Voku for the arrestees of Tempi strike, Greece

The murder at Tempi encapsulates, in its essence, how the state and capitalism consider the lives of those at the bottom to be disposable.

It was the night of Tuesday, February 28, 2023, when two trains—one a passenger train owned by Hellenic Train and the other a freight train—collided. The dead and injured were dozens.

The causes of that night’s collision begin years earlier. A railway network already abandoned by the state is handed over to a private company at a humiliating price. Workers, with exhausting and unstable schedules, are trained in minimal time so they can staff the shifts of a company that chooses to operate with manual traffic control.

Trade union bodies, which went on strike to denounce the state of the railway system and the working conditions, were either repressed or had their strikes declared illegal and abusive by the bourgeois justice system

To “restore the scene” with tons of soil, to dismiss indications of the presence of aromatic hydrocarbons (toluene, xylene, benzene) as conspiracy theories, to protect those morally and politically responsible behind the veil of a “bad moment.”

The strike on February 28, 2025 was the largest strike gathering in decades.

In hundreds of cities across the world, squares and streets were flooded. Workplaces closed or operated minimally, and mobilizations spread to prisons throughout Greece.

In those moments when people returned even a small fraction of the violence they endure every day—through clashes that lasted for many hours—the state, the bosses, the political parties, and the media rushed to speak of provocateurs and to demand arrests, public shaming, and every kind of repressive measure.

The result of all this was dozens of arrests, most of which were upgraded to felony charges.

Solidarity couzine for court expenses of the arestees of Tempi strike.

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