#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #GERMANY #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Greece, APO: The race in #Lutzerath, #Germany (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Intervention at the German consulate in Thessaloniki by the anarchist political

organization (thessalonica), in solidarity with the fighters in Lutzerath,
Germany. ---- The village of Lutzerath located in western Germany, in the state
of North Westphalia-Rhineland, has recently been the target of repression.
Specifically, after the sale of the last plot to the mining company RWE, there
was a plan to evacuate the village in order to expand the lignite mine that has
been operating in the area since 2006. Something that happened on Wednesday 11/1,
after a large police operation using water pumps, dogs, tanks, as since 2020
thousands of supporters have flocked to the area determined to defend the village
and its natural wealth to the end. On Sunday 15/11 there was a major attempt to
recapture with the participation of over 30,000 people, but despite the many
hours of clashes with the repression forces, it was not crowned with success. The
village of Lutzerath will be the latest in a series of over 20 villages that,
after being dispossessed and deserted, were looted and turned into vast
construction sites to serve the interests of the mining industry. It is worth
emphasizing that this particular agreement, which was signed with the blessings
of the Green party and under the guise of covering the energy needs of the German
state, is defiantly characterized as "environmentally friendly" as it prevents
the destruction of another 5 villages.

Once again we witness state threats, evacuations of public spaces, repressive
strikes, scandalous deals aimed at plundering the natural world. It may be that
this time the specific events are taking place far from Greece, but the thread
that connects this fight with hundreds of others, both domestically and
internationally, is the gluttony of capital, the efforts to maximize the profits
of the bosses whatever the consequences, the continuous and ever-intensifying
attack on the interests of the social base, in short the barbaric nature of the
state-capitalist system. What in the language of the technocrats is called
development through investment, privatization, etc., in the language of the
oppressed must be translated as unceasing devaluation and impoverishment of their
lives. Let's not laugh, the ever-expanding control of vast areas of the planet
and their exploitation by capitalists for the realization of profitable
activities, can only "offer" death to people of our class.

In Greece there are countless examples. From the thousands of acres of burnt land
in the summer of 2021 due to the criminal indifference of the ND government and
the looting of mountains and forests across the territory for the construction of
wind farms, to the plans for gold mining in Halkidiki and the construction of a
hydroelectric dam on the Acheloos River , the dangerousness of
state-environmental policy, always interspersed with "green development" programs
due to supposed ecological concerns, is revealed. In the same context, the
destruction of various public spaces within the urban fabric can be included,
such as the Strefi hill, the Cyprus and Patision park in Kypseli, the Exarchia
square, under the pretext of their regeneration to better serve the needs of the
residents of the respective area. As well as the evacuations of social spaces and
occupations that are supposed to be aimed at returning them to society and
creating a climate of "order and security". But in reality all these movements
reflect the eternal purposes of the world of power, which are none other than the
unstoppable hoarding of the bosses at the expense of the social base on the one
hand, and the annihilation on the other hand of every pocket of resistance that
develops within society and stands as an embankment in the encroachment of state
and capital.

In these difficult circumstances it is therefore necessary to support those who
resist and fight against the impoverishment and death imposed by the capitalist
system. To give a hand to those who claim to improve living conditions and fight
with a vision to build a better society, without exploitation and inequality. To
stand strong, not to give up the fight and by thickening our lines, forging
social and class resistances, to go on the counterattack.

SOLIDARITY TO THOSE FIGHTING IN LUTZERATH

EXPLOITATION AGAINST NATURE, STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND FREEDOM

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/1098-o-agonas-sto-lutzerath-tis-germanias
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