Syriza's Original 40 Point Manifesto

The daily bulletin of Italy’s Communist Refoundation Party published today the apparently official program of the Greek coalition of the left, Syriza. Here the 40 points of the Syriza program.

1. Audit of the public debt and renegotiation of interest due and suspension of payments until the economy has revived and growth and employment return.
2. Demand the European Union to change the role of the European Central Bank so that it finances States and programs of public investment.
3. Raise income tax to 75% for all incomes over 500,000 euros.
4. Change the election laws to a proportional system.
5. Increase taxes on big companies to that of the European average.
6. Adoption of a tax on financial transactions and a special tax on luxury goods.
7. Prohibition of speculative financial derivatives.
8. Abolition of financial privileges for the Church and shipbuilding industry.
9. Combat the banks’ secret [measures] and the flight of capital abroad.
10. Cut drastically military expenditures.
11. Raise minimum salary to the pre-cut level, 750 euros per month.
12. Use buildings of the government, banks and the Church for the homeless.
13. Open dining rooms in public schools to offer free breakfast and lunch to children.
14. Free health benefits to the unemployed, homeless and those with low salaries.
15. Subvention up to 30% of mortgage payments for poor families who cannot meet payments.
16. Increase of subsidies for the unemployed. Increase social protection for one-parent families, the aged, disabled, and families with no income.
17. Fiscal reductions for goods of primary necessity.
18. Nationalization of banks.
19. Nationalization of ex-public (service & utilities) companies in strategic sectors for the growth of the country (railroads, airports, mail, water).
20. Preference for renewable energy and defence of the environment.
21. Equal salaries for men and women.
22. Limitation of precarious hiring and support for contracts for indeterminate time.
23. Extension of the protection of labor and salaries of part-time workers.
24. Recovery of collective (labor) contracts.
25. Increase inspections of labor and requirements for companies making bids for public contracts.
26. Constitutional reforms to guarantee separation of Church and State and protection of the right to education, health care and the environment.
27. Referendums on treaties and other accords with Europe.
28. Abolition of privileges for parliamentary deputies. Removal of special juridical protection for ministers and permission for the courts to proceed against members of the government.
29. Demilitarization of the Coast Guard and anti-insurrectional special troops. Prohibition for police to wear masks or use fire arms during demonstrations. Change training courses for police so as to underline social themes such as immigration, drugs and social factors.
30. Guarantee human rights in immigrant detention centers.
31. Facilitate the reunion of immigrant families.
32. Depenalization of consumption of drugs in favor of battle against drug traffic. Increase funding for drug rehab centers.
33. Regulate the right of conscientious objection in draft laws.
34. Increase funding for public health up to the average European level.(The European average is 6% of GDP; in Greece 3%.)
35. Elimination of payments by citizens for national health services.
36. Nationalization of private hospitals. Elimination of private participation in the national health system.
37. Withdrawal of Greek troops from Afghanistan and the Balkans. No Greek soldiers beyond our own borders.
38. Abolition of military cooperation with Israel.  Support for creation of a Palestinian State within the 1967 borders.
39. Negotiation of a stable accord with Turkey.
40. Closure of all foreign bases in Greece and withdrawal from NATO.

That could stir things up a bit

Source: The Greanville Post

Comments

[Ohne Deckung]

To do something for the people is a mandatory motive when speaking to the people.

Where it comes from. Reality is thriving otherwise bless them who are not in the knowing.

How to bridge that when the mics are open.

The best results in the topic are presented by the ad-industry.

Closed up but always behind the politic entrepreneurs. The laziness is to explain. In case of bad bids they can relate on military and police to organize missed income.

The 40-ingredient product in quest has missed a supervising eye of the leading forces in all the matter of concern. It's a puke load, a chaos in rank and order those to come about easily is to depict.

Those who have ideas, finger up, and then, write down. Next. If there had been 41 people in the room, we may have had to appreciate a 41-point manifestion.

Big governments are on the roast of history. Syriza, is it to turn the brat around.

[Peterus]

They'd end up like Cuba if they honestly tried implementing these. Still, they got to power, now they're going to speak in a different tone.

For a democracy where rulers actually strive to fulfill their promises it has to be an extremely stable country with not much centralization, or there'd have to be some day of reckoning for the elected officials. For example, when they end the term, they're graded by the voters (who also vote in next govt). Grade high enough means very high financial reward. Low grade can get massive fines, while extremely low grade translates into prison time. This could straighten their incentives. But now, it's personally much better choice for the politician to play ball with concentrated interest (especially in a State with a lot of centralization, where most of the money is spent in a far away capital).

[NoTTD]

41.  Don't worry about paying for any of it.  We are good people doing good things.

[NoTTD]

42.  Follow the example of Maduro/Chavez to resolve any financial or supply issues.

[NoTTD]

43.  If we run low on vital goods and services, just order them to be produced.  The producers will always think of something to save us.

[NoTTD]

44. Schedule May Day national holiday.  All workers to get triple pay while taking the day off.  No, make it a week.

[NoTTD]

45.  Alwasy bear in mind that we have an unlimited source of funds, everyone else's, so let your spirit and imagination soar.