Saturday, November 20, 2010

Solidarity to Panagiotis Giannou



Comrade P.Giannou has been imprisoned in korridalos prisons since the 17th of November.
On the 7th of October after a chase for about a kilometre he was stopped with his motorbike and taken to Bournazi police station in peristeri area in Athens where after searching him they found a small incendiary device in his bag. After the usual “friendly talks”, he was taken to a room and asked to snitch on other comrades to secure his own freedom. They obviously got the answer they deserved.
He was taken to the prosecutor the next day, where after a disagreement between the prosecutor and district attorney he was released until the trial. A few days later the court decided: detained as too dangerous for public safety. On the 17th of November he was imprisoned in korridalos prisons.

IF THE INNOCENT DESERVE OUR SOLIDARITY ONCE
THE GUILTY DESERVE IT A HUNDRED TIMES OVER…  

news for simos seisidis trial athens......FIRST DAY 19 NOV.

As was expected, since you have to cope with commissioned judges that follow commands from up above, the application of cancellation of the first court that charged Simos in absent for the delinquencies of 7 different robberies, was rejected.
Simos didn’t appear in the process because it was attempted again to transport him with the special prison-van with the internal cage, that is literally as if you are transported in a box. Repeatedly prisoners have asked to abolish this way of transfer. His lawyer asked for a postponement, producing also the relative doctors documents. Of course, it was rejected.
The trial proceeded normally. During it, the presiding judge constantly mentioned “this you will say on Wednesday”, substantially making it obvious that the decision was predetermined, since if the cancellation became acceptable, there would not be a trial on Wednesday!
Despite it became acceptable that the application was within the time limit, considering the situation of Simos during his hospitalisation did not allow any… dealing with urban justice, was rejected because the call that was made at… town hall of Vironas area, was legal since he himself was a fugitive and the authorities did not know where he lives(!).
Commonly bullshit…
The substance of this case, why that is he was a fugitive, and which was developed extensively so much by the witnesses, as by the lawyer, went unnoticed. As it also went unnoticed that in reality he has already been condemned for 7 robberies. Naturally, since it is a fully class justice, that considers that proletarians that deny the role of a slave of the system, should be exterminated… And anyway, if something is fugitive here, it is common sense, the indication of innocence and real justice…
When the decision was announced, the comrades that were in the room, severely heckled the judges, which withdrew immediately. On Wednesday the 24th , on the sixth floor, room 120 D, at 9.00 am, it will be attempted again to cancel the original court, or else the court of appeals will happen.

Nov 25 in athens Demonstration against state terrorism


Nov 25  in athens Demonstration against state terrorism
SOLIDARITY TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

Thursday, November 18, 2010

York Students Arrested U.K.

Anti Cuts Action PARTY! BRISTOL U.K.

category bristol  by An Anarchist Against The Cuts
The A.C.A.B Sound system presents a benefit for radical anti cuts action:

Rat Face (HipHop)
The Directors (Punk)

Abnormality (tribe of frog)
Mark (dub revolution)
Missfit (Kebele Sound)

This saturday the old motercycle shop ('frowning motercycle), 27 stokes croft.
9pm-3am, (bands on from 9.30! don't miss out), £3 suggested donation.
(noone refused entry due to lack of funds).

Fuck the cuts, Smash the system.

Related Link: http://anticutsaction.wordpress.com/


The Metropolitan Police have launched Operation Malone in a bid to trace those responsible for the violence and vandalism and 61 arrests have been made so far.

Here's hoping there's a spontaneous jail break in York this evening...

Further details here  http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8675269.Two_men_arrested_in_York_over_student_fees_riots/

Smashed Windows & Graffiti @ Conservative Offices U.K.

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Damage was done to the Conservative Party Nottingham Office last night.

Obviously as a protest against the governments cuts to welfare, public service, care etc etc .... [oooops sorry, I meant the governments public spending review].

Some windows had been smashed along the wall in King Edward Street and there were some painted messages including "Fight the cuts" and "Tory Scum".

Windows have now been boarded up, awaiting the glaziers.  This is the latest expression of peoples anger at these proposals.  There have been other examples around the city including County Hall and a firm of baliffs offices. 

