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Tipps & Tricks zur digitalen Sicherheit

Die Electronic Frontier Foundation (kurz: EFF) hat angesichts immer wiederkehrender Fragen betreffend “Wie verschlüssle ich mein Telefon? Wie kann ich sicher kommunizieren?” und ähnlicher Sachen unter https://ssd.eff.org/en/index eine umfassende Übersicht über die wichtigsten Tipps & Tricks zur digitalen Sicherheit veröffentlicht. Darin finden sich verschiedenste Anleitungen für Verschlüsselungstechniken, Sicherheit im Umgang mit Mobiltelefonen und zum Erstellen eines “Threat Models”. Denn der Sicherheitsstandard, den wir anwenden, muss auch immer in Relation zur realer Bedrohung stehen – was kann die Gegenseite, was interessiert sie? Schliesslich geht es nicht darum, sich paranoid allem zu verschliessen, sondern durch die bessere Kenntnis der Situation zu wissen, wie man politische Praxis sicher umsetzt.

Letter by Kostas Gournas, imprisoned member of Revolutionary Struggle, from inside Domokos Type C Prison (Greece)

January 9th, 2015

The coalition government New Democracy-PASOK [right and left political parties] did not only flirt with the extreme neo-liberalism imposed by the Troika [IMF-ECB-EC], it was the biggest supporter and helped in the shaping of the memorandum policies. It not only flirted with the far-right agenda of the Golden Dawn [fascists political gang], it was itself the political and institutional expression of the deeply far-right state that promotes the transformation of society into a fascist one.

C’ type prisons and the legal framework that defines a regime of exclusion for the prisoners is part of the memorandum policies that have messed up the lives of thousands of proletarians. A living prison inside the prison that aims for the political isolation and de-politicization of the political prisoners and their actions, vengeful treatment of the disobedient and is a means of dissuasion for all prisoners.

During its swan song, the government has transferred social and political prisoners to the new C’ type wing in Domokos. Just a few days before the premature elections that were sped up when the government lost the trust of the Troika, the opening of the special wing in Domokos marks the re-ascertainment of the “law and order” dogma with the establishment of its crown. A few days after the partial regression in the Romanos case, the government raises the stakes by imposing its injured power.

The confrontation with the regime of exclusion in the C’type prisons is not simply a confrontation between the prisoners, the solidarity movement and society against the government that is going or the one that will come after the elections. It is a battle we all ought to spread/fight with the deep state in its core and against its indispensable identification with the neo-conservative “antiterrorist” dogmas of imperialism. It is a battle that concerns all of society which is hurting today by the brutal policies of Capital, a battle against the transformation of society into a fascist one.

Against the terrorism of State and Capital
Ahead comrades, for the structuring of the social revolution

4/1/2015
Kostas Gournas
C’type prisons of Domokos

Translated by Act for freedom now!
Slightly edited for clarity by 325

Greece: More transfers of prisoners to the maximum-security prison in Domokos

Anarchist Nikos Maziotis, member of Revolutionary Struggle, has been incarcerated for four days in the 5th wing of the new type C prison in Domokos.

On January 2nd, 2015, two more prisoners convicted as members of armed revolutionary organizations, anarchist Kostas Gournas (Revolutionary Struggle) and Dimitris Koufontinas (17 November), were transferred from the dungeon cells of Koridallos women’s prison to the maximum-security facility of Domokos. On the same morning, anarchist prisoners Yannis Naxakis and Grigoris Sarafoudis, both convicted for armed robbery in Pyrgetos-Larissa as well as for—alleged—participation in an armed revolutionary organization (Conspiracy of Cells of Fire), were also taken from the men’s prison in Koridallos to the type C prison in Domokos. Sarafoudis was moved to Domokos even though, for the present, he is co-accused in Filotas-Florina armed robbery case alongside other comrades, whose trial will continue in the special court of Koridallos prison this January.

Meanwhile, since New Year’s Eve until today, several other prisoners have been transferred to the maximum-security prison in Domokos.

Quelle: http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2015/01/02/greece-more-transfers-of-prisoners-to-the-maximum-security-prison-in-domokos/

Text by CCF-FAI/IRF – Imprisoned Members Cell about the proposal of Nikos Maziotis concerning the Solidarity Assembly (Greece)

Text from the comrades concerning the creation of an assembly of solidarity and action with the political prisoners.

