A-Infos (en) Greece, liberta salonica: Update from the demonstration (5/10) in Thessaloniki against US Secretary of State M. Pompeo's visit to Athens [machine translation]

A relatively small number of people marched against Mike Pompeo's visit and the new 
US-Greece Mutual Defense Agreement. to be signed and for an indefinite renewal of the 
Convention on the bases, their upgrading, the purchase of new military equipment, 
individual agreements for the development of trade, economic, energy and military 
relations between the two countries, which could not be missed by the agenda and the 
maximum possible cooperation in both the migration and upgraded and pro-war strategy of 
the Greek state in the region (with the backs and on behalf of local and multinational 
hydrocarbon mining companies). ---- Following the call of the Thessaloniki Freedom 
Initiative and the Anarchists' Collectivity from the East, an anarchist bloc was formed 
which was supported by 60 other comrades. The whole course (KKM-L, ANTARSIA, LAE, KEERFA, 
OKDE, FROM) did not exceed 250 people, while the anarchist bloc had a strong pulse with 
slogans against militarism, imperialism, nationalism, nationalism, nationalism war but 
also with slogans of solidarity with immigrants. Indicatively, they heard:

"PEACE TO PEOPLE-WAR IN NATO I WANT THE WORLD BROTHER

BLOCK CLASS TO NATIONALISM IN WAR IN NATO MILITARISM

POVERTY, POVERTY AND MILITARISM IN OUR COUNTRY IS THE ENEMY

WITH MIGRANTS WE ARE ALONG, REPRODUCTION TO NATO AND NATION

ORGANIZED AND ARMED BROADCASTER, LET'S STOP NATO MASSACRE "

Due to the organized and banner-based presence of the Popular Unity in concentration and 
on the march, the anarchist bloc kept a distinct distance from the rest of its body, even 
wanting to separate its position at street level from the anti-Turkish and anti-Macedonian 
nationalists. positions expressed in recent years by its leadership group that openly 
supported the rallies of the ND, the Golden Dawn, the church, the caravans, the cops, the 
fascists, the national troupe, as well as the 6-month presence of LA deputies n government 
set up in January 2015 (positions and keep following the agreement of February 20, 2015 in 
the corresponding Eurogroup).

We do not suffer from left-handedness. Existing political and tactical differences with 
leftist organizations are a field of enduring ideological struggle, opposition, 
convergence and divergence in demonstrations, in unions, in assemblies, in the real life 
of the working class and the oppressed. But our choice in recent years is either not to go 
out to joint demonstrations, to ask for leave or to keep distance from the UAE, or to do 
as we did today (and without ever doing so today in terms of physical violence or based on 
in - most of the time - our overwhelming numerical superiority but with arguments) is 
vital to us. And the reason for this hubris is not only based on the existence of 
political disagreement - even if it concerns crucial issues in this regard,

Because for the last two years and while the majority of the LAU has supported politically 
and tried to legitimize the rallies for Macedonia socially, the anarchist movement in the 
city has fought daily battles (ideological as well as materialistic on the streets) with 
the bourgeoisie. nationalist rallies - a race that managed to win at a heavy cost of course -.

So our presence today in the demonstration comes as a continuation of last April's 
campaign, as yet another point in trying to crush an anti-war movement that will be linked 
to labor struggles, migrant struggles, struggles oppressed from other parts of the globe, 
but and with struggles for the defense of the natural world, like a call that banners say, 
it wants to raise an internationalist and classical bloc in imperialism, militarism, war 
and capitalist "peace", far and wide. opposite national narratives.

And so we will continue.

Thessaloniki Freedom Initiative

Collectivity of Anarchists from the East

https://libertasalonica.wordpress.com/2019/10/05
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