Declaration written by Nikos Maziotis, a member of Revolutionary Struggle – 24th October 2011.

[Stop deception - Fighters are not terrorist]

 

translated from Italian by act for freedon now/B.pd

 

 

This is a political trial against revolutionaries who chose armed struggle to overthrow capitalism, the State, and the criminal regime which you, as judges, are here to defend.

 

Your court is a special tribunal set up by American and British imperialists and by the guardians of the Greek state, who have imposed anti-terrorism laws and special rules that decide on the sanctions and make sentences heavier. They introduced special courts inside the prison, in a suffocating security environment which badly affects the publicity on the trial in order to prevent people from listening to the revolutionaries’ political opinions. On this occasion they applied special conditions of detention, with the aim of strengthening the repression against armed resistance and the revolutionary organization of armed actions in Greece.

All this because the previous repressive regime was labelled as insufficient and ineffective, as it did not have any special bill concerning ‘the formation of terrorist organizations’ and the citizens of the jury were active.

Even if you do not recognize political opponents and political prisoners, you are domostrating - by enforcing special laws and measures against us and by judging us in a special court – that you indirectly recognize us as political enemies, dangerous for the political and economic regime that you serve, unlike all those your Power consider ‘ordinary criminals’.

 

In this way you are demonstrating that power deeply hates its political enemies. Moreover, which authority has ever officially recognized political opponents and enemies?

 

The warriors of ELAS (Greek Popular Liberation Army) during the fascist occupation, and the Democratic Army of Greece during the civil war, were treated as ‘bandits’ [symmorites] by the treacherous monarchist-fascist regime in the postwar period, and judged by a special military court.

 

The members of armed organizations are persecuted as ‘terrorist’ and judged by special courts like this one. The label ‘terrorist’ is applied to revolutionary fighters by all forms of government, no matter if they are military regimes or dictatorships, like that of 1967-1974, the constitutional oligarchy of the postwar years, which was euphemistically called ‘democracy’, or the current junta of traitors and collaborators of the PASOK government, which is putting the people into the hands of the oligarchic power of the international economy by signing the memorandum treaty.

All the freedom fighters and armed fighters of the world have been persecuted with the charge of being ‘terrorist’: the Red Brigades in Italy, the members of RAF, the June 2 Movement, the Revolutionary Cells of West German, the Cells of Communist Combatants in Belgium, the members of Action Directe and GARI in France, the First of May, anarchist and autonomous fighters and the members of MIL in Spain during the Franco’s regime, the Tupamaros fighters in Uruguay, Che Guevara, the members of the FARC in Colombia, the Fronte Farabundo Martí (FMLN) in El Salvador, Sendero Luminoso and Túpac Amaru (MRTA) in Peru, the fighters of revolutionary organizations in Turkey, the members of the PKK, IRA and ETA, and here in Greece the fighters of the 17th November (17N) and ELA (Revolutionary Popular Struggle).

 

As for the charges: today in this court those who are committing crimes against the people, those who are committing the biggest social robbery in history should be in the dock and be ashamed.

They are the members of the PASOK government, prime minister Giorgios Papandreou, economy minister Evangelos Venizelos and his predecessor, former minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou, ministers Loverdos, Koutroumanis, Pangalos, Chrisochoidis, Papoutsis, Diamantopoulou, all the other ministers and under-secretaries, the members of political parties who make laws for looting the people, who cut on basic needs such as food, housing, jobs, health, education, dignity, those who deny people of their life, those who signed the middle-term plan and agreed with the recent Pact for Stability and Growth, thus humiliating people and turning them into subjects under the national and international economic aristocracy.

 

The current corrupted traitors of the Greek people are these ones – like Georgios Tsolakoglou and Ioannis Rallis in the past. The members of the previous government of Nea Dimokratia, ex prime minister K. Karamanlis, ex economy minister and economists G. Alogoskoufis, P. Doukas, G. Papathanasiou, ministers P. Panagiotopoulos, G. Voulgarakis, V. Polidoras, S. Tsitouridis, F. Palli-Petralia, all these men should sit in the dock and be ashamed.

 

All these men should apologize for robbing the people and the welfare funds, as in the case of so-called bills of exchange (structural installations), which some insurance companies bought and were therefore damaged; for robbing public resources, as in the case of exchange of public soil with the monastery of Vatopedi; for committing crime against people’s freedom, as in the case of the telephone tapping of hundreds of citizens in 2004-2005, ordered by the American embassy in Athens for the security of the Olympic games, and carried on for years, a case that  resulted in the death – now they are calling it murder – of a Vodaphone worker; for the kidnapping and torture of Pachistani people in 2005, ordered by the British; for the torture on immigrants, like that in the police station of Ag. Pantaleimonas in 2005; for the privatisation of social security, medical assistance and hospitalization affecting hundreds of workers due to insurance reforms introduced by Petralia (work minister) in 2008; for assaulting psychologically demonstrators, as in the case of the students demo in 2007; for beating and murdering immigrants outside the police unit of the Asylum Department on Petrou Ralli road; for murdering Alexis Grigoropoulos.

 

 

You should sit in the dock and apologize, you professional judges, you the accomplices and servants of all these scoundrels and criminals, you patrons of the regime, armed guards of power, the para-state, the special forces units and traitors, the police and their special units, the unity for restauration of order, DELTA, DIAZ, the special guards protecting the rich, the leaders and the politicians, those who attack people on strike, those who kill young people, immigrants, fighters, those who torture inside police stations.

You are all members of a stuctural and extremely well organized criminal and terrorist organization whose name is state, and whose mission is to defend the interests of the rich. .

 

 

Your mission is to defend the criminal regime called capitalism. All those you serve should be held accountable for robbing and looting the people, the people’s income, wages, pensions, public funds and social insurance.

Those you serve should be held accountable for those who do not have food and look for it in the rubbish, for those who are dying or whose life and health are put at risk for lack of medical assistance in hospitals and cuts to the national health service, for those who lose their lives during so-called ‘work accidents’, for those who lose thier jobs and are condemned to poverty and misery, for those who lose thier homes, for those who commit suicide because of their debts, while in the meantime these criminals live in luxury.

 

You are going to judge us on behalf of all these scoundrels and criminals, whom people want to see hanging in Syntagma square. This trial is a crime. Because your charges and imprisonment are criminal and anti-social acts.
Because you judges and public prosecutors are accomplices of a criminal regime that terrorize people and the majority of society every day.

Because our actions are necessary for the liberation of the people from the totalitarianism of capital and the state.
Because people are not terrorized by the actions of Revolutionary Struggle, on the contrary many people agree with the actions of the organization, since our revolt is against political and economic power, against the regime that oppresses and exploits them day by day.

 

Because  terrorism is the theft and looting committed by the state, the government and the economic elite against the people. Terrorism is to condemn people to poverty and deprivation. Terrorism is the violence of henchmen cops against people who demonstrate. As revolutionaries and members of Revolutionary Struggle, we have no reason for making apologies. It is you and the members of the regime who have reasons for making apologies.  .

On the contrary, we can be proud of our participation to Revolutionary Struggle. We are proud because we are against injustice, exploitation and oppression. To hold arms in hand is always the right thing to do.

 

Armed revolt for the overthrowing of capitalism and the state is appropiate and necessary now more than ever.  

