Tactical Urbanism is a practice I would consider anarchist and hopepunk. A non-hierarchical group fixes things the city won't.

https://youtube.com/shorts/dqmi-xdc17Q?si=KypLise7PWnVTvwI

#TacticalUrbanism #HopePunk #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist

Am Freitag fiel in #Athen das Gerichtsurteil im sogenannten #Ambelokipi-Fall. Die Anarchistinnen Marianna und Dimitra wurden zu langjährigen Haftstrafen verurteilt. Drei weitere Angeklagte wurden freigesprochen.

Die #Anarchist*innen waren unter anderem mit dem Vorwurf der Gründung einer terroristischen Vereinigung, der Herstellung und des Besitzes von explosiven Materialien und dem Besitz von Waffen angeklagt.

https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199281.griechenland-knast-gegen-griechische-anarchistinnen.html #Griechenland

Mayday Short Film Night

The (A) Centre, Friday, May 1 at 08:00 PM GMT+1

On Thursday 1st May to celebrate May Day, as part of the Radical Film Network’s Workers Rights screenings at multiple locations, will be screening a number of short films selected from a list compiled by the RFN.

We’d encourage everyone to get along to see what is on offer. The selected films represent a wide range of countries, styles, and approaches to the theme of workers’ rights.  This series of short films and one trailer are as follows:

Manifestoon (1995), Jesse Drew, USA: an experimental cartoon version of the Communist Manifesto.

Le casa che eravamo, The houses we were (2018), Arianna Lodesetero, Italy: An archival, polyphonic and entangled demonstration into a charitable low-income housing institute.

Republic, (2023), Rosie Reed Hillman, UK: as the washing machine whirs, three women care for their young children repeating actions they carry out each day. An immersive and acutely observed insight into the ’private’ sphere and women’s everyday labour. 

#Precarity Story, 2020, Lorena Cervera, UK/Spain: tells the story of Isabel, a cleaner, hourly-paid teacher and researcher at the same British university. Filmed during the 2018-2020 UK higher education strikes, this documentary exposes the reality of the academic precariat.

Studs Terkel Remembers: the Haymarket Affair (2000), John de Graaf, Mirko Popadic, and Alan Harris Stein, USA: Portions of this video were shot for Rocking the Boat, a documentary on the labour movement. Honouring the 139th anniversary of the Haymarket Affair, an important moment in labour history and the origin event to May Day.

£10 entry - £5 concession.

https://flypost.ie/event/mayday-short-film-night

"Oh so you're advocating for a new economic system altogether" was the response to my rejection of both government control or corporate control over our natural resources.

I enjoy breaking people's brains only a little bit, didn't know someone in #seattle still can be surprised to meet an #anarchist lmao

Arson Attack on Dimitris Karonis’ Vehicle – Commando “Kyriakos Xymitiris”

SILENCES MUST BECOME SCREAMS

In the silence and generalized apathy of our times, it is imperative that we take a stand and act. In any way we can, but we must act. There is no excuse, there is no room for postponements and suspensions. The world is running at an incredible speed, passing us by, trampling us, nothing is left standing and we pretend that nothing is happening. THE MURDERED IN THE TRAINS AND FACTORIES, THE DEAD IN THE RUBBLE OF GAZA, THE MURDERED LITTLE GIRLS IN MINAB, THE SHOT IN THE BACK IN MINNESOTA. In all the lengths and breadths of the earth, the state monopoly on violence must be questioned. In the theater of the absurd and the darkest dystopia that we are experiencing, remaining in our place apathetic implies more than ever bloody complicity. Bloody complicity of a society of masses of people with a scratched face for a smile, a docile gait and blood on their hands. A society that has fallen into a “sweet” indulgence in the embrace of digital Morpheus (modern media culture, communication and ultimately misinformation) and that is experiencing a pandemic crisis that is not an emergency but a permanent one, with the symptoms this time being the apolitical subservience and the devotion of each person only to their own little life. We encounter the counter-proposal to this slow but painful assimilationist drowning within the framework of a dignified existential stance and conscious choice in the face of a voracious system and by extension in the deep empathy of solidarity for our neighbor.

So we move on to action and assume responsibility for the arson of the car of Professor Dimitris Karonis in the Zografou Polytechnic Campus, who, at the behest of the New Democracy, tampered with the findings on Tempi.

