Les compagnons anarchistes de Grèce nous ont fait parvenir un compte rendu
de la dernière manifestation anti-raciste d'Athènes le 7 juillet dernier :
===================================================
Une manif d’environ 4000-5000 anarchistes et anti-autoritaires a eu lieu le
mardi 7 juillet au centre d’Athènes en solidarté avec les immigrés et
comme réponse aux multiples agressions policières et à l’entreprise de
’nettoyage’ que lance l’état grec secouru par ses amis fascistes et
néo-nazis (souvent sous couvert de ’comités de citoyens’) et les medias
contre tout élément refractaire et inconrôlé (immigrés notamment
d’appartenance musulmane, jeunesse révoltée etc.).
La construction annoncée de centres de retention pour les immigrés, la
répression généralisée, le rôle des medias, véritable peste raciste, les
patrouilles des groupes fascistes à la chasse d’immigrés, le parti de
l’extrême droite LAOS qui, après les dernières élections européennes (7,3%
des votes), sert d’alibi démocratique aux forces étatitques et
para-étatiques pour poursuivre et intensifier la campagne et la pratique
de la haine, tout cela constitue le contexte politique anti-émeute, la
tentative de rennaissance d’un Etat profondément blessé après la révolte
du décembre 2008 (eclatée avec le meurtre du jeune Alexis par les flics).
Dans ce climat de terrorisme contre la population, cette manif contre
l’apartheid moderne dans nos villes s’est dirigée à la place de St.
Panteleimon, dans un quartier pauvre où les fachos se mobilisent contre
les immigrés (en interdisant même l’accès à un parc). En passant à
proximité de la place, le cortège a vu les flics co-opérer avec des
néo-nazis qui *ont même essayé de bruler vivants des manifestants en leur
jettant des cocktails molotov*, cherchant manifestant à les blesser. Mais
n'étant pas entraîné pour ce genre de sport traditionnel militant, les
fascistes ont seulement réussi à se bruler eux même !
Si les flics capturent un compagnon avec un cocktail molotov, ils le
jettent en prison pour des années, mais ils ne font absolument rien quand
un fascite transporte un engin incendiaire. Ce qui montre clairement que
les policiers ne font pas ce que la loi préscrit, mais qu'ils défendent
les intérêts de la classe capitaliste au pouvoir, et son gouvernement.
Leur seul objectif est de supprimer la dissension, et d'aider les
capitalistes à exploiter les pauvres. Il est également significatif de
mentionner que les fascistes lançaient les cocktails molotovs sans que
leur visage ne soit masqué ni qu'ils ne portent de gants [ce qui montre
qu'ils n'avaient pas d'inquiétude d'être inquiétés par la police ...NDLR]
*Les chiens médiatiques de l’état se taisent, mais cela ne nous surprend
pas.* Ce sont eux qui, pendant des semaines, ont orchestré et cultivé la
haine contre les immigrés, la deculpabilisation et l’impunité des flics.
Des affrontements violents pendant des heures entre les camarades et la
police ont suivi la dispersion du cortège sur la rue Patission.
SOLIDARITE AVEC LES IMMIGRES, AVEC TOUS LES INSURGES, AVEC TOUS LES DAMNES
DE LA TERRE.
LA LUTTE N’A QUE COMMENCE.
"Flics, Télé, Neonazis - toutes les merdes travaillent ensembles " (slogan
antiraciste et antifasciste)
http://cnt-ait.info/article.php3?id_article=1706================================
Videos
Liens vers des vidéos de coopération fascistes - police par le passé:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CheGPvAHbAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_X-N_kMIcgLiens vers Indymedia Athènes :
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3? ... id=1054883http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3? ... id=1054792=========================================================
Hier, 9 juillet, nouvelle manifestation anti-raciste, anti-fasciste cette fois-ci organisee par les syndicats et les gauchistes d' environ 2000-2500 manifestants.
Les fascistes ont attaque villa-amalias, la plus vieille occupation (depuis 1988) d'Athenes, mais les camarades ont defandue le lieu.
En outre, L'Etat grec veut fermer athens et patras indymedia.
-----
Fascists under the cover of cops attacked the oldest anarchist squat in
Greece with molotov cocktails and beaten a youth. Our comrades successfully
driven away the fascists. The squat, Villa Amalia, suffered no damage.
Many comrades consider it the oldest anarchist squat in Greece and a symbol
for the local anarchist movement. In Greek it is called Villa Amalias (Βίλλα
Αμαλίας).
