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Taking Responsibility – Let’s sabotage the war / Let’s light the flame of practical internationalist solidarity by Anarchists
Taking Responsibility – Let’s sabotage the war / Let’s light the flame of practical internationalist solidarity
“No; none of the belligerents is entitled to invoke the name of civilization or to declare itself in a state of legitimate defence. The truth is that the cause of wars, of that which at present stains with blood the plains of Europe, as of all wars that have preceded it, rests solely in the existence of the State, which is the political form of privilege.
The role of the Anarchists in the present tragedy, whatever may be the place or the situation in which they find themselves, is to continue to proclaim that there is but one war of liberation: that which in all countries is waged by the oppressed against the oppressors, by the exploited against the exploiters. Our part is to summon the slaves to revolt against their masters.”
International Anarchist Manifesto Against the War, London (February 1915)
On 24 February the Russian State, under the pretext of the violating of the Minsk agreement and the “denazification” of Ukraine, launched an attack on the Ukrainian territories. The bloody military conflict that has been going on for the last few weeks has already cost hundreds of lives, which will increase as the war continues.
The Russian State, an authoritarian regime aimed at savagely serving the interests of Russian oligarchic capital, aims to maintain its territorial and economic influence in Ukraine, in collaboration with part of the local bourgeoisie. The current economic/political regime is the result of a long process beginning with the dissolution of the USSR, the October 1993 crisis, and a series of a dozen wars in the regions of the Russian federation and in neighbouring countries where local capital had direct interests. The result of this process is the absolute domination of oligarchic capital over Russian society, expressed politically by the Putin regime and the “fourth political theory”. On this political basis, the Russian ruling classes have launched a ferocious war against the insurgent sections of the oppressed, either internally with dozens of long-lasting, even pre-emptive sentences of anarchists and antifascists, or in territories that it considers its sphere of influence, such as the brutal repression of anarchists in Belarus and the crushing of antifascist forces in the Donbas DR.
Taking responsibility for acts of sabotage by Anarchists (Athens,Greece)
Taking responsibility for acts of sabotage by Anarchists
Tuesday morning 8/2 once again the State acts repressively by arresting 2 comrades after the SWAT team (EKAM) raided the house where they were staying following an incendiary attack that took place at the (foundation for National and Religious Reflection) in the area of Ano Polis (Thessaloniki). A few hours later and for unknown reasons a third person was arrested.
The 3 persons accused of being members of a terrorist organization (187A) of the name of >>Anarchist Action>> were taken into custody on 11/2 with Thanos Xatziagkelou taking responsibility for the incendiary attack, Georgia Voulgari asking for a defence and finally Panagiotis Kalaitzis renouncing all charges, as the only connection he had with the persons was the granting of the house as a quarantine area. Continue reading Taking responsibility for acts of sabotage by Anarchists (Athens,Greece)
A brief update on our preliminary examination calls regarding the eviction of Terra Incognita squat (Thessaloniki, Greece)
On 14th of February the state security called us together with other comrades for a preliminary examination on 23rd of February as “suspects” to explain ourselves regarding the case file of Terra Incognita squat getting evicted on 17/8/2020. This is a new repressive movement that comes to be added after the arrests on the 8th of February, with 3 of our companions G. Voulgari, Panos Kalaitzis and Th. Chatziaggelou (member of our collective) getting arrested after the arson attack at the FNRR (Foundation for National and Religious Reflection). On the 14th of February, after the forced DNA collection of our comrade Th. Chatziaggelou, we are informed that he was called for a new interrogation process regarding the eviction of Terra Incognita squat.
In the following days, other calls were sent to people. The voluminous case file contains charges for making and possessing explosives, forming a gang, forgery, theft of electricity and any other form of energy, flares and fireworks and the legislation on weapons – use of weapons in combination with another crime. We got a deadline for the 9th of March, as the case file had not even been given to the lawyers themselves to have a full update of the “data”, and on that date the memorandums were submitted in the presence of the lawyers.Between the people that have been called there are some members of our collective, but there are, also, people that did not actively participate in the squat and others that used to participate in other collectives during the years.
Athens,Greece: Some updates about the gathering and arresting on Viktoria sq.in solidarity with immigrants
After the events of the previous days with the “sweep” operations from the cops in the neighborhoods of the center of Athens, arresting and moving undocumented people to detention centers and the arrests of our comrades who stood up, we held a gathering in Viktoria square (17/3).
