November 30th, we call for a solidarity demonstration with the imprisoned comrades M.M., D.Z., D. and N.R., at 18:30 in Monastiraki Square in Athens

The text of the convention:

October 31 forever etched in the heart of every fighter. With anger and determination we stand by our comrades

On 10/31/24, after an explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipis, our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation, while our anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was also in the apartment, ended up in the Annunciation hospital with multiple injuries. Two more people were arrested at the same time, and taken to the investigator, with the comrade Dimitris and the anarchist comrade Dimitra being remanded in custody. While remaining a multi-injured patient for 15 days in Evangelismos hospital and just one day after the second operation in a row, on the morning of Friday 11/15 the anarchist comrade Marianna was transferred to Korydallos prison.

The pressures of the anti-terrorist trash, which work in close cooperation with the investigator who has taken over the case had resulted in the comrade being discharged and taken to the women’s prison of Korydallos, where there is not even a hospital and therefore the possibility to she is provided with appropriate care for her injuries. We make it clear in all directions, whatever happens to our comrade will have consequences and will not be left unanswered. Such impositions of state power are clearly torture.

On November 18, amid the broader climate of the last few days, through the “anti-terrorist” unit comrade Nikos Romanos was arrested for a fingerprint on a bag in which a weapon had been found. This is a fragile item, as it was found on a movable object. However, it was enough to start new media propaganda about supposedly hard evidence, which “binds the case” of Ampelokipi, hoping to open a new round of prosecutions. At the same time, and almost with the arrival of the comrade in GADA, the anti-terrorist unit had already leaked the “news” to its establishment mouthpieces in order to start the media condemnation of the comrade before he even passed through the investigator’s door. This is not the first nor will it be the last time, that we are witnessing an attempt by the state apparatus, which sets up lawsuits to target male and female fighters and attack the world of the struggle. Once again they will find us facing them, those of us who choose to stand on the right side of history, despite the difficulties and the pervasive climate of defeatism.

We will be next to the comrade Nikos Romanos as we will be with every comrade who faces the state’s repressive tactics. Against the world of personalisation and fatalism, we advance the struggle with all means. We strengthen each other, we defend our comrades. Hands off the comradely and friendship environment, no one will be left alone against the repressive campaign of the state and capital. In the face of counter-terrorism tactics and media cannibalism, may our solidarity be a bulwark for our captive comrades and any further prosecutions. Repression does not scare us and we stand by them without hesitation.

The cannibalism on the comrades’ faces and bodies started with every kind of method of the entire state apparatus under the guidance of the anti-terrorist service and the minister of ΠΡΟΠΟ (Hellenic Ministry of Citizen Protection)Chrysochoidis. Their slandering on TV channels and front pages of the well-known media snitches is yet another part of the nauseating role of the state and capitalist media propaganda. The detailed reporting and publication of photos and videos even from the scene of the incident is a testimony to the dead comrade and reflects the brutality meted out to his family and loved ones. At the same time, with the depoliticisation of our comrades’ action, an attempt is being made to present them as amoral bombers who destroy citizens’ homes, with the aim of isolating them socially, leaving them exposed to repression. The state, its ideological mechanisms and capital are once again attempting to break the lines of the antagonist movement, to deconstruct its political contents, choices of struggle and decades of revolutionary tradition. Before the comrade Marianna regains her strength and speaks as she wishes and as the dead comrade would wish, they have furiously unleashed state propaganda against them, against the entire world of the Struggle and its choices. We stand adamantly against this, defending the revolutionary Cause, but also the will of the people who are in the sights of the repression.

The snitches of the state apparatus and capital will not talk about the events of 31/10 and the political choices of struggle that led up to them. The comrade who lived through them and paid a heavy price and they comrades who are being prosecuted for them will speak first, when the choose. The antagonist movement will speak, and also all of us who were in many different forms of struggle together with the comrade Kyriakos and the comrade Marianna, were inspired and continue to be inspired by their clear vision and unyielding comradeship. We who recognize their presence in all the fields of the struggle, and realize that the comrades are the embodiment of the open movement dialogue. The comrades have dedicated their lives to the struggle against oppression, to build a world of equality and freedom, taking on responsibilities and choices that led Kyriakos to his death, and Marianna a multi-trauma prisoner. Through their attitude and presence they have given themselves body, soul and thought to the revolutionary Cause, and through this route they are in the forefront of the society in struggle. Faced with a world that marginalizes any person who does not fit into its normality, the options of revolutionary counterviolence and armed struggle as an integral part of multiform struggle, transcending the limits of bourgeois legitimacy, and challenging the state monopoly on violence. It is such choices of struggle that keep the thread of rebellion alive. Such choices are an integral part of a historical insurrectionary continuity, which keeps the vision of social revolution alive in our hearts and minds.

The operation to undermine the revolutionary discourse and the subsequent repression show that the bastards in the service of state terror fear the people who do not compromise with injustice, inequality, exploitation. Against the propaganda and intimidatory operation of the state and the bosses, as well as the attempt to depoliticize upgraded choices, we are first responding politically regardless of the specific case. We owe it – apart from all others – to all those who gave their lives, who were imprisoned, who fought through so many years of social and class war. Armed struggle is an integral part of the radical movement, the multifaceted social and class struggle, deeply rooted in our fighting tradition, and we defend it non-negotiably.

HANDS OFF THE THREE COMRADES

FREEDOM TO THE IMPRISONED COMRADES M.M., D.Z., D.  AND N.R

KYRIAKOS FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

Assembly of Solidarity with the imprisoned, fugitive

and persecuted fighters

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via: https://athens.indymedia.org/event/96179/

Translated by Act for freedom now!