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from libcom.org:

I am translating here for all interested a communique by the Anarchist Archive, one of the oldest, most traditional and best-known anarchist groups in Greece, on Lambros Foundas. I think it makes an interesting and highly controversial public obituary to the man. I do not identify with the text below, and will try to provide any public response to it by other anarchist or revolutionary groups as a documentation of political dialogue on the issue.

The struggle of all of us who struggle against any form of power, who "are anxious" for every moment not to be lost, and who preserve stubbornly the belief that we are not incapable of building a free and power-less world, is as far from any sort of mythology as the earth from the moon. This struggle had and has innumerable dead, hostages but also people who quit because they loose their hopes or they conform as power found a "small" or "big" price to buy them off. All those who, therefore, all looking for hagiographies, for martyrs or for saviours, for heroes, or for "holy monsters" are no different from those who do not loose a chance to point with their finger the "adventurists", the "lost sheep", the "suspiciously diverging", the politically "forever lost". Both the "transcedental beings" glorified by the former, and the "extremists" from which the latter distance themselves are consumable. In both cases the issue is forgetfulness, despite the former or the latter evangelising the opposite. The "ecstatics" talk about "the sacrificed", while the others demarcate of the limits of "loss" with political piety. It is equally insignificant if that converging is achieved due to fanaticism or illusions, naiveness or purposefulness. for reasons of political survival and projection or of dogmatic exercises. The "conficting" voices above are yelling in order to convince that they are enemies, but their trick had hide itself with great difficulty.
Be it. The "play" is sad and a thousand times rehearsed, but known things always convey "certainty/security". Always? Or perhaps not? The words below and all of the above are not the product of some obligation or duty. Nor are they part of some revolutionary necrology. They are far away and hostile to any effort of mythologisation, reclaiming, intervention or distancing, they are against the mud and the devaluation that power is trying to channel via the publication of the identity and photo of a dead "terrorist" after a clash with cops in Dafni.

Lambros Foundas, who fell dead, during the exchange of fire with the crew of a patrol car in the area of Dafni, is known for his anarchist activity. He participated as a high school teacher in social practices and a bit later in the Anarchist Group Black Thorn that published the journal Roads of Rage. He was active in protest marches, demos, social clashes, fly-posting, conversations and happenings. He was one of those thousands of young people who at that time did not enter any party youth group, who participated in the pupil's occupations and clashes after the assassination of the teacher Nikos Temboneras in Patras, who were inspired by the insurrectionary events of January 1991, but also by the anarchist opinions and practices, which they made their own with a liveliness which words are too poor to express. The Anarchist Group Black Thorn until its disolvement participated in the Collaboration of Anarchist Groups and Individuals for Social Solidarity and Multiform Action. During the Polytechnic occupation of 1995, which took place on the anniversary of the 1973 uprising, Lambros Foundas was amongst the 504 arrested by the repressive state forces that invaded on the morning of 18 November 1995 inside the Athens Polytechnic. He was thus amongst the young people of his "generation" who the politically "correct" ones took haste to characterise "lost". He was amongst those comrades who chose a side and "traveled" the 1990s decade from demonstration to demonstration, from barricade to barricade, in pationate solidarity towards any social sector that chose to confront power, bearing each their own mistakes and rights, their difference and their stuborness, making a liar of any power that wanted to portray them as "passers by" of the social struggles. Of course there were also such kind of people. With Lambros since then we have found ourselves so many times next to each other in demonstrations, clashes and in the barricades.

We thus believe unwaveringly that what the struggling people leave behind is ALL THAT CONTRIBUTE REALLY AND NOT SUPERFICIALLY to the process of liberation from the bonds of oppression and exploitation. This is their heritage that is beyond their individual needs, decisions or choices. Because the means are not a goal in themselves, they do not separate those who struggle, but they liberate possibilities; they do not make saints out of those who choose this or that form, nor do they elevate them filling them with decorations. There are no generally and abstractly unjustly lost comrades. Nor is it important in these cases to look for operational errors. Equally however the logic that explanations are the privilege of hieratic councils, of the initiated or of some sublime internal affairs is not good for us. Nor can our answer to those who weave scenarios can our answer start and finish with the saying "losses are a necessary evil". Our positions should be clear and sound.