SOLIDARITY MEANS ATTACK

i) C’ Type prisons – an act of war

C’ Type prisons wish to become the monument of the State’s victory against the urban guerrilla warfare. It is a bet for us, if we’re going to let a thousand tonnes of concrete, bars and locks beat the human will for freedom, a bet which is to be answered through action by the enemies of the regime and the friends of freedom.
For years now, politically, TV personalities of the system and salaried pen-holders of the police, have engaged in a mud fight against the urban guerrilla warfare, aid at depoliticizing it. “Osmosis of criminals and terrorists”, “cooperation between terrorists and organized crime”, “revolutionary pool” are the vanguard of the lie. Propaganda wishes to hide, covering with its mud, the self-evident constant revolt. A constant revolt of the ones who refuse to live as slaves and attack with arms against the leaders, the silence, the conservatism and the resignation of the majority of society.

Wishing to decouple the possible perspective of the violent insurrectionary action and to mutilate its diffusion, power uses lies and slander in order to present the armed urban guerrillas as insane criminals. And all this, at the same time when their bloodthirsty democracy makes thousands of people commit suicide and poisons every moment of our lives through the terrorism of poverty, repression, a police state, loneliness, exploitation, while it tricks the naive ones through the fake freedom of consumption, spectacle, mass entertainment, digital reality and the civilization of the mediocre. The highlight of the political propaganda against the urban guerrilla warfare was set up early in 2014, after the escape of Christodoulos Xiros on prison leave, who instead of coming back to prison voluntarily, chose the path of illegality and complicity with the new urban guerilla warfare. Headlines and reportage with catchy titles like “New Year’s terror-eve with the CCF”, “prisons are safe houses of terrorists” became the flagship of lies. What bothered power most, together with the escape of comrade Christodoulos Xiros, was that despite our arrests, we have never turned into dormant trophies in the hands of our wardens. For the unrepentant urban guerrillas, prison is not a palace of fear, it is a place of captivity that digs in and tempers more the willingness for rebellion and freedom.

ii) Propaganda prefaces the war.

Power’s lies fan fear in order for this to be the gateway from the regime of fake freedom, to the status of emergency. The status of emergency is the disguised “we decide and we order”. Early 2014, the ex-judge Minister Charalambos Athanasiou, issued a 100-day ultimatum, on the kick-off of the maximum security prisons. As the famous phrase “politics are the continuation of the war by other means” applies, vice versa, the political propaganda against the urban guerilla warfare is now followed by military measures. So, there is the announcement of the transformation of Domokos prisons into a C’ Type prison, whose external safekeeping will be taken up by 300 policemen, who will camp out in special buildings – military barracks. Moreover, more than half of the “common” detainees have already been transferred [from Domokos], in order for them to be replaced by “dangerous terrorists” and “members of organized crime”. We won’t say much about the C’ Type prisons, because most of it has already been written.
Political and physical isolation, mail censorship, restriction of visiting, ban of license[family or study leave] . . . A new prison inside the prison, a barred place of oblivion in order for us to forget the struggle and to be forgotten as prisoners. A concrete grave where oblivion wishes to erase the will for freedom. At the same time, a public bogeyman in plain sight, a Greek Guantanamo for anyone that questions through action and armed struggle, the local prefects of the global Western empire.

iii) Tomorrow they’re coming after you . . .

Fear is penetrating and reaches into the bone. The answer to fear is not to close our eyes, but to attack with all our strength. It goes without saying that the C’ Type prisons were created in order to curb the urban guerrilla warfare, the revolutionary organizations (whether they’re anarchist or communist, or nihilistic or social) and their members. It would be inexpedient, however, to think that the strategy of power settles only for its basic goal. Power is naturally expansionary. This is why it widens the iron net of the maximum security widespread captivity to comrades or individuals accused of being members of armed organizations, without ever having claimed responsibility, as well as to “powerful criminals” who bother the police.