Dozens of comrades and people of the neighborhood joined us in reclaiming the square, we handed out texts, read texts on the speaker, hanged banners and discussed with people. After the gathering, we marched through the streets of Victoria until Agios Panteleimonas and back to the square. We shouted slogans against the state, its police and its institutional racism and in solidarity with migrants. A MAT squad followed us after a certain point but kept a distance and nothing happened.
THE SWEEP OPERATIONS COME FIRST FOR “THE OTHERS” THEN FOR EVERYONE
THE SQUARE IS FOR EVERYONE EXCEPT COPS AND FASCISTS
SATURDAY 19/3 14:00 VIKTORIA SQUARE DEMO AGAINST BORDERS,PUSHBACKS, CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND RACISM
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Today, 16/03, we gathered outside GADA, after the arrest of our comrades in Victoria Square where the cops in an organized operation against refugees and migrants bullied and arrested those who tried to stop them. Among the 14 arrested is a comrade active in the Community of Squatted Prosfigika. The gathering of about fifty people was attacked by the cops with aggressive characteristics after our comrades refused to leave their position. They hit comrades with shields and globes, threw people down and kicked them.
As we were returning to our neighborhood after the gathering, cops blocked our way, forcing us to go elsewhere deliberately, knowing that we were from Prosfigika. Then they chased us to Trichonidos and entered our neighborhood. Our comrades defended our community by making it clear to the cops that the Prosfigika neighborhood will never be a breeding ground for bullying and threats. People who were already in the neighborhood opened the doors for the comrades, the corresponding positions were taken, while at the same time they were heard by their radios to retreat.
If we do not resist in all neighborhoods, our cities will become modern prisons!
We stand with migrants, deportation to cops and Nazis!
Assembly of Squatted Prosfygika
Athens,Greece: Taking responsibility actions in Exarxeia area by Anarchists
Taking responsibility by Anarchists
On 26.2.22, during the carnival against the gentrification of Exarcheia, a group of comrades took the opportunity to carry out a series of attacks targeting various aspects of gentrification. Several surveillance cameras in the neighbourhood were painted.
We also carried out the following attacks
-breaking the window of the co-fashion boutique at 39 S. Trikoupis Street.
-breaking the window of the very expensive hipster clothing store Mohxa at 59 Z. Pigi Street.
-Breaking the surveillance camera and the bell of the Athens Way Apartments hotel at 76 Ch.Trikoupis Street.
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Welcome to the 53rd edition of B(A)D News: Angry Voices From Around The World, for February 2022
Episode 53 (02/2022)
Welcome to the 53rd edition of B(A)D News: Angry Voices From Around The World, for February 2022. A commonly produced monthly show of the anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio network, this time edited by Anarchist Radio Berlin.
Check out all the shows. Look for the a-radio-network collection on archive.org or at our website, a-radio-network.org.
In this Episode we will hear contributions from:
1) Črna Luknja radio show collective on Radio Študent in Ljubljana, Slovenija prepared a piece out of a full interview they did with an anti-racist activist in Brazil.
2) Frequenz A from Leipzig on the repression against a group of 14 year old anarchists in Sibiria who threatened to blow up a virtual FSB Building in a virtual game.
3) Free Social Radio 1431AM, Thessaloniki gives us an update about the recent threats from the anti-terror police against an anarchist action group in Thessaloniki.
4) Anarchist Radio Berlin translated an interview with a person involved in the struggle for legal abortion in Poland after the death of a pregnant person whose acces to abortion was denied.
You can directly download it from archive.org here
Patra city,Greece: Expropriation in a supermarket and distribution at a street farmer’s market
Patra Now – Expropriation in a supermarket and distribution at a farmer’s market.
Today 3/3 in the morning, an expropriation of essential goods from the supermarket AB Vassilopoulos in the area of Ag. Sofias and their distribution in the adjacent market took place. Texts were handed out and fliers were thrown. The following is the announcement:
Everything belongs to us because everything is stolen
Block / self-reduce the increased cost of living that is the result of the bosses’ crisis being passed on to our backs
At the present juncture all of us at the bottom of society are experiencing an unprecedented attack by the economic and political elite. State and capital are seeking in every way to pass on the cost of the deep ongoing capitalist crisis to the poor, the unemployed, the precariously employed, the low-paid, pensioners and immigrants. An attack that has been going on for years with the slashing of wages, pensions and welfare structures, with the dismissals and squeezing of workers, the dismantling of public health, education, transport, the plundering of nature for their “development” and profits. The health crisis of covid-19 magnified this attack and it is now understood that the pandemic is primarily hitting the people of our class. The rich are getting richer, the poor and the dispossessed are groaning under the burden of unemployment, precarious work, boss terror in the workplace and the frightening rise in the cost of living.
