masses among the masses especially among the youth but not only among you there is a tremendous mood of anger of rage of discontent above all I would say frustration which is not being reflected by the existing mass organizations of the past it is not and that's the problem you saw that by the way in Ireland where there was a referendum recently about a month ago on the question of same sex marriages it's an important issue obviously for particularly for people who were affected by this but it was very surprising that in this referendum there was a massive vote a massive vote saying yes to same sex marriages and by the way in Ireland there's no postal vote you can't vote by posts in our referendum people were coming from Australia United States New Zealand to vote in this referendum which was a massive vote against the roman catholic church against that what it was this is incredible Ireland was the most catholic country in the world property with the postal exception of Poland not long ago the priest would go in the villages he would go from house to house and ask people why is there no baby in this house this year in case they were using contraceptives but because of the scandals of the pedophile which is disgusting in Ireland they found hundreds of corpses of little children buried in in conference or all is just covered up by the church this my friend is a political earthquake in Ireland it shows a fundamental change in the mood and there's a general feeling against the establishment in all countries against all the establishment not just the bankers and the rich people against the press, the police the judiciary and the political parties all of them all of them are seen as part of the establishment in Spain Pablo Iglesias the leader put them to very well the phrase of La Casta it is disgusting the conduct of this disgusting and you saw that reflected in the Scottish referendum again a political earthquake the Labour party in Scotland had an accidently a part of the impregnable decision huge support the establishment got a shock during the referendum where the whole mood of society the working class in areas like Glasgow was for a yes vote in the general election the Labour party in Scotland was liquidated how many MPs did they have they left with one MP and the SNP which stood demagogically on the left program swept the board a big growth of the SNP including workers laughing people socialists I think they have 15,000 trade unionists in their trade union faction which is more than the Labour party in Scotland has members now the blindest of the blind should be able to understand that this is a fundamental change the blindest of the blind should be able to understand that this is a fundamental change the blindest of the blind should be able to understand that this is a fundamental change I was puzzling how this couldn't be expressed in south of the board Labour was defeated soundly defeated in the general election we turned of course the Labour leaders stood in a hopeless hopeless problem they got their just desserts they were just near the war but what by the conclusion of the Labour leaders is we must go further to the right accident planer left in the Labour party up until now has been as dead as it don't dead as it don't silent Jeremy Corbyn was a left very few left to the left put his name for him now he could not get the requisite number of votes in the parliamentary party couldn't get them he got 17 votes to get on the ballot bit we need to think of this all the lefts soft left semi left they could only get 17 votes 17 signatures so they went around cleaning with right way again please will you please give us your signature poor Jeremy and very foolishly Blair rights signed very foolishly thinking that he would get nowhere Corbyn got massive support very outside the lid outside from when he appeared on television he's the only one that put the clear case against us telling about this comical aspect of this for years the Blair right the right wanted to dissolve the Labour party into the massive Labour votes that's what they want because the activists were supposed to be to the left of the Labour voters you see none of these people none of these people have understood the changes taking this they had the brilliant idea of giving anyone that paid three pounds anyone who votes for in the election for the thousands tens of thousands of people that voted the overwhelming majority vote for Corbyn and it is possible he might well I don't know because the boers were as frightened of this the Blair rights are furious and then pull out all the dirty tricks possible to stop him from winning but nevertheless it shows that once there's a focal point once there's a focal point once there's a humanity discontent can express itself it will do something now I've got only a little time left but incidentally just one p has to before we leave the advance capital also in America you see important developments for example on this question of racism this horrible massacre that took place this terrible massacre in the church yes but you see this is South Carolina this is the heart land of the confederacy the slave owning states the home of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1950s and 60s in the 1950s and 60s the Ku Klux Klan regularly through bobs and churches this time there's been a colossal reaction demonstrations, protests not just of blacks but most of the whites and they voted to remove the confederate flag to remove the confederate flag from the city hall which is a big thing plus then you have this development