On 06/12/2008 the occupying police forces murdered 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. This murder was not an isolated incident, as noted in popular opinion, strengthened by state run media; but the expected result of political and economic power imposed on the weaker classes. The murder of the young fighter that stood against society and the state that created it, show openly that there is no tolerance for those who make the decision to self-organize, and to fight back for social liberation.
The escalation of class antagonisms (both intense and gradual) in that period, and the attempts to destabilize the regime by the insurgents forced kyriarchs to defend their privileges with tooth and nail. From the assertive marches of students of 06-07 until the murder of Grigoropoulos on December 08, the rage and social discontent against the police system directly targeted those are responsible for maintaining the system of imposed oppression and poverty. Anger emerged publically through dynamic demonstrations and strikes, in the main streets of the city and in smaller clashes with the police and emergency operations. The massive and consistent presence of those who could not be integrated and subordinated to the neoliberal project of the dominant, forced the mobilization of warfare tactics and terrorist strategy on the side of the repressive system.
The new state strategy attempts to weaken the radical horizontal movement, which seeks social liberation through the destruction of state hierarchy entirely. After organizing efforts fell from 2012-2014, SYRIZA took advantage of the weak social resistance to ascend to power, using state-economic factors to stabilize the state’s regime of oppression and exploitation. The new face of repression shows excessive bias- already evident in state terrorism- including the continuation of poverty and the attempts to assimilate the horizontal-radical movement. The leftist State intensifies and prolongs oppression and exploitation, attempts to brand anarchist and communist fighters as dangerous criminals, and holds these activists and revolutionaries in prisons, thus clearing the path for bosses and authoritarians to have total control.
The murder of the young fighters was a straight and unconditional attack by the state apparatus against those who do not submit before slavery, those who side with freedom and not with submission. Exarcheia, from then until today, remains a meeting place for those who question and do not submit to the state and social inertia. The struggle against the power and the state is seen in participation and support of social liberated territory and structures.
The squats unite the oppressed by erasing practically any hierarchical expression and are a direct example of social self-organization, against the monopoly and brutality of the state and capitalism.
BREAK THE SYSTEM OF EXPLOITATION AND TYRANNY
TO GIVE SPACE FOR SOCIAL RAGE
ON 6 DECEMBER IN EVERY STREEET
06/12/2016
ASSEMBLY OF SQUATED PROSFYGIKA