The outpour of international solidarity ahead of VIOME’s important legal battle on March 23 has been overwhelming!
We are now translating the messages and signatures we got from dozens of different countries into Greek, in order to submit them in court on Monday.
You can see here the photos and read the -untranslated- messages we have received from workers of other recuperated enterprises, such as Kazova, Rimaflow, Bauen, Fabrique du Sud, and many more, as well as from trade unions, collectives, parties, organizations and individuals from all over the world. In a later post, you can read all the signatures of support categorised by country. The workers and solidarity members of the VIOME recuperated factory are deeply moved by the warmth of the international solidarity!
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Rete internazionale di solidarietà e di lotta:
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We are now translating the messages and signatures we got from dozens of different countries into Greek, in order to submit them in court on Monday. You can see here the photos and read the -untranslated- messages we have received from workers of other recuperated enterprises, such as Kazova, Rimaflow, Bauen, Fabrique du Sud, and many more, as well as from trade unions, collectives, parties, organizations and individuals from all over the world. In a later post, you can read all the signatures of support categorised by country. The workers and solidarity members of the VIOME recuperated factory are deeply moved by the warmth of the international solidarity!
VIOME is not for sale!
It belongs to the workers and to society!
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we hope that this message will reach you in time.
It is an attempt to send all the solidarity from the workers of Özgür Kazova. We have just learned of your trial tomorrow and we wish you strength and luck at the same time. As the last resisting workers of a 23 months long struggle against a bankrupt owner who wanted to sell out the factory premises, we have been through our final court case only two months ago. In our case the court confirmed what we had repeated for two years: that the machines to produce belong to those who produce. The only compensation for year of labour under bad pay can only be the ability to control the means of production and ensure equality among workers, without bosses nor injustices.
We wish the same victory to you, and we look forward to finally meet you in person next week.
This is only the beginning, may the struggle continue!
Free Kazova
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Compañeros, les mandamos nuestro apoyo incondicional, permanezcan fuertes, es la única manera de resistir al capital.
Abrazo gigante de todas las cooperativas de trabajo de nuestro país.
Confederación Nacional de Cooperativas de Trabajo (CNCT), Argentina
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Querid@s companer@s,
RiMaflow de Trezzano, Italia, fabrica recuperada y autogestida, esta con vosotr@s!
Adelante! Ocupar, resistir, producir!
Hasta la victoria!
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Rimake: un espacio social autogestido en Milan, parte de la misma red Communia con RiMaflow, solidario con Vio.me
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Il Sindacato è un’altra cosa (Opposizione CGIL)
Ai Lavoratori della VIO-ME
Cari compagni, come area classista (ufficiale e presente nella Direzione Nazionale) della CGIL in Italia, vi esprimiamo la nostra piena solidarietà per la battaglia legale che vi apprestate ad affrontare.
Dopo aver portato l’azienda alla catastrofe, il vecchio padrone vuole distruggere il vostro esemplare lavoro di autorganizzazione e gestione operaia.
Non deve passare.
Siamo al vostro fianco. La vostra lotta è un esempio per tutti noi.
Esecutivo Nazionale
Area Programmatica “Il Sindacato è un’altra cosa” (Opposizione CGIL)
16/3/2015
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Comrades
I would like to express the admiration of USI for your initiative, which is an inspiration to workers everywhere.
We wish you the best of luck.
in Solidarity
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Walton Pantland, USI
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Compañeros y compañeras de la Coordinadora por la Defensa del Agua y de la Vida, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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“El Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión (ICEA), desde el Estado Español, muestra su total solidaridad con los compañeros de Vio.Me y del resto de expresiones de apoyo mutuo y autogestión desarrolladas por el pueblo griego en estos últimos años de devastación impuesta por la troika y por la deriva neoliberal del capitalismo europeo. Desarrollar la autogestión y el poder autónomo de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras, y recuperar los medios de producción para su gestión directa por los mismos, es la única salida para los pueblos del Sur de Europa y la única solución real para la crisis continua de este sistema injusto e irracional. Os mandamos un saludo y todo nuestro apoyo.
Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión (ICEA). España
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Levantarse cada la mañana, pese a la que está cayendo, es un acto en sí revolucionario, transformador, antagonista, porque luego tenemos 24 horas cada día para construir, para crear, para luchar, para apuntar amaneceres y para elevar gestos, aún fugaces y precarios, de rebeldía y de ternura. Vuestros gestos, vuestros afanes, llegan hasta aquí, vuestro trabajo diario. El eco de la autogestión, la solidaridad, la resistencia. La labor de quienes comparten y han decidido decidir juntos, tomar sus vidas en sus propias manos. Hay quien dijo que en los momentos de mayor oscuridad es cuando más importan las pequeñas llamas, cuando más se ven, cuando más brillan en la distancia. La llama de Vio.Me nos ilumina a todos y todas en esta angosta noche del capitalismo salvaje. Os lo debemos y lo reconocemos. Y os mandamos un abrazo que quiere convertirse en fuerza, en escudo, en océano. Con toda nuestra solidaridad.
José Luis Carretero Miramar. Madrid.
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Hotel Bauen recuperado y autogestionado, Buenos Aires
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Salud compañeros/as:
Queremos expresar desde la Asamblea de Trabajadorxs afectadxs por el ERE de Madrid Río y su Plataforma de Apoyo toda nuestra solidaridad con vosotros/as.
Sabemos que son tiempos difíciles, nosotros/as mismos/as llevamos enlucha bastantes meses. Vosotros/as habéis sufrido el ataque delcapital, el ataque del empresario, al igual que nosotros/as y quemillones de trabajadores/as, pero habéis resistido. Recuperar vuestra fábrica hace que miles de trabajadores/as por todoel mundo os veamos como un ejemplo de resistencia y de dignidad.Nos sentimos/as orgullosos/as de vosotros/as y esperamos que vuestralucha llegue a buen puerto.Para finalizar, queríamos deciros que vuestra lucha también es lanuestra, que no hay nada más importante que la solidaridad y que paracualquier cosa que necesitéis aquí estamos.Os enviamos un abrazo fraternal, mucha fuerza y nuestro lema comoconsigna, que se ha hecho efectivo en vosotros/as: “
RESISTIR ES VENCER”.
¡Qué viva la lucha de la clase obrera!
¡El arma del/la obrero/a: La solidaridad!
¡Madrid Río con lxs trabajadorxs de VIOME!
¡Resistir es vencer!
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Estimados compañeros: Va nuestra solidaridad desde la Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina.
Trabajamos desde el CIECS/CONICET de esa Universidad. Nuestro programa de investigación “Antropología e historia de la relación capital-trabajo” refleja las distintas problemáticas del trabajo en general y presta una especial atención a las empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores. Sabemos de las dificultades de la lucha por la autogestión pero también sabemos que la propiedad social de los medios de producción es la alternativa que debemos alentar en pos de construir una sociedad equitativa y solidaria.
Fuerza compañeros, no importa en que lugar del mundo estemos, la lucha es una sola. Venceremos!!!
Carlos E. Martinez
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Compañeros y compañeras de varias cooperativas argentinas
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Nosotros al Centro para la Justicia Global en San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, afirmamos nuestro solidaridad con la lucha para auto-gestion de los trabajadores de la fabrica recuperada Vio.Me y con su marcha a Atena. Estamos todos con ustedes en su marcha rechasando las politicas neo-liberales oprimiendo todos humanos en todas partes. Adelante juntos!//We at the Center for Global Justice in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, stand in solidarity with the struggle for self-management and the march to Athens by the recuperated factory workers at VioMe. You march for all of us in opposing the neo-liberal policies that oppress all humans everywhere. Adelante juntos!
Center for Global Justice,17 March 2015
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Gathered to Aubenas (Small town of the Southeast of France) on Wednesday, March 18th for the 4th time in solidarity with the Greek people, the participants express their total solidarity with the greeks workers of the company VIOME (Thessalonic) in order for them to keep on their experience of labor management. They specifically ask the Greek justice not to question this selfmanagement experience which protects jobs and demonstrates that another economy is possible. Greetings internationalists, Aubenas, March 18th.
