tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89623306915172669452024-03-13T20:02:48.587+02:00group of libertarian communists (athens)ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-45813302574872260372014-12-09T15:12:00.002+02:002014-12-09T15:12:54.932+02:00Solidarity with those arrested during the events of 6 December 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
December 6, 2014 marks six years since the cold-blooded murder of 16-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by the cop Korkoneas.<br /><br />This anniversary coincides with the hunger strike of 21-year-old anarchist Nikos Romanos who is requesting furlough to attend university classes.<br /><br />The day and night found tens of thousands of people demonstrating in the streets of many cities of Greece. The particularly massive afternoon demonstration in central Athens was succeeded by hours of clashes and street fighting mainly in the area of Exarchia. The police detained more than 200 people, of whom 43 were the arrested. Some of those arrested face felony charges, and are still being held at the police headquarters.<br /><br />Clashes between anarchists/anti-authoritarians and the forces of repression took place in many other cities, such as Thessaloniki, Patras, Volos, Larissa, Ioannina, Agrinio, Mytilene, Heraklion, Chania, Kalamata and elsewhere. Specifically, in Patras there were six arrests (of which two on felony charges), in Thessaloniki seventeen, in Agrinio three, while about 100 people were detained in other parts of Greece.<br /><br />Once again, the state attempted to unleash terror with the imposition of so-called "zero tolerance" by attacking marches, detaining protesters, and bringing charges of heavy and vengeful character to those arrested.<br /><br />Once again, the rulers are wrong. Their imposed police state will achieve nothing more than to spread an intensify even more the hubs of resistance throughout Greece. Their suppressive machine does nothing more than to cause the spread of circles of subversion.<br /><br />Hope lies in the militant and uncompromising attitude of anarchists hunger strikers Nikos Romanos (from 10 November), John Michailidis (from 17 November), Andrea Bourzoukou and Dimitris Politis (from 1 December).<br /><br />Hope lies in the thousands of people who marched and are marching in the streets of Greece against state and capitalist barbarity.<br /><br />Hope lies in the numerous hubs of resistance that have been created in the occupied town halls, universities and labor centers.<br /><br />Hope lies in the neighborhoods of Istanbul where Turkish comrades marched in solidarity with N. Romanos and clashed with riot police there, in the streets of Ferguson, and wherever people are in the streets of revolt.</div>
ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-51831777320265660262014-07-09T08:36:00.002+03:002014-07-09T08:36:53.285+03:00Η μικρή ΔΕΗ, η μεγάλη κομπίνα<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">( ή, «πως, εκτός από την κατσίκα του γείτονα, θα
κάνουμε και τη δική μας κατσίκα να ψοφήσει»).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Έχουμε <a href="http://eleftheriakoi.blogspot.gr/2014/06/blog-post.html">ξαναπεί σε αυτό
το ιστολόγιο</a>, για την διάχυτη αδιαφορία που επιτρέπει στους κάθε λογής
κομπιναδόρους υψηλού επιπέδου, να αυξάνουν τα κέρδη τους εις βάρος της
κοινωνίας, με την συναίνεση της ίδιας της κοινωνίας.</div>
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Η διαμορφούμενη κατάσταση στον χώρο της ενέργειας είναι
ακόμα ένα κλασικό τέτοιο παράδειγμα.</div>
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Τι διακυρήσσει η κυβέρνηση οτι θα γίνει και λέει οτι περιμένει
ο μέσος μαλάκας τηλεθεατής να συμβεί με την «απελευθέρωση της αγοράς
ενέργειας»; Να πέσει στο ιστορικό χαμηλό η τιμή του ρεύματος, λόγω του
«ανταγωνισμού», για να μπορεί να αποβλακώνεται μπροστά στο χαζοκούτι με το
μικρότερο δυνατό κόστος, ή να μπορεί να βάζει και πάλι τέρμα το καλοριφερ με
ανοιχτά τα παράθυρα, όπως τον «καλό καιρό». Το οτι σε κανέναν «απελευθερωμένο»
τομέα της οικονομίας δεν έχει γίνει κάτι τέτοιο είναι λεπτομέρεια. Το οτι στο
γάλα, στα καύσιμα, στα τρόφιμα, τα καρτελ κρατάνε ψηλά τις τιμές με την προφανή
συνενοχή των κρατικών μηχανισμών ή στην καλύτερη με την αδυναμία επιτυχούς
παρέμβασής τους είναι άσχετο.</div>
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Στην Ελλάδα, όσες
ενέργειες έγιναν για την «απελευθέρωση» της ενέργειας ήταν υβρίδια μεταξύ
φιάσκου και κομπίνας: </div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Οι ιδιωτικοί πάροχοι ενέργειας που εμφανίστηκαν προ
τριετίας, «χρεωκόπησαν» (σε εισαγωγικά διότι η ακριβής έκφραση είναι άλλη)
αφήνοντας όχι μόνο φέσι στην ΔΕΗ αλλά και την υποχρέωση στην ΔΕΗ να καλύψει
τους εξυπνάκηδες που πήγαν στους ιδιώτες (δηλαδή διπλό φέσι). Ο ορισμός αυτού
που έλεγε ο Ωνάσης, οτι <b>«…</b><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Η Ολυμπιακή είναι ένας κουβάς με σκατά που
όλο του προσθέτουμε. Ε, μόλις ξεχειλίσει και μας πνίξει η μπόχα, θα τον δώσουμε
στo γκουβέρνο.</span></strong><b>..»<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Η ισχύουσα αυτή τη στιγμή ημι-απελευθερωμένη κατάσταση,
όχι μόνο δεν βελτίωσε τις τιμές (ενα λιγάκι ρε παιδί μου, να πειστούμε οτι πάμε
προς την σωστή κατεύθυνση....) αλλά αντίθετα, βλέπουμε βιομηχανίες να κλείνουν
επικαλούμενες το κόστος του ρεύματος. Και άν μεν οι βιομήχανοι μπορεί υπερβάλλοντας,
να χρησιμοποιούν το ρεύμα ως “πάτημα”για απολύσεις και άλλους δικούς τους
λόγους, σίγουρα δεν ισχύει το ίδιο πχ για τους <a href="http://www.agronews.gr/?pid=190&la=1&aid=100637">αγρότες</a>.η
για τα νοικοκυριά, όσο και να προσπαθεί η κυρία Βούλτεψη και οκύριος Γεωργιάδης
να μας πείσουν οτι ο ήλιος ανατέλλει από τη δύση.</div>
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Αυτά όμως είναι ψιλά γράμματα. Στον προηγμένο κόσμο λέει, η
πλήρης απελευθέρωση της αγοράς ενέργειας έχει θετικά αποτελέσματα. Ποιά; Που;Ακόμα
και με ένα απλό γκουγκλάρισμα με τις λέξεις <span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis">California Energy Crisis</a></span>
, ο οποιοσδήποτε θα μπορούσε να δει πως δουλεύει στην πραγματικότητα μια «απελευθερωμένη
αγορά ενέργειας»: Υπερτιμολογήσεις, Διακοπές Ρεύματος, Εκβιασμοί, Εσκεμμένη
καταστροφή επιχειρήσεων, και λοιπά και λοιπά. Και άμα μας πιάσουνε, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/30/investing/jp-morgan-electricity-fines/">κάνουμε
διακανονισμό</a> και δεν τρέχει και τίποτα.</div>
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Μια πολύ ωραία περιγραφή όλων των ανωτέρω (και άλλων πολλών
τέτοιων, για να μην πλατειάζουμε....) μπορείτε να βρείτε <a href="http://www.imerodromos.gr/deikouvas/">εδώ</a>.</div>
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Ούτε είναι θέμα ουσίας το οτι ο κάθε «επενδυτής» (διάβαζε
κοράκι ή λαμόγιο) παίρνει μπιρ παρά δημόσια περιουσία (ναι ρε κρετίνε, δημόσια,
όχι κρατική, δεν μπορεις να καταλάβεις την διαφορά; Κρατικός είναι και ο στρατός,
αλλά δεν έχεις δικαίωμα να πάρεις ένα <span lang="EN-US">ABRAAMS</span> να πάς βόλτα, ενώ τον αέρα που αναπνέουμε, ενώ δεν είναι
ούτε κρατικός ούτε ιδιωτικός, δεν έχει κανένας δικαίωμα να σου τον περιορίσει)
όπως δημόσια γη, δημόσιο υπέδαφος, δημόσια νερά και τα κάνει αποκλειστικής
δικής του χρήσης. Ούτε κάν το οτι ο ίδιος επενδυτής μπορεί να χρησιμοποιήσει
και δεσμεύσει ιδιωτική περιουσία τρίτου για ίδιο όφελος, χωρις να του ζητήσει
την άδεια και φυσικά χωρίς να τον αποζημειώσει (όπως για παράδειγμα<a href="http://eleftheriakoi.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/blog-post_08.html"> η δουλεία
διέλευσης των γραμμών υψηλής τάσης</a>, η οποία συστάθηκε για λόγους «δημοσίου
συμφέροντος», και πλέον γίνεται ιδωτικού συμφέροντος). Όχι, δεν είναι αυτή η
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<b><i>Η ουσία είναι οτι ο μέσος μαλάκας
τηλεθεατής –</i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US">follower</span> του
Άδωνις, είναι διατεθειμένος σε οποιαδήποτε θυσία προκειμένου να τιμωρηθούν οι
«τεμπέληδες δημόσιοι υπάλληλοι» (φωτογραφία ενός τέτοιου «τεμπέλη» βλέπετε εδώ
δίπλα: άραγε πόσοι απο αυτούς τους μάγκες που θεωρούν συλλήβδην τους δημόσιους
υπαλληλους τεμπέληδες, είναι διατεθειμένοι να ανέβουν στο στύλο ή στον πυλώνα νυχτιάτικα
με αέρα ή/και βροχή;). Όλα τα προβλήματα αυτής της κοινωνίας, προσωποποιούνται γι’αυτούς
στο μούσι του Φωτόπουλου, σε ένα σύγχρονο ανάλογο της ιστορίας του
εξοστρακισμού του Αριστείδη.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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Τρόμπες μέχρι το
τέλος, όπως τότε που φώναζαν οτι «δε πα να τους πληρώσουμε χρυσούς, εγώ νιώθω
υπερήφανος που πήραμε τους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες». Βέβαια μετά οι μισοί φώναζαν
«αλήτες προδότες πολιτικοί» (αλλά πάλι από τον καναπέ) και οι άλλοι μισοί
λέγανε «α ρε τρόικα/χούντα που θέλετε/θέλουμε». Τώρα όμως, δεν έχει άλλοθι. </div>
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<a name='more'></a>Το κουστούμι αυτή τη φορά, δεν θα σου έρθει -φίλε τρόμπα- με
την εφορία, που μπορεί και να μην την πληρώσεις. Τώρα θα έχει μπλακάουτ την ώρα
του τελικού ΤσουΛου, πτώση τάσης ένα δευτερόλεπτο πριν κάνεις <span lang="EN-US">save</span> την <span lang="EN-US">outsourced</span>/<span lang="EN-US">homebased</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span>δουλειά
σου, κόψιμο το ρεύμα και για το μηχάνημα της κατάκοιτης γιαγιάς
κοφτολαιμόσουαςψοφήσει, και θα παίρνεις τις βλάβες, θα το σηκώνει ένας σκλάβος
των 300 ευρώ (που δεν θα μπορεί να απεργήσει πλέον χάρη στις φιλότιμες
προσπάθειές σου για να αποδιοργανωθούν όλα) και θα σου λέει «δε φταίμε εμείς,
έχει βλάβη το κρατικό δίκτυο». Τώρα που το αφεντικό θα σου λέει ακρίβηνε το
ρεύμα και δε βγαίνω (όπως στη χαλυβουργια..... τι, δεν την έχεις ακουστά;
Περίμενε, σού’ρχεται...), τώρα θα τα πούμε.<br />
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ρίξεις τότε, για την γίδα σου, που την θυσίασες προκειμένου να ψοφήσει αυτή του