which the American company of Bernie Sanders who calls himself a socialist although he's been with the Democrat no time to deal with that now my time is almost finished and I haven't dealt with the fraction of the globe but I must the time that's left to me must deal with the question of the Middle East which is in flames from one end to the other as a result of the crimes of imperialism especially American imperialism the Iraq war completely destabilized the whole region and that now poses dangers even for the standpoint of imperialism instantly before the invasion of Iraq there was no al-Qaeda inside Iraq none, zero so I'd have to say I would have dealt with them not very gently and now just look at the the wreckage that they left in Iraq and in Syria and in Libya and it's extending throughout the whole air this monstrous reactionary movement of ISIS it is of course and very late in the day the Americans have decided they must do something about it because it's a threat to their interests and you see the limits of American power the weakness of American imperialism you know George W. Bush said under the invasion of Iraq may I say I can't bless the American cons will excuse my poor imitation yes, what's been accomplished what mission, what's been accomplished they say well they've dropped bombs on ISIS but that has almost no effect this kind of warfare it has no valid effect in order to succeed against ISIS they need troops on the ground they keep on talking about boots on the ground the question is who's boots who's boots on the ground not Americans the American public is fed up there's war in us they don't want any more involvement in foreign adventures least of all in Iraq and the Middle East so who's going to do the fighting the Kurds to some extent yes, but the Kurds will only fight in their own areas so that's not enough so the only other possibility is Iran wonder of wonders the axis of terror was mainly Iran plus in the North Korea I don't know the words the Americans were preparing to bomb Iran together with the Israelis to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons amazingly they're all powers all friends the economist on his fund page a week ago the economist on his fund page he carried the big word I don't know if you can try and say this higher dollar, higher dollar friends don't you believe it don't you believe it a very clever man once said nations do not have friends only interests yes, but it's in the interest of American intelligence now that Iran should increase its war against ISIS that is why they signed the deal of nuclear weapons that's why they signed it by the way it's a big victory for Iran big victory people in Tehran were dancing in the street there was a big demonstration they weren't dancing in the street in Israel and in Saudi Arabia the Israelis and Saudis are furious and Netanyahu said this is a threat to world peace I don't know what he didn't say and of course he's in contact with the American Republicans the Republican right wing most of whom as we know are clinically insane but what he said actually was correct he said this deal will not stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons of course it will not but what stinking hypocrisy Israel has got nuclear weapons for a long time and by the way there's no question whatever of allowing any international observers inside Israel to look at their installation no question to talk unlike Iran Israel has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty nobody mentions that but there's no question about it this deal will enormously increase Iran's power as a regional power the ending of sanctions will have a big effect on the Iranian economy which has been in a bad state for a long time and they'll give them a little present 100 billion dollars will immediately go into Iranian hands which was frozen by the sanctions to cover his bare ass to cover his backside he said ah yes but don't buddy we can always put sanctions on again in the future if necessary and military sanctions will remain there'll be no question of selling arms to Iran you know I believe that with 100 billion dollars Iran can buy a few little weapons elsewhere from Russia, from China or from anywhere else so Netanyahu's buddies are well grounded but what will the effects of this be inside Iran that's it the rest you know there's been big protests in Iran, big uprises against the regime but the weakness of this movement these movements is that it was mainly confined to the middle class the intellectuals, the students there wasn't a massive participation by the workers and the economy has been depressed now there's going to be an economic boom in Iran the removal of sanctions are profound effects on the class but inside Iran there's something I'm going to say now might surprise you despite its image as a Muslim country and so on Iran today is the most bottom the most secular and the most progressive country in the Middle East partners you wouldn't believe that but it's true the workers still try to maintain control but the control is slipping all the time now the wages of the workers have been held down for a long time many workers hundreds of thousands of workers have not been paid for months, perhaps for years therefore an economic boom the recovery of industry predict this now must lead to a big upswing of strikes and the economic struggle and under Iranian conditions economic demands will very quickly become political demands and therefore we're talking about a big revolutionary potential inside Iran this time with the participation of the