Responsibility claim for the burnt ballot box in Exarcheia, Athens on the night of the election of June 17th, 2012.
Everything around us seems to unwind in coercive binaries: memorandum/anti-memorandum, drachma/euro, fascism/anti-fascism. Perhaps even among our ranks it is necessary to take a position, to take a stance in this liminal conjuncture. Yet we don’t for a moment forget the only real binary: Revolution or consistency with the existent.
We refuse consensus, their dilemmas, social peace. Security concerns the profits of local and international capital; freedom concerns everyone else. The state and capital, the fascist and the banks are no invisible forces. They have names and addresses. They’d better begin to count down their days of plenty.
We look behind, in the past few years, at tough struggles. How can the barricades and the fires of February 12th fit in ballot boxes? How can the voices shouting “Enough!” fit in these boxes, voices raised by the few, the dignified proletarians at the times of wage fear and subordination? How can the struggles fit in those boxes, the struggles fought city after city, neighbourhood after neighbourhood, with the scum of GD? How can our brothers and sisters fit, those who are missing from our side, yet they are always next to us, even when in the cells of the regime?
At these liminal times, which have no space for reservations we attempt the unthinkable and we make the above ‘fit’. The 1000ml of petrol that we placed in the ballot box of the 18th polling station in Exarcheia at the June 17th elections are our 1000 votes, they are our 1000 challenges in an unpacifiable war.
The revolution first and always
P.S. A raised fist for the comrade Olga Oikonomidou
Domenica, 17 Giugno, 2012
Verso le 19,20 un gruppo di circa dieci persone è entrata in un seggio elettorale a Exarcheia, ha attaccato i due agenti di polizia presenti e ha dato fuoco ad un’urna elettorale. Ancora non è sicuro se questo gesto influenzerà l’annuncio dei risultati elettorali. Attualmente, ore 20,45, ci sono molte persone radunate in piazza Exarcheia a cantare slogan anti-elezioni.
[Non Votare] Anarchici danno fuoco a un’urna elettorale a Exarcheia