#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Greece, APO, land & freedom: Political declaration and information from the 8th Conference of the A.P.O - O.S (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On June 18 and 19, 2022, the 8th Conference was held at the Mundo Nuevo Occupancy

and the Libertatia Occupancy, respectively, in Thessalonikiof A.P.O - O.S. In
this two-day process participated the collectives, members of APO, Anarchist
collective "Circle of Fire" (Athens), Anarchist Collective "Omicron 72" (Athens),
Collective for Social Anarchism "Black and Red" (Thessaloniki) and Collective for
Libertarian Communism "Libertatia" (Thessaloniki), which during the first day, in
the context of the open debate, were placed in relation to a series of issues of
the political and social situation. The open process of the first day was also
attended by comrades from the "Quieta Movere Student Anarchist Assembly" and from
the "Anarchist Assembly for Social and Class Emancipation".

During the second day, the proceedings of the Congress continued with the
internal discussions of the collectives, which took stock of its movement so far,
the functioning of the organs and the special thematic groups, reassessed the
political context and set the directions of movement of the organization for the
next period, with a view to the next Conference arranged for the winter of 2022
in Athens.

Then follows the political declaration , which constitutes the composition of the
positions of the collectives of APO both from the 5th Conference held in January
2022 in Athens and from the 8th Conference in June of the same year in Thessaloniki.
* * *
In the current historical phase, the politically, ideologically, value-wise and
economically bankrupt regime, no longer having to promise anything other than
wars, blockades and impoverishment, shields itself against the prospect of the
dynamic expression of generalized social discontent, both locally and
internationally. It is the period when states and bosses try hard to impose on
the social majority their declarations about the "end of history", trying to
convince in every way that there is no other alternative for human societies than
that where, the great social majority will be forced to live stigmatized by want
and poverty, hardship and disease, wars and disasters. The transnational
formations are striking the expansion of their power by military means, with
disastrous consequences for every people that will be in their path, plundering
for centuries most of the planet, they are preparing the next step. The
transition from regional "proxy" conflicts, to generalized war, in order to
preserve the blood-stained "acquisitions" of their declining empire.

Counting now more than 5 full months since the start of the Russian invasion of
Ukraine, the effects of the war on the plebeians have already become apparent.
Millions of refugees, thousands of dead soldiers and civilians, rape, razing,
discrediting all meaning of life and destruction. The brutality of the war
slaughterhouse to which the states drag the plebeian strata evolves day by day,
in a condition of consolidation of war as interstate rivalries are constantly
sharpened. The militaristic arms race in which the states have entered, the
ever-intensifying conflict of interests between the different capitalist power
blocs, the plans to expand NATO by attaching additional states to it in direct
confrontation with Russia,

But who, with mathematical precision, is again leading the peoples to the war
slaughterhouse, from which the countries and people who were not lucky enough to
be born in the so-called "developed" West have never escaped? Is it Putin and
oriental authoritarianism, is it the warmongering hawks of the USA, or the
neoliberal paper-collars of the European Union? The answer is simple: EVERYONE;
because what gives rise to wars, conflicts, injustices, deaths and untold
tragedies of humanity is the globalized capitalist system. In peacetime it
subjugates, exploits and squeezes workers across the length and breadth of the
earth, oppresses and abuses the weakest and amasses untold riches for the world's
oligarchs - the same everywhere: in the US, in the EU, in Russia, in China.

