WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, Liberta Salonica: Anti-State-Anti-Capitalist March at TIF 2023 | Saturday 9/9, 18:00, Kamara (Meeting at 17:30, at No Pasaran Freedom Center) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The emphatic predominance of New Democracy in recent national elections

has shaped the arrogant notion in the ruling party that it will be able
to pass its anti-social agenda, even its most reactionary neoliberal
aspects, with the "consent" or "support" of social body. This belief,
however, is not only supported by the electoral percentages, but also by
the decline of social and class resistance in recent years. This
narrative clearly does not fully correspond to reality. But as long as
those at the bottom remain silent, inactive, uninvolved and
disorganized, they will continue to be harmless to power, at the cost of
their own permanent class depreciation.

The cycle of Mitsotakis' first four-year term, after the first
government term of the "left of capital", ended with the state and
capitalist crime in Tempi. Dozens of young people have lost their lives
due to inadequate safety measures on the country's railways. Railway
workers had earlier repeatedly complained through their trade unions
about safety deficiencies. All governments are responsible for keeping
the OSE downgraded over time, paving the way for its sale. All those who
signed the obligation to privatize OSE as a memorandum obligation in
2010 are responsible. Christos Spirtzis of SYRIZA is nominally
responsible, who in 2017 sold OSE to Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane SpA
instead of the ridiculous amount of 45 million euros, at the same time,
the Greek state assumed the responsibility of subsidizing it with 50
million euros a year, to run specific routes. This vagabond then
justified the sale by saying that "we sold TRAINOSE, so that the Greek
people don't have to pay a memorandum and a half".

The cycle of Mitsotakis' second consecutive government term began with
another state crime, the mass graves of drowned immigrants in a
shipwreck off Pylos. From the testimonies of the survivors, it is proven
that the Greek coast guard towed the boat and while the people on board
had not drunk water or eaten for 4 days, as they pleaded for help, it
tried to pull them and throw them into Italian waters, just as the Greek
coast guard does every day by throwing people into unruly rafts or boats
without engines, leaving them to die. This crime has the signature of
the Greek state and the European Union,

On the front of the fires, the Greek state proved for another summer
completely incompetent and indifferent in all areas. Countless acres of
forest land were given over to the flames, entire ecosystems were
completely damaged, people saw their homes reduced to ashes. In the
forest of Dadia, in Evros, 26 migrants lost their lives, being trapped
in the flames. Once again, with tragic consequences, the indifference of
the state apparatus in preventing and dealing with fires was
demonstrated. The constant underestimation and understaffing of the
forest protection and forest firefighting services is a burden
exclusively on the state leaders, as they are content with a
communicative management of disasters, playing petty political games
with the urban "opposition", making shameless comparisons with the dead
in Mati,

In order to change the political agenda and divert the spotlight, the
government has once again chosen to strike at the internal enemy in
order to pander to its conservative/far-right voters. Thus, within a few
days, operations were carried out to evacuate occupied spaces. On 26/8,
the Ano-Kato occupation in Patisia and the Zizania social center in
Exarchia were evacuated. On 8/31, the Self-Managing Polytechnic
Residence at NTUA was evacuated. In fact, during the invasion of the
university by the police forces, a young student was injured in the head
by a passing car belonging to the DRASI group and was taken to the
hospital. A month ago, on 7/24, the state evacuated the EKX Botanic
Garden in St. Petersburg in the context of urban gentrification and the
planned construction of a new town hall in that particular place. The
attacks on the squatters are measures to demonstrate the power of the
state apparatus in the raging social and class war. The state targets
and attacks squatters in order to break the bonds and structures that
anarchists and anti-authoritarians build with the social base.
Therefore, as a precaution, it seeks to stop the creation of a current
of questioning of the dominant system and the establishment of
communities of struggle with a focus on occupations. in order to break
the bonds and structures that anarchists and anti-authoritarians build
with the social base. Therefore, as a precaution, it seeks to stop the
creation of a current of questioning of the dominant system and the
establishment of communities of struggle with a focus on occupations. in
order to break the bonds and structures that anarchists and
anti-authoritarians build with the social base. Therefore, as a
precaution, it seeks to stop the creation of a current of questioning of
the dominant system and the establishment of communities of struggle
with a focus on occupations.

The state is trying to abdicate its responsibility for the fires and
mislead public opinion by talking about fraudulent arsonists and
targeting immigrants, making constant references to the paths of
immigrants, to paint them as responsible for the Evros fires.
Subsequently, the long arm of the state, the fascists, the reactionary
and conservative ethos, as an aid to state policy, hastened to cover up
the crimes of the state apparatus. This time, while the fires were
constantly expanding in the Evros region, local fascists formed patrols
to carry out pogroms against the persecuted immigrants. In fact, some of
them were seen in videos posted on social media,

At the same time, during the summer months, there were repeated
incidents of our fellow citizens waiting in vain for transport to
hospitals and medical treatment. The understaffing of the EKAV led our
fellow human beings to lose their lives helpless on beaches or in farm
carts. The state underfunding of public health and the premiuming of
private individuals was also seen during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the
state, instead of strengthening and shielding public health with
permanent recruitment of health personnel, immediately and substantially
demanded the private health system , chose to manage a public health
issue primarily in terms of repression, hiring instead of doctors and
nurses, more cops...

