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Greece: Solidarity with the four accused in the Gare trial in Athens
On September 29, the trial of two comrades from Berlin and two comrades from Athens will take place in the Evelpidon Court in Athens.
On November 26, 2017, the four people were arrested during the violent eviction of Gare Squat in the Exarchia district of Athens. Among other charges, they are accused of trespassing, attempted dangerous bodily harm, refusal to provide forensic identification, and possession of explosive materials and bombs.
This eviction was the first of three, as a result of this the four comrades were detained for 4 days. They were released after on a bail. Now the trial take place, almost four years later.
After the trial was postponed for a year in September of last year, things have changed. (https://de.indymedia.org/node/101793 Sep.: 2020)
The district of Exarchia has changed in many ways since Nea Demokratia came to power in 2019.
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Greece: New publication from the fund of solidarity to the imprisoned fighters
The preface of the old edition began with the phrase “this book is about illegality.” It was about at least ten different stories, taken from the reality of different periods of the Italian radical movement. Within the pages of the book, the experience of illegality and its importance as a choice, both existential and militant, was depicted, sometimes in a way that leaned towards emotion and sometimes towards political evaluation. The aim is to familiarize the reading public, as much as possible through the pages of a book, with this unfamiliar land of illegality and the people who have occasionally relocated to it.
We have enriched this publication with similar stories of our own domestic experience, which, although they have been more cumulative over the last 17 years, we must say that they extend through time and into the decades previous to post-independence. Reading different experiences from different kinetic environments in different times, we hope to reach, in the light of comparative study and critical observation, conclusions as to how close or far apart the thoughts and feelings of people who, although they never met, nevertheless found themselves in this same land, the land of fugitivity, can come together.
Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned, Persecuted Revolutionaries in Greece
Translated by Act for freedom now!
Athens,Greece: Solidarity with the four persecuted comrades for the eviction of Gare Squat in Exarxeia area
Solidarity with the four persecuted comrades for the eviction of Gare
On September 29, the trial against two comrades from Berlin and two comrades from Athens will take place in Evelpidon Court in Athens. On November 26, 2017 the four persons were arrested during the eviction of Gare Squat, in the Athens district of Exarcheia. Among other charges, they are accused of trespassing, attempted serious bodily harm, refusal of forensic identification and possession of explosive materials and explosive bombs. This eviction was the first of three upcomings in which the four comrades were detained for 4 days. They were released on conditions or bail and now, almost four years later, have to appear in court. Almost one month after the arrest of the anarchist revolutionary Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis, who was for 1.5 years undeground, accused for being a member of the guerrila group “Revolutionary Selfdefense” and one of the four arrested during the eviction of Gare on November 2017.
Gare was a squatted house in Exarhia area, in the center of Athens. For many years was a living space actively going against private property and the establishment of a house as a commodity.Trying to promote a communal way of life in which terms like private were always questionable. People could not just have one private room, but the it was a fully collective space, there for those who need it, making the words collective and communal praxis. But Gare was not only a communal way of living, it was also a political active place, where people get organised and politicized. In order to become an island of liberation and not an island of freedom living there ment to be political active, inside and outside the squat.
Thessaloniki,Greece: Explosive attack on the offices of the Fifth Tax Office
When the enclaves of financial totalitarianism mortgage the lives of the proletarian grassroots to fill the coffers of the temples of capitalist barbarism, we have a duty to intervene. It is a matter of social conscience and sensitivity, class solidarity and revolutionary obligation that we too should not treat our lives as mere numbers in the bloodthirsty hands of the bosses. That is why we will remind the enemy that in this war, as long as there is injustice there will always be revolutionary retaliation.
The case of 52-year-old Konstantia Eleftheropoulou, which has seen the light of day in recent days, is unfortunately not the only one, however provocative it may be. She herself was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2017. Since then, she has been fighting for her life through non-stop treatments, reaching the point of stabilizing her condition. This year, however, after a relapse in her health, Konstantia needed to undergo intravenous brachytherapy, a specialized treatment that is not administered in a public hospital but only in a private clinic. Unemployed and uninsured like most of us, she was faced with the impossibility of accessing the treatment as the cost of the operation, including hospitalisation, exceeds €15,000 (perhaps the equivalent of a ministerial dinner). But Konstantia was not alone in facing her inability. Her public appeal for support and help found hundreds of people in solidarity at her side, who gave everything they could to help, so that one of us could survive collectively against the homicidal state mechanism that has made health a commodity, a class privilege and a luxury.
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