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‘Revolution is the only solution
for the complete exit from the crisis’

A collection of letters, texts and communiqués from the armed group Revolutionary Struggle and their accused. Released during their current trial in Athens and intended to be one more nail in the coffin of the legitimacy of the State and the capitalist system.

FREEDOM NOW FOR ALL PRISONERS
HONOUR FOREVER TO LAMBROS FOUNDAS

by Actforfreedomnow – BoubourAs

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Two anarchists charged with participation in Revolutionary Struggle are released on bail

Thursday, November 11, 2010


Two anarchists charged with participation in Revolutionary Struggle are released on bail


M. Mperaha and N. Malapanis are two latest people who were charged with participation to the group Revolutionary Struggle. After appearing before the prosecutor general, the two were not ordered in pre-trial detention; instead, they have been given bail conditions (ban from exiting the country, sign-off at the police station monthly). In a justice system where even blatantly innocent people are ordered in pre-trial detention regularly, ordering bail conditions instead is a clear, if indirect, admission of lack of evidence on the side of the public prosecutor. 
Our solidarity freedom to all anarchists comrades in prison!!


NO PERSECUTION to M.Beraha and N.Malapanis
accused of participation in Revolutionary Struggle



Solidarity gathering Monday 1st of November,Appeals Court, Athens



SOLIDARITY GATHERING TO THE PERSECUTED
FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE CASE
AND TH THE HUNGER STRIKERS FROM OCTOBER 9th
K.GOURNAS & N.MAZIOTIS
-MONDAY 1/11/10, 10am, LIONTARIA SQUARE
HERAKLEIO, CRETE
SOLIDAIRITY ASSEMBLY TO THE IMPRISONED FIGHTERS
NEXT MEETING 1/11/10
-8pm EUAGGELISMOS SQUAT

Letter from Maria Beraha


On monday 25th of October the special interrogator D.Mokkas sent me “CALL OF ACCUSED” to testify on monday 1st of November “for the punishable act of entering as a member in the terrorist organization named “REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE” the same call was also received by Nikos Malapanis, who happens to be our best man...
Kostas Gournas, who together with Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis has taken the political responsibility for participating in the Revolutionary Organization “Revolutionary Struggle” (while their co-accused V.Stathopoulos, S.Nikitopoulos, Ch.Kortesis deny participation), is my partner and father of our two 22month old children.
My partner, after being tortured in gada (greek police h/q), following his arrest, was imprisoned in Trikala prisons. Since october 9th he is on hunger strike in koridallos prisons, together with N.Maziotis (while other prisoners in solidarity deny prison food) demanding the self evident: to remain in athens where his family lives.
Today (28/10/10) he is on the 20th day on hunger strike in critical condition in the hospital with Nikos Maziotis.
A war is going on inside the “walls”, in the attempt of the state to put the imprisoned fighters in a hostage regime with all means. The attempt of extermination of my partner “roams” around the outside of the “walls” as well by trying to put the family in a suffocating psychological shackle.
The pressure that Kostas receives towards the attitude he has kept is clearly vengeful.
The terrorism applied to comrades and relatives is also vengeful.
I will not apologize to anyone for my life and why I chose Kostas as my partner and father of our children.
I will not apologize for scenarios that have been made up about me.
For the authorities, possibly and based on, solely, our political family relations we could all be “members” of “R.S.”
let there be a full stop to the persecutions that come out of these relations.
Patience has its limits...
Maria Beraha 28/10/10 


1st of November


Kostas Gournas (and with him Nikos Maziotis) is forced to go on a long hunger strike, in order to be moved to koridallos prisons, where is co-accused are imprisoned, so he can see his baby children.
And the amazing: Instead of the authorities satisfying this, as they should, the vital demand, they charge his wife Maria Beraha and his best man Nikos Malapanis without any evidence at all -with the full meaning of that phrase. If this is not blackmail vengeance and pitiness, than words have lost all meaning.
Maybe though the most worrying of all the first seen are the dozens of calls the last few days for questioning to anarchists and family friends of the accused is literally a factory of calls, which has nothing to do with the interrogative job of evidence collection for the case but is exclusively a show of power of of the repressive mechanisms, operation to scare the anarchist movement and mainly, applying the fascist authority of “collective responsibility”,for the time in the public sphere against a legal political movement as we (consider) the anarchist is.
Hands of the fighters N.Malapanis and M.Beraha
Solidarity to the hunger strikers -members of R.S., Nikos Maziotis and Kostas Gournas.
Solidarity gathering
Monday 1st of November,Appeals Court, Athens
Comrades from athens, theassoniki and comrades from inside the prisons

 Text from Nikos Malapanis concerning his call by the special appeals interrogator
30/10/10

And now solidarity is being persecuted...

