A-Infos (en) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom - Athens - No participation in the assignment ballots (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

NO CONSENT TO POWER --- NO PARTICIPATION IN THE ASSIGNMENT BALLOTS --- 
LET'S TAKE LIVES INTO OUR HANDS
Elections, as a control mechanism, are the main tool of power in 
bourgeois democracy for ensuring social consensus and legitimizing the 
dominance of the powerful over the social base. The illusion of the 
alleged choice of an alternative and participation in decision-making by 
society is given, often with the use of bipolars, which result in the 
complete distancing of people from the commons and the assignment of 
decisions about our lives to the "experts". Thus, student elections are, 
on the one hand, an attempt to secure institutional positions by party 
factions to control the procedures and decisions of the student movement 
and, on the other, the legitimization of the existence of the alleged 
"militant" forces and their parasitic nature.
As every year, so this year too, we see in the last weeks our schools 
becoming fields of election campaign by the various party youth. As the 
culmination of the decay of bureaucratic unionism, each party force 
promotes a militant stance and in a climate of demonstrativeness lists 
its "alleged" victories, which are nothing more than conquests of the 
student base. Thus, from the classic anti-militant and conservative 
forces, or those factions that appropriate the tools of struggle of the 
Anarchist struggle, to the most hostile to the movement and pawns of the 
rectorate authorities, such as EAAK/ARAS, they have nothing to promise 
except the inactivation of student associations, the instrumentalization 
of our struggles and the electoral exploitation of the needs and goals 
of the student movement.
In a period of intensified attack by the State and bosses on the public 
character of Education and in the attempt to impose a condition of 
complete authoritarianism by the State and the rectories in the asylum 
areas, the need to rally students in libertarian, self-organized groups 
and their unmediated participation in social and class struggles is a 
one-way street.
For us, as anarchists, our conscious refusal to participate in the 
student elections is not simply an ideological issue. It is the 
awareness of objective reality. From the most pro-government voices that 
celebrate the institutional abolition of university asylum and 
expulsions, to the supposedly movement-oriented and militant ones, all 
of them want to make a political career on the backs of the social base. 
The student movement is not a minority of experts whose party line has 
replaced their conscience and intelligence. It is its base, the everyday 
people who, through their participation in grassroots collective 
processes, occupations, and demonstrations, have stood in the way of 
educational restructuring over the past 50 years and will do so once 
again in the coming years.
Against the servants of party interests, whether right-wing or 
left-wing, truly self-organized forces must take initiatives in the near 
future that will break the cycle of defeatism and misery. Let us oppose 
with our weapon of dignity, solidarity and justice the unmediated 
struggle from below. For a university where student associations, 
self-organized and without leaders and boards, will occupy the spaces 
where we study, socialize and politicize. Reclaiming asylum and its 
social character. Setting the goals of a student movement that will be 
truly unguarded, dangerous and revolutionary.

ABSTENTION FROM THE BALLOTS

PARTICIPATION IN SOCIAL AND CLASS STRUGGLES

RESISTANCE - SELF-ORGANIZATION - SOLIDARITY

Initiative of Anarchist Students of Athens

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2284-athina-kamia-symmetoxi-stis-kalpes-tis-anathesis
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