'ON THE REORGANIZATION OF THE PEOPLE'S FORCES

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Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R0074004400121-3, EaCRETAONTROL S, OFFICIALS ONLY OEETaaL INTELLIGEHCE AGENCY ON TIE aaORGANTZATION OF THE PEOPLE,S FORCES A year after the elections of 5 March the pclitica 3itaation of the eoretry has completely deteriorated&. There les not elven may etable eeeeknuatioa to the election outburst of the democratic toecee of Ile reeeIe? either from above (vital the Plastiras Government), nor froe he, lee (with any eff ctive organization and activity on the part of ble eorniar factor). The hope ef ensuring ay the electioas a aemoeratic evcution has been o dieappointment, for the time beiag et cree rate, aud the noriod continuec to be as revolutioaareras It was beao.h: Th?, era:, factionalism, the economic oligarchy end elle police and niliterv areauciacy, hold firmly in their aands all the deeisive poste and eleb- out any responsibility they determine the course and fortune 0 ' -lac nation, Thr teenaeional situatioii. uith its peer acuterens, favore these forces aed provides eaem with a cacek to eeae per ren ehe anti-revotutiorery motheds which they are applyiage The working VDEWCS erist withoua a ae- fender and suffer from the after-effects of en unecualisd economic erranita- ttee and the political terrorism ehich accompanies it 32, The dead state in which tho oolitacal lafe of o ountry finds iter' le Jaye weeeode eaueoeu :Ler -Gee erase peopee arm naeeou. ior aleyears now our country bas been facing t serious- oocial crisise ehichv separate and distinet from the political forms-it takes each -time, has the following general and more serious historical significance: with its monopolistic and parasitic formation, the Greek cardtelistic oligaraby has yeaehed a state of complete contradiction to the needs of the further growth of tbe nation,s forces of production, and as long as this contradiction in not overe come, Greek economy reflects and will continue to reflect (but an a =hal greater degree) a pathological and sickly condition, Simultanopuely,: the entire lold city-political world, has become oonclustrely bankrupt and thrown its luck in with capitalistic construction and does not correspond in any way to the pursuits of the Greek people. In its more geneeel historical projection the Greek crisis is the oduct of conflict betweeet the oligarchic economy and the politica/ direction 'which the regularly established authority follows, and the democratic tendencies waich are created and developed continuously within the writing clasm? This con- flict leads to the historical need of a change which must insure the democratization of Greek social and politica: life and, more particularlyre the abolition of the products of the mdnopolistic and paraeitic capitallatic oligarchy; the creation of new productive associations which will bind more closeay and make worthier the productive activity of the working nation; the decisive intervention of the popular masses in the political life of the country; and the substantive functioning of political detocracy so that It would correspond to the needs of the people os strata. On the whole, the Greek nation finds it3elf before a decieive bena in tae road, which is fixed by the imperative, que3t of a democratic historical outlet,. The economic and political forces which today reign throughout ths land constatete an absolute barrier to this oad? The longer this is prolongea, the more there develop dissolute tendencies within the eocial and politacal life of the land, and the more it threatens the very foundation of the nation. The Greek people (who are objectively strong) and the Greek popular 907&- ments were unable, within tha past ten -years, to secure this democratic outlet and the national demo:ratic transformation upon ehich they-could have entered very easily, The poenlar movement, despite its heroic and strenuous zommencement of resistance, despite its unprecedented develop- ment, and despite the trouble and sacrifices of thousands 1t oembatants? broae down on its ceurse and has uow reached a very low point in its ideological policy, in its orgeoaientional judgment and now is cn the point of dissolution. This bending of the popular factor is, in the final analysis, that force which permitted the machinery of modern Greek history to retrogress ten years; it also permitted the ceurse and parasitimn of SECRET/CONTROL - aa, S. OFFICIALS ONLY Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007400440012-3 Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007400440012- OECEET/CONTROL - U S OFFICIALS ONLY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY -2- economic oligarcny to survIvel, and the return to the politieal icre or deed and deeoleosed old party politics. The responsibil5t, fee thf,e de- geserasion of the popular movemeet veigne heavile, upon tin "Ti3 :eeeloveh4 Comnuniet leadershir. a prisoler of narrow orpaeltet:e_ 1 end pol1ticel perceptions, and of en exclasively inteenstional dependence oe IttnT0-? Soviet method of force, 'was rnable to coerespond equally?vete the bread national ad demecratic needs of the Greek popular movement; vethin the boundaries of its illegality, it fell into a policy line of eeror ehiea wearied., upset and weakened the movement, and which ultimately helped no one but the forces of reaction, The Greek eriels.,; from the side of tee popular forces and democratic transformation, becomes intefraed eith the crisis which the popular leevement experienced and etill continees to ex- perience, being erevented from playing ite decisive progreysive role which t. historieelly deserves. 