News from insurgent Greece
anacharsis - 07.03.2009 15:01
On the early hours of Tuesday, six carriages of the Athens-Piraeus Railway (ISAP) were petrol-bombed and burnt. According to eye-witnesses and the proclamation issued by the group that claimed responsibility for the attack, no passengers or staff were put at risk during the attack as they were asked to vacate the carriages before hand.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Athens Railway carriages burnt, “16 million euros” in damage reported
On the early hours of Tuesday, six carriages of the Athens-Piraeus Railway (ISAP) were petrol-bombed and burnt. According to eye-witnesses and the proclamation issued by the group that claimed responsibility for the attack, no passengers or staff were put at risk during the attack as they were asked to vacate the carriages before hand.
According to Railway officials and mainstream media reports, the total damage by the attack is in the region of 16 million euros.
In a communiqué released on Athens IMC, a group calling itself “Gangs of Consciousness Extremists of Perama” (a working class neighbourhood close to Piraeus - trans) state, among many others:
(…) So we wiped out two trains of ISAP [ Athens Piraeus Electric Railway]*, causing disturbance. We had no hesitation to sabotage the commuting route of all who are in peace with the sterilised transportation from and to their workplace, from and to their homes, from and to their leisure destinations. Maybe this will replace their fish-like gaze of apathy and indifference from their faces with some more energetic and tense gazes.
No matter how many working sites they set up, security in transport will be in question from now on. The free transportation of people like products will turn into a free transportation of insecurity within the centres of command in the metropolis.
To Konstantina Kuneva we send our warmest wishes and our respect for her dignified stance against the body-snatchers of politics who wanted to cash her out with a slot in their voting lists. Contrary to the slave-like misery of the majority of her workmates, she stood up, even within the framework of reformist syndicalism. Let the attack against her, by the paid bastards of ΟΙΚΟΜΕΤ* with the shared guilt of the administration of ISAP, let this become an example of how syndicalist demands, to the small extent that they might become dangerous, are paid back tenfold by each employer’s thugs. The legal demands of employees to each employer are not always dealt with equally legally.
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*The headquarters of ISAP were occupied on the 27th of December 2008 “as a first response to the murderous attack against Konstantina Kuneva” (see “When they mess with one of us, they mess with all of us”, Insurgent Greece, Mad Dog Editions). OIKOMET is the cleaning company, contracted among other coporations by ISAP, where Konstantina was very active in the struggle against the cruel exploitation of immigrant workers in particular. Konstantina’s health has improved a little since.. she is able to speak through a machine. She has refused the proposal made by the parliamentary parties of the regime’s left to stand in next parliamentary elections.
See for more news about renewed tension in Greece: http:www.clandestinenglish.wordpress.com;  http://libcom.org/news/antifascist-protest-marches-end-riots-neonazi-hqs-torched-ground-athens-05032009
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