working class which is a very powerful working class what form will the Iranian revolution take how do we answer that first first of all there will be democratic demands that's clear, revolutionary democratic demands by the way in that context we would support the demand we would say that would be correct democratic demands but that can very quickly the working class can put its own demands and one thing you can be absolutely certain of one variant is completely ruled out after the experience of the last 30 odd years or the dictatorship of the mullers it is absolutely impossible that the Iranian revolution would take the form of any form of Islamic state they've been through that experience and therefore we must try to get a base inside Iran before the movement comes up now if you look at the whole of the Middle East at the present time it appears as black reaction from one end to the other the enormous potential of for example the Egyptian revolution the enormous potential where the workers court of taking power easily something was missing when Morsi was overthrown when Morsi was overthrown 17 million people came up to the streets in Egypt the Bolsheviks never had that kind of movement in 1970 was in the hands of the Egyptian people but something was missing something was missing in Egypt which was not missing in Russia in 1917 a revolutionary party with the revolutionary leadership and let's be clear about this if it hadn't been for the presence of the Bolsheviks I would go further if it hadn't been for the presence of Lenin and Trotsky two men Russia would have gone the same way as Egypt that has gone the Russian revolution passed through a reactionary phase and you're lying to an office in Egypt power was lying in the streets power was lying in the streets waiting for someone to pick it up because there was no revolutionary party to take power the generals took over and now we have a reactionary situation in Egypt but the Egyptian revolution is not finished any more than the Russian revolution was finished in August 1917 and any more than the Spanish revolution was finished after the defeat of the Asturian colony in 1934 but there are two countries two key countries leaving Egypt out of the picture which could provide a fresh impetus to the revolution in the Middle East one is Iran as I've stated and the other is Turkey where again there's a powerful working class where there have been big insurrectionary movements against this monstrous regime of Ertiga it really is a monster and he was moving in the direction of Bonapartism when the recent elections dealt him a terrible blow he was defeated in the elections the AK party lost its majority and there was the rise of this left-wing Kurdish party the HDP which is related to the PKK that's the military how does Erkan react? this bastard words fail me this swine he's supposed to be a member of NATO he's supposed to be fighting against ISIS in Iraq in Syria in reality he's been supporting ISIS actively when Kobane was the Kurdish town on the border was being attacked and slaughtered by the ISIS this bastard was allowing ISIS fighters from other countries to go in past the Turkish front to go in to attack the Kurds and stopping Kurds from going in to fight for their brothers on the other side of the border the Kurds in that area are left-wing the PKK is left-wing doubly dangerous from Ertiga and he's determined to crush not ISIS he's determined to crush the Kurds they're supposed to be in negotiations so what does he do? last way a few days ago a suicide bomber a legity from ISIS went into a small town on the Turkish side of the front entered a building that was full of Kurds but a young left-wing Turks wanted to help the Kurds on the Iraqi side you detonated a bomber and there was a massacre I don't know about it 30-35 people were killed which provoked an enormous wave of revulsion into it and that was undoubtedly organized by the Turkish state there's no question about it everybody knows this the PKK has reacted unfortunately in the Turkish area there's indications of returning to the armed struggle as they call it they killed a few policemen which is a very stupid thing to do they should have arms to defend themselves but that just plays into the hands of the regime we must explain we've got contracts with Kurds and Turks must explain to them the only way to defeat this monster is not through isolated acts of terrorism but by creating a mass united movement of Turkish and Kurdish workers with the aim of a general strike and an insurrection armed insurrection against this monstrous reactionary government and therefore it's the Turkish workers the Kurdish and Turkish workers and the workers of Iran that hold the key to the Middle East at this moment in time now I have to finish for lack of time but I think I've said sufficient for you to realise the correctness of our perspectives which will help in many years but I will just finish with one thought you see revolution is implicit in this revolution but as we've seen in Egypt and even in Greece revolution can only succeed if we have built the necessary revolutionary forces to provide the necessary leadership and that comrades must be done before the revolution after it starts it's very difficult and therefore that's our task the task of this school is to educate and raise the level of the youth in the first instance and to organise and to build the only force on the planet that can show the way out of this nightmare of capitalist barbarism that is to say to build the forces of a mass march of a mass Marxist international