No one is lost on the path of struggle – Dimitra Zarafeta & Marianna Manoura

Two years ago, on 31 October 2024 the anarchist militant Kyriakos Xymitiris stood on the path of

the guerrilla warfare. On this path he confronted his political and revolutionary responsibilities, his

individual anxieties and collective needs. In that apartment on Arkadias Street in Ampelokipoi, both

his life and his death managed to challenge the "end of history" that the ruling power seeks to

impose. On 31 October 2024 his blinding light released new signals of struggle and resistance.

Determined to take action, to operate by example and move beyond verbal radicalism, comrade

Kyriakos, proved that centers of resistance still exist against a seemingly all-powerful state. Making

each day worth a thousand the comrade inseparably bound his life choices to his revolutionary

ideals, recognising to which extent each of us shares responsibility for the widespread tolerance that

governs the world. A tolerance that allows the most violent crimes, justifies monstrous repression

and legitimises indifference. Comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris decided to break the decay of our times

and commit himself morally and politically. Perceptive and inventive, unifying and generous, a

completed human being with a humble sense of responsibility and consistency threw himself into

the struggle with the aim of restoring the radical necessity of overthrowing the state and capital.

Comrade Kyriakos did not treat his political identity as something separate from his everyday life.

On the contrary, his path was characterised by his continuous presence in different fields of social

and class struggle, wherever resistance against exploitation and oppression existed.

In Berlin, embracing his anarchist identity as a comprehensive political and social stance, he

participated in struggles against the eviction of squats, in the defense of public and self-organised

spaces, in anti-fascist marches, demonstrations against anti-migration policies, racist attacks and the

politics of death at the borders. He took part in workers' strikes, mobilisations against police

violence, confrontations and resistance against state repression.

Later, in Athens, he continued actively participating in different fronts of struggle. In the defense of

Exarchia neighborhood, in mobilisations against the imperialist wars of the West and the genocide

in Palestine. In anti-patriarchal patrols, gatherings outside prisons and solidarity actions for political

prisoners. In mass demonstrations for Pylos and Tempi, public universities and the right to the city,

in mobilisations against impoverishment, the rising cost of living and the continuous devaluation of

our lives.

Thus, his presence across all these fields expressed a broader understanding of the connection

between struggles against different forms of oppression and exploitation. And within this diverse

political path came his own process of reassessing his possibilities. His own decision to adopt

armed action. A choice that reflected comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris's refusal to accept the existing

social reality as the only possible alternative. Confronting the state's monopoly of violence, he took

this profound distance from it by breaking through the sense of omnipotence that the system

attempts to impose. Seeking to create yet another barrier against the crimes of the state and capital,

which destroy and devastate every form of life.

And on 31 October, he confronted his own anxieties, leaving his name forever engraved in the

history of revolutionary struggle. Remaining optimistic to the end, he made his choice and acted

with the vision of a better world, a more hopeful tomorrow that passes through the revolutionary

perspective.

31 October is not simply a day for preserving the memory of a revolutionary. It is about the

continuous understanding and reassessment of his choices in the present. Not the empty

transformation of him into a symbol detached from his actual history, but the search for the reasons

and conditions under which he acted. Through this process we will understand the enduring

relevance and significance of the resistance. Recognising the common questions, the common

contradictions and the common goals. After all, resistance is not limited to a single moment or a

single path. It encompasses histories that sometimes run parallel and sometimes intersect. It is not

shaped exclusively within the boundaries of individual existence, but develops dialectically through

the conditions and the vision of a better world.

Thus, the political path and actions of the Spanish anarchists who fought the monster of fascism in

1936 share common ground with the struggle of the Indigenous Mapuche people, who resist the

narrative of white supremacy. Their struggle intersects at certain points with the right to self-

determination fought for by the militants of ETA and the IRA. Their resistance was strengthened by

the determination and efforts of the revolutionaries of the Red Brigades, the RAF and Action

Directe to bring the anti-imperialist struggle into the centers of the West. Histories of people

connected to the struggle of Black Americans in the BLA, who recognised the relationship between

racism and class exploitation. An approach that intersects with the revolutionary women of Rote

Zora and their actions against patriarchy and the oppression of femininities. A path that intersects at

certain points with the aims of the Armed Proletarian Nuclei (NAP) to include the imprisoned and

invisible people of this world.

We can therefore see that resistance is a long history that reaches the present day, reaching us, the

side we are called upon to take and the struggle in which we will decide to participate. After all as it

becomes clear the enemy remains the same. Here and elsewhere. Today as yesterday. Social

contradictions continue to exist. Relations of power continue to reproduce themselves. Inequalities

and injustices continue to prevail. Exploitation and oppression, imperialism and colonialism, racism

and patriarchy have shaped and continue to shape the social framework for as long as the state and

capitalism exist.

Because fascism might not besiege cities with bayonets and machine guns but it continues to roam

around armed and ready to stab migrants and anti-fascists. Colonialism might not take the form of

transatlantic military campaigns but it continues to perpetuate the Israeli apartheid. Imperialism

might not attack only with missiles and military superiority,but also imposes economic

strangulation, tariffs and energy blockades. Racism might not create zones based on skin colour but

it continues to drown dreams of a better future at the borders. The rising cost of living might not

impose widespread destitution but inflation continues to divide the month into vouchers and

survival into benefits. And patriarchy might not openly exclude people on the basis of gender, but it

continues to murder women outside police stations.

Thus, the struggle of all those mentioned above appears as enduring as it is relevant today. And a

day such as the 31st of October manages to highlight precisely this intersection. The intersection

where individual will, meets historical necessity.

That is the process through which people come to understand political action not simply as a

possibility, but as their personal responsibility towards the world in which they live. We just need to

understand the historical nature and continuity of this responsibility to identify the common need,

the common ground, the shared concern for a more just and solidarian* world. A more equal and

humane world.

The political aim, the vision of a better world remains constant but not immutable. Individual paths

develop into collective possibilities and personal decisions into shared pursuits.

By recognising this purpose, the history of every militant is also kept alive. And when a person's life

is abruptly cut short, their path leaves behind something more than the memory of their presence. It

leaves behind the relationships they built, the ideas they shared, the hopes they cultivated. It leaves

a part of their history within the lives of others. It influences them, helps them develop and calls

upon them not only to confront their own questions, but also to preserve memory through struggle

and seek a world different from the one we have known. After all, if comrade Kyriakos taught us

anything, it is the persistence to see reality as something that can change.

And in our own process of change, he too will be present. He will be beside us in every action, a

guide in every thought, a compass on every path. Not as something immutable and distant, but as

that last sparking and optimistic gaze before our own revolutionary storm.

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS IS IMMORTAL

STATE & CAPITAL ARE THE ONLY TERRORISTS

Women's Prison of Thiva / Eleonas

25 October 2026

Dimitra Zarafeta

Marianna Manoura