Since the murder of 57 people in Tempi…

After the Tempi murder, the government gang launched a huge cover-up campaign in every possible and impossible way. Rumors, statements by ministers, government leaflets, parrot journalists, committees and findings. And we come to the point. On May 13, 2025, NTUA professor Dimitris Karonis, by order of the appellate investigator Bakaimis, publishes his own findings regarding the causes of the fire that followed the train collision. We do not want to go into technical details that do not concern us and do not concern anyone. We will stand and demonstrate how Karonis turned into a pawn of the New Democracy mafia in order to distract public opinion from the cold-blooded murder. It took Karonis 14 whole months to cook up the report in open collaboration with government officials. 14 whole months that the government had heavily advertised the expected report that, like the Arta bridge, was coming out every day. But they had to make it so well among themselves that the result they wanted would come out. And through the mouth of government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis on Tuesday morning 13/5 ”the narrative of the cover-up is collapsing with a bang” and ”they made up a narrative to anger the people and now there is an end to the vulgarity”. All the ND paperboys are now citing Karonis’ 132 pages and trumpeting with pomp that the narrative about the illegal cargo has been debunked and that things are slowly taking their place. Who believes that Karoni’s report was not the product of pressure, manipulation and blackmail. Who is so stupid as to believe that the entire government mechanism was based entirely by chance on a finding of an ‘impeccable’ technocrat? It is a typical statement of a parent of a Tempi victim in those days that Karonis’ finding WAS BOUGHT.

But what did Karonis say in so many pages of his expert report? He ruled out the possibility that the freight train was carrying any suspicious cargo, which caused the mushroom fire. The expert report states that “the formation of a fireball under conditions of high-current electric arc is possible. This means that in the case of the tragic accident under investigation, it is also a possibility, since flashes attributed to an electric arc have been recorded.” The finding raises a safety issue for trains that use the specific transformers and specific silicone oils. However, Siemens, in its own relevant document, claimed that silicone oils cannot produce a fireball. Karonis rules out the existence of illegal cargo on the commercial train, stating that “from the cargo data of the commercial train and the Hellenic Police Autopsy Report, there is no mention anywhere of recording material that would have the characteristics required for the formation of a flammable vapor cloud that could create a fireball,” citing the videos depicting the commercial train as it passed through the Platamonas tunnel. It took Mr. Karonis 14 months to repeat in 130 pages the conclusion that the firefighters had drawn from the beginning on the orders of Hellenic Train – and on which Mitsotakis relied to direct the investigation from the very beginning. The firefighters, however, subsequently spoke about the pressure and threats they received to keep their mouths shut. In a document written some time later, however, the same Bakaimis, who had ordered the said report from Karonis, unexpectedly and explicitly states that there is no question of an ignition-explosion inside the train transformers as Karonis had initially stated. In simple words, Karonis did the dirty work for the government while dedicating his work to the victims of Tempi, insulting their memory. HYPOCRISY IS OVERFLOWING AND OUR PATIENCE IS ENDING SOMEWHERE HERE. When we burned down the house of the former president of EODASAAM, Christos Papadimitriou, last year, we wrote that “for the system, Papadimitriou and every Papadimitriou may be expendable, for us they will be targets. The EODASAAM report was a very clever and insidious attempt to sweep the responsibilities of government agents under the rug. Moreover, this specific report was an initial attempt on the part of the blue-collar executives to ‘mitigate’ social discontent.” Coming to Karonis, another expendable from the system’s perspective, we send a clear message that no matter how many years pass, no matter how many trials are held, historical memory has recorded all of them as complicit and murderers.

…in the apartment on Arcadia Street

On that October 31st, along with comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris, a part of all of us was lost. It may not have been a state assassination like that of the Tempi or the employers at the Violanta factory, but death had chosen the side of the fighters. For us, the sacrifice of a comrade for the struggle and the Cause is a beacon and a constant reminder that with more stubbornness we must continue the struggle. Verbalizations have no cost. The flourishes in public statements without practical follow-up and impact, the complaining of the anarchists of the bars about their glorious past and the retrieval of “revolutionary stories” from the dusty cupboards of earlier years are said to be priceless. The time has come for actions and for words to match the actions of each and every one. Those who are still tightly bound to the safety belt and remain on empty words had better remain silent. Let us honor the dead fighter who acted within the framework of the multifaceted anarchist struggle with a weapon in hand, crossing the red light of social legitimacy. The smile of Kyriakos accompanies us in every action and in every practice of revolutionary counter-violence and revenge for all the dead on our side. At the moment when the trial of Ampelokipi is in progress, we send our solidarity to all the imprisoned anarchists under judicial hostage. You will find the imprints of an entire multifaceted movement on the maps of our struggles, where the judiciary takes care to exhaust all its vindictiveness by making accusations and carrying out obsessive persecutions. Let’s finally put a stop to this lawlessness and vindictiveness.

