WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, APO: Black and Red May Day - Text of call to the demonstrations in Athens and Thessaloniki (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 MAY 1, 1886 - MAY 1, 2023 ---- BLACK-RED PRINCIPAL AGAINST BOSSES, WEDNESDAY

SLAVERY, WAR, ASSIGNMENT AND SUBJECTION ---- if you think that by hanging us, you
can crush the labor movement - the movement from which the oppressed millions,
the millions who toil and live in want and misery, the wage-slaves beyond
salvation - if that is your view, then hang us! Here we will step on sparks, but
there, and there, and behind you and before you, flames will kindle. It's an
underground fire, you can't put it out. The Earth burns under your feet.[...]
---- excerpt from the apology of the anarchist August Spies
The fierce attack that the social base is experiencing today at the global level,
amid conditions of a deep and comprehensive systemic crisis and delegitimization
of the political system, is escalating and highlighting both the incurable
contradictions of the state-capitalist model of organization, as well as the
absolute inability to produce from the above any coherent social vision,
perspective and hope.
The state, faithful to the neoliberal model followed since the years of the
memorandum in the Greek area, continues to increase the cost of living at even
more intensive rates, while uninsured and precarious work, flexible hours, work
intensification, privatizations and management from the bosses of all our basic
needs are points that respond to capitalism's need to exacerbate class inequality
and completely devalue our lives. Having left behind a broken/abandoned public
health system and thousands of dead as a tragic consequence of the murderous
state management of the pandemic, it attacks those from below by increasing the
cost of living. Basic goods have registered an alarming increase, while fuel is
currently at the highest cost ever, making survival conditions very difficult. At
the same time, skyrocketing rents have left much of the lower classes unable to
meet basic needs such as housing, while condemning others to homelessness due to
eviction. Moreover, the dozens of dead workers in the wage-slavery factories are
only the tip of the iceberg of savage class exploitation. The intensification of
work, precariousness, wage reductions, flexibility of working hours at the
expense of workers and the growth of unemployment highlight the harsh working
reality. Thus, the privatization of transport, health, education, natural
resources, the state murders in the Aegean of refugees and immigrants, the
cold-blooded murders of the Roma Nikos Sampanis and Kostas Fragoulis, the state
repression against those who struggle, the attacks on squatters and sites of
struggle prove that the State and Capital have nothing to promise but poverty,
impoverishment and death. From the murderous state management of the pandemic to
the state crime in Tempe, the goal of power and its administrators was and is
profit and control.
The outbreak of war, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the blood-stained water
and land borders, the refugees and immigrants piled on boats and in concentration
camps, prove once again that the planetary bosses and rulers of this world are
completely indifferent to the lives of the poor, the oppressed, the downtrodden.
War has promised nothing but suppression of freedom, destruction, poverty,
uprooting and death, inflicting significant losses on the lives of those below
and making them pawns on the war chessboard of the rulers. Against war
operations, intra-capitalist and intra-imperialist rivalries, ever-increasing
military armaments of states, nationalisms and intolerance, which serve only the
interests of local and international political and economic bosses, we put
forward international solidarity, peace and freeing all people from the shackles
of the state and capitalism for a truly free society.

ABSTAIN FROM VOTING | OCCUPATIONS-STRIKES-PROMONESTS

The polls that are about to be held in the next period, for the exploited and
oppressed, have nothing to promise but a greater aggravation of the conditions of
slavery through the strengthening that the re-legitimization of its political
representation will bring about for the regime. The lower social segments have
nothing to expect from parliaments, bureaucratic trade union leaderships and
mediators of the class struggle.

137 years after the Chicago workers' uprising, the project of connecting the
partial and demanding struggles, such as that for the eight-hour shift, with the
overall struggle for an emancipated society, for the overthrow of the world of
power and the libertarian social transformation based on principles of common
ownership, freedom, equality and solidarity always remains relevant. Through
organizing at the grassroots, participating in the class and social struggles of
our time, we put forward the libertarian ideals, those of anarchy and libertarian
communism, picking up the thread from yesterday's struggles for the world of
tomorrow.
For all of us workers, unemployed, youth, natives and immigrants the only real
prospect to live with dignity - as equals in a society of equals - is to struggle
with faith in the law of freedom against the shackles of organized state power
and capitalism.

ORGANIZING AND STRUGGLING FOR WORLD SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND LIBERAL COMMUNISM

1st MAY STRIKE GATHERINGS - DEMONSTRATION
Athens: 11.00, Propylaia, with the bloc of the Anarchist Assembly for Social and
Class Emancipation
Thessaloniki: 10:00, Kamara

Anarchist Political Organization | Federation of Associations

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