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Banner for Fallen Armed Anarchist Fighter Lambros Fountas, Member of the Revolutionary Struggle: Greece

The comrades who are fighting and falling in the struggle for social revolution and social liberation, fully conscious of their choice and their actions, live on in the present and the future, as long as the political perspectives and revolutionary goals for which they gave their lives remain alive.

Anarchist comrade Lambros Fountas, a fighter with the urban guerrilla organization Revolutionary Struggle, who was killed in a clash with patrolling police  in Dafni on March 10, 2010, during the expropriation of a car for a preparatory action by the organization, is the spark of revolutionary intransigence and revolutionary ethos and makes for a tipping point of the struggle and revolutionary counter-violence for the overthrow, the overall liberation struggle and the Social Revolution.

Sixteen years after the murder of our comrade, the Solidarity Assembly for the convicted members of Revolutionary Struggle, Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis, and comrades in solidarity, we placed a banner at the Junction  of Mesolongiou and Tzavella streets in Exarchia, a banner commemorating the revolutionary and historical memory of Lambros Fountas, a comrade who, with full consciousness and revolutionary responsibility, fought by every means against the state and capital, for a society of equality, freedom and solidarity without social, class, or gender divisions and patriarchy and without wars, genocides, and destruction of our common home, the planet where we live.

COMRADE LAMBROS FOUNTAS WILL ALWAYS LIVE ON THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION

FREEDOM TO ANARCHIST NIKOS MAZIOTIS

SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH TO THE IMPRISONED COMRADES AROUND THE WORLD WHO
WITH THEIR ACTIONS WAS FIGHT THE STATE AND CAPITALIST BARBARISM

UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF EVERY PRISON

Solidarity Assembly to the convicted members of the Revolutionary
Struggle

P. Roupa and N. Maziotis

email: [email protected]

source Translated by Act for freedom now!

Banner for Fallen Armed Anarchist Fighter Lambros Fountas, Member of the Revolutionary Struggle: Greece

The comrades who are fighting and falling in the struggle for social revolution and social liberation, fully conscious of their choice and their actions, live on in the present and the future, as long as the political perspectives and revolutionary goals for which they gave their lives remain alive.

Anarchist comrade Lambros Fountas, a fighter with the urban guerrilla organization Revolutionary Struggle, who was killed in a clash with patrolling police  in Dafni on March 10, 2010, during the expropriation of a car for a preparatory action by the organization, is the spark of revolutionary intransigence and revolutionary ethos and makes for a tipping point of the struggle and revolutionary counter-violence for the overthrow, the overall liberation struggle and the Social Revolution.

Sixteen years after the murder of our comrade, the Solidarity Assembly for the convicted members of Revolutionary Struggle, Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis, and comrades in solidarity, we placed a banner at the Junction  of Mesolongiou and Tzavella streets in Exarchia, a banner commemorating the revolutionary and historical memory of Lambros Fountas, a comrade who, with full consciousness and revolutionary responsibility, fought by every means against the state and capital, for a society of equality, freedom and solidarity without social, class, or gender divisions and patriarchy and without wars, genocides, and destruction of our common home, the planet where we live.

COMRADE LAMBROS FOUNTAS WILL ALWAYS LIVE ON THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION

FREEDOM TO ANARCHIST NIKOS MAZIOTIS

SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH TO THE IMPRISONED COMRADES AROUND THE WORLD WHO
WITH THEIR ACTIONS WAS FIGHT THE STATE AND CAPITALIST BARBARISM

UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF EVERY PRISON

Solidarity Assembly to the convicted members of the Revolutionary
Struggle

P. Roupa and N. Maziotis

email: [email protected]

source Translated by Act for freedom now!

Arson Attack on the DELTA Cops in Exarchia

“Live like a porcupine- fight like a flea” Basel al Araj

We take responsibility for the arson attack on the DELTA group gang on Tsamadou and Tositsa streets, on Saturday night in Exarchia. A group of comrades approached the said group and sent them into a disorderly flight amidst screams of panic. It was a way on our part to show that with organization, discipline and above all the WILL to act, the doctrine of law and order is degraded in practice. However, it is also a message to the forces of repression that are ravaging the Exarchia neighborhood that the days when you went around beating like cowboys have passed irrevocably. You are unwanted in our places and we will show you this at every opportunity.

The attack is an act of honoring the memory of the armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris. The loss of the life of such a brilliant comrade will always be the driving force for us to overcome our fears, break our conventions and go on the attack on everything that oppresses and destroys people’s lives. It is our way of sending our solidarity and unlimited respect to the 8 anarchist comrades who are being prosecuted for the expropriation of a bank in Kato Tithorea. It is also an act of solidarity in the ongoing struggle of the Community of Occupied Refugees and the hunger strikers (at that time) Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Duppagne. A struggle that raises broader issues about the functions of communities that go against the modern world of the economic exploitation of everything and the conversion of entire neighborhoods, especially the center of Athens, into fillets for investment.

Exarchia is one such neighborhood. A historical neighborhood that has long been in the eye of the state and capital with the aim of its complete depoliticization. The complete alteration of its characteristics. They want us to get used to the presence of the occupation army on every corner. They want us to get used to the groups that buy alternative tourism and give tours in the narrow streets of Exarchia. They want us to get used to the unaffordable rentals and the countless Airbnbs. Drugs and the alternative entertainment. For us, Exarchia was, is and will be a meeting point and politicization of all young comrades. A starting point for clashes with the forces of repression. A point with a heavy legacy watered with the blood of our dead. So as long as it is in our power, we will not leave this battle without a fight. We will not succumb, we will not surrender.

P.S.

New Democracy’s criminal management of prisons is a fact. From their management by the police and the continuous restrictions on the rights of prisoners, to the continuous tightening of the penal code, the abolition of permits, etc. One of the most characteristic cases is that of comrade Fotis Tziotzis who has currently been in complete isolation for 2 months. With our attack we break this wall of isolation and declare that no one is alone in the face of the intensifying state repression.

HONOR TO THE ARMED FIGHTER KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS

SOLIDARITY TO COMRADES MARIANNA MANOURA AND DIMITRA ZARAFETA

SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH TO THE 8 ANARCHISTS WHO ARE PERSECUTED FOR EXPROPRIATING A BANK IN KATÓ TITHOREA

VICTORY IN THE REFUGEE STRUGGLE

EXARCHIA HAS HISTORY

Anarchists

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1641896/

Note: photo not associated with action

Arson Attack on the DELTA Cops in Exarchia

“Live like a porcupine- fight like a flea” Basel al Araj

We take responsibility for the arson attack on the DELTA group gang on Tsamadou and Tositsa streets, on Saturday night in Exarchia. A group of comrades approached the said group and sent them into a disorderly flight amidst screams of panic. It was a way on our part to show that with organization, discipline and above all the WILL to act, the doctrine of law and order is degraded in practice. However, it is also a message to the forces of repression that are ravaging the Exarchia neighborhood that the days when you went around beating like cowboys have passed irrevocably. You are unwanted in our places and we will show you this at every opportunity.

