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Greece – Riot police brutally beat migrants on hunger strike in Paranesti Dramas

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Following our communication by phone with many migrant prisoners in the Paranesti Detention Center, we were informed of the following events that took place on Friday 3rd of April. In the aforementioned camp there are 6 wings in which are places 7 to 8 containers, and in each one are cramped together 15 persons. The living conditions are terrible and the people are lacking basic resources for survival.

Under conditions of life threatening detention, the authorities on top of this, ceased to accept any asylum claims a month ago and they ordered confinement due to the corona virus. As a result the migrants were confined inside the containers without any hope of freedom. No information was given to them about the reasons they were quarantined, about what is going on outside or even what they should be doing to protect themselves from the virus.

In a climate of general upheaval and uncertainty, on Friday 3rd of April they decided to react initially regarding the terrible food that they are given and then, in coordination, 500 to 600 people in all 6 wings refused the meals. They made known to the Administration the reasons of their mobilization and the authorities reacted immediately telling them their demands would be met and convincing them to accept the food temporarily.

Later the same day they were given the same inedible food to eat and so, realizing the intentions of the Guards, they decided to declare hunger strike not only for the meals but also demanding to be informed about the health situation and the reasons for their isolation.

The managers of the concentration camp, as true heirs of their fascist predecessors, locked up the migrants inside the containers, aiming to isolate and terrorize them so as to stop their mobilization. Moreover, as punishment they cut the supply of food in the super market.

What followed is worthy of the Nazi tradition in the concentration camps. After keeping them imprisoned for hours inside the containers, around 9 pm the riot squad came along with the OPKE (heavily armed units) cops and 2 vans full of fully armed cops. Savage beatings followed with the repression forces opening the doors of the containers one by one and dragging out of them the migrants one by one beating them up. They would enter the containers, 6-7 cops together beating indiscriminately everyone in their sight. Then they would drag them outside beating them on the head, the legs, the body and wherever their batons would strike. The migrants say that even tasers were used against them.

The whole operation lasted 2 to 3 hours, and when the cops took out all their fury, they decided to elaborate their torture, by keeping some migrants outside on the containers in the cold until the middle of the night, while locking others inside.

Many of the migrants were badly hurt and taken the next day to hospital, some were punitively transferred to other detention centers while some were taken to the cells of police stations. Some were transferred to the nearest clinics for their wounds. In this way they dispersed them, isolating them so as to not have any contact between them and so as to silence the events.
This violence, the repression against hunger striker migrants should not pass!

We don’t forget, we don’t forgive.
Bastards of the police, we are drops of the coming storm.

https://325.nostate.net/2020/04/09/riot-police-brutally-beat-migrants-on-hunger-strike-in-paranesti-dramas-greece/

Contrattacco di classe: Pandemia come sintomo dello Stato di emergenza del sistema

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Risulta chiaro che la diffusione del Coronavirus è più di una semplice minaccia per la salute. Senza ignorare l’importanza della Salute pubblica, che è attualmente messa a dura prova da parte di un virus incontrollato, riteniamo che il nucleo della gestione pandemica non sia tanto di ripristinare la sicurezza sanitaria, quanto di affrontare le sue conseguenze devastanti sull’economia. Lo scoppio della pandemia non si è verificato in un tempo storico neutrale, ma durante cambiamenti epocali, avviati, almeno nell’ultimo decennio, dallo scoppio della crisi capitalista globale. È un dato di fatto, quindi, che la gestione della crisi sanitaria sia incorporata nella più ampia gestione della crisi del sistema e dei deadlock che si sono creati.

Passando per il periodo di “pace”, senza precedenti, che ci lasciamo alle spalle, in cui stava avvenendo un fenomeno di rallentamento o addirittura fissazione della produzione, la pandemia accelera rapidamente il tempo storico e intensifica le tendenze destabilizzanti già esistenti nell’economia globale (recessione, mancanza di investimenti, concorrenza commercial-energetica) con qualcosa di ancora più drastico.

L’economia mondiale è il malato. E la pandemia, come fenomeno ciclico, incarna le sue contraddizioni dell’epoca in cui si manifesta. Infatti, il cortocircuito provocato dalla diffusione del virus Covid-19, accelera la necessità di un’altra ristrutturazione capitalistica, questa volta in ambito bellicoso. In un periodo di stagnazione economica globale, di accumulo del capitale (ancora una volta) in ambito finanziario e della creazione di una “bolla” ancora più pericolosa di quella portò alla crisi del 2008.

Questa mancanza di sbocco e l’imminente deflagrazione dell’economia globale, si riflettono nello sforzo incessante degli Stati di mantenere o rafforzare la loro posizione nella quota di mercato rimasta. Si riflettono nella militarizzazione dell’economia, sia in termini di politiche commercial-energetiche aggressive (embargo, sabotaggio, sanzioni e tariffe), che in termini di impiego militare diretto o indiretto in aree di interesse energetico e geo-strategico. In un ambiente così

freneticamente competitivo e marginale, la pandemia e le sue conseguenze sull’economia possono solo accelerare lo scoppio di un nuovo, ancora più profondo, fallimento del sistema.

Il fallimento sistemico che sta avvenendo in maniera celata, al momento si manifesta come un processo di “distruzione del capitale”, con il carattere asimmetrico e acceleratorio apportato dalla pandemia. In altre parole, la pandemia è semplicemente il detonatore della bomba a orologeria di un’economia globale che sta per esplodere da tempo. Pertanto, l’arresto della produzione, la riduzione o l’annientamento dei profitti e l’accumulo di debiti per un certo numero settori strategici (turismo, energia, commercio), creeranno un radicale riarrangiamento del mercato con chiusure aziendali e licenziamenti di massa. Chiaramente, questa “distruzione del capitale”eliminerà principalmente le parti più deboli di esso che non saranno in grado di far fronte al sovraindebitamento e, di conseguenza, rafforzerà i grandi monopoli che assorbiranno le perdite principalmente attraverso il prestito dalle banche centrali degli Stati. Ma questo processo di ripristino dei monopoli avverrà in un ambiente ancora più volatile a livello internazionale. La contrazione del PIL di alcuni stati, (Deutsche Bank stima al 24% per l’UE… un dato che non appariva dalla Prima Guerra Mondiale), il crollo del prezzo del petrolio e del gas, l’aumento insostenibile del debito pubblico e privato di alcuni stati capitalisti (ad esempio l’Italia) e il crollo del mercato azionario, sono e saranno temi centrali per delineare confini e alleanze competitivo-belligeranti in cui il mondo del commercio, dell’energia, e delle relazioni diplomatiche che gli stati dovranno affrontare all’indomani della pandemia.

