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Van of Prison Contractor KONE Vandalized – Solidarity with Prisoners in Greece!

On the night of Friday into Saturday (May 15–16), we demolished a KONE van parked in Connewitz, smashed the windows, slashed the tires, and left the slogan “Against Prisons.” The elevator manufacturer KONE is involved in the construction of prisons and thus profits directly from the inhumane prison system.

With this action, we send militant and solidarity-filled greetings to Athens. There, among others, our anarchist comrade Marianna was sentenced to 19 years in prison a few weeks ago for incorporating the path of armed resistance against the world of opression into her resistance. A path that cost her comrade and partner Kyriakos Xymitiris his life. In addition, six more comrades have been in custody since yesterday, accused of carrying out a number of successful armed expropriations of banks; here too, they face lengthy prison sentences.

Our passion for freedom is stronger than any prison cell!
Freedom for all prisoners!
Militant greetings to the Greek prisoners!

[LE] Van belonging to prison contractor KONE vandalized – Solidarity with prisoners in Greece! en/gr/German.

Claim for Arson Attack on OPEKEPE Building by Direct Action Cells (Athens, Greece)

excerpt from the responsibility claim for the arson attack on the OPEKEPE building (OPEKEPE is the Greek Payment Authority of Common Agricultural Policy (C.A.P.) Aid Schemes)

Direct Action Cells take responsibility for the arson attack on the OPEKEPE (the Payment and Control Agency for Guidance and Guarantee Community Aid) building in Domokou Street. The cell that carried out the attack moved inside a pretty guarded area and acted in a building protected by an police patrol car, nevertheless the plan was executed successfully.

Our attack is dedicated to all those suffocating in the gloomy situation that has been created in this country, those drowning in anxiety about how the month will end, those who imagine rifts of revenge against the barbarity of an unjust everyday life and smile at the din of an act of political counter-violence. But mainly to those who, with their actions, are trying to configure the great mosaic of radical resistance to capitalism and the relationships it reproduces in the social body. To all those who, with or without cause, attack the structures and the human potential of the enemy. The beacon and guidepost in all our attacks is and always will be the armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris. We call once again on the world of struggle to immediately organize its resistance to modern totalitarianism.

To use the tools of direct action against the structures of the system that oppress us and go on the offensive. May the example of Kyriakos’ selflessness serve as fuel for all of us to fight the battle for survival against the tyranny of the economic gallows and the cleaver of assimilation and indifference.

PS : We dedicate the energy to the anarchists arrested for the bank robbery in Kato Tithorea. STRENGTH AND CONFIDENCE TO THE END.

SOLIDARITY TO COMRADES MARIANNA MANOURA AND DIMITRA ZARAFETA

HONOUR TO ARMED FIGHTER KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS

VICTORY TO THE STRUGGLE OF THE REFUGEE COMMUNITY – STRENGTH TO THE HUNGER STRIKERS ARISTOTELI HANTZI AND SUZON DOPPAGNE

GOOD CONTINUATION TO ALL THE DIRECT ACTION GROUPS THAT KEEP THE CHANCE OF THE REVOLUTION ALIVE

Direct Action cells

Translated by Act for freedom now!

Greece: Palestine Beats the Heart of the World of Freedom and Struggle. Kyriakos Xymitiris… Present

When a few months ago we decided to make known the KYRIAKOS X vessel project, our comrade Mariana had written to us from prison: “…Perhaps this time Kyriakos will once again come up with an inventive and creative plan, and in his own unique way make the most difficult, the most impossible things seem achievable. As long as we are together.”

In these past months there were moments when we believed that this plan would not be realized. Even just a few days ago, we came to believe that KYRIAKOS X would not manage to sail toward Gaza.

And yet, it is already at sea with part of its crew. The rest of us (before we go to meet them), together with comrades who supported this project, are holding a first farewell. We will have with us one of the vessel’s sails, which we invite you to paint on and write your messages for Palestine and for Kyriakos. We also invite you to contribute seeds of plants and vegetables that we will carry to Gaza, as yet another contribution so that the land destroyed by Zionism and its allies may bloom again—though the resistance has never ceased to bloom even for a moment

In Palestine beats the heart of the world of freedom and struggle.

Kyriakos Xymitiris… Present.

Wednesday, April 29, 7pm, Tsamadou

*KYRIAKOS X vessel and comrades

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In Palestine beats the heart of the world of freedom and struggle. Kyriakos Xymitiris… Present. (Athens,Greece)

Arson Attack on Dimitris Karonis’ Vehicle – Commando “Kyriakos Xymitiris”

SILENCES MUST BECOME SCREAMS

In the silence and generalized apathy of our times, it is imperative that we take a stand and act. In any way we can, but we must act. There is no excuse, there is no room for postponements and suspensions. The world is running at an incredible speed, passing us by, trampling us, nothing is left standing and we pretend that nothing is happening. THE MURDERED IN THE TRAINS AND FACTORIES, THE DEAD IN THE RUBBLE OF GAZA, THE MURDERED LITTLE GIRLS IN MINAB, THE SHOT IN THE BACK IN MINNESOTA. In all the lengths and breadths of the earth, the state monopoly on violence must be questioned. In the theater of the absurd and the darkest dystopia that we are experiencing, remaining in our place apathetic implies more than ever bloody complicity. Bloody complicity of a society of masses of people with a scratched face for a smile, a docile gait and blood on their hands. A society that has fallen into a “sweet” indulgence in the embrace of digital Morpheus (modern media culture, communication and ultimately misinformation) and that is experiencing a pandemic crisis that is not an emergency but a permanent one, with the symptoms this time being the apolitical subservience and the devotion of each person only to their own little life. We encounter the counter-proposal to this slow but painful assimilationist drowning within the framework of a dignified existential stance and conscious choice in the face of a voracious system and by extension in the deep empathy of solidarity for our neighbor.

So we move on to action and assume responsibility for the arson of the car of Professor Dimitris Karonis in the Zografou Polytechnic Campus, who, at the behest of the New Democracy, tampered with the findings on Tempi.

Since the murder of 57 people in Tempi…

After the Tempi murder, the government gang launched a huge cover-up campaign in every possible and impossible way. Rumors, statements by ministers, government leaflets, parrot journalists, committees and findings. And we come to the point. On May 13, 2025, NTUA professor Dimitris Karonis, by order of the appellate investigator Bakaimis, publishes his own findings regarding the causes of the fire that followed the train collision. We do not want to go into technical details that do not concern us and do not concern anyone. We will stand and demonstrate how Karonis turned into a pawn of the New Democracy mafia in order to distract public opinion from the cold-blooded murder. It took Karonis 14 whole months to cook up the report in open collaboration with government officials. 14 whole months that the government had heavily advertised the expected report that, like the Arta bridge, was coming out every day. But they had to make it so well among themselves that the result they wanted would come out. And through the mouth of government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis on Tuesday morning 13/5 ”the narrative of the cover-up is collapsing with a bang” and ”they made up a narrative to anger the people and now there is an end to the vulgarity”. All the ND paperboys are now citing Karonis’ 132 pages and trumpeting with pomp that the narrative about the illegal cargo has been debunked and that things are slowly taking their place. Who believes that Karoni’s report was not the product of pressure, manipulation and blackmail. Who is so stupid as to believe that the entire government mechanism was based entirely by chance on a finding of an ‘impeccable’ technocrat? It is a typical statement of a parent of a Tempi victim in those days that Karonis’ finding WAS BOUGHT.

But what did Karonis say in so many pages of his expert report? He ruled out the possibility that the freight train was carrying any suspicious cargo, which caused the mushroom fire. The expert report states that “the formation of a fireball under conditions of high-current electric arc is possible. This means that in the case of the tragic accident under investigation, it is also a possibility, since flashes attributed to an electric arc have been recorded.” The finding raises a safety issue for trains that use the specific transformers and specific silicone oils. However, Siemens, in its own relevant document, claimed that silicone oils cannot produce a fireball. Karonis rules out the existence of illegal cargo on the commercial train, stating that “from the cargo data of the commercial train and the Hellenic Police Autopsy Report, there is no mention anywhere of recording material that would have the characteristics required for the formation of a flammable vapor cloud that could create a fireball,” citing the videos depicting the commercial train as it passed through the Platamonas tunnel. It took Mr. Karonis 14 months to repeat in 130 pages the conclusion that the firefighters had drawn from the beginning on the orders of Hellenic Train – and on which Mitsotakis relied to direct the investigation from the very beginning. The firefighters, however, subsequently spoke about the pressure and threats they received to keep their mouths shut. In a document written some time later, however, the same Bakaimis, who had ordered the said report from Karonis, unexpectedly and explicitly states that there is no question of an ignition-explosion inside the train transformers as Karonis had initially stated. In simple words, Karonis did the dirty work for the government while dedicating his work to the victims of Tempi, insulting their memory. HYPOCRISY IS OVERFLOWING AND OUR PATIENCE IS ENDING SOMEWHERE HERE. When we burned down the house of the former president of EODASAAM, Christos Papadimitriou, last year, we wrote that “for the system, Papadimitriou and every Papadimitriou may be expendable, for us they will be targets. The EODASAAM report was a very clever and insidious attempt to sweep the responsibilities of government agents under the rug. Moreover, this specific report was an initial attempt on the part of the blue-collar executives to ‘mitigate’ social discontent.” Coming to Karonis, another expendable from the system’s perspective, we send a clear message that no matter how many years pass, no matter how many trials are held, historical memory has recorded all of them as complicit and murderers.

…in the apartment on Arcadia Street

On that October 31st, along with comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris, a part of all of us was lost. It may not have been a state assassination like that of the Tempi or the employers at the Violanta factory, but death had chosen the side of the fighters. For us, the sacrifice of a comrade for the struggle and the Cause is a beacon and a constant reminder that with more stubbornness we must continue the struggle. Verbalizations have no cost. The flourishes in public statements without practical follow-up and impact, the complaining of the anarchists of the bars about their glorious past and the retrieval of “revolutionary stories” from the dusty cupboards of earlier years are said to be priceless. The time has come for actions and for words to match the actions of each and every one. Those who are still tightly bound to the safety belt and remain on empty words had better remain silent. Let us honor the dead fighter who acted within the framework of the multifaceted anarchist struggle with a weapon in hand, crossing the red light of social legitimacy. The smile of Kyriakos accompanies us in every action and in every practice of revolutionary counter-violence and revenge for all the dead on our side. At the moment when the trial of Ampelokipi is in progress, we send our solidarity to all the imprisoned anarchists under judicial hostage. You will find the imprints of an entire multifaceted movement on the maps of our struggles, where the judiciary takes care to exhaust all its vindictiveness by making accusations and carrying out obsessive persecutions. Let’s finally put a stop to this lawlessness and vindictiveness.

