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Athens, (Exarxeia) Greece :Taking responsibility for the actions against gentrification and displacement By Anarchists

Athens, Exarxeia area:Taking responsibility against gentrification and displacement  by Anarchists

The gentrification of the neighbourhood of Exarchia continues at a rapid pace. Our rents are going up, Airbnbs are springing up everywhere, Cyrille-hipster shops are opening one after the other and groups of tourists are socializing with the cops continuing to pollute our neighbourhood with their presence.

At the same time, the control and surveillance of the area with dozens of cameras reinforces the repressive apparatus of state and capital which, together with the cops, are attempting to sweep and destroy  of resistance, self-organization, occupations, the Exarcheia of rebellion. Latest attack: on the trees of the square, one of the few green spots in the neighbourhood.

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Athens,Greece: ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANTI-FASCIST BARAGE-CALL TO CALL-ANTI-FASCIST FIRE

Athens ,We claim responsibility for the following attacks on fascist targets:

i) In the early hours of 11/17, we placed an incendiary device in the house of the former member of the Hellenic Solution, Anastasia Aikaterini Alexopoulou, in Zografou. The Hellenic Solution is a far-right party that sought to replace Golden Dawn in Parliament, and has been there since 2019. Velopoulos’s party went to the elections promoting the whole extreme agenda and mainly fences and machine guns on the borders. Now these costumed fascists have ended up a funny opposition that turns its back on the government to pay off its debts. (After the act we have been informed that this particular piece of trash has moved from the house that was recently targeted, such an operational error will not be repeated)

ii) In the early hours of 11/17, we also placed an incendiary device in the house of the fascist of the neighbourhood of Zografou, Vassilis Barletis. After using information, Barletis, a well-known fascist in the area, was added to the itinerary and we decided to leave him a gift from us in his view.

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Alfredo M. Bonanno :July 1999 in Athens: i am here in this courtroom alongside my comrade Nikos Maziotis.

July 1999 Athens

Gentlemen,

I am here in this courtroom alongside my comrade Nikos Maziotis. Both irreducible enemies of the State, both anarchists.

Looking around the world today, the State order dominates almost everywhere and its order is that of death and destruction. The recent events of the war in Serbia and Kosovo testify to this perfectly. Whatever the State does, even when it tries to hide behind a humanitarian façade, it results in death and destruction.

But the State is not an abstraction, it is not an empty word, but a very concrete thing. The State is constituted of men and things, by capital that realizes exploitation, which keeps millions of people under its control in order to secure profits on investment, an immense administrative and military apparatus that governs, manages and kills on a daily basis.
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Greece: The 2024 Agenda of the Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Fighters has been released

The 2024 Agenda of the Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Fighters has been released

We have chosen to focus on the four years following 2008, judging that they present a qualitatively coherent structure in terms of a new cycle of political developments, of which 2009 was an explosive prelude. The four-year period 2009-2012 unfolds in the wake of the largest violent social explosion during the post-colonial period, on the occasion of the murder of the anarchist student, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, in December 2008 and while the country had already begun to sink into the first eddies of the global economic crisis that broke out in September 2008, with the collapse of the 4th largest US financial giant. These two peculiarities were to be a ticking time bomb for the already fragile climate of that time, causing social competition to explode to unprecedented levels through a veritable armageddon of developments.

For more information on distribution points and pick-up methods, you can contact tameio@espiv.net.

UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST PRISON

WE SUPPORT POLITICAL PRISONERS AND PERSECUTED FIGHTERS MORALLY-MATERIALLY-POLITICALLY

By Solidarity Fund of Imprisoned and Persecuted Fighters

Anarchist comrade Alfredo M. Bonanno has died on 6th December at the age of 86

You will always be alive with us through our action and our lives. “ACTION REPLACES TEARS”

Alfredo Maria Bonanno, born in 1937 in Catania, Sicily, is one of the most prolific contemporary anarchists, responsible for Anarchismo editions and other publishing ventures. In 1977 he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his book La Gioia Armata (Armed Joy). This book had been published at a historical moment when the Italian revolutionary movement was openly going on the offensive, while similar conditions existed in other European countries (Germany, Spain, England, Greece, Chile and more) and the question of violence was on the daily agenda. His contribution lies in a celebration of the pervasive class violence that liberates and satisfies the individual, but at the same time he sounds the alarm about the emergence of the armed party, which reduces the class conflict to a militaristic dimension, imposing the mediation of a small minority of armed men on the complexity of tens of thousands of people struggling by all means against the current reorganization of Capital, which at that moment seemed weak.

