Griechenland noch hoffnungsloser verschuldet

lest und hört richtig zu!---- nebenbei gab es gestern bei den streikdemos auseinandersetzungen...
1. handelt es sich um eine Anfrage nach KREDITEN zu 5%, weil die 7.5, die die Banken, die die Verschuldung forciert haben und die mit ihren Zeitungen die Zinsen treiben, nicht mehr finanzierbar sind! und logisch verdient die EU auch noch an den immer noch hohen Zinsen..
2. überholen die GEZ-Huren ZDF und ARD (bis auf den gestrigen Kommentator!) Hr. Schäuble rechts außen in ihrer widerlichen nazistischen Propaganda. Wie schon bei Fokus und Stern dürften da jetzt erneut Stellen für Sicherheitsfuzzis frei werden.
3. ist das alles die Folge der BRD-Politik als Exportvizeweltmeister und logischerweise werden sie die Kohle pumpen, damit sie weiter ihren Schrott verkaufen können!
4. ist die BRD das Land der Kinderficker, das wissen wir nicht erst seit Roman Polanski auf der Berlinale für Vergewaltigung einer Minderjährigen geehrt wurde
5. steht in allen Maiaufrufen bzgl. Hellas totaler Schrott, so nach dem Motto "die Sparmaßnahmen, die Deutschland erleben mußte, werden nach da unten durch gereicht". Fakt ist aber, daß die griechische Wirtschaft und die Menschen an der Immobilienkrise gelitten haben wie die der USA und die Maßnahmen, die in Deutschland durch geführt wurden/werden, schon vor Jahren in Hellas Agenda waren; was schliesslich direkt zur Revolte in 2008/2009 geführt hat. Was jetzt passiert, ist eine ganz andere Qualität. Aber nicht nur bzgl. Griechenland schreiben die Herren und Damen Schrott, auch die Klassenanalyse ist völlig verkürzt und faselt von "Lohnabhängigen", etc. und übersieht völlig:
a.:) es gibt hier Arbeiteraristokratie, die dicke Autos fährt und im Urlaub auf Herrenmensch macht und
b.:) Das Proletariat besteht nicht nur aus Beschäftigten!
6. ist es totale Absicht von Georgie sich für die Welt in einem Tourienest mit tiefblauer Ägais und strahlendem Himmel zu präsentieren und die Notwendigkeit der Kredite zu erläutern; mit dem Ziel der Klassenspaltung.
lesen: "Demokratie: kein Ausgang!" von den AGENTS OF CHAOS
7. lenkt es sehr schön davon ab, wie Griechenland in eine Bullendiktatur abdriftet und jedesmal, wenn gestreikt wird gegen Entlassungen, gegen Bossterrorismus, für Arbeiterselbstverwaltung, zum Aufbau eigener Gewerkschaften, usw. können sie dem Widerstand jedwege Legitimität absprechen, weil "Seht her, die geben uns Geld!"

Die einzige Antwort der radikalen Linken (die DKP gehört nicht dazu!) kann nur die sein, sich mit der Kriminalisierung und dem protofaschistischen Charakter des Staates und seiner Organe auseinanderzusetzen, insbesondere wenn hochschwangere Anarchisti_nnen als kommunistische "Terroristen" einfahren oder Jugendliche zusammen mit Muttern wegen Chinaböllern zum Bombenbau.

FREE THE ATHENS SIX!

an die Spinner, die die INTERIM für ihren denunziatorischen Scheiss mibrauchen: Gasagkia ist ein Brandsatz, der nicht nur Lärm macht!

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#260 | Photos from tonight’s anti-IMF demonstration in Athens
Saturday, April 24, 2010
More on Athens IMC











Filed in news | | Comments (0) #259 | Call-outs for meetings and demonstrations against the IMF “rescue” plan today
Friday, April 23, 2010
UPDATE 3 21:20 Local Time. After an unprovoked attack, police detained a number of people from Exarcheia area, around the Navarinou Park and Mesologeiou St.

UPDATE 2

21:15 Local Time. After the end of the demonstration in Athens a number of protesters have been concentrated in the University Refectory, which is in siege by police, some more protesters have been concentrated on the Navarinou self-organized Park, Police units seem to gather near the park.