We can continue to write many pages, analyzing the reasons we attacked Karonis and every Karonis. The system gives us dozens of reasons to attack. From the genocidal practices of the Zionists or the imperialist attacks of the US to the unaccountable domestic sovereignty and state murders within Greece. DID ANYONE THINK OF ACTING AND HAD NO REASON? Are the reasons we mention simply the fuel to organize an attack and nothing more in the sense that the system itself is murdering our very beings every moment, every hour?

Let’s all put it down, each and every one with their own self and let’s consider whether it is worth living an entire life as slaves or whether the time has come to act for freedom. Because freedom is not necessarily a dot on the map that we must reach but a few breaths out of the depths of the slavery of everyday life. On the paths where the wild joy of breaking the laws inflates the lungs with freedom, on these paths, at these crossroads that we have long chosen the direction, we will meet those who dare daily and will dare again in the future to take the plunge into the void of Risk and Battle. With our bags full of stones, Molotov cocktails, incendiary devices and any other supplies needed. Without any inhibition or turning back. Because our own path did not choose us, we chose it and we walk it from our childhood dreams to our adult nightmares. And the end may be predetermined but what is more beautiful than being hit with the inevitable? Until the end.

Honor forever to the armed guerrilla Kyriakos Xymitiris and to the Italian revolutionary comrades Alessandro Marcogliano and Sara Ardizzone. Solidarity to all the captured revolutionaries.

Alongside the struggle of the Refugees and to Aristotelis Chantzis who, with his own life as a weapon, fights for the obvious.

COMMANDO ‘KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS’

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640801/

Athens, Greece: Incendiary Attack on Vasilis Kapernaros’ Law Office – Direct Action Cells

The Direct Action Cells claim responsibility for the incendiary attack on the office of far-right lawyer and failed politician Vasilis Kapernaros in the Kypseli neighborhood in the early hours of April 2. Just as we did the last time we attacked a collaborator in the crimes of Tempi (the Vozenberg residence, February 2025), so now we name the cell that carried out the attack after the armed urban guerrilla Kyriakos Xymiteris. We call upon all fighting revolutionary forces. Every comrade who devises subversive plans and puts them into action through dynamic acts, to take up the torch and honor the memory of our comrade as he deserves. To set fire to the quiet nights of the metropolis. To take the risks that are necessary so that we can show through our actions that there is no better way to remember and honour our dead than by intensifying the war against the rot of the system and its dominant culture.

The reason for our group’s attack on the office of that wretched individual known as Kapernaros is his active involvement in covering up the crime at Tempi, as he is the lawyer for Interstar Security, the company responsible for security and video surveillance of the railway network. The company that concealed for years the videos of the trains that collided that day and, along with other parties, contributed to the concealment of critical evidence regarding the crime. At this moment, the company’s legal representative and two ΟΣΕ executives are on trial for failing to hand over the videos of the freight train being loaded at the station in Thessaloniki. In this courtroom, as relatives of the victims report, Kapernaros bursts in with an escort, taunts and bullies people, culminating in a vile attack on former hunger striker Panos Routsis.

To put it more plainly, we’re dealing with a servile lackey. A few months ago, and “coincidentally” immediately after Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s interview—in which he wondered if there were any videos from the tunnels showing the freight train —the eager scoundrel appeared, donning the guise of a saviour lawyer, with three “forgotten” videos, which he even shared with an old acquaintance of ours, Aris Portosalte. He therefore chose to bear the burden of responsibility for distorting the facts and burying the truth of the Tempi crime, placing himself in the spotlight of public criticism—as such megalomaniacal figures always desire. The criticism we have consistently chosen is that of fire and revolutionary praxis.

Kapernaros, the son of a cop, grew up in post-Civil War Greece in an environment that can be summed up by the slogan “Fatherland – Religion – Family.” He, too, is just another two-bit patriot like those who donned hoods and betrayed resistance fighters to the occupiers, later fighting them in the mountains at the behest of their new masters as “bandits.” Like those who, exploiting the people’s hunger and hardships, amassed fortunes like black marketeers. All these vermin presented themselves to the post-civil war state as good Christians and patriots, while they were the greatest scum in the history of this land.

Today, all of them—like Kapernaros—are peddling the same old lies, obscuring their sordid role. He plays the part of a good Christian and, above all, a patriot, while at the same time playing an active role in covering up the crime at Tempi. Ten years ago, he was supposedly selling an anti-memorandum, while behind the scenes he was setting up the serious Golden Dawn as another reserve force for the system to prevent the rise of the left and, even more so, to prevent it from shifting toward more radical directions. He naturally also participated in the Golden Dawn trial as the lawyer for MP Nikos Kouzilos, while simultaneously setting up various factions of the right-wing political spectrum, such as the Radical National Alarm and the Patriotic Radical Union, with various “serious” Golden Dawn MPs like Synadinos, Koukoutsis, and Sveroni. At the same time, his relationship with the former secretary-general of the Samaras government, Takis Baltakos, is well known. Baltakos was not merely the government’s liaison with Golden Dawn; he was the key proponent of the “serious” Golden Dawn scenario mentioned above, which would operate based on the historical role of fascists. As a crutch for the system in times of crisis and destabilisation.

Of course, as a good right-winger, a Christian and a patriot who respects himself, he was involved in a 5-million-euro tax evasion scandal in 2013, while serving as a civil attorney in the Lingeridis trial, representing the family of the deceased butcher. It’s practically a tradition in this country for all these crooks from the right-wing establishment to maintain ties with law enforcement and siphon off public funds. In almost all the financial scandals, big or small, that come to light from time to time—especially over the last 15 years—one observes a common pattern. If not all, then most of them belong to the political right. They spout plenty of patriotic rhetoric, have good connections with official institutions, and point the finger at anyone who resists putting the brakes on this downward spiral. All of this serves as a cover for lining their own pockets with public funds, without, of course, any of them ever being punished by the non-existent justice system.

We noted years ago, when we visited the homes of certain high-ranking members of the judicial mafia, that the civil justice system does not address the problem. It is the problem itself. One does not need to be an anarchist to understand this point. With each passing day, it becomes even clearer to anyone concerned how this system operates. It dons the cloak of the Dragon when dealing with political opponents of the system, but also with vulnerable people who lack political backing. It violates the “presumption of innocence,” tramples even on civil laws themselves, piles them up in prisons, and robs them of their very lives with great ease. In all these cases, the harsh and “uncompromising” judges push the limits of the law and bury people for years in the labor camps we now call detention centers. On the other hand, the same judges become sensitive and compassionate when their own children are accused. That is why, if you look inside prisons, you will find only a handful of all those criminals who, in reality, are the only ones terrorising society.

Two high-profile political trials are currently underway, cases that reflect all the double standards governing not only the civil justice system and the police, but the civil system itself. We are referring, on the one hand, to the trial for the crime in Tempi and, on the other, to the trial of our comrades in the Ampelokipi case. This is a diabolical coincidence, as we believe that a comparison of the two cases convinces even the most naive observer of just how methodically and dirty police investigations and judicial inquiries operate in this country. As we mentioned above, how harsh, repressive, and sweeping state mechanisms are in one case, while at the same time how slow, “careless,” and “lenient” they become when it comes to cleaning up the mess left by their political superiors in the other.

The glaring contradictions of the judicial mafia, of course, come as no surprise to us. They elicit a bitter smile of confirmation of the obvious, but the horror and brutality of the power that certain modern-day inquisitors can wield against the lives and freedom of other people cannot be dismissed as ordinary or normal. Anyone who expects the accomplices and lackeys of murderers to deliver justice is doomed to live in darkness and with their eyes cast down. Anyone who allows a comrade from the Ampelokipi case to be condemned bloodlessly and without cost should expect the passage of time to drag them into a life devoid of purpose and direction, for that is the only way to describe the acceptance of defeat. Arkadias Street on 31st October 2024 was marked by an explosion of choices, by the stride of a man, a sure and steady step toward a head-on collision. A critical moment, a moment of choices, lies before us today. We will not issue threats against those who hold the fate of the freedom of our comrades on trial in their hands. Whether they prove hollow, or the actions and events that will unfold will be irrevocably etched into Time. We remind only those who still hold the spark within them for revenge and revolution, for a world for people and not a world without humanity, of the selfless example and the life chosen by those who turned that spark into an explosion. Kyriakos, Christos, Lambros, Christoforos. Their struggles and their calls for an escalation of the war. The time has come for conscious and critical choices for everyone. Because in the face of the kingdom of defeatism and assimilation, we will choose Imagination, Optimism, and Risk.

STRENGTH AND SOLIDARITY WITH MARIANNA MANOURA, DIMITRA ZARAFETA, DIMITRIS P., NIKOS ROMANOS, AND ARGYRI K.

THE ARMED REVOLUTIONARY KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US

REVOLUTIONARY MEMORY FOR ALESSANDRO MARCOGLIANO AND SARA ARDIZZONE

VICTORY IN THE HUNGER STRIKE OF ARISTOTELIS HANTZIS AND THE STRUGGLE OF THE REFUGEE COMMUNITY

Direct Action Cells

Kyriakos Xymiteris Cell

Source: athens.indymedia

Athens, Greece: Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on Vasilis Kapernaros’ law office – Direct Action Cells

Statements by Comrades Marianna Manoura and Dimitra Zarafeta on Day 2 of the Trial (Athens, Greece)

Marianna Manoura

I would like to state to the residents of the apartment building that the explosion was not due to an organized plan. It resulted in the death of my comrade, Kyriakos Xymitiris, and my own serious injury. We never wanted general people to suffer, nor to cause damage to people whilst social conditions are already very serious. When our political space wants to attack it evaluates, and the logic of collateral damage is in no way consistent with its values. We use our means against the system alone.