All’interno di questo contesto, l’attuazione di un’”economia di guerra” come prospettato da K. Mitsotakis, descrive bene la situazione attuale. Il mancato e prolungato funzionamento “a pieno regime” del mercato e i suoi effetti a catena su un certo numero di settori dell’economia, agiscono come un acceleratore per il possibile scoppio di un fallimento immediato e incontrollato (anche in Grecia). Il comunicato di guerra emesso da Mitsotakis non riguarda la “minaccia asimmetrica” della pandemia, ma la contrazione sempre crescente dell’economia e la preparazione militare dello Stato per la gestione dello Stato di emergenza. La terminologia scelta dal capo del governo greco per comunicare con la società e le misure adottate per rafforzare e sostenere il capitale e i datori di lavoro paralizzati dal calo di redditività, sono tipiche di condizioni di guerra e fallimento.

Tali interventi statali “marziali” si sono già stati messi in campo nel 2010 con il fallimento ufficiale dello Stato greco. Le misure straordinarie decise dall’UE e dalla BCE con un programma di acquisto di obbligazioni di 750 miliardi di euro (di cui 12 miliardi per la Grecia), a parte il fatto che non sono state destinate a rafforzare l’economia reale come “iniezione di liquidità”, ma ad assorbire le obbligazioni tossiche detenute dai fondi, rientrano nel debito pubblico dei bilanci degli Stati. E se oggi operazioni simili vengono presentate come misure di natura “protezionistica”, domani si riveleranno ancora più disastrose di quelle del 2010, perché si accumuleranno a spese di un’economia spezzata, sovra-indebitata e devastata da più di un decennio. I prestiti “solidali” e le iniezioni di liquidità nel bilancio dello Stato dall’UE sono capitali che dovrebbero essere teoricamente coperti e rimborsati da una società che, di fatto, è già fallita e chiusa. Quindi “economia di guerra” significa un nuovo ciclo di memorandum, licenziamenti, riduzioni salariali e pensioni, spese sociali e privatizzazioni. Quello che lo Stato sta dando oggi per fermare la sua bancarotta, domani lo pagheremo col sangue.

Attualmente, lo Stato, attraverso lo sforzo coordinato di rallentare e controllare la diffusione della pandemia, sta correndo al ripristino della normalità produttiva e al riavvio immediato dell’economia. L’imposizione di severe misure sanitarie, come condizione di base per demarcare e trattare il virus non è attuata in funzione della protezione della salute pubblica come apparentemente affermano, bensì della drastica riduzione temporale della destabilizzazione economica. Qui dovremo soffermarci un po’ più a lungo. Anche se consideriamo che la questione della congiuntura non sia quella di garantire la salute ma di salvare l’economia, ciò non significa che riteniamo, ingenuamente, il rischio pandemico come inesistente. La critica e l’opposizione in un determinato contesto devono sempre essere portate avanti con consapevolezza e Responsabilità Sociale, ricordando che la minaccia per la salute pubblica e la sua attualmente necessaria protezione sono dati di fatto. In quanto soggetti socio-politici, abbiamo la responsabilità di adottare misure di

protezione della salute senza identificarci con gli imperativi dello Stato. Perché lo Stato, come meccanismo criminale-antisociale, impone ordini sanitari-repressivi spostando il peso della diffusione del virus sulla società, sbarazzandosi della

responsabilità politica dell’ormai insufficiente sistema sanitario pubblico. Perché lo Stato e i suoi meccanismi di propaganda, promuovono abilmente la “responsabilità individuale” e le riunioni sociali come le principali cause della diffusione del virus, senza menzionare il sotto-finanziamento, la chiusura degli ospedali, la mancanza di attrezzature, medicinali e unità di terapia intensive. Al contrario stiamo adottando misure non per evitare le nostre responsabilità, ma per sollevarle e portarle sulle nostre spalle, assieme a tutti i ricatti e le estorsioni a cui siamo sottoposti. A chi continua a lavorare nelle condizioni più avverse (lavoro, salute ed economiche) servono coesione sociale e solidarietà e se servono medicine adeguate, cibo e ospedali. A chi è in cassa-integrazione, disoccupato o lavora “a nero”, a chi è prigioniero nelle carceri e nei campi di detenzione per migranti. Stiamo adottando misure per evitare che come popolazione eccedentaria e improduttiva in tempo di guerra, soffriremo e moriremo impotenti.

Stanno parlando e stiamo parlando di guerra. Ed è vero. Perché ciò che sta accadendo intorno a noi oggi è l’unico modo per descriverlo. Dal quadro generale ci troviamo di fronte all’incombenza di una Terza Guerra Mondiale, tra le trincee della vita di tutti i giorni contiamo le migliaia di morti pandemiche da registrare come “vittime di guerra”. Dall’innalzamento dei prezzi al mercato nero. Dagli scaffali dei supermercati vuoti, allo stoccaggio di cibo. Dal “reclutamento” di alcuni dipendenti per ridurre le perdite del datore di lavoro, al licenziamento di altri. Dalla coercizione del lavoro senza prevenzione sanitaria elementare, agli straordinari di emergenza. Dall’insufficienza ospedaliera e di attrezzature mediche e l’inadeguatezza del personale infermieristico, alla trasformazione degli ospedali in reparti zeppi di “feriti di guerra”. Dal divieto di raduni, alla fobia di comunicare e toccarsi a vicenda.

Tutto questo è parte di un trattato di guerra. E ancora di più, la distopia che stiamo vivendo può sembrare poca cosa di fronte a ciò che si prospetterà se lo stato di emergenza sarà esteso e la pandemia si diffonderà in misura incontrollabile. Se il bilancio delle vittime aumenterà e la disoccupazione, la fame, i debiti e l’incapacità di soddisfare i bisogni di base renderanno insostenibile la vita di tutti i giorni. In altre parole se entreremo in uno stato di dissoluzione generalizzata del tessuto sociale con focolai di esacerbazione di violenza antisociale e domestica, depressione, nevrosi e suicidi. Ecco perché oggi, il movimento attuando il progetto senza tempo di solidarietà di classe, è chiamato ad agire come forza trainante per salvaguardare la società. Ma la difesa della nostra classe, la difesa della solidarietà come elemento vitale per la sopravvivenza spirituale e fisica della società, non può essere delineata riempiendo i vuoti lasciati dallo Stato e auto-organizzando la nostra povertà, ma nel rivendicando i bisogni sociali fondamentali come veicolo per la totale trasformazione rivoluzionaria della società. Lo slogan “rivoluzione o barbarie” è ciò che cattura il dilemma dei nostri tempi. Perché l’intensità cosmogonica e l’estensione delle contraddizioni che il capitalismo produce oggi, guideranno l’umanità, sia alla sua liberazione che alla sua regressione.

Quindi dovremmo perseverare. Il periodo in cui ci troviamo è cruciale. L’attacco dello Stato sia a livello economico, riversando le enormi perdite subite verso gli strati sociali più bassi; sia a livello politico con l’istituzione della “quarantena” contro la società e le sue resistenze, ha nuovamente ed enfaticamente posto le questioni di organizzazione e contrattacco del movimento come decisive per il suo futuro. Si giudicherà, ancora una volta nella storia recente, se il movimento è in grado di comprendere l’entità storica delle questioni aperte dalla situazione, se (e come) è in grado di comprendere la sua posizione e il suo ruolo, se riuscirà a svolgere il suo dovere storico: prima come cumulo di resistenza contro l’aggressione capitalista-repressiva e poi come forza critica per il rovesciamento rivoluzionario.

