When State and Patriarchy Repress Together: Catalonia

“While for men there are socially accepted models of transgression, which can even be seen as an emblem of masculinity, for women the transgression is transformed into stigma and rejection”. Novact and the Defend The Defenderplatform have published a Report that analyzes the phenomenon of repression from a gender perspective. The document shows how punitive and patriarchal power is cohesive to preserve social order

Barcelona 01 10 2017 Politica Referendum 1-O elecciones la policia nacional ha intentado desalojar a las personas concentradas en las puertas del colegio electoral Ramon Llull Foto Ferran Nadeu

by Àngel Garcia  and Anna Celma
That the state has repressive mechanisms to curb dissent and control the population is something widely known among social movements and activists. Cases like Pandora or Piñata, the  4-F (see Ciutat Morta docu), the imprisonment of Alfon, among many others, have led to the activation of a police, political and judicial apparatus and the creation of a speech that builds an “internal enemy” like the anti-systemites or the perroflautas.

What is not yet so visible is how patriarchy and state social control tools are bundled together. To look into this, from Novact and with the support of entities and groups members of the platform ‘Defender of those who Defend ( like Center Irídia, Calala and Stop Represión Granada, among others ) have prepared a report on the relationship between repression and gender, which was presented at the University of Barcelona.
As the professor of law philosophy Encarna Bodelón says, “the fight against patriarchy has also been the story of multiple repressions,” individual or collective. The authors of the report gave an overview of the social and feminist mobilizations to study how repression is legitimated through the idea of ​​”citizen security”.For them, “the gender system and the dominant neoliberal ideology in the State are two structures of a mutually constitutive nature” and as such, they must be considered together.

Citizen security and family protection are two areas where the patriarchal state works to “repress and discipline” the bodies that are seen as non-normative

TOPSHOT – People clash with Spanish Guardia Civil guards outside a polling station in Sant Julia de Ramis, where Catalan president was supposed to vote, on October 1, 2017, on the day of a referendum on independence for Catalonia banned by Madrid.

The report is low in the feminist perspective to understand the phenomenon of repression exerted by the State. With this starting point, it addresses the psychosocial impacts and underlines the importance of putting care in the center as a mechanism of repair and support driven from the gender perspective.

At the same time, the impact of state repression on women and feminist movements is analyzed, and it analyzes whether the punitive system acts differently depending on gender or sexual orientation in protest contexts and in the face of social movements.Citizen security (public domain) and the protection of the family (private area) are two areas where the patriarchal state works to “repress and discipline” the bodies that are read as non-normative.

Women have experienced various offenses against their bodies, either from the attempts to impose legislation that violates their sexual and reproductive rights – such as the “Counter-Counter Gallardon” of abortion – or directly, suffering from violence when they occupy and politicize public spaces. 

The report also highlights how the expansion of the criminal system in Spanish territory has been parallel to the restriction of welfare policies. These cuts suffer more, again, women.

In view of all this, the authors argue that a logic of feminist analysis opens the door to rethink how to deal with the actions of the criminal system. “While for men there are socially accepted models of transgression, which can even be seen as an emblem of masculinity, for women the transgression is transformed into stigma and rejection.

This causes dissent to be more easily assumed by men, as they are more compatible with social and family roles that require less obligations, “concludes the document. Before that, however, they now identify a flight of the “figure of the hero” and the images of heroicity and victimism.

Since the Referendum on Oct 1st 120 attacks by Spanish nationalist fascists have been documented in Catalonia.


When repression arrives, there is also a phenomenon of feminization of the response. When time goes by and the repressive process continues, with people pending trial or imprisonment, for example, those who remain within the anti-prescription and support groups are women. This, for the authors of the report, implies that in the end it ends up giving more importance to the care in these environments.

A space is allowed to express everything that the “message of heroicity” does not allow: fears, pains, shortcomings or insecurities. Also, the effects of repressive violence that do not always arise at the first moments, such as depression, anxiety, less frequent psychotic disorders … All in all, consequencesof  post-traumatic stress disorder. This means that, from experience, a logic of prevention, care and co-responsibility has begun: preparation before the repression arrives to have more room for action and the ability to receive the violence. Sexual repression On October 1, between various songs, there was “without the girls, there is no revolution.”

These screams resounded while the police forces of the National Police Force (CNP) and the Civil Guard entered their constituencies to prevent voting during the Catalan referendum. During the day, repression became universalized and jumped from the creation of the “internal enemy” on a small scale to extrapolate it to the entire Catalan population mobilized in defense of the referendum. In this context, the report indicates that it is he produced “again the body of the woman to mean the masculine dominion”.

Martra Torrecilla had her fingers snapped by National Spanish Police

On October 1 there were cases of “sexuada repression”, in which the woman’s body is a receptacle of punitive mechanisms that want to redirect and highlight what must correspond to femininity, one band, and that at the same time uses violence that expresses the message of the domination of men. This is the case, for example, of the aggressions by which Marta Torrecillas filed a complaint.

The report indicates that “once again the body of women” became “to mean male dominance.” On October 1 there were cases of “sexuada repression” On October 25, Torrecillas denounced the sexual violence that was submitted by the CNP to the IES Pau Claris – recorded on video and that ran for the Nets. Torrecillas accuses them of twisting their fingers, touching the breasts and throwing  her dow the stairs.