This savage attack that societies are experiencing today, amid conditions of deep
and comprehensive systemic crisis and delegitimization of the political system
worldwide, is escalating and highlighting both the incurable contradictions of
the state-capitalist model of organization, as well as the absolute inability to
produce from above any coherent social vision, perspective and hope. The roots of
this ever-intensifying aggression lie in the very nature of the oppressive and
exploitative system. The need for deepening and expanding power leads to the
control of every human activity, with the aim of the complete subjugation of
society to the dictates of the state and the bosses. The state-capitalist system
is structured on the basis of the irrationality of social and class oppression,
which seeks by all means its perpetuation and consequently the perpetuation of
its destructive effects on society and nature. Its disintegration, which is so
visible today, is not the result of the multifaceted crisis. On the contrary, the
multifaceted crisis is the result of the deep decay and bankruptcy of the system
at a social, political and value level. This very disintegration and total
bankruptcy of the world of the state and capitalism is a limit to the era of its
global integration and at the same time the cause of the sharpening of
intra-imperialist antagonisms and the consequent increase in the threat of war.
The state-capitalist system carries within it its contradictions, it is the
competition between urban staffs to best position themselves on the chessboard to
seize and share precious and limited natural resources, the spread of their
"sphere of influence" that makes the sirens of war sound again and again. Because
as long as societies are captive to the so-called "national interest", private
profit and capitalist accumulation, war will be the only way for empires in
conflict. This capitalist lawlessness, however, does not at all mean that the
system of oppression is heading towards its own annihilation, through its
impasses and contradictions. If the peoples do not claim to take fate into their
own hands then the overall living conditions will become even worse, with the
main threat being that of war,

Let's not become fodder for the bosses' shells, fight militarism, block war here
and everywhere on the planet. Greece is a member of NATO and the EU and is deeply
tied to the chariot of Euro-Atlanticism, responsible for so many criminal
interventions in recent years and beyond. The recent renewal of the defense
cooperation between Greece and the USA, the upgrading of the NATO base of Souda
and its role in the wider region, the transfer of "special" weapons to the air
base of Araxos, the expansion of military bases in various regions of the country
such as Larissa, Stefanovikio and Alexandroupoli, with the latter being a point
of reference for the transfer of animate and inanimate NATO equipment to Eastern
Europe, the direct involvement in the war in Ukraine with the continuous
shipments of military equipment to the Ukrainian state, the incessant military
exercises with the corresponding war engagement scenarios that accompany them,
the new arms race for the entire army with "sophisticated" weapon systems, etc.
they are links in the chain of expanding relations between the Greek and American
states, confirming both the tethering of the domestic bourgeoisie to the chariot
of interests of the dominant international political-economic elite and the new
upgraded role that the Greek state seeks to have in the critical region of the
Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. the new arms race for the entire army with
"sophisticated" weapons systems etc. they are links in the chain of expanding
relations between the Greek and American states, confirming both the tethering of
the domestic bourgeoisie to the chariot of interests of the dominant
international political-economic elite and the new upgraded role that the Greek
state seeks to have in the critical region of the Balkans and the Eastern
Mediterranean. the new arms race for the entire army with "sophisticated" weapons
systems etc. they are links in the chain of expanding relations between the Greek
and American states, confirming both the tethering of the domestic bourgeoisie to
the chariot of interests of the dominant international political-economic elite
and the new upgraded role that the Greek state seeks to have in the critical
region of the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean.

In an environment where the destructive consequences of the imposition of the
system on nature and our lives were already evident, a system that condemns
millions of people to death from hunger, disease and war operations, the covid-19
disease breaks out. Its spread on a global level highlighted in the most obvious
way the brutality of the state and capitalist system, as on the one hand the
great social majority is faced with new and more burdensome conditions of
exploitation and oppression and on the other hand the state defends its power and
the accumulation of wealth in the hands of capital, widening the state of
emergency and depriving society of necessary resources to deal with this disaster.

The pandemic acted as an accelerator of the overall systemic crisis (crisis at an
economic, political, value and environmental level) - which is a structural
element of the system and is caused by the very contradictions of its operation
and by its demands for the complete control of societies - that is, it
accelerated the aggressive reordering of sovereignty aimed at changing the terms
of social and class competition for the worse for the exploited and oppressed.

Thus, the deadly disease, which has resulted in more than 5 million people dead
to date, is attempted to be used as a tool of anti-social enforcement in order to
implement faster and with harsher terms the restructurings in all fields of
social and class reality aiming at reproduction, expansion and perpetuation of
rule and the maximization of its profits, as well as at the bottom of the power
of the oppressors, for the total subjugation of society. While, due to its
inability to produce a total and coherent vision for society, while condemning
ever larger sections of society to poverty and impoverishment,

In the Greek area, the direction towards the imposition of modern
totalitarianism, on the basis of which the neo-liberal far-right government of
the N. Republic is currently operating, is reflected in a multitude of
restructurings, which serve the declared and permanent goals of the world of
Power, regardless of political management. Because if today the right seems able
to impose the hegemony of neo-liberalism and expand its policy attacking the
workers, the unemployed and everyone from below, it is because the previous
political management, the government of social democracy in the name of the
radical left crushed the movements,

