November 23, 2015 GREECE From the Videlista courts in Patagonia (Argentina) to the prisons of the Greek Troika to the fascist Zionist dungeons of Israel to massacred Syria Athens, Greece - One of the oldest capitals in the old continent, today hit by the global economic crisis and the theft of the bankers and big finance capital to their own people. Each 5 premises, two are closed. Many of the walls of the streets and passages in downtown Athens are covered by graffiti... My Greek comrades say these were written in full revolutionary phase, with general strikes and actions in the streets by the youth and workers. Today one can see Greek people surviving the past attacks and those that today the Government of Syriza imposes. That is, entrenchment of education and health, which for example let hundreds of physicians and hospital staff out of work and thousands of exploited without health services; extension of the hours of work, a rampant unemployment, salaries of less than 400 euros… and if you have no money to pay taxes (which continue to grow)... they auction your home and leave you living on the street. Welcome to the Greece of Syriza, Merkel and the Troika! The repression on this great revolution left dozens as political prisoners. "Today in this prison (Korydallos, on the outskirts of Athens) there are about 25 political prisoners, 17 in the men's cells, 2 in the women's and 6 in isolation (for more serious indictments such as murder)" one of the accused tells me, while he says that there are more prisoners in other prisons in the country. Yesterday was a day of one of the trials to rebellious youth. There were 9 defendants. Most of them have several parallel causes. For example, one of the political prisoners has about 9 causes, another has 7 causes... and thus we could go on with the multiple causes which each of the more than 50 political prisoners has. For each of these causes they must attend a different trial and therefore deserve a separate sentence. These young rebels are brave. They are looking for and know that they can be released, not by the "good or bad" decision of judges and prosecutors, but by the mass fighting in the streets. They make it known from their prisons and courts of the Troika. Each of them expects receiving from at least 6 years sentence to life imprisonment. Their "crime" is having fought against the designs of the Troika, for a future... for a dignified life. Before the trial starts, the defendants take advantage of the free time to be close and hug their families, friends, girlfriends and other loved ones. Also they make time to talk to us because they want to know what happens with the international working class struggle, because they live into the Syrian resistance and suffer from what happens to Palestinian prisoners in the dungeons of the Zionists. They consider themselves part and parcel of and feel siblings in a same struggle. From Palestine and Greece people battle fascism -some ones fight Zionism and the others, Golden Dawn. They are animated. It excites them to know that they have the support of many workers in the world as the oil workers from Las Heras, fighting for their freedom, of which they feel also brothers. They vibrate with the Syrian resistance, which is still alive and with the Palestinian youths who continue to resist the Zionist occupation. With the arrival of thousands of Syrian refugees in Europe - where many of them left their blood in the Mediterranean escaping a brutal counter-revolutionary genocide - and with the solidarity of European exploited with their class brothers and sisters who arrive, it is already clear that the unity to either side of the Mediterranean against a same foe is a reality and a necessity. That is why there is so much punishment, in the form of genocide, imprisonment and repression. The spark of revolution is alive and could ignite across Europe. The masses in the Middle East don't give up. It is a same fight against imperialism, its transnational and agents, from the old continent to the Maghreb and the Middle East! Correspondent |