During the night of 9 July 2009 at 23:50, a gang of about 30 neonazi
fascists supported by cops (both MAT, the Greek riot police, and
Deltas) attacked
the Villa Amalia squat in central Athens with molotov cocktails. The
anarchists successfully defended their social centre against the fascists
and driven them away, but not before they severely beat a youth nearby who
needed an ambulance (still unclear whether he is a comrade).
The attack must have been pre-arranged by the cops and the fascists; after
all their collaboration is well-known in Greece and is becoming more and
more official (with dignitaries paying visits to the fascists). We cannot
explain in any other way the fact that, according to still unconfirmed
information, comrades who were on the nearby Liosion street at 21:00 spotted
about 70 cops (of the Deltas team, not riot police). If true, then we must
assume that they were the same cops who, together with riot police, were
seen protecting the fascists during their attack against the anarchist
squat.
The fascists, who must haven been members of the Golden Dawn neonazi
association, approached the squat first, keeping themselves at a distance of
about 50 metres, and shortly afterwards Delta cops appeared. MAT riot cops
quickly came when more anarchists gathered in solidarity to defend their
squat, Villa Amalia.
The fascists threw two molotov cocktails, the traditional people's street
weapon, against the symbolic Villa Amalia squat, but they failed to damage
it due to their lack of skill in molotov throwing. The anarchists
successfully driven out the fascists towards the Acharnon street, but the
fascists then took cover behind a group of Delta cops, who together with the
MAT riot police protected the fascists.
The fascists then severely beat a youth outside the squat, but it is still
unclear whether he is a comrade. He had to be taken away by an ambulance,
due to the hatred released on his body by the neonazis.
By 24:10 all the fascists were driven away by anarchists, of both genders,
who were determined to selflessly defend their freedom and the oldest
anarchist squat of Greece with a history of two decades. By 24:20 the
surrounding streets were still infected with cops (Deltas and 2 or 3 MAT
riot police squadrons who were seen talking with the fascists). Lots of
comrades were gathered outside the squat to protect it in case the cops
decided to raid it, but the cops preferred to back down and leave, knowing
how dangerous people fighting for their freedom can be.
At 24:30 about 30-40 Delta cops were spotted leaving the region towards the
Patisia district.
The fascists with their molotov cocktails apparently not only wanted to
damage the squat but also to injure comrades, but they failed miserably to
do either. Their only 'success' was that they managed to hide behind the
cops and leave. But in their panic, they left behind lots of traces. They
had a rucksack full of molotov cocktails and smoke bombs, but they only
managed to throw two molotovs and two smoke bombs, the latter two thrown at
the pedestrian strip opposite the squat. As the anarchists moved to defend
their squat, the fascists threw their rucksack on the street in their
panicas they were running to hide behind the cops.
At 2:00 the a popular news network, as is usual with all capitalist spoonfed
news outlets, said that an incident took place in central Athens and spread
the propaganda that the cops are searching for the perpetrator of the
molotov-throwing incident. But as every reader of Indymedia IMC knows, the
cops' real job is to protect the fascists during their attacks.
It is interesting to note that while the left feels paralyzed in Greece, the
anarchist movement wins the hearts of more and more dissatisfied people and
seems to be the only social movement capable of revolutionary groundbreaking
social change.
As a final note, we should say that the anarchist movement is very old, but
now that the capitalist class implements its globalization project and
social democracy and communism have failed, we should expect more popular
support for anarchism worldwide. Perhaps the society envisaged by Kropotkin,
Bakunin, and even more ancient thinkers will soon come true.
From Wikipedia: "Villa Amalia is one of the first anarchist squats in
Athens, Greece. It was first occupied in 1990. It is located in the corner
of Acharnon and Cheyden streets, near "Victoria" square. Many punk, rock,
hardcore and generally underground events take place at Villa Amalia. The
police have evicted the squatters three times, but Villa Amalia has always
re-occupied later on."
