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GREECE: Interventions at the medical associations in Thessaloniki, in Patras, and in Athens in solidarity with the Anarchist comrade Marianna M.

On the morning of Tuesday, November 5, at an initiative of comrades, we carried out an intervention with banners and flyers at the Medical Association of Thessaloniki, at Aristotelous 4. Texts were read and information was given about the case to the members of the association as well as making clear to them that the medical community is invited to take a stand and bear responsibility in the case of interrogation during the hospitalisation of the comrade Marianna M.

Here is the text we shared:
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Those lost in the fire of the struggle never die by anarchists – communists EN/FR/DE/ IT (Athens,Greece)

Those lost in the fire of the struggle never die

On the 31st of October, anarchist Kyriakos Ksimitiris was killed by an explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipoi area in Athens, Greece.
The only ones who can talk about our comrade are all of us who stood beside him in assemblies, actions, demos, and clashes.

For many years, Kyriakos had been incessantly present in groups of
solidarity to prisoners; in the antiwar-internationalist movement; in
actions to defend the neighbourhood of Exarchia; in struggles in the
universities; in the defence of squats and in every social and class
struggle. He was dedicated to it, always willing to explore together its most rebellious aspects. He wasn’t simply defending the struggle by all means for social liberation from a theoretical perspective, he truly incarnated it.

Comrade Kyriakos chose to fight until the end, by all means, against the world of power, state, capital, racism, patriarchy. He chose to fight on the side of the oppressed and the revolted, for a better world; for a world of solidarity, equality, freedom.
His loss creates a huge void for his family and friends, his comrades
who stood beside him; a void also for the struggle, to which he left his mark by his attitude and words.

Anarchist Kyriakos Ksimitiris was one of us. We will defend and
keep his memory forever in our hearts and in every moment of our
struggle.

“I know you despise them because the Court is so well armed, but let me tell you that they are so confident of their power that they feel their importance. They are come to that pass that they do not value your forces, and though the evil is that at present their strength consists only in their imagination, yet a time may come when they may be able to do whatever they now think it in their power to do.”

Comrade, we will meet again in the streets of fire where you will live forever…

Strength to our injured comrade Marianna until liberation
Honour to the anarchist comrade Kyriakos Ksimitiris
Solidarity with all those persecuted for the same case

anarchists – communists

Solidarity Assembly for imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted fighters

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Ceux qu’on perd dans le feu de la lutte ne meurent jamais

Le 31 octobre 2024, l’anarchiste Kyriakos Ksimitiris est tué suite à uneexplosion dans un appartement dans la région d’Ampelokipi, à Athènes,Grèce.Les seul.e.s qui peuvent parler de notre compagnon, c’est nous ;tout.e.s ceux et celles qui ont partagé avec lui des assemblés, desactions, des manifs, des affrontements.Kyriakos a été incessamment présent, pendant des années, dans desgroupes de solidarité aux prisonniers ; dans le mouvement anti-guerre –internationaliste ; à des actions pour la défense de la régiond’Exarchia ; aux luttes dans les universités ; à la défense des squatset dans toutes les luttes sociales et de classe.

Il a été dédié à cesluttes, toujours motivé d’explorer en commun leur aspects les plussubversifs. Il ne défendait pas simplement au niveau théorique la luttepar tous les moyens pour la libération sociale, il en était sa véritableincarnation. Notre compagnon Kyriakos a choisi de se battre jusqu’au but, luttant partous les moyens contre le monde du pouvoir, l’État, le capital, leracisme, le patriarcat. Il a choisi de lutter aux côtés des oppressés etdes révoltés pour un meilleur monde, pour un monde de solidarité,d’égalité, de liberté.Sa perte laisse un vide énorme pour sa famille et ses ami.e.s, pour sescompagnon.ne.s qui l’ont croisé, mais aussi pour la lutte elle-même,qu’il a marqué tant avec son attitude qu’avec ses mots.L’anarchiste Kyriakos Ksimitiris était un parmi nous. Nous allonsdéfendre et sauvegarder sa mémoire dans nos cœurs et dans tous lesmoments de notre lutte.
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Hamburg/Germany: From Hamburg to Berlin to Greece – we are with you.

