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
The 93 arrested of Villa Amalias
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