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 Friday May 13, 2005 19:18 by Anonymous - via infoshop
 The truth behind the so called hostage crisis at the National Technical University Mainsteam media in many countries carried reports of Greek anarchists supposedly taking two politicians hostage in the National Technical University in Athens. This report clarifies what actually happened and includes the statement from the Senate (Students union assembly?) of the university. It was first posted to infoshop in response to the posting of an AP report there. On the 10th of May at around 9:30 in the evening a group of 30 anarchists headed for the National Technical University in the centre of Athens. The anarchists were previously taking part at an anarchist rally in the Monastiraki area. The group intended to enter one of the lecture rooms in the school in order to start a discussion on workers issues. Meanwhile a book presentation was taking part in another hall of the university, participating in it were many prominent Greek politicians. The anarchists had absolutely no interest to this event, as they entered the school though; they realized that two armed secret police agents were inside the grounds of the school guarding two of the politicians. (In Greece it is illegal for police or army personnel to enter academic buildings especially if armed).The anarchists immediately moved towards the police in order to kick them out of the school grounds while others started destroying their vehicles. One of the two policemen drew out his handgun firing at least 12 rounds, finally injuring a 29-year old. The rest of the group finally managed to capture and disarm the officer. Meanwhile riot police had started to surround the building, soon after the word that someone was shot in the Polytechnic school got out and another 500 anarchist joined the first 30 and sealed off the building while trapping everyone inside it. They entered the room where the politicians were and stated that no one is to leave the building unless 3 demands were met.
These were
After 8 hours of negotiations with the police as long as heavy political discussion between the former ministers and the anarchists all demands where met and the anarchists marched out of the building. Soon after, the “hostages” exited too. During these events several clashes broke out on the streets near the university between police and other anarchists acting in solidarity to the ones inside. Meanwhile the anarchists inside the university released an announcement to the press which was read by most Greek media. As soon as I translate it I will post it here. Following is the school board announcement commenting on the events. After the events that took place in the Athens Polytechnic School (otherwise known as National Technical University of Athens) the Senate sent this press release: PRESS RELEASE The events that took place around the celebration of this year’s Workers’ Mayday, the repeal of the paid holiday and the attempt of the government to abolish one of the most historical vested rights of the worker’s movement, constitute an unprecedented attack on the conquests of the people and of the youth. In this context there were announced strikes and mobilisations for the 11th of May by the trade unions in the city centre of Athens. Today there was another march that ended up in the Polytechnic. Inside this space there were the members of parliament Venizelos, Verelis, Vougias and others from the party of PASOK. With an unthought-of and provocative demonstration of authoritarianism and arbitrariness, policeman of their personal guard shot and wounded seriously one of the protestors, and probably only by luck we don’t mourn any dead ones today. The fact that the civil police came inside the Polytechnic without any reason or permission and by so doing they breached the asylum, which except from a popular conquest is by law vested, this fact must be condemned without any hesitation from all the democratic parts of the Greek society. Only alone the fact that someone was injured from a gun reminds of the practices of Junta. On November of ’73 was the last time that someone was injured inside the Polytechnic in such a way. Not only will the Senate of the Polytechnic oppose these practices but the whole popular and youth movement. We consider a matter-of-course the detection and the exemplary punishment of the perpetrator of the murderous assault. The mass participation in the mobilisations of the Worker’s Mayday tomorrow would be the best answer against this kind of practices. '' Senate of the National Technical University of Athens 11/05/05 '' This year's Mayday was celebrated 10 days later in Greece due to the fact it coincided with Easter Sunday There is also an untranslated report in Greek on Anarkismo.net at |
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In the crack of dawn on 27th of July, strong police forces carried out a coordinated eviction operation of 3 squatted buildings in Thessaloniki, these are migrants' housing squat "Orfanotrofio", new migrants' housing squat "Huriya" on C. Dill str. and the housing squat on Nikis blvrd. The forces of repression arrested 83 people and 75 of them are accused with "social peace disturbance". In between the arrested, there is one of our comrades, member of the Collective for Social Anarchism "Mavro & Kokkino" ("Black & Red"). The operation of repression was continued with the demolition of the space of "Orfanotrofio". As in last years, we were in Taksim Square against all prohibitions of state, all violence of police and all efforts of capitalists. We remember Ali Kitapci, the first person to organise for the anarcho-syndicalist cause in modern Turkey. He was one of the 14 members of Independent Transportation Union killed in the Ankara bombing on Saturday. He first get involved with the anarchist movement in England and continued to be active for the last 30 years. Apart from his fight for syndicalism, he was an active member of many anarchist organisations in Ankara from the second half of 1980s. [Italiano] On the first anniversary of the murder of Berkin Elvan, our comrades opened a pankart on the stairs of Gezi Park, written " Berkin is here". HighSchool Anarchist Action, unfolded a banner to show support for Berkin Elvan from the rooftop of BurgerKing/Taksim. Greece: Crackdown against three squatted spaces in the port city of Patras Thousands participate in a solidarity motorcycle protest for Kostas Sakkas. (photo by Vassilis Mathiodakis) He has been on remand for 3 years and was prosecuted twice for the same offence, despite the fact that his name doesn’t even appear in the case file.
