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Employers reportedly shot at migrant farm workers who demanded six months' back pay
A worrying incident in Greece. Thought I would share it with the forum.
http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.society&id=687
Police investigating incident in which employers reportedly started shooting at immigrant farm workers in Nea Manolada (Reuters)
An employer reportedly opened fire against a large group of about 200 Bangladeshi immigrant farm workers in Nea Manolada, on the outskirts of Ileia in the Peloponnese, on Thursday. The immigrant workers had reportedly gathered to demand six-months’ worth of unpaid wages.
Police reported that one of at least three farmers opened fire, injuring at least 20 migrant workers. One farmer armed with a hunting rifle was reportedly arrested.
Several thousand migrant workers (many of them reportedly undocumented) are empoyed as strawberry pickers in the area.
This is not the first time that immigrants in Nea Manolada have protested against harsh working conditions.
In 2008, immigrant farm workers staged a two-day strike (delaying the shipments of strawberries by at least a few days) to protest against harsh working conditions. Their strike exposed slave wage exploitation, shocking living conditions and prejudice.
The government at the time responded to the strike by ordering labour inspectors to crack the whip on farmers exploiting migrant workers in Nea Manolada.
Despite the country’s soaring rate of unemployment, agriculture is heavily reliant on immigrant labour.
In 2009, two farmers in Manolada, alleged to have tied two Bangladeshi immigrants to a motorcycle and reportedly dragged them through a central square.
Last edited by ВАЛТЕР; 18th April 2013 at 13:20.
I'm surprised the government interfered in this. I'm sure in the future the government will say it's the employers 'right' to do this.
I believe we are going to see more and more such incidents as the crisis deepens. Remember the massacre of the S. African miners which took place about a year or so ago? How long can the working class take these sort of attacks? I would like to know what organizations, if any, are giving support to such workers. Maybe some of our Greek comrades can give us some insight into this event?
THIS FUCKIN VILLAGE MAN! THIS MOTHERFUCKIN SHITHOLE VILLAGE.
Thats not the first time that this kind of shit happen, and no, it has nothing to do with the deepenth of crisis. This has to do with scumbags greek bosses, with their greek and albanian helpers taking as slaves the pakistani workers. Making them to work from sun to dawn for a piece of bread(literally) and then handing them to the cops.
Some years ago, PAME went there to assist some workers get their money from their bosses, which ended up in a 200 people fight, ie the vast majority of that fuckin village against PAME and the pakistanis.
If there is a God, when I wake up I will find that he stoke 10.000 lightnings to that fuckin village.
Tommorow, KKE calls for a demo in the village of that fuckin village. Expect the worst. I will do everything I can to go there.
Disgusting. Bourgeois scum like this are the ones who need to be shot.
And please, do humanity a favour: if you ever find strawberries from Manolada, please, please, please boycott them. Or even better, organise a boycott campaign in your country. I would gladfully help spreading the word. LET THEM DIE FROM STARVATION. The least dignified thing to do to them.
The first picture is from the incident I mentioned before before the fight broke out(hence the chain on the block), the rest are from actions PAME has done afterwards.
despicable. thx for the background info, DC
F***ing fascist racist pieces of shit. Feed him to the crows for all I care. F***ing scum with an ego and a ten foot pole up their asses. These men didn't have families you stupid pieces of shit!? Fuck you. Fuck Nikolaos Michaloliakos. F*** Scumfront. F*** Don Black. F*** you, and f*** Golden Dawn. If you admire Hitler so much why don't you just follow in his footsteps and off yourselves???? You're all f***ing cowards, that's what you are. You know it, and I know it.
Last edited by Comrade Nasser; 18th April 2013 at 05:26. Reason: Censored Myself
And yet nobody sees the needn for class war
Segui il tuo corso e lascia dir le genti.
Socialism resides entirely in the revolutionary negation of the capitalist ENTERPRISE, not in granting the enterprise to the factory workers.
- Bordiga
Left.gr, the portal of SYRIZA, just posted that they took the immigrant workers from the hospital, and drove them to the police station of the area because they didnt had the legal papers.
I think it is time the working class in Greece (as well as everywhere) took weapons into their hands and fought back. Parliamentary politics have gone nowhere favorable for the people. It is time to take a revolutionary approach to change and stop playing these bourgeois parliamentary games.
Last edited by ВАЛТЕР; 18th April 2013 at 13:21.
It's unbelievable that there are still pacifists on the left after things like this happen.
Like people that say "oh we can't hurt capitalists or fight back, that would be simply barbaric" ...are you kidding me?!
No, its not. We still have a long way to go. The working class in Greece still havent realise that it is a class and that it should start producing politics for itself. I remind you, last year, 95,5% of the people voted the package "capitalism, within EU, within eurozone".
+ YouTube Video
The demo of KKE in Manolada, with basic slogan "Greek and immigrant workers, same interests, same enemies".
Also, many small demos were done from PAME all around Athens and Greece.
+ YouTube Video
Οther slogans that were shouted were:
"Workers rise up, now form a fist, destroy the mnemonioums and the bosses"
"The law is the workers interests, not the profits of the capitalists"
Partija Rada (Party of Labour)