In a statement, they said: "We did this because we believe in acting autonomously with the rage in our hearts. And we did this in solidarity with those arrested for being at Millbank, and all people who are getting fucked over by the cuts and capitalism on a daily basis."

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

“The IMF is not an image on your TV screen”: a brief report from tonight’s demonstration in Athens

www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

(Dedicated to our comrade who was unable to join us today, still recovering in hospital. See you in the streets!)

Riot police march in front of a wall-painted slogan reading “The troika [meaning the IMF, EU and ECB] is not an image on your TV screens; responses are given in the streets”. Athens, 17/11/2010.
It will take us a little while to comprehend today’s events in Athens – and surely, this is not the best moment to do so – writing these lines after a full twelve hours in the streets. But still, some first thoughts are of order. What happened today was important. First, today’s demonstration had a very peculiar feel to it. The largest Polytechnic uprising commemorative demonstration in more than a decade (30,000 according to the police, around double in real numbers). A very tense feeling in the air. Even before the demo set off, clashes with the youth branch of PASOK – the social-democrat party in power – who had the nerve to try join the demonstration. The police on the sides of the march, with their hands on the trigger of the tear-gas guns the entire time. People waiting for something to happen on both ends: our end, and on that of the police.
And something did happen. The most intense and populous demonstration Athens has seen since May 5th. The police charging ahead whenever they could, whenever they would isolate people off the main block of the demonstration. People fighting back, during the demo and then, late in the night, in Exarcheia. But that peculiar feeling hasn’t faded: we are still waiting something will happen… Tonight was the last day of a long summer. Tomorrow is the first day of a strange winter – hopefully, a beautiful winter.


from the greek streets blog
Tonight saw the largest Polytechnic uprising demonstration in Athens in at least a decade, with reports of 50-60,000 taking to the streets. We have unconfirmed reports of a demonstration being injured by tear gas in the face. At least 25-30 people have been detained so far.







American activist seriously injured in the head by Delta motorcycle police during tonight’s anti-IMF demonstration in Athens 16/11.

UPDATE, 00.48. Tests so far on the injured comrade show there are no broken bones and no internal bleeding. She is, however, very badly hit in the face by the cops and the doctors have asked for her to stay in hospital for another 24 hours at least. Cops had followed her to hospital, harassed her and tried to interrogate her, only to back off when other comrades arrived. At the time of writing (00.45) the cops have left the hospital.
What follows is a compilation of accounts of comrades who were at tonight’s demonstration in central Athens, close to the injured activist and whose reports are verified and trustworthy. Please spread. We will post more information here, as it comes.
The events unfolded toward the end of tonight’s demonstration against the presence of representatives of the IMF in central Athens. As we were marching at the last block of the demonstration on Patision Avenue, having left Omonoia square and heading back toward the Polytechnic, a number of “Delta” motorcycle police appeared at the back of the demonstration. They roared their engines and charged toward the crowd. People started running toward the Polytechnic. The delta managed to get hold of a female American activist who was at the last part of the demonstration. They knocked down, kicked her and stamped her head. She was knocked semi-unconscious, taken inside the Polytechnic by other comrades and a few moments later, transported to a central Athens hospital.
We are currently waiting to hear back from the doctors as of the state of her health. Her injuries are serious, but in no case life-threatening.

London Riot: Tory HQ smashed by British students

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UPDATE: An 18 year old student charged with ‘violent disorder’ and granted bail for throwing fire extinguisher from roof of Tory HQ at cops. This carries 5 years imprisonment and/or a fine on indictment; six months imprisonment and/or a fine summarily.

Bologna, Italy - Sabotage in solidarity with Billy, Costa and Silvia

informa-azione

da finoallafine.info Information received anonymously via email:" During the night of October 6 a relay mast was set fire to under the bridge of via Libia, in Bologna. The enormous pylon was so damaged that it had to be felled and a month still hasn't been re-erected. For Billy, Costa and Silvia, attacking structures and those responsible for control and exploitation."Fri, 12/11/2010 –


Buenos Aires - Bomb at the Provincial headquarters of Rio Negro in revenge for the death by police of 16 year old Mapuche, Guillermo Trafiñanco

