ANNOUNCED IN GREECE
A bulletin was distributed in Athens May 22 announcing the formation of an underground "Patriotic Greek Front."
The aim of the "Front," said the declaration, "is to unite and define the democratic resistance of Greek patriots against the dictatorship."
According to the bulletin, "The initiative in creating this Front was taken by political men of the left, the center and the right, which represent all the patriotic, democratic and antifascist forces of the country."
One of the aims of the Front is "to form a national union government composed of representatives of all the political tendencies, a government that will restore individual and democratic liberties, and undertake to organize free elections as quickly as possible."
The mlticlass "front" sounds
like a reedition of the old people's
fronts set up by the Communist party.
These fronts paved the way to disaster in
a whole series of countries.
The CP engineers of defeats and
setbacks would have done better to pause
long enough to analyze the reasons for
the current victory of reaction in Greece.
Prime responsibility must be
placed at the door of the liberal bour-
geoisie and their lieutenants in the
labor movement who deliberately substi-
tuted class collaboration for class strug-
gle in the battle against the reactionary
forces entrenched around the Greek mon-
archy.
The only class that can lead the
way out is the working class under the
guidance of a revolutionary Marxist party.
That is what the bulletin should have
started with.