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ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-46217947213069469442013-02-15T22:13:00.004+02:002013-02-15T22:18:00.954+02:00As long as you are not resisting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">out. The police are nowhere to be seen. As long as you are not resisting in the streets.</span><span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">So </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">nowhere to be seen, and so are the perpetrators. As long as you are not resisting in the </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px; text-align: justify;">streets.</span>So what if people are killed in the train tracks chased by cops. Justice is nowhere to be seen. As long as you are not resisting in the streets.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what if young armed anarchists are brutally beaten and their pictures publicized, demonstrating what their civilization is today. Justice is nowhere to be seen. As long as you are not resisting.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #666666; color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That is all that matters to them, nothing else. As long as you are not resisting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>"Blue face<br />Blue faces. Swollen eyes. Fractured jaws. Police violence. Children with kalasnikovs. Bank robbery. Abduction.<br /><br />Grigoropoulos dead. Every day, again and again.<br /><br />Unskilled photoshop. By choice. They wanted us to see these faces. No<span class="text_exposed_hide">...</span></em></span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>t some police officers from the province. The choice came from the center. Otherwise they would have shown us their id pictures. Here they are. We have them. We can do anything we want to them. Male dominance. One of the oldest instincts.<br /><br />Torture.<br /><br />No one denied it. They said that they slapped them around a little bit when they were arrested. Policemen with some karate moves immobilized fully armed robbers. I have seen this in a movie. Some do not even care. Some rushed to anticipate the denial and say that torture during interrogation is necessary at times and we should not blind ourselves to reality.<br /><br />Guantanamo?<br /><br />Cannibalism for the mother. For the bourgeois origins. Those spoiled rotten kids, why didn’t they sit quietly? What was lacking from their lives?<br /><br />“Why am I sitting quietly, when I am lacking everyting?”<br /><br />Here are the cops, children of the workers again.<br /><br />The good kids. Who if they do everything that they are told will climb up a class and they will become like the spoiled ones that they envy. Hard work is rewarded. The children of the workers.<br /><br />False values. Fake society. Society of cannibals. Hypocrisy.<br /><br />The police guard the thieves instead of chasing them. The politicians of the representative parliament represent only themselves. Justice awakes only when her wages are affected. The financial proposal of the government is that we have too many immigrants. A civil war climate is continuously cultivated. Fist, order and security. The people want security, like a warm blanket to sleep under at night, on the bench where they will end up.<br /><br />Shame. That they do not act like their class. They should join DAP [a conservative university student organization, aligned with New Democracy, the ruling conservative party]. Criminal offense? If it was criminal we would not even learn who they are. The very attitude of the state reveals a political stance.<br /><br />It expresses a deep concern, this attitude of the state, of society. The concern of one caught with his pants down.<br /><br />16 years old he was holding his dying friend in his hands.<br /><br />Didn’t he see this positively? Should he forget it. Life is hard and you must know how to deal with it.<br /><br />He is not a victim. He is representing himself. Can his critics say the same?<br /><br />The photo with the bloody face is the absolute proof that this society does not condemn violence regardless of the source. This society requires violence to maintain itself, otherwise it will collapse like a house of cards. This society adores violence like a fetish. And who better to justifiably exercise violence towards than the ones who are reminding society how rotten it is?"</em></span></span></div>
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ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-3603983700670563012013-01-23T08:01:00.007+02:002013-01-23T08:01:59.817+02:00Support the struggles of the Greek comrades<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span checkedbycsshelper="true" style="color: #00ccff;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The anarchist movement in Greece has built up, in recent years, a strong response from the bottom up for the ruthless raid conducted against the workers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A response made with direct actions, reappropriation of physical spaces, organizing popular assemblies in neighborhoods, self-management in the workplace. A response that refuses whatever form of delegation that imprison the will to change this system that shows every day, his limitations. A response that has been able to gather around if 'tens of thousands of people, workers, students, unemployed, Greeks and immigrants, because the fight is all the exploited, whatever their origin. An answer that scares the bosses and the state not only because it shows that there is an alternative to social atomization, alienation and exploitation but that this alternative is needed now more than ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is necessary because it is now clear that the domain of state and capital do nothing but destroy any social relationship that is not mediated by money or by relations of domination. Necessary because the crisis is impoverishing the working classes and the middle classes is nothing more than yet another robbery carried out by those who manage money and power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Greeks comrades have been able to build a response to this crime and for this reason they are under attack by the police, who said he wanted to clear all occupations, supported in this by the paramilitary Nazi Golden Dawn. It is no coincidence that in times of crisis and popular mobilizations apparatuses of the state use the low level manpower of the fascists. So it was in Italy in the Red Biennium, so it is in Greece in 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, Greece is not far from the Italian peninsula. Here, too, the state is wiping out the results of a century of labor struggles and popular. Here too the state is attacking the social movements, evacuates the sites occupied, raid against the workers in struggle, shooting tear gas against students, beating up the ones who opposing to environmental devastation and to militarism. For this it is necessary to reject the nationalist vision of the crisis, the one nonsense of monetary sovereignty and national level as response at the Europe of banks, of the anthropological differences that create the crisis, referring to racist's theses and sad, a distorted vision that will ensure a greater strengthening the mechanisms of discipline and domination of the state and which is expressed in its most</span></div>
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<span checkedbycsshelper="true" style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The struggles of anarchists in Greece are our struggles, our struggles are those of the Greek anarchists. So how are our struggles of those who, throughout the world, oppose to the exploitation classist, racist and sexist, and builds, daily, a society of free and equal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> complete form, in the sacrifice of the subaltern classes on the altar of nationalist wars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The Italian Anarchist Federation, Milan 13_1_2013</strong></span></div>
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ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-26110486465724279822013-01-11T17:52:00.003+02:002013-01-11T17:56:41.198+02:00Solidarity with anarchists in Greece<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A video for solidarity with the 93 arrested anarchists in Greece:<br />
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The statement by the arrested, from inside the police HQ:<br />
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“We will do it again, as many times
as it takes”:
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Nothing less than our non-negotiable
position for social spaces that we support and they support us in
return. Nothing other than what we say and what we do all these years
in squats, in self-organised spaces, in demonstrations, at strikes
and in the streets. For this reason, the authorities that placed
armed guards outside Villa Amalias could never cause us to be
disappointed, to break our morale, to make us stop, to give up. ----
Today, January 9th, us comrades re-occupied the building of Villa
Amalias under the nose of the repressive forces that were guarding
it. A building linked with the history of the subversive movement for
the past 22 years, but also with the ideals that it signifies for us.</div>
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From the first moment a banner was
unwrapped and a PA system was set up in order to read out texts. At
the same time, hundreds of people in solidarity gathered around the
squat.</div>
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Two hours later, and without the
presence of an attorney, forces of EKAM [police's anti-terrorist unit
- the SWAT equivalent -- trans.], backed by all sorts of police units
plus a helicopter, raided the squat, arresting us. Soon thereafter,
comrades occupied the HQ of the governmental party Democratic Left
(DIMAR), highlighting the complete alignment of this party with the
choices of [PM] Samaras and [Minister of Public Order] Dendias. After
a police intervention, all 40 comrades were detained. The state, in
its attempt to halt the solidarity actions that unfolded, chose to
raid yet another social space, the squat of Patision 61 and
Skaramanga, arresting yet more 8 comrades of ours. We re-occupied the
guarded Villa Amalias knowing that we will be attacked and obviously
that we would be arrested. We will do it again, as many times as it
takes, for this and for any other social space of resistance of those
from below that might come under attack.