The attack is an act of honoring the memory of the armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris. The loss of the life of such a brilliant comrade will always be the driving force for us to overcome our fears, break our conventions and go on the attack on everything that oppresses and destroys people’s lives. It is our way of sending our solidarity and unlimited respect to the 8 anarchist comrades who are being prosecuted for the expropriation of a bank in Kato Tithorea. It is also an act of solidarity in the ongoing struggle of the Community of Occupied Refugees and the hunger strikers (at that time) Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Duppagne. A struggle that raises broader issues about the functions of communities that go against the modern world of the economic exploitation of everything and the conversion of entire neighborhoods, especially the center of Athens, into fillets for investment.

Exarchia is one such neighborhood. A historical neighborhood that has long been in the eye of the state and capital with the aim of its complete depoliticization. The complete alteration of its characteristics. They want us to get used to the presence of the occupation army on every corner. They want us to get used to the groups that buy alternative tourism and give tours in the narrow streets of Exarchia. They want us to get used to the unaffordable rentals and the countless Airbnbs. Drugs and the alternative entertainment. For us, Exarchia was, is and will be a meeting point and politicization of all young comrades. A starting point for clashes with the forces of repression. A point with a heavy legacy watered with the blood of our dead. So as long as it is in our power, we will not leave this battle without a fight. We will not succumb, we will not surrender.

P.S.

New Democracy’s criminal management of prisons is a fact. From their management by the police and the continuous restrictions on the rights of prisoners, to the continuous tightening of the penal code, the abolition of permits, etc. One of the most characteristic cases is that of comrade Fotis Tziotzis who has currently been in complete isolation for 2 months. With our attack we break this wall of isolation and declare that no one is alone in the face of the intensifying state repression.

HONOR TO THE ARMED FIGHTER KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS

SOLIDARITY TO COMRADES MARIANNA MANOURA AND DIMITRA ZARAFETA

SOLIDARITY AND STRENGTH TO THE 8 ANARCHISTS WHO ARE PERSECUTED FOR EXPROPRIATING A BANK IN KATÓ TITHOREA

VICTORY IN THE REFUGEE STRUGGLE

EXARCHIA HAS HISTORY

Anarchists

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1641896/

Note: photo not associated with action

https://kolektiva.media/w/oFjF8YnFkjKxm3rphw62hD

Prosfygika Resiste

El Estado griego tiene previsto desalojar «Oi Prosfygika» en Atenas, una de las comunidades de vivienda autogestionadas más grandes de Europa. El lugar es sinónimo de vida colectiva, proyectos sociales y resistencia contra el desalojo.
Desde el 5 de febrero, Aristotelis Chantzis está en huelga de hambre. El 1 de mayo, Suzon Doppagne se unió a él. Ambos protestan contra el desalojo inminente y por la preservación de la comunidad. Pero, ¿qué es exactamente Prosfygika?
#SaveProsfygika #Exarchia #Atenas #Solidaridad #CasaOcupada #Gentrificación #EspacesLibres
#Anarquismo #Kurdistán #Rojava

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/int.saveprosfygika/

https://kolektiva.media/w/oFjF8YnFkjKxm3rphw62hD

Prosfygika Resiste

El Estado griego tiene previsto desalojar «Oi Prosfygika» en Atenas, una de las comunidades de vivienda autogestionadas más grandes de Europa. El lugar es sinónimo de vida colectiva, proyectos sociales y resistencia contra el desalojo.
Desde el 5 de febrero, Aristotelis Chantzis está en huelga de hambre. El 1 de mayo, Suzon Doppagne se unió a él. Ambos protestan contra el desalojo inminente y por la preservación de la comunidad. Pero, ¿qué es exactamente Prosfygika?
#SaveProsfygika #Exarchia #Atenas #Solidaridad #CasaOcupada #Gentrificación #EspacesLibres
#Anarquismo #Kurdistán #Rojava

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/int.saveprosfygika/

https://kolektiva.media/w/oFjF8YnFkjKxm3rphw62hD

Prosfygika Resiste

El Estado griego tiene previsto desalojar «Oi Prosfygika» en Atenas, una de las comunidades de vivienda autogestionadas más grandes de Europa. El lugar es sinónimo de vida colectiva, proyectos sociales y resistencia contra el desalojo.
Desde el 5 de febrero, Aristotelis Chantzis está en huelga de hambre. El 1 de mayo, Suzon Doppagne se unió a él. Ambos protestan contra el desalojo inminente y por la preservación de la comunidad. Pero, ¿qué es exactamente Prosfygika?
#SaveProsfygika #Exarchia #Atenas #Solidaridad #CasaOcupada #Gentrificación #EspacesLibres
#Anarquismo #Kurdistán #Rojava

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/int.saveprosfygika/

https://kolektiva.media/w/oFjF8YnFkjKxm3rphw62hD

Prosfygika Resiste

El Estado griego tiene previsto desalojar «Oi Prosfygika» en Atenas, una de las comunidades de vivienda autogestionadas más grandes de Europa. El lugar es sinónimo de vida colectiva, proyectos sociales y resistencia contra el desalojo.
Desde el 5 de febrero, Aristotelis Chantzis está en huelga de hambre. El 1 de mayo, Suzon Doppagne se unió a él. Ambos protestan contra el desalojo inminente y por la preservación de la comunidad. Pero, ¿qué es exactamente Prosfygika?
#SaveProsfygika #Exarchia #Atenas #Solidaridad #CasaOcupada #Gentrificación #EspacesLibres
#Anarquismo #Kurdistán #Rojava

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/int.saveprosfygika/

https://kolektiva.media/w/oFjF8YnFkjKxm3rphw62hD

Prosfygika Resiste

El Estado griego tiene previsto desalojar «Oi Prosfygika» en Atenas, una de las comunidades de vivienda autogestionadas más grandes de Europa. El lugar es sinónimo de vida colectiva, proyectos sociales y resistencia contra el desalojo.
Desde el 5 de febrero, Aristotelis Chantzis está en huelga de hambre. El 1 de mayo, Suzon Doppagne se unió a él. Ambos protestan contra el desalojo inminente y por la preservación de la comunidad. Pero, ¿qué es exactamente Prosfygika?
#SaveProsfygika #Exarchia #Atenas #Solidaridad #CasaOcupada #Gentrificación #EspacesLibres
#Anarquismo #Kurdistán #Rojava

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/int.saveprosfygika/

https://kolektiva.media/w/vrD15TVttqff6JEzD96Uv3

Prosfygika Resist

The Greek state is planning the eviction of “Oi Prosfygika” in Athens, one of the largest self-organized housing communities in Europe. This space represents collective living, social projects, and resistance against displacement.

Since February 5, Aristotelis Chantzis has been on hunger strike. On May 1, Suzon Doppagne joined him. Both are protesting against the impending eviction and for the preservation of the community. But what exactly is Prosfygika?