Received email:

From Hamburg to Berlin to Greece – we are with you. In shock and with anger we heard the terrible news from Athens. So we had a very brief assembly in our Anarchist Library on Sunday morning, printed a few flyers and hung two banners – one in a busy park in the St Pauli Area, another one at the Bookfair of the anarchist Re/Fuse congress, which is taking place this weekend.

In deep grief, anger, revolutionary solidarity and complicity we are on your side.

Anarchists from Hamburg

Germany: LEGALIZATION IS A TRAP!!! 3 DAYS OF DISCUSSION ABOUT SQUATTING AS RESISTANCE (8-10 of November)

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And a call out for four open days of skillsharing around the practical
aspects of occuping and inhabiting free spaces.

(4-7 of November)

We are having a gathering in the occupied Hambacher Forest to discuss the possibilities for squatting as a way of fighting now and in the future, and how to answer attempts of legalisation and pacification in general.

The squatting movement in so-called Germany lies in ruins. Most of the once squatted houses in this territory are now either evicted or turned into house projects with a legal status. In a lot of cases this has severed their connections with conflictual political struggles, creating a process of pacification.

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On SNCF’s post-sabotage surveillance systems (France)

Sabotage: SNCF takes action to prevent further attacks on the rail network

Le Figaro, September 9, 2024

The sabotage against the railroad tracks on the night before the Olympic Games opening ceremony on July 26 has left its mark on the SNCF. Officially, the rail company prefers to highlight its handling of this XXL attack: within three days, all train traffic had been restored. “435 agents worked 3×8 for three days. The speed with which we were able to return to normal shows the resilience of our network in the face of a very large-scale attack”, says Damien Pallant, Deputy Director General of Safety at SNCF Réseau, which is responsible for France’s railroads. The general public has discovered the fragility of the French network. And, away from the microphones, tongues are wagging within the state-owned company: “We were stunned that several axes of our network were under attack at the same time,” says one of its executives.

A fortnight earlier, the group’s CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou had seemed confident during his visit to the SNCF Réseau Île-de-France supervision center. The head of this operations center, nestled somewhere in the Gare du Nord, had presented him with a reassuring system where 25 people working in 3×8 shifts, 7 days a week, monitored the state of the network on computer screens. With 50% of equipment fitted with sensors (rails, catenaries, etc.), they were immediately informed of any faults. And that’s not even mentioning the measures intended to thwart malicious acts on these installations. For this, SNCF Réseau felt it was already doing a great deal: anti-intrusion devices on signal boxes, protected electrical transformers…
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About the raid against squatted Prosfygika in the 22nd of November, 2022 (Athens, Greece)

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The Community of Squatted Prosfygika* was violently raided twice by armed police forces in the 22nd of November, 2022. The first raid took place in the early morning hours and the goal was to capture fellow comrade and member of the community Kostas Dimalexis, whom the state accused of commiting arson attacks on state and capital targets. The case could not stand in court, where, after a year and a half of imprisonment he was deemed non-guilty, since most if not all the evidence was either fabricated or just lacking.

Afterwards, in the evening of the 22nd, the second raid occurred, where a counter-terrorist unit backed up by other militarised police squads broke into one of the buildings of the community, a building that houses a social kitchen, an open political space and families, and arrested 79 people. Among them were comrades who came to express their solidarity to the community after the first raid and families with children. This group stood united and fought valiantly against the police forces in order to protect one another and the liberated grounds of the community.
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(Chile) Incendiary Stroll at Manuel Barros Borgoño High School in Memory of Alonso Verdejo, Risue

October 17, 2024 / informativoanarquista

On Wednesday October 2, masked students from Manuel Barros Borgoño High School, located in the Franklin neighborhood, built barricades and confronted the presence of the Carabineros (COP) with molotovs in memory and vengeance for Claudia López and Alonso Verdejo, also known as Risue.

Some records of the event:

Against the Silicon Forest (USA)

LETTER

Silicon Forest (n): A high-tech industrial corridor in the Portland Metro area, primarily Beaverton and Hillsboro, known for its concentration of tech companies fabricating and applying semiconductors such as Intel, Tektronix, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and more.

