Anarchist posters calling for demonstrations on November 17th, commemorating the Athens Polytechnic uprising in 1973 against the Greek military junta (1967–1974):
Faced with economic and political crash we should create the conditions for the revolutionary organization of our class, wherever social and class struggle is daily developed, and crash the mediation mechanisms, syndicalist bureaucracies and political parties’ manipulators.
Demonstration: November 17th, 14.00, Klafthmonos Square
Anarchists/Anti-authoritarians
Polytechnio 2011
Faced with the darkness of every tyranny and slavery
we choose the bright way of struggle and humanity
to let the sun of freedom shine
Gathering: Thursday, 17.11.2011, 15.30, Syntagma
Anarchist Archives Group of Athens
THEN, BY TANKS [1973]
“Athens Polytechnic School was evacuated; the army intervened by tanks”
NOW, BY BANKS [2011]
“The government confessed bankruptcy; poll tax and salaries freeze”
REVOLT NOW
November 17th, 1973. The youth revolts, the anti-dictatorship struggle approaches its peak. After 38 years, we see that nothing’s ended. [. . .]
We don’t forget the attacks by police/security forces in major strikes, the terrorism laws, the beatings and arrests, the frame-up trials, the abolition of the university asylum, the training of military units to suppress demonstrations, and of course the political prisoners. The Church cannot escape our criticism; this parasitic institution pushes believers to inaction and wishful thinking, while its property, the power of its bodies and their interests align themselves with the camp of shipping tycoons, big industrialists and bankers. To those who are still lured by the conservative calls of this reactionary mechanism we can only say that change does not come with prayers.
Living — as we all do — in today’s capitalist crisis and wanting to emphasize the timeliness of the Polytechnic uprising, we considered important to invite the local community to a march in the neighbourhoods of Ano Glyfada, Elliniko and Argyroupoli. We thereby open multiple fronts of resistance and conflict, and create relations of solidarity by promoting the idea and the importance of decentralized action.
We reject any kind of racist and fascist attitudes, setting as first target Solidarity and Decentralization.
AGAINST STATE, CAPITAL AND ALL TERROR LAWS
WE CLAIM OUR LIFE BY TAKING TO THE STREETS
Local demonstration in Ano Glyfada, Elliniko and Argyroupoli
(southern suburbs of Athens)
Gathering point: November 17th, 16.00, Aghios Tryphonas Square, Ano Glyfada
Anarchist collectivity from Elliniko, Argyroupoli, Ano Glyfada
also —> poster calling to the anarchist block in Heraklion, Crete