A-Infos (en) Greece, APO: Positioning of the Anarchist Collective Circle of Fire at the 8th Congress of the Anarchist Political Organization - ?? 13-14 June 2026 - Thessaloniki IV. (4/4) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

WAR AND FASCISM --- States and ruling elites are redistributing the 
world and the blackest thing that human history has ever produced is 
emerging. War and fascism, as the most depraved expressions of state and 
capitalist imposition, constitute a reality that threatens societies all 
over the world. The class, social, internationalist solidarity 
barricades and the popular/social resistances and uprisings of the 
plebeians all over the world constitute humanity's only hope for the 
overthrow of the dominant destructive plans and for the building of a 
new society of equality, solidarity and freedom.
At the same time, transnational formations are increasing their 
aggression, sharpening their antagonisms and working to expand their 
power by military means, with disastrous consequences for every people 
in their path, plundering most of the planet for centuries and preparing 
the next step. The transition from regional conflicts "by proxy" to 
generalized war, in order to maintain the blood-stained 
"acquisitiveness" of their declining empire.
States and transnational mechanisms are starting up war machines, 
launching military operations and shaping warring societies both to 
expand their sphere of influence and to continue the plunder of the 
state and capitalist machine. A condition in which the only real losers 
are the people themselves, who are faced with the war massacres and the 
consequences of war, impoverishment, poverty, uprooting and death.
This is what is highlighted in the most tragic way, both in the war 
massacre in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army almost 5 
years ago and in the genocide of the Palestinian people for the 
persecution from their land, the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza and the West 
Bank, the bombings of Beirut, the leveling and persecutions in southern 
Lebanon by the genocidal Zionist state of Israel which is furiously 
attempting to impose its absolute hegemony in the Middle East and the 
southeastern Mediterranean. This is also evidenced by the 
ever-increasing aggression of the US in various parts of the world and 
the war against Iran, as a result of the crisis of their global hegemony 
and the enormous and multiple internal crises and their need to reassert 
their control over strategic regions rich in oil, minerals, water and 
biodiversity.

THE ROLE OF THE GREEK STATE
Greece, as a member of the European Union and NATO, is firmly oriented 
towards the pursuits of the dominant political and economic elite of 
which it is an integral part and is tied to the chariot of 
Euro-Atlanticism, responsible for so many interventions in recent years 
and not only. The current political administration, like all previous 
ones, has fulfilled and continues to fulfill its mission in full, which 
is none other than the continuous effort, in its part, for the 
unhindered imposition of the modern dictatorship of the state and 
capital, of modern totalitarianism, on a global level.
Both the strategic energy agreement and the renewal of the Greek-US 
defense cooperation with the upgrade of the American base of Souda and 
its role in the wider region, the transfer of "special" weapons to the 
Araxos air base and the expansion of existing NATO military bases in a 
number of areas of the country, including Larissa, Stefanovikeio and the 
helicopter base in Alexandroupolis, constitute another example of the 
ratification and expansion of relations between the Greek and American 
states, confirmation of the attachment of the domestic bourgeoisie to 
the chariot of interests of the dominant international 
political-economic elite and strengthening of the role of the Greek 
state in the critical region of the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean.
In particular, the US base in Souda operates as a critical center for 
military monitoring, coordination and support of US and Euro-Atlantic 
operations throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The 
upgrading and expansion of its capabilities is directly linked to 
military actions in the Middle East, including direct and indirect 
support for the Israeli state and its participation in the genocide of 
the Palestinian people. This base symbolizes and serves the maintenance 
of US and Euro-Atlantic sovereignty and guardianship in the critical 
region of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing military capabilities for 
rapid reaction and handling of its geopolitical interests.

