A-Infos (en) Greece, APO:[Call]52 years since the Polytechnic uprising | Down with the state - Down with the power (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Today, 52 years after the November uprising, the rulers are still trying 
to erase the imprints of entire decades of harsh and bloody social and 
class struggles, they are anxiously attempting to close the cycle of 
constant rebellion that the uprising opened in the occupied Polytechnic 
University in 1973. It is more obvious than ever that the Polytechnic 
University uprising was not the end but the beginning of a long series 
of struggles, mobilizations, conflicts and uprisings of the most radical 
sections of society, as its content and precepts do not belong to the 
past, as the initiators of the party slogan: EAM ELAS POLYTECHNIC 
UNIVERSITY would have liked and propagated. On the contrary, it belongs 
to the future as it inaugurated a long series of mobilizations, 
uprisings and conflicts of the most radical sections of society and 
especially the youth. The spirit of November will prove to be 
inexhaustible, always remaining alive despite the long-term operation of 
distortion and embezzlement by those who exploited the uprising to build 
a mythical, blood-stained altar of democracy, as the ideological 
foundation of post-political power. The Polytechnic will not be the 
undisputed sanctified myth of power and democracy as its lackeys would 
like, but a point of reference of a rebellion that sometimes breaks out 
and sometimes simmers and that even today has not been suppressed. From 
the student occupations of 1991, the major anti-war demonstrations of 
2002-03, the student mobilizations of 2006-07, to the social and class 
uprising of December '08 and the major mobilizations of 2010-12, the 
initiatives of the '73 insurgents have been and continue to be timeless 
demands that breathe continuously at the heart of the struggles.
In contrast to the distortion of the meanings of the Polytechnic 
uprising by the lackeys of the state in order to build the ideological 
foundation of the post-coup period about the "victory of democracy", the 
very reality that refutes them stands up. The poverty and impoverishment 
of the oppressed, the exclusion of large social groups from access to 
basic social goods, the torture, beatings and arrests of the activists 
have never stopped. On the contrary, we are faced with the constantly 
escalating attack of the state and bosses on the large social majority, 
in every social field, such as work, health, education. The 
criminalization of labor mobilizations, union action and strikes, the 
liberalization of layoffs, flexible working hours, the abolition of the 
8-hour workday and the establishment of 6-day and 13-hour workdays, the 
intensification of working conditions and the actual reduction of the 
minimum wage are all parts of the anti-social and anti-worker 
restructurings for the further exploitation and oppression of those from 
below, the imposition of which requires the crushing of any social and 
class resistance that manifests itself.
The implementation of a highly aggressive restructuring policy in all 
social fields moves in parallel with the targeting and suppression of 
social and class resistance. The repressive campaign has as its clear 
goal the imposition of a regime of terrorism, a social condition 
dominated by silence, fear and submission. This is proven by the rapid 
increase in worker murders in the prisons of modern slavery, the 
thousands of deaths from the criminal state management of the pandemic, 
the victims of state capitalist crime in Tempi, the destruction and 
plunder of nature and local societies, the daily murders of immigrants 
and refugees at the borders of Europe Fortress, the murdered Roma by the 
uniformed bastards of ELAS. This is proven by the vengeful dismissals of 
teachers and professors and the repression with beatings, disciplinary 
measures and prosecutions of those teachers who put a dent in the 
antisocial state plans for Education, as well as the state terrorism 
against students who demand the strengthening of public education, such 
as the attack outside the Athens 1st Secondary Education School on 
children, parents and teachers who were protesting against the mergers 
of departments and the arrest of a 13-year-old student and his 
detention. This is proven by the repression of student mobilizations 
against educational restructuring and the intensification of 
surveillance in schools, such as the arrests of NTUA architecture 
students who occupied their school and their summons to a disciplinary 
hearing, the sentencing to 14 months in prison without probation of the 
anarchist student Z.M. for a slogan with spray paint in the context of 
the intervention of the Anarchist Students Initiative of Athens in 
solidarity with Palestine. This is proven by the attack on health 
workers against the understaffing of the National Health System and the 
arrests of union distributors of SVEDI in Ioannina. This is proven by 
the attack on the anarchist-anti-authoritarian movement, such as the 