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We say it once again, tirelessly:
neither their weapons, nor their slandering can scare us. With
today’s reoccupation we showed how the full-scale attack of the
state, which today targets squats, self-organised spaces and the
structures of the anarchist/anti-authoritarian movement, as well as
social-class struggles, is not without an alternative. Heart, will
for struggle and the desire for a world of equality and freedom are
proving to be stronger than their armies. They shall never manage to
beat us, because no matter how many forces of repression they enlist,
they cannot choke resistance, dignity and solidarity.</div>
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They shall never manage to beat us,
because we are not one hundred, we are thousands. We are part of the
world that struggles against capitalist barbarity, state terrorism
and the fascist turn. Part of local and migrant workers, unemployed,
students, those resisting in the neighbourhoods, persecuted and
arrested people in struggle, who do not bow their heads. Along with
them, we raise a fist of resistance just like at the moment of our
arrest. Our own weapon is solidarity, which we felt very strongly
today. Our strength is collective resistance.
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At the time of the memoranda, enforced
and ever-increasing impoverishment of society are the future dictated
by the state and capitalism; at this time, when the violence of the
system is intensified and the state of permanent exception installs
totalitarianism, social revolution is the only way forward.
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Amidst this condition we are
consciously standing firm, motioning self-organisation, resistance
and solidarity – and attempting to take that extra step forward…
to organise social and class counter-attack. At the time when the
dominant condition reads “we are going to lose everything”, we
struggle for its inversion: “let’s win everything”! If we don’t
change things, no-one will. Everything continues…</div>
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Against the hurricane of repression,
let’s pit the storm of solidarity!</div>
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Everyone to the streets, where
everything is determined</div>
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Hands off Villa Amalias, Skaramanga
squat, the self-organised haunt of ASOEE, the Xanadu haunt, Delta
occupation, all squats, self-organised spaces and social struggles</div>
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The 93 arrested of Villa Amalias</div>
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ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-79023233696174573182012-12-23T15:47:00.000+02:002012-12-29T21:55:56.330+02:00SMALL REPORT ON THE EVACUATION OF VILLA AMALIAS SQUAT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="en-US">On Thursday 20</span><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup><span lang="en-US">
of December at </span>7am, <span lang="en-US">riot </span>police
forces raided <span lang="en-US">at </span>Villa Amalias squat <span lang="en-US">in
the center of Athens</span> <span lang="en-US">under the pretext of
an anonymous complaint. Policemen detained eight comrades which have
been transferred to the police headquarters. The police searched the
place in presence of a public prosecutor and a witness from the
squatters for several hours and after the end of the search the
comrades were all arrested and charged with felonies. Police officers
sealed the squat and since then the building is guarded all the time
by riot police squads. From the first moment hundreds of comrades
gathered outside the squat responding to the call for solidarity. The
same morning several comrades went to the Athens town hall in order
to make an intervention to the municipality authorities and the
mayor. Later an assembly took place in a nearby university in order
to be organized a solidarity movement for the release of the arrested
squatters and against the evacuation of Villa Amalias. As a first
step a spontaneous solidarity demo consisting of 1000 comrades took
place that night in downtown Athens which ended near the squat. On
Friday 21</span><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup><span lang="en-US">
of December the arrested comrades were transferred to the courts by
heavy armed policemen and were examined by a public prosecutor. His
proposition was to be charged with the felony of manufacturing
explosive materials and some misdemeanors which means that on Monday
24 of December they should go to the examining magistrate, who is
responsible for the final indictment. Until then they will remain in
the police headquarters.</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US">Villa Amalias squat has been an alive
political and cultural space for the past 23 years. All these years
the squat has hosted a lot of political events and assemblies as well
as concerts and theatrical plays. A housing collective, a printing
collective and a library were also parts of it. Villa Amalias squat
is an emblem of the squat movement, a center of the anarchist
movement and an outpost of the social and class struggle in Athens.
Thus will remain! </span>
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Hands off squats!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Immediate release
of the Villa Amalias squatters!</span></div>
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of libertarian communists (Athens)</b></i></span></span></div>
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<u><b><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">FIRST
VILLA AMALIAS STATEMENT</span></b></u></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">Villa Amalias statement: we are, and we shall
remain here.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Today, on December 20th, 2012,
the police raided Villa Amalias. Under the pretext of a
complaint for drug dealing, they searched the building in the
presence of a district attorney. Their findings are ludicrous.
Nevertheless, according to Dendias [translators' note: the minister
of public order] these prove that Villa was an “epicentre for
lawlessness” for 22 years and that the law, thanks to the “brave
political will of [PM] Samaras” was finally restored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">What
logical leap may brand empty beer bottles as “materials for the
construction of molotovs?” Is it strange to have a large number of
empty beer bottles in a place that hosts a concert [gig] space and a
café? What comprises a “flammable material”? May they be
referring to the cleaning liquids for the printing press that
operates in the squat? Should we talk about the gas masks that should
be carried by every demonstrator that respects their health? Should
we talk about the elementary means of self-defense (the mock flash
bangs, slingshots etc) in a space that has repeatedly been attacked
by para-statist gangs (arsons, stabbings, beatings) with the apogee
reached in 2008, when the then minister of public order
Markogiannakis visited the “residents” of Agios Panteleimonas and
a few minutes after he left, we were attacked… </span>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Under
the pretext of the search, then, they materialise a long-standing wet
dream of theirs: their raid into a space that is one of the spatial
symbols of all those who stand in hostility against anything that
represents sovereignty, imposition, sterilization, indifference,
surrender, subjection. In this they are right. That’s who we are.
Us and the thousands of demonstrators, the people in struggle,
squatters, strikers, people fighting in the streets. We are the
homeless, the punks and the rebels, the vegetarians and the
feminists, the nocturnal ones and the workers, poor and the
aggrieved, the victims of racism and the avengers of injustice. The
minister called us an epicentre of lawlessness…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">And now
we should talk seriously. Villa Amalias is an organising proposition
which had to be dealt with at the time of the cannibalism
of the memoranda. The onslaught of capital against the world of
labour presupposes the destruction of all of its structures: the
depreciation of everything that trade unions had gained, whatever
structures of solidarity and dissent, the self-organised incentives:
everything is targeted. The far-right agenda that has prevailed since
the outbreak of the crisis commenced with the statement concerning a
[supposed] hygiene bomb by Loverdos [trans. note - Loverdos was
minister of health at the time and claimed that the 300 migrant
hunger strikers comprised a “hygiene bomb” in the centre of
Athens] against the hunger strikers of Ypatia. It continued with the
targeting of migrants (at the Evros border wall, concentration camps
and the Xenios Zeus [anti-migrant] operation), the pillorying of
addicted seropositive women, aided by the far-right violence against
migrants, homosexuals and street traders. The torturing of
anti-fascists at the police HQ after the anti-fascist motorcycle
demo, the attacks against squats and the harsh repression against any
labour or social demand, leave little doubt for the fact that the
enemy has put together a solid block; a block against which we must
now resist.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">For the
past 22 years we have been in a building that was abandoned for
decades. We maintain it and breathe life into it. We are a squat that
always has its doors open to groups, individuals and incentives that
promote the anti-commercial culture, human dignity, social,
anti-fascist and class struggles. Villa Amalias is giving a fierce
fight –– not in order to protect a dozen pillars, but in order to
protect our desires, our dreams and our hopes for a more free life
for everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">We call
everyone who identifies part of themselves in the years-long
operation of the squat to partake in this crucial struggle with us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">This is
the windmill that the executors-don quixote’s have attacked, even
though it is ideas that they are after. These are what are lawless
and illegal for them. Their witch-hunt will bring them nightmares in
response. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE VILLA
AMALIAS SQUATTERS</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><u><b>STATEMENT
BY THE VILLA AMALIAS SQUATTERS IN THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN ATHENS</b></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">The Villa Amalias squat has been an open political, cultural and
social space, as well as a housing collective, for the past 23
years. In all these years there have been plenty of active groups in
the squat including groups on theatre, concerts, musical studio,
stained glass, kids’ space, dancing, foreign languages, computing,
printing press, screenings, lending library, vinyl exchange – while
the squat has also hosted plenty of political and cultural events by
other groups. Apart from these activities inside its building, Villa
Amalias has also contributed to the resolution of neighbourhood
issues by participating in the residents’ assembly of Victoria
square and by organising open, outward looking activities in the area
– including open mic interventions, free markets, collective
kitchens and kids’ events at the square.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">In all these 23 years, the Villa Amalias squat has formed
multiform qualities that reflected the equally multiform composition
of the subjects and groups comprising it – and which in turn derive
from the wider squat movement, from the Anarchist and
Anti-authoritarian space and from the movement for class and labour
antagonism. These qualities have materialised through the
co-organising and participation in demonstrations, interventions and
mobilisations concerning labour, antifascist and antiracist
struggles; solidarity to persecuted squats, to migrants and
persecuted comrades, to university and high school student struggles
as well as the to struggles for the reclaiming of open, public
spaces.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">The squat’s building was abandoned since 1973 and it had been in
a horrendous state. Since 1990, which is when it was
occupied, it has stayed alive and maintained thanks to the financial
contribution and personal work of the squatters themselves as well as
all the comrades in solidarity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">The apparent owners of the building ( the municipality of athens,
which has has some enormous property wealth and the school buildings’
organisation) are both renown for cases of expropriation of private
property and illegal declassification [of listed buildings]. The most
extravagant case of such was the enormous Haragioni building at
the junction of 3d September and Ioulianou street, which
turned overnight from a plot designated for the construction of
a school building into a shopping mall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">In contrast to them, who see buildings and spaces as yet another
arena for profit, the Villa Amalias squat and its activity is a
concrete example of its premise for the creation of free social
spaces that oppose financial exploitation of any kind; that are set
upon anti-hierarchical, self-organised, solidarity and horizontal
structures; that respect humans and support those at the bottom end
of the calss pyramid, to which we also belong.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">This is why the maintenance of the building, as mentioned above,
is undertaken by the squatters and those in solidarity with them –
in the last 4 years in particular, after the two murderous arson
attacks that the squat received from para-statists, whether waged or
not. These particular attacks caused gross material damage which
nevertheless did not form an obstacle in Villa continuing its action.
