(Greece) October Is Month of Action for Anarchist Revolutionary Kyriakos Xymitiris. Words by Marianna and Dimitra

(Greece) October is a month of remembrance and action for the anarchist revolutionary Kyriakos Xymitiris.

As long as there are those who die in combat, we will exist to continue the war.

And when we die, we die like stars that scatter light. Like that light that shone a year before the explosion in the Ampelokipi apartment on October 31, when the anarchist armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris was going through the last part of his journey, where everything is condensed in an instant, where his revolutionary consciousness is aligned with the desire to put an end to this aging world that feeds on his flesh.

Filled with immense camaraderie, determination, and no inclination to back down, he pledged to fight with a vision of freedom. With clear eyes, comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris made no concessions to emotion, he loved life and honored it with every breath he took. Both in Berlin and in Athens, he participated indistinctly in all fields of struggle. In demonstrations and marches against gentrification, in anti-fascist and anti-patriarchal patrols, in massive poster pastings, in militant defenses of occupations, in struggles against colonialism and prisons.

He remained firm in his anarchist convictions. In this suffocating world built on powers that strangle the savage beauty of uncontrolled freedom, on predatory policies, on policies of death and wars that the Western powers established in the countries of the “third world” by trampling on corpses, on cynical confessions of the type “he who does not adapt, dies”, comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris did not look away. In this world of manufactured emotions, standardized behaviors, social contracts, mass apathy, comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris lived relentlessly in the here and now. In a context of intensifying authoritarianism and militarization, of growing insecurity and widespread impoverishment, comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris achieved his own transcendence, renounced his social privileges and assumed his responsibility. At a time when relationships are criminalized by filling pages and pages of long accusations, when systematic imprisonments try to send a strong message of criminal terrorism, when the judicial mechanism shows its claws to the poor devils and turns its gaze to the crimes of state capitalism, comrade Kyriakos demonstrated that the strategy of repression does not intimidate revolutionary consciences. At a time when the movement is suffering a setback, due to the internalization of repression, adaptability and integration, comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris decided not to give in and to contribute to the historical configuration of subversive events. Defying the times, he opted for the path of political and revolutionary responsibilities. Armed with courage and determination, he chose to respond to the violence of domination.

His priority was to preserve the revolutionary tradition of specific means of struggle, which over time had become inactive. Faced with the monopoly of violence of power, he responded by choosing liberating violence as a means to end the suffering suffered by the majority of humanity. Comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris sharpened the dialectic and refused to accept that those who hold power are the only legitimate exponents of violence. He fought without guarantees, without safe and infallible conditions, with soul, faith and determination.

Because it is a war. A class and social war. And for comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris, inaction did not even exist as a possibility.

In this war, by choosing life, he fell fighting. His death is therefore an affirmation of life, and the preservation of his revolutionary memory is anything but a neutral process. It is a thorn in the side of oblivion and a crack in history imposed by the rulers. It is part of our own struggle, our present and our future. It is living history. A history that was built on the smiles and complicit looks of our own people, our own friends, our own comrades.

And if some did not return, they live among us in every breath of freedom. And if some of them fell in combat, they accompany us in every action we undertake. And if some of them left early, they walk in front of us and pave the way for us. And they are all the ones who filled the inkwell of revolutionary history with their blood. We may not have walked alongside them, but we walked beside them. We may not have chosen the same path, but we were looking at the same sky. Because we had chosen resistance, revolutionary vision, hatred for this world and love for life. And their subversive memory acts as fuel in our fires, as ink in our texts, as slogans in our marches and as stones in our pockets, giving meaning to their death, calling them to another battle. Over and over again…

It is we who must preserve his memory, remember his explosive action and his sharp determination. It is we who must transform common grief into anger and aggressive formation. It is we who must give something for those who gave everything.

Let’s turn October into a month of memory and insurrectional struggle. Let us proudly stand by our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris through actions and interventions, through posters and barricades, through activities and conspiracies. Let’s keep his memory alive, defend his decisions, make sure he is still PRESENT.

We create, therefore, moments of anarchist expression breaking the norm. Let us question the myth of the omnipotence of the State and social peace by proposing solidarity, equality and freedom, let us overcome our limits, deploying our subversive dispositions in a militant way in the streets. We collide with the cannibalistic system by experiencing moments that take our breath away. Let us defend our ideas in practice, claiming life instead of survival, companionship instead of alienation, freedom instead of submission, conflict instead of integration.

It is up to those who feel part of themselves to support Kyriakos and manifest in every possible and unlikely way the break with the world of power. And our own hearts, from our own hearts, will accompany you in every battle. Over and over again…

We will never be ourselves again.
We must profoundly change
The way things happened.
When our comrades die,
we mourn them.
When our comrades die,
Let’s take revenge.
When our comrades die,
We wonder why.
We must profoundly change
the way things happened.

