A-Infos (en) Greece, Lliberta Salonica: MARCH FOR THE STATE - CAPITALIST MURDER IN THE TEMPLE -- THEIR PROFITS, OUR DEAD (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

A few days ago, the biggest railway tragedy in the country so far unfolded in 
Tempe, a result of the sale of public property under the pretext of a crisis. The 
looting that has been going on continuously since 2010 has resulted in 57 dead 
and many dozens injured, the vast majority of them young men and women in their 
20s and 30s, victims of the dominant ideology according to which the only thing 
that needs to be protected like the apple of an eye is the capitalist profit. 
---- Responsibility lies with all the governments that keep the OSE downgraded 
over time, preparing the ground for its sale. All those who signed the obligation 
to privatize OSE as a memorandum obligation in 2010 are responsible. Christos 
Spirtzis of SYRIZA who sold OSE to Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. in 2017 
is nominally responsible. instead of the ridiculous amount of 45 million euros, 
at the same time that the Greek state assumed the responsibility of subsidizing 
it with 50 million euros a year to run specific routes. This vagabond then 
justified the sale by saying that "we sold TRAINOSE so that the Greek people 
don't have to pay a memorandum and a half".

The tragedy in Tempe is not an accident that no one expected. A few hours before 
the head-on collision between the commercial train and the passenger train, an 
electrification cable snapped and fell on a train carrying 450 passengers. Such 
accidents and breakdowns are a daily occurrence in recent years. All this while 
the government and the media often celebrate the supposed upgrades of the railway 
network and the supposedly modern trains with which the OSE is equipped. However, 
a report by Investigate Europe entitled "'All I can say is good luck': How Swiss 
scrapped trains are returning to Greece" revealed on 18 February 2022 that the 
second-hand ETR 470 trains advertised as an upgrade of of Greek railways are in 
fact extremely problematic and dangerous, acquiring the nickname "train of 
damage" 20 years ago in Switzerland, from which they were withdrawn in a bad way. 
Logically, we conclude that the aforementioned reports had more to do with paid 
commercials than journalism.

Railway workers have repeatedly complained through their trade unions about 
safety deficiencies. This last announcement on February 7, 2023 where DESK 
Railways states: "We will not wait for the accident to come, to see them shed 
crocodile tears making findings". At the same time Hatzidakis was celebrating 
that TRAINOSE became profitable and the Minister of Transport K. Karamanlis was 
saying on February 20 that "we are not playing with the safety of passengers on 
trains". We saw it.

The crocodile tears of politicians and company executives, the slogans of 
"national tragedy" and the attribution of blame to "human errors" should not 
mislead us. The workers had repeatedly referred to the security gaps and the need 
for maintenance and upgrading of the network, they had warned in all tones that 
the accident was coming. They are the ones who struggle every day to get the job 
done and ensure the integrity of the crew and passengers with meager means. The 
minimum that needs to be done today is the cancellation of the sale of the OSE 
and the substantial upgrading of the railway network based on safety and the 
perception of transport as a public good that cannot operate on the basis of 
profit. But that's not enough. We must act collectively and organized to put an 
end to the absurdity called state and capitalism, to anti-socialism and the 
inhumanity of power.

The immediate and angry social reaction that existed from the first moment the 
incident became known, shows that the social base perceived it directly, not as a 
simple "accident", but as the essence of the state and capital, as the essence of 
the perception that wants society to be organized around the value axis "profits 
over lives". Thus, this tragedy became the point where the daily experience of 
the ever more extensive and intensifying devaluation of our living conditions 
(cuts in wages and pensions, unemployment, punctuality, privatization, first home 
auctions, repression) and ultimately, of value itself of human life. This is the 
thread that directly connects the dead immigrants at the border and the dead of 
the pandemic due to the broken hospitals, the dead of the daily labor accidents 
in the workplaces and the dead on the train tracks of Tempe.  The massive, 
dynamic and confrontational gatherings, protests and demonstrations after the 
mass state murder in Tempe, prove that the social base will no longer sit idly by 
and get used to death more and more every day, that in doing so they will put a 
brake on brutality of power.

We know that the fight we have to fight is multifaceted and it is not going to be 
easy. In the face of poverty and destitution, precision, impoverishment, the 
working middle ages and unemployment, we must organize class solidarity, 
reorganize the collective formations of the working class, put forward the 
interests and needs of our class and set the collective claim us. To strengthen 
the internationalist, class solidarity among the oppressed and exploited 
everywhere, in order to fight the poison of fascism and racism, but also to erect 
dykes against the imperialist rivalries and the war that result in hundreds of 
deaths of our class. Working, unemployed, retired, excluded, native and immigrant 
together, we must raise our heads together, organize, fight together, and attack 
the state, capital and its lackeys. From today's cry of rage for our dead in 
Tempe, from our today's demands that are vital for survival and the partial 
improvement of our working and living conditions, to the revolutionary overthrow 
of capitalism and the radical reorganization of social life. Because our struggle 
to make our lives count today is not disconnected from the struggle to make our 
lives worth living as a whole. Because a life that will be governed by freedom, 
equality, common property, solidarity and mutual aid, that will be organized 
directly democratically is possible, but it is only possible if we fight for it.

TO FIGHT AGAINST THE UNDERVALUATION OF OUR ANIMALS

IT WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT, IT WAS MURDER - STATE AND BOSSES THE SAME GANG

ORGANIZING & STRUGGLING AGAINST STATE AND CAPITALIST BARVARIANCE

MARCH FOR THE STATE - CAPITALIST MURDER IN THE TEMBIES

FRIDAY 10/03 | 18.00 | ARCH

Freedom Initiative of Thessaloniki

lib_thess@hotmail.com

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2023/03/07
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