I thank the two people who helped me immediately after the explosion.

The explosion has been exploited by the state from the very beginning.

I will never claim that it was a conspiracy. I take political responsibility for the actions, but I will not waste a single minute of my freedom for things I did not do.

My comprade, Kyriakos Xymitiris, lost his life for a better world.

His death has been instrumentalized and vilified through the imputation of the explosion, an accusation by the counter-terrorism that Kyriakos was aware of what would follow.

Kyriakos, as a political subject, loved life; not only his own, but also that of others. As a human being, it is impossible that he would want to burden general people with damage to their homes.

I am not accountable to any court, I am only accountable to my comrades.

It is in your hands how this trial will be conducted, whether you will follow the orders of counterterrorism, or whether you will judge based on the actual facts.

I can take political responsibility for what is my responsibility.

I dedicate every minute of this trial to the memory of Kyriakos.

Kyriakos was a wonderful man and a sensitive revolutionary.

10/31 is a breaking point for me, both for the moral burden of the damage to the apartment building and for the loss. I will preserve it to preserve the memory of Kyriakos, his choices, and my place within them.

Dimitra Zarafeta

I deny all the charges.

I wish to pay tribute to the memory of my comrade, Kyriakos Xymitiris.

Political action, friendships and political relationships are being criminalized.

The deprivation of my liberty is the responsibility of the court, which allows such cases to be filed.

I apologize to the family who own the apartment, as, unknowingly, I put them in an unpleasant position due both to the damage and to the involvement with the repressive mechanism.

Statements from the two comrades Marianna Manoura and Dimitra Zarafeta in the 2 day of the trial. (Athens,Greece)

Claim of Responsibility for Arson Attack on a Cop’s House

by Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Anger”

• In March, no one dies (March 2010, Daphne – Lambros Fountas, an anarchist guerrilla who fell in a clash with cops) – (March 2026, outskirts of Rome – Sara Ardizone and Sandro Mercoliano, anarchist comrades who were killed by an explosion)
• In October, no one dies (October 2024, Ampelokipi, Athens – Kyriakos Xymitiris, anarchist guerrilla killed by explosion)
• In May, no one dies (May 2025, Thessaloniki – Snizanna Paraskevaidou, fell in an explosion during an attack on a bank)

And the story continues like this. Through the battles of our own people, ordinary, everyday. Like Lambros, like Kyriakos, like Snizanna, like Sandro and Sara and so many more people who lost their lives in direct action.

With determination, with our own rage and memory, we took to the streets at dawn on March 10, the date that the anarchist revolutionary guerrilla Lambros Fountas fell fighting under fire from cops in Daphne 16 years ago and we attacked a cop’s house in Kaisariani with an incendiary device.

We have every reason to target the state’s cadres who act as security guards for the bosses and the ruling elite. With this move, we want to remind them and all the cops that we will not leave their activities unpunished. They are the ones who target activists, violently attack demonstrators, torture and murder people in the departments, at the borders, as well as people from the impoverished margins and our class. Let them remember and know that we can also locate them in their homes, in their neighborhoods, in their jobs and that they are not truly safe anywhere by making this choice to serve the system.

It is a fact that the state invests in order and security by strengthening policing at every level of central government. In this way, it prevents as much as possible any resistance from below on behalf of capital while at the same time strengthening military-police capital through funds for security forces and armament programs. This is a parallel phenomenon in relation to the international geopolitical situation. As the war intensifies abroad (Middle East, Ukraine) and the Greek state participates in it through the Greek-Israeli-American alliance, NATO and the EU, so does the repression at home. Cops of all kinds are positioned to manage our lives. The same applies to every field of public space from universities to neighborhoods, squares and natural places (see Exarchia Square, Strefi Hill).

Let fear change camp then. No matter how much the complicit and regime-based mass deception media cover you up by hiding our actions, we know the anxiety that these visits to your homes cause you. If you do not gather, we will come again. Our lives are not expendable. We want to show that you are the terrorists and dangerous to the public interest, not us who return the minimum percentage of violence that is yours.

We express our solidarity with the Palestinian people who are fighting. Let us intensify the anti-war action against the war crimes that are occurring in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran by the Western bloc. We will not become meat for the murderers’ cannons because the local leaders, with Mitsotakis and Dendias as the first and best, rushed to ally with Netanyahu and Trump.

The choice to connect these contents through action on the day of remembrance of the anarchist guerrilla Lambros Fountas constitutes a connecting link between memory, action and continuity.

STRENGTH TO ALL PALESTINIAN MILITANTS DETAINED BY THE ISRAELI NATIONALIST (ZIONIST) REGIME AND THREATENED WITH THE DEATH PENALTY

FREEDOM AND SOLIDARITY TO ALL THE COMRADES PERSECUTED FOR THE CASE OF AMPELOKIPI

Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Anger”

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640602/

Arson Attack on the Home of the Snitch Dean of NTUA and a Riot Police Officer

National Gendarmerie of Athens

In the early hours of March 25, we attacked with an incendiary device the building where the dean of the NTUA, Panagiotis Tsanakas, as well as a riot police officer, live in the area of Zografou. Our research on the chief snitch of the academic rabble of the Polytechnic brought us in front of a simultaneously special but poetically explainable coincidence. A snitch and a cop work and live together, a touching image to say the least.

Tsanakas is not simply the tsuchiki [contemptuous address for a person we consider vile and insignificant] of Hadjigeorgiou (rector of NTUA) but as the culmination of his “academic” work he has shamelessly handed over to the police a student who was writing slogans in favor of the Palestinian people on the school grounds. However, he has a deeper and more essential role in Hadjigeorgiou’s police-held monstrosity, of a rectory that allows/imposes the daily presence and the scolding of cops on campus in full compliance and obedience to the dictates of the ND doctrine for absolute control and essentially the necrosis of student and subversive struggles on university campuses. A rectorate that we have lost count of how many times has ordered the invasion of the repressive forces on the university grounds, with a particular “sensitivity” when it comes to those in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people.

Of course, Hadjigeorgiou has an additional reason to fervently desire the presence of cops on the NTUA grounds beyond serving the government’s planning. He uses them as doormen and henchmen who guard the “shop” that he has built in future collaborations on NATO programs and Jewish arms industries. Just the day after the attack, we read that a way has been found through opaque procedures and individual opinions of legal advisors to declare unconstitutional (!) Article 2 of the Funding and Management Guide of the Special Research Funds Account (ELKE), which concerns the NTUA and explicitly states “…The history of the NTUA is connected to struggles for freedom and peace. For this reason, the NTUA is not allowed to conduct or participate in research for war purposes of any kind, with the exception of research for the country’s defense needs, and no research funded by international military coalitions is undertaken.” Let us recall that the above constitutes a conquest of the anti-war movement of the era of the bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO forces in 1999. Of course, as early as October 2023, in the midst of the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza by the Israeli army, with the signatures of Hadjigeorgiou and Dean Panagiotis Tsanakas, a memorandum of cooperation between the NTUA and Intracom Telecom was signed. It is therefore obvious (unless you are a lobotomist) that the results of the university’s research in this collaboration are channeled to 2 subsidiaries of Intracom Telecom, Intracom Defense and Intracom Aviator, which actively cooperate with the Israeli army and its genocidal activities in the wider Middle East.

It is therefore clear that beyond being a miserable snitch, Tsanakas is, with actions – such as the above – an active supporter of the genocide of the peoples of the Middle East and as such must be treated by radical forces. The arson attack on the house was simply a warning. We know his daily life well and depending on his future actions he will be targeted appropriately.

The other tenant of the building practices the miserable profession of a riot policeman. The descendant of Pantelis Petrou and Ioannis Georgakopoulos symbolizes for us the murderous attacks of the repressive forces on the marches of the radical student movement, the serious injuries of comrades in the memorial march for the armed revolutionary Kyriakos Xymitiris and that of December 6th, the long arm of the state that supposedly will crush without reprisal. We want to welcome every upgraded action against every riot police crackdown that has taken place recently. We will leave the many words aside and give space to the action and if this can clarify that this “long arm” will literally begin to crush, then well and good. Let him inform his colleagues for the time being that the homes of some of them are in our hands, as well as those of other fighting organizations, and their targeting will take place depending on the intensity of the repressive attack we are receiving.

We dedicate our energy to the Italian anarchist comrades Alessandro Marcogliano and Sara Ardizzone, who lost their lives after an improvised explosive device exploded. To honor their memory, we named the cell that carried out the attack after their names. Sara, Alessandro, Kyriakos and hundreds of other freedom fighters are a heavy reminder to all of us. To those who speak of a dynamic struggle against the cannibalistic system that destroys our lives. An exhortation for each and every one of us to take a small step further. To increase our risks and commitments. To steel our stubbornness and arm ourselves. To honor the memory and choices of our fallen comrades by multiplying the centers of dynamic resistance. In an era when it is necessary to fight with all our being, so that we can be there at the rendezvous for the confrontation with history and those who keep our lives in suffocating jars. To crush those who hold the whip, to shatter the phobic culture of the willing, to not turn into a museum exhibit and a fairy tale to lull our lost revolutionary dreams. The disappointment, the whining and the “politics” of bars and cafes must give way to the reborn propaganda of conspiratorial acts.

WE DEDICATE OUR ATTACK TO THE FIGHTING PEOPLES OF THE MIDDLE EAST WHO ARE FIGHTING THE MONSTER OF IMPERIALISM WITH A GUN IN THEIR HANDS

SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMRADES OF THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

ALESSANDRO MERCOGLIANO, SARA ARDIZZONE, KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT IN OUR STRUGGLES

LET FEAR CHANGE CAMP

Direct Action Cells

Cell Alessandro Mercogliano/Sara Ardizzone

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640506/

If We Are Afraid Today, We Will Be Afraid Tomorrow and Forever – Dimitra Zarafeta

It took 512 days for the authorities to finally decide that it was time to put our case, the case of Ampelokipi, to be tried. Just one breath before the end of the 18-month period. Not because the investigative process was truly endless, nor because new evidence was constantly emerging in the meantime. From the very first moment, the facts were more or less the same. However, the choice to set the trial at the last minute was neither accidental nor procedural. It was a purely political choice, a conscious method so that the process would run on a fast track and the desired decision would be produced, with the same speed. Nevertheless, in this last text of mine before the trial, I will not dwell in detail on the practices and methods that the judicial authorities employ against us. These are already known to anyone who wants to see them. My purpose is to restore things to their true dimension, against the fabricated version that the anti-terrorist and then the investigating and prosecutors tried to impose initially. That is why I want and must talk about what has already happened and what is to follow.

