Mexican embassy in Athens 31st of August 2017

French Embassy in Athens 9th of October 2017

Statement of deed from The Organisation of Revolutionary Self-defense towards a new international revolutionary movement

On Sunday 31st of August, a little before dawn, we carried out an armed intervention against the mexican state, by shooting at the building of its embassy in Athens. On Wednesday 9th of October, at quarter to five a.m. we carried out another armed intervention against the french state, by throwing a hand grenade next to the guard of its embassy in Athens, opposite the greek parliament. These two aggressive actions of our organization, together with our first armed intervention on the 25th of May 2014 against PASOK, defy in deed the armed domination of the greek state and at the same time they express the vision of social revolution and of the dissolution of authoritative institutions here and now.

In order to construct a revolutionary movement on sturdy foundations, we must study the defeats of the past. We must focus on the contradictions of past movements and analyze the dynamics of class antagonism today, as a result of a historical evolution. The totalitarian capitalist aggression, which began two and a half decades ago and spreads around the globe, is connected to the fundamental crisis of the socialist movement.

The main contradiction which brought about the demise of the revolutionary wave of the 20th century is statism. Parliamentary democracy, dictatorship of political parties and, at the same time, the repression of workers’ self organization implanted bourgeois authority in the loins of social revolutions, ever since the french revolution. The revolution in Russia was led by a political and technocratic elite. Early enough, the cul-de-sac of state socialism was revealed in the repression of the revolt in Crostande and of the revolution in Ukraine in 1921. Following the 2nd imperialist war the socialist bloc, with Russia at its epicenter, underwent a gradual restructuring, by assimilating elements of capitalist antagonism. By 1989 the course to raw capitalism had been completed. The resources and the labor power of socialist states were granted to private looting from the party and technocratic elite. The nationalism that had been retained within state interrelations became a weapon of war, to be used by multinational capital for its onslaught.

The revolutionary movement in Greece paid a heavy price for the dominance of the statist dogma. In December 1944 the popular movement in Athens was left isolated and practically unarmed to be crushed by the British troops and the local fascists. Thereafter, the Communist Party (KKE) capitulated to the fascist monarchical republic and surrendered the weapons of resistance, thus abandoning the struggling masses to the brutal state and paramilitary terrorism. The national front became the guarantee of defeat for the social revolution.

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On Saturday September 16th, antifascist protests we carried out for the
4 years from the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by a raiding battalion of the
golden dawn -during the day in Keratsini, in the evening in downtown
Athens-. In the aftermath of the clashes that broke out in the evening
protest but also after in ended in Exarhia, 16-year-old Kostas B. Is
arrested. During his arrest, he is tortured viciously by the cannibals
of a riotcop unit that is camped in the area until he loses
consciousness. As soon as he arrived at GADA (Athens police
headquarters), and while he’s re-gaining his consciousness, he attempts
to escape but is hit by a passing car on Alexandras avenue.

Heavily injured, he is transferred to KAT hospital cuffed behind his
back and put into intensive care because of how critical his situation
was. While he is in an induced coma, fighting for his life, he is
guarded by cops inside the room, with the blessing of the hospital
director Nikos Kontodimopoulos. During a solidarity intervention
protesting his hospitalization conditions, he said that: “police is
above all, even me, and only they can decide”. The mass media played
their own role (as always) presenting the incident as a car accident.
And as if this all was not enough, on Monday September 25th, and while
Kostas B. is recovering, an interrogator visits the hospital, with leaks
speaking of even dna extraction. In the end, this procedure is blocked
by a solidarity gathering. In order for reactions to defuse, Kostas B.
is released on bail, with a heavy indictment.

And why did reactions have to be defused? Beatings, torturing of someone
the same age of A.Grigoropoulos and the almost tragic ending brought the
ghost of December over the heads of the Syriza government. The incidents
in December 2008 were the largest condition of social de-legitimization
of greek police in modern history. The last thing Syriza wanted is for a
social mutiny to break out just when they are promoting their tale of
growth, which together with investments to come lead us…. to the
exiting from the crisis.

THE TIMELESS ROLE OF THE POLICE

In the war that is raging everyone has their role, and the police have
their, timeless role. Police personnel, through enforcing order, is what
guarantees the glamour of state and capital. Historically the police was
established as a force whose job to manage the thoughts, desires, and
directions of the population. Prevention, control and wherever

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Text from Tasos Theofilou about his release from the court

The depth and intensity of my gratitude for the people who with whatever means supported me all these years far exceeds my ability to express it. At the same time, my discharge from all categories is much more important than a personal vindication. It is a victory for the world of the struggle against repression. A victory of the underdogs against the deep police state. A victory of the movement and alternative media against the dominant mainstream media. A victory of counter-information against the regime’s propaganda. A victory of the movement against the depravity of authority.

The decision of any court that had to confront such a voluminous file, but missing any kind of proof, such as the first degree court and also the second degree one, could not be anything other than political. But in contrast to the 1st degree, the majority of the members of the 2nd degree Felony Court of Appeal had the honesty to remain consistent in their declarations of – still classist – criminal justice and not succumb to the pressure of the lobby of the “anti-terrorist” crusade, but listen to the solidarity movement, ultimately acquitting me of all the charges.

So this decision is at the same time a first threshold on the machinations of the anti-terrorism unit and their industry of persecutions that have as their spearheads the anti-terrorism law 187A and the pseudo-scientific element of DNA.

The field of criminal justice can and must be one more field of struggle, as the individual court decisions that materialize also define – always within the limits that their class position imposes – social and political correlations. This particular struggle has future points of reference. From Irianna’s release application to the court on July 17th to the trial of Skouries case following in September, and any protester trial up to every terror-court.

Tasos Theofilou

Athens

12/7/2017

Translated by A.F.F.N.