UPDATE 1

20:00 Local Time, more than 2,000 people are Marching in Athens against the so-called IMF ‘rescue plan’




■In Athens, a demonstration has been called for at 18.30 tonight at the Propylea, by the grassroots trade unions.
■In Heraclion, Crete a demonstration will start from the Liontaria Square at 6pm
■In Thessaloniki, a demonstration will start at 7pm from the Venizelos statue
■In Xanthi, a meeting will take place at 7pm at the Polytechnic
The list will keep getting updated…

EVERYONE TO THE STREETS






Women of the National Liberation Front (EAM) demonstrate outside the Greek Parliament during the Greek civil war. The banner reads “when the people are confronted with the threat of tyranny, they either chose the chains or the guns”









Filed in news | | Comments (0) #258 | Sea, sun and social war: everyone to the streets!
Friday, April 23, 2010
This time, Kastelorizo won’t be far enough

A few hours ago greek PM Papandreou chose the remote Aegean island of Kastelorizo to announce his government was to activate the IMF-EU “rescue” plan, effectively throwing the proletariat and lower middle classes in the country at the mercy of international financial giants.

This is social war at its peak; in an instant response, a demonstration has been called at the Propylea, Athens at 18.30 today by grassroots trade unions.

Occupied London will be reporting from the demo.


Filed in news | | Comments (0) #257 | Greek government activates joint IMF-EU “rescue” plan
Friday, April 23, 2010
13.55 GMT+2 A few minutes ago, Greek PM Panandreou announced from the tiny island of Kastelorizo that his government will offically ask for the joint IMF-EU “rescue” plan to be activated – effectively throwing the country into one of the steepest traps of global capitalism. Corporate media report that at this stage, 40 bn euros will be borrowed in total.

Filed in news | | Comments (0) #256 | On the financial crisis
Thursday, April 22, 2010


The bold letters read:

The (financial) crisis shall become their crisis once we play with a full deck of playing cards

The crisis is not a natural disaster that simply happens; the crisis is the outcome of the choices of all those who want to maintain this system, in which we are exploited, repressed and governed. Their proposals on how to come out of the crisis do not differ from suggestions on how the existing situation could be reinforced and take root. Our propositions can be nothing less than strikes and solidarity, occupations and sabotage, expropriations and mutual help… in order to create the world that we choose for ourselves, against all kinds of segregations and hierarchy.

Assembly of the revolted in (the island of ) Salamina, (and the neighborhoods of) Perama, Keratsini, Nikaia, Koridallos, Piraeus

Filed in news | | Comments (1) #255 | “How many racists can Greece hold?” Communique by the Haunt of Albanian Migrants in Athens
Thursday, April 22, 2010

We post here a translation of a communique issued by the Haunt of Albanian Migrants last summer. This is the same group who authored the text titled “These days are ours, too” and which comprised, in our opinion, one of the most powerful texts to come out of December’s revolt. Their latest text comes as a breath of fresh air in a society where the financial “crisis” seems to be giving rise to the far-right; the usual scape-goats have been found…



“How many racists can Greece hold?”

A small dictionary of everyday terms.

Insecurity – a feeling of distrust toward your fellow humans because alienation and separation between us has reached such levels that we now hear from our neighbours not at the square where they hang out but through TV news and reality shows. Journalists, playing the role of priests, spread fear, hatred and distrust.

Crime – breaking laws that aim at your moral, financial and physical extermination; laws based on racist (racial, national, religious) criteria, applied by servants of law and order – the same ones who launched their careers in the dictatorship. Torturing, humiliations, assassinations at the border and in detention cells for foreigners by these manic psychopaths-in-uniform are not only left unpunished, but often rewarded both professionally and socially.

Justice – receiving on average double years of sentencing for the same crime compared to a local, especially if you happen to be albanian. Waiting between six months and three years to be sentenced (70% of foreigners in prison are either awaiting sentencing or are convicted for violation of the law regarding illegal entry to the country) and if you are eventually acquitted, not to receive any compensation but to be thankful to be released. Being deported (according to a new amendment submitted to parliament) if you are charged for a crime, whether you have papers or not, without standing trial in order to be able to defend yourself. The standard practice has become law: Shut up, dig up, take a bone.

