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(Translator’s note: The greek version of the manifesto below has been circulating across websites in the country and arrived in the blog’s inbox as well. While I might not personally agree with all points raised in the text, what I particularly liked about it is that the ideas and what it calls for could have easily been dismissed as unrealistic exactly three weeks ago, but suddenly everything and anything seems possible… I never thought I’d be here translating a call for a world revolution before the end of 2008 but then again I never thought I would see the entire of Ermou Str - Athens’ main commercial/ shopping street - up in flames. It’s about time for ideas, plans and more action to kick in!)
Planet Earth
December 27, 2008
A. The state of corporatism that we live in
The planet is under a state of siege from corporations. The people who own them (i.e. this neurotic, criminal minority) use tools such as the States in order to increase their monetary income to the maximum, to meet their desire for total authority and to maintain the postmodern industrial production apparatus called Planet Earth.
There is no doubt that it is the banks controlling the States (and not the other way round) since, as we passively observe at this moment, the masks in the birthplace state of capitalism have fallen: the US government supports the panicked moves of this Corporatist regime and prepares its army for a “possible social unrest in the face of an upcoming crisis”.
In turn, states hold the people in a divided and idle state so that they will compete with one another instead of rising up against the obvious enemy of humanity. Those in authority bring up individuals teaching them their differences to the person next to them; implanting them “values” such as the nation, gender, success, consumption, health, beauty and sanity of mind. These produce behaviours observed globally and are, more or less, known to us all: nationalism, racism, consumerism, sexism, ableism, ageism and lookism.
States would have been unable to mark our bodies with such rotten scars if it wasn’t for the Cops, the Medical Regime, the Educational Regime, the Establishment Media, Religions and Bureaucracy in all its forms.
Humans end up beings with a hyper-emphasised “ego” since they are a unique amalgan of heterogeneous identities. Proletarian and muslim. Respectable housewife and lesbian. Student and depressed. Sexist and communist. Successful yuppie and sensitive in ecological issues. Woman and nationalist. Shattered in thousands of small pieces, which prevent them from seeing who it is that enforces their repressed class status. Most importantly, they prevent them from understanding themselves as something more collective, such as the globalised neo-proletariat: all the humans of the planet, that is, who experience daily everything from the darkness and depression to the abjection and non-voluntary death. A proletariat of this type that, numerically only, prevails.
The plenitude of constructed identities creates a condition of “cultural war” in each of the planet’s societies (as well as trans-nationally) where identities compete with one another, often in favour of the Regime, as this will lead its respectable citizens to demand even tighter security.
The dictatorship of the Corporatist Bourgeois Democracy makes sure to repress all and any spontaneous resistance to the power: it sucks social nuclei of resistance into political parties, trade unions and other political formations that reek of death. It does not hesitate, only too often, to “democratise” locales of the planet, to repress liberating movements and to deny the right to self-determination (the US in Iraq; Israel in Palestine; Greece in Macedonia).
It does not hesitate to destroy the nature of Earth, exterminating whole eco-systems, altering the environment and disrupting our bodies with the quality of food we receive. All in the name of progress, science and civilisation.
The civilised world is an amalgam of all these authoritarian patterns which, over time, have convinced us of having a quality of life without which (ironically) humans lived much better in the past.
The rise of population and of the average life expectancy, with the blessings of the Medical Regime, simply increases the number of the waged slaves, shrinking, at the same time, the quality of their life to the absolute minimum.
Life in the city has distanced humans from the experience of living, observing and learning from natural phenomena; it has destroyed the experience of the physical space and has made them vulnerable in the face of experience that used to be commonplace (physical labour, outdoors survival etc).
B. The World Revolution must be against civilisation
- The catalyst of our organising is the world wide web: We call all the disgruntled and revolted to get their own voice on the web, either by sending contributions to counter-information media or setting up their own blogs, creating collective discussion boards or hacking established and capitalist websites.
- We call all workers around the world to discuss about self-organising in their workspaces and to make proposals in regard to exiting trade unions. We call them to occupy the places of production and to manage their units horizontally, in a self-organised manner, under the guidance of consensus.
- We call all high school and university students to occupy their buildings, shoving aside all political party henchmen; to co-form with tons of imagination and humour, ideas on theory and practice! To turn these buildings into nuclei of anarchist life and social outreach.
