Notícias da Grécia

As últimas noticias que vi sobre a Grécia informavam que o politécnico tinha sido desocupado e uma manifestação foi marcada para dia 9, que deve de marcar o inicio da luta do povo grego no novo ano de 2009.

Aqui fica um manifesto publicado pelos anarquistas e revolucionários em geral, "World Revolution Manifesto":

Planet Earth

December 27, 2008

A. The state of corporatism that we live in

The planet is under a state of siege from corporations. The people who own them (i.e. this neurotic, criminal minority) use tools such as the States in order to increase their monetary income to the maximum, to meet their desire for total authority and to maintain the postmodern industrial production apparatus called Planet Earth.

There is no doubt that it is the banks controlling the States (and not the other way round) since, as we passively observe at this moment, the masks in the birthplace state of capitalism have fallen: the US government supports the panicked moves of this Corporatist regime and prepares its army for a “possible social unrest in the face of an upcoming crisis”.

In turn, states hold the people in a divided and idle state so that they will compete with one another instead of rising up against the obvious enemy of humanity. Those in authority bring up individuals teaching them their differences to the person next to them; implanting them “values” such as the nation, gender, success, consumption, health, beauty and sanity of mind. These produce behaviours observed globally and are, more or less, known to us all: nationalism, racism, consumerism, sexism, ableism, ageism and lookism.

States would have been unable to mark our bodies with such rotten scars if it wasn’t for the Cops, the Medical Regime, the Educational Regime, the Establishment Media, Religions and Bureaucracy in all its forms.

Humans end up beings with a hyper-emphasised “ego” since they are a unique amalgan of heterogeneous identities. Proletarian and muslim. Respectable housewife and lesbian. Student and depressed. Sexist and communist. Successful yuppie and sensitive in ecological issues. Woman and nationalist. Shattered in thousands of small pieces, which prevent them from seeing who it is that enforces their repressed class status. Most importantly, they prevent them from understanding themselves as something more collective, such as the globalised neo-proletariat: all the humans of the planet, that is, who experience daily everything from the darkness and depression to the abjection and non-voluntary death. A proletariat of this type that, numerically only, prevails.

The plenitude of constructed identities creates a condition of “cultural war” in each of the planet’s societies (as well as trans-nationally) where identities compete with one another, often in favour of the Regime, as this will lead its respectable citizens to demand even tighter security.

The dictatorship of the Corporatist Bourgeois Democracy makes sure to repress all and any spontaneous resistance to the power: it sucks social nuclei of resistance into political parties, trade unions and other political formations that reek of death. It does not hesitate, only too often, to “democratise” locales of the planet, to repress liberating movements and to deny the right to self-determination (the US in Iraq; Israel in Palestine; Greece in Macedonia).

It does not hesitate to destroy the nature of Earth, exterminating whole eco-systems, altering the environment and disrupting our bodies with the quality of food we receive. All in the name of progress, science and civilisation.

The civilised world is an amalgam of all these authoritarian patterns which, over time, have convinced us of having a quality of life without which (ironically) humans lived much better in the past.

The rise of population and of the average life expectancy, with the blessings of the Medical Regime, simply increases the number of the waged slaves, shrinking, at the same time, the quality of their life to the absolute minimum.

Life in the city has distanced humans from the experience of living, observing and learning from natural phenomena; it has destroyed the experience of the physical space and has made them vulnerable in the face of experience that used to be commonplace (physical labour, outdoors survival etc).

B. The World Revolution must be against civilisation

- The catalyst of our organising is the world wide web: We call all the disgruntled and revolted to get their own voice on the web, either by sending contributions to counter-information media or setting up their own blogs, creating collective discussion boards or hacking established and capitalist websites.

- We call all workers around the world to discuss about self-organising in their workspaces and to make proposals in regard to exiting trade unions. We call them to occupy the places of production and to manage their units horizontally, in a self-organised manner, under the guidance of consensus.

