#lambros-fountas — Public Fediverse posts

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

by Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Anger”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Anger”

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

Greece: Eternal Honour to the Anarchist—Member of the Revolutionary Struggle, Lambros Fountas

HONOR FOREVER TO THE ANARCHIST –
MEMBER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE, LAMBROS FOUNTAS

On March 10, 2010, in Dafni, preparations for a major operation by Revolutionary Struggle aimed at sabotaging the enforcement of the “memorandum” were in their final stages. The attempt to seize a vehicle that the organisation would use for this action resulted in a clash with the cops. Comrade Lambros Fountas, our beloved comrade-in-arms in the struggle, was killed. Nothing would ever be the same again.

The Revolutionary Struggle—the struggle to block the “memorandum,” the struggle to overthrow the ruling regime and bring about social revolution—suffered a severe blow. The organisation had publicly stated that it anticipated the Greek state’s bankruptcy as a consequence of the 2008 global economic crisis and had demonstrated the scale of its actions, primarily through the bombing of the stock exchange in September 2009. It had spoken of its goals and the opportunities that the economic crisis and the widespread delegitimisation of the political and economic system during that period would open up. It had publicly declared that the only way out of the crisis would be a Social Revolution.

A month later, the first crackdown against the organisation took place, along with the arrests.

The death of our comrade was a very significant event. It was significant not only for us, his comrades in Revolutionary Struggle, and not only for the anarchist movement in which he had been actively involved for many years and was particularly beloved by all his comrades. It was not only significant for Revolutionary Struggle, whose activities had been frozen for two years.

Above all, it was significant for the overwhelming majority of society, which was mercilessly battered by the devastating storm of loan agreements. Lambros was an integral part of a strategy of armed action that unfolded with the onset of the economic crisis and sought, through strikes of great political and economic significance, to prevent the political and economic system—which at that time was in a state of great instability and deep crisis—from regaining its stability.

For the loan agreements to be approved, social and political stability was a prerequisite. Armed action aimed at preventing the achievement of this goal, carried out through dynamic and effective measures, would have turned the Greek capitalist system into a dangerous arena because it would be vulnerable to armed attacks; this action would act as a brake on creditors’ decisions to transfer their capital to the country and lend to governments that would be unable to impose social and political control. Because the most decisive factor for the state and capital to overcome their systemic crises is the maintenance of faith in the system itself.

By 2010, confidence had collapsed within the global financial system. No economic or political actor trusted any credit or investment organisation or institution. No one trusted the Greek governments or the Greek banks. Because no one trusted any bank worldwide. In short, within the economic and political system, no one trusted anyone, and faith in the system of power itself had been deeply shaken.

The collapse of this trust was, for the first time in capitalist history, of such a large scale and significance. It was a structural factor in the collapse of capitalist functioning in the country and the de facto bankruptcy of the Greek state.

The loan agreements, with the onerous terms imposed, were intended to prevent an admission of bankruptcy. These were loan agreements designed to save the banks in Greece and Europe, to save the economic ruling class, to save the system—not the social base. This was the “bitter” realisation that the overwhelming majority of society eventually came to understand.

Comrade Lambros Fountas and his actions, the actions of Revolutionary Struggle during that period, sought to ensure that faith in the capitalist system and its re-stabilisation would not find fertile ground. Alongside the social reactions and uprisings of those years, Comrade Fountas’ actions could have become a significant factor in the overall struggle to prevent the “memorandum” from being passed. Comrade Lambros Fountas was destined to become the figure who embodied all the anxiety of society during that period. Because he was the armed fighter of all those who resisted the troika and the institutions, the Greek state, and the policies of social extermination for the economic “consolidation” of the capitalist system. Because he is the first and the last casualty of the struggle against the “memorandum.” Because he was and remains the voice of the necessity—then, now, and always—of the Social Revolution.

Today, sixteen years later, we are living through the aftermath of a profound political, economic, and social transformation that began with the 2008 economic crisis and the “memorandum” era. Because what was at stake in 2010 was not just the lending terms of the “memorandaum” the cuts to wages and pensions, the layoffs, or the closures of small businesses. Through these policies, a new model of power was established, and that period marked a historic turning point for the transformation of the capitalist system and modern state power. The “experiment” implemented in our country by lenders and supranational economic and political institutions did not concern only us; it concerned and continues to concern all countries.

