December 6, 2008: Video of the first clashes on the night of the murder outside the Polytechnic University
December 2008: Footage from the clashes of the first night of an uprising that would follow, just hours after the murder of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by police in Exarcheia. [DN: Athens, Greece]
The first part is from the first night outside the Polytechnic on Saturday, December 6th, the second part is from the shop break-ins on Ermou Street, also the first night, and the third footage is from the first confrontational march the next morning towards GADA, on Sunday, December 7th.
Source: Perseus999
POSTER : REBELLION IS THE EXPLOSIVE URGENCY OF PUTTING OURSELVES ON THE LINE (LONDON,UK)
OBEDIENCE IS A PROGRAMMED, ORDERED EXISTENCE
REBELLION IS THE EXPLOSIVE URGENCY OF PUTTING OURSELVES ON THE LINE
An untimely blast in an Athens apartment on the 31st of October left an anarchist dead and another seriously wounded. In a millisecond the preparation of a single liberatory attack on one aspect of domination expands into a wide panorama of the social war.
With a resounding blast the struggle is upturned, its hitherto anonymous players thrown into the forefront of the clash. Shock and anguish invade our hearts and minds for the death of Kyriakos Xymitiris and the wounding of Marianna Manoura – well-known, esteemed comrades active in the many-faceted anarchist struggle in Greece and beyond – but so does resolve and unwavering complicity. Immediately an alchemy of rebel love and defiance surges forth, overrunning the borders by which states segment their control over this ruined earth.
Greece: Position of the anarchist prisoner K.K. from the prisons of Kassavetias
Our life is
pointless panting
at pre-programmed strikes
stooges and patrol cars.
That’s why I’m telling you.
Next time they’ll let us have it
we shouldn’t run. We should hold our line.
Let’s not sell our asses so cheap, man.
Don’t. It’s raining. Gimme a smoke.
Katerina Gogou ( Κ. Γώγου)
Voices and screams resound from inside the cells, behind the walls and barbed wire. Flocks of birds and warplanes fly over the prisons. No matter how much the morbidity of the times wants us to bow down, there will always be something stronger, the ability to respond with sparkling eyes, the stubbornness of those who fight for a more beautiful world, the fire that burns inside us and refuses to go out.
On 11/10 an explosive device is placed in a police investigation van. Local and not only media shoot with relevant articles. At the end of October, I am informed by my friends that there is a strong and constant presence of plain clothes police in the area where I live. At the same time, information about a 16-year-old boy being beaten up by a student fascist group in a neighbouring village is circulating. I was out of Messolonghi at that time and I returned with the aim of meeting the boy in person, to open up the matter and find ways to face it.
On 7/11 at noon, 100 metres from my house, I was arrested by eight plain clothes police. From the first moment I persistently asked the reason for my arrest. Instead of an answer, I received abuse and sarcasm. They put me in one of the two unmarked vehicles, while they confiscated the bicycle I was riding. They took me to a remote area near my neighbourhood, and there the abuse continues for about an hour and a half until they take me to my house, where two other unmarked vehicles were already waiting. A thorough search is carried out, during which all the electronic devices belonging not only to me but also to my siblings are confiscated, which made it impossible for them to communicate with our parents, as they were out of town for work, and also caused difficulties in my sister’s studies, for which she needs a computer. In addition, various objects that were considered incriminating were confiscated, such as spray cans, paints, brushes, books and printed material from the anarchist space. When they completed the search, they took me to the A.T. (police station) where I was held for many hours in the police station handcuffed behind my back, without being allowed the one phone call I was entitled to and without having contacted a lawyer despite my insistence.
Later, having finally managed to contact a lawyer and my parents, I was taken to the detention centre and remained there until Tuesday 11/12, where I was expected to go through a prosecutor and an investigator. During my stay, there were constant police patrols on all sides of the section, as well as security guards around the perimeter of the area. On Tuesday morning, a huge horror show was set up with two mat riot cop vans, guardrails in front of the courts and cameras recording the ridiculous spectacle. At the end of the procedure, my pre-trial detention was decided, and on the morning of Wednesday 11/13 I was transferred to Kassavetia Prisons.
We live in morbid times, where even books are morally criminalized. This is something that we have observed in many similar cases, as well as something that I experience inside the prison given that any book sent to me has never come into my hands, under the pretext of disrupting the order and security of the establishment.
