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Athens,Greece: Letter by Anarchist prisoner Dimitra Z. from Koridallos Women Prisons

via:  athens.indymedia

Translated by Act for freedom now!


 

31/12/24

31/10 OUR BLOOD THEIR PERSECUTIONS

Two months ago, on 31/10 at Arcadia Street in Ampelokipi,
a crack in time was created when anarchist comrade Kyriakos
Xymitiris loses his life after an explosion. Anarchist comrade
Marianna is seriously injured and a “witch hunt” starts so that
they meet the requirements to set up the charges based on
the 187A law.

Learning the news about the facts in Ampelokipi and considering
possible that the repressive – media mechanisms of the state would
attempt to connect me to the case through the keys of the
apartment on Arcadia Street which I handed over to the comrades some days earlier, I returned to Greece from abroad where I live the
last years. Returning on Monday 4/11, they waited for me at the
airport at the landing point 15-20 anti-terrorist police officers,
seized my personal belongings and afterwards they transferred me
to the 13th floor of GADA . Initially they announced to me
my admission which later turned into arrest based on a
inflated and without proof set of charges about setting up and
participating in terrorist organization, explosion and possession,
construction and supply of explosives. Interrogator Mrs. Georgia
Kioulepoglou with the public prosecutor after the interrogative proceedings decided, with non-existent proof, my imprisonment. Two days earlier with the same loose charges comrade Dimitris was also imprisoned.

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Greece/ Grete in Chania :Two-day Event – Discussion Mapping the legal “arsenal” // Planning the attack on sovereignty

Two-day Event – Discussion
Mapping the legal “arsenal” // Planning the attack on sovereignty

Friday 10/01, 20:00

Documentary screening of Fino All’ Ultimo Respiro (Until the Last Breath) – on Alfredo Cospito’s detention conditions and the 41bis law [duration 28′]

Some notes on 41-bis and suppression in Italy

Saturday 11/01, 19:00

Book presentation “Which International?” by Alfredo Cospito // Interview-discussion of Alfredo Cospito in the anarchist newspaper Vetriolo, when he was imprisoned in Ferrara jail in Italy. -Presentation from the Anarchist hangout Nadir & the Anarchist project Ragnarok
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Solidarity from Uruguay to Athens.en/es/de

via: kontrapolis.info/14629/

December 2024

We live in a world in which our existence is continuously threaten by the capitalist advances in all their expressions. Governments and businessman, mercenaries without scruples are responsible of keeping the status quo, while submitting all of us by means of state violence to a life of misery and resignation.Confronting such reality, those who rise up and resist head against this imposed reality, are turned immediately into terrorist.

This idea is sustained and reproduced thanks to the unconditional support of the dis-information media, which fulfills very well their role of deforming opinion. Nothing further from reality than the headlines of the local yellow press.

Who decides to attack?

There is no such things as a savior complex in those who decide to fight. It is rather a personal decision that keeps coherence with the chosen path in life. Tireless and stubborn, us who chose this way are the undesirable reflex of a society that thinks of it self in terms of the oppressor. Therefore, we will always be on the side of those who rise up, face the oppressor and attack. Making clear that these are not invulnerable monsters.

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Athens, Greece: Update from the demonstration gathering at korydallos prison on 31/12/24

31/12, in the evening, a rally was held outside Korydallos prison with the massive participation of comrades.

The gathering headed towards the men’s prison and then marched along Grigoriou Lambrakis Street towards the women’s prison. Finally, it headed to the back of the men’s prison outside the A’ wing.

Throughout the rally, dynamic slogans were heard, joined by the voices of prisoners. For the struggle against prisons, in solidarity with those who are imprisoned, in solidarity with the comrades who are in pretrial detention for the Ampelokipi case, Marianna, Dimitra, Dimitris, Nikos and A.K., and for our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris who will live forever in our hearts and struggles.