*Weather Underground’s poem after an explosion at a New York residence that killed Diana, Ted and Terry, members of Weather.

Dimitra Zarafeta,
Marianna Manoura,

Korydallos Women’s Prison

extracted from Indymedia Athens and translated to Spanish by Informativo Anarquista

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Solidarity with Daniela Klette, Solidarity with Struggling Palestine

by Dimitra Z., Marianna Manoura

The Palestinian resistance, counting years of struggle, countless deaths and moments that proved that nothing is impossible, is experiencing the greatest bloodshed in recent decades. Israel’s colonial and Zionist entity has made it clear, there is no place for Palestinian society. Whether directly through bombings and executions or indirectly through settlements and famines, Israel aims to eliminate the Palestinians. All this, of course, could not have happened without the full support of the Western imperialist bloc. From ideological propaganda about civilized, progressive Israel to military equipment and economic support, the West not only supports its colonialism but plays a leading role in its establishment in the region, apparently to serve its own interests.

Our role as radical movements in the western metropolitan centers must aim at the anti-imperialist conflict in the here and now. With our gaze turned outside our borders, we must transform international issues into domestic targets. The destabilization of the Western centers of power, the deterioration and the exertion of pressure within them has proven that it can act as a bulwark against imperialist plans. It is here in its heart that the system must be hit. And we are the ones who have to do it. This was, after all, the direction that the internationalist movements of the past had followed. Especially for the German movement, internationalist solidarity and domestic anti-imperialist action have always been a priority. Its connection with the Palestinian struggle ranged from the mass demonstrations to the actions of the armed organizations operating at the time.

One of the armed anti-imperialist internationalist organizations is the RAF. It was born in the 1970s and struggled against American and German imperialism. In solidarity with the resistance in Palestine, members of the RAF were fleeing underground and going to Jordan to train alongside the PFLP and the PLO. The guerrilla organization created ties with armed Palestinian organizations such as Black September, supporting each other’s struggle by dedicating actions, demanding the release of militants on both sides, and simultaneously targeting imperialist targets in West Berlin. The internationalist outlook had taken shape. The RAF lived about 2-3 decades through 3 generations. As a member of the last generation of the RAF, Daniela Klette is also accused. The comrade, being part of the struggle of the ’80s, fought against exploitation and oppression, patriarchy and capitalism, war and militarism. Klette, making decisions from a very young age, chose to dedicate her life to the revolutionary struggle, with a constant commitment that accompanied her throughout her life, managing to fight, defeating the repressive mechanisms of the German state. With her life, the comrade manages not only to highlight the weakness of German repression but also the fact that even today there are the means and the people who can ensure a life in illegality. The comrade decided to live free and rebellious, consistent in her beliefs, being an inspiration for future generations. And despite her captivity on February 16, 2023, Ernst and Bukhard once again manage to avoid arrest. Fighters like these thousands of others were a source of inspiration for the urban guerrilla Kyriakos Xymitiris who decided to base himself on their own paths. With an internationalist outlook, he felt the same anguish as the RAF guerrillas, the same hatred and the same commitment. He was one of the few fighters who chose to pick up the thread of armed struggle in 2024 where the struggle in the western metropolises oscillates between compromise and convention. Perceiving himself as part of revolutionary Western history, he assumed his responsibilities and poured himself into battle.

A battle that comes at a heavy cost. Sometimes their own lives and sometimes their freedom. States do not leave such means of struggle unanswered. They are furiously trying to silence the voice of their political opponents. Resorting to military-style operations in order to capture them. The dungeons of democracy act as a punitive and vindictive act against those who have chosen to fight for a better world. Special prison detention regimes try to extract statements of repentance from prisoners of war. Nevertheless, the attitude of the prisoners themselves, as well as those in solidarity with them, manages to break the isolation within the walls and strengthen the resistance by putting barriers to the repressive plans of the state and capital.

Even if the walls keep us apart, even if the battle took our closest comrades as long as we fight, we are together. Next to Daniela and Kyriakos. Next to Monica and Wolfang. Next to those who resisted. Because the revolution says: I was, I am and I will be again.

VICTORY IN THE ARMS OF THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE
FREEDOM TO DANIELA KLETTE
STRENGTH TO ERNST AND BUKHARD
KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS PRESENT

Dimitra Z.
Marianna Manoura

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1637059/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20308

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Victory to Maja T’s Hunger Strike

by Marianna Manoura, Dimitra Z.

This text was written in the context of the anti-fascist three-day conference of June 20-22, but its typing and publication was delayed.