#SaveProsfygika #Exarchia #Athens #Solidarity #Squat #Gentrification #FreeSpaces
#Anarchism #Kurdistan #Rojava

@intsaveprosfygika

https://kolektiva.media/w/vrD15TVttqff6JEzD96Uv3

Prosfygika Resist

The Greek state is planning the eviction of “Oi Prosfygika” in Athens, one of the largest self-organized housing communities in Europe. This space represents collective living, social projects, and resistance against displacement.

Since February 5, Aristotelis Chantzis has been on hunger strike. On May 1, Suzon Doppagne joined him. Both are protesting against the impending eviction and for the preservation of the community. But what exactly is Prosfygika?

#SaveProsfygika #Exarchia #Athens #Solidarity #Squat #Gentrification #FreeSpaces
#Anarchism #Kurdistan #Rojava

@intsaveprosfygika

https://kolektiva.media/w/vrD15TVttqff6JEzD96Uv3

Prosfygika Resist

The Greek state is planning the eviction of “Oi Prosfygika” in Athens, one of the largest self-organized housing communities in Europe. This space represents collective living, social projects, and resistance against displacement.

Since February 5, Aristotelis Chantzis has been on hunger strike. On May 1, Suzon Doppagne joined him. Both are protesting against the impending eviction and for the preservation of the community. But what exactly is Prosfygika?

#SaveProsfygika #Exarchia #Athens #Solidarity #Squat #Gentrification #FreeSpaces
#Anarchism #Kurdistan #Rojava

@intsaveprosfygika

https://kolektiva.media/w/vrD15TVttqff6JEzD96Uv3

Prosfygika Resist

The Greek state is planning the eviction of “Oi Prosfygika” in Athens, one of the largest self-organized housing communities in Europe. This space represents collective living, social projects, and resistance against displacement.

Since February 5, Aristotelis Chantzis has been on hunger strike. On May 1, Suzon Doppagne joined him. Both are protesting against the impending eviction and for the preservation of the community. But what exactly is Prosfygika?

#SaveProsfygika #Exarchia #Athens #Solidarity #Squat #Gentrification #FreeSpaces
#Anarchism #Kurdistan #Rojava

@intsaveprosfygika

https://kolektiva.media/w/vrD15TVttqff6JEzD96Uv3

Prosfygika Resist

The Greek state is planning the eviction of “Oi Prosfygika” in Athens, one of the largest self-organized housing communities in Europe. This space represents collective living, social projects, and resistance against displacement.

Since February 5, Aristotelis Chantzis has been on hunger strike. On May 1, Suzon Doppagne joined him. Both are protesting against the impending eviction and for the preservation of the community. But what exactly is Prosfygika?

#SaveProsfygika #Exarchia #Athens #Solidarity #Squat #Gentrification #FreeSpaces
#Anarchism #Kurdistan #Rojava

@intsaveprosfygika

Athens, Greece: Commando Attack on the OPKE Team at Strefi Hill in Exarcheia

Athens, Greece: Claim for the commando attack on the OPKE team at Strefi Hill in Exarcheia on 1/11/2025

A year and a day after comrade and armed anarchist fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris was killed in an apartment on Arcadia Street, following a premature bomb explosion, he was destined to remind everyone that social peace is nothing more than empty words in an empty space.

Along with the explosion, a promise was made. That the comrade would not be forgotten. The comrade has not been forgotten. His name became a slogan on the lips of thousands. Then it adorned walls, was written in texts and was the subject of events. However, it was not long before this name became a signature. The name of the fallen anarchist guerrilla Kyriakos ceased to belong exclusively to him. Conspirators met and nuclei were formed with his name. Commandos slipped away in the night and in the shadows in order to give light and noise to the quiet monotony of the metropolis. Going along this path, we decided to carry out a raid on the cops who have taken up camp on Strefi Hill.

We struck in broad daylight, reminding the uniformed bastards that they will never be in peace amid us even for a moment. In recent years, there has been an effort to turn the Exarcheia neighbourhood into a well-guarded alternative resort, where tourists enjoy the aesthetics of the “subculture” and the unconventional character of the neighbourhood without actually contributing in the slightest to the Cause and the goals for which we are fighting. Seeing what is happening before our eyes, we choose not to stand by as observers. We choose direct action, militantly defending our projects and ideas in the here and now. The Exarcheia you dream of will turn into your worst nightmares.

PS: We were saddened about the absence of the riot police as we really wanted to see them running after what happened the previous night, during the memorial march and more generally in the neighbourhood. On the other hand, their colleagues from the OPKE (Special Police Teams for Crime Prevention and Suppression) team proved to be satisfactorily efficient in the game of hide and seek.

PS2: We also dedicate this action to comrade Christos Spilios, who died recently, but will always be in our struggles.

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE ANARCHIST GUERRILLA KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS.

SOLIDARITY TO COMRADE MARIANNA AND ALL THE COMRADES IN PRISON FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

AGAINST THE TIMES OF SUBORDINATION – CONTINUOUS PROCESS UNTIL THE COMPLETE OVERTHROW OF THE EXISTING

Conspirators of Immediate Reaction (Συνωμότες/ισσες Άμεσης Αντίδρασης)

Source: athens.indymedia

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

Athens, Greece: Claim for the commando attack on the OPKE team at Strefi Hill in Exarcheia on 1/11/2025

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=24599

#anarchist #antiPolice #europe #exarchia #greece #kyriakosXymitiris

Athens, Greece: Commando Attack on the OPKE Team at Strefi Hill in Exarcheia

Athens, Greece: Claim for the commando attack on the OPKE team at Strefi Hill in Exarcheia on 1/11/2025

A year and a day after comrade and armed anarchist fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris was killed in an apartment on Arcadia Street, following a premature bomb explosion, he was destined to remind everyone that social peace is nothing more than empty words in an empty space.

Along with the explosion, a promise was made. That the comrade would not be forgotten. The comrade has not been forgotten. His name became a slogan on the lips of thousands. Then it adorned walls, was written in texts and was the subject of events. However, it was not long before this name became a signature. The name of the fallen anarchist guerrilla Kyriakos ceased to belong exclusively to him. Conspirators met and nuclei were formed with his name. Commandos slipped away in the night and in the shadows in order to give light and noise to the quiet monotony of the metropolis. Going along this path, we decided to carry out a raid on the cops who have taken up camp on Strefi Hill.

We struck in broad daylight, reminding the uniformed bastards that they will never be in peace amid us even for a moment. In recent years, there has been an effort to turn the Exarcheia neighbourhood into a well-guarded alternative resort, where tourists enjoy the aesthetics of the “subculture” and the unconventional character of the neighbourhood without actually contributing in the slightest to the Cause and the goals for which we are fighting. Seeing what is happening before our eyes, we choose not to stand by as observers. We choose direct action, militantly defending our projects and ideas in the here and now. The Exarcheia you dream of will turn into your worst nightmares.

PS: We were saddened about the absence of the riot police as we really wanted to see them running after what happened the previous night, during the memorial march and more generally in the neighbourhood. On the other hand, their colleagues from the OPKE (Special Police Teams for Crime Prevention and Suppression) team proved to be satisfactorily efficient in the game of hide and seek.

