On the early hours of Tuesday, six carriages of the Athens-Piraeus Railway (ISAP) were petrol-bombed and burnt. According to eye-witnesses and the proclamation issued by the group that claimed responsibility for the attack, no passengers or staff were put at risk during the attack as they were asked to vacate the carriages before hand.

According to Railway officials and mainstream media reports, the total damage by the attack is in the region of 16 million euros.

In a communiqué released on Athens IMC, a group calling itself “Gangs of Consciousness Extremists of Perama” (a working class neighbourhood close to Piraeus – trans) state, among many others:

(…) So we wiped out two trains of ISAP, causing disturbance. We had no hesitation to sabotage the commuting route of all who are in peace with the sterilised transportation from and to their workplace, from and to their homes, from and to their leisure destinations. Maybe this will replace their fish-like gaze of apathy and indifference from their faces with some more energetic and tense gazes.

No matter how many working sites they set up, security in transport will be in question from now on. The free transportation of people like products will turn into a free transportation of insecurity within the centres of command in the metropolis.

To Konstantina Kuneva we send our warmest wishes and our respect for her dignified stance against the body-snatchers of politics who wanted to cash her out with a slot in their voting lists. Contrary to the slave-like misery of the majority of her workmates, she stood up, even within the framework of reformist syndicalism. Let the attack against her, by the paid bastards of ΟΙΚΟΜΕΤ with the shared guilt of the administration of ISAP, let this become an example of how syndicalist demands, to the small extent that they might become dangerous, are paid back tenfold by each employer’s thugs. The legal demands of employees to each employer are not always dealt with equally legally.

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