We Can Do It Ourselves.

This From globaluprisings:

      The workers at the Vio.Me. Factory in Thessaloniki, Greece have quickly grown into a symbol of self-management internationally. After going on strike and occupying their factory, on February 12, 2013 they re-opened the factory and started production under worker’s control. For many, the factory represents a new potential way forward for unemployed workers in Greece – seizing the means of production, running factories without bosses, producing only goods that are needed, and distributing them through solidarity networks.

     “Every extra profit we make will be given out to people who need it. Our plan is to offer help to unemployed people or others who are in great need,” says  Dimitrios Koumasiouras, a worker from Vio.Me.

      This film tells the story of how the worker’s re-opened the factory under self-management and looks to where the factory is headed now.

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EVICTION OF DELTA SQUAT.

        Delta Squat in Thessaloníki was a large social centre run by the local people and offered opportunities for all manner of social functions, workshops, art, music, dance and discussions. it was a meeting place where people could come together to support one and other, it served the local people well. Disregarding its usefulness to the local people and their desire to keep it functioning, the Greek state brutally closed it down. So you have to ask yourself, why would they want to shut down that which served the people well? Obviously the the state can't let people organise their own lives, if that happened we wouldn't need the state. So it will come down hard on those who choose to organise their own lives outside the repressive system under which we live. The state's life blood is control, autonomy and liberty are its death knell.

 This from Void Mirror:

       letter from the imprisoned comrades before the trial takes part. The trial finished today. 9 comrades released with accusations and 1 probably will be deported from Greece... please send us translations in your languages or links with actions of solidarity.

        We all live in an economic politic system, tightly closed and illiberal, which defends with every way the interests of the bosses, every kind, of overhead.

       On the other side of the scale, there are the oppressed, all who face daily the problem of survival. The biggest part of the society, a few hundred million, are on the limits of poverty, receives daily attack from the small class of the bosses, with their protectors of their wealth, their command applicators, the state and the authority. Especially the last years, with the new economic crisis invented by the bosses, which is nothing but an obvious restructuring and re-accumulation of wealth for their benefit, and an attempt of total control of every aspect of society, more and more people find themselves in a desperate situation and they decide to take their lives in their hands.

      So they decide to create unmediated social structures, away from the coercive logic of capitalism and the relationships which defined by money.

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