The state, between the choice of its reconstruction in terms of welfare and the
corresponding one in terms of repression, chose the latter because social welfare
is considered an outdated concession that capitalism was forced to make at an
earlier stage. Modern totalitarianism does not need - and cannot - promise
anything. The New Democracy government, while already counting thousands of
deaths under its rule, is once again attempting to use the pandemic as a tool of
anti-social enforcement. Its purpose is to proceed with the implementation of the
sovereigns' plans for the annihilation of all resistance and for total imposition
on the social body, completely destroying public health, degrading public
education more and more, passing labor bills that increase class exploitation and
open the door to total arbitrariness by the bosses, while increasingly disarming
the unions, intensifying the plundering of the natural environment and devaluing
human life. They impose a regime of exception against the most invisible of this
society, be it prisoners or refugees and immigrants, or even against those who
struggle against the advance of modern totalitarianism.

In the last 2 years, when the covid-19 pandemic and its criminal management have
left millions dead around the world and 30,000 in Greece, the only thing the
Greek state offered was brutal suppression of social and class resistance as a
whole and the further dissolution of the NHS, with its complete abandonment, with
mergers of hospital units and privatizations and with its non-staffing with the
necessary staff. The state, faithful to the neoliberal model followed since the
years of the memorandum in the Greek area, continues to increase the cost of
living at even more intensive rates, while uninsured and precarious work,
flexible hours, the intensification of work, the privatization and management by
the bosses of all our basic needs are signs of responding to capitalism's need to
exacerbate class inequality and completely devalue our lives. Conditions for
violent social transformation are the change of social consciousness and the
neutralization of social and class resistances. Thus the repressive campaign has
as its clear objective the imposition of a regime of terror, a social condition
dominated by silence, fear and submission. The passing of the law to curtail
demonstrations, the abolition of the 8 o'clock hour and the strike, the
liberation of layoffs, the absolute deprecation of the good of public health, the
educational restructuring of blockades and repression, the further sharpening of
the criminal violence of repressive mechanisms ,

A political and revolutionary movement has a duty to formulate and articulate an
overall revolutionary project, a social proposal for all. For young and old, for
healthy and sick, without discrimination, without prisons and concentration
camps. The revolutionary slogan in our time remains "all things to all, from each
according to his ability to each according to his need". Equality means equal
access to health structures, food, housing. And freedom means the collective
possibility of co-decision on all social issues, the radical change of lifestyle,
relationship with nature, production and entertainment. The solidarity movements
and mobilizations that take place denying the assumption of social issues by the
state, having at the same time the study of the collective and individual
measures of self-protection - because it is a need of the base - they are those
that can and are opposed to the state and capitalist power and its far-right,
reformist or lifestyle supplements, which in fact recognize the "right" of state
to decide for the social whole, occasionally resenting its ways, to the extent
that they are affected as individualized entities. As anarchists, we completely
deny the state the ability to decide on social issues, whether they concern
production, or the management of a real danger such as an epidemic, because we
know that for the state our lives are nothing more than means and fuel used in
order to perpetuate his power.

Today's neoliberal administration is coming to implement the aggressive state
policy of restructuring in all social fields. At the same time, the suppression
of social and class resistance as a whole is a necessary condition for the
implementation of their anti-social policies. The repressive campaign clearly
aims to impose a regime of terror, a social condition dominated by silence, fear
and submission. This social transformation, the change of social consciousness,
the neutralization of social and class resistances are the conditions for the
foundation of the conditions of imposition. State and capital attempt to
subjugate every voice that articulates against their aggressive plans either with
the MAT or by upgrading their legal and institutional arsenal.

An all-out attack by the political and economic bosses, manifested in even more
severe terms, against the social base, the poor, the outcasts, those who
struggle. From the giantization of employer terrorism and state aggression,
leading to the continuous murders of workers in the factories of exploitation,
the incarceration of thousands of refugees and immigrants in the modern Dachau
concentration camps and their thousands of murders on the land and water borders
of Fortress Europe to the the bullets, the torture and the beatings of the
uniformed killers of democracy in the police blocks, the divisions, the
demonstrations, the strikes and the neighborhoods.

