Greece, Thessaloniki, SOLIDARITY IN THE STRUGGLE OF THE WORKERS OF INDUSTRIAL METALLEFTIKIS (gr)

(en) Greece, Thessaloniki, SOLIDARITY IN THE STRUGGLE OF THE
WORKERS OF INDUSTRIAL METALLEFTIKIS (gr) [machine translation]

"Wake up those who are asleep, let those who dream, why we are here and three years living 
in a dream and we will fight for it until the end because in the words of a quote" It 
buddy to exist for a dream and let the fire of burn us'" ---- Vio.Me. Worker ---- For 
almost three years the workers of the Industrial Mining Thessaloniki conduct a fair and 
militant struggle for life and dignity. Unpaid (already in 2011) employees VIO.ME. They 
took the decision to ignore the requirements of state and capital and chose the path of 
the race, moving to capture and re-opening of the plant on the basis of self-management. 
The main pillars on which constructed the project of VIO.ME. is the 
triple-self-self-self-organization. Workers exceeded limits entrenched institutional 
unionism and implemented direct democratic procedures, with decisions taken at the general 
assembly of workers process in which all members have equal status. From the first moment
the factory reopening created a nationwide network of solidarity with their struggle was 
linked with similar ventures in Europe, Argentina and Turkey.

After three years of continuous struggles and mobilizations in the occupied factory 
opposite to the continuous attempts of repression, isolation and assimilation of the 
project, the VIO.ME. It is again in danger. In the forefront of this attack is currently 
the judiciary as well start the liquidation procedures of land through auction threatening 
the existence of the occupied and self-managed factory.

The trial for the auction is set for Thursday, November 26 in the courts of Thessaloniki, 
where employees and solidarity call to abort the auction.
As an anarchist political organization we stand in solidarity on the side of the 
struggling workers of VIO.ME. We understand that fight as part of the broader social and 
class struggles that grow from below, as another mound in the total state and capitalist 
restructuring. Also in this endeavor and we recognize its importance as a self-experiment 
today in the direction of the struggle for the social revolution and the vision of a new 
self-managed society.

From our side, the side of the unemployed, the workers, the poor, the plebeians of this 
world, the history of social and class struggle shows us that the proletarians are not 
expecting anything from the institutions, parliaments, elections, bureaucratic trade union 
leaders and mediators of class struggle, who will be interacting with the bosses begging 
for their charity. Whatever you have to gain is a result of the broad, organized on the 
base, the militant and radical struggles. Only the total subversion of the state and 
capitalism, social expropriation of wealth that we ourselves produce and sucks a caste of 
rulers, the organization from the bottom of the social and class counter-attack, the 
revolution for a new society common ownership, solidarity, freedom can vindicate the 
desires and actual social needs of the oppressed and exploited throughout the world.

... Until the overthrow of the world of the state and capital, the global social 
revolution, anarchism and libertarian communism!

CONCENTRATION THURSDAY November 26 11:00 a.m.
COURTS OF THESSALONIKI

Anarchist political organization
Federation collectivity

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