A-Infos (en) Greece, APO, Land & Freedom: Invitation to the 6th Freedom Festival of Social, Class & International Solidarity (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

5-6-7 JULY 2024 | LAMPIDONA (HOLY TRIADAS PARK) - BYRONAS ---- The 
savage attack that societies are experiencing today, amid conditions of 
deep and comprehensive systemic crisis and delegitimization of the 
political system worldwide, is escalating and the incurable 
contradictions of the state-capitalist model of organization are 
highlighted, as well as the absolute inability to produce from above any 
coherent social vision, perspective and hope. The roots of this 
ever-intensifying aggression lie in the very nature of the oppressive 
and exploitative system. The need for deepening and expanding power 
leads to the control of every human activity, with the aim of the 
complete subjugation of society to the dictates of the state and the bosses.
The bankrupt world of power has nothing to offer those below but war and 
fascism, nothing but refugees, looting of nature and societies, nothing 
but impoverishment and death. This is shown in the most tragic way, both 
in the war carnage in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army 2 
years ago and with the genocide that is taking place today against the 
Palestinian people with 35,000 dead in the last 8 months and is the 
brazen escalation of , for 76 years of bloody persecution of the people 
of Palestine from their land by the State of Israel and its allies.

Condemning millions of people to destitution, poverty, disease and 
uprooting is the precondition for ensuring the over-accumulation of 
wealth in the hands of the global economic elites and for the 
rearrangement of geopolitical power relations in the context of 
transnational rivalries, between global, regional and local forces.
The Greek state, as the border guard of Europe-Fortress, has always 
followed and expressed in the most emphatic way the anti-immigration 
policy represented by the European Union. From the Evros fence and 
concentration camps, to shipwrecks in the Aegean and illegal pushbacks, 
he expands his murderous strategy. The increase in forced returns with 
the use of violence signals the continuation of the inhumane, degrading 
and humiliating treatment of refugees and migrants, with theft of 
personal belongings, stripping, beatings, as well as abductions in 
illegal detention centers, until their also illegal re-adoption. The 
Greek regime, with the assistance of the murderous mechanism of Frontex, 
attempts to block and sink boats and ships carrying refugees and is 
responsible for the death of hundreds of migrants and missing people in 
the waters of the Aegean, including children and infants. One such 
tragic criminal case of mass murder by the Greek state and the coast 
guard was the sinking off Pylos, on June 14, 2023, of a fishing boat, on 
which more than 700 refugees and migrants were on board, with the 
intention of crossing from Libya to Italy. The consolidation of the 
physical and moral extermination of refugees and immigrants seeking 
better living conditions is a consequence of the European totalitarian 
policy and reflects the murderous strategy of the states towards the 
weak and oppressed.

In the Greek area, the direction towards the imposition of modern 
totalitarianism is reflected in a multitude of restructurings, which 
serve the declared and permanent goals of the world of Power, regardless 
of political management. Because if today the right seems able to impose 
the hegemony of neo-liberalism and expand its policy attacking the 
workers, the unemployed and everyone from below, it is because the 
political management of social democracy in the name of the radical left 
crushed the movements, it spread delusions, defeatism and illusions in 
large parts of society only to put another brick in the edifice of 
modern totalitarianism and further consolidate the notion that nothing 
can change.

Against the gloomy perspective of Modern Totalitarianism, social and 
class resistances, people's struggles to shake off state capitalist 
brutality emerge as the only hope. From the anti-war demonstrations, the 
struggle against the destruction and looting of the natural world, the 
resistances in neighborhoods to defend public spaces, the anarchist 
struggle against patriarchy and gender violence, the occupations of 
schools and student mobilizations against educational restructuring and 
repression in the universities to the struggles breaking out in the 
factories and farms, the mobilizations for the defense of public health 
against its degradation and dissolution, the struggles that attempt to 
be a bulwark against the violent impoverishment and plundering of the 
social base, the mass mobilizations against an entire system that kills 
on trains, borders and police blocks and the struggle against fascism as 
an integral part of the struggle against the state and capital. In these 
struggles, we anarchists live and breathe. Our organized political 
presence and action on the existing struggle fronts and the formation of 
new ones, we want to be the bridge between the real social needs and 
moods and the anarchist worldview and practice, so that the resistances 
become springboards for social and class emancipation.

The organization of the 6th Freedom Festival by APO-OS aims to create a 
public and open political and cultural space for meeting, communication 
and fermentation between the social and class struggles that develop 
from below and the intervention of anarchist and libertarian initiatives 
within them.
At the same time, we aim to create a space where as many as possible can 
come into contact with the anarchist project of social, class and 
international solidarity and the universal vision of social revolution, 
for a society of equality and freedom through discussions and updates, 
from photo and document exhibitions.
Thus, we will have the opportunity to create another ground where the 
perceptions, practices, proposals, positions and struggles of anarchists 
will be highlighted on a series of issues that run through the political 
and social reality of our time. A public field of dialogue where we will 
have the opportunity to get to know and present struggle experiences and 
political conclusions from resistances that break out with a perspective 
of social liberation.

Against the barbarity of modern totalitarianism that manifests itself on 
a global level, as anarchists, we have to put forward the weapons of 
social, class and international solidarity, recognizing that nowadays it 
is more imperative than ever to connect those fighting internationally 
and to fight together against the common attack that we accept. On every 
open front of the social and class struggle, where the aggression of the 
state and capital is manifested, attempting to radicalize the struggles 
through their connection with the universal social vision of social and 
class emancipation, proposing the only realistic way out for the 
oppressed , the organization of the struggle for social revolution, 
Anarchy and Liberal Communism.

THE STRUGGLE FOR GLOBAL SOCIAL REVOLUTION WILL BE WON!

Anarchist Political Organization - Federation of Collectivities

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/1645-kalesma-sto-6o-eleftheriako-festival-koinonikis-taksikis-diethnistikis-allileggyis
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S  N E W S  S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
Send news reports to A-infos-en mailing list
A-infos-en@ainfos.ca
Subscribe/Unsubscribe https://ainfos.ca/mailman/listinfo/a-infos-en
Archive: http://ainfos.ca/en