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Athens, Greece: If you were invisible, would you rob a supermarket? by ALIENATION_2.0

Posted on 2023/12/03 by darknights

Athens, If you were invisible, would you rob a supermarket? by ALIENATION_2.0

At noon on Saturday 4/11, an expropriation took place at s/m My Market on Agia Sophia Street, in one of the most central parts of the Vyrvna neighbourhood.

Supermarkets have always been one of the businesses that never miss an opportunity to turn every crisis into an opportunity to multiply their profits on our backs in a variety of ways. Either by draining their workforce with meager wages and flexible hours, or by imposing exorbitant mark-ups on all their products, with priority given to basic necessities further hampering our quality of life.

We live to work, we live to rent, our salaries end on the 1st week of the month and in this condition the state tries to convince us that the “household basket” and the crumbs it called market pass constitute social policy. In the same vein, the “social policy” of humiliating compensations and accommodation in camps and stadiums with which it tried to convince the affected residents of the Thessalian plain that their lives will be restored. In the same situation, the entrepreneurs of the supermarkets, as modern-day black marketeers even took advantage of the lack of drinking water in the wider area of flooded Thessaly city by selling bottled water even more expensively. While the populations affected saw mud and debris, bosses studied balance sheets, turnover and profit margins.

EVERYTHING IS OURS BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS STOLEN

So we grabbed dozens of essentials from My Market (oil, cleaning products, toiletries) and left collectively without paying a cent. These products have already been given to people in Thessaly who really needed them, strengthening the hundreds of movements of solidarity that have been expressed throughout this time by the self-organized movement towards the affected. This small movement of expropriating and sharing what we need is inspired by the overall movement of counter-attack and recovery required to take back everything that we are deprived of daily and really need.

We don’t expect anything from anyone. We are collectively organizing against the continued devaluing of our lives. Fight for life and dignity.

We call for the proliferation of similar direct actions.

EXPLOIRATION_2.0

PS We decided to film our movement and share it to break the orchestrated silence of the media and to inspire similar initiatives…

Sequence_01.mp4

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Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1627728/

Via & Translated by Act for freedom now!

Athens, Greece: Claim for attack upon the Israeli-owned NYX Esperia Hotel on 17th November

Posted on 2023/11/26 - 2023/11/26 by darknights

Taking responsibility for the intervention at the Israeli-owned NYX Esperia Hotel on 17 November

Following the righteous counter-attack of the Palestinian Resistance on 7/10/23- named the Al-Aqsa flood, the terrorist state of Israel has launched a widespread operation of ethnic cleansing, intensifying the 75-year process of annihilation and displacement of the Palestinian people from their lands. It is deliberately bombing homes, hospitals, schools, water and electricity networks, and banning all food, water and medicine, condemning the people of Gaza to certain death.

The time-honoured and current crimes of the Zionist colonial entity could not have been carried out without the political, economic and military support of the ‘western’ bloc. As a part of this bloc, the Greek state is leading the way in supporting the murderous state of Israel with joint military exercises, with the upgrading of the Souda base and with the conversion of the 112th Battle Wing in Elefsina into a NATO base, and politically it is reflected in the meeting between Mitsotakis and Netanyahu.

Apart from cooperation at the political and military level, there is also cooperation at the economic level, with Israeli capital investing in various sectors, with one of the main pillars being the real estate and tourism sectors. The result of these hits our pockets directly, pushing up housing costs, changing the character of entire neighbourhoods and turning them into tourist attractions.

In addition to the mass, militant marches in support of the Palestinian Resistance, we must block the Greek-Israeli alliance by targeting Israeli capital in Greece. Connecting the protagonists of the Polytechnic uprising with those of the Palestinian Resistance, we chose on November 17 to express our solidarity with the people of Gaza by attacking the facade of the Israeli-owned NYX Esperia Hotel on Stadiou Street.

