A-Infos (en) Greece, APO, Land & freedom: On the murderous parastatal attack by ARAS on the grounds of the Polytechnic University (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On November 15, the first day of the three-day commemoration for the 
52nd anniversary of the Polytechnic University uprising of 1973, early 
in the morning, approximately 200 helmeted ARAS members with a 
military-style organization lined up in the courtyard of the Polytechnic 
University and launched a blind, furious, bloody and murderous attack 
against anarchists. ---- After first opening heads and breaking arms 
outside, the thugs continued inside the Tositsa building, breaking and 
hitting everything they found in their path, where they trapped dozens 
of people, workers, students, and anarchists. Among them were members of 
the Anarchist Students' Initiative of Athens and APO who were at that 
time preparing the area on the ground floor of the building for the 
placement of political material and in view of the afternoon's planned 
event.

Indicative elements of the brutality of the pogrom unleashed by the ARAS 
gang were both their imposition, through terrorism, on the entire area 
of ​​the Polytechnic University and the unlimited exercise of 
thoughtless violence that could even result in deaths. This is 
demonstrated by the confinement of a large number of people in a closed 
space, their chasing down stairs and corridors, the uncontrollable and 
repeated blows to the heads, arms and other vital organs, the undressing 
of a comrade, the threats and the real risk of people falling from the 
windows of the building. The results were approximately 20 injured 
people with broken heads, hands, fingers, the opening of a police case 
with charges of alleged fighting and the filing of charges against 
injured people who had been transported to Evangelismos and the 
inevitable and absolute provocation of the three-day commemoration 
events as a whole.

The planning, organization and implementation of this attack by the ARAS 
thugs not only had the typical characteristics of a parastatal action 
but also the targeting of such an attack. This military-style 
enforcement operation cannot but be articulated with the overall attack 
of state repression both in the university areas, where it manifests 
itself in disciplinary actions, expulsions, persecutions, surveillance 
cameras and the targeting and attempted expulsion of radical, militant 
and anarchist projects from the asylum area, as well as more broadly in 
social and class struggles and the ongoing ideological and repressive 
attack against anarchists.

ARAS is beyond any doubt a foreign body to the student and overall 
social and class struggles, and must be treated as such. The 
organizations that collaborate with it must isolate it, otherwise they 
will cover up its fifth-falange and murderous action.

In the face of the failed, long-standing effort of the state to bury the 
real meanings and contents of the 1973 Polytechnic uprising, the current 
repressive methods of the rectorate authorities, the continuous and 
ever-expanding state terrorism, the self-organized, collective struggles 
of society and youth are not suppressed. The anarchist movement does not 
retreat - does not submit. The struggle against every authority 
continues and will win.

RUFIANS BACK - COMRADE FORWARD

DOWN WITH THE STATE, DOWN WITH THE POWER

ORGANIZATION AND STRUGGLE FOR ANARCHY

NO PERSECUTION OF THE ARRESTED / INTENDED

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectives

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/2124-gia-ti-dolofoniki-parakratiki-epithesi-tis-aras-sto-xoro-tou-polytexneiou
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