- Local Name: Μέτωπο Ταξικής Αλληλεγγύης
- Transliteration: Métopo Taxikís Allilengýis
- Alternatives: N/a
- Status: 2020 – Active
- Conflicts: Greek Anarchist Militancy
The Class Solidarity Front [MTA; Métopo Taxikís Allilengýis] is a left-wing extremist franchise based in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. It describes itself as a network for coordinating the revolutionary activity of aligned cells. The MTA appears to be ideologically diverse. Some of its components espouse an anarchist worldview while others describe their activities and motivations in communist terminology.
According to the MTA, Greece is facing a social crisis caused by the exploitation of the proletariat that it is allegedly “forced to work until death”. The network furthermore accuses the ruling class of implementing a “strategy of extermination of the non-productive sections of society”. The MTA was formed following the introduction of government measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic. It does not believe that the emergency measures have a temporary character and instead assumes that they signal the “entry of a new phase of intensifying totalitarianism and class exploitation”. The network charges the state with deliberately “creating a society of resignation” through social control measures, extensive surveillance and travel prohibitions. In their communications, all MTA cells have subscribed to this understanding of the situation.
The MTA first appeared on Apr. 10, 2020 when the Nucleus of the Proletarian Base [MTA-PPV; Pyrínas Proletariakís Vásis] claimed responsibility for an arson attack on two vehicles of different courier companies.1 That same day, the network also released a general statement in which it introduced itself and invited all “anti-capitalist and anti-state fighters” in Greece to join its campaign. The Anarchist Action Organization [OAD; Organosí Anarchikí Drási], an outfit that had been active in Thessaloniki for several years, asserted responsibility in the name of the MTA for the Apr. 15 incendiary bomb attack on the law firm of a conservative legislator.2
In the fall of 2020, new incarnations of the MTA appeared. The Core for Social Overthrow [MTA-PKA; Pyrínas Koinonikís Anatropís], the Workers’ Solidarity Cell [MTA-PErA; Pyrínas Ergatikís Allilengýis] and the Zero Tolerance Cell [MTA-PMA; Pyrínas Midenikís Anochís] were behind a campaign of arson attacks against company vehicles in Thessaloniki.3 On Dec. 27, the Core of Proletarian Revenge [MTA-PPA; Pyrínas Proletariakís Antekdíkisis] set fire to a shop of an electricity provider and the Nucleus of Worker Terrorism [MTA-PET; Pyrínas Proletariakís Vásis] was responsible for an incendiary bomb attack on a supermarket on May 07, 2021.4 In the following weeks, two other MTA cells burnt a vehicle of the social security service and the car of an official of the labor department.5
The MTA apparently centralizes its communications. All statements are published through the same account on a left-wing extremist website. Despite their ideological heterogeneity, MTA cells all share the network’s characteristic habit of describing the current situation in Greece in hyperbolically stark terms. References to “social genocide”, “employer slaughterhouses” and “slavery-like working conditions” are commonplace.
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