Sweeping operations – police operations “cleansing” specific areas from unwanted elements (soon your turn will come), very popular in nazi and apartheid-style regimes. Those in support of the “sweeping clean” of human beings are probably judging from the dirt of their own homes.

Citizen committees – local organisations of [far-right parliamentary party] LAOS, strengthened by the bloody fascists of Golden Dawn who, following closely their family tradition, are informants, bullies (only when accompanied by police) and minions of whatever authority-happens-to-be.

Agios Panteleimonas – area of Athens occupied by para-statal fascists and police forces where the presence of all foreigners is banned, along with anyone who is not orthodox, dark-skinned and with a turkish-sounding surname [reference to the schizophrenic “racial impurity” of Greek fascists, trans.]. Obviously Athens, a city of 3,5 million, cannot hold some more thousands unless they come to give us money – in which case we bow all the way down to the floor.

Migrant reception centres – detention centres where foreigners are imprisoned and exterminated (as in the case of the Petrou Ralli detention centre, and the one of Elliniko – both in Athens), after they survive arson (Patras) and lynching (Manolada) in order for peace-seeking citizens to rest assured that the state and capitalism are to blame for all evils.

Illegal migrants – a) people from the poorest parts of the planet who pay the price for the wealth of the western world (EU, USA). What do you think is the impact of the protectionism and subsidies you receive upon the workers and professionals outside the EU? b) refugees from war-hit parts of the planet to whom you are obliged, according to the institution and all international rules, to offer food and shelter. In any case, the governments that you yourself have voted in have contributed to these known and unknown wars taking place in distant parts of the planet and now, the misery they have caused knocks on your own door.

This is, in general terms, is a description of what has been happening in our city and respectively across Greece as of late. In a society where us migrants have been used to the mass hysteria against us, this latest episode comes as little surprise. Neither the rise of violence, nor the support of racist action across the political spectrum, nor even the widespread tolerance and acceptance of these from society. The tough experiences of the previous decade (1994, 1998, 2004) safeguarded the smoothness of these developments. What we must clarify is the stance we take against this reality. And this concerns migrants too, but first and foremost it concerns the locals.

First, all of us migrants must understand that personal solutions are not long-term and that sooner or later, popular will will run over us too. We consider no nationality to be privileged and this is something perfectly understood by everyone living this as an everyday reality – and yet, we still find ourselves in a rat-race to safeguard the grace of our bosses. It is no good to say that the albanians steal while we are peaceful, or that the albanians are plodders and the rest don’t work. Racism and xenophobia begin from a sense of power and authority given to you by the element of separation between locals and foreigners and “legalisation” (the race-based right of stay in a place). Therefore, this power will be used against you, too, whenever it is considered useful by anybody – even if we all turn into angels.

Concerning the locals, we believe that their racism must be fought back by equal force – some times even harder, as an example toward all who might down-rate our lives. We must allow no-one, uniformed or not, to take away our dignity and even more so our life. We have nothing to lose but our skin – and we must protect that at all costs.

In regard to the people supporting us, we believe that solidarity to migrants is to offer a job, a shelter, papers (with weddings-for-papers) or at least a friendly smile, without demanding that your ideological belief is adopted. Solidarity is to know the effect that trying to secure papers has upon our lives – and not the theoretical understanding of the conditions creating our problems. Solidarity is to understand that being albanian, bulgarian or pakistani is not a matter of personal choice like being nationalist or internationalist, leftist or right-wing – and yet it defines, on a practical level, most aspects of our lives.

No-one came here to become your ideal revolutionary subject. In any case, the struggle against racism and exploitation is first a duty of anyone who does not tolerate this reality in their society. It is first and foremost a struggle to safeguard a reality you can tolerate for yourself. Being a migrant is no honour – it is shameful for people to need accompanying papers, as if they were product boxes. Our slogan should be, “we are all locals!”