Part of the broader anti-insurgency policy unleashed by the government on those
who resist state and capitalist brutality is the placement of university police
inside and outside university institutions. These are repressive state methods
aimed at the social character of the university asylum which is inextricably
intertwined with the struggles against power, the struggles for freedom and
social emancipation. This is evidenced by the long line of competitions that took
place in its premises, from the period of the dictatorship and the post-colonial
period, until the Uprising of 2008. Until today when the competing students are
fighting and facing the winds, the chemicals and the attacks of the uniformed
murderous assault squads of democracy on the streets and inside the universities
the asylum continues to be a living point of reference for the insurgents, the
fighters/women, the anarchists, the whole movement, a meeting ground and the
development of a multitude of political processes , field of expression of social
questioning and disobedience. In its implementation, Law 4777 transforms the
university space into a surveillance and control environment as it provides for
the installation of video and audio recording systems, motion sensors and
detectors, alarms, object and substance detection machines. The university police
is not an end in itself but the means by which "University 2030" - as it has been
called - will be able to become a reality, as long as the combative resistances
within the student community are bent and annihilated. The class barriers
introduced through the minimum admission base for secondary school students and
the ν + ν/2 that defines a time limit in the study cycle, are an intersection of
the educational restructuring that has been sought for decades. A restructuring
policy that aims to create a politically dead university, cut off from the rest
of society where it will purely serve the interests of capital, supplying cheap
skilled hands to the labor market and conducting research for the military
industry and the big technological giants. The class barriers introduced through
the minimum admission base for secondary school students and the ν + ν/2 that
defines a time limit in the study cycle, are an intersection of the educational
restructuring that has been sought for decades. A restructuring policy that aims
to create a politically dead university, cut off from the rest of society where
it will purely serve the interests of capital, supplying cheap skilled hands to
the labor market and conducting research for the military industry and the big
technological giants. The class barriers introduced through the minimum admission
base for secondary school students and the ν + ν/2 that defines a time limit in
the study cycle, are an intersection of the educational restructuring that has
been sought for decades. A restructuring policy that aims to create a politically
dead university, cut off from the rest of society where it will purely serve the
interests of capital, supplying cheap skilled hands to the labor market and
conducting research for the military industry and the big technological giants.

Part of the overall anti-social restructuring and the violent transformation
process of society as a whole is the appropriation of public space by the state
and bosses. An operation with the aim of alienating the character of the
neighborhoods and transforming the center of the metropolis into a commercial
zone and a tourist resort that will in no way serve social needs, but through it
an attempt is made to sharpen surveillance and control until its complete
subjugation society.

In this juncture of total systemic crisis, the ruling patriarchal capitalist
system attacks the women of the plebeian strata even more. In just one year, at
the same time as the class exploitation of working women escalated, we watched
tens of femicides, attempted rapes, rapes, trafficking cases cover up by the
police and their political superiors, cover up of child pornography and child
abuse rings, complaints come to light. for sexual harassment and torture in
police stations. It is even more clear now that what arms the hands of rapists
and murderers, and washes away their crimes is an entire system, which has a name
and is called patriarchy, the state and capitalism. The perpetrators are
nurtured, they are encouraged, armed and ultimately covered and justified by the
dominant values ​​and the mechanisms themselves. Because gender-based violence is
systemic violence and is an integral part of state and capitalist brutality.

