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GREEK SOCIAL FORUM
DOWN WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MURDERERS
15 year old pupil shot dead by policeman
Rage and mobiliation all over the country for the cold blooded assassination by a firearm bullet in the stomach of the 15year old school boy, by a policeman, on Saturday 6th of Dec. 9 p.m.
This is the extreme expression of police brutality spreading in the last few years accross mobilisations of any description, of students, workers, migratns, peasants, women, antifascist, ecological movements.
As from Saturday night mobilisations spread all over the country, from Crete in the South to upper northern cities, especially aroung universities, attacking police stations and banks.
The Greek Social Forum participated massively in the Sunday midday demonstration in Athens, of about 20.000, called at a few hours notice by left wing organisations and parties, which was soaked in chemicals and teargas in quantities heavier than ever in the last few years. It also participated in all the cities in mobilisation.
School pupils have been demonstrating everywhere today Monday, in the centre of the cities and in neighbourhoods, mainly by encircling police stations and dropping books and pencils in a symbilic disobedience move against the repression forces.
A general closure of all grades of education for tomorrow, Tuesday, has been announced by pupils-students and trades unions and a big mobilisation.
At 6 o’clock today, Monday, the Greek Social Forum together with left wing organisations and parties organise a radical protest expected massive and disobedient. We opt for disobedience and not for indiscriminate smashing of property, as some antiauthoritarian forces do.
On Wednesday there is a general strike by the General Confederation of Labour, organised independently and before the assassination against the government policies, and the workers are called to take part in it massively, as well as in the rallies of the unions. The rallies will be followed by marches, despite the shameful announcement of the Trades Unions Leadership that they do not sanction marches for the fear of “trouble makers” and damage of property.
The government of austerity measures, of complicity in land development of huge proportions in collaboration with some Holy Mountain monasteries, of selling-off everyghing in the land (from ports and aircompanies to telecommunications and public education) must be overthrown by this huge movement of people’s rage.
Greek communities in Europe are carrying out activities of protest outside Greek consular authorities. We consider this movement in Greece to be a part of all European povements, thus we ask the comrades everywhere to find ways to allign their forces with us.
The Greek Social Forum
Monday 8-12-08
Common statement of anti-capitalist left organizations
Down with the government of murderers! Our answer will be to resist and
to keep fighting to overthrow the policy of police oppression, austerity
and racism Demonstrate:Sunday 7/12/2008,Assemble Museum, 13.00Monday
We, the organizations of the
anticapitalist Left that sign this text, want to condemn the murder, in
cold blood, of 16 year old Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police special guard
in the evening of December 6th. We salute the demonstrations against the
government of murderers all over Greece. In our opinion the reason for
what happened is not the “extreme zeal”, or the “loss of temper”
or the “lack of training” of a police special guard but the whole
policy of the New Democracy government.
It is a policy that not only
reinforces police oppression and legitimizes the use of lethal weapons
against demonstrators, but also privatizes the Ports and Olympic
Airlines, attacks social security and the rights of students.
It is the
policy of police beatings of students, of the kidnappings of immigrants
from Pakistan, of illegal interceptions of phone communications and of
racist attacks that lead to the death of refugees that came here looking
for asylum and a better future.
It is the policy of special
“antiterrorist” legislation, of full compliance to the measures
adopted by the EU against democratic liberties and against immigrants.
It
is the policy of the new legal framework for the Universities, of
legalizing Private Universities. It is the policy of lower wages and
rising taxes. Amidst an economic crisis the government is trying on the
one hand to offer billions of euros to the Banks and on the other to find
scapegoats either in radical youth or in immigrants.
After the brutal
murder the government has chosen the path of police repression. That is
why police anti-riot squads attacked those who were demonstrating. The
Socialist Party, PASOK, has offered his consent to this policy. The
message is simple: the government will enforce its policy at any cost, a
policy that will make the workers pay for the economic crisis, by means
of austerity, flexible work, privatizations, implementation of the EU
policies.