PS2: We also dedicate this action to comrade Christos Spilios, who died recently, but will always be in our struggles.

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE ANARCHIST GUERRILLA KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS.

SOLIDARITY TO COMRADE MARIANNA AND ALL THE COMRADES IN PRISON FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

AGAINST THE TIMES OF SUBORDINATION – CONTINUOUS PROCESS UNTIL THE COMPLETE OVERTHROW OF THE EXISTING

Conspirators of Immediate Reaction (Συνωμότες/ισσες Άμεσης Αντίδρασης)

Source: athens.indymedia

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

Athens, Greece: Claim for the commando attack on the OPKE team at Strefi Hill in Exarcheia on 1/11/2025

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=24599

#anarchist #antiPolice #europe #exarchia #greece #kyriakosXymitiris

„Keine Bewegung, die es nicht schafft, den #Autoritarismus zu entwurzeln – sei es durch den Staat oder durch seine Nachahmer –, kann die Welt aufbauen, für die sie angeblich kämpft.“ #Exarcheia #Exarchia #Athen #Griechenland Veröffentlicht 18. Nov. auf Freedom News, deutsch von Bonustracks.

„Keine Bewegung, die es nicht schafft, den #Autoritarismus zu entwurzeln – sei es durch den Staat oder durch seine Nachahmer –, kann die Welt aufbauen, für die sie angeblich kämpft.“ #Exarcheia #Exarchia #Athen #Griechenland Veröffentlicht 18. Nov. auf Freedom News, deutsch von Bonustracks.

Leben ohne Polizei. Victor Collet spricht über sein Buch, das ein Jahrzehnt ohne #Polizei im Viertel #Exarchia in #Athen #Griechenland nachzeichnet. Weit von Idealisierungen entfernt, fängt das Buch Spannungen, Widersprüche & Grenzen ein. @[email protected] @[email protected]

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5pss5bderfhm4pbo5penrt2x/post/3m5wdmb5b4c2k

Leben ohne Polizei. Victor Collet spricht über sein Buch, das ein Jahrzehnt ohne #Polizei im Viertel #Exarchia in #Athen #Griechenland nachzeichnet. Weit von Idealisierungen entfernt, fängt das Buch Spannungen, Widersprüche & Grenzen ein. @[email protected] @[email protected]

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5pss5bderfhm4pbo5penrt2x/post/3m5wdmb5b4c2k

#Greece - A demonstration that was held in the center of Athens, from anarchists and of anti-authoritarians for Kyriakos Xymitiris who lost his life from a explosion that took place a year ago, was brutally hit by riot police while returning to #Exarchia region. Police didn't hesitate to attack and throw tear gas to bystanders sitting in coffeeshops and even a person with a prosthetic limb. #PoliceBrutallity #PoliceViolence #acab

https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=VZ1SsIZVK12w7AUNTuAMYnDTK28W4F0xKBX

#Greece - A demonstration that was held in the center of Athens, from anarchists and of anti-authoritarians for Kyriakos Xymitiris who lost his life from a explosion that took place a year ago, was brutally hit by riot police while returning to #Exarchia region. Police didn't hesitate to attack and throw tear gas to bystanders sitting in coffeeshops and even a person with a prosthetic limb. #PoliceBrutallity #PoliceViolence #acab

https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=VZ1SsIZVK12w7AUNTuAMYnDTK28W4F0xKBX

#Greece - A demonstration that was held in the center of Athens, from anarchists and of anti-authoritarians for Kyriakos Xymitiris who lost his life from a explosion that took place a year ago, was brutally hit by riot police while returning to #Exarchia region. Police didn't hesitate to attack and throw tear gas to bystanders sitting in coffeeshops and even a person with a prosthetic limb. #PoliceBrutallity #PoliceViolence #acab

https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=VZ1SsIZVK12w7AUNTuAMYnDTK28W4F0xKBX

#Greece - A demonstration that was held in the center of Athens, from anarchists and of anti-authoritarians for Kyriakos Xymitiris who lost his life from a explosion that took place a year ago, was brutally hit by riot police while returning to #Exarchia region. Police didn't hesitate to attack and throw tear gas to bystanders sitting in coffeeshops and even a person with a prosthetic limb. #PoliceBrutallity #PoliceViolence #acab

https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=VZ1SsIZVK12w7AUNTuAMYnDTK28W4F0xKBX

#Greece - A demonstration that was held in the center of Athens, from anarchists and of anti-authoritarians for Kyriakos Xymitiris who lost his life from a explosion that took place a year ago, was brutally hit by riot police while returning to #Exarchia region. Police didn't hesitate to attack and throw tear gas to bystanders sitting in coffeeshops and even a person with a prosthetic limb. #PoliceBrutallity #PoliceViolence #acab

https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=VZ1SsIZVK12w7AUNTuAMYnDTK28W4F0xKBX

Goodbye Christaras (Athens, Greece)

Every night passes like a movie where everything we’ve experienced is projected against the backdrop of the square. Every night that passes here I always leave before we’re left alone, I don’t watch the end.

Tuesday, October 7, some more sad news, another day that leaves us frozen, our comrade, our Christaras, our XR, our eternal street fighter, has gone forever.

Comrade Christos Spilios, a native of the metropolitan youth and the rising anarchist movement, found himself on the just side of the barricade since 1990. He participated continuously and with all his being in every form of struggle, from solidarity with political prisoners, almost always Christaras started ”the passion” as in how many photographic snapshots of chained comrades do we remember his fist accompanying their smile. From militant and street anti-fascism, from the struggles for his beloved Exarchia, to the anti-war mobilizations; in the last two years the Palestinian keffiyeh had become an integral part of his body.

Christos was always here, with his madness, with his smile, and even with his demons that he always eluded.

Christos was always here to pat the shoulder of every comrade when they needed it.
Our Christaras, who every November would start the invitation of our dead comrades and scream Present!!!

So, our Christaras, this November, at your favorite corner of Stournaris and Bouboulinas, we will shout with passion:

CHRISTOS SPILIOS FOR EVER PRESENT!!!

Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Fighters

Goodbye Christaras (Athens,exarxeia Greece)

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=22284

#anarchist #ChristosSpilios #europe #exarchia #greece #rip

Goodbye Christaras (Athens, Greece)

Every night passes like a movie where everything we’ve experienced is projected against the backdrop of the square. Every night that passes here I always leave before we’re left alone, I don’t watch the end.

Tuesday, October 7, some more sad news, another day that leaves us frozen, our comrade, our Christaras, our XR, our eternal street fighter, has gone forever.

Comrade Christos Spilios, a native of the metropolitan youth and the rising anarchist movement, found himself on the just side of the barricade since 1990. He participated continuously and with all his being in every form of struggle, from solidarity with political prisoners, almost always Christaras started ”the passion” as in how many photographic snapshots of chained comrades do we remember his fist accompanying their smile. From militant and street anti-fascism, from the struggles for his beloved Exarchia, to the anti-war mobilizations; in the last two years the Palestinian keffiyeh had become an integral part of his body.

Christos was always here, with his madness, with his smile, and even with his demons that he always eluded.