To the contrary, they boosted the morale of the people that comprise
it. With the aid of all comrades, the facade of the building on the
side of Cheiden Str was renovated while the restoration and further
improvement of the building have commenced with the aid of architects
and civil engineers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">The continued attacks are not the only ones that the project has
been subject to in all these years. Due to its location but also due
to its ideological values and political characteristics, Villa has
oftentimes found itself targeted by the state and parastate alike. In
all these attacks we always responded with our words, publicizing the
events and propagandizing our positions and our beliefs through
open social interventions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">On 20/12/12, at 7.00 am, men of the state security raided our
Squat under the pretext of an investigation concerning “drugs”
and “explosives”, following a supposed anonymous complaint. They
arrested 8 people who were inside the Squat at the time, of which
three were guests. They confiscated objects from the squat which the
state security then used as evidence for the fabrication of charges
including felonies and misdemeanors - charges
that we reject. Especially when our felony acts are based on some
empty beer bottles and on a tiny amount of petrol that was discovered
next to the heater.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">For us, this move is an explicit political choice by the state. At
a time of financial and systemic crisis, the state launches an attack
in all directions, degrading the life of those from below and trying
to wipe out any cell of resistance and of creation of negation: this
may translate in the botching of labour rights, in the promotion
of racist ideals that contribute to a fascist turn of society, in the
creation of conditions of insecurity aimed at us accepting the
constant surveillance of our lives, or in the persecution and
slandering of political spaces and subjects that rise against all the
above.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">WE DENY ALL CHARGES</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">OUR WORDS ARE OUR WEAPONS</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">WE SAID IT BEFORE AND WE’LL SAY IT AGAIN:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-small;">“WE’VE BEEN GAME ALL THESE YEARS AND THE END IS STILL NO-WHERE
IN SIGHT”</span></div>
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ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-29488456687778358032012-11-19T23:41:00.001+02:002012-11-19T23:45:30.331+02:00Yesterday, in the city of Agrinio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"You have to deeply understand fascism, it won't die by itself, SMASH IT" (a banner at the beginning of the antifascist gathering in the city of Agrinio) </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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in the city of Agrinio (a city between Patras and Ioannina), took place an antifacist action of 300 people against the new offices of
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ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-51533271485096280042012-11-12T19:48:00.001+02:002012-11-14T12:44:13.848+02:00The new measures package<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">On Wednesday 7th of November the Greek parliament voted for the new austerity measures package. It is almost impossible to describe in detail all these measures and their impact on Greek people 's life even in broad outline but generally speaking we could say that by including a lot of redundancies, further decrease of salaries, pensions and benefits, they bring down whatever remains standing after three years of austerity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">On Tuesday 6th of November, first day of the general strike, a few thousand people gathered in the morning at the strike demonstration gathering point at the national museum near to the Polytechnic school. It seems that the strikes in the transportation sector and the <span style="background-color: white;">continuous</span> general strikes during the last period prevented people from attending. Despite the presence of a lot of riot police squads, undercover policemen and motorcycle police units in most streets and side-streets leading to Syntagma square, demonstrators marched toward the square and they filled it until 1 o' clock when they started to leave the place. It was a quiet and quite disappointing day of strike!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Despite the police mobilization at least 100.000 demonstrators managed to gathered at 18:30 in front of or next to the Greek parliament. At 19:00 demonstrators started pushing the metal fence and the barriers which protected the parliament and as soon as they managed to destroy a small part of it riot police units attacked people. Molotov Cocktails (petrol bombs) were thrown by the demonstrators in order to defend themselves from police attacks. Huge amounts of teargas and stun grenades were used by riot police squads in order to force demonstrators to abandon the square. But people wanted to stay in the square and they regrouped again every time they were forced to disperse by the teargas. The pressing from demonstrators was so intense that police officers decided to use water canons for the first time against people during a strike.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3>
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ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-74309736974230030702012-11-08T18:57:00.001+02:002012-11-08T20:35:27.388+02:00About yesterday in Athens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cops with APCs, with chemicals, with guns, with motorcycles. At the<br />same time that inside, Parliament voted for the slashing of wages and<br />pensions, for the dismissal of thousands of people and many other<br />shameful things (in a shameless manner), outside another giant police<br />operation of repression unfolded against the demonstrators. Even in<br />the rain, the cops choked Syntagma Square in tear gas to disperse the<br />protesters who had remained. For all that, the state certainly has<br />money. It has money to enforce a police state in the streets. It has<br />money to purchase tons of chemicals and APCs. It has money to armor<br />like lobsters the special units of repression.<br />As long as people are not willing to lose even one day's wages, to<br />risk two or three most basic things, then their misery, physical and<br />moral, is certain. This whole system of suppression, the spraying with<br />tear gas, the cordoning of the streets around the Constitution by riot<br />police lined like laces, is aimed at nothing more than to force us to<br />stoop our heads and shut up. Its aims are that we empty the streets,<br />stay at home immersed in depression, or head to the mountains, or<br />board a plane and emigrate.<br />But this place does not belong to them. The struggle for this land and<br />its freedom is a struggle that we have been fighting for years now. No<br />matter how many cops they put up, this struggle is not going to stop.<br />No matter how many measures they take, how many electoral backstops<br />they have in parliament, nothing is finished, and nothing will end the<br />way they want it.<br />We have nothing else to do than to give a way to rage, as a recent<br />anarchist slogan goes in an athenian street ...</span></div>
ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-82884084580997284222012-10-27T12:59:00.002+03:002012-10-27T12:59:57.769+03:00NO to Golden Dawn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Comrades from U.S. have sent us this piece about the gatherings that have taken place in New York over the past weeks, in order to discuss the ways to fight Golden Dawn, which recently announced it was opening an office in Queens. We post it here, and we will </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">soon </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">have a translation of it in Greek. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Golden Dawn, the Neo Nazi party that captured a sizable parliamentary presence in Greece, while terrorizing and beating immigrants, radicals, gay/lesbian/trans people and others, announced some weeks ago it was opening an office in Queens. The intention was to build support among the borough’s sizable diaspora community. With this came the launch of www.xanyc.com -- a site devoted to Golden Dawn's operations in New York#. Soon thereafter the Ku Klux Klan issued a statement welcoming the party's US arrival, and white supremacist sites across the country have been aflutter with praise for the group's internationalization. Similar reports of attempts to set up offices in Melbourne and Montreal have also occurred. By all indications, the eastward transatlantic migration of emergent European fascism is both a possible harbinger and gruesome vignette most had resigned to the rear view. Within hours of the Golden Dawn announcing plans to open an office in New York, hundreds began organizing to prevent it. So far, these mobilizations have been successful. This article will delve into some of the organizing that has been taking place in New York, locate this in the recent political movements of the past year and point to some of the challenges that have emerged between new political practices and more traditional forms of organization.</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over the past weeks an eclectic spectrum of New Yorkers have been gathering in each of the boroughs, from Manhattan cafes and the lounges at the City University of New York, to Brooklyn apartments, as well as parks and church basements in Queens. Often as relative strangers, people are coming together to discuss strategy and plan action. Turnaround has been swift. Flyers went up denouncing the organization and warning residents of its presence. Hackers allegedly affiliated with Anonymous disabled the fascists’ website and phones. And local politicians staged a press conference denouncing Golden Dawn's presence in Queens. Through conversations with the community center that first agreed to host Golden Dawn in Astoria, local residents and allied organizers were easily able to convince the center not to allow them to use their space. (The community center made clear that they did not understand who the group was since they entered under the pretext of fundraising for Greece, and did not reveal their political agenda.) </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With less than a week for outreach, over 200 people gathered in a local Astoria church for the first collectively called public meeting against Golden Dawn. This first meeting was organized by some people in the local Greek community, a recently-formed Greek Left alliance known as Aristeri Kinisi, Occupy Astoria-Long Island City, and other Occupy groups. A panel of speakers provided reports from the ground in Greece as well as an update on the groups status in New York. After some tense debate over more traditional top-down organizing templates, attendees began breaking out into working groups to sift out details of Golden Dawn's local activity, establish points of intervention, and propose counter-activity. This coming together in the church marked the beginning of a coalition, or network, of the various groupings, which now includes, among others, gay/lesbian/bi/trans groups, individuals in the labor movement, university professors, religious leaders, students, an anti-fascist group, Occupy individuals as well as Occupy Astoria, and of course, anarchist collectives and socialist groups.</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These gatherings are not uncomplicated, and have yielded predictable dissonance, at times. Greek immigrants stroll into organizing meetings toting hard-hats, and visibly strain to make out a young anarchist's words as he speaks, somewhat inexplicably and secretively through a bandanna. Socialists insist on tying resistance to Golden Dawn to a rejection of global austerity and demand an action at the Greek Consulate. Others are apprehensive about unwittingly providing the group with more of a profile than it warrants. Some at Queens College plan to have regular flyering and teach-ins about the history of fascism. And still many others want to begin doing outreach in the neighborhoods, flyering and speaking to people to let them know exactly who the Golden Dawn is – attempting to create an atmosphere of social condemnation. Likely, most or all of these things will happen.