Saturday 7/02, 13:00 Hagia Sophia with Ermou -- GENDER VIOLENCE IS A REGIME AS LONG AS THE STATE AND CAPITALISM EXIST ---- In December 2025, two cases of extreme gender-based patriarchal violence, abuse, rape and human trafficking were made public in Thessaloniki. The first case concerns the rape and videotaping of a minor from the Philippines, while the second concerns the "disruption" of a trafficking ring that trafficked women from Latin American countries, from Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela and Paraguay, confirming once again that sexual exploitation is an organic part of social and economic normality.
These cases cannot be seen as separate from a long chain of incidents of gender-based violence that have been revealed in recent years and which reflect the increasingly harsh attack that women, especially those belonging to the lower social strata, are receiving with the onslaught of modern totalitarianism and the almost complete disintegration of societies. The rape and trafficking of the 12-year-old by Kolonos, the abuse and deportation of E. from Ilioupoli by cop Bouyoukos, as well as the rape of the 19-year-old inside the A.T. Omonia by Delta cops are not just crimes, but they brutally depict the way in which state institutions, the police and the judiciary not only fail to protect victims, but are often directly or indirectly involved in violence, either through cover-ups, impunity, or through the involvement of representatives in cases of rape, gender-based abuse and trafficking rings.
It is thus clear for the umpteenth time that gender-based violence cannot be understood as an exception or a deviation from the functioning of the system - on the contrary, it is a structural element of the state and capitalism, which are based on the maintenance of hierarchies of gender, age, race and class, in order to ensure the reproduction of relations of power and exploitation. Patriarchy functions as a mechanism of discipline and control, determining which bodies are considered expendable and which voices are condemned to silence.
It is no coincidence that those most affected by gender-based violence belong to the most vulnerable social groups. Children, migrants, refugees, undocumented women, the poor and socially excluded are in positions where dependency, precariousness and lack of social support make violence easier, more invisible and often unpunished. Childhood, migration and economic need are social conditions produced and reproduced by the system itself, in order to create bodies available for control, exploitation and abuse.
Trafficking, in particular, cannot be detached from the structures of the capitalist economy, as it presupposes the existence of borders, poverty, gender inequalities and coercion, in order to transform human life into a commodity and the need for survival into a field of profit. Sexual exploitation is but one of the most violent expressions of a system founded on inequality and hierarchy.
At the same time, it is obvious that any part of society that struggles against the state mechanisms and the system that dominates and nourishes the patriarchy, receives extreme and brutal violence from the state's minions with shocking examples, the beating of female activists at a mass march in defense of Palestine in Athens, the recent examples of unjustified and violent arrests in Thessaloniki after the anti-fascist rally on 31/01/2026 and many more examples that demonstrate the excessive repression that female activists suffer.
In the face of this condition, we refuse to remain silent, we refuse to accept the narrative of the state and justice, when the state structures themselves prove to be constantly complicit! In a world that insists on baptizing violence as "deviation", we know that violence against women is an organic rule of power and we choose to stand on the side of the victims, recognizing that only through collective, self-organized and anti-state struggles can patriarchal and capitalist power be truly challenged.
THE PATRIARCHY RAPES AND KILLS ON THE STREET AT WORK NEVER ALONE
STATE, MEDIA, JUDICIARY
ALL TOGETHER COVER THE PATRIARCHY
Free Women of the Collective for Social Anarchism - Black & Red member of the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectives
https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2195-thes-niki-mikrofoniki-sygkentrosi-enantia-stin-emfyli-via-ta-kyklomata-trafficking-kai-tous-viasmoys
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Link: (en) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom -[Thessaloniki]Microphone rally against gender-based violence, trafficking rings and rape (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Source: A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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