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While Greece was preparing for its general strike on Wednesday 10
December
against the Karamanlis government and against the economic
crisis, and with
the grassroots mobilisation in schools and
universities growing for some time
against proposed reforms,
Alexandros Grigoropolous, only 16 years old, was
the unlucky choice to
become victim and scapegoat of the police apparatus and
was killed in
cold blood by the State's forces of repression.
The
economic crisis sparked off by international capitalism against
the exploited
of the whole world, which is being managed with measures
imposing general
impoverishment by the States, is damaging the fragile
equilibriums and the
precarious alliances of power between groups of
power and both right-wing and
centre-left parties, enabling us to see
the true anti-democratic, subversive
vocation of the State and its
apparatus of (in)security): alienation,
criminalisation and the
elimination of social opposition.
It happened
with Carlo Giuliani in Genoa in 2001, it has happened many
times in recent
years in place like Palestine and Oaxaca in Mexico.
Last Saturday it happened
in Greece.
At the moment thousands of school students are demonstrating
outside
police headquarters in Athens, but also in a great many cities
and
towns all over Greece.
Spontaneous demonstrations throughout the
country are the result of
political, popular anger with the Karamanlis
government and the
criminal actions of the police. The Greek government first
armed and
unleashed the killer cops, then set up a pathetic ballet of
excuses
and resignations, but is not punishing anyone. In fact it is trying
to
shift attention onto the destruction of public and
privateproperty,
while attempting to repress the demonstrators, attacking
people with
chemical weapons and torturing arrested demonstrators.
The
revolt is only beginning. And the general strike, a union and
social,
political and class-struggle general strike, can transform the
people's rage
into organised, grassroots building of the libertarian
alternative.
In
every country, capitalism's growing crisis is presenting the bill
to the
working classes and the exploited of society.
We must respond, in every
country, by building together the social
opposition that is needed to defend
ourselves from annihilation in the
name of Profit.
Solidarity with the
Greek anarchist movement and with the victims of
repression, international
solidarity with all social struggles, in
Greece and in the rest of
Europe!
8 December 2008
Signatories:
Federazione dei Comunisti
Anarchici (Italy)
Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
(Australia)
North-Eastern Federation of Anarchist Communists (USA)
Union
Communiste Libertaire (Quebec, Canada)
Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front
(South Africa)
Common Cause (Ontario, Canada)
Related Link: http://www.anarkismo.net
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