WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, Lliberta Salonica: MARCH FOR THE STATE - CAPITALIST MURDER IN THE TEMPLE -- THEIR PROFITS, OUR DEAD (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 A few days ago, the biggest railway tragedy in the country so far unfolded in

Tempe, a result of the sale of public property under the pretext of a crisis. The
looting that has been going on continuously since 2010 has resulted in 57 dead
and many dozens injured, the vast majority of them young men and women in their
20s and 30s, victims of the dominant ideology according to which the only thing
that needs to be protected like the apple of an eye is the capitalist profit.
---- Responsibility lies with all the governments that keep the OSE downgraded
over time, preparing the ground for its sale. All those who signed the obligation
to privatize OSE as a memorandum obligation in 2010 are responsible. Christos
Spirtzis of SYRIZA who sold OSE to Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. in 2017
is nominally responsible. instead of the ridiculous amount of 45 million euros,
at the same time that 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 tragedy in Tempe is not an accident that no one expected. A few hours before
the head-on collision between the commercial train and the passenger train, an
electrification cable snapped and fell on a train carrying 450 passengers. Such
accidents and breakdowns are a daily occurrence in recent years. All this while
the government and the media often celebrate the supposed upgrades of the railway
network and the supposedly modern trains with which the OSE is equipped. However,
a report by Investigate Europe entitled "'All I can say is good luck': How Swiss
scrapped trains are returning to Greece" revealed on 18 February 2022 that the
second-hand ETR 470 trains advertised as an upgrade of of Greek railways are in
fact extremely problematic and dangerous, acquiring the nickname "train of
damage" 20 years ago in Switzerland, from which they were withdrawn in a bad way.
Logically, we conclude that the aforementioned reports had more to do with paid
commercials than journalism.

Railway workers have repeatedly complained through their trade unions about
safety deficiencies. This last announcement on February 7, 2023 where DESK
Railways states: "We will not wait for the accident to come, to see them shed
crocodile tears making findings". At the same time Hatzidakis was celebrating
that TRAINOSE became profitable and the Minister of Transport K. Karamanlis was
saying on February 20 that "we are not playing with the safety of passengers on
trains". We saw it.

The crocodile tears of politicians and company executives, the slogans of
"national tragedy" and the attribution of blame to "human errors" should not
mislead us. The workers had repeatedly referred to the security gaps and the need
for maintenance and upgrading of the network, they had warned in all tones that
the accident was coming. They are the ones who struggle every day to get the job
done and ensure the integrity of the crew and passengers with meager means. The
minimum that needs to be done today is the cancellation of the sale of the OSE
and the substantial upgrading of the railway network based on safety and the
perception of transport as a public good that cannot operate on the basis of
profit. But that's not enough. We must act collectively and organized to put an
end to the absurdity called state and capitalism, to anti-socialism and the
inhumanity of power.

The immediate and angry social reaction that existed from the first moment the
incident became known, shows that the social base perceived it directly, not as a
simple "accident", but as the essence of the state and capital, as the essence of
the perception that wants society to be organized around the value axis "profits
over lives". Thus, this tragedy became the point where the daily experience of
the ever more extensive and intensifying devaluation of our living conditions
(cuts in wages and pensions, unemployment, punctuality, privatization, first home
auctions, repression) and ultimately, of value itself of human life. This is the
thread that directly connects the dead immigrants at the border and the dead of
the pandemic due to the broken hospitals, the dead of the daily labor accidents
in the workplaces and the dead on the train tracks of Tempe.  The massive,
dynamic and confrontational gatherings, protests and demonstrations after the
mass state murder in Tempe, prove that the social base will no longer sit idly by
and get used to death more and more every day, that in doing so they will put a
brake on brutality of power.

We know that the fight we have to fight is multifaceted and it is not going to be
easy. In the face of poverty and destitution, precision, impoverishment, the
working middle ages and unemployment, we must organize class solidarity,
reorganize the collective formations of the working class, put forward the
interests and needs of our class and set the collective claim us. To strengthen
the internationalist, class solidarity among the oppressed and exploited
everywhere, in order to fight the poison of fascism and racism, but also to erect
dykes against the imperialist rivalries and the war that result in hundreds of
deaths of our class. Working, unemployed, retired, excluded, native and immigrant
together, we must raise our heads together, organize, fight together, and attack
the state, capital and its lackeys. From today's cry of rage for our dead in
Tempe, from our today's demands that are vital for survival and the partial
improvement of our working and living conditions, to the revolutionary overthrow
of capitalism and the radical reorganization of social life. Because our struggle
to make our lives count today is not disconnected from the struggle to make our
lives worth living as a whole. Because a life that will be governed by freedom,
equality, common property, solidarity and mutual aid, that will be organized
directly democratically is possible, but it is only possible if we fight for it.

TO FIGHT AGAINST THE UNDERVALUATION OF OUR ANIMALS

IT WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT, IT WAS MURDER - STATE AND BOSSES THE SAME GANG

ORGANIZING & STRUGGLING AGAINST STATE AND CAPITALIST BARVARIANCE

MARCH FOR THE STATE - CAPITALIST MURDER IN THE TEMBIES

FRIDAY 10/03 | 18.00 | ARCH

Freedom Initiative of Thessaloniki

lib_thess@hotmail.com

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2023/03/07
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