The campaign against SYRIZA in the days before elections is getting nastier and nastier – since our enemies control the big media, they can permit themselves direct lies, knowing that our answer cannot reach the same wide public. They feel free to project onto us all their secret obscene dreams and wishes, up to the threat of a police terror.

But we should stay calm. Our critics hate us because, secretly, they know we have the courage to act as free people. When we are in the eyes of the public, those who observe us understand, for the flash of an instant, that we are offering them freedom, dignity and solidarity. For that instant, our critics are free, they feel one with us, but it is only a moment; fear returns and they hate us again because, in their spirit, they are slaves afraid of their own freedom.

There is…