Within the rotten world of the state, capital and patriarchy, gender
oppression is cultivated and reproduced with the aim of dividing and
fragmenting the oppressed. November 25 commemorates the murder of the
Mirabal sisters in the Dominican Republic by the dictatorship of R.
Trujillo in 1960. The "Butterflies", organized in the anti-dictatorial
movement, actively resisted the regime of patriarchal violence and
repression. Their active participation in resistance networks turned
them into a target of the state. They were murdered by the secret police
in a state operation, which the regime's media presented as a "traffic
accident," highlighting the brutality of power. The institutionalization
of this day is nothing more than a state fabrication, a mechanism to
cover up its own pathologies and, ultimately, to de-nerve social and
class struggles until they are completely assimilated. It would be naive
to believe, at the very least, that the emancipation of women can begin
and be completed within the suffocating circle of dominant institutions
and the system that oppresses them. A system based on exploitation,
inequalities, and oppression could never eliminate gender-based
violence. On the contrary, it is a key component of the consolidation
and strengthening of the system of power.
Despite the hypocritical declarations of institutions that they are
fighting gender-based violence, they are the ones who give birth to it,
cover it up and nurture it. These are the same institutions that
legalize dozens of femicide cases every year and throw pedophiles,
abusers and femicide into courtrooms - after first building their
defense line through police instructions and leaks to the media
mouthpieces of power. From the borders where migrants and refugees are
abused and raped by state and parastatal mechanisms, to the hells -
camps where complete impoverishment is imposed, to children who fall
victim to trafficking rings under the "ignorance" of the authorities, to
the television industry that turns gender-based violence into a
spectacle, simultaneously exonerating abusers and keeping in the dark
those who do not serve the dominant narrative. At the same time, the
increasing incidents of homophobic and transphobic violence - from the
organized lynching of two LGBTQ+ people in Aristotelous Square in
Thessaloniki last March, to the recent attacks by a group of young thugs
in the Zappeion Gardens and in Peristeri - are not isolated incidents,
but a harsh symptom of a patriarchal system that legitimizes and
encourages violence against LGBTQ+ people. How could we forget the
trafficking ring in the Ilioupoli case with the pimp cop and fascist
Bougioukos who held E. hostage? The trafficking and child rape case of
the 12-year-old from Kolonos, whose appeals court begins next January,
where an entire system participated in the ring and turned its back on
it, priests, cops, politicians, mafiosi and all sorts of scoundrels of
the state and parastatal mechanisms? The murder of Kyriaki Griva outside
the A.T. Ag. Anargyron, where she had asked for help, which she was
denied? The systematic laundering of rapists inside the courtrooms as in
the case of Lignadis and Filippou? The rape of the 19-year-old in the
A.T. Unity by the police officers of the department, who videotaped
their heinous acts?
At the same time, in the prisons of wage slavery, gender discrimination
and violence are expanding for the benefit of the bosses' profit, within
an institutional framework of restructuring labor relations and
suppressing decades of labor conquests. The normalization of employer
misconduct and harassment in the workplace, the constant threat of
dismissal, the dismissals of pregnant women, wage discrimination, the
abolition of the right to strike, the persecution of union members and
the increase in industrial accidents are transforming workplaces into
central fields of gendered state-capitalist violence. All of this,
combined with the intensification of working conditions, the dismantling
of the National Health System and the privatization of the health
system, the devaluation of public education, the auctions of primary
residences and the rise in rents, the extreme precision in basic
everyday goods and the direct threat of poverty, make up the daily
violence that women of the large social majority are confronted with.
In this context, the authoritarian patriarchal capitalist system is
attacking with increasing ferocity the women of the plebeian strata, the
fighters, the demonstrators, the anarchists, all those who resist the
barbarity it attempts to impose, applying the only strategy it knows,
that of murderous violence and repression by the security forces. From
the repressive blow that the march for Kyriakos Xymitiris received,
where a female protester was fatally hit in the head by riot police
while she was on the ground, from the unprovoked attack with chemicals,
flash bangs and sticks on parents, teachers and elementary school
children during a rally outside the DIPE against the merger of school
departments, the violent arrest of a 13-year-old student outside a
student occupation with long-term irregular detention at the Exarcheia
Police Station without communication with his parents, the checks on
minors in Exarcheia by DRASI police officers, the violent kidnapping and
arrest of a mother of an infant and a teacher due to her union activity,
to the brutal attack and arrests of demonstrators during the solidarity
march in Palestine on 7/10 and the violent arrest of protesting female
teachers in Chania in a mobilization against the massacres of the
Palestinian people. Moreover, it is no coincidence that gender-based
violence is used as a counter-revolutionary weapon by states around the
world against insurgents, with rapes by security forces, with recent
examples being Sudan, Colombia and Chile.
