DISCUSSION IN SOLIDARITY WITH ANARCHIST PRISONER GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS ON HUNGER STRIKE SINCE 23/5/22
South London: 6PM WEDNESDAY 13TH OF JULY 2022
At The Field, 385 Queens Road SE14 5HD
Anarchists in solidarity
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DISCUSSION IN SOLIDARITY WITH ANARCHIST PRISONER GIANNIS MICHAILIDIS ON HUNGER STRIKE SINCE 23/5/22
South London: 6PM WEDNESDAY 13TH OF JULY 2022
At The Field, 385 Queens Road SE14 5HD
Anarchists in solidarity
Source: Act for freedom now!
Discussion about the perspectives of revolutionary anarchy
Starting from the call „International Campaign for Revolutionary Anarchism and Solidarity with Revolutionary Prisoners“, which was published last winter, we want to discuss common perspectives with you. This call was written from solidarians in Athens to the case of Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis and his conviction to sixteen years in prison for participation in the Organization of Revolutionary Self-Defense.
Revolutionary Self-Defense was a revolutionary anarchist organization active from 2014-2017. During it’s years, the organization took responsibility for five armed attacks: against the headquarters of the greek political party PASOK, the Mexican Embassy in Athens, the French Embassy in Athens and two attacks against the greek riot police (MAT) in front of PASOK offices in the neighborhood of Exarchia. The group claimed to „put all its strength into the construction of the broad armed social resistance and is struggling to construct a mass internationalist revolutionary movement, by strengthening militant resistance on the entire spectrum of class antagonism.“
After the robbery of a betting office in Ocrober 2019, in which he was injured, Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis was on the run for almost two years. With his arrest in Thessaloniki last year, the period of armed resistance in Greece seems to have been interrupted for the time being. That not only the armed struggle can have a revolutionary potential is obvious and so the above call poses some questions, the answers to which are one of the aims of our event.
Where do our movements stand faced with the immense challenges and demands of our epoch?
Can we retrace our revolutionary roots?
Can we become the creative force that can effectively abolish the cannibalistic authority of the rich few over the many?
In the event, the positions of Dimitris from jail will exchange with ours and hopefully with yours to develop a common ground for the creation of a revolutionary practice. We do not intend to organize an information event about anarchy in Greece, but we want to find out with you the necessities and possibilities in our region. The framework are further questions about the effects of repression and the meaning of solidarity, the meaning of social tensions and the question of the legitimization of self-defense by society. What can be the trigger for a revolutionary movement and do we need a ground like Exarchia or squats? Is the anarchist movement missing a theoretical base or agenda like Maoism or Marxism offers?
Source: de.indymedia
Solidarity with anarchist prisoner Claudio Lavazza
Thursday 14 April 19.00 AT ASSOE ECONOMIC UNIVERSITY Athens .
EVENT – DISCUSSION on the case of Claudio Lavazza, with video screening.
Claudio Lavazza – A whole life dedicated to the struggle
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF COMRADE CLAUDIO LAVAZZA
SOLIDARITY TO ALL CAPTURED REVOLUTIONARIES AROUND THE WORLD
by Anarchist initiative against the state murders
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