“And now their are masses of people who are rising and breaking their shackles and chains. Eternal memory to you, oh brother, in the honorable struggle you have fallen.”
Armed with these verses, which come from our own 1940-49 era here in Greece and guided by the unity of the revolutionary achievements that are currently taking place in Palestine, we carried out an arson attack on the offices of the Israeli shipping company ZIM at dawn on Wednesday 17/01.
The Israeli company ZIM, since its establishment in 1945, has been actively involved in supplying the murderous Israeli army with military equipment for the Palestinian front. A process which continues even today, unhindered and frequently from the port of Piraeus. ZIM is one of the heavyweights of Zionist capital as it ranks among the ten most powerful shipping companies in Israel. Also, its targeting by the revolutionary Houthi guerrilla movement of the Yemeni people has exposed its active role in the genocide of the Gaza Strip.
A little over a hundred days. Days that are obscured by the sounds of artillery and buildings being demolished in an instant. Nights haunted by the explosions of aerial bombardment. Periods of time where minute by minute, street by street, house by house another magnificent chapter of the Palestinian resistance is written. Another magnificent chapter in the history of the Peoples’ Resistance against their occupiers, against their timeless oppressors.
On October 7, 2023, the combined action of the armed resistance organizations of the struggling Palestinian people achieved an unthinkable blow against one of the most powerful militaries in the world, the Israeli occupation forces. An occupation that has already counted seventy-five years of violence, persecution, arrests and imprisonment without trials, torture, executions, killings, murders of civilians and the continuous expansion of Israel into Palestinian territory in violation of all treaties. Aggressive expansion, with constant escalations, which has led millions of Palestinians to be uprooted or to live crammed into strips and patches of land under inhumane, suffocating conditions of military enforcement, surveillance, control, deprivation of basic human rights, basic goods and health care, on a thin line between life and death.
In this suffocating context, the Palestinian people manage to organize themselves, overcoming immense difficulties and attacking the occupier who tries to break their resistance. The Palestinian Resistance organizations continue operations and achieve daily blows against the Zionist occupation forces. Even at this very moment, when the Israeli army has penetrated deep into the Gaza Strip, as it is attacking the West Bank and striking mercilessly and indiscriminately, slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinians. For all its overwhelming show of force, the Zionist state of Israel is failing to achieve its key objectives, with international and domestic pressure to end the war and find a diplomatic solution mounting and political time running out for a viable way out for the far-right Netanyahu government.
In the context of these conditions, the Greek state, as an integral part of the imperialist mechanisms of NATO, as a proud distant outpost of the USA, declares its support for the Zionist aggressors and the massacre of the Palestinian people, diplomatically and also practically by facilitating the Israeli war machine through the provision of an uninterrupted supply of military equipment and also with military personnel as part of the NATO support forces off the coast of Palestine. This is also made possible through the great growth and profitability of Israeli capital with investments of tens of millions in the real estate sector, and the tourism and transport industries.
Beyond the state administrations, the Greek people, the peoples of Europe and the world have shown with diverse actions and mobilizations, with enormous strength and perseverance, their solidarity with the Palestinian people and their condemnation of Zionist crimes. From all corners of the earth, the solidarity movement, the movement against war and imperialism has risen up, bringing the Palestinian people closer, making their cause the cause of all of us. This cause that inspires peoples throughout the course of history, this cause that arms the hand of the oppressed against their oppressors, this cause that produces moments of magnificence, moments and spaces of freedom, this cause that paves the way for final victory.
With raised fists we stand in solidarity with the struggling, comradely Palestinian people, and with all people struggling for their liberation. For we know that victory for Palestine means victory for all the oppressed peoples of the world. As it will be a defeat of imperialism and Zionism. By every means we strike at Israeli capital wherever it is. By every means we sabotage the relations and cooperation of the Greek state with the murderous Zionist state of Israel.
We call on every thinking and progressive person to look history in the eyes and realize the genocide that the people of Palestine are currently undergoing. We must act now. Each one from their own position and all together united as one fist to sabotage the murderous Zionist state by mobilizing for solidarity demonstrations, boycotting Israeli products and destroying its infrastructure and material interests located in our own territory.
THE PEOPLE WITH GUNS IN THEIR HANDS WILL WIN
AND THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE KNOW THIS VERY WELL
October 7 Group
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