VIO.ME. bedreigd met ontruiming

Nieuws, gepost door: Anarchistische Groep Nijmegen op 11/11/2015 11:08:33

Wanneer: 11/11/2015 - 21:45

As a result of the legal battle waged against the VIO.ME. workers collective, the state-appointed trustee is now organising a series of auctions with the aim of liquidating the plot of land on which the VIO.ME. factory is located. A possible sale of the land would create the legal ground for evicting the workers from the factory.



Although the workers and the solidarity assembly are decided to stand their ground and defend the factory in all eventualities, the auction process represents a threat and it requires mobilisation in order to be prevented. A first step is to block, through direct action, the first such auction that is programmed for November 26th. This is why we reach out to you, to ask for help and mobilisation to put pressure on the government to satisfy the long-standing demands of the VIO.ME. workers for legalisation of their activity, by expropriating the factory and granting it to the VIOME workers' cooperative, which will operate it in a horizontal and self-managed way, as it has been doing for 3 years now.

We appeal for an international week of solidarity, from November 17 to 24.

We urge you to sign the attached resolution and return your details to us, or even better, hand it in to the nearest Greek embassy or consulate demanding that it is transferred to the Greek Ministry of Labour.
We welcome any international acts of solidarity, especially ones that involve non-violent direct action towards Greek embassies worldwide.
We urge you to organise screenings of this 30-minute documentary by D.Azzellini and O.Ressler, detailing the struggle of VIOME through interviews and participation in its assemblies (English subtitles included): https://youtu.be/2Fg2akSUvFM You can download a good quality version of the documentary here (407mb):
You can send us announcements of your events, and/or photos to be uploaded to VIO.ME.´s website.

Please read and circulate the following appeal of the workers for support:

A call for support of the struggle of VIO.ME.
Dear solidarity supporters,

we would like to inform you about the latest developments in the struggle of the workers of VIO.ME.

As you know, for four years now we have been fighting for our life and dignity. We, the workers, have chosen to create social alliances. We have rejected the proposals made by various political organizations to have an "exclusive" relationship with our struggle and direct it following narrow partisan criteria. Nevertheless, we have always all accepted invitations to speak and communicate.

When large parts of society decided to stand by us and support us with whatever means they had available, a large network of solidarity was created. Consequently we managed to build relationships of trust, through common assemblies were the wider community can participate, where together we make decisions on the political course of the struggle, as well as on many other issues.

Many political organizations agreed with the political framework that we, together with the wider community, have set. To this day they support our effort to operate the factory with workers’ control of production and self-management by the workers’ assembly.

Among the political forces that supported our struggle was SYRIZA, through statements and commitments for an immediate solution to the issue of operation of the factory, made by the current prime-minister himself.

Of course, after SYRIZA came to power, the statements and the commitments became more and more vague. The determination they demonstrated when they were in opposition was replaced by timidity, and by proposals that we make compromises in a different framework than what we had previously agreed upon.

Their great “achievement” after eight months in government is to abandon the struggle of VIO.ME. to the machinations of the judicial system. The same judicial system that, despite having condemned former owner of VIO.ME. Christina Philippou to dozens of months in prison, allows her to walk free, supposedly to do community service at a municipality where she has strong "connections". To this day, she has never showed up at the place where she is supposed to do community work.

A judicial system that allows those who have abused and destroyed the Greek society for five years now to walk free, never taking any action to punish them. The “first ever left-wing government” leaves us in the hands of this judicial system.

The political standpoint of the judges is evident through the decisions they have made up to this moment: they have gone as far as saying that we have no legitimate right to demand the money owed by our former employers! In all our attempts to claim our money, both by intervention of the property of Philkeram, and by demanding to operate the factory again, we have received the same answers.

And of course, they do not take any action to find a solution for the operation of the factory, so we, the workers who have decided to stay on, can escape unemployment.

According to the court decisions, the unified plot of land where the VIO.ME. premises are located is auctioned on Thursday November 26, 2015, and for three consecutive Thursdays thereafter. If no interested buyer is found, they will continue with the process until they achieve to sell the land, therefore evicting us from the factory.

This land consists of fourteen separate plots, some of which were directly or indirectly donated by the Greek government to former owner Phillipou in recognition of the "social contribution" of job creation. Now they are put to auction to satisfy the creditors of VIO.ME.’s parent company Philkeram: the Inland Revenue Office, the Social Insurance Service, former workers of Philkeram, banks and suppliers.