- We call all who have lived under the burden of Clinical Depression to come together, to reject the chemicals of the pharmaceutical corporations and to co-shape ideas for the destruction of the civilisation that slashed our brains.
- We call all migrants to join together their rage for the way in which the Establishment turned them into people without a place and to destroy the civilisation that alienated them.
- We call all scientists to resign from the Science Regime and to investigate autonomously and collectively how autonomous and inexhaustible energies can be provided – such as solar, wind and geothermal.
- We call all the people who have forgotten that the revolution can happen, to expropriate immediately all that belongs to them and to sabotage, to the maximum extent possible, the production line. We can hold – and it’s worth it!
- We call all bourgeois artists to stop wasting their imagination in bourgeois creations and to join in our struggle, pouring their imagination into the shaping of the World Revolution!
- We call all farmers and agricultural producers to collectivise their production and to stop over-producing for capital. To teach their co-humans techniques on how to live autonomously by farming.
- Meat production must seize immediately and all animals should be freed! Meat is murder!
We call all anarchists, communists and libertarians to not cease their actions of revolt and to continue with the counter-information, which is so important.
Sabotaging or self-organising the process of production, creating autonomous food production, expropriating existing supplies, creating autonomous zones in cities and planning for autonomous forms of energy, we can render money obsolete. We can create pockets of anarchist culture which, thanks to their existence, counter-information and the world wide web, will spread like the hot wind of freedom.
Any attempts by the states to stop us will be met with the revolted; the revolted of poverty, depression and exclusion. We’ll take time in our hands!
Let Athens’ December revolt become an organisational inspiration for revolutionaries across the world.
Humans of the world, unite!
For anarchy and libertarian communism!
For freedom!
For the absolute!
Long live World Revolution!
What role have subcultural groups—like punk, squatting, and so on—played in making the uprising possible?
After ’93 we had a strong tendency in the Greek anarchist movement—accompanied by many serious internal fights—that eliminated the influence of “subcultural” styles inside the movement. This means that there is no punk, rock, metal or whatever anarchist identity in the Greek anarchist movement—you can be whatever you like, you can listen to whatever music you like, you can have whatever style or fashion you like, but that is not a political identity.
In the street fights this month, many “emos” participated, together with hippy freaks and ravers, many punks, heavy metal boys and girls, and also trendy, normal kids and students that like Greek music or whatever. It has to be social and political consciousness, social critiques and collective understandings that bring you to participate in the anarchist movements, not fashion. Of course, for at least the last 19 years the Void Network and similar collectives have played the role of offering a cultural introduction to radical political spaces. Such groups organize many cultural/political events, festivals, and parties every year and have the power to attract thousands and thousands of people to underground cultures. But even Void Network doesn’t create subcultural identities, doesn’t separate the different subcultures, and tries to organize events that include most of the underground cultures. It’s true, though, that the majority of the people in the scene attend and participate in most of the events of the d.i.y. underground culture; many events are organized every month in liberated spaces.
More violence has flared in Greece, two weeks after the fatal shooting of a teenager.
Police fired pepper spray as they clashed with protesters in Athens and petrol bombs were thrown at a building belonging to the economy ministry.
Witnesses tell of Greek police 'brutality' | |||||||||
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The man, who is in his 30s, and has asked not to be identified, contacted the BBC after witnessing what he says was unjustified brutality and aggression in the popular bar district of Gazi in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The alleged clash happened not long after scores of masked youths attacked a police station in the nearby district of Exarchia, where 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot dead a week ago by police. The businessman said that while he was walking his dog and came across a "largely peaceful" demonstration passing the bars and coffee shops about 3km (two miles) from the Acropolis. He decided to tag along. 'Strip-search' There was a "carnival atmosphere", he said, as the demonstrators chanted slogans and invited young Greeks to put down their drinks and join the group. "As the group, numbering about 600, walked up Pireos Street, several bus loads of riot police arrived and began to deploy at the front and back of the demonstration and on side streets," he said.
