WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, APO. land & freedom - DECEMBER 2008-DECEMBER 2023 - 15 years since the state assassination of Al. Grigoropoulou and the December social uprising (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 On December 6, 2008, the police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas together

with his partner Saraliotis drew his service pistol and fired at the
police, fatally injuring the 15-year-old student Alexandros
Grigoropoulos in Exarchia. This state killing came as a culmination of
the intensifying state repressive aggression towards the struggles of
that period, as a brutal response of the state and the bosses to the
escalating conflicts sparked by the social and class movement. It was
yet another moment of murderous state violence in its ultimate form, a
sustained demonstration of the supremacy of the rulers over the
oppressed and struggling.
Fifteen years after the December uprising, state and bosses continue to
promote even more intensively the looting of the social base and the
brutal suppression of social and class resistances. From the
state-capitalist crime in Tempi that cost the lives of 57 people, the
mass state murder outside Pylos by the port police with hundreds of dead
refugees and immigrant women, the murders of Kostas Manioudakis and
Christos Michalopoulos by the uniformed bastards of the Republic, who
they came as a follow-up to the murders of Nikos Sampanis and Kostas
Fragoulis in 2021 and 2022 respectively, the murderous beating of the
16-year-old anti-fascist in Neo Heraklion by an OPKE group, the bans and
repressive attacks on demonstrations in the center of Athens up to the
persecutions and intimidation in under the weight of anarchist fighters,
the deep rot of the state-capitalist system is revealed, which tries by
all means to preserve its supremacy and perpetuate its existence. A
permanent tactic of the state, part of the wider preventive
counter-insurgency, are the attacks on the occupations and the
self-organized structures of the struggle, such as the evacuation of the
Dougrou occupation in Larissa, Mundo Nuevo in Thessaloniki, the Ano-Kato
occupation in Patisia, the social center of Zizania and Evangelism in
Heraklion, Crete. The recapture of Mundo Nuevo last March, where it was
evacuated again by the repressive forces and 15 comrades and comrades
were arrested, as well as the recent recaptures of the social center
Zizania and Evangelismo are dynamic examples of defending the occupied
spaces of life and struggle and messages of resistance to of fighting
against state and capitalist brutality and terrorism.
The state, loyal to the neoliberal model followed since the years of the
memorandum in the Greek area, continues the policies of impoverishment
and impoverishment of the large social majority, systematically
promoting the dissolution of the National Social Security System,
intensifying the conditions of exploitation in the wage-slavery
factories, attempting the further privatization of of education and the
repression in the places of education and constantly increasing the cost
of living at even more intensive rates. At the same time, the looting of
the natural world by state and capital and the state's refusal to manage
its consequences, which the power system itself creates, have left
behind millions of acres of burnt land and most of the Thessalian plain
destroyed by floods. The continuous interventions in the ecosystems
create a suffocating condition for the entire society, resulting in
dozens of dead people, thousands of dead animals and vast areas of
burned forests.
The current political management is coming to implement a highly
aggressive restructuring policy in all social fields. At the same time,
the suppression of social and class resistance as a whole is a necessary
condition for the implementation of the anti-social policies of the
state and bosses. The repressive campaign clearly aims to impose a
regime of terror, a social condition dominated by silence, fear and
submission. This social transformation, the change of social
consciousness, the neutralization of social and class resistances are
the conditions for the foundation of the conditions of imposition. State
and capital attempt to subjugate every voice that articulates against
their aggressive plans either with the MAT or by upgrading their legal
and institutional arsenal.

For us, the uprising of December 2008 was decisive. On the one hand, it
showed the struggling, lower, plebeian strata of society that resistance
to the institutions of the state is possible, dissolving - even
temporarily - the mask of the omnipotence of power, radicalizing the
consciences of a large portion of people, leaving behind a great
political capital as a bequest to the anarchist-anti-authoritarian
movement. On the other hand, he pointed out the limits of a spontaneous
rebellion but also the need to deepen self-organization at all kinetic
levels, with the constant anarchist presence in social and class
struggles, always with the Social Revolution as a horizon. He made it
clear that the opportunistic rallying around a front of struggle is not
enough, but the duration, the continuous meeting of the struggles from
below and the creation of new fronts for the spread of the conflict with
every aspect of state and capitalist brutality is necessary. In other
words, social and class organization in libertarian grassroots forms as
well as the political organization of anarchists are necessary to
overcome partial and reflexive protest, with the aim of creating a
comprehensive anarchist revolutionary proposal. This need became even
more evident when the social and class resistances that had developed in
the previous period were attempted to be exploited, manipulated and
hijacked by the left using electoral illusions for an alleged
justification of the struggles that were fought, the blood that was shed
by thousands in the streets, of those who were tortured by the uniformed
bastards of the republic, of the street fights in the metropolises, of
those who were imprisoned and persecuted. The vindication of the
oppressed can be nothing less than the revolutionary overthrow of the
existing system of power by the very plebeian base of society.
 From the revolted indigenous peoples of the Americas fighting for Land
and Freedom, the decades-long resistance of the people of Palestine who
today are fighting another battle for their survival and dignity, to the
fighters in the Western metropolises and in every corner of the planet
who are fighting in the face of fascism, oppression, suppression and
exploitation the only realistic prospect for a world of equality,
solidarity, justice and freedom, for a world that will accommodate many
worlds is the overthrow of the state and capitalist model of
organization of society, the organization and the struggle for the
Social Revolution.

ORGANIZING AND STRUGGLING TO ACT ON PENDING MEMORY - FOR THE TRANSITION
FROM SPONTANEOUS REBELLION TO SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND LIBERAL
COMMUNISM

Wednesday December 6 - anti-state, anti-repression demonstrations
Athens: 6:00 p.m. - Propylaia
Thessaloniki: 6:00 p.m. - Kamara

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

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