Anti-Fascism – Page 2

Athens, Greece : Taking responsibility for the attack on a member of the fascist group propatria in Nea Ionia on Heraklion Avenue

Posted on 2023/11/22 by darknights

Athens: Taking responsibility for the attack on a member of the fascist group propatria in Nea Ionia on Heraklion Avenue.

On 28 October we chose to visit the coffee bar berry in Nea Ionia on Heraklion Avenue while Dionysis Karagiannis, a member of the fascist group propatria, was working there. Once again a member of propatria showed us his fighting skills by running to hide in the store’s warehouse. Propatria is a group that acts and moves invisibly, with little presence on the streets and usually for a short time, in the context of captions, “quotes” and in terms of spectacle, trying in this way to reach the youth, forcing the antifascist movement to take on the role of detective in order to reach its members.

They should be well aware that we will choose the target, the time and the place each time. It is the duty of the antifascist movement to dismantle every fascist cell, against any attempt at political reconstruction, with stubbornness, organisation and loyalty to each other.

Still, we want to emphasize that the attack on this shop has nothing to do with the organization of the anti-fascist concert that took place on the same day in Heraklion Square and with the collectives, organizations that undertook the protection of the area . The arrests as well as the motorbikes seized a few hours after the attack have no involvement in our action but are based on the known tactics of the EL.AS to target militants through the known “suspect tank”. We express our solidarity with those arrested.

P.S. Our victories and our defeats, our mistakes and our self-criticism, our tenderness and our hardness, our contradictions and our certainties will never find their place in the enemy’s camp. They will be the raw material for the next proletarian offensive, for the next assault on the sky.

Shiraz Shaftar Cell

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Source: athens.indymedia

Via & Translated by Act for freedom now!

Act for free notes: the murder of the 23-year-old worker from Pakistan, Shiraz Saftar, in the early hours of August 12 . 2023 Shiraz Saftar was working as an unloader in the public market on his way to work. He was found murdered in the Rizoupoli-Perissos area, near the Apollo stadium, at 4:30 in the morning.

Athens, Greece: Arson Attack on the Home of Far-Right MP Giannis Dimitrokalis by Direct Action Cells

Posted on 2023/11/19 by darknights

The Direct Action Cells carried out the arson attack on the home of the MP for Spartans (a far-right political party established in 2017) of Eastern Attica, Yannis Dimitrokalis, in the area of Ilizia during the morning of October 28. The choice of the date was not accidental. The era of resistance to the Nazi occupiers and their local collaborators, the sacrifices, suffering, toil and struggles of hundreds of thousands of fighters during the period 1940-1949 is a political heritage which we actively defend against all kinds of historical revisionists and falsifiers. The political ancestors of Dimitrokalis, Kasidiaris (Illias Kasidiaris, a far-right politician and one of the former leaders of Golden Dawn, who is still politically active despite being in prison since 2021) and his group are the ones who handed over to the Nazi German invaders the thousands of communists who were imprisoned and had begged in vain to be released to fight them. They are the ones who put on a hood and became informers. They are the ones who became black marketers and condemned hundreds of thousands to hunger and misery. They are the ones who became Hitlerites and National Socialists, swore allegiance to the Third Reich and fought on the side of the Germans and then the British imperialists. So let all these penny-pinching patriots know that history has recorded the political ancestors of Kasidiaris and his followers as the accomplices of those who stepped with their fascist boots on the heads of those who fought with their blood for altars and hearths.

With our attack shortly before the anniversary of the execution of the two neo-Nazis in Neos Heraklion by the organization “Fighting People’s Revolutionary Forces”, we wanted to send a message of militant anti-fascism by targeting a member of the largest far-right party in Greece at the moment. November 1 is a rallying point for fascists on a pan-European level. For us, November 1 symbolizes the political dynamic of armed action, its historical significance, its timeless necessity. It symbolizes the day when the constant victimization of the left and parts of the anarchist space were deafeningly shattered. Let us not forget that many political forces that are now rushing to participate in the anti-fascist rallies were the ones who, in the face of the fear of fascists and repression, had condemned the action and spoke of agent provocateurs and reactionaries. Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Arson Attack on the Home of Far-Right MP Giannis Dimitrokalis by Direct Action Cells” →

Hamburg, Germany: +++ Free all Antifas +++ Free all Prisoners +++, Hamburg Police Academy attacked with stones

Posted on 2023/08/14 by darknights

In the night of June 14-15, we visited buildings of the Police Academy Hamburg at Braamkamp with stones.