In two days I will be in this court, because a year and a half ago I lent the keys to an apartment to my friends and comrades, Kyriakos and Marianna, so that they could host acquaintances.

I will be in this court accused of terrorism, with charges of membership and participation in an unknown organization, with an unknown structure, unknown roles, unknown duration, as well as for manufacturing, supplying and possessing explosives and weapons. An indictment that was drawn up overnight, based on flimsy evidence, which 2 months ago the court began to collapse with the removal of charges of this explosion and deterioration.

Or, to be more precise, the only “evidence” that the anti-terrorism department relied on to construct this indictment was the criminalization of everyday acts, the criminalization of political opinion and the criminalization of friendly and comradely relationships.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Thus, our case not only has a past that already counts a year and a half, but also a future. A future inextricably linked to the struggle.

That is why, in two days, I will be in this court to give my own struggle, defending my anarchist identity, the radical revolutionary struggle, my relations with my friends and comrades, and above all the memory of my comrade, Kyriakos Xymitiris.

I will be in this court to fight to the end for my freedom — a freedom that I do not grant them, not even for one more day than the 512 that they have already deprived me of. And if institutional cover is given to the anti-terrorist police to fabricate indictments in this way, then the responsibility for whether I am convicted of an indictment that I deny, falls on the current composition of the bench.

This also concerns all those who feel that behind bars are not only the prisoners, but also a part of themselves. Those who remain present and present in every field of the radical struggle. Because it is also in their hands to erect a mound, to not allow injustice to become law.

Nevertheless, in two days I will find myself in this court, which has a weight much greater than that of indictments and legal characterizations. Because within this process there is also a loss. There is the memory of our friend and comrade, Kyriakos Xymitiris, a memory that does not fit into any case file. For this very reason, this court has an importance that goes beyond the limits of a formal trial. That is why more is at stake around this process than meets the eye. Because in these halls I will not only defend myself, but also Kyriakos himself. I will speak about my friend and comrade on my own terms, not with the language of power, nor through the filters of the case file, but through the life he lived, the struggles he gave and what he chose to defend with all his heart, dedicating his life to it. With his absence, it is at the same time a deep, intense presence; because there are people like Kyriakos who, even when they are gone, continue to light the way and show with their very lives why it is worth standing up.

So my friend and comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris will be there in the knot in my neck, in the strength I find not to bend, in the need to keep alive everything we shared and everything he defended. He will be with me, next to me, like a hand on my shoulder, like a breath that reminds me that nothing is over and that the struggle continues.

Kyriakos Xymitiris Present
Honor for Ever to Anarchist Comrade Sarah Ardizone and Anarchist Comrade Alessandro Mercoliano

Dimitra Zarafeta

Korydallos Women’s Prison

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640443/

I Defend, I Don’t Apologize – Marianna Manoura

In the midst of revelations of all kinds of government scandals and the participation of the Greek state in the war unleashed by the US and Israel against Iran, the repressive mechanism decided to deal with the “internal enemy”. Three weeks before the first hearing, we were notified of the start of our trial. On April 1 and one month before the end of the 18-month period, the process begins. A process based on an obviously inflated indictment where it is obvious that four of the five defendants have nothing to do with or knew about what was going to happen on 31/10. The court’s focus, however, is not exclusively to highlight the otherwise well-used tactics of the anti-terrorist unit, but to defend the memory of the revolutionary Kyriakos Xymitiris and the armed means of resistance he decided to adopt against this cannibalistic system.

From the very beginning, the prosecuting authorities with the counter-terrorism at the helm saw this specific case as an ideal event to open yet another fan of persecutions and imprisonments of people. The apparent inability of the anti-terrorism police to establish even a pretextually credible indictment held us all hostage, with requests to terminate the temporary detention being rejected in all the interim judicial councils (six months and twelve months) with flimsy justifications. The case was thus kept open, in the absence of any new evidence to justify it, with the councils’ dismissive reasoning self-refuting at points, trying to find a new narrative in order to exhaust the limit of pre-trial detention for all the defendants, thus attempting to satisfy two goals: on the one hand, the consolidation of state vindictiveness and on the other hand, the maintenance of the narrative of a terrorist organization. An organization without a name, without a history, without action, without even a substance, the invention of which serves on the one hand spectacular-communicational reasons, but also a serious upgrade of the indictment that carries the risk of lethal penalties.

The result of this pretentious delay in closing the case for 17 months, was the delay in issuing and final deliberations, with the result that the trial is now approaching the typical time limit for the end of detention for all the detainees in the case. A fact that in itself causes a rush in its definition and conduct, with the service of its summons to take place on 09/03, just 3 weeks before its start on April 1, suffocatingly pressing our preparation time. I am therefore called, on April 1st, to stand trial accused of forming and joining a terrorist organization, aggravated manufacture of explosive devices and possession of explosive materials and explosive devices, pistols and ammunition, explosion with possible intent, aggravated damage and illegal possession of weapons, in a trial that has shown signs of haste and carelessness from the beginning. The situation that is taking shape may not surprise me. I am very well aware of the role of civil justice within this specific system of exploitation, which while pretending to play its role within a “rule of law”, is in reality primarily interested in implementing the dictates of anti-terrorist and political leadership. Nevertheless, I categorically declare that I am not prepared to allow any acceleration of the trial to work against me and my co-defendants and my comrade Kyriakos himself.

And if the counter-terrorism service took, once again, 17 months to return to where it started from, without any new evidence but insisting on prosecuting me – bagging me with four other people who have absolutely no connection, involvement or knowledge in the case, the trial in question includes a new method. The complete absence of all the counter-terrorism cops from the prosecution’s witnesses. That is, the prosecution, under the orders under which the investigations took place, the arrest warrants were issued and the charges were filed, considers that there is no reason to appear in the proceedings. That is, the prosecution does not appear in a case that it itself is prosecuting. I am not in a position to know the exact reasons why this happened. It is a fact that with the new amendments of 2024 (Floridis Law) it is now possible not to call the police officers who draw up an indictment and lead the pre-trial stage in the trial in an obvious attempt to protect themselves from foreseen contradictions that will eventually arise. However, especially in this case, with such a perforated indictment and a case file full of contradictions, gaps and obvious shortcomings, the absence of anti-terrorist police officers from the prosecution’s witness list aims to protect them in the courtroom with the expected deconstruction of their fabrications.

Whether it comes or not, the responsibilities will be attributed to them. Responsibility for the shameful way in which they treated the family of my comrade Kyriakos Ximitiris in the first hours of the explosion, which far exceeds the moral limits that these unscrupulous guys who swear by democracy and legality supposedly invoke and that they supposedly protect. Responsibility also for the order to take a DNA sample while I was still unconscious in Evangelismos. Responsibility for the fact that once again, like so many others in its years of action, the counter-terrorism is the spearhead of repression with surveillance, persecution, imprisonment of countless fighters.

On the contrary, I will be there. I will be there to assume the responsibilities that fall to me, to defend the political choice for the position I held on 31/10. I will be there to stand up to a mechanism that proves its bias every day and that, for decades now, has been unfolding its full vindictiveness in the face of fighters. Despite all the possible consequences, however, I will proudly defend my partner’s choices, the necessity of fighting by all means, the gravity of this choice and the imprint it leaves. And I will be there because the political space to which I have belonged for the last 15 years of my life is dominated by other values ​​and agendas than those promoted by the system. It does not shift the responsibilities of others as the government does every day, it does not defend partisanship and individual interest as the system promotes, and it does not choose the easy path of selfishness as its representatives choose.

I will not attend the trial to bow my head, nor to renounce my ideas and responsibilities. But I will not give even one more day of freedom to their hands for actions that I not only did not do but also for which there is no evidence to support them. Moreover, the issue of the trial is mainly the preservation of the revolutionary memory of the comrade. Of the deposition of all these elements that make him such an indispensable and unique comrade and person. For me, this is the stake of this particular trial; the prevalence of the image of comrade Kyriakos as we knew him, learned about him, experienced him. As a deeply revolutionary man who, beyond his commitment and presence in the field, decided to sharpen his way of acting despite the adverse conditions that prevail. This is for me the legacy that I hope such a trial will leave. Of devotion and faith in the revolutionary vision even during the greatest challenge. The sign of solidarity and the defense of projects that want us continuously and practically against those who oppress our lives and alongside those who struggle by all means. The dignity and pride that befits our political space from whose bosoms fighters like Kyriakos emerge. People who do not retreat, do not compromise, whose sparkling gaze is enough to illuminate even the most difficult path.

But Kyriakos will be there too. That’s where his heart will beat. Next to me and all the accused. Next to his comrades. He will be there because he knows that the fight for memory is a collective affair and is not simply necessary but essential. Essential for a movement to exist and have a future. Because the stories of those who fell are the ones that inspired others to rise. And as much as the weight of loss bends our knees, it is enough to take a look at that sparkling gaze of his for the fatigue to be shared and the fear to diminish. And if at some point we become discouraged, a look at his genuine smile is enough to remember that nothing is over.

With Kyriakos as our companion, it is in our hands, inside and outside the walls, to reverse the terms of the trial both before and during it. To put a stop to the injustice that has become law, to the bias that has become habit. To perceive justice as a battlefield and the trial as a political conflict. Since the field is already mined, it is an unequal battle, in which there is no middle ground. Either you give up or you fight until the end. And what I can say with certainty is that I and certainly Kyriakos would choose the latter. We are right, we will win.

