#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #UK #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) UK, AFED: Death to Gentrification, From London to Exarchia (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 For those of us surviving in London, the birthplace of capitalism and one of the

places where the process of deterritorization, gentrification and
individualisation of social life has reached its furthest phase, Exarchia has
served as an example of resistance and counter-attack against those same forces
for many years. As we struggle to fight against the death-machine of the
colonialist capitalist heteropatriarchal white-supremacist nation-state in order
to carve out a small measure of free and unmediated life, Exarchia reminds us
what was taken from us and inspires us to create it once again. Not through the
spectacular images of riot-porn distributed for the consumption of
anarcho-voyeurs from around the world, but with its refusal to allow the social
relations and spaces that compose the beating heart of the neighborhood to die.

In response to this, the Greek state is trying to extinguish this flame of
resistance through the deathly combination of brutal repression and cold
gentrification. They seek to replace the flow of social life running through the
neighborhood with the flow of dead capital, opening the way for tourists and
hipsters to invade the area and push out all those that housing developers and
state planners deem undesirable: the immigrants, the outcasts, the poor and
homeless, the uncompromising poets and, of course, the anarchists. But the
neighborhood won't allow this social cleansing to go unchallenged. It's fighting
back.

On the 25th of June a demonstration has been organised in Exarchia, accompanied
by an international call for solidarity. In London we are answering this call
with graffiti going up around the city. Although this is a small symbolic
gesture, we hope it will show to our friends in Exarchia that their struggle
reaches every part of the world and is echoed by many voices. Even in the belly
of beast, they have allies. And so, from London to Exarchia we say: Death To
Gentrification!

https://aflondon.wordpress.com/2022/06/25/death-to-gentrification-london-to-exarchia
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