Announcement of DAK (Network of Combative Prisoners) ending the hunger
strike.
After 48 days of struggle we end the hunger strike we carried out
together with other political prisoners, against the legal manifestation
of the anti-revolutionary and wider social strategy of the state
expressed through special legislations of exclusion.
After yesterdays completion of the procedure in parliament, an important
part of the demands placed by the Network of Combative Prisoners, were
in part won.
Specifically:
-The legal framework that defines the operation of C’type prisons.
-The abolishment of the burdensome provision for acts carried out with
covered faces (hoodie law), the minimum limit of sentencing for
demonstrations and robberies was decreased from 10 to 5 years (leaving
the frame of evaluating the conditions under which the act was carried
out, up to the judge).
-The implication of an independent expert on DNA matters was set as well
as a first step concerning the delimitation of its violent extracting.
-House arrest for Savvas Xiros will be enforced (98% disability) in
order for him to receive the necessary treatment, something that will go
for all prisoners who have more than 80% disability.
All hunger strikers together with the comrades outside the walls fought
this hard painful struggle with dignity. The regime of exclusion was
ruptured and now the path has open for its complete abolishment. These
48 days of uncompromising struggle ended in a positive outcome on a
tactical level which is a gain for all those “below”. A positive outcome
for the total struggle against the world of the bosses and the new
totalitarianism they impose. Our aim is to exploit the ground that was
won in order to become more efficient, more dangerous for authority. In
order to get one step closer to a classless society.
We share the life-giving flames of satisfaction with all those who felt
this battle as a common cause.
P.S. In the future we will make a thorough statement concerning the
matters this struggle opened. About its limits and the different
outcomes it could have, given the new political and movement rhythms
which itself highlighted and with which it proceeded. Because only
through the honest review and critical dialogue can we secure even more
victorious struggles.
P.S.2 The day the legislation was voted into parliament, the “leftist”
government clearly showed the real face of authority. The morning
evacuation of the occupied Rectorate in Athens and the arrest of
comrades who were inside is the live proof that authority will always
(left and right) will be bothered by the un-mediated struggles that aim
against the nature of the system they serve. Solidarity and strength to
all the comrades who were arrested during this struggle.
STRENGTH TO THOSE WHO DO NOT BOW THE HEAD
Those participating in the Network of Combative Prisoners,
Adonis Staboulos, Giorgos Karagiannidis, Fivos Xarisis, Argiris Dalios,
Akis Sarafoudis, Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos, Dimitris Politis, Giannis
Mihailidis.