It was an “experiment” that was imposed and cemented in the blood of an entire people, with thousands of suicides, with untreated illnesses, with children fainting in schools from hunger, with the conditions of a modern occupation and violence that became the norm for the years that followed, right up to the present day. It was an unprecedented class war. With this “experiment,” the centers of power in Europe and the world were asking “if a people like this, with its history of struggle and resistance, could endure the harsh measures we impose without revolting, then the most totalitarian control and the imposition of the most extreme measures of economic exploitation on any other people is possible.”

The fear of a social revolution in Greece in 2010 tormented all those in positions of political and economic power in Europe and beyond. They had explicitly stated, publicly and without mincing words, that a revolution in this country was a possible outcome. They themselves believed that there were subjective factors that could give impetus to such a development. Among the factors contributing to this fear, they considered the armed activities of Revolutionary Struggle, which were reaching their peak at that time, to be significant. Their fear was not limited to domestic destabilisation. A revolution, if it had taken place, would have swept up the countries of southern Europe and triggered a domino effect of capitalist collapses and social uprisings. Lambros Fountas’ actions sought to make this fear a reality.

In the end, the social backlash was not strong enough to prevent the imposition of the “memorandum,” a prevention that could not have been achieved without overthrowing the country’s political and economic power structure. This is the ultimate historical conclusion of that period.

Nothing has improved in the living conditions of the social majority, which is experiencing its own long-term and never-ending economic crisis that is reaching the brink of social collapse. On the contrary, the “resilience” shown by the social base in the face of the rapid rise in poverty during that period paved the way for the consolidation of the contemporary model of exploitation and oppression by the state and capital. The transformation that began then and was consolidated through ineffective social resistance gave rise to the cannibalistic system in a social context dominated by the illusion of the possibility of “individual detachment.” In other words, a context dominated by social defeatism, introversion, and resignation.

While official economic data paint a picture of economic prosperity for the wealthy in this country, the majority of people are sinking deeper and deeper into endless poverty. Greek debt is far higher than it was in 2010, yet faith in the Greek state’s resilience makes the country a model of subjugation for the extraction of profits and the security of capital investments. The loan agreements from the “memorandum” era will remain in force, along with their terms, for many more decades, and new debt will be added to the old, which future generations will be forced to shoulder.

As for the 2008 economic crisis, the greatest that modern capitalism has ever experienced, it never ended. The economic and political centers of power are still attempting to manage it with the same tools and formulas that created it. The concentration of economic, political, and social power in the hands of an ever-smaller few—which was the most decisive factor in the outbreak of the 2008 crisis— has now reached even more extreme levels, and class divisions across the globe have turned the gap between great wealth and poverty into an abyss.

The lack of a clear path out of the crisis is leading to the head-on transnational conflicts the world is currently experiencing. States, led by the United States, Israel, and Europe, are now revealing the true face of the state as an institution of centralized power and control over societies—manifested in brutal military and police violence, wars, and boundless repression. They are revealing in all its magnitude their hostile nature toward societies, the murderous nature of capitalism both within and beyond borders, and are bringing us ever closer to a catastrophic, all-out war.

The radical transformation of the system of power and the revelation of its true nature came about as a result of the dead ends created by the crisis, combined with the absence of radical social resistance and the unrestrained use of multifaceted methods to enforce social compliance with living conditions that are increasingly unbearable for the social majority. Housing, food, and health are no longer guaranteed for the largest segment of society, and even the minimal degree of their guarantee requires ever greater sacrifices. The social and political threat has ceased to exist following the suppression of the social resistance of 2010–12 and no longer concerns the centers of power. State control and violence are increasing more and more as this social threat from below fails to reemerge.

Since no revolutionary movement in 2010–2011 managed to halt or overturn the destructive policies that the state and capital had imposed on the country, a defeatist mindset—based on the assumption that nothing can be stopped or changed—has become ingrained in the social fabric. What the end of the struggles achieved back then was a profound psychological transformation of a society that accepted living without pride, without its dignity. Because these two factors were then, and will always be, decisive for a society that refuses to bow its head.

Comrade Lambros Fountas was, is, and will forever remain the example of the revolutionary who, with a weapon in hand, fought to prevent the defeat and subjugation of an entire society from becoming a reality. He will remain the light that enlivens the dignity, courage, and pride of anarchists, revolutionaries, and the oppressed. His struggle was the struggle of this society that did not want subjugation, did not want to bow its head.