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Quienes integramos el Colectivo de Relaciones del Trabajo queremos expresar nuestra solidaridad y apoyo en la lucha que llevan adelante los trabajadores de la empresa recuperada VIOME. La lucha que se encuentran emprendiendo en defensa de sus puestos de trabajo representa un claro ejemplo de resistencia frente al capitalismo y, de emancipación a través de la autogestión colectiva para todos los trabajadores y trabajadoras del mundo.
Porque la única lucha que se pierde es aquella que se abandona…
VIOME NO ESTA EN VENTA!
VIOME ES DE LOS TRABAJADORES
VIVA LA LUCHA DE LOS TRABAJADORES DE VIOME!
Colectivo de Relaciones del Trabajo
Estudiantes, Graduados y Docentes de la Carrera de Relaciones del Trabajo
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales – Universidad de Buenos Aires
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Solidaritätserklärung des Netzwerks Arbeitskämpfe an die Belegschaft von Vio.Me
Mit Wut und Empörung haben wir vernommen, dass die alten Besitzer versuchen, mit juristischen Tricks den Betrieb zu liquidieren und damit ihr Werk der Zerstörung zu vollenden. Was auch immer die Richter am 23. März entscheiden werden, lasst Euch nicht vertreiben und verteidigt die Fabrik! Als praktisches Zeichen unserer Solidarität werden wir hier in der Schweiz weiterhin die Seifen von Vio.Me verkaufen. Jedes Stück Seife steht als Symbol für eine künftige Art von Produktion und Austausch, die der ganzen Gesellschaft dient, ohne Ausbeutung und ohne Chefs. Es ist diese Botschaft, die mit dem Vertrieb der Seifen von Vio.Me verbreitet wird.
Das ist die Form der Unterstützung, die wir aus der Ferne leisten können – nebst der Erklärung unserer uneingeschränkten Solidarität mit Eurem Kampf. Wir bedauern, dass wir nicht vor Ort sein können, wenn es gilt, Vio.Me auch mit unserer physischen Präsenz zu verteidigen. Doch wir sind überzeugt, dass es Tausende aus ganz Griechenland sind, die herbeiströmen werden, um Vio.Me zu schützen. Denn Vio.Me gehört der ganzen Gesellschaft. Und die Gesellschaft wird Vio.Me gegen alle Angriffe verteidigen, weil die Menschen wissen, dass Vio.Me für ein Leben in Würde steht.
Ihr habt bewiesen, dass es nicht zu Ende ist, wenn der Eigentümer nicht mehr will und die Arbeiter_innen nach Hause schickt. Ihr habt gezeigt, dass es eine Alternative zu Entlassungen, Betriebsschliessungen und Arbeitslosigkeit gibt: Wenn die Arbeiter_innen ihr Leben in die eigenen Hände nehmen, brauchen sie keine Chefs, um die Produktion zu organisieren. Das ist der Ausweg aus der Krise der kapitalistischen Ausbeutung. Ihre Krise ist unsere Chance! Schaffen wir zwei, drei, viele Vio.Me! Euer Kampf ist auch unser Kampf! Hände weg von den Fabriken!
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Cooperativa La Casona, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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From the folk at Occupy London Tours: solidarity with the workers of VIOME!
We will be watching to hold to account those trying to undermine the autonomy and dignity of the VIOME workers.
Max
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Dear workers of Vio.Me. you are an exampe to the workers of Europe how to face the crisis and build an economy for workers and communities not for bosses and markets. Long live workers control, long live Vio.Me.
Dario Azzellini, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
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Estimados/as compañerxs de VIOME:
Desde el Bachillerato Popular Darío Santillán en Argentina les mandamos un fraternal abrazo y apoyamos su lucha para que la empresa VIOME no sea vendida y siga produciendo bajo el control de sus trabajadorxs. Toda nuestra solidaridad hacia ustedes que prefiguran, ya desde ahora, relaciones sociales basadas en la igualdad, en la solidaridad, en la generación de conciencias críticas. Desde el Bachillerato Popular intentamos transmitir esos valores hacia lxs estudiantes y la lucha que están llevando a cabo la hemos analizado en el marco de la asignatura “Economía Popular”.
Por eso decimos junto a ustedes:
VIOME ES Y SERÁ DE LXS TRABAJADORXS!
Compañerxs del Bachillerato Popular Darío Santillán (Barracas-Constitución)
Adjuntamos fotos con mensajes relativos a la lucha que llevan a cabo, con lxs estudiantes y docentes del Bachillerato.
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DAF (Revolutionary Anarchist Action) Statement for Vio-Me Workers (TURKEY)
While the capitalism exploited the oppressed more and more everywhere in the world, what happened in Greece after the economic crisis was something a lot of oppressed experienced in different parts of the world.
After the economic crisis, from strikes to resistances lots of movements happened in the region of Greece.
The proccess that Vio-Me workers finished with a factory occupation on February 12th of 2013, was the best answer not only to economic crisis but to capitalism itself. We, the oppressed, can break free of this oppressing system of capitalism with self-organisation and solidarity. We can achieve the social revolution that we want by increasing these cracks in the capitalist system.
With the directly democratical decision makings, with their desire to expand their experience of self-organization to different parts of society, Vio-Me workers introduced their struggle not only to Greece but to many geographical regions including the one we live in, and we salute Vio-Me workers today just as we did in the past.
Against the capitalist bosses and rich people, against the state’s attempts to destroy this solidarity, your strong-willed struggle is our struggle.
The state attempts to undermine this self-organized process with laws, attempts to destroy this anit-capitalist experience like in everywhere. We, as Revolutionary Anarchist Action, want you to know that we are with you to the end in your struggle. We need your self-organizing experience, anti-capitalist stance and struggle against the state, now more than ever.
Long live occupation and resistance of Vio-Me Workers!
Long live workers self-organisation!
Long live social revolution!
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Cooperativa de trabajo “Los chanchitos”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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26A Collective Statement for Vio-Met Workers
We, as 26A Collective, have been showing that a collective production without bosses and masters is possible by practicing it and following the organised struggle and collective production of Vio-Me workers with excitement.
We have learned that factory Vio-Me workers have been running with self-organised production for over 2 years, is being threatened to shut down by state-backed capitalists.
Against the system of consumption culture and slavery imposed by globally dominating corporations, a self-organized production process is a realist destructive practice and the realization of anarchism’s direct action principle.
Exactly for this reason, its quite normal that capitalists and the state are worried and trying to destory you.
But this should be remembered, we the oppressed have a normal as well: Resistance and struggle
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Meydan Newspaper Statement for Vio-Me
We hear from this side of Aegean Sea that Vio-Me workers, about whom we published articles in 13th and 21th issues of our newspaper, are facing threats of bosses again these days. We know that our comrades have been continuing their struggle since February 2013 despite the bosses exploiting their labor, and the unions collaborating with these bosses; and we know they will keep on struggling no matter what threat they face.
Your resistance has been a hope for us against the governments forcing us into poverty with their economic crisis, against the laws that try to prevent organising, against the capitalism stealing our lives. Your experience woven with solidarity and direct democracy has shown us an inevitable episode of a unified struggle against capitalism. Those who think they can discourage you with threats and oppression are wrong! This struggle is all of ours!
“We make the bread, and we are left without it
We dig the coal, and we freeze to death
We are those without nothing, and we will grasp the world in our hands!
We will win!”
We will win!”
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CADTM
(Comité pour l’Annulation de la Dette du Tiers Monde)
Liège – Belgium
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Bonjour,
Nous connaissons la lutte des travailleurs de Vio-Me qui ont fait redémarrer en autogestion leur entreprise abandonnée par ses propriétaires. Nous condamnons l’ acharnement de ces derniers qui n’est qu’une expression de la haine qu’ils ont pour le peuple qui se bat pour survivre.
Courage !
« Mazi ! »
(Comité de Solidarité avec la peuple grec, contre l’austérité.)
Jean-Claude Bauduret
Porte parole
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Como italiana que vino a Argentina para las empresas recuperadas, puedo solo decirles que ya es tiempo de que los pueblos europeos, sobretodo los de los paises meridionales, vuelvan a levantar la cabeza y a ser parte activa de su historia. las iniciativas de recuperacion de fabricas por parte de sus trabajadores me parecen un increible ejemplo en ese sentido. entonces, adelante y solidaridad a los trabajadores de VIOME!