The plain clothes police and counter-terrorism regulations are well-known, so they do not surprise anyone. The obscene communication circus they are going to set up, the dirty work the media is doing in close cooperation with the cops, the ironies, the threats and the thumping do not terrify me. I owe this in large part to the people I have met along the beautiful trails of the struggle. Their warmth accompanied me during the cold nights in the detention centres of A.T. (police station) Messolonghiou, accompanies me in the prisons of Kassavetia and will accompany me in every dungeon of the republic. I have my head up and I intend to keep that attitude.
The social war is here and it is widening day by day, it is our duty to open wide the social relations and the values of self-organization. Foci of struggle everywhere from Messolonghi to Chile, from theory to practice and back again. Nothing is lost, nothing is over, we continue to march against state, capital, fascism, patriarchy, exploitative relations until our last breath… for a free world.
The support I have received really moves me. No matter how many lackeys they recruit to bend resistance, solidarity will crush them. Our anger is a river and it will drown them.
STRENGTH TO THOSE WHO STAND UP AGAINST EVERY FORM OF AUTHORITY
SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMRADES IMPRISONED FOR THE AMPELOKIPOI CASE
STATE AND CAPITAL THE ONLY TERRORISTS
UNRESERVED LOVE TO ALL COMRADES
K.K., December 2024, Kassavetia Prisons
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Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1633183/
Via & Translated by Act for freedom now!
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actforfree notes: ( Messolonggi city Southern Greece ) Explosive Attack on Police Interrogation Van by (Α)
Katerina Gogou (Greek: Κατερίνα Γώγου; 1940–1993) was a Greek poet, author and actress, she lives in Exarcheia area,Athens.
Indonesia: Solidarity with Sidiq, individualist anarchist in Kebon Waru prison, West Java
Solidarity with Sidiq, individualist anarchist in Kebon Waru prison, West Java, Indonesia
Sidiq is 22 years old.
He is an anarchist illegalist and an individualist. In 12 July 2024, state authorities had arrested him because he was using cannabis for medical purposes and also possessed kilograms of cannabis. He has been transferred to Kebon Waru prison, Bandung, West Java and is still awaiting a court verdict next week. Sidiq often contributes to anarchist publishing and street libraries, involvement in soccer hooligan club, clashes in protests and a passion for writing poetry. Sidiq is looking at possible 10 year prison term.
Here is his poetry:
•PENGAR/ Hangover•
As long as power stands tall
and threatens the freedom of life.
I will not stop presenting
Rebellion like a robber making chaos
Incarnate pirates along the sea.
Until the rotten colonialists of civilization
will find no more loopholes
Until all is razed to the ground!
– Write to Sidiq here:
Muhammad Ilyas Sidiq
Lapas (prison) Kebonwaru, Kec.
Batununggal, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat
40272
Blok B14 (Narkoba)
Indonesia
Here is the solidarity group Paypal: einzine16@gmail.com
Sidiq is part of the circles ‘Contemplative Editions’, and ‘Talas Press’ which publish anarchist books. Contact ‘Contemplative Editions’: contemplative@riseup.net
‘Contemplative Editions’
https://www.instagram.com/___contemplative?igsh=NHdxaXR3cXd6NDJp
‘Talas Press’
https://www.instagram.com/talaspress?igsh=NnRkdmEyd3Ixc3Jh
ABC Indonesia : https://www.instagram.com/palang__hitam/
Greece: 6th December / 6H Δεκεμβρή
Athens/Αθήνα
Thessaloniki/Θεσσαλονίκη
Heraklion/Ηράκλειο
Komotini/Κομοτηνή
- Αθήνα: Προπύλαια 12:00 1 2| Τσαμαδού 16:00 1 | Προπύλαια 18:00 1 2 3 4 5 6
- Θεσσαλονίκη: Καμάρα 18:00 1 2 3
- Πάτρα: Παράρτημα 12:00 1 | Παράρτημα 18:00 1
- Ηράκλειο Κρήτης: Λιοντάρια 19:00 1
- Χανιά: Πλ. Αγοράς 18:00 1
- Ρέθυμνο: Δημαρχείο 18:00 1
- Καβάλα: Πλ. Καπνεργάτη 18:00 1
- Κομοτηνή: Παλαιά Νομική 18:00 1
- Αγρίνιο: Πλ. Δημάδη 18:00 (πορεία 19:00) 1 2
- Λάρισα: Πλ. Ταχυδρομείου 18:00 1
Athens, Greece: Letter from anarchist comrade Nikos Romanos from Korydallos Prison
Monday, November 18, was the day when time stopped for me once again. Hooded anti-terrorism officers, handcuffs, holding cells, television cameras, news bulletins, journalistic scripts, police theories. Behind this familiar pattern and the communicative storm of guilt, there is another reality.
