VIO-ME -Thessaloniki – ein griechischer “VEB” auferstanden aus Ruinen des Troikanischen Krieges:

An alle, die den Aufruf “Nein zu Spardiktaten und Nationalismus!
Solidaritätsreise nach Griechenland, 15. bis 22. September 2012″
unterstützt haben!

Bild: HaBE Feder/Grafit 1990

Wir sammeln weiterhin Spenden und bekommen auch weiterhin Spenden. Wir
werden jetzt 500€ an die besetzte Fabrik Vio-Me in Saloniki überweisen.
Die KollegInnen dort haben nun die Produktion aufgenommen, im Anhang
ihre Solidaritätserklärung, in der um Solimails gebeten wird.

Anna schreibt:
dieser tage beginnt ja die produktion bei vio.me. da die wiederaufnahme
ja auf keiner klaren rechtlichen basis beruht, ist sie natürlich sehr
gefährdet. internationale solidarität ist also gefragt. celebrities wie
graeber, holloway, harvey, azzelini, haben bereits ihre unterstützung
zugesagt.

Liebe Grüße,

manfred

Die besetzte Fabrik in Griechenland beginnt mit der Produktion

unter Arbeiterkontrolle

Besetzen. Widerstand leisten. Produzieren!

“Wir denken, dass das die Zukunft der Arbeiterkämpfe ist.”
?akis Anagnostou, Vertreter der Betriebsgewerkschaft von Vio.Me.
Dienstag, der 12. Februar wird der erste offizielle Tag  der Produktion unter Arbeiterkontrolle von Vio.Me in Thessaloniki, Griechenland sein. Das heißt, eine hierarchisch organisierte, von Bossen diktierte Produktion wird durch eine von der Arbeitervollversammlung in direkter Demokratie geplante Produktion ersetzt. Die Arbeiter haben der ungleichen Verteilung der Ressourcen ein Ende erklärt, auf der Basis kollektiver Entscheidungen wollen sie für eine gleiche und faire Bezahlung sorgen. Als baustoffproduzierende Fabrik planen die Arbeiter außerdem, die Ausrichtung des Unternehmens zu ändern hin zu einer Produktion umweltverträglicher Produkte.

«Bei einer  auf fast 30% gestiegenen Arbeitslosigkeit , sinkenden Löhnen, abgespeist mit leeren Worten, Versprechungen und Steuererhöhungen, nicht entlohnt seit Mai 2011,einem Produktionsstillstand in einer von den Besitzern verlassenen Fabrik, haben  die Arbeiter von Vio.Me in ihrer gewerkschaftlichenVollversammlung beschlossen, sich nicht mit einer sicherlich langfristigen  Arbeitslosigkeit abzufinden, sondern darum  zu kämpfen,  die Fabrik  zu übernehmen  und selbst zu betreiben. Es ist nun an der Zeit für Arbeiterkontrolle bei Vio.Me!»

(Proklamation der Offenen Solidaritätsinitiative und der Arbeiter Vio.Me . Der gesamte Text unter www.biom-metal.blogspot.gr )

Die Arbeiter der Vio.Me sind seit Mai 2011 unbezahlt, im Anschluss daran verließen die Besitzer und Manager die Fabrik. Nach einer Reihe von Vollversammlungen entschlossen sich die Arbeiter, gemeinsam die Fabrik erneut zu eröffnen. Seitdem haben sie die Fabrik und die für die Produktion benötigten Maschinen besetzt und geschützt. Sie haben sich außerdem mit anderen Arbeitenden und Kollektiven aus ganz Griechenland vernetzt und dadurch grosse Unterstützung erhalten. Dank der Solidarität und der Unterstützung all dieser Menschen, Individuen wie auch Gruppen, können die Arbeiter ihr Überleben und das ihrer Familien sichern.

Das Phänomen der Besetzung, der Wiederinstandsetzung und der Kontrolle von Unternehmen durch ArbeiterInnen ist nichts Neues – weder historisch noch gegenwärtig. Seit 2001 gibt es ungefähr 300 Betriebe in Argentinien, die demokratisch von ArbeiterInnen verwaltet werden;  Gesundheitzentren, Zeitungen und Schulen, aber auch Metallfabriken, Druckereien und Hotels. Entwicklungen dort haben gezeigt, dass Arbeiter nicht nur in der Lage sind Unternehmen ohne Chefs zu verwalten, sondern sogar fähiger dazu sind. Das Beispiel Argentiniens breitet sich in Südamerika aus und hat nun auch Europa und die Vereinten Staaten erreicht. In Chicago haben die ArbeiterInnen von New World Windows, nach jahrelangen Kämpfen mit (ehemaligen) Besitzern und Chefs, die Produktion in Selbstverwaltung aufgenommen. [article link] In Griechenland zeigen Arbeiter nun wieder, dass der Weg vorwärts – aus der Arbeitslosigkeit, der Krise trotzend – Arbeiterkontrolle und demokratische Selbstverwaltung ist.

