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Erklärungen aus dem anarchistischen Raum in
Griechenland 2018
Erklärungen aus dem anarchistischen Raum in S.16 Athen: Einige Worte zu den Riots am 29. März
Griechenland 2018 2019
Sowohl die anarchistische und antiautoritäre S.17 Once upon a time – Die Ermordung von Zack
Bewegung, als auch anarcho-kommunistische Kostopoulos im September 2018
Gruppen haben nach einer Phase der
Orientierungssuche, die mit dem Brand der Marfin S.22 Erklärung zum Angriff auf die Polizeistation
Bank 2010 begann und die sich mit der Omonia am 15. Oktober 2018
Regierungsübernahme von Syriza 2015 weiter
vertiefte, Wege gefunden um das eigene Profil zu S.25 Erklärung zum Angriff auf das Institut
schärfen. Dabei werden Konflikte mit dem Staat Francaise am 4. November 2018
gesucht, welche auf der einen Seite den Bruch mit
der Linken intensivieren und andererseits deren S.25 Erklärung zu Angriffen auf Banken und Shops
Verbindungen ins anarchistische Milieu sichtbar am 6. und 11. November 2018
machen. Zeitweise kann von einer Spaltung der
Bewegung gesprochen werden, deren Verhältnis S.26 Texte zu den Ereignissen 14. bis 17. November
zur linken Regierung stark auseinander driftet. 2018, Polytechnio
Zum Vorschein kamen diese Spaltungen u.a. im
November 2017 bei der Besetzung des Polytechnio S.31 Erklärung zum Angriff auf die YMET Zentrale
in Athen durch anarchistische Zusammenhänge, in Kaisariani am 2. Dezember 2018
die am nächsten Tag durch eine
Machtdemonstration der „Roten“ beendet wurde. S.32 Erklärung zum Angriff auf die Wohnung des
Ministers Flabouraris am 4. Dezember 2018
In 2018 erwies sich der anarchistische Raum als
vielfältig genug, um trotz einer gesellschaftlichen S.35 Text zu den Auseinandersetzungen am 6.
Apathie weiter anzugreifen und sich nicht Dezember 2018 in Athen
abzuschotten. Die Beteiligung von zahlreichen
Menschen, die nicht zu organisierten S.37 Erklärung zum 2. Angriff auf die YMET
anarchistischen Zusammenhängen gehören, an Zentrale in Kaisariani am 11. Dezember 2018
den Auseinandersetzungen zwischen September
und Dezember 2018 in mehrerer Städten, belegt die S.40 Erklärung zum Anschlag gegen einen
Anschlussfähigkeit radikaler Ideen und Vorschläge. Menschenhändler am 20. Dezember 2018
Zu einigen Aktionen sind Texte entstanden, von
denen hier jene abgedruckt sind, die übersetzt
wurden. Berichte von Straßenschlachten fehlen
fast vollständig, vermutlich weil sie nichts
außergewöhnliches sind. Die Erklärung der
Organization for Revolutionary Self-defense vom
November 2017 taucht in dieser Sammlung auf,
weil sie für eine andere Tendenz als die übrigen
Texte steht. Die meisten Texte wurden zuerst auf
Indymedia Athen veröffentlicht.
Inhalt
S.3 Erklärung zu den Schüssen auf einen MAT Bus
in Exarchia am 6. November 2017
S.13 Erklärung zu dem Angriff auf einen MAT Bus
in Thessaloniki am 2. Juni 2018
Schüsse auf einen Lets smash the terrorism of states and bosses
Lets rise up against a system that is stalling its
MAT Bus in Exarchia own downfall, using terrorism as its crutch.
With our first and third armed intervention, twice
we acted right next to the bastards of the riot
squad (MAT), demonstrating to the social
movement that it must not fear them and that soon
their time would come. On the 10th of January
2017 we made a first warning contact, by firing
A year has passed since the last attack of the one shot at the riot van that is stationed outside
Organization of Revolutionary Self-defense against the PASOK offices and two more shots that landed
riot cops outside the PASOK offices (6 November next to the guard. On the 6th of November we
2017). We publish a translation of the attacked this scum again.
responsibility claim for this and the previous The riot squad is the specialized tool for enforcing
attack at the same place (10 January 2017). The text violence and terrorism against the social
of the organization is an analysis on politics and movement. They are military type units, organized
strategy, a document for the continuous experience and trained to attack and brutalize demonstrators,
of the revolutionary class struggle. It was by making mass use of chemical weapons (teargas,
published (in greek) on athens.indymedia ten days suffocation, burning and other gases) and of shell
after the last action. The first analytical text of the weapons (plastic and metal bullets, teargas
organization, "Statement of deed from The canisters shot from a shotgun). The number of
Organisation of Revolutionary Self-defense dead and injured that have resulted from all these
towards a new international revolutionary weapons across the planet are countless. Here we
movement", had been published on November 14th shall mention only the most renowned cases from
2016, immediately after the attack by hand grenade the record of the greek democracy. In October
against the french embassy (10 November 2016) 2011, a construction worker suffocates to death by
and it refers to previous attacks (mexican embassy teargas in Syntagma square. In January 2011 a
31st july 2016 and PASOK 25th May 2014). woman has a miscarriage when her home in
MAT Bus vor dem PASOK Büro
in Exarchia, nach den Schüssen
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Keratea is choked in teargas. In 1991 four people trained to exercise blind violence and are nurtured
die in a fire by teargas canisters in the building as misanthrope lackeys and bloodthirsty
K.Marousi in Omonoia square. In October 1991, the murderers. The just popular hatred for the riot
offices of Polytechneio are burned by teargas cops has been festering for 40 years now and it
canisters. On the 15th of June 2011 in Syntagma seeks effective ways to express itself.