Giulia Romani
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La section syndicale du service public de l’emploi de l’Ardèche méridionale adresse totale solidarité avec les travailleur-se-s del’entreprise VIOME (Thessalonique) afin qu’ils/elles puissentpoursuivre leur expérience de gestion ouvrière. Ils/elles demandentexpressément à la justice grecque de ne pas remettre en cause uneexpérience autogestionnaire qui a permis de préserver les emploiset de démontrer qu’une autre économie est possible.
Salutations internationalistes,
Aubenas, le 18 mars
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Le syndicat “Solidaires Sud Emploi Rhône-Alpes“, adresse sa totalesolidarité avec les travailleur-se-s de l’entreprise VIOME(Thessalonique) afin qu’ils/elles puissent poursuivre leur expériencede gestion ouvrière. Il demande expressément à la justice grecquede ne pas remettre en cause une expérience autogestionnaire qui apermis de préserver les emplois et de démontrer qu’une autreéconomie est possible.
Salutations internationalistes,
Valence, le 19 mars
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Σε περίοδο οικονομικής κρίσης και λιτότητας, εκατοντάδες ελληνικές επιχειρήσεις αναγκάστηκαν να κλείσουν. Οι εντολές της τρόικα, με την υποστήριξη της κυβέρνησης, προξένησε χρόνια ανεργία, από την οποία υποφέρει ως επί το πλείστον ο κόσμος της εργασίας. Το 2011 οι εργάτες της ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ. εγκαταλελειμμένοι από τους εργοδότες τους, αποτέλεσαν άλλο ένα θύμα του νεοφιλελεύθερου φασισμού, αλλά κράτησαν το κεφάλι ψηλά. Υπό την απειλή να μείνουν χωρίς δουλειά, ακολούθησαν το δρόμο της αυτοοργάνωσης. Το εργοστάσιο καταλήφθηκε και έγινε η πρώτη συλλογική επιχείρηση της Ελλάδας. Το 2013, μετά από δύσκολους αγώνες, οι εργαζόμενοι άρχισαν να παράγουν και πάλι, επιλέγοντας την οικολογικά καθαρή παραγωγή. Στο πνεύμα της εργατικής αυτοδιαχείρισης και την άμεσοδημοκρατική λήψη των αποφάσεων, ξεκίνησαν μια διαδικασία που φέρνει στη μνήμη μας την ισπανική κοινωνική επανάσταση. Όλοι στο εργοστάσιο έχουν ισότιμες απολαβές, ο συνεταιρισμός έχει οριζόντια οργάνωση και η δουλειά είναι συλλογική. Η ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ. όπως και άλλοι συνεταιρισμοί εργαζομένων σε όλο τον κόσμο, απέδειξαν ότι η απελευθέρωση των εργαζομένων βρίσκεται στα χέρια τους. Η ανυποχωρητικότητά τους και η επιμονή τους, είναι πηγή έμπνευσης για τους εργαζόμενους στον αγώνα τους για μια καλύτερη ζωή. Σήμερα, η ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ. είναι αντιμέτωπη με την δυσκολότερη δοκιμασία της. Οι παλιοί ιδιοκτήτες έχουν ξεκινήσει δικαστική διαδικασία που ξεκινά στις 23 Μαρτίου. Στόχος τους είναι να τους επιστραφεί το εργοστάσιο, καθώς και η γη γύρω από αυτό. Οι εργαζόμενοι ανακήρυξαν ότι θα αγωνιστούν μέχρις εσχάτων, με κάθε τρόπο. Σήμερα, περισσότερο από ποτέ, η ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ. έχει ανάγκη στήριξης. Είναι σαφές ότι το κράτος και το κεφάλαιο θα προσπαθήσουν να καταστρέψουν κάθε προσπάθεια αυτοοργάνωσης και αυτοδιαχείρισης των εργαζομένων. Πρέπει να τους σταματήσουμε! Αλληλεγγύη με τους εργαζόμενους της ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ! Όχι στο κράτος και το κεφάλαιο! Ναι στην αυτοδιαχείριση! Με συντροφικούς χαιρετισμούς,
Ομοσπονδία Αναρχικών Βουλγαρίας
Във времена на икономическа криза и строги икономии, стотици гръцки предприятия бяха принудени да затворят врати. Диктатът на Тройката, с подкрепата на правителството, създаде хронична безработица, от която пострада най-вече трудовата част на обществото.
През 2011 година, изоставени от своя работодател, работниците от Вио. Ме бяха поредната жертва на неолибералния фашизъм, но не склониха глави. Пред заплаха да бъдат оставени без работа, те поеха по пътя на самоорганизацията. Фабриката беше окупирана и превърната в първото колективно предприятие в Гърция.
През 2013 година, след трудни борби, работниците започнаха да произвеждат, отново, като заложиха на екологично чистото производство. В духа на работническо самоуправление и взимане на решения чрез пряка демокрация, те стартираха един процес, който носи спомена на испанската социална революция. Всички във фабриката получават по равно, кооперативът е организиран хоризонтално, а работата е колективна. Вио.Ме, заедно с други работнически кооперативи по целия свят, доказаха, че освобождението на работниците, е само и единствено в собствените им ръце. Тяхната непримиримост и упоритост са вдъхновение за трудещите се в борбата им за по-добър живот.
Днес, Вио.Ме е изправена пред най-тежкото си изпитание. Старите собственици са започнали дело срещу фабриката, което ще започне на 23 март. Целта им е да си я възвърнат, както и земята около нея. Работниците заявиха, ще се борят до последно, по всякакъв начин.
Днес, повече от всякога, Вио.Ме има нужда от подкрепа. Трябва да ни е ясно, че държавата и капиталът ще се опитват да унищожат всеки опит за самоорганизация и самоуправление на трудещите се. Трябва да ги спрем!
Солидарност с работниците от Вио.ме!
Не на държавата и капитала!
Да на самоуправлението!
С другарски поздрав,
Федерация на анархистите в България
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Andrea Silvestri, Rome (ITA), in solidarity with the struggle of the VIOME workers and all greek people against capitalism.
Alexis e Pavlos vivono!
Alexis e Pavlos vivono!
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Bonjour Camarades,
Au nom de mon syndicat Sud BPCE (un syndicat de salariés de la banque),
je vous adresse toutes mes félicitations pour votre lutte exemplaire.
Je suis persuadé que votre détermination va être gagnante et que vos
Je suis persuadé que votre détermination va être gagnante et que vos
efforts vont être bientôt récompensés.
Courage ! Ne lâchez rien !
Courage ! Ne lâchez rien !
Meilleures salutations syndicales
Patrick Saurin
porte-parole de Sud BPCE
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Dear colleagues
Greeting and from Calverts workers’ co-operative in London (www.calverts.coop). Your struggle is of great importance to us, and to autonomous workers in Europe and around the world who are organising for self-determination and control over their working lives. Against the machinations of the rentiers, you have the power of solidarity, collective action a determination to win.
All power to the workers of VIOME!
Siôn Whellens
For Calverts
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Greeting to all the workers of VIOME
Your struggle is a great one. We support you!
Best wishes
Graham
Best wishes
Graham
Graham Mitchell
Partner, MC3 LLP
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Estimadas compañeras y compañeros de VIOME:
Desde la CGT de Murcia (Estado Español), os deseamos mucha suerte en vuestra lucha y os enviamos un fuerte abrazo libertario. Estamos seguros que la autogestión de vuestra empresa será pronto una realidad.
CGT Murcia
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Queremos trasmitiros muestro apoyo en la lucha que lleváis manteniendo desde hace mucho tiempo. Algun@s de nosotr@s tuvimos la suerte de visitaros y poder ver la fortaleza de vuestra lucha, fue un soplo de esperanza que deseamos que sigáis adelante con ella. Muchos de nosotr@s llevamos en las manifestaciones vuestra camiseta con orgullo
Un fuerte abrazo para tod@s..
Salud.
Confederación General del Trabajo de Cantabria (CGT)
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Hello,
I am a member of a popular assembly (15M) in Valencia, Spain, and I want to send you all my support and solidarity to you. My assembly will send you some photographs soon to show our gratitude for your struggle and your work.
