Greece: Solidarity with the NO TAV movement

Solidarity with the NO TAV movement (Italy-Switzerland-France)

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Either here, or there, repression is the same!

As in Chalkidiki, where the local population fights against the demolition of their land by modern gold-diggers as well as the state, a continuous crescendo of repression threatens 300 hundred activists with revengeful prosecutions.

As in Keratea, where the local community resisted against the make over of a whole area – including archaeology findings – into a landfill and set a stop to a capitalist attack. Capitalists perceived waste management as a golden opportunity to profit at the expense of the physical environment, animals and humans.

As in Oropos, where the local population showed the way we should treat corporate traffic blocks protected by cops, that is, motorway tolls.  Continue reading Greece: Solidarity with the NO TAV movement

Letter from comrade Kostas Sakkas, 17.02.2014

ANARCHISTS AND COMMUNISTS ARE SOCIAL FIGHTERS

STATES AND CAPITALISTS ARE TERRORISTS AND THIEVES

The current state of -permanent- exception, that constitutes an attempt to pave the way to yet another developmental invasion by the capital, unleashes an onslaught against almost all working people, confirming that class war is not only raging but is also becoming more extreme. States have always been instruments of class rule; the state is a system of social organisation that aims to reconcile the historically irreconcilable contradictions between exploiters and the exploited.

The unpopular government policy, perfectly aligned with their bosses’ (EU, IMF) orders, aims at the unconditional surrender of the contemporary working class and its decommissioning of each conquest of the past in order to make it even more exploitable, even more profitable for capital. More than any other period, the political system is acting on behalf of the transnational economic elite serving its interests. It’s acting on behalf of bank colossus, loan-shark states, serving, and facilitating, the economy of the markets and global capital.

The capitalist system, which is in the midst of one of the most severe structural crises in its history, both in terms of its depth as well as its multiple manifestations (banks, real estate, trade), has also launched a crisis of equivalent weight in the political system.

Continue reading Letter from comrade Kostas Sakkas, 17.02.2014

Report from Amfissa’s trial regarding the 2007 revolt in Malandrino prison

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Prison of Alicarnassos 1990, Korydallos 1995, Patras 1996, Corfu 1996, uprising in Malandrinos and almost all prisons in the country in 2007, mass hunger strikes in every prison in 2008. Continuous uprisings and unrests throughout time prove that prisons remain “a volcano about to erupt”, despite prisoners’ contradictions, dispersed submission, physical repression, violence, humiliations, and abundance of psychiatric drugs.

Continue reading Report from Amfissa’s trial regarding the 2007 revolt in Malandrino prison

Fascists stabbed two antifascists in Lyon, France

Tonight, 14th February, comrades in our struggle were attacked by around ten neo-nazis in the street. Two of them were stabbed. They are not at risk but they will spend the night in the hospital as a precaution.

Fascist ideas kill. In Lyon, such actions are unfortunately part of a series of ultra-violent fascist attacks targeted against every person who opposes or doesn’t agree with the fascist ideology.

We call to an immediate response. Anti-fascism concerns us all.

Antifascist gathering tomorrow Saturday 15th February at 2pm at Comedie square, Lyon.

NO PASARAN

Source: rebellyon.info

#FreeJoel Lets stop the nazi tramp of boots together!

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“Antifacsism is always self-defence”, according to the participants in the solidarity campaign with the antifascist who was detained in Stockholm after the nazi attack on December 15, 2013”.

sweden 2013: The police have created records of Romani nomads based on their ethnicity. The swedish migration board takes decision after decision for deporting people to countries which are at war. Cops behave in a pure racist way during police controls in the subway (the REVA project). At the same time in Europe fascism is rising again and nazi pogroms against Romani villages take place in Eastern Europe.

We see all these developments and we hear a tramp of boots. Within this context, a few brave citizens in Stockholm’s southern suburbs showed moral courage by organizing a manifestation to state that “this shall not happen again”. A few hundred locals joined the demonstration against the unidentified nazi activity in Kärrtorp on December 15. Students were fed up with painted swastikas on their school. Families with children were tired of being afraid of the fact that black dressed nazis carried out military-like exercises in the local sport hall.