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT
HONOR FOREVER TO ANARCHIST COMRADE SARAH ARDIZONE AND ANARCHIST COMRADE ALESSANDRO MERCOLIANO
STATE AND CAPITAL THE ONLY TERRORISTS

Marianna Manoura
Women’s prisons of Korydallos

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640410/

International Week of Solidarity Action with Imprisoned Comrades of Ampelokipi Case and in Memory of Kyriakos Xymitiris

We call for an International Week of Solidarity Action (24-31 March) with the imprisoned comrades for Ampelokipi case and in memory of the anarchist armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris.

These days before the beginning of the trial on the 1st of April at Athens Court of Appeal, we call for comrades around the world to participate, in order to collectively fight for our comrades’ Marianna Manoura, Dimitra Zarafeta, Dimitris, Nikos Romanos and for A.K’s release, as well as defend the memory of our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris.

Our support and solidarity is non-negotiable and in the battle they are facing -at court this time- we will stand by their side.

Solidarity Manifestation Friday 27/3, 7pm at Syntagma Square (Athens, Greece)

Solidarity manifestation (beginning of the trial) Wednesday 1/4, 8.30am, Athens Court of Appeal

FREE COMRADES MARIANNA MANOURA, DIMITRA ZARAFETA, DIMITRIS, NIKOS ROMANOS AND A.K.

KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT

STATES ARE THE ONLY TERRORISTS

Solidarity Assembly for the imprisoned,

fugitives and persecuted fighters

[email protected]

We call for an Internationl Week of Solidarity Action (24-31 March) with the imprisoned comrades for Ampelokipi case and in memory of the anarchist armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris.

Trial Begins for the Ampelokipi Case

On Wednesday, April 1 (9am), at the 2nd three-member felony panel in Loukareos (4th floor, room D100C), the trial begins for our detained comrades who are being prosecuted for the case of the explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipi. We call for a solidarity rally that day, as well as for the next trials to be scheduled.

The text of the assembly on the case follows.

On 31/10/24, after an explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipi, the anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation, while the anarchist comrade Marianna M. ended up seriously injured in the ICU of Evangelismos. She was transferred to the women’s prison of Korydallos where to this day she is deprived of the necessary medical care.

The well-known “witch hunt” and the attempt to shape impressions by the media follow. The narrative is set up as follows: the processing of (a small amount of) explosive material and mechanisms with only the anarchist comrades Kyriakos and Marianna present and knowledgeable is called an organization, the apartment to which there was access only for a few days is called a yafka [safe house used by clandestine urban guerrilla groups], anyone involved with it is targeted and interrogated. Amidst media propaganda, the state and its persecutory mechanisms orchestrate and unleash their repressive plan regarding an anonymous “terrorist” organization with the pool of suspects including friends, relatives, and even strangers, criminalizing political, comradely, and friendly relationships. The anarchist comrade Dimitra Z. and comrade Dimitris are arrested and remanded in custody with the only connection being their relationship with the apartment in which the explosion occurred. A few weeks later, the arrests and pre-trial detentions follow with a unique “element” of a fingerprint section on a mobile object of two more individuals, the anarchist comrade Nikos Romanos and A.K. This flimsy element of the anti-terrorist service, whose pass-through evidence is used without any further questioning by the judicial system, has been used extensively in methods of trapping activists.

The judicial mechanism, in the service of the same state strategy, extended, a few days ago, the pre-trial detention of all those who claimed their freedom, rejecting the requests for release. The pre-trial detainees are once again being tried to appear as unconscious, “blind” bombers, as a “public danger”.

However, the truth is far from their police reports and their miserable publications. In contrast to the barbarity of the capitalist world, the anarchist concept stands against and consciously acts against the logic of collateral damage, which now parades as evidence of guilt against means and choices of struggle. Which oppressed, which poor, which proletarian, which immigrant has reason to believe that they are in danger from the world of Struggle and its choices? From people dedicated to the fight against inequality and exploitation, people who take their place on the lines of revolutionary struggle, who dedicate and are ultimately capable of giving their own lives to the defense of high ideals, to the overthrow of the world of power. People who resist in every way the storm of privatization, individualization, indifference to the commons and politics.

The proletariat, the social majority, have no common interest with the oil and drug smugglers, the intertwined mafiosi, the powerful millionaire oligarchs of banking, construction, shipping and industrial capital who own all of the major systemic media. With those who openly support the policies of governments, who profit from the unbearable accuracy in basic necessities and anti-worker legislation, who cover up state murders at the borders, in police stations, on public transport, on the streets, who wash and cover up scandals and rapists. Who are connected to the international and domestic arms industry, who promote and support the participation of the Greek state on all war fronts and in the genocide of the Palestinians. The poor, the oppressed, the marginalized, the proletariat – natives or refugees and immigrants – know that the revolutionary struggle, the radical struggle, is waged within the class war, for their interests.

For this reason, we do not forget and will not stop saying: The state and capital were, are and will be terrorists. They terrorize through the daily oppression of our lives. They are the ones who exploit and plunder nature and our lives in order to maximize their profits, who condemn us to poverty and destitution, who throw us out onto the street by selling out the obvious need for housing to funds, who turn our neighborhoods into inaccessible tourist zones, who hide the ever-increasing worker murders behind the word accident, who kill immigrants and refugees at the borders, in labor camps and police stations, who cover up and reproduce patriarchy and sexist violence by shamelessly handing out panic buttons. Those who wage wars on the altar of their economic and political interests, those who redistribute the world by staining their hands with blood, those who attack the peoples of the Middle East and level the resisting Gaza, those who commit the genocide of the Palestinian people. Those who confirm the violence of a system of inequalities, the violence of the powerful.

Revolutionary anti-violence is a necessary tool of struggle as a collective defense of social parties that struggle against state repressive violence, as it can act as a lever of pressure to sabotage the plans of the sovereign, to prevent national wars but also to spread the revolutionary project. Armed struggle as part of revolutionary anti-violence, attempts and succeeds in returning to the state a portion of the violence that it daily inflicts on us. Armed struggle is an integral part of the radical movement, of the multifaceted social and class struggle, deeply rooted in our militant tradition, and we defend it as non-negotiable.

Part of this continuous insurrectionary movement of resistance against the imposition of power was the armed anarchist fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris. Comrade Kyriakos was for years continuously present in projects of solidarity with prisoners, in the anti-war Internationalist movement, in actions for the defense of the Exarchia neighborhood, in the struggles within the universities, in the defense of the liberated spaces of occupations and in every social and class struggle. He chose to fight to the end, fighting with all means the world of power, the state, capital, racism, patriarchy. He chose to fight on the side of the oppressed and the rebels for a better world, for a world of solidarity, equality, freedom. Somehow his last breath found him, where he consciously and always consistently chose to be, in the struggle.

We defend all those who gave their lives, who were imprisoned, who fought, who were confronted with state methods throughout so many years of social and class war.

WHO FORGETS THE PRISONERS OF WAR
FORGETS THE WAR ITSELF

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS PRESENT

Solidarity Assembly for the imprisoned, fugitive and persecuted activists
[email protected]

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640139/

(Athens) Intervention at the Offices of “Efimerida ton Syntakton” (EFSYN)

This text was published in the course of an intervention at EFSYN in Athens, Greece and translated by the Berlin Assembly in memory of Kyriakos Xymitiris and in solidarity with the persecuted in the Ambelokipi-case.

We are intervening at EFSYN’ in order to publicize the following texts. This intervention follows our presence and the distribution of these texts in the area of Ampelokipi and on Arkadias Street in order to show our solidarity with the residents of the apartment building.

At the same time, we went to the spot where our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris lost his life.

TEXT FOR THE APARTMENT BUILDING ON ARKADIAS STREET

On 31/10/24, my comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris and I were in the apartment at 4-8 Arkadias Street. During the processing of explosive materials, an explosion occurred that took the life of my 36-year-old comrade, caused my own very serious injury, and resulted in damage to the apartment building. Since then, I have been detained in Korydallos women’s prison under horrendous conditions, having to confront the loss of the person closest to me, my own injury, and very serious accusations.

This explosion obviously was not part of any plan, nor did it happen due to carelessness. This tragic development was the consequence of defective material, something that unfortunately could not be foreseen.

The anarchist political space to which we both belong fights for a world of equality, solidarity, and self-organization. For a world where monthly survival does not cause anxiety, where interpersonal relationships are not based on competition, and where a life in dignity is not a matter of luck. And when this anarchist political space chooses to attack those who impose poverty, exclusion, and insecurity with such means, it takes all necessary measures, often putting the acting subjects themselves at risk, in order to ensure the safety of unrelated people.

Beyond protecting people’s physical integrity, our political spectrum targets those who oppress and exploit us. It sets its sights on the powerful of this world. Those who eat with golden spoons while we make do with the absolute necessities, those who live off rents while we beg that there not be yet another increase, those who reap profit while we work twelve-hour a day. Those who spread death through wars, misery through high prices, fear through racism, extermination through long and uninsured labor. Those who impose uncertainty, insecurity, danger even when you simply take the night train to Thessaloniki or try to cross the border for a life with dignity.

We struggle so that all of this does not remain unanswered. To win back the right to live. To put a stop to injustice, exploitation, oppression, cover-ups. Within this struggle we risk much, we are targeted, we receive violence and repression, we endanger our safety, our freedom, and sometimes even our lives. Not because we are indifferent to life, but because we care about the life of our struggle and then we feel responsible for many people. Thus, we consciously set social solidarity as a priority.

My comrade adopted this stance in life, and that is why he decided to struggle with all means. And if he was still here, he would be the first to try to help the residents of the apartment building, not because he would regret the means he chose to struggle with, but because for him, as for all of us, solidarity and mutual aid are a deeply human feeling, a driving force that pushes us to action.

“We are not terrorists, nor criminals. It is precisely because of our love for life, because we rejoice in the human spirit, that we became fighters for freedom against this racist and deadly imperialist system.”

Marianna Manoura
Korydallos Women’s Prison

Statement on the explosion on Arkadias Street

More than a year has passed since the explosion in the apartment of Arkadias Street, an explosion that was destined to change the lives of dozens of people forever. Residents of the apartment building, a few minutes after the explosion, go to the apartment to see what has happened. There they find the very seriously injured comrade Marianna Manoura, and also the dead comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris. A few hours later the building is sealed for inspection by the anti-terrorism unit while dozens of media outlets rush to break the news and spread a climate of terror. Within a few days, the apartment building is declared uninhabitable.