La cristallizzazione delle controversie politiche sulla situazione e i successivi obiettivi fondamentali da fissare, come concreta condensazione dell’aggressione capitalista contro di noi, possono creare le condizioni per la fiducia in sé stessi, una “fiducia di classe”, per l’unione e il contrattacco. La difesa della salute pubblica e il suo rafforzamento con personale permanente aggiuntivo, la fornitura gratuita di beni di prima necessità (medicinali, cibo), il requisito della prevenzione sanitaria dei lavoratori che sono costretti ad essere esposti alla pandemia, lo stop dei pagamenti (affitti, bollette, ecc.) di tutti i disoccupati e dei lavoratori che sono in vacanza forzata, l’arresto dei licenziamenti e l’obbligo di decongestionare le carceri; sono alcuni dei punti che condensano la gestione di classe della pandemia e le lotte che devono essere portate avanti contro di essa.

Ma non ci facciamo illusioni. Le lotte necessarie in questo periodo non sono facili da iniziare in una condizione così soffocante. La crisi ci trova ancora una volta impreparati. E peggio ancora, ci trova in un regime che vieta l’incontro pubblico e la presenza per le strade. L’astensione dal pubblico dominio e la risposta collettiva di massa a ciò che sta accadendo intorno a noi, danno spazio e tempo preziosi al nemico. Il tempo e il territorio che stiamo perdendo sono insostituibili e forse aspettare la fine della pandemia per colmare le lacune che già si stanno formando sarà troppo tardi. La rapidità degli sviluppi e la mancanza di elaborazione collettiva di posizioni e azioni di intervento sociale, possono portare ad una paralisi cinematica generalizzata con ramificazioni catastrofiche. Anche ora, e al fine di proteggere la salute pubblica, dobbiamo considerare la necessità di un’azione in pubblico in situazioni di emergenza. Il nemico si è già organizzato per questo. Dovremmo fare lo stesso. Questa preoccupazione del nemico, attraverso la militarizzazione della vita sociale imposta con il pretesto della pandemia, riguarda i metodi preventivi di contro-insurrezione e la fortificazione dello Stato nei confronti di una possibile esplosione sociale generalizzata, concausa e conseguenza di un fallimento imminente. La quarantena sociale è arrivata per restare, ed è già imposta con il controllo panottico nelle città, attraverso l’integrazione degli ordini istituzionale con metodi distopici di autocontrollo della società sopita e chiusa in casa, ma anche attraverso il dispiegamento di unità militari per le strade delle metropoli. Se in un ambiente così sterile di esasperazione sociale, il mancato rispetto degli ordini sanitari porta a multe e arresti, allora la resistenza in qualsiasi forma dovrebbe essere considerata, di fatto, criminalizzata e sanzionata. Qualcosa sta cambiando e lo sentiamo tutti. Viviamo sull’orlo della storia, nella fase di transizione di un cambiamento radicale del mondo nella forma in cui lo abbiamo conosciuto fino ad oggi. E i sintomi di questo periodo intermedio, sotto forma di antagonismi, pandemie, crisi, fallimenti e militarismo, prefigurano un futuro ancora più inquietante e minaccioso per l’umanità. Qualcosa sta cambiando e lo vediamo tutti.

La scelta, ora, spetta a noi. Non ci sono forze metafisiche che muovono la storia, e la diffusione di una pandemia destabilizzerà ma in nessun modo distruggerà il capitalismo. La discontinuità storica della liberazione di classe sociale e la distruzione del capitalismo, risiedono solo nell’atto umano. Nel violento cambiamento rivoluzionario della società. Gli Stati, fintanto che le loro società e le loro resistenze resteranno dismesse e non organizzate, assorbiranno le vibrazioni delle loro crisi (sanitarie, economiche, di guerra) e creeranno le condizioni per un attacco ancora maggiore. In altre parole, senza resistenza, la sovranità sarà stabilizzata, riorganizzata e rafforzata. E in particolare oggi, l’uscita senza ostacoli del capitalismo dalla sua crisi sanitario-economica, lascerà dietro di sè le condizioni per un cimitero sociale. Silenzio, paura e miseria. La scelta, quindi, sorge nuovamente con enfasi: O NOI O LORO.

Ταξική Αντεπίθεση (ομάδα Αναρχικών και Κομμουνιστών)

2º de “Madrid Cuarentena City”, mediados de abril, publicación por la guerra social en tiempos de estado de alarma

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En este número podéis encontrar:

-Todo va a ir bien.
-Trabajo, producción y consumo. La rueda de la explotación continúa.
-Crónica de la guerra social en estado de alarma.
-La solidaridad como arma.
-La ciudad: caldo de cultivo para enfermedades y control social
-De aquellos fangos estos lodos.
-Llamamiento a extender la okupación: “Okupa la cuarentena”

TODO VA A IR BIEN

Todo va a ir bien.
“Es la historia de un hombre que cae de un edificio de 50 pisos.
Para tranquilizarse mientras cae al vacío no para de decirse:
Hasta ahora todo va bien.
Hasta ahora todo va bien.
Hasta ahora todo va bien…

Pero lo importante no es la caída,
es el aterrizaje.
Como en la metáfora de la película francesa de “La haine”, vivimos en un
mundo que venía condenado al desastre. La destrucción continuada de los
ecosistemas para extraer materias primas, la degradación sistemática de
la corteza terrestre por los monocultivos y la agroindustria, la
expulsión o aniquilación de especies, la transformación de los océanos
en estercoleros, los daños irreversibles en la capa de ozono… han tenido
un avance exponencial en los últimos años. Nos han encaminado hacia una
más que evidente transformación, para mal, de la vida en la tierra.

Al mismo tiempo, hemos generado sociedades aniquiladoras de lo
diferente, enemigas del riesgo y la aventura. Perpetuadoras de
jerarquías y autoridades, esclavas de un sistema económico que prima el
discurrir de la mercancía por encima de todo. El beneficio como única
ideología. En las que lo virtual se impone a lo real. La simulación a la
experiencia.

Estas últimas semanas se iniciaron campañas en lugares como Italia o
España en la que se pedía a niñxs que dibujasen carteles con arcoíris y
el mensaje “todo va a salir bien” o “andrá tutto bene” para luego
colgarlos en los balcones o edificios públicos. Lamentablemente, este
iluso e inocente mensaje implica complacencia con todo lo anterior, un
anhelo de regreso a una realidad autodestructiva para las personas y
perjudicial para nuestro entorno.

Y todo esto lo hemos ido acompañando con una autoinculpación,
considerando a los individuos como culposos agentes responsables de la
transmisión de un virus, cuando es evidente que las enfermedades no se
convierten en pandemias por el hacer de unas cuantas personas, se
necesitan, y desde luego se dan y se daban, una serie de condiciones de
infraestructura (como el hacinamiento en grandes ciudades, por ejemplo),
ambientales, de movimiento, etc

Asumimos, entonces, los mandatos en tono paternalista y patriarcal, de
quedarnos en casa por nuestro bien y el de lxs demás. Pero cuando se nos
prohíbe ir solxs, o con las personas con las que compartimos casa, por
la calle, ¿estamos respondiendo a criterios médicos o de orden público?

