A-Infos (en) I.F.A. - Interview with APO (Anarchist Political Organisation, Greece) at the IFA Congress (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Ouzo (FA): Morning comrades, this interview follows the 13th Congress of 
IFA which you organised here in Athenes. Can you share with us the story 
of your organisation that is 10 years old this year? From which 
political context it emerged? How are you organised as a federation? --- 
APO: --- The Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of 
Collectives (APO), was founded as a federalist organization active in 
Greece since 2015 and a member of the International Federation of 
Anarchist Associations (IFA). Currently, three anarchist collectives 
participate in APO, two from Athens, the anarchist collective "Circle of 
Fire" and the anarchist collective "Omicron72" and one from 
Thessaloniki, the collective for social anarchism "Black and Red". The 
collectives & groups are active also through their own squats and 
self-organized structures. More specifically, the collective "Circle of 
Fire" through the squat Lelas Karagianni 37 (founded in 1988) & the 
collective "Omikron.72" through the anarchist - antiauthoritarian center 
Antipnoia (founded in 2007), the collective "Black and Red" though the 
libertarian center No Pasaran (founded in 2023, after the eviction of 
anarchist squat Mundo Nuevo, which founded in 2015). The autonomous 
action of the collectives in the cities in which each of them is active 
and their participation in local actions, processes and projects 
contribute in the direction of common goals and strategies that emerge 
within the common project of APO.

APO is organized as a federation with its collectives being its cells, 
co-operating in a horizontal structure. It is constituted on coherent 
and adequate political agreements between anarchist collectives that 
shape their unified movement on a nationwide level through collective 
procedures in which they coexist equally. Since December 2015, A.P.O. 
publishes the anarchist newspaper "?? ??? ?????????" (in English "Land 
and Freedom") and since December 2020 operates the website of 
libertarian counter-info "Land and Freedom". Since 2017, we formed a 
specific thematic group against patriarchy by the women comrades of the 
groups and collectives of A.P.O. and has a stable and constant presence 
in the struggles against the state-capitalistic-patriarchic 
authoritarian system.

A.P.O. is structured on common political beliefs, principles and 
positions and aims to acquire more and more coherent political 
agreements in order to be able to formulate long-term strategies of 
struggle. It seeks to spread the proposals of the anarchist struggle in 
the movement and society and to form consciences. To contribute in this 
way, for its part, to the creation of a coherent, radical movement. A 
movement that will put a stop to any attempt to manipulate, hijack and 
mediate social and class struggles and to integrate them by reformism. A 
movement that will clearly promote social revolution as the only 
realistic way to their final liberation of the people from below from 
domination and will connect the partial struggles to the overall 
revolutionary target of overthrowing the state and capital.

The creation of the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of 
Collectives ten years ago, is a political and organizational 
intersection of our functioning and action so far. This choice 
encapsulates conclusions and experiences from the struggles of yesterday 
as it is a product of critique and self-criticism while opening new 
perspectives for the transition from protest and rebellion to the 
ongoing struggle for social revolution. A.P.O. is the child of the 
social and class riots of December 2008 (taking under consideration the 
possibilities and also the limitations that were brought about) and of 
the great mobilization in 2010-2012. We are inspired by the libertarian 
movement of CNT-FAI, that through tough struggles, riots and mostly the 
class, social, political organization managed to make into practice the 
idea of general subversion of the state and capitalism and the 
development of social self-management.

Demonstration 15th years since the Revolt of 2008, 6th December 2023, Athens

Ouzo (FA): Thank you for this. I know that you are involved in many 
struggles, the students, the squat, palestine, trials support... How do 
you manage to impose your anarchist agenda within these struggles that 
are too often co-opted by authoritarians, Marxist, leftists...?

APO:

For us, A.P.O. is the vehicle of struggle for our constant and 
consistent intervention in the battles of the social and class war, from 
the struggles against class exploitation, state repression, fascism and 
war, against the plunder of nature, against patriarchy and gender 
violence to the struggles for the defense of public spaces, of the 
public character of education and health care and the struggles in 
solidarity with refugees and immigrants and political prisoners. For the 
more effective diffusion of the anarchist vision of a society of 
equality, justice, freedom and solidarity, for social and class 
emancipation, for the organization of the struggle for social revolution 
and the creation of a bridge between everyday struggle and the vision of 
anarchy and libertarian communism.