We close by bidding Lambros farewell with an indian wish (and certainty): next time (we meet) it will be better!

ANARCHIST ARCHIVE OF ATHENS



At the moment bourgeois news continue their war of slime, while anarchists have started a campaign in honour of the dead man with posters writing "Lambros Foundas was one of us" posted en mass in Athens. According to the police, the hand grenade found in the man's backpack is not of the type used by any urban guerrilla group in Greece. Thus until now no evidence have been found suggesting that the man was a member of any guerrilla group, despite bourgeois media portraying him as "at the heart of the Revolutionary Struggle" and "as preparing for an imminent terrorist attack"
One more text published online regarding the killing of Lambros Foundas is a short letter from prison by the revolutionary Giorgos Voutsis Voyatzis who is spending time in jail after being convicted for a bank robbery in Athens:

Comrade Lambros was a true examplar of a struggles for all of us. A real revolutionary, sworn enemy of apraxia [idleness or lack of praxis]. Simple, sober, eclectic and decided. UNTIL THE END, LEADER OF HIS OWN SELF. Besides, he made no contract with life so that he cheated on it. A contract with life is signed by those who divorce from the choice of just-praxis [dikaiopraxia]. Consider these not so big-phrased but honest words a last farewell to a comrade and combatant of freedom. Let praxis/actions speak... 11/03/2010.

Lambros was shot from the back by the pigs, action that is even illegalized from the law they protect as they self-present their actions. Personally I do not want to publish anything more about the case; all the information come from the cops now. I only want to say that many houses around Attica have been searched after the asassination of Lambros; readers of indymedia.de can check older updates to see the case of CCF and how the cops started legalizing personal relationships and create "terrorists". It seems that until now, the pigs in Greece were just imprisoning us or beating us up brutally openly. From now on they start also killing us openly ...

It must be noted that the BKA is investigating since quiet some time into an attack with stones at a police-station (well known for it's rascist practice) and torched police cars in front of it. An also looted garbage-container that was close to the building was taken by authority to investigate in "tried murder" and a "terrorist organisation" with the greek name for "the masked". (note: all houses in hamburg are constructed out of wood esp garages of police-stations)
The BKA usually only gets into "hard" cases and/or is used as a political weapon and gots more official rights to watch the population, esp then using §129a.
§129a is an "anti"-terror scheme that already starts with promotion or support. Originally meant was the "draft" but then used for advertisement (because in german that's the same word) like spraypaints, reading wrong papers and documentatings of communiques.
Also must be noted that the authorities come up with "tried murder" when molotovs rain and that in the past it was max "tried manslaughter". The latter sentenced with 5 years education in white cells

Das Kürzungspaket ist nun beschlossen. Aber wann (ungefähr) wird es in Kraft treten? Also wann werden die Leute konkret merken, dass sie weniger Geld überwiesen bekommen haben. Dass die Griechen wegen der Preistreiberei einiger Handelsketten, speziell im Konsumbereich (media-markt und saturn) bereits jetzt weniger in der Tasche haben, ist mir schon klar. Man liest ja facebook und twitter-Einträge. Anscheinend haben sie es mit einer Inflation zu tun, die auf niedrigem level bleibt, aber sie beschleunigt sich nun etwas.

