A-Infos (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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