A-Infos (en) Greece, APO: Gatherings in Athens and Thessaloniki on the day of the passing of the bill for the new criminal code (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Thursday 22/2 - Athens: Syntagma, 18.00 | Venue: Kamara, 18.00 ---- 
NOTICE OF THE NEW CRIMINAL CODE ---- Impunity for the daily and mass 
crimes of the state and bosses - Prisons and repression for the poor and 
the struggling ---- At the end of 2023, the third in a row in the last 5 
years draft amendments and interventions to the criminal code and the 
code of criminal procedure was submitted for public consultation. This 
plan, which concerns more than 100 articles, comes to implement a series 
of amendments in a highly reactionary, anti-social and punitive 
direction for the large social majority. Its main characteristics are 
social punishment, the transfer of state responsibilities to the 
individual, class inequality, economic bleeding through tax collection 
and of course the impact of social and class resistance. In essence, 
what is being attempted is an extreme attack on the rights of the 
accused and more specifically of those who belong to the poor social 
strata and those who are targeted for their participation in the 
struggle against state and capitalist brutality.
The amendments, which have been submitted for public consultation, pave 
the way for a dramatic increase in the number of prisoners in the 
already overcrowded and squalid prisons and a second year for the 
creation of private prisons, as well as the specter of unpaid work and 
economic annihilation for those caught under prosecution. More 
specifically, the actual serving of the sentence is provided for 
sentences of more than 3 years without the possibility of suspension. 
Suspension will only be granted for sentences of up to one year and as 
long as the irrevocable previous convictions do not exceed 12 months. In 
sentences of 2-3 years, actual serving of part of the sentence is 
provided for, while in sentences of 1-2 years, redemption of the 
sentence or provision of community service is provided for. At the same 
time, the tightening of penalties, the increase of the maximum prison 
terms (for felonies from 15 to 20 years, for the confluence of 
misdemeanors to 10 years and for the confluence of felonies to 25), the 
equating of the attempt with the completed act as well as the sentence 
provided for the accomplice with that of the natural perpetrator promote 
a suffocating framework on penalties.
As far as the criminal procedure is concerned, changes are underway both 
in the composition of the courts, where the three-member misdemeanor 
courts and the five-member appeals courts are abolished, with the result 
that decisions are made by smaller compositions, even those of one 
judge, as well as in the procedure on the audience with the regulation 
regarding the examination police-witnesses for the prosecution, where 
they will no longer be required to testify at the hearing but their 
testimony will be taken into account at the stage of the pre-trial, 
removing the possibility from the accused of questions during the trial, 
where the inconsistencies of the of repressive mechanisms and especially 
in political trials the framed indictments of the police staffs are 
overturned. At the same time, the granting of postponements is 
tightened, with the provision of the right to a postponement (since a 
second one can only be granted for health reasons certified by a public 
hospital) and the price of the postponement stamp is increased. Also, 
the obligation of the prosecutor to provide written justification for 
the replacement of temporary detention is abolished, while the extensive 
justification of the seat in case of suspension is established.
In addition, in the direction of class inequality and the economic 
annihilation of those prosecuted or convicted are the regulations 
concerning the increase of both the prices in the fees and the cost of 
the redeemable penalty from 5 euros a day to 10. The exorbitant amounts 
for the redemption of penalties as well the costs of legal 
representation, given that even a simple misdemeanor can lead to prison, 
demonstrate that the aim is to further exploit the poor and favor the 
wealthy.
Another important regulation is the tightening of the conditions of 
release, according to which regardless of the formal condition of 
completing the detention time, the judicial council will decide whether 
to grant it depending on the dangerousness of the crime and the 
individual and social characteristics of the defendant . In this way, 
what has already been attempted to be applied in many cases of political 
prisoners, where despite the fulfillment of the formal conditions for 
their parole, are institutionalized, they are confronted with the 
vindictiveness of the regime, which refuses to apply its laws and with 
criterion political opinion seeks statements of repentance.

