Taking responsibility for an attack on a butcher shop [Patra] by by Anarchist Counterattack

The struggle for anarchy must be multifaceted and anti-Speciesism cannot but be an integral part of it. We perceive anarchy and in the light of total liberation, we oppose all forms of power and oppression and attack by all means the rapists of nature. Speciesism, which results from human arrogance, which is fed into the technology and industry of state capitalist society, is yet another system of exploitation and impoverishment of non-human animals.

From the ownership regime to which animals are subjected, to their captivity and use as clothing, objects of experimentation/entertainment and food, we recognize the sequence between all forms of domination. We reject anthropocentrism in all its forms and we fight the authoritarian institutions in their entirety with the same passion.

At this point we should emphasize that veganism as a personal choice and nothing is more reformist. Strict veganism and its emphasis on nutrition, facilitates its assimilation by capitalism and techno-industrial culture as yet another lifestyle choice, which does not attack any system of torture, any industry, and does not embrace respect for life and freedom. We don’t consider any consumable, so we don’t think of any as a product. At the same time, because consuming plant products (and consumption more broadly) is not an act of resistance, we aim to not participate in anything that creates and sustains product-consumer relationships.

Furthermore, the struggle for total liberation is classless, so we do not discriminate between big industries, small neighbourhood furries and any boss who profits from the confinement and abuse of animals. That’s why we advocate veganism as a form of practical denial of the consolidation of authoritarian behaviours and relationships in our daily lives and we support every attack, expropriation, sabotage, etc. on all the individual parts of the same system.

Slaughtering and eating animals are deeply rooted in Greek culture and tradition, with the tsiknopempti  (day of grill meat..) being one of the most characteristic examples.

In particular, in the city of Patras, on this particular day there is a suffocating atmosphere with grills outside all kinds of shops and on every street, with parties set up around the “pleasure” of skewering corpses. All religious customs go hand-in-hand with meat-eating and torture, which not only normalizes exploitation and abuse, but also reduces it to a central event of celebration. For us, the meanings of this day go beyond the profitability and growth of the meat industry. Swan Thursday is another day of relaxation that the system imposes on the oppressed. A day where everything is allowed and every peaceful and docile citizen “goes overboard” and breaks out in equally forced ways. Thus, every remaining healthy and source feeling of rebellion, relief, and shedding of an oppressive reality is expressed within the controlled frameworks defined by the rulers. These chains of decompression are a fundamental part of a society that is rotting and relies on the voluntarism of the oppressed to continue to sustain it.

For the above reasons, in the early hours of Thursday 7/3 we attacked the butcher’s shop on Favierou Street in Patras, breaking its windows. We have no illusions that this act of ours seriously damages any meat industry, instead it is a form of resistance and practical solidarity with every imprisoned, tortured and abused animal. Human and non-human.

THE RELEASE WILL BE TOTAL, BURLOTO AND FIRE IN EVERY CAGE.

FOR ANARCHY

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