Thousands of people independently of sex, race and age appear before the judicial powers either out of bad luck (when they are brought there in chains), or from naivety (when they are trying to find their “lost rights”), but always due to a condition.
The condition defined by a caste of well-fed, blameless and undefiled authoritarian maniacs capable of reinventing the limits of sadism as well as the perception of time itself. The time the offenders must erase from their lives in order to be corrected and reintegrated into the jungle of the capital where only the strong, credible, rich or those in positions of authority survive.
For the “just” ones who do this job dead time is necessary in order for the offending subject to reform, become disciplined, prove their total inability to be anything other than a citizen. A slave. Fearful. Productive. With respect to property. With faith in institutions. With gratitude to the boss. A citizen, with whatever that entails…
They cynically announce years of sentences gathering tears of loved ones and the unfulfilled dreams of the culprits in pages loaded with charges in huge files behind paragraphs and legislation.
With the pretext of maintaining social peace they convict those who broke their laws like modern inquisitors. They are the ones who propose the incarceration in concentration camps of people who entered the country “illegally” asking for political asylum. They are the ones who order the shaming of “criminals” judged dangerous for the common good, photos of “terrorists” and “hiv-positive” people are served up to us by the 8 o’clock channels, for knowledge and compliance. They are the ones who scorn the economic decadence that leads someone to steal and then convict them with the maximum sentences, without accepting mitigating provisions. It is they who upgrade charges on arrestees from protests and impose exterminating guarantees and bail conditions. They are the ones who propose dozens of years for fighters arrested for attacks on State targets and bank expropriations, characterizing them as members of hierarchically structured organizations who aim at making profit, two values (hierarchy-profit) that fighters clash against all their lives.
We do not expect anything better from all those who, when they find it necessary to defend their bosses, find the legal loophole (often at a price) to lighten the charges of major contractors who pollute nature, loan-sharks who blackmail with the power of their money, bosses who refuse to give workers the wages they owe them.
Finally they are the ones who order the entry of police into occupied spaces as they did recently, in the case of the Athens rectorate building occupied by disabled people, asking for an accessible university putting at the base the problems experienced by all the excluded. As they do every time there is an attempt to give life to a building in order to house the needs of those who refuse to beg or crawl to soup kitchens in community spaces and churches.
There are many things that could be said about justice as an institution of urban democracy, as well as the judges and prosecutors as representatives of the most well-oiled machine of control, oppression and violence that the dominators pass off as the highest objective judge for differences between people.
We remain simply on this: Justice as an institution of capitalist democracy can never be objective. It serves the perpetuation and reproduction of the system of inequalities that define it “unmediated” in solving the production of these inequalities. A step further, its autonomy has nothing to do with cutting the umbilical cord from the centres of authority, Media and capital. On the contrary: through their unification, prosecutors and judges, besides not losing the money they get for the shameful job they do, work for the interests of the bosses before they even get orders. A recent example is the moaning for the increasing conservatization of the new correctional legislation (a legislation you would not call progressive, unless you compare everything with the fascists of New Democracy).
We are not speaking in anyone’s name. The prisoners, those who mainly experience the tragic consequences of the system and justice in their lives but also all those excluded in the cities-prisons, should realize their position, organize and fight for liberation from relations from the walls that divide them today. But above all for complete liberation through the revolution itself and the destruction of State and capital.
Let’s act in order to live our lives freely without States and borders, without prisons and psychiatric clinics, without businesses and the exploitation of nature and people.
In such a prospect we placed a low power incendiary device, in order not to injure any neighbours, at the residence of prosecutor Evaggelos Mademlis on Vroulon street in Nea Krini, on the night of Sunday May 17th.
We send our wishes for a quick recovery to all hunger strikers-political prisoners who from different starting points, have fought an important battle for all of us.
We express our solidarity to the anarchist fighters of DAK, who with their planning, analysis and militancy, keep alive the flame of anarchist struggle in the prisons, and to Giannis Naxakis who prematurely abolished the C’type prisons in one afternoon…
Be strong dudes, it all starts now…
PRISONERS OF THE CITIES AND PRISONS
UNITE AND REVOLT
P.S. It’s been 30 Mays since the clash of anarchist guerilla Ch. Tsoutsouvis with the police in Gizi, which caused his death as well as the death of three cops. Even though we never met him his choices seal our paths today. From his entrance into illegality aged 19 up to the actions of the organizations he participated in, it has left us with something to preserve.
We simultaneously remember that the war with the State has nothing to do with numbers. The revolutionary passion and human warmth of a devoted fighter aiming at the liberation of people cannot go into the same scale as the death of 5-10-15 expendable wilful slaves of the Greek police.
Tanslated by Act for freedom now!
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