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About the upcoming trial regarding the incident of 2018 with the hunter in Evia (Greece)

23-04-2022

Republished from a counter-information website. “About the upcoming trial regarding the incident of 2018 with the hunter in Evia On May 26, 2022, the court case for the incident that happened about 3.5 years ago, on December 26, 2018, in Evia, concerning a dispute with a hunter, will be heard at the Single-Member Court of Appeal for Felony Cases in Chalkida. The persons brought on trial are two.

For reasons not at hand, however, both this text and the political opening of the case is now being done only by the signator. What happened in December 2018 was a spontaneous attempt to prevent a hunter from pursuing his killing hobby and kill an animal. After being asked repeatedly to stop to no avail, tension ensued, the result of which was that his shotgun was thrown somewhere in the woods. With the hunter in a furious state the end of the incident came with our departure from the scene. The hunter called the police and as a result we were stopped on the route by a number of their vehicles and arrested us.

The charges held against us were robbery (for the shotgun) which is a felony and theft (of a cell phone) which is a misdemeanor. At the same time, a restrictive condition to leave the country was imposed, which is still in force today. More about the incident and the statements, role and attitude of the hunting clubs on the case can be found in the previous text published here (editor’s note: this text can be found translated inside the blog here). Continue reading About the upcoming trial regarding the incident of 2018 with the hunter in Evia (Greece)

Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for the incendiary attack on the political office of Development Minister Adonis Georgiades by Proletarian Cell Dimitris Christoulas

“The occupying government of Tsolakoglu literally annihilated my possibility of survival, which was based on a decent pension which for 35 years I alone (without state support) had been paying for it. Because I am of an age that does not give me the individual possibility to react (not excluding of course if a Greek would take the kalashnikov the second would be me) I find no other solution than a decent end before I start to look in the trash for my alimony. I believe that the young people with no future will one day take up arms and hang the national traitors upside down in Syntagma Square, as the Italians did to Mussolini in 1945 (Loreto Square in Milan)” Dimitris Christoulas*
We take responsibility for the incendiary attack on the political office of Adonis Georgiades, the representative of capital, politician responsible for the poverty and misery suffered by the people through poverty.
From the economic crisis of 2009 from which the country never came out, to the socialization of the losses of capital from the pandemic Covid 19, the latest increases in the price of electricity, fuel and almost all essentials are added to the already unbearable cost of survival of the working class and the people, to the pre-existing queues of the ΟΑΕΔ (Employment Insurance) , to the pension cuts, to the crumbs of the basic wage. The “development” invoked and evangelised by the domestic bourgeoisie is reflected physically and materially in people who die trying to keep warm, who look in the garbage for food, who commit suicide for economic reasons. It is reflected in workplaces that are graveyards for people of our class, where dozens of workers do not return home because a few extra euros were not “wasted” for the safety of the workers. Their growth translates into slow death in the corridors of hospitals. To the nearly 27,000 deaths from Covid 19, to the blockade of care in public hospitals amidst the increasing privatisation of the ΕΣΥ (National Health Service). Their deployment amounts to a daily battle for the survival of the next day for the majority of society at the same time as a handful of industrialists, shipowners and contractors continually speculate on our backs, reap the rewards of the toil and slavery we produce, extract surplus value from our starvation wages, continually devaluing the value of our labour power. Continue reading Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for the incendiary attack on the political office of Development Minister Adonis Georgiades by Proletarian Cell Dimitris Christoulas

Athens,Greece: EVENT – DISCUSSION ,Thursday 14 April 19.00 AT ASSOE (ΑΣΣΟΕ) ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY in Solidarity with anarchist prisoner Claudio Lavazza

Solidarity with anarchist prisoner Claudio Lavazza
Thursday 14 April 19.00 AT ASSOE ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY Athens .
EVENT – DISCUSSION on the case of Claudio Lavazza, with video screening.
Claudio Lavazza – A whole life dedicated to the struggle
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF COMRADE CLAUDIO LAVAZZA
SOLIDARITY TO ALL CAPTURED REVOLUTIONARIES AROUND THE WORLD
by Anarchist initiative against the state murders

#54, the March 2022 episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World.

Episode 54 (03/2022)
Welcome to #54, the March 2022 episode of BAD News: Angry Voices From Around The World. This is the monthly, English-language podcast by the A-Radio Network of anarchist and anti-authoritarian radios, podcasts and stations.
This month:
  1. A-Radio Berlin shares part of an interview with members of the Gorillas Workers Collective, which is organizing at the app-driven food delivery system around Berlin, Germany, about employment, data collection, precarity and labor organizing;
  2. Then, you’ll hear updates about anarchist prisoners, hunger strikes and releasees in Greece from Free Social Radio 1431 AM out of Thessaloniki;
  3. Following this, you’ll hear perspectives from a queer anarchist in Kyiv from 4 days after the Russian invasion began conducted by A-Radio Vienna in Austria;
  4. Finally, you’ll hear comrades at Črna Luknja in Ljublana, Slovenia, with an anarcho-syndicalist in Belgrade, Serbia about the role of NATO in the war in Ukraine, the need for revolution against all governments involved.
You can learn more about the network, the participants, past episodes of BAD News and how to get your project involved at A-Radio-Network.org
You can directly download it from archive.org here

Heraklion Crete: Taking responsibility by Anarchists (Greece)

Heraklion Crete: Taking responsibility by Anarchists
Every day we are confronted with more and more violence and repression, from unpaid ten-hour days to the destruction of the National Health Ε.Σ.Υ. From the murders of refugees to the anti-terrorism case files, to security and the energy crisis.The story is well known: the State kills and the bosses get rich on our backs.
On the dawn of 12/03/22, we chose to break the window of social peace by breaking the facade of the Piraeus Bank in Archbishop Makarios Street, Heraklion Crete.
Solidarity with the 3 prisoners Th.H., G.V., P.K. in connection with the incendiary attack case of the IETP (foundation for National and Religious Reflection) and the 2 prisoners Jason R., Fotis D.
LAMBROS FOUNTAS, ALWAYS PRESENT
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VIA: athens.indymedia.
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Athens Pagrati area, Greece: – Excerpt from claim by Anarchists for an attack on an apartment building where cops and Eftichis Vardoulakis reside

Pagrati, Greece: – Taking responsibility for an attack on an apartment building where cops and Eftychis Vardoulakis reside
At dawn on 17/02 we placed an incendiary device at the entrance of an apartment building in Lykofronos Street in Pagrati, where 5 cops live, among them some in high-ranking positions, as well as the communication technocrat of the New Democracy, Eftichis Vardoulakis. The result was the destruction of part of the entrance.
In conclusion, we will agree with our comrades from the Nuclei of Direct Action that we have to become a shield to protect the anarchist and communist prisoners inside the prisons, making it clear that every single cog in this repressive mechanism is a target for us. From the last cop to the prison directors and every legal adviser of law-making committees to the ministries and their executives.
SOLIDARITY AND FREEDOM TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
PS: Honour and memory for the anarchist revolutionary guerrilla Lambros Fountas
ANARCHISTS AGAINST THIEVING
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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.

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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.

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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