Graffiti in Pristina as an Expression of Revolt Over a Worker’s Death at His Workplace

Tonight, the Collective for Feminist Thought and Action created graffiti in the capital, reacting to the loss of a worker’s life at a worksite in Pristina.

In their statement, they expressed that with pain and indignation they witnessed another tragic event of a harsh and murderous capitalism, which caused another victim from construction sites, leaving others injured.

“The construction mafia has long been building structures on the blood of workers, while the state becomes an accomplice in strengthening power and the criminal oppression of the working class. In a state that least of all belongs to workers, for mafia capitalists people are a sacrifice for profit, sacrificed to feed their greed for gain and accumulation. Underpaid, mistreated, and forced to work even in scorching temperatures, construction workers live on the edge of survival. All this happens while state institutions are sometimes sold, sometimes indifferent to the fate of the entire working class,” the reaction states.

It further emphasizes that today’s reality as workers is experienced through multiple oppressions stemming from the capital-state partnership, as we hear about tragedies around us and the power constantly tries to distract us from collective misery by declaring fictitious enemies. The material conditions that push many of us toward inhumane working relationships and the edges of existence are the common denominator of our collective condition, the reaction adds.

“Therefore, tonight we reaffirm that we must mobilize to take our fate into our own hands and oppose any power that subdues us through disregard and violence, killing some of us and leaving others exhausted and oppressed. Our organization must be one that protects life and dignity in the face of the capitalist class,” concludes the statement of the Collective for Feminist Thought and Action.