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Greece: Text by Pola roupa, and Nikos Maziotis : Daphne Vayanou for us you will always be here

Daphne Vayanou for us you will always be here

Throughout her legal career Daphne Vayanou has been a fighter for her own cause. From a young age she was a lawyer for important political cases. With a deep political culture, political stature and a fighting soul she took on heavy political cases, prosecutions and trials. It would not be an exaggeration to say that she was the lawyer of the struggle. She defended many anarchists in numerous trials and political persecutions. Without a trace of conservatism, without making political compromises, she did not alter the political values of the fighters she defended, she did not miss out the political points in the name of any political expediency. And yet she was extremely effective, uniquely combining the political dimensions of the trials with an excellent criminal defence.

Our beloved lawyer Daphne Vayanou was our irreplaceable fellow traveller in our political journey. Many trials, countless meetings, long, meaningful and unforgettable discussions on legal and political issues. She knew it herself, we told her constantly, even after she retired, until a few days before her death, that she was our ADVOCATE. Continue reading Greece: Text by Pola roupa, and Nikos Maziotis : Daphne Vayanou for us you will always be here →

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Greece: To Daphne who passed away yesterday morning…

Daphne Vayanou (1946-2022)

To Daphne who passed away yesterday morning…

Thank you for all these years you stood by me with all means… in my very very hard difficult moments of my life fighting between life and death, and for being next to me in some court cases against the enemy of the State all these past years…

We love you and respect you! As a friend, comrade, and fighter for freedom always with your way!

 Individual anarchist

from the Anarchist project Act for freedom now!

Spyros

2022

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Daphne Vayanou : Δαφνη Βαγιανου (1946-2022) Greece, Athens

Daphne Vayanou (1946-2022)
Daphne Vayanou, comrade, friend, defence lawyer for dozens of persecuted anarchists and protagonist in all the key trials of the post-war period, passed away yesterday morning.
In the early 80’s she was the defence lawyer for Kiritsis – Moira – Skandali.
In the second half of the 1980s, Muhammad Hamdan, the persecuted and wanted ‘terrorist Rashid’ by the US FBI.
For Kristoforos Marinos throughout the years of his persecution. Those arrested after the Patras anarchist congress of ’85.
Those persecuted in the Mazokopou case.
Those arrested at the Polytechnic of ’95.
for Nikos Maziotis and Pola Rupa, some of the dozens of trials of comrades accused by the police of ‘terrorism’.
At the trial of 17 November, defending Angeliki Sotiropoulou.
In the crime of employer terrorism and state-police indifference, the 2008 vitriol attack on Konstantin Kuneva. And many others.
Our Daphne, disinterested, intellectual, composed, fighting in the front line of the defence of human rights against the bourgeoisie, police arbitrariness and the legal institutions themselves.
Our Daphne who, when she was forced to retire due to health problems, was saddened that she could not participate in the trial of Golden Dawn for the murder of Pavlos Fyssas and other victims of Nazi violence. Flesh of our flesh, present in every small and big moment of the anarchist movement in Greece.
From some, among the many for whom she was a defence lawyer, a “thank you” for what she did. Peace and tribute to her memory…
R.K.
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Thessaloniki,Greece: Banners for political prisoners

Banners for political prisoners

In the past few days we have hung banners for political prisoners in neighbourhoods in the east:

the request for the release of Giannis Michailidis, who is being held in revenge despite having fulfilled the necessary conditions for his release since December – and after 8.5 years of detention


the Court of Appeal of Dimitris Hadjivassiliadis and Vangelis Stathopoulos, sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment in the first instance for his solidarity with a wounded and persecuted comrade

on the case of Haris Mantzouridis, who has been detained for months with serious health consequences, on the basis of an “anonymous phone call” and an “orphan” DNA sample, and against all forms of imprisonment


for Thanos Hatziangelou and Georgia Voulgaris, detained since 8 February, and Panagiotis Kalaitzis, incarcerated for the same case with the only evidence his personal relations with one of the defendants Continue reading Thessaloniki,Greece: Banners for political prisoners →

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Athens, Greece: Update from the Solidarity March to Vaggelis Stathopoulos and Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis on 14 May at Monastiraki area

notes: The Court of the Appeal  trial on 18/05 /22 of the anarchist comrades Vanggelis Stathopoulos and Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis suspended for 25 May 2022

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via: athens.indymedia

Updates from the Solidarity March to Vaggelis Stathopoulos and Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis on 14 May at Monastiraki area in Athens.

During the planned solidarity march on Saturday, at Stadiou Street near the junction with Benaki Street, repressive forces attacked the body of the march by throwing chemicals and injuring a number of people.
Continue reading Athens, Greece: Update from the Solidarity March to Vaggelis Stathopoulos and Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis on 14 May at Monastiraki area →

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Athens,Greece: Action claim by queers (and) anarchists

Action claim by queers (and) anarchists

The outcome of Zackie’s murder did not come as a surprise. On the contrary, it filled us with more anger, it made it clear to us again that the state is against us and wants us dead. We are under constant threat whether the killers are within or outside. We are under no illusions that the state protects us, only we create the conditions for our self-protection from our oppressors.