KYRIAKOS IS ONE OF US

A COMRADE FOREVER ON THE STREETS OF FIRE

THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN ALL PRISONS

UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST PRISON

SOLIDARITY WITH COMRADE K.K.

FINAL RELEASE OF COMRADE POLA ROUPA AND COMRADE NIKOS MAZIOTIS

Assembly of Solidarity with the imprisoned, fugitiveand persecuted fighters

Greece: Update from the gathering demo at Kassavetia prison 31/12/24

On 31/12/24, a gathering was held at Kassavetia prison (juvenile wing) in solidarity with the anarchist comrade inside. The comrade has been in custody since 7/11/2024 accused of arson of an interrogation van in Messolonghi. Arriving outside the prison with fliers and banners, the prisoners’ voices resonated with the intense atmosphere and joined our own.

We stood for 25 minutes shouting slogans and there was great interaction with the prisoners. Throughout the entire duration, there was a discreet presence of the cops until our departure from the village where the prison is located.

STATES ARE THE ONLY TERRORISTS

SOLIDARITY WITH THE ARMED GUERILLAS

RIOT AND FIRE IN ALL CAGES

SOLIDARITY WITH THE ANARCHIST COMRADE K.K.

Open solidarity meeting with comrade K.K. in Athens

Greece: FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE FUND FOR PRISONERS AND PROSECUTED REVOLUTIONARIES: For Kyriakos Xymitiris.

For Kyriakos Xymitiris.

December 2024

“Arm yourself and be violent, beautifully violent, until everything explodes. Because, you must remember that any violent action against these promoters of inequality is clearly justified by the centuries of infinite violence they have subjected us to.”
Mauricio Morales

Words are sometimes hopelessly inadequate to describe the state of affairs. There is no word that accurately describes the mental pain that revolutionaries feel when fellow travelers, who together traveled miles in the struggle against the barbarity of power and exploitation from person to person, lose their lives violently. Especially when the thread of life is cut in the most tragic way, in the process of less visible or even completely invisible risks, risks that prepare the ground for an imminent attack on the world of power. But if this one word existed, it should carry in turn the words

Pain, Rage, Revenge…

This October will forever remain in history as another star that went out early, shooting thousands of black arrows into the depths of our souls.

Since October 31, after that cursed explosion on Arcadia Street in Ampelokipi, the world of struggle has been left once again in ruins. Anarchists, communists, fighters, we are reliving the pain of violent separation. We are reliving the sudden shock of realizing that there are fewer of us left in this difficult struggle, losing a bright smile and a tireless and sparkling gaze, which we must realize we will never see again in any amphitheatre, in any demo, in any solidarity bar.
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Thessaloniki, Greece : Greeting to the memorial for anarchist comrade Alfredo M. Bonanno in Carrara, Italy en/it

To the comrades of Carrara, who will honour the memory and struggle of anarchist revolutionary Alfredo M. Bonanno at the Circolo Culturale Anarchico ”Gogliardo Fiaschi” on December 8th 2024.

Comrades,

By raising our insurgent fists from the Greek metropolis, we welcome your initiative to honour the memory of the comrade Alfredo M. Bonanno. A few kilometres away from you, the answer to the question “Why is it necessary to highlight the historicality of the work of the comrade Alfredo”, lies in the simplest of concepts: the constant need of a free person to revolt against misery and the constant necessity for the world of poverty to be completely destroyed.

At a time of political retreat and reform, it is our collective duty to undo the natural death of a comrade, giving breath and vibrancy to the propositions that characterized his life and his passing from every field of struggle. To fight radically and with a point of aggression, to sharpen the conflict in all the fields of social antagonism. To fight to win, not moments, but the totality of freedom.

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Update from Cassavetias prisons demo , and from the gathering at Korydallos prison in Athens 12/12/24

On Thursday, 12/12/24, approximately 40 comrades from different cities, gathered outside the Kassavetia prison to support our comrade K.K., who is imprisoned in this particular “correctional” facility.