Fuerza y salud.
Patricia Muñoz Luna
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“Llevamos un mundo nuevo en nuestros corazones; y ese mundo está creciendo en este instante.” (Buenaventura Durruti)
Desde la revista Trasversales (España) expresamos nuestra solidaridad con las trabajadoras y trabajadores de VIOME y nos sumamos al comunicado. Vuestra lucha es una muestra avanzada de la resistencia de la gente trabajadora de Europa y en particular en Grecia contra los planes de desmantelamiento social pactados por las élites económicas y políticas europea, pero también es una anticipación de que es posible vivir y producir los medios de vida de otra manera, una manera en la que los mecanismos de apropiación privativa por una minoría no desposean a la gran mayoría. Decís que “Nuestro destino está en nuestras propias manos, gestionamos nuestro trabajo y nuestra vida nosotros mismos”. Todo ser humano tiene derecho a ello y vuestra lucha marca un camino
Abrazos solidarios
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Enviamos nuestro total apoyo y solidaridad a los y las trabajadoras deVIOME y a su resistencia contra el capitalismo y sus herramientasestatales de represión: políticos, leyes, jueces y policías. Nadie va adestruir lo que habéis conseguido con tanto esfuerzo, porque “Llevamos unmundo nuevo en nuestros corazones; y ese mundo está creciendo en esteinstante”.
¡VIOME NO ESTA EN VENTA!
¡VIOME ES DE LOS TRABAJADORES!
¡VIOME ES DE LOS TRABAJADORES!
Secretaría de Acción Sindical del Sindicato de Banca, Bolsa, Ahorro, Entidades del Crédito, Seguros, Oficinas y Despachos, Empresas Consultoras de Planificación, y de Ingenierías y Oficinas de Estudios Técnicos de Madrid. CGT.
S@lud.
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Las personas que formamos parte del S.U. de CGT La Rioja, queremos expresaros nuestra solidaridad y apoyo.
Vuestra lucha es la nuestra.
Vuestra lucha es la nuestra.
¡VIOME NO SE VENDE! ¡VIOME SE DEFIENDE!
¡SALUD! Y ¡ACIERTO!
Jesús
Martínez de Iturrate Díez
Secretario General del S.U. de CGT La Rioja
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The Brooklyn Greens extends its solidarity and pledges its support to the workers who have reclaimed the Viome factory in Thessalonica.
We denounce the court proceedings brought by the former owners, who are attempting through legal sanction to steal the factory from the workers and liquidate it despite having already stolen and profited from the fruits of the Viome workers’ labor for many years, while they ran it.
The Brooklyn Greens, which is an activist local of the Green Party of New York, calls on our sisters and brothers in Green parties throughout the world to support the Viome workers.
Furthermore, we encourage workers everywhere to follow the Viome workers’ example, take back the equipment that we ourselves, as workers, produced.
We write the words “us” and “we” here because that factory (and all machinery) rightfully belongs to “us” — the international working class, which we are part of and together created. We all collectively own what we’ve produced. The fact that we’ve allowed the bosses to “borrow” it for some time — whether it’s the ecological cleaning supplies produced by Viome workers, or any and all other equipment and means of production — is simply a sign of the global working class’ generosity. We want it back. All of it. And so we’re taking back what’s rightfully ours.
All power to the Viome workers!
–Ecological cleaning material workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your stains!–
This last slogan no doubt rhymes only in English, where in translation to the Greek it will make little sense. Still, here it is …..
Mitchel Cohen
for The Brooklyn Greens / Green Party
New York
AteneInRivolta e l’Associazione Solidaria di Bari, Italia
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VIOME STEHT NICHT ZUM VERKAUF!
VIOME WIRD IN DEN HÄNDEN DER ARBEITER BLEIBEN!
Macht weiter, seid viele, seid laut !
Mit solidarischen Grüssen
VIOME WIRD IN DEN HÄNDEN DER ARBEITER BLEIBEN!
Macht weiter, seid viele, seid laut !
Mit solidarischen Grüssen
Anna-Aliki Stamatakis
Berlin
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Friends,
I gladly support this declaration. I wish you success in your struggle, a struggle for social justice and for freedom from exploitation. All the best!
Peter Storm
Tilburg Netherlands
I gladly support this declaration. I wish you success in your struggle, a struggle for social justice and for freedom from exploitation. All the best!
Peter Storm
Tilburg Netherlands
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Ich finde das Projekt total klasse und wünsche Euch, dass Ihr nicht nur die Herzen der Menschen, sondern auch vor Gericht gewinnt!
Herzliche Grüße
Nadine Schomburg
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Dear media laborers and friends of working class,
This week, we support the righteous and honorable struggle of VioMe workers in Greece. We support all our class friends whereever they are in the world and we say that we are going to pass over this challenging period by international solidarity with our struggling working class.
VioMe workers have been supporting their factory by their organization and production for a long time. They have the right to decide the future of their factory and future, this is a natural and democratic right.
Owners had said that they have gone bankrupt and left the factory long ago. They did not pay their debts to the workers. Then, they appeared again and wanted to take the factory back. Because workers raised the factory that they had sunk. What capital could not achieve, workers did. No matter what the law which stands by the capital says, the struggle that the workers created is legit and successful.
We support their call for solidarity and say “their struggle is our struggle”…
Long live struggle of VioMe workers
Long live class solidarity
Tourizm Hotel Sports Laborers Union of Turkey ( Tüm Emek Sen )
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Liebe VIOME-MitstreiterInnen,
wir von FAIRändern e.V. wünschen Euch alles Gute! Dass das Gericht Recht spricht! Und dass Ihr weitermachen könnt und noch mehr Unterstützung erhaltet!
Tolle Initiative!
Herzliche Grüße
Thomas, Anne, Nadine, Bianka, Andrea, Jeannette, Alex, Joana, Natascha
wir von FAIRändern e.V. wünschen Euch alles Gute! Dass das Gericht Recht spricht! Und dass Ihr weitermachen könnt und noch mehr Unterstützung erhaltet!
Tolle Initiative!
Herzliche Grüße
Thomas, Anne, Nadine, Bianka, Andrea, Jeannette, Alex, Joana, Natascha
FAIRändern e.V.
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Messaggio rivolto ai lavoratori e lavoratrici di
VIO-ME a Salonicco (Grecia)
Μήνυμα προς τους εργαζόμενους και τις εργαζόμενες της ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ στη Θεσσαλονίκη (Ελλάδα)
I lavoratori di VIO-ME a Salonicco occupano gli ultimi due anni la loro fabbrica, dopo che la produzione è stata abbandonata dai suoi proprietari, lasciando dietro di sé milioni di euro in salari non pagati, consegnando i dipendenti e le loro famiglie alla povertà.
Οι εργαζόμενοι της ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ στη Θεσσαλονίκη έχουν καταλάβει τα τελευταία δύο χρόνια το εργοστάσιό τους, μετά την εγκατάλειψη της παραγωγής από τους ιδιοκτήτες της, αφήνοντας πίσω τους εκατομμύρια ευρώ απλήρωτων μισθών, παραδίδοντας [εγκαταλείποντας] τους εργαζόμενους και τις οικογένειές τους στην φτώχεια.
I lavoratori si sono organizzati e hanno riavviato la produzione in autogestione riuscendo a sopravvivere con salari molto modesti. Durante questi due anni, i precedenti proprietari, la famiglia Fillippou ha fatto di tutto per impedire il lavoro ai dipendenti e cercando di chiudere lo stabilimento, moltiplicando i ricorsi giuridici. Essi stessi sono stati condannati per i salari non pagati, ma in secondo grado di giudizio, la condanna è stata ridotta a quasi niente, esonerandoli di fatto al pagamento dei salari dovuti.