The government is now preparing a new attack on industrial relations,
attempting to shape a working landscape where workers will be worked to
exhaustion, deprived of the means of redress. The new labor bill that
has already been submitted to parliament fully responds to the demands
and aspirations of domestic and transnational capital, with the
blessings of the European Union. Therefore, the burnout of workers is
legally foreseen through the creation of a relevant framework that
allows employment for two employers on the same day, making it possible
to work for 13 hours a day and 78 a week. At the same time, within the
framework of the "apprenticeship" institution, companies will be able to
fire workers they hired for a "trial period" with a limit of 6 months,
without having to pay compensation. import, in addition, the zero-hours
employment contracts, based on which the employee will be asked to work
in a climate of constant uncertainty whenever and for as long as the
employer decides. According to the specific bill, bosses will be able to
employ workers for up to 3 hours a day, informing them up to 24 hours in
advance that they are going to work the next day. The anti-labor
regulations are complemented by yet another attack on the trade union
struggle and the strike struggles of the workers, as guarding the strike
will now be considered a criminal offense, with prison sentences of at
least 6 months and fines amounting to 5,000 euros (while if a repeat
offense is found, the penalties may increase tenfold). In short, capital
wants flexible and weak workers, to "juice" them with a view to
increasing his profits. The rulers want to shape a reality in which
those of us below will be forced to work until we die, as evidenced by
the work programs for the unemployed 55 and over, which, under a related
amendment passed in July, will allow work up to 74 years to complete the
retirement limit.

The 350 prerequisites by 2025 that the Recovery Fund foresees entail
"bloody" surpluses and a transfer of the costs of the crisis of the
capitalist system from capital to the world of work. Capitalism is in
protracted decay as it undergoes a structural crisis of overaccumulation
due to its internal contradictions. In these contexts the dominant
system cannot guarantee a better future for the oppressed and exploited.
The reconstruction of capital requires a merciless attack on the
achievements of the working class (see labor, education, health, etc.).
That is why, after all, capital attempts to curtail and curtail the
rights of workers won through militant, collective struggles. Capital,
to recover and further increase its profits, it requires the intensity
of class exploitation of the bottom and the barbaric redistribution of
wealth from the base to the top of the social pyramid. As a result,
ever-larger sections of the population, belonging to the lower social
strata or rapidly proletarianizing, find it difficult or impossible to
make ends meet due to rising inflation, current or planned
privatisations, starvation wages, reduced pensions , of the high
indicators of job insecurity and unemployment.

In this condition of the continuous and coordinated attack of the state
and capital against the working class, we must erect a militant,
collective rampart. We must build an opposing awe that will block the
designs and attacks of the state and capital, defend the conquests and
interests of those from below, attempt to overturn existing power
relations and shake the foundations of the capitalist system, arranging
the conditions for its revolutionary overthrow. The formation of such a
revolutionary pole naturally presupposes the unhooking of the struggle
of the oppressed from bourgeois-democratic bonds. It calls for breaking
all ties with reformism and the logic of devolution on the basis that
the state serves the interests of the ruling class and therefore cannot
be reformed from within into a pro-people apparatus, so the oppressed
must trust only their own collective forces, self-organization and
solidarity. On a material level, it is necessary to strengthen and
massify the forms of struggle of the working class, the social and class
organizations (unions, labor committees and associations, student
associations, neighborhood assemblies, anti-fascist networks, anti-war
coordination, groups of women and lgbtqi+ people) that will claim the
improvement of working and living conditions of the social base. At the
same time,

The adoption of the dominant narrative of the absence of an alternative
("There is no alternative") and the inescapable perpetuation of the
barbaric capitalist system entails the condemnation of the oppressed to
servitude, oppression, exploitation, uncertainty and misery. This
mentality seeks to instill in the dominant system from below through its
ideological mechanisms, in order to shield itself and prevent in advance
the outbreak of social indignation, the manifestation of uprisings and
revolutions. However, those of us at the base of the social and economic
pyramid have every reason and interest to seek the overthrow of this
system and the creation of a society that will not be based on
exploitation, oppression and marginalization. This is the world for
which anarchists internationally are fighting. A society without a state
and exploitative classes, which will be based on the solidarity, mutual
aid and fellowship of the peoples, will be established on the basis of
political freedom and economic equality, the socialization of the
produced wealth, the self-management of the productive units through
workers' councils, the resolution and settlement of community issues
through the direct democratic processes in the communes. Against state
and capitalist brutality, we anarchists oppose the project of social
revolution and the federal system of libertarian communism, appealing to
the oppressed and exploited everywhere to enlist on this project.
Because we want a life for all and not for a few. We want everything for
everyone!

WE WILL NOT LIVE AS SLAVES, WE WILL NOT WORK UNTIL WE DIE, WE WILL NOT
BECOME MEAT FOR THEIR OBSESSIONS

NO WAR BETWEEN NATIONS, NO PEACE BETWEEN CLASSES

ORGANIZING AND STRUGGLING TO DEFEND THE COLLECTIVE INTERESTS OF OUR
CLASS, TO RE-RESUME MILITANT SOCIAL AND CLASS COUNTER-ATTACK

CLASS AND INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE AGAINST STATE AND CAPITALIST
BARBARICITY, FOR ANARCHY AND LIBERAL COMMUNISM

ANTI-STATE-ANTI-CAPITALIST MARCH AT TEF:

-GATHERING: SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 18:00, CHAMBER
-MEETING: SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 17:30, LIBERTY CENTER NO PASARAN
(IASONIDOU 4)

*We participate and support the common anarchist bloc.

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