#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Greece, liberta salonica: Interventions with paints and sprays in Biomedicine in V. Olgas & Olympiados [VIDEO] (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFoza7nutrA&t=1s ---- Two years after the start

of the Covid-19 pandemic, the situation remains tragic, with the New Democracy
government's criminal responsibilities undiminished. All this time it has become
clear that the government's strategy for managing the pandemic depends solely on
the smooth running of the economy, rescuing and boosting big capital. To absolve
itself of its responsibilities, the government fabricated the narrative of
individual responsibility, blaming the people for its utter failure to manage the
pandemic effectively. Instead of substantially strengthening the NSS, which has
already been torn apart by the catastrophic, neoliberal restructuring that has
been going on for many years, it wasted state resources on successive
sponsorships to the pro-government media. the capitalists who own the tourism
business, the highway companies and big business in general, but also the
repressive mechanisms, namely the police and the army. By taking repressive
measures without health utility (eg curfew, ban on demonstrations), the
government has shown that what it is primarily interested in is the imposition of
social discipline. In fact, she did not hesitate to take advantage of the bans
she imposed, ostensibly for "health reasons", by passing a series of anti-labor
and anti-social laws, through which she further undermined working conditions and
the standard of living of the social base. duration of these. Having the majority
of SMEs in its payroll, the government "cuts and sews" in the interest of the
ruling class. It silences and mocks any social and class mobilization that brings
to the fore the needs of the social base and the strengthening of public health,
because they are opposed to the policy of the government. Instead, he indulges in
a funny show, "fighting" from the safe with the mostly extreme right-wing
extremists and anti-vaccinators, whose appearance was aided by sections of the
political and economic elite, on the one hand to present a convenient, artificial
is presented as the awe-inspiring adversary of governments and on the other hand
to be exploited by domination to point to him as the culprit for the millions of
dead, instead of the criminal policy of the government. Now the government's
choice to open schools is expected to lead to a spate of cases, as health
officials warn. The "new measures" of the government for the opening of schools
with 30,000 + cases per day were the 3 self tests, which were exhausted from the
first week! No dilution of parts, no substantial provision. In other words, we
are leading the government under the responsibility of the herd's immunity with
such measures that are taken, but without this being publicly accepted by the
government officials. The survival of the fittest, the exponential rise of the
cases, the intubated and the dead from the pandemic, with clear responsibilities
of the government, must in no case be tolerated by the social base. Public health
cannot be sacrificed for political and economic purposes. We all understand that
somewhere a brake must finally be put in place. Only the social base can exert
this pressure, self-organized, collective, unmediated and militant, starting to
take matters into its own hands.

The Covid-19 pandemic has unequivocally demonstrated to a great extent the
barbarity of the capitalist system and the central pillar on which it rests,
namely the reproduction of capital, the unbridled profitability of the ruling
class, the capitalists. In this difficult period for all of us, the
contradictions and impasses of capitalism have grown, both economically and from
a health point of view. Pharmaceutical companies, medical laboratories and
private clinics are treasuring non-stop. They count money over public health,
thinking only of their own pockets. After all, they have governments as their
helpers and sponsors. Private initiative and free competition in the capitalist
market economy are clearly obstacles to the service of the collective, social
needs and in the case of the pandemic, since they govern the character of health,
which has cynically become a commodity in the capitalist system. Thus, we see the
big pharmaceutical companies competing with each other, by any means, for the
production and distribution of vaccines, with the sole aim of profit, at the same
time that the poorest countries in the world even today do not have access to
vaccines. The same goes for the tests for the diagnosis of Covid-19 that
unjustifiably burden the pockets of the citizens, since even today without any
excuse they are not prescribed, while their prices remain very high. These are
the hardships we pay, not only with money but also with human lives, for the
dismantling of the public health system and the lack of primary health care.
since they govern the character of health, which has cynically become a commodity
in the capitalist system. Thus, we see the big pharmaceutical companies competing
with each other, by any means, for the production and distribution of vaccines,
with the sole aim of profit, at the same time that the poorest countries in the
world even today do not have access to vaccines. The same goes for the tests for
the diagnosis of Covid-19 that unjustifiably burden the pockets of the citizens,
since even today without any excuse they are not prescribed, while their prices
remain very high. These are the hardships we pay, not only with money but also
with human lives, for the dismantling of the public health system and the lack of
primary health care. since they govern the character of health, which has
cynically become a commodity in the capitalist system. Thus, we see the big
pharmaceutical companies competing with each other, by any means, for the
production and distribution of vaccines, with the sole aim of profit, at the same
time that the poorest countries in the world even today do not have access to
vaccines. The same goes for the tests for the diagnosis of Covid-19 that
unjustifiably burden the pockets of the citizens, since even today without any
excuse they are not prescribed, while their prices remain very high. These are
the hardships we pay, not only with money but also with human lives, for the
dismantling of the public health system and the lack of primary health care.
Thus, we see the big pharmaceutical companies competing with each other, by any
means, for the production and distribution of vaccines, with the sole aim of
profit, at the same time that the poorest countries in the world even today do
not have access to vaccines. The same goes for the tests for the diagnosis of
Covid-19 that unjustifiably burden the pockets of the citizens, since even today
without any excuse they are not prescribed, while their prices remain very high.
These are the hardships we pay, not only with money but also with human lives,
for the dismantling of the public health system and the lack of primary health
care. Thus, we see the big pharmaceutical companies competing with each other, by
any means, for the production and distribution of vaccines, with the sole aim of
profit, at the same time that the poorest countries in the world even today do
not have access to vaccines. The same goes for the tests for the diagnosis of
Covid-19 that unjustifiably burden the pockets of the citizens, since even today
without any excuse they are not prescribed, while their prices remain very high.
These are the hardships we pay, not only with money but also with human lives,
for the dismantling of the public health system and the lack of primary health
care. at the same time that the poorest countries in the world even today do not
have access to vaccines. The same goes for the tests for the diagnosis of
Covid-19 that unjustifiably burden the pockets of the citizens, since even today
without any excuse they are not prescribed, while their prices remain very high.
These are the hardships we pay, not only with money but also with human lives,
for the dismantling of the public health system and the lack of primary health
care. at the same time that the poorest countries in the world even today do not
have access to vaccines. The same goes for the tests for the diagnosis of
Covid-19 that unjustifiably burden the pockets of the citizens, since even today
without any excuse they are not prescribed, while their prices remain very high.
These are the hardships we pay, not only with money but also with human lives,
for the dismantling of the public health system and the lack of primary health care.