We can continue to write many pages, analyzing the reasons we attacked Karonis and every Karonis. The system gives us dozens of reasons to attack. From the genocidal practices of the Zionists or the imperialist attacks of the US to the unaccountable domestic sovereignty and state murders within Greece. DID ANYONE THINK OF ACTING AND HAD NO REASON? Are the reasons we mention simply the fuel to organize an attack and nothing more in the sense that the system itself is murdering our very beings every moment, every hour?

Let’s all put it down, each and every one with their own self and let’s consider whether it is worth living an entire life as slaves or whether the time has come to act for freedom. Because freedom is not necessarily a dot on the map that we must reach but a few breaths out of the depths of the slavery of everyday life. On the paths where the wild joy of breaking the laws inflates the lungs with freedom, on these paths, at these crossroads that we have long chosen the direction, we will meet those who dare daily and will dare again in the future to take the plunge into the void of Risk and Battle. With our bags full of stones, Molotov cocktails, incendiary devices and any other supplies needed. Without any inhibition or turning back. Because our own path did not choose us, we chose it and we walk it from our childhood dreams to our adult nightmares. And the end may be predetermined but what is more beautiful than being hit with the inevitable? Until the end.

Honor forever to the armed guerrilla Kyriakos Xymitiris and to the Italian revolutionary comrades Alessandro Marcogliano and Sara Ardizzone. Solidarity to all the captured revolutionaries.

Alongside the struggle of the Refugees and to Aristotelis Chantzis who, with his own life as a weapon, fights for the obvious.

COMMANDO ‘KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS’

Source: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1640801/

Athens, Greece: Incendiary Attack on Vasilis Kapernaros’ Law Office – Direct Action Cells

The Direct Action Cells claim responsibility for the incendiary attack on the office of far-right lawyer and failed politician Vasilis Kapernaros in the Kypseli neighborhood in the early hours of April 2. Just as we did the last time we attacked a collaborator in the crimes of Tempi (the Vozenberg residence, February 2025), so now we name the cell that carried out the attack after the armed urban guerrilla Kyriakos Xymiteris. We call upon all fighting revolutionary forces. Every comrade who devises subversive plans and puts them into action through dynamic acts, to take up the torch and honor the memory of our comrade as he deserves. To set fire to the quiet nights of the metropolis. To take the risks that are necessary so that we can show through our actions that there is no better way to remember and honour our dead than by intensifying the war against the rot of the system and its dominant culture.

The reason for our group’s attack on the office of that wretched individual known as Kapernaros is his active involvement in covering up the crime at Tempi, as he is the lawyer for Interstar Security, the company responsible for security and video surveillance of the railway network. The company that concealed for years the videos of the trains that collided that day and, along with other parties, contributed to the concealment of critical evidence regarding the crime. At this moment, the company’s legal representative and two ΟΣΕ executives are on trial for failing to hand over the videos of the freight train being loaded at the station in Thessaloniki. In this courtroom, as relatives of the victims report, Kapernaros bursts in with an escort, taunts and bullies people, culminating in a vile attack on former hunger striker Panos Routsis.

To put it more plainly, we’re dealing with a servile lackey. A few months ago, and “coincidentally” immediately after Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s interview—in which he wondered if there were any videos from the tunnels showing the freight train —the eager scoundrel appeared, donning the guise of a saviour lawyer, with three “forgotten” videos, which he even shared with an old acquaintance of ours, Aris Portosalte. He therefore chose to bear the burden of responsibility for distorting the facts and burying the truth of the Tempi crime, placing himself in the spotlight of public criticism—as such megalomaniacal figures always desire. The criticism we have consistently chosen is that of fire and revolutionary praxis.

Kapernaros, the son of a cop, grew up in post-Civil War Greece in an environment that can be summed up by the slogan “Fatherland – Religion – Family.” He, too, is just another two-bit patriot like those who donned hoods and betrayed resistance fighters to the occupiers, later fighting them in the mountains at the behest of their new masters as “bandits.” Like those who, exploiting the people’s hunger and hardships, amassed fortunes like black marketeers. All these vermin presented themselves to the post-civil war state as good Christians and patriots, while they were the greatest scum in the history of this land.