 

„Wir fordern alle ArbeiterInnen, alle Arbeitslosen und all diejenigen, die am eigenen Leib die Krise erfahren haben, dazu auf, die Arbeiter von VioMe zu unterstützen. Jetzt, da sie daran gehen, in der Praxis zu beweisen, dass wir, die ArbeiterInnen, es auch ohne Bosse schaffen! Wir fordern sie auf, am Kampf teilzunehmen und den Kampf zu organisieren, wo immer sie arbeiten, mit Versammlungen, direkter Demokratie – ohne Bürokraten! ´´ (www.biom-metal.blogspot.gr)

Wie bei allen Fabrikswiedereröffnungen, so ist auch hier die Frage der anfänglichen Finanzierung von zentraler Bedeutung. War die bisherige Solidarität in der Lage, das Überleben der Arbeiter von Vio.Me und ihrer Familien zu sichern, so ist das Kapital, das zur Fortsetzung der Produktion notwendig ist, riesig. Die Arbeitergewerkschaft hat einen tragfähigen Geschäftsplan, aber es wird einige Zeit erfordern, bis er greifen wird. Die ersten Monate werden dabei ausschlaggebend sein. Finanzelle Unterstützung kann dabei viel ausmachen und jeglicher Beitrag dazu ist hilfreich.

 

Direkte finanzielle Unterstützung kann an die Arbeitergewerkschaft von Vio.Me in Thessaloniki über die Internationale Solidaritätswebseite geschickt werden:

www.viome.org

Solidaritätserklärungen und Fragen können an

protbiometal@gmail.com

geschickt werden.

 

Unterzeichnet:

Solidaritätsinitiative Thessaloniki,…

 

Griechenland-Soli: Erster Spendenbericht

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1. „Zu Beginn der Reise waren genau 4400€ eingegangen, die wir auf unsere Reise mitnahmen. Wir verwendeten sie wie folgt:

1) 700 € an das Gesundheitszentrum der Solidarität in Saloniki”.
2) 700€ an die Arbeiter des besetzten Betriebs “Viomechaniki Metalleutiki” in Saloniki.
3) 500€ an ein selbstverwaltetes Gesundheitszentrum in Athen.
4) 500€ an ein soziales Zentrum in Athen.
5) 500€ an den besetzten Campingplatz von Voula.
6)1000€ an die im Aufbau befindliche “Redakteurszeitung”.
7) 500€ an das Arbeiterzentrum von Livadia.

Unsere Maßgabe war, dass wir keine Almosen verteilen wollten, sondern KollegInnen unterstützen wollten, die eigenständig und selbstverwaltet den Widerstand gegen die Spardiktate aufgenommen haben. Zur Zeit befinden sich 2394€ auf dem Spendenkonto. Wir bedanken uns bei allen, die bisher gespendet haben! Wir rufen weiterhin zu Spenden auf, da wir den Kontakt zu den Projekten, so möglich, halten und sie weiterhin unterstützen wollen. Evtl. werden wir auch von anderen Projekten erfahren, die unterstützenswert sind. Wir wollen in nächster Zeit einen umgeänderten Aufruf erarbeiten und diesen dann veröffentlichen.“

2. Solidarität – keine wohltätige Hilfe!
Erster Bericht zu den sieben unterstützten Projekten 

3. Wir erinnern an das Spendenkonto:
Manfred Klingele-Pape, Konto-Nr.: 1211 478 910, Hamburger Sparkasse (BLZ 200 505 50), Verwendungszweck: Griechenland-Soli –
Wer für ein bestimmtes Projekt spenden möchte, kann das beim Verwendungszweck anmerken.

