Documentos:
We are here/ we are everywhere/ we are an image from the future
If I do not burn
If you do not burn
If we do not burn
How will darkness come to light?
(Nazim Hikmet, “Like Kerem”)
Power (from the government to the family) aims not simply to repress the insurrection and its generalisation, but to produce a relation of subjectivation. A relation that defines bios, that is political life, as a sphere of cooperation, compromise and consensus. “Politics is the politics of consensus; the rest is gang-war, riots, chaos”. This is a true translation of what they are telling us, of their effort to deny the living core of every action, and to separate and isolate us from what we can do: not to unite the two into one, but to rupture again and again the one into two. The mandarins of harmony, the barons of peace and quiet, law and order, call on us to become dialectic. But those tricks are desperately old, and their misery is transparent in the fat bellies of the trade-union bosses, in the washed-out eyes of the intermediaries, who like vultures perch over every negation, over every passion for the real. We have seen them in May, we have seen them in LA and Brixton, and we have been watching them over decades licking the long now white bones of the 1973 Polytechnic. We saw them again yesterday when instead of calling for a permanent general strike, they bowed to legality and called off the strike protest march. Because they know all too well that the road to the generalisation of the insurrection is through the field of production – through the occupation of the means of production of this world that crushes us.
Tomorrow dawns a day when nothing is certain. And what could be more liberating than this after so many long years of certainty? A bullet was able to interrupt the brutal sequence all those identical days. The assassination of a 15 year old boy was the moment when a displacement took place strong enough to bring the world upside down. A displacement from the seeing through of yet another day, to the point that so many think simultaneously: “That was it, not one step further, all must change and we will change it”. The revenge for the death of Alex, has become the revenge for every day that we are forced to wake up in this world. And what seemed so hard proved to be so simple.
This is what has happened, what we have. If something scares us is the return to normality. For in the destroyed and pillaged streets of our cities of light we see not only the obvious results of our rage, but the possibility of starting to live. We have no longer anything to do than to install ourselves in this possibility transforming it into a living experience: by grounding on the field of everyday life, our creativity, our power to materialise our desires, our power not to contemplate but to construct the real. This is our vital space. All the rest is death.
Those who want to understand will understand. Now is the time to break the invisible cells that chain each and everyone to his or her pathetic little life. And this does not require solely or necessarily one to attack police stations and torch malls and banks. The time that one deserts his or her couch and the passive contemplation of his or her own life and takes to the streets to talk and to listen, leaving behind anything private, involves in the field of social relations the destabilising force of a nuclear bomb. And this is precisely because the (till now) fixation of everyone on his or her microcosm is tied to the traction forces of the atom. Those forces that make the (capitalist) world turn. This is the dilemma: with the insurgents or alone. And this is one of the really few times that a dilemma can be at the same time so absolute and real.
11/12/2008 Initiative from the occupation of the Athens School of Economics and Business
(http://www.occupiedlondon.org)Murderer on Alexandros: “He had exhibited deviant behaviour”
Short abstracts from the testimony of Epaminondas Korkoneas, the murderer of Alexandros, which was released today. I cannot make a single comment on this piece of filth. All I can say is Alexandros, RIP: None of us have any intention of retreating from the streets before some sort of revenge, before some sort of justice is paid for your murder.
Parts of the 11-page long testimony of the murderer:
“The deceased and his gang attended the swimming pool of Chalandri in Athens and participated in the violent events that occurred there, injuring citizens and the coach of Olympiakos Club by using various objects, including a crowbar. Following this they joined in with the commonly-seen hordes that gather to attack the offices of the Socialist Party, a customary occurrence in Athens on a Saturday night”.
“As a matter of fact, I have been informed that these youths, while residing in the affluent suburb of Palaio Psychiko, tend to hang out in the area of Eksarhia which they chose as their recreational area together with various sports grounds where they cause trouble, not showing the attitude and personality expected to be seen in a 15-year old teenager”.
“The deceased had been expelled by the Moraitis private school in Athens and changed schools often, a fact proving his deviant behaviour”.
In regard to the act of murder, he said:
“As for the events of Saturday: Seeing a group of around 30 youths at a distance of 10-15 meters from me, not being able to intercept their aggressive move toward us and being in a state of fear for our own lives, we moved, turning our backs against them. At the same time, in order to secure our exit, being shocked and in fear and since the crowd did not stop moving toward us despite my colleague throwing them a “sound” grenade, I pulled out my gun and guided by the instinct of survival I shot two warning shots in the air, maybe a third one that I hadn’t noticed but my colleague reminded me of later”.