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Buenos Aires - the night of Monday, November 8 we placed a bomb at the door of the headquarters of the province of Rio Negro, in the filthy city of Buenos Aires.
The bomb consisted of two bottles filled with inflammable material and at the bottom, two low-potential explosives. After leaving it there, we decided to make two warning calls to avoid causing harm to the unwary passers-by, and why not, so that the police felt the fury of the oppressed in their faces (which did not happen, because the cowards had taken all the necessary precautions to carry out their miserable job).
We remind the politicians, judges, police officers and those who support them that their daily terror will not remain unpaid.
With special love and complicity with our brothers and sisters anarchists locked up / in Chile and for all / and all the prisoners in war.
For the armed insurrection, for the destruction of the world of authority.
Circulo del Caos

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Repressive aftermath of Student Riots, London (UK)


UPDATE : http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/ back online!





Resisting the Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT)- the cops who harass protesters
Following contact from New Scotland Yard, the Fitwatch website and domain name (www.fitwatch.org.uk) have been suspended for a minimum of twelve months for “attempting to pervert the course of justice”.

Last Post on Fitwatch before closure:
The remarkable and brilliant student action at Millbank has produced some predictable frothing at the mouth from the establishment and right wing press. Cameron has called for the ‘full weight of the law’ to fall on those who had caused tens of thousands of pounds of damage to the expensive decor at Tory party HQ. Responsibility is being placed on ‘a violent faction’, after the march was ‘infiltrated’ by anarchists.
There are an encouraging number of initiatives to show solidarity with the arrested students – something that is vital if they are to avoid the sort of punitive ‘deterrent’ sentences handed out to the Gaza demonstrators. A legal support group has been established and the National Campaign against Cuts and Fees has started a support campaign. Goldsmiths lecturers union has publicly commended the students for a ‘magnificent demonstration’ .
This is all much needed, as the establishment is clearly on the march with this one. The Torygraph has published an irresponsible and frenzied ‘shop-a-student’ piece and the Met are clearly under pressure to produce ‘results’ after what they have admitted was a policing ‘embarrassment’.
51 people have been arrested so far, and the police have claimed they took the details of a further 250 people in the kettle using powers under the Police Reform Act. There may be more arrests to come.
Students who are worried should consider taking the following actions:
If you have been arrested, or had your details taken – contact the legal support campaign. As a group you can support each other, and mount a coherent campaign.
If you fear you may be arrested as a result of identification by CCTV, FIT or press photography;
DONT panic. Press photos are not necessarily conclusive evidence, and just because the police have a photo of you doesn’t mean they know who you are.
DONT hand yourself in. The police often use the psychological pressure of knowing they have your picture to persuade you to ‘come forward’. Unless you have a very pressing reason to do otherwise, let them come and find you, if they know who you are.
DO get rid of your clothes. There is no chance of suggesting the bloke in the video is not you if the clothes he is wearing have been found in your wardrobe. Get rid of ALL clothes you were wearing at the demo, including YOUR SHOES, your bag, and any distinctive jewellery you were wearing at the time. Yes, this is difficult, especially if it is your only warm coat or decent pair of boots. But it will be harder still if finding these clothes in your flat gets you convicted of violent disorder.

DONT assume that because you can identify yourself in a video, a judge will be able to as well.
‘That isn’t me’ has got many a person off before now.
DO keep away from other demos for a while. The police will be on the look-out at other demos, especially student ones, for people they have put on their ‘wanted’ list. Keep a low profile.
DO think about changing your appearance. Perhaps now is a good time for a make-over. Get a haircut and colour, grow a beard, wear glasses. It isn’t a guarantee, but may help throw them off the scent.
DO keep your house clean. Get rid of spray cans, demo related stuff, and dodgy texts / photos on your phone. Don’t make life easy for them by having drugs, weapons or anything illegal in the house.
DO get the name and number of a good lawyer you can call if things go badly. The support group has the names of recommended lawyers on their site. Take a bit of time to read up on your rights in custody, especially the benefits of not commenting in interview.
DO be careful who you speak about this to. Admit your involvement in criminal damage / disorder ONLY to people you really trust.

