WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #29-25 - No peace with the state and capital! Strikes in Greece: 13-hour workday passed (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Deaf to the wave of strikes and protests, the Athens parliament approved

the Georgiadis law on October 16th, which, among other things, extends
the workday to 13 hours and raises the retirement age to 74. We publish
a statement from the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of
Collectives (APO), part of the International of Anarchist Federations.
The APO participated in the mobilizations in recent weeks in Greece
against the new anti-working-class reform, also taking to the streets on
October 14th during the general strike, during which this statement was
released.

General strike against the new anti-worker law, wage slavery, employer
terror, and state repression

We are in a period of widespread escalation in the political and
economic elites' attack on the poor, through ever-deepening antisocial
restructuring of every aspect of daily life, with the passage of a
series of laws relating to healthcare, education, labor, housing,
taxation, political and social expression, justice, and nature. The
state and the employers aim for even greater exploitation of the poor,
constantly worsening conditions of oppression. This drive toward the
imposition of modern totalitarianism, led by the far-right, neoliberal
New Democracy government, is reflected in a series of restructuring
reforms that serve the declared and long-standing goals of the ruling
class, regardless of political ownership. In reality, however, the
reason why the right today so easily imposes the hegemony of
neoliberalism and extends its policy of attack on workers, the

unemployed, and all those in distress is because the previous political
administration, the Social Democratic government, in the name of the
radical left, crushed movements, spread illusions and delusions across
broad swathes of society, only to add another brick to the edifice of
modern totalitarianism and further reinforce 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 labor market, through
continuous antisocial reforms,

has created conditions of extreme exploitation and terror in the world
of wage labor. Flexible working hours, undeclared and unregistered work,
the lack of workplace protections, the abolition of Sundays off and the
8-hour workday, deregulation of dismissals, daily intimidation and the
threat of unemployment, the expansion of forms of employment with
limited rights such as "freelance" work, the intensification of work,
and retaliatory dismissals

in response to workers' demands are the weapons the state has placed in
the hands of employers for further worker exploitation. In this
direction of the neoliberal model, a decisive role was played by the
anti-worker Hatzidakis bill, which was not inspired exclusively by the
current far-right administration but was based on previous anti-worker
legislation passed under SYRIZA and paved the way for increasing
exploitation of the working class through monstrous new laws such as the
Georgiadis bill.

Thanks to this law, several employers can now hire a worker for up to 13
hours a day and six days a week, conditions that had already been
gradually normalized. Following this series of laws and bills, the
current Minister of Labor, Niki Kerameos, is introducing another
anti-work bill. This bill will now allow a single employer to hire a
worker for up to 13 hours a day, intensifying the flexibilization of
working hours throughout the year and eliminating overtime pay. The
state and employers are seeking to overturn workers' rights (previous
points of compromise in the class struggle between employers and
workers) that were won through hard and bloody struggles in the past,
such as the 8-hour workday and the right to strike. This is the
direction taken by the new anti-worker bill about to be voted on, under
which workers' free time will be demolished and they will be transformed
into "resources" for the needs of capital, "available" at any time to
satisfy the whims of their bosses.

All these "exceptions" are precisely those that have been officially
enshrined in law over the past decades of continuous restructuring,
sanctioning the bleeding and death of society, its sacrifice on the
altar of employers' profits. In this context, we, the exploited and
oppressed, continue to pay with our blood for the maintenance and
reproduction of the barbaric system of exploitation and oppression that
dominates, kills, and impoverishes. This is demonstrated by the dozens
of murders of workers in factories practicing modern slavery, with 152
cases 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 economic and political rulers
depends on the intensification of the exploitation of our class, the
plundering of our lives, and the silencing and repression of all those
who refuse to accept this barbarity as the only option.

 From the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and their
displacement from their homeland, culminating in 77 years of atrocities
committed in Palestine by Israel's butchers, to the three-year war in
Ukraine, from the Russian invasion, which has left thousands of people
impoverished and uprooted, to the daily murders of workers in
sweatshops, to the detention in internment camps and the murders of
migrants at the land and sea borders of Fortress Europe, to the deaths
in understaffed hospitals and on dilapidated and neglected trains, to
the fires that annually scorch forests and their ecosystems and destroy
local communities, the state capitalist system has nothing but death,
war, uprooting, and exploitation.

Defending the interests, needs, lives, and dignity of the working class
requires collective, horizontally coordinated, and grassroots action.
Organizing our resistance is of paramount importance, especially in a
time of systematic and organized attacks by the state and the 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
perspective 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 manifest, we seek to
radicalize the struggles by connecting them to the universal social
vision of social and class emancipation, proposing the only realistic
way out for the oppressed: organizing the struggle for social
revolution, anarchy, and libertarian communism. To build an emancipated
society based on dignity, justice, freedom, and solidarity a world
without the exploitation and oppression of one human being by another!

EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE

Healthcare - Education - Food - Housing - Transportation

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 STATE CRIME IN THEIR TIMES

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

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectives

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