(en) Greece, Corfu, About the general strike of November 12
(gr, pt) [machine translation]
The following text was published on the website of anarchist collective of Corfu
cumulonimbus because of the general strike of 12 November. The Greek text is titled
"Called to the march of the strike." ---- The general strike of 12 November. By the turn
of the street. ---- The first call for a general strike after the approval of the third
memorandum and the recent elections is a fact. Another fact is that this call is more like
a poorly theatrical performance mounted by the executives of the workers unions, in order
to create short-term impressions, and not to oppose determinedly to the memorandum and the
new government. After violently awakening from the dream of "hope" and landing in "the
realistic ways out of the crisis", all social resistances must have an expiration date and
a symbolic character. For this there is a coalition government between the left and the
far right: to listen to (meet) the petitions of his subjects, to absorb them with their
particularly sensitive to patriotism sensors and "realism", and ultimately to adapt them a
few institutional frameworks, "realistic" and patriotic. No matter what the outcome of the
referendum has been reversed, the "tough negotiations" and "abolition of memos" have led
to the signing of a new memorandum, even worse than the previous ones, and that public
ownership continues to be sold without ceasing. What matters is that the full
normalization of the financial system go well away.
Beyond the high-sounding statements, including further kick the reality of massive social
struggles and the proliferation of social inertia and the delegation tactic (this meeting)
highlights more clearly than ever the political choice of local employers and foreign to
deepen the looting and exploitation of social classes enslaved. The state of emergency is
present, will continue, and many managers that change, follow imposing to overwhelm our
lives. At this juncture, simply shifted to the left. The constant invocation of
"democratic bow" with exciting speeches for national unity, is the only material
"adhesive" which became the oppressors, to convince us that supposedly have common
interests with that dominate us and oppress us (or those Support those who dominate us and
exploit us).
It is exactly the same "stuff", served of course with the appropriate dose of bourgeois
humanism, that comes to people who casually born in places where intracapitalistas
antagonisms the devastate - metaphorically and literally - sometimes as "intruders
(invaders ) illegal immigrants "who are forced to jam us modern concentration camps, and
sometimes as" miserable wretches "who are placed one after another in philanthropic rows
of foods that offer them. This is the same "stuff" used by the Nazis of Golden Dawn (since
"rehabilitated" and with parliamentary representation on the island) to sharpen their knives.
At the time of incorporation of movements (in the system), in the days when general
strikes are called whole months after the memoranda of voting, the motto "all the street"
has lost its meaning and has completed its cycle. The last five years have shown that for
many people to leave the streets for many people who are on strike for 24 hours, if you do
not know what they are complaining and wishing and why struggle, all the struggles, all
the goals, all dreams, or they will be repressed by the police Tear Gases or be converted
into harmless and ineffective agreements on the same framework that generates
exploitation, injustice and social differences. In the same framework that is based on
these same values. It is a hostile framework that does not improve, it may not be
gestionado in a "more favorable, more human." You have to overthrow it.
It has to be overthrown by people who join not under the banner of national unity, if not
through its social determination and class. For people who experience social class warfare
in their daily lives, which do not allow oppression, submission and indifference, who
choose to organize themselves in an egalitarian way, not only away from the hierarchy of
logic, the cooperation of classes and incorporating the institutions, but against it. By
people who cross the solidarity of communities, without intermediaries struggles, the
occupations, the collective negative to pay, in popular assemblies, the base unions in
releasing projects, which are built equal relations, solidarity and horizontal freedom
where A person's needs are needs of all, where are organized our actions against the
state, capital and any form of power. The victorious social revolution, which will
materialize our desires for a communist society of freedom, in anarchy.
Called the march of the general strike of 12 November.
Thursday, November 12 at 18h, before the house of Worker of Corfu.
The Greek text:
https://cumulonimbus.squat.gr/2015/11/05/%CE%BA%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%B1-%CF%83%CE%B5-%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%AE-%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1/#more-899
The text in Spanish:
http://verba-volant.info/es/sobre-la-huelga-general-del-12-de-noviembre/#more-10493
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