About Us - TPTG
A brief introduction to the Greek communist group Ta Paidia Tis Galarias (TPTG) "The Children of the Gallery"
The magazine Τα Παιδιά της Γαλαρίας (The Children of the Gallery) has been published irregularly in the last 20 years. The first issue was published in April 1990.
In critical and suffocating times - TPTG
Submitted by Red Marriott on May 10 2010 14:52
The Ta Paida Tis Galarias (The Children of The Gallery) group report on the recent demonstrations in Athens against austerity measures, including the events leading to the tragic deaths of three bank workers and its implications for the movement of opposition.
What follows is a report on the demo of the 5th of May and the one that followed the day after and some general thoughts on the critical situation the movement in Greece is in at the time being.
There’s only one thing left to settle: our accounts with capital and its state - TPTG
A report on the working class struggles against austerity measures in Greece by Proles and Poor’s Credit Rating Agency aka TPTG, a Greek communist group.
In periods of crisis, such as the current period of over accumulation crisis, capitalists use the politics of “public debt” in order to devise new ways to intensify exploitation. In contrast with capitalist upturns when the private debt is increased, downturns are characterized by the increase of the “public debt”.
Developments and workers' struggles in the Greek textile industry, 2005
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 8 2010 00:47
Article on the status of the Greek textile industry in 2005, with analysis of workers' struggles over pay and against plant closures.
Mobilizations in the Greek Textile Industry
2005: Bank clerks and dockers on month-long strikes in Greece
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 5 2010 13:52
A brief account of bank and dock workers strikes in Greece in 2005 by TPTG.
The strike at the banks lasted for 24 days, from the 7th until the 30th of June. The participation was not low, however the bank clerks who took part at the two rallies organized by OTOE (Federation of Bank Clerk Unions of Greece) - during the general strikes called by GSEE (General Confederation of Workers of Greece) on the 16th and 24th of June - were too few.
Mexico is not only Chiapas nor is the rebellion in Chiapas merely a Mexican affair
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 13 2009 10:53
TPTG's detailed analysis and critical look at the Zapatista revolt, and the social and economic conditions of peasants and workers in Mexico which gave rise to it.
In January 1994, in the south eastern state of Chiapas in Mexico, news of the Zapatistas armed revolt composed mainly of Indian peasants, travelled all over the world bringing about an explosion of interest and information on Mexico because the rebellion was automatically connected with the Mexican revolution.
The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time - TPTG
An analysis of the Greek rebellion of December 2008 and the post-rebellion developments as aspects of the crisis of capitalist relations in Greece.
AN EPOCHAL CRISIS?
The War On Terror
The following text, written in English by some Greek friends (the TPTG), was published in July 2003 as a discussion document. Though it sometimes has some stodgy ultra-leftist phraseology and thinking, it's generally an extremely interesting summary and analysis of some important aspects of the present epoch such as the ideology of zero tolerance and the dissolution of Keynesianism.
The so-so joke on the left was produced at the end of June 2005
Introductory note
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…
A heavy burden on young shoulders - TPTG
TPTG analyse the developments in Greek movements against education reforms.
"It's not books, nor high marks. What we lack is life"
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