STATE AND BOSSES KILL WORKERS -- WE DO NOT FORGET WE DO NOT FORGIVE THE EMPLOYEE-RELATED MURDER AT THE VIOLANTA FACTORY ---- The five workers who lost their lives in the early hours of January 26th, at the "Violanta" factory in Trikala, in the explosion that destroyed the facilities where they worked, injuring seven other workers, are neither a random event nor an accident, but on the contrary constitute the tip of the iceberg of the savage class exploitation imposed in the workplace, another prescribed state and capitalist crime.
From the very beginning, state officials and regime media attempted to cover up in order to absolve the real perpetrators of the murder: the employers who, under the full cover of the institutional authorities, as no substantive inspection had preceded, were committing systematic violations of safety regulations in the factory area, constructing illegal installations and pipelines for the transport of propane, without even installing the necessary gas sensors, and were indifferent to the repeated notifications of workers who had detected a gas leak months before; the region of Thessaly which, despite having identified violations since 2020 during the tenure of the notorious for his involvement in the institutional cover-up of the state-capitalist crime of Tempi and his responsibilities for the devastating flood in Thessaly, the former regional governor of Agorastos issued a permit operation of the factory, while a few days before the deadly explosion it issued a decision to award its owners a bonus of 2 million euros for the expansion of the business; ultimately the state itself, having completely devalued and essentially abolished the already understaffed control mechanisms, not only turns a blind eye to the employer's arbitrariness but also engages, at the same time, in a systematic hunt for struggling workers who defend their labor gains, abolishing the right to strike and criminalizing union action. A typical example of the climate of terrorism that prevails overall in the workplace is the employer's prevention of unions from visiting the "Violanta" factory, inspecting the premises and working conditions and talking to the workers. Also, despite the brazen systematic efforts of the state and the bosses to downplay the scale of work accidents and murders with 201 having lost their lives and 332 having been seriously injured in 2025 alone the murder of the five workers in Violanta highlighted in the most horrific way that we, the exploited and the oppressed, continue to pay with our blood for the maintenance and reproduction of the barbaric exploitative oppressive system.The far-right neoliberal New Democracy government, following the anti-social policies of SYRIZA, passed a series of anti-worker bills, exacerbating the already unbearable conditions of exploitation in labor camps. The anti-labor Georgiadis bill, which was passed in September 2023 and introduced in principle the 13-hour workday with employment at two employers and the 6-day workday, came to be enshrined and expanded, with the passage of the new anti-labor bill, with the false title "Fair Work for All", which enshrines the 13-hour and 6-day workday as a "managerial right of the employer", turns workers into expendable parts in the hands of the bosses, abuses the workers' free time and creates a physically and psychologically exhausting condition for the oppressed class, to which they are called upon to compromise under fear of dismissal or vindictive treatment due to lack of "good faith".
The liberalized working hours, the flexibility of labor relations, undeclared and black work, the lack of protection measures in the workplace, the abolition of labor inspection, the criminalization of union action and strikes, the liberalization of layoffs and the gigantization of unemployment are signs of restructuring, which aim to exacerbate class inequalities and exclusions and the complete devaluation of the work and life of the plebeian strata. Thus, the bosses, emboldened, under the full cover of state institutions, taking advantage of the multitude of anti-labor measures of recent years, proceed to further intensify exploitation, making working hours more flexible and systematically violating safety conditions in the workplace as any control mechanisms have been discredited and abolished in practice turning labor camps into death traps.
In these circumstances, it is imperative to radicalize, expand and connect the resistances of workers who, through their own forces, fight for their lives and dignity against employer unconscionability and state terrorism. The defense of workers' interests, needs, lives and dignity goes through joint, horizontally coordinated, organized action from below. The organization of our resistances is a key issue, especially in a period of total and organized attack by the state and capitalist system. Collectivization, joint action and common understanding based on anarchist values are our tools against the modern totalitarianism of the state and capital, against their attempt to convince us that the end of History has come, 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. In every open front of the social and class struggle, where the aggression of the state and capital is manifested, we propose the radicalization of the struggles through their connection with the universal social vision of social and class emancipation, that is, the organization of the struggle for social revolution, Anarchy and Libertarian Communism as the only realistic way out that the oppressed of this world have.
In the places of exploitation, in the neighborhoods, in the schools and in the colleges
ORGANIZATION AND
STRUGGLE AGAINST STATE AND CAPITALIST BARBARITY
FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND LIBERAL COMMUNISM
National demonstration: Saturday 25/4, Riga Feraou Square (Trikala), 13.00
Anarchist Political Organization Federation of Collectives
https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2267-trikala-kalesma-stin-panelladiki-diadilosi-sta-trikala-gia-tis-ergodotikes-dolofonies-sto-ergostasio-violanta
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