In any case, the State’s obsession with the urban guerrilla warfare’s repression is also obvious from the fact that in the draft law on C’ Type prisons there’s a beneficial arrangement that even provides the release from prison for every wannabe squealer (unless he himself is persecuted by the anti-terrorist law) who’s going to give any information on armed revolutionary organizations actions. Moreover, Greek authorities, mimicking their foreign colleagues, introduced secretly through the backdoor the “inducement” of public renunciation of the urban guerrilla warfare in return for an advantageous treatment of the repentant ones, in licensing issues and reducing the sentence. There’s not only the warranty of the draft law that sets the district attorney as responsible for the continuation or not of the “imprisoned terrorist” custody after 4 years (needless to say that for any still unrepentant“terrorist” the custody in the C’ Type isolation regime will probably be indefinitely extended). There is also the court of appeals prosecutor’s official report during the disciplinary prosecution process of penitentiary administration for the escape of Christodoulos Xiros, as this “particular detainee never renounced terrorism. Instead through his writings posted on the websites zougla.gr and Athens Indymedia still speaks of popular uprising and armed struggle. . . “

This works as a small prefiguring to a future which shows that even the texts of an“imprisoned terrorist” will play a key role in the granting or denying of prison leave to all.

However, the expansionary war of power, the way it is incarnated during this period with the C’ Type prisons, in no way can it lead anarchists to a stampede of recoil and defense, behind legal defences and funny panicked generalizations; like “the State prosecutes and imprisons anarchist ideas”. No, the State attacks the ones who put into anarchist ideas into practice, regardless of whether the counter-terrorist unit often arrests comrades or people who have no connection with the urban guerrilla warfare. The ideology of victimization produces victims itself and strengthens the enemy. When people either naively or intentionally see the ghosts of the Orwellian thought police existing today and subside into defeatism, they only manage to bring future repression closer and faster.

Every step back, camouflaged in ridiculous excuses like “they will get us”,“things were different some time ago”, “we now don’t have the leeway” is a ground donated to the advance of the police state.

If the State thinks it disentangles the urban guerrilla warfare, it will then expand its repression to every form of direct action that so far doesn’t have “counter-terrorist”criminal penalties. Because, even the State -in contrast with some “anarchists” – perceives the connection of the diversity of direct action with the urban guerrilla warfare.
Whoever isolates and ghettoizes a means of struggle like the urban guerrilla warfare practically buries and weakens all the other means, as it leaves them exposed to the oncoming repression.

“Tomorrow they’re coming after you” is the result of a fetishism against weapons promoted by some smokeless veterans of nothingness, who supposedly counter-propose “non-armed confrontational anarchy”. Complicated and pompous definitions in order for their cowardice to be covered.

iv) Solidarity means attack

Currently in Greece there are several political prisoners accused of being members of revolutionary action groups in which they’re involved, and some comrades and some people who are prosecuted for the same cases. Our word is always clear. Different perceptions and contrasts among us are numerous and enmity with some people is a fact. As the Imprisoned Members Cell of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire we think that, despite the different perspectives between us, there’s a common starting point to connect us with the political prisoners who have claimed responsibility for the organizations they belong to and the comrades accused of these cases, without having slandered and lied against revolutionary organizations. The common starting point is the uncompromising struggle against power, always from the side of the unrepentant enemies of the regime.
As has been said “Words divide. . . Acts unite”.

We read the letter-call [i] from the member of Revolutionary Struggle Nikos Maziotis and we decided to support his suggestion.

The Open Assembly of Anarchists/Anti-authoritarians against the special detention conditions was one of the few, maybe the only public collective procedure, which, in spite of the times, stood against the invasion of the maximum security prisons.
We believe that the suggestion for its restart and its evolution, an assembly of solidarity with the political prisoners, upgrades its qualitative characteristics and makes things clear.
Every comrade who’s against the special detention conditions is automatically a solidarian with the political prisoners and whoever is solidarian with the political prisoners who are persecuted for urban guerrilla warfare actions cannot do anything but acknowledge (regardless of his/her participation or not, or his/her disagreements on specific issues) that the urban guerrilla warfare isn’t just another part of the struggle’s diversity, BUT an indispensable part of it . . . Much could be written on the struggle’s diversity, on direct action and on urban guerrilla warfare.

We believe that we are at the beginning of a conversation that will not disappear in a conversation.

