A-Infos (en) Greece, APO: Update and photo report from the 7th Libertarian Festival of Social, Class & Internationalist Solidarity (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The 7th Libertarian Festival of Social, Class & Internationalist 
Solidarity of the Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of 
Collectives was held in Athens, at the Lampidona Park in Byronas, on 
July 4, 5 and 6, 2025. The aim of the festival was "the creation of a 
public and open political and cultural space for meeting, communication 
and fermentation between the social and class struggles that develop 
from below and the intervention of anarchist and libertarian projects 
within them".
During the festival, political and cultural events took place, as well 
as a wealth of printed political material, books, film publications, 
posters, as well as an exhibition of sketches and a photography 
exhibition for the struggling Palestine over a decades-long journey, 
before the occupation of the Palestinian land by Israel until today, 
when the Palestinian people are faced with the horror of genocide and 
continue to resist with dignity.

The first event of the festival was the book presentation of "The Cotton 
Pickers" by B. Traven by Eleftheriakes Ekdosies Nautilus, with the 
participation of the translator.

The first day was followed by the event entitled: "From Tempe to Novi 
Sad, state and capital murder. The intervention of anarchists in 
student-social struggles", which opened with the introductory statement 
of the Anarchist Political Organization. This was followed by the 
statements of the Anarchist Student Initiative of Athens, the Anarchist 
Student Assembly Quieta Movere from Thessaloniki and the members of the 
Anarchist Collective "Class Solidarity" from Serbia, which highlighted 
the struggles that broke out in Greece and Serbia against the mass state 
crimes in Tempe and Novi Sad respectively, the contribution of 
anarchists in these struggles, the libertarian characteristics that were 
attempted to instill in the mobilizations, but also the importance of 
the intervention of anarchists in student and social struggles, from the 
student occupations in Serbia, the self-organization of students and 
daily mobilizations to the occupations in Greece, such as that of the 
rectorate of the National University of Athens in 2023 for 18 days by 
libertarian, anarchist students, students and solidarity activists and 
the mass strike mobilizations that took place in the period 2023 - 2025.

The first day of the festival concluded with a hip hop live performance 
featuring: Kato api to geiso, Penthimos, Sile (on decks allow), Spira & KK.

The second day of the festival, Saturday, July 5, began with the event: 
"State & capitalist restructurings and class struggles against state & 
employer terrorism", in which the Eleftherian Initiative of Teachers 
from Athens, an employee and member of the Workers' Union at 
Teleperformance (SETEP), a dismissed member of Documento, participated. 
The event opened with the position of the Anarchist Political 
Organization, while an extensive reference was made to the anti-social 
and anti-worker restructurings of the political and economic bosses, the 
effects on the large social majority, the participation of anarchists in 
the class and social resistances that are developing and their 
interventions in labor struggles and mobilizations, the conditions that 
prevail in labor camps in general but especially in the educational 
sector with disciplinary measures, persecutions and potential holidays, 
in the labor camps of Teleperformance and Documento, as well as the 
collective struggles that workers are fighting through assemblies and 
unions. Updates were given on the current state and bosses' attack, as 
well as the current state of the struggle in the above areas, on the 
workers' legal appeals and their trial in the immediate future, as well 
as on the victories so far that have emerged through the organized and 
collective struggle of the workers. Finally, regarding the 
counter-educational restructurings, statements were made regarding the 
resistance that erupted inside and outside schools by parents, teachers 
and students against the onaseias, the efforts of reformist forces to 
suppress them, as well as statements by students about the repression 
within schools regarding the solidarity movements in Palestine, which 
condemn the collaboration of university institutions with the Israeli 
military industry.

The second day ended with a Live performance featuring: The Smoking 
Hiccup Machine, Tiffany, Their Methlab, Rollin' Dice.

The third and final day of the festival, Sunday, July 6, began with the 
event of the group against the patriarchy: "Trafficking - Cases of 
"Amaryllis", Kolonos, Ilioupoli/ Greek Police Mafia/ SLAPP Lawsuits/ 
Cover-up/ State repression", in which Annie Paparrousou (lawyer) and 
Loukas Stamellos (journalist Omnia Tv) participated. At the beginning of 
the event, there was an intervention by the group against patriarchy 
with the reading of a position on Palestine and gender-based violence in 
wartime conditions and against the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian 
people by the state of Israel. Then, the axes were developed regarding 
the trafficking cases of "Amaryllis", Kolonos, Ilioupoli, their 
connection with the Greek Police Mafia case, their institutional 
cover-up, but also the repression in various forms that activists who 
are on the street resisting, independent journalists who bring to light 
what the power system and its lackeys want to hide and silence, and 
militants lawyers, who defend the law and despite threats stand 
selflessly on the side of those who struggle, on the side of the 
oppressed and exploited. The event closed with the reading of 3 letters, 
from the 12-year-old from Kolonos, her brother and her mother, while 
there was information about the start of the appeals court of the case 
in early 2026.

The 7th Eleftheriako Festival continued with the theatrical performance 
"Fragments of Murders" by Aris Tsioumas and concluded with a traditional 
feast with the participation of: Stefanos Filos (violin), Nikolas 
Filipposoglou (oud), Panagiotis Heliotis (lute), Giorgos Anagnostopoulos 
(percussion).

At this point, we would like to thank the artists who participated in 
the cultural events of the festival, those comrades and fellow activists 
participated in the political events and book launches, the comrades 
from Serbia, as well as the employee and member of the Teleperformance 
Workers' Union (SETEP), the dismissed Documento, the Educators' 
Emancipation Initiative, the Anarchist Students' Initiative of Athens, 
the Anarchist Student Assembly Quieta Movere, Loukas Stamellos, Annie 
Paparrousou, the 12-year-old and her family, the social cultural center 
of Lampedona, but also those who helped with their contribution to the 
realization of the 7th Emancipation Festival of Social, Class and 
Internationalist Solidarity.
We believe that the successful realization of the 7th Emancipation 
Festival, for another year in a condition of intensifying the attack of 
the state and capital on every social field, targeting of the anarchist 
movement, its structures and its fighters through the ongoing and 
ongoing counter-insurgency repressive campaign of the state, was an 
opportunity for us to discuss, exchange views and our collective 
experiences through the social and class struggles that are developing 
against state and capitalist barbarity. Finally, the realization of this 
year's festival confirmed once again the necessity of existence and the 
essential importance of an anarchist festival, especially in a period 
where the central repressive policy of the state is being upgraded, with 
the genocide in Palestine in progress, the imperialist wars raging and 
the conditions of exploitation, oppression and exclusion intensifying, 
in order to achieve the broader socialization and propaganda of the 
anarchist revolutionary projects and values of self-organization, 
solidarity, equality, the struggle for social revolution!

The only real dilemma of our time is:
State and capitalist barbarity or Social Revolution

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collective

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