At the end of the day this piece of land can hold us all. Those who are dangerous for society are the racists and fascists; if they increase, they will become a threat to social cohesion and the whatever-level-of democracy we currently have where we live. Then, migrant sweeping operations and concentration camps will bear your own name and the reward for your labour will not be 700 euros per month but rather, that it will set you free. For all this, the answer to our question must be crystal-clear:

Racism and fascism, out

of our squares, our neighbourhoods, our lives

HAUNT OF ALBANIAN MIGRANTS

Filed in news | Tagged haunt of albanian migrants | Comments (0) #254 | “Back in the day, dictatorships were actually declared”
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
“What a day today, huh”, shrugs the old man from inside the kiosk. “What about it?” I try to sound oblivious. “April 21st, the junta…” He’s quickly agitated, starts to move his hands up in the air, drawing some imaginary bird, the junta’s shivering emblem. “That was the day they came, the day we went into hiding. We knew what was coming, oh did we know. But you know what? This is something you learn to appreciate after all these years. I never thought I would say this, but at least you knew what was coming. Yes, back in the day, a dictatorship was actually declared.” It’s easy to see what’s causing his frustration. Today, from all days, is the day chosen by the greek government to enter into official negotiations with the IMF to finalise the terms of its impeding bailout.

This morning the Athens daily Eleftherotypia issued a statement (gr) explaining why it has abstained from covering the latest “developments” in the “revolutionary struggle” case. It has openly accused the police of offering no access to journalists covering the story – and sure enough, of fabricating much of the story. This all comes from a paper that ranks among the very top in circulation in the country – and one that has been fully supportive of the PASOK government, so far. There’s something rotten in the air, some sense of an impending authoritarian rule, or is it already here? Hard to tell, these days. Back in the day, at least, dictatorships were actually declared.

“Happy birthday, military junta!”

Filed in news | | Comments (0) #253 | Mario Z.’s 3rd letter from jail
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
They’ve taken us prisoner,
they’ve locked us up:
me inside the walls,
you outside.
But that’s nothing.
The worst
is when people – knowingly or not -
carry a prison inside themselves…
Most people have been forced to do this,
honest, hard-working, good people

Nazim Hikmet

(translation by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk)

It’s been almost a month I’m in jail and I’m coping, because amid the disgraceful things that those who work for the state and put society to sleep do, it has done us good to be here, because we become stronger by using our sole power, as a friend tells me every day: our heart, our mind and solidarity (so as to shout for our right and to resist).
Although I’m not the right person to talk about jail, since my time here so far has been short, albeit intense, I have come to realize that the term “correctional institution” is inappropriate – to state it mildly –, if not a joke. By using this term we underestimate ourselves and the prisoners, while we smarten up this monument of repressive cowardice and hypocrisy. How could this artificial environment – in which every person is isolated and the urge to be creative is shuttered, where one is distanced from the people he loves and gradually becomes alienated from society– make better people and help them integrate into society? What a disgrace. Jails are an important part of state repression. This dead space of humanity seems like a “purification chamber” in the eyes of rulers and their subjects; a place where the aim is correctional. However, the main goal can be no other but to terrorize society (so that it cannot act against the state, without this necessarily meaning to act in a punishable way). There are many cases of people who ended up in jail, although they had done nothing wrong. I am one of these people myself. The state’s most directly repressive unit arrested me in the name of their laws, although I protest in the name of rights and freedom.

The emotions and the human rights of those who live free in society fade away just like time goes by and leaves its marks on the prison walls. This is a society that constantly experiences predatory bank attacks; a society which is bombarded with uncertainty by one government after the other, with no guarantees about the present and the future; a society which is monitored and controlled; a society in which people are slaves of artificial needs. To what extent can we pride about our freedom? Reacting, disagreeing and reflecting are now considered offences; every form of reaction – violent or not – is punished as if it showed some kind of “disrespect” to the state. I hope my pupils respect themselves. So who are these perfect citizens that the state eventually wants? What is the value of what citizens say or believe in the face of the state’s institutions? What does the state think about those who react? Does it want the mind of a tramp or that of a dead man?

