FOR COMRADE KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS By Pola Roupa and Nikos Maziotis

From Act for Freedom Now! by Pola Roupa & Nikos Maziotis

FOR COMRADE KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS

A year ago, comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris lost his life while building an explosive device. He had decided to respond in this dynamic way to some great injustice, to a class and anti-social state policy, to defend a right … Whatever he had decided to do, whatever action he had chosen, it was certainly an armed political action against a savage and deeply unjust system of power that in our time is increasingly showing its anti-social and racist face. A deeply class system of power that is now openly showing its hatred towards anything that does not yield profit and power.

Comrade Kyriakos lost his life while walking the path of armed anti-establishment action. In the great global history of armed struggle, many, many fighters have given their lives in the struggle against authoritarian governments, against totalitarian regimes, against anti-social policies, against interstate wars. They gave their lives in the struggle for a better society. They gave their lives fighting with a weapon in their hands.

They gave their lives placing or constructing explosive devices. They gave their lives for a society without divisions, without poverty, without wars, for social liberation.

In this struggle, no one is lost. Death does not erase their social and political imprints that remain deeply engraved in revolutionary history.

Today and every day that passes we see the entanglements of the state and capital crushing millions of people. The system of power has brought every weapon it has to the surface and is using it to stifle resistance, to consolidate consensus through coercion and violence, to maintain passivity in the social base, to impose every antisocial measure it wants, to increase the profits of big capital by stealing from the majority. Capital and modern states are bringing their most brutal, ruthless face to the surface of history. Either they expand and strengthen their sovereignty over other states or they will let the privileges of their sovereignty shrink and wither. Within a deep systemic crisis that has a past and a future and into which states and capital are sinking deeper and deeper, every day we are experiencing generalized – indirectly or directly – social cleansing, wars, genocide of entire peoples, raw racism, the extermination of the pariah, extreme economic exploitation. All of this is connected in a network of managing a crisis of survival of the system and maintaining profits for the super-rich of the planet. Along with every form of violence unleashed by the dominant system of power against the weak, the poison of hatred for the different and the weak that affects youth is also being unleashed. Resistance and anti-state struggle are becoming more and more demanding and at the same time are more and more necessary.

The least that is due to fighters like Kyriakos who do not bend down, who do not give up, who are not afraid to confront the choice of armed action in an era when excessive regime violence is surpassing every modern historical precedent, is to become points of reference for the continuation of the struggle and the inspiration of all.

Comrade Kyriakos will forever remain a living example of total dedication and selflessness in a common struggle that concerns all of society.

Comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris will always be present in the struggle for social liberation from the shackles of the state and capital.

He is Immortal

Pola Roupa – Nikos Maziotis

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via: athens.indymedia.

Translated by Act for freedom now!

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