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zaterdag 11 januari 2025

WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova #36: New masters, old stories (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Once upon a time, those we insist on calling "masters" were mainly

people or groups who had enough money to open a factory in which
material goods were produced. Their main interest was to make the most
of the exploitation of workers' labor and for this they had to, on the
one hand, keep workers' associations at bay and on the other maintain
good relations with the representatives of political power and the
Government in office. As the years passed and with the changes that
occurred in society, the masters understood that their goals had to be
pursued in other ways too and so it is no coincidence that, to remain in
the peninsula, FIAT (founded in 1899) already bought a share of the
newspaper "La Stampa" in 1920 and a few years later became its owner.
The masters had come to the conclusion that even a company that does not
produce material goods can be functional to their goals.

For some time now, the masters have learned to expand their interests
360 degrees and certain social roles have been reversed and sometimes
even confused, given that we have already seen entrepreneurs become
political leaders in Italy.

Let's take for example the story of the person who is considered the
"richest and most famous person in the world" who has been in the news
for at least ten years. The story of Elon Musk begins, as the fable of
the American lifestyle predicts, from the foundation together with
family and friends of a small business that in this case had the purpose
of providing web services to local newspapers. Then, after a long and
intricate path of acquisitions and divestments, financing, opening and
closing of other companies and everything else, we arrived at the result
we see today. Exactly the opposite of the old Italian factory, Musk's
fortune began with the sale of intangible products and only later landed
on car assembly lines and space ramps. But, even in this case, the
billionaire thought it was essential to acquire direct control of a mass
communication tool that, given that times have changed, is no longer a
daily newspaper (or a television network) but a microblogging platform
or, if you prefer, a social media. The entire operation was transformed
(see "Umanità Nova", n.28 of 20/11/2022) into a big show full of twists,
as befits a context in which society and entertainment are not just two
words in the title of an old book. Musk's saga, which is very similar to
a television series - just think of his private life, which is obviously
known to everyone - has finally spilled over into the political arena.
His open support for the electoral campaign that brought Donald Trump
back to the White House was rewarded by the appointment as
co-responsible, a term not emphasized enough, of a new collateral body
to the next US Government, that of Efficiency. From what we read, it
would not be a real Department but an external agency that should work
in collaboration with the Ministry of Management and Budget with the aim
of "dismantling the Bureaucracy in the Government, reducing excess
regulations, cutting unnecessary spending and restructuring Federal
Agencies" as Trump declared. The operating methods of this entity whose
acronym is DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) and which should
end its mandate on July 4, 2026 are not yet known. Coincidentally, this
is the day on which the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of
Independence occurs and, again by chance, Musk's favorite cryptocurrency
is called "DogeCoin". Talk about coincidences! The rich guy, the elected
one, seems to have declared that it is something that "could potentially
be as important as the Manhattan Project" which, sorry if it's not much,
is the name of the person who designed the first Atomic Bomb. It is not
easy to establish, in the relationship between Trump and Musk, who is
more useful to whom given that in 2024 the two may have complementary
roles to a certain extent. On the other hand, it is always useful for an
entrepreneur to maintain good relations with political power, a
symbiosis that reproduces the classic mechanisms of the past but with
the adjustments necessary to the spirit of the times.

In Italy, where certain things often arrive by reflection and are
remodeled to adapt them to the different social context, one of the most
obvious side effects of these events has been at the level of public
communication. Politicians of all parties have long adopted a
communication model in which the fluff they spread through the mass
media, especially digital ones, is adorned with embroidery that can
sometimes be jokes, sometimes insults, sometimes both. It is therefore
not strange that the advisor to the next President of the USA is held in
such high regard in our parts almost as if he were an Oracle. A role
that allows him to express his thoughts by intervening, as he has
already done on more than one occasion, on what is happening in these
parts by saying his piece even on important issues but with the same
lightness and superficiality with which other people exchange a few
words by writing on a social media.

The Musk-Trump duo represents, among many things, a clear example of how
the wealthy classes are capable of quickly adapting to changes in order
to use them in their favor and how certain behaviors can be
disconcerting for those who continue to try to understand reality using
only the old political and economic categories.

