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Also Nea Ionia’s Town Hall is under worker’s control since last night.
EVERYBODY TO THE STREETS
Reality check:
1. Greeks own more property on average than the average European, you think they want to give that up for the revolution?
2. Greeks are less in debt than the average European, take a look at real estate figures, they don’t sell properties if the prices decrease because they can afford to keep them.
3. Greeks are very materialistic, take a look at what the average Greek is wearing when they go out at night for coffee/drinks/whatever, which is usually EVERY FUCKING DAY! Take a look at the cars and motorcycles on the street.
4. The people that decide to be advocates of Marxist ideals are posers. Most of them either have government jobs and are underemployed & overpaid or they come from families that are well off and have their communist/anarchist hobby supported by their parents.
Sites like this are very amusing especially when they take themselves as seriously as you do.
If you have any balls you will allow this post to stay up, otherwise just do the rest of us that don’t have the luxury of your idiocy and GO FUCK YOURSELF!
All eyes are on Greece… show the world an example to follow! FUCK GLEN BECK
Bring the war into the belly of the beast!
1st: Block the parliaments of the “helping” nations, so that these fat scumbags can’t bring their parfumed asses to vote! Every socalled “lefty” who votes for supporting the greek police dictatorship that imprisons a 6 month old embryo as terrorist will face his/her decision as his/her last step onto the wrong side of the barricade and face the rest of their lifes always with some pricks around that have to care about them.
NO MONEY TO THE GREEK, GERMAN, FRENCH BANKS, BOSSES & GREEK STATE!
FREE THE ATHENS 7!
epanastatikos agonas
LAMBRO! Lo Spirito Continua!
That’s good keep SHOUTING! If you shout loud enough everything will go away! Hahahaha!
to IQ ABOVE 60
you will be the first to be hanging from your guts when we win the revolution and i swear to your mama’s stinky pussy that i will make you laugh even if you are crying your ass out.
I don’t know you IQ RADIKIOU but I am almost certain I have shit things that are scarier than u r! ΤΑ ΣΚΑΤΑ ΜΟΥ ΕΧΟΥΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΗΤΕΡΑ ΑΡΧΙΔΙΑ ΑΠΟ ΣΕΝΑ ΡΑΔΙΚΙΟΥ!!!
IQ_BELOW_60′s comments must be deleted.
http://www.marxist.com/myth-of-lazy-greek-workers.htm
to IQ_above_60
Ok, we might all agree you have an IQ of 61.
Let IQ make his childish assumptions. At the end of the day, its the people that will decide the course of their events – and interestingly enough, it is not the assumptions of people like IQ which are reality but increasingly those of the anarchists
and now, the parliament:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8661385.stm
I cannot access the Greek pages of Athens IndyMedia. Is the server overloaded ?
If you do not take “care” about IMF it is going to happen exact the same thing as in former Yugoslavia. IMF and MMF caused the war in my ex-country. They had employee Nazi-ethno leaders in order to destroyed the country and fabrics of society.
Guess who is the most responsible for bloodbath in ex Yugoslavia: fucking Germany. Once Nazi forever Nazi.
Go guys to the streets and fight them, and more importantly FINISH THE JOB like in Kyrgis did . Do not allow any “consultant” and “advisor” from those criminal organization to make descisions for you. Block the airport, too.
don’t delete anythang. we got “balls” and freedom of speech!
we are not talking about any cardrivers or shit like this, cardrivers are enemies anyway!
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE MOTORIZED
and if the greek proletariat only numbers me and my friends and families that’s fucking enough “legal” reasons to take power because 1st: the worldwide proletariat is the majority and 2nd: we can’t stand it anymore seeing our friends get killed, jailed and tortured.
so fuck off idiot and kill some cars
as in every major city of the world cardrivers aren’t the majority!