DO try and control the nerves and panic.
Waiting for a knock on the door is stressful in the extreme, but you need to find a way to get on with business as normal.
Otherwise you’ll be serving the sentence before you are even arrested.
FUCK THE POLICE PASS IT ON PLEASE

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Monday, November 15, 2010

ARSON ATTACK OF A SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM IN ATHENS


Late at night in the area of  Kolonaki (rich area) of Athens a school of journalism was under attack. The people who did it left some gas cans outside the building and set them on fire….

attack to the building of the Hellenic General Confederation of Workers (state manipulated syndicalists)


I dont know how is the labor unions in other areas of this world but in greece it sucks ..they dont do shit and not only that but they are againts the labors couse they are very good friends with the goverment  they betray the struggle…really sad .To get an idea as u might already know we have the IMF here and so many people are without jobs and we gonna work for penuts here ..so what they do ? they say they will do a strike …in 15 of December… yeap and they said that right after summer… is that …
so last night a group of anarchists attack to the building of the Hellenic General Confederation of Workers (state manipulated syndicalists)
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news for simos seisidis trial athens......FIRST DAY 19 NOV.

SOLIDARITY GATHERING ON THE 19/11 AND 24/11 AT THE APPEALS COURT OF LOUKAREOS ATHENS WHERE
SIMOS Seisidis is having his trial for the misdemeanors of the seven robberies of the “robbers in black” case.


As was expected, since you have to cope with commissioned judges that follow commands from up above, the application of cancellation of the first court that charged Simos in absent for the delinquencies of 7 different robberies, was rejected.
Simos didn’t appear in the process because it was attempted again to transport him with the special prison-van with the internal cage, that is literally as if you are transported in a box. Repeatedly prisoners have asked to abolish this way of transfer. His lawyer asked for a postponement, producing also the relative doctors documents. Of course, it was rejected.
The trial proceeded normally. During it, the presiding judge constantly mentioned “this you will say on Wednesday”, substantially making it obvious that the decision was predetermined, since if the cancellation became acceptable, there would not be a trial on Wednesday!
Despite it became acceptable that the application was within the time limit, considering the situation of Simos during his hospitalisation did not allow any… dealing with urban justice, was rejected because the call that was made at… town hall of Vironas area, was legal since he himself was a fugitive and the authorities did not know where he lives(!).
Commonly bullshit…
The substance of this case, why that is he was a fugitive, and which was developed extensively so much by the witnesses, as by the lawyer, went unnoticed. As it also went unnoticed that in reality he has already been condemned for 7 robberies. Naturally, since it is a fully class justice, that considers that proletarians that deny the role of a slave of the system, should be exterminated… And anyway, if something is fugitive here, it is common sense, the indication of innocence and real justice…
When the decision was announced, the comrades that were in the room, severely heckled the judges, which withdrew immediately. On Wednesday the 24th , on the sixth floor, room 120 D, at 9.00 am, it will be attempted again to cancel the original court, or else the court of appeals will happen.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Responsibility claim for the arson of 10 cars of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization

... If someone escapes in any way from the invincible monstrosity of a society that is now wild and monstrous because of cannibalistic prejudice and terrible ignorance or from the sadistic devaluation of this rotten society which believes that it has the right to judge and sentence a person because he came to an action that the above society is never in a position to understand, it ts a highly revolutionary action...”
RENZO NOVATORE