They are the wounds that resurface and multiply, shattering families, destroying human relationships, annihilating dreams, hopes, plans of a life condemned once again to the death of frozen time.
Because the language of truth cannot be hidden, I repeat, I deny the indictment in its entirety. An unfounded, baseless, exaggerated, and unsubstantiated indictment that arises abusively, creating more questions than it actually answers. Following the established political logic of the anti-terrorism law, which creates a category of defendants that exists outside the legal system, since everyone is guilty until proven innocent. The language spoken by the system has already issued its verdict. I became a wandering trophy for all kinds of exploitation. An exhibit in the showcases of the museums of lies and oblivion. With the label of “terrorist” hanging on the annex “guilty of all times,” for observation by usually naive, but mainly scared and peace-loving visitors.
For those who gamble with human lives in the dice of a vulgar and shameless political game, for those who believe that the power they hold gives them the ability to crush souls for their own reasons, I will reiterate the obvious.
From the bloodied pedestrian street of Messolonghi, the interrogation offices, the gray corridors of the prisons, the court benches, the slow death of confinement. From the choices I made with all my soul, choices etched in real blood, at great cost and with unyielding knees, I do not yield an inch.
It is part of the history of a generation of people who revolted and on whose backs, large parts of the political system washed away its sins by hanging it out to dry on the lines of repressive and media cannibalism.
But now I am not in prison because I made conscious choices that carried corresponding risks. On the contrary, my life is sold as a political product, on the shelf of the communication supermarket, with the price of the bag charged to me, waiting for prospective voters to shop piece by piece until the next time.
It is truly sad for me (and not just me) that I will be called upon to prove that I am not an elephant, having an impending sentence hanging over my head that will condemn me to live again, for an indefinite period, as a prisoner.
I have lived half of my adult life in prison. I will not passively accept this such an unfair statistic, consisting of much pain and countless loneliness, to cover me in concrete and bars.
I will not accept extreme measures like pre-trial detention without a legal and political battle to win back my life.
In this hasty and necessary initial statement, I want to thank from the depths of my heart those who stood by me with selfless love. The fight for my vindication and my definitive release from this unjust indictment now begins.
In conclusion…
Honor to those who in their lives have appointed and guard the Thermopylae. Never moving from duty; just and upright in all their actions, but with sorrow and compassion; brave when they are rich, and when they are poor, still somewhat brave, again assisting as much as they can; always speaking the truth, but without hatred for the liars. And more honor is due to them when they foresee (and many foresee) that the Ephialtes will appear in the end, and the Medes will finally cross.
Constantine Cavafy
Source: athens.indymedia
L’Oie, Loire, France: Claim of responsibility for arson attack
Early this morning, on November 25, 2024, we set fire to the construction machinery of the Charpentier group, particularly those of its public works subsidiary.
The disarming of these machines at the site of L’Oie in Charente is a direct response to this company’s participation in the Mega-Basins projects. Indeed, TP Charpentier is the most involved, whether in Vendée, Charente-Maritime, and of course in Deux-Sèvres. Putting these machines out of commission allows for the concrete halt of ongoing construction sites and serves as a reminder that no one responsible for them is untouchable.
This disarmament is not the first. It takes place in a context where the opposition against the Mega-Basins, its model of water grabbing, and its promotion of agro-industry, has only intensified and deepened for more than three years. This historic struggle has taken a turn by multiplying and diversifying the forms of resistance against these projects. Since then, the movement has continued to expand and demonstrate possibilities to halt the ongoing disaster.
We have marched on these construction sites many times, like on March 25, 2023, when we were more than 30,000 in Sainte-Soline, on a day that will forever be etched in our memories and in our bodies. We have sown crops, uncovered Mega-Basins, made festive incursions, carried out a peasant blockade of the port of La Rochelle, built international alliances, etc. Through these actions, we have made the Mega-Basins sector visible, along with the profiteers who benefit from it. More broadly, we have opened a breach in the fight against agro-industry.
