Today's Topics:
1. International statement of solidarity to the 51 antifascists
who were arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece, at
who were arrested in Thessaloniki, Greece, at
16/9/2020. (ca, de,
fr, it, pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
fr, it, pt) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Greece, Thessaloniki Local APO: Call for an anti-war
demonstration on the occasion of Pompeo's arrival
demonstration on the occasion of Pompeo's arrival
in Thessaloniki
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. avtonom: Beijing's Hong Kong tactics are successfully
applied in Belarus by - Michael Shraibman
applied in Belarus by - Michael Shraibman
[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. greece, Libertarian Initiative of Thessaloniki:
Anti-NATO-NATO march in anticipation of the arrival of US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Anti-NATO-NATO march in anticipation of the arrival of US
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Libertarian feminist organization of the city of Bogotá
(ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
In the evening of 16/9/2020 at Thessaloniki, Greece, during a social intervention, antifascists comrades were collectively erasing fascist
slogans and graffiti, which were written a few days earlier by the members of the new neo-nazi party "Greeks for homeland", found by Ilias
Kassidiaris, an ex-representative of the nazi party "Golden Dawn". The nazi graffiti were replaced with antifascist graffiti and slogans.
Around 22:30 at night our comrades were surrounded by heavy police forces that attacked them without reason. 51 comrades were taken into
custody to the Police General Headquarters in Thessaloniki and kept there 2 to 4 days under the most deplorable conditions. In total, 15 of
them were injured while another 2 were even admitted to the hospital due to their heavy injuries caused by the police. During the arrest and
the custody the cops never stopped provoking and abusing their power that is given to them by the state, in order to break the spirit of our
comrades.
The 51 arrested were presented before the prosecutor and the investigator where the following outrageous and untrue accusation were made
against them: i) disobedience because they refused to have their fingerprints and photos taken; ii) breach of the public peace (this is a
very common charge that is given every time someone is protesting); iii) destruction of public site, for the antifascist slogans they wrote
in order to cover the fascist ones. Apparently, for the greek court of bourgeois "justice" only the fascist's hate speech is permitted on
the walls; iv) violation of the law on the protection of antiquities; v) illegal possession of weapons, because the antifascists wielded
anarchist flags and helmets; vi) criminal prosecution for "monument damage". That claim was made through the curator of the antiquities,
which has no problem to support this obscene lie, even though the "monument" which was damaged is actually the benches near the actual
historical monument of Thessaloniki, the "White Tower". What is interesting is that the construction of those benches in 2008, which were
part of Vasilis Papageorgopoulos's (former city mayor and member of the now ruling right wing party "New Democracy", who was set free from
prison after embezzling 30.000.000 euros from the municipal funds) plan for the business regeneration of the area, was the one that actually
destroyed the area around the historical monument of the city. Needless to say that the antifascist slogans were easily cleaned the next
days by the city's street cleaners, of course leaving intact the fascist ones. Finally, the antifascist comrades who were arrested are now
forced to be present once per month at the police station, as such restrictive conditions were imposed on them by the court.
This provocative attack against the members of the antifascist movement demonstrates the true colours of the capitalist oppression and the
state's tolerance towards the fascists, whom they are constantly nourishing as their most reactionary reserve. This oppressive attack to our
comrades is for us clearly an open provocation by the state and the cops only a few days away from the annual antifascists demonstration on
the anniversary of the assassination of Pavlos Fyssas (antifascist hip hop musician who was murdered by the fascists of Golden Dawn) and
from the completion of the trial of the criminal neo-nazi organisation Golden Dawn (for which the prosecutor's suggestion provides a more
favourable treatment for the nazis). And yet, at 18/9/2020 massive demonstrations all over the country gave a strong message of resistance
and fight against the state, the capitalists and fascist's "deep state". At the city of Thessaloniki 3000 protestors filled the streets of
the city for the antifascist demonstration.
We will not let our comrades or any member of the anticapitalist and antifascist movement into the hands of the state oppression. Our
solidarity towards those antifascists arrested that day is given and unending. It's our collective obligation to create a safety net to
defend them before the vindictive prosecution of the state and its mechanisms. The political support and solidarity to our comrades is part
of our duty as members of the international antifascist movement. As anarchists and antifascists we will stand by them in any way,
continuing unwaveringly our collective fight for class and social emancipation and for the contribution of proletarian justice.
