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Dear comrades and friends,
During the General Strike on 11th May 2011 the Communist Party of
Greece(marxist-leninist), Class March and the Militant Movement of
Students had been the main (but not only) target of the police brutal
attack along with another two political groups (EEK Trotskyites and
OKDE), two grassroots workers unions (cooks & waiters union and
grassroots union of motorbike workers (couriers etc)), an anarchist
group and some grassroots groups that are active in specific
neighborhoods and areas concerned with mainly local issues.
I have attached a statement of the Communist Party of
Greece(marxist-leninist) along with statements of three of the militants
injured during the brutal police attack. Their photographs where the
signs of brutality are very visible can be found at:
http://antigeitonies.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post_14.html
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Christos Mais
(Marxmail does not allow attachments. They are, however, included as
text below)
State terrorism will not prevail!
The people’s struggle will win!
Without any provocation or pretext the PASOK government attacked and
bloodied the huge demonstration of May the 11th 2011 during the general
strike in Athens. The government, scared of the “enemy people’s” rise,
initiated an orgy of state violence and terrorism using its praetors,
the riot police, against the demonstrators.
Our block, as well as several other blocks, received an unprovoked and
maniacal attack by the riot police, who surrounded the demonstration in
order to dissolve it, and went on with relentless use of tear gas and
savage beatings against workers, unemployed, young people and women. The
result was that dozens of demonstrators were transferred to hospital
with head injuries. One of them is in Intensive Care fighting for his
life after being operated in the head.
The message was clear. The government and their masters, the
imperialists of the IMF and the EU, want to stop any popular resistance
against the austerity measures. The people must stay in its corner
terrified. We “must not” demonstrate, “must not” strike, “must not”
fight back. We “must” accept with fatalism the butchering of our rights,
our future, our lives and that of our children.
But they cannot rule out the people’s struggle! The cruel reality that
the people are forced to live urges them to the road of resistance. The
only way to combat state terrorism and repression is to continue more
resolutely and massively our resistance against the barbaric policy of
an exploitative and unjust system.
PUNISHMENT OF THE MURDEROUS POLICEMEN!
DEMONSTRATIONS FREE OF POLICE!
THE BARBAROUS POLICY OF GOVERNMENT – EU – IMF WILL BE OVERTHROWN WITH
MASS STRUGGLES!
May 12, 2011
Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist)
“They wanted dead…”
In one of the most peaceful marches of the last years I was “fortunate”
to accept the special “protection” of the riot police, alongside dozens
of other demonstrators, young men and women as well as senior citizens,
who were protesting against the politics of poverty and misery.
I participate at least 25 years in the popular movement. I have never
seen such rage against us by the repressive forces. The strikes were
aimed at our heads clearly wanting dead among us! These were their
orders. This is democracy at our times of the PASOK government and the
EU-IMF-ECB Memorandum. Everybody is entitled to his opinion provided he
does not express it. Anyone expressing his opinion will be “protected”
like me. It is clear that this government is in the service of our
foreign “protectors” and so is unscrupulous and dangerous to the people.
Sotiris Legas
Pharmacist – Tradeunionist
Former chairman of Ikaria Hospital Trade Union
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The demonstration in which I participated yesterday was met by brutal
and murderous force by the riot police. There was at first a huge amount
of tear gas and then the attack. We were lucky we didn’t have dead among us.
This was a show of force against the people who are resisting against
the austerity measures. They cannot terrorize us! We will continue on
the path of struggle, the only way open for our people! Resistance in
order to overthrow the austerity measures!
Roula Sakka
Chairman of 7th Athens IKA Hospital Trade Union
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I was marching with the Class March block chanting slogans against the
antipopular politics of the government and its new austerity measures
when on Panepistimiou Street we were surrounded on all sides by riot
police and attacked without provocation with tear gas and truncheons
aimed at our heads. In the ensuing chaos and the stampede I was hit on
the head by a policeman. I sensed the blood running on my face. I
couldn’t see through the cloud of tear gas and with great difficulty I
was helped by others and run to Amerikis Street where I received first
aid help and rushed to the hospital along with many others in similar or
worse condition.
I think that it was a murderous attack in order to terrorize us so we
stop taking the streets and protest against austerity measures. They
will not succeed in this. Our struggles will go on because this is the
only way.
Eleftheria Varsou
Worker
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