WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GREECE - news journal UPDATE - (en) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom - AGAINST THE GLOBAL TERRORISM OF THE IMPERIALISTS (ca, de, it, pt, tr) [machine translation]

 ANTI-CITRAL - ANTI-MILITARIAN STRUGGLE IN AND OUTSIDE SCHOOLS ---- A month after the bloody uprising of the Iranian people with tens of thousands of dead, the USA and Israel, rushing in from NATO military bases, jointly launched bombing attacks on Iranian territory, killing thousands of civilians, including children. Stepping on those murdered during the uprising by the Islamic "Republic" of Iran, America decided once again to invoke the role of the alleged liberator, sending "liberation" bombs, just as they did in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Belgrade, Korea, Greece. Just as they are currently dropping on Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen.

The Greek state, as a member of NATO, but also as an ally of Israel, is firmly tied to the adventurous plans of the Zionist lobby. This is seen through the defense cooperation agreements with the US, through the commitment to send troops to Gaza as part of the "peacekeeping" mission, through the strengthening of the role of the Greek state and its territory as a strategic depth for American and Israeli interests. So today, the Greek state has fully supported the US-Israeli imperialist intervention in Iran, especially with the operation of the American base in Souda, which plays a key role in the planning, support and supply of American raids in the Middle East. In the same context, private "innovation", in good cooperation with the academic sector and its research staff, conducts research on technological systems for the modernization of war. The result of this effort is the creation and adaptation of scientific research within universities, with the aim of acquiring new, more destructive weapons systems, for the alleged protection of the borders and the strengthening of the country's important military allies (USA, NATO, Israel). Consequently, universities are transformed into one of the most important parts of the war industry of the political and economic elites, which aim both to expand their sphere of influence and their territorial expanses, thus indirectly starring in countless murders and war crimes, through the conclusion of memorandums of cooperation for war research with states such as Israel. In other words, universities and students are used by the State as fuel for the war machine that commits genocides of peoples without any hindrance. Something that did not happen from one moment to the next, but is cultivated within our schools through individual development, careerism, and the intensification of study conditions.
A typical example of this relationship is the National Technical University of Athens, spearheaded by the Research University Institute for Communication and Computer Systems (EPISEY), the research arm of the School of Electronic and Information Systems. This institute has been involved in a series of research programs, with some of the most striking examples being the Andromeda program (with the involvement of the Greek Ministry of Shipping and the Israeli Ministry of Public Security) and the Ranger program, which falls under the broader Horizon 2020 research program, which is funded, among others, by the weapons systems company Intracom Defense, a company that has been fully acquired by the state-owned Israeli Defense Industries (IAI). Both of these programs aim to design radars for surveillance of maritime borders, as well as to expand the communication network between European border guards. At the same time, Intracom Defense has been involved in a series of war programs in which various Greek universities participate, such as the University of Thessaloniki (HCUAV program), the Academy of Sciences and Engineering (SMOTANET program), the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (LOTUS program) and the National University of Athens (OCEAN 2022 program). Finally, it should be mentioned that another branch of the subsidiary company of Intracom Defense, Intracom Telecom, has concluded a memorandum of research cooperation with the National Technical University of Athens.
So as long as states bleed the people with weapons designed by the most "brilliant" minds in Europe, silence becomes a regime. As imperialist wars are waged on more and more fronts and with greater intensity, societies will be impoverished and suppressed internally. The horror of war will continue to become our daily poison and our world an immense chaos. The only logical alternative to cynicism and death must be the formation and organization of resistance from below. The global solidarity movement in Palestine has achieved much and has truly frightened the authorities as an important and unyielding factor. In this context, the anarchist comrade and student of ASOEE Z.M. was targeted and persecuted by the State, even receiving the greatest possible sentence in the court of first instance. He was convicted precisely because our collective decided to make the cooperation of the institution with Intracom Defense visible and remains here to this day, saying that it is necessary in the here and now to directly obstruct these research programs in any way possible.
In the face of the rotten world of the State and Capitalism, we refuse to back down. We will continue our struggle against the militarization of our schools, the degradation of our daily lives, the suppression of our dreams. From Palestine to Lebanon and Iran, from Ukraine to Cuba, Sudan and Syria, we will always stand in solidarity with the people. Because the people have nothing to divide among themselves, they have no interest in becoming cannon fodder for the elites and dying in a war that is not theirs. Because the only war truly worth fighting is the class war, the war against oppression and impoverishment, against those who rule and will rule, against States and their war machines, the war that rages daily in our workplaces, schools, streets and neighborhoods, with a vision of social liberation and generalized self-management.

ALWAYS WITH THE PEOPLE - NEVER WITH THE STATES

AGAINST THE COLLABORATION OF GREEK UNIVERSITIES WITH THE WAR INDUSTRY

SOLIDARITY WITH THE ANARCHIST STUDENT Z.M.

LONG LIVE ANARCHY!

Anarchist Students Initiative of Athens

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2263-athina-enantia-stin-pagkosmia-tromokratia-ton-imperialiston
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