We are here to declare that Social Revolution is the only justice that will defeat the criminal regime.

 

Nikos Maziotis

Athens: May Day 2012 – Banner drop for the Revolutionary Struggle case

the banner reads:

The only response to the crisis is social revolution
Solidarity with those prosecuted for the Revolutionary Struggle case

photos from the demo here

Riot police bus torched in Mexico City

by This Is Our Job

From Liberación Total (April 30, 2012):
Don’t you have any other excuses besides a simple short circuit?
Could it be because we took action right in front of you and you didn’t even realize it?
Comrades, during the night of Monday, April 23, we torched a bus used for transporting the grenadier corps (riot police) to suppress conflicts, blockades, demonstrations, etc. At around 11 p.m., we placed an incendiary device in one of the several buses parked right beside the juvenile prison located at the corner of Avenida Obrero Mundial and Calle Peten in the Narvarte suburb of Mexico City. The incendiary device carried out its task perfectly. Though our main goal was to set fire to two buses, for various reasons we only placed one device. When we say we took action right in front of them, not only are we referring to the location of the buses behind the prison, but also to the patrol car with its lit siren and two prison guards armed with rifles a mere five meters from our target.

We didn’t attack the property of the police in response to the “injustices” they perpetrate, since we don’t believe in the justice that underpins their repressive acts. We set their property on fire as a form of attack on the very existence of police and prisons. As anarchists, we can’t frame our actions within demands that plainly advocate for citizenist causes, whether they involve tiny reforms in response to enormous problems or mere calls to punish the authorities that—under certain “policies”—are accused of incompetence, oppression, or governing badly. We should stay far away from adopting “revolutionary” slogans that perpetuate the existence of prisons, the State, and Capital. We must struggle for the complete destruction of this and any other kind of prison society!
We claim this action in solidarity with anticivilization Anarchist comrade Braulio Durán, who one day decided to take that important step in the struggle, who didn’t just sit around with a mouthful of words and instead shifted into action, who is currently imprisoned in the State’s dungeons in León, Guanajuato. We show solidarity with comrade Tortuga in Chile and we Avenge brother Mauri, who fell in combat. Solidarity with the anarchist compas suffering reprisals at the hands of the Italian State! Solidarity with the comrade prisoners from the Fire Cells Conspiracy and Revolutionary Struggle in Greece! Solidarity with the brothers and sisters recently arrested on charges of explosives possession in Chile! Revolutionary solidarity with the arrested and fugitive comrades in Barcelona!
We are warriors for freedom. We have chosen our path, and it is hard sometimes. But with conviction and total determination we move forward and do not allow ourselves to be defeated, since in our struggle against the State and Capital there can be no truce with those who want to impose their authority on us. And as a prayer, the old insurrectionary anarchist slogans:
Neither dialogue with Power, Nor mediation with the State and its institutions!
Social war on all fronts!
Long live anarchy!
—International Solidarity Conspiracy (Informal Anarchist Federation)

Lublin, Poland: Direct action in solidarity with political prisoners across the world

translation from the Polish original:

Solidarity attack on ATMs

In the last days of March 2012, we attacked three ATMs with paint, each belonging to another bank.
The growing climate of state repression must meet with our overwhelming response. An uncompromising attack of the Capital, taking away from us the remaining social gains, can no longer remain unanswered.
Violence is an integral part of our lives, concealed behind a mask of abstract social relations; pushed to the ghettos of poverty, filling the prison cells, living in the slums of the ‘third world’. We have no illusions about it. Therefore, we will emerge from the darkness of the night and attack the state and capitalist targets, each time more violently and with a stronger belief in the rightness of our actions.

We also address those who are staying on the moderate positions and try to influence and censor different concepts of activity. Our dreams are illegal, we remain illegal. We have no place within the capitalist machine. Therefore we can’t find ourselves attending the next miserable demonstration or picket. We will not write down long-term and ideological plans. We will not ask the bosses and rulers for small concessions. We want an immediate change. We will look for each other, creating cells capable to provide adequate answers to our daily humiliation. We will attack regaining control over our own lives, smashing the established role of victim. We will fight for our place. With fire and dynamite.

This symbolic action, in particular, is dedicated to:

Our brother Tortuga, held in the dungeons of the Chilean State.

Lambros Foundas, murdered by the state mercenaries. He gave his life for his ideals and he deserves a boundless respect.

Billy and Eat, held by the Indonesian State.

Prosecuted fighters of the Revolutionary Struggle and the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire.

Stella Antoniou, who deals with illness, and all other political prisoners around the world.

Stay strong!

Nocna Zorza (‘Night Aurora’)

‘Breaking news’ from Athens (29/3)Kostas Katsenos was finally released from Koridallos dungeons

 
Kostas Katsenos was finally released from Koridallos dungeons. Around 15 comrades gathered outside the men’s prisons and welcomed the comrade back on the streets. The Revolutionary Struggle trial continues…

No one hostage in the hands of the State!

Athens: On the occasion of the trial’s postponement concerning the occupation of FLASH commercial radio station, in solidarity with all proasesecuted for the Revolutionary Struggle case

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Against their war no matter how harsh it is, we will not be terrorized. The persecutions against us will only make us more determined to reach our goals, more confident of our choices.

(The trial date was set for 24th of October 2012.)

On the 10th of January comrades from the anarchist/anti-authoritarian milieu carried out an intervention-occupation of the corporate radio station Flash.gr. The intervention was carried out by the assembly for the Revolutionary Struggle case, intending to express solidarity with the members of Revolutionary Struggle, as well as the comrades who are standing trial for the same case since the 5th of October 2011 in the special court of Koridallos women prisons, under a regime of politically compulsive isolation. In an attempt to break the wall of silence around the trial process and the political discourse of the defendants in the Revolutionary Struggle case, we proceeded with this action. This silencing aims at rendering the Revolutionary Struggle case invisible to the political scene and undermining the social foundations of the group, its formation and its action, but also at socially disqualifying the choice of armed struggle. This is why it is crucial that the solidarity movement counteracts.
The detentions at Flash radio station and the ex officio indictments of participants in the occupation are clearly a persecution of political views and in reality penalize political opinion and its public expression. They come as response to the growth of solidarity actions and in this sense consist an innovation premium in the penalization of solidarity itself. These are political prosecutions. Especially when solidarity is expressed to fighters that the State has named “terrorists”, it is considered a crime.
We would like to thank the judicial Power and personally congratulate Mrs. Eleni Raikou, the Athens head prosecutor, who ordered the prosecution, and within 10 minutes of her order the building was surrounded by all scores of repressive forces and obliging prosecutors. If only they had shown the same reflections in the major scandals of our recent history, such as the Siemens bribery, the selling out of state property in Vatopedi, the stock market “crisis”, the telephone tapping cases… a list that has no end. We also can’t fail to acknowledge her scientific grounding since she overcame the difficulty in finding an efficient charge against us by pulling out from the limbo of the juridical armory hat an article of law enacted half a century ago. Mrs Raikou: we return the charge of “praising criminal actions” and, in fact, we upgrade it to participation in terrorist organizations and prolonged facilitating of crimes against society. In particular, you and your kind praise the IMF/Troika, the government, the bankers, and so on. You participate in the institution that rather ironically you name Justice since it is not related to any notion of justice. You serve the Capital  and you facilitate it with your laws to exploit, to degrade and in many cases to murder the workers, the unemployed, the youth… Be sure that our decision is precluded: You are found guilty without any consideration for mitigation. Unfortunately for you, our justice is not blind and has a good memory.
Today that the capitalist system faces a systemic crisis, the system has not only lost any remaining legitimization and consensus from the majority of society, but has also received the anger and indignation of the oppressed, today, in an era of generalized poverty and impoverishment, where the fascism of the Capital and the State prevails, repression consists of one single means.
The immediate mobilization of the executive and prosecutorial order is suggestive to whoever resists, whoever argues the overall overthrow of the system through social revolution that is the only way for the overcoming of contemporary totalitarianism. The ideological, legal and repressive arsenal of Power is clearly consolidated —Zero Tolerance. The message for overthrow and social revolution is considered to be dangerous for good reason.
Against their war no matter how harsh it is, we will not be terrorized. The persecutions against us will only make us more determined to reach our goals, more confident of our choices.
Our response is struggle, and our weapon is solidarity, which stands as the strength of the oppressed and crumbles borders and walls raised by the rulers.
We will continue to stand in even more combative solidarity with our comrades prosecuted for the Revolutionary Struggle case.