In period where the leaders achieve their democratic duties, we realise our conscious ideals. In the sewer of fony claim of rights, we keep our individualities entire and active. Denying victimization, we place ourselves in the position of the attacker, the hunter. We do not accept any reconcilliation with anyone for the improvement of conditions. Initiavely we intervene creating our inssurrectional, chaotic hearths.
In this ridiculous democratic process of voting, the substance of the existing social condition is de-crystalliazed. The masks of society are revealed. On one side slavery and subjugation and on the other authoritarian perversion and arrogance.
The voters behind the window front of claim and intervention in the public matters that are provided for them by the democracy, hide their phobias, the passivity, moderation and their mood for a comfortable life where they will never have responsibilities for what happens to them.
This way the suburban culture of subjugation is maintained and perpetuated and together with that the rottening of this world.
On the other are the representatives of dominance. These ghosts that their role is to dominate, to maintain and to shield the unsound building of capitalism.
The blabbering pricks with the folky physiognomy, that aim to move the always ductile herd with expired oratories and promises of the exchange for favours character.
From the menu of democracy ofcourse is not absent also the mouldy pseudorevolutionary ideologies about disobedience and defying the regime, the practical application of which never escapes from the frames of legality. The most detestable role of the left however is that of the democratizer. In periods of revolts it tries to “break” the destructive negativism of the revolters towards all social structures, aiming to put them in a apologetic dialogue with the state, playing the institutional role of the mediator as a valve of unsuction that was established by the system itself. For this systemic role it should constitute a target of revolutionary forces, breaking the informal immunity of the past.
Outside all this are the revolutionaries that organize in new urban guerrilla warfare. Many comrades like us selected to precede first on the attack. Early hours of Saturday 6th of November we delivered to flames 10 vehicles of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization in a outdoor parking space on Sholiou street in the cop dominated area of Agia Paraskeui precisely behind the den of the snitches of Hellenic Radio and Tv. This action is in solidarity to the hostage urban guerillas Panagiotis Argiro and Gerasimos Tsakalos. There is not a more beautiful way of demonstrating solidarity and widening the revolutionary conscience from the continuation and the excerbation of guerrilla action.
The creation of hearths of antiathority, the continuation of the devastating fury to each aspect of the state and capitalism is for us the most ideal way of supporting the hostage comrades.

FREEDOM TO THE URBAN GUERILLAS PANAGIOTIS ARGIROU AND GERASIMOS TSAKALOS
P.S.
We send arsoning signals to the wanted comrades...
COALITION OF TERRORISTS – FIGHTERS OF THE ABYSS 

boubourAs translation actforfreedomnow!




ARSON ATTACK IN AG. PARASKEVI IN ATHENS!


8 vehicles belonging to the national phone company were burnt to ashes in the agia paraskevi area in Athens!!!





 

SOLIDARITY GATHERING IN AVLONA PRISONS 14 NOVEMBER

SOLIDARITY GATHERING IN AVLONA PRISONS

At the gathering were 100 comrades, very strong and intense pulse, visual contact with prisoners, chants were shouted fireworks were lit.
After the comrades left some of Giannis prison mates caused damage to the working space resulting in the prisoners that were in the yard be taken back to their cells.
NO CRIMINAL NO POLITICAL PRISONERS!
FIRE AND EXPLOSIONS IN EVERY PRISON!

SOLIDARITY ACTIONS FOR THE POLITICAL PRISONERS IN GREECE


SOLIDARITY ASSEMBLY

MANY TRIALS OF FIGHTERS ARE COMING UP. EVERYONES PRESENCE IS NECESSARY. A LITTLE INFO ABOUT THE SITUATION SO FAR/;

32 POLITICAL PRISONERS, 23 FROM THE ANARCHIST MOVEMENT AND 9 FROM THE 17TH NOVEMBER ORGANIZATION.
15 DIFFERENT CASES

10 PRELIMINARY TRIALS

2 APPEALS

13 WANTED, TWO OF THEM WITH A PRICE ON THEIR HEADS
ALL TOGETHER PERSECUTED OF THE ABOVE CASES 52 PEOPLE


The trial of the accused for the Conspiracy Cells of Fire case has been set for the 17th of january 2011, without however it being announced where.

The charges are mainly of a felony type for the explosions in the offices of Louka Katseli (the Greek Minister for Labour and Social Security), the offices of Hinofotis (national defence general) and in the ministry of macedonia and thrace.
Let is remind here the snitching and grassing logic that the state and media impose by publishing photos of people that bassically are suspects, since they have not been yet convicted of anything. Through this logic a photo of another person which is wanted appeared was published, while in the edia, electronic or not they keep on showing phonenumbers for people to call and snitch.

The accidental death of an immigrant

 14 November 2010
On the afternoon of Saturday November 13, a 21-year-old immigrant from Poland was killed outside the notorious Aghios Panteleimonas police station in Athens, because, according to the police, he jumped from a third floor window of the police station trying to escape.