The Greek state during the American and Israeli bombings of Iran 
provided all possible support to these operations, sent warships and 
planes to Cyprus, pretending that it was for assistance and for 
defensive purposes to prevent an attack on it, while in reality it was 
to defend the British military base at the Paphos cape. It then sent 
anti-aircraft systems to Karpathos for the defense of the American base 
at Souda, its frigates were and continue to be off the coast of Israel 
for its defense and the transfer of information via military radars 
regarding imminent strikes on NATO and American-Israeli targets, and 
Greek patriots were used to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles 
targeting an oil company in Saudi Arabia. This is the framework within 
which the country is becoming increasingly actively involved in US and 
Israeli war plans, making the Greek region the front line of the rear of 
Western imperialism's military operations in the Middle East.

REPRESSION - INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
The genocide of the Palestinian people is being carried out with the 
alliance of Western states, whose lukewarm "humanitarian" statements 
simply confirm their consent and support for Israel's operations. Within 
this framework, both in the US and in Europe, states are attacking those 
who are fighting against the atrocity that is unfolding before the eyes 
of the entire world. On May 18, the Israeli Navy intercepted the Global 
Sumud Flotilla in international waters, south of Cyprus, kidnapping a 
total of 461 activists under the guise of piracy. At the same time, 87 
of the activists began a hunger strike as a sign of protest for their 
abduction by Israel but also in solidarity with the more than 9,500 
Palestinian prisoners, who are tortured daily in the cells of the 
Zionist regime, awaiting their execution after the recent law passed by 
the Knesset. The activists who were abducted by the Israeli forces were 
faced with a lot of torture, with most of them being severely beaten, 
while there were also allegations of sexual abuse and rape. After the 
obvious participation of the Greek state in the first interceptions off 
Crete, the Cypriot state takes the baton and delivers the solidarity 
activists into the hands of the Zionists. It is clear that the 
repression extends beyond the borders of Gaza and the West Bank and is 
directed against any act of internationalist solidarity. The Israeli 
state, after completely razing Gaza, continues its settlements in the 
West Bank, its bombings in Lebanon and Iran, and continues to 
demonstrate its bloodthirsty actions with Western governments 
acquiescing through their hypocritical humanitarian complaints. At the 
same time, they maintain political and economic agreements with Israel, 
while attacking solidarity demonstrations taking place around the world 
and criminalizing the symbols of the Palestinian people, proclaiming 
that in the world of the state and capitalism, there is only one 
"justice." Despite state repression, the resistance that is being 
demonstrated is preserving human dignity in the face of the ongoing 
genocide of a people, in the face of the blatant distortion of reality, 
of their words and meanings, of history, in the face of the silence that 
the same states that allow this historical crime to be committed are 
attempting to impose within themselves by force. At a local level, a 
prime example of a repressive operation is the murderous attack on the 
solidarity march with the Palestinian people in Athens on 07/10/25, 
where the uniformed assault battalions of democracy brutally attacked 
the body of the demonstration, making 18 arrests, violently beating the 
demonstrators and causing serious injuries,while the attempt for yet 
another conspiracy by inventing criminal charges for those arrested 
immediately began. At the international level, throughout the genocide, 
the majority of international humanitarian missions have been prevented 
and banned by Israel, with typical examples initially being the hitting 
of a ship - a solidarity mission by two Israeli drones in international 
waters near Malta, the blocking of the Madleen shortly before it reached 
the Gaza Strip, then the attack on the global sumud flotilla and the 
kidnapping of hundreds of its members and the blocking of the one 
thousand madleens flotilla along with the captivity of those on board. 
All these international missions were intended to break the blockade 
imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip in order to deliver humanitarian aid 
to the people of Palestine and despite their prevention, they were 
important points of international mobilization and coordination of 
solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people. Also at the local 
level, the nationwide mobilization of solidarity with the struggling 
Palestinian people and the targeting of the Souda base with the large 
and dynamic presence of a multitude of comrades/associates and 
collectives, who responded nationwide, is a reference point in the fight 
against the genocide of Palestine and leaves an important political 
legacy for the future. As an Anarchist Political Organization, we called 
for and promoted the two-day mobilizations, while many comrades of the 
APO groups from Athens and Thessaloniki participated with a distinct 
anarchist presence in both the demonstration in the city of Chania and 
in the one towards the Souda base. The aim of our intervention was to 
express solidarity with the Palestinian people against the occupation, 
apartheid and genocide, as well as overall the development and 
dissemination of the anarchist anti-war discourse against the Greek 
state, whose role is strengthened through the undivided and 
comprehensive support of the USA and Israel.Also at the local level, the 
nationwide mobilization of solidarity with the struggling Palestinian 
people and the targeting of the Souda base with the large and dynamic 
presence of a multitude of comrades and collectives, who responded 
nationwide, constitutes a point of reference in the struggle against the 
genocide of Palestine and leaves an important political legacy for the 
future. As an Anarchist Political Organization, we called and promoted 
the two-day mobilizations, while many comrades of the APO groups from 
Athens and Thessaloniki participated with a distinct anarchist presence 
both in the demonstration in the city of Chania and in the one towards 
the Souda base. The aim of our intervention was to express solidarity 
with the Palestinian people against the occupation, apartheid and 
genocide, as well as the overall development and dissemination of 
anarchist anti-war discourse against the Greek state, whose role is 
strengthened through the undivided and comprehensive support of the US 
and Israel.Also at the local level, the nationwide mobilization of 
solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people and the targeting of 
the Souda base with the large and dynamic presence of a multitude of 
comrades and collectives, who responded nationwide, constitutes a point 
of reference in the struggle against the genocide of Palestine and 
leaves an important political legacy for the future. As an Anarchist 
Political Organization, we called and promoted the two-day 
mobilizations, while many comrades of the APO groups from Athens and 
Thessaloniki participated with a distinct anarchist presence both in the 
demonstration in the city of Chania and in the one towards the Souda 
base. The aim of our intervention was to express solidarity with the 
Palestinian people against the occupation, apartheid and genocide, as 
well as the overall development and dissemination of anarchist anti-war 
discourse against the Greek state, whose role is strengthened through 
the undivided and comprehensive support of the US and Israel.

