The list of executives taking sides in the war that has broken out within SYRIZA is growing, with the latest development being the announcement of the resignation of Skevos Papaioannou, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and former Dean of the School of Social Sciences, University of Crete, member of SYRIZA and candidate for parliament in 2012.

As Rethemniotika News reports, Mr. Papaioannou, in fact, called on the competent committee to immediately delete him as a member of SYRIZA as well as all his personal data, declaring that he does not allow their availability and use for any reason.

The entire announcement of Mr. Papaioannou:

I believed and believe in a Left whose basic principles are: equality, solidarity, companionship, equal rights for every human being, the abolition of exploitation of man by man, as well as the abolition of the separation of intellectual and manual work, respect for of diversity and which is against social and racial exclusion, racism, nationalism, fascism, intolerance, in short against unbridled barbaric neoliberal capitalism. In a Left that pursues a realistic utopia: of Socialism and Participatory Democracy. Of course, I believe that all that concerns the vision for another society should naturally dominate and characterize the party, and its operation, that believes in and promotes these values.

No later than 2012, when I was solemnly nominated and was a candidate for the Dodecanese parliament, I experienced highly competitive behavior especially from “fellow” co-candidates from Rhodes, who in every way undermined my candidacy and technically prevented me from being in Rhodes during the election campaign . Instead they advised me to take the “barren line” Lipsi, Patmos, Leros, Kalymnos, Nisyros, Kos. Even though the result I contributed to in 2012 was excellent and because it was clear that the current in 2015 was in favor of SYRIZA and therefore it appeared that three MPs would be elected from SYRIZA in the Dodecanese they made sure to exclude me as a candidate.

Being patient I continued to be a member hoping that maybe something would change.

The next traumatic experience was the 3rd Congress in April 2022. Those scenes at the end of the Congress where Tsipras with the proposals he devised and passed with a majority and especially the one for the voting of the President by the members, which as it turned out put the tombstone in SYRIZA, they are not described. Belonging to the minority, which does not illustrate, but thinks, analyzes and dares to criticize the President as well, we caught the “mountains” on the field where the Congress was held. A crowd standing up shouting, standing, stomping, swearing and turning furiously towards the stands cursing us vulgarly and turning the Conference area into a Colosseum-type Arena!!!.

Already with the infamous “enlargement”, not as such, but because of the way it was done, there was a takeover of all the organs by newcomers without a trace of Leftist culture and ideology, but with authoritarian bulimia and an anti-Left man and hatred. For fear of being criticized or expressing another political point of view, they froze the functioning of the organs for at least the last four years and made decisions among themselves. And the few times they held an assembly in the Rethymnon OM out of the 800 members, there were no more than 40 to 50, while in the Prefectural one out of 25 elected members there were usually 5 to 10 present. The minority who persisted and persist on the left suffered and are suffering exclusion, ridicule, psychological and verbal violence, thuggery and terrorism. In a coup d’état and against the will of the Municipal Faction that SYRIZA had supported in the previous elections and before a decision was even made on what to do with the municipal elections, they leaked the cooperation with the current Mayor and negotiated participation in the ballot. The results of the election are a stumbling block for the supporters of unconditional cooperation, and instead of apologizing, they have the audacity to continue the war against the left, people who are shallow, politically illiterate, but with too much audacity and with an ideological flaw in their minds.

This situation culminated and exceeded all limits with the appearance and election of Kasselakis. Leftism, barbarism and revanchism prevail. Really against whom? Those who, with struggles, sacrifices, pre-teenagers, but with persistence and patience, built what is called the Radical Left, when the would-be squatters were sunning themselves in lairs that ravaged and bankrupted the country. An explosive, alienating, unscientific, vulgar populist mixture is gathering as a pack under the leadership of opportunists who have been waiting for the moment to whip the party and seize power by taking revenge on the so-called “3%” and begin an unprecedented war against everyone on the left, with admiration and adoration in a state of ecstasy to praise Kasselakis who promised them the “Greek dream”, every Greek and a self-made shipbuilder!

This surreal situation, as much as it fills with disappointment, also has something positive: the realization that the struggle to change society is continuous and persistent with defeats and victories, and that the hope for the predominance of a real left-wing situation is not canceled as long as there is injustice, inequalities, exploitation, oppression, exploitation and (ex)humiliation of human dignity.

After about 58 years of my conscious membership in the Left and 19 years as a member of SYRIZA, I took after much thought and torturous analysis the decision to leave SYRIZA, not of course from the Left, in which due to social origin, lived experience, social ethics and theoretically elaborated ideology, I belong.

Please, immediately delete me as a member of SYRIZA, as well as all my personal data that I made available to you as a member from your files and lists.

Finally, I do not allow you to make them available or use them for any reason.

Source: Rethnea.gr