Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Il blackout come forma di lotta

http://libcom.org/news/casus-belli-electricity-union-theatens-long-term-blackout-greece-03082010
The Electricity Company union has responded to government pledges to the IMF 
to sell 40% of power plants by threatening a long-term black-out across the 
country.
The news came just after the departure of the so-called "troika" reps, the 
delegates of the IMF-EU-European Bank who had just finished their second 
round of inspection over the ailing greek economy. According to the 
government the troika demanded the privatisation of all state companies, 
with the Socialist Party (PASOK) negotiating instead the sell out of 40% of 
National Electricity Company (DEH) power plants and mines. Despite the 
mid-summer PR, reactions to the new surrender of public resources to private 
sharks have been immediate and angry, with DEH workers calling the 
selling-out of power plants and mines a casus belli.
The DEH union (GENOP) is the strongest in the country, numbering 23,000 
workers and has been traditionally a PASOK bastion. Falling out with DEH 
workers could thus mark a real rupture at the very base of the Socialist 
Party, threatening a storm in terms of both its legitimacy and its electoral 
prospects. The president of the DEH union has today given the signal of mass 
mobilisation against the austerity measures by means of a letter addressed 
to PASOK MPs:
"Comrade MPs, when 32 years ago I joined PASOK in order to change the world 
I listened in our youth festivals a very nice protest song by Thomas 
Bakalakos on the peasantry; it said "poor peasants, the mediators will 
exploit you...". I hope, comrade MPs, 32 years later that you will not make 
it sound true in the milieu of energy by allowing every opportunist scum to 
make a fortune on the backs of the greek people. The workers in DEH shall 
sell no factory neither cheap energy to the opportunist scums. Our words are 
clear. There is a limit to everything. Our struggle is not for ourselves but 
for the consumer, and for that we will take things to extremes. We will 
bleed. And what I say expressed the totality of the workers and above all 
our comrades".
On his part the union rep has stressed that "we have the power to pull the 
plug off from all DEH units immediately", clarifying that "we will plunge 
the country in darkness", while making clear that "we will go on long-term 
strike until the last unionist is behind bars". GENOP's central announcement 
today read in capitalised letter: "we are not scared of prison".
Scared of a prospect of another labour-related stalemate the government has 
been trying to water down its privatisation statements, hoping to avoid a 
black-out crisis during the hottest month of the year and during the peak of 
the tourist season, when the image of the country abroad has been already 
damaged by the truck-drivers fuel related strike last week. 

 country.
The lights are going out all over Europe (cit.)
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Quando ti sveglierai non ricorderai nulla del post di Questo Splenetico

 
http://libcom.org/news/casus-belli-electricity-union-theatens-long-te.
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Considerando com'è stata la gestione greca del pubblico, una
privatizzazione non gli può fare che bene.

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eggià, abbiamo visto in Italia come sono migliorate le aziende
privatizzate.....

 privatizzate.....
Chetati Bombacci: la tua regione migliorerebbe la sua produttività del
250% già soltanto privatizzando ed esternalizzando la tua mansione.

 250%
il mio ufficio è uno dei più produttivi, fa' un po' te.....