A SPARK FROM A CELL SPREAD LIKE FIRE THROUGHOUT SOCIETY: DIMITRIS KOUFONTINAS WON (ATHENS,GREECE)

March 17, 2021 by actforfreedom actforfree.nostate.net

On March 14, revolutionary communist D. Koufontinas ended his hunger strike after 65 days’ resistance. Although his request for transfer to Korydallos was not accepted, the movement and social dynamics expressed on the occasion of the hunger strike far exceeded the request itself.

The N.D. government had made its intentions clear from the beginning, seeking his death. This was expressed through the violation and opportunistic by-passing of legal and constitutional institutions and was accompanied by the strengthening of the police state. By over-ruling its own laws, the government’s efforts to silence this struggle clearly show its desperation.

Nonetheless, the social and political contradictions that emerged through this struggle led to the strengthening of the antagonist movement around its just struggle. Thus, this struggle was characterized by constant victories over a state apparatus which bends, revenges fighters and serves international neoliberal policies. That is why the struggle is considered victorious.

Solidarity Assembly to the hunger striker D. Koufontinas

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Koufontinas: With my heart and mind I am also there, among you (Greece)

March 14, 2021 by actforfreedom actforfree.nostate.net

DECLARATION OF DIMITRIS KOUFONTINAS:

Solidarity is the vital condition that unites us in the struggle.

I thank the friends and comrades who stood in solidarity. I thank all the progressive people for their support, which was not support to one person, but in a moment of struggle, against an inhuman power.

Solidarity and support that have shown that there are living social forces that resist arbitrariness, violence and authoritarianism. And that is a new hope.

The ruling family has shown how ruthless it is in debasing the law and the Constitution, in the administration of justice. That’s up to them.

They are judged by the people who take to the streets.

What is happening out there is far more important than what it started for.

Given the force of these struggles, I declare for my part that with my heart and mind I am also there among you.

March 14, 2021

Source:Translated by Act for freedom now!