SOLIDARITY WITH THE HUNGER STRIKERS IN GREEK PRISONS

Our lives are being reduced to little more than a question of statistics. Every day the talking heads of the media roll out percentages, mortgage rates, numbers of unemployed, casualty figures of dead and wounded in the great massacre of daily life. Faithful guardians of the rich’s lockdown, they say our choice is sacrifice and sheeplike obedience or isolation and criminalisation as enemies of society. We are ‘the bad ones’, ‘the scum’, the enemy within….They focus attention on isolated acts that come from personal dramas or the ghettoes of boredom in order to justify the Police State that is streghening itself day by day. They promote a snitch culture, glorifying the scum who grass up their neighbours, even family members, to the police. We all know who our real enemies are: the rich, the police, the politicians, the lying journalists, all the oppressors of the people.

What the media don’t tell us is that all over the planet young people, and also the not so young, are coming out into the streets to rebel. Against the unrestrained greed of those who dominate and oppress in the name of profit. To bring the flame of life into our grey existence and turn our rage against the oppressors rather than each other. Across all borders.

FROM LONDON TO GREECE – FIGHT THE POLICE

When WE want anything – particularly freedom and dignity – we have to fight hard for it, with our people, against the ‘’Law and Order’’ of the system. No politicians deserve anything other than our contempt. Definitely no trust. Last year in this country alone we saw thousands of young people in the streets rebelling against university fees on at least two occasions. In August the whole country was ignited by the police force and soon developed into a widespread social revolt that lit up the drab city centres with fire. Piles of rubbish were expropriated from high street stores, rubbish that masses of people slave to produce, and other masses slave to buy. Here the media did not fail to do their job of criminalising the revolt and showed their true colours by publishing CCTV photos of rioters supplied by police.

In Greece, which has been in the headlines for months, because in spite of viscious cuts and ‘austery measures’ against the Greek people, the State economy has gone bust, and, being a part of the great bankers mafia, the Eurozone, the other European State economies have rushed to ‘bail out’ Greece. The effect has been an almost total collapse of social and economic life there, always under the world media spotlight, resulting in the Greek people being presented as receivers of charity who ‘belong to us’.

LET’S SELF-ORGANISE & ATTACK TO FREE OURSELVES.

What is not said is that there is a situation of constant rebellion, attack and solidarity among many of the Greek people, including thousands of anarchists. Demonstrations in the Greek streets, which have now gone as far as attacking the parliament. Neighbourhood assemblies to fight back when people have their electricity cut off because they cannot pay the bill – the  people come together and help each other to reconnect the power. Groups of anarchists fill up trolleys with food in supermarkets along with leaflets urging others to do the same. Other groups came out in broad daylight to attak CCTV cameras in the main streets to the extent that there are practically none left standing.

We are living through the militarisation of London in preparation for the Olympics, something that the people of Athens went through in 2004. Many acts of sabotage took place. Demos, etc. Expressing anger at the absurd expense of the huge security operation that left so many debts that effect everybody’s lives today. Ther London Olympics are being passed off as great event that unites everyone and will improve peoples lives with its example of ‘excellence’, whereas we know that all the corporations behind the Olympics are the real terrorists of the planet. We can all see that it’s just another excuse for more of a lockdown prison society, moving people out of their homes in London to make room for business and yuppies.

Solidarity means sticking up for each other and not letting the powerful and their servants (politicians, cops, media, etc.) use their ‘divide and rule’ techniques. Our solidarity has nothing to do with the false national community celebrated by the UK flag-waving around the Olympics, carrying on the dirty history of imperialism racism in another form. It means staying solid in our all our many diverse fights for freedom. Dignity and self-respect in the place of arse-kissing and snitching. It means finding out who our real enemies are and organising ourselves, with those we know and trust, in small groups without leaders, fonding joy in our attacks, big or small, on the oppressors and the structures of the present prison society, for a world without bosses or slaves.

Revolutionarysolidarity is not just words. We have come out into the streets today to bring to the fore the hungerstrike of some anarchist prisoners in Greece because their struggle is also our struggle.

NINE ANARCHIST REVOLUTIONARIES ARE CURRENTLY ON HUNGER STRIKE IN GREECE, FIGHTING TO DIGNITY AND FREEDOM.

THERE ARE COUNTLESS INSURGENTS IMPRISONED THE WORLD OVER FOR NOT HAVING BOWED DOWN THEIR HEADS TO THIS SYSTEM OF DEATH.

LET’S MAKE IT SO THAT NO FREEDOM FIGHTER REMAINS ALONE!

(text distributed on the London streets-april 2012)