#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Greece, espiv: Why we will not participate in the demonstrations of October 7 | Initiative of Anarchist Saints Anargyro - Kamaterou (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The following text was made public in October 2020 a few days before the

announcement of the decision in the trial of X..A. ---- Why we will not
participate in the October 7 demonstrations ---- Starting our position regarding
the trial of Golden Dawn, we first consider it important to clarify that the
result and the final verdict do not constitute, in our opinion, sufficient
conditions to block the social rise of nationalism and far-right political forces
in the event of mass convictions. It is ahistorical, and at least unproven, to
invest in the weakening of nationalism by bourgeois democracy, its twin sister.
Historically, nationalism and bourgeois democracy emerged side-by-side, emerged
from a common ideological matrix, consolidated after the bourgeois-democratic
revolutions that established the bourgeois state and the capitalist mode of
production as the dominant mode of production, and followed a common path ever
since. Either as unresolved currents, or as opposing tendencies, they do not
exist outside the political context of the nation/state and the economic
dominance of capital. Therefore, the death of fascism presupposes the death of
bourgeois democracy.

The imprisonment of the leaders of Golden Dawn and the rest of the splinter
groups of the extreme right will not be a "victory of the movement against
fascism", nor their acquittal a "reason to take to the streets" to denounce the
regime's washing of fascism. For our part, we refuse to write a text dedicated to
the criminal activity of the fascists and to analyze the Golden Dawn phenomenon
on the occasion of this particular trial, since whatever the outcome, this trial
was and is a cathartic washing machine of the bourgeois system . The detentions,
the construction of the indictment and the announcement of the sentences neither
weakens nor strengthens fascism. On the contrary, the whole process and its final
outcome, acquittal or conviction for the fascists, it strengthens the bourgeois
democratic political system in a very obscene way. It asserts its omnipotence. He
defiantly asserts his aspirations and states emphatically that: "we are in
command". Parliamentary institutions, the state, civil justice, the worn-out cops
who staff the state's assault squads.

So are they the ones who will condemn fascism? The state that ordered the
persecution of Chrysaugits? The "independent justice" that issued the warrants?
The police officers who arrested their ideological brothers? Are these the Golden
Dawn executioners? To whom is the request "Nazis in prison" addressed? Once
again, the "anti-fascist" adhesive comes to bridge abysmal contrasts.
Ideological, political, class. The recent front page of EfSyn with the statements
of former and current political leaders that provoked various kinds of critical
comments is indicative of what is at stake and on whose behalf. In this context,
it would be interesting to learn whether various "cinematic" recruits would
accept the invitation to fill in their faces on the side of the "antifa
statesmen"! Currently, the former pro-government and always regime leaflet does
not spend a single page on the noisy "militant anti-fascism" of the "movement"!
He gives change and spends time and money to highlight the "militant
anti-fascism" of bourgeois democracy (from Samaras and Tsipras, to Koutsoubas and
Yannis). And so that some people don't have time to answer us that the
non-prominence of the cinematic "militant anti-fascism" by the establishment
leaflet confirms its alleged rupture at all levels with "institutional
anti-fascism", we will say: "patience". The moment will not be long when leaflets
like EfSyn will remember the "militant anti-fascism" of the movement and will
turn against the "evil (extreme) right-wing government that acquits the
fascists". In the event that the sentences do not include imprisonment for the
leaders of the Nazi organization,

We also know very well, the various movement voices that would answer us to the
argument presented so far, with objections of the type "we are not allied with
the state, we are exerting pressure from below, it is the movement that will
condemn fascism and send the Nazis to prison". First of all, let us note that the
shots of our criticism are aimed especially at the organized political forces,
small and large. We do not question the pure intentions of thousands of
unaffiliated anti-fascists, the sincere moods and the social anti-fascist
reflexes of many comrades/equals, friends, young people, workers who will be
outside the appeals court on October 7th. To these people whom we consider close
to us, we expect to expand fields of thought, to feed ideas in a way that is open
to responses and dialogue. Therefore, we do not automatically place opposite us
those who do not understand or disagree with the reasons that will not meet us
either as a group or as individuals on the 7th of the month. On the contrary, we
do not care about opportunists. With that as a given and hopefully an honest
explanation, we can proceed.