To us, it is important that the assembly of solidarity, if put into practice, is to be a breeding ground of conversation, friction and communication which will provokeaction.
The assembly that just reproduces itself is doomed to lapse into a boring chore. When the assembly turns into a coin of public relations, it becomes person-centered and mostly harmless. We have no illusions about what happens inside the milieu nor will we invoke a fake unity which is useless and hypocritical.

For us, an assembly of solidarity can be a new starting point for the new comrades mainly, to get rid of the ideological past icons, the “retired veterans” and the inertia and meet in order to act. For this reason, we add to the suggestion made, the name of the assembly to become “assembly of solidarity and action with the political prisoners”. To be honest, we don’t like calling someone just a “solidarian”. It subconsciously creates divisions that lead to “personalities” and “followers”. It goes without saying that an anarchist is a solidarian, the bet is for him/her to become an “accomplice” . . . (without stopping being critical of course).

So, as much has been written and more has been spoken on solidarity, so we will end our statement and our support to the suggestion made, with an old but all-time classic slogan:

“If the “innocent” ones deserve our solidarity once, then the “guilty” ones deserve it a thousand times…”

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, FAI-IRF / Imprisoned Members Cell
Panagiotis Argyrou
Theofilos Mavropoulos
Damiano Bolano
Giorgos Nikolopoulos
Michalis Nikolopoulos
Olga Economidou
Giorgos Polydoros
Gerasimos Tsakalos
Christos Tsakalos
Haris Hatzimihelakis
Korydallos Prison,
10-11-2014

[i] Translator’s note: Nikos Maziotis suggested through a personal text of his the
transformation of the assembly against the special detention conditions(maximum security prisons) into an assembly of solidarity with the political prisoners, imprisoned and persecuted fighters. The assembly has already been transformed and started its actions, with several imprisoned comrades supporting it.

Note: Translated by the Circle of Individualist Anarchists

Quelle: http://325.nostate.net/?p=13780

Text by Nikos Maziotis, of Revolutionary Struggle, for the creation of a Solidarity Assembly (Greece)

In the text below, Nikos Maziotis, member of Revolutionary Struggle, suggests the creation of an assembly of solidarity for all political detainees and prisoners-fighters.

Text below from Nikos Maziotis, member of Revolutionary Struggle, to the open assembly of Anarchists / Anti-authoritarians against the specific Type C conditions of detention, Maziotis proposes the creation of a solidarity meeting for all political detainees and prisoners-fighters. At the same time it is an open call to all comrades and companions of the anarchist / anti-authoritarian domain to participate and support this endeavour.

In the short term the date and location where the first meeting to explore possibilities to set up the Solidarity Assembly will be announced.

The text is sent to all political detainees and imprisoned fighters.

 

Full Text: http://325.nostate.net/?p=13775

International call for action and solidarity with the World Cup prisoners

On July 12, the day before the World Cup final match, the Police of Rio de Janeiro arrested 19 activists, aiming at disintegrating the big protest scheduled for the final’s day, on the grounds that they would have taken part in “violent” acts in riots last year and they would be planning other actions in the final manifestation of the World Cup. In total 23 search warrants and arrest and temporary detention were met against people accused of participating in social movements, the mandates were 5 days of probation, four people managed to escape the police kidnapping.

The activists were taken to the City of Police in Rio de Janeiro, a large complex of police departments built to take care of the repression of the people challenging the mega-events and the logic of the market town. In this large complex is the DRCI, Bureau of Suppression of Computer crimes, which currently plays the role of the historic Precinct of Political and Social Order, the infamous DOPS created in 1924 to suppress the anarchists, mainly used during the Vargas era and later Military regime in 1964, in order to control and repress political and social movements opposed to the regime in power. The kidnapped activists were all sent to the prison complex of Bangu.

