LAMBROS FOUNTAS IS IMMORTAL

10/03/2024

It has been 14 years since the death in a clash with policemen of our comrade Lambros Fountas on March 10, 2010. All these years, whether in the underground continuing the action of the Revolutionary Struggle when we dedicated to him the attack on the Central Bank-ECB-IMF in 2014, or in prison, we always had him on our minds. And of course he will be in our memory and our heart as long as we are alive.

It is known that when we assumed political responsibility for our participation in the Revolutionary Struggle, we publicly announced with the “Political Letter to the Society”, that Lambros Fountas was killed in a preparatory action of our organization, in an attempt to sabotage the country’s inclusion in the memorandum, i.e. in the program of the IMF, the ECB and the EU, something that had already been decided by the then government of G. Papandreou and we had predicted as an organization since the fall of 2009. He is the first and last dead fighter of the social resistance against the memoranda, against an era that opened with the imposition of the 1st loan agreement in the spring of 2010.

Comrade Lambros Fountas was killed in the attempt to implement the plan of the Revolutionary Struggle so that the economic crisis and the program to deal with it, i.e. the memorandum, would become an opportunity for a revolutionary attempt in Greece. Precisely for this reason, with the campaign of attacks in 2009 (attacks on the MAT after the murder of Grigoropoulos, on CITIBANK, Eurobank and the Athens Stock Exchange), we had made a proposal to the anarchist/anti-authoritarian and the broader anti-capitalist space to create a revolutionary movement for the implementation of this plan.

Comrade Lambros Fountas is a “martyr” of Anarchy and the Social Revolution in general. In the consciousness of peoples and social movements, “martyrs” are those who give their lives for others with self-sacrifice, for their partners, their community, their people, the proletariat, those they love. They are the ones who give their lives for their political struggle. For a society of equality, solidarity and freedom.

Comrade Lambros Fountas and the Revolutionary Struggle belong to a global and international political space and movement which has its origins in the First International Workers’ Union, the anti-state-anti-authoritarian tendency of the labor movement and anti-state (anarchist) communism as opposed to the state’s tendency that resulted in state-capitalist totalitarianism.

Comrade Lambros Fountas, despite the diversity of times and circumstances, stands next to the countless comrades, men and women, who have fallen through the ages fighting, either with a weapon in hand, or died in prisons, prisoners or in hunger strikes.He stands with the thousands of Paris Communards of 1871 who fell during the battles with the Versaillese or were slaughtered as prisoners. He stands with the “martyrs” of Chicago of 1886, our fellow fighters who were hanged defending8- hourswork or killed in Haymarket Square or with those who fought and fell so that the Russian Revolution would take an anti-state-anti-authoritarian directionsuch as e.g. the Makhnovites of Ukraine and the Kronstand Communards. He stands next to Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón) who died in custody in a US prison, the originator of the slogan Land and Liberty of the Mexican Revolution adopted by Zapata, Comrades Sacco and Vanzetti who were executed in the electric chair, Rosa Luxemburg and the fighters of the German Revolution, but also alongside the fighters of the Spanish Revolution who fought the Frankish fascists as well as the Stalinist counter-revolutionaries of the Spanish Popular Front as well as alongside the armed rebels of the period of the Frankish dictatorship, alongside Francisco Ascaso, José Buenaventura Durruti, the Sabaté brothers, Ramon Villa Capdevila, Butch Addis, Oriol Solé, Agustín Rueda). He stands next to the Russian Narodniks and the anarchist “propagandists” of the act, the tyrannicides and regicides who bravely faced the gallows, the guilotine, the garrote, the firing squad. Hestands next to Sante Geronimo Caserio, Vaillan, Gaetano Bresci, next to Michele Angiolillo Lombardi, Gino Lucetti, Ravassol, Émile Henry, Leon Cholgots, Joaquin Delgado and Francisco Granados, Giuseppe Pinelli, as hestands next to modern day fighters like comrades Lorenzo Orsetti and Haukur Hilmarsson or “Spark” – Sahin Huseini who fought and fell for the landmark Revolution of our time the Revolution in Rojava and the Federation of Northern Syria confronting ISIS (Islamic State) and the Turkish fascist state.

Comrade Lambros Fountas stands next to the fighters of the Western European cityguerrilla of the 1970s and 80s who fell fighting in clashes or were murdered as prisoners of the state, such as Mara Cagol, Alazia, the comrades of the RAF in Stammheim, the hunger strikers, Holger Klaus Meins, the fighters of the Greek guerilla city, comrades Christos Kasimis and Christos Tsoutsouvis who fell in clashes with the servants of the state and also alongside comrade Christopher Marinos.

Comrade Lambros Fountas stands next to the countless fighters, anti-state activists, anti-capitalists, anti-imperialists, anti-fascists all over the world who fell for a better humanity and a better society. We have a duty and responsibility to remember and honor those who fell fighting through our lines. Because whoever forgets the dead of the struggle, as well as the prisoners, also forgets the struggle itself.

LAMBROS FOUNTAS IS IMMORTAL

Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis convicted members of the Revolutionary Struggle

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