NO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION TO THE 51 ANTIFASCISTS WHO WERE ARRESTED IN THESSALONIKI, GREECE, AT 16/9/2020
UNCOMPROMISING INTERNATIONALIST AND CLASS STRUGGLE AGAINST THOSE WHO OPPRESS THE WORKING CLASS
DEATH TO FASCISM
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
Anarquist Federacion (Greece)
Federación Anarquista de Rosario (Argentina)
Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (New Zeeland)
Federación Anarquista Santiago (Chile)
Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (Uruguay)
Coordenaçao Anarquista Brasileira (Brazil)
Organización Anarquista de Córdoba (Argentina)
Die Plattform-Anarchakommunistische Organisation (Germany)
Libertaere Aktion (Switzerland)
Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland)
Anarchist Communist Group (United Kingdom)
Grupo Libertario Vía Libre (Colombia)
Alternativa Libertaria / FdCA (Italy)
Organisation Socialiste Libertaire (Switzerland)
Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (South Africa)
Union Communiste Libertaire (France)
https://www.anarchist-federation.gr/archives/2298
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Message: 2
The arrival of US Secretary of State Pompeo is scheduled in the coming days, with visits to Souda, Athens and Thessaloniki. This visit comes
on the one hand at a special juncture in the level of transnational competition in the wider Eastern Mediterranean region, with the direct
involvement of the Greek state, on the other hand is a continuation of previous contacts and developments directly related to the
aspirations of the domestic bourgeoisie. ---- The last few months have been marked by an increasing escalation of transnational competition
in the wider region, with the main protagonists being the Greek and Turkish states and the mutual aspirations in the race to secure the
exploitation of the region's wealth-producing resources. In this context, transnational blocs of interests were formed on both sides (see
Greece-Cyprus-Egypt partnership with the support of third countries and respectively Turkey-Libya) with the aim of maximizing the benefits
for each formation and each state separately.
The result of this tension was the dangerous militaristic games, the continuous military exercises with the participation of various states,
the overcrowding of large military forces in a limited area, the nationalist crowns from official lips on both sides of the Aegean. The last
link in this chain is the announcement by the Greek state of a package of 10 billion euros for armaments programs, while at the same time
the Greek state faithfully fulfills its armaments commitments towards NATO, being one of the few states that spend annually " required
"-from the USA- a lot of money, to the point that for this reason it receives" praise "from the US political staff. In addition, utilizing
nationalist rhetoric and frenzy,
This policy pursued by the far-right government of ND is a continuation of the policy implemented by the previous government of SYRIZA-ANEL.
A policy aimed at further annexing the Greek state formation to the NATO chariot and upgrading it to a local gendarme and placeholder of
NATO interests in the SE Mediterranean and the Balkans (see agreement on the name of Northern Macedonia and its accession to the SE in
exchange for the aerial military surveillance of the neighboring state by the Greek), through the transformation of Greek territory into a
large US military hub by assigning camps, facilities, upgrading existing ones, storing military materials, new equipment, etc.
The time that this condition is evolving finds the planet roaring with the social and class resistances that are developing. From the
streets of US metropolises that have been a battleground for months since the assassination of G. Floyd, where insurgents are fighting
against uniformed state and parastatal bastards (see the recent assassinations of anti-fascists A. Huber and M. Reinoelh ), forcing Trump to
publicly persecute anti-fascists / anarchists, to the streets of Paris and large-scale mobilizations against the new economic and labor
measures to pave the way for the covid-19 pandemic, and from the mountains of Mexico to insurgent Zapatistas up to the modern hells reserved
by the states for the migrants in the Mediterranean,
Regardless of transnational rivalries, states and bosses know their real enemy against whom they are ready to put aside their individual
differences and mobilize when needed. And he is none other than the oppressed who refuse to bear the chains of submission anymore and look
the monster in the eyes, ready to confront him. Hence, the Turkish state, which imprisons and kills Turkish opposition fighters in Turkey,
is in full agreement with the Greek state, which attacks Turkish politicians, beats them, arrests them or even deports them back to Erdogan.
In the face of this all-out attack of the state and capital, we have to oppose international solidarity and the project of social
revolution. Standing against the gloom of capitalist dystopia and the slaughterhouses that states prepare for the oppressed, let us build a
broad anti-war movement that hates states and capital, fighting for the true peace of humanity, the abolition of human exploitation, human
exploitation. versus death.
Solidarity internationalist, social revolution all over the Earth
Solidarity the weapon of the peoples, war in the war of the bosses
Anti-war Demonstration, Monday 28/9 at 18:00, Ag. Venizelou
Thessaloniki Local Coordination of the Anarchist Political Organization Federation of Collectivities
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2020/09/28
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Message: 3
At first, the authorities of the Republic of Belarus took a different path and tried to crush the movement with the help of extremely brutal
repressions on August 9-10. But it didn't work out and two problems arose - a) people began to fight back, b) outrage intensified the
protests. Then the authorities applied (with some changes) Beijing's Hong Kong tactics. The meaning is this - when you walk the streets
peacefully, you do not bother us. Eventually you will start to fizzle out when you see that it is completely useless - we continue to rule
the country / city. In Belarus, this is not entirely true, tactics have been modernized - from time to time, violent attacks are made on
peaceful marches - not with the aim of dispersing the entire march, but with the aim of delaying / beating / humiliating some of the
participants in order to demoralize them. The aim of the attackers is to accelerate the process of general demoralization.
After a while, the marches in Hong Kong began to fizzle out; they really did not interfere with the authorities' work. Seeing this, the more
radical part of the protesters decided to resort to seizing a number of centers (university, local parliament, airport). These actions were
no longer peaceful - when the police tried to disperse them, the protesters used edged weapons, including bows and arrows. But relatively
few people took part in the uprisings and the police coped with them. There is no such thing in Belarus.
