The tiger is back! scream the headlines, quoting statistic after statistic to prove that the days of the bailout and Troika rule are over and we are advancing to a new nirvana of growth and prosperity.

The Central Statistics office claims that gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2015 accelerated by 6.5 per cent year-on-year while gross national product (GNP) advanced by 7.3 per cent.

The working class look on bemused. The statistics don't match the desperate struggle of their daily lives, where every cent counts. Newspapers rarely highlight their statistics - of homeless families, mortgage failures and repossessions, low pay, zero hour jobs, endless charges and taxes, and so on.  The papers tell us that unemployment is below 10%, but not that we have, yet again, exported our youth on the migration trail.

How to square the circle between capitalist prosperity and working class misery? It's very simple. The renewed prosperity depends on pushing down the cost of labour and keeping it down.  Capitalist recovery depends on mass poverty.

The recovery statistics are being used as a weapon.  Together with a war chest agreed with the European Central Bank, we are to be persuaded to re-elect the coalition.

The opposition are scrabbling to put together an alternative. The unions have suggested a dolly mixtures "progressive government" a thousand times weaker than the recently defeated SYRIZA government in Greece.

The solution lies elsewhere. In the self organisation of the workers, in repudiation of the debt, in action on the streets and in solidarity across
Europe.