Communique for the 12-13 January arson barrage in Thessaloniki Greece

by K-K translation collective

CELL OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLIDARITY Responsibility Communique-Thessaloniki THE WAR IS ON Today more than ever, the fortification of Power and it's attack against the internal enemy becomes an urgent necessity. Under the fear of the oncoming rebellions and the dynamics that have been developed , mainly in the latest years, the Dominance has to protect it's interests and will do it. So, we 'r leaving in an unprecedented upsurge of repression and control. Their mechanisms of chasing the enemy are being enforced and enriched in both human and technical level, while their legal arsenal expands and becomes more flexible. The new 'anti-terror' law that states thinking as a crime, the super 'bugs' that enter into the depth of personal communication, the thousands recruitments of cops that go up and down the streets are only some of the examples that compose what the power wants to communicate, that it is here and it is everywhere. The power speaks, before to forbid but also imposes itself where the precaution measures don't achieve to prevent the armed consciences that fight it. Democracy strikes back and takes revenge, has dungeons and prisoners of war. Prisoners that sends around like the wild animals in a cage, having before taken care to deplore by any means their dignity, pieces of their own lives and finally hushed up the depth of their choices, that are not other than the actual opposition against everything that hostiles our own lives. Of course, in this game, the Power has allies, like the pitiful entourage of the journalists. We never had a doubt about the hypocrisy behind their democratic mask, nor for the pretended polyphony that they invoke. Plus, we 'r not surprised from their upgrade to a vanguard of repression in its most paranoid and delirious version. They were, they are and they will be a para-shop of the police and the anti terror unit. THE MIND IS THE TARGET The dominance, as a privileged and main user of massive terror, knows very well that the projection of strength, the fear that it blows into the people, is much more important than the strength itself. The feeling of weakness and vanity of any kind of struggle is much more efficient than any army of cops and every super hitech system of surveillance. It leads to withdrawal and silence. To the consolidation of fear. Fear is cultivated by the power, but it blooms inside us. It has imbued the human existence to the bone and corroded all social relations. Both in the level of social groups to each other and against the dominant ethics, but as well in an individualized level. Fear corrupts the relation between people and condemns them to rot into misery and boredom. But it mainly stops the creation of true relationships. Relationships of solidarity, relationships subversive and dangerous. SURPASSING PRO-SOCIAL AND ANTI-SOCIAL DIPOLES The evolution of the revolutionary plan is impossible if we 'r not in a constant search for understanding the social process, thus searching allies and spotting the enemies. We do not consider society as one whole body, generally victimized, submitted or possibly revolutionary. Social relations form a multiplex field, that cannot be interpretated through the ethics of right or wrong, the victim or the immolator, the Good or the Evil. In them, we watch manifestations of the power itself, deeply rooted and expanded to a point that they 're not visible enough. On the other side, we watch transcendental insurrectionist behaviors and revolutionary consciences to emerge out of this field, ready to look life straight into the eyes...This multiplex mosaic of controversies consists the 'area' where the revolutionary war is taking place. THE TIME IS NOW AND THE ENEMY IS EVERYWHERE The 'objective conditions' seem to us very abstract and we won't remain act-less waiting for them to be 'mature'. We don't set longterm targets and we won't speak about a pre-revolutionary period nor for a post-revolutionary society. On the one side because we don't see revolution as one event that takes place in a very particular space and time, but as a continuous evolving process with constantly changing characteristics. On the other side, because we think that the political systems, of any ideological-theoretical gasket, by the time they will have institutionalized themselves as such, they will already be obsolete, and thus, hostile to us. On the contrary, we propose organization right now. The collectivization of denials through the actual application of our propositions (proposals). The creation of belligerent structures and infrastructures in present tense, that will set in constant motion the revolutionary process of destruction and creation. For the birth of true relations and comradely bonds, through the expereice of attack and actual solidarity. FOR ALL OR FOR NOTHING The existing reality forms a war zone with thpusand explored and unexplored aspects, We spot the enemy in the diffused plexus of roles, relations and behaviors. In the mechanisms of repression, the dominant ethics and the blackmale of waged slavery. In the small daily contracts inside us. We reject the partial struggles as condemned to failure. Desiring to touch the wholeness we consider necessary the total multiform attack. We consider attack as the conscious break from the enemy by any means