WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GREECE - news journal UPDATE - (en) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom: Invitation to the 6th Freedom Festival of Social, Class & International Solidarity (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 5-6-7 JULY 2024 | LAMPIDONA (HOLY TRIADAS PARK) - BYRONAS ---- The

savage attack that societies are experiencing today, amid conditions of
deep and comprehensive systemic crisis and delegitimization of the
political system worldwide, is escalating and the incurable
contradictions of the state-capitalist model of organization are
highlighted, as well as the absolute inability to produce from above any
coherent social vision, perspective and hope. The roots of this
ever-intensifying aggression lie in the very nature of the oppressive
and exploitative system. The need for deepening and expanding power
leads to the control of every human activity, with the aim of the
complete subjugation of society to the dictates of the state and the bosses.
The bankrupt world of power has nothing to offer those below but war and
fascism, nothing but refugees, looting of nature and societies, nothing
but impoverishment and death. This is shown in the most tragic way, both
in the war carnage in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army 2
years ago and with the genocide that is taking place today against the
Palestinian people with 35,000 dead in the last 8 months and is the
brazen escalation of , for 76 years of bloody persecution of the people
of Palestine from their land by the State of Israel and its allies.

Condemning millions of people to destitution, poverty, disease and
uprooting is the precondition for ensuring the over-accumulation of
wealth in the hands of the global economic elites and for the
rearrangement of geopolitical power relations in the context of
transnational rivalries, between global, regional and local forces.
The Greek state, as the border guard of Europe-Fortress, has always
followed and expressed in the most emphatic way the anti-immigration
policy represented by the European Union. From the Evros fence and
concentration camps, to shipwrecks in the Aegean and illegal pushbacks,
he expands his murderous strategy. The increase in forced returns with
the use of violence signals the continuation of the inhumane, degrading
and humiliating treatment of refugees and migrants, with theft of
personal belongings, stripping, beatings, as well as abductions in
illegal detention centers, until their also illegal re-adoption. The
Greek regime, with the assistance of the murderous mechanism of Frontex,
attempts to block and sink boats and ships carrying refugees and is
responsible for the death of hundreds of migrants and missing people in
the waters of the Aegean, including children and infants. One such
tragic criminal case of mass murder by the Greek state and the coast
guard was the sinking off Pylos, on June 14, 2023, of a fishing boat, on
which more than 700 refugees and migrants were on board, with the
intention of crossing from Libya to Italy. The consolidation of the
physical and moral extermination of refugees and immigrants seeking
better living conditions is a consequence of the European totalitarian
policy and reflects the murderous strategy of the states towards the
weak and oppressed.

In the Greek area, the direction towards the imposition of modern
totalitarianism is reflected in a multitude of restructurings, which
serve the declared and permanent goals of the world of Power, regardless
of political management. Because if today the right seems able to impose
the hegemony of neo-liberalism and expand its policy attacking the
workers, the unemployed and everyone from below, it is because the
political management of social democracy in the name of the radical left
crushed the movements, it spread delusions, defeatism and illusions in
large parts of society only to put another brick in the edifice of
modern totalitarianism and further consolidate the notion that nothing
can change.

Against the gloomy perspective of Modern Totalitarianism, social and
class resistances, people's struggles to shake off state capitalist
brutality emerge as the only hope. From the anti-war demonstrations, the
struggle against the destruction and looting of the natural world, the
resistances in neighborhoods to defend public spaces, the anarchist
struggle against patriarchy and gender violence, the occupations of
schools and student mobilizations against educational restructuring and
repression in the universities to the struggles breaking out in the
factories and farms, the mobilizations for the defense of public health
against its degradation and dissolution, the struggles that attempt to
be a bulwark against the violent impoverishment and plundering of the
social base, the mass mobilizations against an entire system that kills
on trains, borders and police blocks and the struggle against fascism as
an integral part of the struggle against the state and capital. In these
struggles, we anarchists live and breathe. Our organized political
presence and action on the existing struggle fronts and the formation of
new ones, we want to be the bridge between the real social needs and
moods and the anarchist worldview and practice, so that the resistances
become springboards for social and class emancipation.

The organization of the 6th Freedom Festival by APO-OS aims to create a
public and open political and cultural space for meeting, communication
and fermentation between the social and class struggles that develop
from below and the intervention of anarchist and libertarian initiatives
within them.
At the same time, we aim to create a space where as many as possible can
come into contact with the anarchist project of social, class and
international solidarity and the universal vision of social revolution,
for a society of equality and freedom through discussions and updates,
from photo and document exhibitions.
Thus, we will have the opportunity to create another ground where the
perceptions, practices, proposals, positions and struggles of anarchists
will be highlighted on a series of issues that run through the political
and social reality of our time. A public field of dialogue where we will
have the opportunity to get to know and present struggle experiences and
political conclusions from resistances that break out with a perspective
of social liberation.

Against the barbarity of modern totalitarianism that manifests itself on
a global level, as anarchists, we have to put forward the weapons of
social, class and international solidarity, recognizing that nowadays it
is more imperative than ever to connect those fighting internationally
and to fight together against the common attack that we accept. On every
open front of the social and class struggle, where the aggression of the
state and capital is manifested, attempting to radicalize the struggles
through their connection with the universal social vision of social and
class emancipation, proposing the only realistic way out for the
oppressed , the organization of the struggle for social revolution,
Anarchy and Liberal Communism.

THE STRUGGLE FOR GLOBAL SOCIAL REVOLUTION WILL BE WON!

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/1645-kalesma-sto-6o-eleftheriako-festival-koinonikis-taksikis-diethnistikis-allileggyis
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