sq., the journalist Manolis Kypraios loses his ear- Prior to taking over power, Syriza, just like Pasok
drum by a stun grenade during a protest. Others before the George Papandreou term through
have had limbs severed by such weapons. In every announcements of minister Chrisochoides, stressed
mobilization where protesters defend their public in their election campaign their intention to
space of protest, there are injuries from the abolish chemical weapons. Naturally, no statist
weapons of the cops. Furthermore, the riot squad would ever realize this “commitment”. The
raids against demonstrations and the arrests are capacity to use mass weapons that can be shot
always accompanied with tortures and injuries, from a distance that secures the safety of the
that are legitimized by all state mechanisms (police armed lackeys of the state, is a necessity for the
commanders, prosecutors, judges, ministers, regime. Only the extensive use of firearms could
members of parliament and journalists). replace chemical weapons, invoking in this way
The riot squad (MAT) was formed as a unit in 1979 the image of the junta. Without these weapons the
by the first post-dictatorship government, which cops would be incapable of facing the organized
took out from the shelve this plan that was social movement and the popular uprisings.
originally drawn by the junta, and it assigned to The greek state’s absolute dependency on
the same junta executives (Ilias Psychoyios and international banks, which began with the
others) the plan’s implementation. The post- Maastricht agreement and was completed with the
dictatorship party regime had to disassociate the loan-shark agreements with the IMF and the
army from class repression, in order to restore a european funds ten years later, has intensified the
relative acceptance of this institution in the policies of exploitation and exclusion and has
context of national identity and in order to dress veiled them with the mask of interstate relations.
the new regime with a look of “democratic” de- From 2009 onwards mass mobilizations have been
militarization. At the same time, the police force taking place in resistance to this new capitalist
was modernized as the main mechanism of daily attack, questioning in deed the domination of
terrorism and military repression. The national political institutions and attempting many times to
army delivered this dirty mission to the special bring it down by besieging the parliament. In this
mercenaries of the police. Whilst the special situation, the special forces for repression of
military units and armored vehicles, which have protest and political action (riot squads-MAT,
not been designed for large concentrations of counter-terrorist units-EKAM, motorbike cops-
crowds, are kept for special occasions. DELTA, security police etc.) became the guarantor
The main weapon of the riot squads is chemical of the regime’s survival.
gases. The use of an uncontrollable mass weapon On the 12th of February 2012, half a million people
signifies the anti-social purpose of this special besieged the center of Athens in an attempt to
police unit. The job of the riot cops is to break up blockade the parliament, but could not withstand
demonstrations and to spread terror. The state’s the chemical bombardment. The fierce battles with
capacity to cause pain, fear, physical and mental the state’s murderous lackeys carried on for many
injury en masse, whilst keeping direct killings at a hours, but the crowd could not reassemble in
low frequency, is what gives it the advantage to Syntagma square. The biggest manifestation of the
enforce on a daily basis as much violence as is anti-austerity mobilizations, which was impressive
necessary to paralyze the social movement whilst as it took the streets, was unable to face the
veiling the anti-social and political consequences technology of war implemented by the state. When
of this one-sided military aggression. the social movement was at its broadest
Everyone, even the most conservative, manifestation, the state totalitarianism and its
comprehends the anti-social nature of mass state military nature became apparent to everyone. The
weapons. Everyone recognizes that riot cops are resistance felt the limits resulting from the absence
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of an all-encompassing revolutionary perspective inevitable destruction of social bonds and of the
and the limits of the unorganized insurrection. economic classes that have remained attached to
Syriza during the pre-election period took the patriarchal-statist model. In order for the
advantage of the defeat of the social movement so material conditions imposed by the economic and
as to vouch for a promise of a small relief for the police terrorism to be overturned, we must again
poorest populations, and following the elections become society through the self-organization of a
took advantage of this defeat in order to unblock revolutionary movement. The responsibility for
the implementation of the endless capitalist this overturn is everyone’s matter, everyone who
reforms. That part of the conservative strata who experiences modern day slavery. Only the
had been hit by the banks and the financial policies oppressed people can change the world by taking
that these impose together with the greek state, strength into their hands.
shaped the transient current that brought Syriza Analysis on the fundamental lines for a
and Kammenos to government, because their revolutionary movement
interests coincided with the interests of a capitalist In our previous statement, “Towards the
growth without re-orderings. In between the last construction of a revolutionary movement that will
two elections, Syriza lost from its pool of voters bring down the domination of state and capital”,
the small part of the working class and of the we delineated the main points of reference for an
unemployed who, in conditions of impoverishment international revolutionary movement built on
and following the defeat of the social movement, steady bases. The fundamental lines are the
had nothing to lose in casting a vote to the following three:
possibility of some moderation in the aggression A. The revolutionary movement of our times
they face. After that, they also lost the middle should and must be anti-statist and must aim
classes who had previously lost all faith in the directly at the overthrow of the political-military
parties of PASOK and New Democracy. and financial regime, the overthrow of state
The economic, police and ideological terrorism, institutions and the uprooting of mechanisms of
which is legalized and completed by parliamentary authority.
and judicial mechanisms, is intensified day by day. The self interest, the violence and hypocrisy of
The state is unable to restore any sense of social every political and economic power today are
consensus. It has changed its strategy. It fortifies evident to all class oppressed people. Social
the oligarchic nucleus of the regime. In other demands call for the immediate dissolution of the
words, it is offering wholehearted support to the state.
business elite, total freedom to the bosses’ The overthrow of the political-military and
arbitrary practices and terrorism, total financial regime is not a long term and abstract
subordination to international monetary and goal. Every fighter must struggle for this goal
technocratic cadres, preemptive repression against daily. He/she must strive for it with every political
the oppressed, immediate annihilation of intervention and even more so put into practice
resistance by murderous means and prisons, the revolutionary ways of organization and action
legalization to minority governments. inside the work spaces, the grass roots trade
We said it also last November. Mediation has lost unions and assemblies, in the neighborhoods, in
all credibility. Its place has been taken by the people’s assemblies, in self organized social
terrorist policies that want to impose class peace. structures and thematic collectives, in the dialogue
The crisis of mediation has become a crisis of and organizational procedures of the anti-state
perspective. anti-capitalist movement. Those who recognize but
The financial-political-cultural crisis is a direct avoid this fundamental socio-political
expression of this domination system’s limits. It is responsibility betray the oppressed, justify state
not merely a reflection of the oligarchic terrorism and in the end succumb to reformism.
management of the economy, but of the totality of B. The revolutionary movement of our times
class-social relations within capitalist-statist should and must aim directly at the socialization of
civilization. The dissolution of the democratic and all wealth through armed communes that should
social veneer of the greek state brings about the and must be established today by the revolutionary
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action of labor and community assemblies. movement and of all its advances. Fighters have
The particular form of state socialism, which is the socio-political duty to transfuse class and social
summed up in: “first political domination, then resistances with the paradigm of direct
social revolution”, has met its historical demise, counterattack against the political-military and
having resulted in irreversible recoils. We analyzed economic regime and with the experience which
this in our previous statement. Today, in this phase conveys that we can crush terrorism and its
of dissolution of political mediation as an domination. At the same time they must transfuse
expression of the systemic crisis, no political the struggles with the ideas, the values, the
change is possible without a social revolution. Not methods and the experience of libertarian
even as a farse. From the windows of Parliament, communalism and of universal federalism.
