A-Infos (en) Greece, Thessaloniki, APO: The EAAK are the bodyguards of statism in universities | Announcement by Mavro & Kokkino and ASF Quieta Movere (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Announcement from the Collective for Social Anarchism - Black & Red and 
the Anarchist Student Assembly Quieta Movere regarding the latest 
obscenities of the well-known EAAK/ARAS micro-mafia gang in Thessaloniki 
---- Where does violence in universities come from? ---- nyone who has 
dealt with the political ferments in the university space even for a 
short time knows that in recent years, despite the very great 
contradictions that continue to exist between organizations, collectives 
and parties that operate in the political spectrum of the Left and the 
Anarchist movement, as well as the burdened past, the "intra-movement" 
conflicts have been minimized, even annihilated, with one and only 
exception: ARAS/EAAK. There is no such event, in which while on one side 
there may be any group, organization, youth or party formation of the 
Left, on the other, the gang in question will always be inextricably 
involved. The formation of a permanent field of physical violence and 
imposition through force constitutes the most important - and almost the 
only - way of "expression" of this group. In fact, the intensity in the 
manifestation of this violence finds an absolute counterpart in the 
government narrative of "lawlessness in the universities", with the aim 
of easier control, their extinction in order to achieve the double goal 
of intensification, subjugation and at the same time the guidance of 
thousands of young people to private universities. The militaristic 
pogrom organized by ARAS/EAAK at last year's celebration of the 
Polytechnic University was the culmination of this strategy. We now know 
well what it aims at: just as the government wants to discipline the 
universities, the ARAS/EAAK petty mafia that ravages this space wants to 
control the bureaucratic remnants of the student movement. If there is 
anything that is fatally abhorred, it is the open, mass social struggles 
of students, as every time the student movement finds support in 
thousands of young men and women, the group in question finds itself 
without any real goal on the sidelines of the mobilizations, exhausting 
the energy of its members in kick-butts for the series of blocks and 
other frivolities. The degeneration of the student movement is grist to 
the mill of the gang of micro-mafia. And it comes into complete 
identification with the interests it represents through the large 
corporations staffed by the same leadership of the group in question.
For the sad and vulgar instrumentalization of gender divisions
Another well-known trick of the said group is the vulgar 
instrumentalization of gender divisions by objectifying the women they 
have in their ranks. Constantly - as we read in their most recent 
announcement - some of their female members appear who, without any 
prior reason, bully any social activists they target each time, 
attempting if possible to exercise some physical violence (in case there 
are many more of them) or if this is not possible, they curse women and 
men with impressive vulgarity, using the most sexist expressions 
possible, aimed against everything, with lies that are compared only to 
the official announcements of the Hellenic Police with the stated aim of 
achieving any reaction from each person who receives their unprovoked 
attack, so that they can later denounce the sexist attack. All this, of 
course, with the support of the male members of the gang, who then 
engage in physical violence against everyone with the corresponding 
vocabulary that would make any loyal Golden Dawn follower jealous. The 
most recent pretexts for the manifestation of these ridiculous 
hooliganisms start either from false facts or from incidents that have 
nothing to do with the groups, the organizations that they target, 
simply proving once again that all they are interested in is the attempt 
to impose themselves through violence against social activists. It is 
incredibly sad that this bunch of would-be hooligans are using the 
instrumentalization of the positive elements that the women's and more 
broadly the anti-patriarchal movement of recent years has achieved, so 
that it can be used as fuel in the effort to impose themselves within 
university spaces.

For the anti-anarchist obsession:
Their obsession with the anti-anarchist campaign has to do, on the one 
hand, with the fact that anarchism today is a truly rising force among 
the youth, and indeed in its most organized and social form, while at 
the same time it shows great resilience against the vulgarities of this 
particular circle, responding to their invitations and attacks, while it 
represents in its purest form the most important enemy of these gangs: 
the unguarded libertarian spirit of social Resistance. All of the above 
constitutes a "red flag" along with, of course, all the political 
content that anarchist thought highlights and is related to the 
criticism of all the "versions" that this particular formation and its 
current political patrons of "Popular Unity" have taken, from the most 
emasculated reformism and governmentalism, to the new supposedly radical 
"anti-imperialism", which is presented as a pool of Siloam for the 
official former diners of embassies and diplomats.
Regarding recent events:
All of the above phenomena found expression again on September 30th when 
a very small group (2 men and 1 woman) of Quieta Movere went to the 
Faculty of Philosophy with the aim of posting political propaganda 
material for the 2nd Libertarian Festival, when they were directly and 
unprovokedly subjected to an initial verbal attack and then a physical 
threat by a large group of helmeted men from the gang that is ravaging 
universities. What the police or the rectorate did not dare to do, 
namely to prevent the posting of political material, was done by these 
micro-mafia. In this case, it was not considered sexist at all by the 
late champions of feminism for 15 helmeted men to harass a woman. And 
attempting to attribute "aggressive characteristics" to a group of 3 
people carrying only a bucket and a broom for poster-sticking is 
comparable only to the historical announcement of the Hellenic Armed 
Forces about the famous "jartinière"...
Yesterday, 1/10, a few dozen anarchist comrades returned to the 
university area to complete the distribution of our political material, 
in a space where the anarchist movement has literally bled throughout 
the entire period of the Post-Coalition period to achieve a certain 
degree of freedom that de facto accommodates all radical forces and 
voices. We again encountered some self-appointed security guards who 
were videotaping our intervention, and the same group of about 15 
helmeted people who, when they saw us simply sticking up posters of our 
festival, quickly closed themselves in the STHE, trapping the hundreds 
of students who were at the university there. They only woke up when our 
group left, continuing the propaganda, making the familiar gestures and 
acting like orangutans hired by the DAP-NDFK if they replaced it in the 
speech and in the "arguments" that were of identical content. And the 
attempt to supposedly embarrass comrades in random audiences in front of 
people who are ignorant of the whole of the facts only indicates the 
genome of the sad ruffianism that has now settled in these individuals. 
In essence, it is completely indifferent to us. On the one hand, because 
our action has always been and is open, branded and social, on the other 
hand, because in the face of the ridicule, targeting, and threats that 
all social activists of the anarchist movement have received from the 
state itself, its Counter-Terrorism Service, and other similar bodies, 
the antics of the bodyguards of statism in universities cause us even 
more embarrassment.
Beyond the righteous anger that all social activists feel for the sad 
but dangerous installation of these subjects within the university, we 
must note that as great a task as isolating them and responding to their 
invitations is, another equally important task is protecting the public 
space through and within which the struggles of the future can be 
reborn. And our indomitable and militant anarchism has been coming for a 
long time to find an obstacle in some random acronym of a gang that 
cannot find any social reference outside the microcosm of the 
university, which unfortunately is now being destroyed, but at the same 
time has its gaze firmly fixed on the future.
We invite all the people of the city, the youth, the workers, the 
students, the progressive people to visit the 2nd libertarian festival 
and participate in its political and cultural events at Xarhakou Park 
(XANTH) on Friday, October 2 and Saturday, October 3!

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