Introduction

The speed of technological advancement feels like a train that’s off the rails. What seemed like a distant dystopia even just a few years ago has passed into the regular order of the present day, whether with a bang or subtly, without most of us even noticing. A degree of skepticism and nervousness towards this dystopia in progress is permitted and even affirmed in the mainstream, as long as no one starts to question the trajectory of technological advancement which those who dreamed up this virtual reality want us to see as the unstoppable path of progress. They want us to see their digital world as being all around us, and, at the same time, nowhere at all.
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Chile EN/ES : IN MEMORY OF KEVIN GARRIDO – CALL FOR A BLACK NOVEMBER

CALL FOR A BLACK NOVEMBER

IN MEMORY OF KEVIN GARRIDO

The anti-authoritarian comrade Kevin Garrido was captured by the Chilean dirty police on November 19, 2015, after placing and detonating an artisanal explosive device at one of the entrances to the San Bernardo gendarmerie school. After his capture, he was also accused of carrying out an explosive attack outside the 12th police station of San Miguel on October 29 of that same year, which was attributed to the International Conspiracy for Revenge – Gerásimos Tsakalos Explosion Cell. During the early hours of November 19, the police also captured comrade Joaquín García Chancks, accusing him of belonging, along with Kevin, to this cell responsible for the attack against the 12th police station.

After a long trial, Kevin was sentenced to 17 years in prison for attacking both police institutions with explosives, and Joaquín García was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the explosive attack and carrying a firearm that he had at the time been recaptured after escaping from house arrest in 2016.

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Call for gathering and assembly in Athens (Greece)

We call for a gathering in solidarity with our injured anarchist comrade Marianna M., following the explosion on 31/10 at an apartment in Ampelokipoi, Athens, Greece. Our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Ks., who lost his life, will live on in our memory and through our struggles.

We know both comrades from their continuous and consistent participation and action in the social struggles. We stand beside them, beside their families, friends and comrades. We won’t allow any police operation targeting their keens, such as those regularly carried out by the antiterrorist section in the past. Against the fear that the cops are trying to spread and the mud thrown by the media, we all stand by their side.

Gathering, Monday 4/11, 19:00, Evaggelismos hospital Assembly, Tuesday 5/11, 18:30, ASOEE

HANDS OFF OUR ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIANNA SOLIDARITY WITH THE ARRESTED HONOR TO THE DEAD ANARCHIST COMRADE KYRIAKOS

Assembly for the solidarity with imprisoned, fugitive, and persecuted people in struggle

UPDATES : Call for emergency meeting in solidarity with the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M. Athens,Greece

A call of solidarity gathering for our persecuted anarchist comrade Dimitra Z. on Tuesday 5/11 at 9.30am in Evelpidon courts in Athens.

The comrade is being prosecuted as a result of the explosion on 31/10 in an apartment in Ampelokipoi that lost the life of our anarchist comrade Kyriakos X. and seriously injured our anarchist comrade Marianna M.

SOLIDARITY TO THE ANARCHIST COMRADE DIMITRA Z.

HANDS OFF ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIANNA

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE DEAD ANARCHIST COMRADE KYRIAKOS

Solidarity Assembly for imprisoned, fugitive
and persecuted fighters

 


 

Monday 4/11, 19:00 Evangelismos Hospital Athens

 HANDS OFF ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIANNA

SOLIDARITY TO THE ARRESTED

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE DEAD ANARCHIST COMRADE KYRIAKOS

by Solidarity assembly for imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted fighters


Those lost in the fire of battle never die

On 31/10, the anarchist Kyriakos Xymitiris is killed by an explosion in an apartment in area of Ampelokipoi in Athens

For our comrade , the only ones who can speak are us. All of us who were with him in assemblies, actions, marches, conflicts.

Kyriakos was for years continuously present in prisoner solidarity projects, in the anti-war-Internationalist movement, in actions for the defence of the neighbourhood of Exarchia, in the struggles within the universities, in the defence of the liberated spaces of the squatters and in every social and class struggle. He gave himself to them, always seeking to discover together their most insurrectionalist possibilities. He did not just theoretically defend the multifaceted struggle towards social liberation, but was its truest embodiment.

The comrade Kyriakos chose to fight to the end, fighting the world of power, the state, capital, racism, patriarchy with all means. He chose to fight on the side of the oppressed and the rebels for a better world, for a world of solidarity, equality, freedom.

His loss leaves a huge void in his family and friends, in the comrades who were close to him, but also in the struggle itself, which he marked both with his attitude and with his words.

The anarchist fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris was one of us. We will defend his memory and hold it forever in our hearts and in every moment of our struggle.