During this demonstration, the nazis from the organization Svenska Motståndsrörelsen [swedish resistance movement] made the decision to attack a totally peaceful manifestation of baby carriages with knifes, bludgeons, glass bottles, fire-crackers and sparklers. The antifascists that were there managed to push back the attack. Probably many of them went down the memory lane to their youth during the 1990s when several refugee camps were set on fire in sweden, they remembered the tortured face of John Hron before he was drowned in a lake, the fear for the serial killer of immigrants Laser-man because they also had dark hair. They probably saw these memories turning into reality in front of them again before they decided to take action and defend the demonstration using necessary violence to protect themselves and several families with children from not being assaulted by sweden’s most militant nazi group. That day no tramp of boots was heard from far away. The nazis were standing in front of them.

We have heard the tramp of boots before. But for once again, we realize that the oppressed need to answer the question regarding violence and not the oppressor. Is it right to protect yourself by using violence? We claim that self-defense against nazi assaults can only be defined as self-defense. The nazis attempt through attacks to scare and silence us. We have seen it before.

Probably, Joel came to Kärrtorp that day, on December 15, because he was tired of this sort of violence. Because he was tired of explaining to his children that one shall be afraid and aware of the nazis, especially if this person bears a dark skin. Tired of explaining why people in sweden are separated. Joel was arrested some days after the events in Kärrtorp. He is detained in isolation for more than six weeks now. Joel is a father, a colleague, a friend and a comrade. He was forced that day to use violence for defending himself. Because he had heard the tramp of boots during the whole of his life and he did not want that his children will need to grow up in a country where refugees’ camps are set on fire. He did not want to see this happening again.

We know that you have also heard the tramp of boots and together we will show that our solidarity is greater than their hatred. Release Joel! Antifascism is always self-defense. We should never let it happen again.

Amine and Alexander, both committed to support the campaign freejoel. Their article was published by the Free Magazine

http://www.friatidningen.se/artikel/113370

Hunger strike at the Märsta refugee prison in Stockholm against deportations to Afghanistan

20 refugees at the Märsta prison, wing one, in Stockholm, Sweden, have started hunger strike since February 6. They demand their release from prison until they have a decision on their asylum applications. The hunger strike also is for showing solidarity with another inmate who has been in Sweden for a longer time and who has now been separated from family members. S/he is in a bad condition due to this separation. The hungerstrikers of Märsta have signed a manifesto for the release of their comrade. A young person (18 years old) collapsed on February 9 and according to information from inside the prison, the person was carried away by an ambulance on February 10. Six persons were moved from the refugee prison. A buss without registration plates took them to unknown place. There is no way to contact them. It is very obvious that the hunger strike was the reason why they were moved. Inside the bus, a special construction was installed to prevent people from the outside to see the condition of the refugees. There is strong evidence that those hunger strikers will be deported to Afghanistan.

See previous video about this case here 

Source: Action against Deportation

@AMDStockholm

 

 

Greece 25.01:Report about the police invasion in my house

     Today, January 25, Ι returned home after a few days of absence for working outside the city of Athens. What I saw was a looting scene: my belongings were spread all over the place, whereas I realized that some of my stuff, such as computers and a big part of my political archive, from social struggles, were missing. According to my neighbours, the police raided my apartment on Wednesday, January 22. Continue reading Greece 25.01:Report about the police invasion in my house

Μalmö, Sweden. Fascists’ attack against anarchosyndicalists’ (SAC) venue.