We indeed believe that if the agro-industrial system is a system with multiple tentacles, we can fight it in many places. The mega-basins, the last desperate move of a system in agony, are concrete actions to fight against the appropriation of a common good.
The fight against extractive agriculture is a breach that allows us to reclaim our material and political relationship with food, its conditions of production and consumption. This system destroys our territory, makes farmers disappear, speculates on the fruits of our labor, and actively participates in neo-colonial plundering. Continue reading “L’Oie, Loire, France: Claim of responsibility for arson attack”
Genoa, Italy: Ex Latteria Occupata under seizure
On the night of December 2, the carabinieri, under the usual order of PM Giuseppe Longo, seized the Ex Latteria Occupata and reported three comrades.
Ex Latteria, like others, is a place that has always opposed the exploitative and repressive logic of the state at war. A place of gathering, frequented by many girls and boys.
After the arrests on May 4th, the prosecutor still wants to tell the tale of defending decorum, that is, the normalized, racist, and alienating everyday life at the expense of every individual’s freedom.
This latest attempt to stifle anger and dissent will not work, you will find us in the streets.
THURSDAY, December 5th from 6:30 PM at Stradone Sant’Agostino
FRIDAY, December 6th at 5 PM at Piazza San Donato
$hile: 9 years since the arrest of comrades Kevin Garrido and Joaquín García, Memory and solidarity with those who challenge power
Kevin Garrido on the outskirts of USACH. November 2012.
9 years since the arrest of comrades Kevin Garrido and Joaquín García
Memory and solidarity with those who challenge power
In the early hours of November 19, 2015, comrade Kevin Garrido, who was 18 years old, rode his bicycle to the vicinity of the San Bernardo Gendarmerie School, armed with a bomb, a knife, and a lighter. After selecting the placement location, the comrade activates the bomb they had crafted in an artisanal manner (composed of a fire extinguisher filled with more than 2 kilos of black powder, shrapnel, and a fuse).
After the detonation at one of the entrances of the prison school, the comrade was quickly pursued and captured by a civilian car of the bastard Chilean police who had been following their steps, due to the placement of another explosive device that was set in the 12th police station of San Miguel on October 29, 2015, which was claimed by the “International Conspiracy for Revenge – Explosion Cell Gerasimos Tsakalos“ *(a comrade of the CCF imprisoned in Greece).
That same night, a warrant was issued for the arrest of the anarchist comrade Joaquín García Chanks, who was classified as a co-author of the attack carried out at the 12th police station, along with Kevin. The next morning, both comrades were paraded on all television channels as a trophy for the Chilean police state: “They sat me in one of their showrooms for more than six hours to hear the words spewed by a prosecutor with a nauseating stench. Faced with the speeches of judges and prosecutors accusing my companero and me and threatening us with dozens of years in prison, they expected faces of sadness or concern, not knowing that we would laugh and insult them to their faces.” (Kevin Garrido, Noviembre del 2016).
After their formalization, the comrades were placed in preventive detention in the maximum security section of the CAS. In June 2016, after living for 7 months in this regime of punishment and isolation, Kevin requested a transfer to the Santiago 1 prison/company, where he was sent to different modules for repeat offenders, without first passing through the “first-timers” modules as is the protocol, clearly showing an act of revenge by the gendarmerie. Even so, Kevin never asked for considerations from his miserable prison guards, nor did he walk in fear inside the prison. On the contrary, Kevin lived his imprisonment with the same determination he practiced on the street, and for this reason, he was always well received by other inmates in the modules he lived in.
In July 2016, comrade Joaquín managed to get out of prison with total house arrest, which he broke a few days later. In September 2016, after being in hiding for more than two months, Joaquín was recaptured by the PDI, carrying a revolver and ammunition.
After 3 years and 7 months of imprisonment, an extensive oral trial was held against both comrades. The court found them guilty of the attack on the 12th police station in San Miguel, but additionally, Kevin was found guilty of the attack on the gendarmerie school, and Joaquín for carrying a firearm and ammunition that he was carrying when he was recaptured. For these crimes, on 09/05/2018, Kevin and Joaquín were sentenced to 17 and 13 years in prison, respectively.
On the morning of Friday, November 2, 2018, after the morning count, comrade Kevin Garrido faced a conflict with a tyrannical prison guard, who cowardly and dishonorably attacked him from behind while comrade Kevin was going to get his weapon to confront him. After this cowardly attack, Kevin had to remain seriously injured, without receiving the necessary medical assistance, waiting for the ambulance for 1 hour and 15 minutes. He was transferred to Barros Luco Hospital, where he died after a high-risk operation.
