64 CONTENTS 4 - Saturday 10/4/10 - 6 Anarchists arrested in Athens. 5 - The Philadelphia Experiment. 6 - Defence excerpts from the 6 arrested in the case of the Revolutionary Struggle. 6 - Revolutionary Struggle : A Chronology 7 - A Political Letter to Society. 11 - Lambros is one of us. 12 - A Letter from Christoforos Kortesis. 13 - Letter from Vaggelis Stathopoulos. 14 - Letter from Kostas Gournas. 14 - Some acts of immediate solidarity. 14 - Letter from Sarantos Nikitopoulos 16 - The Only Answer to Modern Totalitarianism is Social Revolution. 18 - More actions of solidarity. 19 - Letter from Pola Roupa. 21 - Maziotis and Gournas declare hungerstrike. 22 - Letter from Kostas Gournas. 23 - Towards the Appeal Court of 1st of November. 23 - Letter from Maria Beraha. 23 - Letter from Nikos Malapanis. 24 - Refusals of the Appeals Court and the Regime. 24 - Lambros, Our Comrade. 25 - Let's Make the Beginning in Greece of a Worldwide Social Revolution. 28 - ...More actions of solidarity. 29 - Responsibility claim for the Tax Office arson in Exarchia. 29 - Announcement of the three members of Revolutionary Struggle. 29 - Denouncement of police intimidation by G.Ch. 30 - The State is the Terrorist. 30 - Distribution of flyers in Abelokipos/Gizi, Athens. 31 - Letter from Sarantos Nikitopoulos. 32 - International Call for Solidarity from Members of Revolutionary Struggle. 34 - Prisoners’ letter in solidarity with those persecuted in the case of the Revolutionary Struggle. 34 - The Revolutionary Struggle trial starts. 36 - Declaration of Revolutionary Struggle upon their release. 37 - October 24 & 1 November 2011 - The beginning of the trial of the regime. 42 - Communique for the Citibank Bombing. 50 - Communique for the Bombing of the Athens Stock Exchange. INTRODUCTION In the days of April 2010, when the Greek government finally agreed to accept a loan from the International Monetary Fund to begin the take-over of the country into the hands of the international financiers, the security services had prepared a media spectacle to mark the occasion: the capture of 6 anarchist fighters for the purpose of the submission of the social struggle. Anarchist fighters who had been a thorn in their side for some time, were now hostages. Hostages who had humiliated the demoralised and brutal Greek intelligence services, anti-terrorist divisions and their American occupier counterparts, the CIA, who had sought out the Revolutionary Struggle (‘Epanastatikos Agonas’ - E.A. - in Greek language) for a Rocket Propelled Grenade attack against the US Embassy in Athens. This daring and symbolic action came amongst scores of other targeted attacks which struck for years with symbolically definitive high-impact blows against the institutions of capitalism and govern- ment, accompanied by dozens and dozens of pages of critical, thoughtful and articulate anarchist analysis of the institutional structures that parasite on the social wealth produced by labour, with social and economic self-organisation put forward as an anti-capitalist and anti-state egalitarian alternative. Revolutionary Struggle are Nikos Maziotis, Pola Roupa, Kostas Gournas and the fallen Lambros Foundas. Together they formed a group of social-libertarian anarchists based in the busy capital, Athens, who directed their armed activities in the class interests of the exploited workers of Greece and within/alongside the specific mass anarchist/anti-authoritarian movement from 2003-2010. And now, they continue their fight in the court rooms and prisons of the Greek regime, where they push an even harder fight to the legitimacy of the capitalist enemy. As this collection was being assembled, the show-piece trial against the comrades contin- ues, which is partnered by a campaign of repression against the anarchist/anti-authoritarian movement in general and specifically to several anarchists who deny responsibility. What the Greek security services and their foreign colleagues wish to prevent through intimidation, surveillance and imprisonment is contagion. Contagion of tactics which made a mockery of their system 2 to put an end to the revolution. and showed how easily it could be struck by anyone. Contagion of ideas which has now spread far beyond the world-wide What we want to say in a nutshell is that anarchist/anti-authoritarian movement into the general masses of people who are angry with everything, wishing to see it all it’s worth coming to a rupture with the come down and something much more humane begin. system and its institutions and start a revolutionary social experiment with We believe that the murder of Lambros Foundas, as well as the arrests of the six fighters for their participation or alleged partici- horizontal social organization, where pation in Revolutionary Struggle, are integral to the historical-social realities. We consider them the first heavy losses in the new every one of us will have the first word phase of growth of the class war that has been signaled by the capitalist crisis. We feel that Lambros did not simply leave us one on their lives, an experiment for a day in March, but