#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) Greece, Anarchist Saints Anargyro - Kamaterou: presentation of the Anarchist Philosophical Society at the event-book presentation "The Sun of Anarchy Has Risen" (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The introduction of the Anarchist Philosophical Center at the event-book

presentation "The Sun of Anarchy Has Risen" by Dimitris Troaditis ---- Comrade
Dimitris Troaditis' book "The Sun of Anarchy Has Risen" takes us back two
centuries and guides us to the first major stages of domestic labor movement.
Through a class historical overview, it will shed light on important figures of
fighters that the official historiography has left in obscurity and will bring us
into contact with the first libertarian/anti-state socialists in the Greek area,
that is, the first representatives of the anarchist movement. ---- Through the
pages of the book, it becomes clear that the history of Greek anarchism does not
present any notable differences in terms of the conditions for its emergence in
relation to the first steps of the international anarchist movement. Before the
appearance of the first organized representatives of anarchism, we find radical
socialist intellectuals influenced by the early or utopian socialism that
preceded the two opposing camps of socialist thought: authoritarian and
libertarian socialism, or more precisely, Marxism and anarchism. We see such
examples in the faces of Heptanis radical socialists, the Italian refugees of
1848, the Garibaldians, etc.

Thus, the early French socialists (e.g. Henri de Saint-Simon, Fourier, Proudhon,
etc.) contributed to the formation of a theoretical basis for the development of
anarchist ideas by the revolutionary socialists of the First International
Workers' Union (with leading Bakunin) something similar happened in the Greek
area as well. The early socialists give the baton to move to the geographical
area of the Peloponnese, in Patras and Pyrgos where the first appearance of
anarchist ideas in the Greek area takes place. There, during the last quarter of
the 19th century, we find the first organized anarchist presence in Greece, with
the Democratic Association of Patras, and then with the libertarian newspapers
"Epi ta Prosso" and "Neon Fos", as well as the first forms of anarchists in faces
of Yiannis Maganaras, Dimitris Karabilia and others.

The first anarchists in the Greek area were libertarian socialists, flesh and
blood of the labor movement and the class struggle of the time. It was the living
embodiment of global anarchism emerging from the bowels of socialist thought to
constitute the libertarian revolutionary worldview of the working class and the
oppressed of the earth. They, the first anarchists, were not merely associated
with international anarchism, but were an integral part of it. From the beginning
they attempted to meet with the anarchist wing of the First International, while
they were also present at the first international anarchist conference in Saint
Imier in 1872 alongside Bakunin, Malatesta, Guillaume, Rekly et al. It was an
authentic reflection of the young anarchism at the time of its first historical
steps.

Comrade Troaditis also examines the action of anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists
in the labor movement of Athens, Volos and Larissa during the first decades of
the 20th century. Special mention is made of the bloody heroic strike of the
miners of Serifos in 1916, which constituted a remarkable stagnation of the
domestic labor movement both because of the unyielding attitude of the strikers
until the vindication of their demands and the violent repression they received
and because of the organization of their union, with its Statute containing
particularly radical and revolutionary positions, for the transition from labor
assertion to catalysis of capitalist relations of production and the
socialization of the means of production. In this context, the decisive role in
the strike of the anarcho-syndicalist K. Spera, president of the labor union of
the miners of Serifou, is mentioned, as well as his subsequent path in the trade
union movement of the time. Speras was certainly a controversial personality who
did not remain faithful to the revolutionary ideas until the end of his life.

After the 1920s, and for many decades, until the polytechnic uprising of 1973,
there were no organized representatives of anarchism in Greece. This historical
discontinuity is largely due to the peculiarities presented by the modern
anarchist space in Greece in relation to international anarchism, as they
crystallized in the effects of external currents, in the absence of ideological
and organizational principles. It is also due to the ignorance or even the sad
indifference many times of the new comrades and companions about the ancestral
features of anarchism, its history and its fundamental ideological, theoretical
and value characteristics, which once inspired the anarchists of Patras and Pyrgos .

Regarding the activity of the anarchists of the 19th and early 20th centuries,
there is very little evidence that bourgeois historiography did not leave in the
dark, and what the Stalinist undertakers of the labor movement did not bury under
slander and oblivion in their attempt to to be manipulated, to be manipulated, to
be arbitrarily declared to be its guides. The importance of the work of Comrade
Troaditis lies precisely in the fact that it illuminates invisible sides of
history, highlights ideas and persons ignored, brings to the surface our history,
as anarchists but also more broadly the history of all of us, the millions of
producers of wealth, who belong to the exploited working class. This work by
Comrade Troaditis is the fruit of a decades-long research effort made with
limited tools and sources and deserves all the congratulations for its richness
and depth, for its contribution to the historical revolutionary memory of the
labor movement, but also more closely to the anarchist movement .

As an Anarchist House of Philosophy, we present today with great pleasure the
book of Comrade Troaditis and host him in our political space. Here from where we
try systematically and organized, on a daily and uninterrupted basis to transmit
revolutionary anarchism and libertarian values to our colleagues in the faculty,
to root anarchist ideas in the student movement and to strengthen anarchism
within student demands. This effort takes place under difficult conditions,
against both the dominant ideology expressed by the teaching itself, and against
the party factions that support the perpetuation of state power and class
division, either supporting the bourgeois state, or the never "socialist" states.
But also against the apathy and individualism that sees struggles,
collectivization and organization as futile, as well as against logics that see
participation in the struggles as something ephemeral, as a supplement to an
alternative everyday lifestyle, up to demobilization and privatization .

With an eye on another society, which presupposes the change of the existing
relations of power and influence so that our struggle is not empty declarations,
in the last two years, both through our action and through our structures, such
as the bookstore and publishing-educational project Mavrokikono Nima is
strategically conducting an ideological struggle which we intend to go to the
end, as far as we can. Because we do not forget that only through organization,
with stubbornness, with militant struggles, with strategy and with a
revolutionary plan, that great moment will not be long, when the Sun of Anarchy
will Rise and build under the ruins of this aging world the new world of Freedom,
Equality and Solidarity.

Anarchist House of Philosophy

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