A few days later they were granted a release order that freed 18 activists who were arrestes. Soon after, justice decreed again the arrest of these 18 people, which, however, escaped and remained underground. Camila, Igor Pereira and Elisa (Tinkerbell) continued arrested for around 10 more days, when he was granted bail to all, except for Caio Silva and Fabio Fox, arrested in January this year accused of murder. The activists go through a difficult time of criminalization and persecution, even awaiting trial in freedom, they can not leave the city or participate in demonstrations and public gatherings. This December, Igor Mendes was arrested again and 2 more activists went underground, accused of not complying with the court order and have participated in a peaceful public event last October 15, representing, according to justice, a threat to public order. More arrests may arise at any time and the trials that take place over the next few months can still get them to condemnation. Police said the arrests are based on research that has taken place in camera proceeding since September 2013 against the Popular Independent Front (FIP), black blocs and other activist groups, with conspiracy charges. The police methodology is monitoring, and the breach of confidentiality and privacy of individuals. The 23 militants are indicted by an extensive and absurd list of offenses ranging from armed gang until possesion of explosive, depredation of public and private property, endurance and injury, and corruption of minors.

The State that made more prisoners in Rio because of a football match is the same state that closes schools, which kills in the “favelas” and that made the World Cup. With these arrests the Brazilian State wrote another page in its history, it was the day when all masks have fallen, not only the state but also of political parties and groups who want it as it is, that take part in this so called democracy, this so called parliamentary representation. On this day the state said in so many words “WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE”, not in a subliminal way, but to anyone who would listen. In the slums we already know that long ago, the marches of June / July 2013 also tried to warn, but this time it was in prime time and with all the letters. Where the population saw that the same State that creates the laws, breaks them when it pleases, and always made poor and black population throughout the genocidal history of the Brazilian state.

We Invite all to organize actions in solidarity with the World Cup prisoners. We can not remain silent before the state terrorism of the Brazilian government and FIFA dictatorship. Everyone knows the importance of mass riots that occurred in Brazil since June 2013 until now, they have been a milestone in the history of this people, a moment of rupture with the existing structures, a shout against various oppressions and historical violences against the people . Repression forces want at all costs to contain the indignation of the population frightening activists through persecution, want to regain control and conform people to return to the misery of everyday life and they are willing to arrest all of tose who do not retreat in this fight. Our friends need all the support to win this battle and stay in the streets, in the assemblies and popular mobilization.

No step back! No one is left behind! For the immediate end to the persecution!

List of the indicted:

– Elisa Sanzi (Sininho), Luiz Carlos Rendeiro Junior, Gabriel Marinho, Karlayne Pinheiro (Moa), Eloisa Samy, Igor Mendes, Camila Jourdan, Igor D’Iicarahy, Drean Moraes, Shirlene Feitoza, Andressa Feitoza, Leonardo Baroni, Emerson da Fonseca, Rafael Caruso, Filipe Proença, Pedro Freire, Felipe Frieb, Pedro Brandão, Bruno Machado, André Basseres, Joseane Freitas, Rebeca Martins, Fabio Raposo e Caio Silva Rangel

December 2014,

Coletivo Anti-carcerário Cruz Negra Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro

Quelle: http://cnario.noblogs.org/post/2014/12/12/international-call/

Athens: Statement from Anarchist Nikos Romanos

Following 31 days of a tough and tenacious struggle, I end my hunger strike, having scored an important victory. The amendment voted in Parliament with me its single recipient, had important differences to the initial proclamation of the Minister of Justice, eventually meeting my demands – even if this involves me “wearing an electronic bracelet”.

The only thing certain is that this victory was an outcome of the political pressure applied for it by the people in struggle and Combative Anarchy are indisputably the great moral, political and practical victors. The multiform revolutionary struggle and us, as political prisoners, resurface from this struggle stronger than before.

I raise my fist, sending the warmest regards and my unlimited love to all those comrades who stood by my side.

BY ALL MEANS!
SOLIDARITY TO POLITICAL PRISONERS
LONG LIVE ANARCHY

PS: A detailed text will follow in the days to come.
PS2: I would like to also thank the hospital doctors who refused to bow to the pressure by the attorney regarding my forced feeding, and who supported me to the possible extent.

Nikos Romanos

11/12/14

Quelle: http://325.nostate.net/?p=13536

Nikos Maziotis: Armed War, Revolutionary Movement and Social Revolution

On Friday 17th, October there was a public political event held in the National Technical University of Athens, from the comrades of the Vox Social Center, on“Armed War, Revolutionary Movement and Social Revolution”, during which I was going to speak through the phone from Diavata prison, as a member of the anarchist organization Revolutionary Struggle.