Dann hat natürlich jeder Rücklagen, die erst aufgebraucht werden können. Die sind aber auch irgendwann weg. Geht der Binnenkonsum drastisch zurück, wird das vor allem den Kleinhandel treffen. Lidl-Greece kann seine Preise senken. (Das Wurstsortiment wird nämlich von deutschen Leiharbeitern in xxxx hergestellt.) Also werden irgendwann in der zweiten Jahreshälfte eine Menge Leute ziemlich große Probleme bekommen. Wenn die jeder versucht hat individuell zu lösen, und gemerkt hat, das klappt nicht...

hmm, also erstens ist das jetzt bereits das 3. sparpacket und gelder kommen zum monatsende, d.h. man merkt das bereits jetzt. das urlaubsgeld (sog. 14. Gehalt), das zur hälfte für osterferien gilt, wurde um 30% gekürzt, der spritpreis is auch schon längst am galoppieren, höhere mehrwert(+2), alk., tabak-steuer(beides+20), lidl ist (30%?) teurer als in deutschland, saturn hat angeblich 20% wegen boykott eingebüßt
die existenzfrage stellt sich jetzt vordergründig für die, die selbst mit zwei, drei jobs kaum über die runden kommen und aus angst, gefeuert zu werden noch garnich mitmachen. weil, wenn sie dann irgendwo (kredithai?) schulden aufnehmen müssen, damit sie überhaupt auf arbeit zu fressen haben, macht's wenig sinn. sozialhilfe gibts nich und bei mindestrente 360/durchsschnittsrente 5-600, tja... (in deutschland würde das zu einer ziemlichen erhöhung der todesrate alleinstehender alter führen und ich möchte "nicht" wissen, was dieser winter angerichtet hat.)
was gerne im ausland übersehen wird, ist, daß die immobilienkrise bereits 2008 extreme auswirkungen hatte: wegen der schlechten lernbedingungen müssen eltern und großeltern nachhilfe bezahlen, dafür wurden hypotheken auf kl. häuser, wohnungen aufgenommen und wenn dann noch die immobilienpreise (wie u.s.a.) in den keller rutschen... kannste dir ausmalen. viele der insgesamt 1 million ehemaligen "gastarbeiter" haben in deutschland geklotzt und dann ihre ersparnisse so angelegt: für die famile oder nen kleinen laden, zudem sind baukosten krass wegen erdbebensicherheit.. das war einer der hintergründe der sog. jugendrevolte im dezember 2008, eigentlich eine soziale revolte.
richtig übel wird's, wenn der staat auf einmal seine bullen nicht mehr bezahlen kann, das militär besteht hauptsächlich aus wehrpflichtigen, hehe.
dummerweise wurde die landwirtschaft natürlich auch dem globaleren markt angepasst, dementsprechend ist die flucht auf's land nicht mehr ganz so einfach. da aber die bauern im norden anfangen sich in syndikaten zu organisieren, stirbt hier keine hoffnung

die stimmung wird zunehmend schlechter für reformisten, weil die gelben gewerkschaften die leute immer offener verarschen, ebenso wie die Linkskoalition (SYRIZA) (etwas ähnlich zu LINKE), die von Reparationen träumen und die KKE arbeitet mit cops zusammen.

mittlerweile hat sich auch rausgestellt, wie die zusammenstösse genau anfingen: die bullen erklärten, daß sie von GSEE aufgefordert wurdem, ihrem Oberheinz ne gasse durch die demo zu schlagen, damit der zu seinem redepult kann. Dabei haben sie den Block der Ärzte(von wegen Jugendliche) angegriffen (die übrigens auch ab morgen streiken) u.a. auch mit der übleren sorte tränengas, derentwegen sich die leute mit magenschleimhaut mittel einreiben; die gasen derartig viel, daß dann nur feuer hilft, was das gas auffrisst. aber schön, daß sie es bei den ärzten machen, so wird der dreck noch bekannter.

ausserdem sucht diese gewerkschaft mit riesigen plakaten, die leute, die diesen oberheinz beim letzten mal attackiert haben

das flugblatt von oben ist jetzt hier komplett übersetzt und überarbeitet
 http://de.indymedia.org/2010/03/275672.shtml
ein anderes - kürzeres - findeste du hier: http://kavyadarsa.blogspot.com/2010/03/aufruf-von-arbeitern-der-hellenic.html
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