After the Greek Riots

(Translation picked up from Athens Indymedia, here &edited only slightly)

Translator’s intro: Radio Revolt is an unlicensed radio station in Greece which is devoted to counterinformation. It transmits from an occupied retired railway carriage in a university campus in Salonica. The station is well-known amongst the Greek radical youth, as Athens Indymedia has a permanent link to the station’s website: http://radio-revolt.org/ On 21 July 2009 the station was attacked. Here is an adapted English translation of Radio Revolt’s announcement, originally in Greek:

On the morning of 21 July the occupied space where Radio Revolt is hosted, a railway carriage of OSE (the Greek railway operator) in the Aristotle University campus in Salonica, was attacked by persons unknown with three molotov bombs. After the ‘unknown’ perpetrators attempted to attack our studio, unsuccessfully, they resorted to bomb with their molotovs the WC of the radio station, and any damage done was limited within it. Our station stopped transmitting only for three hours just to allow for power to be restored, which we cut deliberately ourselves for safety reasons.

This attack on Radio Revolt is merely one more of the failed attempts by the state and the parastate, part of half-year-long series of attacks after December, ordered by the political and economic elite and executed by cops and fascists. Their goal is to suppress all voices of freedom, everyone who protests and resists. They seek to turn society more conservative, fascist, and xenophobic; their final aim, of course, is the establishment of terror. The police is being advertised as the new messiah, and the dogma of order and security is being presented as more necessary than ever.

Let them live in their dream: day by day the multifaceted resistance becomes more powerful, and thousands of people take their lives in their own hands. The dynamic mobilisations and protests prove that the only thing their threats achieve is to make social movements more powerful.

Radio Revolt, against all who wish otherwise, is still transmitting – and will carry on doing so.

The original announcement, in Greek, can be accessed from http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1061839

The translation was prepared independently in solidarity (the English text doesn’t come directly from the Radio Revolt comrades).