Pepsy

https://umanitanova.org/nuovi-padroni-vecchie-storie/
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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY SICILY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, Sicilie Libertaria #454 - Open war against the Kurds (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The war against the Kurdish people does not stop; while trying to write

an update on what has happened in the last month the situation seems to
change again and not for the better. Just yesterday the jihadist forces
of western Syria, who control Idlib and part of the Afrin area, began a
new operation with the declared objective of occupying Aleppo, a city
under the control of Assad's forces since 2016, but with some
neighborhoods in the eastern part under the control of the Kurdish
people's protection forces. ---- To better understand what is happening
in western Syria, where the operation of the jihadist forces began on
November 27, we report the statement of the KNK, Kurdistan National
Congress.

Islamists loyal to Turkey attack Kurdish areas

Following the outbreak of the heaviest fighting in Syria in years,
Kurdish areas are now under acute threat of attacks by jihadist groups
cooperating with Turkey. While the Islamist group Haiat Tahrir Al-Sham
(HTS), the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda formerly known as al-Nusra Front,
has been advancing on Aleppo since Wednesday and fighting with the
forces of the Assad regime, Turkish-loyal mercenaries of the so-called
Syrian National Army (SNA) are preparing a major attack on the Kurdish
region of Tal Rifaat in northwestern Syria. The Turkish army is already
bombing the region from the air and the ground. Attacks on the Kurdish
town of Ain Issa have also been reported. According to local sources,
Turkey has also opened its border with northwestern Syria, allowing more
jihadist fighters to enter Syria.

Tal Rifaat is home to several hundred thousand Kurdish refugees, who
were forced to flee in 2018 following Turkey's war of aggression in
Afrin in violation of international law. Since then, the SNA, an
alliance of various Islamist organizations and former ISIS fighters, and
the Turkish military have controlled the region. Human rights
organizations fear that SNA attacks could again drive refugees out of
Afrin. Ethnic cleansing of the Kurdish population took place in Afrin
during the Turkish occupation. Since then, Turkey has expelled most of
the region's Kurds and settled people of Arab origin, leaving the
Kurdish population as a minority in the region. Systematic human rights
violations, such as kidnappings, expulsions, torture and sexual violence
under the rule of Islamist militias, have been reported from the region.
Now the people of Tal Rifaat are facing a similar fate. The Kurdish
population of Aleppo, who live mainly in the neighborhoods of Shasmeqsud
and Esrefiyê, are also threatened by the advance of Haiat Tahrir
Al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda. This group has repeatedly attacked
Kurdish self-governing areas in the past during the Syrian civil war.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a jihadist alliance that has controlled
Idlib province in northwestern Syria since 2017, formed by the merger of
several Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda affiliate Nusra, which
renamed itself Fateh al-Sham in 2016. Listed as a "terrorist"
organization by the United Nations Security Council, HTS has expanded
its influence into SNA-controlled northern Syria, often with the tacit
approval of Turkey. HTS seeks to project an image of respectability and
trustworthiness of governance, despite reports of an increasingly
totalitarian regime and Islamist theocracy in Idlib. The international
community should be wary of HTS expansion into Turkish-occupied
territory, as it has been linked to anti-Semitic propaganda and has ties
to al-Qaeda, despite efforts to distance itself from its jihadist roots.
Notably, a perpetrator involved in a foiled terrorist attack in Munich
expressed sympathy for HTS, highlighting the group's continued relevance
in the broader extremist threat landscape.

Kurdistan National Congress (KNK)

November 29, 2024

This situation exploded on November 28, it is not the only conflict of
which the Kurds, but not only them, are victims, also in northern Iraq
Turkey with the support of Barzani's KDP, continues to bomb the areas
under the control of the PKK guerrillas in which it has already
penetrated many kilometers and controls some mountain peaks. In Turkey
instead Erdogan from the beginning of November has begun a new
repressive phase by dismissing the mayors elected even with 90% of the
votes, of the largest Kurdish cities in the country.

The removal of the mayors and the umpteenth military operation against
the Kurds is part of a much larger military and genocidal project than
what is being shown where Turkey, taking advantage of the fact that
world attention is focused on Ukraine, Lebanon and Palestine, tries to
support the various jihadist groups and not, to eliminate the Kurds and
push them away from the Turkish border; instead in Iraqi Kurdistan it
economically and militarily supports the Kurdish forces of Barzani to
try to provoke a civil war within the whole of Iraqi Kurdistan from
which only it would emerge victorious and the Barzani Clan much stronger.