On Monday 1st of November I am called to present myself before the special appeals interrogator K.Baltas, as one accused for “the punishable action of integration in a terrorist organisation called Revolutionary Struggle”. Lately many individuals of the anarchist/antiauthoritarian movement from the wider friendship and comrade circle of those arrested, have been called as witnesses for the same case.
Since six fighters were arrested on the 10th of April, three of whom deny participation in Revolutionary Struggle, a repressive attack has begun that, based on silence, is unfolding more and more. The fact that at this moment I'm in the forefront shows, once again and more indirectly, how arbitrarily and in no way accidentally the repressive mechanisms move. In the forefront is an entire movement including those who fight or express their solidarity.
For 15 years I have belonged to the part of those that fight against the intensifying oppression and terrorizing of society. What we named the “coming treaty of totalitarianism” is seediness as a form of everyday routine and fear as a form of existence. It is what in the middle of a crisis (I.M.F., austerity measures, new antiterrorist law) they are now trying to apply to me and my comrades.
I am known to the persecutory authorities, having been arrested for my political action in the past. Part of this action was always solidarity to imprisoned fighters, because of which I have also been portrayed and targeted in the case of those arrested for Revolutionary Struggle. The message is clear. The comrades that deny the charges are in underground cells with the only evidence their political action and comradely relations, which they have never denied, with Pola Roupa, Nikos Maziotis and Kostas Gournas as well as with Lambros Foundas. The experiment is considered successful so is now being applied to more people. My prosecution, therefore, is clearly political and vengeful. It is for the awareness and conformity of those who still choose to fight, those who are ready to take the decision to fight.
Today they are clearly persecuting solidarity, comradeship, dignity. And the mechanisms smile at us ironically. With as my only weapon dignity, resistance and solidarity I walk and I will walk.
Finally, I express my solidarity to my bridesmaid and friend, mother of two children Maria Beracha, who is persecuted along with me. Also, my friendship and solidarity to Kostas Gournas and Nikos Maziotis, on hunger strike from the 9th of October in order to break the regime of isolation so that Kostas Gournas can be near his family.

In the face of these prosecutions we will come out stronger.
I know, because
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

Nikos Malapanis 

boubourAs translation acforfreedomnow! 
The state is the only terrorist

In a world where alienation and fear dominate, where some cultivate people with dead consciences, products of absolute exploitation, where no one is interested in yesterday, does not live today, does not dream of tomorrow, appeared those…
Those who refuse to take part in the flow of fashion, exploitation and ...... interest.
Those who inspire fear in the sovereign, those who in the end bring radical change… For this, therefore, we fight and will continue fighting, on the side of every oppressed, every insurgent all over the earth, whatever the cost may be... This fight is not a result of certain interests but resistance to the daily life-survival that you try to impose on us… We were and we will always be lovers of inversion..
"Let's rise against the oppressors of humanity; the chairmen of democracies are the real enemies of the people. Let's destroy along with them all juridical, political and urban institutions"
Solidarity to all the hostages of the social war
Solidarity to those charged with participation in the revolutionary organisation REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE

The free besieged

NO MATTER HOW MANY PRISONS THEY BUILD
AND THE ROPE TIGHTENS
OUR MIND IS A STREET KID
THAT ALWAYS ESCAPES 

solidarity from VOLOS CENTRAL GREECE 

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Announcement of the three members of Revolutionary Struggle



In the modern junta of the I.M.F., the E.C.B., the E.U. and the Greek government, methods from the Nazi occupation in Greece are being mobilized. Just like when the Nazis attacked the families and the social environment of the guerrillas in order to isolate them and exterminate them easier, today the modern fascists that govern us target families, friends and comrades of ours and of the three comrades that are in prison accused of participating in “Revolutionary Struggle”, in an operation to terrorize a whole political movement, through new persecutions and mass interrogations.
The aim of our pursuers is revenge for the actions of “Revolutionary Struggle” and our political attitude from inside the prisons, our political isolation and that of our other three imprisoned comrades and the inactivity of the whole subversive movement through the imposition of a special hostage regime on a number of comrades.
Its of decisive importance the need to not let them terrorize fighters, do not allow the re-folding of the struggle for liberation. We should immediately go on the counter-attack. Anyway, the dominators are those who have been discredited politically and socially by the vast majority of the Greek society, while the fighters that fight for freedom, is the hope for the oppressed of this land, that are slowly dying under the yoke of modern totalitarianism of capitalism, market economy and representative democracy.


Pola Roupa, Nikos Maziotis, Kostas Gournas 

boubourAs translation actforfreedomnow

Monday, November 1, 2010

Solidarity gathering Monday 1st of November,Appeals Court, Athens




SOLIDARITY GATHERING TO THE PERSECUTED
FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE CASE
AND TH THE HUNGER STRIKERS FROM OCTOBER 9th
K.GOURNAS & N.MAZIOTIS
-MONDAY 1/11/10, 10am, LIONTARIA SQUARE
HERAKLEIO, CRETE
SOLIDAIRITY ASSEMBLY TO THE IMPRISONED FIGHTERS
NEXT MEETING 1/11/10
-8pm EUAGGELISMOS SQUAT

