Anarchist May Day against the state and bosses, against war, fascism and wage slavery ---- 140 years after the Chicago workers' uprising, the project of connecting partial and demanding struggles, such as the one for the eight-hour day, with the overall struggle for an emancipated society, for the overthrow of the world of power and the libertarian social transformation based on the principles of common property, freedom, equality and solidarity remains ever relevant. The attack, which the social base is currently receiving on a global level, amidst conditions of deep and comprehensive systemic crisis, is escalating and both the contradictions of the state-capitalist model of organizing society and its absolute inability to provide answers to real social needs are emerging.
States and transnational mechanisms are putting war machines into motion, launching military operations and shaping warring societies both to expand their sphere of influence and to continue the plunder of the state and capitalist machine. A condition in which the only real losers are the peoples themselves, who are faced with the war massacres and the consequences of war, impoverishment, poverty, uprooting and death. This is what is highlighted in the most tragic way, both in the war massacre in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army 4 years ago and in the genocide of the Palestinian people which constitutes the brazen escalation of the bloody persecution of the people of Palestine from their land by the state of Israel and its allies, which has been going on for 78 years. This is also evidenced by both the ever-increasing aggression of the US with its intervention in Venezuela and the criminal coercion of the people of Cuba to live under exterminating conditions without any electricity, as well as the war that rages to this day against Iran, as a result of the crisis of their global hegemony and the enormous and multiple internal crises and their need to reassert their control over strategic regions around the world.
Greece, as a member of the European Union and NATO, is firmly oriented towards the aspirations of the dominant political and economic elite of which it is an integral part and is tied to the chariot of Euro-Atlanticism, responsible for so many interventions in recent years and beyond. The continuous energy and defense cooperation agreements between Greece and the United States constitute yet another example of the ratification and expansion of relations between the Greek and American states, confirmation of the attachment of the domestic bourgeoisie to the chariot of interests of the dominant international political and economic elite and strengthening of the role of the Greek state in the crucial region of the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. It is precisely this strengthening of the role of the Greek state, which today passes through the undivided and comprehensive support of the US and the state of Israel, that makes the entire Greek territory the rear of the front line of Western imperialism in the Middle East. The American base of Souda in particular functions as a critical center for military monitoring, coordination and support of American and Euro-Atlantic operations throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The upgrading and expansion of its capabilities is directly linked to military actions in the Middle East, including direct and indirect support for the Israeli state and its participation in the genocide of the Palestinian people. This base symbolizes and serves the maintenance of American and Euro-Atlantic sovereignty and guardianship in the critical region of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing military capabilities for rapid reaction and handling of its geopolitical interests. Every ship that sets sail, every aircraft that takes off, every order issued from the Souda base offers services to the death machine that slaughters the peoples of the Middle East.
The far-right neoliberal government of ND, following the anti-social policies of SYRIZA, is proceeding with the passage of a series of anti-labor bills, exacerbating the already unbearable conditions of exploitation in labor camps. The anti-labor bill Georgiadis, which was passed in September 2023, initially introduced the 13-hour workday with employment with 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 now enshrines the 13-hour and 6-day workday as a "managerial right of the employer". Thus, workers are transformed into expendable parts in the hands of the bosses, while their free time is abused, creating a physically and psychologically exhausting condition for the oppressed class to which they are called upon to compromise under the fear of dismissal or vindictive treatment due to lack of "good faith".
Liberalized working hours, the flexibility of labor relations, undeclared and black work, the lack of protective measures in the workplace, the abolition of Sunday holidays and labor inspection, the criminalization of union action and strikes, the liberalization of layoffs and the gigantic increase in 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.
The bosses, emboldened, under the full cover of state institutions, taking advantage of the multitude of anti-worker measures of recent years, proceed to further intensify exploitation, making working hours more flexible, while at the same time systematically violating safety conditions in the workplaces - as any control mechanisms have been discredited and abolished in practice - turning the labor camps into death traps. The five workers who lost their lives in the early hours of January 26, 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 another state and capitalist crime. From the very beginning, state officials and regime media have 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 propane installations (while not even installing the necessary gas sensors), and were indifferent to the repeated notifications from workers who had detected a gas leak long ago, but also the state itself, which, having completely discredited and essentially abolished the already understaffed control mechanisms, not only turns a blind eye to the employers' arbitrariness but is also engaged, at the same time, in a systematic hunt for the struggling workers who defend their labor gains, abolishing the right to strike and criminalizing union action. Despite the 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 further plundering of the social base is taking place with the gigantic increase in the price of basic everyday goods. Meager wages and daily wages are not enough to cover the cost of survival, leading the vast majority of society to the risk of poverty. Increases in the prices of products in supermarkets make it a gamble to cover absolutely necessary needs, such as food. The imported price, which we hear from government lips every day, is nothing more than an intensification of the attack of the bosses with the aim of constantly maximizing their profits at the expense of the common people. At the same time, the cost of transportation is increasing due to the increase in fuel prices and heating, as a result of the criminal and extortionate policy of the energy cartel. To this condition of the depreciation of basic needs comes the housing issue, with the exorbitant rents and the auctions of primary residences by funds and servicers. While the future plans of the political and economic bosses have included the good of water, with the establishment of a regulatory authority and discussions about its privatization, initially in Thessaly.
In the face of the organized attack of the state and capital that locally and internationally has nothing more to promise than war and fascism, the only hope for societies lies in the barricades of the exploited and oppressed and the political, social and class organization of the struggle in the direction of social revolution and emancipation. Through unmediated anti-hierarchical and unguarded struggles from below, we can move on to the counterattack against exploitation and oppression. To rebuild life with basic ingredients of social solidarity, cooperation, without bosses and slaves. To make generalized social Self-Direction a tangible reality, to summarize political freedom and economic equality in the modern revolutionary program. For a libertarian movement of all the exploited and oppressed that will give way to real needs.
Organization and struggle for global Social Revolution, Anarchy and Libertarian Communism
Friday, May 1st strike rallies
Athens: Chafteia, 11.00 | Thessaloniki: Kamara, 10.30
Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectives
https://apo.squathost.com/anakinosi-anarchiki-protomagia-apergiakes-diadilosis-se-athina-thessaloniki/
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Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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