In the fields of war, patriarchal violence unfolds in its most brutal
and pure form. Beyond the mass murders of women and children, hunger,
disease, displacement, women's bodies are transformed into a field of
conquest and gender-based violence is transformed into a weapon of
discipline, humiliation and imposition on themselves and their entire
communities. In Palestine, women face systematic attacks, torture,
humiliation and sexual violence in prisons and at checkpoints, as a way
of subjugating themselves and their communities by the Israeli
occupation machine. In Sudan, gender-based violence is used as a tool of
ethnic cleansing and social control, with both women and children
targeted by both warring sides in a bid to dominate through terror. In
every war zone, patriarchy is not just present - it is a structural part
of the war machine, a weapon that targets our bodies to break down
entire societies.
Faced with the bleak future that the state-owned, capitalist patriarchal
system holds in store for all of us, we will always choose the side of
rebellious women, the side of the oppressed, of workers, of refugees, of
LGBTQI+ people, defending freedom, equality and solidarity. On the side
of the ever-struggling Palestinians, our brothers in Iran who paid with
their blood the uprising under the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom", the
women in Sudan who are fighting to save their communities from
extermination and starvation, the communities who are rising up against
the ICE pogroms in America, the rebelling Zapatistas in Mexico, the
women who are fighting against disappearances, feminicides, rapes and
for the self-determination of their bodies in East and West. Those
imprisoned in the prisons and concentration camps of refugees and
immigrants of the Greek state. All women, all people who are fighting
against state, capitalist and patriarchal barbarity, who are fighting
for a free and just world for all.
FROM PALESTINE, SUDAN TO IRAN, MEXICO AND THE USA... CIVIL VIOLENCE IS
INSTITUTIONAL
THE REBELS HAVE THE RIGHT
AGAINST THE STATE AND PATRIARCHY FOR THE ATTACK AND ANARCHY
Demonstrations Tuesday, November 25
Athens: Klafthmonos, 18.30 | Thessaloniki: Kamara, 18.00
Group against patriarchy | Anarchist Political Organization - Federation
of Collectives
https://apo.squathost.com/kalesma-25-noemvri-imera-mnimis-antistasis-ke-agona-enantia-stin-emfili-via-ke-to-sistima-pou-ti-genna-ke-ti-threfi
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oppression is cultivated and reproduced with the aim of dividing and
fragmenting the oppressed. November 25 commemorates the murder of the
Mirabal sisters in the Dominican Republic by the dictatorship of R.
Trujillo in 1960. The "Butterflies", organized in the anti-dictatorial
movement, actively resisted the regime of patriarchal violence and
repression. Their active participation in resistance networks turned
them into a target of the state. They were murdered by the secret police
in a state operation, which the regime's media presented as a "traffic
accident," highlighting the brutality of power. The institutionalization
of this day is nothing more than a state fabrication, a mechanism to
cover up its own pathologies and, ultimately, to de-nerve social and
class struggles until they are completely assimilated. It would be naive
to believe, at the very least, that the emancipation of women can begin
and be completed within the suffocating circle of dominant institutions
and the system that oppresses them. A system based on exploitation,
inequalities, and oppression could never eliminate gender-based
violence. On the contrary, it is a key component of the consolidation
and strengthening of the system of power.
Despite the hypocritical declarations of institutions that they are
fighting gender-based violence, they are the ones who give birth to it,
cover it up and nurture it. These are the same institutions that
legalize dozens of femicide cases every year and throw pedophiles,
abusers and femicide into courtrooms - after first building their
defense line through police instructions and leaks to the media
mouthpieces of power. From the borders where migrants and refugees are
abused and raped by state and parastatal mechanisms, to the hells -
camps where complete impoverishment is imposed, to children who fall
victim to trafficking rings under the "ignorance" of the authorities, to
the television industry that turns gender-based violence into a
spectacle, simultaneously exonerating abusers and keeping in the dark
those who do not serve the dominant narrative. At the same time, the
increasing incidents of homophobic and transphobic violence - from the
organized lynching of two LGBTQ+ people in Aristotelous Square in
Thessaloniki last March, to the recent attacks by a group of young thugs
in the Zappeion Gardens and in Peristeri - are not isolated incidents,
but a harsh symptom of a patriarchal system that legitimizes and
encourages violence against LGBTQ+ people. How could we forget the
trafficking ring in the Ilioupoli case with the pimp cop and fascist
Bougioukos who held E. hostage? The trafficking and child rape case of
the 12-year-old from Kolonos, whose appeals court begins next January,
where an entire system participated in the ring and turned its back on
it, priests, cops, politicians, mafiosi and all sorts of scoundrels of
the state and parastatal mechanisms? The murder of Kyriaki Griva outside
the A.T. Ag. Anargyron, where she had asked for help, which she was
denied? The systematic laundering of rapists inside the courtrooms as in
the case of Lignadis and Filippou? The rape of the 19-year-old in the
A.T. Unity by the police officers of the department, who videotaped
their heinous acts?