The people arrested for the occupation of Flash radio station

In the days that followed the intervention-occupation in Flash FM, a significant amount of announcements and texts regarding the case were circulated by various collectives and groups, while in some cases there was a partial re-transmission of the original stream, which was broadcasted on the 10th of January. Following is a summary of solidarity actions, across Greece, for the occupiers at Flash radio station.

-At the very same day of the intervention in Flash Fm, 10th of January, a counter-information and solidarity PA’s (microphonics) gathering took place in Thessaloniki.

-The day after, 11th of January,  a banner in solidarity with the detainees was dropped in Agrinio city, reading: “No persecution for the people in Solidarity at Flash FM, regarding the Revolutionary Struggle’s Case. Immediate Release-Down with the Junta.”

-On Friday 13th of January an intervention in the local radio station “Prwini” in Kavala also took place  in solidarity to the detainees at Flash fm.
-On the same day, 13th of January, a banner was placed and related texts were distributed in solidarity to those detained at the central square of Larissa. The banner reads:
“Persecutions of fighters- Speech Banned. Junta is here showing us its teeth. Solidarity to the detainees at Flash FM.”
-On Saturday 14th of January, a solidarity PA’s took place in Parartima, Patra, where two banners were placed and related texts were distributed. The two banners reading:
“Solidarity to the detainees for the intervention at Flash FM. Solidarity is our weapon”
“Solidarity is not terrorism. Terrorism is the State and the Power”
-On the same day, the anarchist group Saltadoroi carried out a solidarity PA’s gathering at the Market Square “Agora”  in Chania, Crete. A banner reading:
“No persecutions for the occupiers of Flash FM. The State is the only Terrorist” was placed at the central square  while related texts were also distributed.
-On Friday 27th of January a solidarity PA’s gathering was realized and a text distributed by the anarchist group Cumulonimbus in Corfu island.
-On Saturday, 24th of March, in view of 26 of March, day of trial which finally was postponed for second time, the anarchist collective from the south suburbs of Athens “namous” also realized a solidarity PA’s re-transmitting part of the original stream while many texts were distributed.

Athens: Letter of comrade Kostas Katsenos from Koridallos prisons

UNTIL THE TEARING DOWN OF THE LAST PRISON, NO ONE IS FREE

On April 1st, 2012, I will complete 6 months as undertrial inmate in Koridallos prisons. Currently I am the only prisoner for the Revolutionary Struggle case.
The last two years I have lived in a peculiar hostage status, completely detached from my close environment, without the ability to work, study, communicate and participate in the processes of the political space I affiliate myself with.
A cruel and unjust political and economic system, which is in crisis, is trying through the criminal law to bend every effort of social resistance.
The rationale upon which the prosecution against me was based is totally arbitrary, a product of individual estimates and speculations by the assignees of the ministry of system protection.
On March 27th, at 10.00 in the morning, I am called to appear before the appellate judges’ council [in Athens], in order for the extension or not of my so-called temporary custody to be examined.
Knowing the climate of repression that prevails towards all social fronts, I do not know if I can hope for a positive decision. Either way, I will continue to resist the police and judicial machinations.
We must prevent repression whatever form it may have, and express our practical solidarity with all imprisoned fighters of the class and social war.

Kostas Katsenos, 23-3/2012
F wing of Koridallos prisons

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Athens: Declaration of the members of Revolutionary Struggle about Stella Antoniou

freedom for stella antoniou (solidarity banner in thessaloniki)

Anarchist Stella Antoniou has been under pretrial detention in Koridallos prisons since December 4th, 2010, arrested along with Kostas Sakkas, Alexandros Mitroussias and Giorgos Karagiannidis. The accusation under which the State keeps her in prison is the alleged participation in an armed organization. Initially and for a while, this organization was not even named. Eventually, and since it was necessary for the accusation to stand that the organization was in existence, the case of these comrades was incorporated into the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire case.
Stella Antoniou herself denies the charges and defends her political choice to actively stand in solidarity to Alexandros Mitroussias who was wanted by the authorities prior to the arrests. This choice together with her political actions and views are the real reasons that the State keeps her imprisoned.
She was arrested facing a serious health problem, which has worsened dangerously in prison. Those who have been detained in Greek prisons will know that even minor illnesses cannot be addressed because of the system’s indifference to the health of prisoners. The deficit is substantial in medical care in prisons and is increasing due to the economic crisis, making it practically impossible to deal with the simplest of health problems within the walls.
Stella Antoniou does not only have to deal with the appalling conditions of health care provided by the system. Every effort for an effective medical examination by a public hospital is wrecked under the weight of the police operation that accompanies all transfers to and from the hospital. The presence of a large police force, the usual expectation that armed guards be present inside the premises where the examinations are carried out, even when their presence offends the very dignity of the prisoner, are elements that make for a torturous process itself; it also makes it very difficult or at times impossible for the doctors to conduct the tests. The three of us have also experienced similar situations on several occasions and know firsthand the special treatment of political prisoners in these processes.
The culmination of this vindictive obstruction of her medical examination by the cops, who are of course under command of their political bosses, was the fact that her latest transfers were conducted exclusively by special anti-terrorist units (EKAM), who refused to talk to the doctors, and just called off the examinations. This has no precedent in any other prisoner’s case. The result of these repressive tactics of the State is that our comrade does not have medical tests anymore, since their importance has been completely invalidated.
The continued denial of the prosecution and investigation authorities to release Stella Antoniou — although it is widely known that her health condition not only cannot be treated in prison but is further deteriorating — is the culmination of vindictive state practice for political prisoners who are imprisoned for alleged involvement in an armed organization, regardless of the existence or not of evidence against them, regardless of their acceptance or not of participation. For, in this case, the authorities know that they sign Stella’s death penalty with her prolonged detention and continued denials of her release applications.
Our comrade deserves the solidarity of all struggling people, not only because she faces a serious health problem. What makes Stella Antoniou special is that in the prison cells of the regime she is a fighter. Despite her serious health condition she has never stopped fighting claims for better conditions for all prisoners. She never ceases to struggle against the very system of prisons. She never stops looking for an approach to collective action and struggle against the internment of people and the conditions this confinement imposes.
Together with Stella Antoniou we fought through open collective processes and together with many women and men inmates we organized and carried out a unique in the history of Greek prisons political mobilization against the junta of the Troika and the Greek government to mark the passing of the ‘mid-term memorandum’ in June 2011. This and many other moments of struggle in prisons are the most important political legacy that political prisoners leave behind during their captivity by the State. And this comrade has already left many such legacies.
Finally we must note that the terms of solidarity set by Stella Antoniou highlight the quality of her struggle, since it does not fit into charity molds and, moreover, cannot conform to mainstream and authoritarian practices of any kind.
For all this, a solidarity movement for Stella Antoniou is bound to have the militancy corresponding to her struggle and the massiveness necessary for her immediate release.
For all these reasons, Stella Antoniou deserves our solidarity; above all because she is a freedom fighter.
The members of Revolutionary Struggle
Pola Roupa, Kostas Gournas, Nikos Maziotis
[February 2012]