Letter from Maria Beraha


On monday 25th of October the special interrogator D.Mokkas sent me “CALL OF ACCUSED” to testify on monday 1st of November “for the punishable act of entering as a member in the terrorist organization named “REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE” the same call was also received by Nikos Malapanis, who happens to be our best man...
Kostas Gournas, who together with Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis has taken the political responsibility for participating in the Revolutionary Organization “Revolutionary Struggle” (while their co-accused V.Stathopoulos, S.Nikitopoulos, Ch.Kortesis deny participation), is my partner and father of our two 22month old children.
My partner, after being tortured in gada (greek police h/q), following his arrest, was imprisoned in Trikala prisons. Since october 9th he is on hunger strike in koridallos prisons, together with N.Maziotis (while other prisoners in solidarity deny prison food) demanding the self evident: to remain in athens where his family lives.
Today (28/10/10) he is on the 20th day on hunger strike in critical condition in the hospital with Nikos Maziotis.
A war is going on inside the “walls”, in the attempt of the state to put the imprisoned fighters in a hostage regime with all means. The attempt of extermination of my partner “roams” around the outside of the “walls” as well by trying to put the family in a suffocating psychological shackle.
The pressure that Kostas receives towards the attitude he has kept is clearly vengeful.
The terrorism applied to comrades and relatives is also vengeful.
I will not apologize to anyone for my life and why I chose Kostas as my partner and father of our children.
I will not apologize for scenarios that have been made up about me.
For the authorities, possibly and based on, solely, our political family relations we could all be “members” of “R.S.”
let there be a full stop to the persecutions that come out of these relations.
Patience has its limits...
Maria Beraha 28/10/10 


1st of November


Kostas Gournas (and with him Nikos Maziotis) is forced to go on a long hunger strike, in order to be moved to koridallos prisons, where is co-accused are imprisoned, so he can see his baby children.
And the amazing: Instead of the authorities satisfying this, as they should, the vital demand, they charge his wife Maria Beraha and his best man Nikos Malapanis without any evidence at all -with the full meaning of that phrase. If this is not blackmail vengeance and pitiness, than words have lost all meaning.
Maybe though the most worrying of all the first seen are the dozens of calls the last few days for questioning to anarchists and family friends of the accused is literally a factory of calls, which has nothing to do with the interrogative job of evidence collection for the case but is exclusively a show of power of of the repressive mechanisms, operation to scare the anarchist movement and mainly, applying the fascist authority of “collective responsibility”,for the time in the public sphere against a legal political movement as we (consider) the anarchist is.
Hands of the fighters N.Malapanis and M.Beraha
Solidarity to the hunger strikers -members of R.S., Nikos Maziotis and Kostas Gournas.
Solidarity gathering
Monday 1st of November,Appeals Court, Athens
Comrades from athens, theassoniki and comrades from inside the prisons

 Text from Nikos Malapanis concerning his call by the special appeals interrogator
30/10/10

And now solidarity is being persecuted...


On Monday 1st of November I am called to present myself before the special appeals interrogator K.Baltas, as one accused for “the punishable action of integration in a terrorist organisation called Revolutionary Struggle”. Lately many individuals of the anarchist/antiauthoritarian movement from the wider friendship and comrade circle of those arrested, have been called as witnesses for the same case.
Since six fighters were arrested on the 10th of April, three of whom deny participation in Revolutionary Struggle, a repressive attack has begun that, based on silence, is unfolding more and more. The fact that at this moment I'm in the forefront shows, once again and more indirectly, how arbitrarily and in no way accidentally the repressive mechanisms move. In the forefront is an entire movement including those who fight or express their solidarity.
For 15 years I have belonged to the part of those that fight against the intensifying oppression and terrorizing of society. What we named the “coming treaty of totalitarianism” is seediness as a form of everyday routine and fear as a form of existence. It is what in the middle of a crisis (I.M.F., austerity measures, new antiterrorist law) they are now trying to apply to me and my comrades.
I am known to the persecutory authorities, having been arrested for my political action in the past. Part of this action was always solidarity to imprisoned fighters, because of which I have also been portrayed and targeted in the case of those arrested for Revolutionary Struggle. The message is clear. The comrades that deny the charges are in underground cells with the only evidence their political action and comradely relations, which they have never denied, with Pola Roupa, Nikos Maziotis and Kostas Gournas as well as with Lambros Foundas. The experiment is considered successful so is now being applied to more people. My prosecution, therefore, is clearly political and vengeful. It is for the awareness and conformity of those who still choose to fight, those who are ready to take the decision to fight.
Today they are clearly persecuting solidarity, comradeship, dignity. And the mechanisms smile at us ironically. With as my only weapon dignity, resistance and solidarity I walk and I will walk.
Finally, I express my solidarity to my bridesmaid and friend, mother of two children Maria Beracha, who is persecuted along with me. Also, my friendship and solidarity to Kostas Gournas and Nikos Maziotis, on hunger strike from the 9th of October in order to break the regime of isolation so that Kostas Gournas can be near his family.


In the face of these prosecutions we will come out stronger.
I know, because
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON


Nikos Malapanis 


boubourAs translation acforfreedomnow! 


Thursday, October 28, 2010

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a ghost is floating above the city...

TERROR LAW 3

After the terror law 1 and 2
comes the most awaited
3rd part of the trilogy...

state corruption
reaches the top”

Strong excitements,
mass arrests”

now with
anonymous
testimonies”

YOU TOO CAN BECOME THE NEXT
TERRORIST”...


