Athens: Claim for attack on “AB Vasilopoulos” supermarkets

In the autumn of 2023, a new labour law of A. Georgiadis was passed. Among other things the law includes : thirteen-hour contracts, zero-hour contracts, the complete abolition of the five-day working week, the illegalization of strikes, as well as the complete liberalization of dismissals, withdrawing any justification for them.

“AB Vassilopoulos” took advantage of the above by firing hundreds of employees the day after the law was passed. Thus, it is clear whose interests these laws really serve.

These movements do not come in a vacuum. At a time when the cost of living is soaring, burdening mainly those at the bottom, “AB Vassilopoulos” and the rest of the supermarkets are recording huge profits, as can be seen from their balance sheets and published financial data. Their profits come from the increase in prices on the one hand and from the compression of labour costs on the other. The state, not only does not “intervene”, but with laws or provisions it favours conditions that favour the bosses.

In the same pattern, it also supports other “big” sectors of the economy such as construction and energy capital, real estate and tourism, serving their predatory mood and satisfying any anti-labour demand they have, while also abolishing any control mechanism.

In this context, we attacked two shops of “AB Vasilopoulos” in Patisia and Polygono, on Monday 20/11 and Thursday 23/11 respectively, breaking their windows.

Solidarity from below
Let’s not tolerate the devaluing of our lives
Direct actions – Expropriations – Strikes

Anarchists

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