Christos was always here to pat the shoulder of every comrade when they needed it.
Our Christaras, who every November would start the invitation of our dead comrades and scream Present!!!

So, our Christaras, this November, at your favorite corner of Stournaris and Bouboulinas, we will shout with passion:

CHRISTOS SPILIOS FOR EVER PRESENT!!!

Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Fighters

Goodbye Christaras (Athens,exarxeia Greece)

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=22284

#anarchist #ChristosSpilios #europe #exarchia #greece #rip

News From an Antizionist Intervention in Exarchia, Greece

On Friday 3/10, following the call of the Coordination of activity for the defense of Exarcheia, an anti-Zionist intervention took place in the neighborhood of Exarcheia. More than 100 comrades took part in the intervention, while throughout its course, the body, moving in a march through the streets of Exarcheia, filled the walls and streets with pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist posters, sprays, stencils and trikes, distributed texts, while at the same time various interventions were carried out in hotels and accommodations of Israeli (and non-) interests.

Exarcheia is not a neighborhood where Zionist discourse is expressed with great ease in the public space, due to the broader political characteristics of Exarcheia and the pro-Palestinian actions of the neighborhood’s assemblies/initiatives. Nevertheless, Israeli capital has settled in the neighborhood mainly through hotels/accommodations. The sharp increase in Israeli real estate and Israeli tourist investments in Greece, centered on the center of Athens, strengthens the economy of the murderous state of Israel, contributing to the resilience of the Israeli economy. All this at a time when Israel continues to ruthlessly ethnically cleanse and genocide the Palestinians. At the same time, the existence of Israeli capital in downtown neighborhoods, such as Exarcheia, seeks to make Exarcheia a safe place, both for Zionists in general and for the Israelis who actively participate in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

For the above reasons, as well as in view of October 7th of 2023, we called for an anti-Zionist intervention defending both the Palestinians’ undeniable right to land and freedom, and the political characteristics of Exarcheia. A vibrant neighborhood that will remain welcoming to immigrants, that takes to the streets against state violence, labor exploitation, patriarchy, wars, colonialism, genocides, that resists and self organizes. In the Exarcheia of internationalism and self-organization, of struggles and insurrection, where solidarity with the Palestinian struggle has been timeless: through the dozens of solidarity demonstrations at the square, in Strefi, in the social centers, the squats, the political spaces and from the streets of clashes and riots. We refuse to surrender Exarcheia to any capital, we refuse to remain inactive in the face of Israeli capital that silently profits in our neighborhood.

EXARCHEIA ALWAYS ON THE CORRECT SIDE WITH PALESTINE UNTIL FREEDOM

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=22117

#anarchism #athens #europe #exarchia #greece #palestine #Solidarity

News From an Antizionist Intervention in Exarchia, Greece

On Friday 3/10, following the call of the Coordination of activity for the defense of Exarcheia, an anti-Zionist intervention took place in the neighborhood of Exarcheia. More than 100 comrades took part in the intervention, while throughout its course, the body, moving in a march through the streets of Exarcheia, filled the walls and streets with pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist posters, sprays, stencils and trikes, distributed texts, while at the same time various interventions were carried out in hotels and accommodations of Israeli (and non-) interests.

Exarcheia is not a neighborhood where Zionist discourse is expressed with great ease in the public space, due to the broader political characteristics of Exarcheia and the pro-Palestinian actions of the neighborhood’s assemblies/initiatives. Nevertheless, Israeli capital has settled in the neighborhood mainly through hotels/accommodations. The sharp increase in Israeli real estate and Israeli tourist investments in Greece, centered on the center of Athens, strengthens the economy of the murderous state of Israel, contributing to the resilience of the Israeli economy. All this at a time when Israel continues to ruthlessly ethnically cleanse and genocide the Palestinians. At the same time, the existence of Israeli capital in downtown neighborhoods, such as Exarcheia, seeks to make Exarcheia a safe place, both for Zionists in general and for the Israelis who actively participate in the genocide of the Palestinian people.

For the above reasons, as well as in view of October 7th of 2023, we called for an anti-Zionist intervention defending both the Palestinians’ undeniable right to land and freedom, and the political characteristics of Exarcheia. A vibrant neighborhood that will remain welcoming to immigrants, that takes to the streets against state violence, labor exploitation, patriarchy, wars, colonialism, genocides, that resists and self organizes. In the Exarcheia of internationalism and self-organization, of struggles and insurrection, where solidarity with the Palestinian struggle has been timeless: through the dozens of solidarity demonstrations at the square, in Strefi, in the social centers, the squats, the political spaces and from the streets of clashes and riots. We refuse to surrender Exarcheia to any capital, we refuse to remain inactive in the face of Israeli capital that silently profits in our neighborhood.

EXARCHEIA ALWAYS ON THE CORRECT SIDE WITH PALESTINE UNTIL FREEDOM

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=22117

#anarchism #athens #europe #exarchia #greece #palestine #Solidarity

Now Greece Joins Spain, Italy, Germany, United States And More In Introducing New Rules To Control Overcrowing

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Now Greece Joins Spain, Italy, Germany, United States And More In Introducing New Rules To Control Overcrowing

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#Greece - Waitress suffers hearing loss after riot police use flashbangs in #Exarchia – Government defends police action

https://thepressproject.gr/waitress-suffers-hearing-loss-after-riot-police-use-flashbangs-in-exarchia-government-defends-police-action/

A waitress working at a bar in the Exarchia district of Athens has suffered partial hearing loss after riot police stormed the area using flashbang grenades and tear gas.

#Greece - Waitress suffers hearing loss after riot police use flashbangs in #Exarchia – Government defends police action

https://thepressproject.gr/waitress-suffers-hearing-loss-after-riot-police-use-flashbangs-in-exarchia-government-defends-police-action/

A waitress working at a bar in the Exarchia district of Athens has suffered partial hearing loss after riot police stormed the area using flashbang grenades and tear gas.

#Greece - Waitress suffers hearing loss after riot police use flashbangs in #Exarchia – Government defends police action

https://thepressproject.gr/waitress-suffers-hearing-loss-after-riot-police-use-flashbangs-in-exarchia-government-defends-police-action/

A waitress working at a bar in the Exarchia district of Athens has suffered partial hearing loss after riot police stormed the area using flashbang grenades and tear gas.

#Greece - Waitress suffers hearing loss after riot police use flashbangs in #Exarchia – Government defends police action

https://thepressproject.gr/waitress-suffers-hearing-loss-after-riot-police-use-flashbangs-in-exarchia-government-defends-police-action/

A waitress working at a bar in the Exarchia district of Athens has suffered partial hearing loss after riot police stormed the area using flashbang grenades and tear gas.

#Greece - Waitress suffers hearing loss after riot police use flashbangs in #Exarchia – Government defends police action

https://thepressproject.gr/waitress-suffers-hearing-loss-after-riot-police-use-flashbangs-in-exarchia-government-defends-police-action/

A waitress working at a bar in the Exarchia district of Athens has suffered partial hearing loss after riot police stormed the area using flashbang grenades and tear gas.