Vasilis Leventis (the greek parliament’s clown) C. Today, it is necessary and feasible to diffuse the
gazes at the left opposition. revolutionary self-organization to the great mass
Today, the overthrow of the political-military of the exploited and of the excluded. It is necessary
regime can only be realized by a social movement and feasible to implement social self-direction here
that will reject any political mediation and will and now.
construct its open federal structures on the basis of The fixed relations of exploitation is a dual
the immediate overthrow of the economic regime, exclusion. The real face of property is economic
by imposing social terms against the interests of exclusion, which doesn’t begin with consumption
the bosses and by the re-appropriation of social but with production. Behind the unequal
wealth. In this daily revolutionary struggle, the distribution of social resources is the directorial
confrontation with the mechanisms of repression control. All forms of exclusion stem from the
cannot be postponed until the general insurrection, authority of the political and technocratic
neither can it be seen as small-scale political oligarchy. All forms of mediation, through
subversion or cultural critique for propaganda assigning political and technical decisions to
purposes. Self-organization of the confrontation experts, beget exploitation.
must aim at pushing back exploitation and control, Immediate social self-direction is the vision that
it must also reinforce the self-defense of the social defines the material base of the anti-capitalist
6revolution. This vision is realized here and now contradictions of the capitalist system.
through the self-organization of resistance and the The struggle towards partially lifting the different
undertaking of social matters through the open forms of exclusion is a matter of survival for the
assemblies of the anti-statist class-social oppressed. Confrontation in the field of social life
movement. is necessary and it can be victorious when the
Exclusion today is not something that concerns hostile nature of political mediation is understood
merely a class minority. It is becoming generalized as such. However it is not enough to discover self-
and is many-fold. Economic exclusion today is organization. We must also breach the forms of
obliterating, because of the downright degradation exclusion that divide the oppressed and the social
of labor value, of the expansive unemployment, of movement. Liberated is the one who through their
the prevalence of semi-unemployment over generous participation in the revolutionary
working conditions, of the dismantling of social struggle creates and arms the collective identity of
provisions, of artificially high cost of living, of the struggle. For the social movement to have strength,
extortionate taxation measures, of the for the revolutionary current to be reinforced, we
criminalization of poverty and of migrant must agree on this simple and transparent
populations, who comprise the largest part of the position, born out of the vigorous struggle and its
working base. heavy cost: The state dismantles social solidarity,
Exclusion is also political. The political parties of revolutionary solidarity is the core of the struggle,
the greek democracy are incapable of bridging social revolution is the triumph of solidarity.
even their own bourgeois interests. Bourgeois The overthrow of the political-military regime as a
institutions represent only the very few whose focal point of the destruction of power structures,
privileges are dependent on the survival of state will be achieved by a movement that makes
control and specifically of the party political revolutionary changes in the ways it organizes and
system, thus excluding everyone else. On the other expresses social war and life. When social
side of this border, political exclusion is advances are thriving and the movement is strong,
supplemented by the repression of resistance and this reflects the revolutionary work that has been
of self-organization. going on all this time. When poverty thrives and
Exclusion, in other words power relations, become the state seems all-mighty, this reflects the deficit
absolute when public discourse, the arts and in revolutionary initiative, in unity and
memory are occupied by the language, the organization, deficit in social morals.
aesthetic and the narratives of domination. The These three basic directions for an international
dissolution of the collective revolutionary history revolutionary movement are a consequence of the
and the purification of the social field entrap goal to liberate humanity from political slavery,
popular expression into self-destructive exploitation and every from of exclusion. The three
whirlpools. The cultural crisis of capitalism directions comprise a unity from the outset. Each
dominates every aspect of life. In todays conditions one exists within the others and is a result of them.
of generalized antagonism-cannibalism, the state They will strengthen together or the revolutionary
and capital no longer have any leeway for movement will not evolve.
assimilation and cannot create any social vision. The catalyst of the revolutionary movement is
There is no room for living within relations of direct revolutionary action. Direct action socially
discipline any longer. and militantly and at the same time upgrade of
The founding acts of social self-direction are the combative organization, of its weapons and tactics.
rejection of dominant values, the immediate This is the most fundamental consistency to the
destruction of tyrannical structures and the goal of social revolution.
subversion of the system’s narratives. In this Sand to the wheels of the revolutionary movement
creative play, revolutionary values that have been The conservative propaganda against armed
exploited and incorporated by power also come struggle tries to hide itself behind theoretical
into question. The ideas shaped by the social tricks. The obscene pacifism that offers tolerance
insurrection are surely full of contradictions, since to state terrorism in order to preserve the notion of
they first speak about the endless contrasts and “non-violence” is masquerading itself. This same
7obscene pacifism that offers tolerance to the Grigoropoulos. The state mechanism is aware of
torture of sixteen year old protesters, to the the fact that the threat of counterattack concerns
drowning of uprooted children in the Aegean sea, this mechanism as a unity. It is also aware of the
to the brutal murders inside police stations and to social dynamic of direct action. When a weapon is
the deadly conditions inside prisons and raised, hundreds more hands are willing and can
concentration camps, says that we don’t have the raise it again.