But let's start in order: at the beginning of November Erdogan removed
the mayors of Mardin Batman and Alfety, cities governed by the DEM, a
party for democracy and equality that governs most of the Kurdish cities
and that for the umpteenth time has been sidelined with an
anti-terrorism operation and has been replaced by mayors and trusted
commissioners of Erdogan's party. But the sultan's repression does not
only hit the DEM but also the Kemalist party, the CHP, in fact even the
mayor of the municipality of Esenyurt in Istanbul has been removed and
replaced by people trusted and close to Erdogan.

After the umpteenth coup in various cities in the south-east, hundreds
of thousands of people took to the streets and demonstrated against the
umpteenth repressive operation, because all of this is to be considered
a real coup against the freedom of expression and politics of the
opposition parties; we remember that thousands of HDP people are still
in prison sentenced to hundreds of years in prison, including the
co-president and co-president arrested in 2016.

As if this were not already so serious, between November 25 and 26 a
large police operation in more than 30 provinces throughout Turkey was
carried out by the anti-terrorism forces against the DEM and the various
political and civil organizations that revolve around it, 231 people
were arrested, the headquarters of various civil associations and the
party of equality and democracy of the people were assaulted by the
anti-terrorism forces, dozens of newspapers and websites were closed,
231 people were put in prison with the usual excuse of aiding and
abetting a terrorist organization; in Turkey it is enough to go to the
funeral of a guerrilla or even just show solidarity with the Kurdish
people or closeness to the families of the fighters to be put in prison
for aiding and abetting.

This is the situation: a large-scale war against the Kurdish people has
been going on for a long time, so it is important to let people know
what is happening in those areas, because even if we don't talk much
about Rojava or northern Syria anymore, the war continues much more
violent than before.

Paolo Andolina

http://sicilialibertaria.it
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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, Monde Libertaire - Brasero n°4, counter-history magazine (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The Brasero magazine offers us its annual meeting. You know it, we are

at number 4, fuchsia color, with always an exceptional typography,
layout and a pleiad of contributors. A moment of emotion to read the
tributes to Annie Le Brun, Claire Auzias, Daniel Blanchard and Ronald
Creagh. ---- Anne Steiner opens fire with an article devoted to the
prostitution of minors in the Belle époque. She dismantles the process
of takeover by pimps on these destitute young boys and girls. The
illustrations translate the violence of human relationships, even the
parents praised their children... As we said with Anne in a recent
broadcast of Au fil des pages on Radio libertaire, the Belle époque for
whom? The gigolettes, the little Jesus were easy prey evoked in novels
like Rue Pigalle by Francis Carco, Bubu de Montparnasse by Charles Louis
Philippe.

Charles Reeve offers us an analysis of the rise of fascism with an
article entitled Education for Subjugation at a time when social
democracy is in crisis in the face of self-organization practices.
Fascism was the result of ambiguous statements and opportunistic
practices, sometimes incoherent, relying on the State. We look forward
to the second part of the article.

A fascinating article concerns the works of Simon Leys, in particular
Chairman Mao's New Clothes and Chinese Shadows, the latter being
republished by Belles Lettres in early 2025. How complacent the
intellectuals of the 70s and 80s were towards the Chinese dictatorship!
The same is true of the political class. As Simon Leys writes, "the
arbiters of opinion are not indulgent towards anyone who publicly mocks
intellectual fashions, or breaks political and aesthetic taboos." Read it!

Several texts present astonishing characters, I will only give you the
names, William Seabrook, La citoyenne Sorgue, la belle Otero, Yvonne
George, Jean D'Halluin.

An article highlights the bitterness of the debates on eugenics and the
often terrible justifications.

You will probably like the struggles relating to fishing and the sardine
industry in the ports of Douarnenez and Concarneau.