Larnaca, Belgrade, Attica Square: Connecting the dots

Posted by clandestinenglish on 8 November 2010

Some info on the recent clashes in Cyprus

“Phinikoudes Beach was turned into a warzone, when marching members of three nationalist movements came into conflict with participants at the antiracism festival, and with members of migrant support group KISA, the organisers of the event”.
Cyprus Mail
, November 6, 2010
The rainbow festival is being organized for many years by KISA (Action for Equality, Support and Antiracism) in Nicosia and Limassol. This year, the 13th Rainbow Festival was held in Larnaca and not in Limassol after the nationalist “Hellenic Resistance Movement” announced that it would hold an anti-immigrant demonstration on Friday 5 November in Larnaca, with the participation of the “Pancypriot Anti‐Occupation Movement” and the “Movement for the Salvation of Cyprus”.
The Rainbow festival was moved to Larnaca in order to stop the fascist threat, as it publicly announced.
We must have in mind that the Rainbow festival is sponsored by the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus and is being organised with the support of the European Commission Representation in Cyprus. That’s why the organizers thought they would have protection and felt no actual preparation for real fighting with the far right groups was necessary.
Far right groups seized the opportunity to describe antiracists as ”the enemy’s fifth column, funded by foreign centers”, accusing the Cypriot state that “from its birth, it fights against the hellenism of Cyprus in order to eliminate it“.
At the beginning of the event, people at the festival were three times more than the far-right demonstrators (mainly old, traditional nationalists) but by the end  neo-nazis were heading the attacks. Late in the evening, it was the police who was rescuing the few antiracists and immigrants who remained at the site until the end of the event.
Nazis not only controlled the streets, they also posed as anti-state and anti-police activists.
Something similar happened a month ago in Belgrade, at the LGBT pride parade, that was protected by the government and co-organized with EU Commission representatives in Serbia. It is estimated that on the day of the LGBT pride parade, over 6,000 fascistoid youths (supported by football clubs and priests) were fighting the police on the streets of Belgrade for hours. According to a report:
“Gendarmerie and other special units were using armored vehicles and tear gas, trying to regain control over the rally. Police clashed with the rioters near Palace Albania, where they were pushed back from Terazije Sq. The protesters were shouting ‘Go to Kosovo’ at the officers.The mobile mammography unit was stoned, bought with the help of donors and B92, in downtown Belgrade while the doctors were examining their patients.The headquarerts of the ruling Democratic Party were also under attack and were set ablaze for a short while. The building of the national television RTS did not escape the attack of hooligans, who also tried to storm the parliament building, but failed. A number of vehicles were damaged (…), including several parked cars and 11 police vehicles, two buses and two trolleybuses.”
Yesterday, at the local elections in Greece, the nazi (“Golden Dawn” party) candidate got 5% of the votes for the municipality of Athens. In the last few months, a central square in Athens (Attiki Square – see video) has evolved into a hothouse for fascists, who  have organized pogroms against migrants’ shops and apartments, as well as attacks with knives against refugee families sleeping in the park.
Why are these three incidents connected?
As we have already implied in our text On Crisis and Migration, the immigrant/refugee struggle is a lost cause, unless it is connected with the present crisis.
Last March, almost coinciding with the arrival of the IMF in Greece, a round of discussions began amongst people and groups aiming to prepare a series of no-border actions in Greece during the summer of 2010. Despite the important work  especially by people from abroad towards that goal, the actions were either poorly attended, or were canceled altogether. We feel there is a deeply political reason for this: At the moment, any struggles which are not connected to the new capitalist attack against (this time) its own strongholds in Europe, are doomed to fail. Let us explain:

The nature of the crisis and the far-right as a ”popular movement”

