Athens, Claim of responsibility – incendiary attack on a Volkswagen dealership.
The future dystopia of a life fully controlled by smart cities, 5G, in which your refrigerator communicates with your mobile phone or a street lamp, and supermarkets offer you everything you want from the (anti)social media, is already here. Everything is more and more connected and everything is monitored. It is a future where people will be controlled by the artificial intelligence of big capital – big data and machine learning. Whatever information capital collects is shared with the State. Technology means repression, blackmail and total social control.
At the same time, the ecological war for resources called green energy is nothing more than a new form of slavery on other continents, allowing Western capitalism to be as independent as Russian gas or oil-producing countries. All this is another great stage of capitalism – green capitalism. It is the exploitation of the climate crisis and biological extinction by capital and the State.
When the N.D. government took power, an unprecedented upgrading of the repressive apparatus in numbers and technical equipment began. The cops are used as a solution to every “problem”: The pandemic, the universities, demonstrations and protests of every kind, the gentrification of Athens. Cops are the number one medicine for everything.
All of the above are summarized in the memorandum of cooperation between the government of New Democracy and Volkswagen aiming to transform Astypalaias into the first smart island, a laboratory that leads the residents to become laboratory animals of the dystopian future. The contract began in September 2021, and aims to gradually replace the island’s conventional vehicles with electric ones. The program is presented by the mainstream media as a technological leap that will benefit the environment and the residents. In fact, the memorandum of cooperation is nothing other than another way of increasing profitability and repression at the expense of the natural environment and the inhabitants. VW will be able to test autonomous vehicles on the island on conditions outside strict EU legislation, gaining the upper hand against competition. At the same time, there is a discussion about the installation of hundreds of wind turbines on the island, turning it into a hub for electricity production and completely destroying the natural environment. Finally, one of the first moves of the program was the donation of electric vehicles from Volkswagen to the murderous assault squads of cops and the port forces.
The cooperation between the sanguinary government of ND and V.W is not unprecedented. V.W has a long history of supporting fascist and oppressive regimes. From Nazi Germany in the 1930s to military dictatorships in Brazil and Argentina, to Franco’s Spain, Volkswagen has always been and always is at the forefront of capital profiting under conditions of harsh oppression.
For all these reasons, at dawn on may 10, we visited the Volkswagen dealership on Alexandras Avenue. Our intervention resulted in the destruction of several new electric vehicles and the destruction of the facade of the delegation, without endangering passers-by or residents of the area. We consider as a part of anarchy the recognition of those who profit from oppression, misery and exploitation and our debt to return to them the violence they cause.
We dedicate our action to the prisoners of the social war, Fotis, Jason, Panos and Lambros who are being persecuted for the attack on the traffic Police of Piraeus.
Solidarity with the wounded comrades Boris and Serge from militant ecological defence in the territories of the French State.
Solidarity with Monica Caballero and Francisco Solar, whose trial against them begins in a few days.
For a black May, in memory of comrade Mauricio Morales, who fell in battle 14 years ago.
Anarchists
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via: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1625173/
Translated by Act for freedom now!