4. The particular serious danger which is created from here on in is that a Caesar-like tendency is cultivated and matured behind the conetentlyn dissolute old party politics, with the assistance of various groups .This vCaesarismIs, opeculating in the clime of the threatening economie bararuptcye the general despair and the international ear psychosis is probably making preparations through elections to sweep up at the proper moment whatever has been left upright in the free political life of the country toareestrate conclusively the reorganization of the popular forces and to blatket the entire life of the land with a sound program of social politicel and spiritual counter-revolution. "5, The basic problems uhich today cone to light are as follower; the poneler forces must re-group themselves in such a inner as to permit a new W.eteeLcal attenpt to liberate the laud from the revers of old party factionalism and the adventures of 2Caesariam41 and to accomelish the demooratie trameormeti of the land,. Fro e a national vim:points, this in tho ouly eey le eneuee a eeneval of the national forces and the fartherance of a progreie? eeeree for the natien, From the international viewpoint, this attemp e eetegorized as one lookine toward the zeintenarce of eeace, Tile the international tension nal war-like atmosphere uhleh her: bece eeneeedf, continues to be the more Mely for a good many evare to come,? an fa, is poseible to anticipate very soon a leseening of she international crInie ehleh will favor to a large degree the democratic evolution of the countrne The re-grouning of the popular forces aid the fulfilment of ti e oWectiee- nust be done on a coneistavtly demoeratic national heels. The denocratie traneformatlon of the countey cannot be the werk of a conseiracy vhich uould .leopese, via eirelessf its DI21 on the popular nalsee, Nor Tale' 1-1-0 SC :'.n!! ie the hope for peace lasts, iavolve itself in the trials of intereaUcea. antagonisms, because it vould become a concession to the generosiey or one or another etrong power, The nolitical and eociel ennneination of thn Greek workers is a teak for the enekere and mnet bo seeured by their strneehe and their progressive climb le the political end eonial life of the lend The aatlon will accomplish its historical destine- proceedeng in accordance vith eho lame of organic evolution, Only by following such a liee eill It le posaible for them to form the necessare- new politica: framework foe the couetre,s movemmet, This framework cannot be supolied by the political action of EFEK, EPEK as is the organic product of a new political course of the people eed more the chance result of a doublesenegative trial of the destruction of the old party facticnalime and the crisis of the left. EPE K is a temporary state XRET/CONTROe - U. S. OFFICIALS ONLY Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007400440012-3 Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007400440012-3 ee-. T/COOTROL - U, S, OFFICIaLS ONLY CaNTRNL INTELLIGNICE, AGENCY -3- of aospeir of the democratic MU3302 for lack of another purer orientation of political form and organizatioa. It makes no difference tact tedee at iaTSK) embraces a certain part of the peogressive tasses era a iesable nenbor of democratic members? foe it dereotes neither ideelogicel? nor political:, nor organizational preenpposltions in order to crentallzer, make cicala, make worthy and make firm the democratic current with ehach it was met,. It still suffers 'within, it Tanks the destruction and peeesure ef ravens capitalism and the flavor of old party circles, There ao uo goartnae) that once leonlinagalted pouer again? it eould not come to tares once eanin fees at did last Tear) with the right, 712.7= is not, nor can le become, tho docauive factor ia the more eeneral rebirth which the times revaa :-ar; La can may oontributa to a more aeaeren revival movement oeteaao of ital organizational framework and a position which only one part oa ete foeees can take within the entire pepulae sea democratic struggle, 8, Nor can the development of the popular atrength conn about !In eonneeeioa with the positions and pursrits which the present leadership oa the KA?. puts forth. This Is precluded it only organizataonally and technically, becauee the EKE still existe illegally? but also from a 'oro general political. standpoint., The KEE leadership, either because it was not taught anything by the defeat of the insurrection or because it finds aa the se/e alternative to the internal erisis its blind ndherence to the form of the American-Sovien antagonism, is entirely outside Greek practicality and centimes to flounder Ln a verbal extremism, This element both in its Internal and in its antere national aspect, is outside the feamework vhich today would penelt the creataon and tbe deep-rooting in Greece of a broad and fruitful democratic movement:. without its being struck dove and demolashed during its early etages of growth. It is characteristic that when the Communist leadorshie even telks about