UPDATE, 19.14 GMT+2 The strike has been suspended following a general assembly decision by the striking lorry drivers, taken with a thin majority. The strikers now “expect their civil conscription to be lifted” according to the first corporate media reports.
Following the government’s civil conscription order and army vehicles roaming the country’s streets offering gas supplies, the lorry drivers are holding a general assembly at midday today to decide the fate of their strike. The most likely outcome, report the mainstream media, is that they suspend their strike in exchange of the lifting of the civil conscription. Updates as they come.
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We stand in solidarity with the workers who face the force of state repression!
The Greek military is now just a government controlled bunch of scabs?
military is always a bunch of goverment controlled sabs. just as the police
Yeah, that shouldn’t have been a question.
The term union is used by all sorts of organizations. Is this a union of drivers or of lorry owners or both? If it includes a large proportion of owners variation in the magnitude of their capital investments may result in rapid fragmentation. Their divergent economic positions and interests mitigate against coherent solidarity.
In Greece, the drivers are the owners of the licence and of the lorries. This is exactly what the government wants to change. If I have understtod the situation, the government wants to give licenes for free to big firms and the drivers will be simple employees of the firms. Also, the licenses of the drivers that now cost up to 100000 euros, now they will cost nothing. So it’s literraly like the government is steeling their fields. It’s like saying to the farmers that they don’t own their fields, but the field is belonging to some firms and they will be working for the companies.
So, BABEOUF, your comment is in a way correct. They are actually owners and drivers, in the same time.
The strike ended, but still the issue has not been solved. The law is going to be voted in the end of the summer. Also there are many other ‘closed professions’, which are actually a kind of small ownership. All these are going to be sold, according to the announcements of the ministers.
The way the government faced this strike is indicative of the way that all srtuggle will be faced. Such tense climate is unprecedented for summer, in a country where summer is considered ‘holy’ normally.
So in effect they are being proletarianised? What other “closed professions” are being ‘deregulated’ and taken down a social peg?
I think it sounds kinda sick that you have to pay 100.000 € just to get your licence. Where do you need licence that expensive for? Freedom is that you can start your own business where and whenever you want without this kind mafia style licence fees.
Yes, they are being proletarianised.
Lawyers, Notaries, Pharmacists, Dentists, Engineers, Architects, Accountants, Owners of Taxi are some of those whos labour conditions will change immediately (=end of August), according to the announcements of the government. Of course, the laws are not the same to all of these and the changes that are proposed are not the same also.
Very good response from our securoty forces. Well done and crack the heads of those of give our coountry such a bad name.
Back to work now and shut up. If you don’t want to work leave us alone
what website do you think you’re writing on, you moron? The PASOK open forum or something?
And – is the double S (SS!) in your name a typo? I doubt it.
Go on living your ever-increasingly miserable life, you arsehole. We strive for more.
Looks like nobody is seeing the BIG PICTURE in this: To supply the decadence with gas the state needs army! All this fuckers – state, drivers, aso – are all together with world trade and war-teams BP! This madness must stop: All states that allow cars, planes, etc are terrorist organizations. Save the planet, kill all cardrivers!
Incubus when the Petite Bourgeois are threatened with being forced back into the ‘Proletariat’ their long run reaction is likely to be support for fascism. In this sense the Greek crisis has passed another milestone. Only the larger Capitalists can expect the indulgence of the State now. A social/political crisis that appears to exceed France in 68. And the dominant economic prospect for Greece(and other European states) the continual immiserization of the working class. The continual growth of the working poor. (these now account for 25% of the working class of Germany according to official figures). European states seem to be approaching a historical tipping point. The dynamic of the economic process is increasingly incompatible with the political forms of organization.
Greece isn’t the only country that should be worried about a new dictatorship in the interests of the big Bourgeois.
Ironically, it is the PASOK “socialists” who are unraveling the very state of small shopkeepers, the “underprivileged,” small-to-medium business owners, and the million “public servants,” who sit on their arses and get a paycheck at the end of the month plus benefits, which they built with BORROWED money and broke the country. In the end, it is really a question of Greece being put violently and brutally back into the slot that she belonged all along on the basis of her production levels and her economic “model:” living and economic standards of 30 years ago, or even earlier. What Papandreou is doing right now evokes images of a process resembling the “forced collectivization” conceived and applied by another notorious “socialist.” The kulaks must die! Poor Greece! She tried through the back door but, guess what, she was caught by the bouncers!
Pretty much what I thought Babeouf, except I couldn’t publish it!
They can’t send the military to do EVERYONE’s jobs…
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