Finally, Cédric Biagini offers us a very beautiful interview with
Jeanine Warnod, André Warnod's daughter. It is a journey through time,
that of the bohemianism of Montmartre and then the years of
Montparnasse. André Warnod was a major player in this intellectual life.
His daughter, as a child, rubbed shoulders with Pierre Mac Orlan,
Francis Carco, Suzanne Valadon, Chagall, Poulbot. It is an invitation to
reread these authors, see these paintings. Do not go to Montmartre.
Already in the 1920s, André Warnod considered that the Butte was invaded
by tourists... So today, it's kitsch as can be. Read instead the
anecdotes of Jeanine Warnod when she goes to Mac Orlan in Saint-Cyr sur
Morin in Seine et Marne, the life of La Ruche, a community of artists in
Montparnasse. I refer you to the book by Mathyeu Le Bal, Montparnasse:
quand Paris éclairait le monde published by Albin Michel. We had
received the author in our program Au fil des pages. You will relive
bohemia with André Warnod's book Plaisirs de Paris, reissued by
L'Echappée in 2023.

Finally, the article on the Peignot brothers, great masters of
typography, allows us to mention Laure's (Colette Peignot) book,
Histoire d'une petite fille, reissued by Editions de la Lanterne in 2024.

Fascinating readings.

* Brasero
Revue de contre-histoire, n°4

https://monde-libertaire.fr/?articlen=8122
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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE - News journal UPDATE - en) Russia, AIT: WE DO NOT MATTER WHICH CLIQUE WILL FORM THE GOVERNMENT - WE MATTER ABOUT LIVING BETTER! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]


Statement of the Russian regional section of the International Workers'
Association ---- We demand real freedom of assembly, rallies, strikes,
and trade union activity! ---- We demand an end to anti-social policies:
the policy of low wages and the systematic reduction of real incomes for
broad sections of the population, the destruction of social guarantees,
the commercialization of education and medicine, privatization, constant
price increases... ---- We demand an end to the "economic reforms" from
which entrepreneurs, bankers, and officials are getting richer, while
ordinary people are becoming poorer and poorer. All these measures must
be cancelled immediately!

We demand that the shameful law against "extremism" be cancelled, that
the arbitrariness of the overt and secret police, of petty and big
bosses be stopped: people need rights, not repression and extortion! Our
cities and villages are for residents, not officials!

We do not need "fair elections" in which "Putinists", liberals,
"pseudo-reds" and browns fight over who will fleece us. We need a decent
life!

We demand:

- an increase in wages to the average European level

- automatic wage growth in line with price increases

- a 6-hour working day and a 5-day working week without reducing wages

- paid leave for at least 1 month and paid sick leave for all workers

- a reduction and freezing of prices for basic goods and services

- a ban on dismissals without the consent of the workforce

- free medicine, education, public transport and housing and communal
services

- a complete cancellation of the "pension reform" of 2018

Any government that does not accept these demands must leave immediately!

We do not believe that representative democracy with its elections,
presidents, governments and Dumas can solve our problems. They have no
right to decide and speak for us. Only with a system of universal
self-government and "direct democracy" at the place of residence, work
and study can we all become masters of our own destiny.

Let's take our lives into our own hands!

Resistance - Self-organization - Self-government!

Russian Section

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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL AL #355 - Antipatriarchy - Violence against women: An indignation with variable geometry (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 What does the far right do when a femicide that was not committed by a

foreign person takes place? It turns a blind eye, continues to attack
our rights and spreads its hatred throughout the world! ---- This
November 25, as every year, we met on the occasion of the International
Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Gender Minorities.
The year 2024 will have been shaken by numerous cases of sexist and
sexual violence (SVS), testifying to a burning topicality and the fact
that our fights against violence are more than necessary.

On these cases, the right - from the liberal camp to the far right -
felt it had its say. After all, as Bardella declared in a video posted
on June 17, 2024 during the early legislative elections, it is about
"unfailingly guaranteeing every girl and every woman in France their
rights and freedoms"[1]. Marine Le Pen had also tried to give the
illusion that she cared about the fate of women, and that the National
Rally was not ultimately such a misogynistic party.

Our lives? The far right doesn't give a damn
Ah, that! We heard them get outraged, conservatives of all stripes,
fascists and fundamentalist Catholics, on the occasion of the murder of
Philippine in September of this year. Even though the information was
broadcast on a loop on public service channels, on BFMTV and on Bolloré
media. It must be said that Philippine Le Noir de Carlan came from a
family of French nobility, and that the perpetrator of the alleged crime
(of Moroccan nationality) was a repeat rapist subject to an obligation
to leave French territory (OQTF). Prime Minister Bruno Retailleau
announced: "develop our legal arsenal"[2]- meaning find a way to expel
foreigners immediately. MP Hanane Mandouri, who belongs to Eric Ciotti's
party, even organized a minute of silence in front of the Palais de
Justice in Vienna. These lunatics were born before the shame: rather
than letting the families grieve, they prefer to alert all the media to
spread their racist ideas.