a democratic: front, this is uaaerstood in a completely eectazaan. toeically imprectical vay? and those 'who darectly or indireutly echo the pseeholoey of the Cormenist leadership are less interested in a real aemmastic nnate and more in using the pretense of eolty to strike dove the demreratic aorees uhich are not under the control oa the Connonist leadership, The leader- ship of EKE has itself fallen under (indeed to a large degree) tho lee of the general decay of the Greek poaitieea The reconstitution of the people's forces, moreover:? eannoe et to a deeieive degree within the framewurk and with the Meill3iVe Setlo aay or the existing political organisations of the non-aorlexaist end 3aWarl aeZt., It is possible for each one of those organizatione to preeont a gear er lesser ideological weight anti a corresponding political suactalco and to have contributed more or lose to the democratic seruggle ot. the people acre of these forcee, however, is in a poaition, through its frJ..- eeehanis7e ex- clusively to furnish the leaiership, to inspire and te rowe all tae eessos of the people which must necn,saeily be receastituted and vast steugelo for ,es ree)ization of their dea:eratae aims, P97.?t1cuaarly the :*a coneader- nble number of fignters ana leadang member ho, for a nneaer of reasoes? liesetate? at least immediately, to Join ony party, while at thc ewe Ti7a ier sincerely intend to pertIciixete in a 'ort general aemeeraeic struelc This eituation makes it imperative to foem a front of the aemocraeic ale popular forcee. aegardless ef 'whether the presence and inatietavo of the (thief forces of the democratic lei . in this movement is nature), this aront, eith the prospeet which it Icvolves? is placed beyone the present fieea line-up of left-center-right. At the point which has been reachea by ceisis of the bourgeois politicel world, this front Las the prcspect oa including every honest elemert, regardless of its political origin that en SEO1UET/CONT3OL U, S. OFFICIALS ONLY Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007400440012-3 Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R00740044M12-3 SECRET/COMOL - U. S. OFFICIALS ccix GENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY believes in democracy and is dispooed to stand militant17 at ti'D .51 of the people, This front will thus have the prospect of eepreseing eo ue:ty of the peoples forces, provided that it takes a broader bees, At ethe sere time it will offer the frame wherein will progreseivaey be :alma the coneral renaisaanc, of the people?s zovement and of the politiceX lire of the country, Thi m front is the Democratic Union of Workers and Fareers (nou.), 42_0, The DEM is not 'merely an electoral coalition like tho Democzalic Cealition (in the 5 Uarch elections), Neither is it a new parte eanoeileged nneer the form of a tfront l DOM is a political movement which eneeere the provet phew of the struggle and whose development and aims will be cekined by the development and progress of this rhase, By facing up to the leeeent renater- rovolutionaey situation and the basically unfavorable allaele ot ferceso DOEe will fight and will change this alliance in order to realize tae first stage of ths democratic transformetion of the country, which is the ucce out of the present dead counter-revolutionary scheme of thinga, This transfarma- tion means the restriction of the economic and political oligarchy, the re- turn of the 'working people to social and political life the assurance of the most elementary economic and political rights of the working people. What is n=cessary beyond that for the completion of the democratic treesformee Von of the country? It means the application of final eocialletic volutione; differences and new crystallizations within the democeatil and popular oenp are inevitable and every individual party or tendEncy uhieh shall participate in the DEEA will be free to go ahead in accordance vieh its ovn irdividual historical and political orientation, passing through higher fcrez af etraggie to express a more complete historical consciousneer. nal. The political aims of the DIA for this firs:, stare cet democertie teueenemeei tioa are the following: a. .:Reneval of all the illiberal measures of the past four yeare and cee the consequence of the civil ear? general amnestei releale oV exelaso restoration of the jobs of dismissed employeee. b. Restoration and stroeethenine of politicall, later nnlee enc l individeal liberties, e, Demoeratieaiion of the democretic mechaniee niaa freedoll fr?m beeeeueracy 7iceentraliention and scL1-goveenment I Striking down the old paety tradition and every Caesar-elec. enbleicn,, .FromptparlAnnentarye manicipal and local electione, "120 The economic aims of DEEP& for the first stage of the denoceat..,c eraeEforma- tion are the following: a A blow against capitalistic monopolies social paraseteen end pro toe b, Restoration and development of the productive force enie pert/lel im- dustrialization and intensive development of agriaulture and of the othee natural resources? z.. Utilization of foreign aid for the benefit of the peopLe and not lee tte benefit of the oligard47. L. Developeent of cooperative organieition, Bringing under the management of the national entity, with the partici- pation of organized producers and consumers, of certain basic enteeppises of