#Αθήνα 3/5/25 Πορεια υπεράσπισης των καταλήψεων και των #Εξαρχείων

#Athens 3/5/25 March in defense of the squats and #Exarchia

#Αθήνα 3/5/25 Πορεια υπεράσπισης των καταλήψεων και των #Εξαρχείων

#Athens 3/5/25 March in defense of the squats and #Exarchia

#Αθήνα 3/5/25 Πορεια υπεράσπισης των καταλήψεων και των #Εξαρχείων

#Athens 3/5/25 March in defense of the squats and #Exarchia

#Αθήνα 3/5/25 Πορεια υπεράσπισης των καταλήψεων και των #Εξαρχείων

#Athens 3/5/25 March in defense of the squats and #Exarchia

#Αθήνα 3/5/25 Πορεια υπεράσπισης των καταλήψεων και των #Εξαρχείων

#Athens 3/5/25 March in defense of the squats and #Exarchia

70 arrestations après une nuit de feu à Exarchia

#Exarchia #Répression #Grèce

À Exarchia, la rage ne s'est pas éteinte. Deux ans après le crash meurtrier de train, les colères explosent de nouveau dans les rues d'Athènes.
Jeudi soir, dans le quartier rebelle d'Exarchia à Athènes, des affrontements violents ont éclaté entre jeunes autonomes et police. Après un concert dans un parc, plusieurs dizaines de militant·es se sont dirigé·es vers un commissariat pour l'attaquer à coups de cocktails Molotov, de pierres et de feux d'artifice. Très vite, le...

https://www.leperepeinard.com/breves/70-arrestations-apres-une-nuit-de-feu-a-exarchia/

70 arrestations après une nuit de feu à Exarchia

#Exarchia #Répression #Grèce

À Exarchia, la rage ne s'est pas éteinte. Deux ans après le crash meurtrier de train, les colères explosent de nouveau dans les rues d'Athènes.
Jeudi soir, dans le quartier rebelle d'Exarchia à Athènes, des affrontements violents ont éclaté entre jeunes autonomes et police. Après un concert dans un parc, plusieurs dizaines de militant·es se sont dirigé·es vers un commissariat pour l'attaquer à coups de cocktails Molotov, de pierres et de feux d'artifice. Très vite, le...

https://www.leperepeinard.com/breves/70-arrestations-apres-une-nuit-de-feu-a-exarchia/

70 arrestations après une nuit de feu à Exarchia

#Exarchia #Répression #Grèce

À Exarchia, la rage ne s'est pas éteinte. Deux ans après le crash meurtrier de train, les colères explosent de nouveau dans les rues d'Athènes.
Jeudi soir, dans le quartier rebelle d'Exarchia à Athènes, des affrontements violents ont éclaté entre jeunes autonomes et police. Après un concert dans un parc, plusieurs dizaines de militant·es se sont dirigé·es vers un commissariat pour l'attaquer à coups de cocktails Molotov, de pierres et de feux d'artifice. Très vite, le...

https://www.leperepeinard.com/breves/70-arrestations-apres-une-nuit-de-feu-a-exarchia/

70 arrestations après une nuit de feu à Exarchia

#Exarchia #Répression #Grèce

À Exarchia, la rage ne s'est pas éteinte. Deux ans après le crash meurtrier de train, les colères explosent de nouveau dans les rues d'Athènes.
Jeudi soir, dans le quartier rebelle d'Exarchia à Athènes, des affrontements violents ont éclaté entre jeunes autonomes et police. Après un concert dans un parc, plusieurs dizaines de militant·es se sont dirigé·es vers un commissariat pour l'attaquer à coups de cocktails Molotov, de pierres et de feux d'artifice. Très vite, le...

https://www.leperepeinard.com/breves/70-arrestations-apres-une-nuit-de-feu-a-exarchia/

Athens, Greece: Under the Concrete, Something’s Boiling – Building Squad in Exarcheia by Rasprava Occupation

After the end of the event “Revolutionary memory and the struggle perspective “ in Messolonggiou [pedestrian area of Exarcheia], a crowd of comrades descended on the corner of Koletti and Themistokleous streets to defend the liberation of the building in course.

The following is the self-presentation of the occupation:

The silence of the metropolis weighs on our backs like a stone. The streets are full of tired looks, bodies crawling out of habit, fear, submission. People move along prescribed paths without questioning, tempering their dreams. Everything is programmed to work exactly as they want: work, consumption, obedience. But, always, beneath the surface, something is boiling.

History is not written by the obedient. Some choose to bear the burden of disobedience. To crack the concrete of normality. To confront the invisible hand of power that suffocates every aspect of our lives. Refusing to submit is not a mere stance. It is a call to question, overthrow, take back what belongs to us.

We are comrades, anarchists who come from different political and ideological starting points, but we have found ourselves in the same fires of struggle. There, where common struggles and collective experiences united us, we recognized the vital need to create a space for meeting, political fermentation, exchange of views and organizational empowerment. At a time where isolation is imposed and communities of struggle are being dismantled by the repression, the formation of such spaces is not only necessary – it is crucial. The repressive blows of recent years did not come by chance. The authorities are attempting to eliminate every source of resistance, crush every form of self-organization and extinguish the flame of questioning. Great gains have been lost, the movement has been driven into a defensive position, the recession is now visible. But we know that history is written by those who do not retreat, by those who are not afraid to face reality. To remain on the defensive means to accept defeat. And that will not happen. The time has come to turn words into actions, to move from defence to offence. To make it clear that the enemy will not get its way with us so easily. To carve out our own field of struggle, to claim our space and time. To liberate territory from domination, to create a living centre of resistance, a radical hotbed of fermentation and action. We see the occupation as an integral part of the movement and the movement as an organic element of the occupation. The existence of territories of struggle is not just a practical issue, but a deeply political one. Occupations are not just hangouts, they are not just places of hospitality. They are bastions of resistance, laboratories of radical practices, cracks in the normality that they are trying to impose on us. And this reality is non-negotiable.

Each neighbourhood, each street, each square is not neutral ground. It is a living map of contradictions, conflicts and claims. Cities are built on discipline, policing, the sterilization of public space. The squares are filled with cameras, the walls are painted grey, the buildings become inaccessible fortresses for those who do not have the means to pay the cost of existence in a world where everything has a price. Dominion is implementing a strategic plan of universal control of the metropolises, crushing every centre of resistance. With the weapon of black propaganda and ideological war, it attempts to shape consciousnesses, while the deliberate degradation of neighbourhoods through the spread of organized crime and the violent expulsion of the local population is paving the way for complete absorption by capital. State repression acts as an armed guard for investors, real estates devour the land, houses become commodities, rents rocket sky-high, public spaces are transformed into sterile fields of surveillance and consumer uniformity. The scourge of gentrification and Civilization is swallowing up cities, functioning as a mechanism of subjugation and social control. Exarcheia, a neighborhood steeped in the history of struggles, is in the crosshairs of the state and capitalist onslaught. On the one hand, the state unleashes waves of repression: evictions of squats, reinforcement of the police presence, militarization of the space. On the other, capital plunders the collective memory, absorbing symbols of resistance and transforming them into a tourist commodity. Our subcultures are being forged and adapted into “alternative” commercial projects, while the neighborhood is being altered to serve the entertainment and lifestyle industry.