"After the majority of the protesters had passed one of these side streets, a group of riot police charged and forced about 15 young men and women into a dark shop front on the corner of the street. "As the protesters put their hands on their heads to signify that they were not intending to fight, the police began beating individuals with their batons, issuing threats of extreme violence. The women were handcuffed together and the men strip-searched. "Additional police joined the group to stop passers-by witnessing what was going on. Four young men aged about 20 and clearly not connected to the demonstration walked past. They were ushered on. "As they were walking away, a riot policeman ran up behind one of the men kicking him in the back making obscene comments about his size. As the man turned, the policeman began beating the young man with his baton, striking him on the head and the side of his face." Police denial The BBC asked Greece's police headquarters to comment on the allegations, and after initially denying knowledge of the case, returned our call within 10 minutes with a statement vigorously denying the use of force.
A spokesman said: "The incident happened late last night. A group of people were moving in Pireos Street. They started causing a disturbance and trashing things close to the Ministry of Employment." "Three teams of police, comprising 60 officers were deployed and made 51 arrests in the presence of television cameramen," he added. The police spokesman insisted this version of events was correct. "If anything like the events described by your witness had taken place, the media would not have missed the opportunity to film it, as this is exactly the sort of thing they are looking for. It would have been extremely difficult to have missed such an incident at that particular location," the spokesman added. 'We are going to kill you' Following the police statement, the BBC interviewed the British businessman again. "I did not see a camera person there. I cannot believe they arrested 50 people. The impression I had was that there was no major trouble until the police arrived. I saw them smash a couple of cash machines and closed circuit television cameras on the street and there was some stone throwing," he said.
"There were elements who wanted to cause trouble," he acknowledged. "But others on the demo were trying to stop it. And it was the peaceful ones who ended up being beaten." The witness, who speaks Greek, said he overheard the police saying to their detainees: "We have you now. You are out of your universities now… We are going to kill you." One of the demonstrators told the BBC the same story almost word for word. "The person in front of me was hit with a baton, as was the person behind. I fainted and they didn't get me. I was in a total panic. Anyone who moved got hit. Anyone who talked got hit," she said. "A policeman kept on marching in front of us and screaming verbal abuse. He was saying we are going to kill you. It was very scary," she added. 'Enemies of democracy' Since the death of Alexis, about 400 people have been arrested and 70 people injured. The government has instructed the police to take a defensive stance to ensure that there is no more bloodshed. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis told President Karolas Papoulias that the "enemies of democracy" could not expect any leniency.
About 12 hours before Alexandros Grigoropoulos was killed, riot police are alleged to have baton charged several thousand economic migrants and would be refugees who were trying to obtain the necessary papers to claim political asylum. During the panic, one young South Asian man plunged head first into a concrete lined canal and was critically injured. He has been on a life support in intensive care for more than a week. On Monday, doctors are due to turn off the machine to see whether he can survive unaided. Amnesty International has criticised the riot police for using excessive force during the course of the past week. The police claim that they are amongst Greece's most poorly paid public servants and are often forced to take second jobs to make ends meet. |
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W nocy 9 grudnia miała miejsce eksplozja przy komisariacie policji w stanie Meksyk. Atak został przeprowadzony przez anarchistów solidaryzujących się z kolegami, którzy zostali uwięzieni na początku września, podczas zamieszek w centrum kraju, które wywołały szok u policji i kapitalistów. Oprócz tego jest to akt poparcia dla powstańców greckich.
We wczesnych godzinach rannych w piątek 12 grudnia nieznani sprawcy odwiedzili komisariat policji w dzielnicy Canton w Cardiff. Na froncie budynku namalowano slogany poparcia dla ludzi walczących w Grecji, ku pamięci Aleksandrosa i przeciw policji. Dwa policyjne vany stojące na zewnątrz zostały osprajowane i oblane rozpuszczalnikiem do farby.[EN] http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/
[PL] Raport o sytuacji w Grecji w dniu 12 grudnia
Na podstawie: http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/
18:40, Ateny: gdy dzisiejsza demonstracja zmierzała ku końcowi, policja zaatakowała na ulicy Korai, aresztując przynajmniej 4 osoby. Jedną z nich była 13-letnia dziewczyna, dziennikarze którzy próbowali protestować przeciwko jej brutalnemu aresztowaniu zostali ciężko pobici przez policję. Wcześniej demonstranci zdemolowali biuro Alexisa Kougiasa, adwokata mordercy Aleksandrosa.