http://villa-amalias.blogspot.com/---------
Et sur Athens et Patras Indymedia
*It’s the Movement
– not alternative information – that frightens you!*
On July 3, the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) - in alliance
with fascistic dregs of the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) and its
months-long Parliamentary questioning regarding the established functioning
of both Athens and Patras Indymedia - dispatched an extrajudicial summons to
the National Network for Research and Technology (EDET). In the summons, our
‘national’ telecommunications provider revokes the contract it has signed
with the company in question regarding the administration of fiber optics as
concerns the National Technical University of Athens. As it states: ‘…the
subject of the contract under discussion…is OTE’s providing EDET with fiber
optic network implementation services, OTE granting EDET the right of use of
the network’s fiber optics for 15 years, also providing maintenance services
for the fiber optic network for 15 years, in accordance with this contract’s
specific terms.’ With the rationale that the company is not fulfilling the
contract’s agreements with OTE’s German bosses, since the network is being
used by third parties without ‘research’ or ‘educational’ purposes - as
determined by the Government in line with the far-right – they threaten to
take all ‘justified’ legal measures if EDET does not comply with the
necessary(?) actions within 5 days.
The attack against Athens and Patras Indymedia cannot be viewed apart from
the Establishment’s methodical suppression (following the recent December
events) against the broad opposition Movement that has managed to create
fissures in the social fabric and public sphere acting ‘from below’, and
that imposes its presence on the social scene on its own terms. Initially,
the police state took to the streets following the Establishment’s ‘advice’
and exhortations to break up occupied areas. Towards this end, attacks (both
legislative and actual) were ordered against the Movement’s working-class
sectors. The cherry on the cake of suppression is the mass pogrom against
immigrants that has been underway in the city center since June.
It is not, thus, an isolated attack upon two sites of alternative
information. Supreme Court of Appeal Former Chief-prosecutor Sanidas has
also assisted in this in his recent consultative ‘gift’ to his bosses
regarding the revocation of privacy for blogs and sites, and the emerging
curtailment of free movement of ideas on the Internet. In hitting Indymedia,
the authorities hit an entire network of independent communications and
their concerted effort at alternative information. Alternative information
is our only communicative weapon in this combative front, the only channel
for social issues that attempt to define reality using dialectical terms
rather than force.
In all societies, people are involved in the production and exchange of
information and symbols. From the non-verbal to mediated communications,
people’s sociability is engineered by the production, propagation and
administration of information – simply stated, the communications between
themselves. The latter, furthermore, could be considered as both cause and
effect of the community and people’s innate tendency to rally around social
frameworks. The continuously increasing need of socialization and
communications has given rise to Mass Media’s emergence and development. It
is this that contributed and continues to contribute to the formation of the
‘public sphere’.
The Internet is the most recent means of mass communications. It is the most
recent variable in the formation of this public sphere. In Internet
communities, a radical renegotiation of the public sphere is taking place.
In ever-greater numbers, people are addressing themselves to such kinds of
communities – and this cannot be viewed apart from contemporary society’s
speed of production, which limits the time and space of social gatherings.
Ultimately, communications are internationalized on a wide scale, as both
time and space have been negated.
Thus we are led to a cockeyed reformation of the public sphere and to the
creation of a place of public dialogue (the Internet) – where communicative
and dialectical ‘gagging’ of socially excluded sections of the international
community necessitates the creation of a new class of technologically
privileged administrators of communications. Taking the lead in the
Establishment’s effort is their ‘most stable relation’ OTE. This is the same
company that was bought out by the German Deutsche Telekom (that last year
caused enormous scandal in Germany over its widespread telephone
surveillance and subsequent violation of communications privacy) – and which
was mixed up in the mire of recent scandals and corruption, see Siemens,
kick-backs and C41 system ‘supervision’ (not that we expected otherwise from
those who control the country’s telecommunications). Let them close OTE,
therefore, and clean the place of their putrid stench – not Indymedia.
The moves to silence Athens and Patras Indymedia do not intimidate us. One
way or another, alternatives exist for their continued functioning. Despite
this, we can place it within a wider communications and essential war that
the State and political and economic authorities have declared against
society. To the contrary, rather than intimidating us with this recent
action, bourgeois democracy and its crutches (business and political) have
demonstrated how very much they fear a Movement that has, for some time,
rejected truce in the social-class war. A multi-formed and broad Movement
that – upon terms of equality, anti-hierarchy and collectives - tries to
reshape social reality from below, whose dynamic is not constrained by
barricades erected in fiber optics, but will demolish them, – and which will
become tangible in the streets and through everyday direct action. Whatever
bourgeois rights you may institute that you may then trample upon, such as
the wretched ‘right to information’ at issue, the broad opposition Movement
will continue to administer itself and defend itself as it, and it alone,
chooses.
*Participants in alternative information, in solidarity
Collectives of athens.indymedia.org and patras.indymedia.org