moral right to fight back, but only to defend Lets go back a bit. This same obscene capitulation
ourselves. The advocates of passivity know very with the regime of terrorism says that armed
well that in class conflict , which is not defined by struggle is premature and a dead end when it
the exceptions of personal sensitivity and remorse, comes up against a parliamentary system. These
there is no effective defense without counter- lackeys of parliamentarism supported Syriza,
attack. State totalitarianism leaves no room for paving its way towards the expansion of the
passive defense. Shying away from confrontation repressive armory against political and social
surrenders the ground to state murderers, offering prisoners, its way towards new memorandum
the greatest bourgeois value: indifference. agreements, its way towards nationalism and the
Those same pharisees denounce attributing upgrading of its alliances with the slaughterer
collective responsibility and the practice of islraeli state. Today that the political system has
revenge. They remember this only when the weak lost all credibility, carrying away with it in its
strike. While when the political and economic demise all pacifist illusions, where else is the
oligarchy strikes in order to ensure its terrorist desperation of the oppressed to gather strength
domination, those same pharisees assign the from, if not from the armed resistance that gives
popular demand for justice to the state institutions, the living example of feasibility for the prospect of
the penal system of the rulers and the impersonal a society without state dictatorship and
irresponsibility of state mechanisms. The bosses exploitation? No one would believe that a
and their organs are well aware of their movement can bring on the day when we nail to
responsibilities. They are well aware that by their the cross all fierce exploiters and shameless
participation in the system of power they take the politicians had the flag of armed resistance not
responsibility of perpetuating this system, been kept up in times of democratic illusions.
regardless of each one’s initiatives. The scum who The most obscene of all slanderers of armed
man the political, economic, military and struggle are the pretend libertarians who denounce
ideological mechanisms of terrorism assume the armed resistance as a ‘vanguard’ outside of the
risk of getting attacked by the resistance, because social movement. By characterizing every armed
they think the system will survive and that they initiative and organization as “from outside” or
themselves will be able to hide behind the security “from above”, they admit that they aspire to a
of its mechanisms for as long as they look out for disarmed and passive social movement. They are
their own ass. Hits against the mechanisms scare no different to the mainstream left who separate
them. armed resistance from the mass movement,
One simple example: Last November, following the characterizing it as “individual terrorism”, only to
attack against the french embassy, the conclude that the movement is not ready and that
Organization for Revolutionary Self-Defense noted it is the oppressed people’s own fault that they
that “the extortionate temporary kidnappings of have no class consciousness. With a marxist
political fighters by the security police forces are veneer the revolutionary diversion from the
still going on” and that “particularly during days of conformist party “avant guard” is targeted. With a
mass mobilization such as the anniversary of the libertarian veneer the “armed avant guard” is
Polytechneio revolt, such state kidnappings take targeted. It is one and the same. They are worried
place on a mass scale”. This reference in that they lose their role as front men, because
combination with the action of an organization of when the social movement becomes stronger it
armed resistance, was enough to deter this junta rids itself of conservative instructors.
practice during the days of the anniversary of What is the strategy corresponds to the political
Polytechneio and of the murder of Alexis aim of the construction of a revolutionary
8movement social resistance in two ways: One, by direct
One year ago we proclaimed the focal strategic response up against the terrorism of the state and
direction: Construction of the broad armed social bosses, with any forces that have organized. And,
resistance. two, by bringing armed struggle into the fronts of
We need to look critically at and leave behind all social struggle.
the past dogmas that in theory proclaim All actions of the Revolutionary Self-defense until
revolution, but in practice they move in the today have been direct responses. We attacked
opposite direction. The main problem is isolation , PASOK, which had been in a coalition government
which sacrifices the prospect in the name of with New Democracy, on the eve of the voting for
security and ideological purity. Groups based on the legislation for the type C (high security-
ideological agreements cannot broaden social isolation) prisons, on the day of the euro-elections
resistance. Political organization have the of 2014. We attacked against specific plans to
responsibility to take initiatives towards the upgrade the conditions of isolation of political and
organization of revolutionary bases. undisciplined prisoners. We chose that day to
Revolutionaries are not elite. They live and they attack the hypocrisy of bourgeois democracy.
organize resistance inside society’s contradictions. We attacked the building of the mexican embassy
No matter how active isolated cells may be, they in response to the operation of armed repression of
cannot upgrade the resistance. No matter the the revolt of the education workers in Oaxaca in
damage to the enemy one strike may cause, its aim June 2016, an operation which left dozens of dead
must be the broad revolutionary self-organization. and missing and hundreds of wounded. We send a
Propaganda through deed is only one first message for the tortures, the rapes, the
characteristic of the action. All groups that have murders and disappearances, which are daily
elevated this component to a main goal have not practices of the mexican state.
made any steps forward towards the construction We attacked the french embassy in response to the
of a revolutionary movement. Direct action is a month-long attempted operation to evacuate the
paradigm of might against the terrorism of the huge refugee community in Calais by military
state and the bosses. However, the paradigm of means. Also in response to the repression of the
direct action is not a revolutionary plan in and of social revolt against the new anti-labor laws in the
itself. This form of political propaganda is used summer of 2016, which were hit with chemical
also by reformist organizations, in some cases in a warfare, plastic bullets, mass arrests and tortures,
centralized manner and in other cases against the and which left hundreds injured. Also in response
autonomy of the social movement. Direct to the continuation of the detention of the lebanese
participation in the struggles given everyday, in fighter Zorz Ibrahim Abdalah who still remains in
the mass organization of active resistance, in the french prisons since 1984, following a barrage of
spreading of armed struggle, in the outbreak and attacks against the american and israeli state,
strengthening of insurrections, is what whilst according to french law he should have
characterizes revolutionary action. been released in 1999. To be precise, we attacked
It doesn’t help to blame those obscene pacifist who the guard of the french embassy, thus putting to
in an attempt to strip armed struggle of its value practice the words “the savagery of the organs of
they try to impose the separation between armed authority will be crushed under the power of the
and social. It is not a revolutionary stance to weapons of resistance”.
expect that the conservative will change their We attacked a van of riot police in Exarchia in
positions. Rebel organizations assume the January (2016), in response to the repression of the
responsibility to offer a revolutionary proposal, as demonstration against the president of the U.S. and
well as the experience and the tools of armed the police invasion of Exarchia on the anniversary
struggle inside the social fields of struggle. This is of the state killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos.