that it may be expressed. As an integral piece of the very existence of every revolutionary, We don't think that exist generally revolutionary or reformist practices and means. Every act is given a sense from the motives and targetings of the subject that executes it. Armed, can be only the consciences. The hand will always be holding just a tool. THE DIFFUSED REVOLUTIONARY URBAN GUERRILLA STRUGGLE AS A POSITION OF FIGHT The guerrilla methods are not something that we drag from history's time-closet. They are practices that are being used, with various characteristics by the revolutionaries in every corner of the planet. The tactics of surprise, the choice of the place and time where the action becomes true is maybe the only -in current conditions- that has the ability to hit the infrastructures and the enemy's staff. We target to sabot the state-capitalist infrastructures as well as to terrorize our enemies, pose a personal threat. We want to make them clear, as clear it is for us, that war happens always with two sides and we, having chosen side, we make the step. In front of the monster of capitalism that rips the human life and dignity, we choose to arm thought, conscience and action. SOLIDARITY IS A WEAPON   From the mounts of Mexico and the highlands of Andes to the bomb attacks in Chile and the arsons in Belgium there are people decided not to put the head down. The struggle for freedom is their own life, not something out and over it.   The knowledge that in the edge of the world exist people that live and die for the same or close reasons, with the same or similar means, and thus, they possibly share the same or similar feelings, thoughts, fears and dreams with us, is something more than relieving. It is what pushes us to keep on even at the hardest times, fills us with strength and gives us the hope that in the end we 'll win. If we haven't won yet is partially due to the fact that we 're not yet a community, not even a network.   The solid mere academic knowledge is extremely useful in never-ending discussions accompanied with cheap wine. If, however, it doesn't transform into conscience it remains a harmless chatter. And conscience comes exclusively through experience.    Now, more than ever before, exists the necessity for continuation of the struggle by every member of the community. Learning what happens throughout the earth to be a motive, a signal from the worldwide revolutionaries that the warfare is still on. Not just to contribute in a simple update. But to be the point where every revolutionary will recognize him/herself as part of this network and will pass into attack. What would happen, if, for every strike that a member of the community would take, there would be launched international campaigns of anti-information concerning the incident and the revolutionaries all over the world passed into action, forcing the officials of every country not to be able to find a place to hide? This is internationalist solidarity and like this the borders brake.    We perceive solidarity as a dynamic, bilateral and multilevel relationship. Bilateral because it consists of two or more parts that have to experience it equally, breaking the miserable custom of the transmitter and the receiver, the ones that 'makes' solidarity and the one that 'receives' it. Multilevel because the level of its validity depends on how common are the targets, the desires the agonies of those that have it. And dynamic because it always wants to evolve, to find imaginative ways to take flesh and bones.    We think as necessary, for the evolution of the revolutionary plan, the actual application of the proposal for international networking. The creation of a horizontal, diffused and continuously evolving network. A tool of open communication and dialog, as well as a transmitter of ideas and practices among the revolutionaries. So, we include these attacks of ours within the frame of the call for solidarity with the members of the Conspiracy of the Fire Cells on trial, but as well within the formation of an informal anarchist federation based on the proposal of F.A.I. that the Conspiracy of the Fire Cells set in motion again. On 12 and 13 January we proceeded in a barrage of attacks in the city of Thessaloniki, sending fire signals to our comrades. Thus, we hit: On the noon of 12 January: -The office of the journalist and parliament member with LA.O.S. Angelos Kolokotronis. A price from us to him, for his 35 years of serving as chief editor in big newspapers like our well known Snitch-donia (Makedonia) and in many other para-information media, as well as for his extreme right wing beliefs. -The offices of the Union of retired police officers in Promitheos str. On the night of 13 January -2 car vehicles belonging to cops in the region of Peraia. -A car belonging to the diplomatic corps in Ano Toumpa region. SOLIDARITY with the urban guerrilla fighters GERASIMOS TSAKALOS-PANAGIOTIS ARGIROU- HARIS HADJIMICHELAKIS, members of the R.O. Conspiracy of the Fire Cells and with all those tried for this case. FREEDOM to PANAGIOTIS MASOURAS-KONSTANTINA KARAKATSANI-GIORGOS KARAGIANNIDIS-ALEXANDROS MITROUSIAS We never forget our insubordinate brothers DIMITRIS DIMTSIADIS-HARALAMBOS TSILIANIDIS-DIMITRIS FESSAS-SOKRATIS TZIFKAS-GIANNIS SKOULOUDIS and we would like to remind them that the bet of destruction and creation is still on. informal anarchist federation- Cell of Revolutionary Solidarity