public utility SECRET/CONTROL - U. S. OFFICIlLS ORLY Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007400440012-3 Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007400440042-3 C170,TitrCOITTIAM - U. S. OFFICIALS TM CENTRAL TETELLIGENCE ACF,NOY -5- 2, The state to assume general control of econordo movemenje,of invesenents and of oriets, g. Geeernment eorminesst A, Completion of agricultueml distribution and reoonetruction,) strengthening of *mall agricultural property ounerohip and protection of the teWtO agricultural products, laising the livieg standard of emploeees Tfateneion of social insurance and care, The international position of DEE% is the following: a, Except in casco of a general wart which is not imediately in prospoctt the position of Greece In the non-Soviet camp is dofinitel one ory discussion but turning her to the international position and polie of the Eastero Bloc is utoplae. In the anti-Pan-Asieido phase through which. we are eassing such discussion oonetitatee a clear provooation, b.. Inside the non-Soviet camp Greece ought to follow a pro-peace pollee io general and should avoid any anti-Soviet provocation It ehould not acoept new intonational obligations which eill involve her in the oystem of antagonism betueeniionerica and the WWI. v? The Greek people,, In aceeptine American aidt, which is valuable for the rocauetruction of the country,, ought to struggle so that tala aid 4ha11 not become the beginning of a dimiputior of thoir natflot The Geeek people will assure their indepsedencee not byeageng 7. enr against the Amerioano, 'out by taldilg iota thalr hando t71,1) 71,T$1;11ant avid adothiistration of the country and by applying o !aatfT_onaa pllicy comonart with their OVA oolitical 0riter5oa, The Greek people ought to fortify end to defend their ructimal imt000lee and securityr. The most effective means for this. , however, :Iv, ti.).E, ye:act:toe of a coneistent pro-peace policy by this country. o. Tee pro-peace orientation makes it imperative to support oeory intoe- ootional effort and initiative from any eource whatsoever -not eel_ oontribute toward the lsesening of inmotional antagonism, to thoi iimiliation and control of armements, to the solution of onoot000denY; international problems by peaceful meanst to the avoidaoce of ontet :oteeventioas to the prevalence of the spirit of the Uoitod Natioeoe to the respoce for small countries on the poet large couotrieoo to the hinderong of faiteacooeelie.00d Ereorto solutions aod oo eotionol omanoietion of olcolal pooeles, IeTie as an organioetion and as elvemene jos strictly xnd l000leely eo the framework of orIstine leoelity, It leokc to rooliziug Its aims fee ,leelvely by derooratic nears ofoeougglo and it is iiiehtiag in ordeo to -toe:0840n poogreosirely the doeooratio ::tememork rime to oeoo ]Owooratio eeaaa Cf vaging the struggle continually more 7eouitful and moro "13 For the realization of its aims MEI will lodk to the folloeing: n. Dissolving the atmespheoe of cold terrorism, restooine to t'k.e moons of the ozople the reeifkry. of their Political and personal earoriee and ma-Loring to ',them their consciousneso of their social strength i'",1,ORET/CONTHOI, U, S. OFFICIALS ONLY Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007400440012-3 Approved For Release 1999/09/09 : CIA-RDP82-00457R007400440012-3 - U?. 8,- OFFICIALS ONLY CIMITRIL EITELLIGENCE AGPZICY. -6- O, Channeling as many more labor and popular forces as possible into economio and political struggles? Educating the working people regarding the necessity of the demooratio transformation and the democratic means of realizing thenn Dotalhing the greate4t possible portion of the people from the infinence of the old parties or of other illegitimate political institations into 'which they had been. led or are being held by the anti-Cormuniat phobia, Giving e. now orpnnizational form to the movemAit ?c: form that 13 basically democratic., reloping the initiative of the mosso vhsro it is imperative that there be a decision or action oa their nart, Contributing toward the reconstitution and regeneration of the norfassionar movement of the employees with the predominance 017 a free labor wion movement among them. Contributing toward the regeneration and the health of the agrioaltorel and consumer cooperative organizations with free moneration among them. Creating a new spiritual movement in the country which rilI face tp to eontemporary historical necesvities of the nation and Which will renew the more gamine progressive traditions- "16, Party and non-party organizations participAte in DEE A and uo do individuals nho sineerely believe in the historical necessity of the democrat:lc 'ran- in the political necesnity of realizing ths within democracy nad by democracy, and who accept the program of the organization, DEE& oxpresses in particular the alliance of the two basic classes of VOktEr3 in. the country, the laborers and the farmers, and beyond that the unity of all *=1.10 working and oppressed peoplo,, Jean organiontion of the pole nhioh insures a united political activity in every peotor of the uor, It lo democracy organized from top to bottom, and the appointnent of ita leadership will be made in accordsnce with the organination which will be Ammed in the meantimeo,1 40ONTROL -U. S. 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