Comrade Lambros Fountas embodies that unwavering dignity and fighting spirit that any struggle must possess to be victorious. That is why he is the champion of all the oppressed. He is and will forever remain the fighter who shows that the only way out of modern slavery, of daily social humiliation, the only way out of capitalist and state barbarism, wars, the threat of death—the only way out to a life of freedom, to a life of dignity—is the Social Revolution. We honor Lambros Fountas not only for who he was and what we knew of him, but also for everything he stood for. We honor him because he himself was the bearer of radical social change. He was the bearer of a society of equality and freedom

LAMBROS FOUNTAS WILL LIVE FOREVER IN THE STRUGGLE

FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION

Pola Roupa

Nikos Maziotis, Domokos Prison

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640103/

Greece: Eternal Honour to the Anarchist—Member of the Revolutionary Sruggle, Lambros Fountas

Claim for Arson Attacks on Police Houses by Anarchist Core “Lambros Fountas”

We take responsibility for the arson attacks on the houses of police officers of the MAT group at 12 Athanatalon Street in Sepolia, on 9/2, where Andreas Polygenis resides, and at 4-6 Teas Street in Kaisariani, on 24/2, as well as the house of a police officer of the OPKE group at 18 Deligianni Street in Exarchia, on 7/3. We dedicate these actions to the memory of the anarchist comrade and member of the Revolutionary Struggle, Lambros Fountas, who fell fighting in an armed clash in Daphne on March 10, 2010. Lambros was a model fighter who promoted the multifaceted struggle with the goal of social revolution. He participated in all the lengths and breadths of anarchist action, from assemblies, marches, clashes with repression units to revolutionary armed struggle.

The reasons why we carried out the above attacks are self-evident; we are counterattacking the aggressors of our dreams. To those who rape in A.T. , to those who mercilessly beat up immigrants, to those who guard the streets like the “eminent” health minister, Adonis Georgiadis, who has dismantled the National Health System, to those who crush strikes and marches, like the one on 31/10 in honor of the anarchist, armed guerrilla Kyriakos Xymitiris. With those who suppress our lives, there must be no truce.

We speak the language of social and class liberation, the language of political counter-violence as a contrast to the language of state terrorism, discipline, cruel exploitation, moral degradation and the impasse of capitalist individualism. We defend direct action and the targeting of those who dominate us and shamelessly contribute to the shaping of this warlike reality; from the mass media that constructs pulverized consciences immersed in alienation, the bourgeois justice that blindly serves the interests of the economic and political elite, the wage slavery camps that crave death, to the bastards of the ELAS with their unbridled authoritarian arrogance.

In the current period of fragmentation of social movements, weakening of the anarchist space, generalized inertia and defeatism, let us preserve our political projects intact, make direct confrontation with the enemy our foremost priority until fear changes sides, and externalize our vision for a world of equality, solidarity, freedom and selflessness.

KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS, LAMBROS FOUNTAS ALWAYS PRESENT IN THE STREETS OF FIRE

HONOR AND MEMORY TO THE FALLEN ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE SNIZANNA PARASKEVAIDOU

POWER TO THE CAPTIVES OF THE SOCIAL AND CLASS WAR, FROM IRAN TO GREECE AND FROM TURKEY TO CHILE

FULL SOLIDARITY WITH THE INCARCERATED COMRADES WHO ARE PROSECUTED FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE AND ARE ON TRIAL ON APRIL 1

Anarchist Core “Lambros Fountas”

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640194/

Note: photo not associated with action.

On the Trail of the Struggle: Lambros Fountas Present

by Marianna Manoura & Dimitra Zarafeta

On March 10, 16 years ago, Lambros Fountas, a member of the Revolutionary Struggle organization, was shot dead by the police. The murder of the anarchist comrade took place during the preparatory action of the organization in Dafni during an armed clash with the police forces.

The anarchist movement from the very first days defended and continues to defend the memory and content of the action of the armed fighter Lambros Foudas through marches, events, actions. The very organization of which he was a member carried out a blow to the Bank of Greece in 2014, dedicating it to his fallen comrade, taking responsibility under the signature “Commando Lambros Foundas”, thus paying tribute to the revolutionary.