Not only does the state not exist to protect us, but it is the institution that (re)produces patriarchy, heteronormativity and property, among other things. These are the manifestations of the culture of power that armed Demopoulos and Hortarias, and arm the hand of any would-be assassin who feels they can exercise power over queer bodies that have no value in society’s sizable heteropatriarchal matrix. Queer bodies, like all oppressed bodies: drug addicts, immigrant(s), Roma, women, disabled, workers, in this society count for less than a pane of glass. Continue reading Athens,Greece: Action claim by queers (and) anarchists →

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Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility by Anti-state Saboteurs

Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility

For 3 years now, the far-right government of the ND has intensified state repressive action against those who fight and stand against its brutal capitalist plans.

The repressive attacks, frame-ups and persecutions against militants are countless. In these 3 years we have witnessed demonstration bans, torture of protesters and prisoners, informal hostage-taking of anarchists under harsh restraints, arrests in the pile, intimidation with non-existent DNA and detention. The purpose of all these state practices is to completely cut off and isolate militants from social resistance and physically eliminate them. Continue reading Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility by Anti-state Saboteurs →

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Athens, Greece: SOLIDARITY MARCH 14 MAY FREEDOM TO DIMITRIS HATZIVASILIADIS AND VANGGELIS STATHOPOULOS

SOLIDARITY MARCH 14 MAY 2022

THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE IS THE LUNG OF EVERY SOCIAL STRUGGLE
Reality is harsher than our words can describe. We live under the boot of unscrupulous oligarchs who distribute to the plebs only bombs, terror, disease, poverty and endless exploitation. What else but resistance by all means can guarantee the hope of a free life? The project of uninterrupted revolutionary struggle is not a theory, but is embodied by those who organize today against tyrannical power. The armed rebels who take up the responsibility of bringing this project to life here and now are the raw material of the revolutionary movement.
In the person of comrade Dimitris Hatzivasileiadis, who was captured in August 2021, after 2 years on the run, and sentenced to 16 years in prison, the state punishes the undertaking of a social duty – that is, practical resistance to its regime of terrorism: Assuming sole responsibility for the custody of the Revolutionary Self-Defence Organization’s seal weapon, but also for the attempt to reconstruct the guerrilla based on the strategy of the organization, which ceased its activity in 2017. In the words of the comrade, the Revolutionary Self-Defence Organization was an example “where the guerrilla, starting with the few political forces available, attempts to strengthen the social insurrection, to protect it and to deposit a revolutionary line within it” and “did its duty as long as it could, as long as there was a collective body that recognized this duty.” Continue reading Athens, Greece: SOLIDARITY MARCH 14 MAY FREEDOM TO DIMITRIS HATZIVASILIADIS AND VANGGELIS STATHOPOULOS →

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Athens, Greece: Claim of Responsibility / Fire against a company that collaborates with prisons by Anarchists

Claim of Responsibility / Fire against a company that collaborates with prisons

As a small participation in the Easter celebrations, we carried out an arson attack on a KONE car of a multinational company that collaborates with prisons, in Ioustinianou street in Exarcheia on Saturday night 23/4.

The class bias of the judiciary is made clear by a series of cases involving accused businessmen, politicians, cops and fascists, who are put on record, end up with acquittals or short sentences, as opposed to the proletarian accused that are piled up in prisons all over the country for years. Especially in the case of political prisoners with a militant attitude throughout their imprisonment, the demonstrativeness of the State and the authorities unfolds at every opportunity. With special conditions of detention, lengthy procedures, late decisions, interruption of permits, etc., imprisoned comrades are confronted with a system which on the one hand depoliticizes their action and on the other hand creates a regime of exception around them. Continue reading Athens, Greece: Claim of Responsibility / Fire against a company that collaborates with prisons by Anarchists →

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Athens,Chalandri : Claim of responsibility action at the Court of Justice of Peace (Greece)

Claim of responsibility action at the Court of Justice of Peace(The Magistrate’s Court is a court of first instance in civil cases and is composed of a single Judge, the Magistrate, assisted by the Registrar.)

“Or will they be left only with the stubborn desire to continue on their way and continue to risk themselves and everything else? An impetus perhaps to be tested and so that they may therefore have the courage to tell others that to be tested in this fierce struggle means de facto that you are creating, and therefore living now and not in some glorious future, the freedom that motivates and animates our steps.”

So here we are. At a time when capitalism and market domination, having exhausted the “solutions” to defuse the crises they themselves cause, are choosing to turn to arms once again. Another diffuse conflict between the “superpowers” and capital over the redistribution of the sources of wealth and the readjustment of spheres of influence. At the apparent end of the covid-19 global crisis, it is time to set the chessboard again. Continue reading Athens,Chalandri : Claim of responsibility action at the Court of Justice of Peace (Greece) →