Soon in the streets near you





Public announcement concerning the mass calls and interrogations in the frame of the “anti”-terrorist campaign:

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The same moment that the imprisonment of the three anarchists (Sarantos Nikitopoulos, Vaggellis Stathopoulos, Christoforos Kortesis), who are accused of participation in the revolutionary organisation “Revolutionary Struggle” without any evidence is extended, as well as the three fighters (Panagiota Roupa, Nikos Maziotis, Kostas Gournas) who have taken the political responsibility for their participation in “Revolutionary Struggle”,

The same moment that Kostas Gournas, is in an advanced phase of hunger strike, since the 13th of October (with the support of prisoners, with hunger strikes and prison food denial), while the juridical mechanism denies his transfer from Trikala prisons to koridalos prisons, keeping him far from his family,

The same moment that the imprisonment of anarchist Aris Seirinidis is extended, with an official charge unheard of and supported by the scientifically unfounded and juggling method of DNA analysis,

The same moment that the state and bosses start the most barbaric postwar economic and ideological attack against society, having equiped and educated an enormous police-antisocial army,

The judges call in the masses for interrogation, people from the social environment of the imprisoned, their relatives and politically active anarchists, without a specified subject of investigation, other than a general mention of the “anti”- terrorist law , (“we call you to be questioned as a witness for the Par.b 187 A P.K [greek antiterrorist laws official name]), without naming in the calls and during the interrogations the invoking clues of personal relations with the defendants or relations with Revolutionary Struggle. Precisely as they called the fighters to police stations after the civil war and in the dictatorship “they guessed”.

The interrogations had been announced in advance in an article of newspaper “to Vima” (the stand), which fulfils at influx the propaganda of the provocative scenarios of the cops, spearing the big part of the journalistic world that serves the organisms of government owned terrorism.
The interrogative operation seeks the intimidation of a political movement and a social space and the beam measuring of its relations, its reflexes and the attitude of those who fight, in the direction of generalised penalization based on the special laws and in the direction of the diffusion of suspiciousness and of destruction.
Indicative it is that the questions concerned the social relations, elements of the personal life and the political opinions of those called.
With this frame it invests in the stigmatization of those called for interrogation,

The same moment that the indirect tortures of anarchist Simos Seisidis is continued, who is kept, being amputated in one leg, after he was shot in the back by a cop, from a distance of smaller than one metre and moreover being accused of a case of the “anti” - terrorist law also supported by the method of DNA analysis.

The same moment that the murderers of immigrant Mochamed Kamran Atiff, which were tortured to death in the police station of Nikea in October 2009, continue to “work” the same posts.

The same moment that the executioners of working immigrant N.Tonti, who was murdered by the police with fifteen bullets in February 2010 in Byronas area (athens), are around still armed.

Terrorism will not pass.

Some of the called “as witnesses for the Par.b 187 A P.K”

Solidarity is our weapon. 

boubourAs translation acforfreedomnow.
Hands of the fighters N.Malapanis and M.Beraha
Solidarity to the hunger strikers -members of R.S., Nikos Maziotis and Kostas Gournas.
Solidarity gathering
Monday 1st of November,Appeals Court, Athens
Comrades from athens, theassoniki and comrades from inside the prisons

Thursday, October 28, 2010

SOLIDARITY BANNER IN PATRAS


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DOWN THE HANDS FROM K. GOYRNAS!
HUNGER STRIKE FROM 9 OCTOMBER
OUR SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!
SOLIDARITY TO THE 6 FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE!

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IN SOLIDARITY WITH COMRADE K. GOURNAS IS NIKOS MAZIOTIS ON HUNGER STRIKE! TO.
As of 9/10 we are not accepting the prison food of the prisons we are in, in solidarity to anarchist comrade Kostas Gournas who is on hunger strike.
We stand even in this symbolic way next to the comrades struggle to remain in koridallos prisons, abolish the isolation situation for his family and political environment that is essentially being imposed with his imprisonment in trikala prisons.
Michalis Traikapis
Alexandros Kosivas
Aris Sirinidis
Christos Stratigopoulos
Giannis Dimitrakis

LETTER FROM KOSTAS GOURNAS 9/10/10



I begin a HUNGER STRIKE from Saturday 9th October and until a written approval of my demand for transfer to the prisons of koridalos is given to me.

Six months after my arrest, the torturing in g.a.d.a. (police headquarters of athens) and my very obvious vengeful detention in Trikala prison, while I am a father of twin children 22 months old, I find myself in the 6th wing of koridallos prisons temporarily transferred here for the attribution of additional charges for the case of the revolutionary organization Revolutionary struggle. For 5 months now I wait for the answer of the Ministry of Justice to the application that I have put in, to be transferred to koridallos prisons near where my family lives. The intentional delay in answering my application is included in the frames of tactics of psychological war that the ministry conducts against me and my comrades Roupa and Maziotis, since we have claimed the political responsibility for our participation in the R.O. Revolutionary Struggle and we have been defended its actions. Moreover, we have fought and we have achieved the two comrades to have a visit a week with their newborn son and this is a regular defeat for the ministry. This development, as well as the fact that I did not collaborate with the authorities despite my torturing (a thing that would be considered an enormous success by the regime) are the only reasons that they extend my detention in Trikala, since, in reality they avenge my own children.

