My sisters and brothers,

you who today in Iran are fighting against patriarchy, theocracy and class oligarchy, you, who by uncovering your faces, by your blood on the streets, are taking that common struggle one step further up the way to global liberation from authority,
together with you I declare and rejoice over the death of terror.

No one experience of tyranny and servility can be be compared with another. The tortures you have been subjected to by the iranian state, throughout its history, are inconceivable. But the struggle unites us. In Greece, day by day, femicides are multiplying. The priests justify rape through their official statements. The impoverishment of the exploited and the excluded, the killings of migrants and the military repression are dressed with the cloak of nationalism, like everywhere. All the states, the iranian, the greek, the russian, the turkish etc, portray social resistance as the “external enemy”.

The people have no borders. All together we will change the world. History has taught us that only through social self-direction and self-defense can we build popular power. Solidarity, that leads to equality through con-federalism within and on either side of borders, this is our way. For this reason, I salute again the Kurdish Movement of Freedom, for its contribution -with boundless self sacrifice- towards the construction of the internationalist, intercultural and borderless revolutionary movement in the Middle East, and especially towards the global women struggle.

The vultures of the dominant, north-atlantic imperialism, are looking to utilize the social revolt in Iran, so as to establish one of their own regimes. Parts of the persian capitalist class are waiting a long time now, to grab the chance so as to upgrade their position as exploiter within a new regime, by crushing the social revolt, just like Khomeini did with his army and “guards” in 1979.

My sisters and brothers,
you have no obligation to withstand this theocratic dictatorship, not a day longer. And at the same time, do not give your strength away to new governors, do not abandon your faith in popular power, for the sake of a warmongering capitalism. We do not belong to any state camp. Women’s revolution is paving the way for a new era, without authority.
You are holding our mutual hope in your hands. With all my strength, I embrace those hands.
Honor and rage for Mahsa Amini
Honor and rage for all the heroic women and men who become martyrs of liberation

Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis
Domokos prison
24 September 2022

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Solidarity message to the anti-war movement in Russia, from captive anarchist guerrilla and total objector of military service, Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis (greek prisons)

Sisters and brothers,

as one of many anarchist objectors of military service, refusing to serve greek military rule, I stand among you in your resistance;

as a captive of the class war, in the prisons of the EU, for my commitment to the internationalist revolutionary struggle, I confirm that our refusal to serve tyranny is invincible. History belongs to social solidarity and freedom – it does not belong to the terrorism of the rulers.

One century ago, the imperialist war led to the dissolution of czarist rule. All revolutions have sprouted up from war, from dictatorship and from colonialism. You, who today refuse to kill and be killed for the sake of the capitalists’ profits, you are holding in your hands the irreplaceable sprouts for the future of humanity. You, who are stealing the fire and the lead from the hands of the state, you are making the sprouts of social liberation blossom.
In 1917, soviets handed over power to a dictatorial party, because they did not rely on their own strength. Over the past three decades, cynical exploiters are sucking the workers’ blood, as well as the fruits of the land throughout the transformed czarist empire. And their, until yesterday, western partners, who are expanding the imperialist war inside Europe, are presenting themselves as allies of the russian and ukrainian peoples.

Sisters and brothers, this time let’s not sell out our hopes and our strength to new rulers. We are not separated by different circumstances, we will not sell out our internationalism for the sake of shortsighted alliances with capitalists and imperialists. Today and to the end, against statism, capitalism and their war. The anti-war movement can become a root of social self-direction. May your refusal become a fearless new world.

Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis
greek prisons
September 24, 2022