Along with this, an important problem for Hong Kong was the lack of support in the PRC and the lack of internationalism. The protesters said
from the start, "We are not China." They say, we have a higher standard of living, the courts work better and go nafig. We are here fighting
for independence or for a British protectorate (although, formally, the slogans were more moderate). "And we are not Hong Kong," most of the
Chinese replied, "and since you sold out to the British, walk with British flags, then you are the enemies of our great people, as you
yourself say, and if so, then China will teach you a lesson." Separatism faced great-power chauvinism and began to suffer defeat. On the
side of great-power nationalism were not only the powerful army and police of the PRC, but also the massive majority of 1.4 billion Chinese
against 7 million Hong Kongers. However, here the British intervened - they said that they were ready to receive millions of Hong Kong
residents - this would be a blow to the PRC's economy. Xi Jinping appears to be getting a donut hole instead of the bubulik itself. However,
the British are not going to accept 9 million Belarusians.
True, the dictatorships still have a problem. Economic collapse, hunger, excessive violence can become incentives in and of themselves, and
then large numbers of people can fight back. This does not necessarily happen, but it can happen. But that is another story...
The overwhelming majority of Hong Kong residents, like the citizens of the Republic of Belarus, had no motivation to fight for things that
would have a value comparable to the value of life - be it the Golden Age on earth and / or the salvation of the soul / liberation from
samsara / the best incarnation after death. And the "lesser evil", in which the authorities will less often imprison troublemakers - and
only - is not an incentive for a radical struggle. Moreover, according to opinion polls, confidence in parliamentary systems in the world is
falling.
Since the days of the Beijing Independent Workers 'Union (NWC), which fought the Chinese Communist Party in 1989 on Tiananmen Square for the
workers' right to live in a new world where labor collectives would run factories and the country themselves. name, but an ideological
organization) in the PRC and even more so in Hong Kong, there was nothing comparable to these events. The parliamentary system, with its
elections every four years, between which the authorities can do anything, the parliamentary system with its corporate lobbyists, oligarchs
who have real power, with huge social inequality and regular financial crises, is the lesser evil, we are told. Maybe. But paradoxically,
the formula of Sir Winston Churchill ("parliamentary democracy is terrible, but still nothing is better"), having become the basis of
thinking, can lead to the victory of the greater evil. This dismal pseudo-truth is nothing but the secret of the victory of dictatorships.
People don't usually shed blood for lesser evils. The risks are huge and the benefits are comparatively small.
"You do not hate Monday, you hate capitalism," said Slava ižek, whom I do not like. Unfree monotonous work 8 or 10 hours a day, poverty,
empty life devoid of meaning, lack of real power. For this, people should die? For the survivors to wake up in horror every Monday morning?
https://avtonom.org/author_columns/gonkongskaya-taktika-pekina-uspeshno-primenyaetsya-v-belarusi
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Message: 4
Monday 28/9, 18:00 at the Statue of Venizelos. ---- Imperialist diplomacy is the robbery and bloodshed of the peoples. ---- Mike Pompeo
unwanted! ---- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to visit Greece on September 28-30, visiting Thessaloniki, Athens and Souda,
just days after a summit of EU leaders on the tense situation in Eastern Mediterranean and the Greek-Turkish dispute over the EEZ. His
meetings with Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias are already scheduled. Although the specific visit
of the US Secretary of State is communicated as a supposed intervention to de-escalate the tension in the Aegean, the reality advocates the
deepening of the Greek state in the geostrategic plans of the American imperialism,
Every visit of an American politician to Greece traditionally implies the promotion of business movements of the American capital. On
September 21, executives from the US-based International Development Finance Corporation, led by CEO Adam Boiler, visited the Maximos Palace
and met with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, where they shook hands after agreeing on a quick investment. $ 5 billion in energy,
infrastructure and technology. Also, the US interest in shipping investments in the Elefsina Shipyards and in the ports of Alexandroupolis,
Kavala and Igoumenitsa became clear, after the completion of ONEX's investment in Syros, which is now certified by the US Navy for the
maintenance of US warships. In short, the sale of public funds to American business groups is underway. Of course, necessary conditions for
these investments are the sharpening of the class devaluation of the workers and the cutting off of their rights.
The Greek state, by providing a steady supply to the American imperialists, seeks its premium from the latter in its perpetual competition
with the Turkish state in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean. German, French and American imperialists are ready to take on the role
of mediator, to discipline the Greek and Turkish states in the demands of the EU and NATO. However, any attempt at diplomatic compromise is
taking place in a particularly tense climate, as NATO troops have flooded the Mediterranean. It is a given, then, that the situation in our
neighborhood is particularly deplorable. Those who light the wicks of war want to present themselves as peacemakers, to promote the
interests of their bourgeoisie and to shape the geopolitical chessboard of the Eastern Mediterranean. As long as the imperialists ignite
transnational rivalries, they will conspire for the peace and security of the peoples, while at the same time hoarding the war industries
and business groups, as the respective investments and economic agreements will always be used as extortionate terms for any apparent aid.
the patrons to their subordinates.
