One-day hunger strike in response to the internationalist call for action in solidarity with Marcelo Villarroel
“These are times of clarity and definitions”
“I am from the war, a classic son of the working class, of the city growing up in a population where the code of struggle was and is for survival in the always precarious material conditions, but with strong bonds of communal solidarity as a life practice… Respect for the mapu ñuke, the search for a harmonious relationship with the planet, the recovery of spaces and territories and their clean control to build an autonomous path with values that oppose the bourgeois way of teaching and the ideology of the great God of Capital, perpetuated with blood and fire by the Chilean national state, and all its death apparatus, are aspects that make it impossible for me to ignore the bonds with and deep feelings about the struggle for the liberation of wallmapu.
These are times of clarity and definitions. Autonomous, anti-authoritarian and anarchist subversive practices in this part of the world cannot ignore the territoriality of the conflict, nor can they remain only in general and tepid solidarity….
The mode of confrontation is our inalienable choice in prison and on the street, we are not victims of circumstances, but conscious warriors of a fight to the death for the Total Liberation of peoples, individuals and communities. This is where all our efforts are made and renewed. “[1]
On March 15, Mapuche anarchist comrade Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda passed 15 years of captivity. The decisions of the Chilean state want him to serve 13 more years in prison, according to its junta laws (from Pinochet).
Responding to the internationalist call for solidarity action with comrade Marcelo Villarroel, I am carrying out a symbolic action in support of the call, a one-day hunger strike. Let this call be a constant one, let every attack against the chilean state, every attack against capital internationally, put forward the Mapuche struggle and may it be a blow to the long captivity of the comrade.
I also take this opportunity to reiterate my solidarity with comrade Alfredo Cospito, who is giving his life against the ultimate prison-grave of the capitalist metropolis. “Fascism was born from indifference “[2]
I also convey here the call for the International Days of Action in Defense of Kurdistan (16-19 March), against the war crimes carried out by the Turkish genocidal colonialist regime with the support of NATO and the EU. The Kurdish comrades, who like the Mapuche people are fighting for the liberation of territories and of the whole Earth from capitalism and the nation-state, remind us that today, 16th of March, is the anniversary of the Paris Commune and of the fall of Afrin.
As the also captured Mapuche comrade Emilio Berkhoff Jerez wrote, the only way to drive them out is with fire and lead.[3]
From the guerrilla path, organization and unity for anarchy
Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis
16 March 2023
Domokos Prison
* Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis has been in prison since August ’21, and in January ’22 the trial for the Organization of Revolutionary Self-Defense was completed, where he was sentenced to 14 years in prison (adding to a sentence of 13.5 years for a robbery, for which the appeals trial is still pending). The actions and statements of the Organization Revolutionary Self-Defense can be found here and here.
* email contact with the comrade: dimitris_chatzivasileiadis_support@riseup.net
[1]From a text by Marcelo Villarroel from prison, December ‘21 – https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1616009/
[2]Annalisa Savino, Italian school teacher, participant in the solidarity movement for Alfredo Cospito
[3]Al pueblo mapuche en resistencia y lucha– https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1616194/