Today's Topics:
1. Greece, liberta salonica: Intervention by Pueblo & NTU at
OSTH headquarters [VIDEO] [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. anarkismo.net: Auckland Bus Drivers Lockout by AWSM
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
As the political elite, OASTH executives and shareholders squeeze public funds, thousands of impoverished sailors sail under the miserable
regime of urban transport in Thessaloniki. ---- Since 1957 OASTH has been the monopoly of Thessaloniki's public transport. One of the many
paradoxes is that by 2017 the organization, though a legal entity under private law, is subsidized by the state. This creates a condition of
full security for shareholders' funds, as any revenue reductions are covered by state funds. In 2017 OSTH is nationalized, put into special
liquidation and a new public body is set up. Today, Thessaloniki public transport is in the form of a public-private partnership (PPP).
OASTH has taken over the transport project along with the KTEL buses, which have already taken 6 lines and from January will take 25 rural
lines. The following will be lost from this treaty for yet another forum, as the analog ticket that applies to KTELs is unlikely to apply to
the specific lines mainly used by workers in industrial areas (Sindos, Thermi, Oreokastro).
On the other hand, the situation at the bus hub has reached an impasse. Racist and sexist attacks, whether by passengers or drivers, are a
daily occurrence. Some drivers, on the other hand, had been leading such movements by excluding refugees from the buses before the ND
government excluded them from the hospitals. Also, the frequency of the itineraries is unacceptably low, so we stacked up like sardines
until recently a glass was broken on the bus because of the suffocating crowd. Of course, those responsible (President of OSTH, Mayor of
Thessaloniki, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport) hurry to reassure us that conditions will improve, as well as a competition for
fleet purchases. The buses which, however, promise with their thick words they won't go out on the road before 2021! These leaders urge us
to be patient.
Obviously they have time to get on the bus, so to say so easily. For those of us who come to grips with the miserable conditions on the
OASTH buses every day, we have to tell them that we have no patience. The conscious policy of downgrading our services is clear, with the
lack of buses, which will worsen as the next two years. dozens of buses will be withdrawn due to age limit (20 years). At the same time,
dozens of vehicles are spinning in the OASTH train station for half a year. Mitsotakis was furiously cynical anyway when he said that the
situation with the Thessaloniki public transport would get much worse, until it got better ... But better for whom? Obviously better for the
individuals who take on the project, after the big buckwheat continues, with zero transparency of inputs and outputs of the organization.
Today every drone comes out and announces to us with great impudence that we are responsible for the situation of OASTH, the "downers", the
ones below who do not accept a ticket for our journeys. So are the wages coming to us, that is, at a time when the constant wage cuts and
the elasticity of work have forced many of us to fail to pay the basics. They have the audacity, and they are wagging their fingers, as the
taxes we pay are financed by the OASTH funds, from which shareholders and executives of the organization eat and drink. Furthermore, Ticket
prices are rising rapidly, making it inaccessible on a daily basis for many and many who find it difficult to make ends meet. Ticket prices
are constantly rising, so that shareholders' drivers will not gag. In fact, the state undertakes to pay to OSTH either the full price or the
difference that arises for those who travel with OSTH for free or with a reduced ticket. Consequently, the artificial narrative that those
who do not validate a ticket are responsible for the bad texts of the OSTH constitutes a fairy tale that both the shareholders and
executives of the OSTH, as well as the state and municipal leadership, in order to renounce the responsibilities they so burden corruption,
as well as their anti-popular policies. Ticket prices are constantly rising, so that shareholders' drivers are not kicking. In fact, the
state undertakes to pay to OSTH either the full price or the difference that arises for those who travel with OSTH for free or with a
reduced ticket. Consequently, the artificial narrative that those who do not validate a ticket are responsible for the bad texts of the OSTH
constitutes a fairy tale that both the shareholders and executives of the OSTH, as well as the state and municipal leadership, in order to
renounce the responsibilities they so burden corruption, as well as their anti-popular policies. Ticket prices are constantly rising, so
that shareholders' drivers are not kicking. In fact, the state undertakes to pay to OSTH either the full price or the difference that arises
for those who travel with OSTH for free or with a reduced ticket. Consequently, the artificial narrative that those who do not validate a
ticket are responsible for the bad texts of the OSTH constitutes a fairy tale that both the shareholders and executives of the OSTH, as well
as the state and municipal leadership, in order to renounce the responsibilities they so burden corruption, as well as their anti-popular
policies.