“I know you do not count on them because the Court is armed, but I beg you to permit me to tell you that you must count on them very much, whenever they themselves think that they are all. Here is where they stand: and they begin not to count your troops because the evil is that their power exists in their imaginations and it can be said with absolute certainty that, unlike all other kinds of power, when they reach a certain point they can do whatever they want that they can do.”

Comrade, we will meet again on the roads of fire where you will live forever…

Marianna strong until freedom

Honour forever to the anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris

Solidarity to all the people being prosecuted for the case

anarchists – communists


 

[Thessaloniki] Banners of solidarity to the injured comrade Marianna. Μ and to comrade Kyriakos xinitiris

As a small sign of solidarity to the injured anarchist comrade and honoring the memory of our dead comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris from an explosion in an apartment in the area of ​​Ampelokipi, in Athens we hung a banner at the anti-capitalist demo rally at the statue of Venizelos on Saturday 2/11.

HONOUR FOREVER TO OUR DEAD COMRADE KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS

NO ONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

COUNCIL OF ANARCHISTS

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As a sign of solidarity to comrade Marianna and honour to comrade Kyriakos, we hung banners to remind everyone that on the streets of the social war, the struggle continues with all means. We stand directly by the comrade M. in defiance of the state and the media that strive to imbue with fear the choices of struggle that each and every one has chosen. Comrade Kyriakos will live forever in our memory, through our struggles.

KYRIAKOS LIVES IN THE HEART OF EVERY SOCIAL FIGHTER

STRENGTH TO OUR COMRADE MARIANNA M.

Anares Action & Solidarity Group

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Hraklion, Grete 3/11

As a small sign of solidarity and memory, a banner was hung for the events of October 31st in Ampelokipi, on the facade of the Evangelismos occupation.

 

On 10/31, following an explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipoi area Athens, the anarchist comrade Kyriakos X was killed. In addition, following the same explosion, the comrade Marianna M. is in a serious condition in Evangelismos hospital – guarded by all kinds of cops – while at the same time people have been arrested and targeted from their close friendly environment. Against the terror hysteria that the media is trying to impose, we stand by the comrade M.

Strength and speedy recovery to the comrade Marianna.

A raised fist for those who continue to resist.

Goodbye comrade Kyriakos, you will live forever in our struggles and in our hearts.

Occupation of Evangelismos

Heraklion, Crete

November 2024

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3/11 / [Chania,Grete] Banner hanging and Call to an open assembly in solidarity with the wounded anarchist comrade M.M.

Solidarity Assembly for the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M., will take place on Tuesday 5/11 in the Reading Room of the Occupied of the polytechnic university at 20:00

On the streets of social war

with all means, THE FIGHT GOES ON

STRENGTH TO THE ANARCHIST COMRADE MARIANNA M.

SOLIDARITY TO THE ARRESTED

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE ANARCHIST COMRADE KYRIAKOS

Network of Anarchists/Antiauthoritarians

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Saturday 2/11  solidarity gathering outside Evaggelismos hospital in Athens. About 100 comrades gather outside  the hospital where the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M. is being held in a critical condition.

Sunday 3/11, 17:00  L. Strefi  Exarxeia area. Continuation  of the assembly in solidarity with the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M. and the arrested person, following an explosion on 31/10 in an apartment in the Ampelokipoi area of Athens. We don’t forget our anarchist comrade Kyriakos X., who died….

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1/11/ , We are calling for an emergency meeting in solidarity with the injured anarchist comrade Marianna M., after an explosion, yesterday 31/10, in an apartment in Ampelokipi area in Athens..

We know M. from her continuous and consistent participation and action in the social struggle. We stand unreservedly by her side, as well as with her family, friendship and comrade environment. We will not tolerate any anti-terrorist operation on people close to it, such as those that this agency has been accustomed to for many years.

Against the fear that the cops are trying to spread and the mud of the media, we all stand by the comrade.

