December 18th, 2015
GREECE
From Greek prisons...
Second day of session of the imperialist troika counter-revolutionary court...
WE COULD TALK AGAIN WITH THE POLITICAL PRISONERS
"We are with the Syrian masses, because it's a revolution, a same fight that we carry on to change things and have a dignified life"
"The Syrian masses are whom we must support in the first place because they are now being slaughtered"
"On 12/12 WE WERE TOGETHER. IT WAS A DAY OF STRUGGLE FOR THE FREEDOM OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN OUR BLACK DECEMBER""
The trials are going on in Greek prisons against the young rebels. The establishment wants them condemned for life because they fought for a life of dignity, against a State, a Government and a system that deny them the possibility even to have a future.
But despite bars, despite the most infamous prisons as Koridallos (on the outskirts of the Greek capital, Athens), these young people remain unwavering. Their slogan, which they always make it known is: "the passion for freedom is stronger than the cells in the prisons".
I was with 12 of them on December 18, in one of the hearings in one of the many trials that are underway against the rebellious youth in Greece. I had already been with them in a pre-trial hearing on Dec 14.
They knew that I had been covering Maghreb and the Middle-East... and therefore when seeing me entering the room, they asked in the first place for the situation in Syria and how the masses and the comrades of the resistance are. They crave to know what happens with them, what is happening there, how things are going. They feel the fight against Bashar Al-Assad as their own; they are for the victory of the revolution.
They made me know the message of their heart... they are wholeheartedly with the Syrian masses because it is a revolution, which is a same fight that have to change things to remake them well... to have a life worthy of living. And they say that this is a permanent, international daily fight... and that it is necessary to establish and have effective international coordination, which is the true meaning of solidarity.
That is what they mean when they say it is necessary to construct and integrate a network of international solidarity for the freedom of all prisoners in the world, and above all and first of all, to stop the genocide in Syria. They insist that the Syrian masses are which we must support in the first place because they are whom the enemy is massacring.
Seeing in them passion and revolutionary integrity moves me. “First of all, everything for the Syrian resistance” -and that is said by revolutionaries who are in prison.
The world working class has here in Greece and in the dungeons of the Syriza captors -agents of the bankers- the most advanced and conscious detachments against the system of the oppressors...
“Everything for the Syrian resistance, comrades”... they insist.
“Let’s build the international network for the prisoners... but everything to the service of the success of the Syrian revolution”. It is clear that the fight for their freedom is seen intimately linked to the victory of world revolution.
I'm on the Court, I can see them and their families and here one is breathing revolution, in the noses of these counter-revolutionary courts of the imperialist bankers and its judges who cleared the fascists and have detained the comrades.
They have just some few minutes to exchange words with their family, friends, girlfriends... but they took a couple of minutes to talk with me and to have contact with Syria, with revolutions in the Middle East, with all the struggle of workers and young militant of the world struggling against prisons and incarceration by bourgeois Governments and regimes.
Because beyond the differences or political views, they claim that in war as in Syria, or when faced with the bourgeois state and its prisons, we are in the same struggle against the same enemy. And in these situations, you have to look for what unites us and not divide the struggle, but strengthen it. That is why it is important and necessary coordination and a permanent fight for the freedom of political prisoners, against massacre and genocide to workers in Syria.
A day of important global struggle took place on 12/12, the international day of the persecuted worker. This is the way along which these young people want to walk and therefore some of them had taken the initiative of calling for a "Black December" from Greek prisons for the release of all political prisoners.
The repression in Greece is very hard... last year there were many arrests... There are more than 50 political prisoners, who now have a "left" jailer, Syriza. But they know that even if the bars of the prisons get stronger they may never capture a rebellious heart and that from outside the prisons we will continue standing, fighting for the freedom of young Greeks and all political prisoners.
Leandro Hofstadter
Correspondent of Rudolph Klement Socialist Publishing House
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