SABOTAGE OF ISRAELI INVESTMENTS

TO BLOCK THE POLITICAL-ECONOMIC ALLIANCE BETWEEN GREECE AND ISRAEL

VICTORY IN THE ARMS OF THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE

IN GAZA THEY MURDER CIVILIANS WITH THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE GREEK STATE

From the river to the sea

Source: athens.indymedia

Athens, Greece: Claim for attack on house – offices of the company ERGOMAR of the well-known businessman Dimitris Marinelis by ‘Conspiracy Vengeance’

Posted on 2023/11/26 - 2023/11/26 by darknights

We take responsibility for the attack on the house – offices of the company ERGOMAR of the well-known businessman Dimitris Marinelis, at 12 Ious Street, in Kifissia.

The reason for the attack is to target the corrupt role of construction companies. It is a common secret that the cabal of politicians and big bosses, dividing state resources and European funds between them, thus embezzling large sums of money at the expense of the Greek people.

For years now, with direct assignments to their own minions, they manage to obtain huge sums of money – kickbacks with the well-known over-budgeting of projects and materials needed for their implementation. It is the construction companies that are responsible for many accidents at work – accidents, as in order to make as much profit as possible, they reduce the necessary safety measures for workers.

ERGOMAR of Dimitris Marinelis has undertaken the construction and maintenance of large state and private projects, cooperating with the largest companies in Europe and the country, such as AEGEAN, GERMANOS, COSMOTE, VODAFONE and many others.

Also, most important of all, is the company’s involvement with the fiasco of the Kalatrava roof, which, on the one hand, with its implementation, huge amounts of money went into the pockets and on the other hand, the amounts of money that were constantly granted for the maintenance of the roof, ended up in the well-organized party of corruption, since the maintenance was never done, thus putting thousands of people at risk.

Nothing is finished in the face of state and capitalist barbarism, we stand with fortitude and dignity against them.

Remember well that none of you will be immune and we can visit at any place and time we choose. By any means we choose.

You will not sleep soundly thinking that your scams will go unpunished.

P.S.: Regarding the mainstream sites that made constant references to the fascist garbage Konstantinos Bogdanos, journalist and former MP of the ridiculous Mitsotakis government, that 6 months ago he was staying in this area, we know very well where he was staying and where he is staying now ( besides, in the past he had received a visit in the afternoon hours, resulting in the burning of his vehicles ). When the time comes, we will visit him and not for property damage, but for actions befitting such scum.

CONSPIRACY VENGEANCE

Source: athens.indymedia

DN Notes

*Referring to the roof of the national stadium OAKA, that was opened for the 2004 Olympic Games, hosts the National football team matches including recently been used by AEK as a home stadium until the end of last season and recently by Panathanaikos for their European games. A study found that the roof had been done on the cheap, that it is so unstable and will easily collapse on those attending the stadium.

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: Direct Action Cells Claim Responsibility for Arson Attack Against the Home of Judge Elias Kanellopoulos

Posted on 2023/11/21 by darknights

“We are guarded by thousands of fears: The fear of being buried alive in a prison, the fear of dying in action, the fear of being left alone without the cheers of the crowd or the fear of being isolated by our own comrades. Overcoming these fears would make us more lucid. Many struggles are built on these fears, they are products of these fears. Fear poisons us; compromise is its toxic fruit. Then, with eloquent words, comfortable theories, convenient long-term strategies, they make sure to embellish the whole humiliation by recommending wisdom and drawing us into political realism. Unfortunately, however, shit, no matter how pink you paint it, is still shit.” – Alfredo Cospito

The Direct Action Cells claim full responsibility for the arson attack on the home of judge Elias Kanellopoulos in the Cholargos area (a suburb in Athens). Our attack is an action of solidarity with the mobilizations of the prisoners in the prisons of the territory. It is also a continuation of the strategy of the personal targeting of those involved in the constant tightening of criminal repression and the repressive management applied in the field of prisons. From the architect of the new penal code, Lambros Margaritis, to the head of the Inspection and Control Body of the Prisons, Spyridoula Presvia, and now to Ilias Kanellopoulos, an appellant seconded to the Ministry of Justice, who was one of the close associates of the former Minister of Justice, Kostas Tsiaras, during whose days the new penal and penitentiary code was created and passed.