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Hamburg, Germany: Solidarity with the revolting people in Greece

 

The crisis is the fucking system!

In Greece, people struggle against the direct results of decisions made by German and other European politicians above their and our heads. The anti-Greece-propaganda of the German Press is disgusting to us.

Our solidarity goes out to those in strike and struggle, who are imprisoned and see themselves confronted with repression. Also, we send solidarity to the Greek revolutionaries of the urban guerrilla group ‘Revolutionary Struggle’, who are confronted with the courts for their ideas and struggles.
During the nights of February, 27th and 28th,2012 we attacked six banks in Hamburg. It’s a small, but clear sign to attack banks in Germoney; for example, we were inspired by an action of solidarity in Bielefeld, and we hope that a lot of people will do the same and send solidarity to the revolting people in Greece and rage and stones against the banks and their system.
May a lot of people get to the streets in Frankfurt and everywhere on March 31st and any other time!

For a hot summer! Freedom!

Athens: “The social revolution is the only response to the crisis”

Banners from PA’s gathering on Saturday, January 21st, in Athens

 

“The social revolution is the only response to the crisis
Solidarity with those prosecuted for the Revolutionary Struggle case”

 

“Solidarity with the members of Revolutionary Struggle
Solidarity with those prosecuted for the same case
Freedom to K.Katsenos who is prosecuted for the same case”

Athens: New posters regarding the Revolutionary Struggle case

 

Against the wall of silence surrounding the trial and the political discourse of the accused in the Revolutionary Struggle case and against the criminalization of solidarity as expressed by the prosecutions for the occupation of flash radio station

PA’s gathering, Saturday, January 21st, 2012, at 13.00, in Korai Square (on the side of Stadiou Street), Athens

 

Solidarity with the arrestees of flash radio station cannot be other than to promote the cause of the occupation itself.

Call for the organization of solidarity actions for the Revolutionary Struggle case, on Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, at 19.00, in Athens Polytechnic School

Solidarity with the members of Revolutionary Struggle, and those who stand trial for the same case

Assembly for the Revolutionary Struggle case

Athens: Solidarity gathering for the Revolutionary Struggle case

'The insurgents are right'

SOLIDARITY
with the members of REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
and all those who are prosecuted for the same case

The call for the solidarity gathering

The case of social liberation within a revolutionary perspective is always current because the chains of the repressed of this decayed world will only break if we fight by all means.

All the subversive purposes ought to get organized in common without creating matters of division within the struggle for the social liberation. It is important to realize that the means used for the overthrow of the current system are choices that all converge in the same direction.

The armed struggle is a radical form of struggle and should be analyzed as such. It is another choice within the polymorphous action of the revolutionary and radical movement, since it propels the actual and direct confrontation against the state and its mechanisms of exploitation.

The comrades that are prosecuted for the case of the Revolutionary Struggle continue to give meaning to the struggle with their speech and criticism for the overthrow of the State and Capitalism inside and outside the cells of democracy and courts.

Assembly for the case of Revolutionary Struggle

http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2011/12/23/athens-solidarity-gathering-for-the-revolutionary-struggle-case/

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Chania, Crete: Solidarity poster by saltadoroi

UPDATE ON THE TRIAL OF THE CASE OF THE TRIAL OF THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE day 7, 28/11/11

December 5, 2011 by actforfreedom | 1 Comment

The 7th day of the trial of Revolutionary Struggle began with the interventions of advocates D.Vagianou, K.Dailianas, S.Fitrakis, and A.Paparousou concerning the freezing of accounts carried out by the independent Authority of Fighting the Legalization of Income from Criminal Activities and the Financing of Terrorism and Controlling of the Wealth situation Statements, without the defendants been convicted for terrorism offences. Which means that a trial begins without the evidence of innocence suggesting that offences have been committed. Since a specific Higher Authority has decided that the accused are guilty of terrorism offences, what is the reason to continue this trial, stressed S.Fitrakis. One demand of the advocates is that the judges give a guarantee that the accused are still on trial and their frozen wealth can be returned to them.

