Graffiti Protest in Pristina After Tragic Death of a Worker at a Construction Site

This evening, the Collective for Feminist Thought and Action carried out a graffiti action in the capital, as an expression of anger and grief over the loss of life of a worker at a construction site in Pristina.

Through a statement, the group expressed that it followed with indignation and deep sadness the latest fatal scene of ruthless and deadly capitalism, which added another victim from construction sites and injured several other workers.

“For a long time, the construction mafia has been building objects on the bloody backs of workers, while the state becomes a partner in empowering power and in the brutal oppression of the working class. In a country that above all should belong to the workers, for the mafia capitalists, the sacrifice for profit are human beings, who are sacrificed to satisfy their greed for money and accumulation. Poorly paid, treated inhumanely and forced to work even in high temperatures, construction workers live on the edge of survival. All this happens while state institutions are sometimes corrupted and sometimes completely indifferent to the fate of the working class,” the reaction emphasizes.

Furthermore, the Collective highlights that we experience our reality as workers through the multifaceted oppressions that stem from the cooperation between capital and the state. While we learn about the tragedies happening around us, power constantly tries to distract us from the common poverty into which it has plunged us, by fabricating fictitious enemies. According to them, the material conditions that force many of us into inhumane work relationships and on the edges of existence are the common denominator of our collective suffering.

“Therefore, tonight we reiterate that it is imperative to mobilize to take control of our fate and to oppose any form of power that rules us with contempt and violence, killing some of us and leaving the rest exhausted and oppressed. Our organization must be an organization that protects life and dignity in the face of the capitalist class,” concludes the statement of the Collective for Feminist Thought and Action.