Armed Proletarian Justice – Communique No.1
On 18/12 armed fighters of our organization approached the Central Camp of MAT (Units for the Reinstatement of Order)/EKAM (Directorate of Police Operations of Attica) in Kokkinopoulou Street and placed a bomb under the sentry post. You were lucky this time, the same will not apply next time. We dedicate our action to those who have been murdered, tortured, beaten and raped by the Greek Police. Armed struggle requires responsibility and political conscience. It is neither a hobby of some extremists nor a fetish of some fantasists. It is a political choice. Our primary concern was, is and will be in the future the protection of any person unrelated to our action. To ensure the safe removal of random passers-by, two warning calls were made where detailed instructions were given to the police. For us – and we stress this – it is of the utmost importance that no innocent person should be harmed in any way. The targets that we chose and will choose in the future – whether material infrastructure of the system or the personnel itself – will be clearly defined as such. We do not want to risk anyone else’s safety. Even if it puts our own security at increased risk. We carry the enormous responsibility that comes with the de facto use of such means of struggle. Period.
In Greece there is a long historical tradition of urban guerrilla organizations. Their action, according to the historical context and the conditions of the period, has always been politically just, targeting the sell-out scum and the infrastructure of the political-economic establishment. With our action, the hollow proclamations of the New Democracy, which at every opportunity proclaims the definitive elimination of the urban guerrilla, have collapsed. We put into question the much advertised doctrine of law and order by targeting the MAT/EKAM headquarters. We will strike again at the right time, targeting the defiant representatives of the rotten political and economic system and their uniformed henchmen. That is, the culprits of the most heinous crimes committed in the name of the state. Next time the uniformed bastards will be facing the barrels of our guns. And that’s no threat. Nor is it a warning. It’s a commitment. We don’t like arrogant grandstanding, but we do like consistency to define our political discourse. This police state relies on the power of guns, and anyone who wants to fight it must hold themselves to the same standard. We throw down the gauntlet and declare that we will speak the same language that the fascists of the Greek police understand; we have taken it on board, as the cops’ guns are blazing.
We’ve established that killer cops never go to jail. We’ve established that the bodies of outcasts are targets for fascists. We’ve established that the NIDs (National Identification cards) are just bullshit papers. The moment everything is established, dialogue is abolished and the guns have their say. All this time you’ve been playing ball in your own stadium with your own grandstand. With the TV channels covering you defiantly, with politicians applauding you every time you pull the trigger, with judges bailing you out. These dark days are finally at an end. We know full well that, as a whole, the fascists in uniform condone or acquiesce in the murders, abuse and torture. We are well aware that they have been given the approval of the parastatal center in Maximus that there will be no consequences. We are also well aware of who they are targeting: the proletarian youth who are experiencing social exclusion and class inequality in their own skins, the political and class movements challenging state policy. We ask aloud. What else are we waiting for to happen? How much blood has to dry in the streets? Does anyone expect justice to be done by turning the other cheek?
In our 1st communique we want to be as clear as possible. The armed militants who choose to join the urban guerrilla are not aliens. They are the people next door. They are your colleagues at work, the proletarian on the scaffolding risking his life for a living wage of terror, the girl who lives for four months in the slums of the employers to serve drinks to tourists at a tourist destination, your classmates at your school, your neighbors on a picket line. The urban guerrilla is constituted as a pole of opposition to bourgeois ideology and dominant social norms. In this context we chose the formation of the Armed Proletarian Justice to modestly place our stone in the great mosaic of history and move forward. We draw valuable lessons from the historical experiences of previous armed organizations both at the domestic and international levels.
The Mitsotakis government has as its central axes of policy formulation the doctrine of law and order and the famous culture of excellence, the political continuation of secular modernization. These two axes are the carrot and the stick with which the party of the bourgeoisie, New Democracy, pursues government policy. At the political level, the doctrine of law and order and excellence are the pillars of government in its approach to the working people. Punishment when it misbehaves, reward when it complies, apotheosis when it serves the social norms cultivated by New Democracy through the media. This is the triptych that constitutes the production and enforcement of government policy positions. The famous executive state is nothing but a hub for distributing money to government courtiers, to lame-duck businessmen, to ministerial executives. The selling off of public property continues unabated. While privatizations in energy, health, universities, the natural environment, are widening the fields of profitability of Greek capital. Labor is systematically devalued and rights won through bloody struggles are criminalized overnight. At the same time, at the international level, Greek foreign policy is in full alignment with the policy of Western imperialism.
In the deluge of violence and terrorism of imperialism we see the coffins parading live, the youth in dismembered or bullet-riddled corpses buried in the ground, we see hypocrisy taking its place on the television screens. The dead children in martyred Palestine are dubbed terrorists, the dead children from police guns in Greece are dubbed dangerous thugs, the dead children in Tempe are dubbed a necessary sacrifice for the modernization of the railway network, the dead migrants on the Mediterranean coast are dubbed barbaric invaders. Everything is now clear: your death is my death.
But we are not blind and we recognize another form of violence that flourishes in the metropolises of imperialism. The violence of not giving a damn about your neighbor and looking only after yourself. Violence without blood, but violence that washes it away in silence. The dream of advancement offered by so-called class mobility buys consciences. Misinformation, which is a weapon in the hands of the system so that it can brainwash, annihilates moral standards to such an extent that one refuses to react to the crimes of the system. All it needs is the promise of an hire purchase car, a little money, a furnished apartment, a few days of carefree summer holidays and a night out. The system tries to convince us that our lives cannot exist outside of it.
Imperialism creates a bleak future, full of wars, poverty and misery. We say that it is never too late to take the first decisive step. Weapons are nothing more than tools of political action, they become meaningful when they reflect a political and social content. The political core of the proletarian guerrilla strategy has as its starting point the balancing of the negative political/class correlation and sets as its goal the development in terms of strength of an alternative political proposal, where proletarian interests are at its center. To complete this turbulent journey history forces us to stop at many ports and to do so we must stand up to the daily questions it poses.
With a view to the abolition of capitalist relations of production. The destruction of the political forms of domination of the bourgeoisie. The disengagement from the European Union and NATO. The revolutionary transformation of social relations. After all, the best answer to those who are in a hurry to end the history of struggles and revolutions is the struggles of the oppressed who are fighting imperialism and exploitation. The fighting proletarians who stand up to the barbaric policies of the system. From the heroic Palestinian resistance to the massive anti-Zionist demonstrations all over the planet. History is totally unpredictable. All it takes is a spark to start a fire. And then if we are not ready we will not be able to do anything. For every person, in addition to their individual responsibility, has another responsibility. That of the shadow of responsibility in the face of injustice. We will stand up for Proletarian Justice for all those killed by police violence. We have a responsibility to fight for them. With a gun in our hands and the vision of a new world in our hearts.
ARMED PROLETARIAN JUSTICE
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