Assembly: Strefi Hill, Saturday 2/11, 14:00 exareia Athens
Gathering: Evangelismos hospital, Saturday 2/11, 17:00

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE DEAD COMRADE

NO ONE – NOBODY ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

Solidarity assembly for imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted fighters

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Athens, Greece: Arson Attack on the Offices of New Democracy

Arson Attack on the Offices of New Democracy ( Greek government political party)

We take responsibility for the attack on the premises of the local organization of New Democracy, in the 5th municipal district Agios Eleftherios on Petridis Street, with an incendiary device in the early morning of October 13th. We chose to place the device in front of the metal door of your offices because although we could have broken into them and burned them completely, we did not want to risk the safety of the residents of the apartment building located above your hole. So we consciously hit this target and minimized the damage, because for us it had great symbolic value, clearly proven by the fact that you kept quiet about it.

In its 50 years it has remained and will go down in history for the dozens if not hundreds of scandals with bribes, murders, trafficking rings, participation in fascist groups, etc. This right-wing, patriotic-traditional party, which still gathers a huge percentage of supporters, has been in power for 5 years and with a specific and methodical plan has created the ultimate European paradise for domestic and international capital, as well as for the mafias all over the world, and absolute hell and dystopia for the lower economic and social strata. New Democracy and all its cronies (judges, mafia, businessmen) act shamelessly and cynically without trying to hide their atrocities, sodomizing anyone who tries to take out their dirty laundry or opposes even their own victims.
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Volos, Greece: Taking responsibility by solidarians in solidarity with the death of 21-year-old foreigner in the youth detention centre prison

Taking responsibility in solidarity with the death of 21-year-old foreigner in the youth detention centre.

Once again we bear witness to the absolute inhumanity towards prisoners following the death of a 21-year-old foreigner from “pathological” causes in the youth detention centre of Volos. The just uprising that broke out inside the prison on the night of 26/10 is the least possible act of the prisoners to break the cordon of terror imposed by the humans-guards.

As a reflexive act of solidarity, we broke the ATMs of Alpha Bank the same night as well as burning bins in the centre of Volos.

solidarians

“Unsurprising Fact” – Letter By Anarchist Prisoner Toby Shone + Fallout From Publication Of “Unsurprising Fact” (UK)

17/10/24

Some things don’t surprise us and for sure the recourse to judicial options I find distasteful but expedient. Anarchism is either illegal or it is not anarchism as our dear comrade Gustavo Rodriguez reminds us. Nevertheless, over the past few months my lawyers were able to obtain a Security Intelligence Report (SIR) produced by the prison’s anti-terror bureaucrats. This disclosure occurred in the course of a parole motion, which was denied in any event. The Secretary of State opposed my release and used a non-disclosure application to prevent me from seeing or being able to respond to “evidence” used against me on grounds of “national security”. The Parole Board disagreed and granted me access to a scant eight pages of intelligence reports.

These cover the time period September 2023 – January 2024 and show an incomplete snapshot of the surveillance and censorship of my correspondence and books, the gathering of information on those that I am in contact with and the intel received about the fireworks solidarity demo at Bristol prison last year when I was detained there. The report revealed the collection of all the names, addresses and personal details of all those who communicate with me. For example, it is noted that one comrade writes that he works as a postman, another comrade “has a daughter in prison”, etc. Also listed in the entries are any personal connections and any details related to affiliations to any groups or tendencies. Geographic analysis using Google Maps has been made to view their locations. The Star and Shadow Cinema in Newcastle upon Tyne is designated a “potential meeting point” and BASE in Bristol described as “a heavily graffitied possible squat or commune.
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$hile :Communique from Clandestinity of the May 21 Case Fugitives

Communique from Clandestinity of the May 21 Case Fugitives

October 23, 2024 / informativoanarquista

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As the Felipe Ríos support network has already communicated, through communiques on the counterinformation networks, for the past month our comrade has been receiving continual harassment from the gendarmes of $hile. Concretely, he is being transferred within the CPP Bío Bío from one unit to another, placed in isolation cells, denied his belongings and under constant threat of punishment, all for not bowing his head to each arbitrary order of the cops.

Pipe has been imprisoned for more than 4 years, after spending almost two years in clandestinity. Through his communiques we’ve been made aware that being in prison has not bent his firm beliefs against the State and capital, and that he’s remained critical to the prison dynamics that pit some prisoners against others, promoting codes that are different from the authoritarian ones reproduced in the wretched prisons. The comrade’s stringent belief implies an enormous challenge, because it’s not the same path of the majority of the prison population. Therefore, it is mediated by a large share of solitude, which he has always confronted with dignity and with his head held high.
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