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The debate in the first large meeting about whether to break into groups and organize more horizontally, or have the panelists answer the questions raised and end the meeting points to some of the organizational tensions and what the authors of this article see as a shift in forms of organization in New York. The financial crisis, and what many see as a crisis with the politics of representation and liberal democracy, rendered horizontal forms of organization, tied to direct action, a politics of necessity, and a diverse array of actors have made this approach very much their own. While there may not be physical encampments and seemingly daily marches, a cursory survey of continued foreclosure resistance, community-based rent strikes, wildcat labor actions, neighborhood assemblies, and anti-police brutality organizing suggests that, far from being dead, Occupy is changing forms and locations. Rather than waxing eulogistic, it may be more useful to think about forms of practice and ideas, and how they continue to emerge in different places, though for similar reasons. </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For example, when a few of the panelists insisted on closing the meeting, people participating called for a vote, and while the vast majority voted to organize in groups, a few panelists still tried to grab the microphone and close the meeting. At the same time the panelists were grabbing the mic, people by the dozens, stood up and began to organize in groups. There was a little shouting, but people self organized. This convergence, or clashing of the more traditional panel model, with the more horizontal form, evidenced what we believe is the only way we will organize to defeat fascism. If we learn anything from the history of fighting fascism, and even the current struggles in Greece, horizontal and traditional must continue to come together, even with clashes in the convergences, not to necessarily make one organization, but at least to coordinate and communicate, both centralized and decentralized. We are inspired to report that thus far this is what is taking place. </span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For more information on upcoming meetings and working group projects go to the facebook page: </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Golden-Dawn-NYC/321839064581490" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stop Golden Dawn </a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">The European south, tends to become one more 'El Dorado' of global capitalism. Under the pressure of the economic crisis, all labor rights that are left, and every opportunity of self-determination, are to be dissolved. Even so, the social desertification they seek to impose, is not so close as they think. Newborn struggles leap out, and meet those experiences and structures that existed for years and have beamed the struggle for social liberation. Right next to us, in the Italian peninsula, the new local ecological struggles meet with the libertarian forms of organization and start a new round in that game of social-class struggle. These experiences are of great value for those fighting here in similar ways, or with similar questions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">It's the struggle of NO TAV in northern Italy against high-speed rail, that destroy huge areas of land. It is the Municipal Base Federation (Federazione Municipale di Base) of the region Spezzano Albanese in southern Italy, that, for years now, has brought self-organization and libertarian communalism into action, through forms of direct democracy. And it's Urupia, the libertarian rural commune, also in the Italian south, which has proven that anarcho-communist economics can be more than a slogan, and become reality. These struggles are beside us and we stand beside them, because, apart from the valuable exchange of thoughts, we know that solidarity is our weapon...</span></span></div>
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ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-72792717689197488052011-08-20T22:43:00.000+03:002011-08-20T22:43:52.128+03:00And let us ask: why shouldn’t tourism be stricken?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div closure_uid_jr9x0h="216"><a href="http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2011/08/tourist-use-only.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3898" height="370" src="http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2011/08/tourist-use-only.jpg" width="557" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">In late 80s and early 90s, the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) and other left parties and organizations in Turkey run big campaigns against tourists’ visiting in the particular State. Their concept was simple: tourists from wealthy European countries or North America cannot come and lay their money down in a State where there are thousands of political prisoners, immense repression in the streets, minimum of basic civil rights and unspeakable poverty for a large part of the population. Gradually, this campaign receded, and the flourishing tourism industry in Turkey found thousands of clients — mostly Westerners — who seek to visit even the degraded agricultural areas of Southeastern Turkey.</span><br />
<div class="post-bodycopy clearfix"><span style="font-size: large;">Far from the Mediterranean, on the other side of the Atlantic the tourism industry of the Mexican State consists one of the main pressure levers for the Zapatista indigenous movement’s extermination. In an area where the natural beauty and the archaeological spaces are in abundance, the organized state violence and its paramilitary branches attack Zapatista communities trying to uproot any form of resistance, and gradually forcing the indigenous population to sell amulets and souvenirs to tourists.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Incomes from the tourism industry also flow in the pocket of the relevant repressive mechanisms in order to remove any form of effective social resistance from a whole area or even a whole society.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The case of the long-term strike of taxi owners/drivers, after the major clashes during the general strike on June 28th–29th, brings back to the forefront the issue of ‘blows’ against tourism. Journalists talk rabidly about the ‘evil’ caused by marches and gatherings; for they want via memorandum policy to transform the country into a place captured by local and foreign bosses of the tourism industry, and to turn employees into little slaves who shall beg for a bone.</span><br />
<span closure_uid_jr9x0h="227" style="font-size: large;">The legal framework that the current Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change Giorgos Papakonstantinou prepares is typical: with incredible shamelessness, he essentially invalidates their obligation to submit an environmental study for a range of new building projects, so as not to obstruct ‘development’ through cancellation requests of projects to the Council of State (Symvoulio tis Epikrateias, StE).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mouthpieces like the corporate journalist Aris Portosalte rush to applaud investments made for wealthy passers-by tourists which are located in ‘filets’ —in the best plots of land, not only on famous, already constructed Greek islands, but also in regions such as Central Greece (Sterea Ellada) and Thessaly.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">While they play the dirtiest game against us all, while they try to tear to pieces even those who have been their elections and favoritism clientele since decades, TV channels talk about ‘blows’ against tourism; and these are just a few…<span id="more-3896"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In a country (Greece) where the State seeks to sell out everything, cancels labour legislation, smashes protesters’ heads without considering human life, suffocates the streets with chemicals, unleashes everywhere an even greater number of cops for intimidation, sentences young fighters to imprisonment for dozens of years on non-existent evidence; in a country where bosses are having a blast firing employees, cutting wages and terrorizing; what’s worth visiting in a country such as this? Who has the nerve or the indifference to visit this place without experiencing the war that a whole society suffers from the political and economic elite?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We are not interested in any tourist; we are merely interested in people who wish to visit this land in order to find out how we live and which situation we’re facing. We are interested in people who wish to stand in solidarity with our struggle, and can tell us how to stand in solidarity with their struggle.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The tourism industry is an industry that has ruined the country. It has brought money but destroyed every social tissue and moral value, submitting everything far below the value of money. But this land, the country — not the nation-state — belongs neither to state rulers, nor to mega-investors.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That is why any blow against tourism (not in the sense of threatening people’s lives, but in the sense of blockading its production chain) is an act that weakens the governmental choices and its corporate mandators.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There’s no use having expectations from their economy model. One of the issues that lie before us is its disorganization, as well as the self-valorization of our labour via new networks of communalized economy —in which the choice of touring and traveling will be an additional, rather than the main aspect of life in a society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In many districts of Athens and the rest of the Greek territory, the open assemblies are rapidly spreading, a practice that has timidly emerged in 2003, and was expanded in some neighborhoods after the events of the December of 2008. The daily presence of thousands of people in Syntagma Square in Athens and most important, the realization of the daily popular assembly, despite its presumed contradictions, have brought to the table the concept of public space, in the proper discussion over civic issues, namely the political issues. Thousands of people so far become self-organized, or stop by the squares of their cities, trying to form an alternative, horizontal way of communication and another way to resolve the problems of everyday life. The support and the outgrowth of other similar assemblies of direct democracy, towards the direction of reinforcing, not only the concept of the dual power but also the foundation of a new society within the society itself, is the fundamental goal these days. The radicalization of such a movement of direct democracy is possible- the people who participate in it will indicate it, if and whenever they want to- only if we participate actively now in all these processes that today it is impossible for all the political authorities to manipulate.</span><br />
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On Monday, May 16th a dozen people created a disruption at the Greek consulate in downtown Montreal located at 1002 Sherbrooke West on the 26th floor. We entered the office chanting slogans of solidarity to anarchists and immigrants facing heavy repression at the hands of the Greek state and organized fascists. Furniture and plants were overturned and hundreds of fliers were scattered. One office employee attempted to detain a comrade but failed. Outside people displayed a banner stating "(A) Flics-Porcs-Assassins, Solidarité contre la reprèssion d'État en Grèce" and handed out fliers.<br />
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In Athens, Greece, during a general strike on May 11th against extensive economic restructuring led by the IMF, the repressive forces of the Greek state brutally attacked the strike demo. Dozens were hospitalized and one man was so severely beaten he fell into a deep coma and is on life support.<br />
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In addition, a Greek man was killed on May 10th in a largely immigrant district, triggering a police-sponsored fascist pogrom that is still taking place in the immigrant neighborhoods. Immigrants had their car windows smashed out while they were driving, many have been beaten on the street, a Pakistani family had their house fire-bombed, and a 21 year old immigrant was murdered by fascists. The police have been directly sponsoring and protecting this racist terror and have also cooperatively attacked anarchist social spaces which have been showing direct solidarity to the migrants by physically confronting this fascist pogrom in the streets.<br />
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In times of economic crisis, immigrant populations are often used as scapegoats as an outlet for people’s frustrations with austerity measures. Such racist and nationalist ideologies have always served to prevent solidarity between immigrants and those “native-born” exploited who persist in the delusion that they have more in common with the masters who exploit them.<br />
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Solidarity with anarchists & immigrants in Greece.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
Comrades,<br />
The purpose of this message is to inform you briefly about what is happening the last days in our country and to appeal an international call of solidarity to all anarchists worldwide.<br />
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Greece is at a critical turning point, and many critical changes are taking place in a societal as well as a political and economic level. The disintegration and dissolution of the dominant – until recently – model of power and exploitation is more than evident, so it defines what is commonly called ‘crisis.’ What we are experiencing now is the total failure of a system that is unable to secure any longer the social consensus, thereby is engaged in a frontal attack that is unconditional and with no pretext.<br />