- We call all high school and university students to occupy their buildings, shoving aside all political party henchmen; to co-form with tons of imagination and humour, ideas on theory and practice! To turn these buildings into nuclei of anarchist life and social outreach.

- We call all who have lived under the burden of Clinical Depression to come together, to reject the chemicals of the pharmaceutical corporations and to co-shape ideas for the destruction of the civilisation that slashed our brains.

- We call all migrants to join together their rage for the way in which the Establishment turned them into people without a place and to destroy the civilisation that alienated them.

- We call all scientists to resign from the Science Regime and to investigate autonomously and collectively how autonomous and inexhaustible energies can be provided – such as solar, wind and geothermal.

- We call all the people who have forgotten that the revolution can happen, to expropriate immediately all that belongs to them and to sabotage, to the maximum extent possible, the production line. We can hold – and it’s worth it!

- We call all bourgeois artists to stop wasting their imagination in bourgeois creations and to join in our struggle, pouring their imagination into the shaping of the World Revolution!

- We call all farmers and agricultural producers to collectivise their production and to stop over-producing for capital. To teach their co-humans techniques on how to live autonomously by farming.

- Meat production must seize immediately and all animals should be freed! Meat is murder!

We call all anarchists, communists and libertarians to not cease their actions of revolt and to continue with the counter-information, which is so important.

Sabotaging or self-organising the process of production, creating autonomous food production, expropriating existing supplies, creating autonomous zones in cities and planning for autonomous forms of energy, we can render money obsolete. We can create pockets of anarchist culture which, thanks to their existence, counter-information and the world wide web, will spread like the hot wind of freedom.

Any attempts by the states to stop us will be met with the revolted; the revolted of poverty, depression and exclusion. We’ll take time in our hands!

Let Athens’ December revolt become an organisational inspiration for revolutionaries across the world.

Humans of the world, unite!

For anarchy and libertarian communism!

For freedom!

For the absolute!

Long live World Revolution!

#34, 13:32: Polytechnic raid scenario weakens; police resort to dictatorship-style surveillance; shots against riot police van; student demo set to st

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

UPDATE, 19:41 Mainstream media now report that the riot police van in Goudi received 7 shots, not 2. A group calling itself “Popular Action” (Λαϊκή Δράση) has claimed responsibility for the attack. The student demonstration in central Athens ended an hour ago. There was a very good turnover and the demo was relatively peaceful, though one police car was flipped over.

After a quiet night at the Athens Polytechnic last night, mainstream media (which, more often than not, prepare the ground for police operations) are now reporting that a police raid of the polytechnic is unlikely. The people occupying the building have succesfully defended their right to decide themselves when to leave - this will happen at today’s open assembly (6pm).

Reports are coming in, both on indymedia and the occupations’ open assemblies, that the police have been approaching taxi drivers asking them to pass on information about their passengers (just like they would do during the 1967-1974 dictatorship). In one instance a woman who hailed a cab outside the occupied Economics University and asked to be taken to a northern suburb of Athens was driven straight to the police headquarters. Luckily she realised what was going on a block away from the police building and managed to jump out of the taxi’s window and escape, chased both by the taxi driver and the police.

Meanwhile, mainstream media also report a riot police van was shot at twice at 05:50 am in the Goudi suburb of Athens, next to the university campus in Zografou; one bullet hit the van’s tyre and the other hit the engine.

The last student demonstration for this year is set to start in a few minutes. There has already been a call for a fresh student demo on January 9th and it is expected that demonstrations will continue apace in the new year.

It is also expected that the anarchist occupations of the three universities (Economics, Polytechnic and Law school) will all end later this week, as fatigue is seriously kicking in at these unprecedented 17-days long occupations. Actions will, of course, continue - the biggest bet right now is to expand the revolt and unrest in time and people are focusing their plans on this. We should have a better idea of where things will go after this week’s assemblies.

#33, 09:19: Last night calm at the Polytechnic, solidarity gig tonight

Monday, December 22, 2008

UPDATE, 23.59 All is quiet at the polytechnic - as quiet as they can be here. No cops in sight. Speakers are blasting ‘guns of brixton’.