Thessaloniki: Poster for Solidarity with the Prisoners of War
via: saekm.espivblogsTranslated by Act for freedom now!
Poster for Solidarity with the Prisoners of War
WE ARE NOTHING-WE CAN DO EVERYTHING
“We shook the hand of so many comrades! When sometimes we despair
we feel like a knife piercing our palm
the memory of their hand.
And then when we are doing what we have to do, there is a sensation
Something sure and steady in the palm of our hand
as if we held the whole world in our hands.”
TO MEET…
…exchanging looks of complicity behind burning barricades, on nightly dates,
in joint processes, sharpening our consciences, creating comradeships, evolving our strategies, upgrading our practices, gnawing at the foundations of the edifice of domination.
Making mistakes, learning from our “defeats”, alongside old and new comrades.
…WE HAVE THE REASONS
The persecution and imprisonment of fighters will always be another reason for new hostilities.
one more occasion to search, to experiment, to discover unknown paths, one more occasion to attack, taking up a fighting position in the social war that rages, translating our every refusal and desire into action.
THE PRISONERS OF WAR
ARE THE FLESH OF THE FLESH OF THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNITY
AND WE WILL DO EVERYTHING TO BRING THEM BACK.
CONSTANT AND CONTINUOUS STRUGGLE WITH ALL MEANS.
UNTIL THE LAST STRONGHOLD OF POWER IS TORN DOWN.
UNTIL ANARCHY.
Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for the arson attack on a company vehicle of UNISON Facilities Management in Exarcheia
Regenaration, development, gentrification. Concepts that have become embedded as spikes in the discourse and action of the antagonist movement, must be seen as another aspect of the attack of the ruling classes against the oppressed class. Capital aims at subordinating the whole of life to its exploitation and reproduction, and therefore organizes more and more aspects of human activity in this logic.
The process of enclosing community/public spaces for the purpose of capital’s reproduction is a process as old as capitalism. In recent decades we have experienced the long deconstruction of social democratic management, with the mediation of the state receding, giving more room for the defensive subordination of activities of social life to capital. In this sense, a concerted attack has been launched in recent years on public spaces, squares, parks in the metropolises, transferring their management from the state to private individuals, with the aim of creating new fields of profitability for capital.
This is exactly the condition of the sale of a series of public green spaces by the Municipality of Athens to the company UNISON Facilities Services, such as the hills (Strefi, Filopappou, Lycabettus, Turkovounia), squares (Protomaya, Victoria, Kypseli, Attiki, Ameriki, Drakopoulos, Agios Panteleimon), parks (Platonos Academia, Kyrpo, Patision, Goudi) and pedestrian streets (Agia Zoni, Fokionos Negri). UNISON (formerly ISS), belongs to a category of a new type of company that, through contractor privatisations, is simultaneously financed by state-taxed, collectively produced surplus value, and at the same time intensifies the exploitation of its workers through miserable wages, flexible working hours and violation of workers’ rights.
Athens, Greece: Poster – Solidarity Demo at Korydallos Prison Saturday 26 February 2022
Call of Solidarity Demo at Korydallos Prison Saturday 26 February 1pm
“Battles have casualties. War has its casualties. But nothing is given to us, nothing is given to us without bloodshed because we reach out our hand. Nothing is won by prayers.”
Thanos Hatziangelou
On Tuesday 8/2, two comrades were arrested following an operation by the “anti-terrorist police”. The reason was the arson at the “Foundation for National and Religious Reflection”. In the house where they were arrested, “incriminating” evidence was found which, under the Terror Law, acquires a “criminal” character. Later, another comrade was arrested. All 3 were remanded in Korydallos prison, prosecuted under the Terror Law (187a) for their participation in the “Anarchist Action Organization”, arson at the “Foundation for National and Religious Concern” and other charges. Comrade Thanos Hatziangelou claimed responsibility for this particular arson and the findings in the house, Comrade Georgia Voulgari defended her choice of having a supporting role in carrying out the action, and Comrade Panos Kalaitzis, whose only connection to the case is his relationship with the house and his comradely, friendly and collegial relations with Th. Hatziangelou, denied all charges.
The war against the state and capital is unceasing, unrelenting and multifaceted. The struggle for equality, freedom and solidarity may have losses, but it will be victorious because justice is on our side.