The United States has assigned the Greek state the role of watchdog in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans. For this very reason, the
Greek territory has been transformed into a vast NATO base. American imperialism is constantly competing with the Russian and Chinese agents
in the region. The Russians are trying to extend their influence in Cyprus (see Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Cyprus)
and Serbia (see joint Russian-Serbian military exercises in Belarus), while the Chinese are competing and overcoming American capital in a
number of business activities. At the same time, however, the US is struggling to keep Turkey "anchored in the West," as US Ambassador to
Greece Jeffrey Payat said a few days ago.
Be that as it may, the quarrels and rivalries between the Greek and Turkish bourgeoisie, between the Greek and the Turkish state, do not
concern the interests of the working class on both sides of the Aegean. Our interests do not coincide with those of monopoly groups, such as
Exxon Mobile, Total and ELPE, which are going to make a fortune from hydrocarbon mining. The existing transnational dispute between Greece
and Turkey is done exclusively for the prefecture of economic and political power in the region, through the delimitation of the EEZs, the
exploitation of energy deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean and the control of the transit trade of energy.
The states are trying to blind the people with the nationalist poison, in order to drag them into a war for the interests of the
capitalists. Thus, a particularly dangerous war-torn climate, a feverish war preparation and a strong mobilization and vigilance in the
Greek and Turkish civilian armies have been formed. Unilateral and myopic accusations are thrown out from each side, each of which claims
the "right" in its part by defending its bourgeoisie. Of course, the imperialist rivalries and nationalist narratives that are now becoming
the flags of the two states are systematically and subtly silenced by the bourgeois press and the capitalist media, trying to shape a
nationalist and anti-bourgeois tendency towards the bourgeoisie. .
The Greek state, which spends 2.4% of its GDP annually on NATO spending, announced the next steps of its further militarization: recruitment
of 15,000 permanent servicemen, proposal to increase military service to 12 months, proposal for compulsory military service to 18, doubling
annual state budget for military spending, a desire to buy planes, torpedoes, ammunition from France, a possible purchase of frigates from
Germany and an upgrade of 84 F-16 aircraft that will cost many billions of euros. The Greek state squanders the money from the public
coffers, what it grabs from the toiling and starving people, in order to upgrade its militaristic mechanism, which is in line with the
attempted developmental reconstruction of the Greek capital, NATO's war plans, but also the suppression of any attempted mass expression of
social disobedience and class anger from below. This money could be used to meet the immediate needs of the people, for salaries, pensions,
benefits and allowances, health, education, housing, electricity and water for the poor. The state, however, shows us at every opportunity
which class it serves; that is, the few and the privileged, the capitalists.
In a possible war or hot episode between Greece and Turkey in the guillotine of the imperialist slaughterhouse will put the peoples of the
region, the producers of wealth and the youth of the two countries. But the oppressed and the exploited, wherever we are on the map, we have
nothing to separate us from. We must understand the community of our class interests and on this basis organize our counterattack against
those who oppress us and live by our toil. We are not going to fight for the interests of local and international bosses, we are not going
to fight for any homeland, nor are we going to turn the barrels of arms on the working classes of other countries, from which the rulers are
trying to separate us by any artificial means.
It is the duty of the oppressed and exploited to sabotage the machine of imperialist war and prevent the spread of nationalist poison in the
social body! Therefore, it is imperative to strengthen the international anti-war and anti-imperialist movement on the basis of proletarian
internationalism and the relentless anti-capitalist, revolutionary struggle. Only a united world proletariat, class-organized and
politically organized, can prevent the war plans of the capitalist oligarchy, clash and overthrow the state and the capitalists, to lead
collectively, ruthlessly and horizontally the economic and social life, for the construction of a stateless and classless society, of
liberal communism.
CLASS AND internationalist enlisting OF PEOPLES FOR THE PREVENTION OF imperialist war
not fight FOR EEZ THE PETROLEUM AND INTEREST OF BOSSES
scar MEMBER AND KAPITALISTES, NOT THE WORKERS AND YOUTH
MONEY FOR THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE AND NOT FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT
ANTI-WAR-ANTI-COURT
MARCH: MONDAY 28/9, 18:00, VENIZELOS STATUE
Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)
lib_thess@hotmail.com
libertasalonica.wordpress.com
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/09/25
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Message: 5
We aims to contribute to the strengthening of the feminist movement from grassroots work, collective training, agitation, propaganda and
construction from autonomy and libertarian praxis. ---- Those of us who make up Mujeres En Lucha are militants who, for some years now, have
found ourselves in popular educational work and in libertarian students, assuming the task of promoting discussions, reflections and actions
aimed at positioning feminism in the organizations and movements of those who we are part. ---- Likewise, we contribute from action and
libertarian reflection, since we firmly believe that horizontality, direct democracy, direct action, self-management, assemblyism,
solidarity, self-care and care for others and constant review Through exercises of self-criticism and collective criticism, they promote the
organization of women and the construction of a feminist and free society.