We salute the defendants of the Antifa Ost trial and the victims of the 11 hour kettle in Leipzig.

Raise the price for the freedom of our friends!

Against racist attacks and police violence – against the state and its henchmen!

Source: de.indymedia

Dresden, Germany: Antifascist Lina E. Sentenced to More Than Five Years in Prison

Posted on 2023/06/04 - 2023/06/04 by darknights

On Wednesday (31st May), the judgment in the so-called “Antifa Ost” trial was spoken before the Higher Regional Court in Dresden. Several anti-fascists were accused of forming a “criminal association” that is said to have committed attacks against fascist forces. Members of the far right-wing scene in Leipzig, Wurzen and Eisenach are said to have been “brutally beaten up”. The supposed victims were the squads of the young nationalists and the identitarian fascist movement.

Lina E., was accused of being the “mastermind” of the anti-fascist Leipzig group by the Federal prosecutor’s office, who asked for a prison sentence of eight years. She was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for taking part in a series of attacks on neo-Nazis and other fascists over a period of two years.

Three other antifascists, Lennart A, Jannis R and Jonathan M, are alleged to have joined forces with her by the end of 2019. The men were sentenced to between 27 months and 39 months in prison.

Concrete evidence was in short supply during the trial; instead the political conviction of the accused was decisive.

Lina E has been in custody since her arrest on November 5, 2020. The other suspects have remained free.

Among the attacks she was accused of helping orchestrate was a 2020 incident, in which antifascists beat a group of six fascists returning from a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the firebombing of Dresden.

The event regularly attracts neo-Nazis and other fascists.

In the run-up to the trial, the accused have always received broad support from the anti-fascist movement. A nationwide demonstration against the persecution of the anti-fascist movement in Leipzig is planned for Saturday (3rd June), which will begin at 5 p.m. in Wolfgang-Heinze-Strasse.

Source: Abolition Media

Berlin, Germany: Construction machine of the company Hentschke Bau GmbH set on fire

Posted on 2023/05/05 by darknights

On Tuesday night, we placed incendiary devices at a construction machine of the company Hentschke Bau GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof. Already a few years ago, comrades claimed responsibility for several attacks on the infrastructure of this company, which is also responsible for the construction of the prison in Zwickau. (https://chronik.blackblogs.org/?p=10502) The company was also brought into focus because its owner Jörg Drews is affiliated with the fascist party AfD.

The ruling ideology says that it is necessary to keep people in constant fear so that they do not resist patriarchal and colonial oppression and docilely join the capitalist routine so that they can ultimately be shaped and standardized. All the more encouraging are the signs of those who, even in the moment of almost total isolation, confront fear and do not fall silent in their struggle for a world of solidarity, mutual aid and self-organization. As we take it from the words of the Italian prisoner Alfredo Cospito, who has been on hunger strike for over 6 months since last October to fight against the 41bis regime imposed on him:

“I simply cannot live under an inhumane regime as 41bis means, where I cannot freely read what I want, books, newspapers, anarchist magazines, magazines of art and science as well as literature and history. The only way to escape the regime is to give up my identity as an anarchist and sell it to someone else to take my place. A regime in which I cannot have human contact, in which I cannot pick a handful of herbs or hug a loved one. A regime in which the photos of our parents are stolen. Buried alive in a tomb, in a place of death. I will continue my struggle to the extreme, not because of an “accusation,” but because this is not life.”