For our part, as organized anarchist fighters, we have been at the 
forefront of demonstrations and mobilizations against war, fascism, 
colonialism and imperialism as the offspring of the imposition of global 
state domination and capitalism. We stand in solidarity with every 
people who fight hard and persistently for their survival, dignity and 
freedom with their only allies the fighters throughout the world. As 
anarchists, we want to highlight these elements of their struggle, the 
ability of the conquered to fight back against the all-powerful 
conqueror, the ability of the poor and the excluded to rebel even under 
the most barbaric conditions. We want international solidarity to create 
rifts within the attacking rulers by bringing to the fore our own 
history, the history of the struggles of those from below that, against 
all times, create the living reality of freedom and solidarity, 
constituting the only real bulwark against the onslaught of modern 
totalitarianism. At the same time, as APO, we have had the opportunity 
in the past period, and on the occasion of the organization of the 
hosting of the conference of the international anarchist federations, to 
elaborate and deepen even further our positions and analyses in the 
direction of our theoretical contribution to the anarchist movement. 
Today we are living in a period of distortion of concepts and values, 
and the need for the anarchist movement to build its political, moral 
and ideological framework is more urgent than ever, both for the 
awakening of the consciousness of those from below, and for the defense 
of its positions against the attempts to impose foreign concepts 
regarding the anarchist struggle and internationalist solidarity. These 
attempts stem from authoritarian tendencies, mainly of leftist political 
origin, and are expressed through the support of totalitarian state 
formations, the condemnation of popular uprisings, the alignment with 
centers of power, consciously false dilemmas, emotional blackmail, 
slander of fighters and threats, all superficially dressed in the cloak 
of anti-imperialism.
The logic of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" always leads to the 
same dead end: silence about the crimes of the new and opportunistic 
ally, justification of its violence and rejection of the struggles that 
it suppresses internally. Thus, anti-imperialism is transformed into a 
geopolitical tool, losing all libertarian content and analytical substance.
From an anarchist perspective, this is inconceivable. There is no 
imperialism without a state. There is no imperialism without internal 
repression. The same structures that expand outwards also discipline 
inwards, within class-stratified societies. The same mechanisms bomb, 
imprison, torture and exterminate, and anyone who pretends not to see 
this is not practicing anti-imperialism but political cover-up.
Proletarian internationalism does not choose states, flags or poles 
through opportunistic alliances, although this does not mean that it 
will not exploit the internal contradictions and ruptures of the system. 
It chooses sides in social struggles: it stands with the workers, with 
the refugees crushed at the borders, with the conscripts and deserters, 
with the prisoners, with the insurgents, with all those who pay the cost 
of imperialist antagonisms, wherever they may be. It does not go through 
foreign ministries or geopolitical calculations. It goes through 
internationalist solidarity from below.