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On Monday, January 27, the cultural center Glassfabriken was attacked at the same time as the entrance of the municipal library was painted with swastika symbols, on the same day a memorial was planned in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

The last two days, the offices of local anarchosyndicalists SAC were also attacked. Early in the morning of January 27 and 28, the windows of the offices were smashed. It was the sixth time SAC’s venue was under attack the last five weeks. During this time, anarchist and autonomous venues as well as minority groups have been subject to fascist assaults not only in Malmö but in many places in Sweden.

http://antifascisten.org/2014/01/28/malmo-krossade-rutor-aven-pa-syndikalisternas-lokal/

ZAD, France: This is not a camp

Following various announcements for a possible start of construction of the Notre Dame des Landes airport, a series of articles were released in the press that pretty much regurgitated copy-pasted clichés. One of these articles caught our attention notably. In almost all the articles that would preach the possible eviction and the final catastrophe of ZAD we read “200 people, alter-globalists, continue to camp in ZAD.” The figure might seem rough. The term “alter-globalists” is not a term that the people who chose to fight against the airport and the world of “development” would embrace. But we don’t give a damn about that! For now we will hang on to the bad joke that describes what’s happening here as “camping”. Continue reading ZAD, France: This is not a camp

On the post about Paulina in Mexico

Some days ago we published a false update about comrade Paulina’s death in Mexico. We took a wrong decision and trusted an -what proved to be- unreliable source on the matter. For what it’s worth that source wasn’t Facebook. We apologize and removed any faulty posts.

We quote en.contrainfo.espiv.net :

Or: Why misinformation should concern us all, in our attempt to produce counter-information…

Finally on January 25th, 2014 the infamous by now “facebook.com/Bloque.Anarko.Oriente” released a text claiming that they (but who are they really?) are sorry to inform everyone they made a mistake by revealing that Maria Paulina Inefavel Lorandi had brutally died; they are sorry to inform they spread irresponsible horseshit from the very beginning. We wouldn’t even bother making a reference to facebook dirt; however, the public account of “Bloque Anarko Oriente” was the original source of the creepy nonsense about Maria Paulina’s death, which never even occurred.

Sadly, this story was diffused since January 21st (to this very day) on counter-information pages, too. Why exactly did counter-information nodes reproduce this unverified claim which, in their knowledge, came straight from some facebook account (also those who were warned of its most probable falsehood, but to no avail)? Why was it deemed so necessary to transmit the news about an anarchist being raped and murdered in Mexico without finding out for sure if this atrocious fact is even real, without bothering for a moment to crosscheck the story with trustworthy anarchists who happen to be active in the territory controlled by the Mexican State, in order to avoid one’s credibility going down the drain because of facebook falsehoods? Why are facebook claims imposing themselves on wider counter-information flow? And what were some of the counter-information sites, the various leftist media, and all sorts of bloggers thinking when they spread false photographs of “Paulina”? Ever since the first moment that this distressing news was out, several facebook(!) users expressed uncertainty about its truthfulness. The “Bloque Anarko Oriente” were repeatedly notified of the fact that the young woman pictured on their facebook page as “comrade Paulina from Mexico” was none other than a completely different woman from Chile, who does not have a 7-month-old baby but rather a 5-year-old child… Whoever the pictured woman is, the “Bloque Anarko Oriente” not only insisted on their lament without making any effort to confirm the news, and without admitting that none of them ever knew any “Paulina” in person, but they even called for a march on January 25th in Mexico City in remembrance of “their compañera”, only to take back their call and the entire fictitious story at the last minute.

Of course shit happens. But on a more practical level, we urge all concerned to hide every single related post immediately, and for fuck’s sake take down the pictures of that woman, who has been overexposed on the internet as allegedly deceased. Counter-information is a weapon; don’t turn it into a bad joke.

G.Kalaitzidis: On the raid in my house and the ongoing pogrom of the past days

 On Tuesday 21st of Januray at 3pm, men of the hellenic police with attorney presence invaded my house. The reason – according to them – was an anonymous phone call stating that at my house I have guns and molotov cocktail bombs. The infamous phone call of the nonexistent snitch lead up to the four raids in the past in houses I was living in. Continue reading G.Kalaitzidis: On the raid in my house and the ongoing pogrom of the past days