Today, on the two-year anniversary of a train crash in Greece that killed 57 people, a general strike took place to protest the complicity of the authorities in the conditions that caused the accident.
In the morning, many hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Athens. After the speeches ended, tens of thousands of people engaged in conflict with the police all afternoon, including anarchists, students, and football supporters.
The train crash was the result of the same kind of capitalist kleptocracy that is afflicting people in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The more power the capitalist class concentrates in their hands, the more the rest of us will be exposed to danger in train and airplane crashes, pandemics, climate disasters, and other catastrophes. This is inevitable when there are vast disparities in wealth and power.
Like those in the streets of Athens, we must become capable of defending ourselves.
For background on the reigning right-wing government in Greece:
CrimethInc.
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