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Athens, Greece: Molotov cocktail attack on the Evelpidon Courts – Solidarity with those facing charges over the bank expropriation in Lower Tithorea
“The future is the mask of fear. The courage and strength have no future for the simple fact that they themselves are the future that revolts on the past and destroys it.
“The purity of life proceeds only with the nobility of courage that is the philosophy of action.”
I observed: “The purity of this your life seems to me to border on crime!”
He said: “Crime is the supreme synthesis of liberty and life.”
– Excerpt from The Expropriator
by Renzo Novatore
On the morning of 11th May, a group of comrades raided a bank in lower Tithorea. A few hours later, eight comrades were arrested; after their initial hearings, six were remanded in custody and transferred to different prisons.
How can anyone feel human while denying the fundamental human trait of taking initiative rather than waiting to be given something? Especially when we’re talking about reclaiming what is rightfully ours. How can anyone accept the existing system when it inflicts violence upon us every day?
With the dark reality of bank seizures, with the cops who use legitimate force and fabricate trumped-up charges, the sleazy, snitchy journalists who sling mud at our comrades, and finally the rotten judicial system that sends revolutionaries to the prison cells of democracy.
In such circumstances, acts of resistance are necessary to reclaim our breath and foster a climate of insurrection. They are not criminalized.
With these thoughts in mind, we chose the evening hours of Monday, 25th May, to attack the Evelpidon courts with molotov cocktails. This incident was completely hushed up by the Athens Police Headquarters (GADA) and was not reported in any media outlet, a pattern that has been repeated with attacks on these specific courts in the past. This action was carried out with the aim of serving as a first, minimal—a basic—gesture of solidarity with the 8 anarchist comrades on trial.
In a variation on *Nil Luce Obscurius**, we might say that sometimes there is nothing brighter than darkness—which springs from the depths of our raw liberating impulses. So let us make room for instinctive spontaneity. In this era of reformist lukewarmness, “easy” words just as easily erase subversive imagination. This is something we must realize and reflect upon.
We issue a call to action in every direction, using diverse and inventive ways to fight for life. By expressing the struggle uniquely, through the individuality of the self, each of us ceases to be a daily prisoner of current events in the metropolis. By making room for their individuality, the subject also frames collective processes more fruitfully. Far from the numbing and blunting of our sharpness, let us bring our concern to the doorstep of every authority.
STEP BACK SNITCHES—solidarity isn’t just about slogans… it will shake you to your core. As long as systems of oppression exist, resistance will take root.
STRENGTH TO THE 8 IMPRISONED COMRADES
THE WORKERS’ HANDS ARE STAINED WITH BLOOD,
IT’S TIME TO SEE THE BANKS LOOTED
SOLIDARITY WITH THE REFUGEES AND THE HUNGER STRIKERS
A. HANTZI AND S. DOPPAGNE
STRENGTH TO THE SQUATTERS OF MATROZOU
KYRIAKOS X., SARA A., AND SANDRO M.
BY OUR SIDE IN EVERY RISK OF THE STRUGGLE
FREEDOM FOR MARIANNA M. AND DIMITRA Z.
THE WAR RAGES ON, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!
– Incendiary Solidarity
Source: athens.indymedia
* Nil Luce Obscurius, is a Latin phrase that translates to “nothing is darker” or “nothing is more obscure.” It is often used to express the idea that something is particularly unclear or difficult to understand.
Text of the 8 arrested comrades/comrades in the May 11 case + Soli-demo call-out (Greece)
In the early hours of May 11, 2026, a group of comrades expropriated a bank in Kato Tithorea. Approximately 5 hours later, 5 of them were arrested after a coordinated repressive operation by the police and house invasions. 8 comrades, anarchists, found themselves hostages in the hands of the state.
We have been charged with an inflated indictment that includes bank expropriations and weapons possession. The comrades are being held at the GADA [police HQ in Athens] and some comrades at the Vyronas Prison. Today, 12/05, we went through the prosecutor and were given a deadline to appear before the investigator on Friday, 15/05 at 9am at Evelpidon, building 9.
LONG LIVE ANARCHY
SPYROS DRAVILAS PRESENT
HARRIS TEMPEREKIDIS PRESENT
SEBASTIAN OVERSLUIJ PRESENT
The 8 comrades for the May 11th case
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Call for a solidarity rally for the 8 comrades of the expropriated bank in Kato Tithorea.