Lambros Fountas, as a member of the armed revolutionary organization Revolutionary Struggle, chose to act through the armed proletarian counterattack at a time when the social base was affected by austerity measures. Measures imposed by the local and international elite in order to avoid the bankruptcy of the European banking system. And while politicians and channel managers present the memorandums and contracts as “means of salvation”, we experienced them as salary and pension cuts, as an impoverished today and as an uncertain tomorrow.

The Revolutionary Struggle organization fought against this condition, targeting the economically powerful, vigorously fighting the measures of the memorandums. He chose to create conditions of political instability, making it difficult to bleed the social base, leaving behind a great legacy in the international and domestic revolutionary movement. With actions against predatory “organizations” – Bank of Greece, City Bank, etc. -, the stock market, the uniformed killers of the MAT, he defended the armed social revolution, writing new chapters in the book of revolutionary history.

And maybe comrade Lambro Fouda and I have never met, never met, never fought side by side. But the thread of revolutionary memory bridges exactly this: fighters, movements and struggles that, while they developed in different corners of the planet and in different spaces and times, shared a common anguish and vision for liberation. Thus, the preservation of revolutionary memory is anything but a neutral process. It is a thorn in oblivion and a crack in the history of the rulers. That is why securing it is part of our own struggle, part of the present and the future. That is why, although the past was painted with blood, our dead managed to fill the inkwell of revolutionary history. And even if we hadn’t walked next to them, we had walked alongside them. And even if we hadn’t chosen the same path, we looked at the same skies. Because we shared the same dreams and hopes, experienced the same fears and rages. Thus, their struggle, the way they acted and the way they fell is an invitational struggle, a starting point and an occasion for new cycles of resistance. And as long as we keep the revolutionary memory alive, we also keep our history alive. A story built on the smiles and companionable looks of our own people, our own friends and our own partners. As did our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris, who fell fighting almost a year and a half ago on 31.10.24, from the explosion in Ampelokipi. A comrade who envisioned a world of equality and freedom. A just world, built on the ruins of the old.

So for Lambros Fountas, Kyriakos Ximitiris and all the other fighters who saw themselves as part of the revolutionary history and poured themselves into the battle, it is our turn to make their death a cause of war. To stand worthy of our history and responsibilities and to perceive their death as a motivation to continue the struggle.

LAMBROS FOUNTAS IMMORTAL

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS PRESENT

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF COMRADE NIKOS MAZIOTIS

END THE FINANCIAL HOSTAGE OF COMRADE POLA ROUPA IMMEDIATELY

Marianna Manoura

Dimitra Zarafeta

Korydallos Women’s Prisons.

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640123/

Honor and Memory of the Anarchist Guerrilla Lambros Fountas, Member of the Revolutionary Struggle

16 years after the murder of comrade Lambros Fountas in an armed clash in Daphne, on March 10, 2010, during a preparatory action by the organization against the enforcement of loan agreements.

The political significance of the state assassination of Lambros Fountas within the historical context of 2010 and the strategy of the Revolutionary Struggle organization.

Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis will speak.

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

FREEDOM TO THE ANARCHIST NIKOS MAZIOTIS

Saturday, March 14, 7pm at the Self-managed Perasma hangout (95-97 Zoodochou Pigis & Isavron, Exarchia) Athens.

by Solidarity Assembly for the convicted members of the Revolutionary Struggle, Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis

Contact email: [email protected]

EN/EL/ [POSTER] EVENT: Honor and Memory of the anarchist guerrilla Lambros Fountas, member of the Revolutionary Struggle – The action of the organization E.A.

Fifteen Years On, Comrade Lambros Fountas Lives

On March 10, 2010, the anarchist Lambros Fountas was shot and killed in a battle with greek police. On the fifteenth anniversary of his death, Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis, imprisoned comrades from the organization Revolutionary Struggle, to which Fountas belonged & on behalf of which he was acting at the time of his murder, have released the following text (original at Athens Indymedia).

While their text memorializes the anarchist martyr Lambros Fountas, it also provides deep, valuable analysis of both the context in which he was acting and the situation in the present day. I have translated it below.

In all revolutionary social-liberation movements, the fighters who lose their lives fighting for a free society become a political reference point not only for those who lived and fought with them, but – mainly – for those who come after them, for the new generations of fighters. However, for a fighter to remain alive over time, the responsibility lies with his contemporaries. To have honored him as he deserves, to keep him with them in the struggle, to refer to him. This is achieved by honoring the struggle he himself participated in, the political struggle for which he lost his life, his political values, his political-social goals and their historical timelessness.