2nd Letter of Giannis Skouloudis from Avlona prisons

“Oh, blessed hour, you gave me all the feverish intellectual intensity, I love you! I would not exchange the bitterness that you caused me with all the mediocre sweets of the world, I would not give the fevers that hammer my head, that burn my forehead, for the quietness and the peace of all the cowardly people!"

We are experiencing a reality trapped in the limits set by the net of sovereignty. In a treaty structured from dominating perceptions, basic characteristics of which are compromise and passivity.

In a treaty where the competitive values of consumerism, that so generously is offered by capitalism, are practised on us from the moment of our birth until our death.

Placing therefore ourselves in a permanent and tenacious move of this detonation of revolutionary war and polarisation of the social climate we come into a position to comprehend this treaty. To comprehend that is to say on an evolutionary base, an entire system of relations and perceptions that is carried into the field that is called society.

The modern social trunk shaped via the systemic mechanism of propaganda, shared out into totals and roles and dependant on the social values and institutions, is found in a permanent hunt of devolution and on a permanent search of fictitious needs that will improve the profile of its social position.

Speaking of this complex mesh and of the modern urban landscape that surrounds it we could talk about an ostensibly invulnerable factory of production of foreseeable behaviours and predetermined habits that has as an aim the social inactivation, weakening and taming of any trace of non-agreement and disobedience that could harm the process of reproduction of the status quo.

This field constitutes also the platform on which the revolutionary plan will be developed. It is the rotten building, the old world on which the revolutionary forces should be . It is the base that is the most fertile ground in order for the so healthy insurrectionist desire of refusal and our violent opposition with the sovereignty to bloom.

The desire that springs from the basic recognition that the social situation in which we find ourselves leads our lives to seediness.

The desire that walks on the scale of revolutionary exploration and that invents continuously new ways that will contribute in the total crash of dominating regulations.

The insurrectionist desire that,irrelevantly of how the enemy functions, self-protects and is upgraded, will never cease to exist.

Ahead comrades.

This is the season where we will extend the breadth of revolutionary creation and destruction.

Always at war.

SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH TO P.ARGYROU – H.HAJIMIHELAKIS – G.TSAKALOS AND TO THE COMRADES THAT A KEPT DECENT ATTITUDE AND ARE ACCUSED IN THE CASE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ORGANIZATION CONSPIRACY CELLS OF FIRE

COMRADE GREETINGS TO THE 4 WANTED COMRADES THAT ARE PERSECUTED FOR MY CASE

Giannis Skouloudis

Avlona Prisons

13/01/11

P.S. And while the letter was ready to be published, I learn that the 4 comrades (Babis Tsilianidis, Dimitris Dimtsiadis, Sokratis Tzifkas, Dimitris Fessas) that were wanted, are arrested and i therefore as a first move send them all my strength. Hold strong brothers.


boubourAs tranlate actforfreedomnow!

Responsibility claim for mass atm sabotage in Thessaloniki greece 7 december

The banks as pillars of capitalism create - the known and now evident- economic inequalities and construct the post-industrial capitalism, where the speed and the omnipotence of trade lead society to a complete mechanization and automatism.

On the other hand society insists to move in these predetermined ways, completely determined by the intellectual images and meanings of capitalism. What if it understands that the banks and capital cannot be maintained and exist without the callous exploitation and the more general degeneration of life, in the middle of this nodal period of evolution of capitalism, the average citizen not only is immobilized, but absorbing the dominating mentality leads to situations of social cannibalism. Instead of realising and striking the root of the problem, he repels it in midst his delirium of fear, and he defuses it either competitively to his fellow man repeating daily the dogma of capitalism " your death, is my life", or autistically to all sorts of outcasts (from immigrants that "take our jobs", to young people that sit with their feet on the seats of the bus etc).

On Friday afternoon wanting to bother the predetermined time-space journeys that the average citizen and the relation of dependence that it has with the monstrosities they call banks, we sabotaged 34 ATMs in the centre, Toumba, Triandria and Kalamaria areas.

This action happened also as a minimum of solidarity to the social robber G.Dimitrakis and we call all those that have realised the above conditions to participate multiformative, immediately in the game of deconstruction of the existing.

Freedom in Giannis Skouloudis - No prosecution to the 4 wanted comrades for the same case

Freedom to the 11 arrested of the anarchist squat Nadir

Freedom the all the hostages of the social war

some people

Responsibility claim for a series of incendiary devices saloniki Greece

No sheep was saved by bleating

(Tupamaros)

WE ARE AT WAR

This is why we selected on the dawn of Tuesday the 30^th of November and coming up to the court of appeals the comrade robber G.Dimitrakis and the expectedly  warm December we struck local organisations of “PASOK”(ruling party) and “New Democracy” (previously ruling party) of the municipality of Triandrias on H.Trikoupi street with incendiary devices that were made with small gas canisters, Placing thus ourselves on the camp of those that resist state terrorism.

Armed with hate, rage, decisiveness having our conscience clear and cut off from urban ethics, denying the lifestyle of the wannabe revolutionary, we gave a meaning to one of the most boring, miserable and meaningless nights that the state provides to the law abiding citizens -"mules", by vomiting fire to the streets of Thessaloniki.