Responding to the call of the anti-fascist days of actions (20-22 June), of antifa Maja T. who has been on hunger strike since 5/6 in Hungarian prisons, we send our own signal of solidarity to their struggle. Two years ago, during the day of honor (anniversary of the mass extermination of Hungarian and German Nazis in 1945), where a fascist rally-march takes place in Budapest, where hundreds of neo-Nazis and fascists gather. In response to this call, anti-fascists from Europe have decided to return to them some of the violence they produce.

The far-right Hungarian government began a series of arrests, openly supporting the fascists, with inflated indictments of criminal organizations and inhumane conditions of confinement. Other European states cooperated with each other, engaging in a series of deportations and persecutions. Germany played a leading role in characterizing the German anti-fascists persecuted by the Hungarian state as dangerous criminals, culminating in the overnight extradition of Maja T. Many of the people involved chose to go underground, refusing to surrender their freedom in the hands of either the German or the Hungarian state. One of these people was Maja T. until their arrest and extradition.

We are going through a period of vertical rise of the far right and nationalism in the West. More and more people are turning to fascist and nationalist formations. The incompetence of the left and the retreat of the revolutionary movements left room for all kinds of fascist formations to develop and expand their audience. A disappointed audience that found in its face the anti-systemism it was looking for.

Fascism and nationalism have always been the other side of systemism. Especially in times of crisis, when neoliberalism is rotting, fascism emerges as a solution to the problem. The narrative of the national core, racial superiority and the necessity of militarization is used. Militant anti-fascism is the only solution to this problem. We have no illusions about the education of the descendants of the blackshirts, nor do we obviously seek their imprisonment. After all, fascism is crushed in the streets.

Defending anti-fascism, Maja T found themself imprisoned in Hungarian prisons in conditions of extreme isolation. Conditions that led them to embank their own body, starting a hunger strike from 5/6. From our own cell, the least we can do is stand by it, sending strength and solidarity.

Victory in Maja T’s hunger strike.
Solidarity with those who are persecuted for their anti-fascist activity
Solidarity with the two persecuted comrades, accused of attacks on the offices of Golden Dawn
Kyriakos Ximitiris present

Dimitra Z.
Marianna Manoura

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Victory in the Hunger Strike of the Turkish Fighters

Responding to the international call of the Anti-imperialist Front today, the 7th of May, 2025, we want to send our solidarity to the hunger striking resistance fighters in Turkey: Sercan Ahmet Arslan, Mulla Zincir, Serkan Onur Yilmaz, Bakican Isik, Yurdagul Gumus, Mihat Ozturk, Hasan Ali Akgul, Ali Araci, Ayberk Demirdogen, Fikret Akar.

By participating in the one-day hunger strike starting in October 2024, 10 prisoners are fighting against Turkey’s S, R, Y-type maximum security prisons. Prisons known for their inhumane living conditions, with 6 square meter cells, 23-hour solitary confinement, 1 hour of solitary, or with a maximum of 2 fixed inmates, yard time and 24-hour camera surveillance.

The internationalist revolutionary solidarity, without presupposing the agreement in political and organisational views, is an important part of radical movements. The struggle against prisons – and especially maximum security prisons – as well as any support for this cause, is necessary as their very existence is the tip of the iceberg of the repressive state-capitalist system.

As prisoners and as anarchists, we cannot do anything else but stand by the struggle of the Turkish revolutionaries.

Victory in the hunger strike of the Turkish fighters
Immediate satisfaction of their demands
Until the demolition of the last prison
Kyriakos Xymitiris Present

Marianna Manoura
Dimitra Z.
Korydallos women’s prison

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1635350/#1650109

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18978

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Athens, Greece : Update on Health of Comrades Marianna M. and Dimitra Z.

DEPRIVING PRISONERS OF MEDICAL CARE IS TORTURE

Hands off anarchist comrades Marianna M. and Dimitra Z.

On 31/10/24, following an explosion in an apartment in Ampelokipi, the anarchist armed fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris fell in the battle for social and class liberation, while the anarchist comrade Marianna M., who was also in the apartment, was severely injured, hospitalised and guarded in the ICU of the “Evangelismos” General Hospital. The following days, comrades Dimitra Z., Dimitris and Nikos R., as well as A.K., were remanded in custody.

From the very beginning, state violence was applied to comrade Marianna. With her transfer to Korydallos women’s prison just one day after the second operation she underwent, her hospitalisation was violently interrupted while she still had open wounds on her face, she could not walk or fully care for herself, was dizzy and in pain. The “Evangelismos” General Hospital discharged her as a patient in this condition, knowing full well the miserable environment of the prison to which she would be transferred, where there is not even any kind of hospital and therefore no possibility of providing her with extremely necessary medical care before she fully recovers.