Finally, we are women fighting against patriarchy, capitalism, racism, colonialism, and speciesism. We are women who fight, day by day,
against all forms of oppression and domination. We fight because we are not willing to stop building a new libertarian and feminist world.
We are not alone, we are organized!
They feel, they listen to: Women In Struggle!
https://mujeresenluchaorganizacion.wordpress.com/acerca-de/
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(ca) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
In the evening of 16/9/2020 at Thessaloniki, Greece, during a social intervention, antifascists comrades were collectively erasing fascist
slogans and graffiti, which were written a few days earlier by the members of the new neo-nazi party "Greeks for homeland", found by Ilias
Kassidiaris, an ex-representative of the nazi party "Golden Dawn". The nazi graffiti were replaced with antifascist graffiti and slogans.
Around 22:30 at night our comrades were surrounded by heavy police forces that attacked them without reason. 51 comrades were taken into
custody to the Police General Headquarters in Thessaloniki and kept there 2 to 4 days under the most deplorable conditions. In total, 15 of
them were injured while another 2 were even admitted to the hospital due to their heavy injuries caused by the police. During the arrest and
the custody the cops never stopped provoking and abusing their power that is given to them by the state, in order to break the spirit of our
comrades.
The 51 arrested were presented before the prosecutor and the investigator where the following outrageous and untrue accusation were made
against them: i) disobedience because they refused to have their fingerprints and photos taken; ii) breach of the public peace (this is a
very common charge that is given every time someone is protesting); iii) destruction of public site, for the antifascist slogans they wrote
in order to cover the fascist ones. Apparently, for the greek court of bourgeois "justice" only the fascist's hate speech is permitted on
the walls; iv) violation of the law on the protection of antiquities; v) illegal possession of weapons, because the antifascists wielded
anarchist flags and helmets; vi) criminal prosecution for "monument damage". That claim was made through the curator of the antiquities,
which has no problem to support this obscene lie, even though the "monument" which was damaged is actually the benches near the actual
historical monument of Thessaloniki, the "White Tower". What is interesting is that the construction of those benches in 2008, which were
part of Vasilis Papageorgopoulos's (former city mayor and member of the now ruling right wing party "New Democracy", who was set free from
prison after embezzling 30.000.000 euros from the municipal funds) plan for the business regeneration of the area, was the one that actually
destroyed the area around the historical monument of the city. Needless to say that the antifascist slogans were easily cleaned the next
days by the city's street cleaners, of course leaving intact the fascist ones. Finally, the antifascist comrades who were arrested are now
forced to be present once per month at the police station, as such restrictive conditions were imposed on them by the court.
This provocative attack against the members of the antifascist movement demonstrates the true colours of the capitalist oppression and the
state's tolerance towards the fascists, whom they are constantly nourishing as their most reactionary reserve. This oppressive attack to our
comrades is for us clearly an open provocation by the state and the cops only a few days away from the annual antifascists demonstration on
the anniversary of the assassination of Pavlos Fyssas (antifascist hip hop musician who was murdered by the fascists of Golden Dawn) and
from the completion of the trial of the criminal neo-nazi organisation Golden Dawn (for which the prosecutor's suggestion provides a more
favourable treatment for the nazis). And yet, at 18/9/2020 massive demonstrations all over the country gave a strong message of resistance
and fight against the state, the capitalists and fascist's "deep state". At the city of Thessaloniki 3000 protestors filled the streets of
the city for the antifascist demonstration.
We will not let our comrades or any member of the anticapitalist and antifascist movement into the hands of the state oppression. Our
solidarity towards those antifascists arrested that day is given and unending. It's our collective obligation to create a safety net to
defend them before the vindictive prosecution of the state and its mechanisms. The political support and solidarity to our comrades is part
of our duty as members of the international antifascist movement. As anarchists and antifascists we will stand by them in any way,
continuing unwaveringly our collective fight for class and social emancipation and for the contribution of proletarian justice.
NO CRIMINAL PROSECUTION TO THE 51 ANTIFASCISTS WHO WERE ARRESTED IN THESSALONIKI, GREECE, AT 16/9/2020
UNCOMPROMISING INTERNATIONALIST AND CLASS STRUGGLE AGAINST THOSE WHO OPPRESS THE WORKING CLASS
DEATH TO FASCISM
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON
Anarquist Federacion (Greece)
Federación Anarquista de Rosario (Argentina)
Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement (New Zeeland)
Federación Anarquista Santiago (Chile)
Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (Uruguay)
Coordenaçao Anarquista Brasileira (Brazil)
Organización Anarquista de Córdoba (Argentina)
Die Plattform-Anarchakommunistische Organisation (Germany)
Libertaere Aktion (Switzerland)
Workers Solidarity Movement (Ireland)
Anarchist Communist Group (United Kingdom)
Grupo Libertario Vía Libre (Colombia)
Alternativa Libertaria / FdCA (Italy)
Organisation Socialiste Libertaire (Switzerland)
Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (South Africa)
Union Communiste Libertaire (France)
https://www.anarchist-federation.gr/archives/2298
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Message: 2
The arrival of US Secretary of State Pompeo is scheduled in the coming days, with visits to Souda, Athens and Thessaloniki. This visit comes
on the one hand at a special juncture in the level of transnational competition in the wider Eastern Mediterranean region, with the direct
involvement of the Greek state, on the other hand is a continuation of previous contacts and developments directly related to the
aspirations of the domestic bourgeoisie. ---- The last few months have been marked by an increasing escalation of transnational competition
in the wider region, with the main protagonists being the Greek and Turkish states and the mutual aspirations in the race to secure the
exploitation of the region's wealth-producing resources. In this context, transnational blocs of interests were formed on both sides (see
Greece-Cyprus-Egypt partnership with the support of third countries and respectively Turkey-Libya) with the aim of maximizing the benefits
for each formation and each state separately.