From our side, as the Assembly of Solidarity with imprisoned, fugitives and persecuted fighters, we express our solidarity with the people who lost their homes in the explosion on October 31. Our struggle seeks connection with those parts that are hit by the plunder spread by state and capitalism. In every neighborhood, every home, where people of our class are found, we promote unmediated struggles, we promote taking our lives into our own hands, until everyone is free, until the demolition of every cell, until we build a world that will include us all. At the same time that high prices continue to rise, working hours increase, people are thrown into the streets by evictions, basic rights such as public health are continuously struck for the interests of the bosses, the state attempts to present our comrades as anti-social elements who try to spoil the polished democracy of the country. This democracy in which one scandal springs up after another, in which hundreds of workers are killed in the labor camps, thousands of migrant women die at the borders, while dozens live on the edge of poverty. All these are the people who are consciously thrown to the margins, exploited, oppressed, murdered.

In the apartment, an attempt was made for the daily struggle against every oppression and authority to become flesh and bone, also through armed struggle. An attempt was made to materialize the dream that a world of solidarity, equality, mutual aid can exist. No matter how much they steal of our lives, no matter how many wars they spread across the globe, no matter how much they terrorize through the media, no matter how overwhelming their superiority in arms may be; the justice of the struggle and the thirst for life will defeat them. This same hope that lived inside the apartment on Arkadias Street is what followed comrades Kyriakos and Marianna in every choice until October 31 and continues to follow comrade Marianna in the daily struggles she gives while imprisoned in the cells of democracy. The thirst for life is what fueled the daily struggles given by the comrades for the improvement of this world, from the struggles to defend the Exarchia neighborhood against gentrification and repression, the struggles for imprisoned comrades who through solidarity manage to surpass the prison bars and connect the common struggles for life inside and outside the prisons, and countless other daily battles and choices which show us that those whom the state calls terrorists are those who live daily among us, who struggle with us against every attempt to degrade our lives and ultimately are those who stand at the side of the oppressed of this world.

In contrast, however, to the state and its ideological mechanisms, the anarchist idea stands against and consciously acts against the logic of collateral damage, which now parades as evidence of guilt regarding means and choices of struggle that the comrades paid for in the harshest way. The offensive actions of anarchists are targeted operations that prioritize the safety of anyone who might pass through the area. Therefore, the explosion inside the apartment and the hardship caused to so many people could never have been the comrades’ objective, no matter how much the state mechanism tries to burden them with the label of “public danger.”

The explosion, which resulted to the death of our comrade, as well as the evacuation from the building of those who lived in the apartments on Arkadias Street, is politically instrumentalized from the first second, while, in a crescendo of hypocrisy, the damage to the apartment building is assigned for repair to TERNA, the well-known company and state partner through direct public contracts, which has entered into cooperation with the murderous state of Israel and is involved in the scandal with the hollow dams in Volos, in the construction of the new type C prisons, in the covering over of the crime scene of Tempi and the plunder of entire areas in the name of “green development.” Many months later the state announces compensation to the tenants, attempting to show a face of care, a care that it did not grant to the victims of the flood in Thessalia, in Mati and other similar areas which are burned by fires, as well to the earthquake’s victims in Crete and elsewhere. In this specific case carrying out a communication trick that aimed on the one hand to ”feed” the climate of terror and on the other to divert the discussion from the killing in Tempi.

The comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris made choices of struggle that contain enormous commitment, consistency, and cost. Armed struggle and urban guerrilla warfare, contains this cost, the risk even to one’s own life. However much you believe that you control all the factors, that you have measured them correctly, there is this unpredictable factor that cannot be calculated. There are dozens of stories of people around the world who lost their lives in such a harsh way.

People devoted to the revolutionary cause die from the very means they chose in order to attack their oppressors. History often proves harsh for those who chose the path of guerrilla warfare. No one made lightly or irresponsibly the choice to put their life and freedom at risk. This choice arose from their experience in life, from social injustice, the imposition of domination and the repression of authority. Of an authority that plunders all our lives without calculating any cost, with profit and omnipotence as its only criteria. All those who lost their lives from a premature explosion of a preparatory action or in the action itself had a common purpose, liberation. The guerrilla fighter is flesh of the flesh of society, a part of it that listens to and experiences its oppressions, that struggles against the omnipotence of states and capital, that fights by all means for the overthrow of the existing system.

On this path sometimes the price we are called to pay is heavy, comrades fall in battle, our comrades are confined in cells.

For this reason we do not forget our comrades who are prosecuted for the Ampelokipoi case and have been in pre-trial detention for more than a year. The road to freedom is always open no matter how difficult it may seem. It is enough to believe in our strength, it is enough to believe that we will succeed. One next to the other.

Assembly of Solidarity with imprisoned, fugitives, and persecuted fighters.

Who Are Putting Our Lives at Risk? by Marianna Manoura

As an inmate, you come face-to-face with the judicial apparatus and its bureaucracy at regular intervals, whether you like it or not. Documents that are either late or never come, documents that you don’t expect and turn up or look forward to and don’t come. Folders are closed, opened, plugs added, categories removed. There prevails, especially in the sub-judicial regime, a continuous waiting which sometimes gives motivation and sometimes causes tension. As far as our own case is concerned, the judicial system remains silent. After 13 months, the file was just closed after negative release decisions with ridiculous and non-existent justifications preceding it. The judicial mechanism, as it usually does in such cases, unfolds its vindictiveness in our case while it turns its gaze to the simultaneous systemic crimes.

This condition is now so obvious that it has begun to mobilize a large part of society. One of the most shocking examples of collective frustration and disobedience is last year’s 28/2 when almost a million people flooded the streets of Athens (and the whole country) targeting the incompetence and partiality of the civil justice as well as the ruthless side of its political system. Maybe not with the same participation, but with increased political reflexes and with 2 years of stubbornness, the pro-Palestinian movement raised an international struggle with continuous marches, interventions and actions, tirelessly and persistently in winter and summer. Dynamic cinematic moments were also the massive demonstration to preserve the revolutionary memory of comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris – where, despite all the unprecedented repressive methods, solidarity, camaraderie and optimism overshadowed the police brutality – as well as the response to the call for October: a month of action and memory for the anarchist revolutionary Kyriakos Xymitiris during which multifaceted actions took place, from interventions, and gatherings to a multitude of direct actions with the aim of preserving the revolutionary memory of the fallen comrade and connecting it with today’s dispute. The recapture of the evacuated Evangelismos proved once again that the territorialization of the struggle is a realistic option, project and tool. In the event that it is accompanied by a decisive, solidarity and fighting movement, the attempt of any evacuation can be answered immediately, dynamically and massively. The same impression was left by the suffocatingly full hall of Evelpidon for the trial of the reoccupation of Matrozou where 300 people stood by the persecuted comrades proving in practice that we do not leave anyone alone in the hands of the state and that we clearly support the militant defense of our occupations. Even on this year’s 6th December, despite the unprecedented decision of the repressive apparatus not to allow the demonstration to approach Exarchia en masse and the place of the murder of the anarchist student Alexandros Grigoropoulos for the first time, it showed that our political space will always be there, the tip of the spear at every police barrier.

We thus see that despite all the frontal attack that the social base and movements receive through continued impoverishment, precariousness and repression, the resistances always find a way to express themselves. It is this expression that the repressive mechanism tries to limit and prevent its aggravation and diffusion. That is why it is shielded with legal supertools such as the anti-terrorist legislation (187A), so that it can define what is acceptable and what is not, what it considers a crime and what a risk. The system has the power to define – arbitrarily – just and unjust, right and wrong. It also has control over meanings and definitions, the power to impose its reality and narrative.

Through justice, laws and especially 187A, the war of concepts crystallizes. Thus, fighters who mortgage their lives for a better world are called “terrorists”. Actions against predatory organizations (banks) that profit off our backs are called “disasters of public benefit institutions”. Attacks on military agencies that sow death, hunger, fear, are described as “endangering international organizations”. Actions against companies that prioritize profit over human life are characterized as a “serious danger to the country”. And all this is called “terrorism”. But are these movements really endangering the population? Are these choices affecting families, students, sick workers, unemployed, immigrants? Another meaning belongs to danger and another definition to terrorism.

It is the “saving of the economy” through the memoranda and the austerity measures that I would describe as robbery and the indirect murder of thousands of people. They are the “individual incidents” of police violence that I would call state murders of people who are surplus to the state. It is the “accidents” with the 57 murdered in Tempi and the 104 in Mati that I would describe as state capitalist murders on the altar of privatization and profit. It is the ¨wreck¨ of Pylos with the 500 dead immigrants that I would call a state racist murder in the name of Europe – fortress and white supremacy. It is the “modernization” of public hospitals that I would describe as the destruction of public health and the forcing of thousands of people into inadequate medical care. It is the “accidents” in workplaces that I would call labor murders and the bosses’ indifference to the lives of their workers. It is the “extreme weather” that I would describe as the inadequacy of state infrastructures and direct assignments to companies-scumbags of acquaintances and relatives of the political elite. It is the “household baskets” that I would describe as the further degradation of a life lived in deprivation, restriction, stress. It is the ¨3 lotteries¨ that I would call the entanglement of the political system and the filthy lucre of a few on the backs of the farmers. All of these are just the latest examples of real and substantial population endangerment.

So on the flip side of the world, where solidarity and equality would be a priority, perhaps the word terrorism and risk would have the meaning it deserves. That is, the condition that causes terror, insecurity, poverty in the masses. The description of dilapidated schools, failing hospitals, damaged dams, obsolete railway networks, thirteen-hour work, murdered inside and – precisely – outside the police stations. In other words, the description of a life – survival, a life not worth living, a life of Greece in 2025.

And while they use violence every day, intimidate, exclude, endanger our lives, and while they have laws to cover them up and repressive forces to protect them, why should we accept such a system that calls militants terrorists and criminals? Why should we limit ourselves to the definitions and finally to their prefectures? It is moreover impossible to peacefully address the claim to equality to the state since it is the principal responsible for this inequality. It is meaningless to ask the state for justice since it is the same that institutes injustice. It is pointless to rely on the state to protect and defend us since it is what arms those who are constantly attacking us.

