WATCH: Seizing the Means of Production
A Spotlight on Greece’s Occupied Worker-Run Factory
Unicorn Riot, via Economic Grassroots Organizing
[CC – Greek, English] Workers have successfully self-managed the production of environmentally-friendly cleaning products for the last six years in the occupied factory Vio.Me. There are no bosses in this factory on the east side of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city. Workers have been in full control since occupying the factory in 2013, two years after the workers had stopped receiving paychecks from the business due to the parent company having filed for bankruptcy.
Unicorn Riot brings you inside the worker-run Vio.Me. facility for one in our three part video series. We spoke with five of the workers, and gained a deeper perspective and history of Vio.Me.
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[CC – Greek, English] A radical new approach to healthcare is reclaiming equal relations between specialists and patients while building a community of health from inside an occupied factory in an industrial Greek metro. The Workers’ Healthcare Center of the self-managed occupied factory Vio.Me. has provided free holistic healthcare services to the broader community for the last three years in Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki.
Unicorn Riot visited the healthcare center in late 2018 and spoke with Dimitra Pouliopoulou, a psychologist who volunteers at the center, to learn more.
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[CC – Greek, English] Unicorn Riot brings you inside the worker-run and occupied Vio.Me. factory. We are guided through the facility by Nicole, a worker in the factory in one of our three part video series on Vio.Me.
Workers have successfully self-managed the production of environmentally-friendly cleaning products for the last six years in the occupied factory Vio.Me. There are no bosses in this factory on the east side of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city.
For more info click here.
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Because we love so much. Mistakes please let go. I am willing to love you. tetris skribbl io
https://theduran.com/forgotten-battles-against-the-deep-state-part-2-jfk-vs-the-empire/
Great! One of the things that really struck home was when the worker spoke (and I’m paraphrasing) about the importance of the product of the co-operation not only being something which the society expected to consume it but also that society should desire the co-op means of production. The internet is an ugly place which frequently reveals capitalism at its worst. Even 25 years ago when many netizens of a socialist bent endeavoured to sabotage BS intellectual ‘property’ laws by uploading movies, games, music and TV shows, the attitude of many of the ‘customers’ was apalling. Gimme gimme demands, unreasonable expectations and ingratitude to the nth degree would dominate in some of the newsgroups. The example of anonymous encrypted messaging being subverted by pedos is well known, it seemed every attempt to keep the net in the hands of users was being subverted, that all the sabotage was by pretenders… Read more »
Brilliantly put.
Im interested in your comment in the parentheses after “going forward”. I hate the phrase because it implies this linear progression: always in the same direction, onwards and upwards, an intolerance for “failure”, never stopping (etc) but do find it hard to articulate quite why.
When people use this workplace bullshit phrase I might query it and play dumb (it’s reasonably well known that I’m a resident of Aspergistan so I can get away with this, and being rather blunt) before exclaiming “oh, you mean in the future…!” as though I’d never heard the phrase before.
Of course “the future” is another construct but perhaps not quite so deterministic.
Anarchy (rules WITHOUT rulers) in action.
Ubiquitous Hyper-Normalisation by design, dinkum . . .
Who needs politicians ?
Will anybody have a job soon with driverless cars, automated fruit picking, even the jobs of white collar professionals being automated?
The only future people can look forward to now that they are no longer needed is being culled by the Davos elite, who want the world population reduced to 500 million.
Indeed, as evidenced by the Georgia Guidestones, Point 1:
Yes, 5G is a great tool for the elites. Make the masses redundant, AND kill them, all using the same technology…….5G. Here is an essential rundown of the health implcations of this evil tech
This is also very good
5G, sperm counts down by 1% a year, GMO, promotion of homosexuality, abortion, feminism, paedophilia, bestiality, incest, all part of the same programme promoted by the same Davos/ Bilderberg folks. When they’ve reduced the population to 500 million, there will still be plenty left to provide them with all the personal astrologers, personal trainers, personal rabbis, and child sex slaves they need. All one big Epstein Lolita Island.
Rigging every election worldwide from the Beast supercomputer in Jerusalem
We need more of this in the west quite frankly then when people see socialised work they may change their tune in socialism