The result of this tension was the dangerous militaristic games, the continuous military exercises with the participation of various states,
the overcrowding of large military forces in a limited area, the nationalist crowns from official lips on both sides of the Aegean. The last
link in this chain is the announcement by the Greek state of a package of 10 billion euros for armaments programs, while at the same time
the Greek state faithfully fulfills its armaments commitments towards NATO, being one of the few states that spend annually " required
"-from the USA- a lot of money, to the point that for this reason it receives" praise "from the US political staff. In addition, utilizing
nationalist rhetoric and frenzy,
This policy pursued by the far-right government of ND is a continuation of the policy implemented by the previous government of SYRIZA-ANEL.
A policy aimed at further annexing the Greek state formation to the NATO chariot and upgrading it to a local gendarme and placeholder of
NATO interests in the SE Mediterranean and the Balkans (see agreement on the name of Northern Macedonia and its accession to the SE in
exchange for the aerial military surveillance of the neighboring state by the Greek), through the transformation of Greek territory into a
large US military hub by assigning camps, facilities, upgrading existing ones, storing military materials, new equipment, etc.
The time that this condition is evolving finds the planet roaring with the social and class resistances that are developing. From the
streets of US metropolises that have been a battleground for months since the assassination of G. Floyd, where insurgents are fighting
against uniformed state and parastatal bastards (see the recent assassinations of anti-fascists A. Huber and M. Reinoelh ), forcing Trump to
publicly persecute anti-fascists / anarchists, to the streets of Paris and large-scale mobilizations against the new economic and labor
measures to pave the way for the covid-19 pandemic, and from the mountains of Mexico to insurgent Zapatistas up to the modern hells reserved
by the states for the migrants in the Mediterranean,
Regardless of transnational rivalries, states and bosses know their real enemy against whom they are ready to put aside their individual
differences and mobilize when needed. And he is none other than the oppressed who refuse to bear the chains of submission anymore and look
the monster in the eyes, ready to confront him. Hence, the Turkish state, which imprisons and kills Turkish opposition fighters in Turkey,
is in full agreement with the Greek state, which attacks Turkish politicians, beats them, arrests them or even deports them back to Erdogan.
In the face of this all-out attack of the state and capital, we have to oppose international solidarity and the project of social
revolution. Standing against the gloom of capitalist dystopia and the slaughterhouses that states prepare for the oppressed, let us build a
broad anti-war movement that hates states and capital, fighting for the true peace of humanity, the abolition of human exploitation, human
exploitation. versus death.
Solidarity internationalist, social revolution all over the Earth
Solidarity the weapon of the peoples, war in the war of the bosses
Anti-war Demonstration, Monday 28/9 at 18:00, Ag. Venizelou
Thessaloniki Local Coordination of the Anarchist Political Organization Federation of Collectivities
https://maurokokkino1936.wordpress.com/2020/09/28
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At first, the authorities of the Republic of Belarus took a different path and tried to crush the movement with the help of extremely brutal
repressions on August 9-10. But it didn't work out and two problems arose - a) people began to fight back, b) outrage intensified the
protests. Then the authorities applied (with some changes) Beijing's Hong Kong tactics. The meaning is this - when you walk the streets
peacefully, you do not bother us. Eventually you will start to fizzle out when you see that it is completely useless - we continue to rule
the country / city. In Belarus, this is not entirely true, tactics have been modernized - from time to time, violent attacks are made on
peaceful marches - not with the aim of dispersing the entire march, but with the aim of delaying / beating / humiliating some of the
participants in order to demoralize them. The aim of the attackers is to accelerate the process of general demoralization.
After a while, the marches in Hong Kong began to fizzle out; they really did not interfere with the authorities' work. Seeing this, the more
radical part of the protesters decided to resort to seizing a number of centers (university, local parliament, airport). These actions were
no longer peaceful - when the police tried to disperse them, the protesters used edged weapons, including bows and arrows. But relatively
few people took part in the uprisings and the police coped with them. There is no such thing in Belarus.