how they serve the goal of social revolution, An attack against the riot police was a popular
sending a direct blow to the pacifists’ pseudo demand in December. The people who honored
socialism. Grigoropoulos on the barricades yelled at the
The Organization for Revolutionary Self-Defense is murderers in uniform that “the Revolutionary Self-
fighting for the construction of the broad armed
9Defense is coming”. Our Organization could not to the political target. The Organization for
but respond to this popular call. The Organization Revolutionary Self-Defense is prepared to use all
of Revolutionary Self-Defense serves the social the different rebel tactics. We could have hit the
need for direct answers to the violence of the torturers of the riot police from a greater distance
exploiters and their organs. or we could strike with total safety at a time when
With the attach against the cops that guard the the riot van would be in motion or we could find
french embassy and the attack against the van of the most isolated riot cop by lucky chance. Such
riot police we took a first step in implementing the opportunities always exist. We do not
words “A hand grenade for every teargas. Two underestimate the potential of catching the enemy
bullets for every cop or fascist who strikes a blow.” off guard or of trapping them and we will not deny
Our attack was carried out one week after the ourselves such opportunities. No respect is due to
arrest of the anarchist guerillas Pola Roupa and these antisocial wretches.
Constandina Athanasopoulou, members of the However, we chose to strike twice at the place
organization Revolutionary Struggle, thus showing where a riot unit is stationed and is the most on its
that state terrorism cannot bend the revolutionary guard, protected by heavily armored vehicles and
fight. security police. We attacked face front where the
Since last December (2016) until today, the state broad resistance to police terrorism is expressed
has intensified policing and the brutality of its most widely and most frequently. Because we
attacks, because it fails to crush the restless youth wanted to demonstrate in deed once again what
who clash with the murderers of the riot cops. The we had said after the attack against the french
state tortures, injures and imprisons young and embassy: The armies of the bosses are powerless
poor people. It bombards Exarchia with chemicals vis a vis the storming rage of the revolted. Armed
daily, as is reported by the assemblies of resisting social resistance can shatter the clay legs of the
residents. The recent attack against the riot cops is state.
a response to the attempted repression of the The regime’s mass media made a hasty and low
antifascist mobilizations on the anniversary of profile reference to the recent attack, instead of
Pavlos Fyssas and of the mobilizations that going haywire “against violence and terrorism”,
followed. like they usually do. Since no blood was spilled
We attacked a second time the same police post they could keep this event quiet. Why? Because
and a third time at the same spot, at the PASOK the state understands that the Organization for
building, at the time when the rot of the party Revolutionary Self-Defense does not open an issue
political left-center-right were conducting yet in order to reap benefits from it and then abandon
another show of rebirth, so as to demonstrate that it. They know that resistance will have the last
armed resistance remains on the social fronts until word. They know that luck cannot guarantee their
the crushing of state terrorism, until the victory of domination. They know that every reference to an
every struggle. Organization that insists on its targets, make it
The armed guards of exploitation who came under stronger. A weapon was raised and hundreds more
our fire had luck on their side both times. At the have the desire and will to raise it again.
recent attack the reflexes of the cop who bend As a consequence of our basic directions towards
down at the moment when the comrade of the an international revolutionary movement on
Organization pulled the trigger, saved him and his steady bases, armed struggle can and should be
team. We didn’t have the time to reposition expressed through social fronts. We fight for
ourselves so as to strike again where they would revolutionary self-organization. We will not catch
have no cover. Nor could we fire a barrage of shots our fellow fighters off guard. We don not wish to
betting on the chance that some would hit the dominate the struggles. We shape our steps
target. The action required surgical precision, through an ongoing dialogue inside communities
because it was synchronized with the traffic lights of resistance.
and the absence of pedestrians and cars from the We are preparing the moment when the broad
place of the attack. movement will embrace armed resistance, by
We have said that the tactics we choose correspond putting our strength towards the broad movement.
10Participation of the movement in armed resistance neutralization of daily police terrorism and the
forms the basis for the most direct defense of its disarmament of its instruments by the movement.
struggles. For this reason we return the invitation We shall prune them down round every corner,
in deed to all those who struggle and we share the just like we have been taught by the methods of
responsibility. To support armed resistance. To join terrorism that the state implements on us. We shall
the school of rebel resistance. To organize new re-occupy the space by organizing communities of
action cells. We will stand beside them. To take resistance, solidarity and freedom.
into their own hands the prospect of the In the past year a struggle is going on against
revolutionary movement that will abolish the electronic control in public transport which will
domination of state and capital. Together we shall bring about an even worse exploitation of
crush the bosses. impoverished passengers and the totalitarian
What does class conflict call for today. exclusion of the economically excluded people. We
When we say victory to the struggles of the will not let public transport become the ownership
oppressed, we commit ourselves to opening up the of some privileged few. We will not let out
potential towards this goal. When we say social neighborhoods become like security wings of a
emancipation from class oppression, the crushing grand prison. Revolutionaries do not stand by
of the state’s and the bosses’ terrorism must be a gazing at history. They change it. We will not
direct goal. abandon public resources, until their socialization
We point our weapons at the war that the state is by the armed assemblies of people’s communities
waging that brings on the impoverishment of the and of workers. We do not forget Thanasis
exploited people and that takes away survival Kanaoutis, who was murdered on the 13th of
means from the excluded ones. This is why it is an August 2013 by the headhunters of the Transport
imperative necessity of life to organize today the Company of Athens (OASA). The Organization for
armed social resistance. Revolutionary Self Defense will reinforce the
This war waged by authority takes the form of resistance that springs up against the financial and
generalized economic terrorism, protected by the police utilization of public transport. We call on
police and the judicial mechanism. The clamp of the workers of this sector to stand together with
economic terrorism and imprisonment is a system the passengers, honoring the victories of the
of war. It measures deaths and starvation as workers movement.
percentages and ravaged lands as regions for In this past 20 years of bourgeois modernization,
investment opportunities. It counts all those the terrorism of the bosses has become
incarcerated in prisons and concentration camps as unharnessed. Gangster-contractors of wage slavery
captives of class antagonism. impose extortionate conditions of impoverishment
The colonial war within borders serves to alienate and strike every initiative of workers organization
space and to persecute practices for social survival. in big private and state enterprises. Big and small
Order, gentrification and hygienics are the flags of bosses aim to criminalize the resistances of the
class annihilation. Projects of urban development, grassroots workers’ organization with the help of
supplemented by the creation of exclusion zones, the police and judicial mechanism. In the past
are based on the widespread and constant military period, the security police is methodically trying to
occupation of public space. Mobile units of security criminalize grassroots trade-unionism. The ones
police and murderers on motorbikes and jeeps responsible for this junta policy of repression are
sweep the streets so as to enforce generalized the labor and public order ministers, the prime-
submission. Their armed attire, their threatening minister and their political party and every boss
glances and the offense to the dignity of persons who invests in the courts and the police.