So in a system that gives the content that suits it to the definitions and prefectures, that calls the indignant farmers a “criminal organization”, the struggling Palestinian women “dangerous” and the union doctors of public hospitals “miserable”, that characterizes as a “population risk” any attempt to respond to the daily violence experienced by thousands and not its death policies that spread death, insecurity and wars, the question is one: who really is the terrorist?

STATE AND CAPITAL THE ONLY TERRORISTS – SOLIDARITY TO THE ARMED REBELS

FREEDOM FOR ALL IMPRISONED COMRADES

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF NIKOS MAZIOTIS

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT

Marianna Manoura

Athens, Greece: Attack on Kypseli Police Station

Justice is resistance

On the afternoon of December 7, 2025, we attacked the torture chamber of the Kypseli Police Station on Thiras Street.

The cowards of the police station, so “brave” towards chained people, so “courageous” in sweeping migrants in Amerikis Square, realistically assessed their situation and locked themselves inside. It took them five whole minutes to come out…

Seventeen years and one day after December, we struck at the heart of Athens, in a center that they have turned into a fortress. Seventeen years in which violence, torture, and murders have not stopped for a moment. Seventeen years later, the same murderers with different faces. Sampanis, Fragoulis, Zackie, Lambros Fountas, Kamran, Maggos…

The combatants who go on the counterattack, who respond to the blows of the state, are neither superhuman nor unaware of the danger. They are your colleague at work, your fellow student in the next seat, the neighbor you greeted yesterday. You may have seen them yelling at their boss during some shitty season, demanding lower rent and humane neighborhoods, fighting against femicide, against the cops who murder. You’ve probably been caught up in a strike at some point. These are the people who, when enraged by injustice and violence, turn their anger into determination and a plan. They lay out maps, plot routes, and look for cameras. They fill bottles with gasoline, approach calmly, and set fire to police stations. This is how December 2008 was born, and November 1973 before it. With stubbornness and organization. With collective struggle against injustice.

Our attack was a direct response to the crescendo of police violence during the march on December 6, 17 years after the murder of student Alexandros Grigoropoulos by cops Korkoneas and Saraliotis.

“[…] At the end of the afternoon protest, at around 8:05 p.m., a group of approximately 400 individuals, carrying sticks and anti-gas masks, violently attacked riot police squads at the intersection of Panepistimiou and Emmanouil Benaki streets. […] ”

This was announced by the police and reproduced without a trace of skepticism by 90% of the media, from the center-left (news247.gr) to the far-right (Proto Thema). So what if dozens of videos show exactly the opposite, namely the violent attack by riot police on the march, the chemical warfare, the brutal beating of even protesters who had already been arrested.

To the media: Reproducing the police’s announcements verbatim in the current climate and circumstances is not simply poor journalism. It is a conscious choice to support and be complicit in barbarism. Every era has its Nuremberg, and every Nuremberg has its Streicher.

The police’s decision to ban the December 6 march, with heavy injuries and arrests, did not come as a bolt from the blue. It is a path that began with the pandemic and the handling of demonstrations at that time, culminating in the dissolution, under extreme conditions, of the march in memory of anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris.

The wind is changing, the signs are warning of a storm

We could be tempted to see this intensification of repression as typical right-wing state management. It would not be difficult. Even before its current complete dismantling, the crippled Hellenic Republic was not renowned for its “robust institutional checks and balances” or its “healthy democratic institutions.” The Greek regime is perfectly suited to a capitalist formation where the upper echelons are made up of smuggling shipowners and the mafia, while the lower echelons are staffed by anti-Lombard figures such as Frapes, Magierias, and Semertzidou.

However, the political and economic crisis is permeating the “liberal” West vertically and horizontally.

In the US, France, Germany, and the UK, governments change but policies remain the same. Profits for the few, poverty for the many, support for genocide in Palestine at any cost. Hand in hand with poverty goes the violence of the bosses, the violence of the police. The post-WWII redistributive model is dead, the possibility of exporting internal contradictions to the Third World has been limited. The capitalist “flight forward,” the future they are preparing for us is to go and fight—in truth, to die—for our country.

We must confront this darkness, politically and practically, because if the enemy wins, there will be no safe rear. Along with our stubbornness and will to fight, we must reintroduce organization, strategy, and tactics into our vocabulary. We must strike at the bosses and their henchmen, protect social/class struggles from repression.

BLOOD IS FLOWING, REVOLT IS CALLED FOR

SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE PERSECUTED FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

THE ARMED REBEL KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT IN OUR STRUGGLES

– Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

Athens, Greece: Attack on Kypseli Police Station – Claim of responsibility and video

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

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

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Greece: Cop Car Set on Fire for Comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris

Responding to the call of our imprisoned comrades Mariana M. and Dimitra Z. for an October of remembrance and insurrectionary struggle, on the evening of October 28th we set fire to a policeman’s vehicle on Xenophontos Street in the Agios Dimitrios area, an action entirely dedicated to comrade anarchist armed revolutionary Kyriakos Xymitiris.

Every person who commits himself to continuous direct action against the state and power is not part of the struggle but is the struggle itself. The stubbornness and courage to face the “invincible”, the defiance of established state and personal repressions and subsequently the fear that they cause, are vital characteristics of liberation from all kinds of imposition.

And that is why whoever dies in revolutionary/insurgent actions dies free.

So we salute our comrade, conspiratorially winking at the struggle itself

Nothing ends, beyond their peaceful sleep on the nights when we visit their homes.

HONOR TO THOSE WHO MADE THE FEAR OF DEATH THE VERVE OF LIFE

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS PRESENT

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1638314/

Note: photo not associated with action

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Arson of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food in Athens, Greece

About the arson of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food 

EU agricultural subsidies as a tool of capitalist restructuring.
Like every ministry, the Ministry of Rural Development is a mechanism of class domination. Class domination for Greek capitalism in the sector of primary production practically means:

-Privatization of the largest and most fertile part of the agricultural land – and securing through it enormous profits – by a tiny minority of modern landowners closely linked to domestic and international agribusiness monopolies. It is indicative that today 90% of all agricultural land belongs to just 15% of wealthy rich large farmers.

• Eradication of the poor peasantry (from 900,000 in 2005 to 500,000 in 2025) and continuous pressure on their already meager income, through the sharp increase in production costs, the increase in insurance contributions and taxation, the humiliating selling prices of products to wholesalers, the drastic reduction in expenses for compensation for floods, fires, diseases, the suffocation from predatory lending by banks.

• The creation of a multiple, undervalued, multinational workforce of land workers, which, in certain sectors of agricultural production, now constitutes the main subject of extracting surplus value and profit from the owners of agricultural land.

• A specific production structure, subject to the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which serves the needs of the large agribusiness monopolies of the EU and domestic business groups and which results in the significant contraction of agricultural production and the transformation of the country from an exporter of agricultural products to an importer, the high precision of the products and their low quality, the desertification of the countryside and the causing of serious ecological imbalances. As for the last point, revealing the content of the CAP is the so-called “green contract”, which finances the implementation of supposedly ecological policies, sectoral politicians with a history of environmentally destructive actions, such as the Dutch monopoly that undertook the restoration following the disasters in Thessaly Region from the Daniel floods with the well-known devastating results.

In reality, almost a century after the fraudulent agrarian reforms of the interwar period with which the then landlordist government attempted to rein in the rebellious poor farmers of the time (in vain, however, as their massive participation in the guerrilla war of the 1940s demonstrated a few years later), Greek capitalism is attempting to solve the permanently unresolved “agrarian issue” the only way it historically can. That is, by destroying the poor peasantry and the natural environment in which they live.

The main lever for implementing the capitalist strategy for the eradication of the poor peasantry has been, over time, through the CAP and the Recovery Fund, the system of European Agricultural Subsidies.

Contrary to what bourgeois propaganda claims, the relentless reality experienced by the rural world confirms that these subsidies are a tool for transferring wealth from the bottom up, that they are the epitome of the structural restructurings that capital wants to impose on agricultural production.

Thus, EU subsidies scandalously strengthen large agribusiness capital and the large farmers associated with it, since 85% of the subsidies go there, while the remaining 15% is distributed according to arbitrary criteria to the great mass of poor peasantry, essentially in order to sell their raw materials cheaply to capital, which of course will then distribute them through wholesalers at high prices in the markets.

And of course, all this enormous transfer of wealth is not done through some magical community resources, precisely because these famous community resources are nothing other than the sweat and blood of the working people, which has been embezzled by the Greek state through tax evasion, to be given as a contractual obligation to the EU in accordance with the ” European baggage”.
Essentially, subsidies finance the dispossession and further impoverishment of the poor farmers, even with their own money.
It is within this framework that the so-called scandal of OPEKEPE, the Hellenic Organization for Payments and Control of Community Aids, Guidance and Guarantees, must be understood. That is, not as a deviation from an otherwise sound and socially beneficial subsidy system, but as an inevitable symptom of this system.

Just as corruption as a whole in capitalism is not an exogenous feature but a structural characteristic, inherent, so to speak, to the function based on the legal robbery of the producers of social wealth.

In this sense, OPEKEPE, as a basic state tool for the distribution of EU subsidies, cannot but have corruption as its constituent element.
The intra-urban competition for the sharing of the spoils of subsidies created – beyond the formal legal framework – a field of financial transactions with the political administrators of the Ministry of Rural Development and OPEKEPE, while these administrators, having perceived public property as their own property over time, did not hesitate to shamelessly steal it, collecting huge amounts of subsidies for themselves and their wider political and social circle through fabricated or non-existent elements.

The notorious “Frapes”, “Butchers”, K. Semertzidou (the farmer with the Ferrari), were not simple state officials or some sophisticated swindlers. They were the chosen ones of the government and agribusiness capital, the chosen ones of Mitsotakis and Voridis, the chosen ones of the big merchants who supply the supermarkets, the dairies, the meat industry. They were the right people in the right position.