The anger of the demonstrators is fuelled by the policies of
the government, of the forces of capital, of the EU. That is why the
protest must grow stronger. We must meet in the streets with the
struggling workers, farmers and students. We will not pay for their
crisis. Today anger is not enough. What is needed is collective and
militant struggle in every workplace, every neighborhood, in order to
transform them into places of resistance and overthrow the government and
its policy.
– Down with the New Democracy government of murderers and its policy
– Capital must pay for its crisis, not the workers and youth.
– Let’s escalate the struggle for our rights
– The ministers that are responsible must resign
– The police must be disarmed, police forces must keep away from
demonstrations, and Police Special Forces must be disbanded.
– Release all people arrested during the demonstrations.
– Repeal “antiterrorist”˙ and authoritarian laws
8/12/2008
The organizations of the Greek anticapitalist Left : ARAN (Left
Recomposition), ARAS(Left Anticapitalist Group), EKKE (Revolutionary
Communist Movement of Greece), EEK (Workers Revolutionary Party), OKDE,
OKDE-Spartacus (4thInternational), SEK (Socialist Workers Party ),
NAR-N.K.A. (New Left Current-Youth Communist Liberation), K.O.
Anasyntaxi (Communist Organization Regroupment), K.A. (Communist Renewal), EN.ANTI.A (United Anticapitalist Left), ME.R.A. (Front of Radical Left)
PRESS REPORT SYRIZA
39, Valtetsiou str., Exarhia, Athens, GREECE
Tel: +30 210 3829910 Fax: +30 210 3829911
Email: syrizasyriza yahoo.gr
SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) is greeting the universal participation of the people in today’s general strike and manifestation. This manifestation is giving the message that working people and the youth will struggle for that people won’t pay the damages of the economical crisis and that for they obtain their obvious rights, as the growing of salaries and income and permanent and steady jobs.
SYRIZA is also greeting the thousands of people that manifested today in the centre of Athens and in other Greek cities, and sent a crystal clear message that working people and the youth won’t succumb to the police terrorism and arbitration and to the government’s threats.
The SYRIZA’s blocks had been the most massive and vivid since many years, and they gave this way a catalytic reply to any kind of provocateurs and slanderers. They declared their radical opposition to the government’s policy and the state’s suppression.
We won’t stop the struggle for life in dignity, for democracy, for the rights of youth and working people.
10 / 12 / 2008
The Press Office
Press statement of Neolaia Synaspismou (the Youth of Synaspismos)
The State is killing. We have to stop them!
The assassination of a 15-year-old today in Exarhia square, demonstrates in the most extreme way the criminal face of the Greek police and the government of Nea Dimokratia. The government is the one that armed the hands of the killer policeman and hold all the political responsibility of the murder.
For years when the Greek police was left unregulated and uncontrolled for capturing and torturing students, workers and immigrants, when in any demonstration we are faced with the most brutal violence and state authoritarianism when incidents such as “jardiniere” remain unpunished, today murder can only be seen as a premeditated crime, and the guilty are the Greek state governments of N.D and PASOK.
Enough!
If some think we will be afraid to walk on the street, with the risk to get any bullet they are mistaken. Our response to authoritarianism and repression will come through the mass struggles of youth and workers, through our collective resistance to the authoritarian government, in defending and expanding the rights and freedoms of all of us.
The press office of Neolaia Synaspismou
<BRW6/12/2008
AKOA
COMMUNIST RENOVATIVE AND ECOLOGICAL LEFT – MEMBER OF SYRIZA
62, Akadimias str., Athens – Tel: +30 210 3619513-14 – Fax:+30 210 3619610, +30 210 3846628, email: epohi otenet.gr, g-banias otenet.gr
PRESS REPORT
The cold blooded assassination of the 15 years old boy was not an unlucky, isolated event, as the police is trying to persuade us. The young people murdered in Exarhia is one more victim in the long list of police arbitration, due to the non punishment of the guilty. Nevertheless, the government that encourages the authoritarianism of the police is the one that pulls the trigger. Today, an older demand of the left for the dissolution of the special forces and the disarmament of the police, is tragically actual.
