Position he made sensed in the 5th congress of SYRIZA – Progressive alliance the Dionysus Temponera“To keep the big case alive,” he explained.
“I am resigning from any claim to the party as a minimum of consistency,” he said, following following Christos Spirtzi And George Vassiliadis, while “some- politically stupid- care more about their next day, even when it will continue to be night and deep darkness,” he commented and embraced those who “supported the ridicule of the space until the last minute”, referring indirectly to the period.
Speech in detail:
Comrades and comrades,
I am here before the party’s highest body, to take responsibility:
I take responsibility because in June 2023, after the double electoral defeat and the resignation of Alexis Tsipras, we did not persuade you to first do a conference of self -criticism and perspective and to follow the presidential election, resulting in the “Kasselaki moment”.
I take responsibility for those who supported the ridicule of the space until the last minute, because they are not going to do so. I take responsibility because I did not react to all those previous pathogens that led to the “Kasselaki symptom” because even today some people whistle indifferently without shame.
I take responsibility because in February 2024, when SYRIZA was still in place of the opposition and in a position of power, we were not persuaded to propose the need to cooperate the progressive forces in terms of programming unity, to avoid today’s political imbalance and a new political imbalance.
I take responsibility today because we did not convince you to do a conference that looks “out and in front” and not “in and back”. To make a conference that is part of the solution and not, part of the problem.
I take responsibility mean, hereinafter referring to any claim of responsibility to the party, as a minimal indication of consistency with my value code. This is the only attitude that my conscience imposes on me.
But I remain bound by the principles and values of the left. I remain committed by the ideological and political context, from the “morality of another left”, as we have shaped it in particular, during the period of SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras (2015-2019).
Today, more than ever we need to respond to the case (of the left), giving a great promise:
We will continue to fight the battles in terms of synthesis and overruns of yesterday, with the aim of unity of leftist and progressive forces.
We will continue to fight to give a democratic way out and oxygen to the Greek people.
There is no other solution.
Comrades and comrades,
For our conference to make sense today we have to answer 4 basic questions:
Question One: Who are we?
Let us reaffirm our identity. We are left, progressive and democratic citizens who are motivated by the great values and principles of social justice, equality, solidarity, democracy. Our morals should not allow us to ambiguity, cloudy political stigma, adventurism, bureaucratic enclosures and self -sacrifices. We feel lucky and proud that, with all our mistakes and weaknesses, we stood with the people, on the right side of history, when it needed.
Question two: Who do we express?
We are not “with everyone”. We are not … “both with capital and with work”, as some told us. We are not with a vague and ultimately neoliberal “political center”, as it is determined. We are with their “non -privileged” below, with workers but also with small and medium -sized, with intellect, youth, excluded and invisible, but also all those who want prosperity and prosperity in their place and homeland.
Question Three: For what purpose do we fight?
We are obliged to see the earth blushing from life. We are fighting for the abolition of human exploitation by man, for a society of justice and democracy. We do not want to become better system managers. We are leftists – radicals, we dream of changing the world in a socialist direction and not to appear as misery and austerity.
Question Quarter: How will we achieve the above goal?
We have been writing for two years now about the need for a programmatic dialogue of left and progressive parties aimed at alternative governance, with the aim of turning potentially social, political majority. We were at the forefront of articles, events, public interventions and initiatives that give a solution. We will continue to do the same. In the terms of a programming unity, we aspire to form a new political majority.
Comrades and comrades,
In our lives we learned the hardest way that the Left does not produce “Persians”, “punitive” and “heroes”. It produces social models, everyday people who envision a better world and work with selflessness for the great “purpose”.
We have repeatedly proven that positions and roles do not concern us. That is why it does not express us the ejaculation of any intra-party bureaucracy. Some – politically stupid – care more about their next day, even when it will continue to be night and deep darkness.
We will insist on talking and doing the big and great:
To stop the war everywhere and to liberate Palestine (a contribution to the formation of an anti-Pilican movement).
To finally stop so few, to live at the expense of many through a system of international and domestic oligarchy (initiatives to redistribute and redistribute wealth).
To stop the institutional downhill of the right -wing government and the dismantling of the rule of law (restoration of the functioning of democratic institutions).
In order for our country to acquire a “position and role” and to make use of its comparative advantages (productive correction), not as a given ally, but as a country that claims its national independence and integrity and defends the rights of the homeland, even against the international.
To change the value of society and to convince citizens that participation, action and movement always go ahead of history and makes people’s lives better (restoring confidence in the moral code of the left).
Comrades and comrades,
We will remain simply members of the party by proving that we are consistent in words with works. We also motivate those who have been in place of responsibility to set aside to let the “new” be born.
The Untreated Tempe movement is already showing the way.
Comrades and comrades,
“We are in our lives, we never asked for” (Yiannis Ritsos – Caesarean Shooting Gallery).
Neither are we now retreat from our principles and values.
Only one we ask:
To keep this great “case” alive with unity and political empathy.
Do not have lost the hardships and sacrifices of so many years.
To open a new historical cycle that with the knowledge and experience of the previous period will give hope and perspective for another society of democracy and justice.
Dionysus Temponera
Member of the PG by SYRIZA-PS