evacuation of the Occupy of Evangelismos in Heraklion, Crete, which 
returned to the hands of the movement, and the arrests of squatters and 
activists, the fierce repressive attack on the demonstration in the 
center of Athens for the anarchist activist Kyriakos Xymitiris and in 
solidarity with the activists in custody for the Ampelokipi case, the 
checks, beatings and arrests by the occupying police forces in Exarchia, 
the fabricated indictments and the continuous persecution of anarchists. 
This social transformation, the change in social consciousness, the 
neutralization of social and class resistance are the prerequisites for 
the deepening of the conditions of enforcement. State and capital 
attempt to subdue every voice that is articulated against their 
aggressive plans, either with riot police or by upgrading their legal 
and institutional arsenal.
At the same time, the Greek state - fully tied to the Western chariot of 
domination - provides its absolute support to the ongoing genocide 
against the Palestinians, attempting to further develop its cooperative 
relations with the state of Israel. A genocide that is taking place 
before the eyes of the entire world and on the one hand results in the 
murder of more than 67,000 Palestinians, thousands of missing people and 
on the other hand the repression and persecution within the Western 
metropolises of all those who fight for the ceasefire and the freedom of 
Palestine, with a recent example being the murderous attack by riot 
police and the arrests of activists at the October 7 demonstration 
outside the Israeli embassy.
Against modern totalitarianism, let us once again put forward dignity, 
resistance, solidarity. Against the devaluation of our lives, 
impoverishment and oppression, against wars and nationalism, against 
states and bosses that oppress our lives, let us intensify social and 
class struggles. Let us all stand together on the path and struggles of 
social resistance and class solidarity. Let us fight collectively and 
from below against our oppressors, let us strengthen and protect the 
social and class resistances that are the target of repression and 
organize new ones. Without having illusions about the role of 
institutions, without offering any consent in the management of our 
lives, let us not take a single step back from what we have conquered 
and that are constantly at stake, and let us make the spaces where we 
work, study and live centers of resistance and struggle. Against war, 
which is the only way to salvation for the state and capitalist system, 
against the plan of mutual annihilation of the exploited and oppressed, 
against nationalism, fascism and imperialism, the only hope is 
internationalist solidarity among peoples, the organized counterattack 
from below.
Taking up the thread of the struggles of the past on the anniversary of 
the 1973 Polytechnic uprising - a rebellion whose meanings were never 
defeated and never suppressed - we bring back to today the project of 
rebellion against our oppressors, the project of Social Revolution. We 
are inspired by the November struggle, which for 52 years has been not a 
myth and a celebration of power but a point of reference for today's 
social and class struggles, for the very struggle of the oppressed and 
excluded for life and freedom. Against the apparent dominance of the 
state and capital, repression, defeatism and acceptance of the state's 
death policy, let us continue to struggle for life and freedom, for 
Anarchy and libertarian communism. Only the total overthrow of the state 
and capitalism, the social expropriation of the wealth that we ourselves 
produce and that is being sucked away by a caste of rulers, and the 
organization of the struggle for the Social Revolution can justify the 
desires and real needs of the oppressed and exploited.
We defend the essential stakes of collective memory as a necessary 
component of the struggle against oblivion, silence and subjugation, of 
the struggle for social liberation. Of this memory that was born in the 
courtyard of the Polytechnic in '73, that was stained with the blood of 
Christos, Iakovos, Stamatina, Michalis, Christopher, Nikos, Alexandros, 
Lambros, that did not fade away in the hellish decades of imprisonment 
of anarchists and fighters, of this memory that today - in defiance of 
the executioners and the devotees of the end of History - is pregnant 
with the collective resistances and the inexhaustible forces hidden in 
the struggles of the oppressed, of the memory that continues to resound: 
DOWN WITH THE POWER

THE REBELLION REMAINS ALIVE

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

ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION, ANARCHY AND LIBERAL 
COMMUNISM

ANTI-REPUTATIONAL DEMONSTRATIONS
MONDAY 17 NOVEMBER
Athens: Klafthmonos Square, 3:00 PM - Pre-gathering Polytechnic 
University, 1:00 PM
Thessaloniki: Polytechnic University, 5:00 PM

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectives

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