Although the hunger strike has ended and we are happy to know Alfredo is alive, this does not mean that we will stop fighting against the prison society. On the contrary, his struggle for dignity, as well as the numerous attacks in which comrades themselves risked their freedom, wrote words of solidarity and in this way connected with each other worldwide, have inspired us. With the strength unleashed by the hunger strike, we continue on the path of attacking all that the world of incarceration and punishment embodies. Continue reading “Berlin, Germany: Construction machine of the company Hentschke Bau GmbH set on fire” →

Patras, Greece: Attack on the offices of the Patriotic Union of Emfietzoglou

Posted on 2023/02/24 - 2023/02/24 by darknights

On the afternoon of Tuesday 21 February, after the end of the anti-war march that took place in the centre of Patras on the occasion of the visit of the American Secretary of State, we attacked the open offices of the fascist group “Patriotic Union” of the bankrupt* Prodromos Emfietzoglou, who has been involved in dozens of scandals since the Olympic Games and has now decided to turn to patriotism in order to continue receiving a crumb from the state budget, but also to confirm Samuel Johnson’s old saying that “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrels”.

In a city that retains indelible in its political history the class, social, anti-fascist struggles of the past and in which the activity of the fascist and parastatal mechanisms has left irreparable scars since the period of the Temponeras assassination2, it should be made clear and unambiguous in all directions and to all would-be imitators of Emfietzoglou that not an inch of land will be given to the enemies of freedom.

The existence of offices of a nationalist party in the central square of Patras, and anywhere else, cannot be tolerated and there has certainly been some misunderstanding on the part of Emfietzoglou with this choice. He would do well to pack up and leave…

Fascists, nationalists and other misfits, forget what you knew. This is Patras! We’re gonna kick your asses!

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

DN Notes

1 μπαταχτσή is the original word used in Greek, which is not completly translatable exactly as ‘bankrupt’. It is originally from the Turkish batakçi = bankrupt. It means a person or some one who gains from the state, especially the money from taxes, normally from corruption.

2 Nikos Temponeras was a secondary school mathematics teacher, a left-wing member of the Labour Anti-imperialist Front (EAM), who was assissinated by fascists/right wingers (even a member of New Democracy party) attempting to break up the occupation of a Patras school during the student demonstrations of 1990-91. Once again this murder amongst others in Greece’s modern history shows the complicity between racism, fascism and nationalism, that the crossover between the right wing New Democracy party (that is in power now), that members normally come from a fascist background, is a kind of requirement to be part of the party. This continues the well known slogan in Greece that ‘The Junta never ended!’

Thessaloniki, Greece: Responsibility claim for the incendiary attack on the vehicle of fascist Ioannnis Momolias

Posted on 2023/02/21 - 2023/02/21 by darknights

We take responsibility for the placement of an incendiary device in the morning of Thursday 19.01, in Tripotamos street in Stavroupoli in the vehicle of Ioannis Momolias in the yard of his residence, a fascist member of the United Macedonians, resulting in the complete destruction of the vehicle. The message is clear no fascist will hide forever, no one will sleep in peace; fire on your miserable lives.
Antifascist rage.

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

Resisting Techno-Tyranny: A Dialogue

Posted on 2022/12/06 by darknights

This conversation between Paul Cudenec and the Italian group Resistenze al nanomondo was first published in the July 2022 issue of the printed journal L’urlo della Terra and has recently also been made available online, again in Italian.

1. Resistenze al nanomondo: Can you can tell us about your story, your path, when you started developing a critique of techno-scientific developments and what thinkers you learned from?

Paul Cudenec: I don’t think I could separate my critique of techno-scientific developments from the rest of my opinions and analysis. I have been an anarchist for 30 years now, but even before then, in my youth, I felt a strong instinctive aversion to high-tech consumer society. On the one hand it was associated with everything that I most disliked – big business, the state, the military, authority and control in general. On the other hand it stood against everything that I most appreciated – nature, freedom, community, a sense of historical and cultural continuity. The arrival of CCTV cameras in England was a wake-up moment for me. I worked at the time as a journalist with a local newspaper in one of the first towns to have cameras installed and, since I knew for a fact that there was very little crime there, it was clear to me that this project was nothing to do with fighting crime, as was claimed, but was the roll-out of something much more sinister. I wrote a punk song about this in the mid-1990s (which I put online last year), warning about “the cameras that steal our liberty” and the techno-tyrants who were going to scan our DNA, put microchips in our brains and turn us into robots. With the local anarchist group, which I subsequently helped to create, we used to hold annual protests against the cameras, marking the anniversary of their installation as “Big Brother’s Birthday”.