In the spirit of the book, all authentic liberating and destructive action comes from a logic of satisfaction in the struggle, not a self-sacrificing duty in accordance with the dictates of a micro-bureaucracy. The Italian Supreme Court ordered the destruction of the copies of the book that were in circulation, and sent a circular to public libraries to dispose of any copies they might have had.

Several librarians objected to this Nazi-inspired tactic. Its circulation was generally banned, and copies were confiscated from the homes of anarchist militants in the context of police raids on houses.

Shortly afterwards, the author was accused of being an “instigator” of the Azione Rivoluzionaria, an armed organisation of 1976-79, which operated on the basis of “affinity groups” throughout central Italy, mainly against newspapers and party offices, and similar “manipulative mechanisms of consensus-building”. In 1979 the organisation was practically dismantled with the arrest of 86 people and the arrest of Salvatore Cinieri and Gianfranco Faina. The first went on to die in prison in a scuffle with criminal inmates when he defended a prisoner suspected of submitting an escape plan, while the second was released to die of lung cancer after being diagnosed with a tumour while in custody.

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Greece: December 6 – We don’t forget, we don’t forgive

 

Greece: December 6 – We don’t forget, we don’t forgive

15 years have passed since the night of December 6, 2008 when the murderous cop Korkoneas killed the anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos with his colleague Saraliotis watching.

15 years since the night that shocked the whole society and led to a huge social uprising that exploded like a bomb across the country and lasted for months.

15 years since night-time stopped. The promises we made then remain open. They show us all that has been lost and all that needs to be done now.

15 years and the murders have not stopped, just as the beatings, arrests, abuse and torture have not stopped. The State has continuity. Before and after December 6. That is why we continue to be in the streets.

We don’t forget, we don’t forgive.

Calls for 6 of December:
• Athens: Propylaia, 12:00 | Propylaia, 18:00 (Tsamadou gathering 16:00) | Messolonghiou, 21:00


• Thessaloniki: Kamara 12:00 | Kamara, 18:00

Patras: Annex, 12:00 | Annex, 18:00

CITY OF VOLOS : Tholos, 18:00

• Agrinio city : Pl. Dimadis, 18:30

•City of  Karditsas: Pl. Eleftherias, 18:30

• City of Komotini: Palaia Nomiki, 19:00

• Down of Chalkida: Pl. Post Office, 19:00

• City of Kavala: Municipal Garden, 18:00

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Athens, Greece: Fire to the ATTIKO METRO machinery! By Anarchists

Athens,Fire to the ATTIKO METRO machinery! (excerpt)

In the early hours of November 17th, we attacked and set fire to 3 ATTIKO METRO machines at the construction site of line 4 in the area of Kaisariani at the junction of Ethnikis Antistaseos and Filolaou streets.

Our action is the conceivable sequel of the slogan that we shouted so many times together with thousands of other demonstrators at the gatherings and demonstrations against the destruction of Exarchia square by the cooperation of the state-contractors-Attiko Metro-municipal authority. Mobilizations that have intensified recently, after the invasion of the machinery in the square with the aim of clearing the area of trees, bushes, etc.

Finally, we chose our incendiary attack to take place at a time and day (early morning on November 17, 2023) when, according to media reports, 5000 thousand policemen were patrolling the streets of Athens ahead of the mobilizations for the 50th anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising. Our arson attack took place within breathing distance between the Kaisariani police station and the headquarters of the YMET (special units of the Greek Police)in Oulof Palme avenue, proving that the city belongs to those who wish to destroy order and not to those who are paid to enforce it. Now and always.

DEVELOPMENT SABOTAGE, FIRE TO THEIR PROJECTS!