UPDATE, 17:36 Amidst wild speculation about the possible moves of the police (most rumours, if not all, clearly spread to create fear), people in solidarity have started gathering at the occupied grounds of the Athens Polytechnic. The prisoner solidarity gig at 6pm will be followed by an open assembly: This, and this only, will decide whether (and when) we shall leave the university.

Heading to the university right now - information from the polytechnic will be limited. Will definitely send out an update if the polytechnic is being raided though.

Last night was calm at the Polytechnic. As mainstream media report, the academic asylum at the campus has already been suspended - which means it is now entirely up to the police to decide if they will raid. Until recently, it used to be that the law, preventing the police and army from entering university grounds, could only be suspended after an explicit decision of the university senate. However, according to a voted amendment, an attorney general can also order its suspension should there be fellonies commited in the university grounds and within 48 hours since this happens. Given that the most recent clashes with the police took place on Saturday night (molotovs thrown against them: a fellony) they have until tonight to attempt to raid the university, if they so decide.

The decision taken by the occupation’s assembly is politically spot-on: the crucial point here is for the people occupying the building, not the police, to decide when to leave.

Meanwhile, the occupied GSEE (trade union) building was handed back to the GSEE yesterday, following a decision by the occupation’s assembly.

The revenge of normality shall not pass, neither at the Polytechnic nor anywhere else!

Sunday, December 21, 2008

(Statement by the Occupied Athens Polytechnic, issued a few moments ago)

From Saturday 20th of December onward, following the clashes around the Athens Polytechnic (one of the tens of mass clashes between protestors and police that followed the assassination of 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos) there has been strong speculation surrounding the occupation of the Athens Polytechnic.

Continuous information that has been coming in regarding a possible police raid in the occupied Polytechnic, combined with the strategic maneuvering of the riot police during the clashes, foretold the obvious: The police are preparing to raid the occupied university. Bypassing the senate, surrendering the Polytechnic to the police and the ministry of interior, the attorney general sent us an indirect yet clear message, with threats and blackmailing, that we have “a few hours” left.

We reply to them that the time we’ve got left is as much as the revolted part of the society decides and that we accept no ultimatums in this. That they’d better respect and fear all who participated, participate and will continue to participate in practices of revolt. It is precisely those, the thousands of revolted, of students, workers, unemployed, migrants and comrades that we call to a high alert at the space of the Polytechnic, ahead of the coming raid.

- We call everyone to a mass presence at the Athens Polytechnic campus

- We call for an open assembly today, Sunday 21/12 at 9pm

- We call for self-guarded concert of solidarity and financial support for the prisoners of the revolt. 6pm at the Athens Polytechnic

We shall have the last word

These days and nights belong to Alexis

Athens Polytechnic Occupation

21/12/08

Ocupação do Politecnico ameaçada!

#32, 16:06: Athens Polytechnic occupation under imminent threat
A few moments ago one of the pro-vice-chancellors of the Athens Polytechnic announced to the people inside the occupied building that the control of the building is no longer with the university senate and that it has been passed on to an attorney general instead. Anarchist radio 98 FM reports that the senate has ordered the university guards to leave their positions.

There is a general assembly happening right now at the Athens Polytechnic, with people deciding whether they should leave the building or not.

What the pro-vice-chancellor claimed to have happened is absurd and 100% illegal even by the state’s own laws. What we are all fearing is that a police operation inside the Polytechnic is imminent. This would be the first time in over a decade that such an operation takes place - and the first time ever that police enter university grounds with a mass operation without prior permission by the senate.
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[Lisboa] Manifestação de Solidariedade com a Revolta Grega

Decorreu hoje em Lisboa uma manifestação de solidariedade com os companheiros gregos e em memória de todos os que sucumbiram às mãos do terrorismo de estado...

Apareceu um número bastante razoável de pessoas na Praça da Figueira e a manifestação propriamente dita surgiu de uma forma algo espontânea, visto que pelo menos o que vinha na convocatória era apenas uma concentração.