Her torture in Korydallos prison continues to this day. Her serious health condition, as well as the risk of long-term complications, are the result of the deprivation of necessary medical post-operative care. From the very beginning they deprived her of the provision of pharmaceuticals and forced her to stay in cells full of cockroaches, in extremely poor sanitary conditions. While to this day – four months later – necessary and urgent diagnostic tests have not been initiated. To her request to be assessed by a doctor and immediately initiate a brain CT scan requested by an outside doctor who visited her a long time ago, the response of the prison neurologist was “if you don’t fall down with an epileptic seizure, we won’t take you to hospital.” A response that accurately reflects the condition of vindictiveness, punishment, and torture that the rulers impose on anyone who finds themselves captured in the cells of democracy.

To the already heavy situation of confinement was added the appearance of intense rashes and itching in comrade Dimitra. A short time later, the comrade Marianna also showed similar symptoms and only then was the diagnosis of scabies made, while they have been torturing Dimitra for two months with their icy indifference, attributing the symptoms to psychological reasons and administering sedatives to her without having ruled out pathological causes.

The climax of the insult to our comrades was the torture suffered by the comrade Dimitra on Saturday 29/3 evening. After showing a sharp deterioration in her symptoms and developing a fever, she was transferred to Korydallos “Agios Pavlos” hospital, where – among other things – the doctor in charge addressed her by saying “for us you are just numbers”, indicating the already well-known perception of such scumbags about the lives of prisoners. Despite these conditions, the comrade demanded and achieved the obvious, her transfer to the Nikaia State Hospital.

In a clear decision to exacerbate the physical and psychological exhaustion of the comrade, the EOM, following central orders, called the hospital doctors to the transport van, inside which the comrade suffered the torture of a dermatological and gynecological examination using cell phone lenses and in the presence of the cops, with the comrade repeatedly asking them to turn away during the “examination”-torture. She was then transferred to the pathology clinic, as it was deemed necessary to carry out medical examinations. When the comrade requested to speak to the doctor again regarding a problem, the cops refused, saying “we know what they told you, there’s no need.” Tension prevailed, in which a nurse was involved in defending the comrade, who, true to their thuggish methods, the cops pushed away and took the comrade back to the prison.

The comrades are walking the path that hundreds of prisoners take when they are imprisoned. Their torture reminds us of how the state apparatus takes revenge on those who challenge its monopoly of violence, but also on those it considers “excessive”. The sadistic way of treating and torturing prisoners through the deprivation of medical care is yet another means of trying to discipline and oppress them. The lives of prisoners are devalued, considered inferior, thrown to the sidelines, forcing them to claim the obvious and pushing them towards deterioration, physical and mental extermination.

In Korydallos women’s prison, the medical examinations performed on prisoners are minimal and superficial, while when examinations are required in hospital, the wait can be up to three months. In addition, many of the treatments that prisoners were undergoing before being imprisoned are generally prohibited and forcibly interrupted, with serious consequences for their health. The necessary medication that each one needs is prescribed by the prison doctors, but the medicines finally reach the prisoners after even two months. Ultimately, as is largely the case outside the walls, access to basic medical care acquires clear class characteristics, since prisoners are forced to resort to external private doctors to visit them in prison, a process that only those who have the corresponding financial means can support. The rest, the majority, are left to their own devices, victims of the indifference, bureaucracy and vindictiveness of the state machine. Such impositions of state power clearly constitute torture and potential murder.

We remember the dozens of murders of prisoners due to lack of medical care and utter neglect, the dozens of immigrants who are murdered daily in concentration camps, detention centres and police stations, the suicides and the hundreds of complaints by prisoners about inhumane and unsanitary conditions inside prisons. The examples are many and fresh in our memory.

However, we also remember the hundreds of struggles and uprisings carried out by prisoners inside prisons, the fighters who gave their lives to demand basic needs and care inside the cells of democracy. Struggles that continue to this day and will find us by their side, uniting our voices with those of the prisoners.

Comrade Dimitra needs immediate hospitalisation, while comrade Marianna must be taken immediately for a brain CT scan. The administration of Korydallos women’s prison with director Triantafylli Konstantopoulou, the “Evangelismos” General Prison with commander Anastasios Grigoropoulos and deputy Batis Veniamin, the State Hospital of Nikaia as well as the Ministries of Health and Pro.Po. (ministry of justice) bear full responsibility for the torture of our comrades, for the serious risk of deterioration of their health – but also of not fully recovering – to which they have been exposed. We make it clear in all directions, whatever happens to them will have consequences and will not go unanswered.

HANDS OFF THE ANARCHIST PRISONERS MARIANNA M.

AND DIMITRA Z.

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS IS ONE OF US, A COMRADE FOREVER

IN THE STREETS OF FIRE

SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE PERSECUTED FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

UNTIL THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST PRISON

Solidarity Assembly for Prisoners,

fugitive and persecuted militants

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via: athens.indymedia

Translated by Act for freedom now!

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