The rulers today attempt to erase the imprints of entire decades of hard social
and class struggles because they act as examples of resistance, because they show
the oppressed today ways of struggle. At the same time, the social and class
uprising of December highlighted the limits of the forms of organization of the
anarchist-anti-authoritarian movement. The existing formations, although
necessary in the struggle, could not and could not because of their form set
greater goals than to be points of reference within the rebellion. Schemes that
have worked positively for the political inoculation of the rebellion with the
principles and values ​​of solidarity and self-organization, but have not been
made to transform the rebellion into a revolutionary process. It is this point,
in the account of the rebellion, in the possibilities it gave birth to that were
not fulfilled, where the idea of ​​the necessity for anarchist political
organization is born. The Anarchist Political Organization is a child of December
and the great mobilizations of 2010-12 - with the possibilities and limits it
highlighted - and the historical legacy of the anarchist movement in Spain in the
first half of the 20th century. The libertarian movement of the CNT-FAI which
through hard struggles, uprisings and above all, the class, social, political
organization managed to implement the idea of ​​the generalized overthrow of the
state and capitalism and to develop social self-direction. The Anarchist
Political Organization is a child of December and the great mobilizations of
2010-12 - with the possibilities and limits it highlighted - and the historical
legacy of the anarchist movement in Spain in the first half of the 20th century.
The libertarian movement of the CNT-FAI which through hard struggles, uprisings
and above all, the class, social, political organization managed to implement the
idea of ​​the generalized overthrow of the state and capitalism and to develop
social self-direction. The Anarchist Political Organization is a child of
December and the great mobilizations of 2010-12 - with the possibilities and
limits it highlighted - and the historical legacy of the anarchist movement in
Spain in the first half of the 20th century. The libertarian movement of the
CNT-FAI which through hard struggles, uprisings and above all, the class, social,
political organization managed to implement the idea of ​​the generalized
overthrow of the state and capitalism and to develop social self-direction.

In the years following the December Uprising, the objective condition of the
decline of the state and capitalist empire intensified. Due to real weaknesses
(ideological and organizational), but also the desperate need of the state and
capitalist machine not to disorganize in a spiral of deterioration amid
generalized social discontent, the subjective possibility of defense of the
oppressed against their oppressors was consistently hit: the idea, the perception
that the faltering empire is a fighter. With the propaganda but also the increase
in the rates of violence, with the reformist delusions but also with the
repressive shielding, with the ideological attack and the cooperation of the
entire bourgeois world to intercept the unruly,

In the Greek area, based on the conclusions we have drawn from the December
uprising and after and taking into account the certainty of the escalation of the
attack of the state and the bosses on all fronts, with the even greater looting
of nature and society, we understand the formation of the social field, as a
place where great social and class explosions can take place. In this context,
the repressive staffs of the state implement preventive counterinsurgency
policies, constantly tightening the cordon around the visible points of
resistance, flooding the cities with special repressive forces, attempting to
reconstruct ideologically and spatially the places where social life is
materially expressed, in order to turn the power relations overwhelmingly in
their favor. From our side, this is the overall field, in which we must trace our
tasks and possibilities as anarchists, to advance in realistic terms the cause of
emancipation and social revolution. So that the inevitable social explosions and
the raids of the oppressed against the fortresses built by their tyrants have
continuity and the best possible result.

Against the organized attack of the state and capital, the only solution lies in
the organization of the struggle of the oppressed and exploited. Through
unmediated anti-hierarchical and unguarded struggles from below, we can
counter-attack against exploitation and oppression, fight for social revolution.
To rebuild life with the basic ingredients of social solidarity, cooperation,
without masters and slaves.

To make generalized social Self-Direction a tangible reality, to summarize
political freedom and economic equality in the modern revolutionary program. For
a libertarian movement of all the exploited and the oppressed that will give way
to the real needs.

The APO expresses, from the moment of its formation, and should express an open
proposition for anarchists referring to organized and collective struggle and
social revolution, a permanent proposition for the political and organizational
constitution of the anarchist movement. Having now almost 6 years of positive
experience, successful ferments and actions, increasing our capabilities through
conscious collaboration over time and its multiplying power, in this conference
we want to outline our steps in the future.

Given the assessment that the state's repressive campaign is a long-term choice
of suffocating social and class struggles and the spearhead of the overall
business of changing the social place into a dystopia of exploitation and
subjugation and having the assessment of the underlying social explosion against
this business, we want to move forward in building a political plan that
confronts the challenges of our times head on, taking into account those with
whom we march and seeking to be on the side of even more. With a study on the
organization of the defense against the encroachment of the state and the bosses
and having as a horizon the generalized social and class counterattack.

PEACE TO THE PEOPLE - WAR IN THE STATE AND CAPITALISM

EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE

Health - Education - Food - Housing

ORGANIZATION - INTERNATIONALISM - SOCIAL REVOLUTION - ANARCHY

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

August 2022

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