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Greece: International Day of Action and Solidarity with the Anarchist Hunger Striker G. Michailidis

International Day of Action and Solidarity with the Anarchist Hunger Striker G. Michailidis

“After 8.5 years in prison, after all these arbitrary actions against me, I decided to put an end to my 11 years of suffering, by putting up a mound against the practice of preventive imprisonment, or else the additional punishment of escape with legal loopholes. After 5 more months of preventive detention, I am starting a hunger strike for my release. This choice, with the deep motivation of the much desired freedom, I intend to support it with the same consistency that I have supported my choices so far and for which they are avenging me.”

Giannis Michailidis, preventively imprisoned in Malandrinos prison, 23/5/2022

Throughout his life, Giannis Michailidis, has been an integral part of the struggles against the state and capital from an anarchist perspective. He participated from a young age in anarchist student groups, in demonstrations against the Iraq war, in anti-state/anti-capitalist demonstrations of the 2004-2006 anti-globalisation movement and was arrested during the conflicts. He participated in the 2006-2007 student struggles against the reactionary reforms in higher education (privatization of universities, abolition of university asylum, etc.). He fought against the plundering of nature and was arrested in an intervention against the deforestation of Mount Parnitha in 2007. He was an integral part of the December uprising, when police officers murdered in cold blood the anarchist 16-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the Exarchia area. He was present in the battles against the memoranda in 2012 and chose to expropriate the bloody wealth of the banks, remaining steadfastly committed to the vision of the overthrow of the state and capital, holding a militant – feisty stance, against the police-judicial complex, the material expression of state terrorism. Continue reading Greece: International Day of Action and Solidarity with the Anarchist Hunger Striker G. Michailidis →

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Athens,Greece, en/fr/es/de/tr/: 25 June/ International day of action in defence of Exarchia neighborhood – Athens/ Demonstration in Exarchia Square

25 June/ International day of action in defence of Exarchia neighborhood – Athens/ Demonstration in Exarchia Square

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The construction of the metro station on Exarchia square and the redevelopment of Strefi Hill are expected to start during the summer months, according to reports in the mainstream media, but also according to notifications by the Municipality of Athens to shops located in the square.

The government’s ultimatum is the final blow to the character of the historic neighborhood of Exarchia. The construction of a Metro stop on the square, the conversion of the Polytechnic school into a museum, the attempted eradication of the monument of Alexandros Grigoropoulos through the construction of luxury apartment buildings on Mesologgiou Street, the surrender of Strefi Hill to private interests (which includes the cementing of the park’s paths, cutting down trees, placing cameras, gates and security posts to control the entrance) are part of the overall designs for the gentrification of the area, the transformation of the neighborhood into a tourist destination, the development of control and repression.

The displacement of the most impoverished people is a consequence of gentrification, since finding housing is rendered impossible due to the increase in rents, spread of airbnb and the onslaught of investment companies. The process of gentrification is normality for the State and Capital, while it is a violent process of uprooting for those connected to the area as they are forced to leave it. Continue reading Athens,Greece, en/fr/es/de/tr/: 25 June/ International day of action in defence of Exarchia neighborhood – Athens/ Demonstration in Exarchia Square →

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14 of June : Health Update for Hunger Striker Giannis Michailidis (Greece) en/fr/es

[EN] 5th Health Update for Hunger Striker Giannis Michailidis – The comrade returned to prison

Today, the 23rd day of comrade Giannis Michailidis hunger strike, his morning measurements were as follows:

Oxygen: 95

Pulse: 67

Pressure:10 and 7

Blood sugar: 61

Weight:62.6 kg (loss of more than 10% of his original body weight)

The companion is currently (Tuesday 14/6,23rd day) in prison. He was not kept in hospital at the moment. He is awaiting the results of the analytical tests later today. It is obvious that yesterday’s transfer was detrimental to his health. There will be a detailed update later with the test results from the hospital.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ANARCHIST HUNGER STRIKER GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS
Continue reading 14 of June : Health Update for Hunger Striker Giannis Michailidis (Greece) en/fr/es →

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Athens, Greece – Responsibility claim by Anarchists for action in solidarity with Giannis Michailidis

Responsibility claim by Anarchists

Comrade Giannis Michailidis, after 11 years of suffering arrest warrants and fabricated files due to solidarity relations, multiple detentions, torture, convictions for “individual terrorism”, arbitrary deprivation of regular and educational leave, has been in preventive detention for 5 months. Against this latest method, the comrade started a hunger strike on 23/5, raising a barricade against the practice of preventive imprisonment, starting a struggle that, apart from his release, is directly aimed against the regime of exemption of combative prisoners, highlighting the necessity of the overall struggle against power.