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SOLIDARITÄT SCHÖN & PRAKTISCH: (Wie) griech-isch-e Strom-Versorgung in der Krise. oder SOLIDARITÄTSZUSCHLAG MAL ETWAS ANDERS
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Deutsche Flucht ins Gold nach Griechenland, was man auch in Mali fand / GOLD-Pearl AG FFM sch(l)ürft Malisches Gold
 

Griechenland soll nicht länger am Rand eines DrittweltKraters kriechen. Nein, die Troika lässt Hellas demonstrativ im Krater einschmelzen.
Zwischen Adria und Ägäis lagern Gold, Öl, Erdgas ….. alles sehr konkrete Gründe für die seit “UrErzSteinzeiten” herrschenden Feindseligkeiten zwischen den Herrschenden in Hellas und der Türkei,  für den Streit um Zypern und die Tiefen der Festlandsockel und die Kontrolle des Bosporus. …

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CIA-DIA-NSU-BND-VS-Connection:
Wer hat die Polizistin Kiesewetter erschossen und warum?
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Pussy Riot Menschenrechts-Galerie mit Nackten und Toten sprengen sie Ouoten

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Gemein(sam)er Bettelbrief: Kram Säubert linke Projek.de // Rettet die CEIBERWEIBER.at

 

 

 

?????????, 8 ??????????? 2013

The factory of Vio.Me (Industrial Mineral) starts production under workers’ control!

“We are the ones who knead and yet we have no bread, 
we are the ones who dig for coal and yet we are cold.
We are the ones who have nothing and we are coming to take the world “
Tassos Livaditis (Greek poet, 1922-1988)

 

In the heart of the crisis, the workers of Vio.Me. are aiming for the heart of exploitation and property.

With unemployment climbing to 30%, workers’ income reaching zero, sick and tired of big words, promises and more taxes, unpaid since May 2011 and currently withholding their labour, with the factory abandoned by the employers, the workers of Vio.Me. by decision of their general assembly declare their determination not to fall prey to a condition of perpetual unemployment, but instead to struggle to take the factory in their own hands and operate it themselves. Through a formal proposal dating from October 2011 they have been claiming the establishment of a workers’ cooperative under full workers’ control, demanding legal recognition for their own workers’ cooperative, as well as for all the others to follow. At the same time they have been demanding the money required to put the factory in operation, money that in any case belongs to them, as they are the ones who produce the wealth of society. The plan that was drawn up met with the indifference of the state and of trade union bureaucracies. But it was received with great enthusiasm by the world of the social movements, which, through the creation of the Open Initiative of Solidarity in Thessaloniki and afterwards with similar initiatives in many other cities, have been struggling for the past 6 months to spread the message of Vio.Me across society.

Now it’s time for worker´s control of Vio.Me.!

The workers cannot wait any longer for the bankrupt state to fulfil its gratuitous  promises of support (even the 1000-euro emergency aid promised by the Ministry of Labour was never approved by the Minister of  Finance). It’s time to see the Vio.Me. factory –as well as any other factory that is closing down, going bankrupt or laying off its workers- reopened but its workers, and not by its old or new bosses. The struggle should not be limited to Vio.Me., in order for it to be victorious it should  be generalized and spread to all the factories and businesses that are closing down, because only through a network of self-managed factories will Vio.Me be able to thrive and light the way towards a different organisation of production and the economy, with no exploitation, inequality or hierarchy.

When factories are closing down one after another, the number of the unemployed in Greece is approaching 2 million and the vast majority of the population is condemned to poverty and misery by the governing coalition of PASOK-ND-DIMAR, which continues the policies of the preceding governments, the demand to operate the  factories under workers’ control is the only reasonable response to the disaster that we experience every day, the only answer to unemployment; for that reason, the struggle of Vio.Me. is everyone’s struggle.

We urge all workers, the unemployed and all those who are affected by the crisis to stand by the workers of Vio.Me and support them in their effort to put in practice the belief that workers can make it without bosses! We call them to participate in a nationwide Struggle and Solidarity Caravan culminating in three days of struggle in Thessaloniki. We urge them to take up the struggle and organize their own fights within their working places, with direct democratic procedures, without bureaucrats. To participate in a general political strike in order to oust those who destroy our lives!

Aiming to establish worker’s control over factories and the whole of production and to organize the economy and society that we desire, a society without bosses!It’s Vio.Me.’s time. Let’s get to work!
Paving the way for workers’ self-management everywhere!
Paving the way for a society without bosses!

Open Initiative of Solidarity and Support
to the struggle of the workers of Vio.Me.