We did not hear these same people being scandalized during the 114 other
femicides recorded between January 1 and October 31 by the collective
Nous toutes[3]! These misogynistic murders were mostly committed by
French people from our country, "good fathers," on their partners or
ex-partners. Unfortunately, our politicians must have ignored the news.
But where were they looking during this time?

They were too busy claiming that 77% of perpetrators of rape in Paris
were foreigners, according to information relayed on April 18 on Europe
1. However, these figures, which are based on those of the Paris police
headquarters, only concern 36 people arrested for rapes committed on the
street in Paris in 2023, mostly homeless people among whom people of
foreign nationality are over-represented. These statistics cannot be
extrapolated to the entire Parisian population, let alone the French
population, since only 10% of reported rapes in the capital are
committed on public roads, and these reported rapes represent only 10 to
15% of rapes actually committed[4].

Each year, the count of femicides carried out by feminist associations
exceeds a hundred. One affected, all concerned: we must mobilize widely
to build a balance of power and put an end to this violence.
JEANNE MENJOULET
These statistics are used here dishonestly to promote a racist agenda:
the far right does not care about the truth, it only seeks to assert its
interests. In the vast majority of cases, the rapes are committed by an
acquaintance of the victim, in a private setting, as in the Dominique
Pélicot affair. In this affair, more than 80 apparently ordinary men
were involved[5]. Oddly enough, the far right has remained silent once
again...

Attacking trans rights interests them much more
Well yes, they were too busy being outraged by the fact that a
transgender actress received the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film
Festival at the same time as three other women. Karla Sofia Gascon is in
fact not a woman but a man, Marion Maréchal believes in a tweet posted
on May 26[6]. They would have told Angelina and Géraldine as well, if
these two trans women had not been murdered almost one after the other
in France on July 5 and 9, respectively by an ex-partner and a client.
On that, the right has remained silent as always.

She was too busy defending the many French celebrities who are accused
of rape or sexual assault every year, like Gérard Depardieu who (let's
remember) according to Macron makes "France proud"[7]. In short, she was
too busy supporting rape culture, hiding the fact that murders like
Philippine's are not isolated crimes committed by monsters or even - the
ultimate sacrilege! - by foreigners, but rather the ultimate form of a
whole continuum of violence maintained by our patriarchal system.

Across France, many feminists are organizing to cover walls with
slogans, in the run-up to major events and throughout the rest of the
year. A good way to make our demands widely visible!
WIKIMEDIA (AUTHOR UNKNOWN)
It is up to us, libertarians, feminists, to point the finger at the main
enemy (patriarchy) while denouncing the crude attempts at recovery and
diversion by our political enemies.

No, violence against women and gender minorities is not the work of
"foreigners". No, the defense of women's rights and LGBTI people is not
the prerogative of our Western civilizations. The pseudo-feminists who
recover VSS to defend their racist biases or their civilizing vision
inherited from colonialism have a name: we call them femonationalists,
or civilizational feminists. We must show that each of their arguments
is fallacious and dishonest, ensure that their hateful words are not
heard, cover their stickers wherever they appear, have their events
canceled and forcefully convince that it is against patriarchy that we
must fight, and certainly not against foreigners.

So no, contrary to what Bardella claims, the right and the far right do
not address "all women". Only white, bourgeois, cisgender women,
provided of course that they defend the patriarchal system that
oppresses them.

Lou and Johanna (UCL Anti-Patriarchy Commission)

Validate

[1]Sarah Brethes, "Women's Rights: Jordan Bardella's Shameless Lies",
Mediapart, June 22, 2024.

[2]"Murder of Philippine: Bruno Retailleau wants to "develop our legal
arsenal"; Laurent Wauquiez calls for a flash mission from the Assembly",
Le Monde, September 25, 2024.

[3]Official Instagram account for counting and analyzing feminicides in
France: instagram.com/inter.orga.iof/.