2010 was a year of political milestones for the whole of society and for those involved in struggle. It was the year that the country plunged into an unprecedented – in its modern history – crisis. A crisis that began as a financial crisis triggered by the collapse of subprime mortgages in the USA in 2007, expanded into a global financial crisis and brutally hit this country as a financial and debt crisis. The PASOK government under the auspices of G. Papandreou, since late 2009, was preparing to hand the country over to the long-term supervision of supranational economic and political institutions (the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, the European Central Bank), in order to avoid the admission that bankrupt Greece had not gone bankrupt and thus to save the domestic Greek banking system and by extension the European one. The price for this would be a series of loan agreements with the most abominable terms for the people. The social base would bear the entire burden for the restoration of the economic regime and the survival of the political system, which had passed into complete social delegitimization.

All of the above was already apparent in the fall of 2007. It began to crystallize in 2008 and in 2009 it was clearly inevitable. It was up to the movement to recognize the coming storm in time, not to protect itself, but to be ready for the opportunities for struggle that the crisis would create. In the previous years, the years of “growth and prosperity”, capital and the state had implemented economic policies that supported capital expansion through debt.

It was a given that for Greece the debt bubble would burst leading to a major fiscal crisis, as we had written as Revolutionary Struggle in 2005, in the proclamations with which the organization assumed responsibility for attacks on the Ministry of Employment and the Ministry of Finance. When in 2007 it seemed this time was coming, the Revolutionary Struggle organization devoted itself politically and operationally to preparing for action in the coming crisis. Through a series of actions and proclamations in 2008 and 2009, Revolutionary Struggle focused on exploiting any systemic instability and highlighting political opportunities for struggle with analyses, with organizational proposals for the revolutionary movement and society, and with proposals for a radical way out of the then-current crisis and from every crisis.

Comrade Lambros Fountas lived and acted within this political framework. This political framework cannot be removed, because to do so would erase his politics. Comrade Lambros Fountas, a member of the Revolutionary Struggle, was assassinated by a police bullet on March 10, 2010 in Daphne [a suburb of Athens] during an attempt to expropriate a car for the organization for an action related to the imposition of the first “memorandum”, the first memorandum agreement imposed by the troika and accepted by the Papandreou government and the entire political and economic power in May of that year. It was an action in line with those that had preceded it within the same political direction, intensifying the struggle against a political and economic system of power that was sinking into crisis and had begun to falter.

Lambros Fountas stands to this day and will forever stand above the supranational financial system Citibank, one of the pioneers of the economic bloodletting of the peoples. He stands above Eurobank and the domestic banking system. He stands and will stand, alive, above the stock exchange, the temple of social robbery, the temple of pillage and social plundering. He stands and will forever stand above all the key economic and political institutions against which Revolutionary Struggle acted. He stands alive above the Bank of Greece, the branch of the European Central Bank, and the office of the International Monetary Fund that the Revolutionary Struggle struck four years after his death, thus continuing the shared path of political struggle against the imposition of loan agreements. The IMF was and remains a central pillar of the country’s supervisory regime, then as one of the troika, today overseeing the economic policy of governments. This attack was dedicated to the comrade and was undertaken in his name. Comrade Lambros Fountas stands alive with the entire society that acknowledges him and next to every fighter. Lambros Fountas is alive, as alive as the content and messages of his actions. Time is frozen and he is everywhere. He turns today into 2010 and brings 2010 in all its meanings to today.

What has changed in these 15 years? The precious opportunity for struggle that the system itself granted us via its deep crisis was not utilized. Lambros Fountas and Revolutionary Struggle showed the way. From protest, from uprising to social revolution. From rebellion, to the formation of a revolutionary movement with goals and prospects for a new social organization. From rebellion, to a collective plan for overcoming the state and capital.

The “memorandums” were imposed and instead of being a cause for overthrowing the system, they became a steamroller that ushered the political system into its current authoritarian form. Because when we do not seize the political ground that a deep systemic crisis leaves free, when we as liberation movements and as a society do not seize ground that delegitimization of the system of domination opens up, then it will instead be occupied by the state, which, ever more furious, will impose an increasingly merciless power, an increasingly brutal oppression.