??????, 7 ??????????? 2013

VIO.ME: Law is the worker’s right and not the law of the bourgeoisie

An interview with Makis Anagnostou, president of the Viomihaniki Metalleytiki’s workers’ union (VIO.ME), to the paper Nea Prooptiki

The struggle of VIO.ME is undoubtedly one of the most important labour struggles that have been taking place this period of time in Greece. The factory (Viomihaniki Metalleytiki) has been deserted by its owners and its workers –not paid since May 2011– deny to come to terms with the idea of unemployment and struggle for the transfer of production into their own hands, thus raising in essence the point of workers’ self management as a response to the closures and the layoffs of the bankrupt capitalist Greece.
The president of the workers’ union of VIO.ME, Makis Anagnostou spoke with the Nea Prooptiki:
 -N.P. At what stage is your struggle today?
 -M.A. Since the last interview we have given, there are many things that have changed. There have now been taken decisions that were not part of our struggle in the preceding period. Up until a certain point in time we kept following the path of lawfulness and nothing else, but we found out that this path is a too long one. For this reason, the assembly decided that another path is to be followed, a still legitimate one, but this time based on the logic that law is the worker’s right and not the law of the bourgeoisie.

-N.P. You remain unpaid since May 2011, while September was also the last month you were entitled to the welfare allowance that you were getting from the Organization for the Employment of the Labour Force. How do you survive under such conditions?

-M.A. We barely survive, if we can call it survival at all. The truth is that the Ministry showed some interest in certain cases facing extreme difficulty, but actually this help has the form of charity and does not offer solutions  to the real problem; that of unemployment. It is work that we want and not charity.
-N.P. I would like you to tell us something about the peoples’ response to your struggle and the solidarity that you have been getting.
-M.A. There is help from all over Greece but also from abroad. Of course, those who support us are mostly poor people themselves. They are neither big publishers, nor big companies. They are ordinary folk people, workers, some working and probably most of them unemployed nowadays, who support us, however, from the very little they go by. Some bring us a pack of spaghetti, others a small bag of dried beans, or some others by giving us a 2 € financial assistance. But even this small help is very important to us as it offers us strength and courage to go on.
-N.P. There is a part of the “left” which has accused you that with your effort to take over the control of the factory you are trying to become yourselves small capitalists. How do you answer them?
-M.A. To them, we have answered already. When the labour movement is at our side, it is difficult for struggles like ours to depart from their goal. But when the movement takes a distance, then the workers (as workers) are trying to find ways to survive and there lies the danger of a bourgeois turn of the whole issue.
-N.P. In the recent strikes you chose a distinct stance in relation to not only the General Confederation of Greek Workers (????) but also to the Agonistic Front of All Workers (?.?.??.) and to the Coordinative organ of Primary Unions. What was it that led you to that decision?
-M.A. All these are decisions made by the general assembly. What I mean is that who we would stand next to was not proposed by the union’s administration –though, in essence, we do not function as an administration–, but there is always a concern about this issue; it is always discussed in the general assembly and it is the general assembly that reaches a decision. The general assembly takes this stance because of certain things noticed by it, which I would not like to criticize right now.
-N.P. You do not want to tell us what were the actual things noticed by the workers?
-M.A. When the union started functioning, we used to go to the Workers’ Centre. There we saw that their attitude was not what we had expected. In other words, and as only an example, in our participating in the discussion of strike movements, there were various persons telling us that we should appeal to our bosses to bring back their capital. We did not agree. We wanted a more class defined way and we went to the Agonistic Front of All Workers (?.?.??.) In this case, however, we reached a point of being the only primary unit holding the banner together with the ?.?.??., and the ?.?.??. pretended not to see us because it did not agree with us on certain issues. It is true that the ?.?.??. has clearly a class character, but could someone say that we, as a primary union, we do not? The fact that we did not agree with the ?.?.??. on partial issues does not make us adversaries. So, to be sure, because we do not agree with them on everything and do not blindly follow their advice, the ?.?.??. attitude towards us is perhaps not the expected one by the general assembly and that is what led us to our decisions.
-N.P. Is this to say that you somehow found them against you?
-M.A. We can’t say we found them against us, but we certainly did not find them to our side. This is the bad thing. And I must say that in many events that took place to our support in different cities, there were many individual members of the ?.?.?? that expressed a positive opinion about our struggle and about our way of raising our points!
-N.P. In October there took place a large solidarity caravan that started from Thessaloniki and through Larissa and Volos was finally completed in Athens. How would you characterize this experience?
-M.A. I will tell you what my colleagues said rather than characterizing it myself. Many colleagues who –up to that point in time– were skeptical and did not know if they wanted to join the caravan or not, after the completion of the caravan event clearly stated that if it was to take place again, starting even the next day, they would join again.
  
