In Greece: Do we support spontaneous rebellion?

The debate is raging in Greece, as to whether the left should support spontaneous uprising such as the riots that took place last December. The more moderate left is calling the Maoist support for the students “anti-communism” and as being provocateurs. By taking this position they are playing it safe and opposing any activity that can be considered spontaneous.
Can a leftist play it safe and support the powers in charge? Only if they are refusing to take risks and support any actual change. This is similar to the riots in Seattle, here in the US a few years ago. Some leftists condemned them. They warned that such action would only provoke the state and make the left look bad. The left in the US already looks bad. It also looks impotent and unable to do anything. The riots gave the various causes of the non rioting protesters some publicity they would not have gotten otherwise. Their protests would have gone unnoticed by the news media without the riots. So the “provocateurs” did the left more good than bad.
Likewise we can all remember the student uprising of 1968 that nearly toppled the French government. But that one chance at a revolution was thwarted by the French Communist Party which openly opposed the students. They prevented the first revolution in a developed country.
We don’t need leftists who are too cowardly to allow students to rebel when the need arises. Whatever they do is the government’s problem and not that of the left.


From:http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION

Please see below the Statement Nr 6/2009 concerning the new attacks of KKE against KOE.
You may also find it in our English Website (international. koel.gr) :
http://international.koel.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=80:statement-nr-62009-new-attack-of-kkes-leadership-against-koe-12022009&catid=14:other-documents&Itemid=10
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Communist Organization of Greece, Statement Nr 6/2009 (12/2/2009)
About the new attack of the leadership of KKE against KOE
The leadership of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) published today in its paper “Rizospastis” a communication worthy only to spit at, slandering the Communist Organization of Greece (KOE) as using “state security services’ methods”. The leadership of KKE, after having denounced the December Revolt as “a conspiracy well-organized by internal and foreign dark centers” (!), has now clearly lost its sangfroid. It escalates its attack and targets the Communist Organization of Greece, proving once more that it cannot withstand a political and ideological debate. This is the reason why the leadership of KKE labels as “provocation” and “state security services’ methods” the documents of political debate.
The criticism towards KKE cannot be labeled as “anticommunism” . The prostitution of the communist movement, the war against the line of left unity action waged by the leadership of KKE, while at the same time it aligns itself with the bourgeois government: This is anticommunism!
We call upon the leadership of KKE to give up these condemned methods of provocation and slandering. It would be much better if the leaders of KKE would demonstrate such “hard-line” and intimidation tactics against the government, the monopolies and imperialism. We assure them: their shameless attacks against us will not stop the political and ideological debate. What our people needs is a genuine Communist Left, in the first line of the struggles to overthrow the reactionary policies.