Monday 25th of October:
Two Albanian workers and one Greek woman lost their life after the fall of an old traditional house in the city of Edessa (northern Greece). The building was under reconstruction when all of a sudden collapsed. The 40 years old worker died immediately underneath the pile of ruins while his fellow worker and the owner of the house passed away on Tuesday 26th.
This event comes to add 3 more persons in the list of the 8000 workers that lost their life at work from 1970 until now (without calculating the miners, farmers and port workers). It is interesting that according to UNO 99, 2% of the so called “accidents” worldwide would have been avoided if the employers were taking the necessary security measures. But the truth is that the loss of human life costs less for the bosses and their companies. After all, capitalism has been based on human exploitation and death. The consequences of social war in Greece and elsewhere are vast.
Events like this will be characterized by the mass media as “working accidents” while everybody knows that is just another murder of the capital. Of course all these do not ring a bell to the working class that continues numb and melancholic to choose between the slow death of unemployment and the opportunity to loose its children in the altar of profit for the capitalists.
As the president of G.S.E.E. (general federation of Greek workers) said some weeks ago: “there will be no strikes at the near future”