Mientras, aplaudamos en los balcones y colguemos carteles… pero quizá no
va a ir bien. Es posible, incluso, que hagamos lo que hagamos no vaya a
ir bien. Las posibilidades de recuperación del planeta son infinitas, no
lo es tanto, sin embargo, que en este resurgir tras las cenizas podamos
seguir existiendo como especie. Pero no vamos a negarnos el placer de
disfrutar de este trayecto, aunque sea el último. Vamos a enfrentar,
pelear, experimentar, imaginar… Señalar y golpear a lxs responsables de
esta realidad y alejarnos con nuestras prácticas de su perpetuación.

Otro mundo es posible, decían los clásicos eslóganes izquierdistas, otro
final del mundo es posible, es la consigna que no nos queda más remedio
que adoptar, y lo hacemos con pasión. Muchxs sin esperanza, pero con la
llama en los ojos de cuando estás tan cerca que puedes asomarte al
abismo.

 

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Eξέγερση στις γυναικείες φυλακές Ελαιώνα στη Θήβα μετά τον θάνατο κρατούμενης – Ανακοίνωση των κρατουμένων γυναικών

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Συνεχίζεται η εξέγερση στις Γυναικείες Φυλακές Ελαιώνα Θήβας, που ξέσπασε το πρωί, μετά από το θάνατο 38χρονης κρατούμενης, η οποία εμφάνισε πυρετό και δύσπνοια και έφυγε από τη ζωή μέσα στο θάλαμο της Ε΄ πτέρυγας, μπροστά σε 20 συγκρατούμενές της, με βάσιμους φόβους ότι η κρατούμενη πέθανε από κορωνοϊό. Οι κρατούμενες έβαλαν φωτιά σε στρώματα και ρούχα, ενώ προκάλεσαν φθορές στα ψυγεία της φυλακής. Στη φυλακή αυτή τη στιγμή έχει καταφθάσει εισαγγελέας ενώ έχει μεταβεί και ιατροδικαστής για να κάνει νεκροψία και νεκροτομή. Ισχυρές αστυνομικές δυνάμεις – ΜΑΤ που έσπευσαν στη φυλακή για ν’ αποτρέψουν την εξάπλωση της εξέγερσης των κρατουμένων γυναικών σε όλες τις πτέρυγες της φυλακής, προχώρησαν σε εκτεταμένους ξυλοδαρμούς ενώ -παρά την καταστολή που ασκήθηκε-, η εξέγερση εξαπλώθηκε σ’ όλη τη φυλακή.

Ανακοίνωση των κρατουμένων γυναικών

9/4/2020

“Σήμερα, 9 Απριλίου, η κρατούμενη Αζιζέλ Ντενίρογλου πέθανε στο θάλαμό της, αβοήθητη, ενώ αντιμετώπιζε κάποια καρδιολογικά προβλήματα ενώ είχε και υψηλό πυρετό. Όλο το βράδυ εκλιπαρούσε για βοήθεια, είχε πόνους στο στήθος και δεν μπορούσε να αναπνεύσει. Σύμφωνα με μαρτυρίες, δεν τη θερμομέτρησαν καν και αγνοούμε τα πραγματικά αίτια του θανάτου της. Η υπεύθυνη υπάλληλος βάρδιας υπηρεσίας την απείλησε με αναφορά, γιατί την ενοχλούσε. Το άψυχο σώμα της συγκρατούμενής μας το έσυραν έξω με σεντόνι, μπροστά στα σοκαρισμένα μάτια όλης της πτέρυγας.Το τραγικό γεγονός έγινε στην Ε΄ πτέρυγα, που στοιβάζονται περίπου 120 άτομα. Οι κρατούμενες εξεγέρθηκαν και η εξέγερση εξαπλώθηκε σε όλη τη φυλακή. Πριν από ένα μήνα πέθανε μία άλλη κρατούμενη. Η εγκληματική αδιαφορία για τις κρατούμενες και την υγεία τους, έχει ως αποτέλεσμα, για πολλές κρατούμενες η έκτιση των ποινών τους, να καταλήγει σε θανατική καταδίκη.Την ευθύνη για το θάνατο της κρατούμενης την έχει η κυβέρνηση και το Υπουργείο. Ζητάμε, να αποφυλακιστούν άμεσα ασθενείς, μωρομάνες με τα παιδάκια τους και ηλικιωμένοι, που θεωρούνται ευπαθείς ομάδες, δηλαδή συνολικά το 1/3 των κρατουμένων. Δεν θα επιστρέψουμε στα κελιά μας, μέχρι το τέλος!”

Η πολιτική κρατούμενη και μέλος του Επαναστατικού Αγώνα Πόλα Ρούπα μάλιστα διαμήνυσε καταγγέλοντας ότι και πριν από περίπου ένα μήνα πέθανε κι άλλη γυναίκα στη συγκεκριμένη φυλακή. Και τόνισε ότι: “Παρά τις υποσχέσεις, για αποσυμφόρηση των φυλακών, λόγω της πανδημίας του κορωνοιού, τίποτα δεν έχει γίνει ακόμη. Tα νοσοκομεία δεν δέχονται ασθενείς από τις φυλακές, γιατρός δεν υπάρχει στη Θήβα. Θα έπρεπε να έχουν αποφυλακιστεί οι ευπαθείς ομάδες. Φυλακισμένες είμαστε. Οχι θανατοποινίτισες”.

https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1604316/

In Corpore Vili

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Here we go. A few hours ago the nationwide state of (health) emergency has been declared. Almost total lockdown. Almost deserted streets and squares. Forbidden to leave the house without a reason considered valid (by whom? by the authorities, of course). Forbidden to meet and hug. Forbidden to organize any initiative requiring even a minimum of human presence (from parties to rallies). Forbidden to be too close to anyone. Suspension of all social life. Warned to stay locked up at home as much as possible, obligated to clinging to some electronic device in anticipation of the news. Obliged to follow the directives. Obliged to always carry a “self-certification” justifying all of your movements, even if you go out on foot. For those who do not submit to the measures taken, the sanctions may include arrest and detention.