The premises of VIO.ME. represent about 1/7 of the total land, and the area in which it lies could easily be separated from the rest of Philkeram’s real estate. But the employees of VIO.ME. are never mentioned in the bankruptcy proceedings, although VIO.ME. was a subsidiary of Philkeram, driven to destruction by the parent company’s bankruptcy. VIO.ME. is completely neglected, although the mismanagement of the Phillipou family, who transferred funds from VIO.ME. and overburdened it with debt for their personal gain, was largely responsible for the bankruptcy. This is a proven fact, since a study by consultants DELOIT concluded there was capacity for normal operation for both companies.

The judicial system once again sides with the forces of capital and makes rulings against the workers who assert the right to work. And of course, the state does not stand up to the challenge of providing solutions.

For this reason, we, the workers of VIO.ME., invite all of you, who have been standing beside us during all this time of struggle, to be present on Thursday November 26 in the auction of the land, to abort their plan to evict us from the VIO.ME. factory. A space that we have, for two years now, managed to turn into a place of work and a place of freedom.

We invite you to stand beside us, to support every effort of the workers to make the forces of production autonomous from the capitalist class, a class which anyway has delocalised all production abroad.

We invite you to support the operation of the factory, since we, the workers, have declared that we are not leaving, that our lives are now linked to this factory.

We invite you to stand beside us, so we can affirm all together that a solution exists beyond the advices of the “experts”: this time around, the solution lies with those who are directly involved in the struggle, not with the luminaries.

in solidarity,

the general assembly of the workers at VIO.ME.

Tags: Griekenland VIO.ME. zelfbestuur


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Aanstaande .... is er in Amsterdam een benefiet voor VIO.ME. om hen bij te staan in de juridische kosten die zij maken.

"VIOME IS NOT FOR SALE Self-managed production should carry on and spread."

18:30 doors open
19:00 Vegan people's kitchen (€5,-)

Followed by an info night organised by REINFORM, in solidarity with the self-managed industry VIO.ME., Greece, which runs the risk of eviction. The court that will decide about the eviction will take place on 26-11.

A short documentary will be screened, and you can buy solidarity (benefit) soap - made by VIO.ME. YES! Your uniqe chance to get your friends to finally wash themselves.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1507339842897399/





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Nederlandse versie:

OPROEP 17 - 24 NOVEMBER WEEK VAN DE SOLIDARITEIT MET VIO.ME WERKERS

Als gevolg van de juridische aanval op het werkerscollectief VIO.ME organiseert een door de staat aangestelde toezichthouder meerdere veilingen met als doel de opheffing van het perceel waarop de VIO.ME-fabriek is gevestigd. Bij verkoop van de grond zou de ontruiming van de werkers uit de fabriek een wettelijke basis hebben.

Hoewel de werkers en de solidariteitsgroep hebben besloten pal te staan ​​en de fabriek onder alle omstandigheden te zullen verdedigen, vormt de veiling een bedreiging en is mobilisatie geboden. Een eerste stap is het blokkeren van de eerste veiling die is aangekondigd voor donderdag 26 november door middel van directe actie. Daarom gaat een oproep uit naar sympathisanten om de druk op de regering op te voeren om in te stemmen met de sinds lange tijd staande eisen van VIO.ME: de legalisering van hun activiteiten, de onteigenening van de fabriek en de toekenning van de coöperatie VIO.ME aan de werkers, zij die de fabriek sinds drie jaar horizontaal en in zelfbeheer exploiteren.

We roepen sympathisanten op de week van 17 - 24 november uit te roepen tot de week van internationale solidariteit.

* We roepen sympathisanten op de bovenstaand statement te ondertekenen en te sturen naar protbiometal [at] gmail. com. Beter nog, lever het in bij de dichtstbijzijnde Griekse ambassade of consulaat en eis dat deze wordt overgedragen aan het Griekse ministerie van Arbeid.

* We verwelkomen elke internationale uiting van solidariteit, vooral door wereldwijd geweldloze directe acties te voeren bij Griekse ambassades.

* We roepen op vertoningen te organiseren van de documentaire van D. Azzellini en O. Ressler, waarin de strijd van VIO.ME in beeld wordt gebracht met interviews en de deelname aan de vergaderingen: https://youtu.be/2Fg2akSUvFM (30 min., Engelse ondertiteling). De documentaire is hier in hoge kwaliteit te downloaden (407 mb).

* Aankondigingen van evenementen en / of foto's kun je mailen naar protbiometal [at] gmail. com.

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