This public political event intended to highlight the huge value of the armed struggle, as an inextricable part of the struggle for the overthrow of the capital and the state, its inseparable connection with the revolutionary movement, the necessity of the armed social revolution under the current conditions, when the system is still in crisis and is illegitimized in the eyes of the society and by the people’s majority. Let me remind that a similar public political event was held on October 9th from the comrades of Terra Incognita squat in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where I had talked through the phone.

One day before the event in the National Technical University in Athens, one of the most known executioners of the Greek people, one of the most zealous submissives of the super-national elite and creditors and fans of the political and social genocide applied in order the capital system to be rescued and a parliamentary representative of the New Democracy, Adonis Georgiadis, asks for an intervention so as the event in the NTU where I was going to speak from the Diavata prison to be forbidden.

In fact, after a political intervention, an order was given to the direction of the Diavata prison and, in particular, to the director Stavropoulos and the warden Valsamis, so as the 8 telephones of the prison’s ground floor where I am detained, were to be switched off, in order for me not to be able to make a phone call and speak to the Athens NTU. The telephones of the prison’s ground floor were switched off from the midday opening of the prison, from 2.15 to 7.45 when the prison is locked for the night, illegally depriving the right of not only for me but for about 200 prisoners as well, to make a phone call. At first, the wardens claimed that the telephones were damaged. The same things were also claimed by the warden Valsamis to the 4-member prisoner’s delegation in which I took part too. In front of the prisoners I answered to him that he was lying and that the deprivation of the right to communicate is illegal. The warden’s response was to terrorize and put pressure on the prisoners not to come in touch with me and not to enter my cell because this is illegal.

This in not the first time that the warden Valsamis has called prisoners into his office in order to interrogate them on what they are talking about with me, or press them not to have any communication with me. At last, the warden Valsamis confessed to a representative of the Albanian prisoners of the ground floor with whom he had a private discussion in his office that he had an order to switch off all the telephones for three hours and he threatened at the same time that in case the prisoners kept protesting, he would put the MAT ([riot] unit for the rehabilitation of order) in prison.

At last, their “democracy” proves to be scared despite their claiming the opposite. Their democracy makes prophylactic policy movements of political censorship just as the fascists regimes do. Because, as Revolutionary Struggle has said, the current regime is a fascist one. We have lived for years in the fascism of Troika, of the International Monetary Fund, of the European Commission and of the European Central Bank. We live in the the fascism of the economical super-national elite. We live in the fascism of the Greek Quisling governments, which bow to the markets and the creditors of the super-national elite.

This action of their switching off the telephones of the Diavata prison’s ground floor so as I am not able to speak proves that the regime is afraid of the Revolutionary Struggle. For 12 years the Greek regime, the Greek state, the local and super-natural elite, the political system is afraid of the Revolutionary Struggle. They are afraid of its actions, afraid of its words. They are afraid of its powerful political messages it sends out. They are afraid of the Revolutionary Struggle’s call to the people, for the subversion and the revolution. They are afraid of the Revolutionary Struggle’s call for the creation of a movement which will try out a subversion of Capital and the State. They are afraid of the destabilizing actions of the Revolutionary Struggle which are aimed against the economical and the political system. They are afraid of the prisoners who are members of the organization, they are afraid of me, who is an injured prisoner, with my right hand broken; a one-hand-disabled in fact. However, as the comrade Pola Roupa said through the interventional text she sent to the October 17th event, “besides the number of bullets they are going to shoot us with, we are not going to bend”.

The regime has admitted at least two times to be afraid of the Revolutionary Struggle, it was once in 2010 when we were arrested one day before the signing of the first Memorandum, when they claimed that “A big terrorist attack will end the economy within a few hours” and now with the arrest of the anarchist comrade Antonis Stamboulos, when the Minister of Public Order stated that “The national effort for the termination of crisis for the country significantly requires the consolidation of a security environment, both on a local and on an international basis. The ensuring of that is a national duty and a primary priority of the government”, directly connecting the Revolutionary Struggle’s actions with the destabilizing role they can play. The same thing happened the previous April with the attack to Mario Draghi’s, the Central European banker’s department, to the Supervision Department of the Bank of Greece, where the office of the representative of the IMF in Greece was also accommodated.

