Today (15/04/20), The Assembly against Bio-Power & Confinement carried out a mass counter-information action in support of workers in different neighborhoods at the center of Athens. Taking all necessary precautions, we found ourselves in the streets with working people of our class, discussing and sharing common fears and concerns. We demonstrated in practice that solidarity for us does not mean “everyone in their private cell” and “everyone for himself”, like the state and its personnel attempt to convince us every day. We discovered with joy that we are not alone in this situation, that the proletarians didn’t fall for the fairy tale that the pandemic is a “matter of individual responsibility”, or that the state and the bosses are putting up a fight for our own good. So, from our point of view, we are already setting the stage in order for the motto “we will deal with you later” to not be just a figure of speech.Below is the text of the action and some photos

WE ARE TOLD TO ENTER QUARANTINE, BUT:

-The ones among us working in super markets, delivery services, pet shops, pharmacies and hospitals have not entered quarantine. We work in health-devastating conditions, forced to work overtime, some of us with lower wages and without the proper means of protection against the virus.

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The Assembly Against Bio-Power and Confinement — confinement imposed on us by the all-protective state in the days of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic — is an initiative taken by some proletarians so as not to succumb to the “new sociability” implied by the mantra “stay home”… alone. It is a sociability that the political personnel of capital wants to impose on us preparing the dystopia of the anti-social, individualistic, lonely and helpless person.

First of all, we want to research whether the ways in which capital and the state are trying to organize their exit from the crisis and the disorderin which they find themselves due to the pandemic are successful. Can these ways guarantee the restoration of order and capitalist normality in more profitable and disciplinary terms than before? Continue reading “Against Bio-power and Confinement”