#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) Greece, Saints Anargyro - Kamaterou Anarchis: Polytechnic was not a celebration. Let it stop being a memorial (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The uprising of November 1973 was the culmination of the popular uprising against

the junta of the colonels. An authentic populist-neoliberal uprising that faced
the regime of April 21 and fought selflessly to overthrow the dictatorial form of
management of capitalism and the state. The slogans of those fighting for "bread
- education - freedom", "down with power", "down with the state", "people strike"
rang out from within the revolted polytechnic, which remain relevant to this day.
The screams and agonies of thousands of people were heard that the military power
drowned in blood to suppress their struggle and to consolidate economic and
political power against the enemy-the people. ---- The great popular uprising
against the junta of the colonels that culminated with the historical events of
the polytechnic caused strong cracks in the dictatorship in a period of its
"liberalization", at the core of which was the search for a smooth transition
mechanism to the rotten bourgeois democracy. It may not have led the polytechnic
to the immediate abolition of the regime, but it crushed the bourgeois
aspirations for the marginalization of the popular-class resistances that were
among the main goals of the junta coup and formed more favorable class relations
for the continuation of the struggle in the later conditions of democracy. It
largely determined the way in which social and class resistances were manifested
for decades in the Greek area and left strong competitive legacies to this day.
He also left the rebirth of the anarchist movement in the Greek area which,
pre-dictatorship, had disappeared for many decades.

Nevertheless, the uprising remained unjustified. She remained unjust because the
reasons for her manifestation did not disappear. The only things that have
changed are the faces and forms of this barbaric economic and political system
that dominates. The popular anxieties remain the same as then, they stand
unchanged in our times, in the times of the bourgeois-democratic form of
management, whether with liberal/right-wing or social-democratic and left-wing
government prescriptions. More than ever it is confirmed today that the uprising
of 73 remained unjustified since the same social suffering, the same popular
burdens, the same class subjugation are still perpetuated with unprecedented
brutality in the context of the global systemic crisis that has been raging since
2007-8. It remained unjustified not only in terms of its demands, but also as
historical memory, being exploited by the state and capital and their reserves by
the entire political spectrum.

For decades now, bourgeois democracy has turned the 1973 uprising into a regime
celebration, attempting to assimilate and obliterate its messages. A celebration
of democracy against fascism, to hide the reality: that these forms of systemic
management alternate over the years, but in essence the differences between them
are imperceptible. And their goals themselves. Both fascist dictatorships and
bourgeois democracies serve the economic interests of capital and the political
interests of the state against the social majority and the working people. The
dictatorial and bourgeois powers, as well as the "socialist" party dictatorships,
are enemies of the people and the working classes and servants of injustice,
inequalities, unfreedom.

Integral parts of this regime's "national holiday" of oblivion, with the aim of
distorting the anti-state insurrectionary messages of 1973, have been for decades
the groups of the left, the enemies of the occupation of the polytechnic of 1973.
These shameless captors of popular anxieties, every year they set up the
customary party trade show at the polytechnic, turning it into a museum to staff
their party staffs. That is why it is ridiculous to consider the
bourgeois-democratic three-day period as de-museumization, e.g. due to the siege
of the Exarchia, as precisely this three-day period is the prime example of
museumization of the polytechnic for decades. A fiesta of party and regime
factors for the existence of which we all have responsibility, either for what we
do or for what we don't do, for honoring the memory of the struggles of yesterday
and today.

But memory, historical and cinematic memory, so much invoked by its various
undertakers, will always have living defenders, who sooner or later, will turn
the world upside down. Without the backs of any left, without the opportunistic
and political unity "against repression" and "for Mitsotakis to fall". With
boldness, audacity, many times against everyone and everything, to be born
through hard and daily social and class struggles a revolutionary movement of
overthrow that will bury the rotten system and its defenders. Which will bring
down governments not to be replaced by new criminal overlords, but to build on
the ruins of capitalism and the state a new world of freedom, equality and
solidarity.

No Fascism - No Democracy

Down with Statism - Long live Anarchy

Initiative of Anarchist Saints Anargyro - Kamaterou

https://anarchism.espivblogs.net/2022/11/17/to-polytechneio-den-itan-giorti-as-papsei-na-einai-mnimosyno/
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