Οι εργαζόμενοι οργανώθηκαν και επανεκκίνησαν την παραγωγή καταφέρνοντας να επιβιώσουν με πολύ χαμηλούς μισθούς. Κατά τη διάρκεια αυτών των δύο ετών, οι προηγούμενοι ιδιοκτήτες, η οικογένεια Φιλλίπου, έκανε τα πάντα για να εμποδίσει τη δουλειά των εργαζομένων και προσπαθώντας να κλείσει το εργοστάσιο πολλαπλασιάζοντας τα ένδικα μέσα. Οι ίδιοι [ενν. οι πρωην ιδιοκτήτες] καταδικάστηκαν για τη μη καταβολή μισθών, αλλά σε δεύτερη βαθμό, η ποινή μειώθηκε σε σχεδόν τίποτα, απαλλασσοντάς τους από την καταβολή των μισθών που οφείλονται.
Questa esperienza di autogestione lotta e di solidarietà è stato accolta e sostenuta in tutto il mondo.
Αυτή η εμπειρία της αυτοδιαχείρισης της πάλης και της αλληλεγγύης έχει επικροτηθεί και υποστηριχθεί σε όλο τον κόσμο.
Oggi, VIO-ME dei lavoratori sono di nuovo seriamente minacciati, il 23 un nuovo processo deve decidere o meno la liquidazione e la vendita delle macchine. Ciò implicherebbe la fine della autogestione del processo produttivo attraverso l’introduzione di interessi privati in azienda.
Σήμερα, η ΒΙΟΜΕ των εργαζομένων βρίσκεται ξανά υπό σοβαρή απειλή. Στις 23 [Μαρτίου] μια καινούργια δίκη καλείται να αποφασίσει ή όχι] την εκκαθάριση και την πώληση των μηχανημάτων. Αυτό θα σήμαινε το τέλος της αυτοδιαχείρισης της παραγωγικής διαδικασίας μέσω της εισαγωγής ιδιωτικών συμφερόντων στην παραγωγή.
Il 20 marzo ci sarà una prima mobilitazione e una marcia a Salonicco per protestare contro lo svolgimento di questo processo, in quanto vi è poco da aspettarsi dato il funzionamento del sistema giudiziario in Grecia su questi temi.
Στις 20 Μάρτίου θα πραγματοποιηθεί μια πρώτη κινητοποίηση και μια πορεία στην Θεσσαλονίκη για να διαμαρτυρηθούν ενάντια στην πραγματοποίηση αυτής της διαδικασίας καθώς είναι λίγα αυτό που αναμένονται δεδομένης της λειτουργίας του δικαστικού συστήματος στην Ελλάδα για τα θέματα αυτά.
Il 23 marzo, i lavoratori e le lavoratrici chiedono una manifestazione massiccia di solidarietà davanti al tribunale in cui il processo avrà luogo.
Στις 23 Μαρτίου οι εργαζόμενοι και οι εργαζόμενες καλούν σε μαζική κινητοποίηση αλληλεγγύης μπροστά από το δικαστήριο στο οποίο θα πραγματοποιηθεί η διαδικασία.
I lavoratori e le lavoratrici di tutto il mondo saranno con voi, compagni di VIO-ME!
Sosteniamo e sosterremo la vostra lotta fino alla fine! L’Unione di Solidarietà e Lotta esprime la sua piena solidarietà con i lavoratori di VIO-ME.
Οι εργαζόμοι και οι εργαζόμενες όλου του κόσμου θα είναι μαζί σας σύντροφοι της ΒΙΟΜΕ ! Συμπαραστεκόμαστε και θα συμπαραστεκόμαστε στον αγώνα σας μέχρι το τέλος! Η Ένωση Αλληλεγγύης και Αγώνα εκφράζει της αμέριστη αλληλεγγύη στους εργαζόμενους της ΒΙΟΜΕ.
Rete internazionale di solidarietà e di lotta:
Διεθνές Δίκτυο Αλληλεγγύης και Αγώνα :
For the International Trade Union Network of Solidarity and Struggle
Central Sindical e Popular – Conlutas (Brasil)
Union syndicale Solidaires (France)
Confederación General del Trabajo (Estado espagnol)
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“Many people in Bulgaria are familiar with the struggle of the Thesaloniki workers, who decided to fight for their jobs. This is a fight we have been following through the years and we were sincerely happy for their achievements. The struggle of the workers from VIO.ME started in 2011 when they decided they will not be another victim of unemployment, but they have the courage and skills to run the factory and their own lives by themselves. After long and difficult attempts, and thanks to the support from the Greek and international society, the factory in Thesaloniki starts producing in the beginning of 2013, under workers control entirely. Since then VIO.ME staff is managing their production by themselves. They have decided to rely on direct-democratic self-governance and ecologically clean production, starting an example of a modern manufacture (like many other self-managed productions in Europe and South America), based on ethical and social foundations, in spite of greed and fraudulency. They showed us another way is possible, here and now. Today, the workers of VIO.ME are faced a big challenge. The previous owners are attacking the factory in court, trying to sabotage the production, to take hold of the possessions and try to sell them off. A trial is scheduled in the Greek court for 23rd March. The VIO.ME workers expressed readiness to defend the factory on every price and with every means. The Greek society is also supporting them – in the coming days there will be protests, actions and concerts in entire Greece in support of the self-managed workers. We will not stay idly as well. If the Greek court decides to support the previous owners, who abandoned the factory 4 years ago and now attempt to rob it again, we are ready to organize protests and demonstrations of solidarity in front of the Greek embassies and representative offices in Bulgaria.
Autonomous Worker’s Syndicate – Bulgaria (АРС)
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Les amis de la Fabrique du Sud (ex-Pilpa)
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Πολλοί άνθρωποι στην Βουλγαρία γνωρίζουν για τον αγώνα των εργατών της Θεσσαλονίκης, που αποφάσισαν να παλέψουν για τις δουλειές τους. Είναι ένας αγώνας τον οποίον παρακολουθούμε από χρόνια όντες ειλικρινά χαρούμενοι για τα επιτεύγματα τους. Ο αγώνας των εργατών της ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ. ξεκίνησε το 2011 όταν αποφάσισαν πως δεν θα γίνουν και αυτοί θύματα της ανεργίας, αλλά ότι έχουν το κουράγιο και τις ικανότητες να διαχειριστούν το εργοστάσιο και τις ζωές τους μόνοι τους. Μετά από μακρές και δύσκολες απόπειρες, και χάρη στην υποστήριξη της Ελληνικής και διεθνούς κοινωνίας, το εργοστάσιο στη Θεσσαλονίκη ξεκίνησε να παράγει στις αρχές του 2013, ολοκληρωτικά κάτω από εργατικό έλεγχο. Από τότε οι εργαζόμενοι της ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ διαχειρίζονται την παραγωγή μόνοι τους. Αποφάσισαν να βασιστούν στην αμεσοδημοκρατική αυτοδιεύθυνση και στην οικολογικά καθαρή παραγωγή, ξεκινώντας το παράδειγμα ενός μοντέρνου εργοστασίου (όπως και πολλές άλλες αυτό-διαχειριζόμενες παραγωγικές μονάδες σε Ευρώπη και Ν. Αμερική), θεμελιωμένο πάνω σε ηθικές και κοινωνικές βάσεις, αντί για την απληστία και την απάτη. Μας έδειξαν πως ένας άλλος τρόπος είναι εφικτός, εδώ και τώρα. Σήμερα, οι εργάτες της ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ. αντιμετωπίζουν μια μεγάλη πρόκληση. Οι προηγούμενοι ιδιοκτήτες επιτίθενται δικαστικά στο εργοστάσιο, προσπαθώντας να σαμποτάρουν την παραγωγή, να πάρουν στα χέρια τους τα υπάρχοντα του και να τα ξεπουλήσουν. Έχει προγραμματιστεί δίκη σε Ελληνικό δικαστήριο για τις 23 Μάρτη. Οι εργάτες της ΒΙΟ.ΜΕ. επέδειξαν ετοιμότητα στην υπεράσπιση του εργοστασίου με κάθε τίμημα και με κάθε μέσο. Η Ελληνική κοινωνία επίσης τους υποστηρίζει – στις επόμενες ημέρες θα πραγματοποιηθούν διαμαρτυρίες, δραστηριότητες και συναυλίες σε όλη την Ελλάδα σε υποστήριξη των αυτοδιευθυνόμενων εργατών. Ούτε εμείς θα μείνουμε αδρανείς. Αν το ελληνικό δικαστήριο αποφασίσει να στηρίξει τους προηγούμενους ιδιοκτήτες, που εγκατέλειψαν το εργοστάσιο 4 χρόνια πριν και τώρα επιχειρούν ξανά να το κλέψουν, είμαστε έτοιμοι να οργανώσουμε διαμαρτυρίες και διαδηλώσεις αλληλεγγύης μπροστά στην Ελληνική πρεσβεία και προξενεία στη Βουλγαρία.
