Greece: The Working Class Does Not Forget the Crimes That the Bourgeoisie Commits for Its Miserable Profit

On February 28, 2023, near the capital Athens, a terrible train accident occurred in Greece.

In the accident, 57 people lost their lives when a train was diverted onto the same track as another train.

Most of the victims were students.

After investigations, it was discovered that the accident was caused by a combination of human errors, inadequate infrastructure, and a lack of safety measures.

These were measures that had been eliminated to save costs.

Accidents like this have happened and will continue to happen as long as capitalism exists in our lives. Capital does not see human suffering; it sees only profit.

The Tempi train accident has not been forgotten by the Greek working class, which, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the accident, organized to protest against the government through demonstrations, rallies, and a general strike.

Public transport, factories, construction sites, shops, schools, universities, mines, theaters, ports, banks, and much more were shut down across Greece.

Protests were organized in more than 250 cities, with around 1.5 million demonstrators nationwide.

These strikes and protests were organized under the slogan of ΠΑΜΕ (The All-Workers Militant Front):

“Their profits or our lives.”

Workers all over the world must understand that what is happening now in Greece, and around the world, is not an occasional malfunction of the system. It is the system working perfectly, exactly as it is meant to, because the goal of the capitalist system is not—and has never been—to make the worker’s life better or safer. Rather, it is to exploit them ever more, with the least possible investment in them and their safety.

The goal of capital is to make profits at all costs.

Moreover, one of the most important lessons to learn from both the Paris Commune and revolutionary Russia is that whenever the proletariat rises up in a given country, the working classes of other countries must support them. Otherwise they will be crushed. However, such support can only happen if they are organized internationally.

We pay tribute to our comrades in Greece for their efforts in fighting the Greek government, but it is our duty as a communist party to emphasize the necessity for local, even national, struggles of the proletariat to be united, coordinated, and centralized in the international class war of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie for communism. This can only be achieved through an international program, and on an international scale.

Thus, against the international unity of capitalist forces, the proletarians must succeed in opposing their own organizational and political unity, guided by the only International Communist Party.

This is the only way to prioritize our lives over their profits.