WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GREECE - news journal UPDATE - (en) IFA: Statement/Call of APO on the General Strike and demonstration of 14th of October against the new anti-labor law in Greece (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 General Strike against the new anti-labor law, wage slavery, employer

terror, and state repression ---- LAND and FREEDOM website,  call out
for the General Strike: 14/10/25 ---- NO PEACE WITH STATE AND CAPITAL!
---- General Strike against the new anti-labor law, wage slavery,
employer terror, and state repression ---- We are in a period of
widespread escalation of the attack by political and economic elites
against the poor, through the deepening of anti-social restructurings in
every aspect of daily life with the passing of a series of bills
relating to health, education, labor, housing, taxation, political and
social expression, justice, and nature. The state and the bosses aim at
the even greater exploitation of the poor, constantly deepening the
conditions of oppression. This drive towards the imposition of modern
totalitarianism, which leads the neoliberal far-right government of New
Democracy, is reflected in a number of restructuring reforms that serve
the declared and long-standing goals of the ruling class, regardless of
political management. In reality, however, the reason why the right wing
today imposes the hegemony of neoliberalism with such ease and extends
its policy of attacking workers, the unemployed, and everyone at the
bottom is because the previous political administration, the social
democratic government, in the name of the radical left, crushed the
movements, spread illusions and delusions among large parts of society
only to add another brick to the edifice of modern totalitarianism and
further entrench the belief that there is no alternative for the poor,
no other world beyond that of the state and capitalism.
The implementation of the neoliberal model in the field of labor,
through ongoing antisocial reforms, has created conditions of extreme
exploitation and terror for the world of wage work. Flexible working
hours, undeclared and unreported work, the absence of protective
measures in the workplace, the abolition of Sunday off work and the
8-hour workday, the deregulation of layoffs, daily intimidation and the
threat of unemployment, the expansion of forms of work with limited
rights such as "freelance" work, work intensification, and retaliatory
dismissals in response to workers' demands are the weapons that the
state has placed to the hands of the employers for the further
exploitation of workers. In this direction of the neoliberal model, a
decisive role has been played by the anti-labor Hatzidakis bill, which
was not an inspiration exclusively of the current far-right
administration but built upon previous anti-labor legislation passed
under SYRIZA and paved the way for the escalating exploitation of the
working class through new monstrous laws such as the Georgiadis bill.
Through this bill, various employers are now able to employ a worker up
to 13 hours per day and six days per week - conditions that had already
been gradually normalized. Following this series of laws and bills, the
current Minister of Labor, Niki Kerameos, is introducing yet another
anti-labor bill whereby a single employer will now have the right to
employ a worker for up to 13 hours a day, while intensifying the
flexibilization of working time throughout the year and eliminating
overtime pay. The state and the bosses are seeking to overturn labour
rights (which are previous points of compromise in the class struggle
between bosses and workers) that were achieved through hard and bloody
struggles in the past, such as the 8-hour day and the right to strike.
This is the direction taken by the new anti-labor bill that is about to
be voted on, under which workers' free time will be demolished and they
will be turned into "springs" for the needs of capital, "available" at
any moment to satisfy the whims of their bosses.
All these "exceptions" are precisely what have been officially enshrined
in law over the past decades of continuous restructuring, sealing the
bleeding and exhaustion of society, its sacrifice on the altar of
employers' profits. Within this framework, we, the exploited and
oppressed, continue to pay with our blood for the maintenance and
reproduction of the barbaric exploitative and oppressive system that
dominates, murders, and impoverishes. This is evidenced by the dozens of
murders of workers in the sweatshops of modern slavery, with 152 already
recorded in the first nine months of 2025 alone, while more than 235
workers have been seriously injured. Because the perpetuation of the
power and profits of the economic and political rulers depends on
intensification of the exploitation of our class, the plundering of our
lives, the silencing and repression of all those who refuse to accept
this barbarity as the only prospect.

 From the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and their
displacement from their land, culminating in 77 years of atrocities
committed in Palestine by the butchers of Israel, the war in Ukraine
that has been going on for three years now, since the Russian invasion,
leaving behind thousands of dead, impoverished, and uprooted people, to
the daily murders of workers in the sweatshops of wage slavery, the
imprisonment in detention camps and the murders of migrants at the land
and sea borders of Fortress Europe, the deaths in understaffed hospitals
and on dilapidated and neglected trains, the fires that burn down
forests and their ecosystems every year and destroy local communities,
the state-capitalist system has nothing more to offer than death, war,
uprooting, and exploitation.

The defense of the interests, needs, lives, and dignity of the working
class passes through collective, horizontally coordinated, and
grassroots action. The organization of our resistance is of crucial
importance, especially in a period of systematic and organized attack by
the state and capitalist system. Collectivization, common action, and
mutual understanding grounded in anarchist values are our tools against
the modern totalitarianism of the state and capital, against their
attempts to convince us that history has come to an end, that there is
no prospect beyond the dystopian present and the system of power that
creates it, and that if we choose the path of struggle and dignity, we
will be crushed. On every open front of social and class struggle, where
the aggression of the state and capital is manifested, we seek to to
radicalize the struggles by linking them to the universal social vision
of social and class emancipation, putting forward the only realistic way
out for the oppressed; the organization of the struggle for social
revolution, Anarchy, and Libertarian Communism. To build an emancipated
society based on dignity, justice, freedom, solidarity, a world without
exploitation and oppression of one human by another!

EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE
Health - Education - Food - Housing - Transport
EVERYTHING IN THE HANDS OF SOCIETY

RADICAL RESISTANCE - SOCIAL SELF-ORGANIZATION - CLASS SOLIDARITY

NO OTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE AS LONG AS THE STATE AND CAPITALISM EXIST

FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE

WE DO NOT FORGET - WE DO NOT FORGIVE THE STATE CRIME IN TEMPI

ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY, AND
LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM

Anarchist Political Organization-Federation of Collectives

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