-N.P. Have you had any kind of reaction during this whole period by the owners of the factory?
-M.A. Up until this present moment, they keep a passive attitude. We are sure, however, that they are making some movements in order to re-enter the game. What will play an important role in such a case will be our own determination and how powerful we are.
-N.P. Some would make the observation that in the recent period there has been some ebb in the struggle of VIO.ME. What do you have in mind to do in the coming days in order to rekindle your struggle?
-M.A. I wouldn’t say ebb. Of course there has been a certain slackening during the holidays, but sometimes when you are to start a footrace you must first spurt in order to manage to give more thrust. This is what we think is happening because many things will be running in the near future. It is the meeting at the Ministry, some more general meetings in Athens focusing on how we can trade some products, we have a court of sessions against our ex-employers on the Jan. 24, and after all this, something new starts on Feb. 8 in order to give birth to something else. The beginning will be the concert we are preparing for the day I mentioned, with the participation of well known artists such as Thanassis Papakonstantinou, Charoulis, the Chainides and others. And on Jan. 11 there will be a development in order for the operation of the factory to start.
-N.P. What exactly do you have in mind to do during these 3 specific days?
-M.A. There will take place a reverse caravan. This time, that is, it is not us that travel to other cities but we invite people from other cities to come to Thessaloniki and support a new effort that starts on Feb. 8. We do not know when exactly we will have the pick of this effort, but as we said it starts on Feb. 8, with a protest march and a concert, and the rest will take place at the factory. The exact way of how we are going to go on in the factory is something that we will announce in the near future.
-N.P. Will this be also determined by the meetings you are going to have in Athens? That is, if your discussions with the Ministry end successfully, is there a case to operate the factory yourselves?
-M.A. This is what we are trying to do, with a very specific manner. Now, if some things change in the course of the effort and the Ministry actually gives some solution, it will be good. We threw the ball to the Ministry and said that the way in which the factory will work is now the ministry’s responsibility. Either with the legal, or, rather, with the “according to the letter of law” way or with what we are saying, that law is the worker’s right and we can rightfully take the factory in our own hands.
-N.P. If you do get the factory in your hands and operate it, how do you believe you will manage to keep it alive and healthy under the pressure of the economic crisis? Do you have some plan about it? 
-M.A. Yes, there is a plan. There is a big difference between what we contend and what there exist out there. We maintain that even in this diminished and decayed market, an opening, on our part, to different types of stores and commercial shops and to other countries will give us the potential to keep the factory in the present phase that we are going through difficult times. To hold out, that is, and then to work in another way.
-N.P. The struggle of VIO.ME has been characterized by many as a pioneering one, for the Greek reality at least, as it shows the way that should be also followed by other factories that are in the same position. Has there been until now any response by workers of other factories who experience the same situation?

-M.A. I wouldn’t say pioneering. Our demand has for ever been the primordial demand of working people. What the working person, and more so the industrial worker, looked forward to was to take the means of production in their hands in order to be able to produce for themselves. This issue is one we put to all working people, but the bourgeois class does for years and years now is to keep the working class into hypnosis so that it cannot be able to think in this way. For this reason, it directs the struggles to more “quiescent” and bourgeois preferred solutions. I have to repeat it; we took the examples of the past and we believe that with the setup we have planned and the charter that we will draw we will become able to keep a very good level of cooperativity, because all this is essentially going to become a workers’ cooperative that will go beyond the bourgeois type of solutions.

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Autor: Hartmut Barth-Engelbart

Autor von barth-engelbart.de

2 Gedanken zu „VIO-ME -Thessaloniki – ein griechischer “VEB” auferstanden aus Ruinen des Troikanischen Krieges:“

  1. Hallo,
    das klingt ja alles nett und kämpferisch – nur ist es völlig unrealistisch und zeugt von wirtschaftlicher Unkenntnis. Weißt Du wie es auf dem Baustoffmarkt aussieht? Welche Industrie dahinter steckt? Gerade mit Klebern und anderen Chemikalien? Wie soll ein Haufen von “einfachen” Arbeitern dagegen ankommen? Träumt schön weiter und spendet kräftig weiter.

    Gruß
    Hartmut

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