[4]"77% of rape perpetrators in Paris are foreigners?", Arte, April 23,
2024.

[5]"The Pélicot affair: not all men?", Alternative libertaire, no. 353,
October 2024

[6]"Transgender actress Karla Sofia Gascon files complaint against
Marion Maréchal for "sexist outrage"", France info, May 29, 2024

[7]"Gérard Depardieu affair: Emmanuel Macron's remarks on the actor who
"makes France proud" strongly criticized", Le Monde, December 21, 2023.

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WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE GREECE - news journal UPDATE - (en) Greece, Protaanka: Solidarity Gathering for those arrested on December 6 | Wednesday 11/12 at 9.00 building 9 Evelpidon (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Ten arrests were the repressive report of December 6th in Athens, eight

of which are burdened with heaps of accusations and will be brought to
the investigator tomorrow, Wednesday 11/12, after a 5-day hostage in the
state dungeons. There were also dozens of "preventive" arrests, while
there was no lack of injuries to demonstrators caused by the uniformed
killers of ELAS in their attempt to avenge the December uprising and to
dispel the illusion of their political superiors that the sovereignty of
the state and capital is omnipotent and will never be challenged again.

16 whole years have passed, but the spirit of the December uprising has
not stopped wandering. As a ghost and nightmare for the state and its
mechanisms and as a living beacon for the struggling forces, a signpost
to the new pages of revolutionary history that we are called to write
against the copper-plated bourgeois prognostications that speak of
"recovery" and a return to "normality" with pistol to the temple of the
social majority. The state, 16 years later, has not stopped shooting
16-year-olds and fulfilling its historical role as a mechanism of class
rule and social enslavement. The historical stake for him and for us is
one: whether he will continue to do so undisturbed. 16 years later,
Alexis is killed again and again and the state takes revenge in
December, precisely to ensure the "legal" right to kill in cold blood
without the uprisings, mass struggles and social and class resistances
to prevent it.

December 2008 "farewelled" under tons of marble an era of false
prosperity, built on loans and illusions and "welcomed" the new era of
the unsurpassed global capitalist crisis that characterizes the modern
world. Alexis' generation fought the battles in the squares against the
first memoranda, experienced job insecurity and daily exhaustion,
reached the limits of their endurance to ensure their survival. This
generation meets every 6th of December in those same streets responding
to the constant invitation that every year "awakens" a consciousness
present but grasped, a consciousness that pulsates between the "right"
path (of struggle) and the "wrong" path of compromise and
personalization. She fumbles to find ways to settle down, she waits for
the revolutionary appeal to drag her "where she should", where it is
fair, where the only solution and way out of everyday tyranny is: on the
path of the revolutionary perspective.

16 years later in Athens and Thessaloniki, state terrorism was unleashed
to spread with its omnipotence, the "futility" of the races and the
imposition of the "wrong way" on the racing consciences. The brutal
repression of the annual gathering at the monument of the anarchist
student Alexandros Grigoropoulos has been the constant response of the
state since the first years after the uprising. It is not a "new"
practice, a product of repressive "innovation" initiated by the
sharpening of state authoritarianism under the helm of the neoliberal
government, in the context of a "state diversion", "demolition of
democracy" and "Mitsotakis junta". Who has forgotten the hundreds, if
not thousands, of those injured, brought in and arrested over the years?
The crushing of even the student marches, the asphyxiants in the
apartment buildings, the brutal attacks on the evening demonstrations of
December 6th?

The repressive practice is well known. Canings, disproportionate
indictments, judicial financial strangulation to "break" morale, to
"pay" the costs of the militant action, to "gather" the anarchist
movement in the face of retaliation. But in the end the exact opposite
happens. The more the movement "gathers", the more the repression
intensifies. And the more the movement comes forward, the more it
annihilates the impact of repression, it returns the bill back to the
state. In the end, it is the movement that ultimately decides whether
repression is a cause of raising the revolutionary spirit or a factor of
compromises, tactical "foldings" and unilateral engagement in terms of
entitlement and victimization. Our position is one and unwavering.

Immediate release of those prosecuted on December 6 - Drop the criminal
charges - Dismiss all charges

Strength and Solidarity at 112 in Thessaloniki

Not a step back against state terrorism

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