“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.