Along with this, an important problem for Hong Kong was the lack of support in the PRC and the lack of internationalism. The protesters said
from the start, "We are not China." They say, we have a higher standard of living, the courts work better and go nafig. We are here fighting
for independence or for a British protectorate (although, formally, the slogans were more moderate). "And we are not Hong Kong," most of the
Chinese replied, "and since you sold out to the British, walk with British flags, then you are the enemies of our great people, as you
yourself say, and if so, then China will teach you a lesson." Separatism faced great-power chauvinism and began to suffer defeat. On the
side of great-power nationalism were not only the powerful army and police of the PRC, but also the massive majority of 1.4 billion Chinese
against 7 million Hong Kongers. However, here the British intervened - they said that they were ready to receive millions of Hong Kong
residents - this would be a blow to the PRC's economy. Xi Jinping appears to be getting a donut hole instead of the bubulik itself. However,
the British are not going to accept 9 million Belarusians.
True, the dictatorships still have a problem. Economic collapse, hunger, excessive violence can become incentives in and of themselves, and
then large numbers of people can fight back. This does not necessarily happen, but it can happen. But that is another story...
The overwhelming majority of Hong Kong residents, like the citizens of the Republic of Belarus, had no motivation to fight for things that
would have a value comparable to the value of life - be it the Golden Age on earth and / or the salvation of the soul / liberation from
samsara / the best incarnation after death. And the "lesser evil", in which the authorities will less often imprison troublemakers - and
only - is not an incentive for a radical struggle. Moreover, according to opinion polls, confidence in parliamentary systems in the world is
falling.
Since the days of the Beijing Independent Workers 'Union (NWC), which fought the Chinese Communist Party in 1989 on Tiananmen Square for the
workers' right to live in a new world where labor collectives would run factories and the country themselves. name, but an ideological
organization) in the PRC and even more so in Hong Kong, there was nothing comparable to these events. The parliamentary system, with its
elections every four years, between which the authorities can do anything, the parliamentary system with its corporate lobbyists, oligarchs
who have real power, with huge social inequality and regular financial crises, is the lesser evil, we are told. Maybe. But paradoxically,
the formula of Sir Winston Churchill ("parliamentary democracy is terrible, but still nothing is better"), having become the basis of
thinking, can lead to the victory of the greater evil. This dismal pseudo-truth is nothing but the secret of the victory of dictatorships.
People don't usually shed blood for lesser evils. The risks are huge and the benefits are comparatively small.
"You do not hate Monday, you hate capitalism," said Slava ižek, whom I do not like. Unfree monotonous work 8 or 10 hours a day, poverty,
empty life devoid of meaning, lack of real power. For this, people should die? For the survivors to wake up in horror every Monday morning?
https://avtonom.org/author_columns/gonkongskaya-taktika-pekina-uspeshno-primenyaetsya-v-belarusi
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Monday 28/9, 18:00 at the Statue of Venizelos. ---- Imperialist diplomacy is the robbery and bloodshed of the peoples. ---- Mike Pompeo
unwanted! ---- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to visit Greece on September 28-30, visiting Thessaloniki, Athens and Souda,
just days after a summit of EU leaders on the tense situation in Eastern Mediterranean and the Greek-Turkish dispute over the EEZ. His
meetings with Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias are already scheduled. Although the specific visit
of the US Secretary of State is communicated as a supposed intervention to de-escalate the tension in the Aegean, the reality advocates the
deepening of the Greek state in the geostrategic plans of the American imperialism,
Every visit of an American politician to Greece traditionally implies the promotion of business movements of the American capital. On
September 21, executives from the US-based International Development Finance Corporation, led by CEO Adam Boiler, visited the Maximos Palace
and met with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, where they shook hands after agreeing on a quick investment. $ 5 billion in energy,
infrastructure and technology. Also, the US interest in shipping investments in the Elefsina Shipyards and in the ports of Alexandroupolis,
Kavala and Igoumenitsa became clear, after the completion of ONEX's investment in Syros, which is now certified by the US Navy for the
maintenance of US warships. In short, the sale of public funds to American business groups is underway. Of course, necessary conditions for
these investments are the sharpening of the class devaluation of the workers and the cutting off of their rights.
The Greek state, by providing a steady supply to the American imperialists, seeks its premium from the latter in its perpetual competition
with the Turkish state in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean. German, French and American imperialists are ready to take on the role
of mediator, to discipline the Greek and Turkish states in the demands of the EU and NATO. However, any attempt at diplomatic compromise is
taking place in a particularly tense climate, as NATO troops have flooded the Mediterranean. It is a given, then, that the situation in our
neighborhood is particularly deplorable. Those who light the wicks of war want to present themselves as peacemakers, to promote the
interests of their bourgeoisie and to shape the geopolitical chessboard of the Eastern Mediterranean. As long as the imperialists ignite
transnational rivalries, they will conspire for the peace and security of the peoples, while at the same time hoarding the war industries
and business groups, as the respective investments and economic agreements will always be used as extortionate terms for any apparent aid.
the patrons to their subordinates.
The United States has assigned the Greek state the role of watchdog in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans. For this very reason, the
Greek territory has been transformed into a vast NATO base. American imperialism is constantly competing with the Russian and Chinese agents
in the region. The Russians are trying to extend their influence in Cyprus (see Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Cyprus)
and Serbia (see joint Russian-Serbian military exercises in Belarus), while the Chinese are competing and overcoming American capital in a
number of business activities. At the same time, however, the US is struggling to keep Turkey "anchored in the West," as US Ambassador to
Greece Jeffrey Payat said a few days ago.
