(en) Greece, anarchist collective roadside: Social and class
solidarity to refugees and migrants / behavior shows (gr) [machine
translation]
Text shared the path of solidarity to refugees and migrants / behavior shows, 11/21/2015.
- In recent months, dozens of people killed in south eastern borders of Fortress Europe,
the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas other in deadly shipwrecks. Hundreds have been
killed in recent years in their attempt to emigrate. - Nevertheless, tens of thousands
have managed to survive and continue their dangerous journey to European countries, to the
place of destination. - Most are trapped and held in appalling conditions and constant
repression «hot spots» and concentration camps for days, waiting for the precious state
paper to be allowed to continue their course. ---- The barriers they set the EU states of
the exodus of refugees and immigrants from war fields are countless.
The Greek state has chosen to handle the situation with more cynicism and depending on its
interests. A few days ago, while the prime minister stated that those who want to drop the
fence in Evros "have no idea" (while the party of half a year before had in its program),
SYRIZA invited to march against the fence in Evros. It confirms in this way what is the
role of the party itself as flushing mechanism of the reactionary state policies.
Anti-immigrant and murderous in this case, as the fence, preventing secure land transit of
migrants and refugees, leads to very dangerous sea route.
And while the sea washes up daily corpses of immigrants and refugees, the government shed
crocodile tears for the weary refugees. It is clear that the policy of the Greek State and
EU They are culpable for the killings at the border. It could not be otherwise.
Since the summer, when the first large groups of refugees and migrants arrived in the
Greek islands and then in Athens, loomed the huge (and deliberate) vacuum state in the
management of the "crisis". This gap was covered partly by the many local, self-organized
kinematic support initiatives and solidarity of refugees. Squatting shelter, soup
kitchens, collecting clothing, toys, medicines, solidarity rallies and daily reception of
people arriving in the islands and intermediate cities were on the agenda of the movement
since the summer, based on internationalist, social / class solidarity but also on the
basis simple humanism.
Systematic state propaganda through the media, regarding the refugee as a major issue and
sight timeliness directed any social reactions in the context of charity and
'casualization' of the problem: on the one hand, if the refugees' want to leave " allayed
any kind of racist and intolerant as any other case would be expressed in the usual racism
and bourgeois utilitarianism who dominates. On the other, the feelings expressed through
solidarity initiatives for refugees was largely philanthropic, but with actions to respond
to very tangible survival problems. The fact that social reflexes were such, creates a
fairly precarious ground and left the movement to put solidarity in the class level and
the other to radicalise consciousness and to eradicate racism and xenophobia once and for all.
At the same time, this crisis was yet another opportunity for economic and political
exploitation. The local shopkeepers and small traders in points-stations refugees
overcharged for a bottle of water or to charge their mobiles. Owners nearly tripled the
cost of ferry tickets purchased by the refugees to Piraeus. The initiative
fascist-residents in Victoria has hatched fought again. Local pliatsikologousan boats of
refugees on the coasts, "unidentified masked" in speedboats attacked tearing boats and
disabling engines, while port and frontex continued and continue the pious work of
preventing entry of refugees in Greek territorial waters. The combined effect of local
exploiters with the formal and informal national and European law enforcement mechanisms
aimed at two levels: firstly to prevent entry and subsequent economic bled far managed to
cross the Aegean.
All the above, converted into spectacle by the media, became a bargaining chip in the
hands of the Greek State, in order to flow the funds of European hot money. Certainly not
for the needs of refugees and guaranteeing safe passage, but for feeding both the local
mechanism of repression and exploitation and to build new trapping and collecting
structures. From the beginning to the end of the movement of immigrants is for the state
and the bosses opportunity "biznes" and development of local entrepreneurship ....
Simultaneously with the devaluation of the new refugee and immigrant populations, the EU
will improve control of its borders and the movement of people inside, and will allocate
the majority of immigrants or refugees (classifying them in one category or the other
depending on conjunctural interests) in disadvantaged areas as cheap labor or
concentration camps. The construction of fortress Europe is intensifying, with the EU
finance building large capacity concentration camps in Turkey and other countries to
exclude most of the refugees outside.
The endokapitalistiki conflict of interest, the state rivalries and wars, poverty,
religious oppression, dictatorships of the Middle East uproot people from their homes.
People of all ages and classes are forced into a large wave of immigration. The recent hit
blind hatred in multicultural areas of Paris is an example of the daily horror from which
refugees and migrants fleeing. The Islamic State beats the daily lives of Europeans,
bringing the war to the enemy camp, the sole purpose of terrorizing and showdown. As
anarchists and anarchist, we would never be in favor of one or other authoritarian bloc in
the war that rages. Competition and war between states are first and foremost victim of
the oppressed and exploited within them. Their basic aim and result is the consolidation
of their sovereignty simultaneously and parallel to the internal and to rival states
Opposite the 'Western unity "that starts another military operation outwards militarizing
both its interior, antiparatassoume class unity, and struggle against state and capital.
We believe that the struggle for the safe movement of people who are forced to migrate is
self-evident. Recognizing that the fate of those who manage to settle in European
countries is the under worker and laborer undervalued, we can only connect our destinies,
as members of the class of the exploited and oppressed, with them. Each conquest of our
class is winning for all and all of us, beyond all artificial, government imposed,
separation (ethnicity, religion, refugee-immigrant discrimination), so "that we are on the
side of the refugees and migrants / three at the races for papers and equal treatment.
Against the class exploitation and oppression, project and our practice is common
struggles locals and immigrants against the fascists, the bosses, the States and the wars.
Across the state and religious totalitarianism agonizomasate to destroy gods and masters,
for a world of freedom, equality and solidarity.
Common struggles locals and immigrants against State and Capital
Free and safe movement for refugees and migrants
To tear down the concentration camps, the fence in Evros and each border
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