A-Infos (en) Greece, APO, Landand & Freedom - Anarchist May Day shows the way to the oppressed (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

AGAINST THE WORLD OF MODERN INTEGRATION ---- The May Day strike 
anniversary, a day dedicated worldwide to workers' struggles, is an 
event of great historical value for the working class and its eternal 
and timeless struggle against the State and Capital. It is not an 
anniversary celebration of past uprisings, but a call to struggle in the 
here and now. Specifically, it honors the Haymarket uprising in Chicago 
and the great strike struggles of those days with the main demand being 
the establishment of the 8-hour workday. Strikes that were organized and 
propagated with great contribution from the anarchists of the labor 
movement, with the sacrifice of the 8 comrades being a turning point in 
the history of class struggles. Specifically, on May 3, 1886 in Chicago, 
the police attacked gathered strikers, killing six and injuring several 
others. The next day, at a protest in Haymarket Square, which the police 
again attempted to disperse, a bomb exploded, killing one policeman 
instantly, and fatally wounding six others as well as dozens of 
strikers. A crackdown followed, while 8 anarchist activists were 
targeted with false evidence of their involvement. Ultimately, the 7 
were sentenced to death by hanging.
The demands and struggle of the anarchist activists and the Haymarket 
workers' movement remain relevant and are still at the center of the 
struggle of the oppressed against State and Capital. The 
state-capitalist system, from its early stages to the present day, has 
only promised the masses exploitation, oppression, impoverishment and death.
State and Capital are constantly trying to maximize their power and 
profits on the backs of the social base, without even the slightest 
regard for human life and dignity. The conquest of the 8-hour workday is 
constantly threatened, in a situation in which unpaid overtime and 
exhausting hours are the norm, especially after the official 
legalization of the 13-hour workday, while any reaction is already 
suppressed by the courtrooms, based on the Hatzidakis law. At the same 
time, working conditions are getting worse and worse, while workers are 
constantly losing their lives in so-called "accidents", which in reality 
are nothing more than employer-sponsored murders. A recent example is 
that of Violanta, where five workers lost their lives in an explosion, 
after a gas leak lasting many months, the result of multiple failures in 
safety measures, the responsibility of the employer. Of course, the 
exploitation and plunder of the working class by Capital is accompanied 
by state repression, which takes care to silence, strike and disperse 
every labor and popular movement that goes against the interests and 
methods of power, either through court decisions and the legal arsenal, 
or through the cops and repression on the street.
While the lower classes of society are impoverished in the dungeons of 
wage slavery, State and Capital reserve an even worse fate for refugees 
and immigrants. Those who are not killed at the border or at the bottom 
of the Aegean by the Greek coast guard, as is repeatedly done in the 
various shipwrecks, are sent to concentration camps with terrible living 
conditions, or at best, have the "freedom" to be exploited by the 
domestic bourgeoisie for cheap labor. We saw this once again just a few 
months ago, when on February 3rd, off the coast of Chios, a coast guard 
vessel ran over a boat of immigrants, resulting in at least 15 deaths 
and 25 injuries. At the same time, as if all this were not enough, the 
bourgeois media turn immigrants into scapegoats, blaming them for every 
social problem, problems created by the state-capitalist system itself, 
in order to, on the one hand, hide the real causes and, on the other 
hand, create internal unity based on national identity and the narrative 
of a common, external enemy.
Another event that reveals the murderous intentions of the rulers is the 
crime in Tempi, which is not an "accident", but the most brutal 
expression of the state-capitalist system that sacrifices human lives on 
the altar of profit and "development". For years, infrastructure has 
been abandoned and security has been degraded. The State, together with 
private interests, chooses cheap management over human life. Railways, 
like any public good, are being turned into a field of profit. 
Privatization, understaffing and the absence of safety checks are not 
accidental, but conscious political choices. The result is 
predetermined: when costs are reduced and responsibility is diffused, 
disaster becomes inevitable. The issue is not limited to attributing 
responsibility to individual persons, as it is the system of power 
itself that produces such tragedies. Hierarchy, the concentration of 
power and the commercialization of life create the conditions for a new 
"Tempo".

The same logic that sacrifices human lives in degraded infrastructure is 
also behind the conflicts of war, due to which countless people lose 
their homes, their families, are impoverished and murdered, for the 
interests and plans of the powerful. In a condition of generalized 
crisis of the global state-capitalist system, the war fronts are 
increasingly spreading with conflicts in the Middle East, in Sudan, in 
Congo, in Pakistan, in the war in Ukraine that has taken millions of 
lives, in the long-suffering Gaza that is experiencing war and genocide. 
States and Capital, in an effort to address their internal problems and 
find new fields of profit, send the children of the working class to the 
slaughterhouse of war, under the pretext of "national interest", 
"justice" or "freedom". As states arm themselves, the war industry 
spreads rapidly, having even invaded universities which are transformed 
into instruments of war. The Greek state, together with the entire 
Western world, provides supplies for the extermination of millions of 
people, financially and militarily supporting the murderous state of 
Israel in the genocide it is committing against the Palestinians and in 
the imperialist war against Iran.
The answer to the inhuman reality that the State and Capital are trying 
to impose on us, to exploitation, oppression, humiliation, is one: 
grassroots organization in all social fields and unmediated, unguarded 
resistance from below. The student movement, as an organic part of the 
broader social and class resistances, must be connected to the labor 
movement, and with a common struggle, with the solidarity of students, 
workers, but also more generally the entire social base, to put an end 
to the world of power and bosses. To fight militantly, with strikes, 
occupations, clashes, demonstrations, until everything returns to the 
hands of society. For a world without oppressors and oppressed, a human 
world, a world of equality, freedom and solidarity.

Everyone in the mobilizations for Anarchist May Day:
Rally: Thursday 30 April, 19:00, Propylaia
Strike March: Friday 1 May, 11:00, Chafteia

ANARCHIST ORGANIZATION OF STRUGGLE CLASS HUMAN
IS NOT CAPITALISM
TERRORISM IS WAGE SLAVERY
NO PEACE WITH THE BOSSES

Anarchist Students Initiative of Athens

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