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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)

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)

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/

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/

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.

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/

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.

(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.

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: 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

Attacks and memorials for Kyriakos Xymitiris

Arson in Berlin, marches and repression in Greece mark a year since fatal Athens explosion

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/attacks-and-memorials-for-kyriakos-xymitiris/

#KyriakosXymitiris #Greece #Berlin #Athens #AnarchistMovement

Attacks and memorials for Kyriakos Xymitiris

Arson in Berlin, marches and repression in Greece mark a year since fatal Athens explosion

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/attacks-and-memorials-for-kyriakos-xymitiris/

#KyriakosXymitiris #Greece #Berlin #Athens #AnarchistMovement

Attacks and memorials for Kyriakos Xymitiris

Arson in Berlin, marches and repression in Greece mark a year since fatal Athens explosion

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/06/attacks-and-memorials-for-kyriakos-xymitiris/

#KyriakosXymitiris #Greece #Berlin #Athens #AnarchistMovement

International Call for a Day of Action in Memory of Anarchist Comrade Kyriakos Ximitiris

Athens, Greece.

We call on comrades around the world for an international day of action in memory of the death of anarchist warrior and beloved comrade Kyriakos Ximitiris (November 16).

We invite comrades from abroad to send messages that they would like us to read at the political rally in memory of comrade Kyriakos, which will take place on the same day in Athens.

[email protected]

October 31 forever engraved in the heart of every warrior.

With rage and determination we stand by our comrades.

On 31/10/204, after a device exploded in an apartment in Ampelokipoi, our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation, while our anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was also in the apartment, ended up with multiple injuries and is so far being treated and guarded at the Evangelismos Hospital. At the same time, two more people were arrested and taken for investigation, comrade Dimitris and anarchist comrade Dimitra were arrested.

Comrade Marianna M. is detained and guarded in Evangelismos, with all the repressive apparatus and the anti-terrorism agency with the aim of extracting statements from the comrade. We have not forgotten the cases of torture of comrades who were captured and guarded in health institutions and suffered physical abuse through medical practices, being exploited in their physical, emotional and mental state. Such impositions of state power are clearly torture.

It should not cross their minds that the police continue to exert pressure or continue the process of (pre)investigation on the seriously injured comrade Marianna, while she is hospitalized and trying to manage the emotional, spiritual and political burden after the explosion. Their interrogation is torture and all kinds of participants in it are torturers of state power.

The administration and staff of Evangelismos have the primary responsibility for anything that happens to our comrade. Any member of the medical community who consents to or simply remains silent in such a process will be complicit in the intentional state violence and attempted torture of comrade Marianna. State violence has been perpetrated against our comrade with the anti-terrorist bastards taking her fingerprints, while she was under the care of medical personnel, without having left danger and without her consent, since she was unconscious.

The cannibalism on the faces and bodies of the comrades has begun with all kinds of methods of the entire state apparatus under the guidance of the anti-terrorist agency and the Ministry for Citizen Protection Chrysochoidis. Their slanders on television channels and the front pages of the well-known media thugs is another part of the media’s emetic role of state and capitalist propaganda. The detailed reporting and the release of photos and videos of the scene of the incident punish the dead comrade and capture the brutality faced by his family and loved ones. At the same time, with the depoliticization of the action of our comrades, they are being presented as amoral terrorists who destroy the homes of citizens, with the aim of isolating them socially to expose them to repression.

The state, its ideological mechanisms and its capital are once again trying to strike at the lines of the movement, to annul its political contents, its options for struggle and its decades of revolutionary tradition. Before comrade Marianna recovers her strength and speaks as she wants and as the dead comrade would wish, they have furiously unleashed state propaganda against them, against the whole world of the Struggle and its options. The derision and slander of the revolutionary struggle are equal to the spear of counter-revolutionary propaganda. We firmly oppose it, defending the revolutionary cause, but also the will of the people who are in the framework of repression.

The events of 31/10 and the political choices of the struggle that led to them will not be commented on by the thugs of the state machinery and capital. The comrade who suffered and paid a high price and the comrades who are persecuted for it will speak first, when they wish.

The movement will speak, all of us who walked together with comrade Kyriakos and comrade Marianna, who were inspired and continue to be inspired by their clear vision and their unwavering commitment. We, who recognize their presence in all fields of struggle, and realize that comrades are the embodiment of open dialogue within the movement. The comrades have dedicated their lives to the struggle against oppression, to build a world of equality and freedom, taking responsibility and the decisions that led to Kyriakos’ death and Marianna to be imprisoned and receive multiple injuries. With their attitude and their presence they have given themselves body, soul and thought to the revolutionary Cause and on this path they are in the vanguard of society in struggle.

