A-Infos (en) Greece, Thessaloniki, APO: Solidarity rally for migrants (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Thursday 3/7 at 8:00 PM at Agia Sophia Square ---- In recent years, the 
management of the migration issue in Greece has evolved into one of the 
darkest aspects of state policy. The treatment of refugees and migrants 
has turned into a field of systematic repression, exclusion and 
murderous violence. With the recent change in the leadership of the 
Ministry of Migration and the replacement of the fascist Voridis by 
Plevris, so that the government's intentions for managing the issue are 
not misinterpreted in the slightest, the promotion of the new draft 
"Migration and Asylum Code" in 2024, this policy is experiencing a new, 
even harsher escalation.
This development is neither accidental nor isolated. It represents the 
culmination of a state strategy that seeks to restrict the rights of 
immigrants, accelerate deportations and strengthen the regime of fear, 
surveillance and uncertainty. The new Minister of Immigration, Thanos 
Plevris, continuing the policy of "zero tolerance" towards immigrants, 
promotes a framework that intensifies repression and social exclusion. 
His statements, which insist on accelerating deportations and tightening 
asylum procedures, leave no doubt about the government's intentions. The 
2024 bill constitutes the strictest legislative framework in recent 
decades in the field of asylum and immigration. It introduces tough 
criteria for accepting asylum applications and provides for fast-track 
examination procedures that often bypass substantive control, leading to 
mass rejections. At the same time, it allows administrative deportations 
without the possibility of suspension, even when the lives of 
individuals are in danger. These practices create a suffocating regime 
of insecurity for asylum seekers, intensifying the feeling of exclusion 
and threat.
The anti-immigration policy of the Greek state is not disconnected from 
the murders of immigrants at the land and sea borders. The signing of 
the agreement for the "extension" of the fence in Evros by 35km, in 
order to further "upgrade" the armoring of the external borders of 
Greece and by extension of Europe, was sealed by the murder of hundreds 
of refugees and immigrants, off the coast of Pylos with 82 dead and 104 
injured, highlighting in the worst way the role played by the rhetoric 
of border security and the fences at the land borders. The push-backs, 
that is, the illegal push-backs of immigrants, continue on a daily 
basis, the shipwrecks and drownings of those attempting to cross the sea 
borders continue unabated, the immigrants are piled up in concentration 
camps and those who were "lucky" to stay in a relatively decent house 
through some housing program, were thrown out onto the street. We 
watched government representatives and the entire state apparatus 
attempt to deny the New York Times reports that spoke of secret prisons 
in Evros where refugees and immigrants are systematically tortured, as 
well as the statements of the port police officer, who, thinking he was 
off camera, directly admitted that there are murders at the sea borders 
and that state repression even goes as far as killing immigrants. The 
effort to exclude and displace migrants from the social fabric and city 
centers has almost been completed with their immediate transfer to 
concentration camps that operate as open prisons with inhumane living 
conditions. People are packed into containers or tents without adequate 
access to clean water, heating or sanitary facilities, while access to 
healthcare and legal aid is almost non-existent. In Kara Tepe, Malakasa, 
Korinthos and elsewhere, detainees live under a regime of permanent 
uncertainty and of course the situation is worsened by the interruption 
of support programs, the ban on leaving, constant surveillance and the 
increased presence of police forces in these structures. And of course 
the media in complete harmony with the state-government dictates do not 
miss the slightest opportunity to spread racist poison into the social body!
All of this is unfolding within a broad framework of social 
disintegration and political crisis, where corruption and entanglement 
are an organic part of the state apparatus. Scandals like that of 
OPEKEPE and the tragedy in Tempi reveal that the state is not simply 
incompetent, but organically entangled in a web of interests that 
sacrifices lives and dignity to maintain its power and profits.
The state and capital are letting us know for the thousandth time in the 
worst way, that human life has absolutely no value whether you are a 
poor worker, an immigrant or any member of the lower social class. The 
lives of the oppressed continue to be sacrificed. In the long list of 
deaths recorded in the midst of the pandemic, in the increasingly 
frequent femicide and murder of Roma by the state's uniformed guards, in 
the enormous state-capitalist crime of Tempi that cost the lives of at 
least 57 of our fellow human beings, in the hundreds of fatal "work 
accidents", in the countless murders of refugees and immigrants, at land 
or sea borders, on rocky islets and in concentration camps. The list is 
endless.
The need to organize and resist state and capitalist barbarity seems 
anything but imperative. To defend our lives and dignity, there is no 
other way than joint, horizontally coordinated, organized action from 
below! Let us not get used to death, the daily routine of evictions, 
evacuations and auctions, shipwrecks, feminicides, rapes. We stand 
against war, Fortress Europe and the transnational anti-immigration 
agreements, against the murders of refugees and immigrants, the fascist 
policy of the Greek state, racism, nationalism and intolerance. Social 
solidarity between oppressed foreigners or locals is our weapon against 
the exploiters. Locals and immigrants, we resist the racist death 
politics of the state and capital, we organize and fight together 
against wars, poverty and the exploitation of man by man.

AGAINST THE NEW IMMIGRATION BILL, STATE REPRESSION, SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND 
THE MURDER OF MIGRANTS
AGAINST WARS, BORDER AND STATE
WE ARE WITH THE IMMIGRANTS
SOLIDARITY IS THE WEAPON OF THE PEOPLE

Collective for Social Anarchism - Black & Red, member of the Anarchist 
Political Organization - Federation of Collectives

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