Today's Topics:
1. Greece, For the decision in the ATHEX Trial and the
magnificent anti-fascist gathering in the Athens Court of
Appeals. By APO [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Political Position of the Anarchist Political Organization for the decision in the ATHEX Trial and the majestic anti-fascist gathering in
the Athens Court of Appeal. ---- " ... In the constant international destabilization and the upheavals of systemic political constants, the
great possibilities of revolutionary emancipation are born. Against them, the counter-revolutionary extreme right and fascist manifestation
of modern totalitarianism are already being formed to enter as the last obstacle in the evolution of social history, which proceeds through
the unceasing struggle for freedom and equality. "War and fascism, this is the" response "of the system to its total and deep crisis, to its
own contradictions, caused by the incurable conflict imposed by its basic principle, the exploitation and oppression of man by man."
(excerpt from the Declaration of the 2nd conference of APO, 12/2016)
"Far-right policies are the most extreme manifestation of the exploitative complex of state and capital, sometimes in the form of parastatal
gangs, sometimes as a legitimate party and sometimes as the dominant model of government, depending on the needs of the system that produces
and sustains fascism. "They cultivate nationalism, racism and intolerance in an attempt to intensify social cannibalism and to complement
the dominant ideological imposition, defending Fortress Europe, displacement centers and concentration camps."
(excerpt from the anti-state-anti-capitalist-anti-fascist call of APO in the ATHEX trial, 02/2017)
On October 7, five and a half years after its inception, the Golden Dawn trial was completed in the Athens Court of Appeals with the
conviction against the majority of the accused. On October 22, the sentences were finalized and 38 members of the organization were sent to
prison, including most of the leaders.
1. It is a fact that the ATHEX, since its founding in the 1980s, has functioned as a state actor and hand-picked the thread from the past of
its political ancestors, the Hittites and the occupiers of the occupation and the civil war and inheriting the parastatal action of the
Gotzamanids who assassinated Lambrakis, but also of the centaurs and rangers of ONNED who assassinated the militant professor Nikos
Temponera. complementary and / or instead of formal repression, as well as to develop the most conservative and reactionary social
instincts, dissolving any collective, class and social ties, thus contributing to social emphasis.
During its 4 decades of operation, its members have starred in hundreds of murderous attacks against political and social activists,
leftists, anarchists and trade unionists, squatters and self-governing arenas, refugees and immigrants, always enjoying its co-operation,
protection and immunity. provided by the official repressive mechanisms, the police and "justice". These attacks are tangible proof that the
ATHEX was created to strike exactly where the state policy itself, the interests of the bosses and the regime propaganda of the media
indicated: against the wildest exploited part of society and against the movements, which proclaimed are in the crosshairs of state repression.
2. In conditions of deep political and economic crisis, especially after the social uprising of December 2008, and faced with the mass
mobilizations of the following years against poverty and the impoverishment of the memorandum policies, the regime chose to reward its
murderous gang. by all means, as a tool in the context of a broader counter-insurgency and counter-revolutionary strategy, with two main
objectives: on the one hand to terrorize its political opponents by the Nazi strike groups, and on the other to rally the most reactionary
elements of the population around the Nazis. scum and the recruitment of a part of it into intolerance, racism, the consolidation of
totalitarianism and violence against the weak class, in order to spread social emphasis,to target the outcasts for the sufferings caused by
the policy of the state and the bosses, and to leave the powerful untouched.
3. The assassination of Pavlos Fyssas on September 18, 2013 in Keratsini, as the culmination of the neo-Nazi criminal activity, had a
decisive effect on the consciences of the fighters, but also on the wider and majority current of society that does not accept emphasis,
that the regime wanted to control.
Of course, we did not learn about the ATHEX at the time, nor did we forget the hundreds of silenced fascist attacks on the poorest working
class, refugees and immigrants, on homes, on the streets, in public markets or at work, either with or without escort or under the cover of
police forces. We were not unaware of the murder of Shakhat Lukman in Petralona, the brutal beating of Egyptian fishermen in Perama, the
scratches on the face of a fourteen-year-old boy from Afghanistan, the ambush of PAME trade unionists who had been and contractors. On the
contrary, we were well aware of its action, we had experienced first hand and responded on the road to the dozens of brazen attacks on
squatters,
The premeditated arrests of some of the gang's masterminds and their referral to a "criminal organization" trial for just one part of their
criminal activity, known for years, simply confirmed the extent of state complicity and oversight in these crimes and at the same time
attempted to fix the society in the role of the spectator of a supposedly institutional treatment of the Nazis, which clearly aimed at
channeling and subjugating the generalized social rage that followed the assassination of Fyssa. An outrage for a crime that could never be
concealed and that undermined the social legitimacy of the state itself by making its complicity visible.
This move of arrests and prosecutions can of course not be seen as a defensive move on the part of the state. Instead, he quickly joined an
aggressive movement in the context of its reconstruction, in the direction of modern totalitarianism. A move that sent a clear repressive
message to the world that fights anti-institutionally and from below, both through the implementation of the law on criminal organization
created to criminalize socio-class resistance, and through the use of the "theory of two extremes" Which attempts to identify the parastatal
action of the thugs and murderers of the golden dawn with the world of struggle and resistance.
At the same time, it also reflected the ongoing struggle within the system at that time, between that trend that was still contemplating a
golden age of political management and that trend that saw its political marginalization - that is, shrinking or its removal from the
mainstream political scene and its stay only at the level of the strike groups. second trend prevailed sending the Nazi gang to the margins.