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Initially, at the beginning of this condition which was called ‘crisis,’ the attack occurred in materialistic terms. With the devaluation of labour, the horizontal reduction of wages, the ‘flexible’ working conditions, the institutionalization of insecurity, the increase of the price of consuming goods and public utility bills, the increase of taxes and the cuts in welfare benefits. At the same time, the sale of public wealth to private individuals, the widespread police presence on the streets, the auctions, the rising of unemployment began…<br />
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In addition, the unprecedented attack by means of propaganda was unleashed. The mass media controlled by the State and Capital unleashed a staggering rate of catastrophology and publishing of disaster scenarios and production of calendar milestones of ‘disclosure’ such us… ‘If Troika does not approve the next installment of the loan, we will fall apart…’ With all these, the communicative mechanism of Power manages continually to blur the water and maintain a state of terror ensuring the paralysis of society via extortion.<br />
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However, the resistance has never stopped for a part of the Greek society and the proletariat. Occasionally, declarations for general strikes are surrounded in a different degree by people who actively resist and express their willingness to fight against the conditions imposed by the State and Capital.<br />
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At the general strike of May 11th in Athens, once again thousands of protesters marched and voiced their opposition to the Greek government’s new anti-social measures which effect the workers and the majority of people. During the demonstration, while a big part of the protesters had passed by the parliament and were heading to an end, the cops attacked without provocation and viciously the most radical demonstrator blocks – anarchists and anti-authoritarians, neighborhood assemblies, rank-and-file labour unions, extra-parliamentary left – beating them with unprecedented savagery and firing hundreds of tear gas against them, until these blocks were dispersed. More than 100 demonstrators were hospitalized, while others underwent surgery.<br />
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Comrade Yannis was the protester whose health right now is in the most critical situation. Having suffered a murderous attack by the cops which caused him severe head injuries, he was transferred to the hospital in an antemortem (pre-death) situation –according to the medical report issued later. After the doctors ascertain the breadth of internal head bleeding, he immediately underwent surgery; he has been intubated in the intensive care clinic since. His situation remains critical but stable, without having escaped the danger for his life or health.<br />
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It is obvious that these murderous attacks against demonstrator strikers on Wednesday, May 11th, had a single purpose: to intimidate people and all those who resist to the attacks of Power and capitalist State. It was an act for exemplification aiming at the subjugation of people that seemed to send the following message: stay home, quit and disciplined.<br />
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In the content of this very procedure the sovereignty recently enlists more and more the right-wing and/or its parastate offshoots. The outbreaks of racist violence recently multiplied across the country, and reached a climax last week. In the light of the cold-blooded murder of a resident in the centre of Athens with intent to robbery, for which many immigrants have become a target, an unprecedented pogrom against migrants has been unleashed. Groups from organized and/or autonomous fascists, racists and extreme rightists took the opportunity to gather every evening to attack immigrants, injuring several while the death of an economic migrant also seems to have resulted by them. At the same time, the neo-Nazis alongside with the police also attack squats in the city centre, leading comrades into a condition in which we have to defend ourselves at the risk of our lives against police and fascist brutality.<br />
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The gravity of the situation is obvious. Once society accepts an unprecedented attack in materialistic terms the most radical political parts – one of the main being the anarchist milieu – are under police and fascists attack (literally this time, if one considers the murderous rage).<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-US">This is the reason why we urgently call for international solidarity!</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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Solidarity has always been one of the value features of anarchists. We always count on solidarity to support our struggles and fight back the logic of isolation and retirement into private life promoted by the state power, and also the capitalist condition of individuation and dismantling of the collective notion.<br />
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Now that the Greek society and the proletariat suffer a strain with unprecedented deterioration of living conditions, now that anarchists are under such an oppression that takes dimensions of actual attempted murder, now that the anarchist political milieu is being at the sight of state violence and fascist threat, we need to see our comrades around the world to call actions and stand in solidarity to our struggle; by organizing events, demonstrations, marches, protests, by writing texts, via words and actions; anything that the comrades deem most appropriate; any expression of revolutionary solidarity that only anarchists know and want to demonstrate, will vitalize our spirit and strengthen our struggles.<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">With comradely greetings</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Group of libertarian communists</span></i></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> (Athens)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Eutopia</span></i></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> journal<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">See also the following internet links:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/"><span lang="EN-GB">http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> additional information about recent events in Greece<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1288989"><span lang="EN-US">http</span>://<span lang="EN-US">athens</span>.<span lang="EN-US">indymedia</span>.<span lang="EN-US">org</span>/<span lang="EN-US">front</span>.<span lang="EN-US">php</span>3?<span lang="EN-US">lang</span>=<span lang="EN-US">el</span>&<span lang="EN-US">article</span>_<span lang="EN-US">id</span>=1288989</a> video</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"> police</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> attacks the demonstration</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1290982">http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1290982</a> video: fascists and police</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> in co-operation attack immigrants<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.demotix.com/photo/688561/demonstration-stabbed-greek-turns-riots-and-racist-acts">http://www.demotix.com/photo/688561/demonstration-stabbed-greek-turns-riots-and-racist-acts</a> photos: nazis attack immigrants<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1288923">http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1288923</a> photos: police</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> attacks the demonstration</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1289018">http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1289018</a> photos: police</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> attacks the demonstration</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1289114">http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1289114</a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">photos</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">: police</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> attacks the demonstration</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITSNwVMhp37oAs1TpoSkaStwxwLjKr-o0ks9N4KpPr-6fHJebFHhAenk8IkDdlmR5MEr6m8PL8iW_S1Ts_OirPDpCiOeGIStsQY48m8GTZ8ao1W1kOPB9rBqWV0sFX6L9xZhHTkWfl5I/s1600/4th_PNG.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="240" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITSNwVMhp37oAs1TpoSkaStwxwLjKr-o0ks9N4KpPr-6fHJebFHhAenk8IkDdlmR5MEr6m8PL8iW_S1Ts_OirPDpCiOeGIStsQY48m8GTZ8ao1W1kOPB9rBqWV0sFX6L9xZhHTkWfl5I/s320/4th_PNG.png" /></a></div>ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-45247561329975998532011-04-12T21:40:00.000+03:002011-04-12T21:40:48.052+03:00Some notes on the anarchist-antiauthoritarian action/movement in Greece<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EL</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><!--[endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">During December 2008, Greece became the center of the international news reports. The murder of a 15 years old student in Exarcheia led thousands of raged people - in an unprecedented number of cities, even villages - to clash with police forces, attack police stations, banks, enterprises-corporate buildings and state buildings, take over university places, municipalities and even the Opera of Athens, thus forming a picture of social insurrection, which however didn’t manage to have decisive impact in working places. From the incident of murder itself up to the gradual decline of the flow of anger, the factor “anarchists” is quite important, not implying of course that they were the explosives rather than just the detonator in these facts. This factor is one of the important points in the effort of rising of a new and strong international anarchist movement. Through an historical reference and an empirical point of view, we will try to light some of the new directions, which we consider that are interesting as means of development of the anarchist-antiauthoritarian discourse and action in the greek society, which is at the same time European, Balkan and Mediterranean, as it’s located at the crossroads of three continents. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">In the hellenic space, anarchism did not accomplish to have a parallel blossoming at that time period, at which it constituted an important revolutionary movement in a lot of other countries of Europe.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">The anarchist ideas passed in Greece, in this southernmost part of the Balkans, during the second half of the 19th century, through the Ionian islands and the harbour of Patras, regions that had an intense relation with Italy. The anarchist ideas of Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin and others were of great influence on the socialist thinking of that period. As is mentioned in a letter by the anarchist group of Pyrgos (a small town near ancient Olympia) “anarchism was already present here in 1892”, while later on in the same letter it is noted that at the end of 19<sup>th</sup> century and the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> there aren’t any authoritarian socialists (obviously referring to marxists), but rather “conservative, liberal and anarchist” socialists. The weakness of Socialist groups that existed at that time in certain cities to be incorporated into one more department of the <span>International Workingmen's Association (IWA)</span> as well as the conflict that already had burst out within the IWA, combined with the appearance of Marxist ideas c.1912, signaled a shift in Greece from the “utopian” to the scientific socialism, according to the official marxist bibliography. The anarchist ideas begin to recede and to have no essential effect in the labor and rural movement from the ‘20s onwards. Thus, anarchism in its classic form will cease to have any influence in the social struggles within Greece. From this point of view, we cannot claim existence of an anarchist tradition in Greece that would be connected in some way with the modern anarchist movement, through terms of continuity in lived experience, struggle or theory. <span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>Anarchist ideas emerge again in 1974, after the fall of the military junta regime. This time they are imported from European countries like Italy, France, England and Germany, mainly from greek students that return to Greece after 1974. Those ideas appear and evolve in parts of the greek youth and mainly in universities and they don’t belong anymore to the Marxist tradition and thought, since their reference is now libertarian. On the other hand, those ideas and the means, tactics and organizational approaches that were used to express them bear little resemblance with the elements of the “classical” anarchist movement. Main infuences come from