***

The main strategic priorities of the Greek state and the ruling class 
over time are to serve their inextricable connection with the 
Euro-Atlantic axis and to promote anti-social restructurings with the 
aim of the overall transformation of the state, the economy and society. 
The imposition on society of the confirmation and expansion of these 
strategic priorities of domination that preceded the period 2011-2019 
was achieved both with the systematic and brutal suppression of 
self-organized popular/social/class struggles and with the collaboration 
and cooperation of all political and party personnel of the democracy 
from the right and far right to the establishment and social democratic 
left. Thus, the political management of the last seven years, which 
constitutes the far right version of modern totalitarianism, is 
advancing with even greater aggression in the declared goals of the 
world of power. From privatizations, the plundering of the natural 
world, the flexibilization and intensification of labor, the cultivation 
of racism and nationalism, the even greater attachment to NATO, the 
permanentization of the role of the border guard of Fortress Europe, to 
the suppression of social and class struggles and the attack on the 
anarchist movement.

The state crime in Tempi 3 and a half years ago, as well as the 
experience of previous mass state crimes, such as in Ricomex, Samina, 
Ilia, Mandra, Mati and Pylos, demonstrate the incurably antisocial and 
murderous nature of the imposed authoritarian and hierarchical way of 
organizing society by the state and capital. Thus, it becomes clear that 
the mediation of social relations as a whole by the state, regardless of 
its political management, over time has not been oriented and aimed at 
serving social needs, but on the contrary, the priority of state 
institutions and mechanisms has always been the perpetuation and 
reproduction of the parasitic relationship of political and economic 
elites to the detriment of society.
The same is demonstrated by the employer's murder of 5 workers at the 
Violanta factory in Trikala, after an explosion that destroyed the 
facilities in which they worked, and from which 7 other workers were 
injured, as well as the subsequent efforts of state mechanisms to 
conceal the employer's shortcomings in protective measures, the illegal 
propane constructions, the undeclared facilities in the factory's 
basement, the employer's terrorism that was practiced for years in this 
labor camp. The explosion at Violanta is neither a random event nor an 
accident, but on the contrary constitutes the tip of the iceberg of the 
savage class exploitation imposed in the workplace, another prescribed 
state and capitalist crime. The dozens of murders of workers in the 
labor camps of modern slavery, which reached 201 in 2025 alone, testify 
that the exploited and oppressed continue to pay with their blood for 
the maintenance and reproduction of the barbaric exploitative and 
oppressive system, which oppresses, murders, and impoverishes.
The same is also demonstrated by the recent mass murders of refugees and 
immigrants in the Chios shipwreck, where the coast guard boat literally 
ran over them, dismembering them, while survivors of the shipwreck were 
subsequently targeted for prosecution, in order to justify yet another 
state crime and to shift responsibility from the perpetrators to the 
victims. The murderous anti-immigrant "deterrence" policies and the 
construction of Fortress Europe are reflected in the thousands of dead 
refugees and immigrants at land and water borders, in those trapped and 
piled up in miserable conditions in modern concentration camps, in those 
imprisoned under a special racist regime of exception. The "walls" that 
are being erected not only serve to keep the outcasts, the "surplus 
populations" out of Europe by any means, but also to lead Western 
societies to entrench fascism within them, to create a social condition 
of fear, control and hatred with the aim of tacit acceptance of their 
savage exploitation by the rulers.

