Claim of responsibility for the arson attack against a riot police car in Kaisariani
On Thursday 6 October 2022 we carried out an arson attack with Molotov cocktails on a passing riot police car in Kaisariani. In his panic to escape, the cop driving it swerved into oncoming vehicles on the street.
We live in the era of constant and generalized war. Every declaration of war is accompanied by a corresponding invocation of the Crisis. Financial, fiscal, health, energy, food, climate… This spectacular ritual of the state apparatus is the prologue to every old and modern war manual: every war operation presupposes the imposition of discipline and rallying at the rear through the spread of fear towards the enemies of the day. A state of permanent emergency to which we tend to become addicted.
In a collapsing world, the Dominion holds on to its monopoly of producing mass insecurity by tooth and nail. If the dangers and threats invoked by those above are increasing in numbers, the orders and commands directed downwards show a clear geometric progression. This is the balance of the violent restructuring of our lives, the new social contract of modern totalitarianism. Or in the words of Pezza: “adaptation is death”. Social experience can translate these words without equivocation. Memorandum or bankruptcy. Mass incarceration or collapse of the NHS (National Health System). Graveyard silence or beatings and fines. Compulsory vaccinations or redundancies. Preventative power cuts or general black outs. And the list may soon stretch to the light bulb switch or supermarket receipt.
The realm of fear and insecurity is the swimming pool of the new form of the State and its violence. The modern capitalist world gives birth only to police. Police of thought and attitudes, police of norms and culture, police overt and clandestine, police with shields and automatic weapons, police of crowd management and police of surgical operations, police in the suburbs and in the city centers, police that ask for identity cards, passports and health certificates, police that beat, accuse and execute, police that sometimes resemble an ideological army and sometimes a fascist battalion. Police of every kind, in every place, in every spot on the map, with multiple jurisdictions and no barriers.
Modern police doctrines are not limited to suppressing and dealing with the riots and rebellions generated by the exacerbation of injustices and inequalities but are generalized and diffused through the social body with constant surveillance, pervasive snitching, the glorification of snitching and the exemplary punishment of deviant behavior, “inappropriate” and “misguided” choices. This is precisely the so-called ‘social’ role of the police. It assigns the task of policing and surveillance to any willing partner and supporter of social order and peace. Mass recruitment of cops not only increases the number of social parasites but also increases the self-confidence of cannibals everywhere in every social formation. In modern warring societies, social-class antagonism does not reset itself but boils so loudly that at every crack it creates, it forcefully ejects the incredible amounts of violence it accumulates into its very foundations. Every class war contains a civil war, and vice versa.
In Greece, the establishment of new police forces (Panthers [1], O.P.P.I. [2], O.D.O.S. [3], etc.) and the massive recruitment of uniformed scoundrels have already generated enough grotesque excesses useful for satirical broadcasts and any form of leftist opposition. However, the onslaught of police brutality on society and the transformation of the ELAS [Hellenic / Greek Police] into the administrator of all social affairs is neither a joke nor a communicative termination. It is a clear declaration of prolonged class warfare against us. Society in a cast, resistance in the crosshairs, police violence on the agenda. At the borders and in the streets, in the squares and neighborhoods, in the strike blockades and student rallies, in the combined interventions and union meetings, in the homes and vehicles of our comrades and comrades-in-arms, the ELAS and its dummies are spewing hatred, snitching, torture and murderous violence.
The rage of the cops is proportional to the determination of the state. The responsibility belongs as much to the uniformed bastards as it does to the greasy bastards who run them. Particularly in the field of universities, the police’s entry into the new business outposts is a prestige battle for the government’s “law and order” doctrine and a well-weighed strategy to prevent the tensions that will be generated in the coming period. When they talk about hotbeds of lawlessness, they mean hotbeds of struggle and laboratories of freedom. Situations hostile and unacceptable both for the privatized and intensified future of universities and for the new generations of underpaid teleworkers. For this very reason, we refuse to believe that all these masses of students and youth who are being beaten inside and outside the HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) by the riot police, with their batons and tear gas are simply rebelling out of concern at the presence of the cops inside the HEIs and for the defense of “academic asylum”. The real issue at stake is the fomenting or crushing of a new long cycle of struggle and insubordination inside and outside the schools. An event that will not only affect the physiognomy of the Greek universities but also the course of capitalist restructuring as a whole in the coming years. Therefore, approaches and slogans that (also) reduce this struggle to an anti-government rhetoric or to a sterile refusal of the police entering the universities while our whole life is already surrounded by cops, are worn and dangerous and cultivate the withering and defeatism in the struggles. Cops are unwanted all over the land and our lives are far more important than the party careers of a new generation of student thugs.
