Blaumachen
Articles by Blaumachen, a communist group based mainly in Thessaloniki, Greece, producing a journal of the same name. Work closely with fellow Greek communists, TPTG.
December 2008, Greece: An attempt to detect the power and the limits of our struggle - Blaumachen
A thorough account of the December 2008 rebellion in Greece
Although the state and the spectacle attempted to reduce the events of December 2008 to “riots by youngsters” whose inherent in their age sensitivity justifies their reaction against grown-ups’ world, these events are the most important historical ones during the last 35 years in Greece. In December a minority of the working class that lives in this little corner of the world rebelled.
Greece unrest: Like a winter with a thousand Decembers - TPTG/Blaumachen
Reflections on the recent unrest in Greece; "The rise of new organisational forms and contents of struggle is being discussed by all the insurgent elements"...
[i]‘VIOLENCE means working for 40 years, getting miserable wages
and wondering if you ever get retired…
VIOLENCE means state bonds, robbed pension funds
and the stock-market fraud…
VIOLENCE means being forced to get housing loans which finally
you pay back as if they were gold…
VIOLENCE means the management’s right to fire you any time they want…
Introduction to Blaumachen
Article introducing the politics of Greek communist group, Blaumachen.
The political group Blaumachen came into being in Thessaloniki in June of 2005. The word "blaumachen" is one of the traces proletarian struggles have left on the German language and its meaning has been established as: swing the lead. Those involved in this project have participated in various social struggles together and from January of 2004 in Tristero collective.
Chronology of the Greece unrest - Blaumachen
An updated summary of events of the Greek riots in Thessaloniki from 6 December-31 December 2008 by communist group Blaumachen. (Updated 2nd Jan 2009.)
We present below a rough chronology of events that took place in Greece’s second largest city from Saturday 6th of December up until Wednesday 31st of December. During the first five days, when thousands of enraged proletarians got to the streets and set these cities of commodity on fire, we lived the peak of the recent upheaval, at least in Thessaloniki and other provincial cities and towns.