Marianna and Kyriakos for years have been continuously present in solidarity projects with prisoners, in the internationalist movement against the war, in the struggle for Palestinian resistance, in the actions of defense of the Exarchia neighborhood, in the struggles within the universities, in the defense of liberated spaces, of occupations and in all social and class struggles. Dedicated to these struggles, always ready to discover together their most rebellious extensions. Not only have they theoretically defended the multifaceted struggle for social liberation, but they are its most faithful incarnation. They have taken a position of struggle, by all means, against the world of power, the State, capital, racism, patriarchy, on the side of the oppressed and the rebels, always with the vision of a better world, a world of solidarity, equality and freedom.

Against a world that marginalizes anyone who does not fit into its normality, that naturalizes the exploitation and oppression of those from below, the anarchist-anti-authoritarian movement fights by all means. It is the multiform action that will lead to radicalization and the fullness of our responses and to our attack on what exists. The options of revolutionary counterviolence and armed struggle, as an integral part of the multifaceted struggle, exceed the limits of bourgeois legitimacy and challenge the state monopoly of violence. It is these options of struggle that keep the thread of the rebellion alive from that November of 1973 until today. Such choices are an integral part of a historical insurrectionary continuum, which keeps the vision of social revolution alive in our hearts and minds.

The operation to undermine the revolutionary discourse and the subsequent repression shows that the bastards of the agencies of state terror fear people who do not compromise with injustice, inequality, exploitation. Against the propaganda and intimidation operation of the State and the bosses, as well as against the attempt to depoliticize the improved options, we first respond politically and regardless of the specific case. We owe it, apart from everyone else, to all those who gave their lives, to those who were imprisoned, to those who fought during so many years of social and class war. 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 without compromise.

Against the world of individuation and fatalism, we raise the struggle by all means. We strengthen each other, we defend our comrades. Undoubtedly, comrades and friends, no one will be left alone against the repressive campaign of the state and capital. In the face of the anti-terrorist tactics and cannibalism of the media, may our solidarity be a bulwark for our captive comrades and any other prosecution. Repression does not scare us and we will support each other without hesitation.

TO NOT LAY DOWN ARMS FOR COMRADE MARIANNA

KYRIAKOS XIMOTIRIS, ONE OF US, ALWAYS WITH US IN THE WAYS OF FIRE

FREEDOM FOR COMRADE DIMITRIS AND ANARCHIST COMRADE DIMITRA

Assembly in solidarity with the imprisoned, fugitive, and persecuted warriors.

Source: La Zarzamora

#anarchist #armedStruggle #callToAction #europe #greece #internationalist #KyriakosXymitiris

International Call for a Day of Action in Memory of Anarchist Comrade Kyriakos Ximitiris

Athens, Greece.

We call on comrades around the world for an international day of action in memory of the death of anarchist warrior and beloved comrade Kyriakos Ximitiris (November 16).

We invite comrades from abroad to send messages that they would like us to read at the political rally in memory of comrade Kyriakos, which will take place on the same day in Athens.

[email protected]

October 31 forever engraved in the heart of every warrior.

With rage and determination we stand by our comrades.

On 31/10/204, after a device exploded in an apartment in Ampelokipoi, our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation, while our anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was also in the apartment, ended up with multiple injuries and is so far being treated and guarded at the Evangelismos Hospital. At the same time, two more people were arrested and taken for investigation, comrade Dimitris and anarchist comrade Dimitra were arrested.

Comrade Marianna M. is detained and guarded in Evangelismos, with all the repressive apparatus and the anti-terrorism agency with the aim of extracting statements from the comrade. We have not forgotten the cases of torture of comrades who were captured and guarded in health institutions and suffered physical abuse through medical practices, being exploited in their physical, emotional and mental state. Such impositions of state power are clearly torture.

It should not cross their minds that the police continue to exert pressure or continue the process of (pre)investigation on the seriously injured comrade Marianna, while she is hospitalized and trying to manage the emotional, spiritual and political burden after the explosion. Their interrogation is torture and all kinds of participants in it are torturers of state power.

The administration and staff of Evangelismos have the primary responsibility for anything that happens to our comrade. Any member of the medical community who consents to or simply remains silent in such a process will be complicit in the intentional state violence and attempted torture of comrade Marianna. State violence has been perpetrated against our comrade with the anti-terrorist bastards taking her fingerprints, while she was under the care of medical personnel, without having left danger and without her consent, since she was unconscious.