S.Nikitopoulos intervening stated that they classify him in the list of people who are suspects of state terrorism, while corrupt politicians and businessmen are absent. He claimed that as an anarchist he does not have illusions because he knows how far state oppression can go, but article 187A dismisses the evidence of innocence and blatantly standardize offences.
The judge announced that the advocates can take the document that confirms that the trial is in progress from the secretariat.
After that, P.Roupa noted that the dismissal of the application to exclude K.Papathanasakis as a witness was expected, since it is a trial clearly political with an evident convergence between the juridical body and the oppressive mechanisms. It is document of official charges which is up in the air and since K.Papathanasakis will testify whatever they transferred to him he cannot be evaluated, thus closes the road for the judges to judge what’s right and what’s wrong. Anyway, she stressed “you are here as political figures and not as judges”. Continuing, P.Roupa accused Papathanasakis of being a murderer and torturer who has a lawsuit pending against him for the murder of a Pakistani immigrant, when he was serving in Nikea police station in 2008, while he was the one who abused and tortured K.Gournas. This is the kind of person that will support this whole corroded list of official charges.
Followed the testimony of Papathanasakis with the judge and prosecutor asking some formal questions, while he provocatively answered most with “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember”, making it impossible for him to give a detailed account about the investigation he carried out. Specifically he claimed that he was present only at two initial surveillances, while for the rest he simply gathered oral statements and not written. When the advocates attacked him saying that ‘when a witness states facts from third party information, they are obliged to name the source of their information’, he answered that he cannot remember the names of his sources because the whole anti-terrorist force was in the operation, which means 100-200 people.
More specifically, to the questions of the prosecutor and judge, Papathanasakis mentioned tha the reason for the surveillances was the clash in Dafni with L.Foundas in the house of which they found a phonecard from which two phonecalls had been made to two specific numbers which belong to N.Maziotis and V.Stathopoulos. Also he testified that in the possession of V.Stathopoulos was found a note with mobile numbers and coded names which belong to S.Nikitopoulos and Ch.Kortesis and only accepted phonecalls from cardphones (payphones). The mobile of S.Nikitopoulos had not received any calls while the other mobile was not even found in the possession of Ch.Cortesis. In the trial brief also, of the 149 calls made to the latter mobile, only 15 were recorded, those made from a cardphone. To G.Rahiotis question why this happened, Papathanasakis said that the rest of the calls were not considered important. Obviously though the recording of the other calls was not in the interest of Papathanasakis and his service, because the theory that the mobile phone had a conspiratorial function, would collapse immediately. As for the person who listen to the calls live, Papathanasakis does not remember who it was.
Another point on which the advocates focused on was the meeting in Kesariani. According to the testimony of Papathanasakis, from a phone discussion that took place on 31/3/2010, the service was very legitimately lead to the conclusion that the organization is preparing a hit and characterized the meeting in Kesariani conspiratorial, because N.Mazitotis left the car far away and wore sunglasses to the meeting point. He hid of course the fact that the meeting took place in the mornig, that the accused V.Stathopoulos, S.Nikitopoulos and Ch.Cortesis had parked the their car and motorbikes in the parking lot next to the meeting point, that they stood at the parking lot for a minute and spoke in public view and nothing conspiratorial took place at that meeting.
Quite pressing was advocate M.Daliani concerning the testimony of Papathanasakis according to which V.Stathopoulos on 5/4/2010 went towards Hymitos to a deserted area, in which gunshots were later heard. After a little while V.Stathopoulos left and after an investigation they found bullet shells, which were not identified with the guns, which means that he went there to practise shooting. The advocate presented a document of the autopsy report that mentions that this specific incident took place on 11/4/2010, while V.Stathopoulos had already been arrested since 9/4/2010. To the question of the advocate how this could have happened, Papathanasakis answered that its the first time he notices the contradiction.
Especially contradicting was also the evidence he gave concerning the surveillance of the home of V.Stathopoulos on Likourgou street, which he named a lair. According the report of his inferiors, V.Stathopoulos and Ch.Kortesis left the house on Likourgou street and with a motorbike head to the house of comrade V.Stathopoulos where the latter gets off. After a couple of hours Ch.Kortesis comes out of the house on Likourgou street, without anyone noticing him going in again, this time accompanied by N.Maziotis where they get into a renault megane. According to police information, the car had Audi licence plates and had been stolen inThessaloniki. To the question of the advocates how could Ch.Kortesis come out twice from the house, while seen going in just once, Papathanasakis answered that probably it is an omission of the police officers who preformed the surveillance, without of course naming the officers.
A particular interest was presented by a series of questions by the advocates whether if during the surveillance they collected evidence for individual actions.
To questions such as:
‘Did they realize the access of some of the accused to the houses named as “lairs” during the surveillance?’
‘During the surveillance of the phones did someone get traced live planning a punishable act?’
‘Was one of the accused traced making a call from a cardphone?’
‘Were fingerprints of the accused found in any of the houses “lairs”, guns or cars?
‘What punishable act results from the meeting in a public place of some people who have friendly relations or from the visit of a person to friends or relatives house?’
the answers of Papathanasakis were negative, stressing that the only punishable act that took place was the use of a stolen car and that their arrest took place for preventive reasons.
G.Rahiotis insisted especially on the fact that the American embassy had put a bounty of $1.000.000 on Revolutionary Struggle and addressing the witness asked if he received that money. Papathanasakis answered that he knows nothing about money and if the advocate wants he can address the American embassy to find out. Finally the advocate revealed that during the holding of Ch.Kortesis in GADA (central police headquarters of Athens), the latter weirdly denied the use of his advocate while the advocate himself insistently asked to see him for 2 days, but they wouldn’t allow him to. Papathanasakis provocatively answered once more answered that he is not aware that this happened.
The trial will continue on Monday 12/12/2011 where Papathanasakis will be examined by the rest of the advocates.
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UPDATE ON REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE CASE day 6 . 21/11/11

The sixth session of the trial of the Revolutionary Struggle began with the statement of the public prosecutor concerning the objection that had been placed by the advocates regarding the invalidity of the testimony of witness K. Papathanasakis, since he has preformed preliminary interrogating duties.
Specifically the public prosecutor mentioned that K. Papathanasakis did not record the discussions, he was not the one which ordered the lifting of telephone call secrecy, but the public prosecutor, neither signed the interrogative manuscripts that are in the trial brief. Just the submission of preliminary material from a third person, the surveillance of the perpetrator, taking the fingerprints do not constitute interrogative actions. “Besides if Papathanasakis does not testify, who coordinated the investigations, who will testify as a witness in this trial?”, stressed the public prosecutor.
Advocate M. Daliani spoke of a case of a gross mistake and an unlawful choice to send an employee that not only has auxiliary duties but coordinated and directed all the actions. The particular witness stressed M. Daliani should be excluded because a) he is the head of a department and since that self appointed preliminary investigation reached the criminological service, this would obviously be undertaken by the superior in the hierarchy, b) from the result of the trial depends his service development, c) the lifting of the secrecy can be ordered by the public prosecutor, the responsible however preliminary authority is the one which makes the demand is the public prosecutor and asks of his subordinates to proceed to the lifting of secrecy and laboratory examinations, d) finally, the witness does not testify real incidents that they have fallen in his perception. He simply comments the results of the preliminary investigation. He does therefore what is prohibited by a preliminary investigation employee.
Then A. Paparousou addressing the judges asked: “Does this brief really need a narrator or does it have all the sufficient evidence in order for you to get to the truth? ” This particular witness appeared with a transfer from another service with a purpose to dissolve R.S. It is therefore legitimate to say that he will act with prejudice in the effort to support his work.
P. Roumeliotis claimed that the public prosecutor transferred the matter from the interrogative actions to the testimonies, while the latter, mentioned also that K.Papathanasakis has not signed any reports. Here however exists a misapprehension. According to the law the reports on the interrogative actions do not constitute unique interrogative actions. Hence is not raised the possibility for K. Papathanasakis to preform an interrogative actions. Why did the legislator say that the preliminary interrogator shouldn’t participate? Is it not the position and the material rewards that lead him to prejudice?
The functional identity of a head of a department constitutes undeniably an interrogative action, added D. Vagianou. The acceptance of the specific witness establishes the catalysis of every right and freedom, since he himself has proceeded to record activities and cross-correlation of data of personal character.
D.Katsaris spoke of the protection of the correct operation of a fair trial. He stressed that the judges should judge only based on legal evidence and not be influenced by individuals that have interests. If they believe that the witness is qualified to testify, then they should also call all those who participated in the preliminary procedure. “Which is the preliminary action if not the carrying out of preliminary investigation”, was the question placed by advocate
H. Ladis to the judges and continued “Unique preliminary actions are only the arrests of the defendants and the confiscation of their personal belongings? ”
S. Fitrakis finally, gave particular stress to the fact that no executive of DAEEB testified in the trials of 17N and RPS, only real witnesses. The court he said is realizing a “modern” trial. With this logic, stressed ironically S. Fytrakis, it is not essential for all these witnesses of the official charge to testify, all you need is 2 or 3 officers of the anti-terrorist that have done all the investigations and have all the evidence. “Why do you call the one that asked the authorization for the lifting of telephone secrecy and do you not call the one that heard the dialogues of the conversations?” he asked the judges.
After an interruption of an hour and a half the public prosecutor rejected the objection saying that the actions of K. Papathanasakis do not constitute an interrogative action, but under his duties, therefore he can be examined as a witness.
Because K. Papathanasakis was absent because of an illness, the chairman proposed the continuation of the procedure with the next witnesses, something which however did not become acceptable from the advocates.
Thus the trial was interrupted and will continue on 28.11.11 at 9:00am, where is expected to testify as the first witness K. Papathanasakis.

