Greece, City of Patras : Taking responsibility for the attack on the French Consulate
From France to Greece… the flame of social revolt is their nightmare!
On the evening of Thursday 6th July we attacked the French Consulate in Patras while it was being guarded by police forces. A group of comrades moved under the nose of the police guard, which was on the spot with a cage set up to prevent an attack on the consulate, and threw bottles of red paint at it. The police forces were right in front of the building and when we appeared we pushed them away; as a result they ran and “calmly” hid behind the cage, in the words of their president.
Our action is dedicated to 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk who was murdered in cold blood on June 27 by the uniformed dogs of the French state and the other boy murdered in the social uprising that is shaking France. It is also a signal of internationalist solidarity with our class brothers and sisters who are rebelling in France and experiencing the violence of the state.
A social uprising that has spread all the previous days in the suburbs of the French capital and in all major cities with clashes with the state murderers, burning barricades, arson of state and capitalist buildings, vehicles, etc.
A social uprising that took inspiration from the emblematic uprising of the French ghettos of November 2005 (when again two young people lost their lives due to the murderous action of the police), looked in the eye and connected with the recent great mobilisations of French workers against the Macron pension reform, carrying through it the older movements of French society such as the yellow vests, the mobilisations of students, workers and unemployed, the militant strike mobilisations against the general restructuring of the French economy.
A social uprising that makes visible the depth of social contradictions within modern capitalist metropolises. The French youth of the suburbs, after being systematically marginalised by the French state’s ghettoisation policies regarding immigrants from its colonies, both socially and at the work and cultural level, they are now murdered by the institutional exponents of this treaty as the ultimate result of the racist and violent behaviour that exists on a daily basis.
A social uprising that acquires a global dimension because it confirms that, regardless of the existing socio-class correlations in one country and the apparent electoral recording of the prevalence of the field of reaction, the class war is raging and its final outcome is still fluid and undefined, to the extent that the social factor, the proletariat and the young perceive their real power and transform it into militant and organisationally upgraded resistance and insurrectional perspective. It is social inequalities themselves, the destruction of conquests, poverty and the housing issue, the death-politics that make this perspective in the present increasingly imperative in all corners of the world in order to shake the omnipotence of the capitalist system and its enormous contradictions.
In any case, it is obvious that in the generalised condition of the sharpening of the conditions of poverty, impoverishment and repression, the restriction of any social, labour and political rights for millions of people within the western world and in the even more visible condition of the outbreak of a generalised war between the imperialist poles that are already in conflict worldwide today, the class conflict will be increasingly transferred to the “safe” rear of the capitalist world and the armies of the damned that it creates will be the raw material for its ignition.
From the French ghettos to the great avenues of the western metropolises and from the modern labour sweatshops of class exploitation to the watery graves of the Mediterranean and the warehouses of human souls that surround iron-barred fortress Europe, it is an internationalist task for the working class to organise its total counter-attack against the ever-emerging policy of its gradual annihilation. For the building of tomorrow’s unimpeded avenues of social justice, human freedom and equality, the total demolition of this rotten world is necessary. Until then, the small and great victories and defeats of the proletariat, the class conflicts, the social uprisings will remind us of the obvious: The only answer to state violence and capitalist barbarism is none other than mass, organised, social-class resistance and counter-attack.
Anarchist cell “Vassilis Maggos”
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