Lately, the police violence is evolving with much more intensity, by using violence, but also by murdering migrants, with events like the beating of the student “with the green shoes” last year in Thessaloniki, and last week by beating a young man in a student’s manifestation. What was the crime of the 15 years old boy that has been murdered last Saturday? That he was in the “forbidden” area of Exarhia and that he was young. Because in Greece today to be young is like to be delinquent!
The responsibility of the New Democracy’s government is huge.
A government that is loading the crisis on working people, that is selling out the public property, that is deeply sunken in scandals and corruption.
A government that leads the youth in permanent impasses, by privatizing Education and Culture, by increasing unemployment and poverty, by undermining the future.
A government, who’s the only reply to young people’s indignation for all those, is the even harder suppression, having as a peak the recent assassination.
This government cannot deny it’s responsibility with false resignations. We say very simply: this government must go!
AKOA, with the other forces of SYRIZA and the left in Greece, together with the movements of working people, youth, citizens, is feeling anger and indignation but not weakness. We invite all the people, young men and women, parents, workers, all citizens to express our protest, with massive, dynamic, peaceful manifestations, in the mature ground of conscientious social struggles.
Athens, 8 December 2008
The Press Office
Statement - Down with this government of murderers!
The Anti-imperialist Component (Greece) informs the progressive public opinion:
1. Yesterday evening, Saturday 6 December, a member of the Police Special Forces shot in cold blood and killed a 15 year old boy in the center of Athens.
2. Dozens of eye witnesses who came forward and spoke to the Media confirm that this was a cold blood murder, as there were no incidents going on. The attempt of the Greek government to lie to the public opinion, claiming that the kids attacked the police, finally failed: Tonight, Sunday 7 December, even the mainstream Media are openly calling the government’s claims “a blatant lie”.
3. The police murder comes after years of increasing state terror against the youth and the working people, who goes always unpunished and is always covered and justified by the neoliberal government of K. Karamanlis. During the last year, dozens of demonstrators and other citizens or immigrants have been arrested, tortured and wounded by the police.
4. The Greek government tried to disorientate and calm the people by organizing a theater of “resignations” of the Interior Minister and the head of the Greek Police, who were right away “refused” by the Prime Minister.
5. Thus, the Greek government bears the full political responsibility for the murder of the 15 year old boy, which was anything but an exceptional incident. The Greek government armed the hand of the murderer. It is the Greek government who trains the policemen and teaches them: “You are the State and you are untouchable, you are over the laws”.
6. Since yesterday evening thousands of youth and working people are expressing all over Greece their indignation and their fully justified anger against this government of thiefs and murderers. Dozens of demonstrations are taking place almost continuously in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patra and many other Greek cities.
7. All the left organizations (with the shameful exception of the Communist Party of Greece, which only issued a statement...) are taking part in this revolt under the slogan: “Down with this government of murderers and thiefs!”.
8. Yesterday, Sunday 7 December, the demonstration organized in Athens by the Left forces gathered thousands of people. It was attacked by the police with exceptional brutality, but the state terror did not manage to smash the march. Today afternoon we are organizing a new demonstration. The protest continues everywhere. Similar is the situation all over Greece.
9. The murderers and their instigators, the neoliberal government of K. Karamanlis, shall pay dearly for all their crimes! The state terror shall not pass! The people’s struggle shall be victorious!
Athens, 8 December 2008
Anti-imperialist Component
Statement of the Communist Organization of Greece (KOE), 09/12/2008:
The state terror cannot stop the fully justified and generalized protest
(a) Monday 8 December
Yesterday was a day of protests all over the country. The secondary education pupils gathered in their schools and then headed to the centre of the cities in their dozens of thousands. They demonstrated their anger in front of the Athens Police General Headquarters. They threw eggs and stones to the Special Forces in front of the Parliament. They reversed police cars in Pireaus. They attacked police stations all over Greece. The whole day the youth and the masses made clear their anger against the government of murderers. The government answered by unleashing a huge wave of state terror. Dozens of people were arrested and wounded by the Special Forces. In many cases the cops kept beating and torturing barbarously 14 and 15 year old boys and girls after arresting them. But this only increased the masses’ wrath.
