28/11/2025
Educational restructuring is underway, with the state and university
authorities seeking various ways to suppress social and political action within universities in order to surrender them to business interests.
Disciplinary measures, opening hours, police and security guards, as
well as technical means of surveillance create a framework of
stigmatization of students and citizens as potential victims of state
and university vengefulness.
The socio-political situation is such that, for the sake of the ruling
power and the bosses, educational restructuring
must take shape. The public disclosure of successive scandals involving the squandering of public money, state crimes at the borders and on trains, the relentless murder of workers by bosses in the profit slave camps, but also the collusion of Greek universities
with the Zionist state that is committing genocide against the
Palestinians, form a context of necessary reinforcement of
preventive repression on the part of the rulers. Consequently,
universities, as a central place of politicization and dissent, are at
the center of a fierce attack with the obvious aim of keeping the most active part of society, the students, from taking action by establishing various methods of counter-insurgence.
One of these methods was the installation of surveillance cameras inside and outside the Polytechnic complex. This surveillance
did not focus solely on students, but also on residents of the Exarcheia neighborhood, as cameras were installed on Bouboulinas, Stournari, streets and Patission streets. In this case, the goal was undoubtedly to expand, broaden, and ultimately supplement the
repressive forces —both fixed and mobile— camped in the neighborhood in order to ensure the implementation of the touristification and gentrification plans for Exarcheia.
Understanding the need to challenge these plans in practical terms, but also given the symbolism of the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising, we decided to take action against the surveillance cameras.
As activists, and at a time when the Patission complex was bustling with life, the surveillance cameras could not remain unscathed. As we climbed, the cameras came down.
To rise up to freedom, it is not enough to look up, but also to act. We
need to climb, using justice as our ladder, putting down the laws of
“order and security” so that we can fall headlong onto the rulers who
associate with all kinds of bosses on top of our backs.
After all, the just is with the insurgents, not the ruffians and the
conforming.
Solidarity with those who fight against capital, state, and university
authority.
P.S. We welcome similar actions taken by other individuals, making the Polytechnic a space free from surveillance cameras.
Saboteurs of the university and state plans for “order and security.”
Translated by Act For Freedom Now!