Two years ago, leftists and anarchists were celebrating the imminent end of capitalism after the collapse of the US banks. With the breakout of the greek crisis we started reading analyses about “over-accumulation [being] the main cause of the crisis”, or conspiracy theories about the “bad bankers winning over the productive capitalists”.
Things are clearly different though:
Migration flows are created by the same globalized capital that attacks populations through financialization, after having moved production from the developed to the developing countries, initiating the destruction of the middle and lower classes in the west.
In the past, the shock of the ”discovery” of the deaths at the frontiers of Fortress Europe or of the horror prisons in Greece, or even of the threat of a hyper-militarized Frontex Agency could be a viable tactic for the solidarity movement, but no more. Last November, in a text on the occasion of the 3rd International Forum for Migration and Development we said that immigrants bring home to the EU the reality of global capitalism and thus give us an opportunity to understand global reality beyond the virtual banality of consumerism.
Now that global capital is bringing third world conditions inside the EU (i.e. Aghios Panteleimonas/Attica Square) and is dismantling the middle classes, condemning to poor to utter misery, the serpent’s egg of fascists and neo-nazis appears in the guise of resistance. In countries where there is no organized and widespread social resistance movement, public discontent can be manipulated by mixing liberal politics with abstract, non-clarified cultural issues. In that way, with NGO-, liberal and EU coalitions, the substance of resistance is hijacked, as it is taken away from the oppressed and the radicals and the semblance of resistance is handed by the State, by Authority, to the new fascist riots, disguised as “society that cannot take it anymore”.
This is what happened in Serbia, which has been in deep crisis for the last two decades, and on a much smaller scale in Cyprus, (where it is nevertheless extremely important, since the fascist attack was a response to a Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot social movement that has been growing steadily for some years now).
Athens is a similar but different case. After the December 2008 riots, the attack against immigrants, climaxing in the summer of 2009, was part of a full-scale counter-attack (a kind of counter-insurgency) by the State. During that time, a social laboratory, testing the creation of fascist reflexes, was gradually being allowed to develop in the center of town, not far away from areas practically dominated by the social movement. It is now evident that if we do not organically connect our responses to the crisis to the issue of solidarity and struggle with immigrants, we are leaving a void that will be filled by the “fascist response to the crisis”.
Events in Larnaca, Belgrade and Aghios Panteleimonas/Attiki Square in Athens alert us to the possibility of a return of the far-right as a ”popular movement”.
No NGOs, no liberal alliances, no multicultural festivals or rhetorics of tolerance can be effective against it, neither is it enough to condemn Frontex on a humanitarian basis. To walk round Attica Square and still romanticize immigrants as ”neo-nomads” seems as irrelevant as interpreting the IMF-attack on developed countries and unemployment through Negri’s “end of work”. We have to see the current ”crisis” for what it has always been – a full-fledged war against the unprivileged, a war where you have to identify allies and enemies. Only in this context can we speak about the issue of immigrants and solidarity, poverty and the crisis.
Modern migration and the current crisis are products of the same move of globalized capitalism.
You cannot fight against the causes of one if you do not fight against the causes of the other. It is now obvious that we need a grassroots movement for social justice, a movement of self-organization and action, freed from disguised vanguardists and supporters of electoral politics, freed from the spectacle of violence.

immigrants website greece

Solidarity Poster for Polykarpos Georgiadis and Vaggelis Chrisohoidis (greece)



POSTER SAYS:
did anyone speak of a
KIDNAPPING?
“…A handful of capitalists
have organized a criminal gang
and have kidnapped the proletarians,
demanding for ransom
their labor force,
merchandising their human activity,
their time (which is turned into money),
their own being itself…”
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
to vaggelis Chrisohoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis
who the persecuting authorities, exactly because they denied to betray values and people,
accuse them as participators in the kidnapping of industrialist Milonas
anarchists from Serres from north-greece


Anarchists solidarity protest outside Korydallos prison, the main prison in Athens, at the time of the change of the year. This protest happens every New Year's Eve for the past six years. This year more than 400 people took part in the protest that interacted with the prisoners inside through shouting mutual slogans and fireworks. The main slogan was "The passion for freedom is stronger that your prisons".
NEW YEAR OUTSIDE IN KORRIDALOS PRISON 2011
Watch live streaming video from agitprop at livestream.com
FIRE TO ALL PRISONS

A society that punishes/the condition of incarceration/the prison of the mind/the prison as punishment/the rage of the damned will sound on the ruins of prisons/those denying obedience and misery of our era even within its hellholes/will dance together on the ruins of every last prison/with the flame of rebellion avenging whatever creates prisons.

To the prisoners struggle already counting one dead and thousands in hunger strike across greece, we stand in solidarity and anger until the destruction of every last prison.


ARSON AND WILDFIRE FOR EVERY PRISON

SOLIDARITY TO ALL PRISONERS IN GREECE


Keny Arkana - La Rage English Subtitles

1976 - 2000 Greek Anarchists Fight for Freedom

(December Riots in Greece)