In this critical and disturbing social condition, some capitalists seem to
operate in terms of blackness, pressing completely inhumanely on the need of the
people for protection from Covid-19. Such is the case of Biomedicine, which since
the beginning of the pandemic is one of those groups that has seen its profits
multiply. A few weeks ago, the magnitude of the company's speculation was
revealed when it was revealed that the prices it has in Greece for rapid test and
PCR, taking advantage of the government's inaction to set even a reasonable price
ceiling for individuals, are double that. which has the same company in
neighboring Cyprus.

As if that were not enough, on Thursday 6/1, ie the first day that the government
imposed a ceiling of 47 euros for conducting molecular tests, the Biomedicine
store on Vasilissis Olgas Street in Thessaloniki illegally charged 90 euros! In
fact, to those citizens who reacted by protesting against the charge of almost
double the price from the ceiling, the answer was that they would have to wait 48
hours (!), Due to a holiday or crowds, for the test results to come out. With
this excuse-threat they extorted 90 euros, as it is known that the test is valid
for 72 hours after it is performed.

Ensuring public health is a basic social need. However, in the present system
this need runs counter to the pursuit of profit of the predators of the ruling
class. Our struggles, therefore, should be oriented towards the substantial
strengthening of public health and its universal character, infrastructure,
services and staff. We must, therefore, stand in solidarity with the health
struggles, which are systematically ridiculed and annihilated by the government.
Demanding the social control of health, of the pharmaceutical industry, of
laboratories, of clinics, of public and free health care, demonstrates in the
here and now the contradictions, the impasses and the barbarity of the capitalist
system, which subjugates every activity and function of social life in altar of
profit. This system must change, because otherwise it will plague us. Until the
working class realizes its class interests, intensifying social and class rivalry
in the direction of total revolutionary rupture with state capitalist power, it
is our duty to project bulwark and resistance to the growing totalitarianism of
the state and its masters. for our class.

One thing is for sure, though. We are not going to tolerate blackmail and
scandal, especially when human lives are at stake. Workers and the unemployed
must exemplify every adventurer who seeks excessive wealth through the
exploitation of human need.

In this context, on the evening of Sunday 9/1, we carried out interventions on
the facade of the Biomedicine store on Vasilissis Olgas Street with paints and on
the facade of the Biomedicine store on Olympiados Street with sprays and paints,
giving our symbolic answer to the embarrassed adventurism and blackmail of those
in charge.

IMMEDIATE AND ESSENTIAL STRENGTHENING OF ESY. AND SATISFACTION OF THE
REQUIREMENTS OF THE HEALTHCARE

HEALTH TO BECOME PUBLIC AND FREE GOOD UNDER THE CONTROL OF SOCIETY - NOT A
COMMODITY PRODUCT AND FIELD OF PROFIT

NO MODERN MAVRAGORITIS SHOULD BE PUNISHED

Liberal Initiative of Thessaloniki (member of the Anarchist Federation)

blog: libertasalonica.wordpress.com
Contact e-mail: lib_thess @ hotmail.com

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