Extracts
from the Political Resolution of SYNASPISMOS' 3rd
CongressExtracts
from the Political Resolution of SYNASPISMOS' 3rd
CongressAt the dawn of the 21st
century the Left is called upon to act and express its strategic proposal
within the framework of globalisation. Within this framework all the great
social and political issues are necessarily viewed in new terms.
We reject the view that globalisation is irrevocably identified with
neoliberalism.
This equation, that exists today, is the result of specific political and social choices which are made within the framework of the present balance of power.(...) The struggle against neo-liberalism waged in conditions of globalisation prevalent today, requires a Left that will possess a vision for the method in which the modern world should be organised and governed, for the development of a democratic, multi-polar world, with regional security systems and trustworthy international organisations. The new worldwide regularisation and the political governing of globalisation in opposition to today's domination by the market forces are the great targets that the Left needs to put at the top of the agenda of its political, social and theoretical debates.
The European Union, under democratic, social and ecological conditions, can be the European people's answer to the great challenges of globalisation. This prospect should be the rallying call of the European Left.
This prospect goes through the challenging and the change of today's orientations of the European Union, through the questioning and the change of the one-sided nature of the structure of the European Union, through the overthrow of the tendencies that want to see Europe approach and adopt the American social model.
Balkan policy, Cyprus and Greek Turkish relations
Developments in the Balkans and in Greek-Turkish relations will leave their mark on our country's course. We are in the aftermath of the disreputable NATO war against Yugoslavia, at a period when fluidity and instability are spreading through the Balkans, beyond Kosovo, from Montenegro to FYROM. Relations between Europe and Turkey and Greece and Turkey need to be put in the right track with the framework of International Law, of the European democratic achievements and their political and institutional safeguards, without questioning the country's sovereign rights.
This period is also one of crucial developments in the Cyprus issue. We need to strive for the unobstructed accession of Cyprus to the EU as a single state, but also for the just and viable solution of the Cyprus issue in accordance with UN resolutions and the summit meetings in a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation, with a single sovereignity,a single international representation and the refutal of confederal and partition scenarios.
The electoral results and the policy of SYN
The electoral result of the 9th of April has given PASOK the absolute majority in parliament.
As far as the PASOK government is concerned Synaspismos will exercise a responsible,programmatic opposition, from the point of view of its total strategical proposal for the course Greek society should follow.
SYNASPISMOS main objective through this programmatic opposition and through the promotion of its alternative programme will be to convince the creative forces of Greek society that the prospect lies in the direction it is pointing at and thus change the existing social and political balance of power.
Synaspismos relations with the New European Left
The formation of the New European left current and its demarcation from Social Democracy and the "new centre" as well as from dogmatic communism, is a crucial point Synaspismos needs to focus its attention and initiatives on.
It is in this direction that the meeting with left green forces and radical social movements, on a local as well as a European level, acquires strategic importance.
Synaspismos relations with the movement for the equality of the genders
SYNASPISMOS considers the struggle to overcome direct and indirect gender discrimination as a political issue of paramount importance. In order to achieve this objective our party proposes additional measures, both legislative and administrative, which will mould the social and institutional framework that will lead to a real and complete integration of the principle of gender equality in all policies implemented.