Yesterday afternoon in Athens took place one of the bigger and most combative demonstrations of the last years, called by the Left parties and organizations: 40.000 people got to the streets. Younger and older, students and working people marched in the centre of the city for hours, shouting slogans against the murderers’ government. The demonstrators bravely resisted the repeated attacks of the Special Forces, which unleashed tons of chemicals, gas bombs etc. against the people in a (failed) attempt to break the march. For the second consecutive day the repressive forces attacked directly the massive block of the Communist Organization of Greece, throwing chemicals right in the middle of it; but they failed to break the block, which regrouped rapidly and continued the march.
More and more people are coming in the demonstrations prepared to face the repression, “armed” with masks and liquids that limit the chemicals’ effects. Similar was the situation (massive participation, combative spirit, huge repression) in the other demonstrations all over Greece. The government and the mainstream Media are vainly trying to focus on the “destruction of public and private property” and divert the attention from the murder and the popular will to bring down this government.
(b) Tuesday 9 December
Today is the day of the funeral of the murdered boy, Alexis Grigoropoulos. It will take place this afternoon. Before that, in midday, will start in the centre of Athens the new demonstration called by the secondary education pupils and the teachers. The protests and marches continue all over the country. In the neighborhoods we are in the streets, calling the people to participate actively in the General Strike that will take place tomorrow, Wednesday 10 December.
The Communist Organization of Greece and the Coalition of Radical Left condemned the sold-out “leaders” of the trade-unions, who decided to change the place of tomorrow’s central meeting in order not to make a demonstration. This attempt to break the unity and the combativity of the movement, undertaken by the “liberal” and “socialist” central leaderships, will fail. We are calling upon the youth and the working people to gather in the initially fixed place and to march towards the Parliament. The sold-out bureaucrats will not be able to gather even themselves.
(c) The character of the protest, our orientation
The people are for the fourth consecutive day in the streets. They are punishing this criminal government, the government of the bankers, of the big business, of the reactionary church, of the corruption and of the state terror. The youth are punishing this criminal government that kills their future and privatizes the education. The working masses are punishing this government that generates poverty and unemployment, sells-out the national richness and provocatively offers billions to the bankers and the big business.
The Communist Organization of Greece says: It is not enough that the Left participates in the protest. The Left must lead the people! Now it is not time for hesitation and “institutional” politics. We must transform the generalized anger and the combative spirit into a popular revolt. It is time that the popular outcry “Down with this government of thieves and murderers” becomes a sea that will drown the criminal government of K. Karamanlis.
For this reason, each and every member and sympathizer of KOE all over Greece goes over the top in order to bring even broader masses to the streets and to punish the government. We are organizing and supporting the strike in schools, in universities, in working places, in neighbourhoods. We unite our action in order to chase away the government of the rich and of the murderers. We work to transform the General Strike into a Popular Condemnation of the murder, of the poverty and of the corruption.
Everyone to the streets! Everyone to the struggle! We shall prevail!
Athens, 9 December 2008
Communist Organization of Greece (KOE)
PS: We are obliged to condemn the shameful position of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), which takes “equal distances” between the government and the “rioters” and dares to accuse the Coalition of Radical Left and the Communist Organization of Greece that we “cover the provocateurs”. They should be ashamed by the fact that Ms. Petralia, Employment Minister of the criminal government of K. Karamanlis, yesterday evening congratulated them for their “responsible” attitude… One more time, the “big revolutionary words” go hand-in-hand with the “realistic responsibility” and, again, they tend their helpful hand to the government of K. Karamanlis.
