Letter from Babis Tsilianidis. (2012)

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On July 18th 2012 the trial takes place in which I am accused of a robbery in the economy sector of Ahepa hospital in the summer of 2010.
In the text that my comrades and I published our first trial (for the arson of vehicles of the national electricity company), we mentioned the decisions we had taken concerning how we would act at our trials, as well as the reasons that led us to them.

For this reason we are also publishing a collective text on the matter of wage slavery as in March, refusing to testify to the judges, the persecutors of the multiform liberating struggle, I will not be present as this trial either. In recent, years we have been going through an era of special interest. The restructuring of the capitalist system that is taking place over this period has caused discomfort to a large part of society and a partial dispute of bthe system by many people.
The polarization of the social body is intensifying, the spreading of fascist and nationalist views and practices is obvious on one side, while on the other there are attempts at elementary self-organization, partial struggles erupting and the more radical parts such as the anarchists, continuing the anti-State struggle with clearer characteristics, no matter what the conditions.
In this situation therefore with the capitalist dream deteriorating, we also see the upgrading of repression on the side of the State. The creation of new police forces, an increase in the use of material from the cameras that are on every corner of the metropolis, the publication of photos of suspects and the search for information from eye withness, continuous upgrading of the terror law are some of the methods used to prevent the inevitable.
A new addition to the repressive arsenal is DNA.
The identification of my DNA found near the spot of the robbery is the evidence that involves me in this case. Persecution of anarchists based on the “discovery” of DNA has taken place in two other cases (the cases of anarchists Aris Sirinidis and Simos Seisidis) while this new “weapon” in the hands of the Greek police has also been used in the persecution of other anarchists in the recent past. The upgrading of the repressive strategy should not surprise us as the use of science and technology, which contributed to a great degree to the advance of authoritarian civilization by the State and power, has always been applied. We on our side as anarchists should not exhaust ourselves in calls for the preserving of our rights by the State, since these presuppose obligations towards it, a contract weowe and which we desire to destroy.
We should promote the total refusal of authoritarian civilization and the rupture with every one of its version. We should intervene in whatever struggles, woth our own point of view, to strenghthem and radicalize them, while at the same time continuing, with even more rage, the anarchist struggle against every form of authority. Revealing the revolutionary libertarian prospects, spreading anarchist perceptions and practices, creating triggers for the taking on of anti-State action by more and more people using any means we judge appropriate for the strengthening of the struggle, away from the bipoles legal-illegal, to work on the structuring of anarchist communities.
Besides, for our enemies we will always be guilty of our attempt to fulfil our desire to live free, to define our lives ourselves at an individuals as well of authority, control and mediation, from relations which reproduce hierarchies, oppression and exploitation, from dependence on “experts”.
An attempt, a struggle which involves the destruction of capitalism, as well as every form of management of the authoritarian civilization.
We should get over the preconceptions that keep us inactive.
We should develop relations that reflect what we promote.
We should prepare and act for the intensification of social civil war, for the spreading of anarchy.
RAGE AND CONSCIENCE
WAR AGAINST THE SOCIAL MACHINE
With our thoughts next to those who continue the struggle and collective liberation from the shackles of authority inside and outside the walls, in every corner of the planet.
Babis Tsilianidis
1st wing of Koridallos Prisons.
19/07/2012