who do not fit dominant standards, with bodily The anti-labor repression has jumped to the next
searches, cursing and arrests, are all here to impose phase from the systemic assimilation of trade-
the line between which expressions, motions and unionism. It has moved on to a new phase of
words are accepted and which are forbidden. employer totalitarianism, like the one it
Class conflict unfolds every day on every street. implemented at the dawn of capitalism. Legal
Armed social resistance should strive for the forms of struggle no longer have any power. They
11have shrunk and they are disappearing. Bargaining for Revolutionary Self-defense defends centers of
done by all sorts of political leaders is a thing of struggle against police and para-state terrorism,
the past. Workers’ struggle must be rebuilt on against processes of alienation and a turn to
revolutionary grounds. With weapons at hand. fascism. Embracing all those who have nothing to
With the aim to destroy the capitalist system and lose, the real proletariat, which social democracy
the states. By self-organization and direct named lumpen so as to slander it, we target all the
socialization. Every fighter worker must struggle mechanisms of class control. We will make every
for this cause within his/her work space and corner of this country Exarchia. With weapons at
sector. Armed organizations bear, according to hand, we will sow in the neighborhoods the social
their revolutionary cause, the responsibility to bases of revolution against state and capital.
strengthen militant struggles. Revolutionaries hurt and are enraged alongside the
The Organization for Revolutionary Self Defense youth when student occupations are criminalized.
points its weapons at the structures that When the youth suffocate under daily police
criminalize the survival and existence of the control, systematic imposition and subordination.
weakest. It points at the judicial institutions and When the state attempts to drown their rage in
their organs, prisons and concentration camps. We chemicals and beatings. Armed organizations bear
are working to come closer to the struggles of the responsibility to arm the desperation and the
social prisoners, such as the month long fight now hopes of the fighting youth.
taking place against the new prison code. We are Lets organize a sentry in every neighborhood.
working to come closer to the resistances of 43 years of veiled dictatorship, all masks are worn
incarcerated migrants, together to bring an end to out.
the tortures, to vindictive detentions and to ethnic We rise up, we organize, we arm ourselves to crush
divisions. the masters.
The political and financial oligarchy criminalize
social solidarity and then invade and pillage its Post script for the comrades on the trenches:
infrastructures. In July ‘16 three housing squats in We express our solidarity to the captive rebels of
Thessaloníki were evacuated, two more were the organization Revolutionary Struggle, Pola
evacuated in January ‘17 in Athens, followed by Roupa and Nikos Maziotis and the hunger strike
the evacuation of the old Helliniko airport for the they are carrying out against the policies for their
benefit of the giant investment plan of head- extermination. Their struggle for social revolution
gangster Latsis. Every single one of the bosses who will be victorious.
attack hubs of self-organization and solidarity and We express our solidarity to every collective force
who grab from the survival resources of the that gives life to the message of November, in
excluded people, is our target. Businesses, the conflict with the systemic forces and with
church, state executives, university lackeys etc, capitulation. Against the terrorism of the state and
they will all pay. We do not forget, we do not bosses.
forgive the blackmailers, the invaders and the
exploiters. Organization for Revolutionary Self-defense
We wrote above that we chose to strike twice at November 2017
the place where the broad resistance to police https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1592926/
terrorism is expressed broadly and most
frequently. Exarchia is a hub for the struggle
taking place in the center of the greek state. The
reactionary forces of the regime are frantically
trying to erode and terrorize social hubs of
resistance so as to pacify them, to deconstruct
them and to assimilate them. For this reason they
push private interest and their protectors, drug
dealers and their political lackeys.
As part of the world of solidarity, the Organization
12(Thessaloniki) in einer terroristischen Organisation
Erklärung zum Angriff freigesprochen wurden.
Rechte und Freiheiten, die durch harte Kämpfe
auf einen Bullenbus der erobert wurden, werden offen mit Füßen getreten.
Aus diesem Grund begann der reuelose
MAT am 02.06.2018 Revolutionär D. Koufontinas am 30. Mai einen
Hungerstreik mit folgenden Forderungen:
Wir alle erleben eine Realität, in der Ausbeutung a) die Abschaffung des staatsanwaltschaftlichen
und Unterwerfung in jedem Aspekt des Vetos im Entscheidungsprozess für die
gesellschaftlichen Lebens etabliert sind, auf einer Beschlussfassung bezüglich der Erlaubniserteilung
Grundlage, die mit einer Möchtegern-Art und von Hafturlaub der Gefangenen und
Weise seinen Platz an der Macht hat. Wir sehen, b) den Gefangenen regelmäßige Hafturlaube zu
dass die Repression unterschiedliche Formen zugestehen, deren sie rachsüchtig beraubt werden
annimmt. Von der Kriminalisierung der Ideologie, und zu denen sie nach dem Gesetz berechtigt sind.
der Solidarität, den persönlichen Beziehungen bis
zur harten Rachsucht, die jeden und jede dazu Die politisch Verfolgten stehen einem
zwingt seinen/ihren Kopf hoch zuhalten. generalisierten Angriff gegenüber. Jeder und jede
ist mit der staatlichen Repression auf Grund
Der Anarchist und Kommunist T. Theofilos wird seiner/ihrer Ideologie, seiner/ihrer subversiven
auf einer lächerlichen Grundlage und Handlungen oder nicht reumütigen Haltung
fadenscheinigen Anklageschrift für 5 Jahre konfrontiert. Man erlebt den Kreislauf des
inhaftiert bis er in der 2. Instanz vollständig Kapitalismus in der Phase der „Krise“, die
freigesprochen wird. Die Staatsanwälte und die Ausbeutung und die Unterdrückung spitzen sich
führenden Persönlichkeiten der Judikativen, im großen Teil der Gesellschaft zu, die Menschen,
widmen sich dennoch dem beispiellosen Versuch die schon immer die Werte der Herrschaft
diesbezüglich das Märchen der innehaben assimilieren die Mentalität der Macht.