SYRIZA and AKOA
(Letter to the French LCR)
Athens, 12 December 2008
Dear comrades
On behalf of SYRIZA and AKOA, member of SYRIZA, we would like to thank you for the expression of solidarity to the Greek youth and working people and to our forces, in this critical situation of the youth’s rebellion and working people’s manifestations. The rebellion is getting steadier with today’s large and peaceful manifestations of pupils, students and teachers that are, at this very moment, hit badly from the police forces. The deep legitimation crisis of neoliberal policies, the attack against the public education, the growing poverty and unemployment, the total impasse that those policies are cultivating especially for young people and the working class is at the origin of this revolt. The Radical Left in Greece is supporting manifesting people, denounces the violence of the state and the police and demands the fall of this fully unpopular government. I am sending you the recent statements published by the Secretariat of SYRIZA and of our organization AKOA. This evolving situation is also the reason why we couldn’t participate to the Anticapitalist Conference of tomorrow in Paris, which we follow with great interest.
Best comradely regards
Angelica Sapouna
Member of the Secretariat of AKOA, International Relations’ Department of AKOA and SYRIZA.
SOCIALISTIKO ERGATIKO KOMMA(SEK)
Athens, 12/12/2008
(Letter to the French LCR)
Dear comrades,
greetings from the revolt against police oppression. In Greece thousands of schoolkids are occupying schools, students took the streets and now occupy universities against the brutal murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15 years. The same day one Pakistani immigrant was injured and fights to survives in hospital after police attacked refugees when they waited in a street just to apply for asylum.
The government of right wing New Democracy faces for days mass demonstrations, besiege of police department, occupations and strikes. Anger is rising against the government of murderers.
Greetings from the thousands of workers who took part in the24hours General Strike on 10th of December and demonstrated in the streets of Athens despite the betrayal of their leadership of the Trade union bureaucracy and the retreat of the parliamentary opposition, socialdemocrats and traditional Left.
We would like to be with you to share our experiences of uniting the forces of Greek Anticapitalist Left and opening the space for a new dynamic of struggle, of opening the prospect to overthrow the government of murderers through fight, strike, occupation, mass mobilization.
We are only in the beginning of a developing crisis and hope is rising that we will not pay for the capitalists and their state. We will not let the government to play the racist card against immigrants.
On 18th of December, coordination of assemblies of occupied universities with schools and Teachers unions are calling for a National Day of action, the same day that Hospital Workers Union called for a 24hour strike and ADEDY-Public Employees Union 3hours strike. This is a day for a national demonstration in Athens coinciding with the discussion in the Parliament of the annual budget. People are angry when 28billion are given to save the banks, 30 billion for arms while workers face austerity without an end and the collapse of public education and health system.
We call for an international day of action in solidarity with the Greek movement on 18th with actions outside Greek embassies.
We ask for your solidarity messages for the Antiracist Demonstration on 20 of December for the support of asylum seekers and legalization of immigrants against the new European Agreement on Immigration and Asylum voted by EU council on 15th of October 2008.
We are sorry not to be with you in the meeting of Anticapitalist Left and look forward to send you news from a developing unity of anticapitalist forces in Greece, opening new prospects for the fight against capitalism in a period of crisis.
Fraternally
Petros Constantinou,
from SEK leadership
5th Statement of the Communist Organization of Greece (KOE)
11 December 2008
We shall not yield to the criminal government!
The “unholy alliance” of “law and order” cannot stop the protest!
1. On Thursday 11 December 2008 dozens of thousands of youth got again out in the streets and demonstrated their rage, marching against the police stations all over Greece. In Athens only, 21 police stations have been besieged by the youth, who replied to the police attacks with stones, turned upside down many police vehicles and burned them. These are not “rioters with masks”, but school students who protest the murder of Alexis and the government policies, which kill their future. Thousands of people stand by their side: their parents, their teachers, the militants of the Left. In many cases, the people raise and stand in front of the Special Forces, protecting the youth, resisting the police attacks, even liberating from the hands of the police the arrested demonstrators.
