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TEXT BY ANARCHIST PRISONERS FROM THE 4TH WING OF KORIDALLOS PRISON – Athens – Greece

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Because of some matters that have erupted concerning recent incidents in Koridallos we believe it’s necessary to make some clarifications. What we find nodal is to not condemn or politically isolate the C.C.F. as a whole (we are referring only to the cell of prisoners, since cells sign with the same name abroad and possibly do not know, nor are they responsible for other people’s  actions) and even more we think that this should not happen due to their theoretical orientation. It is the worst form of politics to blame a whole anarchist tension collectively for actions and choices that concern only a part of it. Whether it’s about anarcho-syndicalists or anarcho-nihilists, critique is independent. What should concern us is the authoritarian behaviour that exists in the anarchist movement, which is often expressed through physical/verbal violence. We consider violence an inseparable part of life and political action when directed against state, capital and authority, but infertile, damaging and self-destructive when mediated in relations between anarchists. Because its objective target is imposition and it restores authoritarian relations between people who are supposed to be hostile towards it, in the worst possible way. The only result is entrenchment, the destruction of dialectic and in the end the cancellation in practice of our anarchist proposal.
Of course this is not a parthenogenesis. Besides, a natural inclination for authority and imposition exists in all of us, as does respectively the passion for freedom and the desire for equality in comradely relations. Often it arises spontaneously from the expression of our contradictory instincts and is expressed with or without moral or political pretexts, but usually with obvious reasons.

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Koridallos prisons: Anarchist prisoner Yannis Naxakis beaten and hospitalized

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Today, Sunday 5/1 at 18.30, outside the A wing, our anarchist comrade Yannis Naxakis was ambushed and beaten up by at least 5 members of the CCF, who were holding stakes. The comrade has been transferred to a hospital outside the prison.

Babis Tsilianidis
Yannis Michailidis
Tasos Theofilou
Dimitris Politis
Fivos Harisis
Argyris Ntalios
Giorgos Karagiannidis
Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos
Alexandros Mitroussias
Grigoris Sarafoudis

http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2014/01/05/koridallos-prisons-anarchist-prisoner-yannis-naxakis-beaten-and-hospitalized/

Prisiones de Koridallos, Atenas: El preso anarquista Yannis Naxakis golpeado y hospitalizado

El domingo, 5 de enero de 2014, a las 18:30 horas, por fuera del módulo A de las prisiones de Koridallos, nuestro compa anarquista Yannis Naxakis cayó en una emboscada y fue apaleado por (al menos) 5 miembros de la Conspiración de Células del Fuego, que llevaban palos. El compa fue trasladado a un hospital externo.

Babis Tsilianidis
Yannis Michailidis
Tasos Theofilou
Dimitris Politis
Fivos Harisis
Argyris Ntalios
Giorgos Karagiannidis
Andreas-Dimitris Bourzoukos
Alexandros Mitroussias
Grigoris Sarafoudis

Greek prisons: Text by anarchist prisoners Alexandros Mitroussias and Giorgos Karagiannidis

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For sure, contradiction holds lead in our detractors’ criticism. Thus, the alleged “defeat” of claiming responsibility is used at the same time by innocent imprisoned anarchists, and solidarians of theirs, as main alibi for proving that they are not associated with what cops accuse them of (take the trial for the 250 attacks of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire for example, in which other, unrelated individuals are accused along with us). So, if it weren’t for the “defeat” of our choice to claim responsibility, and we had had recourse to vague silence—since there is legally no evidence against us (fingerprints, DNA samples, or recognition by eyewitnesses)—some would probably raise “complaints”…’
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