RESPONSIBILITY CLAIM//HONOUR TO COMRADE KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS
It was a long road to get here. Very long, my brother. The handcuffs weighed heavily on the hands. The evenings when the little light bulb shook its head saying “time’s over”. We read the history of the world in small names, in some dates carved with a fingernail on the prison walls, in some childish drawings of the future dead – a heart, a bow, a ship that surely tore through time. In some verses that were left in the middle so that we could finish them, in some verses that were finished so that we wouldn’t finish them. It was a long road to get here – a difficult road. Now this road is yours. You hold it like you hold your friend’s hand and measure his pulse on the mark left by the handcuffs. Normal pulse – Sure hand – Sure road.
Y.Ritsos (Γ.Ρίτσος)
On 31/10, an explosive device exploded in an apartment on Arkadias Street in Ampelokipi, resulting in the death of anarchist comrade KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS and the injury of anarchist comrade Marianna M. In the following days, a media show followed, usual for Greek conditions, which showed the way for what would follow from the counter-terrorism and the authorities in general. The state as a whole, with the cooperation of the cops-media-judicial authorities, presents the well-played scenarios about the revival of domestic terrorism, enriching them, so that the crowd watching does not get bored, with the description of ”third generation terrorism”. All of this has already led to the pre-trial detention of 5 comrades.
For our part, first of all we do not accept the term terrorism when it comes to urban guerrilla warfare and general political violence. For us, terrorism is living below the poverty line, exorbitant rents, exorbitant bills, gentrification and redevelopment, police brutality, non-functional trains, and guns that fire in the air.
Secondly, urban guerrilla warfare is not divided into generations. Organized political violence has been alive in history for hundreds of years and flourishes or declines depending on the social conditions at any given time. Violent struggle will continue until the collapse of capitalism and power.
The state sees this repressive operation as an opportunity to launch an all-out attack on the anarchist movement and all struggling subjects in order to put an end once and for all to its internal enemy. The events of Ampelokipi should build consciousness in all revolutionary subjects and create new insurgent events and bring radical action back to the fore. The death of our comrade inspires and makes us grit our teeth, turn the pain of loss into rage and attack the state and its lackeys with all means.
We assume responsibility for the incendiary attack on 3 ELTA vans (post office vans) in Kallithea in the early hours of 13/12.
We dedicate our action to comrade KYRIAKO XYMITIRIS who will always be here in every aspect of the anarchist struggle.
Solidarity with all comrades imprisoned for the Ampelokipi case
We wish comrade Marianna a speedy recovery.
We are sending incendiary signals to comrade K.K. who has been remanded in custody and is being prosecuted for attacking a police vehicle with an incendiary device.
Incendiary Elves ( Εμπρηστικά Ξωτικά)
ps: Yiannis Ritsos was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has been called “the great poet of the Greek left”
via: athens.indymedia.
Translated by Act for freedom now!