#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Greece, APO, land & freedom: December is the Beginning of the World We Dream | Initiative of Anarchist Students of #Athens (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 December 2008 was the largest social uprising in Greece since the events of the

Polytechnic in 1973. Without any doubt, its extent, as well as its duration, made
it violently enter history and was characterized as the greatest insurrectionary
event of the 21st century in continent of Europe. ---- The murder of the
15-year-old student Alexandros Grigoropoulos by the cops E. Korkoneas and V.
Saraliotis was the occasion to externalize the accumulated anger of the oppressed
against the state. It was precisely the moment when social anti-violence and the
political and organizational values of social solidarity, direct action,
equality, anti-hierarchy and self-organization spread to a large part of society
and especially to that of the youth. ---- In reality, December 2008 had a deep
historical, political, and social background connected to the movement of
anarchists who, even in the most difficult repressive periods, were "preparing"
the uprising. The period 2006-2007 is a turning point, as the struggle given by
the students, against the revision of Article 16 and the passing of the framework
law for universities, pushed tens of thousands of them throughout the Greek
territory into occupations, clashes, and marches for almost a year and culminated
in the massive confrontational march of March 8, 2007, in which the Syntagma area
was held by protesters for hours for the first time. The dynamics of the
struggle, the persistence of thousands of people to overthrow the plans of the
state with months-long occupations, weekly demonstrations and clashes with
repressive forces, the moments when youths and other activists met at the
barricades, broken by the terror of ideological warfare and repressive violence ,
the moments when the logics of détente and mediation were overcome on the road,
when the limits of passive protest dictated by legitimacy were breached, all
these moments opened a path of wider rupture with laws and institutions.
On the night of December 6, 2008, the anarchists, with the experience of all the
previous years, immediately occupied the Polytechnic, making it a center of
struggle. But none of them expected the massiveness and rage that would be
expressed that night by the youth. The slogan "We haven't said the last word
yet... These nights belong to Alexis", vibrates the entire area. On Monday,
December 8, the rebellion becomes general. Students all over Greece hold
demonstrations, occupy their schools and attack at least 20 ATs. In the evening,
a grand demonstration takes place, during which many thousands clash until the
morning with the police, while banks and luxury shops are destroyed. In the next
three weeks the uprising will continue with intensity, mass participation, broad
composition of subjects and an unprecedented diversity of actions and
counter-structures. From the very first days, the internationalist solidarity
towards the insurgents has been manifested in various metropolises abroad, as
well as on December 19, during a student march in Propylaia, which heard a
message of solidarity from Chiapas, Mexico.
 From the flames of December emerged the worst nightmare of every ruler, and for
this very reason 14 years later we see every day the cruelest and most brutal
side of the state-capitalist system. In 2009, the state, analyzing and accounting
for the events of December, glorifies its counter-insurgency campaign, targeting
the anarchist movement and the squatters that house it. The evictions of
squatters, most recently that of Mundo Nuevo in Thessaloniki, the degradation of
the neighborhood of Exarchia by the drug mafias and then the imposition of an
occupation army to "gentrify" it, the framed indictments, the provocations and
the imprisonment of anarchists are permanent and continuous tactic of the state
from 2009 until today and not a communication policy of a government. In 2019,
the university asylum, which housed an entire fighting history, as well as hosted
the struggle centers of the rebellion, formed fighting consciousnesses and was
the connecting element of temporally discontinuous struggles for freedom, is
abolished. The Kerameos-Chrysohoides law that brought repression into our schools
and imposed class barriers in education, cannot but be part of the preventive
counter-insurgency precisely because the political sterilization of the
university will only produce non-thinking and law-abiding citizens .
"The passion for destruction is also a creative passion." Mikhail Bakunin.
The December uprising left behind ruins. And out of the destruction the anarchist
movement flourished. The rebellion ceased to be a utopia and the "end of history"
was brought down to the fiery barricades. "December is an image from the future",
the walls were written at the time. And it is true. It gave, and still gives
today, inspiration and impetus to the games. It engraved deep into our
consciences that there can be no peace until we take revenge for Michalis,
Alexis, Nikos, Zak/Zackie oh, Vassilis and all the victims of state and
capitalist brutality.
December left as the most basic legacy for the anarchist movement, not answers,
but questions. The basic question of the transition to another society, the
question of how you go from spontaneous rebellion to social revolution. We, as
anarchist students, consider that a condition for this passage is the formation
of the subject as such, emphasizing at the same time its political character, but
also its social dimension. A structure organized on anarchist ideals, on those of
self-organization and solidarity, against any hierarchy, on the basis of
horizontal organization. The student movement from below must find ways and exits
of collectivization, ways of organization, with structures and actions, defending
everything that the December uprising left behind, aiming to continue them, the
next step towards the total overthrow of the state system and the creation of
this new world born from our memories, struggles and values. A new world, that of
equality, freedom, Anarchy.

SOLIDARITY IN OCCUPIING MUNDO NUEVO

NO STEP BACK NO SUBMISSION
ON THE WAY TO BREAK REPRESSION

ALL IN THE AFTERNOON PROCESS AT

DECEMBER 6 18:00 PROPYLEIA

Initiative of Anarchist Students of Athens

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