Because however war needs always two, to my politicians opponents I notify the following:

I begin a HUNGER STRIKE from Saturday 9th October and until a written approval of my demand for transfer to the prisons of koridalos is given to me. As a revolutionary, reliable fighter and a father I will not allow anyone to revenge my children and put them at risk, forcing them to drive 12 hours in one day, once a month in order to achieve their elementary need, even for only 30 minutes, the presence of both of their parents in their life. And because winter is coming…
my patience ends here.

Political detainee Costas Gournas
Member of R.S.
6th Koridallos


boubourAs translations...
actforfreedomnow!






 As of 9/10 Kostas Gournas is on hunger strike.  Comrades from various prisons, stopped accepting food in solidarity.


As of 9/10 we are not accepting the prison food of the prisons we are in, in solidarity to anarchist comrade Kostas Gournas who is on hunger strike.
We stand even in this symbolic way next to the comrades struggle to remain in koridallos prisons, abolish the isolation situation for his family and political environment that is essentially being imposed with his imprisonment in trikala prisons.
Michalis Traikapis
Alexandros Kosivas
Aris Sirinidis
Christos Stratigopoulos
Giannis Dimitrakis
p.s. Comrade Alfredo Bonnano, expresses his solidarity to comrade Kostas Gournas, but cannot participate in the action because of his severe health situation.





Monday 11/10 at the Polytechnic, Gini building 19.00, regular meeting for solidarity to imprisoned and persecuted fighters.

Matters to discuss:
-Solidarity actions to the accused of the Revolutionary Struggle case. On the 14th they have been called by the appeals court which will decide to continue their imprisonment or not. In the meeting that happened for this reason, it was decided to do a demo at Koridallos prisons on the 19th of october, a day when our 6 comrades will be held there.
-Information and solidarity actions for comrade Simos Seisidis. The comrade denies to be transferred in steel cages, resulting in jeopardizing his visits to the rehabilitation clinic. Also on the 24th of october is the first of the courts he will have to face.


translations boubourAs actforfreedomnow!

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Info from demo to koridallos prisons

Info from demo to koridallos prisons



19th October 2010

The demo began at 19.30 roughly with about 800 people. Many undercovers in and around the surrounding small streets and two riot cop units outside of the passamondana steki. 
Were gave out a lot of pamphlets of information and threw a lot of flyers in the surrounding streets. 
The residents were very positive to the comrades. 
The demo was very intense even if it began a little numb. 
The cops followed along in the nearby small streets. 
As the crowd approached the little park opposite the male prisons the pulse became more intense.
In the park slogans for the comrades in prison were shouted while fireworks were lit which 
was the impressive part of the action (many fireworks!) After roughly 40 minutes the
crowd left from the park and on the way 
back stood for 40 minutes in solidarity to
the prisoners in the female prisons, which
was answered with chants towards the crowd. On the way back chants
were heard about the salary slavery, solidarity and against the syndicalist leaders. Pre-election posters of the communist party were ripped and a camera was broken at a “wind” shop. In the
end there was some intensity at the pre-election kiosk of the communist party but it did not become something more. 
The number of comrades that were demo today was very encouraging as well as that there were residents that joined 
the demo on the way back saying they wanted participate in 
actions more general (fed up generally from the situation 
that 
exists with unemployment, crisis and frauds e.t.c. as they said).

NO ONE ALONE IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE





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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Info and photos about the gathering in monastiraki Saturday 16/10/10

Monday, October 18, 2010



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The gathering went very well, comrades assembled in Monastiraki square in order to express our solidarity to our detained comrades for the case of R.S., there was a  soundsydtem from where we read texts of solidarity and letters of our jailed comrades, we propagated the gathering of Tuesday at koridallos prisons, we gave out many pamphlets to passerbys and we threw hundreds of flyers. The gathering dissolved at 14.30 and all of our appointment is Tuesday the afternoon at Eleutheria squae for the demo of solidarity to koridallos.

AS LONG AS THERE IS PRISONS NO ONE IS  FREE
SOLIDARITY TO K.GOURNAS, N.MAZIOTIS AND P.ROUPA
IMMEDIATE RELEASE C.KORTESIS, S.NIKITOPOULOS AND V.STATHOPOLOS

solidarity to anarchist comrades in greece the text of the action in english

Friday, October 1, 2010


"If we don't rebel now against the modern dictatorship of market,
capital and State, if we don't throw off the yoke of slavery now, if we
do not today raise our head high, there will be no future for us and
we will have condemned future generations to live in the darkest
social and economic conditions of human history.
The only solution at hand to get out of this dead end is social
revolution." E.A.

The organization E.A. (Revolutionary Struggle) has been active in
Greece since 2003 with attacks against the State and capital such as
against the stock exchange, the American embassy and on the forces
of oppression.