On İstiklal Street, around French Consolate, 200 meters far from police, holding the stones of the beach in one hand and the flag of the revolt in the other you are clshing with the police. A piece of cloth wet with talcid is your gas mask, police is spraying pressured water, throwing gas bombs one and after, you are left in the middle of gas retreating throwing stones you are out of breath smothered, breatheless at that moment somebody run near you, spray water with antiacid on your face, asking “how are you, are you okay?” You are not okay but immediately you get well.
This is just the beginning, the struggle is going on.
Under the sun of June; the riots which have started in Taksim and have spread everywhere; have turned into the September riots in Ankara. The wind of the resistance which has been blowing for many days in ODTÜ and Tuzluçayır, have been saluted from all around the region, near and far. The ones who shine in the sky, the ones who are waving the flags of rebellion, who have been carrying the passion of revolt and who turn winds to storm, welcomed September with resistance. Salute to all who resist!
Below I reproduce excerpts from a recent report at Truthout by Joshua Stephens on the constructive efforts by Greek anarchists to create alternatives to capitalism and the nation-state. The approaches they have been developing since the uprising in 2008 are similar to those proposed by Alexander Berkman based on his experiences during the Russian Revolution. Directly democratic popular assemblies formed the basis of the anarchist collectives during the Spanish Revolution, and were later championed by Murray Bookchin. Stephens refers to Colin Ward, whose ground breaking article on anarchism as a theory of organization is included in Volume Two of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas. Anarchist alternatives to capitalism and hierarchical organization are well documented in all three volumes of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, now on sale at AK Press.
Let us shout it out loud and if they do not hear it let us show it with our actions: Enough is enough.
"Those who entered the square by letting the police to search themselves and stay their hunger in the corners of Mcdonald's during and after the meeting became the most concrete example of being distracted by the state's blessing"
The following entry was published on the blog of the Initiative of the Anarchists of Egaleo [1] on Tuesday (16 December 2008). more >>
Anarchism is a two-hundred-year struggle for justice and freedom. Anarchism opposes the relations based on Power within the individual and society, the State the enemy of the peoples, capitalism that exploits the peoples. Its reality is based on a hundred-thousand-year-old world without states against the five-thousand-year-old world with states which is full of holes with riots. Anarchism will overthrow Power and create a life without Power for justice and freedom with the power of this reality.
This inter-collective statement is a completely public political position. We will continue to follow the same bright, but at the same time uphill and rugged path that we have drawn in this city, to the end. Whatever the end is…What we guarantee is that Volos will not become Amarynthos (In 2006 in the small city of Amarynthos a few students gang-raped an immigrant student and the local society made her and her mother get out of the town by supporting the rapists).
It was unanimously decided that the space should be shaped and functioned in such a way in order to avoid any attempt to be either an alternative amusement area or a space of narcissistic self-confirmation of micro-hegemonies.
What we call complete crisis of the system is the violent redeployment of power that targets to alter the terms of social and class antagonism for the worse for the exploited. The acute contradiction between real social needs and social and class relations that impose the amputation of these needs and make it hard for them to be met leads to the economic, political, ethical and environmental dimensions of the crisis.
Two and a half years after the presentation of the pan-hellenic invitation for the prospect of creating an Anarchistic Political Organization by four anarchistic groups in Athens (“Kiklos tis Fotias”, “Steki Antipnia”, “Kathodon”, “Anarhiki gia tin Kinoniki Apeleftherosi”), the processes of the pre-conference dialogue have been completed. The initial invitation was cloaked by other anarchistic groups that responded to it and they were committed to a certain political context, as it was depicted in seven basic points. [Ελληνικά] more >> |
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Spring zu Komment: 1I really didnt get a proper sense of what happened in Athens from the net before talking to him.
The people they trapped in the room were a number of ex-ministers from the socialists, apparently the book launch was by some former student radical involved in an occuapation movement who had remained "pure" whilst the politicos who were there had gone the way of Pat Rabbitte, Ho Chi Quinn et al in Ireland.
From what he was saying, it really seemed like a once in a life time experience, and its amazing the way what in relative terms was an extraordinary dialogue was turned into a riot by sections of the media, namely BBC online. Apparently there was huge support and amazement at the action in the surrounding area. Rather than a hostage taking it was more used as an opportunity to throw questions at the politicians and reply to their answers, something tv doesnt let you do.
He also informed me that there was several recent "pograms" (a term he used...) against the left in a neighbour hood in the vicinity which has been a traditional bastion of the left and cultural bohemian types. Apparently 150 people rounded up in one night by the police. How common is that? That's an amazing level of repression by irish standards....