Αυτόνομη Ένωση Εργατών – Βουλγαρία (APC)
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Pronunciamiento
Saludamos calurosamente, desde Argentina, la marcha que ustedes están protagonizando.
Los trabajadores argentinos seguimos con atención la batalla que están librando en defensa de la gestión obrera y de los puestos de trabajo. A la par de la lucha de Viome, se está desarrollando la lucha por la reapertura de la emisora estatal. Ambas luchas constituyen un capítulo relevante del enfrentamiento con la UE y el FMI.
Lo que está en disputa en Grecia y en el mundo es quien va a pagar la actual crisis : el capital o los que vivimos de nuestro trabajo. El rescate de la banca se viene haciendo a costa de sacrificios y privaciones sin precedentes del pueblo griego. Lo mismo viene ocurriendo en la Argentina.Los recursos van a parar al pago de la deuda externa y a cuantiosos subsidios al capital. El estado argentino ha llegado el extremo de suprimir subsidios que venían otorgando a los trabajadores de las empresas recuperadas.
Denunciamos la pretensión de la ex patronal de Viome de retomar el control de la fábrica y desalojar a los compañeros que la han reabierto y puesto a funcionar .Frente a cualquier tentativa de extorsión ,venga de donde venga, llamamos a oponerle una salida que privilegie el interés y las necesidades de los trabajadores Por la expropiación sin pago de la empresa, y su transferencia a los trabajadores, la unión de las empresas en la misma situación y la obligación del estado de asistir con el crédito a los emprendimientos de los trabajadores.Que la crisis la paguen los capitalistas.
Partido Obrero
Coordinadora sindical clasista
Néstor Pitrola y Pablo López( diputados nacionales por el Partido Obrero y el Frente de Izquierda).
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Dear Friends
Left Unity Scotland offers solidarity and support to the workers of VioMe in their fight against the disgusting attempt by the former owners to use their courts to pillage even the assets they abandoned after failing to pay wages. We know that Greece is a test bed for the kind of social and economic destruction the ruling class is desperate to inflict on workers throughout Europe. Therefore for us any victory by workers in Greece has many times the significance of a similar victory elsewhere. Please keep us informed of developments.
in Solidarity
Matthew Jones
for Left Unity Scotland
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The editors of the permanent revolution web site, (http://permanent-revolution.org) wish to express their solidarity with the struggle of the VIOME workers of Thessaloniki who are an inspiration to workers throughout the world.
Alex Steiner
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The Thessaloniki Chalk Circle should be resolved in favour of the workers of VioMe!
The DIP, the Revolutionary Workers’ Party of Turkey, extends its deepest sympathy and solidarity to the workers’ collective of VioMe, fighting to sustain the work they have been so honourably doing for the last two years, i.e. running a factory on the basis of self-management with equality of rights for all workers involved and workers’ democracy embodied in the sovereignty of the general assembly of the workers of VioMe.
The claim by the previous owners of the factory, the Fillipou family, coming as it does after having abandoned the factory for so long, creates a 21st century replica of Bertolt Brecht’s play The Caucasian Chalk Circle. The workers of VioMe have kept the factory alive and running for all these years while this capitalist family was nowhere to be seen. The workers are like the maid in Brecht’s play, who looks after the child of the Governor’s wife while she is trying to save her own skin without any regard for the child she has given birth to. The Governor’s wife eventually comes back to sue the maid in order to get the child back. The judge draws a circle of chalk and asks both the Governor’s wife and the maid to pull the child. Whoever manages to snatch the child will get to take him away. As the maid cannot bring herself to hurt the child, she lets go. Seeing this manifestation of affection, the court decides in favour of the maid.
Whoever nurtures the child deserves to be the mother and whoever nurtures the means of production deserves to own it! Let the VioMe workers carry on with their exemplary practice of self-management!
Of course, the case in the Greek bourgeois court is no Brecht play and there is a threat hanging over the fate of the workers of the self-managed VioMe factory. We are totally against the formalistic bourgeois right to private property possibly to be re-imposed by the court on the workers of VioMe. They are the ones who have given life to the factory. Let them be its rightful owners!
Long live the self-managed VioMe factory!
Long live proletarian internationalist solidarity!
Long live the fraternity of Greek and Turkish workers!
Comradely greetings.
Revolutionary Workers’ Party of Turkey
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Liebe Arbeiter von VIOME
Meinen Respekt und meine Bewunderung für das was Ihr alle da macht !!!!Ich bewundere euren Mut, eure Kraft und Entschlossenheit weiterzumachen,unabhängig vom Schiedsspruch des Gerichts, nicht zurückzuweichen.Ihr habt da etwas gemacht von dem ich hoffe das andere euch zum Vorbild nehmen undauch den Mut haben es in die eigenen Hände zu nehmen.
VIEL GLÜCK !!!!
Herr Pille E. Hentschel
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A lot of respect for what you are doing. I whish you all a lot of strength en stay in courage.
Changing begins by the people.
With very kind regards.
Nico Staalman
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Hola
Somos la sección sindical de la CGT en el Ayuntamiento de una ciudad del estado español de tamaño medio, Valladolid.
Nuestro sindicato defiende la autogestión de las personas trabajadoras, no necesitamos jefes, no necesitamos al capitalismo para vivir!!
Apoyamos la lucha de los y las trabajadoras por su pan y su dignidad. Sois un ejemplo a seguir, igual que en Argentina y otros sitios donde los y las trabajadoras se organizan y ocupan sus fábricas
Gracias por el ejemplo y que os vaya bien. Desde aquí os apoyamos, recibid un fuerte abrazo.
Por el reparto del trabajo y de la riqueza
Unión, Acción, Autogestión
Sección sindical CGT
Ayuntamiento de Valladolid
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Marxist Workers’ League of Finland expresses our support to the workers of occupied factory of BIOME and we counter any effort of the ex-owners to return and get back BIOME, which workers has been administrated for long time.
In BIOME workers have planed the production, divided the working time, shelled the commodities and shared the profit. The factory of BIOME belongs to its workers.
Greek new government has been forgotten most of the elections’ promises one after another in a very short term. Together with the workers of ERT, the BIOME’s workers have to fight in a national wide and international level for their rights against the capitalists and the government.
Prevent the efforts of the government and bosses!
Full solidarity to BIOME workers for their victory!
Long live the self-managed BIOME factory. Raise widely the demand for working place occupations, self-management and self-defence!
Long live the workers struggle centres!
18/3/2015
Marxist Workers’ League – Finland
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To the workers of the VIOME factory in Greece
Revolutionary Socialist Media sent a message of solidarity and support. Your struggle against your bosses proof why a socialist society is needed. The Greek struggle against the European Troika is also a struggle against Greek capitalism ( supported by New Democracy and the traitorous PASOK ). As workers you have experienced the hardness of living in a country with falling living-standards. You rejected European austerity, but the struggle is only beginning. Because your elected government is too moderate and not willing to build socialism. SYRIZA’s weakness lies in its reformism and its reformist leader Alexis Tsipras ( who used to be a communist back in 1990 )!
I know the fight against the former owners of VIOME will be difficult. Because by capitalist law, they own the factory. Greece is still a capitalist nation that serves the owners of the economy, not the people who work. SYRIZA needs to change these capitalist laws and replace them by socialist ones. A Hellenic Socialist Republic is needed to give full economic control to you. The working class can elect its own people to run enterprises, you don’t need capitalists or state-bureaucrats!
Therefore
ALL POWER TO THE WORKERS
In full solidarity and support,
Jorein Versteege
The Netherlands
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Social movement “Alternative” expresses support workers VIOME, who are fighting for self-management, social control and efficiency of the enterprise.
Today, when Greece is under pressure from the EU leadership, experience VIOME workers is important because it shows how in these conditions it is possible to ensure the growth of production.