On March 10, 2010, the social fighter Lambros Fountas falls
dead, shot in the back by police. A month later there are six arrests.
Six anarchist anti-authoritarian comrades are led to police
headquarters under charges of participation in the organization E.A.
The State and media's game begins, staging a whole spectacle of
eradicating a terrorist organization; and the festivities have no end,
since a garden reed fence is capable of turning a house into a "safehouse,"
a newspaper can be considered "evidence" and a morning
rendezvous in a peopled place is suspect and conspiratorial.

In the meantime the bankrupt Greek State imposes anti-social
measures and a large part of society reacts and takes to the streets
again in outrage, two years after the uprising of December 2008
caused by the murder of 15 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos by the
bullets of the officer Korkonea.

On April 29 three of the arrested fighters, N. Maziotis, P.
Roupa and K. Gournas take political responsibility for the
revolutionary organization E.A., at the same time stating that the



may never again be social and class divisions, or rich and poor, or
the exploitation of people by people. That there may not be
organized authority, the State, lack and suppression of freedom. Our
struggle is a struggle for economic equality and political freedom for
all. May it be nothing less than radical subversion, social
revolution..."

The other three arrested, S. Nikitopoulos., B. Stathopoulos and

X. Kortesis, remain detained solely on the grounds of their social
relationships and years of upsetting the authorities with their social
struggles. They are imprisoned and refuse the false charges.
"After the arrest of the 'bloodthirsty terrorists' the Greek people will
of course realize that nothing has changed in their living conditions.
If before the people fed from the crumbs left over from the lavish
meals of the likes of the capitalists, they will understand very
quickly that now they are not even given those crumbs... I won't refer
to the charges at all because innocence and guilt are interchanged in
accordance with which side you have chosen to be on." X. Kortesis,
Korinthos prisons.

"It is the settled policy of authority, with it's ally the mass media, to
slander and criminalize social struggles and the personal
relationships of fighters... In any case, my statement to the inquisitor
that I do not renounce any form of struggle against authority and the
State is the only reason that I am detained." V. Stathopoulos, Trikala
prisons.

"From the first moment I refused the charges and likewise my
participation in the organization E.A. That which I do not deny and
which is essentially what has led me to the awful position I am in



SOLIDARITY TO WHOEVER STRUGGLES FOR THE
OVERTHROW OF THIS ROTTEN WORLD.

Patience and persistence to all who choose to travel the stormy seas
of social revolution.

LETTER FROM CHRISTOFOROS KORTESIS FOR THE CREATION OF A SOLIDARITY ECONOMIC FUND FOR FIGHTING PRISONERS

Monday, October 4, 2010


Let me begin saying the almost self-evident, that the formation of a solidarity fund for the economic support of comrades but also fighting people that are hostages of the state is very important. First of all because it aims to cover a granted need, that of everyday survival within the walls with dignified conditions.


At the same time though, because the creation of such an attempt declares, in my opinion, that we realize the imprisoned comrades as fighters that are in the hands of the state because of their subversive actions and ideals, as an inseparable piece of the political movement which they belong to, which takes the political initiative to support them and does not consider it a specific matter between friends and family, strengthening this way, in practice, the meaning of comradeship and solidarity. Obviously at this point I am not referring to an ethical obligation or a sentimental “blackmail”, but a move of political consistency and consciousness.
In a period that the attack from the side of the dominance against the anarchist-anti-authoritarian movement but also against every fighting part intensifies for obvious reasons, the creation of a fund of economic support is another mean of defence but at the same time of counter-attack, it is another answer with collective conditions and conditions of self-organization in the circumstances of isolation and individualism that the governing say is trying to order and impose on every aspect of our life.


Although the procedure concerns the creation of an account and does not claim an exclusivity for itself as for the expression of solidarity, as I was informed through the written information that all the imprisoned comrades received, I hope this move contributes to the coil of the a/a movement, which is showing some obvious cracks lately. Excepting the diversity of political references and positions within the a/a movement, I continue to believe that the elements that connect us are much more than the ones that divide us (without of course disdaining the intense reflections that from time to time are expressed by comrades about a variety of issues). Besides, I consider it completely welcomed, the long term target is not the inclusion of every group, every collective, every person in this procedure, on the contrary more attempts can be made at the same time for economic support (maybe with different characteristics, that will cover those involved), which will be coordinated amongst them for the best possible result.