The whole of society, the lower social strata, experienced and are experiencing the results of all the lost opportunities in the two years 2010-2012 and of the political directions taken by the movements in the years that followed. And this political space that proposes another society, a society of freedom, equality and social solidarity, has the greatest responsibilities in this period. Because no generalized social uprising and – above all – no social revolution, no radical social change is ever achieved in history without the active presence of a revolutionary movement.

During these fifteen years, all governments have implemented and are implementing the same policy for the management of – ​​and not the treatment of – the crisis that broke out in 2010. They follow the same policy of creating surpluses in state coffers through the increasingly ruthless exploitation of the socially weak, through cuts in health, education, wages, pensions (the increases that are given from time to time are a mockery, everyone knows, since their purchasing power steadily decreases). Through cuts in public transport safety, the response to fires. Through the support of profiteering, since via this and the over-taxation of the weak, but also through indirect taxes, billions enter the state coffers that are intended for the reproduction of the state and the profitability of capital.

At the same time, the state debt is growing. In 2010, when the loan agreements were imposed, the debt was at 127% of GDP (we entered 2010 with a debt of 295 billion, which within a few months of an escalating crisis reached 142% of GDP). Today, this debt has exceeded 400 billion. The New Democracy government celebrates because it is “reducing” the debt by increasing it, and it achieves this by maintaining inflation and refusing to control prices, since inflation, as is known, “gnaws” at the debt. So, if there is a question as to why the government refuses to do anything about cost of living, but instead does everything it can to maintain it, it’s because this is its strategic policy: through inflation, debt appears to be reduced as a percentage of GDP and at the same time increases GDP percentages by financially draining the lower social strata through price increases and over-taxation, but also by reducing public spending in terms of the daily life and problems of the economically weak, that is, the majority. And the cycle of borrowing and over-indebtedness of the next generations continues…

Thus, the faith the economic ruling class and, by extension, the supranational supervisory institutions have in the Greek economy remains unshakable. The supervisory institutions that will monitor the course of the Greek economy throughout its life, the European Central Bank, the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the Single Resolution Board (SRB), congratulate the government on the economy’s outperformance, while the latter is increasing its cash reserves through taxes, cuts, and withholding billions from the Recovery Fund, all of which it presents as revenue. All of the above lead to the Greek state attracting lenders who see government outperforming debt in an environment of stability. A temporary stability that is recognized as such by the vultures of debt, the lenders, since they are not used to buying long-term, but short-term Greek debt.

And yet, it is not an oxymoron. In 2010, a global bubble burst that was born from a growth model largely based on the creation of profit through debt. Debt was and will continue to be a very important source of profit for capital. At the same time economic growth is collapsing for most countries, falling short of the 3% safety limit for the reproduction of capitalism, global debt has tripled since 2010, with the USA leading the way as the most indebted state of our time; while the gap between rich and poor is increasing everywhere, debt is – even moreso since 2010 – the industry of the fastest and greatest profitability for capital, with state debt occupying a significant position. Consequently, a new global crisis has already hatched and is expected to manifest, with the well-known consequences for the social majority, which will be forced, yet again as historically, to bear the burden of making capitalism and the state whole again. To pay for the debts of the rich, to pay so that capital has the smallest possible losses.

Comrade Lambros Fountas fought to radically address the causes that give rise to crises, so that we do not experience such crises again. To address the real causes that are none other than the permanent and timeless policies of capitalist development, the profitability of the rich and the reproduction of the state.

Fifteen years later, the lower social strata, that is, the social majority, are living a bleak situation at all stages of their lives. They exist in the vortex of a merciless economic bloodletting to support the state and strengthen the rich. They live with exhausting working hours and starvation wages, without being able to cover their basic needs and with housing becoming a luxury. Workers are killed in work “accidents”, epidemics spread without the possibility of meaningful treatment, with the health system in disarray.

The social majority lives more immersed than ever in the anxiety of survival and the depression of an existential void that grows as long as it sees no prospect of a better life. It sees its children abandoning their homeland, becoming immigrants. It sees a political system doing everything it can to throw the children of the poor out of school at ever younger ages and pushing them into the most precarious jobs with starvation wages.

It sees its the deaths of its children in Tempi validate the dominant position of those who hold power and wealth, reinforcing that the lives of those who do not have power and wealth have no value. It sees people of all ages being burned alive in Mati for the same reasons. Because the repayments of debt to the bankers, the creation of surpluses by squeezing the poor to strengthen capital, were, are and will be of greater value than the secure life of the social base. Because the price of the existence of capital is profitability in every way and the devaluation of life in the face of profits and power.