Our message is clear. The Direct Action Cells do not forget the people behind bars, the families who are suffering and tormented by the methods of the judges, the police and those prison officers who have the impression that they are untouchable. We do not forget the political prisoners who are paying the price for their choice of joining the revolutionary struggle. The explosions outside the homes of those who, in one way or another, choose to make the lives of prisoners a nightmarish reality, brings home, even if only on a symbolic level, the combative reality of the permanent anarchist threat.

As we previously stated, following the attack on the home of Lambros Margaritis:

“We are not finished with this particular issue. For us, any attack on the rights of prisoners that were won through painful struggles is taken very seriously, and in this regard we will try as hard as we can to keep it high on the priorities of the militant formations acting within the combative movement. We call on them to become a shield of protection for the rights of political prisoners in the prisons and to target those directly responsible for this anachronistic penal code that takes us back many decades.” Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Direct Action Cells Claim Responsibility for Arson Attack Against the Home of Judge Elias Kanellopoulos” →

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” →

Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for the grenade attack upon a vehicle of a prison officer in Haidari by ‘Conspiracy Vengeance’

Posted on 2023/07/15 - 2023/07/31 by darknights

The group “Conspiracy Vengeance” claimed responsibility for a grenade attack upon a prison officer’s car in Haidari at dawn last Saturday (8/7).

Received anonymously:

In the current days it is obvious that the right-wing government has as its primary goal a junta mentality for the benefit of the few and against the many marginalized social groups. The regime of police democracy is growing, the repressive mechanisms are getting stronger and stronger. Cops shoot and kill without any consequence, cops invade universities. The slightest dissenting opinion is immediately attacked and silenced by the state of difference and decadence. In these circumstances, this whole repressive mentality has also passed inside the walls. Any form of protest and assertion of the self-evident needs of the prisoners finds “walls raised” and is immediately attacked by the scum and their courtiers who run the prisons. The prison guard in question, Dionysis Tsirgiotis, the chief prison guard at the Korydallos prison, is at the forefront of all events in every way against the prisoners. He is at the forefront of the investigations carried out by the prison guards in the cells of the prisoners. His words, his manner and the line he has drawn in the prison are clearly against all prisoners, preventing them from having a smooth coexistence under confinement. This particular prison guard aims to make life difficult for the prisoners and to climb by any means and through any means to the highest levels of power within the walls. We chose to attack his vehicle with a grenade to make it clear that there will be consequences and immediate responses to any form of behaviour, actions and decisions taken by ridiculous little petty people who think they can impose themselves on the backs of the cops and judges.

This time we sent a message to one of the thousands of scum who are plaguing the country and especially the prison system. You must understand that we can attack whenever and wherever we want, understand that you are NOT immune. No prison guard, no warden, no prosecutor should sleep peacefully serving the interests of the cops and the government against the prisoners. We can just as easily next time make sure that the grenade does not ONLY cause property damage. So think very carefully before making any decision against the prisoners.

NOTHING IS OVER, EVERYTHING CONTINUES. The responsibility is assumed by the group CONSPIRACY VENGEANCE

Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for the attack on a police patrol at Strefi Hill on 15/6

Posted on 2023/06/27 by darknights

We are at a juncture where, in the space of just a few months, we have counted two mass state capitalist murders, in Tempe and Pylos, which demonstrate in the most deafening way the very essence of capitalism. We are under no illusions and we know very well that in the face of the deadlock and bankruptcy of the state-capitalist system, the only answer that the state and capital have to propose is, on the one hand, to create new hotbeds of imperialist conflict and intervention in the capitalist regions, thus creating new hundreds of dead, both on the battlefields and in the debris left behind by war and the overexploitation of resources, and on the heavily guarded border lines, which have resulted in the Mediterranean becoming a vast graveyard of refugees.

