Solidarity with the self-managed factory Vio.Me in Greece
All the undersigned convened by the CLACSO Working Group Bodies, Territories, Resistances They are joining the International Week of Solidarity Action #defenViome. Vio.Me is a worker-run factory in Thessaloniki, Greece, that is in danger after opaque procedures that have sold the land on which it is located.
Vio.Me has been a global example of a creative strategy in the face of austerity and unemployment, a way to confront the economic and political crisis. This worker-recuperated factory shows how production can be restarted in abandoned, closed, and bankrupt factories, now in the hands of the workers. It demonstrates the possibility of a different form of production, cooperation, and consumption in the face of the exhaustion of an exploitative and predatory economic model.
For a decade, a social and solidarity economy has been developing there, creating horizontal spaces for organization and striving to end ecological destruction. Vio.Me produces eco-friendly cleaning and personal care products. It is also a social and cultural space that organizes artistic events, independent markets, and has even established the first workers' clinic.
Furthermore, Vio.Me is a hub for global struggles against capitalism, such as those of the EZLN, the Yellow Vests, Black Lives Matter, and the Landless Workers Movement, to name a few. It is a meeting point for this diverse range of resistance movements seeking alternative forms of solidarity and economic organization. We recognize ourselves in it, we fight with it, we persevere, and we support one another.
Therefore, from Latin America, we join in their cry. “Hands off VIOME!”We unite our righteous anger to stop the attempted expulsion, to form a wall of protection, to continue resisting together the capitalist onslaught and to keep alive the flame of hope for another possible world.
LET'S DEFEND SELF-MANAGEMENT, CREATIVITY, STRUGGLE,
HORIZONTALITY AND SOLIDARITY THAT HE SAW.REPRESENTS ME.
NOT ONE STEP BACK! YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
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Planet Earth
March 18th 2023
CLACSO Working Group
Bodies, territories, resistances [+]
This text expresses the position of the aforementioned Workgroup and not necessarily that of the centers and institutions that make up the CLACSO international network, its Steering Committee or its Executive Secretariat.