The event of the October 17th, despite the fact that I wasn’t able to speak, was held with success, with the participation of hundreds of comrades. Of an equal success was the event in Thessaloniki in October 9th too. Whatever they do, they won’t manage to shut our mouths. Besides the number of bullets they are going to shoot us with, what they prove is that they are afraid of us, besides the number of counter terrorist laws they are going to create, what they prove is that they are afraid of us. Besides the number of maximum security prisons they are going to build, what they prove is that they are afraid of us. They are going to be afraid of us, even when we are dead. Let me assure them, that the comrades will get the words and the political messages I want to send, in October 31st when the event is going to take place again, in the NTU in Athens.

Nikos Maziotis
Member of the Revolutionary Struggle
Diavata prison

Quelle: http://325.nostate.net/?p=12955#more-12955

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Solidarity with revolutionary prisoner Nikos Maziotis

This morning, the 17th of October 2014, we placed a banner in solidarity with comrade and fighter Nikos Maziotis. He is one of the few uncompromising fighters and people who have decided to devote their life to the struggle for freedom, and in this fight do not think of their own safety but assume the risk of choosing this path.

Nikos stands out as an example not only Greece, that is affected by the capitalist and brutal measures of austerity and class war – where on one side are states, rich domestic and foreign capital owners, with all financial means, military resources and logistics, and on the other unarmed people who are impoverished and vanish under the heel of fascist capitalists, an unjust war in which the victims were always on the side of the oppressed – but also in the whole Europe and the world, where this kind of open combat against the system is missing or has a milder form…

Nikos shows that today in debt-ridden Greece, as well as in other countries that are under EU capitalism, the poor not only pay the debt to banks, but also pay the price with their blood and skin. Recall that in Greece there is increase in suicide rate because people are unable to pay their debt to the banks – e.g. the case of the pensioner who killed himself in front of the Greek parliament in 2012 – what sparked riots and protests in Greece. The percentage of people who go on hunger strike claiming their rights is growing, including those in prison.

Nikos is behind bars, but his free spirit remains unshaken, and he now addresses his fellow citizens by phone and his message will be conveyed live at a building in the Polytechnic School (after another letter he wrote from prison in honour of Ulrike Meinhof’s birthday).

Solidarity with Nikos Maziotis and all political prisoners who stood in open conflict with the system and its inhumane “values”.

FREEDOM FOR NIKOS MAZIOTIS
LONG LIVE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

Friends from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prijedor
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Note by Contra Info: This evening (17/10) the comrade was hindered from making the scheduled phone call from Diavata prison. The official excuse for not permitting him to intervene in the discussion event was that the telephone system in that prison wing suddenly broke down [see also 18/10 update]. The event will take place again on Friday the 31st of October 2014 in the Athens Polytechnic School.

Quelle: http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2014/10/17/bosnia-and-herzegovina-solidarity-with-revolutionary-prisoner-nikos-maziotis/

Tuhad-Der: We support the hunger strike of prisoners

Members of the TUHAD-DER (Solidarity Association of Prisoners’ Families) Amed Branch gathered outside the Diyarbakır D Type Prison where they made a statement to the press declaring support to the hunger strike launched by Kurdish political prisoners in Turkish jails in solidarity with the Kobanê resistance against ISIS gangs.

The banner women carried read: “We salute the Kobanê resistance of PKK and PAJK prisoners.”

In a statement to the press on behalf of the demonstrators, Tuhad-Der Amed Branch Chairperson Cahit Demirkıran said Kobanê was the shining face of the Middle East, stressing that an approach towards Kobanê would mean an approach towards Kurds.

Recalling that some 5 thousand Kurdish prisoners in Turkish jails have launched a hunger strike on 15 September, Demirkıran said they, as families of prisoners, supported this strike which has been initiated to urge the government to abandon its policies on Rojava and to open an aid corridor into Kobanê.

“The demands highlighted by prisoners on hunger strike are our demands too”, Demirkıran added.

Quelle: http://en.firatajans.com/news/news/tuhad-der-we-support-the-hunger-strike-of-prisoners.htm