FREEDOM TO COMRADES TH. HATZIANGELOU
AND P. KALAITZIS
FREEDOM TO COMRADE GEORGIA VULGARI
WAR WITH ALL MEANS AGAINST STATE AND CAPITAL UNTIL SOCIAL LIBERATION
Solidarity assembly for the imprisoned, fugitive and persecuted militants
Translated by Act for freedom now!via: athens.indymedia
Athens,Greece: Information about the rally-march at Exarcheia, Saturday 12/02
On Saturday 12 February, hundreds of comrades responded to the call of the “Assembly of Solidarity with the imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted militants” to a meeting and march in solidarity with the imprisoned comrade Polycarpos Georgiadis, comrade E.M. and comrade M.T.
At 20:00 began a microphone in Exarcheia Square, during which the text of the assembly on the case was read .The demo march had a strong pulse, during which texts were distributed and flyers were thrown and it was finish .
Freedom to the fighter Polykarpos Georgiadis
Solidarity to the persecuted compañera and comrade
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
FREEDOM FOR ALL HOSTAGES OF THE STATE
Exarcheia, Athens, Greece: taking responsibility for the burning of the Exarcheia Police Station on 4.2.22, by Revolutionary memory
We take responsibility for the burning of the Exarcheia Police Station on 4.2.22. The attack was carried out by a group of comrades who, armed with the weapons of comradeship and organization, defied the police State and succeeded in destroying the myth of omnipotence that the police systematically cultivate in this area. We attacked with more than 10 Molotov cocktails at the outpost and the entrance of the police station, driving the cops outside in disorderly flight.
A few words about the incident
The tragic management of the pandemic, the sweeping changes it has brought about and the developments of the period are revealing what it has done to the social base. Inflation, poverty, energy poverty, the daily deaths from COVID-19 which have reached 24,000 are the results of capitalist management in order to recover the profitability of capital.
Greece, Rethymno,Crete: Claiming responsibility for the attack with stones and paint at the courts by Antiauthoritarians
On 9/2 comrades Stathopoulos and Hatzivassiliadis will be tried in second degree. At the same time we do not forget Ch. Mandzouridis who is being tortured in the psycho cells of Korydallos.
Of course we do not expect any justice from the judges and their informers but we remain in solidarity with every political prisoner. The only answer to the culture of incarceration is to attack until we see prisoners of war in the street again. We therefore take responsibility for the attack with stones and paint at the court of Rethymno in the morning of 9/2 as a minimal sign of solidarity with every insurgent and every person who takes the road of illegality.
NEVER TO BE TAMED
TO ATTACK THE WORKPLACE, THE COURTS, AND THE POLICE STATIONS (AT)
FIRST AND ALWAYS FOR ANARCHY
Antiauthoritarians
via: athens.indymedia
Translated by Act for freedom now!
AGAINST THE STATE, CAPITAL, RACISM, WAR AND NATIONALISM (Greece)
via: athens.indymedia
AGAINST THE STATE, CAPITAL, RACISM, WAR AND NATIONALISM
The Greek State, as the border guard of Fortress Europe, has over time followed and expressed in the most emphatic way the anti-immigration policy represented by the European Union. Thus, while at the global level, the political and economic bosses are attempting an unconditional attack against the peoples of the capitalist periphery through wars, military operations, the overthrow of regimes and the imposition of new ones, with the aim of controlling entire regions, the sources of wealth and the exploitation of entire populations, condemning millions of people to misery, poverty, disease and uprooting, at home the far-right neoliberal government of the South-West, from the Evros fence and the concentration camps, to the shipwrecks in the Aegean and illegal repatriations, is expanding its murderous strategy on land and water borders, with the aim of controlling and preventing the flow of refugees and migrants. So as the number of pushbacks from Greece almost doubled in 2021, the number of arrivals on the islands is at its lowest level in recent years, with people being pushed towards other, more deadly routes via the Central and Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
Over the past year, the rise in forced returns using violence signals a continuation of the inhuman, degrading and humiliating treatment of refugees and migrants, with theft of personal belongings, stripping, beatings and even abductions in illegal detention centres until their illegal return. The Greek regime, with the assistance of the murderous Frontex mechanism, attempts to obstruct and sink boats and ships carrying refugees and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of migrants and missing persons in Aegean waters, including children and infants, most recently in the shipwrecks in Paros, Antikythera and Folegandros( Greek islands)
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