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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!

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)

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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.