WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GREECE - news journal UPDATE - (en) Greece, APO: Against the ideological and repressive campaign of the state, which targets the anarchist struggle | Kyriaco Xymitiris present (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Freedom for the detained activists for the Ampelokipi case ---- BACK

RUFIANS - FORWARD COMRADEES ---- Against the ideological and repressive
campaign of the state, which targets the anarchist struggle and
unmediated social and class resistance ---- On October 31, 2024, after
an explosive device exploded in an apartment in Ampelokipi, the
anarchist activist Kyriaco Xymitiris lost his life and the anarchist
activist Marianna Manoura was seriously injured. Marianna, seriously
injured, is transferred to the Evangelismos hospital, where she is kept
under guard, while after the second operation she underwent and without
having fully recovered, she is taken to Korydallos prison. From the
first hours of her transfer to Evangelismos, the repressive staff, while
she was unconscious, take her fingerprints and order a blood sample for
DNA analysis without her consent, while the investigating authorities
try to extract an apology from her. Despite the fact that she needs
hospitalization, she is still being held in Korydallos detention center,
with the competent authorities on the one hand depriving her of the
necessary medical care and diagnostic tests and on the other hand
keeping her locked up under miserable and unsuitable living conditions.
In the days following the explosion in Ampelokipi, the activists Nikos
Romanos, Dimitris P. and Dimitra Zarafeta and A. K. were arrested and
remanded in custody on completely flimsy charges, amidst a climate of
terror hysteria and the circulation of police scenarios by the media
mouthpieces of power, in continuation of the state's effort to fabricate
perpetrators with false evidence and to lead activists to their
imprisonment and neutralization from the field of social and class
struggle. In September 2025, the remanded activists were taken to
Evelpidon for the supplementary procedure at the interrogation stage,
with the judicial authorities extending their pre-trial detention.
During the 6 and a half years of the far-right-neoliberal management of
the state by New Democracy and despite the decline of resistance,
anarchists continued and intensified their participation in all fronts
of social and class struggles. Through their participation, they were
confronted with the harshest aspect of the repression that was imposed
on every field of struggle, both in the context of the overall and
broader repressive attack against the large social majority and its
struggling parts, and more specifically in the repressive operation that
targeted and continues to target the anarchist movement, both in
material terms in the streets and structures of the movement and
ideologically with its slander by the dominant propaganda. The
"anti-"terrorist campaign against the anarchist struggle also falls
within this special context and aims to criminalize and desocialize it,
through fear, slander, isolation and weakening. This special repressive
targeting of the state concerns the anarchist movement as it was through
it that, primarily, the extra-institutional, radical and unmediated
social resistances were expressed throughout the entire post-political
period, with the leading example being the social uprising of December.
The Ampelokipi affair, beyond the tragic event of the loss of the
anarchist activist Kyriakos Xymitiris, the pre-trial detention of 5
other activists and the intensification of surveillance and control over
the anarchist movement and its structures, highlights a series of
aspects of the state's special repressive campaign against anarchists.
It was not a move to disorient both society and its struggling parties,
as the left easily claims, along with a narrative that sees anarchist
fighters not as recipients of state repression due to their political
analysis, position and action, but as easy victims of government
policies and associations that are the target of repressive forces
whenever this serves the government narrative, removing every political
sign of the anarchist movement and presenting it as a fragmented,
spontaneous and childish outburst against existing injustice and which
cannot defend itself on its own but needs political guardians. The
repressive campaign against the anarchist movement is a permanent and
declared position of the state, especially after the 2008 uprising, and
this is precisely due to the fact that anarchists continue to constitute
the most radical part of the strugglers and fight with all their might
not only capitalism but also the state, without access, without
mediation, without representation within the political system of power
and consensus within it, a fact that makes the anarchist movement
dangerous and uncontrollable. Propaganda, legislative and repressive
"anti" terrorist methods do not constitute a momentary deviation from
the hierarchical, oppressive and exploitative democracy of the state and
the bosses, just as the slander of social struggles that were not
incorporated into the regime does not only concern individual choices of
struggle or the "dislocation" of an armed organization, but aims at the
total repudiation of collective political and social anti-violence and
the criminalization of any form of resistance that is not mediated by
institutions, through the "hunt for terrorism" and its "communicating
vessels".
The rulers today are attempting to erase the imprints of entire decades
of harsh social and class struggles because they function as social
examples of resistance that survive and reproduce, because they continue
to inspire new generations and show paths of struggle to the oppressed
today, because they keep alive the prospect of social emancipation and
liberation. The unhindered deepening of anti-social and violent
restructurings, for radical social transformation, has as a prerequisite
both the crushing of social and class struggles as a whole and
especially the complete neutralization of the most consciously
dissenting and radical part of the fighters, which sets as its horizon
the destruction of the exploitative and oppressive state structure and
the creation of a society of equality, solidarity and freedom.
Against the state-sponsored terrorist operation that seeks to target
activists, against the criminalization of friendly and comradely
relations, against police arbitrariness and violence, we declare that
the only terrorists are the state and capital, the system of power that
plunders and condemns the vast social majority to poverty and
impoverishment, that establishes an occupying police army in the cities
in every field of social activity, that murders in police stations and
blockades, on trains, in hospitals with the dissolution of the National
Health System, on the land and water borders of Europe - fortress, in
the prisons of wage slavery, that fiercely attacks the anarchist
movement, its structures and the social and class resistances that
develop within schools, colleges, workplaces and neighborhoods, that
supports the genocide of the Palestinian people. people and deepens its
involvement in the war machine, which rewards fascist gangs and
nationalism, which suppresses those who struggle for life and freedom
and reserves for the oppressed plebeians only an unlivable world of
exploitation and oppression.

Kyriakos Xymitiris always present in the struggles for social liberation

Freedom to the persecuted and detained fighters for the cause of Ampelokipi

Organization and struggle for the Social Revolution, Anarchy and
Libertarian Communism

Demonstration: Friday, October 31, Propylaia, 6:30 PM

Athens local coordination | Anarchist Political Organization -
Federation of Collectives

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