At the same time, in the prisons of wage slavery, gender discrimination
and violence are expanding for the benefit of the bosses' profit, within
an institutional framework of restructuring labor relations and
suppressing decades of labor conquests. The normalization of employer
misconduct and harassment in the workplace, the constant threat of
dismissal, the dismissals of pregnant women, wage discrimination, the
abolition of the right to strike, the persecution of union members and
the increase in industrial accidents are transforming workplaces into
central fields of gendered state-capitalist violence. All of this,
combined with the intensification of working conditions, the dismantling
of the National Health System and the privatization of the health
system, the devaluation of public education, the auctions of primary
residences and the rise in rents, the extreme precision in basic
everyday goods and the direct threat of poverty, make up the daily
violence that women of the large social majority are confronted with.
In this context, the authoritarian patriarchal capitalist system is
attacking with increasing ferocity the women of the plebeian strata, the
fighters, the demonstrators, the anarchists, all those who resist the
barbarity it attempts to impose, applying the only strategy it knows,
that of murderous violence and repression by the security forces. From
the repressive blow that the march for Kyriakos Xymitiris received,
where a female protester was fatally hit in the head by riot police
while she was on the ground, from the unprovoked attack with chemicals,
flash bangs and sticks on parents, teachers and elementary school
children during a rally outside the DIPE against the merger of school
departments, the violent arrest of a 13-year-old student outside a
student occupation with long-term irregular detention at the Exarcheia
Police Station without communication with his parents, the checks on
minors in Exarcheia by DRASI police officers, the violent kidnapping and
arrest of a mother of an infant and a teacher due to her union activity,
to the brutal attack and arrests of demonstrators during the solidarity
march in Palestine on 7/10 and the violent arrest of protesting female
teachers in Chania in a mobilization against the massacres of the
Palestinian people. Moreover, it is no coincidence that gender-based
violence is used as a counter-revolutionary weapon by states around the
world against insurgents, with rapes by security forces, with recent
examples being Sudan, Colombia and Chile.
In the fields of war, patriarchal violence unfolds in its most brutal
and pure form. Beyond the mass murders of women and children, hunger,
disease, displacement, women's bodies are transformed into a field of
conquest and gender-based violence is transformed into a weapon of
discipline, humiliation and imposition on themselves and their entire
communities. In Palestine, women face systematic attacks, torture,
humiliation and sexual violence in prisons and at checkpoints, as a way
of subjugating themselves and their communities by the Israeli
occupation machine. In Sudan, gender-based violence is used as a tool of
ethnic cleansing and social control, with both women and children
targeted by both warring sides in a bid to dominate through terror. In
every war zone, patriarchy is not just present - it is a structural part
of the war machine, a weapon that targets our bodies to break down
entire societies.
Faced with the bleak future that the state-owned, capitalist patriarchal
system holds in store for all of us, we will always choose the side of
rebellious women, the side of the oppressed, of workers, of refugees, of
LGBTQI+ people, defending freedom, equality and solidarity. On the side
of the ever-struggling Palestinians, our brothers in Iran who paid with
their blood the uprising under the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom", the
women in Sudan who are fighting to save their communities from
extermination and starvation, the communities who are rising up against
the ICE pogroms in America, the rebelling Zapatistas in Mexico, the
women who are fighting against disappearances, feminicides, rapes and
for the self-determination of their bodies in East and West. Those
imprisoned in the prisons and concentration camps of refugees and
immigrants of the Greek state. All women, all people who are fighting
against state, capitalist and patriarchal barbarity, who are fighting
for a free and just world for all.
FROM PALESTINE, SUDAN TO IRAN, MEXICO AND THE USA... CIVIL VIOLENCE IS
INSTITUTIONAL
THE REBELS HAVE THE RIGHT
AGAINST THE STATE AND PATRIARCHY FOR THE ATTACK AND ANARCHY
Demonstrations Tuesday, November 25
Athens: Klafthmonos, 18.30 | Thessaloniki: Kamara, 18.00
Group against patriarchy | Anarchist Political Organization - Federation
of Collectives
https://apo.squathost.com/kalesma-25-noemvri-imera-mnimis-antistasis-ke-agona-enantia-stin-emfili-via-ke-to-sistima-pou-ti-genna-ke-ti-threfi
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