On Sunday, November 5th, a massive funeral was held, which traveled from San Bernardo to the La Victoria neighborhood, where it was received by comrades and supporters, who accompanied the funeral procession with shouts, pamphlets, banners, fire, fireworks, and gunfire. All this under a heavy police siege that included helicopters, GOPE, police cars, injured individuals, and confrontations.
Comrade Kevin Garrido never considered himself a victim of the prison system; on the contrary, he faced it with dignity, declaring war on all expressions of the bastard authoritarianism that constitutes it, whether they be prison guards, authoritarian prisoners, judges, or prosecutors.
The insurrectionary path that Kevin embarked on from a young age, we reclaim every year by making it present in street fighting, in multiple forms of propaganda, and in direct actions that challenge authority, the prison system, and the infrastructure of progress.
Currently, comrade Joaquín García is imprisoned in the La Gonzalina prison/company in Rancagua, sentenced until November 2028.
“Who can say they are the first to tread this path, always cluttered with multiple trails? We inherit, perhaps unwittingly, the tools and the impetus that others have left behind; some have renounced, others have left, and a few still stand their ground, but what has never ceased to exist is the fertile ground, the antagonistic space in which violence can be exercised, projected, matured, and differentiated.” (Joaquín García. December 2018)
Black November in memory of our comrade
Kevin Garrido and all our dead
Freedom for comrade Joaquín García!
Received by email & translated by Dark Nights
*Chile: Claim of responsibility for thwarted attack on San Miguel Police Station (October 29, 2015)
“We know that it never gets dark there, inside the prisons.” There, memories frost over, and one forgets what the sky looks like without bars and barbed wire. If death has its own color, it must be the one painted in its prisons. Because the realm of slow death lies within, and one can feel it every day.”
When a comrade falls into the clutches of power, we cannot remain perplexed and passively watch as the bars are imposed against their will. There is no need to mention the circus created by the media apparatus, always a slave to the bourgeois order – just like the rotten citizen police – although we expect nothing from it, hatred arises every time we see our comrades scourged in the feast set up by the press and the police, celebrating the capture of a new “trophy.”
While solidarity is always important – in all aspects – we cannot be satisfied with many of the actions taken in support of our comrades, even though they are always necessary. We believe that an important part of recognizing oneself as a revolutionary is being willing – as they are – to attack the state apparatus and capital. In this way, we believe that solidarity must transcend words, forge itself in attack, and thus transform into constant action against the order. Because the recognition of affinity is accompanied by complicities and experiences, which create an unbreakable bond among the anonymous.
For all the aforementioned reasons, on Thursday, October 29th at approximately 2:00 AM, we moved cautiously through the streets of the San Miguel commune. Armed with a bomb, composed of a 6-kilogram fire extinguisher filled with more than 3 kilograms of black powder, around 100 four-inch nails and 50 one-inch nails inside to act as shrapnel, a one-liter bottle of sulfuric acid, and two one-liter bottles of gasoline, all activated by a remote control, consisting of a cell phone connected to a modified 2.5-volt light bulb as a detonator. All this to attack the bastards of the 12th police station, located at the intersection of Álvarez de Toledo and Gran Avenida. After placing our vengeful gift on the back gate of the police station, next to the booth of the useless guard, we left the place without any problems. Once we were far away and safe, we made the call that should have activated the bomb. Unfortunately for us and fortunately for the wretches, something within the electrical circuit failed. Our intentions were and are clear, to cause the greatest possible damage to the green and white den -and every fucking authority that presents itself in our lives-, we calculated that the explosion would be able to knock down the gate and hopefully cause the death of some police officer, accompanied by the greatest suffering of their families, if possible, that they choose to commit suicide.
We salute the assumed prisoner of war Ignacio Muñoz, who was kidnapped on August 1 of this year carrying a one-kilo fire extinguisher filled with gunpowder and propaganda for those accused of the attack on the PDI, and who is currently in prison serving a preventive detention of 5 months.
If we failed yesterday, tomorrow and always we will continue attacking.
FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL PRISONERS IN THE WORLD!
WE WILL RETURN…
.-International Conspiracy for Revenge/Explosive Cell Gerasimos Tsakalos.
P.S.: In the photo, the cables are not connected for our greater safety.