The cannibalism on the faces and bodies of the comrades has begun with all kinds of methods of the entire state apparatus under the guidance of the anti-terrorist agency and the Ministry for Citizen Protection Chrysochoidis. Their slanders on television channels and the front pages of the well-known media thugs is another part of the media’s emetic role of state and capitalist propaganda. The detailed reporting and the release of photos and videos of the scene of the incident punish the dead comrade and capture the brutality faced by his family and loved ones. At the same time, with the depoliticization of the action of our comrades, they are being presented as amoral terrorists who destroy the homes of citizens, with the aim of isolating them socially to expose them to repression.

The state, its ideological mechanisms and its capital are once again trying to strike at the lines of the movement, to annul its political contents, its options for struggle and its decades of revolutionary tradition. Before comrade Marianna recovers her strength and speaks as she wants and as the dead comrade would wish, they have furiously unleashed state propaganda against them, against the whole world of the Struggle and its options. The derision and slander of the revolutionary struggle are equal to the spear of counter-revolutionary propaganda. We firmly oppose it, defending the revolutionary cause, but also the will of the people who are in the framework of repression.

The events of 31/10 and the political choices of the struggle that led to them will not be commented on by the thugs of the state machinery and capital. The comrade who suffered and paid a high price and the comrades who are persecuted for it will speak first, when they wish.

The movement will speak, all of us who walked together with comrade Kyriakos and comrade Marianna, who were inspired and continue to be inspired by their clear vision and their unwavering commitment. We, who recognize their presence in all fields of struggle, and realize that comrades are the embodiment of open dialogue within the movement. The comrades have dedicated their lives to the struggle against oppression, to build a world of equality and freedom, taking responsibility and the decisions that led to Kyriakos’ death and Marianna to be imprisoned and receive multiple injuries. With their attitude and their presence they have given themselves body, soul and thought to the revolutionary Cause and on this path they are in the vanguard of society in struggle.

Marianna and Kyriakos for years have been continuously present in solidarity projects with prisoners, in the internationalist movement against the war, in the struggle for Palestinian resistance, in the actions of defense of the Exarchia neighborhood, in the struggles within the universities, in the defense of liberated spaces, of occupations and in all social and class struggles. Dedicated to these struggles, always ready to discover together their most rebellious extensions. Not only have they theoretically defended the multifaceted struggle for social liberation, but they are its most faithful incarnation. They have taken a position of struggle, by all means, against the world of power, the State, capital, racism, patriarchy, on the side of the oppressed and the rebels, always with the vision of a better world, a world of solidarity, equality and freedom.

Against a world that marginalizes anyone who does not fit into its normality, that naturalizes the exploitation and oppression of those from below, the anarchist-anti-authoritarian movement fights by all means. It is the multiform action that will lead to radicalization and the fullness of our responses and to our attack on what exists. The options of revolutionary counterviolence and armed struggle, as an integral part of the multifaceted struggle, exceed the limits of bourgeois legitimacy and challenge the state monopoly of violence. It is these options of struggle that keep the thread of the rebellion alive from that November of 1973 until today. Such choices are an integral part of a historical insurrectionary continuum, which keeps the vision of social revolution alive in our hearts and minds.

The operation to undermine the revolutionary discourse and the subsequent repression shows that the bastards of the agencies of state terror fear people who do not compromise with injustice, inequality, exploitation. Against the propaganda and intimidation operation of the State and the bosses, as well as against the attempt to depoliticize the improved options, we first respond politically and regardless of the specific case. We owe it, apart from everyone else, to all those who gave their lives, to those who were imprisoned, to those who fought during so many years of social and class war. 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 without compromise.

Against the world of individuation and fatalism, we raise the struggle by all means. We strengthen each other, we defend our comrades. Undoubtedly, comrades and friends, no one will be left alone against the repressive campaign of the state and capital. In the face of the anti-terrorist tactics and cannibalism of the media, may our solidarity be a bulwark for our captive comrades and any other prosecution. Repression does not scare us and we will support each other without hesitation.

TO NOT LAY DOWN ARMS FOR COMRADE MARIANNA

KYRIAKOS XIMOTIRIS, ONE OF US, ALWAYS WITH US IN THE WAYS OF FIRE

FREEDOM FOR COMRADE DIMITRIS AND ANARCHIST COMRADE DIMITRA

Assembly in solidarity with the imprisoned, fugitive, and persecuted warriors.

Source: La Zarzamora

#anarchist #armedStruggle #callToAction #europe #greece #internationalist #KyriakosXymitiris