On the morning of May 11, an armed robbery takes place at a bank branch in Kato Tithorea. After a police operation and pursuit in the surrounding areas, four comrades and one comrade are arrested. Another comrade is arrested in Loutraki and two comrades in Athens. The prosecuting authorities create an inflated indictment that includes robberies, hostage-taking, ATM bombings, vehicle thefts, possession of weapons, etc. The comrades are transferred to the GADA and on 12/5 to Evelpidon where they are given a deadline of Friday 15/5.
From the very beginning, the media has attempted to depoliticize the comrades, giving them a thousand and two characteristics, in an attempt to assassinate their character. The state and the punitive mechanisms triumph over the dismantling of the “gang” that they succeeded in creating. But the answer to all of them is one and they have written it themselves from within the cells of GADA: LONG LIVE ANARCHY!
We call for a solidarity rally on Friday, 5/15 at 9:00 a.m. at the Evelpidon courts. We support the call for a solidarity rally at GADA today at 6:00 p.m.
NO COMRADE LEFT ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE
UNTIL THE COLLAPSE OF THE LAST PRISON
Solidarity Fund for Imprisoned and Persecuted Activists
Part III: Short video clips for worldwide destructive anarchy
Athens, Greece: Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on Vasilis Kapernaros’ law office – Direct Action Cells
The Direct Action Cells claim responsibility for the incendiary attack on the office of far-right lawyer and failed politician Vasilis Kapernaros in the Kypseli neighborhood in the early hours of April 2. Just as we did the last time we attacked a collaborator in the crimes of Tempi (the Vozenberg residence, February 2025), so now we name the cell that carried out the attack after the armed urban guerrilla Kyriakos Xymiteris. We call upon all fighting revolutionary forces. Every comrade who devises subversive plans and puts them into action through dynamic acts, to take up the torch and honor the memory of our comrade as he deserves. To set fire to the quiet nights of the metropolis. To take the risks that are necessary so that we can show through our actions that there is no better way to remember and honour our dead than by intensifying the war against the rot of the system and its dominant culture.
The reason for our group’s attack on the office of that wretched individual known as Kapernaros is his active involvement in covering up the crime at Tempi, as he is the lawyer for Interstar Security, the company responsible for security and video surveillance of the railway network. The company that concealed for years the videos of the trains that collided that day and, along with other parties, contributed to the concealment of critical evidence regarding the crime. At this moment, the company’s legal representative and two ΟΣΕ executives are on trial for failing to hand over the videos of the freight train being loaded at the station in Thessaloniki. In this courtroom, as relatives of the victims report, Kapernaros bursts in with an escort, taunts and bullies people, culminating in a vile attack on former hunger striker Panos Routsis.
To put it more plainly, we’re dealing with a servile lackey. A few months ago, and “coincidentally” immediately after Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s interview—in which he wondered if there were any videos from the tunnels showing the freight train —the eager scoundrel appeared, donning the guise of a saviour lawyer, with three “forgotten” videos, which he even shared with an old acquaintance of ours, Aris Portosalte. He therefore chose to bear the burden of responsibility for distorting the facts and burying the truth of the Tempi crime, placing himself in the spotlight of public criticism—as such megalomaniacal figures always desire. The criticism we have consistently chosen is that of fire and revolutionary praxis.
Kapernaros, the son of a cop, grew up in post-Civil War Greece in an environment that can be summed up by the slogan “Fatherland – Religion – Family.” He, too, is just another two-bit patriot like those who donned hoods and betrayed resistance fighters to the occupiers, later fighting them in the mountains at the behest of their new masters as “bandits.” Like those who, exploiting the people’s hunger and hardships, amassed fortunes like black marketeers. All these vermin presented themselves to the post-civil war state as good Christians and patriots, while they were the greatest scum in the history of this land. Continue reading “Athens, Greece: Claim of responsibility for the incendiary attack on Vasilis Kapernaros’ law office – Direct Action Cells”
Part II: Short video clips for worldwide destructive anarchy
Part II: Two more video clips for worldwide destructive anarchy. ‘Armed Joy’ + ‘Black International’. First clip narration is from Alfredo M. Bonanno‘s seminal Armed Joy. One of the most important pamphlets of the late 20th Century, for which Alfredo was imprisoned in Italy. The book has been translated into many languages and continues to circulate. The message of the book is as vitally urgent today as it was when it was first published. Second clip honours our slain anarchist comrades and our internationalist tendency of attack. This civilization will be ruins…
For practical black anarchy.