And all this for what? For a virus that still divides the experts about its actual dangerousness, as the contested opinions presented by the virologists show (not to mention the substantial difference towards this topic between many European countries)? What if instead of the coronavirus – with its mortality rate of 2-3% everywhere in the world except for the northern Italian regions – an Ebola capable of decimating the population by 80-90% had arrived here? What would have happened? Would it have given way to immediate sterilization by bombardment of the hotspots?
Given the connection of the dynamics in industrial societies and the modern western concept of freedom, it is not surprising that a politics of complete domestic lockdown and curfews is imposed on everyone in order to slow down the spread of viral infection.
What is surprising, if anything, is that such measures are so passively accepted. Not only tolerated, but internalized and justified by the majority of the people. And not only by court minstrels who invite everyone to stay at home, not only by respectable citizens who ensure (and control) each other so that “everything will be alright”. But even by those who because of the infectious horror, are no longer willing to listen to the (until yesterday hailed) refrains against the “state of exception”. They now prefer to take sides in favour of an illusory matter of fact. For never are words so useless as in moments of panic. Let us return to the popular psychodrama in progress in the Belpaese. And let us look at its social effects rather than its biological causes.
Whether this virus comes from bats or from some secret military laboratory, what’s the difference? Nothing. One hypothesis is as good as the other. Besides the lack of information and more precise knowledge in this regard, a trivial observation remains valid: similar viruses can indeed be transmitted by certain animal species. Just as among the many sorcerer’s apprentices of “unconventional weapons” there may well be someone more cynical or reckless. So what?

That said, it is all too obvious that in today’s world it is information that defines what exists. Literally, only what is in the media does actually exist. This point of view gives reason to those who say that turning off the television would be sufficient in order to stop the epidemic from spreading.
Without the media panic-mongering no one would have paid much attention to an unexpected form of flu, whose victims would have been remembered only by their loved ones and some statistics. It would not be the first time. This is what happened with the 20,000 victims caused here in Italy in the autumn of 1969 by the Hong Kong flu, the so-called “spatial influenza”. At that time the mass media talked a lot about it. Since the previous year it sowed death all over the planet, yet it was simply considered as a more virulent form of flu than usual. And that was it. After all, can you imagine what the proclamation of a state of emergency in Italy in December of 1969 would have caused? The authorities could have done it, but they knew they couldn’t afford it. It would have led to uprisings without any doubt. They had to make do with the fear sown by the massacres of the state.

Now, does it make sense to assume that a Far Eastern virus has erupted in the world with such virulence only here in Italy? It is much more likely that it was only here in Italy that the media decided to highlight the news of the outbreak. Whether it was a precise choice or a communication error, this could be a matter of debate for a long time to come. What is all too obvious, on the other hand, is the unleashed panic. And to whom and what it benefits.
Because, one must admit, there is nothing more capable of evoking terror than a virus. It is the perfect enemy, invisible and potentially omnipresent. Unlike what happens with Middle Eastern jihadists, its threat extends and legitimises the need for control almost unlimitedly. Now it’s not the possible perpetrators to are monitored from time to time. But the possible victims, everywhere, all the time. The suspect is not the “Arab” who wanders around in places considered sensitive, but those who breathe because they breathe. If you turn a health problem into a problem of public orderand think that the best way to cure is to repress, then it becomes clear why one of the candidates for the role of super-commissioner of the fight against the coronavirus was the former chief of police at the time of the G8 in Genova 2001 and current president of the biggest Italian arms company (but since business is business, in the end they preferred a manager with military training: the director of the national agency for investment and business development). Is it perhaps a question of responding to the demands expressed in the Senate by a well-known politician, who stated that “this is the third world war our generation is committed to undergo, destined to change our habits more than September 11th”? After Al-Qaeda, here is Covid-19. And here are also the bulletins of this war at the same time virtual and viral
; the numbers of dead and wounded, the chronicles from the battle fronts, the narration of the acts of sacrifice and heroism. Now, what has the rhetoric of war propaganda ever served to, throughout history, if not to put aside any divergence and mobilize to form ranks behind the institutions? At the moment of danger, there must be neither divisions nor criticism but only unanimous support behind the flag of the homeland. Thus, in these hours inside the buildings, the idea of a public health government is being aired. Without forgetting a first side effect that is not at all unwelcome: whoever sings out of tune can only be a defeatist who deserves to be lynched for high treason.
As has already been mentioned, we do not know whether this emergency is the result of a premeditated strategic project or of a run to the shelter after a mistake has been made. We do know, however, that – in addition to flattening any resistance to Big Pharma’s domination of our lives – it will serve to spread and consolidate voluntary servitude, to make obedience internalized, to get us used to accepting what is unacceptable. What could be better for a government that has long since lost all semblance of credibility, and by extension for a civilization that is clearly rotting? The bet made by the Italian government is huge: to establish a red zone of 300,000 square kilometres as an answer to nothing. Can a population of 60 million people snap to attention and throw themselves at the feet of those who promise to save them from a non-existent threat, like a Pavlov dog drooling at the simple sound of a bell? This is a social experiment whose interest in the results transcends Italian borders. The end of natural resources, the effects of environmental degradation and constant overcrowding are announcing everywhere the unleashing of conflicts, whose prevention and management by power will require draconian measures. This is what some have already called “ecofascism”, whose first measures will not be very different from those taken today by the Italian government (which in fact would be the delight of any police state). Italy is the right catalytic country and a virus is the perfect transversal pretext to test such procedures on a large scale.
So far the results seem to be exciting for soul engineers. With very few exceptions, everyone is willing to give up all freedom and dignity in exchange for the illusion of salvation. If the favourable wind should change direction, they can always announce that the dangerous virus has been eradicated to prevent the boomerang effect. For the time being, it has been the inmates killed or massacred during the riots that broke out in about thirty prisons after the visiting hours were suspended. But obviously it was not an embarrassing “Mexican butcher’s shop”, but a commendable Italian pest control. The fact that the emergency offers those in authority the possibility of publicly adopting behaviour that until yesterday was kept hidden can also be seen in the small facts of the news: in Monza a 78 year old woman, who visited the polyclinic because she was suffering from fever, coughing and breathing difficulties, was subjected to coerced treatment (Trattamento Sanitario Obbligatoria) after having refused to be hospitalized on suspicion of coronavirus. Since TSO (established in 1978 by the famous law 180) can only be applied to so-called psychically ill people, that forced hospitalization was an “abuse of power” (as beautiful democratic souls like to say). One of many committed daily, only in this case it was not necessary to minimize or conceal it, and it was made public without the slightest criticism. A similar approach was taken in the case of seven foreigners guilty of… playing cards in a park. It is the least that could happen to contrarian individuals without any “sense of responsibility”.
Yes, responsibility. That’s a word on everyone’s lips today. You have to be responsible, a reminder that is constantly repeated and that translated by the new speak of power means only one thing: you have to obey directives. Yet it is not difficult to understand that it is precisely by obeying that one avoids all responsibility. Responsibility has to do with conscience, the happy encounter between sensitivity and intelligence. Wearing a mask or being locked up at home just because a government official dictated it does not indicate active responsibility, but passive obedience. It is not the result of intelligence and sensibility, but of credulousness and dabbleness seasoned with a good dose of cowardice. An act of responsibility should arise from the heart and head of each individual, not be ordered from above and imposed under threat of punishment. But, as is easy to guess, if there is one thing that power fears more than any other, it is precisely consciousness. Because it is from the conscience that protest and revolt is born. And it is precisely in order to blunt every conscience that we are bombarded 24 hours a day by the most futile television programs, on-screen entertainment, radio chatter, telephone chirping… a mammoth enterprise of social formatting whose purpose is the production of mass idiocy.