Assembly of solidarity
to the imprisoned and persecuted fighters

UPDATE ON REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE TRIAL DAY 5, 14/11/11

Are you going to have a trial with witnesses or with proof of evidence the scenario of the Anti-terrorist force?

This is the essential question faced by the terror-court of Koridallos, before the hearing begins with the examination of the prosecution witnesses. Legally, this question took the form of a dispute from the side of the defence with the examination as a witness of Kostandinos Papathanasiou, officer of the Police, head of the 1st Department of Internal Security of the Management and Facing of Special Crimes of Violence,(ΔΑΕΕΒ) as is the formal service name of the infamous Anti-terrorist force.

We will try to explain as simply as possible the substance of the matter put, in order for all those who are not acquainted with legal matters to realize it.

The Code of Penal Law, -not only the existing one, but the one that was in force before 1950- forbids to examine as witnesses anyone who has been involved in the interrogations for the case in matter. This is a main protection of the rights of the defendant, because these specific people have knowledge of the case and have formed, to one degree or another, the frame in which this case got to court to be tried. Hence, it is considered from the start that they are not outspoken witnesses, but have an opinion for the case and the defendants (does not matter if its for or against). Beyond the formed opinion they have, many times they also have a personal interest from the outcome of the case according to the frame which themselves, as interrogating or preliminary employees, have formed. A police officer, for example, does not want a case which he/she “set up”to be proven a fiasco and that is why as a witness they will act with prejudice for the the case he/she “set up”. As a small guarantee therefore, article 211 of the Code of Penal Law forbids witnesses who have had interrogating or preliminary duties in the case, to testify. There is, actually, a legislation that forbids even secretaries of preliminary interrogations to testify as witnesses, let alone people who had the responsibility of the “set up”of a case, such as the cop in question.

Lets see, therefore, what goes for the specific officer, as described with numerous details from the defence advocates.

M.Daliani presented the legal frame in which are based the objections of the defence. Article 211 of the C.P.L. forbids witnesses to testify who have practised interrogating duties, because suspicions of prejudice and defending of service interests arise, article 33 of the C.P.L. defines who are those who practised interrogating duties, clearly defining that interrogating duty is also every action that took place in the frame of the preliminary interrogation. Only the preliminary interrogator has knowledge of the trial brief, while those foreign to the interrogation have no right to gain knowledge (therefore, the knowledge of Papathanasakis is knowledge of the preliminary interrogator). The preliminary interrogation for the specific case began from the Department of Criminal Prosecution against Life in GADA (Athens police headquarters), after the death of Lambros Foundas, while the next day already the 1st Department of Internal Terrorism of the DAEEB took over, head of which is Papathanasakis. This is shown clearly from the stamps on the official documents. Papathanasakis collected all of the material, he gave the order to the Service of Criminal Investigations (police labs) to collect and investigate of numerous proof, he asked for the lifting of the secrecy of some phone lines, he informed the interrogator, he signs the whole of the lists with the evaluation of findings when the trial brief was transferred to the public prosecutor. He, himself gave a preliminary testimony in which he did not bring any proof of evidence, went ahead however to an evaluation of all material. He also testified to the special appeals prosecutor, where he even asked to use his notes so he does not forget anything. He seems to have such detailed knowledge, because he is the preliminary interrogator as the head of the department that preformed it. For this, he has a service interest to claim that his version is the right one. It is characteristic that he is the only one of the prosecution witnesses who refers to some of the defendants, such as for example Stathopoulos. This is why he should be excluded.

Anny Paparoussou continued, and read out Papathanasakis testimony, in which is included a large list of preliminary acts in which he participated: he asked for the secrecy lift on specific phone lines, made the evidence chart, made the chart for the documents for the trials brief, made the proof chart, the document of the DAEEB towards the special appeals interrogator etc.etc. Almost all of the trials brief is made by him. He practised preliminary and interrogating duties. He mentioned many incidents, not from his immediate knowledge, interpreting them. He is the one who gave the meaning to the whole case. For Nikitopoulos this meaning is of defining importance. He evaluated two meetings, which anyone could, and called him a member of the organization. He sent the interrogator ready made conclusions under the form of an essay.

The “antiterrorist”legislations have an immediate relation with the matter in discussion, pointed out D. Vagianou. As a result of these legislations was added to the C.P.L., article 253A, that concerns interrogative actions for “terrorism”cases. These interrogative actions were carried out by Papathanasakis as the head in charge. He was the protagonist as an interrogative organ in the interrogating procedures with a political content. He had a managerial task, he was the maestro of the orchestra. It is unacceptable for him to testify, because consciously or subconsciously will try to justify what he did.

P. Roumeliotis returned concisely to the legal matters and described the actions of Papathanasakis, which are these that the CPL defines as interrogating actions. According to the legislation, pointed out the advocate, interrogating employee is even whoever carries out an arrest or the 2nd degree interrogating employee, who simply is present and signs, without doing anything, let alone he who coordinates everything. The ratio of the law says that the specific employee open to any kind of pressures and will not be objective. Papathanasakis does not simply mention incidents, but makes conclusions that lead specific accused to condemnation. For example, he penalizes a meeting. From the outcome of this case he hopes for a better professional evolution, without forgetting that in these cases there are major ethical and professional benefits, there are bounties, which means economic gains. If Papathanasakis testifies, then there will be a tear away from the values of a ‘fair trial’, as defined by article 6 of the European Convention for Human Rights.


H. Ladis noted that all the pre-trial demands that were rejected by the court. In some of them there was a legal base, as for example the objection for the political offence, while in this case it does not exist. The forbidding of article 211 of the CPL is a foundational lawful forbidding, which has been applied throughout time. Based on this even the secretary of the interrogation is excluded from being a witness and this is an answer to the legitimate protest of every defendant that there is prejudice against them. In this case, the witness is the basic figure of the prejudice. He became a witness, because he has never been a witness in anything and simply makes a mixture, transforming into a testimony anything that has been gathered, in order to create a specific image against specific defendants. What will we say to the defendants that claim that they have across them the whole mechanism? Why did they not 4-5 cops as witnesses, if there were, that can testify what they realized first hand? Why do they bring the second hand and not those who allegedly mentioned things to Papathanasakis? If you reject this self-explanatory demand, he continued, it would as if you hope that soon this legislation section will be abolished. In the meantime, there will be a major blow to the feeling of justice that every citizen has.

Laconic K. Dailianas, agreed with his pre spoken colleagues and noted that from the content of the two testimonies of Papathanasakis it comes out that he testifies nothing as his own knowledge, but whatever he learnt from his service as a interrogative employee.