Today, all of them—like Kapernaros—are peddling the same old lies, obscuring their sordid role. He plays the part of a good Christian and, above all, a patriot, while at the same time playing an active role in covering up the crime at Tempi. Ten years ago, he was supposedly selling an anti-memorandum, while behind the scenes he was setting up the serious Golden Dawn as another reserve force for the system to prevent the rise of the left and, even more so, to prevent it from shifting toward more radical directions. He naturally also participated in the Golden Dawn trial as the lawyer for MP Nikos Kouzilos, while simultaneously setting up various factions of the right-wing political spectrum, such as the Radical National Alarm and the Patriotic Radical Union, with various “serious” Golden Dawn MPs like Synadinos, Koukoutsis, and Sveroni. At the same time, his relationship with the former secretary-general of the Samaras government, Takis Baltakos, is well known. Baltakos was not merely the government’s liaison with Golden Dawn; he was the key proponent of the “serious” Golden Dawn scenario mentioned above, which would operate based on the historical role of fascists. As a crutch for the system in times of crisis and destabilisation.

Of course, as a good right-winger, a Christian and a patriot who respects himself, he was involved in a 5-million-euro tax evasion scandal in 2013, while serving as a civil attorney in the Lingeridis trial, representing the family of the deceased butcher. It’s practically a tradition in this country for all these crooks from the right-wing establishment to maintain ties with law enforcement and siphon off public funds. In almost all the financial scandals, big or small, that come to light from time to time—especially over the last 15 years—one observes a common pattern. If not all, then most of them belong to the political right. They spout plenty of patriotic rhetoric, have good connections with official institutions, and point the finger at anyone who resists putting the brakes on this downward spiral. All of this serves as a cover for lining their own pockets with public funds, without, of course, any of them ever being punished by the non-existent justice system.

We noted years ago, when we visited the homes of certain high-ranking members of the judicial mafia, that the civil justice system does not address the problem. It is the problem itself. One does not need to be an anarchist to understand this point. With each passing day, it becomes even clearer to anyone concerned how this system operates. It dons the cloak of the Dragon when dealing with political opponents of the system, but also with vulnerable people who lack political backing. It violates the “presumption of innocence,” tramples even on civil laws themselves, piles them up in prisons, and robs them of their very lives with great ease. In all these cases, the harsh and “uncompromising” judges push the limits of the law and bury people for years in the labor camps we now call detention centers. On the other hand, the same judges become sensitive and compassionate when their own children are accused. That is why, if you look inside prisons, you will find only a handful of all those criminals who, in reality, are the only ones terrorising society.

Two high-profile political trials are currently underway, cases that reflect all the double standards governing not only the civil justice system and the police, but the civil system itself. We are referring, on the one hand, to the trial for the crime in Tempi and, on the other, to the trial of our comrades in the Ampelokipi case. This is a diabolical coincidence, as we believe that a comparison of the two cases convinces even the most naive observer of just how methodically and dirty police investigations and judicial inquiries operate in this country. As we mentioned above, how harsh, repressive, and sweeping state mechanisms are in one case, while at the same time how slow, “careless,” and “lenient” they become when it comes to cleaning up the mess left by their political superiors in the other.

The glaring contradictions of the judicial mafia, of course, come as no surprise to us. They elicit a bitter smile of confirmation of the obvious, but the horror and brutality of the power that certain modern-day inquisitors can wield against the lives and freedom of other people cannot be dismissed as ordinary or normal. Anyone who expects the accomplices and lackeys of murderers to deliver justice is doomed to live in darkness and with their eyes cast down. Anyone who allows a comrade from the Ampelokipi case to be condemned bloodlessly and without cost should expect the passage of time to drag them into a life devoid of purpose and direction, for that is the only way to describe the acceptance of defeat. Arkadias Street on 31st October 2024 was marked by an explosion of choices, by the stride of a man, a sure and steady step toward a head-on collision. A critical moment, a moment of choices, lies before us today. We will not issue threats against those who hold the fate of the freedom of our comrades on trial in their hands. Whether they prove hollow, or the actions and events that will unfold will be irrevocably etched into Time. We remind only those who still hold the spark within them for revenge and revolution, for a world for people and not a world without humanity, of the selfless example and the life chosen by those who turned that spark into an explosion. Kyriakos, Christos, Lambros, Christoforos. Their struggles and their calls for an escalation of the war. The time has come for conscious and critical choices for everyone. Because in the face of the kingdom of defeatism and assimilation, we will choose Imagination, Optimism, and Risk.

STRENGTH AND SOLIDARITY WITH MARIANNA MANOURA, DIMITRA ZARAFETA, DIMITRIS P., NIKOS ROMANOS, AND ARGYRI K.

THE ARMED REVOLUTIONARY KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US

REVOLUTIONARY MEMORY FOR ALESSANDRO MARCOGLIANO AND SARA ARDIZZONE

VICTORY IN THE HUNGER STRIKE OF ARISTOTELIS HANTZIS AND THE STRUGGLE OF THE REFUGEE COMMUNITY

Direct Action Cells

Kyriakos Xymiteris Cell

Source: athens.indymedia