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BLOCK THE EU-SUMMIT IN THESSALONIKI NEXT JUNE!

STRUGGLE INITIATIVE THESSALONIKI 2003 | 12.05.2003 15:51

Ïn the way to Thessaloniki against the Lordships of the EU! The next EU- Summit in Thessaloniki can be blocked! Thousands of demonstrators are planning to come from all over Europe!

The next EU- Summit in Thessaloniki can be blocked! Thousands of demonstrators are planning to come from all over Europe!

The EU summit will take place in the Porto Carras Hotel (100 km from Thessaloniki), from 20th to 22nd June 2003. This is a small resort in Halkidiki, a three-legged peninsula in North Greece without any movement tradition. The Greek presidency has chosen this place in order to avoid disturbances by demonstrators and activists.
The EU gathers the governments the 15 of the richest industrialized countries in Europe and in the world and imposes a world order which benefits an enormously rich minority to the detriment of a huge majority of enslaved and oppressed individuals. We believe that between human beings, there should exist relationships other than that of the market, of domination, alienation and exploitation. Pollution, the waste of natural resources and differences in wealth are ever more catastrophic. Capitalistic globalization translates into a degradation of living and work conditions and an increase in social control. The bosses are on the offensive with the destruction of public services, attacks on labour rights, job precariousness, flexibility, layoffs and the dismantlement of social rights (welfare, pensions etc.).
This capitalist system cannot be reformed as it inevitably leads to these effects. The break with capitalism is, in our opinion, the only possible way to prevent a human and ecological economic catastrophe.

STRUGGLE INITIATIVE THESSALONIKI 2003
- e-mail: salonica_2003@yahoo.com
- Homepage: http://www.thessaloniki2003.gr

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Umbrella of umbrellas

13.05.2003 11:30

I have lived in Thessaloniki for the last 8 months and have seen much vibrancy, resistance, self-organsiation but also extreme sectarianism. I am from the anti-authoritarian space here:

( http://www.resistance2003.gr/en/june2003.php)

and would like to explain a couple of things briefly.

1) There is not a single Thessaloniki Social Forum like the Genoa Social Forum. There are at least 5! Each with their own "umbrella" type name and website. Each tied strongly to a political party. Each refusing to work with the others. Each pretending to be the "official" resistance umbrella.
Some examples:

www.thessaloniki2003.gr (NAR - Rifundazione types)
www.action-salonika2003.org (KKE - Stalinist)
www.thessalonikiresist2003.gr (Greek Social Forum / Synaspismos - Socialist Alliance Type - more passive and less grass root)
 http://users.otenet.gr/~jspg/ (Initiative Genoa 2001 - Trotsyist United Front)

2) The Internal Enemy (anti-authoritarian group here) are putting together a portal which will explain the different strands of the struggle against the EU summit in Porta Karras, Halkidiki (near Thessaloniki) so that international activists will know who is who and can make their choices of who to be with etc.

Just to let you know for now. More info to follow and the portal.

Best wishes

Mickey

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