ENG] From Theory to Practice – An Initial Response
The entire state machinery of the Mitsotakis government, spearheaded by its repressive forces, is opposed to anything that challenges its impositions of normality. It uses the doctrine of “law and order” and the rhetoric of zero tolerance as a veil to cover and distract from its endless inconsistencies. It feeds its constituents the rhetoric of nation, security, legitimacy, and development while adopting models of polarization and paradigms of bygone eras. The purpose is clear: the attempted eradication of the structures of struggle and the destruction of the revolutionary movement, which stands against its development plans and any model of so-called urban gentrification. At the same time, there is a systematic effort to massively displace populations that do not “fit” into the increasing needs of capital and the bosses of the metropolis.
The effort to create an ideal consumer environment of both a passive and easily controlled population that serves the private interest is high on their agenda. On the one hand, airbnb, entertainment hotspots, shop windows, and hotels aim at the spectacle-ization of neighborhoods and the profitability of the few, while, on the other hand, cameras, drones, enforcement of all kinds, and the ceding of control of every [public and private] space to the police state for consumer control, surveillance, and commerce.
In synergy with the above, the Chryssochidis ultimatum cynically demands that we vacate the spaces of struggle by December 5th. It comes as the culmination of a period of intense repression, the evacuation of structures of struggle and solidarity, and the constant attack on sites of self-organization and for the fermentation of political discourse. To their supreme communicative stunt – aimed at spreading fear, targeting specific social groups, and depriving them of basic social needs – we respond with struggle. There is no possibility of our voluntary withdrawal from the struggle. We are unfazed by the growing climate of terrorism they are creating. We are ready – once again – to create bulwarks and stand against contemporary attempts to impose a Leviathan-state model. What the state does not understand is that despite our historical connection with Exarcheia and our survival in squats throughout Greece, we exist beyond that. Our collectivisation and self-organization flourish irregardless of space. Collective bodies will not be suppressed even if there is no roof to cover their heads.
In practice, we have opened and claimed the following spaces:
enough of the cops to simply sweep the mixed dirt – also frequently touched things lead sometimes to mixed traces which can‘t be evaluated. But to rely on this can be dangerous: In some cases they make extensive analyses, and if your DNA is found between many others, it‘s still there.
Avis de tempêtes – bulletin anarchiste pour la guerre sociale n°23bis (28 novembre 2019) vient de sortir.
The New Democracy party, in the wake of SYRIZA’s social-democratic strategy, has placed its bets on pointing out an internal enemy so that it can proceed seamlessly with management adjustments of domestic capital that go unnoticed and without reaction. Thus, the issue of Exarchia,”confronting lawlessness in neighbourhoods and universities”, the imposition of the “law and order” doctrine, is high on the right-wing agenda, investing in the most cannibalistic and conservative characteristics of the local population and by building a cover-up strategy for the ever-increasing degradation of the labour force. A strategy of making the dead, tortured and excluded at the borders, on the sea, at workplaces, on metropolitan roads, detention centres and prisons, invisible. A strategy that would turn the public eye to the antiauthoritarians’ conflicts with the cops and the attacks on the symbols, structures and people of power, characterizing it as the dominant, structured form of violence, and therefore the most prominent threat that lies over mainstream citizens’ heads.
condo developer skale was attacked last night.