His lawyer, Alexis Kougias (remember this name) stated: “It is now only up to the Greek justice to decide whether the youth was justly killed, or not”.
(http://www.occupiedlondon.org)Uma carta de Atenas
Transcrevemos aqui a tradução da carta dum amigo italiano de Atenas, P. C., chegada hoje.
11/12/08É um prazer receber tuas notícias.. tudo bem?
Recebi a tua mensagem (sms) mas era impossível responder em pouco mais de 100 letras...Ora, come já sabes a situação aqui está tensa, mesmo se agora está um pouco a acalmar-se.
Desde o dia que cheguei explodiu uma revolta popular depois do homicídio dom rapazinho pela polícia no bairro anarquista (Exarchia) onde poracaso eu divagava sem meta.
a partir daquela noite os choques foram intensificando-se assim como as reacções da polícia e agora também das esquadras fascistas.
a situação precipitou completamente há dois dias quando por meio de acções de força e gases especiais a polícia conseguiu dispersar a multidão. As pessoas em fuga perderam os contactos com amigos e parentes, a revolta espalhou-se como uma macha de azeite (=ainda mais). Eu estive em diversas batalhas desde o princípio e distingui-me na defesa duma escola secundária e no assédio da universidade politécnica, a situção está... indescritível,
depois dos choques da outra noite as pessoas começaram a saquear, não posso ir ao trabalho, fiquei bloqueiado na universidade politécnica um dia inteiro, só consegui escapar há dois dias quando os anarquicos foram forçados abandonar as barricadas na Exarchia. encontrei-me sozinho e consegui voltar a casa. Hoje estou melhor, o bairro onde estou está suficientemente tranquilo e longe dos choques... logo que encontrar o tempo faço-te um relato das coisas incríveis que aconteceram desde sexta até hoje.. parece-me ser um jornalista de guerra, nem imaginas, é pena não ter conseguido tirar fotos aos saqueios pois é perigoso, mas tenho umas, se conseguir vou tas enviar. A última noite fartei-me de vomitar por causa da tensão, dos fumos dos incéndios que rodeiam a cidade e sobretudo dos fortíssimos gases lagrimogéneos que quemam os pulmões, o nariz, os olhos e torcem-te o estómago...o inizial entusiasmo transformou-se em cansasso pela maior parte das pessoas, a cidade está paralizada há quase uma semana, mas em muitos pontos já se começa a reconstruir (excepto os lugares quentes: universidade politécnica, exarchia...) mesmo se de vez em quando se acendem novos fogos de revolta.
Eu "estive a curtir" mas nem assim como os gregos todos que gozaram imenso ao ver a sua capital feita aos pedaços, das montras aos pormenores em mármore, foi destruido tudo, no princípio com objectívos escolhidos, políticos (no sentido de objectivos governamentais ou capitalistas) ou seja logísticos no sentido de arranjar pedras e bastões... e assim para frente... depois com qualquer meio cada vez mais degenerado até o puro caos.. não imaginas...
(Pedimos desculpa por eventuais erros de tradução mas não tivemos tempo para uma revisão)
(http://exarchialx.blogspot.com)
Notícias:
Greek violence flares for sixth day
Greece's Sprider cuts 2008 forecasts on riot damage
Grèce: des étudiants retranchés dans les universités
Alexis aurait été tué par ricochet
A Athènes, jeunes et syndicats marchent, mais pas du même pas
ATHENS, PATRAS, THESSALONIKI, KOMOTINI: Fascists and cops get the response they deserve
THESSALONIKI: Cops provoke 2,000-strong demo; students besieged in the Northern town of Komotini
25 police stations besieged by students. The murderer cop was member of a nazi group (?)
It is all up to the school students now
Artigos:
Explosão social na Grécia
Greeks show dislike of authority in street protests - Michele Kambas
Greek riots remind outside investors about risks - Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Reuter's Correspondent
Un movimiento de masas se levanta contra el estado en Grecia - Panos Garganas
Homo Sacer Quartet - Flesh Machine
Grécia: uma greve geral de grande impacto
Ontem em toda a Grécia, os trabalhadores responderam ao apelo das duas centrais sindicais e realizaram uma
greve geral de grande impacto. Esta greve, marcada antes da polícia ter morto um adolescente em Atenas, correspondeu à crescente resistência popular contra os projectos do governo de Karamanlis e da União Europeia de retirada de direitos dos trabalhadores e de sobre-exploração de trabalho.Como as fotos da grande manif de trabalhadores em Atenas não mereceu publicação entre nós, aqui deixamos algumas.
antreus.blogspot.com
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