Terrorismusbekämpfung zu verbreiten und
aufrecht zu erhalten. Aus diesem Grund wurde der Treue Diener des Konsums und der gekünstelten
Freispruch vor kurzem aufgehoben um zu materiellen Glückseligkeit, widmen sich einem
entscheiden, ob T. Theofilos erneut vor Gericht unbarmherzigen Kampf auf der Straße mit dem
gestellt werden soll. Ausgangspunkt des Sklavendaseins als der
Am 18. März hat sich diese Feststellung noch Antriebskraft der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung.
einmal verifiziert, als die Anarchisten Nikos Um ihre falschen Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen, ihre
Romanos, Argyris Dalios, Giannis Michailidis, hohlen Wünsche sind sie Konkurrenten im
Dimitris Politis und Gerasimos Tsakalos als Wettkampf und stehen auf toten Körpern, wenn sie
„personifizierte Terroristen“ verurteilt wurden. mit Mühe versuchen einen bedeutenden Platz in
Eine Verurteilung, die die Kriminalisierung der kannibalistischen Gesellschaft zu bekommen.
anarchistischer politischer Identität als
ausreichende Grundlage für die Verurteilung von Unabhängig von alten und neuen repressiven
Kämpfern und Kämpferinnen im Rahmen des Praktiken, die die Herrschaft benutzt, ist ihr
berühmten Anti-Terror-Gesetzes (187 A) bestätigt. fundamentales Ziel die Zerstörung jeder Tendenz
Ein Gesetz, dass fortlaufend bemüht ist herauf zu Zweifeln, indem sie das Gift der Angst im
zustufen, so dass langjährige Strafen für jedes sozialen Körper verbreitet. Sie versuchen
beliebige Vergehen (so unerheblich es auch sein sicherzustellen, dass jede subversive Neigung im
mag) erlassen werden können und den Rahmen Anfangsstadium katalysiert wird und so
einer existenten – oder auch nicht existenten - verwenden sie jedes mögliche Werkzeug: die
„Terrororganisation“ definiert. Es ist wichtig zu technologischen und wissenschaftlichen Mittel, die
bemerken, dass die ersten vier Betreffenden (das Massenmedien, die Bullen, die unhaltbaren
heißt mit Ausnahme des Mitglieds der Feuerzellen erpresserischen Dilemmas, in schönster
G. Tsakalos) unwiderruflich für die Mitgliedschaft Zusammenarbeit mit den konservativsten Teilen
13der Gesellschaft, die immer bereit sind der sie sind diejenigen, die immer bereit sind jeglichen
dominierenden Erzählung zu dienen. Versuch des Aufstandes oder der Revolution zu
unterdrücken.
Innerhalb dieser dystopischen Realität wurden
dennoch soziale Widerstände geboren, welche Sie sind diejenigen, die bewusst Menschen
trotz ihrer Widersprüche und Probleme, ermorden werden, welche von der Herrschaft als
kämpferische Antworten gegeben haben und aus Bedrohung angesehen werden.
diesem Grund Repression erfahren. Soziale
Widerstände, welche eine Perspektive für einen In der Welt der Ausbeutung, in der „Kriminelle“
dynamischen Zusammenstoß mit den Interessen grundsätzlich ein Geschöpf der Ungleichheit und
von Staat und Kapital geben, aber sich bisher als des Kapitalismus sind, sind die Schweine
ungenügend erwiesen haben, um diesen Zustand diejenigen, die diesen Vertrag verewigen und
umzukehren. schützen werden.
Auf der anderen Seite gibt es auch Menschen, die Innerhalb dieser Realität also entscheiden wir uns
wenn die Sache in eine ausweglose Lage geraten anzugreifen. Wir beschlossen, uns in horizontalen
ist, verstehen dass etwas getan werden muss und Gruppen zu organisieren und in die Praxis
die sich bewusst sind, dass sie sich radikalisieren überzugehen. Um zu versuchen von den
müssen. Dennoch wählen sie einen Ausweg, der symbolischen, alljährlichen Zusammenstößen
nur das gegnerische Lager begünstigt, den Staat überzugehen zur Schaffung von Umständen, die
und die Bosse, nachdem sie gewählt haben um dem eine echte Bedrohung darstellen. Um, und sei es
Märchen zum Wiederaufleben des nationalen nur minimal, den Raum und die Zeit zu öffnen, die
Torso zu folgen, zur Neubelebung des faulen uns gehören.
patriotischen und nationalistischen
„Bewusstseins“. Sie glauben, dass sie auf diese Getrieben vom aufständischen Bewusstsein,
Weise Widerstand leisten gegenüber dem, was kämpfen wir für die Verwirklichung der Anarchie.
ihnen ihr Leben stiehlt. Wir lassen unseren eigenen Vorrat los, zum
gemeinsamen Ziel der Schaffung kämpferischer
Auf der anderen Seite entscheiden wir uns diese Strukturen innerhalb des anarchistischen und
Rolle nicht zu übernehmen, die Rolle des kleinen antiautoritären Raumes. Zur Bildung
Würstchens. Wir entscheiden uns dem wahren selbstorganisierter Gruppen, die den symbolischen
Feind direkt in die Augen zu sehen, den Angriff überschreiten und zu einem gefährlichen
bewaffneten Wachen in die Augen zu sehen und „inneren“ Feind aufsteigen werden.
sie zu verbrennen. Aus diesem Grund haben wir Wir schlagen den polymorphen Kampf vor. Die
am 2. Juni den Polizeibus angegriffen, der den Verbreitung der anarchistischen Praxis und
Abschaum der MAT – Einheiten transportiert. Wir Theorie in jedem Bereich des Alltags. Für uns ist
haben uns entschieden in Aktion zu treten, um der polymorphe Kampf ein Flyer, ein Plakat, ein
unseren eigenen, wenn auch noch so kleinen Banner. Das Verfassen eines Aufrufs und das
Standpunkt in der Perspektive des Angriffs zu Verteilen von Propagandamaterial. Eine öffentliche
hinterlassen. Veranstaltung, die offenen Diskussionen und die
Dialektik.