died fighting on the eve of a general strike. The six arrested, as well as every imprisoned fighter, are also society without masters and slaves. missing from us in the streets, in these important as well as difficult days that have come, these days where the subversive- A society of truly free people. liberating argument can and must be applied with new intensity and momentum. The three comrades who took responsibility for the actions of Revolutionary Struggle show that fighting for what you believe in is not a task that only the “elite” can take REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE on. It’s in everyone who has suffered in the system that has been created to control us. The State knows that they themselves are the real terrorists, and as long as no one fights back they have nothing to fear. It’s time to show them enough is enough and attack them with all means available. P.S. During the placement of the explosive mechanism in the Eurobank in Repression is not only violence and prison for the revolutionaries, but it is also an attack on the attitudes, hopes and beliefs of Argiroupouli, “we met” a police jeep that wider sections of society who identify with and support the actions of the armed revolutionary groups. To this end the State was patrolling the area and in which has always been ruthless, and in ‘comfortable times’ when it is no longer expedient to show and use genocidal violence, the were three cops. Coming out of the bank, modern consumer democratic facade has made an appearance, to devalue the significance of resistance, declare the ‘end of the comrades who had undertaken the history’ and confine the rebels and dissenters to the dustbin of social isolation and prison. However, our history is visible in placement of the mechanism, saw the plish with such declarations is to be self- all those who struggled, fought and died for freedom against oppression, and we create our significance in every moment of jeep parked with the lights turned off at a stigmatized, and worsen their social rebellion, etching deeper lines of compassion on the human face of historical memory. distance of about 30 metres away. position. Absolutely calm and walking steadily Even so, this document is not for the historical record, as these are living, breathing, times of fighting and loving, so, this collec- without hurrying they head towards the tion is published with the aim of giving further breathing space for the air of revolutionary solidarity and to give more energy to motorcycles which were the escape the international social revolution. This publication should stand as a tool for people to sharpen their radical ideas and under- vehicles. While the comrades had gotten [1] Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kondratiev standing, hopefully bring some propulsive momentum and clear some post-modern illusions about the supposed futility of the on, one of the cops came out of the jeep (1892-1938). Russian economist who armed struggle. Some knowledge of contemporary Greek politics and general economics is useful but not necessary to under- and moved towards us shouting: proposed a theory that Western stand these texts, as we have tried our best to provide context for the average reader. To give realism and context itself to this “Police, don’t move”. capitalist economies have long term publication, you’ll find a mixture of short flyers from the movement reporting on the initial arrests shrouded in media haze and a sense of ongoing social war, as well as letters from anarchists dragged up in the case in revenge for their friendships and partici- Then one of the comrades pulled out his (50 to 60 years) cycles of boom More anti-infos: pation in the movement, to the political letters of responsibility that were written by the imprisoned comrades of Revolutionary gun and aimed at him and he retreated followed by depression. These business Struggle themselves - their call for international solidarity, and several of their important articles concerning politics/economics - immediately. This move was the wisest cycles are now called “Kondratiev Act For Freedom Now! and finally two of their long communiques taking responsibility as Revolutionary Struggle for the car-bombings of the Athens one, since it saved his life and his waves”. actforfree.nostate.net Citibank headquarters and the Athens Stock Exchange. There was a huge selection of material available, from the many, many colleagues lives. In the case that he [2] Paul Robin Krugman (1953-). international actions of solidarity, multiple letters by all the defendants, court statements, movement flyers, etc, but we attempted didn’t retreat immediately, they should American economist. Krugman won the to keep the collection as concise as possible for reasons of space. No-one, not least the Greek State, can accuse their trial of be sure to know that they would have Athens IndyMedia Centre Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic being anything but an attempted political extermination of the enemies of the regime, and judging the Revolutionary Struggle in fallen down dead.