We seek to participate and intervene continuously and actively in the 
social and class struggles that are antagonistic to the state-capitalist 
plans, with the aim of radicalizing their content, the processes that 
frame them and the means of struggle. To interact with social and class 
projects, in every field of social life, in the workplaces, in schools, 
universities, neighborhoods, promoting the development of unmediated, 
anti-hierarchical and anti-institutional struggles.

Within these fields, we are constantly in confrontation with reformism, 
a perception antagonistic to the revolutionary perspective. Its actors - 
whether they come from the forces of the parliamentary left, or from the 
bureaucratic trade union leaderships or from extra-parliamentary bodies 
and alternative organizations - systematically attempt to mediate social 
and class struggles and their people, through the assignment of 
initiatives to "experts", thus limiting the scope and forms of the 
struggle, and ultimately leading to denervation, their distortion and 
slander.

Therefore, it is our constant concern to fight against these reformist 
logics and perceptions within the struggles and to be constantly awake 
to prevent attempts to assimilate social and class resistances. Our 
distinct participation in the open processes of social and class 
struggle, with full respect for their autonomy, allows us to defend the 
self-organization and the unconstrained participation of all people in 
them and the choice of the means of struggle according to their 
capabilities. Through this vital interaction and the continuous 
enrichment of our political experiences, we constantly update our 
political discourse regarding the situation and the prospects of the 
social and class struggles today. At the same time, we promote the 
formation of stable structures of resistance in every social and class 
field, seeking to disseminate our anarchist positions and proposals, not 
only in the direction of highlighting the limitations of the partial 
struggles in the present, but promoting their continuous radicalization 
and connection with the overall prospect of Social Revolution.

Ouzo: How do you feel about IFA after this congress you organised? 
Meeting each others was a strong moment of international anarchist 
cooperation. What are your perspectives as a federation within the IFA?
APO:

At this point we would like to say that we have not completed our 
assessment as APO for the Congress of the International of Anarchist 
Federations that took place in early April 2026 in Athens. This process 
will be completed in the immediate future, where we have scheduled our 
organization's Congress in early June 2026. For our part, however, we 
can submit a preliminary conclusions of this process, which we believe 
moved in a positive and productive context towards producing an 
international position on issues such as the intensification of state 
and capitalist brutality, the threat of generalization of war, fascism 
and internationalist solidarity among the oppressed, while offered 
interesting exchanges of experiences on the intensification of 
patriarchal violence and the plundering of nature and local peoples 
worldwide. We hope that this positive direction will continue, with 
joint agreements on additional issues and with initiatives that will 
have the horizon of strengthening anarchist positions, discourse and action.

Especially in a period where military operations are expanding abroad 
and state repression is intensifying at home, we believe that the need 
for the anarchist movement to be able to form its political value and 
ideological framework is even more acute, both to influence the 
consciences of those from below and to defend its positions against the 
attempts to impose foreign perceptions of the anarchist struggle and the 
internationalist struggle solidarity. On the one hand, the very dynamics 
of the changes and overthrows sought by the rulers require the rapid 
reconstruction of the current at an international level, the urgent need 
to expand the network of contacts and communication of anarchists at an 
international level is proven, with the main aim of exchanging 
experiences, informing about how authoritarian politics is shaped in 
every geography and the social resistances that are manifested in every 
part of the planet. In addition, the debate at the international level 
on the war treaty and the generalized threat of war is crucial.

It is literally a matter of life and death both for the movement and for 
societies and the oppressed, to be able to form and adopt as coherent as 
possible a stance amongst anarchists towards militarism, the threat of 
war and resistance to world domination. We believe that this can be 
achieved if the comrades in every geography manage to realize that as 
long as there are visible historical, political, social or even cultural 
differences between the individual societies (and therefore the 
movements) that are necessarily formed under the shadow of the nation 
state, which must be respected, at the same time today's anarchist 
analysis ascertains a single state and capitalist condition that 
dominates and oppresses the entire planet. The deepening of the relevant 
debate and the corresponding cooperation of anarchists at an 
international level are basic prerequisites for the strengthening of the 
anarchist struggle, that is, the strengthening of the very social and 
class resistances that can protect societies from the threat of war and 
the intensification of exploitation and oppression.

Ouzo: Efcharisto para poli sidrofoi. Do you have something else to say? 
A slogan to share?

Thank you very much for this interview and we send our solidarity to the 
comrades all over the world who are fighting in every corner of the 
earth for a society of Equals, without exploitation and oppression, 
without masters and slaves, for the new world that we carry in our hearts!

As a closure, we will borrow a phrase from the indigenous Mapuche: 
MARICHIWEU! ("We will win a thousand times")

Long live Anarchy!

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