the Parisian May of '68 and the situationists, the movement of autonomous occupations and armed organizations of Western Germany, as well as the movement of labor autonomy in Italy. The spread of “anarcho – autonomous” (anarchoautonomoi) in the universities, in the late ‘70s will give its place in the epicentre of presence of anarchists and the so-called “wild youth” in the region of Exarcheia in the decade of 1980. During the late ‘80s and the '90s, perhaps the two more basic directions that characterize the antauthoritarian-anarchist action will be the focalisation in the question of insurrectional violence on the one hand, and the growth of practice of occupations on the other. As is cited in a text written during of riots of December, “the basic element of the anarchist movement in Greece, since its new beginning is the question of the state’s legal monopoly of violence”. This and the right to resist, which is also advocated, aside, other elements mentioned in the same text are: “self-organisation of the struggle, questioning of the organization of everyday life, absence of mediation of (either struggling or not) subjects, autonomy by means of collective decision making (through assemblies and direct democratic procedures, the main tactic being consent and refusal of the rule of the majority)”. The strategy/tactics or, to be more precise, the mentality most of the greek anarchists have in common, is not one that complies with the vision of the “great anarchist organisation” (with two exceptions, one in the ‘80s and one in the ‘00s). Anarchists operate and organize through small groups or “cores”, whose basic goal is to contribute in leading the social antagonism/rivalry to a true social rupture caracterised by violent conflict/confrontation. Perceptions/beliefs of the situationists, practices of the Autonomen and everyday struggle of the zapatist communities have influenced (and still do today) the way anarchist groups conceive their action and practice. Those regards are identified with those of the representative figures of the so-called meta-anarchism (e.g. J. Adams), who pay much more attention to the everyday practices of the activist groups than the politic struggle itself as part of a political-ideological whole. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>During the last decade, a great spreading of the anarchist presence can be pointed out, regarding the issues/topics of interest of several groups as well as its geographical allocation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>A more “persistent” engagement with local-ecological issues and focus on what we could define as “local libertarian action”, mainly through the action of anarchist-libertarian social centres in various neighborhoods of<span> </span>Athens and other major cities created the conditions necessary to create the “bridges” of self-organised resistance with parts of the local societies/communities. Of course, this was made possible only where libertarian expression was originated by members of the local community itself, although they could be identified as a voice opposed to the general opinion. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>This systematic engagement with local-ecological issues started mainly by small core groups of comrades characterized by a more libertarian-</span><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">anarcho-communist</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> approach, in their attempt to shape/form broader conditions of self-organised social struggle in a certain “front”, accompanied by fierce critic of the ideology of development. At the same time, the influence of the action of organizations like ALF(Animal Liberation Front) and ELF(Earth Liberation Front) from northern Europe and America, played an important part in the establishment of what we could call eco-anarchist action, as expressed by several groups. The environmental-ecological issues rose as a primary field of anarchist action, especially since the Olympic Games of 2004 and afterwards, and they are always combined with critics of the capitalist system and its state and political partners, while in some occasions the social ecology approach offers useful analytic instruments.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>While the ecological issue is established in the collective conscience of anarchists as an important and inseparable part of the social issue, autonomous labour/working/workers’ action starts to make some new importants steps. Undoubtedly the efforts of some autonomous workers to combine the direct action syndicalism with the sectoral assertive syndicalism through horizontal forms of organization in the courier/delivery profession is an important point of reference. This effort has shown a way of forming primary unions, where anarchists and members of the so-called “extreme left” play an important part, following though the example of sectoral syndicalism, while the notion of direct action syndicalism plays a much smaller part. The presence of such movements in some laboral sectors shattered the image of the labor movement completely controlled by the members of formal syndicalism, as expressed by members of PASOK and the greek communist party. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>These two directions that have been developing the last five to ten years are mentioned because they are related with the December uprising/insurrection in two ways: they pushed further the insurrection and they were pushed further by the insurrection. One of the conclusions deducted by last December’s insurrection is that the libertarian vision of direct democracy and self-governing in a communal scale stood as a direction of course and action, which was not spread quickly in the event of elections, but through the conditions of that temporary community of insurrected people. The insurrection brought up these ideas and they were spread through the society by means of the insurrection, in a very similar way this kind of mutual relationship was established in Argentina and Oaxaca five and three years ago respectively.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>At December 11, the occupation of the Aghios Dimitrios town hall and the subsequent call to an open popular assembly gave the chance to more than 300 people to discuss what was going on at the time, thus opening a broader public space of discussion and collaboration. It must be noted of course that there is a libertarian social centre, whose local action already has a decade of history in this specific municipality. In this assembly several opportunities, either in a realistic or in an imaginary level, where presented: gathering and meeting of many people was possible through the procedure of the assembly held in a town hall occupied by anarchists – these people either participated in street clashes with the police forces or expressed their anger for the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos but couldn’t be on the streets because of their age – some were just interested in the procedure, or pretended to be for their own reasons. During the assembly anyone could express his/her opinion (even the vice mayor), but this didn’t mean that this procedure ceased to be characterized as a meeting of people who struggle. In these assemblies the social anti-violence, the destruction of banks, state and corporate buildings and the clashes with the police that took place those days was advocated openly, in public and by name (since we are talking of a local society town hall). There was also an acting of sabotage in the ticket machines of the subway authorized by decision of the popular assembly. For a few days the city council was denied access to the town hall. Before this occupation, nearly all occupations took place in university buildings, where the police cannot easily enter, due to legal reasons. This time the responsibility to decide a violent evacuation laid in the hands of the city council, which meant that they had to turn against many inhabitants of the region/municipality. Discussions were held among the occupiers and the people who work in the municipality services about the possibility of running the truly social services, proving that community control and workers control can be combined. Through this experience, anarchist and libertarian practices, as well as the presence of the comrades in this area, were strengthened, thus pointing that continuity of action in a certain social field and persistence in promoting self – organization and resistance can help the anarchist ideas to be established in a certain local level. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>The idea of occupying town halls and other municipality buildings and running open assemblies spread in other regions of Athens and Salonica in December 2008, initially by initiatives held mainly by anarchists, but soon enough followed by members of organizations and parties of the left.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span> </span>Alongside the direction of libertarian intervention at a municipality level through occupations and assemblies, workers action besides and against bureaucratic syndicalism found a way of expression in the occupation of the central offices of the General Confederation of Greece’s Workers in December 17. There members of primary unions mentioned before and people participating in independent groups of workers formed the General Assembly of Insurrected Workers, aiming to empower the message of the insurrection in the field of work. Parties and bureaucrat syndicalists found themselves in an obviously unpleasant situation, where political forces that they categorized as “marginal” for years had now achieved to bring forward the notion of self - oranization in terms of constant rupture with the dominant institutions, either in a municipality or independent class action level. This occupation triggered a series of other occupations of formal workers’ centers in other greek cities, especially after the attempted murder of the immigrant trade unionist Konstantina Kuneva. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">It is certain that all these movements were limited de facto, since normality and regularity return to the everyday social life. Still, there are some “cores” of resistance that try to find the right direction through constant questioning and action.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">The incidents/events of the last December, and the period after it, “revealed” a relatively big number of people that are interested in anarchist ideas or participate in practices that anarchists develop, yet doesn’t participate in any form of self – organized groups or centres, because they are afraid or not willing to take on responsibilities or simply they can’t be convinced by what they see. On the other hand, elements of anti – authoritarian discourse can be identified in a large number of news or written texts concerning occupations, social centres, anarchist groups, local movements, arson attacks and even armed attacks. This variety of things, actions and discourse does not constitute one solid entity, but does not imply on the other hand a “war” between different approaches or realities. What is missing is a coherent political conversation, not aiming of course to replace activism, but to empower it by offering a more substantial content, in order to avoid confusion and help the directions mentioned before take a more illuminated path to social liberation.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">The comrades of “Eutopia” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">[review for the libertarian municipalism] </span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Athens, September 2009 </span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></div>ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-7039344264114471022011-02-05T09:37:00.000+02:002011-02-05T09:37:52.011+02:00Our country is the whole world<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> <div class="ecxyiv815286166Stile39"><span style="font-size: small;">by <em><strong>Massimo Varengo</strong></em></span></div><div class="ecxyiv815286166Stile39"><span style="font-size: small;"><img align="right" height="300" hspace="5" src="http://www.anarca-bolo.ch/a-rivista/358/img/speciale35.jpg" width="382" />Self-government, municipalism, federalism, libertarianism, are no longer exclusive assets of a residual motion, but themes of reflection for a possible political action.</span></div><div class="ecxyiv815286166Stile37"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span class="ecxyiv815286166Stile21">I</span>t is open from some time the search for effective responses to the dramatic increasing of the social question characterized by a massive economic crisis as well as by a series of regional conflicts, ethnic, religious, in profound conjunction with the emergence of the political attack on the standard of living, income, health, the popular classes and the redefinition of the system of world domination. To the left looking for some recipes in a humanitarian outdated liberalism out any possibility, other studies to revive the role of national governments to ensure a renewed pact between capital and labor. But the centralization of decision-making processes, the circulation of huge masses of capital, the disruption of national economies, the reduction in the powers of individual states, the sheer size of the current financial crisis does not make these options credible. Not by chance is in the mature content of anarchism today that the most lively, most critical of the society is seeking, consciously or unconsciously, materials for building the possible future.<br />