However, we are not betting on a temporary polarization with the cops. The strategy of revolutionary movements cannot be based on the projection of victimization, nor can it rely on the “democratic limits” of action of a state army. Our accounts with the cops are constantly wide open and our confrontation with them is an integral part of the struggle against the world of domination. As deadly as the strategy of struggle that is exhausted in the confrontation with the cops is, the view of the ELAS as being a mere hodgepodge of idiots, sexists, sadists and well, “misfits” who are angry and misguided is just as self-defeating. As much as we are sick of hearing about their deranged psychopathology, we are also disgusted with the parrots of the left talking about “children of the people” and “working cops”. Either we consider the police our class enemy and organize strategically against them, or we bang our heads against their clubs to no avail. Our goal is to be feared, not to fear. Our goal is to win every inch of territory controlled by their occupying army. Our goal is to fill the streets with the frightened and the terrified, the once resigned and the indifferent. Our goal was and remains to run over them.
Our militant self-defence and the defence of our collective identity in the street and in every form of mobilization remains a constant political challenge. But social war is not one-dimensional. The lines of confrontation can be drawn everywhere we choose, making our dynamics a constant asymmetrical threat against a hostile repressive machine. Sometimes massive and concentrated, sometimes more agile and diffuse, the initiative of action must pass into our hands, setting up barricades against the unfolding of their repressive plans but also actively challenging the fatalism of our time, which unfortunately is constantly gaining ground in the world of movements and struggles that we find around us. The diversity of direct action can generate a series of possibilities of sabotage and conflict with the enemy body of the ELAS. To map its army, where we can target its soldiers, where we can break their backs. Exploit their routes by ambushing them. Attack any and all ELAS agents and collaborators. Our imagination and organizational readiness to be fertilized by the challenges of the future, not the dead ends of the past.
We need more than ever plans and actions that crystalize our theories.
We need more than ever actions that correspond with the seriousness of our words.
We need more than ever to expand and strengthen the net of solidarity with those who raise their fists.
We dedicate this action against the uniformed bastards:
– to the students who guard their schools against the police presence and turn their schools into bases of collective struggle
– to the militants who defy the police bans and defend in practice and non-negotiability the workers of Malamatina SA who stood up against the forces of the riot police and strike-breakers, guarding with their bodies their strike and the lives of their colleagues
– the diverse community that defends Exarcheia square and Strifi Hill from the steamroller of redevelopment and gentrification, refusing to give in to the police occupation
– to the immigrant women who continue to experience the daily racist pogroms in the center of Athens and to those who stood up to their eviction from the Elaionas camp
– to the youth in Larissa who retaliated against a few cops, giving back a small percentage of the police violence that their comrades are subjected to by police forces around the world!
– to the 16-year-old cyclist in Thessaloniki who was run over and killed by cops.
We send our solidarity to the Women insurgents of Iran and the uprisings around the world!
Ο ΦΟΒΟΣ ΝΑ ΑΛΛΑΞΕΙ ΣΤΡΑΤΟΠΕΔΟ
ORGANIZE AND ATTACK TO INTENSIFY THE SOCIAL CLASS WAR
Incendiary Committee
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Translation notes:
[1] New heavily armed special commando units that patrol metro stations and other public transport hubs
[2] University Institutions Protection Teams
[3] a new unarmed police unit formed to manage so-called ‘low-risk’ demonstrations and mediate with demonstration organizers
source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1621106/
translated by Nae Midion
Note: photo not associated with action