In my opinion, in any case, when a political space with subversive and radical arguments doesn't attempt to process in its interior matters that come up, base on the values of solidarity, co formation and selforganization, accepting and promoting the polymorphy of choices as for the means of the struggle, then how can it can seek and affix such a thing to the outside?
Because of my own participation in the past in similar attempts, I know the difficulties faced in such undertakings to survive in time, however in the end this is the issue, which I will also fight for with all my strength from here where I am, as I would do if I were there amongst the comrades. At this point I would like to make a proposal, which I also in the past had discussed with comrades usually facing reflections and disagreements. I believe, however, that even only the creation of a field of discussions on such questions is positive. I appreciate, therefore, that in events of economic support such as concerts and parties, that maybe could result also through the operation of a fund, could exist a symbolic entry of e.g. 2 or 3 Euros, a sum that corresponds to 1 or 2 beers. And this because each such event has a clear political frame and aim, that is to say the economic support of fighting people. And because the most important component of the struggle is the conscience of each one that participates in it, for one to go to such an event only for amusement independently from the reasons of it happening, constitutes lack of political conscience. Maybe Im saying it a bit bluntly, but I have lived closely to the mentality that prevails in such events. It is an opinion that I've expressed for years and of course not only now that I am imprisoned.
As for the economic support of other detainees that adopt a decent and fighting attitude inside the prisons I believe they should be included in the fund, provided that it accomplishes to achieve its initial economic targets. Concerning this but also in order for me to share with my comrades outside of prison the “inside” everyday routine of survival, for six months “I live” with another three people in the same cell, that our until now living together has shown me that they move and face with dignity the difficult conditions of prison. The money that each one us receives weekly is useful in order to cover our needs collectively (groceries, phonecards, etc.) And this because I consider that even in these conditions, even in the minuscule level of living together in a cell, the values of solidarity, refusal of segregation and dominating relations that this produces based on the possession of material goods (and not only) [even the minimal, such as a phonecard that in specific conditions is turned into an object with enormous power and of course with trading value] and the objective of equality, should be and kept alive and be the objective. As for the unrepentant fighters of the 17th November revolutionary group, for me supporting them is obvious, this is why I do not make a special reference.


Finishing and concerning the need of comrades, as this was expressed in the assembly of July, for all of us “inside the walls” to take a position on the undertaking, I want to say that this is also a way for us to continue participating in processes of the movement exceeding the obstacle of natural absence and creating one more channel of communication, that I hope is continued through time.
Until the absolute demolition of prisons, a big thank you and comradely greetings to all the comrades that from the little they have make sure we have decent living in the greek hell holes.



STRUGGLE WITH ALL MEANS FOR THE SUBVERSION OF THE REGIME


STRUGGLE UNTIL THE END FOR FREEDOM, REVOLUTION, ANARCHY


HONOUR FOR EVER TO ANARCHIST FIGHTER LABROS FOUNDAS


Christophoros Kortesis,
24/9/2010
Corinth prisons

...boubourAs translations... actforfreedomnow...

Revolutionaries do not apologise to the criminals of the State.''

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

''I refuse to accept the invitation of the Appeals prosecutors

who called me to give an additional testimony concerning

the case of the revolutionary organisation that I belong to

with the name ''REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE''. I do not

accept the call because there is nothing for me to apologise

for. Revolutionaries do not apologise to the criminals of the

State.''
NIKOS MAZIOTIS


Today 6 octomber outside the Appeal Court building the tension and

passion of many comrades screaming and shouting strong

slogans when the comrades of Revolutionary Struggle case'' were

taken away was a very emotional moment. Fighting started

with the riot cops who were attacking comrades.
Anyway, the next Appeal court case is fixed for 14 and 20

October. Tomorrow's court has been cancelled because our

comrades have refused to be there.

THE OTHER TWO MEMBERS OF REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE DENY TO GIVE ADDITIONAL TESTIMONIES

Friday, October 8, 2010


6 octomber

“I am in prison because I am a revolutionary and I fight against the modern criminal regime. I do not recognise the charges that they put on me and I have nothing to apologize for. Revolutionary Struggle is a revolutionary organization and I am proud I am part of it. Terrorists are all those that consist the existing regime of representative democracy, capitalism and market economy”
Pola Roupa

“As a member of Revolutionary Struggle I deny to attend the court of appeals in Athens. I do not accept any interrogation, neither from the torturers of the antiterrorist police neither from the appointed servants of the regime”
Kwstas Gournas

The prosecutors say they will visit them in prison to get the testimonies.

DEMO to Koridalos Prisons Tuesday 19/10/2010 Athens Greece

NOT A STEP BACK
to the terrorism of the state, IMF and the media.

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On the 14th of october the 6 fighters imprisoned for the Revolutionary Struggle are called by the committee of appeals judges where it will be decided if they will remain imprisoned or not since the 6 month period has passed.

SOLIDARITY to K.Gournas, N.Maziotis, P.Roupa who have taken the political responsibility for their participation in R.S.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE – NO PERSECUTION to Ch.Kortesis, S.Nikitopoulos, V.Stathopoulos who deny the charges and are persecuted for their comrade relations and their political action.

GATHERING at Monastiraki Square Saturday 16/10/10 at 12.00pm

DEMO to Koridalos Prisons Tuesday 19/10/2010
(pre-gathering: Eleutherias square 18.00)

Solidarity Assembly

translation actforfreedomnow!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

athens 6-7th of october

SOLIDARITY GATHERING

The six accused in the “Revolutionary Struggle” case have been called on the 6th and 7th of october at 9am to the appeals courts to give additional testimonies about the extra charges put against them by the special appeals prosecutors that are handling the case.
We should all be there.
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

THE OTHER TWO MEMBERS OF REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE DENY TO GIVE ADDITIONAL TESTIMONIES

6 octomber

“I am in prison because I am a revolutionary and I fight against the modern criminal regime. I do not recognise the charges that they put on me and I have nothing to apologize for. Revolutionary Struggle is a revolutionary organization and I am proud I am part of it. Terrorists are all those that consist the existing regime of representative democracy, capitalism and market economy”
Pola Roupa

“As a member of Revolutionary Struggle I deny to attend the court of appeals in Athens. I do not accept any interrogation, neither from the torturers of the antiterrorist police neither from the appointed servants of the regime”
Kwstas Gournas

The prosecutors say they will visit them in prison to get the testimonies.

