WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GREECE - news journal UPDATE - (en) Greece, Libertasalonica: Microphone Rally Against Punctuality | Saturday 31/5, 12:00, V. Olgas & Paraskevopoulou (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Punctuality is one of the most important issues facing workers and

households in Greece in recent years. Prices for basic goods and
services such as electricity, natural gas, oil, food, fuel and housing
have increased rapidly, while at the same time wages and pensions remain
stagnant and low. According to a survey, monthly income is sufficient
for only 19 days, while more than half of it is "lost" from the
beginning of the month to rent. In the center of Thessaloniki, rental
prices have skyrocketed, with the average price exceeding EUR10/sq m.
and 45 sq m. studios renting for over EUR450. Increases of 50% or even
100% after the contract expires are now the norm.

The skyrocketing prices for both basic goods and services and housing
are not only the result of external factors, such as the war in Ukraine.
In order to favor the interests of its "friends" who own private energy
companies, the government has left prices uncontrolled and the companies
to determine how much they will take from our wages for electricity and
natural gas. Even with the financing of renovations, with the absence of
regulation of short-term rentals and speculative practices, the state
apparatus favors the profitability of real estate companies, investment
funds, renovation companies and landlords.

This unthinkable situation has been caused by one reason and one reason
only: capitalism. Either from its operation in general, which is
intertwined with the great imperialist interests, the conflict between
them and the passing on of the costs to the working classes of each
country and all countries together, or from its general dysfunction
which is increasingly obvious in each new "crisis" that comes, or from
the profiteering that has been allowed in our country in particular at
predatory levels. And therefore the only solution is to resist. To
resist today the exactitude that has led our lives to wither, to resist
the capitalist system as a whole tomorrow.

Although in reality we are not called upon to (re)invent the wheel, we
are certainly called upon to put it back in motion, because it is
evident that recently it seems to have stuck for good. As we know, the
competitive movement both globally and specifically in our parts (and in
the very recent past, in fact), has utilized various methods and
practices in its attempt to stop the attack it receives from the state
and bosses, in its attempt to self-organize and collectivize the
resistance of the social base.

 From ways of intervention in the central political scene (strikes,
demonstrations, propaganda actions, etc.) to daily molecular work
(interventions in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, etc.).

 From class and social formations (base unions, labor groups,
neighborhood assemblies, etc.) to self-organized solidarity structures
(collection and distribution of food and therefore necessary items,
social clinics, etc.). From attempts to collectivize individual methods
of survival (refusal to pay bills, expropriation of basic necessities,
etc.) to organizing collective methods of self-defense (gatherings in
courts to block auctions, gatherings outside homes to block evictions or
power outages, reconnecting power, etc.).

If we do not want to die -literally- of hunger, the time has long come
to react.

To react to those who cut our salaries every few months, who vote
bankruptcy laws to seize our first homes, and new insurance laws to make
those of us who work work until we literally die at work.

Let's react to those who increase our cost of living in every possible
way, in food, basic necessities, housing, transportation, EVERYTHING.

LET'S REACT TO THOSE WHO STEAL OUR LIVES EVERY DAY

Microphone Rally against accuracy, Saturday 31/5, at 12:00, Vas. Olga
and Paraskevopoulou

Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki

blog: https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com

contact e-mail: lib_thess@hotmail.com

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/
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