But not fascism, which is always a useful reserve for the state-capitalist system.
4. In these seven years since the assassination of Fyssa and in the five and a half years since the beginning of the trial, the state has
been bombarding the media with "institutional anti-fascist" rhetoric and seeking to appear as the only body of justice and guarantor of
social normalcy, leads to "Justice" the Golden Dawn, in the longest trial in modern history, trying to blur the waters around the direct
relationship between state and parastate.
In these seven years, both the "institutional antifascism" that tried to wash the state of the responsibility of orchestrating the neo-Nazi
parastatal action and to consolidate the theory of the two extremes, as well as the parastatal action on the sidewalk itself, found strong
opposition. , decisive, lasting and relentless anti-fascist action. The mass and militant anti-fascist mobilizations were the real obstacle
to the rise of the fascists and the attacks they carried out, with the result that today strong embankments have entered their operation and
the retreat of the neo-Nazi groups from the public sphere has been achieved. From the anti-fascist demonstrations of resistance and memory
for P. Fyssas and S. Lukman,
We have not had and do not have illusions about the role of civil justice. Any condemnation of fascists by it, can not deceive us. We do not
forget that the struggle against fascism is part of the overall struggle against capitalism and the state. As
anarchists-anti-authoritarians, through social-class struggles we stand against a powerful system that promotes inequalities, hierarchy and
divisions. We fight inside and outside the courts, in all social spheres, in the daily struggles for equality, solidarity, freedom.
5. On Wednesday, October 7, we were together with tens of thousands of protesters outside the Athens Court of Appeals, in one of the largest
anti-fascist rallies of all time in Greece. Without illusions that the system of exploitation and oppression can be embellished, without
illusions that any government can be a barrier to fascism, without illusions about the role of civil justice and its decisions, through the
dynamic gathering and conflicts with its uniformed murderers Police Station on Alexandra Avenue, we shouted with all our might that we were
not there to fight fascism together with the state, the government,
6. The sentencing and imprisonment of some neo-Nazis cannot serve as "the Siloam swimming pool" for the state. This is because the attacks
of the ATHEX all these years were announced in advance by the most official state lips, leaving the fascist gangs to act as an adjunct to
the plans of the state and the bosses. We do not forget that just one year before the assassination of Fyssa, Prime Minister Samaras was the
one who announced operations against the poor and the struggling ("illegal immigrants", "trade unionists" and "hooded men" in his own
language) for its unimpeded enforcement. memorandum looting. And this is exactly the strict framework in which the neo-Nazis then moved: in
parallel with the police pogroms, the concentration camps, the torture in police stations, the shootings of caretakers against foreign land
workers in the strawberry fields of the Greek province, the racist laws. Along with the state hunt against HIV-positive women, homeless and
Roma. Along with the dismissals, the employer terrorism, the mobilization of strikers. Along with the suppression and prohibition of
demonstrations, the ongoing evacuations and invasions in political-social areas of struggle (squatting and hangouts), the arrests and
torture of militants. Because the golden dawn is not just a criminal gang, it is a gang of parastatals that nurtured, armed and intimidated
the state itself. employer terrorism, the recruitment of strikers. Along with the suppression and prohibition of demonstrations, the ongoing
evacuations and invasions in political-social areas of struggle (squatting and hangouts), the arrests and torture of militants. Because the
golden dawn is not just a criminal gang, it is a gang of parastatals that nurtured, armed and intimidated the state itself. employer
terrorism, the recruitment of strikers. Along with the suppression and prohibition of demonstrations, the ongoing evacuations and invasions
in political-social areas of struggle (squatting and hangouts), the arrests and torture of militants. Because the golden dawn is not just a
criminal gang, it is a gang of parastatals that nurtured, armed and intimidated the state itself.
7. And if today the "fist of democracy" is temporarily displayed on some parastatal lackeys, this is done in order to gain consent to the
use of a repressive arsenal intended for the fighters. The Golden Dawn gang is nothing but the expendable crutch, the backbone of a system
in crisis, and the system itself today uses its condemnation, as it has used the persecutor all these years, for the same reasons that
nurtured it: to terrorize state and class resistance. State officials do not hesitate to shed the blood of a dead antifascist and invoke an
alleged purge of fascist pockets to consolidate the state monopoly of violence and intensify the suppression of social struggles in the name
of democracy and .
Fascism will not be confronted by the state, because fascism stems from the state itself. Because fascism is not just the neo-Nazis, but
state totalitarianism itself.
Fascism will not be defeated by participation in the political management of the system, the integration of social struggles, trust in
institutions, the political system, "justice", etc.
Fascism will be overthrown by broad, horizontal, anti-institutional social and class resistance. We will crush fascism in the roadblocks, in
the streets, in the neighborhoods, in the squares, in the schools, in the workplaces. He will be crushed by the solidarity among the
oppressed, the self-organization of the workers, the unemployed, the students, locals and foreigners, and our common struggle for a society
of equality and freedom. To send the state, the bosses and the fascists to the rubbish bin of history.
Solidarity with the anti-fascist and anarchist comrades who broke the police bans of the anti-fascist rally on November 1 in N. Heraklion
and N. Ionia, protesting in Galatsi, where they were savagely attacked by police raids and raids.
TERMINATION OF ANY PROSECUTION FOR THE 13 ARRESTED IN ANTIFASCIST CONCENTRATION IN GALATSI
SOLIDARITY TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE PROSECUTED FOR THEIR ANTI-FASCIST ACTION
ANARCHIST POLITICAL ORGANIZATION - FEDERATION OF COLLECTIVES
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