As you will gather from the above, George Orwell was, unsurprisingly, an influence on me. The history of the Luddites was another inspiration (via Kirkpatrick Sale among others), along with anarcho-publications like Green Anarchist, SchNEWS, Do or Die, Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed and various EF! publications. I also read David Watson’s Against the Megamachine, Fredy Perlman’s Against His-story, Against Leviathan, the Unabomber Manifesto plus a lot by John Zerzan and Derrick Jensen. I have more recently been influenced by reading the likes of Miguel Amorós, Jacques Ellul, Theodore Roszak, Charlene Spretnak, Renaud Garcia… But intertwined with that thread of my self-education have been other inspirations. The English nature mystic Richard Jefferies has been very important to me, as has René Guénon, who combined his metaphysics with a strong critique of modernity. I have also read elsewhere about sufism, Taoism, comparative mythology, English folklore, Indian philosophy, German idealism, Jewish anti-capitalist romanticism, Jungian psychology… What interests me, above all, are the connections between these accounts and traditions, or rather, perhaps, the new space that is opened up for our reflection when we consider them together, in the same conceptual context. Continue reading “Resisting Techno-Tyranny: A Dialogue” →

Bristol: Bristol Against The Hate, Saturday April 9th

Posted on 2022/03/26 by darknights

Thessaloniki, Greece: Responsibility claim for incendiary attacks against nationalists

Posted on 2022/02/04 by darknights

In recent times we have seen the increasing effort of various nationalist groups to establish their presence in the western districts of Thessaloniki. Various groups of fascists are trying to forcibly steer occupations that have taken place in recent months in various schools towards a clearly nationalist course. Occupations by schoolchildren who raise as their main issues the educational devaluation, the privatisation of education, the total lack of protection and prevention measures with regard to the spread of mockery, the shabby structural facilities and more. Issues, which we understand touch on the class priority of the state in terms of learning as most of these schools are EPALs (Evosmos, Stavroupoli), without making any distinctions as to which nationality students can or rather cannot claim their right to free learning. Something which, it seems, cannot be accepted by the advocates of nationalist rhetoric whose priority is to have schools composed entirely of Greek students, thus disregarding the devaluation and impoverishment that people of our class are subjected to by the state even at such a young age.

Of course, the direction of these people’s priorities does not surprise us at all. Fascist groups have always been, whether they are organisations such as Golden Dawn or more disorganised paraphernalia such as in recent events the Eneth, selling an anti-government and sometimes anti-populist fairy tale in order to convince the masses that they will make a difference, that they will bring about change. What change can we talk about when the interests of these groups go hand in hand with the interests of the state and the bosses. What solution have they given or even proposed for unemployment, flexible working hours, starvation wages and pensions, precariousness and poverty in general? What change can we talk about when, over time, where the state is unable to intervene, fascism takes action with its long arm. With countless attacks in recent years, always on the weakest or different, with knives, guns, sticks and fists on immigrants and even children, with violence against schoolchildren who reacted to the nationalist occupations, with Molotov cocktails on the balconies of foreign families, with attacks on movement structures, thus taking the role that the state does not want to take the responsibility to take. What change can we talk about when these attacks are accompanied by the complete tolerance of the police.

One of these groups that have been active in Thessaloniki in recent years is the Holy Company, an organisation with a deeply Christian and nationalist analysis in its discourse. The Holy Company was at the forefront of the riots in Oraiokastro in 2016 when refugee children wanted to go to the local school. In 2017 it spearheaded blockades and riots protesting the ”anti-Christian” performance ”The Devil’s Hour”. He was found at the nationalist rallies for Macedonia that resulted in the burning of the Libertatia squat and the attack on EKX School on 21/01/18. Created Macedonian Pride a nationalist fiesta in a desperate attempt to keep the Macedonian issue alive in an anniversary format. Organized the marches for the death of the fascist Katsifa, as well as participated in nationalist protests first against lockdown and then against vaccines. Finally, it tried to capitalize on the events by calling for a nationalist march in the neighborhood. Based on these highlights of the holy company’s activities, we can easily understand that this group over time tries to follow the news in order to gather and organize as many people as possible. Continue reading “Thessaloniki, Greece: Responsibility claim for incendiary attacks against nationalists” →