From the above, we think its clear what this is about. We note that it is about a turn in the tactic of the Anti-terrorist. In the trials of the 17N and R.P.S not even a nostril of ‘anti-terrorist’ appeared to testify. Only two officers appeared at the second trial of R.P.S, to ‘empty’ the fake witness that testified he ‘recognized’ G.Serifis in an action of R.P.S. In Perissos. They wanted to ‘empty’ him, because the scenario of the Anti-terrorist had placed G.Serifis in 17N and not R.P.S. and the fake witness spoiled their scenario. When they were asked in the trial generally about the case, they denied to answer, claiming the specific forbidding legislation (they had practised preliminary interrogation duties)! The same answer was given by judges and prosecutors to the defence advocates in both of these trials, who asked to summon officers of the Anti-terrorist to testify: we cannot summon them because they have practised preliminary duties and is forbidden by article 211 of the CPL. They raised a protective wall around the officers of the Anti-terrorist, because they considered they can fulfil these trials with other “proof” (in the 17N case with the “confessions” and those who cooperated, in the RPS case with the “Stazi archives” and three civilian fake witnesses.

In the current trial of R.S. they had no other way to “tie up” some of the defendants beyond the “material” of the Anti-terrorist. This is why they assigned to the responsible head of the department to create a scenario and present it. They consider that he can mange in the court room, contrary to those who carried out the surveillances. This is the substance. They want to do the trial using as a main witness the script writer of the Anti-terrorist, tearing up one of the fundamental provisions of the existing legislation system and inaugurating a new period, during which they will bring a Anti-terrorist officer as a specialist and the scenario which he will present will be taken as indisputable proof.

After the allocutions of the advocates, the trial was interrupted until next Monday (21st), in order for the allocution of S.Fitrakis absent because of illness. The other defence advocates had applied for a interruption from the beginning of the procedure.

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Athens: Anarchists detained en mass after solidarity intervention in a commercial radio station for the Revolutionary Struggle case trial

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In the morning of January 10th, nearly twenty members of the solidarity assembly for the case of Revolutionary Struggle (Epanastatikos Agonas, whose trial is currently underway) entered the corporate radio station flash.gr on Kifisias Avenue and interrupted the station’s program, to transmit a message of solidarity with those on trial.
Despite the fact that neither the station’s management, nor its staff asked officially any police intervention, scores of police (DIAS motorcycle units, squads such as MAT, plainclothes cops, among others) soon arrived on the spot and encircled the building. At about 14.00, after hours of being blocked inside the radio’s offices, anarchists who took part in the solidarity intervention were detained en mass and taken to the police headquarters on Alexandras Avenue: two prosecutors along with police squads stormed the radio station, forcing the comrades to exit the premises; all were handcuffed and held in police buses, while their mobile phones were confiscated.
As soon as the news was circulated, anarchists gathered opposite the police HQ (GADA), where a solidarity protest of approximately 100 people is underway (pre-gathering point: outside Ambelokipi metro station).

Here’s a text released by the 20 detainees themselves:

Today, January 10th, 2012, comrades from the anarchist/anti-authoritarian space carried out an intervention in the corporate radio station Flash 96 FM in the context of a series of solidarity actions for the Revolutionary Struggle case, which was brought to trial since October 5th, 2011, in the special court of Koridallos prisons.

We have taken this action in an effort to break the wall of silence and the political order to gag the trial process and the political discourse of the defendants in the Revolutionary Struggle case.

A confirmation of this gagging was the immediate reaction of police forces during the broadcast of our audio message with the words of the prosecuted for the same case. This mobilization of the executive and law enforcement authorities is indicative for anyone who resists, for whoever puts forward the total overthrow of the system through the social revolution, which is the only way to escape from the modern totalitarianism of the Troika of EU, ECB and IMF and their trustee, the Greek State, that have submitted the entire society in poverty and misery.

A society doomed by the full dismantling of labour relations, the ‘chinesization’ in front of the threat of more and more unemployed people lining up in long queues, the onslaughts of predatory taxation, the dissolution of public-benefit corporations, the privatizations, the selling off of public assets and the development of financial zones on starvation wages.

It is worth noting that under this treaty, in their bid to shield the system, and while everything is reduced and cut, the only thing that’s increased are the armies of the watchdogs of democracy, armed guards, capitalism and its State. Therefore, under this treaty, more commonly referred to as Junta, we are in solidarity and proud with our comrades and their choices.

Our choices are side by side with all parts of society who choose the fair way of social liberation.

SOLIDARITY WITH MAZIOTIS, ROUPA, GOURNAS, STATHOPOULOS, NIKITOPOULOS, KORTESIS, BERAHA AND KATSENOS

Solidaritarians’ assembly from inside Flash radio station

Solidarity banner opposite Athens police HQ: ‘Down your limbs from the fighters! We are all terrorists!’

Although it is most likely that the station’s owners or even its security guards had notified some authorities about the presence of anarchists in the building, it has been reported that all detainees were charged in ex officio indictment, meaning that no call from the company’s staff was required for the prosecutors and cops to invade in it. Initially, it was feared that the charges may fall under Greece’s third terrorism law. It seems though that all comrades are charged with the misdemeanor of ‘incitement to violence’. They are now threatened to be held in detention and stand trial tomorrow, 11/1, at Evelpidon courts in Athens, at about 12.00. We call for their unconditional acquittal!

No prosecution for the comrades who intervened in Flash 96 FM!
Freedom now to all!

Solidarity with the three members of Revolutionary Struggle, Nikos Maziotis, Pola Roupa, Kostas Gournas, and the other defendants in the same case, Vaggelis Stathopoulos, Sarantos Nikitopoulos, Christoforos Kortesis, Marie Beraha and Kostas Katsenos. We demand the immediate release of K.Katsenos who is still held hostage under pre-trial detention.

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

Ongoing gathering outside Athens police headquarters,
on Alexandras Avenue, from 17.30

Ongoing PA’s counter-information gathering
at Kamara, Thessaloniki, from 18.30

sources: a, b, c, d, e, f

• January 11, 2012 at 11:33 am

  Update, Wednesday, January 11th, 11.26 GMT+2
  Due to the refusal of the arrested comrades to give their fingerprints, they will be probably transferred earlier than expected at Evelpidon courts, Athens.
• Contra Info

  January 11, 2012 at 1:34 pm

  Latest update, Wednesday, January 11th:

  All 20 comrades have now been released. Still, they will be facing trial (on Friday, January, 13th).

  
  

Responsibility claim for the arsons of the Tax Offices of Pagrati and Glifada.- Athens

December 25, 2011 by actforfreedom

“And I ask the economists, the politicians, the moralisers: did they ever calculate the number of people who obligatorily are convicted to decadence, to unequal work, to shabbiness, to corrupted ignorance, to unbeatable infelicity, to absolute destitution in order to produce a rich person?”

Almeida Garrett

We take responsibility for the arsons, in the early hours of Saturday 26/11 and Tuesday 29/11, in the:

-Tax offices of Pagrati, on Damareos street

-Tax offices of Glifada, on Gounari street

We placed the incendiary mechanisms on the inside of the buildings aiming at as much material damage as possible.

