A-Infos (en) Greece. APO: Solidarity with the anarchist anti-fascist D.M. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

AGAINST REPRESSION, STATE REVANCESISM AND JUDICIAL FRAUDS - NOT A STEP 
BACK! ---- On October 7, 2020, the day of the decision on the Golden 
Dawn trial, we found ourselves together with tens of thousands of 
protesters outside the Athens Court of Appeal, in one of the largest 
anti-fascist gatherings of all time in Greece. No illusions that the 
system of exploitation and oppression can be beautified, no illusions 
that any government can be a barrier to fascism, no illusions about the 
role of bourgeois justice and its decisions, through dynamic gathering 
and conflicts with its uniformed killers police station on Alexandra 
Avenue, we shouted with all our might that we were not there to fight 
fascism together with the state, the government, the late anti-fascism 
of the media and all sorts of institutional devotees of a bogus and 
hypocritical anti-fascism, but on the contrary, we were outside the 
Court of Appeal in defiance of all those who methodically reward social 
fascism and state totalitarianism on a daily basis.
It is a fact that the AXA, since its foundation in the 80s, functioned 
as a state agent and subordinate. Whereas, its main direction, both of 
the organization itself, and of the state that guided it, was to soften 
the resistance of society by acting in addition to and/or instead of 
official repression, as well as to develop the most conservative and 
reactionary social instincts, dissolving any collective, class and 
social ties, thus contributing to social fascism. This is evidenced by 
the hundreds of murderous attacks against political and social 
activists, leftists, anarchists and trade unionists, occupiers and 
self-administered struggle sites, refugees and immigrants, always 
enjoying the cooperation, protection and immunity consistently granted 
to it by the official repressive mechanisms, the police and justice.
In the midst of a deep political and economic crisis, especially after 
the social uprising of December 2008, and faced with the mass 
mobilizations of the following years against poverty and the 
impoverishment of the memoranda policies, the regime chose to reward 
even more the murderous gang of AXA by all means, as a tool within a 
broader counter-insurgency and counter-revolutionary strategy. The 
culmination of the criminal activity of the neo-Nazis, the murder of 
Pavlos Fyssas on September 18, 2013 in Keratsini, had a decisive effect 
on the consciences of the fighters, but also on that wider and majority 
stream of society that does not accept fascism, in a way and with 
consequences that regime wanted to control.
This movement of pre-planned and publicized arrests and prosecutions 
cannot of course be seen as a defensive move on the part of the state. 
Instead, he quickly joined an aggressive movement in the context of his 
reconstruction, in the direction of modern totalitarianism. A move that 
sent a clear repressive message to the world fighting against 
institutions and from below, both through the implementation of the 
Criminal Organization Act created to criminalize social-class 
resistance, and through the use of the theory of two ends, which 
attempts to identify the parastatal action of the thugs and murderers of 
the ACA with the world of struggle and resistance.
The 7th of October 2020 was, therefore, a day of condemnation for the 
AXA, however, an investigation by the state security did not take long, 
a short time later, on the occasion of the conflicts that broke out 
outside the Court of Appeal, in yet another application of the theory of 
the two ends, which it has no other goal than to equate those on the 
ramparts of class and social resistance, those who are actually fighting 
against fascism, with Nazi bastards. In the end, a case file is filed 
and a prosecution is brought against the comrade and member of the APO, 
D.M., who is accused of the misdemeanors of disturbing the peace and 
aggravated assault, while it remains open against other, so far unknown, 
persons . This prosecution is based on a large amount of audio-visual 
material (videos, photos, unedited footage) from the day of the rally, 
which was collected by cops and ruffian journalists and in no way 
justifies the charges against him.

Fraudulent, insurance-type criminal records are not a new tool in the 
quiver of the state and the authorities. This particular case, however, 
is a blatant attempt of state revanchism against one of the most massive 
demonstrations of the last ten years, at the same time as the special 
targeting of the comrade, who was neither brought nor arrested that day, 
but the charges attributed to him arise from, much later, processes 
within GADA. This case file serves a fixed goal of power. It aims to 
terrorize the fighters, to isolate them from the social body, to keep 
them in a peculiar hostage regime, and ultimately to take revenge on 
them for exactly what they are doing, fighting against the rotten world 
of power.
More specifically, as far as our comrade D. M. is concerned, it is a 
fact that he is an organized anarchist who is consistently at the 
forefront of the struggle, being for years a stable member of political 
structures, which are constantly in every field that erupts social and 
class resistances. Thus, she has fallen into the hands of repressive 
mechanisms again in the past, together with other comrades and comrades, 
in the context of collective anarchist action, anti-fascist 
mobilizations, solidarity movements for political prisoners and the 
defense of public spaces. It is indisputable that the state is targeting 
him to hit an active fighter. As well as how his prosecution is an 
attack against all of us.
This persecution is not, of course, an isolated incident, but is part of 
a wider repressive campaign that the state has unleashed against those 
who fight against the encroachment of the state and capital. In a period 
where the system itself oppresses and exploits the lower social strata, 
the mechanisms of proactive counter-insurgency are necessary to 
safeguard power: trumped-up cases, invasions of squatters and struggle 
spaces, banning and beating of demonstrations, escalation of control, 
policing in the center of the cities, attack on the strike and labor 
mobilizations and persecutions against students for expressing their 
solidarity with Palestine are parts of the state's repressive network to 
subjugate society and its protests.
For our part, as an Anarchist Political Organization, we continue to 
fight for the overthrow of the world of power which has nothing to 
promise the plebeian strata of society but poverty, destitution and war. 
We do not forget that the struggle against fascism is part of the 
overall struggle against the state and capital. We are fighting against 
the legal methods that aim to destroy the fighters politically, morally 
and materially. Through social-class struggles we stand against the 
exploitative system, which promotes inequalities, hierarchy and 
divisions. We fight inside and outside the courtrooms, in all social 
fields, in the daily struggles for a world of equality, solidarity, 
freedom. The only real dilemma of our time is state and capitalist 
brutality or SOCIAL REVOLUTION.

HANDS UP FROM THE COMPETITORS
BACK RUFFIERS IN FRONT PARTNERS
DEATH TO FASCISM, THE STATE & CAPITALISM
ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND LIBERAL 
COMMUNISM

Gathering: Friday, September 27, Evelpidon (building 9), 09.00

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

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