Be that as it may, the quarrels and rivalries between the Greek and Turkish bourgeoisie, between the Greek and the Turkish state, do not
concern the interests of the working class on both sides of the Aegean. Our interests do not coincide with those of monopoly groups, such as
Exxon Mobile, Total and ELPE, which are going to make a fortune from hydrocarbon mining. The existing transnational dispute between Greece
and Turkey is done exclusively for the prefecture of economic and political power in the region, through the delimitation of the EEZs, the
exploitation of energy deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean and the control of the transit trade of energy.
The states are trying to blind the people with the nationalist poison, in order to drag them into a war for the interests of the
capitalists. Thus, a particularly dangerous war-torn climate, a feverish war preparation and a strong mobilization and vigilance in the
Greek and Turkish civilian armies have been formed. Unilateral and myopic accusations are thrown out from each side, each of which claims
the "right" in its part by defending its bourgeoisie. Of course, the imperialist rivalries and nationalist narratives that are now becoming
the flags of the two states are systematically and subtly silenced by the bourgeois press and the capitalist media, trying to shape a
nationalist and anti-bourgeois tendency towards the bourgeoisie. .
The Greek state, which spends 2.4% of its GDP annually on NATO spending, announced the next steps of its further militarization: recruitment
of 15,000 permanent servicemen, proposal to increase military service to 12 months, proposal for compulsory military service to 18, doubling
annual state budget for military spending, a desire to buy planes, torpedoes, ammunition from France, a possible purchase of frigates from
Germany and an upgrade of 84 F-16 aircraft that will cost many billions of euros. The Greek state squanders the money from the public
coffers, what it grabs from the toiling and starving people, in order to upgrade its militaristic mechanism, which is in line with the
attempted developmental reconstruction of the Greek capital, NATO's war plans, but also the suppression of any attempted mass expression of
social disobedience and class anger from below. This money could be used to meet the immediate needs of the people, for salaries, pensions,
benefits and allowances, health, education, housing, electricity and water for the poor. The state, however, shows us at every opportunity
which class it serves; that is, the few and the privileged, the capitalists.
In a possible war or hot episode between Greece and Turkey in the guillotine of the imperialist slaughterhouse will put the peoples of the
region, the producers of wealth and the youth of the two countries. But the oppressed and the exploited, wherever we are on the map, we have
nothing to separate us from. We must understand the community of our class interests and on this basis organize our counterattack against
those who oppress us and live by our toil. We are not going to fight for the interests of local and international bosses, we are not going
to fight for any homeland, nor are we going to turn the barrels of arms on the working classes of other countries, from which the rulers are
trying to separate us by any artificial means.
It is the duty of the oppressed and exploited to sabotage the machine of imperialist war and prevent the spread of nationalist poison in the
social body! Therefore, it is imperative to strengthen the international anti-war and anti-imperialist movement on the basis of proletarian
internationalism and the relentless anti-capitalist, revolutionary struggle. Only a united world proletariat, class-organized and
politically organized, can prevent the war plans of the capitalist oligarchy, clash and overthrow the state and the capitalists, to lead
collectively, ruthlessly and horizontally the economic and social life, for the construction of a stateless and classless society, of
liberal communism.
CLASS AND internationalist enlisting OF PEOPLES FOR THE PREVENTION OF imperialist war
not fight FOR EEZ THE PETROLEUM AND INTEREST OF BOSSES
scar MEMBER AND KAPITALISTES, NOT THE WORKERS AND YOUTH
MONEY FOR THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE AND NOT FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT
ANTI-WAR-ANTI-COURT
MARCH: MONDAY 28/9, 18:00, VENIZELOS STATUE
Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative (member of the Anarchist Federation)
lib_thess@hotmail.com
libertasalonica.wordpress.com
https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2020/09/25
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We aims to contribute to the strengthening of the feminist movement from grassroots work, collective training, agitation, propaganda and
construction from autonomy and libertarian praxis. ---- Those of us who make up Mujeres En Lucha are militants who, for some years now, have
found ourselves in popular educational work and in libertarian students, assuming the task of promoting discussions, reflections and actions
aimed at positioning feminism in the organizations and movements of those who we are part. ---- Likewise, we contribute from action and
libertarian reflection, since we firmly believe that horizontality, direct democracy, direct action, self-management, assemblyism,
solidarity, self-care and care for others and constant review Through exercises of self-criticism and collective criticism, they promote the
organization of women and the construction of a feminist and free society.
Finally, we are women fighting against patriarchy, capitalism, racism, colonialism, and speciesism. We are women who fight, day by day,
against all forms of oppression and domination. We fight because we are not willing to stop building a new libertarian and feminist world.
We are not alone, we are organized!
They feel, they listen to: Women In Struggle!
https://mujeresenluchaorganizacion.wordpress.com/acerca-de/
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