The global economic-political system transforms testing its totalitarian possibilities. We are living the end of the “social state” with the passing into an even more vicious capitalism without limits and rules. The generalized systemic crisis is not an accidental incident, but a situation of capitalism itself. The procedure with which the capital was invested all the previous years, with the so-called money products (bonds, CDS e.t.c) was proven precarious. This fact was unavoidable, since lending creates money, which does not correspond to a rise of the economic base, that is to say, the production of the proportional product, to which the money would correspond. Thus, the managers of large capitals are in the unfavourable position to have tied up a large part of their wealth not in material goods, but in a promise of money. By trying to secure their wealth, they blackmail and extract the dominating rights in public and state fortune, coming to the point of attacking also the private fortunes of the citizens. 

In the Greece of 2011 the repeatedly memorandums and the lending conventions consist the official grave stone of whatever social and work conquests, the abolition of every meaning and pretext of the “welfare state”. Thus comes the end of the feigned prosperity and “frantic development” of the dogma of modernization of the ’90s and the beginning of the ’00s. 

The fiestas of uplifting the “national ideal” of the Olympics and the vision of the “powerful Greece” give way to the fear of proletarianization, with capitalism, under the weight of its dead-ends, taking away the crumbs it gave out. With the mechanisms of guidance, as always, in full function. The relaxation in the stadiums and the consumption of cheap (or expensive…) lifestyle. With the reduction of self-interest to a social goods, with the customer relations and the give-and-taking with the political authority, was conserved the invention of a fabricated thriving middle class. An apathetic identical social formation where the biggest piece of it did not see or did not want to see the evident. That the informal ‘Omerta’ with the system, which exploits it, steps on borrowed and hollow foundations. The previous years, going through the streets of the city you noticed a society, which in its majority watched self-consciously its bloodsucking compared to the cannibalism imposed on it. Henceforth the cuts on wages and pensions, the added taxes, will form a more and more asphyxiating daily life for everyone. The instinct of self-preservation is activated and a social angry outburst is now in evolving, creating thin balances between the fatalistic moaning and the factual expression of disobedience. The passing of the systemic crisis over our backs puts every person in front of the responsibilities of their own dignity. The course is definitely not predestined. The shady cloud of dispute hovers above the political system. 

The regime of urban democracy seeing the contract of social peace and subjugation slowly and steadily getting wrinkled, resorts to the pre-decided choice of a government of cooperation and complicity. Hoping it will function as a de-pressure valve, for the achievement of a inter-class consent through cries for national coil and multiple blackmails. A right to the pie of authority is for all traditional parliamentary political forces who are willing to completely harmonize with the orders of the global economic elite. The coup d’ etat model of the technocratic governing signals the “end of history”, with the pushing aside of ideologies, putting under its umbrella fake social-democrats up to the fascists of LAOS (populist orthodox formation).

In reality its aim is now clear and without pretexts rising of the capital to a legislative coordinator.

The united interests of the urban class and their expressers go through the economic junta of the omnipotence of the banks, the squeezing of individual production possibility, the economic annihilation of the non-privileged, the reduction of freedoms and the legal and military armouring of the frame of oppression. The dignity of existence is expressed with violent rupture, resistance in the working places, the barricades of the strikes, from the not discounted refusal of the existing way of things and the stomping of ruling ethics. 

Revolutionary violence is the chariot of social liberation and revolutionary conscience the fuel which will move it. The crisis is for the system an “opportunity for reformation” or otherwise a bullet, that aims at its forehead as long as a capable collective subject is found to pull the trigger. The objective conditions of today immediately put the matter of the search and acceleration of the means for the uprooting of authoritarian-exploitative relations, aiming at the construction of relations of solidarity-equality of tomorrow, the emersion of an un-mediated anti-capitalist front from the bottom which will cross over to the multiform attack. It is imperative henceforth, that we set up horizontal structures and procedures, which will accompany the practices that promote the revolution. The moment the state mechanisms will come to impose the antisocial measures of their local and international bosses, they fall onto the bulwark of solidarity of the oppressed. With the populist assemblies, wild strikes, the antifascist struggle, the night-time raids, sabotages, armed struggle, a radical front is composed which aims at the destruction of modern totalitarianism which is imposed on our lives. 

The only solution for the passing into a society of equality where there will be no exploitation of human by humans is the SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

We dedicate our attacks to the anarchist comrades P.Roupa, N.Maziotis, K.Gournas who have taken the political responsibility for the R.O. Revolutionary Struggle and to the anarchist comrades S.Nikitopoulos, Ch.Kortesis, V.Stathopoulos, K.Katsenos as well as M.Beraha who are tried for the same case. 

HONOUR FOR EVER TO LAMBROS FOUNDAS

We are next to all the comrades who stand with dignity and continue to fight inside the prison. 

Revolutionary Counter attack

Attack on Lloyds bank depot-BRISTOL UK

December 25, 2011 by actforfreedom

At 4:30 am on Thursday 15th of december we attacked Bristol LLoyds bank depot
in solidarity with comrades imprisoned in Greece, Chile, Switherland and all over
the world. We painted the message “UNTIL ALL ARE FREE” on the building and positioned
three bins of flamable material soaked in gazoline in front of their wooden doors
and set them alight. Unfortunately our attempt to burn the building down was scuppured
by fast emergency services response.
We took this action to send our love and Solidarity to our Revolutionary Struggle
comrades on trial in Greece and to the Chillean comrades persecuted for the “bomb case” ,
also to Silvia, Costa and Billy the Swiss comrades persecuted for “IBM nanotechnology building”
and for all those Imprisoned for their political beliefs.

ATTACKS WON’T STOP UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE!
anarchists individuals/ cells of FAI

Grete-xania-Poster Solidarity to the persecuted for the case of the revolutionary struggle

December 24, 2011

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Freedom to all imprisoned fighters

The campaign of modern savagery crushes every aspect of social life, intensifying the shabbiness of the “under” of this world.

On the other camp, parts of society who do not subjugate, do not consent in the plans of authority, choose to counter attack, through the speech and actions, involved in the multiform social struggles.

The guaranteeing of the privileged of this world, demands the elimination of anyone who disturbs the smoothness of our exploit. In the foresight the militant social struggles and the fighters.

Right now in the cells of the regime there are about 40 fighters while dozens more are persecuted, because of their clear position of battle which they chose against the rulers.

The target of authority is to demean and de-politicize the whatever subversive choices, seeking to identify socially the factual revolutionary/social counter-violence with actions of the common penal code, in their attempt to isolate and anticipate the dissemination of these choices into fighting social part. And despite that institutionally they are not recognized as political prisoners, the vengeance and special treatment (terrorlaw, special confinement conditions, special courts) saved for them, proves the exact opposite.

Solidarity to the persecuted for the case of the revolutionary struggle

Within these frames is included the trial for the case of the Revolutionary Struggle which began on the 5^th of October. The fighters P.Roupa, K.Gournas and N.Maziotis have taken the political responsibility for the action of the organization and V.Stathopoulos, Ch.Kortesis, S.Nikitopoulos, M.Beraha and K.Katsenos are accused because of the penalization of their comradely or family relations and their anarchist action.

The memory of anarchist Lambros Foundas, murdered member of the Revolutionary Struggle in an armed conflict with the cops, will accompany us in the struggles.

We should deepen the rupture with every form of authority

for a world without hierarchies, oppression and exploit

for the social revolution and liberation

Hania december 2011

assembly of anarchists/anti-authoritarians “saltadoroi”