It is not wrong to expect that social pressure can influence political and
judicial decisions. These issues tend to be determined by power relations. But by
demanding that the tyrants of the working class punish the Nazis, with the same
laws that condemn activists what exactly are we achieving? First, we recognize
state primacy in the administration of justice. A justice that establishes and
guards in clearly class terms the "justice" of the powerful. Second, we
strengthen urban institutions by waiting for them to pull the snake out of the
hole. In this way, we opportunistically and self-interestedly move away from our
principles, allegedly, for "tactical reasons". Third, we highlight the fascists
as the main enemies of society, thus disorienting large parts of it that
positively evaluate anarchism, from its real enemies. They, who are also the real
generators of fascism. In front of the states and the bourgeois classes, the
criminal activity of the fascists pales. If we consider the state murders of
immigrants at the borders, at the seas, in the modern Dachau of the republic, in
the police stations, etc. then we will dialectically arrive at a self-evident
admission: all the governments of recent years have more immigrant blood on their
hands. Of course, we will not present graphs and statistics to reveal who is a
more dangerous killer, nor will we put the blood of our fellow human beings on
political scales. These amoral vulgarities are made by the praisers of the
capitalist mode of production in extreme theorems. We are not looking for the
"low best". We detest in practice all versions of capitalism and the state
without value deviations in our political action and positioning.

In addition, a particularly murky trend seems to be emerging around the AXA
trial. A considerable part of the collectives that make it up, invoke in their
texts completely pretentiously, as it seems, the opposition to urban institutions
and at the same time call to the appeals court with proposals like "neither
trials, nor prisons" etc. With positions similar to ours, with common reasoning,
they produce completely different - even competing - conclusions about what the
role of anarchists should be on October 7. Conclusions that in the end, in our
opinion, contradict not only anarchism, but also common sense. How is it that, on
the one hand, certain comrades/equals react strongly to the illusions about the
uprooting of fascism by bourgeois justice (by extension, from the system that
gives birth to it and nurtures it) and at the same time participate with
organized calls in the demonstrations outside the appeals court? Will they
demonstrate against both bourgeois justice and fascists? Will the syriza
executives who will be among them crack or will some passing grandfather with a
Greek flag on a key ring pay for it? And jokes aside, we wonder: do they really
think they can divert the characteristics of the demonstration? Do they have the
illusion that they are not assimilated into the bourgeois-democratic whining? Do
they think that a number of "blocs" who will gather in Alexandra and carry a
flag, will constitute a "separate demonstration within the demonstration"? Do
they really appreciate that they are not, once again, turning the a/c space into
a tail of the left? Or are they not interested in all these questions?

There is, of course, the possibility to perceive the motivational fuel of those
who proceed with public calls, at the moment when they claim that they do not
expect the civil trials to give the fascists a gratuitous shot. It is the cursed
fury of "we can't miss" every time we vainly blind ourselves to the fact that a
date, an event, a mass gathering, a single moment of the social/class war, will
decide the future of the struggle (!). We do not dispute that there are indeed
critical moments, historical culminations of the class struggle, moments of
enormous importance where the stakes are high. "It is impossible not to act" has
been said on various occasions by every real fighter from his own experience. The
burning question is with which races, ideological and strategic criteria we
evaluate agendas and priorities that motivate us to action. When priorities are
set by social trends/internet bubbles and bourgeois democratic calls that are not
conducive to advancing the anarchist struggle, instead incorporating it into the
agendas of others, this means that one or more of the above three criteria is
disconnected from the rest. We will repeat it as long as necessary: the end does
not justify the means. They are inseparable. If in order to achieve the goal (the
alleged uprooting of fascism) the anarchists have to fight with the "letter of
the law", let it never be uprooted. We have no doubt that these laws through
which some are anxious for convictions, are equally dangerous to humanity. And
respectively,

Another motive, inseparable from the "fury" we have described and which pushes
collectives to public appeals who claim that they do not "want prisons, but
intensive ones" is the very dynamic that has gathered around the trial. We do not
dispute that the demonstration will be large. The number of protesters will be in
the five figures and we are not pretending to be prophets. After all, they are
calling from the KKE and the former government, to the Onassis Foundation (!). We
understand the need many partners feel to step in, and we do not say this with
any irony. On the other hand, as attractive as massive demonstrations may seem,
we must underline that guarded authorities are the ones that prevent opportunism
and that guarantee not to be dragged behind the agendas of others, however
attractive the "floods" may be. In addition, the opportunities and mass
demonstrations in which there will be real fertile ground for intervention are
ahead of us. The demonstration on October 7th will be a big platform in the
stadium of bourgeois democracy. From the facts and regardless of intentions,
those who attend will either be on the side of the fascists or on the side of
bourgeois justice. Everything else is political pretexts. In this sense, the
political slogans that speak "for prisons" and not "for intensive care", are
perhaps even more honest. Finally, those who will go down to the demonstration in
the hope that they will break out if the Nazis are acquitted, should not forget
that they will throw stones against justice "that did not do its job well". Such
motives testify to political desperation. Let us save our stones and ammunition
for the anti-state uprisings of the future. They are not late.