On the other hand, in the capitalist centres of the West, capital and the state are looking for new areas of profitability through further class devaluation, impoverishment and death politics, which in turn create modern metropolitan guarded sweatshops in which we are forced to survive in conditions of misery with meagre wages as a result of the overvaluation of our labour power, with one worker murder after another, with the coverage of our basic material needs becoming more and more difficult, and the deterioration of the structures that cover basic social needs of transportation, health, education, etc. and with a state that is further entrenching itself by militarising its metropolises and increasing military budgets.

So at the same time as the state is generously spreading death, oppression, exploitation and destruction, it is inviting us to participate in the carnival of elections to choose which party will “save” us and which party will provide the best opposition. It invites us to entrust the management of our lives to saviours great and small, and once we have chosen we can proudly return to normality, where people are murdered at the borders, in police stations, on the streets, in the workers’ sweatshops. We can return to the normalcy of “passports” and starvation wages, of snitch journalists and exhausted and unpaid overtime, of evictions and home foreclosures. The normalcy we legitimize by voting consent and submission. In the face of their normalcy there is disobedience, resistance and rebellion. Against the vote of delegation there is collectivity, self-organization, faith in our strengths and in the potential of all the oppressed and exploited. The belief that this world will be changed by us, through collective struggles we will stand on our feet and attack the state, capital and their praetorian guard. Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for the attack on a police patrol at Strefi Hill on 15/6” →

Athens, Greece: For the attack and the damage to Pharaoh in Solomou, Exarchia by Comrades, Anarchists

Posted on 2023/06/27 by darknights

As the struggle between the classes becomes wilder and the ideologies of development pave the way for the plundering of human and natural resources, turning the seas, the trees, the air we breathe into fields of profit at any cost, the upper classes become stronger and increase their wealth. As long as the lives of those from below are nothing but numbers to be managed and percentages of losses, such as the hundreds of dead displaced off Pylos, the passengers and workers on the trains of Tempi and the murdered workers in the sweatshops of the big bosses, capital is contentedly entrenching itself and preparing for new rounds of accumulation, deepening the terms of the devaluation of our lives.

The proclamation of the centre of Athens and especially of Exarchia, as a new field of profitability to which small and big businessmen are turning, is well known. Tourism and consumption have turned every hole into an opportunity. Numerous apartments are being converted into Airbnb, pushing up the remaining rents even higher, displacing poorer residents. Every public and open space, from the Strefi and Exarchia Square, to the May Day Square and the Museum, has been fenced off and included in plans to redevelop it and turn it into a supervised space for tourists and consumers. The police terrorism, the evacuation of squats and political spaces, the bullying and harassment of passers-by and residents by the ELAS men, the sealing of the Polytechnic, the increasing placement of cameras, are central repressive moves and reveal the political sign of this aggressive epicism.

In other words, for the business of white and black capital to flourish in our regions, the resistance that has taken root over the years must be silenced. The blockades of those from above that have been happening over time in the region, with the intolerable presence of politicians, exploiters and bigwigs of all kinds, must stop. To stop the precepts of solidarity among the oppressed, self-organization and opposition to the skinners of our lives and dreams.

But what they all forget is that these neighborhoods are still ours. That their well-polished storefronts can come crashing down on their heads with a bang, no matter how well they are guarded by their all manner of cops. Our small contribution to this reminder was our recent trip to Pharaoh’s on Solomou. On Friday 9 June, in broad daylight and under the nose of the anchored forces of repression at arm’s length, we interfered with the restaurant, damaging its interior and destroying their cellar of very expensive wines.

This shop, borrowing its concept from various other examples in western metropolises, jumped on the chariot of gentrification, selling alternativeism in an expensive wrapper. Pharaoh’s four entrepreneurs, Maidan columnists, TV chefs, troubadour foodies and others, gave rise to the arrival of socialites of all kinds in the area. Amidst the homeless and pissed-up sidewalks, with their expensive cars often guarded by their inflatable escorts, mob bosses, businessmen, and half the government’s cabinet have dined at this establishment. We should note here, of course, that Mitsotakis’ recent visit to this place was not as carefree as he expected, thanks to some angry residents. The clientele of this shop, therefore, validates by their presence the predestined targeting of the rotten world they represent. The opening of the field of profitability of local and foreign capital around the axis of Patision and the repression of anyone who resists it.