Arson Committee “Σπεύδε Βραδέως”

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1627947/

Athens, Greece: If you were invisible, would you rob a supermarket? by ALIENATION_2.0

Athens,  If you were invisible, would you rob a supermarket? by ALIENATION_2.0

At noon on Saturday 4/11, an expropriation took place at s/m My Market on Agia Sophia Street, in one of the most central parts of the Vyrvna  neighbourhood.

Supermarkets have always been one of the businesses that never miss an opportunity to turn every crisis into an opportunity to multiply their profits on our backs in a variety of ways. Either by draining their workforce with meager wages and flexible hours, or by imposing exorbitant mark-ups on all their products, with priority given to basic necessities further hampering our quality of life.
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Athens, Greece: Claim for molotov attack on OPKE

Athens, Claim for molotov attack on OPKE

50 years after the Polytechnic uprising, 15 years after December ’08, which erupted after the murder of the anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos, the states and the capitalists have launched an attack of unprecedented intensity on the conquests won through blood and struggle. The intensity of the attack is experienced by the most impoverished sections of society who are subject to daily exploitation. The murders in the workplaces and work sites, at the borders, in prisons and police checkpoints are dubbed ‘industrial accidents’, ‘isolated incidents’, ‘shootings’ and occupy a single column in the margin of a newspaper. But they are clearly state and capitalist killings in an environment where our lives are devalued and expendable.

In a neoliberal environment where the bosses, whose sole criteria is to increase their profitability, aim the guns of the cops at the disposable, poor, outcasts and petty criminals. The forces of repression have always been the murderous assault battalions of bourgeois democracy.
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Athens,Greece: THE CONSPIRACY OF REVENGE Taking Responsibility For The Attack On The House – Offices Of The Company ERGOMAR

 THE CONSPIRACY OF REVENGE : Taking Responsibility For The Attack On The House – Offices Of The Company ERGOMAR

 We take responsibility for the attack on the home – offices of the ERGOMAR company of the well-known businessman Dimitris Marinelis, at 12 Hous Street, in Kifissia.

The reason the attack was carried out is to target the corrupt role of construction companies. It is an open secret that the collegium of politicians and big bosses share state resources and European funds, thus misappropriating large sums of money at the expense of the Greek people.

For years now, with direct assignments to their minions, they manage and obtain huge sums of money – kickbacks with the well-known over-budgeting of projects and materials needed for their implementation. Construction companies are the ones responsible for many workplace accidents, as in order to make as much profit as possible they reduce the necessary safety measures for workers.

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Athens,Greece: Taking Responsibility For The Confidential Attack On The Renault Dealership by Anarchists

Taking Responsibility For The Confidential Attack On The Renault Dealership

It was early morning on October 15, the sky was completely dark. Municipal election day. We waited for the voters and the cops to move into the neighbourhood. The streets were almost empty. We reached our goal. We looked at each other with that spark in our eyes. Everything was clean. Nothing was stopping us. A few seconds before the action we wondered if it was worth it, fear took hold, but it is worth it for all the reasons in the world. Determination, the burning heart takes the place of fear. It’s one of the few times you smile. We give the final OK. The person activates the incendiary device, places it under the car. He makes the signal. We walk away, each in turn, seeing that no one in the neighbourhood noticed what had happened. Minutes later, when we were away, in the safety of the dark of night, the device activated and reduced five cars to a flaming mess. If the neighbours hadn’t been woken up by the sound of the fire, the fire siren certainly did it.

The only thing that makes sense in this miserable world we live in is to try to destroy it thoroughly. To resist it in every possible way. This small action is a contribution to this resistance. It is also an invitation to other individuals and groups to participate. There are state and capitalist goals everywhere all we need is a well organized plan and to overcome our fears individually and collectively.
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Athens,Greece :ANNOUNCEMENT RE COMRADE KOSTAS DIMALEXIS

ANNOUNCEMENT RE COMRADE KOSTAS DIMALEXIS

Monday 20/11. Our comrade Kostas Dimalexis was already declared innocent of the fabricated indictment at the first-instance trial. The charges for joining a criminal organization and attacking real fm have also been dropped.

