https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Austerity-the-destruction-of-the-health-system-and-the-urgency-of-a-debt https://internationalviewpoint.org/Austerity-the-destruction-of-the-health-system-and-the-urgency-of-a-debt 2015-04-26T06:58:08Z text/html en Charles-André Udry, Louise Irvine Greece Public services <p>A meeting of the Red Network was held in Athens on April 4, 2015. One of the three workshops brought together about a hundred people who are active to varying degrees in the health sector: doctors, nurses, paramedics, those responsible for hospital pharmacies, cleaners, members of local committees who have prevented the closure of a primary care centre, one of the doctors responsible for the social dispensary at Hellinikon. The discussion combined testimony, analysis and initiatives. A common thread ran through all the interventions: we should stop waiting for the results of the permanent and highly-mediatized negotiations of the government, which maintain the population in a passive attitude; we must build initiatives that ensure the connection between caregivers, population, the trade-union structure (META) influenced by Syriza and the members and supporters of Syriza. Given the massive and continuous state of decay of the health system, a slogan has to be put forward: immediate refusal to pay the interest on the debt and repayments that are presented as unavoidable, and the immediate use of these funds for the health sector.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV483-April-2015-" rel="directory">IV483 - April 2015</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Greece-+" rel="tag">Greece</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Public-services-+" rel="tag">Public services </a>