We will not let them turn the place of our struggles into yet another decorative attraction. For all these reasons, we are opening the squat in the historic neighborhood of Exarcheia. Because its streets are not for sale. Because memories are not commodities. Because living resistance will not become tourist attractions, but battlefields.

Squatted places can certainly be islands of resistance in the archipelago of struggle. They are also barricades. Spaces where sovereignty loses control, where the state ceases to be the absolute regulator of life. They are workshops of struggle, meeting points, centres of self-organization and action.

Insurgent and revolutionary culture does not appear by itself. It is cultivated. It develops in basements, squares, hangouts, in gazes that do not bow down, in bodies that do not accept being disciplined by the enemy. The occupation is not an isolated event. It has the ability to walk in the practice of denial, to constantly remind us that we are not numbers in the state’s registers, we are not cogs in the production machine, we are not pawns on the chessboard of power. We are here and are taking what belongs to us, creating the cracks from which new possibilities will spring.

The circumstances therefore leave us unscathed in terms of our anarchist consciousness and practice. We refuse to join the terror resulting from the ”repressively unfavourable times”. Against reformist rhetoric, the manifestation of which are choices of political conformism in the field of action, we are stubbornly for permanent and total rupture. Our anxiety is not the repression that has existed and will exist against us but the continuous wager with ourselves, in terms of avoiding political strategies that are threatening to pass a movement into oblivion through an increasingly deficient militant presence both at the level of events and structures.

We understand that the absence of a militant culture weakens us as a movement, makes us vulnerable and helpless in the face of the onslaught of power. Inaction is tantamount to defeat. We are therefore attempting through this project to build a solid base that will promote the revolutionary/insurgent perspective, intensify the threat against the oppressive mechanisms of the present and cultivate the rebellious consciousnesses of tomorrow. Because rebellion is not a theoretical scheme. It is action, it is fermentation, it is constant conflict.

WHY DO WE CHOOSE and PROMOTE REVOLUTIONARY and INEVITABLE (DIRECT ACTION) as a culture?

i.Because, it is the only means of direct confrontation with the enemy in the here and now. It is the practice that creates “ground zeros”, breaking the chains of normality, giving subjects the power to determine their own fate.

ii.Because, at its core, Anarchy is a constant war for freedom. It is not a slogan, it is not a theory, it is conflict, it is action.

iii. Because comradeship is not an abstract concept, but living and non-negotiable relationships among fighters. These are forged in the fire of battle, side by side in every crisis, every defeat, every difficulty. It is there that we rediscover our lost collective self.

iv.Because it pushes subjects to exceed their limits, to break the chains of fear, to question the impossible.

v.Because the aggression of direct action is not blind violence, but a strategic choice. The spread of revolutionary action, the generalization of violent confrontation with the powers of authority, is necessary for the deconstruction of the state and capitalist edifice and the crushing of the social relations of oppression.

The duty of every struggling person is to enrich their tools daily, both on a practical and theoretical level, which will bring them to the fulfillment of their ideals. Boldness, risk, imagination, organization, faith and consistency are required. Intention is not enough, decision is needed. For these reasons, for us the opening of this occupation is a part of this direction.

FOR ANARCHY

Together we can do anything we can chase away the vision of the end that seems so close.

We can live as proud and free people

We can tear down the wall and see a whole life of joy waiting for us!

Rasprava occupation

Koletti and Themistocleous str.

——–

athens.indymedia

Translated by Act for freedom now!

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18152

#anarchist #athens #europe #exarchia #greece #occupation

Athens, Greece: Under the Concrete, Something’s Boiling – Building Squad in Exarcheia by Rasprava Occupation

After the end of the event “Revolutionary memory and the struggle perspective “ in Messolonggiou [pedestrian area of Exarcheia], a crowd of comrades descended on the corner of Koletti and Themistokleous streets to defend the liberation of the building in course.

The following is the self-presentation of the occupation:

The silence of the metropolis weighs on our backs like a stone. The streets are full of tired looks, bodies crawling out of habit, fear, submission. People move along prescribed paths without questioning, tempering their dreams. Everything is programmed to work exactly as they want: work, consumption, obedience. But, always, beneath the surface, something is boiling.

History is not written by the obedient. Some choose to bear the burden of disobedience. To crack the concrete of normality. To confront the invisible hand of power that suffocates every aspect of our lives. Refusing to submit is not a mere stance. It is a call to question, overthrow, take back what belongs to us.

We are comrades, anarchists who come from different political and ideological starting points, but we have found ourselves in the same fires of struggle. There, where common struggles and collective experiences united us, we recognized the vital need to create a space for meeting, political fermentation, exchange of views and organizational empowerment. At a time where isolation is imposed and communities of struggle are being dismantled by the repression, the formation of such spaces is not only necessary – it is crucial. The repressive blows of recent years did not come by chance. The authorities are attempting to eliminate every source of resistance, crush every form of self-organization and extinguish the flame of questioning. Great gains have been lost, the movement has been driven into a defensive position, the recession is now visible. But we know that history is written by those who do not retreat, by those who are not afraid to face reality. To remain on the defensive means to accept defeat. And that will not happen. The time has come to turn words into actions, to move from defence to offence. To make it clear that the enemy will not get its way with us so easily. To carve out our own field of struggle, to claim our space and time. To liberate territory from domination, to create a living centre of resistance, a radical hotbed of fermentation and action. We see the occupation as an integral part of the movement and the movement as an organic element of the occupation. The existence of territories of struggle is not just a practical issue, but a deeply political one. Occupations are not just hangouts, they are not just places of hospitality. They are bastions of resistance, laboratories of radical practices, cracks in the normality that they are trying to impose on us. And this reality is non-negotiable.

Each neighbourhood, each street, each square is not neutral ground. It is a living map of contradictions, conflicts and claims. Cities are built on discipline, policing, the sterilization of public space. The squares are filled with cameras, the walls are painted grey, the buildings become inaccessible fortresses for those who do not have the means to pay the cost of existence in a world where everything has a price. Dominion is implementing a strategic plan of universal control of the metropolises, crushing every centre of resistance. With the weapon of black propaganda and ideological war, it attempts to shape consciousnesses, while the deliberate degradation of neighbourhoods through the spread of organized crime and the violent expulsion of the local population is paving the way for complete absorption by capital. State repression acts as an armed guard for investors, real estates devour the land, houses become commodities, rents rocket sky-high, public spaces are transformed into sterile fields of surveillance and consumer uniformity. The scourge of gentrification and Civilization is swallowing up cities, functioning as a mechanism of subjugation and social control. Exarcheia, a neighborhood steeped in the history of struggles, is in the crosshairs of the state and capitalist onslaught. On the one hand, the state unleashes waves of repression: evictions of squats, reinforcement of the police presence, militarization of the space. On the other, capital plunders the collective memory, absorbing symbols of resistance and transforming them into a tourist commodity. Our subcultures are being forged and adapted into “alternative” commercial projects, while the neighborhood is being altered to serve the entertainment and lifestyle industry.

