A-Infos (en) Greece, APO: The race in Lutzerath, Germany (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Intervention at the German consulate in Thessaloniki by the anarchist political 
organization (thessalonica), in solidarity with the fighters in Lutzerath, 
Germany. ---- The village of Lutzerath located in western Germany, in the state 
of North Westphalia-Rhineland, has recently been the target of repression. 
Specifically, after the sale of the last plot to the mining company RWE, there 
was a plan to evacuate the village in order to expand the lignite mine that has 
been operating in the area since 2006. Something that happened on Wednesday 11/1, 
after a large police operation using water pumps, dogs, tanks, as since 2020 
thousands of supporters have flocked to the area determined to defend the village 
and its natural wealth to the end. On Sunday 15/11 there was a major attempt to 
recapture with the participation of over 30,000 people, but despite the many 
hours of clashes with the repression forces, it was not crowned with success. The 
village of Lutzerath will be the latest in a series of over 20 villages that, 
after being dispossessed and deserted, were looted and turned into vast 
construction sites to serve the interests of the mining industry. It is worth 
emphasizing that this particular agreement, which was signed with the blessings 
of the Green party and under the guise of covering the energy needs of the German 
state, is defiantly characterized as "environmentally friendly" as it prevents 
the destruction of another 5 villages.

Once again we witness state threats, evacuations of public spaces, repressive 
strikes, scandalous deals aimed at plundering the natural world. It may be that 
this time the specific events are taking place far from Greece, but the thread 
that connects this fight with hundreds of others, both domestically and 
internationally, is the gluttony of capital, the efforts to maximize the profits 
of the bosses whatever the consequences, the continuous and ever-intensifying 
attack on the interests of the social base, in short the barbaric nature of the 
state-capitalist system. What in the language of the technocrats is called 
development through investment, privatization, etc., in the language of the 
oppressed must be translated as unceasing devaluation and impoverishment of their 
lives. Let's not laugh, the ever-expanding control of vast areas of the planet 
and their exploitation by capitalists for the realization of profitable 
activities, can only "offer" death to people of our class.

In Greece there are countless examples. From the thousands of acres of burnt land 
in the summer of 2021 due to the criminal indifference of the ND government and 
the looting of mountains and forests across the territory for the construction of 
wind farms, to the plans for gold mining in Halkidiki and the construction of a 
hydroelectric dam on the Acheloos River , the dangerousness of 
state-environmental policy, always interspersed with "green development" programs 
due to supposed ecological concerns, is revealed. In the same context, the 
destruction of various public spaces within the urban fabric can be included, 
such as the Strefi hill, the Cyprus and Patision park in Kypseli, the Exarchia 
square, under the pretext of their regeneration to better serve the needs of the 
residents of the respective area. As well as the evacuations of social spaces and 
occupations that are supposed to be aimed at returning them to society and 
creating a climate of "order and security". But in reality all these movements 
reflect the eternal purposes of the world of power, which are none other than the 
unstoppable hoarding of the bosses at the expense of the social base on the one 
hand, and the annihilation on the other hand of every pocket of resistance that 
develops within society and stands as an embankment in the encroachment of state 
and capital.

In these difficult circumstances it is therefore necessary to support those who 
resist and fight against the impoverishment and death imposed by the capitalist 
system. To give a hand to those who claim to improve living conditions and fight 
with a vision to build a better society, without exploitation and inequality. To 
stand strong, not to give up the fight and by thickening our lines, forging 
social and class resistances, to go on the counterattack.

SOLIDARITY TO THOSE FIGHTING IN LUTZERATH

EXPLOITATION AGAINST NATURE, STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND FREEDOM

https://landandfreedom.gr/el/agones/1098-o-agonas-sto-lutzerath-tis-germanias
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