Today 6 octomber outside the Appeal Court building the tension and

passion of many comrades screaming and shouting strong

slogans when the comrades of Revolutionary Struggle case'' were

taken away was a very emotional moment. Fighting started

with the riot cops who were attacking comrades.
Anyway, the next Appeal court case is fixed for 14 and 20

October. Tomorrow's court has been cancelled because our

comrades have refused to be there.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Occupation at the Foreign Press Association of Greece


solidarity to anarchist comrades in greece the text of the action in english can be found here:
/athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/file0001evpist.pdf



On 27th of September an occupation took place in the building of the foreign press association of greece. The purpose was the counter-information about the case of the anarchists fighters prisoners accused of being members of the revolutionary organization ‘Revolutionary Struggle’.
The banners above read:
‘No prosecution for Nikotopoulos, Kortesis, Stathopoulos’ (3 of the anarchist prisoners that have not accepted of being members of the group)
‘Solidarity to the members of Revolutionary Struggle’
‘The state is the only terrorist. Solidarity is our weapon’

Se ha ocupado la Asociacion Internacional de Prensa de Atenas para solidarizarse con los miembros de Lucha Revolucionaria y para exigir la liberacion de los tres acusados de pertenencia a la misma organizacion.

POR EL DERRIBO TOTAL DEL CAPITALISMO

Anarchist's Sarantos Nikitopoulos (who is prosecuted for the case of the revolutionary group Epanastatikos Agonas - Revolutionary Struggle) letter from koridallos prison.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010




Six months after my arrest I remain imprisoned in the idyllic conditions of the greek prisons.


ACHTUNG ACHTUNG!!!

ANNOUNCEMENT OF GREEK POLICE HEADQUARTERS

a. Are you an anti authoritarian, anarchist-communist, leftist, unclassified with participation in social struggles? In a nutshell, are you part of all these “dirty ones”, that disturb the order in our otherwise lawful state with no reason or cause?

b. Are you an owner of a gas mask (for fighting the tear gas) consequence of your above choice?

c. Have you ever met in broad day light at a busy place with friends and comrades (without anything unlawful happening before,during or after your meeting)?

d. Have you ever been to a masquerade party, having also a wig in your possession?

e. Do you inform yourself from the media and happen to have a copy of "the pontiki" newspaper with the published communique of Revolutionary Struggle?

If you have all the prerequisites, than congratulations

YOU WIN:

1st An amazing arrest by our service, which includes a search in you residence, unlimited publicity about your face, plus free sight of the new full face mask collection of the
security forces during your interrogation.

2nd Your deliverance to the "independent justice" with a mountain of articles and almost all of the penal code on your back... From their on try to figure it out...

And 3d and best: Your imprisonment, with immediate procedures, in a wonderful, airy and sunny basement cell in Koridallos prison.

Please, all interested-suspects to phone 170 or 1971, so we dont have to bother, and to stop any further humiliation of our charges and service.
THANK YOU!!!

BESIDES THE JOKE THOUGH

Almost 6 months after my arrest i remain imprisoned in the idyllic conditions of the greek prisons, since my application of release was denied, for the funny reasons above.
Which means my persecution is clearly political and of a completely sane type and is based on the fact that i am an anarchist-anti authoritarian with a continuous participation in the social struggles, also because all these years (over 16) of my action i had the luck to know and be connected by friendship with the wonderful person and fighter Lambros Foundas.

BESIDES THAT, NOTHING:
Because obviously who ever goes on demonstrations with gas masks, reads the "pontiki" and other newspapers, meets with friends and comrades and owns a masquerade wig, is a member
of Revolutionary Struggle or other organizations.

As an anarchist i never had illusions about "justice" and "lawful civilization" and this is confirmed creepily the last period of time on my life. This, of course, does not mean that I will sit and mourn and patiently endure the situation, which the cops and their political leadership has brought me to. This, authoritarian click that through big talk such as "social justice", "anti authorutarians in government", "struggle to save the country" etc., led the society to the vice of the I.M.F., at the same time updating the oppression and sinking into a bleaker future the weak social parts, helping the capitalists and their economic interests.

THE WALL OF SILENCE MUST BREAK

It must break on all levels through struggles. Solidarity to the struggling prisoners is only one of these levels and my personal opinion is that we should not look at it with introversion and divide it from the present social situation.

Sarantos Nikitopoulos
6th wing. koridallos prisons
September 2010

P.S. 1 To the prime minister of the troika and the I.M.F.: No more "anti authority", we are full....

P.S. 2 To the minister of justice: My congratulations for your prisons... What ever any one sais about you prisons is little. Bravo, continue this way.

boubourAs translations...
actforfreedomnow!