We invite the wider world of the struggle to respond to the call and join the struggle against state tactics.
On Monday 11/18 in the afternoon, the comrade Nikos Romanos was arrested outside his house. The reason was the – completely accidental – finding of a fingerprint on the outside of a bag in the apartment of Ampelokipi, which was flattened by the explosion.
The communicated as “successful” process of isolating a fingerprint, which refers to a known fighter, as well as the construction of an upgraded prosecution based on a mobile object of everyday and widespread use, cannot but be part of the long-term strategy of repressive mechanisms targeting fighters of the antagonist movement, confirming the “communicating vessels” narrative by catching suspects and condemned comrades from the famous “known and unknown tank” of the GADA archives.
Moreover, the moment, the time and the way in which the comrade Nikos Romanos was targeted cannot be considered a coincidence. The attempted targeting and attack of the comrade by the bourgeois state which itself is currently working for the New Democracy government, disorienting in relation to the central political events that are wearing it down and damaging it socially and communicatively both internally and in the the social majority itself.
And while the government is throwing “smoke in the eyes” of the social majority, the media, in close cooperation with the police, have indulged in a new attempt at terror hysteria by replicating its methods, judging and condemning the comrade from the start, according to their well-known cannibalistic practice, depriving him of the self-evident right to the presumption of innocence. A strategy which is followed and adopted en masse by the bourgeois state and its ideological mechanisms for the entire “affair” of Ampelokipi, which so far has targeted and imprisoned comrades without any valid evidence.
The bourgeois state and its ideological apparatuses implement a single and coordinated strategy of repression that targets the working class, the fighters, the unions and collective rights in general. The recent case of Ampelokipi, where comrades are imprisoned without any evidence, is only one aspect of this strategy.
This operation is part of a wider plan that includes the pre-emptive arrests at the 17th November demonstration in Athens and strikes, as happened recently in Thessaloniki, to the attacks on free and political spaces, the targeting, monitoring and prosecution of male and female fighters, the prosecutions of teachers who participate in mobilizations and fight against the policies of dismantling public education. At the same time, anti-labour laws are being promoted, such as Labour Law 4808/2021, which attempt to dismantle union activity, limiting strikes and targeting unions. The new Penal Code toughens penalties for political action, extends offences and includes criminal prosecution of trade unionists who resist policies that undermine their rights. All this constitutes a single strategy of criminalization of social and class struggles. Through targeted attacks on unions, workers, students, teachers and political spaces, an attempt is made to create a climate of terrorism that suppresses any form of resistance. Their goal is to silence our class, dismantle collective action and force our submission to the dictates of the bourgeoisie.
It is the responsibility of the organized forces of the antagonist movement to resist the unnecessary prosecution of comrades, to defend and fight for their achievements, preventing the blind persecution of male and female comrades.
We will be next to comrade Nikos Romanos as we will be with every comrade who faces the state’s repressive methods.
Freedom to Nikos Romanos!
Solidarity with the imprisoned anarchist comrades Marianna M., Dimitra Z. and comrade Dimitris
Honour forever to the anarchist fighter Kyriakos Ximitiris!
Everyone on Friday at 12:00 in Evelpidon
Endless Struggle for Class Liberation
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https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1632884/
Translated by Act for freedom now!