2. Hundreds of schools, technical colleges and universities all over the country are already under occupation. The “Communist Party of Greece” (KKE), which now became openly the right hand of the criminal government, failed to stop the General Assemblies of students. The shameful and pitiful attempt of these “uncompromised communists” to forbid, during the morning of Thursday, the entrance of students in the universities, met with the anger of the youth and within hours they were obliged to retreat in panic. The youth decided to organize new central demonstrations all over Greece this Friday 12 December, rejecting the “responsible” attitude of KKE and of the “socialist” PASOK, who also made an official appeal “for calm and dignity (!), against occupations and uncontrolled demonstrations”.
3. In these critical moments, the “unholy alliance” of “law and order” takes shape, the composition of the two opposite camps gets clear. On the side of the “order” stand the big bourgeoisie and the government of Karamanlis, with their employees: the mainstream Media, the police, the gangs of “angry citizens who protect their property” (composed by extreme right-wing cadres of the government party and by neonazis). Hand in hand with them goes the supposed “opposition”: the “socialists” of PASOK and the “communists” of KKE, with their calls for “responsible attitude” and their open, calumniating attacks against the Radical Left. This “opposition” receives the congratulations of the government and of the establishment, who is only very happy to repeat again and again their accusations against the Coalition of Radical Left. Even the leader of the extreme right-wing party LAOS accused A. Alavanos, head of the Parliamentary Group of SYRIZA, that he “protects the rioters” adding: “It is not me who says that, Mr Alavanos. It is your kindred spirits from the KKE who affirm that”.
4. On the other side, the camp of the movement is composed by the revolted youth and by the forces of the Coalition of Radical Left and other left organizations, those of the extra-parliamentarian Left. The combativity of the youth and the work of the communist current within the Coalition, represented by the Communist Organization of Greece, have until now succeeded to keep this alliance within the protest and armed it with a correct demand: “This government must go!”. The position of our Organization is crystal-clear: We participate to the revolt with all our forces. We learn by the revolt and we try to develop it further and arm it with the necessary perspective.
5. The blocks of KOE in all the demonstrations were combative and did not retreat in front of the police attacks, which in many cases were targeted directly against us. KOE is in many cities the initiator of the struggle and its members play an active role in its organization. In Patra, the contribution of KOE in the uprising of the school students was decisive. In Kavala, the local organization of KOE leads the protest against the repression and the government – to the point that the mayor of this city accused KOE as “instigator of the riots”. All over Creta the organizations of KOE excelled, and especially in Heraklio, where our Organization plays a leading role in the occupation of the Prefecture’s building. The same goes for other cities all over Greece. Also, KOE has produced last Tuesday a 4-pages leaflet under the general slogan “It is right to rebel” and distributed it in dozens of thousands of copies in 35 cities. The Communist Organization of Greece will continue with all its forces to advance towards the escalation of the struggle, aiming at throwing down the government of criminals, the government of the rich, the government of anti-people policy and corruption.
It is right to rebel!
Down with the criminal government of Karamanlis!
Exemplary punishment of the murderers!
Disarm the police – Dissolve the special “anti-riot” forces!
Neolaia Synaspismou (Youth of Synaspismos) and the statement after the demonstration of the 12th.
Our anger overflows…
Last Saturday night, the 15 years old pupil Alexis Grigoropoulos was murdered by a police officer in Exarchia, Athens. It was an assassination in cold blood, which demonstrated -in the most tragic and extreme way– the real face of the government’s repressive apparatus and the total attack which has been launched on our rights, on our life itself. The government chooses to provide financing for bankers and bullets for the youth.
Alexis’s murder cannot be considered an isolated incident. For a long time, Greek police have been arresting and torturing students, workers and immigrants. Without any control by the government these modern sheriffs rule over the city. Our city. In each demonstration there is uncalled-for and excessive use of tear gas and persecution in the streets by the police, immigrants are kidnapped and murdered and the beating is merciless, while at the same time severe police crimes go unpunished. No matter how much the murderers of Alexis grieve crocodile tears on TV, they don’t convince us. We know very well that the special guard force of the police was armed by the ND and PASOK governments, who have been trying by means of violence and repression to terrify us, to control us.