“Frapes” had been appointed by the fascist Minister for Rural Development M. Voridis to the Board of Directors of the “Hellenic Society for Local Development”, while together with “Hasapis” they had also been appointed to the Board of Directors of the “Panhellenic Association of Greek Livestock”. And of course they had close relations with Deputy Minister Avgenakis and were personally acquainted with the Prime Minister. As for K. Semertzidou, she was a politician of New Democracy and coordinator of the crucial sector concerning the management of “community resources”.

There is therefore no doubt that the vast network of theft of public wealth through OPEKEPE was set up with a central order from the government through the Minister for Rural Development. Beyond the satisfaction of business interests and the enrichment of others, the goal was also to establish – through the income that this theft ensured and the purchase of consciences that it could bring – a strong social coalition of power within the rural world.

This is how the bourgeoisie and its political staff have always structured their necessary social alliances: through the gradual sharing of a small part of the loot they steal from the people. From the era of agrarian reforms in the interwar period to the Marshall Plan and the modern “European Support Frameworks”.
And of course, on this basis the so-called “national core” was built, that repulsive social base of the bourgeoisie, which included “honest Mrs. Pantelides”, respectable citizens, from housewives to priests, cops, judges, army bosses, junta members.

While the revelations about the OPEKEPE scandal are running, demonstrating the organic relationship of the government and the state with its main protagonists, with the mass-labor movement, with the world of land toil, of the struggle for existence, it is imperative to highlight the real, class essence of the scandal. Because no European Prosecutor’s Office and certainly no judicial authority or Investigative Committee in Parliament aims to shed light on the case, much less render some kind of justice, on the contrary, as the Tempi case demonstrated, it aims to conceal and disorient.

Especially with regard to the European judicial authorities, which are presented by various quarters as the epitome of credibility and independence, let us not forget that their mobilization began when the corruption of subsidies reached such a degree that it threatened the smooth flow of predatory subsidies, as well as that their only concern is the return to the otherwise benign framework of plundering the poor peasantry and nature.

With the working people experiencing a historic climax of the attack against them and bourgeois power shielding itself by generalizing state terrorism, while giving land and water to the imperialist allies of the USA, EU, Israel, the widespread demand for People’s Justice, as it emerged from the smoke of the conflicts of the magnificent Tempi movement, must put its signature on the critical developments that are opening up before us. To constitute a meeting point and rallying point for the proletarian – popular masses, the vanguard of a modern revolutionary proposal with the horizon of the liberation of labor and land from the shackles of the state, capital, and imperialism.

Dedicated to Kyriakos Xymitiris in the context of the call for October as a month of revolutionary memory and action.

Solidarity with comrades Marianna Manoura and Dimitra Zarafeta and overall with the cause of Ampelokipi.

Collaboration of Anarchists and Communists to defend the memory of the anarchist Kyriakos Xymitiris and the Palestinian resistance.

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via: Athens.indymedia Translated by Act for freedom now!

Taking responsibility for the arson of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food 11/10/25 in Athens. (Greece)

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Greece: Attacks on Politician’s Office and Ford in Memory of Anarchist Kyriakos Xymitiris

“If I don’t burn

if you don’t burn

if we don’t burn

how will the darkness become light?”

Nazim Hikmet

365 days ago, our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris gave light to the darkness, even if it was the light of his final explosion, at the end of a burning path.

Kyriakos was a resourceful and active anarchist fighter who participated in the entire spectrum of the struggle. From marches, interventions, microphones to clashes with the forces of repression. He was present on all fronts and thematic areas. He participated in solidarity assemblies for imprisoned activists, in anti-fascist coordination, in actions in favor of occupations, in solidarity with immigrants, against war and imperialism, in solidarity with the struggles of the Palestinians, in struggles against gentrification and patriarchy. And of course in direct revolutionary action and armed choice. A complex fighter who used every means with imagination where the conditions were proportional to each action. With humility, patience and a smile, Kyriakos was there to support any field he saw fit with the appropriate means. Until his final proud assault on the sky.

Direct action is the means to keep the revolutionary memory warm and alive. The insurgent culture and tradition is not just a slogan, nor the solution to every problem of the struggle. But it is the spark that brings to the here and now the flame and the baton of those who fell on the battlefield. It is the way to honor, remember and continue the work of those who gave their lives for the revolutionary perspective. In this way, a continuation of tradition occurs, we break fear, we take the initiative of movements and we highlight that no enemy is invulnerable, no goal is unattainable.

In an era of verbosity, Kyriakos Xymitiris chose to act.

In an era of inaction, Kyriakos chose to come forward.

In an era of “leave it for tomorrow”, Kyriakos chose to seize the Now.

Honoring our comrade, honoring his memory and his choices, we have chosen to incendiarily attack the following targets in recent days:

the political office of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and ND MP Ch. Theocharis in Agios Dimitrios.

the representative office of the American automobile manufacturer Ford in Polygono.

Solidarity with all comrades who are being prosecuted for the Ampelokipi case.

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1638253/

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Greece: Attacks on Grocery Chain in Memory of Comrade Kyriakos Ximitiris

On the 14th and 21st of October we placed incendiary devices at the entrance of Jumbo, in Kolonos and Maroussi respectively. With these actions we want to target this particular chain of stores for its timeless role as a labor warehouse and its choice to expand in the genocidal state of Israel.

On 10/31/24, the anarchist armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris falls dead in an instant while processing explosives in the apartment on Arkadias Street, in Ampelokipi. In this moment of resistance and consistency, the thread of his life will forever be connected to the historical thread of the rebel city, thus continuing the struggle of the people who chose to give themselves completely to the revolutionary cause. At the same time, the anarchist comrade Marianna Manoura is seriously injured and is taken to G.N. Evangelism, where her vengeful treatment and torture begins. At the same time, the state narrative of a terrorist organization begins to be set up, leading to the arrest and pre-trial detention of comrade Dimitris and anarchist comrade Dimitras Zarafetta based on their connection to the apartment. Then, the same summary procedure is followed by the prosecution of the anarchist comrade Nikos Romanos and A.K., on the occasion of finding a fingerprint in a bag, that is, a movable object, found inside the house. We become spectators once again, in a rigged game of targeting anarchist identity and criminalizing comradely relationships where we are not going to remain uninvolved.

One year later we are here to declare that Kyriakos is present. Because he lives through every small or large moment of immediate action. Through every moment, a piece of violence is returned to the world of power. In these moments he is here. Next to us and smiling at us. Because that’s how we got to know him, in the strike rallies and anti-patriarchal marches, in the struggles for imprisoned comrades, in the open meetings for immigrant women and the anti-fascist actions, smiling and optimistic. He was present in every conflict, in every struggle against the gentrification of the Exarchia neighborhood, in the postering in defense of the occupiers, in every conspiratorial action to attack the mechanisms of repression, taking risks, with his eyes fixed on the goal.

After the call of the anarchist comrades Mariannas M. and Dimitras Z. for October as a month of remembrance and action for the anarchist revolutionary Kyriakos Ximitiris, we decided to respond and contribute in our own way to the preservation of his memory, and to the continuation of the struggle for the Palestinian cause, which he too would give. Signs of solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people and those who continue to fight for a world of solidarity, equality and freedom.

On the 14th and 21st of October we placed incendiary devices at the entrance of Jumbo, in Kolonos and Maroussi respectively. With these actions we want to target this particular chain of stores for its timeless role as a labor warehouse and its choice to expand in the genocidal state of Israel. This particular company is famous for intensive, flexible hours, for starvation wages, for violation of labor rights and non-payment of established benefits, for retaliatory dismissals and targeting of employees, as well as for work accidents. It is impossible, after all, to forget the “pioneering” proposal of Apostolos Vakakis, president of the Jumbo group, regarding seven-day work, reducing holidays and liberalizing the operation of stores. His recklessness, however, does not stop there, since he chooses, for the strategic development of the group, to cooperate with the Israeli company Fox Group and to open stores in Israel. Huge ultra-luxurious stores, which in some cases resemble golden castles, but which are not able to make you forget the atrocity that is being committed just beyond.

For years now, in Palestine, Israel has been murdering civilians, children, journalists every day, bombing, displacing, starving the population, destroying all infrastructure, schools, hospitals and trying in every way to annihilate them. The scenario of supposed truce and return to normality took less than a week to make its fluidity evident, with Israel again bombing camps on pretexts. After all, what kind of normalcy did the West intend for the Palestinians? A life under surveillance, in apartheid conditions, a life in fear. We, standing in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian insurgents, choose to target the Greek bosses who strengthen Israel, and seek profits at any cost. By holding them accountable, we put the cost on their backs. Because Palestine is a symbol of human dignity. Symbol of struggle.

Greece is not uninvolved. It supports the war politically, financially and morally. It participates by making available the Souda base and ports for the resupply of the Israeli war machine. It has made sure to turn the islands into tourist resorts for the I.D.F. soldiers, to even spring up in every corner and an Israeli investment (rbnb, parking, restaurants, hotels, real estate offices) and to conclude energy agreements for pipelines with Cyprus and Israel.

The removal of the acquired 8 hours and the imposition of 13 hours, the new laws concerning the educational restructuring in universities with the disciplinary measures for students, the increasingly blatantly racist immigration laws and the new criminal code with the tightening and vindictiveness of punishments, is a proof that the state is arming itself. At the same time, it is equipped not only legislatively, but also logistically. The state is proceeding with the installation of security cameras in streets and universities, the establishment of new security forces and the purchase of military equipment systems. All this is happening at a time when it is in a desperate position of trying to cover up the crimes and scandals of the previous period (Tempe, Pylos, OPEKEPE etc.), while more and more often people take to the streets. That is why we choose to weaponize our denials, to collectivize our resistances and by putting forward the anarchist ideals to fight until we walk the path that Kyriakos illuminated.

The raised fists of the anarchist comrades Marianna and Dimitra, the consistency, the political commitment and the political defense of the memory of comrade Kyriakos at all costs, give us one more reason to take a stand in the here and now.

Kyriakos Xymitiris one of us, a comrade forever on the roads of fire.

The heart of the resistance beats in Palestine

Freedom for those prosecuted for the Ampelokipi case.

31/10 Everyone on the street.

Counter-Violence Cells “Kyriakos Xymitiris”

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1638172/

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