The aim was for Dinos K. on his 18th birthday and being a prisoner of the social war, not to feel alone, not to feel that our solidarity, our practical political/material/moral and psychological support for him, will not accompany him  UNTIL FREEDOM
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(Athens) Update from the gathering at Korydallos prison Thu. 12/12
Today, Thursday 12/12 in the afternoon, a gathering was held at Korydallos prison against mandatory DNA collection, for which an order had been given a few days before, but also in solidarity with our comrades who were about to be subjected to this torture process.
The gathering remained for a while at the basketball courts opposite the male prison then headed opposite the women’s prison, where we heard the imprisoned comrades. Slogans were shouted and fliers were thrown.

text given out:

COMPULSORY DNA COLLECTION IS TORTURE

On 31/10/24, after a device exploded in an apartment in Ampelokipi, our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation. Our anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was also in the apartment, ended up severely injured in the “Evangelismos” Hospital. The well-known witch hunt followed, resulting in the arrests of comrade Dimitris, anarchist comrade Dimitra Z., anarchist comrade N. Romanou and A.K.
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RESPONSIBILITY CLAIM//HONOUR TO COMRADE KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS (Athens,Greece)

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.
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Athens, Greece : Smashing gentrification in the name of Kyriakos X. by Anarchists

Exarcheia has been transformed into a sterile, dead tourist entertainment zone where the culture of consumerism dominates and alienated, superficial relationships prevail. Hipster shops, swanky hotels, flashy airbnbs now flood the neighbourhood, turning it into a flashy showcase for the apathetic apolitical who museumise its rebellious characteristics.

Against this condition that they are trying to impose on us, we keep our political projects alive and unchanged and confirm the prospects of substantial comradeship. Recently, Exarcheia was characterized by a regime of apathy that broke on December 6th, when widespread clashes took place and slogans were shouted for our fallen comrade Kyriakos X.

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GREECE : FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE FUND FOR PRISONERS AND PROSECUTED REVOLUTIONARIES.

FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE FUND FOR PRISONERS AND PROSECUTED REVOLUTIONARIES.

Comrades and friends,

The Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Revolutionaries was “born” 14 years ago from within the ranks of the anarchist/anti-authoritarian movement. From then until today the Fund has had an uninterrupted and diverse presence in the history of the movement in Greece. From the open, nationwide assembly of the structure, dozens of comrades have passed through and actively participated, while today the Fund consists of two sub-assemblies, in Athens and Thessaloniki. Throughout these years, the structure of the Fund has provided material support to dozens of political prisoners and persecuted revolutionaries. And it has managed to do this continuously and on a monthly basis. In addition to the financial support to the prisoners, captives of the social/class war, the structure attempts to support politically the comrades who are inside the walls, with events all over Greece, solidarity actions, presence in the adjacent courts.

As a Solidarity Fund we are made of the flesh of the radical movement. The people who participate in its assemblies come from it and act politically within it. The resources of the structure are resources that come from the practical solidarity of our political milieu ( in Greece and abroad) with prisoners. Through our publications, our events of all kinds, we try to raise the necessary funds for the monthly financial support of our incarcerated comrades. At the same time, a significant part of the material support comes from contributions from groups, collectives, individuals within and outside Greece. The structure is, in this way, another link between the movement and political prisoners, one of the “bodies” that the movement itself has created as another constant point of reference for the multifaceted solidarity it has shown towards them over time.
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[Athens,Greece] Update from today’s demonstration in Monastiraki square in solidarity with the imprisoned comrades

Today, Saturday 30/11 afternoon, a gathering was held in Monastiraki in solidarity with the comrades imprisoned for the Ampelokipi case.

Throughout the gathering, there were loud slogans of solidarity with our comrades who are in prison and against the state and capital, intervening for some time in one of the most central points of tourism and over-consumerism in the city.