Indonesia: Individualitas dan Kelompok Anarkis
Daftar Isi:
Alih-Alih sebuah Prolog | Introduksi | Pemikiran Dasar untuk Memahami Sistem yang Eksis | Perselisihan dan Pilihan untuk Menyerang | Pemikiran Awal terkait Kelompok | Syarat Bergabung dalam Persekutuan | Tujuan | Penugasan | Kemistri Relasi dan Penggunaan Praktisnya | Manajemen Hubungan dan Keretakan | Kesalahpahaman terhadap Hal yang Jelas | Struktur Organisasi | Epilog; Catatan tentang Anarki Baru | Anarchist Haunt “Nadir” – Thessaloniki 7/12/2013; Spyros Mandylas, Anggota Pertemuan Anarchist Haunt “Nadir” | Christos Tsakalos, Sel Anggota Terpenjara Konspirasi Sel-Sel Api, FAI-IRF | 28/02/2014 – Wawancara Christos Tsakalos di Radio 105FM | Cell of Chaotic Strike | Pertanyaan tentang Organisasi
Source: Leguin
Athens, Greece: Claim of Responsibility for Arson Attack on a Cop’s House by Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Anger”
Claim of Responsibility for Arson Attack on a Cop’s House by Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Anger”
In March, none of us shall die (March 2010, Daphne – Lambros Fountas, an anarchist guerrilla who fell in a clash with cops) – (March 2026, outskirts of Rome – Sara Ardizone and Sandro Mercoliano, anarchist comrades who were killed by an explosion)
In October, none of us shall die (October 2024, Ampelokipi, Athens – Kyriakos Xymitiris, anarchist guerrilla killed by explosion)
In May, none of us shall die (May 2025, Thessaloniki – Snizanna Paraskevaidou, fell in an explosion during an attack on a bank)
And the story continues like this. Through the battles of our own people, simple, everyday. Like Lambros, like Kyriakos, like Snizanna, like Sandro and Sara and so many more people who lost their lives in direct action.With determination, with our own rage and memory, we took to the streets at dawn on March 10, the date that the anarchist revolutionary guerrilla Lambros Fountas fell fighting under fire from cops in Daphne 16 years ago and we attacked a cop’s house in Kaisariani with an incendiary device.
We have every reason to target the state’s scumbags who act as security guards for the bosses and the ruling elite. With this move, we want to remind them and all cops that we will not leave their activity unpunished. They are the ones who target fighters, violently attack demonstrators, torture and murder people in cop stations, at borders, as well as people from the impoverished margins and our own class. Let them remember and know that we can also locate them in their homes, in their neighbourhoods, in their jobs and that they are not really safe anywhere in making this choice to serve the system.
It is a fact that the state invests in order and security by strengthening policing at every level of central government. In this way, it prevents any resistance from below on behalf of capital as much as possible, while at the same time strengthening military-police capital through funds for security forces and armament programs. This is a phenomenon that is parallel in relation to the international geopolitical situation. As the war intensifies abroad (Middle East, Ukraine) and the Greek state participates in it through the Greek-Israeli-American alliance, NATO and the EU, so does the repression at home. Cops of all kinds are positioned to control our lives. The same applies to every field of public space from universities to neighbourhoods, squares and other natural sites (see Exarchia Square, Strefi Hill).
So, let fear change sides then. No matter how much the complicit and regime-based mass deception media cover you up by hiding our actions, we know the anxiety that these visits to your homes cause you. If you don’t pack up, we will come again. Our lives are not expendable. We want to show that you are the terrorists and dangerous to the public interest, not us who return the minimum percentage of your share of violence.
We express our solidarity with the Palestinian people who are fighting for their lives. Let us intensify the anti-war action against the war crimes occurring in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran by the Western bloc. We will not become meat for the murderers’ cannons because the local leaders, with Mitsotakis and Dendias as the first and best, rushed to ally with Netanyahu and Trump.