Self-government, municipal, federal, libertarianism, are no longer the exclusive patrimony of a residual motion, but themes of reflection for possible political action. And in that anarchists, while a minority, they prove to be, internationally, living part of a cultural, political and social battle, which is measured with existing problems to develop workable solutions that can open new spaces of freedom and new conditions of equality. Important signs of recovery activities and incisiveness are given virtually anywhere in the world, from the anti-neoliberal and anti-capitalist protests at the summits of the major world leaders up to the demonstrations against the raging current of the disastrous effects of the crisis on classes popular.<br />
From Seattle to Athens the black and red thread runs continuously, passing through Russia, where the criminalization and punishment does not prevent the anarchists to continue to work hard against the growing racism and Nazism, in Mexico, where in Chiapas and Oaxaca are experiencing major initiatives of popular self-government and more generally throughout Latin America where an increasing number of initiatives developed in virtually every country, even in Cuba where there are important signs of recovery. And even in Europe, despite the complexity and the scattering of the movement, the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist, there were significant numbers of events, both theoretical and practical, in social movements. Other important signs of development from Turkey, Senegal, South Africa, Indonesia, from the joint Israeli-Palestinian struggle against the Wall. The time is ripe for a specific task, taking into account the richness and particularity of each individual situation, is able to compare, in mutual recognition, paths and options that have common roots and purpose, for a joint and collective </span>growth.</div></span>ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-76270777259538024732011-01-24T05:48:00.002+02:002011-01-24T05:50:37.567+02:00Statement of the assembly of migrant hunger strikers<div class="post-header"></div>We are migrant men and women from all over Greece. We came here due to poverty, unemployment, wars and dictatorships. The multinational companies and their political servants did not leave another choice for us than risking 10 times our lives to arrive in Europe’s door. The West that is depriving our countries while having much better living conditions is our only chance to live as humans. We came (either with regular entry or not) in Greece and we are working to support ourselves and our families. We live without dignity, in the darkness of illegalness in order to benefit employers and state’s services from the harsh exploitation of our labor. We live from our sweat and with the dream, some day, to have equal rights with our Greek fellow workers. <br />
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During the last period our life has become even more unbearable. As salaries and pensions are cut and everything is getting more expensive, the migrants are presented as those to blame, as those whose fault is the abjection and harsh exploitation of greek workers and small businessman. The propaganda of fascist and racist parties and groups is nowadays the official state discourse for issues of migration. The far right discourse is reproduced through media when they talk about us. The “proposals” of the far right are announced as governmental policies: wall in Evros, floating detention centers and European army in the Aegean, repression in the cities, massive deportations. They want to convince greek workers that, all in a sudden, we are a threat to them, that we are to blame for the unprecedented attack from their own governments. <br />
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The answer to the lies and the cruelty has to be given now and it will come from us, from migrant men and women. We are going in the front line, with our own lives to stop this injustice. We ask the legalization of all migrant men and women, we ask for equal political and social rights and obligations with greek workers. We ask from our greek fellow workers, from every person suffering from exploitation to stand next to us. We ask them to support our struggle. Not to let the lie, the injustice, the fascism and the autarchy of the political and economic elites to be dominant in their own places too; all these conditions that are dominant in our countries and led us to migrate, us and our children, in order to be able to live with dignity. <br />
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We don’t have another way to make our voices heard, to make you learn about our rights. Three hundred (300) of us will start a Hunger Strike in Athens and in Thessaloniki, in the 25th of January. We risk our lives, as, one way or another, this is no life for people with dignity. We prefer to die here rather our children to suffer what we have been through. <br />
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Assembly of migrant hunger strikers </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">from: http://hungerstrike300.blogspot.com/2011/01/statement-of-assembly-of-migrant-hunger.html</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"></div>ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8962330691517266945.post-199232987772248052011-01-21T12:28:00.001+02:002011-01-21T12:34:14.543+02:00Athens, gym of anarchy<h3 class="post-title entry-title"></h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the last month, we have an enormous attack from the government (of PASOK) with very hard economic measures against the employers. Especially, the first economic measures focus on the wages of the civil servants. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As the mass-media are writing, “the debt-ridden country is under intense pressure from both markets and the European Union to reduce its deficit from 12.7 percent of economic output in 2009 to 8.7 percent this year. Last week, Greece introduced a harsh $6.5 billion austerity package that cut civil servants' wages, froze pensions and raised consumer taxes”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The percdentage of the duty of the greek state only to four greek banks arrives the 23%, while the previous government (of Nea Dimokratia), before almost 8 mounths, gave to all the greek banks enormous economic amount for supporting them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The first strike was done on 10 February and was organized only from ADEDY, the union of the syndicates of the civil salaries. The next one was on 24 February and it was organized both from ADEDY and GSEE (the general confederation of the trade unions in the private companies). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Another general strike was done in 5 March with the participation of about 25.000 people in the central manifestations in Athens. We have to point here that the trade unions that are controlled from the stalinist Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and have formed the PAME (from the words “panworking front”) always make a different manifestation in all the centers of the greek cities. In the manifestation of that general strike, we had clashes between the police and protesters. Also, in this manifestation, leftists and anarchists attacked against the president of GSEE, who is a member of PASOK, and hit him. In the some manifestation, the old left militant Manolis Glezos, 88 years old, while trying to save a protester who had been arrested, accepted an attack from the special forces of the police with tear-gas and went to the hospital, fortunately without serious problems (Manolis Glezos, with another comrade of him, had brought down the flag of the Nazis from the hill of Acropolis, when Hitler;s troops had conquered Greece).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On 11 March, we had in Greece the last general strike with a satisfactory amount of employers and servants participating in it. In the two central manifestations in Athens, the protesters were more than 30.000 and in Thessaloniki about 14.000. Also, in this manifestation, the tension between the protesters and the huge special forces of the police was not missed. We had clashes body-with-body between protesters (usually, anarchists-antiautoritarians) and policemen, broken banks and big shops and 9 protesters arrested. The commands at the police forces were not to tolerate attacks from the protesters. In some cases, the policemen attacked very violently against protesters (and especially groups of anarchists) without a several reason, and so we had as a result also injured protesters. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It is true that the social-democrat government of G.Papandreou, that has the power the last 6 months, has still not so the support but the tolerance of the society. The people want to believe that the state and the big capital couldn’t be to prepare a very bad future for the greek society. They do not want to believe that they will not live as now but with much more bad salaries and conditions. So, they can see the attack of the government but they avoid to face it with very massive manifestations in the streets. On the opposite site, there is -not a large but- an important part of the society, that faces in the streets and the manifestations the straight class attack of the greek and European bosses against the employers and the civil servants. It is characteristic that after the last manifestation, the police couldn’t dissolve all the protesters and for two hours, there were sporadic clashes with the police in the streets, especially in the area of Eksarheia.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In the last three decades, the syndicalists of PASOK and KKE had the total control in the workplaces. Now, the syndicalists of PASOK preserve the control of the most of the syndicates of civil servants and in the trade unions they divide the control with the stalinist communists of KKE. The leaders of the syndicates are professional syndicalists and basic members of the big parties and the people do not trust them generally but support them only for solutions of the daily problems of the work. Nevertheless, in the last 5-6 years, something has started to change. Some new syndicates of base, like those in the employers of the bookshops, the couriers, etc have started to create a new form of syndicalist action, a form of the syndicalism of base. In parallel, some other groups of workers-employers from the extreme left and the anarchist-antiautoritarian political space, have made some efforts to strengthen the class struggle forwards a destination of the syndicalism of direct action. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The state knows that the anarchist militants in Greece have started to have presence and influence not only in the youth (like until 2000) but also in several neighborhoods and working places. In parallel, the anarchist-antiautoritarian movement in Greece preserves a dynamic presence in the streets and responds –with more or less successful and clever methods- to the police repression. So, in the first three months, the basic propaganda of the government was against the “criminal violence” of the anarchists and the way to face it. The creation of an enormous new part of policemen with motorcycles (group Delta) in the center of Athens is one of the new police anti-anarchist measures. Of course, the state wanted to dissolve every point of out-of-resistance before bringing this –and of course another- packet with heavy economic measures. But, it succeeded it only in a part and not totally. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We know that the days that are coming will be very difficult. The new measures hit not only the economic possibility of the society but also the way of life. The fear of the unemployment and the presence of almost one million immigrants, especially from countries from Asia and Africa, provoke dangerous social conditions and we do not know how many poverty we have to face and also which will be the destination of the social hate that is increasing. We have to create new forms of struggle and also new forms of solidarity and mutual aid between the people. The social-class war must find us united in the next difficult years that will come for European south (and of course not only). We have to believe in a society that seems not to believe in itself and this is a very dangerous point also for the anarchist movement. So, we have not only to wait from the society but, through the new forms of struggle and organization, to create new social relations. </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB">Eutopia </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-GB">Libertarian communists Group </span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><span lang="EN-US">Athens</span><span lang="EN-US">, 14/3/2010</span></div>ο.ε.κ.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15510970782260041771noreply@blogger.com0