A-Infos (en) Greece, APO: Call for anti-state - anti-capitalist demonstration ahead of TIF 2026 (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Another year, the opening ceremony of the TIF is being staged with the 
familiar materials: government fiestas, paper handouts and promises of a 
"prosperity" that never reaches those who produce the wealth. The 
authorities, bankrupt at every level, political, moral, economic, and 
with nothing to offer beyond wars, fences and impoverishment, are 
fortifying themselves in the face of the possibility that the 
accumulated social anger will find its way out. They are struggling to 
impose the narrative that history has ended here, that beyond this 
world, where the majority will live in fear of deprivation, disease, war 
and the destruction of nature, there is no other perspective.
In the international arena, the extermination of the Palestinian people 
remains the darkest proof of what state barbarity means. A fragile 
ceasefire has been in place since October 2025, but in practice nothing 
substantial has changed. The death toll has never stopped: over 73,000 
Palestinians have been killed since the start of the genocide, and more 
than 1,250 more in the months of the so-called "ceasefire," while the 
attacks, displacements, and famine continue unabated. Behind the US 
diplomatic plans for "disarmament" and "transitional administration," 
Israel seeks to consolidate with weapons what it has built over decades, 
an apartheid regime, a machine of control, militarization, and permanent 
terror that functions as a laboratory for every modern totalitarianism. 
And in all of this, the Greek state stands as a steadfast accomplice, 
openly advertising its strategic alliance with the slaughterers.
In Greece, the attack of the state and capital is methodically 
escalating. Capitalist restructuring is destroying what is left of 
health, education, housing, food and transportation, turning every 
social need into a commodity. The crime of Tempi, with its trial 
evolving since March 2026 in a process that the relatives of the victims 
themselves denounce as an attempt to cover up, remains the most brutal 
proof of what the policies of profit cost our bodies. At the same time, 
state repression is becoming increasingly aggressive: struggles from 
below are being crushed, trade union action is being criminalized, 
asylum and squats are being attacked, with more recent examples being 
the evictions of the Anarchist Club of the Philosophy Department of the 
National University of Athens and the Self-Managed Club of the ASOEE, 
the right to demonstrate is being restricted and the anarchist movement 
is being systematically targeted.
This repressive campaign and the ongoing anti-anarchist pogrom finds its 
most provocative expression in the reopening of the Marfin case. Sixteen 
years later, in July 2026, the state is setting up a new stage of 
persecution, simultaneously seeking to establish a broader climate of 
terror hysteria, which included arrests and pre-trial detention, 
invasion of comrades' homes and media smear, building a case file that 
began with an anonymous email and is not based on any real 
identification of persons, condemning people to a regime of permanent 
hostage. These are elements that would not otherwise constitute 
pre-trial detention, a construction that tramples on any concept of 
presumption of innocence. The goal is clear: to terrorize the world of 
struggle, to set an example of intimidation for anyone who dares to 
raise their heads.
The most recent stamp on this state criminality was the murder of 
20-year-old Thodoris Zavradinos in Argos in July 2026. An unarmed young 
man, on the autism spectrum and with an 89% disability, was shot in the 
head by OPKE police officers during a chase and succumbed to his wounds 
a few days later. The uniformed officers invoked, as usual, "warning 
shots" and "intimidation", the same set of justifications that unfolds 
after every murder with a state bullet. Thodoris is on the list 
alongside Zak Kostopoulos, Kostas Manioudakis, Vasilis Mangos, Nikos 
Sampanis, Christos Michalopoulos and all those who paid with their lives 
for the unconscionability of a police force that is trained and equipped 
to kill those below, with the cover of a state that shields and rewards it.
The field of health is receiving a new blow, as privatization progresses 
at full speed. Underfunding, the closure of structures and endless 
waiting lists for surgeries and treatments are leading to the 
disintegration of the public health system, opening the market to 
private profiteers. Understaffing, the flexibility of labor relations of 
health personnel and the abandonment of hospitals are taking away from 
many even basic access to care.