The state and capitalist attack on all aspects of life is a result of 
the overall crisis of the system and is becoming increasingly acute, 
seeking to deprive the vast social majority of any prospect of 
resistance and at the same time to uproot what has been gained in the 
past through bloody struggles. The ever-increasing intensification of 
the workplace and the imposition of more onerous conditions in the labor 
camps, the attack on education at every level with the sharpening of 
class barriers, exclusions, repression and discipline, the dismantling 
and devaluing of the National Health System, the attack on struggling 
health workers and the exclusion of the poor from access to health, the 
plundering of the natural world and the destruction of local communities 
for the profits of the state and capital, the upgrading of the state's 
legal arsenal and the fierce repressive fury that it has unleashed 
against social and class resistance are some of the points of the 
restructuring that the political and economic bosses are attempting to 
impose on the vast social majority, with the aim of complete social 
transformation and the creation of a subjugated and fearful society, 
helpless to stand up to injustice and unfreedom that exists.

It is clear that social justice for every state-capitalist crime could 
not come through state institutions and mechanisms, but only from the 
social base itself. Through an organized social class movement that will 
constitute a real threat to the system that murders, impoverishes and 
suppresses. A movement that will put the overall perspective of social 
and class emancipation at the center, dispelling the illusions that are 
cultivated about justification through courtrooms and parliamentary 
benches and offer continuous legitimization of the criminal 
state-capitalist system. A movement that will confront those who propose 
assigning the coverage of social needs to the state, constantly 
demonstrating that the exclusive goal of state institutions and 
mechanisms over time has been the perpetuation and reproduction of the 
parasitic relationship of political and economic elites to the detriment 
of society. The only path to the real fulfillment of social needs and 
expectations is the unmediated, unguarded and anti-institutional 
struggle to build a world where social goods will be under the control 
of the social base itself, from the bottom up for the bottom up. This is 
why the continuous, visible and organized intervention of anarchists is 
imperative at every point where state and capitalist aggression 
manifests itself, in the direction of the collective organization, 
strengthening and connection of the existing points of resistance from 
below that constitute in the here and now bulwarks against state and 
capitalist aggression, and the creation of new collective centers of 
struggle in schools, colleges, labor camps, neighborhoods in the 
direction of building a world of equality, solidarity and freedom.