Through their tactics and the way they punish some in order to make an example of them, they aim to spread fear. They make up stories about bogeys, lies and revengeful tales, while there is also an arsenal of laws to help out in this act of revenge. They lie to themselves and they also lie to the people. They’d probably prefer we were never born or once we are born, to remain silent. This attempt to put society to sleep and to go back to the Middle Ages has proved to be fruitless. The best answer is given via all the social struggles that cannot be overseen, although government spokesmen have tried to disdain them, and the big wave of support and solidarity. Social reaction is alive. And it shall not stop as long as we have the power to think, to feel, to protest and to put up a struggle, for as long as our ideas, our lives and our rights are affected. It is the state that should see reason rather than the opposite.

I don’t belong to any political party and I remain faithful to my ideas; I observe political party synergies, and I do not protest for my innocence –which is a fact–, but rather for the injustice that even according to their standards is done.

Continue to search and ask, and do not trust them.

Freedom of speech, expression and action.

Freedom to all those who are inside and outside prison cells.

Marios Z. – A’ Koridallos Prison wing – 13.04.2010

Filed in news | Tagged marios z. | Comments (0) #252 | A letter by Kostas Gournas, one of the six arrested anarchists
Monday, April 19, 2010
Kostas Gournas is one of the six anarchists arrested recently in Athens, accused by the police of participating in the urban guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle. Kostas wrote the following brief open letter to the minister of public order, Michalis Chrysochoidis on Friday 16.4, when he was still being held at the 12th floor of the police headquarters in Athens. While there Kostas was evidently tortured (police-released photographs testify this). Kostas has since been transferred to the prison of Trikala in the north of the country where, together with another one of the six arrested anarchists (Vaggelis Stathopoulos) he is being held under “special conditions” – that is, with limited access to toilet and water and with many obstacles in his communication with relatives and lawyers.

I would like to personally thank the Minister of Public Order Mr. Michalis Chrisochoidis for the special treatment he reserved for me, with the beatings, threats toward my wife and kids and my pre-trial detention in the Prison of Trikala, which will deny me the elementary right of every prisoner, to communicate with their family. Honestly, I could not believe he would slip down to this level. However, because I have learned since my 20 years of age to overcome whatever hurdles, I shall remain upright. You will not achieve my physical nor my political extermination.

Kostas Gournas

April 16, 2010
12th floor, Police HQ, Athens

The threats and torturing of those held in relation to the so-called “Revolutionary Struggle Case” will not result into the extermination of any of us. They seem to have failed to understand that one of us will make not even a single step back. We are, and we shall remain on their side. Our solidarity can not be “exterminated”.

Comrades and relatives of Kostas Gournas

die demo gegen das endgültige einknicken gegenüber der EU und die Europapremiere vom IWF vom 23.4. abends hatte sehr kurze vorbereitungszeit, es kam zu zusammenstössen, barrikaden mitten in der city und späteren säuberungen mit festnahmen in unbekannter höhe beim besetzten und selbstverwalteten Navarino-Park in Exarchia, auch in Saloniki kam es am 22.(4. streikaktionstag)zu Zusammenstössen, als autonome Gewerkschaftleri_nnen die Präfektur für Nordgriechenland besetzten.
... Der Schwimmlehrer, der wegen seinen Dreads und Mollis aus Schampoo auf der Streik-Demo am 11.3. eingecasht wurde, ist wieder draußen!

Dafür haben die Schweine eine 19-jährige, die als Gesuchte einen offenen Brief geschrieben hatte, als Mitglied der "Verschwörung der Kerne des Feuers" in Geiselhaft genommen.
Wir reden hier mittlerweile von einem gutem Dutzend Genossi_nnen aus dem miltanten Spektrum, die als Terroristi_nnen von der amoklaufenden Terrorpolizei aufgebaut werden und die Fahndung nach einem weiterem Dutzend läuft!
KEIN GELD FÜR DIE BASOK-JUNTA!
ELEFTHERIA!
 http://libcom.org/news/new-wave-strikes-over-austerity-measures-greece-20042010

paris:
 http://www.anarchypress.gr/
london:
 http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/04/24/261-serco-goverment-services-office-attacked-in-london/