The same logic culminates in the precision that crushes the lower social 
classes and with the auctions of first homes that throw people onto the 
street. At the same time, within schools that are literally collapsing 
and operating with shortages in teachers and infrastructure, the state 
accelerates the privatization of education. The assessments, the model 
showcase schools and the permanent measurement mechanisms aim at nothing 
other than the deepening of class barriers, the discipline of students 
and teachers and the crushing of labor rights. In universities, the 
attack continues with disciplinary prosecutions and expulsions of 
students, with the police inside the schools, with the evacuations of 
self-organized spaces, with the connection of institutions with private 
capital and the war industry, and with the constant attack on the social 
character of asylum.
In the labor field, cynicism has become law. The 13-hour workweek, which 
was still advertised as a "scenario" last year, has now become an 
institutionalized reality since the beginning of 2026: with Law 
5239/2025, the state and the bosses legalized the extermination, 
baptizing it "flexibility". The ability to work up to thirteen hours for 
an employer, with the so-called "consent" being translated in practice 
into coercion since the refusal must be justified by the employee 
himself, means a world where free time disappears and the human being is 
transformed into a disposable component of production. It is the 
normalization of a labor Middle Ages that buries every conquest won with 
blood in the struggles of the past, from the eight-hour day to the right 
to strike.
And the price of this regime is measured in dead. Within the first few 
months of 2026, dozens of workers, approximately one death per day in 
some periods, breathed their last on construction sites and workplaces, 
with hundreds more seriously injured, victims of intensification, the 
absence of protective measures and the treatment of human life as a 
cost. To the same macabre list are added the dead from the criminal 
management of the pandemic, the victims of the Tempi, the murdered Roma 
by the organs of repression, and the drowned migrants and refugees at 
the borders of fortress Europe. The new migration framework (Law 
5307/2026), which incorporates the European Pact and criminalizes even 
the very act of staying without papers, intensifies surveillance, blocks 
access to asylum and turns confinement into the norm for thousands of 
people whose only "crime" is that they are asking for a life.
The same logic of treating life as a cost also applies to the natural 
disasters caused by fires every year. This summer, the country is once 
again counting ashes: five dead, close to 200,000 acres burned and over 
a hundred ruined homes, from Crete and Lesvos to Laconia and Western 
Attica. In the battle with the flames in Rethymno, two firefighters lost 
their lives, trapped in a difficult spot, while in Psatha two more 
people were killed in the collision of two rented firefighting 
helicopters. Behind the rhetoric about the "climate crisis" and the 
fireworks of the demonstration programs, the essence remains constant: 
the complete absence of prevention, the abandonment of the countryside, 
understaffing and the outsourcing of forest firefighting to private 
contractors. The state leaves forests, animals, property and human lives 
to burn, while it pours billions into armaments and surveillance, once 
again burdening the bottom and those it sends unprotected to the front 
lines.
Against this global totalitarianism, we as anarchists oppose the weapon 
of social, class and internationalist solidarity. Never before has the 
organization of anarchists and dynamic intervention in all social fields 
been so necessary. In every open front, where the aggression of the 
state and capital manifests itself, we fight for the radicalization of 
the struggles and their connection with the overall issue of social 
emancipation. Because the only realistic way out for those below is the 
organization for social revolution, Anarchy and Libertarian Communism. 
For a world founded on dignity, justice, freedom and solidarity, a world 
without exploitation and oppression of one person by another.

PALESTINE MEANS RESISTANCE. NO COMPENSATION WASHES GENOCIDE
AGAINST THE BARBARACY OF WAR, NATIONALISM, EXPLOITATION AND REPRESSION
ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND LIBERAL 
COMMUNISM

Anti-state - anti-capitalist demonstration TIF 2026
Saturday 5 September | 18.00 | Kamara
Pre-Rally | 17.30 | No Pasaran libertarian center

https://apo.squathost.com/kalesma-stin-antikratiki-antikapitalistiki-diadilosi-en-opsi-tis-deth-2026/
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