They have declared the war on the youth
Alexis’s murder is nothing less than the point of no return for us. Being young nowadays in Greece equals a crime. It means that you get strangled between the four walls of the school and the ‘frontistirio’ (extra-curricular tutoring), it means that you study without any guarantee that your degree will be of some value, it means that you work without any guarantees or regulations, it means that you live in constant fear.
Fear that you are not going to finish school, that you will study something you don’t like, that you will never find a job, that you will never get paid more than 700 €. On top of that, the government wants now to dictate where we will go, where to have fun, how to behave. As adolescents, we are overtaken by fear to assert what we really deserve and desire. They are stealing our dreams.
We reclaim everything back!
The last few days thousands of pupils, students and workers have stepped out into the streets of Greece, to demonstrate that we cannot be fooled any longer. To declare that our life is really ours as long as we fight for it. No matter how hard they have tried to defame us by showing exclusively pictures of broken windows and burnt cars, in order to hide their guilt, they haven’t succeeded. No matter how hard they have tried to terrify us not to demonstrate again, we understand that there is no other solution. The government insists on repression, seemingly unable to apprehend that this society has changed and that they have to resign. So, we are going to dethrone them. If they don’t know how to respect a whole generation, they will learn to fear it.
We won’t stop fighting until we reclaim everything we want: comprehensive, free public education, full-time and secure jobs, free common spaces and green, rights and freedoms.
We won’t stop fighting until we overthrow the regime and take back control of our lives. We will join our voices with the voices of young people all over Greece and in every school, every university, every work place, every neighbourhood; we will insist on all the things we have been deprived of for so long. And even more!
Our solidarity and our collective acts will be our weapons. We reclaim what belongs to us!
***
They kill-repress-terrorise
Today tens of thousand student and pupils flooded the streets of Athens. For a seventh consecutive day we were faced by an orgy of state repression and violence. The continuous throwing of chemicals, beating of demonstrators and journalists and unprovoked arrests, the police forces confirmed once more their criminal face.
The government of Nea Dimokratia continues the closing of their ears at the young people that demonstrate, fighting evidently for their rights. They believe that with violence and repression it will terrorise us, that it will make us forget the murder and be stay afraid and closed in our houses.
Instead of listening the demands of an entire generation, the government continues its incendiary policy and does not show in any case that they are ready to admit their criminal responsibilities.
We need a total change of the practiced policy, a total social and political inversion. Our generation is not terrorized, not incorporated. The massive and unifying struggles of the youth and the workers will give to the government the answer that it deserves.
The Press Office of Neolaia Synaspismou
12/12/2008
WE WANT EVERYTHING BACK!
WE DEMONSTRATE ACROSS EUROPE – WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES!
The murder of 15 year old student, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by two policemen, was the incident that burst our rage. Our rage against the politics that steal our lives, against the politics that destroy our future, against the politics that shoot young people.
These politics have a name. It is neoliberalism. It is the reason why nowadays young people are hit by precarity. It is the reason why young people lose their right for free and public education, their right for serious insurance, their right for a dignified life, their right for a life in a sustainable environment.
These neoliberal attacks do not occur only in Greece. Across Europe young people are attacked by them. The EU policies promote precarity in labour and living conditions, advance the model of “Fortress – Europe” against migrants, and back up war in the name of “anti-terrorist crusades”.
Young people across Europe must fight together against the policies that terminate our rights. We must fight together to take back our lives!
Neolaia Synaspismou (Youth of Synaspismos) calls for an international action day on Thursday, the 18th of December!
We will demonstrate on European roads to show that we will not surrender from our fight!
Because Europe must change its direction radically!
For a democratic revolution of Europe!
Neolaia Synaspismou (Youth of Synaspismos)
Telephone:+30210-3809319/Email: neolaiasyn yahoo.gr
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