Die Schweine sind ein erstes Hindernis, sie sind die
bewaffnete Wache des Regimes. Und sie sind nicht Für uns ist der polymorphe Kampf der frontale
unverwundbar. Wir könnten unzählige Beispiele Konflikt mit dem Regime. Die Straßenkämpfe mit
für ihr mörderisches und krankes Verhalten den repressiven Kräften, die Brandattacken gegen
nennen. Aber das ist weder der Grund noch der Ziele der Herrschaft. Der bewaffnete Kampf und
Anlass. Die Schweine sind kein Punchingball, wie die Stadtguerilla.
sie selbst wimmernd von sich behaupten, sie sind
ein Ziel. Sie sind das Ziel wegen der Rolle, die sie Für uns ist der polymorphe Kampf die Theorie und
im sozialen Leben gewählt haben zu übernehmen. der Sinn, die Aktion und die Praxis.
Sie sind die Beschützer des Staates und der Bosse,
14Schaffen wir subversive Zellen. Solidarität an die Gefährtinnen und Gefährten,
Schaffen wir kämpferische Strukturen. Mitglieder der ZAD – Gemeinschaft. Vor kurzem
Greifen wir die Feinde der Freiheit an. haben die Bullen wieder ihren Plan für die
Für die Anarchie … gewaltsame Räumung des befreiten Bodens in die
Tat umgesetzt. Seit dem 4. April 2018 wurden über
Wir bekunden unsere aktive Solidarität mit den 300 Aktivisten verletzt, und am 21. Mai wurde die
politischen Gefangenen. Wer die Gefangenen des Hand eines Demonstranten verstümmelt von einer
Krieges vergisst, vergisst eben diesen Krieg. Granate, die von dem Müll der lokalen
Repressionskräfte abgeschossen wurde. Zur
Für jedes Ziel der Herrschaft, dass brennt und gleichen Zeit begannen am 29. Mai aufeinander
zerstört wird, entsteht ein Lächeln auf den abgestimmte Polizeirazzien in Italien, Spanien, der
Gesichtern derjenigen, die nach Aufstand und Schweiz, Frankreich und Deutschland aufgrund der
Freiheit dürsten. Zusammenstöße, die im Rahmen des G20 - Gipfels
in Hamburg im vergangenen Juli stattfanden. Die
Auf ihrer Asche kartografieren wir unsere Träume, Bullen drangen in Häuser von Menschen ein, die
unsere Wünsche. sich an den Demonstrationen beteiligt haben sollen
und nahmen insgesamt 7 Personen fest. Die
Über der Asche legen wir den Grundstein für eine Ermittlungen werden voraussichtlich weitergehen.
freie Gesellschaft … Wir bekunden unsere Solidarität mit den
Gefährten und Gefährtinnen, die von Repression
Die Aufständischen betroffen sind.
P.S.: Die internationale Solidarität bildet einen (übersetzt von
wesentlichen Bestandteil unseres Kampfes und https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1588638/)
unserer Zielsetzung. Wir senden Zeichen der
15Athen: Einige Worte zu den wurde sie auch angegriffen. Wir sind glücklich zu
hören, dass zwei Bullen bei Zusammenstößen
Riots am 29. März 2019 während der selben Nacht in Santiago
angeschossen wurden. Wir werden immer auf der
Jasmin und Mandelbäume erblühen aus den Seite der Delinquenten und Vermummten stehen,
Wunden der Kugeln und den Narben der Körper die sich die Straßen in Chile und überall nehmen
unserer Gefallenen. Die kommenden Samen der um die Bullen anzugreifen und die Stadt und ihre
Selbstheilung sitzen auf den Ästen und sind bereit, Werte in Brand zu stecken. Lasst uns jeden Tag zu
die Lebenshungrigen zu nähren. Gezeichnet in einem 29. März machen.
Blut, fließt Bitterkeit aus, wird zu Dünger für die *Im Gegensatz zu dem was euch die Medien
Wut. Die Piniennadeln fallen herunter und erzählen, war das Feuer kein Unfall von dummen
umarmen die Ehre, in Verweigerung der Kindern. Einige Individuen unter uns, nutzten
Knechtschaft zu leben. Wellen brechen, umarmen kleine Brandsätze um den Tank zu entzünden. Wir
die Ehre, im Kampf zu sterben. Gewässer taten das in Erinnerung unserer Freundin Anna,
antworten auf den Ruf der Stille, sie verwandeln die letztes Jahr im Kampf gegen das Türkische
sich in Feuer und eine Nacht wie der 29. März Militär getötet wurde. Wir gedenken ihr nicht als
macht eine heilsame Überschwemmung. Genau Märtyrerin oder Heldin, sondern als Freundin; so
dort begleiten unsere toten Freunde jeden unserer fehlerhaft sie auch war, brachte uns das Feuer ihres
Schritte. Genau dort brechen alle unsere Geistes in diesen Moment.
Genoss*innen, die fortgegangen sind, Sebastian FROM GREECE TO CHILE
Oversluij, Lambros Fountas, Mauricio Morales, FIRE TO THE PRISON-SOCIETY
Spiros Dravilas, Anna Campbell, Dimitris some stupid riot kids
Armakolas, Javier Recabarren, aus der ewigen
Zärtlichkeit des Feuer hervor. P.S.1: Hört auf Hure, Schweine, Fotzen als
In der Nacht des 29. März 2019 sendeten wir Feuer Beschimpfungen zu verwenden.
der Solidarität an unsere Genoss*innen in Chile, P.S.2: Während der Riots am Polytechnio und
zum „Tag des/der jungen Kämpfer/in“. Wir Umgebung gab es zwei Verhaftungen. Lasst uns
versammelten uns, hängten ein Banner an den gewaltsam auf die Gewalt der staatlichen
Haupteingang des Polytechnio, wir stießen mit den Unterdrückung antworten.
Bullen für einige Stunden zusammen, wobei wir sie (Übersetzung aus dem Englischen von
mit Molotovs und Feuerwerk angriffen; wir https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1596821/ )
zündeten ein Auto an*, und als die Feuerwehr kam,
Im Polytechnio vor den Riots
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