We express the hope on that the claim of the former owner of the bankrupt VIOME, who threw irresponsible company and its employees to fend for themselves, will be in court rejected. We hope too on that the VIOME workers will receive the support from the government of Greek Republic because their work activity lies entirely in line with the well-known SYRIZA program.We express you our solidarity!
We greet as well the workers of Radio and Television Thessaloniki supporting you!
From the Social movement “Alternative” – Ludmila Bulavka/Moscow, 2015, March, 17
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Liebe Freunde!
Ich habe von Eurem Kampf gegen das schändliche Verhalten der ehemaligen sogenannten Eigentümer Eurer Fabrik gelesen und möchte Euch meine Bewunderung und meine volle Solidarität bekunden. Was Ihr getan habt und immer noch tut, ist ein leuchtendes Beispiel für ein besseres Europa, für ein Europa der Menschen anstatt eines Europa der Konzerne.
Ich wünsche Euch von ganzem Herzen, dass Ihr in Eurem Kampf siegreich bleibt, und ich hoffe, dass sich andere Eurem Kampf anschließen!
Mit den allerbesten Wünschen,
Andreas Pittler
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The council of the Association of Marxist Units (AMO) Executive Committee of Russian Party of Communists (RPK)
To the Prime Minister of Greek Republic Mr. Alexis TSIPRAS
To Workers of Self-Managed Factory VIOME
The Association of Marxist Units (AMO) and Executive Committee of Russian Party of Communists (RPK) on behalf of all our comrades express the admiration by the organization ability and courage of VIOME workers! Your experience demonstrates once more high efficiency of workers self-management. Such of the efficiency was unavailable for the former owner of the factory. In these hard for Greece days when your country experiences the pressure from EU leadership, the experience of VIOME workers self-organization is important for the understanding the ways in which the pressure of the EU can be overcome providing the growth of the production and filling of state budget. It is important also in historical perspective with which we link the hope on the transfer of real power and all main means of production to working people.
We express the hope on that the claim of the former owner of the bankrupt VIOME, who threw irresponsible company and its employees to fend for themselves, will be in court rejected. We hope too on that the VIOME workers will receive the support from the government of Greek Republic because their work activity lies entirely in line with the well-known SYRIZA program.
We express you our solidarity! We greet as well the workers of Radio and Television Thessaloniki supporting you! We wish the success to your Karavan!
From the RPK – Evgeny KOZLOV, From AMO – Alexey PRIGARIN, the Secretary of EC the chairman of the Council
Saint-Petersburg – Moscow, 2015, March, 17
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The Message to the Workers of Self-managed Factory VIOME
Executive Committee of Russian Party of Communists (RPK) and the Association of Marxist Units (AMO) on behalf of all our comrades express the admiration by the organization ability and courage of VIOME workers! Your experience demonstrates once more the parasitism of capitalist economic management and the effectiveness of workers self-management. Your experience is important also for the future when the power and all main means of production will be transferred to working class. We express the hope that the suing of impudent bankrupt owner will be refused in the trial. We hope too that the government at the head of which the left politician stands now will support you. It cannot not to see that in these hard for Greece days when the country experiences suffocating pressure from the Troyka, workers collective of VIOME shows very convincing how the worker self-organization helps this pressure to overcome by the growth of the production filling accordingly state budget.
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Desde la Asamblea de trabajadores de Carabanchel (Atraka), Madrid, queremos manifestaros nuestro máximo apoyo y solidaridad en la lucha que estáis llevando a cabo.
El haber recuperado la fábrica y el control obrero de la misma es un ejemplo para todos.
Un abrazo fraternal. No pasarán. Resistir es vencer.
El haber recuperado la fábrica y el control obrero de la misma es un ejemplo para todos.
Un abrazo fraternal. No pasarán. Resistir es vencer.
Salud.
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Social Center Adelante – Sofia, Bulgaria
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VIOME concerns us all because it is a living example that people can change conditions and thereby change reality. This message is for all of you that work in and for VIOME, for you that have taken the decision to make a change, and have endured the hardships of the process. This message has only one intention and that is to say thank you for fighting a struggle that concerns all working people.
Now the infamous “owners” want to liquidate the company and make even more money at your expense. Don’t let the capital and its assistant (also known as state) convince you that there is no reason to fight, that you cannot win this struggle, that it is easier to go with the flow…because it’s not. It is the flow that has brought so many people to poverty and deprivation and you have witnessed it.
Don’t let them hide behind legal formalities and exhaust you. Don’t stop fighting! You are not alone! We follow your struggle and support it in all possible ways. Comrades, do not forget, you are not alone! An international network of solidarity is being formed and growing. We hope that this message of solidarity with your struggle can give you strength to carry on… hasta la Victoria
Internationell Kommitté
SAC – Syndikalisterna
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Expreso mi apoyo completo e incondicional a los trabajadores y mi desacuerdo con el intento judicial de liquidar la fábrica, así como la repulsa, desde Madrid, a la no condena de los empresarios a indemnizar debidamente a los trabajadores. Ánimo y fuerza, compañeros: vuestra lucha contra el patrón es la de tod@s los trabajadores del mundo.
Manuel Gandasegui
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“Ca La Fou, ecoindustrial and postcapitalist community is aware about Vio.Me brave and worthy resistance, and is happy to express total suport”.
Vallbona d’Anoia, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, Mediterranean, Planet earth, Universe
Vallbona d’Anoia, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, Mediterranean, Planet earth, Universe
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no al cierre de la empresa VIOME
QUE PERMANEZCA ABIERTA EN MANOS DE LOS TRABAJADORES
Carlos Romero Henriquez
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Dear friends:
I am standing with all of you and together we are standing tall.
Only together a better world in possible; a world where there is no exploitation.
Shahin Shabanian
USA
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Desde la empresa recuperada cooperativa de trabajo trabajadores de macbody limitada , nuestra adhesión solidaria a la lucha de los trabajadores .
saludos
saludos
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Dear colleagues,
I find that your struggle in order to maintain self-management of your trust deserves all support. I wish you success.
With kind regards,
Peter Mundhenk.
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf; Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts; Gerichtsstand: Hamburg
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Dear VIOME Workers,
We here by send a solidarity message to VIOME workers to support your fight to manage your work and your lives yourselves from Tokyo.
In 2013, we had occupied a gas station, E-Revolutionary, which the ex-owner had claimed a pretense bankruptcy, for 106 days. At the end of struggle of the workers, we luckily found a business supporter to buy the property temporary to rent them to workers, and we managed to establish a joint company of workers themselves.
Today, the business is gradually getting better, and in near future, the workers are planning to buy the property back themselves.
Let VIOME workers to gain the victory by solidarity of workers!
In solidarity,
TOKYO MANAGERS’ UNION
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Liebe Vio.Me Arbeiter und Arbeiterinnen, liebe Kämpfer und Kämpferinnen,
wir, die Sozialistische Jugend Oberösterreich, unterschreibt eure Erklärung.
Im Anhang schicken wir euch unser Solidaritätsschreiben und ein Foto von uns, wie wir bei euch in Thessaloniki im Juli 2014 waren.
Wir schicken euch unsere ganze Kraft für die nächsten Tage!
Alles Gute und haltet durch,
Fiona
für die Sozialistische Jugend Oberösterreich
Fiona Kaiser
Landesvorsitzende
Sozialistische Jugend Oberösterreich
Linz
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Volle Solidarität mit Vio.Me – aus Oberösterreich!
Wir waren im Juli 2014 mit einer Gruppe von jungen Sozialisten und Sozialistinnen in Thessaloniki und haben Vio.Me besucht – bei einer Gerichtsverhandlung und auf dem Firmengelände. Wir waren damals sehr beeindruckt von eurem Kampf und eurer Widerstandsfähigkeit und sind es heute noch. Wir stehen voll und ganz hinter der Idee von selbstverwalteten Betrieben, wo die Arbeiter und Arbeiterinnen ihre Fabrik selbst verwalten und in die Hand nehmen. Wir wünschen euch alles gute und viel Kraft für die weiteren Kämpfe – wir stehen hinter euch! Der Kampf dreht das Rad!