Undoubtedly, then, an important anti-fascist social trend has developed and
awaits the result, with false expectations that this will decide the future of
fascism in the country. This tendency neither shares common ideological
principles, nor is it identified by values, nor does it have common campaigning
goals. This trend was fueled mainly by left-wing parties, anti-fascist networks,
formations like O.R.M.A., A.K., Favela, etc. who in the past also functioned as
SYRIZA's Trojan horses within the "movements", lawyers, politicians and other
supporters. With the help of social media and the wishes of the Fyssa family,
which we respect, but have no obligation to identify with, they seduced a large
portion of the world with anti-fascist sensibilities into politically harmless
slogans, they dragged her into entrusting bourgeois institutions with dealing
with fascism, they pushed her to believe that bourgeois democracy was a potential
ally. The anticipation of the decisions of civil justice and the recognition of
the convictions as a partial victory of the "movement" is a fenaki that obscures
the ancestral root of fascism and beautifies the system that gives birth to it,
no matter how it is expressed, no matter how it is launched. The contents of the
request to the state "Nazis in prison", with those of the slogan "neither trials
nor prisons, only intensive for nationalists", when they intersect in
demonstrations outside the appeals court awaiting convictions, do not differ.
Talking about mass burials, funerals, bullets, gallows and deaths does not draw
impenetrable borders between "institutional anti-fascism" and cinematic "militant
anti-fascism".

At this point, let us emphasize that the timeless saying of the anarchist
revolutionary Buenaventura Durruti "we do not fight fascism together with the
government, but in defiance of the government" can rightly be reproduced and
uttered only by the part of the fighters that remains steadfast to libertarian
principles and anarchist values, which fights without tactical pirouettes and is
not corrupted by immoral alliances. It is not possible in their digressions and
opportunism, that some people expect that Durruti will save them from the grave.
They should leave him alone, even if they don't tarnish him. Let them continue to
glorify and reverently worship their idols: the red Velouchites of the national
liberation fronts. It is not possible, on the one hand, to make anti-fascists'
customer "bazas" with slogans of "eam-elas-meligalas" and on the other hand to
invoke Durruti! We don't do hagiographies and we don't glorify them, but a little
respect for history doesn't hurt!

Throughout history, the black-and-red banners of the anarchist movement, whenever
lined up alongside Bolshevik hammer-sickles, Gebarian stars and other communist
symbols, suffocate, distort, sicken. And in the end, they end up with
flags-beacons of defeat. Memory is not garbage. Revolutionary history does not
fade into postmodern oblivion. Anarchism will not be given meaning by meta-isms,
it will not be battered by revisionist "redefinitions". Let's go back to history
and give an example. At all times when anarchists lost their principles in the
name of "efficiency" they were swept away by dramatic defeats. Whenever they
joined "anti-fascist" or other fronts with communist parties and left
organizations they won nothing. Only executions. A temporary defeat is
preferable, a temporary retreat that amounts to a "buying of time" to prepare for
victory, rather than a painful defeat with a simultaneous departure from
libertarian values. Let's remember the words of Malatesta: "if today we are
defeated without compromise, we can be sure of tomorrow's victory"

Especially the younger comrades should not fall into the trap of indifference
towards the history of anarchism, its thinkers, its worldview. Indifference leads
with mathematical precision to the embrace of revisionist currents that are
anti-anarchist at their core. The anti-fascist kangaroo is not a guarantee of
combativeness. The prospect of some controlled conflict outside the court of
appeal does not amount to the production of anti-state facts. Adrenaline is not a
political motivation for action. We can cause uncontrolled situations in the
state apparatus with our own characteristics, with our own political agenda, with
our own principles, with our own social/class messages, with our own strategic
goals. We do not need the backs of any left who is part of the state and hopes to
become its leader again. A leftist who bled protesters and today wants to be
washed away through...Chrysochoidis. If we want to be the continuation of
anarchist history, if we want to build a modern anarchist revolutionary movement,
if we want our ideas and proposals to be implemented, we should not ignore our
origin, our historicity, our identity. A movement without memory is a movement
without perspective. we should not ignore our origin, our historicity, our
identity. A movement without memory is a movement without perspective. we should
not ignore our origin, our historicity, our identity. A movement without memory
is a movement without perspective.

In conclusion, nationalism and its various versions (extreme right, left,
national socialist, fascist, etc.) will not be defeated by bourgeois democracy,
capitalism and the state. It will not be defeated by the abominable Article 187
law. The only acceptable anti-fascist struggle is that which is part of the
struggle against capitalism and the state. This struggle perceives the fascists
as an obstacle to the organization of the working class and the youth, as an
urban bulwark in the development of the anarchist political struggle. He crushes
them for the benefit of the Social Revolution, not for the strengthening of
bourgeois democracy. The acceptable tactics in this struggle are the tactics
produced by the struggle itself, in the strategic direction of the revolution.
Fascism will die in the wreckage of parliaments, banks, big capital. It will be
crushed by the armed Social Revolution that will build a new free world of
beauty, solidarity and cooperation. In the struggle for revolution it is our duty
to confront every systemic reserve that attempts to split our order, to target
the weak, to weaponize the hatred of one for the other.

NO FASCISM - NO DEMOCRACY - DOWN WITH THE STATE - I WANT ANARCHY

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