STATEMENT OF THE OAE:

ON THE ROCKET ATTACK ON THE USA EMBASSY IN ATHENS:

The OAE, the Federation of Anarchists of Greece, is a platformist organization mostly active in the west of that country but gradually growing in other parts as well. In North America the violent acts of a minority of Greek anarchists, the Autonomists, are given excessive attention, especially by those attracted to primitivism and "post-leftism". This is despite the fact that they constitute a distinct minority amongst the anarchists of Greece and despite the fact that their incoherent politics are often virtually indistinguishable from a Maoism that doesn't know that its time in history is over- just like "insurrectionists" here on this continent. In any case here is the statement of the OAE, pointing out some rather simple things, that the only people to profit from such acts are the ruling class and that real anarchism has to be the work of a majority of the people- or it is not anarchism at all.

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"In a period that the US government sends a little bit more than twenty thousand soldiers to the already occupied Iraq, on the 12/1/2007 in Athens, a rocket by some unknown people breaks a few windows above the escutcheon on the American embassy building.

We believe that the terrorist and fickle policy of the sovereign class of the USA is extremely dangerous for world humanity and for this reason it should be confronted by the class struggle, both inside and outside of the USA.

We do not believe that the government policy of the USA supported by big parts of the ruling classes of other countries can be confronted only by words. The violent revolutionary struggle is necessary for confrontation of the international state terrorism of the USA and its allies. However, it should be effective and not strengthen the enemy against which it is supposedly addressed.

We remind you here that "terrorism" constitutes a means of control of the population of the USA and its allies. Even if the various "terrorist" groups did not exist, the bosses of the world would create them, since their various "revolutionary" activities effectively help the projects of the ruling class. Even under the simple threat of the publication of a travelling directive the military-economic cliques can elicit decisions favourable to their interests from "local" governments.

In 2007 the Greek government has scheduled the application of an enormous program of obtaining lots of military equipment. One does not need divinatory capabilities to forecast the country of origin of the new martial aeroplanes that will supply the Greek state wasting the money of the people and serving the aims of NATO and not, of course, some "national safety". LET'S NOT BE NAIVE !

This certain rocket was so "revolutionary" that the bosses of Phantom now rub their bloodstained hands for the profits ensured.

Also, we believe that in Greece no-one of the sovereign cliques has been socked by the rocket of the unknown. On the contrary, they all snicker behind the artificial panic created by the mass media for they have an interest in Athens becoming like a small London, with cameras and police presence everywhere. We have already seen on the TV channels all these various white collar, university professors and councillors of the authorities propagating the necessity of keeping a digital record of data on all citizens.

We believe that the class struggle should also take the form of a violent revolutionary struggle. However, this struggle cannot be the affair of a certain unknown, but should be organized, prepared and realized by the exploited and oppressed themselves who through their trade unions and local organizations will put an end to the disarray and chaos caused by the state and capitalism.

The Federation of Anarchists of Greece (OAE) is calling every exploited and oppressed person to fight both in the place where they live and also where they work against government sponsored arbitrariness and terrorism. The creation of a free society is the affair of all the exploited and oppressed. Then and only then will a rocket against the American embassy constitute a spark to leave behind all those apes who speak today with such arrogance like they were born to dominate humanity and ,more generally, nature.

The big ones are big because we are on our knees !

Towards class struggle !

OAE Press Office"

Molly Note:

The original text of the above statement is available at the Anarkismo site at http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story.id=3791 . It has been slightly edited here to put the original translation into a more proper English. No editing in terms of content has been done. Molly disagrees with the comrades of the OAE in terms of the need for a "revolution", but she fully agrees with their observation that these sort of half-baked terrorist acts serve nobody but the powers that be.