In the midst of the presented supremacy of the state and the attack that it has unleashed against the neighborhood of Exarchia, we decided to send a signal of minimal solidarity to comrade Giannis Michailidis, by attacking the riot squad in Ch.Trikoupis street. Continue reading Athens, Greece – Responsibility claim by Anarchists for action in solidarity with Giannis Michailidis →

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Poster in Solidarity with the anarchist Giannis Michailidis (Greece)

Solidarity with the anarchist Giannis Michailidis – On hunger strike since 23/5/22

1 June, 2022

Anarchist prisoner in Malandrinos prison Giannis Michailidis started a hunger strike on 23/5 demanding that his request for release be accepted. While he has served his entire sentence (8.5 years in the cells of democracy) and according to the laws of civil justice he is entitled to be released from prison, the responsible judicial council rejected the 1st application for his permanent release on the grounds that he is “liable to commit new offences” and the 2nd application is still under consideration with the prosecution having recommended against it.

Determined and consistent for years in the struggle against state power, capitalist brutality and all forms of exploitation, he has fought battles through his participation in social struggles and in guerrilla action groups. Present in every form of struggle that promotes rebellion and resistance to power, he has been in practical solidarity with those who have experienced the brutality and vindictiveness of repression. Having been ineffectively accused of a number of baseless cases (robbery in Paros, joining the C.C.F.) and convicted, among others, of the “crime” of robbing a bank, and having managed to escape from the hellholes of democracy (an act for which he has served his legal “debt”), he remains a proud revolutionary without ever signing statements of repentance for his actions and choices. It is obvious, therefore, why the Amfissa magistrates’ court is refusing him the permanent dismissal to which he is entitled.
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Athens, Greece : Taking responsibility by Anarchists

Athens, Greece – Taking responsibility

In view of the court of appeal of D. Chatzivasiliadis and V. Stathopoulos, on 14 May, a march in solidarity with our anarchist comrades was planned, starting from Monastiraki Area . During the march, on Stadiou street at the height of Benaki street, riot police attacked it and managed to break it by throwing chemicals. The riot squads that immediately took over immediately made 14 detentions, of which 5 were arrested with 4 of them being misdemeanor arrests and one felony. The felony charge was the possession/use of a molotov, which only resulted from the testimony of a cop without any evidence. This move is their only way to cover up the unabated use of force during the march.

Thus, on Sunday 21/05 a group of people chose to attack the riot police parked in front of the PASOK offices (political party) in Ch. Trikoupis street with the use of coctail molotovs in response to the repressive forces.

SOLIDARITY TO THOSE DETAINED IN THE 14 MAY SOLIDARITY MARCH

FREEDOM TO THE ANARCHISTS DIMITRIS  CHATZIVASILIADIS AND VAGGELIS STATHOPOULOS

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF ANARCHIST HUNGER STRIKER

G. MICHAILIDIS

NO ONE ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE

via: athens.indymedia

Translated by Act for freedom now!

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Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility for an incendiary spree and calling for an incendiary campaign by Arsonists Incendiary Archers (ΕΜΠΡΗΣΤΕΣ ΤΟΞΟΒΟΛΟΙ)

Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility for an incendiary spree and calling for an incendiary campaign

We do not intend to dwell on yet another great political analysis of what is happening today. The time for that is over. All that remains now is our actions. This life is not sustainable. A large part of society knows it and is finding out more and more each day, even if it tries to ignore it or put the blame elsewhere. Pandemic, war, impoverishment. Economic crises on top of economic crises. Depravation of life. The State and capital march unmolested and trample our lives. They have declared war on us. We simply respond with the means at our disposal. We know who stands against us. The State and its minions, the petty bourgeoisie, the nouveau riche, the bosses. We are coming for you! We will attack you until the cops are forced to guard every house, every shed, every car.