***

The depth of modern totalitarianism is manifested on the one hand by the 
continuous and more unfavorable restructurings against the large social 
majority, but also by the preparation of the social base for a warring 
society, the consolidation of a condition of silence and at the same 
time submission to the plans of the dominant and on the other hand by 
the crushing of the internal enemy, any resistance that manifests itself 
from below and aims to put a dam on the antisocial and criminal policies 
of the state and capital. This is why the anarchist movement, as long as 
the system of power is delegitimized and is in deep crisis, is a basic 
target of repression, in physical and ideological terms, through its 
slander and the operation of its isolation. However, the crisis in which 
the state and capitalist system finds itself does not necessarily lead 
to its collapse, on the contrary, it intensifies its attack with 
arrogance and heightened intensity, aiming at numbing social and class 
resistance and at the prevalence of fear.
Thus, the rulers today attempt to erase the imprints of entire decades 
of harsh social and class struggles because they function as social 
examples of resistance that survive and reproduce, because they continue 
to inspire new generations and show paths of struggle to the oppressed 
today, because they keep alive the prospect of social emancipation and 
liberation.
The social and class uprising of December 2008 was a leading political 
and social event of the post-political period, the result of long-term 
struggles in which anarchist projects mainly expressed social 
radicalism, while within the uprising the anarchists had a leading role 
both for its outbreak and for its form and contents. The uprising also 
highlighted the limits of the forms of organization of the 
anarchist-anti-authoritarian struggle itself. It is this point, in the 
assessment of the uprising and the previous period, in the possibilities 
that it gave rise to and were not fulfilled, where the idea of the 
necessity for anarchist political organization is born. The informalist 
anti-organizational model is distinguished by discontinuity, 
occasionality in collaborations and often inconsistency and 
self-referentiality, determination by reflexivity and conjuncture. It is 
dominated by a lack of commitment without being able to collectively 
elaborate positions and proposals on the basis of cinematic experience. 
It contains the culture of conscious or not abstention from collective 
processes, which results in the production and reproduction of -informal 
but real- processes of assignment and hierarchies. In addition, the lack 
of a stable place of political fermentation, peer criticism and 
self-criticism leads to its replacement by social functions and a space 
that operates at critical points as a sum of parties and not on the 
basis of political criteria.
In the years that followed the December uprising, the objective 
condition of the decline of the state and capitalist empire intensified. 
Due to real weaknesses (ideological and organizational), but also the 
inexorable need of the state and capitalist machine not to disorganize 
in a spiral of decay amidst generalized social discontent, the 
subjective ability of the oppressed to defend themselves against their 
oppressors was consistently struck: the idea, the perception that the 
faltering empire is a fighter. With propaganda but also the increase in 
the rates of violence, with reformist illusions but also the repressive 
armor, with the ideological attack and the cooperation of the entire 
bourgeois world to contain the unruly, the degenerate power-hungry 
people, in the midst of the generalized and total crisis of the state 
and capitalist system, are attempting a total attack locally and 
internationally.
The Anarchist Political Organization is a child of December 2008, of the 
student mobilizations of 2006-2007 and of the great social mobilizations 
of 2010-12 and is inspired by the historical legacy of the anarchist 
movement in Spain in the first half of the 20th century. Of the 
libertarian movement of the CNT-FAI which, through hard struggles, 
uprisings and, above all, class, social, political organization, managed 
to put into practice the idea of the generalized overthrow of the state 
and capitalism and to develop social self-management. Since its 
formation, 10 years ago, it continues to be an open call for anarchists 
who refer to organized and collective struggle and social revolution, a 
permanent proposal for the ideological, political and organizational 
formation of the anarchist movement, a firm position of battle and 
rallying in the streets alongside those who question the barbarity of 
power. With consistency and continuity on the class and social fronts of 
struggle that place barriers to the further degradation of our lives 
today and having as a perspective the conquest of the only life worth 
living: that in the popular councils of the social revolution.
At this point, closing our position, we would like to quote a comment 
from a comrade regarding the organization of anarchists, emphasizing 
that the path followed for its formation was neither certain, nor easy 
and inexpensive, nor did it already have a ready-made path carved and 
tested in front of it to tread and draw upon, in contrast to today where 
it constitutes a political, ideological and organizational legacy but 
also a living example of struggle, when the forgotten in those years but 
necessary, indispensable and historically justified idea of the 
organization of anarchists returned to the fore through the contribution 
of comrades who managed to make it tangible, propose it and formalize it:
"The anarchist organization in Greece has been taking shape and is a 
living example in recent years, it was born through chronic movement 
processes within the anarchist movement and not from personal desires 
and readings, it draws from the historical examples that determined the 
course of the case "Organization does not stop or begin at the personal 
impulses of each individual, on the contrary, it requires the awareness 
of the need to massify the existing structures that continue to 
consistently stand within the struggles."
In the face of the organized attack of the state and capital that 
locally and internationally has nothing more to promise than war and 
fascism, the only hope for societies lies in the barricades of the 
exploited and oppressed and the political, social and class organization 
of the struggle in the direction of social revolution and emancipation. 
Through unmediated anti-hierarchical and unguarded struggles from below, 
we can move on to the counterattack against exploitation and oppression. 
To rebuild life with basic ingredients of social solidarity, 
cooperation, without bosses and slaves. To make generalized social 
Self-Direction a tangible reality, to summarize political freedom and 
economic equality in the modern revolutionary program. For a libertarian 
movement of all the exploited and oppressed that will give way to real 
needs.

Anarchist Collective "Circle of Fire", member of APO - OS

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