The choice to connect these contents through action on the day of remembrance of the anarchist guerrilla Lambros Fountas constitutes a connecting link between memory, action and continuity.
STRENGTH TO ALL PALESTINIAN MILITANTS DETAINED BY THE ISRAELI NATIONALIST (ZIONIST) REGIME AND THREATENED WITH THE DEATH PENALTY
FREEDOM AND SOLIDARITY TO ALL THE COMRADES PERSECUTED FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE
Anarchist Strike Group “Memory and Rage”
Via & translated by Act for Freedom now!
Short video clips for worldwide destructive anarchy
Two short videos which have been made and are circulating. For international revenge and solidarity. Free the prisoners, honour the dead.
Schönerlinde/Wandlitz, Germany: Asphalt plant of VINCI/EUROVIA on Fire – for a black spring, for the prisoners in the Ampelokipoi case
Asphalt plant of VINCI/EUROVIA on Fire – for a black spring, for the prisoners in the Ampelokipoi case
A circular economy of death and destruction
Faced with climate crisis, extractivist devastation, and imperialist aggression, a burning asphalt mixing plant owned by one of the world’s largest construction and infrastructure companies actually speaks for itself. Nevertheless, we would like to say a few words about our motives and the company that has been attacked. Because VINCI/EUROVIA is much more than just a producer of asphalt and concrete. This company embodies pretty much everything we despise and that makes this world a place full of oppression, suffering, and misery: highways, airports, dams, (deportation-) prisons, nuclear facilities, military equipment, oil and gas pipelines, mining, and much more…
Everyone who wants to know already knows – the biosphere is suffocating under the gray burden of civilization, and in the near future, many regions of the planet will be uninhabitable as a result of our imperial ways of life and economic practices. Battles over living areas and resources on an unseen scale seem unavoidable, and the current escalation of military conflicts and the relentless war against migrants on the streets of US cities or at the EU’s external borders are already grim signs of what this will look like. Since long we running out of time. The late capitalist world system is in the midst of profound upheaval, and war is becoming the new normal, while the remaining natural world serves only as a source of raw materials to be plundered before others do.
Companies such as VINCI are benefiting across the entire spectrum from these developments. By constructing nuclear reactors, oil pipelines, and gas terminals (such as the one in Brunsbüttel), the company understands how to secure the future of fossil fuel dinosaurs while simultaneously profiting from the illusion of green energy through huge wind farms and hydroelectric power plants. With its motorway and road network spanning several thousand kilometers and over 70 airports in 14 different countries, built and operated by VINCI, the company is also a major pillar of the global transport infrastructure, fueling, inch by inch, a parasitic system that knows only one direction – and that’s leading straight into ecological collapse. Land grabbing, wars, and genocide are inextricably woven into this system and have enabled the triumph of capitalism, whereby our “wealth” and Western dominance are undoubtedly a product of this deadly (colonial) history. However, in the international scramble for power, influence, and resources, that Western dominance must increasingly assert itself against other players, which leads once again to senseless bloodshed, while creating a good mood in the management suites of the arms industry. ReArm Europe is the battle cry from Brussels to prevail in this conflict, and VINCI is also playing a major role in this front of rearmament and militarization. Therefor the company recently acquired Wärtsilä SAM Electronics, which maintains several German Navy shipyards or provides infrastructure services for dozens of British Army facilities. Wars and environmental destruction, which have always gone hand in hand with the expansion of capitalist exploitation, are forcing more and more people to leave their homes, and never before have so many people been displaced worldwide as today. The „dispensable“ masses of people from the global south are being fought with all severity, and their escape routes have long since turned into mass graves with countless deaths. For those who nevertheless manage to make it all the way here, it is not empathy and compassion that await them, but humiliation, racism, and repression. All of these characteristics, which have shaped the public debate on migration in almost all political camps for years, and thus significantly promote (neo-)fascist tendencies. And here comes full circle. Because even the suffering of refugees can be exploited for profit, and VINCI benefits from the construction of deportation centers and border controls under Europe’s rigorous border regime. Continue reading “Schönerlinde/Wandlitz, Germany: Asphalt plant of VINCI/EUROVIA on Fire – for a black spring, for the prisoners in the Ampelokipoi case”