The question is not whether the new body to be established will be private, public or partnership of both. We want to have public and free
movement for everyone: workers, students, pensioners, unemployed, immigrants. Each of us is forced to use the bus to go to work, school,
hospital, etc. So you have no requirement to pay a ticket. The fare should be borne by those who benefit from our final destination, the
bosses and the state.
Under the current conditions of the dominant, capitalist social formation, capital has been overwhelmingly colonized over time, directing
every human activity to its reproduction. Even our own movements contribute to the reproduction of capital itself and of the dominant,
capitalist system itself. We move to work, to study (to work), to walk (to get out of work), to consume (our job pay), to go out on a job
search. In short, we move in order to finally move the cogs of the capitalist mechanism. Within this suffocating condition of capitalist
daily life the cost of commuting, among other utilities / services, is passed down from the bourgeoisie to the backs of the devil. Our
exploitation by the bourgeoisie is therefore not limited to our workplaces. Class bleeding extends to every conceivable level of our daily
lives, to every conceivable part of metropolitan tissue.
We call on the vast social majority of the oppressed and exploited to turn to collective treatment of their common problems, precisely
because the material interests of those at the base of the social and productive pyramid are in common. Guilty for the unbearable daily life
we experience, for poverty, poverty, unemployment, social and class exclusion, the downgrading of public services, hunger wages and crumb
pensions, are those who are parasitic at the expense of the producers, their bosses and their political staff. That is why the world of
social base must erect mounds of resistance to the oppressors who oppress us, recognizing and fighting its true class enemy,
It is imperative in the here and now to try to recapture the stolen from the bourgeois parts of our daily lives. Collectively and in bulk we
do not hit tickets in the city (if we hit a ticket, then, as soon as we get off the city, we deliver it to a passenger), we sabotage the
cancellation machines, we show our solidarity with the passengers we boil down to of capitalist destitution, we do not allow racist and
sexist behavior to be tolerated, we expel the controllers who play the role of rufian quasi-police, we collectively erase the fines they
impose on us. We demand decent conditions for our commute, increased itineraries and urban, the necessary standards for the dignified access
of people with disabilities to public transport and finally free movement for all. Support the grassroots self-help initiatives that are
dedicated to the fight for free and decent movement for all.
NO TOLERANCE TO THE SPORTS OF OASTH MOVEMENTS
STRUGGLE AGAINST STATE AND CAPITAL BARBARITY, OUR SOCIAL EXCLUSIONS, AND OUR CLASSIC REVOLUTION FROM DOC
WHAT THE CAPACITY OF CAPITAL DEPARTMENT IS INTENDED FOR, SO WILL SOCIAL DISPOSAL AND PROLITERAL RESISTANCE
WE REQUIRE RISING ROUTES OF URBAN TRANSPORT, FREE AND SAFE MOVEMENTS FOR EVERYONE
WITH CLASS SOLIDARITY, COLLECTION AND SELF-ORGANIZATION WE ARE RESPONSIBLE TO ATTACKS ON STATE AND BENEFICIALS
Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative
Anarchist Collective Pueblo
(members of the Anarchist Federation)
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2019/12/12/
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Message: 2
Bus drivers in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand have been locked out by their bosses. ---- In recent times we've seen industrial action by bus
drivers in Hamilton (May 2018) and Wellington (October 2018) and today it's happening in Auckland. ---- The underlying problem is that there
is a contracting system that encourages the lowest bids from companies who then put the screws on the drivers. The drivers are paid $22 per
hour by NZ Bus and do dangerous 12-hour shifts, with long unpaid breaks sandwiched between. When they acted to stand up for themselves by
rejecting a pathetic 2% increase and looked for support from the traveling public by not taking fares, NZ Bus threw a tantrum and locked
them out. The drivers marched up Queen st yesterday and are continuing to seek support while this current dispute continues.
AWSM expresses its solidarity with the drivers and we ask our readers, supporters, and sympathisers to extend your own support to the
drivers in whatever way you are able.
An Injury to One is an Injury to All!
Related Link: https://awsm.nz/?p=4139
https://www.anarkismo.net/article/31676
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