The State organized plot collapsed with a bang.

HAPPY FREEDOM, COMRADE

THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN THE WAR WE ARE LIVING CAN BRING US A REAL SENSE OF TRIUMPH

THE STATE IS THE ONLY TERRORIST

Assembly of solidarity with the anarchist prisoner Kostas Dimalexis

Athens, Greece : Taking responsibility for the attack on a member of the fascist group propatria in Nea Ionia on Heraklion Avenue.

Athens: Taking responsibility for the attack on a member of the fascist group propatria in Nea Ionia on Heraklion Avenue.

On 28 October we chose to visit the coffee bar berry in Nea Ionia on Heraklion Avenue while Dionysis Karagiannis, a member of the fascist group propatria, was working there. Once again a member of propatria showed us his fighting skills by running to hide in the store’s warehouse. Propatria is a group that acts and moves invisibly, with little presence on the streets and usually for a short time, in the context of captions, “quotes” and in terms of spectacle, trying in this way to reach the youth, forcing the antifascist movement to take on the role of detective in order to reach its members.

They should be well aware that we will choose the target, the time and the place each time. It is the duty of the antifascist movement to dismantle every fascist cell, against any attempt at political reconstruction, with stubbornness, organisation and loyalty to each other.

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Greece: COPS FASCIST MURDERERS THE STATE MURDER OF THE 17 YEAR OLD ROMA XRISTOS MICHALOPOULOS  WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN

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 Greece: Testimony of the brother of a dead teenager
12/11/2023

“We were with my brother, his girlfriend and her sister. He didn’t have a driving licence yet and now that he was nearly 18 he was about to get one. We had taken the car for a drive. We were going from Aliarto to Leontari Thebes. My brother signaled to him to stop but because there were bends in the road there, he didn’t want to as he was afraid someone might come in the opposite direction and there would be a crash. My brother was scared because we had the girls in the car. A little further on, at about 800 metres, he put on the hazard lights and stopped the car.”

The brother of the dead 17-year-old and an eyewitness stated that “the policeman got out of the cop car fuming with nerves, approached, hit the car window on my brother’s side with his gun, with force. My brother opened the door, he didn’t have time to get out before the policeman starting kicking him in the ribs, in the legs, on his shins, grabbed him by the T shirt and shot him. The asphalt was covered in my brother’s blood. For nothing. There are witnesses. No pursuit, nothing. At that moment there was nothing I or the girls could do”.


Some up dates: 12/11/ 23 In Thessaloniki, a march of about 300 people. Strong tension.


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Athens,Greece : Call for a nationwide day of action on Tuesday 7/11 in solidarity with Vasiliki, seriously injured in the head, anti-fascist who was beaten by Ο.Π.Κ.Ε. cops in N. Heraklion area.

AGAINST STATE VIOLENCE AND REPRESSION

We are calling for a nationwide day of action on Tuesday 7/11 in solidarity with Vasiliki, a 16-year-old anti-fascist who was beaten by OPKE (Group of Crime Prevention and Suppression) in N. Heraklion area.

We invite the people and collectives of the anti-fascist, anarchist and more broadly antagonist movement to a Pan-Hellenic Mobilization Day on Tuesday, November 7 At propeilaia in Athens at 19:00

SOLIDARITY IS THE WEAPON OF SOCIETY VIOLENCE TO THE VIOLENCE OF POWER

HANDS OFF FROM THE ANTI-FASCISTS

NO ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

TODAY B. TOMORROW WHO?

Athens Solidarity Assembly for B.

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Athens, Greece: ABOUT THE INJURED 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL
About the injured 16 year old girl

On Saturday 28/10 an anti-fascist concert was organized in Heraklion Square, regarding the callouts against the fascist celebration of the 10th anniversary of November 1st (execution of two members of the golden down neo-nazis X.A.). During the concert, a group of antifascists patrolled the streets of Neo Heraklion area. At a very close distance from the concert venue the group crossed with cars of the O.P.K.E. The cops, without the slightest reason and although it was clear that the group had no intention of a confrontation with them, made a surprise attack, splitting the group of antifascists into two parts.

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