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(en) Greece, liberta salonica: Gathering for the state-capitalist crime of Tempe | Wednesday 1/3, 18:30, Thessaloniki Railway Station (OSE) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Date
Sun, 19 Mar 2023 07:57:43 +0200
Strength to the families of the people who lost their lives in the train
collision---- In Tempe, the greatest tragedy so far was written, a result of the
sale of public property under the pretext of crisis. The looting that has been
going on continuously since 2010 has left dozens dead and injured today, victims
of the dominant ideology according to which the only thing that needs to be
protected like the apple of an eye is 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, who in 2017
sold OSE to Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane S.p.A., 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
electric power 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damage" 20 years ago in Switzerland, from which they were withdrawn in a bad way.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 of
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 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.
Organization and struggle for the social and class counterattack. Organizing and
fighting to avenge our dead.
LET'S NOT LEAVE ANOTHER CRIME UNANSWERED
Gathering for the state-capitalist crime of Tempe
Wednesday 1/3 | 18:30
Thessaloniki Railway Station (OSE)
Freedom Initiative of Thessaloniki
lib_thess@hotmail.com
libertasalonica.wordpress.com
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2023/03/01/
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