This text was written on the occasion of an antifascist demo which was held in the western suburbs (Evosmos) of Thessaloniki on the 6th of April 2013
An illusion is floating in our thoughts, the illusion that the current political scene and the curent economical crisis are responsible for the present bad conditions of living. But ultimately, the economical crisis is another tool used by the system in order to be restructured, while facing its potential collapse, resulting to the further impoverishment and imposition on our lives.
Under these circumstances, the state, in front of the possibility of an organised denial, on the one hand, is prepairing and fortifing itself, on a material-technical level (EKAM -special counter terrorist forces- interventions in demos, squats, strikes, military training for crowd managment and civil warfares), and on the other intends to mislead the social tension, turning it against minorities (immigrants, homosexuals, HIV positive prostitutes). Therefore, as much as the authority managies via “divide et impera” to devide society in groups and sub-groups, it also tries to merge them under the ideology of national unity.
The language of democracy, that invokes an indefined national interest in which oppresers and oppresed should coexist peacefuly, as well as the cultivation of a national sentiment through institutions (family, religion, school, army) and mentalities, try to conservatise further more the society. A language that first of all is being reproduced by mass media and ends up being adopted by a part of the social body: immigrants and HIV positive prostitutes are being interpreted as “a hygienic bomb”, the strikers are presented as “an obstacle to the country’s economical recovery”, the student squaters as provokers, the anarchists and everyone who struggle against state and capitalism as all the above.
The extreme-right groups and, in the case of modern greek reality, Golden Dawn, constitute a compact version of the conservative and phobi
An illusion is floating in our thoughts, the illusion that the current political scene and the curent economical crisis are responsible for the present bad conditions of living. But ultimately, the economical crisis is another tool used by the system in order to be restructured, while facing its potential collapse, resulting to the further impoverishment and imposition on our lives.
Under these circumstances, the state, in front of the possibility of an organised denial, on the one hand, is prepairing and fortifing itself, on a material-technical level (EKAM -special counter terrorist forces- interventions in demos, squats, strikes, military training for crowd managment and civil warfares), and on the other intends to mislead the social tension, turning it against minorities (immigrants, homosexuals, HIV positive prostitutes). Therefore, as much as the authority managies via “divide et impera” to devide society in groups and sub-groups, it also tries to merge them under the ideology of national unity.
The language of democracy, that invokes an indefined national interest in which oppresers and oppresed should coexist peacefuly, as well as the cultivation of a national sentiment through institutions (family, religion, school, army) and mentalities, try to conservatise further more the society. A language that first of all is being reproduced by mass media and ends up being adopted by a part of the social body: immigrants and HIV positive prostitutes are being interpreted as “a hygienic bomb”, the strikers are presented as “an obstacle to the country’s economical recovery”, the student squaters as provokers, the anarchists and everyone who struggle against state and capitalism as all the above.
The extreme-right groups and, in the case of modern greek reality, Golden Dawn, constitute a compact version of the conservative and phobic insticts, relations and behaviors. We shouldn’t be surprised that, despite their pompous antisystemic speech, they coexist with the rest of the political parties in the parliament, they are the number one police rats, they meet very often with greek shipowners and industrialists, they repeat their established position: workers and bosses should conclude truce for the benefit of their country (a recent example is their support to the gold minning in Chalkidiki, which will ruin the natural enviroment of the region).
Yet we don’t fall in the trap of the national delirium.We refuse the borders and the human segregation based on the nation.The only border we recognise is the one which separates the state and the capitalism from the people who struggle for freedom. Perceiving antifasism as one aspect of the struggle against the state, we refuse to appeal to a legallity, which like plasteline changes figure and shape according to the appetite of the bosses. The fatalistic winnings and the democratical denouncements of the existence of fasists are not enough for us. The only thing that seems enough is the boss-less and without mediation organization of our struggles and lives. The only thing that seems enough is the anarchist revolutionary action which will ruin not only the fasist pukes but also the totalitarian authoritarian machine that has polluted our relations and thoughts.
It is in our hands to reverse the terms and destroy the roles of the game, to refuse the victimisation and the fear, and all together, regardless of gender and race, to organise collective and leader-less struggles, for the emancipation of human and the liberation of nature.
IN EVOSMOS AND EVERYWHERE
LETS ATTACK FASISTS, STATE AND BOSSES
LETS ORGANISE OURSELVES IN SOLIDARITY COMMUNITIES