It sees the lives of “third-class” people, immigrants and refugees, lost in the Greek seas and the Mediterranean being transformed into an immense cemetery. It sees the dozens drowned in Pylos with the government responsible and covering up this crime with a terrifying indifference. This same political and economic system, with the exploitation of countries, with the wars of Western states, multinationals and their allies, with the climate crisis and the destruction of the planet, gives rise to immigration and treats the uprooted wherever they are on earth as garbage, as waste products of capitalism. The social majority sees wars flaring up. In Palestine – with the blessings of the government and the Western states as a whole – it sees a merciless genocide being carried out for the interests of the Western states.

It sees how the lives of all those who do not possess power and money are increasingly devalued and, ultimately, crushed in the “head-on train collisions” caused by the thirst for profit and power. And as these lives are completely devalued, they are buried under “tons of rubble,” so that the crime may be forgotten.

The political and economic regime of power is a regime of covert and sometimes overt hatred for the lower classes and socially disadvantaged. Because the state was born through competition, racism, sexism, discrimination, separation, violence of the strong against the weak. A hierarchical social structure makes it impossible to promote equality at any level, impossible to participate in social solidarity, to prioritize people’s lives.

Fifteen years later, the social base is looking for its new “footholds” to resist through high-profile events such as the Tempi crime, attempting to leave behind the defeatism that brought about a period of deadlock in social resistance to the “memorandums”.

Lambros Fountas is present in the new struggles. Fifteen years later, comrade Lambros Fountas stands and shows the way. The path of increasing resistance, the path of making struggle meaningful, the path of a struggle with deep, durable, material substance, a struggle that shows ways out and does not stop at denouncing the impasse. It shows the path of the highest militant social solidarity. It shows the path of Social Revolution.

HONOR FOREVER TO COMRADE LAMBROS FOUTAS, MEMBER OF REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE

Pola Roupa – Nikos Maziotis,
convicted members of Revolutionary Struggle

https://anarchistnews.org/content/fifteen-years-comrade-lambros-fountas-lives

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=17572

#anarchist #europe #greece #lambrosFountas #martyrs #revolutionaryStruggle

No matter how many years pass, the comrade Lambros is a bright example for the continuation of the struggle and the revolutionary perspective. The 10th of March has been indelibly written in the history of internal as well as international revolutionary and class struggle. His life, action and death are – for the anarchist/anti-authoritarian and the more broadly anti-capitalist space – a precious legacy that inspires old and new generations of comrades alike. Lambros is one of us, he is always in our heart and in our actions.

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE ANARCHIST COMRADE LAMBROS FOUNTAS

Definitive release of Pola Roupa – Solidarity and immediate release of N. Maziotis, prisoner in Domokos prisons

Act for freedom now!

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/03/10/honor-forever-to-anarchist-fighter-and-member-of-r-s-lambros-foundas-greece/

#anarchist #europe #greece #lambrosFountas #revolutionaryStruggle

Responsibility Claim for Placing Explosive Device at Branch of Eurobank in Athens, Greece by Cell ‘Lambros Fountas’
#AnarchistAction #Greece #LambrosFountas

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/19/responsibility-claim-for-placing-explosive-device-at-branch-of-eurobank-in-athens-greece-by-cell-lambros-fountas/

Responsibility Claim for Placing Explosive Device at Branch of Eurobank in Athens, Greece by Cell ‘Lambros Fountas’
#AnarchistAction #Greece #LambrosFountas

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/19/responsibility-claim-for-placing-explosive-device-at-branch-of-eurobank-in-athens-greece-by-cell-lambros-fountas/

"Lambros: Du fehlst in keinem Moment des Kampfes, denn du bist immer präsent, so wie du es früher warst…

Lambros: nichts ist vorbei, weil alles weitergeht…" -> https://enough-is-enough14.org/2021/03/10/im-gedenken-an-den-anarchistischen-revolutionaer-lambros-fountas/ #LambrosFountas #anarchismus #RestInPower #Lambros #antireport

"Lambros: you are not missing from any moment of the struggle, because you’re always present, like you used to be…

Lambros: nothing is over, because everything continues…" -> https://enoughisenough14.org/2021/03/10/in-memory-of-revolutionary-anarchist-lambros-fountas/#more-93220 #LambrosFountas #anarchism #RestInPower #Lambros #antireport