WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, Blak and Red: DECEMBER 6: WE HAVEN'T SAID THE LAST WORD YET - 15 YEARS SINCE THE STATE MURDER OF ALEXIS GRIGOROPOULOS (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

In December 2008, the whole of Greece danced to the rhythms of the
largest social uprising, in terms of extent and duration, and the most
severe in intensity, that the country has known since the Polytechnic
uprising in 1973. From one end to the other, schools and universities
were under occupation, with students leading the mobilizations, town
halls falling into the hands of insurgents, police stations being under
siege, the offices of the GSEE employers and the lyric stage being
occupied, the streets of the cities to flare up and street fights to
become everyday for thousands of people.

The popular anger was unstoppable and irrevocable: it could not be
stopped by the regime's armed police forces, nor by the black propaganda
of the televisions, which, although it deceived many, was not enough to
slander and marginalize the river of anger that prevailed. These days
belonged to Alexis, these days belonged to the insurgent generations
scarred by his cold-blooded murder by the cop Korkoneas and the state
that armed him. Ministries, government buildings, large businesses and
banks became targets. All the symbols of economic and political power,
all the symbols of the oppression of the social majority accepted the
savage month of the revolted people. The violence of the state and the
uniformed

of bodyguards was returned, albeit disproportionately, even less than
the one received daily by the working class, the poor popular strata and
the youth. It was a just violence, just as the violence of resistance is
always just, the violence that targets tyrants and rulers, all those who
condemn peoples and societies to poverty, destitution and despair.

December 2008 was the last straw in the face of state and police crimes,
brutal class exploitation and the constant underestimation of large
social groups who lived in deprivation and the basics. The grandiose
struggles of the student youth against the attempted revision of Article
16 had preceded, huge political and financial scandals had delegitimized
the bourgeois political system in the social consciousness and the Greek
state was on the verge of bankruptcy. The entire "post-revolutionary"
edifice was on the verge of imminent collapse. This uprising came to
bury, under tons of hurled marbles, the artificial capitalist prosperity
of the neoliberal development and herald the ruthless era to come: the
troubled years of the crisis and the memoranda and the fierce battles of
the two years 2010-12.

The state in December 2008 came to the verge of declaring an
"emergency". He didn't do it, because he knew what consequences it would
have from the struggling people and the rebellious youth. States and
governments carefully weigh when to arm and when to retreat temporarily.
So many years later, the state and capital are still taking revenge for
the rebellion, taking revenge for the popular and labor struggles of the
past decades, taking revenge because they believe they are playing
without a rival. However, no matter how many years pass, no matter how
much bile the misanthropic beasts of the system and their defenders pour
out, wondering "what did he do in Exarchia", nothing will succeed in
tarnishing Alexis and the rebel December 2008. Nothing will erase the
bloody history of the state murderers of EL.AS. and nothing will erase
from historical memory the struggles and uprisings that politicized so
many people and brought them out into the streets of struggle.

Where did the generation of 2008 go? Why didn't it become "the
generation of overthrow"? What happened to the impetuosity of those
days? All these questions run through the mind of every thinking person,
who 15 years later sees young 16-year-olds being killed by police fire,
state authoritarianism advancing more uncontrollably than ever, living
conditions having worsened for the majority of people and not a leaf
being moved . A youth in hypnosis, a society frozen, struggles important
but with fewer and fewer, without vision, without faith for another
society. On the carcass of uprisings and struggles, the few who have
power and wealth triumph over their victory over the enemy-people, they
hope that the uprisings are over and they have the illusion that they
alone will have the initiative of the movements for years. The
neoliberal right omnipotence arrogantly avenges the uprisings of
yesterday and the left of capital seeks customers for the new betrayed
struggles. Somewhere between the Stalinists, whose rebellion "won't
break glass" bragging about increasing their rates, and the fascists
releasing the poison of misanthropy while fishing in the murky waters of
social illiteracy and political degeneration. Disgrace!

Against all this, we answer: we have not yet said the last word.
Rebellions are an image from the future, not a lost past. We cannot
afford to passively wallow in ourselves as we watch our lives fall
apart. We are not morally allowed to be trapped in our egos, even in the
name of an immoral morality that does not care about society and sees
everything "internally", through the self-referential eyes of the
individualized view of the world. The trap of focusing on our
"individual" is the greatest profit of the propaganda of our common
enemies: the economic-political system and its ideological mechanisms.
Because in this way without joining our forces we are isolated and weak.
Because by looking at our "individuals" and not at society, then society
becomes worse and so do we, being integral parts of it. If we want a
better society, it is not enough to be moral in immoral inaction: we
must fight! Organization, organization, organization! We need to
collectivize and not look smugly at our isolated selves. Let's rush
again to the buildings and symbols of our enemies and shout: violence to
the violence of power! That's the only way we'll stop them, that's the
only way we'll live better days, which won't come with elections, nor
with ballot hopes. To resist organized, to fight with a plan, to build
today, immediately, now, a revolutionary movement to overthrow
capitalism and the state! To honor the uprisings of yesterday, in the
struggles, occupations and roadblocks of today. To bring to life the
images of the rebellion and bring back the struggles to the center of
social life, which is every day crushed by the precision, the meager
wages, the plundered rights and the wanton violence of the state purges.

Because if we don't fight for better days, we have condemned ourselves
as a society to a slow death. Because if we don't fight against
injustices, inequalities, everything that is inherent in this rotten
system and destroys our lives, we don't deserve to be called human.
Every 6th of December we will be on the same streets, calling old and
young to join the social struggles and the labor-popular resistance To
make our dreams come true. Because the dreams of the people are the
nightmares of their tyrants.

Saints Anargyro - Kamaterou:
https://anarchism.espivblogs.net/
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