Finally, typical examples of the aggressive dimension of the amendments 
to the criminal code are the aggravating provisions for the disruption 
of public services "with noises" with a special focus on hospitals, 
essentially paving the way for the prosecution of health workers who 
will protest against the dissolution of the NHS but also the provisions 
concerning fires, which stipulate that if someone causes a forest fire 
through negligence, then his property can be confiscated. A provision 
that comes after the devastating fires that have burned thousands of 
hectares of land and forests and left behind dead people and dead 
animals in recent summers and under its broad interpretation attempts to 
shift state responsibilities for the plundering of nature and local 
societies even to him who did not clear his field of weeds.
This new plan of the PK and KPD comes in a period where state and 
capital are increasingly intensifying the conditions of exploitation and 
oppression in the social body, through the continuous anti-social 
restructurings promoted with a series of bills. From the imminent 
passage of the bill for the privatization of higher education and the 
circumvention of Article 16 to the recent passage of bills concerning 
work, health, education, nature, housing and political and social 
expression. At the same time, the state, intensifying its constant 
counter-insurgency strategy, is arming itself both by strengthening its 
legal arsenal and repressive measures with the permanent staffing of the 
security forces, in its attempt to prevent any social explosion and to 
impose silence, especially in a period where the great social majority 
is faced with the intensification of exploitation, poverty and 
precariousness.
In this direction, the upcoming amendments to the KP demonstrate the 
effort to strengthen the construction of modern totalitarianism and 
state enforcement and control over the social body. At the same time the 
political and economic elites enjoy immunity with defiant impunity for a 
series of state and capitalist crimes against society and nature. From 
the crime in Tempes, the killing of hundreds of refugees and migrants in 
the shipwreck of Pylos, the plundering of nature and local communities 
with the devastating fires in Evia, Rhodes, Evros and Attica and the 
floods in Thessaly to the murders of Roma by the gangs of EL.AS, the 
thousands of deaths in hospitals due to the criminal state management of 
the pandemic and the operation to dismantle the National Social Security 
System and the dozens of worker murders in the wage slavery factories.
What the state aims for is social transformation, the change of social 
consciousness by any means, impoverishing the great social majority, 
creating conditions of social subjugation and suppressing those who 
stand up against state and capitalist brutality. It aims at the 
dissolution of all collective and all cohesive bonds between the 
oppressed and exploited and at the prevalence of individualisation, fear 
and social cannibalism, where those who choose to fight will be crushed 
and the rest will either be unable to react to their further 
exploitation by the dominant or they will turn against the weakest. The 
change of the social paradigm comes through a series of aggressive 
policies of sovereignty, where the only concern of the state is the 
preservation of its power and this is expressed in the first stage 
through the suppression of social and class resistances, the 
criminalization of strikes and labor struggles , the attack on the 
anarchist movement and its structures, the persecution of activists, the 
murders of the most marginalized and exploited sections of society, the 
poor, the refugees-immigrants, the Roma.
We understand that, in the face of state terrorism and class 
exploitation, in the face of fear and personalization, in the face of 
the state and bosses' attempt to erase every trace of collective 
resistance and to convince that the end of History has come, the only 
path available to the oppressed and exploited is the struggle for social 
and class emancipation. Faced with the dystopian future that the elites 
of power and wealth have in store for us, there is the option of 
collective resistance and struggle. To remind them what can happen when 
society of exploited and oppressed people takes matters into their own 
hands and massively and militantly resists their designs. The vision of 
a society without exploitation and oppression, of a society of Equals 
will not be vindicated through our individual, partial or spontaneous 
outbursts of righteous indignation but through organized political 
struggle against our oppressors. Until the Social Revolution, until the 
building of a world of solidarity, freedom and social justice.

NO OTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE AS LONG AS THE STATE AND CAPITALISM EXIST

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COMMUNISM

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