We dedicate our strike to the arsonist comrade G.Skouloudis and to the 4 persecuted for the same case M.Tsilianidis, D.Fessas, D.Dimitsiadis, S.Tsifkas as well as the detainees and persecuted for participation in the Conspiracy Cells of Fire.

We will return stronger and with wilder moods.

RAGING PYROMANIACS WITH A CONSCIENCE

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!

LETTER FROM GIANNIS SKOULOUDIS FROM AVLONA PRISONS

Early hours of wednesday October 13^th during my escape from the parking area of vehicles of the Public Electricity Company, following the arson of some of its cars, I found myself surrounded by cops. After that I was led, with the handcuffs behind my back, to a regular car of the greek police, waiting for the fire to extend as they said, in order to begin my transfer to g.a.th. (police headquarters of thessaloniki).

The moment in time of my arrest constituted also the beginning of the permanent psychological war that followed, with the known tactics of the greek police regarding the handling of such situations. The range was big. From "brotherly" advices of idiots and comments such as " you see enemies we dont" to humiliating characterizations against me and my comrades. From friendly questions in comfortable spaces with orange juice on the house, to long interrogations of a threatening character in a effort to exterminate and offend my dignity. From house raids, to warrants of arrest that aim in the targeting and penalization of my wider friend and comrade cycle. All this in the light of the new and evolved antiterrorist policy.

Right now I am imprisoned in the prisons of Avlona. I realize this position, not so much as a detainee that is persecuted for his actions, but as a prisoner of war that is in a hostage situation in the hands of the enemy. In a space of isolation, role of which is the control and marginalisation of any element that constitutes danger and threat to the regimes plans, is cut off away from the frames of legality, compromise and subjugation, disturbs the normality of social flow and does not comply to its rules. Any element that is not productive in the social web, does not apply rightly the function that has been imposed on it to practise under the dogma of order and safety, and does not contribute to the promotion and maintenance of the humiliating and degrading way of life. Finally, whoever fights, is organised, attacks and aims to the appointment of revolutionary war that comes to shake the foundations of the modern capitalistic world.

I therefore am in favour of this revolutionary war, in favour of the multiform revolutionary process and development, main supplies of which are the refusal of the existing, revolutionary conscience and the need for action, that aims to the total rupture and deconstruction of every system, relation and ethic that oppresses the free person, having already recognized and feeling ready to face the cost of my choices.

For these reasons I take the responsibility for the arson attack, in Thessaloniki on the crossroad road of M.Alexandrou and Edison street, in the parking area of vehicles of the Public Electricity Company. Wanting with this hit to revael one more hostile aspect, one more piece of the government owned mechanism.

SOLIDARITY TO THE 4 COMRADES THAT ARE PERSECUTED FOR THE SAME CASE

COMRADE GREETINGS TO ALL THOSE THAT CONTINUE FIGHTING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE WALLS.

Skouloudis Giannis

Avlona Prisons

November 5^th 2010 

boubourAs translation actforfreedomnow! 




In the early morning of October 13, a van belonging to the Public Power Corporation (DEI) was torched in downtown Thessaloniki using an incendiary device made out of camping gas canisters, gasoline, and a fuse. The vehicle was completely incinerated, but 19-year-old comrade Yiannis Skouloudis was arrested “in flagrante delicto” (“caught red-handed”). That very morning, the same police-media operation we’ve seen so many times began: Pigs raided the homes of comrades and family members, seizing computers, flash drives, and anarchist literature, while reporters celebrated the authorities’ “resounding success.” But the prosecutors and judges didn’t stop there. According to them, “there must be an organization,” so four arrest warrantsFour comrades, ranging in age from 19 to 22, went into hiding. On Friday, October 15, people assembled in solidarity in front of the courthouse where Skouloudis was being arraigned. Minor clashes broke out between comrades and police inside and outside the courthouse, with injuries on both sides (including to Skouloudis’ mother). The courthouse and a nearby police van had windows broken. On Monday, October 18, Skouloudis appeared before a judge and took responsibility for the DEI van arson, but he refused to testify about anything else. The next morning, he was transferred to the Avlona Special Detention Center for Minors, where Panayiotis Masouras is currently locked up on charges stemming from the Fire Cells Conspiracy case.


 

FREEDOM TO COMRADE GIANNIS SKOULOUDIS

Banner from the fans of ARIS [ SALONIKA for comrade GIANNIS SKOULOUDIS

FREEDOM TO GIANNIS SKOULOUDIS

Giannis took responsibility for the arson but denied to say anything else. MORE INFO HERE http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2010/10/info-from-solidarity-gathering-to.html

4 comrades are also wanted for the same case and have warrants out for their arrest.

THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM

IS STRONGER THAN THEIR PRISONS

FREEDOM TO ANARCHIST G.SKOULOUDIS