HANDS OFF THE COMRADES

STATE AND CAPITAL ARE THE ONLY TERRORISTS

SOLIDARITY TO THE ARMED REBELS

MARIANNA, DIMITRI, DIMITRA, NIKO GERA FREE

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ONE OF US

COMRADE FOREVER ON THE PATHS OF FIRE

Assembly of Solidarity for the imprisoned, fugitive
and persecuted fighters

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International Call for action days 30.12-01.01: In memory of Kyriakos X and in solidarity with the persecuted of the Ampelokipoi case [eng, ger, gr, esp, cat]

Assembly in memory of K.X. and in solidarity with the persecuted comrades in the Ampelokipoi case

On the 31st of October, in an explosion in an apartment in Athens, the anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation. The anarchist comrade Marianna suffered severe injuries, after being treated at Evangelismos Hospital under constant police surveillance, she was transferred on Friday 15/11 to Korydallos Prison. In the aftermath of what happened on 31st October, the comrades Dimitra Z, Dimitris, Nikos R. and A.K have been imprisoned as well in the pre-detention prison in Korydallos. The five comrades have been charged under the anti-terrorism law 187A: formation and membership of a terrorist organization, explosion and supply, possession and manufacture of explosives, damage to private property.

The pressure exerted by the Greek anti-terror unit, working hand in hand with the interrogator in charge of the case, led to the early discharge of comrade Marianna from the hospital, with the management of Evaggelismos hospital not holding responsibility for their patient. As with every prison in the world, Korydallos is a place ruled by mistreatment and harsh conditions. The women’s section of the prison is even more neglected than the men’s section, making it a faithful copy of the patriarchal society in which we live. This torture inflicted on the comrade is rooted in the most classic practices of Western patriarchy, which is enslaving and colonial. The stripping of subjectivity and manipulation of bodies as objects, by force, is a historical practice of white patriarchy. This tries, through European states, to create the myth of an external enemy—an enemy of color, with a different alphabet. However, it is clear that patriarchy is a current enemy coming from the Western world, and is seen in the mistreatment to which the comrade and many other imprisoned individuals are being subjected.
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EN/IT From Bari (South of italy) in memory of Kyriakos and in solidarity with Marianna, Dimitra e Dimitris.

On the 16th of November, the assembly “NO CARCERE NO CPR” (no prison no deportation center) organised a greeting in front of the prison of Bari in the South of Italy for those inside. We took the chance to also hold a speech about Kyriakos Ximitris and our comrades in the prisons of Athens which we want to publish here.
All love and solidarity for Marianna, Dimitra and Dimitris and those who are grieving the loss of their friend and comrade Kyriakos.

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Il 16 novembre l’assemblea NO CARCERE NO CPR ha organizzato un presidio di fronte al carcere di Bari per le persone detenute. Abbiamo colto l’occasione per leggere un testo, per Kyriakos Ximitris e le nostre compagne in prigione ad Atene, che vogliamo pubblicare qui. Amore e solidarietà per Marianna, Dimitra e Dimitris e chiunque è in lutto per la perdita dell’amico e compagno Kyriakos.

[ENG]

These words we speak in solidarity with our comrade Kyriakos Ximitris and in solidarity with Marianna, Dimitra e Dimitris.

The 31st of october 2024, our anarchist comrade Kyriakos has been killed by a bomb that exploded in an apartment in Athens. Another comrade, Marianna, was seriously injured by the explosion.

Marianna spent two weeks in hospital, where she had to fight not only her heavy injuries but also the torture from the greek anti-terror-cops, who did – unsuccesfully – try to get whatever information out of her.
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Barcelona – Intervention and banner for Kyriakos and Marianna

Banner of solidarity and honour, intervention with text reading on the Ampelokipi case

In the context of a punk concert in El Clot neighbourhood, comrades hung a banner and read a relevant text in the Catalan dialect.

May the flame not be extinguished, we will continue the struggle.

Kyriakos present

Marianna freedom

via: athens.indymedia.