#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Greece, Libertarian Initiative of #Thessaloniki: December 2008-2021: The state kills [machine translation]

 13 years ago, the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos by the (now released) cop

Korkoneas revealed the naked truth of the State which is none other than death.
13 years later, we are faced with an unprecedented situation counting 100 deaths
a day, the result of a criminal state policy on the coronavirus pandemic. At the
same time, state-sponsored assassins continue to have immunity, bosses see their
hands tied to state policies, and they force us into working conditions that lead
to new employer killings (christening accidents) every week, while immigrants
they are now almost formally drowned in the Greek seas.
Although we are now almost two years away from the outbreak of the pandemic, we
are again in the same situation that only an extraordinary and unpredictable
condition, perhaps, could justify. During all this time, the NSS not only did not
strengthen, but on the contrary, its deregulation and devaluation continued
smoothly, while it would not be an exaggeration to say that it accelerated. The
state budget for health was reduced instead of increased while the recruitments
of the announced health personnel were never carried out. The reason, according
to the Minister of State (and former General Director of SEV) Akis Scherzo, is
that there is no reason to create a luxurious (sic) health system, as after the
pandemic, it will not be needed. We have to admit that man, either because of
pure stupidity, either because of a complete lack of empathy, or because of both
together, she was honest. He said, simply and understandably, that for the
government it is better for people to die because of the tragic state of the
public health system than to proceed with any structural and substantial
reinforcement. That being said, at a time when hospitals are once again on the
verge of collapse, medical staff are again exhausted, ICUs are once again on the
verge of fullness, the death toll has now reached around 100 daily, at a time
when the total The death toll in the country has exceeded 18,000.
Communicatively, the transfer of responsibilities undertaken by the government
may have shifted from "individual responsibility" to "vaccinators", but the
substance has remained the same.

At the same time, the underestimation of the value of the human life of those at
the base of the social pyramid is revealed in various ways more and more often,
more and more intensely. Only in recent weeks, we have the following incidents:
Nikos Sampanis, 18-year-old Roma, was brutally killed with 38 bullets by DIAS
cops, because he did not stop at their signal. Seven cops cold-bloodedly execute
an 18-year-old man and shoot at 2 other minors, for a misdemeanor. While they
claim to have 7 injured cops, the calls to their center are refuted. While they
claim that they did not know that the passengers were Roma, his own calls deny
it. While reverse release is christened "attempted homicide", the testimonies of
the two survivors refute them as it is clear that the two-wheeled sheriffs
started firing before doing the reverse, as soon as the car stopped. The media,
as well-skinned parrots, support them in their entirety, presenting their entire
story, after this has already been demolished by reality. The government shows
its full support, through Theodorikakos. And finally, of course, the
"independent" justice comes to set them free.


At the same time, with the full support of the government, the cops are literally
behaving like gangs, savagely attacking rallies in a completely unprovoked
manner, breaking shop windows, selling tsabouka to anyone moving around them,
making provocative precautionary measures in , turning a blind eye and helping
perpetrators of domestic violence when called upon to manage such incidents,
bullying witnesses to incidents. And of course, in anticipation of the new
lockdown that seems to be coming, they are even happier polishing their gloves
for the moment when they can beat us again because we sat on a bench or drank
beer in a square. It seems that the anger that was returned to him in Nea Smyrni,
even for a while, was not enough to "make up their minds".

At the same time, how much our lives count is evident not only from the behavior
of bastards on the streets, but also from our losses in the workplace. A few
weeks ago, a 60-year-old worker was killed in Spili, Rethymno, after being
crushed by a loader. A little earlier, Dimitris Daglis was killed in a work
accident / murder at the COSCO barracks in the port of Piraeus. And a few days
ago, two distributors, the 18-year-old refugee from Pakistan Anees Meer in Athens
and Dimitris Asimakis in Thessaloniki, were killed during their work, by passing
cars which violated the K.O.K.
At the same time, a boat full of refugees sank off Chios, resulting in the death
of three children and a woman, in the waters of the Aegean, while of course the
Greek state does everything possible to ensure that asylum seekers arriving in
Greece are returned illegally and inhumanly to mid-rafts without machine.