3 INNOCENT PEOPLE DIED IN ATHENS today simply for going to their jobs. Why? Apparently the protesters thought it was unjust for them to go to work on a day they thought they should have been striking. The protesters started throwing rocks at the building, and then molotovs. Going after civilians in the name of protest is called terrorism. That’s really irrelevant now, because semantics will not bring back these innocent people. If any of you believe that acts like this will help your movement. These people were not police officers or army personnel but working class people that your movement supposedly defends. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS?
“Apparently the protesters thought it was unjust for them to go to work on a day they thought they should have been striking. ”
that is BULLSHIT – no-one knew there were people in the building.
IQ_below_60, it is not possible to have an informed discussion on this question yet, given the preliminary nature of the information available now. We should wait for more news.
Many people die in class war. But causation fundamentally begins with the oppression and violence of the capitalist state.
The circumstances for this incident would not have existed had PASOK simply done the right thing and defaulted on the debt.
Class War, Fuck You! I live in Athens. Where are you?
You think this is some sort Kristallnacht?
It is some sort of conspiracy?
The incident that led to the death of these people is because some idiots threw molotovs into a building where people were simply working. That’s what caused the death of these people. It is the responsibility of the people who threw the molotovs into the building no one else’s. I won’t blame your ideals or beliefs because everyone is entitled to them. No one has the right to harm another person though for no reason.
To say the actions of the PASOK government caused the people to throw molotovs into a building is PURE BULLSHIT.
PS. I don’t really give a fuck about PASOK, ND, KKE SYRIZA or any other party for that matter, they could all go fuck themselves too. Glorification of any sort of violence though, for any movement is IMMORAL.
“To say the actions of the PASOK government caused the people to throw molotovs into a building is PURE BULLSHIT.”
This is a very intelligent response. Causation consists of multidimensional processes. When you ignore the structural determinants of oppression and violence, and elect to emphasize only the actions of individuals, you have demonstrated that you are a philistine.
Mana mou Ellas, mono ena psema kouvalas.
It is perhaps appropriate at this juncture to quote Gandhi:
“If a man fights with his sword single-handed against a horde of dacoits armed to the teeth, I should say he is fighting almost non-violently. Haven’t I said to our women that, if in defence of their honour they used their nails and teeth and even a dagger, I should regard their conduct nonviolent? She does know the distinction between himsa and ahimsa. She acts spontaneously.
Supposing a mouse in fighting a cat tried to resist the cat with his sharp teeth, would you call that mouse violent? In the same way, for the Poles to stand valiantly against the German hordes vastly superior in numbers, military equipment and strength, was almost non-violence. I should not mind repeating that statement over and over again. You must give its full value to the word ‘almost’.”
“This is a very intelligent response. Causation consists of multidimensional processes. When you ignore the structural determinants of oppression and violence, and elect to emphasize only the actions of individuals, you have demonstrated that you are a philistine.”
Class War, put away your thesaurus and stop condoning murder. I would suggest if you support this anarchy, please go visit the families of the murdered bank workers and tell them its for the best.
I grieve for the dead. On the other hand, I will not use this tragedy as the sole basis of propaganda to stifle all forms of popular protest — that appears to be the agenda of IQ_BELOW_60.
“Class War, Fuck You! I live in Athens.”
I do not give a fuck where you live.
@CLASS WAR your hypothetical examples and attempt to nuance this are not necessary.
Lets look at the facts:
1. Marfin Bank is not part of the ADEDY or GESEE or any union that was striking that day. So the people in there were obligated to work. Not forced, they could stay away if they wished, with consequences, but they chose to go to work that day. Were they not within their right to make this decision?
2. The employees in the bank were in no way infringing on the rights of the protesters to carry on their protest.
3. The protesters were unprovoked and in no way in any danger from these people in the bank doing their job.
This was an unprovoked act of violence against people that were in no way interfering with the protest.
i agree: FUCK GLEN BECK
what an odious tool he is.
HAHAHA DISREGARD MY LAST STATEMENT…I SUCK COCKS
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