#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #GREECE #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Greece, APO, Land & Freedom:[#Athens] Text of the Athens Anarchist Students' Initiative (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 To make the student movement dangerous, unguarded and subversive and not a means

to enforce party wills - rebelliousness --- After a year of kinetic
demoralization by part of the student movement in Athens, the appearance of the
university police at the gates of the EKPA - protected by all sort of cops - as
well as the events that followed the 3rd libertarian festival of occupied spaces
and collectives with the murderous intervention of the police, created a series
of movements and a new cycle of struggle has begun with a tipping point in the
resistance against state repression. ---- After the great defeat of the student
elections themselves - and not of the DAP - as the abstention exceeded any
precedent, the left student current defines itself as the main expression of the
students. Nevertheless, the trade union perception of the left and its
institutional reading on the issue of asylum, the only thing it offers to the
student movement is the demarcation of the struggle and the imposition of a
political organization vertical in complete opposition to the original purpose of
the general assemblies, that of interaction of students on the basis of
co-configuration. The so-called direct democratic function of the general
assemblies highlights the contradiction of the existence of the board of
directors which can bypass the collective decision-making process, although this
is theoretically impossible to happen, essentially being an authoritarian body
that considers the people it represents to be inferior and easily manipulable.
Following this policy, the general assemblies lose their horizontality and are
transformed into a means of representing the party factions. Leading to the
depoliticization of the ordinary student, the discrediting of the association
itself as well as the blocking of radical decisions that will escalate and
continue the struggle.

The big bet for us is whether the libertarian/autonomous trend will stop spinning
around itself and be able to transform into a pole. To be more clear, by pole I
mean the creation of a more coherent structure, open, but with clear and certain
political characteristics that will be promoted and characterized by the speech
and action of the subjects within it. So within the movement a specific and
distinct political proposal will be defined that will have its own independence
when expressed on the street. The tendency is understood as the set of those
political characteristics that arise distinctly through the intra-movement
competition, and being a minority part it gathers around them forming open and
opportunistic structures, trying to defend them and re-promote them to the
movement as proposals. The trend ultimately remains marginalized with the other
more coherent parts of the movement and through constant discounting loses its
independence and its ideological sign.

"Unionism is reformist by nature. What we can increasingly expect from him is:
the reforms he seeks and succeeds to be such and to be conquered in such a way as
to help education and revolutionary preparation and pave the way for ever greater
demands." Errico Malatesta

For us, the main political issue is the defense of the social character of the
university asylum. Precisely because the asylum and the anarchist movement are
directly connected to each other and have as a common starting point the
rebellion of the polytechnic. Asylum is inextricably linked to the struggles for
freedom, equality and dignity from the period of dictatorship and
post-colonialism, to the Uprising of 2008. To this day when the struggling
students are fighting and facing the auras, chemicals and attacks of uniformed
killers assault battalions of democracy in the streets and in the universities,
the asylum continues to be a living point of reference for the insurgents, the
fighters/women, the anarchists, the whole movement. It constitutes the
ideological link between generations and does not cease to give meaning to the
disputes of social and class struggles. It housed a multitude of radical
political processes and transformed political discourse into action.

As Anarchists we reject without a second thought the notion that our identity is
determined in each different social field and we cease to be the totality of our
properties but a part of it. We do not reveal our political identity precisely
because we consider that all aspects of us define our socio-political dimension
and we refuse to hide our political-ideological identity simply for tactical reasons.
We are students, workers, anarchist subjects whose conscience clearly tells us
that the path to individual and collective emancipation will come only through
social insurgency and the unstoppable revolutionary process that will make us
experience the world we dream of. We don't play it as experts in fighting and
fighting for a better tomorrow, we rely on the principle of self-organization and
we believe that only those from below by collectiveizing their wishes for
tomorrow can bring about change. We seek to connect the struggle against
educational restructuring with the wider social and class struggles by refusing
to limit it to the narrow contexts of individual claims, we do not wish to pass
into reformist logics of compromise but we strive for a university of common
ownership that will operate in the standards of libertarian education and all
people will have equal access to it. Inspired by the students of the Sorbonne in
May 1968 where they started a revolution of conscience and tried to connect the
revolted student subject with the wider class, the anarchists who started the
occupation of the polytechnic in 1973, proposing a complete break with the
state-capitalist system and not simply the transition to bourgeois democracy and
all the fighters who gave their freedom or even their lives for a revolutionary
perspective. If the student movement in Athens wants to mass, clash and win
rather than be led to reformism, a direct break with the system and its values is
the only way. The defense of the university asylum and its social character, the
struggle against the educational process and its restructuring cannot but be part
of the struggle for social liberation.

Initiative of Anarchist Students of Athens

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