So what if there is chaos in the bleachers of the basketball finals and knives are pulled out. The police are nowhere to be seen. As long as you are not resisting in the streets.So what if random immigrants are attacked with knives in the streets. The police are nowhere to be seen, and so are the perpetrators. As long as you are not resisting in the streets.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. 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. That is all that matters to them, nothing else. As long as you are not resisting.
"Blue face Blue faces. Swollen eyes. Fractured jaws. Police violence. Children with kalasnikovs. Bank robbery. Abduction.
Grigoropoulos dead. Every day, again and again.
Unskilled photoshop. By choice. They wanted us to see these faces. No...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.
Torture.
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.
Guantanamo?
Cannibalism for the mother. For the bourgeois origins. Those spoiled rotten kids, why didn’t they sit quietly? What was lacking from their lives?
“Why am I sitting quietly, when I am lacking everyting?”
Here are the cops, children of the workers again.
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.
False values. Fake society. Society of cannibals. Hypocrisy.
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.
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.
It expresses a deep concern, this attitude of the state, of society. The concern of one caught with his pants down.
16 years old he was holding his dying friend in his hands.
Didn’t he see this positively? Should he forget it. Life is hard and you must know how to deal with it.
He is not a victim. He is representing himself. Can his critics say the same?
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?"
The National Congress of the FAI, reunited in Milan, expresses its solidarity with the Greek comrades who in recent days have been violently attacked by the police Hellenic. We have seen evacuation of Villa Amalias and Skaramaga, historical squat symbol of the Athenian movement and the arrest of hundreds of solidarity that had reoccupied the building of Villa Amalias.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
We invite the whole movement at the maximum possible solidarity.
complete form, in the sacrifice of the subaltern classes on the altar of nationalist wars.
A video for solidarity with the 93 arrested anarchists in Greece:
The statement by the arrested, from inside the police HQ:
“We will do it again, as many times
as it takes”:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Against the hurricane of repression,
let’s pit the storm of solidarity!
Everyone to the streets, where
everything is determined
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
