Athens, Greece.
We call on comrades around the world for an international day of action in memory of the death of anarchist warrior and beloved comrade Kyriakos Ximitiris (November 16).
We invite comrades from abroad to send messages that they would like us to read at the political rally in memory of comrade Kyriakos, which will take place on the same day in Athens.
synelallil@riseup.net
October 31 forever engraved in the heart of every warrior.
With rage and determination we stand by our comrades.
On 31/10/204, after a device exploded in an apartment in Ampelokipoi, our anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation, while our anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was also in the apartment, ended up with multiple injuries and is so far being treated and guarded at the Evangelismos Hospital. At the same time, two more people were arrested and taken for investigation, comrade Dimitris and anarchist comrade Dimitra were arrested.
Comrade Marianna M. is detained and guarded in Evangelismos, with all the repressive apparatus and the anti-terrorism agency with the aim of extracting statements from the comrade. We have not forgotten the cases of torture of comrades who were captured and guarded in health institutions and suffered physical abuse through medical practices, being exploited in their physical, emotional and mental state. Such impositions of state power are clearly torture.
It should not cross their minds that the police continue to exert pressure or continue the process of (pre)investigation on the seriously injured comrade Marianna, while she is hospitalized and trying to manage the emotional, spiritual and political burden after the explosion. Their interrogation is torture and all kinds of participants in it are torturers of state power.
The administration and staff of Evangelismos have the primary responsibility for anything that happens to our comrade. Any member of the medical community who consents to or simply remains silent in such a process will be complicit in the intentional state violence and attempted torture of comrade Marianna. State violence has been perpetrated against our comrade with the anti-terrorist bastards taking her fingerprints, while she was under the care of medical personnel, without having left danger and without her consent, since she was unconscious.
The cannibalism on the faces and bodies of the comrades has begun with all kinds of methods of the entire state apparatus under the guidance of the anti-terrorist agency and the Ministry for Citizen Protection Chrysochoidis. Their slanders on television channels and the front pages of the well-known media thugs is another part of the media’s emetic role of state and capitalist propaganda. The detailed reporting and the release of photos and videos of the scene of the incident punish the dead comrade and capture the brutality faced by his family and loved ones. At the same time, with the depoliticization of the action of our comrades, they are being presented as amoral terrorists who destroy the homes of citizens, with the aim of isolating them socially to expose them to repression.
The state, its ideological mechanisms and its capital are once again trying to strike at the lines of the movement, to annul its political contents, its options for struggle and its decades of revolutionary tradition. Before comrade Marianna recovers her strength and speaks as she wants and as the dead comrade would wish, they have furiously unleashed state propaganda against them, against the whole world of the Struggle and its options. The derision and slander of the revolutionary struggle are equal to the spear of counter-revolutionary propaganda. We firmly oppose it, defending the revolutionary cause, but also the will of the people who are in the framework of repression.
The events of 31/10 and the political choices of the struggle that led to them will not be commented on by the thugs of the state machinery and capital. The comrade who suffered and paid a high price and the comrades who are persecuted for it will speak first, when they wish.
The movement will speak, all of us who walked together with comrade Kyriakos and comrade Marianna, who were inspired and continue to be inspired by their clear vision and their unwavering commitment. We, who recognize their presence in all fields of struggle, and realize that comrades are the embodiment of open dialogue within the movement. The comrades have dedicated their lives to the struggle against oppression, to build a world of equality and freedom, taking responsibility and the decisions that led to Kyriakos’ death and Marianna to be imprisoned and receive multiple injuries. With their attitude and their presence they have given themselves body, soul and thought to the revolutionary Cause and on this path they are in the vanguard of society in struggle.
Marianna and Kyriakos for years have been continuously present in solidarity projects with prisoners, in the internationalist movement against the war, in the struggle for Palestinian resistance, in the actions of defense of the Exarchia neighborhood, in the struggles within the universities, in the defense of liberated spaces, of occupations and in all social and class struggles. Dedicated to these struggles, always ready to discover together their most rebellious extensions. Not only have they theoretically defended the multifaceted struggle for social liberation, but they are its most faithful incarnation. They have taken a position of struggle, by all means, against the world of power, the State, capital, racism, patriarchy, on the side of the oppressed and the rebels, always with the vision of a better world, a world of solidarity, equality and freedom.
Against a world that marginalizes anyone who does not fit into its normality, that naturalizes the exploitation and oppression of those from below, the anarchist-anti-authoritarian movement fights by all means. It is the multiform action that will lead to radicalization and the fullness of our responses and to our attack on what exists. The options of revolutionary counterviolence and armed struggle, as an integral part of the multifaceted struggle, exceed the limits of bourgeois legitimacy and challenge the state monopoly of violence. It is these options of struggle that keep the thread of the rebellion alive from that November of 1973 until today. Such choices are an integral part of a historical insurrectionary continuum, which keeps the vision of social revolution alive in our hearts and minds.
The operation to undermine the revolutionary discourse and the subsequent repression shows that the bastards of the agencies of state terror fear people who do not compromise with injustice, inequality, exploitation. Against the propaganda and intimidation operation of the State and the bosses, as well as against the attempt to depoliticize the improved options, we first respond politically and regardless of the specific case. We owe it, apart from everyone else, to all those who gave their lives, to those who were imprisoned, to those who fought during so many years of social and class war. Armed struggle is an integral part of the radical movement, of the multifaceted social and class struggle, deeply rooted in our militant tradition, and we defend it without compromise.
Against the world of individuation and fatalism, we raise the struggle by all means. We strengthen each other, we defend our comrades. Undoubtedly, comrades and friends, no one will be left alone against the repressive campaign of the state and capital. In the face of the anti-terrorist tactics and cannibalism of the media, may our solidarity be a bulwark for our captive comrades and any other prosecution. Repression does not scare us and we will support each other without hesitation.
TO NOT LAY DOWN ARMS FOR COMRADE MARIANNA
KYRIAKOS XIMOTIRIS, ONE OF US, ALWAYS WITH US IN THE WAYS OF FIRE
FREEDOM FOR COMRADE DIMITRIS AND ANARCHIST COMRADE DIMITRA
Assembly in solidarity with the imprisoned, fugitive, and persecuted warriors.
Source: La Zarzamora