Now, if one considered the reasons for declaring the state of emergency with a minimum of sensitivity and intelligence, what would come of it? That an unacceptable state of emergency has been declared for inappropriate reasons by an unreliable government. Can a state which ignores the 83,000 victims caused each year by a market in which it has a monopoly position, and which leaves it a net profit of 7.5 billion Euro be credible when it claims to establish a red zone throughout the country to stem the spread of a virus that, according to many of the virologists, will help to cause the deaths of a few hundred people, who are already ill, perhaps even killing some of them directly? Perhaps in order to prevent 80,000 people from dying from air pollution every year, have you ever thought of blocking factories, power stations and cars throughout the country? And is it this same state that has closed more than 150 hospitals in the last ten years that is now calling for more responsibility?
As for the materiality of the facts we may doubt whether we really want to face them. Certainly not the sinister imbeciles, who in view of the massacre carried out in every sphere by this society, are only capable of cheering for the revenge of the good welfare state (with its public health and its great useful works) on the bad liberal state (stingy with the poor and generous with the rich, completely unprepared and close to facing a new “crisis”). And even less so do the good citizens ready to remain without freedom in order to have crumbs of security.
Because facing the materiality of the facts means also and above all to consider what you want to do with your body and your life. It also means accepting that death puts an end to life, even because of a pandemic. It also means respecting death, and not thinking that you can avoid it by relying on medicine. We’re all going to die, all of us. It’s the human condition: we suffer, we get sick, we die. Sometimes with little, sometimes with a lot of pain. The mad medicalisation, with its delusional purpose of defeating death, does nothing but root the idea that life must be preserved, not lived. It’s not the same thing.
If health – as the WHO has been claiming since 1948 – is not simply the absence of disease, but full physical, mental and social well-being, it is clear that the whole of humanity is chronically ill. And certainly not because of a virus. How should this total well-being be achieved? With a vaccine and antibiotic to be taken in an aseptic environment? Or with a life lived in freedom and autonomy? If hospitals so easily pass off the “presence of vital parameters” as a “form of life”, is it not because they have forgotten the difference between life and survival?
The lion, the so-called king of animals, symbol of strength and beauty, lives on average 10-12 years in the savannah. When it is in a safe zoo its lifespan can double. Locked in a cage he is less beautiful, less strong – he is sad and obese. They have taken away his risk of freedom to give him security. But in this way he no longer lives, he can at most survive. The human being is the only animal who prefers to spend his days in captivity rather than in the wild. It does not need a hunter to point a rifle at him, it is voluntarily behind bars. Surrounded and dazed by technological prostheses, it no longer even knows what nature is. And it is happy, even proud of the superiority of its intelligence. Having learned to do the math, it knows that eight days as a human being is more than one as a lion. Its vital parameters are present, especially the one considered fundamental by our society: the consumption of goods.

There is something paradoxical in the fact that the inhabitants of our titanic civilization, so passionate about superlatives, are trembling confronted with one of the smallest living micro-organisms. How dare a few millionths of an inch of genetic material jeopardize our peaceful existence? It’s nature. Considering what we’ve done to it, it would also be right to wipe us out. And all the vaccines, intensive care, hospitals in the world, they can never do anything about it. Instead of pretending to tame her, we should (re)learn to live with nature. In wild societies, without relationships based on power, not in civilized states.
But this would require a “change in behaviour” not very welcome to those who govern us, to those who want to govern us, to those who want to be governed.

[12/3/20]

Thebes (Greece) – Rebellion in the women’s prisons of Eleonas in Thebes following the death of a prisoner – Announcement of women prisoners

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9/4/20, The uprising continues in the Women’s Prisons of Eleonas, Thebes. It broke out in the morning, after the death of a 38-year-old prisoner, who developed fever and shortness of breath and died in the ward of the E΄ wing, in front of 20 prisoners. The prisoner died of coronavirus. The other prisoners set fire to mattresses and clothes, while damaging the prison’s refrigerators. A prosecutor has now arrived at the jail and a medical examiner has gone to perform an autopsy. Strong police forces – MAT – who rushed to the prison to prevent the spread of the women’s uprising to all the wings of the prison, carried out extensive beatings and – despite the repression that took place – the uprising spread throughout the prison.

Announcement of women prisoners

9/4/2020 “Today, April 9, prisoner Azizel Deniroglou died in her ward, helpless, as she also had heart problems and a high fever. She had been begging for help all night as she had chest pains and could not breathe.
According to testimonies, they did not even measure her temperature and we are unaware of the real causes of her death. The shift manager threatened her with a report, because it bothered her. The lifeless body of our fellow prisoner was dragged out with a sheet in front of the shocked eyes of the whole wing. This tragic incident took place in the E wing, where about 120 people are stacked. The prisoners revolted and the uprising spread throughout the prison. Another prisoner died a month ago. The criminal indifference to the prisoners and their health has resulted in the death of many detainees, the government and the Ministry are responsible for sentencing them to death. The government and the Ministry are responsible for the death of this prisoner. We demand the immediate release of patients, mothers with their children and the elderly, who are considered vulnerable, a groups, a total of 1/3 of the prisoners. We will not return to our cells until the end! ”

Pola Roupa, a political prisoner and member of Revolutionary Struggle, also complained that another woman had died in prison about a month ago. She stressed that: “Despite promises of prison decongestion due to the coronavirus pandemic, nothing has been done yet. Hospitals do not accept inmates from prisons, there is no doctor in Thebes. The vulnerable groups should have been released. ” We are imprisoned. We were not sentenced to death.”

SOLIDARITY ASSEMBLY OF R.O. REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE

You’ll never riot alone

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Heute gibt es auf der ganzen Welt eine weitere Pandemie. Die WHO befasst sich überhaupt nicht mit dieser, da sie nicht in ihrer Zuständigkeit liegt und die Medien versuchen, sie zum Schweigen zu bringen oder zu minimieren. Aber die Regierungen der ganzen Welt sind besorgt über das damit verbundene Risiko. Diese Pandemie breitet sich im Fahrwasser des biologischen Virus aus, das momentan die Krankenhäuser füllt. Sie ist kurz gesagt parallel dort zu finden, wo Covid-19 vorbeikommt. Auch sie raubt einem den Atem. Die Angst vor einer Ansteckung verursacht auch tatsächlich Wut. Die ersten Symptome des Unwohlseins neigen dazu, sich zu verschlimmern und sich zunächst in Frustration, dann in Verzweiflung und schließlich in Wut zu verwandeln. Wut über das Verschwinden der letzten Krümel von Lebemöglichkeiten und das auf ärztliche Anordnung.
Es ist bezeichnend, dass bei der Ankündigung der restriktiven Maßnahmen der Behörden zur Verhinderung der Ausbreitung der Epidemie – eine Art freiwilliger Hausarrest – gerade diejenigen, die ihr Leben von vier Wänden umgeben fristen, die bereits täglich unter Zwang unter der Gefangenschaft litten – die Gefangenen – das Pulverfass in Brand setzten. Die Tatsache, dass sie ihrer wenigen verbliebenen menschlichen Kontakte beraubt wurden, mit der Gefahr, als Ratten in der Falle zu enden, hat dazu geführt, was seit Jahren nicht mehr geschehen ist. Die sofortige Umwandlung von Resignation in Raserei.
Alles begann in dem am stärksten vom Virus betroffenen westlichen Land, Italien, wo am 9. März unmittelbar nach der Aussetzung der Besuche mit Angehörigen in etwa dreißig Gefängnissen Unruhen ausbrachen. Im Verlauf der Unruhen starben zwölf Gefangene; fast alle “an einer Überdosis”, so die berüchtigten Ministerialvertuschungen – unzählige andere wurden massakriert. In einer Stadt, in Foggia, gelang es 77 Gefangenen, die Gelegenheit zur Flucht zu nutzen (obwohl für viele von ihnen die Freiheit leider nur von kurzer war). Solcherlei Nachrichten konnten nichts anderes machen, als um die Welt gehen, und wer weiß, ob sie nicht die Proteste anregten, die sich von diesem Moment an unter den weggeschlossenen Menschen die auf den vier Kontinente leben, verbreiteten: Prügeleien, Hungerstreiks, die Weigerung, nach dem Hofgang in ihre Zellen zurückzukehren; aber das ist noch nicht alles.
In Asien müssen Aufstandseinheiten am Morgen des 16. März in zwei der größten libanesischen Gefängnisse, in Roumieh und Zahle, einfallen, um die Ruhe wiederherzustellen; einige Zeugen sprechen von herausgerissenen Gitterstäben, Rauchsäulen und verwundeten Gefangenen. In Lateinamerika kam es am 18. März zu einer Massenflucht aus dem Gefängnis von San Carlos (Zulia) in Venezuela während eines Aufstandes, der dort unmittelbar nach der Ankündigung der restriktiven Maßnahmen ausbrach: 84 Gefangene konnten entkommen, 10 wurden bei dem Versuch von Kugeln niedergestreckt. Am nächsten Tag, dem 19. März, versuchten auch einige Gefangene im Gefängnis von Santiago in Chile zu fliehen. Nachdem sie die Kontrolle über ihren Sektor übernommen, den Wachposten in Brand gesetzt und die Tore des Korridors geöffnet hatten, stießen sie mit den Wachen zusammen. Der Fluchtversuch scheitert und wurde massiv unterdrückt. In Afrika gab es am 20. März einen weiteren Massenausbruchsversuch aus dem Amsinéné-Gefängnis in N’Djamena, der Hauptstadt des Tschad. Weiters in Lateinamerika, am 22. März, sind es die Gefangenen des Gefängnisses La Modelo in Bogota, Kolumbien, die rebellieren. Es ist ein Massaker: 23 Tote und 83 Verwundete unter den Gefangenen. Abermals in Europa, am 23. März, findet ein Flügel des schottischen Gefängnisses von Addiewell den Weg in die Kontrolle der Hände der Aufständischen und wird verwüstet. In den Vereinigten Staaten entkamen 9 Häftlinge aus dem Frauengefängnis von Pierre (South Dakota) am selben Tag, als einer ihrer Mitgefangenen positiv auf einen Abstrick getestet wird (vier von ihnen werden in den folgenden Tagen gefangen genommen). Ebenfalls am 23. März entkamen 14 Häftlinge aus einem Gefängnis in Yakima County (Washington DC), kurz nachdem der Gouverneur den Zwang für die Bevölkerung zum Verbleib in den Häusern bekannt gegeben hatte. Wieder in Asien reicht die “vorläufige” Freilassung von 85.000 Gefangenen wegen gewöhnlicher Verbrechen im Iran nicht dazu aus, die in vielen Gefängnissen herrschende Wut zu besänftigen; am 27. März entkamen etwa 80 Gefangene aus dem Saqqez-Gefängnis im iranischen Kurdistan. Zwei Tage später, am 29. März, brach in Thailand im Buriram-Gefängnis im Nordosten des Landes ein weiterer Aufstand aus, bei dem einige Häftlinge entkommen konnten. Und nicht nur die Gefängnisse, sondern auch die Flüchtlingszentren, in denen illegale Einwanderer festgehalten werden, sind in Aufruhr, wie die Unruhen, die am 29. März bei der CPR in Gradisca d’Isonzo, Italien, ausbrachen, zeigen.
Aber wenn die abgeschlossenen Gefängnisse, die mit den Verdammten der Erde überfüllt sind, mehr denn je wie Zeitbomben wirken, was ist dann mit den Gefängnissen unter freiem Himmel? Wie lange noch wird die Angst vor Krankheiten über die Angst vor Hunger, lähmenden Muskeln und gettrübtem Verstand die Oberhand behalten? In Lateinamerika griffen am 23. März 70 Personen ein großes Lebensmittelgeschäft in Tecámac, Mexiko, an; zwei Tage später plünderten 30 Personen einen Supermarkt in Oaxaca. Am selben Tag, dem 25. März, musste die Polizei auf der anderen Seite des Atlantischen Ozeans, in Afrika, die Menschenmengen auf dem offenen Markt in Kisumu, Kenia auseinandertreiben.
Auf die Polizisten, die sie dazu auffordern, sich in ihren Häusern einzuschließen, antworten Verkäufer und Kunden: “Wir wissen um das Risiko des Coronavirus, aber wir sind arm; wir müssen arbeiten und essen”. Am Tag darauf, dem 26. März, begann die italienische Polizei mit der Bewachung einiger Supermärkte in Palermo, nachdem eine Gruppe von Menschen versucht hatte, mit vollen Einkaufswagen aus dem Geschäft zu gehen, ohne an der Kasse zum Bezahlen anzuhalten.
Man kann auch nicht sagen, dass der Hausarrest, der gegen Hunderte von Millionen von Menschen verhängt wurden, die Entschlossenheit derjenigen, die diese tödliche Welt sabotieren wollen, völlig zum Erliegen gebracht hat. In der Nacht vom 18. auf den 19. März wurde in Vauclin, Martinique, ein technischer Bereich der Telefongesellschaft Orange in Brand gesteckt, wodurch die Telefonleitungen für einige tausend Benutzer unterbrochen wurden. In Deutschland, wo die Eindämmungsmaßnahmen am 16. März ergriffen wurden, gingen die nächtlichen Angriffe unaufhaltsam weiter. Während in Berlin am 18. März einige Fahrzeuge der Toyota- und Mercedes-Händler in Rauch aufgehen, werden in Köln die Scheiben der Immobiliengesellschaft Vonovia eingeschlagen. Im Morgengrauen des 19. März wurde eine Bankagentur in Hamburg angegriffen, während in Berlin das Auto einer Sicherheitsfirma in Brand gesteckt wurde. In der Nacht vom 19. auf den 20. März wurde aus Protest gegen die zunehmende Militarisierung ein Auto einer militärischen Reserve in Nürnberg in Brand gesteckt, drei Yachten in Werder in Brand gesetzt und ein weiteres Auto einer Sicherheitsfirma in Berlin von ihrem Dienst befreit. In der Nacht vom 20. auf den 21. März wurde in Leipzig das x-te Auto einer Sicherheitsfirma in Brand gesteckt. In derselben Nacht gibt es sowohl in Deutschland als auch in Frankreich diejenigen, die versuchen, der Entfremdung den Stecker zu ziehen. Der Versuch scheiterte in Padernon, wo die deutsche Feuerwehr eine Telefonantenne um Haaresbreite rettete, die kurz davor stand, in Flammen aufzugehen. Das Glück ist auch einigen Verantwortlichen in der Nähe von Bram in Frankreich nicht hold, die versuchen Schaden an einigen Glasfaserkabeln zu verursachen. Ein Teil des Dorfes wird mehrere Tage lang ohne Internet und Telefon bleiben, aber die Verantwortlichen werden dank des Hinweises einiger Zeugen verhaftet. In der folgenden Nacht, in der Nacht zum 22. März, in der Nähe von Hamburg, verbrennt das Auto eines Zollbeamten zu Asche. Diejenigen, die diese Aktion durchgeführt haben, werden einen Text in Umlauf bringen, in man zu lesen bekommt: “Gerade in dieser Zeit der Pandemie geht die Verschärfung und Einschränkung der Bewegungsfreiheit einher, es ist umso wichtiger, die eigene Handlungsfähigkeit zu bewahren und sich selbst, sowie anderen Subversiven zu zeigen, dass der Kampf gegen die Zwänge dieser Epoche weitergeht, auch wenn er wahnsinnig und schwierig erscheint. Wenn wir uns den Erwartungen des Staates, sich zu isolieren, unterwerfen, wenn wir uns damit zufrieden geben, angesichts der drohenden Ausgangssperre mit den Achseln zu zucken, geben wir ihm die Möglichkeit, seine Machenschaften fortzusetzen […]”. Es ist ein Gedanke, der die Köpfe auf der ganzen Welt erwärmt, wenn es stimmt, dass in derselben Nacht vom 22. bis 23. März der internationale Flughafen von Tontouta in Païta, Neukaledonien, ins Visier genommen wurde (eingeschlagene Scheiben und zerstörte Zollfahrzeuge), und zwar von denen, die offensichtlich nicht mit den Worten des Präsidenten des traditionellen Senats übereinstimmen, wonach “Entscheidungen, die in der Notlage von den öffentlichen Behörden ohne sofortige Erklärung getroffen werden, nicht zur Gewalt anstiften dürfen”.
Aber die Tatsache, die mehr als andere eine tiefe Spur hinterlassen könnte, Glut, die unter den Kohlen des Totalitarismus brütet und aus der Funken sprühen könnten, ist der Aufstand (der einzige, von dem es überhaupt Nachrichten gibt), der am 27. März unweit von Wuhan, dem Epizentrum der heutigen Pandemie, an der Grenze zwischen den Provinzen Hubei und Jiangxi ausbrach. Tausende Chinesen, die gerade aus einer zweimonatigen Quarantäne gekommen waren, drückten ihre Wertschätzung und Dankbarkeit für die von der Regierung verhängten restriktiven Maßnahmen aus und griffen die Polizei an, die versuchte, den Durchgang über die Jangtse-Flussbrücke zu blockieren.
Seit einem Monat ist die Welt, wie wir sie kennen, ins Wanken geraten. Nichts ist mehr so wie früher, und wie viele Menschen trotz ihrer unterschiedlichen Meinungen sagen, wird nichts mehr so sein wie früher. Es war nicht der Aufstand, sondern eine Katastrophe, die ihre ruhige Reproduktion in Frage stellte. Ob real oder vermeintlich, macht keinen Unterschied. Es besteht kein Zweifel daran, dass die Regierungen alles tun werden, um diese Situation auszunutzen und jede noch verbleibende Freiheit auszulöschen, abgesehen von der Wahl der zu konsumierenden Güter. Es besteht auch kein Zweifel daran, dass sie alle technischen Karten in der Hand haben, um das Spiel zu beenden und eine soziale Ordnung ohne weitere grosse unschöne Flecken durchzusetzen. Es ist jedoch bekannt, dass selbst die solidesten und präzisesten Mechanismen wegen einer Nichtigkeit in die Brüche gehen können. Ihre Berechnung der erwarteten und akzeptablen Risiken könnte sich als falsch erweisen. Dramatisch falsch und ausnahmsweise besonders für sie. Es liegt auch an jedem einzelnen von uns, dafür zu sorgen, dass dies geschieht.