This escalation of "unfortunate incidents", which tends to become a regularity
and a macabre habit, is nothing but the result of the attack of the state and
capital on the people of our class, and at the same time, of the social
cannibalism that this condition produces and exacerbates. It is a result of the
capitalist system that underestimates the value of human life of those at the
bottom of the social pyramid, that kills whoever "surplus", always for profit.

We, for our part, refuse to accept as normal that people are dying due to a lack
of adequate and accessible health care, because the state considers such a thing
a "luxury" and a huge cost. We refuse to accept that health, from a public good -
which we pay through our taxes - is increasingly being turned into a commodity
that some can buy and some can not.

We refuse to accept as normal the cowboy cops who think they can decide that a
misdemeanor can lead to the death penalty, and even enforce that decision. We
refuse to accept it as normal to beat people because they are parked in
quarantined parks, to beat strikers and demonstrators, to sexually harass them on
the street or in sections, to torture and kill in the cold.

We refuse to accept as normal that every boss's earnings come from - absolutely
tangible and literally - our own blood. That at the same time that our bosses are
making super profits, we workers must stretch more and more and risk our lives
every day for a day job-tip (a condition that intensified after the anti-labor
bill Hatzidakis, which legalized with the parliament of the state, what until now
the bosses were trying to impose on us illegally).

We refuse to accept as normal the drowned migrants and refugees at sea, the
(illegal) deportations from the port in the Aegean or the army in Evros but also
from the various parastatal mechanisms that have been operating undisturbed for
years, the (illegal) deportations even from urban centers by the uniformed
fascists of the Hellenic Liberation Army, but also the lack of housing, the lack
of access to medical care, the escalating exclusion from the inalienable right to
asylum, etc.

We refuse to accept as normal the peaceful cannibals next door, who rejoice
because a "gypsy" was killed or because some "illegal immigrants" drowned.

To every power, we, respond now and always with class solidarity. The poor and
marginalized, the undervalued and precarious, the persecuted because of wars and
the persecution of every power and every state, in short, those at the base of
the social pyramid with the result that the state and capital consider them /
their consumables and unnecessary, for us are at the heart of our solidarity.

It is our class duty to demand the immediate strengthening of the NSS, that is,
to demand that the state and the bosses bear part of the cost of reproducing our
labor force, instead of passing it entirely on to our own backs. It is our class
duty to defend the dignity and free movement of all immigrants and refugees,
erasing the border lines drawn by the authorities for their nationals. It is our
class duty to defend our workers' interests against those of our bosses who want
to sacrifice us - metaphorically and literally - on the altar of their profit.

 From the demands of the health workers for strengthening the NSS, to the
protests of the Roma community with the closure of highways, from the dynamic,
massive and, finally, victorious strike of the COSCO dock workers, to the equally
dynamic, massive and victorious struggle from e-food workers, and from riots in
refugee camps to clashes between protesters and street protesters, it is our
class duty to defend our lives against the impoverishment and death imposed on us
by the state. and capital, which is imposed on us by power.

The only way out of the structural impasses and inherent contradictions of
capitalism can be the self-organization from below, social and class struggles,
the strengthening of unions and workers' initiatives, student groups and
associations, open neighborhood assemblies, social centers. , mutual aid
structures, anti-fascist coordination and political collectivities. This system
will either overturn or fall on our heads, to flatten us. There is no middle
ground. The sooner the people choose direct conflict with all sorts of tyrants,
the sooner they propose the unity of order over "national unity," the sooner they
will pave the way for their total emancipation.

STATE AND CAPITAL KILL
THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THEM IS A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE

LibertarianInitiative of Thessaloniki

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