A few bullets fired by a cop and a kid lying dead on the street. Cities burn for weeks. For the spectacle-hungry media machine, the story begins and ends here. All else, before and after, is void.
Follow the corporate media and the Greek revolt died a long, long time ago. What’s happening in Greece at the moment? What’s the revolt’s legacy, where did all that energy go? Why should you care, screams the media machine, haven’t you heard? The revolt has died. And, even more importantly, The King is dead!
Back on the ground, of course, the revolt is far from dead. Its legacy is very much alive, getting inscribed deeper day after day. The police, having ridden itself from the burden of neutrality, can openly cooperate with fascist thugs, who feel confident enough to throw molotov cocktails against demonstrators in solidarity with undocumented migrants (Athens, July 8). Undocumented migrants, in turn, are explicitly the aim of the most recent wave of state repression: “First we’ll go for the migrants, then for the anarchists”, as the minister of public order so eloquently put it. Even he seems to be unable to catch up with the events: the only December demonstrator still in prison is held (still without trial) precisely because he is an anarchist and therefore consists “a threat to democracy” (wording of the court of misdemeanours, Athens, July 8).
The greek state seems conscious in that it cannot take another revolt of the size of December’s – and determined in not allowing this to happen.
Under this wave of repression, solidarity links are more important than ever. Armed with the experience of December, with the certainty that the return to normality is not option. Armed with a belief in a more just world – and not much else. Democracy has chosen its enemies: The migrants, the anarchists, all the outsiders unable or unwilling to fall back in line.
Having reported on December’s revolt and its immediate aftermath, this blog will now go on to cover everyday life in Greece as it is today. Expect eye-witness reports from everyday struggles, from the demonstrations in Athens (mostly) and in other cities across the country. Reports on the hunger strike of Thodoros Iliopoulos, the last prisoner of the revolt.
Please don’t expect any “impartial” reports (as if these could ever exist). This is an anarchist take on the situation in the country. A democracy that wages war on migrants and anarchists; a democracy armed with fascist thugs, with molotov cocktails and hand grenades; a democracy producing the silent death of the concentration camp (a silence reproduced and amplified by the media machine) is a democracy worth fighting against. Let’s make some noise.
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Same old oppression but a hopeful new reaction.
just looks like NOW ya got time or the revolt is over.
struggling for infos
– and i know about it -
the shit comes too late
that’s the reason folks don have a glue bout names: autonomous is just a media whore departing easy into left and right but autonomia is left and not right, saying autonomous is an usual saying for libertarians is shit. atounomous for sale but we are still anarchists!
It aint over.Matter of fact,now is way more dangerous than December.Now the state strikes back,but we dont stay in the defence.Yesterday there was an attack to riot police headquorters.The fire still burns here!
Since the Greek riot disappeared from the mainstream I have been wondering what the consequence was. Did anything change?
Two more points:
1. Governments should be small and local. If your president does not know your name, it’s a big government. Bad. Armies should be replaced with militias. Same scale as governments: small and local.
2. You know why big governments with their faceless thugs, poisoned food, and delusional TV still prosper? Because they instill DISCIPLINE in their troops. As long as rioters, protesters, objectioners, positive thinkers, generally good people all pull the cart of society in different directions, laws won’t change, education won’t change, State won’t change – the world will not change. Force is useless without a vector. Thus: find someone who (a) you know is smarter than you, (2) shares your values, (3) is honest – and force them to be a hub for a group of say 10 people.
Each election governments want us to choose between 2 or more equally irrelevant candidates on the national level. We should push our own, relevant candidates to the national level – from the real life down here. Govenments have budgets, brute force, and everything to lose. We have time, patience, and nothing to lose. The field is even, ain’t it?
Oops I forgot. If a viewpoint is not backed by an organization, it is doomed. Which is why true anarchy – i.e. absence of organization – is impossible today, as it requires more or less equal degree of evolution from the whole world. Otherwise an anarchy is massacred by less-evolved neighbours out of greed and power hunger.
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