Anarchist Tension in Greece

international | anti-capitalism | news report

Friday February 03, 2006 16:43

by Insurrection

the spread of attack

Over 1,000 anarchists marched in Athens this week in Solidarity with 3 anarchist prisoners (http://athens.indymedia.org/display.php?articleId=3200) and against ongoing state repression.

Anarchist March

The march passed off relatively trouble free, especially so in comparison with the ongong arson attacks on CCTV, Police stations and banks carried out by clandestine Greek anarchist groups. Attacks against the state apparatus have been intensifying across Greece in the past few months.

Yiannis Dimitrakis, an alleged member of an anarchist group, was involved in shooting three people during a bank robbery. He denies being a member of any organisation. The greek anarchist federation have released a statement denouncing the actions of individualists groups operating in Greece.

Statement of Federation of Anarchists of Greece (OAE) on the armed robbery in the centre of Athens, Monday 16/01/2006, and the events following.

We denounce the constant tactic of the state of penalisation of the anarchist ideas on the occasion of the bloody robbery in the centre of Athens. In other similar cases, anyone who is violating the law by a robbery he/she is not declared by his/her political identity, but in this particular case this has been declared with more...

We are enemies of the capitalism and the class exploitation at the expence of the popular masses from the exploitative banking system, but we condemn such practices by individuals and/or groups as counter-revolutionary, because they arm the power and the state with arguments and facilitate the more general repression against social movements and ideas.

Historically, anarchism is considering and using the capitalists’ expropriation as a mean within the general frame of the wide social movements and in pre-revolutionary periods.

The all sorts of «urban guerrilla» roups which developed during the previous decades did not have any relation with the substance of the anarchist ideas and also they were proved by the circumstances dead-end and ineffective as of their means of struggle.

The Federation of Anarchists of Greece (OAE) is separating its position and does not recognize in noone, individual or group, to be self-nominated as the judge of the social rights and demands, proceeding in proportional counter-revolutionary actions.

- NO INDIVIDUAL POWER OF ARMS CAN SUPPRESS THE POWER OF SYSTEM

- TOWARDS MASS STRUGGLES AGAINST STATE AND CAPITAL

Federation of Anarchists of Greece