Uczniowie gimnaziów zorganizowali kolejne demonstracje na przedmiesciach Aten i na prowincji. Trwa też wymierzona przeciwko nim kampania represji państwowych – dwu z nich zostało potrąconych przez nieoznakowany samochód policyjny przed szkołą w ateńskiej dzielnicy Ilioupolis.
15:30, Ateny: zakończyła się demonstracja pod parlamentem, studenci wycofują się do 3 okupowanych kampusów.
15:45 Ateny: oddziały policji zbliżają się do wydziału prawa, zostają jednak odparte przy użyciu kamieni i koktajli Mołotowa. Spalono radiowóz i podpalono jednego z napastników.
14:30, Ateny: studenci demonstrują przed parlamentem, jest przynajmniej 5-6000 osób. Uczniowie gimnazjalni przygotowali spektakl, skandują „zabijcie i nas”. Demonstranci atakują kordon policji, która odpowiada gazem łzawiącym. Pod koniec demonstracji bierze w niej udział conajmniej 10000 ludzi.
12:15 Ateny: w dniu dzisiejszym spodziewana jest publikacja raportu na temat zabójstwa Aleksandrosa. Przecieki w oficjalnych mediach sugerują, że wbrew zeznaniom wszystkich świadków kula, która zabiła Aleksandrosa była rykoszetem. Aparat państwowy wydał wyrok uniewinniający policjanta – ale i my wydaliśmy swój: Na budynku okupowanej Akademii Ekonomicznej w Atenach pojawił się wielki transparent: „Cougias (adwokat mordercy) i ciebie trafi rykoszet”
Demonstarcja studentów rozpoczyna się w Propylejach.
Wczesnym rankiem anarchiści wdarli się do siedziby radia Flash FM skąd nadali własną, półgodzinną audycję.
Ateny, oświadczenie stowarzyszenia robotników z dzielnicy Agios Dimitrios w Atenach, którzy wczoraj okupowali wspólnie ze studentami miejscowy ratusz:
Oświadczenie:
W sobotnią noc grecka policja zamordowała 15 – letniego ucznia.
Jego śmierć stała się kroplą, która przelała czarę goryczy.
Była kolejnym elementem skoordynowanej akcji państwowych terrorystów i faszystów ze Złotego Świtu, skierowanej przeciwko studentom i uczniom gimnazjów ( zwłaszcza tych z prywatnych uczelni), przeciwko emigrantom przesladowanym za to, że urodzili się z niewłaściwym kolorem skóry, i przeciwko pracownikom, którzy muszą pracować przez całe życie bez nadziei na godne wynagrodzenie.
Rząd oszustów i jego pretorianie, którzy spalili ostatniego lata greckie lasy, są odpowiedzialni za to, że dziś płoną greckie miasta. Ochrania on przestępców finansowych, wszystkich odpowiedzialnych za skandal z podsłuchem rozmów telefonicznych, tych, co defraudują pieniądze z ubezpieczeń pracowniczych, tych, którzy porywają emigrantów jak i tych, którzy stają za bankami i zakonami okradajacymi zwykłych ludzi.
Jesteśmy w stanie wojny domowej: z faszystami, z bankierami, z państwem, z mediami pragnącymi widzieć posłuszne społeczeństwo.
Nie ma innego wytłumaczenia, choć kolejny raz próbują tworzyć teorie spiskowe, by zabić ducha protestu. Wściekłość, która się w nas nagromadziła musi znaleźć ujście, i nie powinna, w żaden sposób ustać. Nasz bunt jest na czołówkach mediów na całym świecie, już czas by ludzie powstali.
Pokolenie biedy, bezrobocia, zatrudnienia w niepełnym wymiarze, bezdomności, emigracji, młodziezy bez perspektyw jest pokoleniem, które rozwali każdą sklepową wystawę, które zbudzi posłusznych obywateli z ich amerykańskiego snu, który nigdy się nie spełni.
Nie siedź przed telewizorem, świadomość rodzi się na ulicy.
Gdy mordują młodych, starzy nie powinni spać spokojnie.
Żegnaj Aleksandros, niech Twoja krew będzie ostatnią jaką przelano niewinnie!