On the new tragedy-shipwreck with refugees Unions of Athens issued the following call:

Everyone at the rally on Thursday 15/6 at 20:00 in front of the Parliament

We will not accept barbarity- Our lives or their profits!

Anger and sadness floods the hearts and minds of all workers and people in our country, from the new deadly shipwreck near Pylos. News reports speak of a hundreds dead and missing, with the number growing by the hour.

However, this shipwreck is not just an ‘accident’. It is yet another crime, part of the ongoing crime that has been taking place in the Mediterranean and the Aegean over the last few years. It has the signature of the imperialists and their governments, who are launching interventions, spreading war and occupying peoples and countries. All this leads to the millions of caravans of uprooted people, creating the conditions for the unscrupulous activity of trafficking rings.

Let grief and anger at this new crime now become a voice and a struggle. We will not get used to the employer crimes, to deaths while waiting for an ambulance, to wars.

We denounce the ongoing crime!

We will not become spectators to the “normality” of thousands of dead and missing in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas.

We demand that the country’s involvement in imperialist interventions and war be stopped here and now.

We express our solidarity with the uprooted and demand the effective protection of their rights to asylum in the countries of their true destination, and the abolition of all agreements and laws of repression and confinement.

They have turned the Mediterranean into a sea of the dead,

This is the fate of all the poor,

for the wealth and profits of the capitalists.

WE WILL NOT ACCEPT BARBARITY