Solidarische Grüße aus Oberösterreich,
die Sozialistische Jugend Oberösterreich
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Apoyo a los trabajadores de la empresa greiega autogestionada VIOME, y me adhiero solidariamente al comunicado emitido por los trabajadores en reclamacion de que se haga Justicia para que ellos puedan seguir llevando adelante su empresa Autogestionada . VIOME ¡ PARA LOS TRABAJADORES!.
Pilar Alegre Lopez
C/ Pi 8, 3º
BARCELONA – España
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Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
wir haben die neuesten Entwicklungen, die ja nicht so gut für Euch sind erhalten und waren ganz schön entsetzt. Wir haben die von Euch produzierten Seifen am internationalen Frauentag verteilt und haben die größte Solidarität und Hochachtung für Euch erhalten, die wir Euch hiermit weitergeben möchten.
Wir wünschen Euch ganz viel Erfolg bei Eurem Kampf und für die Zukunft alles Gute
Die Frauen von der Gewerkschaft ver.di aus Thüringen
Undine Zachlot
FB Handel Bezirk Thüringen
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This is a note of solidarity from the Berlin Syndicate of the Free
Workers’ Union (Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union – FAU) in Germany:
Workers’ Union (Freie Arbeiterinnen- und Arbeiter-Union – FAU) in Germany:
VIO.ME TO THE PEOPLE WHO WORK THERE!
Dearest working, fighting, feeling and thinking people, who bravely took
the Vio.Me factory in your own hands, you are an example.
To not let the injustice prevail, to not lose heart, to stand together
and do what can be done, this is what people all across the world can
learn from you.
The Free Workers Union FAU Berlin sends you our warmest regards.
VIO.ME IS NOT FOR SALE!
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Liebe Genossinnen und Genossen,
der Verein „Aktive Arbeitslose Österreich“ erklärt als noch kleine aber unabhängige Arbeitslosengewerkschaft seine volle Solidarität mit dem Kampf von VIO.ME. Auch wenn wir in einem noch reichen Land leben, wo die offizielle Arbeitslosigkeit „nur“ 10 % beträgt, so wissen wir sehr wohl, was die Herrschaft des Geldes in Europa bedeutet. Selbst in reichen Staaten wie Österreich werden zur weiteren Steigerung der Gewinne der Unternehmer immer mehr Menschen entweder ganz arbeitslos gemacht oder in prekäre und immer schlechter bezahlte Arbeit gedrängt. Eine unglaubliche Bürokratie bedroht Arbeitslose in Österreich. Wenn wir uns nicht als „willig“ zeigen droht man uns mit Bezugssperren, die unsere Existenz bedrohen. Das selbe passiert, wenn wir, wenn wir uns nicht in sinnlose Kurs oder in schlecht bezahlte Zwangsarbeit zwingen lassen. Mitten im reichen Österreich leben daher immer mehr Menschen in Angst und Vereinsamung, ohne eigene Stimme in der Öffentlichkeit oder der Politik.
Daher ist es für uns wichtig, dass konkrete, solidarische Alternativen zum Kapitalismus vorgelebt und erkämpfte Freiräume verteidigt werden. Nur eine grundlegende Demokratisierung der Wirtschaft kann unsere Gesellschaft retten und die Menschenwürde wieder herstellen. Projekte solidarischer Ökonomie in Griechenland wie VIO.ME sind auch für uns eine wertvolle Motivation, unseren Kampf weiter zu führen und zu versuchen, die noch vereinzelten Kämpfe miteinander zu verbinden.
Wir vom Verein Aktive Arbeitslose wünschen Euren Kämpfen gutes Gelingen und werden diese im Rahmen unserer noch bescheidenen Möglichkeiten gerne weiter unterstützen.
Nur gemeinsam können wir stärker werden!
Mit solidarischen Grüßen
Martin Mair und Karin Rausch
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Bonsoir,
Nous sommes solidaires de votre lutte dans votre entreprise et d’une manière générale dans la perspective d’une société autogestionnaire et anticapitaliste.
N’hesitez pas à nous faire suivre l’actualité de votre lutte, nous relairons et soutiendrons dans la mesure de notre possible.
Solidairement,
Vincent pour le secrétariat international d’Alternative Libertaire.
Nous sommes solidaires de votre lutte dans votre entreprise et d’une manière générale dans la perspective d’une société autogestionnaire et anticapitaliste.
N’hesitez pas à nous faire suivre l’actualité de votre lutte, nous relairons et soutiendrons dans la mesure de notre possible.
Solidairement,
Vincent pour le secrétariat international d’Alternative Libertaire.
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Adhiero y me solidarizo con la lucha de los trabajadores de VIOME. La recuperación de empresas por parte de sus trabajadores, es un freno al avance neoliberal y una defensa de la fuente de trabajo.
Mariana Pacheco
Psicoanalista/Docente Universidad de Buenos Aires
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Buenas tarde camaradas saludos de parte del Colectivo del Consejo de Trabajadores de Maderas del Orinoco ubicada en el Estado Monagas Venezuela, nos solidarizamos con ustedes, como lo dijo nuestro comandante y eternos Hugo Chavez Frias me lo juego con los trabajadores. juguemonolas por nuestras empresas para que salgan a floten y defendamos lo que nos corresponde por derechos.
Colectivo del Consejo de Trabajadores de Maderas del Orinoco, Estado Monagas Venezuela
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Reciban nuestro apoyo camaradas, desde el sur de Venezuela (Guayana)
Movimiento por el Control Obrero y Consejos de Trabajadores Guayana
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Solidaritätserklärung an die Generalversammlung von VIOME
Entsetzt haben wir erfahren, dass es den Ex- Besitzern mit Hilfestaatlicher Administratoren nun endlich gelungen ist, den Prozess zurLiquidierung VIOMEs durchzusetzen. Jetzt wollen sie noch Profit ausder Spekulation mit dem Firmengelände schlagen, nachdem sie zuerst denBetrieb zerstört, euch jahrelang die Löhne vorenthalten und von Beginnan eure Bestrebungen nach einem selbstorganisierten Leben in Würde undeurem Kampf gegen Arbeitslosigkeit und Verelendung boykottiert haben.
Eure Entschlossenheit, euer Durchhaltevermögen, eure demokratischenGrundsätze und eure Vorstellung einer gerechten Gesellschaft ist weitüber Griechenland hinaus für viele von uns ein Vorbild. Durch denVertrieb eurer wunderbaren Seifen als Symbol von Selbstermächtigungund demokratischer Produktionsweise wollen wir weiterhin euren Kampf,so gut wir können, praktisch unterstützen.Lasst euch nicht vertreiben!Haltet den kapitalistischen Dieb!Hände weg von VIOME!In uneingeschränkter Solidarität mit eurem Kampf
Freunde von Analyse & Kritik Wien
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Solidarity from the Swiss Institute in Rome
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Solidarity from the Swiss Institute in Rome
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Sehr geehrte neue Besitzer eines verlassenen, heruntergekommenen, abgewirtschafteten, völlig bankrotten Betriebs, dessen Wert tief minus ist. Die Firma war NICHTS wert, als ihr sie übernommen habt. NICHTS und ihr habt euren Job verloren. Ich finde es klasse, was ihr daraus macht und erkläre hiermit eine Solidarität aus Deutschland. Als Solidaritätsbekundung wird am 23. März bei mir als Deutscher eine griechische Flagge aus meinem Fenster wehen mit einem Gruß an den Richter und seinen Schwur auf die Verfassung des Landes seiner Bürger. Vielleicht 0,01% aller Deutschen wissen um euren Kampf, viele sehen die Armut und nur wenige sehen den Mut.
Den Mut, den ihr habt, euch gegen die Armut und für die Solidarität zu stellen und den Mut, den der Richter braucht, das Recht zu sprechen. Wem gehört der Betrieb? Für mich als unabhängiger Deutscher und für jeden Richter mit juristischem Eid, gibt es nur eine Antwort. Nur euch, frei von jeder Diskussion.
Helden in Griechenland, Zeus in Athen und das Recht in Thessaloniki für VIOME.
Ich wünsche euch das Beste, was man sich wünschen kann und viel Mut auf eurem Weg.
Mit Grüßen aus Mülheim an der Ruhr.
Jens Müller
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Estudiantes y docentes de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Mexico
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