But we come these days for another reason. Comrade Giannis Michailidis is on his 16th day of a hunger strike demanding his release. The State vindictiveness he is facing has to do with the unrelenting attitude he has taken all these years inside and outside prison. He is part of an all-out attack launched by the neoliberal Greek State, trying to crush everything that goes against it and stifle all revolutionary memory. Continue reading Athens, Greece: Taking responsibility for an incendiary spree and calling for an incendiary campaign by Arsonists Incendiary Archers (ΕΜΠΡΗΣΤΕΣ ΤΟΞΟΒΟΛΟΙ) →

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SOLIDARITY POSTER IN GREECE for Giannis Michailidis by Nihilists for Total Liberation

SOLIDARITY POSTER IN GREECE for Giannis Michailidis

We retrieve and bring the contents of this poster back to the present as a message of solidarity in the war of words for our comrade Giannis Michailidis who has been on hunger strike since 23/05 demanding his release from prison.

GIANNIS BE STRONG TILL FREEDOM

ΓΙΑΝΝΗ ΓΕΡΑ ΩΣ ΤΗΝ ΛΕΥΤΕΡΙΑ

Nihilists for Total Liberation and the Insurrectionary Perspective

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Volos City, Central Greece – banner of solidarity with G. Michailidis

Volos, Greece – banner of solidarity with G. Michailidis


At dawn on 2/6 we put up a banner in the Volos courts in solidarity with our comrade and hunger striker from 23/5, G. Michailidis.

STATE JUSTICE IS LIKE SNAKES, IT BITES THE BEATEN.
LIBERATION FOR G. MICHAILIDIS, HUNGER STRIKER SINCE 23/5.
Matsanggou Squat, Volos

via: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1619056/

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Writings and hanging of a banner in solidarity with the anarchist hunger striker G. Michailidis by Anarchist Collective in B/A “Apriori” (Athens,Greece)

On Monday 23/5 comrade C. Michailidis started a hunger strike for his release. After 8.5 years of imprisonment, the comrade remains incarcerated as according to the Amfissa Plenary Council, he does not meet the “essential” conditions for release.

Essentially, the State is creating a regime of exception for political prisoners, attempting to neutralize those who are struggling and at the same time suppress any form of anarchist action. On Tuesday 31/5, as a minimal action of solidarity with the comrade, we wrote some slogans and put up a banner in Agia Paraskevi area of Athens

Anarchist Collective in B/A “Apriori”


via:https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1619058/

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Panhellenic day of action 2nd June for hunger strike Giannis Michailidis Greece,Thessalonik)

From the gathering in solidarity with the hunger striker, Giannis Michailidis, on hunger strike since 23/5 /22
As part of the nationwide day of action, a solidarity gathering for Giannis Michailidis was held in Thessaloniki with the participation of more than 70 comrades.

During the intervention, Tsimiski Street was blocked several times at the level of Navarino street and hundreds of texts were handed out to passing drivers and residents of the area.

VICTORY FOR THE HUNGER STRIKE OF ANARCHIST POLITICAL PRISONER GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS

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Thessaloniki, Greece: Taking Responsibility for the burning of a BRINKS security company vehicle by Anarchists

Thessaloniki, Greece: Taking Responsibility

Our lives are daily subjected to the devaluation and all-out attack of the state in all areas of socio-political reality. Understaffed hospitals where people are dying without even having the possibility of a decent hospitalization, labour sweatshops where workers are murdered as security measures are non-existent, uniformed scumbags chasing and shooting unarmed minors because they are Roma in the name of property and security, arrests with inflated charges linking people to organizations because of relations of friendship. These are all examples that display the dystopia the rulers want to establish.

In this effort, therefore, we feel the need to set up barriers of resistance and fight back with all means and in various ways against the enemy, while giving the answer that nothing will end with arrests and detention of militants. Continue reading Thessaloniki, Greece: Taking Responsibility for the burning of a BRINKS security company vehicle by Anarchists →

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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