We will not let them turn the place of our struggles into yet another decorative attraction. For all these reasons, we are opening the squat in the historic neighborhood of Exarcheia. Because its streets are not for sale. Because memories are not commodities. Because living resistance will not become tourist attractions, but battlefields.

Squatted places can certainly be islands of resistance in the archipelago of struggle. They are also barricades. Spaces where sovereignty loses control, where the state ceases to be the absolute regulator of life. They are workshops of struggle, meeting points, centres of self-organization and action.

Insurgent and revolutionary culture does not appear by itself. It is cultivated. It develops in basements, squares, hangouts, in gazes that do not bow down, in bodies that do not accept being disciplined by the enemy. The occupation is not an isolated event. It has the ability to walk in the practice of denial, to constantly remind us that we are not numbers in the state’s registers, we are not cogs in the production machine, we are not pawns on the chessboard of power. We are here and are taking what belongs to us, creating the cracks from which new possibilities will spring.

The circumstances therefore leave us unscathed in terms of our anarchist consciousness and practice. We refuse to join the terror resulting from the ”repressively unfavourable times”. Against reformist rhetoric, the manifestation of which are choices of political conformism in the field of action, we are stubbornly for permanent and total rupture. Our anxiety is not the repression that has existed and will exist against us but the continuous wager with ourselves, in terms of avoiding political strategies that are threatening to pass a movement into oblivion through an increasingly deficient militant presence both at the level of events and structures.

We understand that the absence of a militant culture weakens us as a movement, makes us vulnerable and helpless in the face of the onslaught of power. Inaction is tantamount to defeat. We are therefore attempting through this project to build a solid base that will promote the revolutionary/insurgent perspective, intensify the threat against the oppressive mechanisms of the present and cultivate the rebellious consciousnesses of tomorrow. Because rebellion is not a theoretical scheme. It is action, it is fermentation, it is constant conflict.

WHY DO WE CHOOSE and PROMOTE REVOLUTIONARY and INEVITABLE (DIRECT ACTION) as a culture?

i.Because, it is the only means of direct confrontation with the enemy in the here and now. It is the practice that creates “ground zeros”, breaking the chains of normality, giving subjects the power to determine their own fate.

ii.Because, at its core, Anarchy is a constant war for freedom. It is not a slogan, it is not a theory, it is conflict, it is action.

iii. Because comradeship is not an abstract concept, but living and non-negotiable relationships among fighters. These are forged in the fire of battle, side by side in every crisis, every defeat, every difficulty. It is there that we rediscover our lost collective self.

iv.Because it pushes subjects to exceed their limits, to break the chains of fear, to question the impossible.

v.Because the aggression of direct action is not blind violence, but a strategic choice. The spread of revolutionary action, the generalization of violent confrontation with the powers of authority, is necessary for the deconstruction of the state and capitalist edifice and the crushing of the social relations of oppression.

The duty of every struggling person is to enrich their tools daily, both on a practical and theoretical level, which will bring them to the fulfillment of their ideals. Boldness, risk, imagination, organization, faith and consistency are required. Intention is not enough, decision is needed. For these reasons, for us the opening of this occupation is a part of this direction.

FOR ANARCHY

Together we can do anything we can chase away the vision of the end that seems so close.

We can live as proud and free people

We can tear down the wall and see a whole life of joy waiting for us!

Rasprava occupation

Koletti and Themistocleous str.

——–

athens.indymedia

Translated by Act for freedom now!

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18152

#anarchist #athens #europe #exarchia #greece #occupation

Hello dear #fediverse,

I'm looking for concerts (preferably #Rembetiko, but not a must) in #Athens between 14.03 and 28.03. Do you have any #tips for me? Pls boost! 😊 Thanks a million!

#fedihelp #concert #culture #music #Greece #Ελλάδα #Exarchia #Εξάρχεια #Κονσέρτο

Γεια σας

Ψάχνω για συναυλίες (κατά προτίμηση #Ρεμπέτικο, αλλά δεν είναι απαραίτητο) στην #Αθήνα μεταξύ 14.03 και 28.03. Έχετε καμιά #συμβουλή για μένα? Ευχαριστώ πολύ!

Hello dear #fediverse,

I'm looking for concerts (preferably #Rembetiko, but not a must) in #Athens between 14.03 and 28.03. Do you have any #tips for me? Pls boost! 😊 Thanks a million!

#fedihelp #concert #culture #music #Greece #Ελλάδα #Exarchia #Εξάρχεια #Κονσέρτο

Γεια σας

Ψάχνω για συναυλίες (κατά προτίμηση #Ρεμπέτικο, αλλά δεν είναι απαραίτητο) στην #Αθήνα μεταξύ 14.03 και 28.03. Έχετε καμιά #συμβουλή για μένα? Ευχαριστώ πολύ!

Hello dear #fediverse,

I'm looking for concerts (preferably #Rembetiko, but not a must) in #Athens between 14.03 and 28.03. Do you have any #tips for me? Pls boost! 😊 Thanks a million!

#fedihelp #concert #culture #music #Greece #Ελλάδα #Exarchia #Εξάρχεια #Κονσέρτο

Γεια σας

Ψάχνω για συναυλίες (κατά προτίμηση #Ρεμπέτικο, αλλά δεν είναι απαραίτητο) στην #Αθήνα μεταξύ 14.03 και 28.03. Έχετε καμιά #συμβουλή για μένα? Ευχαριστώ πολύ!

Hello dear #fediverse,

I'm looking for concerts (preferably #Rembetiko, but not a must) in #Athens between 14.03 and 28.03. Do you have any #tips for me? Pls boost! 😊 Thanks a million!

#fedihelp #concert #culture #music #Greece #Ελλάδα #Exarchia #Εξάρχεια #Κονσέρτο

Γεια σας

Ψάχνω για συναυλίες (κατά προτίμηση #Ρεμπέτικο, αλλά δεν είναι απαραίτητο) στην #Αθήνα μεταξύ 14.03 και 28.03. Έχετε καμιά #συμβουλή για μένα? Ευχαριστώ πολύ!

About 5,000 people joined the annual march to commemorate the fatal shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, who was 15 at the time.

As the march ended, hooded protesters set garbage containers on fire in the #Exarchia district, where the unarmed boy was shot dead by a policeman. The protesters hurled petrol bombs and stones at riot police, who responded with rounds of teargas.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/clashes-break-out-athens-after-march-mark-2008-student-killing-by-police-2024-12-06/

About 5,000 people joined the annual march to commemorate the fatal shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, who was 15 at the time.

As the march ended, hooded protesters set garbage containers on fire in the #Exarchia district, where the unarmed boy was shot dead by a policeman. The protesters hurled petrol bombs and stones at riot police, who responded with rounds of teargas.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/clashes-break-out-athens-after-march-mark-2008-student-killing-by-police-2024-12-06/