From Athens Indymedia, Translated by Act for Freedom Now!
In the days of commemoration of the Polytechnic, we must not forget the anti-militarist implications of the uprising. In the midst of military dictatorship, one of the central slogans of the occupied Polytechnic in ’73 was “Out with NATO”. Picking up this thread, anarchy today must find a way of direct action against those who profit and gain from these wars.
While we try to develop anarchist considerations and analyses of every interstate war conflict, one of the most important aspects of the multifaceted anti-military struggle is often ignored: sabotaging the death machine on the ground we are on.
Since we are in NATO’s territory of influence, we have a duty to sabotage everything used by the armed forces of the Greek state and its allies, the arms industry, the financiers and those who give orders and make decisions.
Alongside the Russian state’s invasion of Ukrainian territory, the Turkish state’s war against the Kurdish people is raging, while the USA is waging wars all over the planet. In all these cases, DB Schenker is actively involved, supporting and profiting from these wars. It is a German state-owned company, owned by Deutsche Bahn (DB, the German railway company) and controlled by the German Ministry of Transport. It is a company responsible for war crimes during World War II, and today, it maintains supply chain hubs in dozens of places around the globe, transporting and delivering war equipment, weapons as well as parts of vehicles, tanks and war planes. In 2019, DB Schenker received an award from the U.S. Department of Transportation for its cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense, as there seem to be very few transnational wars in which DB Schenker does not transport weapons to the front lines.
The parent company, Deutsche Bahn, is responsible for the ‘Tren Maya’ project, the development of railway lines on Mexican territory, including the Chiapas region, lines that will serve the Mexican military.
This project will destroy huge tracts of forested land, and the lands are home to thousands of people. It obviously serves as the basis of a wider plan to pressure the Mexican state against the liberated Zapatista land, and resistance against it has already begun.
While the Greek police were gradually occupying Exarcheia, in an attempt to suppress the memory of the resistance against the junta, on the morning of 15 November, we carried out an arson attack on a DB Schenker truck on Baltinon Street in Gyzi. While we know that a destroyed truck alone will not stop any war, we have a duty to recognize the cogs that set the state war machines in motion and dismantle them piece by piece.
Solidarity with the struggle of the Kurdish people against the Turkish state.
Solidarity with the prisoner Dimitris Hatzivassiliadis
We support the 4 imprisoned comrades in the case of the Piraeus traffic police.
Victory for the hunger strike of Alfredo Cospito.
Anarchists
via: athens.indymediaTranslated by Act for freedom now!
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“Since we are in NATO’s
“Since we are in NATO’s territory of influence, we have a duty to sabotage everything used by the armed forces of the Greek state and its allies, the arms industry, the financiers and those who give orders and make decisions”
Now this is a principled anarchist stance: to struggle where we are, with our own conditions, not by identifying ourselves with the parties in completely different situations, not by joining bandwagons of statist logic.
"The parent company, Deutsche
"The parent company, Deutsche Bahn, is responsible for the ‘Tren Maya’ project, the development of railway lines on Mexican territory, including the Chiapas region, lines that will serve the Mexican military.
This project will destroy huge tracts of forested land, and the lands are home to thousands of people. It obviously serves as the basis of a wider plan to pressure the Mexican state against the liberated Zapatista land, and resistance against it has already begun."
This is questionable. Of course these kinds of modernization projects capitalized by foreign corporate interests are a problem in general, tho on the other hand... public transportation in Mexico is just buses and *collectivos*, that cause, aside from terrible, dangerous road traffic, huge gasoline demands and consequentially a lot of pollution and destruction of local wildlife. Zapatistas are not the defenders of this wildlife, but of their own political and economic interests. Is that bad? Not what I'm saying. It's just an ethno-national formation struggling for their power.
In Ocosingo, Chiapas, the main regional bus station was shut down by Zapatistas, so that collectivos now got the monopoly over transport between Palenque and San Chris (the biggest tourist hotspots in the southern mainland).
Sure, big buses were likely tools of the Mexican state, like this train will be... tho it's a ratio of like 4-5 collectivos for 1 bus, in terms of passengers they can transport. So this means more more polluting, dangerous trucks on the roads, more energy demands. No, the real reason why they are opposing Tren Maya is the fear of people losing their jobs to a few train operators. They don't care about corporate interests in Chiapas, as long as it's giving jobs to "their" people. They are socialists and like all socialists work is the top value in their approach to biopower... not "the forests".
Secondly, who the fuck has been attacking the interests behind fucking Nestlé, for their criminal operations in Veracruz... or -more relevant to this quote- the total takeover of the "Riviera Maya" by (mostly) Spanish and German capitalists? So it's only now that the "Zapatatistas" gave the greenlight that foreign anarchos would fight in this struggle.... Because ELZN.
Fuck this. A bunch of Zapatistas in some mountains in Chiapas are not my anarchy, dude. Wtf would it be yours?
I say, get more informed on whats really going on in Mexico... instead of through the lens of events from 2-3 decades back Or just travel through the country and see how fucked up this society has become due to partly the motor/gas industry.
From my mindblowing analysis
From my mindblowing analysis I have derived a new political term to replace the preceding left/right ideological industrialist model. It is -- Totcorp -- or, totalitarian corporatism.
Look round, its everywhere where there is internet reception, and is as ruthless as any other preceding forms of imperialism.