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Madrid, Spain – About the Attack on Our Personal Relationships

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“I’m looking out for mine and you’re looking out for yours, listen to your watch, its ticking is a murmur”

Confinement has disastrous consequences for one of the most important pillars of our lives: personal relationships. These are being forced to distance themselves, to break down, to replace the contact of the flesh with the isolation of bits and screens. It is not like when someone you love marches through life situations to some remote place, where you are certain that the bond will surely be dusty but intact on return, or that it will live on in memory; but there you have the support of all the other relationships on which we rely in our daily lives. This quarantine situation has forcibly interrupted the course of our social interactions overnight, confining our lives to the isolation module. Some people are lucky, and at least (at least because it doesn’t fill the gap left by estranged ties) they can get through the confinement with people they love and on whom they can rely on to support each other, but what about the people who live alone? Who will hear their cries for help when anxiety-ridden suicide knocks on their door? What about the women who have their own jailer at home? It is said that the police will be on the lookout for calls about gender-based violence, but we cannot expect the police to solve these problems, even less so when we know that most of the time they contribute to the humiliation and vexation of the abused woman. Besides, will you really be able to pick up the phone when you’re locked up with someone who dominates you, will you be able to go outside? The femicide figures show us that the answer is no. And what about those who don’t have a place to live? The ones the military will “help” and “relocate”. We shouldn’t trust anything the army says they’ll do when we’re not looking because we’re locked up at home.

And to add another rock to the rucksack, social panic has not only caused individual people to break their bonds, but to try to break those who try to resist. You scold from the balconies for walking together in the street, for shaking hands, hugging, kissing… Collective anxiety on the basis of “I’m staying at home and you’re taking it as a joke”. But talking about whatsapp, skype, social networks and other alternatives provided by technology is not even remotely valid to escape from the swamp of anxiety and madness in which we have been sunk. You need contact, you need to walk with someone without thinking that a patrol car is going to give you a ticket for keeping friendship ties and not falling into hysteria.

What will happen when we can go back out on the street and we don’t know how to relate in a group, face to face in the square? When social anxiety is widespread and we have to unite and fight against the shitty world we live in?

Let’s not let social panic and state control destroy the most valuable things we have, let’s strengthen our bonds to be unbreakable chains that sweep away domination.

https://325.nostate.net/2020/04/09/madrid-spain-about-the-attack-on-our-personal-relationships/