Athens, Greece : Anarchists smash gentrification in the name of Kyriakos X.

From Act for freedom now

Exarcheia has been transformed into a sterile, dead tourist entertainment zone where the culture of consumerism dominates and alienated, superficial relationships prevail. Hipster shops, swanky hotels, flashy airbnbs now flood the neighbourhood, turning it into a flashy showcase for the apathetic apolitical who museumise its rebellious characteristics.

Actions Against Gentrification & Displacement

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Full original title: Athens, (Exarxeia) Greece :Taking responsibility for the actions against gentrification and displacement By Anarchists

We call for corresponding sabotage in every neighbourhood affected by the onslaught they call “development”.

Text regarding the situation in Exarcheia

From Athens Indymedia

Exarcheia finds itself in a moment of existential crisis. However, while most groups are focusing on the external forces that threaten the neighborhood, they are ignoring some of the internal conditions that have helped bring us to this point.

Anarchists in Exarcheia attack AirBnBs, boutique hotels and cameras

Taking responsibility for attacks on Airbnbs, hotels and cameras in Exarcheia

In a virgin forest, a wild mountain, a quiet clear sea, a beautiful neighborhood, the capitalist sees prime real estate, a new field of investment and profit. There is nothing in the world we live in, the world of state power and the capitalist organization of the economy, that does not have some exchange value, that is not valued in money.

Responsibility claim for the attack on the OBA store

On the night of May Day we chose to attack the new store in the area of Exarcheia, at 45 Themistokleous Street, called OBA. We smashed its window and left the political message of our action with stickers saying that since the opening of this shop the homeless person who lived in front of its window was displaced. This action was our response to the displacement of the homeless man who had resided for years in the arcade in front of that store and who, after the store opened, was forced to seek shelter in another corner of the neighborhood. How those who are left over are displaced to make way for urban and middle-class shoppers is also shown by the fact that on the opposite side from the store we raided there was a housing squat, which the state evacuated some years ago, sealing the building to prevent its reoccupation.

Responsibility claim for Arson Attack Against a UNISON Vehicle in Exarcheia

*Translation note from Cretin: Responsibility claim for the arson of a company vehicle of UNISON Facilities Management, on Vatatzis Street in Exarcheia, in the early hours of Wednesday, February 23, 2022. Originally posted in Greek-language on the Athens Indymedia website here: https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1617190/

Athens, Greece: Redevelopment, gentrification, gentrification. Concepts that have become embedded as spikes in the discourse and action of the antagonist movement, must be seen as another aspect of the attack of the ruling classes against the oppressed class. Capital aims at subordinating the whole of life to its exploitation and reproduction, and therefore organizes more and more aspects of human activity in this logic.

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