Os jornalistas marcaram fortemente a sua presença, sendo muitas vezes bastante incomodativos o que levou bastante gente a tapar a cara devido à já célebre insistência em tirar fotos aos manifestantes.

Falando de jornalistas, só um pequeno reparo, estão de parabéns pois conseguiram fazer com que a questão da Grécia passasse completamente ao lado da população pois durante o percurso as pessoas olhavam para nós com um ar bastante surpreendido... Viam-nos como simples apoiantes de um grupo de vândalos que anda a partir as dependências do BCP e mais meia dúzia de lojas...

Enfim, já estamos habituados a isto...

Quanto à manifestação propriamente dita, saiu da Praça da Figueira perto das 16 horas e supostamente deveria seguir para a Praça Camões no Chiado (o percurso ia sendo decidido na hora), mas a uma certa altura parecia que a polícia estava a cortar o trânsito para fazer o que todos sabemos muito bem... Foi a altura mais tensa pois parecia mesmo eminente uma carga policial!

Decidimos alterar o percurso e fomos em direcção ao Terreiro do Paço. Chegados à praça, as faixas foram estendidas na estátua central e por lá ficaram. Só nessa altura vimos a polícia de intervenção mas a manifestação já estava a dispersar.

QUE A REVOLTA ALASTRE

[Grécia] Update de hoje

ATENÇÃO!!! Mais um estudante de 16 anos alvejado!!!

Estava com um grupo de estudantes perto da sua escola em Peristeri quando foi disparado um tiro que o feriu!!! Não se sabe se foi polícia ou fascistas... Quando os seu colegas voltaram ao local para apanhar o cartucho foi disparado outro tiro, que não acertou em ninguém desta vez...

De resto a manifestação de estudantes foi (mais uma vez) violentamente reprimida!!! A polícia está a usar um tipo de gás mais forte.

Segundo os relatos, durante a manif uma carrinha de transporte de dinheiro que passava foi incendiada.

Também houve um grupo que invadiu uma igreja e que a cada disparo de gás tocava os sinos.

Os meios de comunicação continuam a ser ocupados por todo o país: A radio municipal de Tripoli, o canal de TV Nea Tileorasi em Chania, e as rádios Star FM e Imagine 897 FM em Thessaloniki foram todos ocupados!

Em protesto com os líderes sindicais foi ocupado mais um edifício sindical, desta vez em Patras. Os ocupantes exigem uma greve geral de tempo indefinido!

Dia de acção internacional - Uma concentração de solidariedade com o movimento social grego

Sábado 20 de Dezembro, 15h00 concentração de solidariedade com o movimento social grego. Praça da Figueira, Lisboa

O movimento social na Grécia protesta contra a violência que a polícia exerce sobre os cidadãos, cujo caso mais recente foi o assassinato de um jovem de 15 anos. Mas os protestos são também contra as crescentes desigualdades sociais.

#25, 17:50: bureaucrats attack the occupation of the workers confederation but are driven away; rioting erupts in Patras

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

50 bureaucrats came along to the building of the insurgent workers. They came together with some “heavies” but disappeared in the sight of anarchist reinforcements from the Economic university, chanting slogans of solidarity.

In Patras, the lawyer of the assassin cop is holding a press conference in the Pampeloponisiako football ground, having just purchased the local football club. Around 500 people are gathered outside; the have set fire to binds and erected barricades. The first few tear gas canisters are being thrown by the cops.

More to follow.

#24, 15:18: General confederation of workers building occupied; Acropolis “solidarity” banner hanged; government calls TV occupation “attempt to overt

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

At 8 am today the building of GSEE (General Confederation of Workers in Greece) was occupied by insurgent workers, according to their own statement. An open workers assembly has been called for 6pm.

Huge banners were hanged in front of the Acropolis, calling for tomorrow’s mass demonstration…

A government spokesman called yesterday’s state-run TV station occupation “an attempt to overthrow democracy”. The action was also condemned by the communist party (kke).