The war they have declared against us is sharpening and so must our struggles. Through dynamic responses and persistence, we can impose significant costs on all these would-be entrepreneurs, raising mounds to the touristization of everything and the conversion of our neighborhoods into commodities.

So that ministers, prime ministers, mayors and greasy mafiosi have no illusions that they will dine undisturbed in our parts.

To put smaller and larger cracks in their well-polished windows.

To move from questioning to conflict.

POVERTY, EXPLOITATION AND EXCLUSION
THAT’S WHAT GENTRIFICATION MEANS

SOLIDARITY WITH REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS

Comrades, Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for incendiary attack on a Volkswagen dealership

Posted on 2023/05/14 - 2023/05/17 by darknights

The future dystopia of a fully controlled life by smart cities, 5G, where your fridge communicates with your mobile phone or a street lamp, and supermarkets offer you everything you ask for in the (anti)social media is already here. Everything is increasingly connected and everything is being monitored. It’s a future where people will be controlled by the artificial intelligence of big capital – big data and machine learning. Whatever information capital collects is shared with the state. Technology means repression, blackmail and total social control.

At the same time, the ecological war for plutocratic resources called green energy is nothing but a new form of slavery on other continents, allowing Western capitalism to be as independent as possible from Russian gas or oil-producing countries. All this is another new great stage of capitalism – green capitalism. It is the exploitation of the climate crisis and biological extinction by capital and the state.

When the New Democracy government came to power, it began an unprecedented upgrade of the repressive apparatus in numbers and technical equipment. The cops are used as a solution to every “problem”: the pandemic, the universities, demonstrations and protests of all types, the gentrification of Athens. The cops are the number one remedy for everything.

All of the above are condensed in the memorandum of understanding between the government of the New Democracy and Volkswagen with the aim of turning Astypalaia into the first smart island, a laboratory that leads the inhabitants to become guinea pigs of the dystopian future. The contract began in September 2021, and aims to gradually replace the island’s conventional vehicles with electric ones. The project is being portrayed by the mainstream media as a technological leap that will benefit the environment and residents. In reality, of course, the memorandum of understanding is nothing more than another way of increasing profitability and repression at the expense of the natural environment and the inhabitants. VW will be able to test autonomous vehicles on the island on terms outside the strict EU legislation, gaining the upper hand against competition. At the same time there is talk of installing hundreds of wind turbines on the island, turning it into a hub for electricity generation and completely destroying the natural environment. Finally, one of the first moves of the project was the donation of electric vehicles from VW to the murderous assault battalions of the cops and the coast guard.

The cooperation between the bloodthirsty New Democracy government and VW is not unprecedented. VW has a long history of supporting fascist and oppressive regimes. From Nazi Germany in the 1930s, to the military dictatorships in Brazil and Argentina, to Franco’s Spain, VW has always been and continues to be at the forefront of capital profiting on top of harsh oppression.

For all these reasons, at dawn on May 10, we visited the VW dealership on Alexandras Avenue. Our intervention resulted in the destruction of several new electric vehicles and the destruction of the front of the dealership, without endangering passers-by or residents of the area. We consider it an integral part of anarchy to recognize those who profit on oppression, misery and exploitation and it is our duty to return the violence they cause.

We dedicate our action to the prisoners of the social war, Fotis, Iasona, Panos and Lambros, who are being prosecuted for the attack on the Piraeus traffic police.

Solidarity with our wounded comrades Boris and Serge from the militant ecological defence on the territories of the French state.

Solidarity to Mónica Caballero and Francisco Solar whose trial against them starts in a few days.

For a Black May, in memory of comrade Mauricio Morales, who fell in battle 14 years ago.

Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia