WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, Patras, ''Azadi'': May 1st: Organization and Struggle for the abolition of class exploitation (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 May Day is a day of historical memory. --- It is a day connected to the labor and

social struggles that took place in other places and times, demanding the
abolition of the exploitation of man by man. --- The strikes of Chicago in 1886
and Thessaloniki in 1936 are indelibly imprinted on the pages of revolutionary
memory and are milestones in the struggles our class is waging today, for its
liberation from the shackles of capitalist exploitation. --- In the present
period there is a violent redistribution of wealth from the bottom up at enormous
cost to the lives of the exploited classes. --- The conditions of the modern
working middle ages for the world of work are being consolidated. --- The passage
of the anti-labor bills by the political representatives of the bourgeoisie and a
series of measures that advance the world of employers, form a gloomy landscape
for the working class. --- Starvation wages, the abolition of the Sunday holiday,
the encroachment of the eight-hour day, the increasingly intensified work rates,
the absence of protective measures in the workplace and the increased number of
labor "accidents", demonstrate the future they have in store for all of us, the
exploiters of our land.

The flexibility of labor relations, the status of precarious, "black" and poorly
paid work and the unemployment that plagues thousands of people, mainly young
people, is the reality that the exploiting class is called upon to fight.

The privatization of services and basic goods, the sale of public wealth to
monopolistic multinational groups and the degradation of networks and
infrastructures are some of the broken things that the social base is asked to
pay for, often with its own life. The fatal accident on the tracks of Tempe was
another state-capitalist crime that confirms the fate of the lower social strata,
in times of intense profitability crisis for the capitalists.

As if all this were not enough, the resulting wave of precision and the increased
cost of living is an additional condition that the poor social strata have to
deal with. Skyrocketing prices of essential items on supermarket shelves,
inflated electricity bills and exorbitant rents have made living conditions even
tougher for workers. Not a few families, who, being unable to repay their housing
loans, are targeted by banks and would-be funds, quite often facing the risk of
auctions and violent evictions from their homes, in the presence of bailiffs and
police. There are even cases of families being asked to live for weeks in cold
and dark houses without heating or electricity.

Ensuring the orderly profitability of the capitalists presupposes the upgrading
of the repressive arsenal of the gendarme state. We see labor and class struggles
increasingly facing the iron boot of repressive forces under the state's
zero-tolerance doctrine: Dozens of activists are targeted by the police and
dragged to trials, with inflated charges and trumped-up cases. Strike guards in
occupied workplaces are hit with chemicals and globs. Special police forces
invade universities, while marches and street rallies are met with open violence.

The massive and diverse, however, strike matches in Cosco, e-food, Energean,
Larko, Malamatina and Wolt, illuminate the roads opened by the competitors.
Against the pervasive climate of disenchantment, disengagement and resignation,
the recent scattered but significant rebellions of the working world against
their bosses show that as long as there is exploitation of man by man and
injustice, there will be resistance. Because the only lost battle with the world
of state and capital is the one that was never fought.

On the occasion of the pre-election frenzy of the parties for parliamentary
representation, the necessity of highlighting another path in the social base, by
the forces of the subversive and radical movement, is once again and in an
imperative manner. The path of the radical overthrow of the capitalist production
system and the rupture with the world of the state and capital. An impassable and
straight road, which cannot be carved overnight, but is opened day by day, step
by step, with organization, mass addressing and struggle, in workplaces, schools,
colleges and neighborhoods.

Support for the May Day strike with a rally at 10:00 am. from the Annex and march
at 10:30 am. from the Labor Center

Movement of Anarchist Communists ''Azadi'' / Patras

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