Many women, to a lesser or greater extent, suffered this police violence at first hand, also elderly women. The authors of the report, at the same time, study how sexual repression is exercised from patriarchy against men to impose their patriarchal domain.

For example, they analyze the sexual violence used by the police forces in the French State against a young person in Paris: on February 1, 2017, in a “routine” drug control in the neighborhood Aulnay-sous-Bois, four agents of the French police arrested some guys to ask for their documentation.

Théo, aged 22, suffered aggression when the agents were searching his anus, aggressions from which he had to be operated on in the  hospital’s emergency department. In response to this police violence, there were disturbances in this peripheral zone of the French capital for several nights.

A similar strategy, although with much lower intensity, is anmalysed in the conversation between police, fortuitously recorded during the transfer of Oriol Junqueras to the prison center of Estremera. The agents mocked the possibility that the vice president of the Generalitat could suffer rape in prison.All the repressive logic of sexual violence was reproduced, in this case, as a tool by men in a situation of domination against a man in a situation of vulnerability.

The report, by Novact and Defend Who Defends, allows us a first approach to analysing the relationship between state, patriarchy and repression.


original en català             Llibertats

Quan estat i patriarcat es troben en la repressió

Novact i la plataforma Defender a Quien Defiende publiquen un informe que analitza des de la perspectiva de gènere el fenomen de les repressions. El document evidencia com poder punitiu i patriarcal es cohesionen per preservar l’ordre social
Imatge de la repressió davant d’una seu electoral a Sabadell el dia 1 d’octubre
Àngel Garcia    Anna Celma
Novact i la plataforma Defender a Quien Defiende publiquen un informe que analitza des de la perspectiva de gènere el fenomen de les repressions. El document evidencia com poder punitiu i patriarcal es cohesionen per preservar l’ordre social

Que l’Estat té mecanismes repressius per frenar la dissidència i controlar la població és quelcom àmpliament conegut entre els moviments socials i l’activisme. Casos com Pandora o Piñata, el cas 4-F, l’empresonament d’Alfon, entre molts altres, han comportat l’activació dels aparells policials, polítics i judicials en la creació d’un discurs que construeix un “enemic intern”, com l’antisistema o el perroflauta.

veure també… Cas ‘la Manada’ o què suposa que la llei no consideri la violació com a violència de gènere

El que encara no és tan visible és com el patriarcat i les eines estatals de control social estan entortolligades. Per evidenciar-ho, des de Novact i amb el suport d’entitats i col·lectiu membres de la plataforma Defender a Quien Defiende – com Centre Irídia, Calala i Stop Represión Granada, entre altres- han elaborat un informe sobre la relació entre repressió i gènere, que aquest dijous 16 de novembre s’ha presentat a la Universitat de Barcelona.

“des de Novact i amb el recolzament d’entitats i col·lectius membres de la plataforma Defender a Quien Defiende, com Centre Irídia, Clala i Stop Represión Granada, entre altres.”

Com diu en el pròleg la professora de filosofia del dret Encarna Bodelón, “la lluita contra els patriarcats ha estat també la història de múltiples repressions”, individuals o col·lectives. Les dones autores de l’informe han fet una panoràmica de les mobilitzacions socials i feministes per estudiar com es legitima la repressió a través de la idea de “seguretat ciutadana”. Per a elles, “el sistema de gènere i la ideologia neoliberal dominant a l’Estat són dues estructures de caràcter mútuament constitutiu” i com a tal, han d’examinar-se juntes.

La seguretat ciutadana i la protecció de la família són dos àmbits en què l’estat patriarcal treballa per “reprimir i disciplinar” els cossos que són llegits com a no normatius

L’informe es bassa en l’òptica feminista per a comprendre el fenomen de la repressió exercida per l’Estat. Amb aquest punt de partida, atén els impactes psicosocials i subratlla la importància de posar en el centre les cures com a mecanisme de reparació i acompanyament impulsat des de la visió de gènere.

Alhora, radiografia l’impacte de la repressió estatal envers les dones i els moviments feministes, i analitza si el sistema punitiu actua de manera diferent en funció del gènere o les orientacions sexuals en els contextos de protesta i enfront dels moviments socials./ Pau Fabregat

Davant de tot això, les autores defensen que una lògica d’anàlisi feminista obre les portes a repensar com fer front a les actuacions del sistema penal. “Mentre que per als homes hi ha models socialment acceptats de transgressió, que fins es poden lluir com a emblema de masculinitat, per a les dones la transgressió es transforma en estigma i rebuig.

Això fa que les dissidències puguin ser més fàcilment assumides pels homes, ja que a més resulten més compatibles amb uns rols socials i familiars que requereixen menys obligacions”, conclou el document. Davant d’això, però, identifiquen avui dia una fugida de la “figura de l’heroi” i de les imatges d’heroïcitat i victimisme.

Quan arriba la repressió, també es produeix un fenomen de feminització de la resposta. Quan el temps passa i el procés repressiu continua, amb persones pendents de judici o empresonades, per exemple, qui es manté a dins dels grups antirepressius i de suport són les dones. Això, per a les autores de l’informe, implica que al final s’acabi donant més importància a les cures en aquests entorns.S’habilita un espai per expressar tot allò que el “missatge de l’heroïcitat” no permet: pors, dolors, mancances o inseguretats. També els efectes de la violència repressiva que no sempre afloren als primers moments, com ara depressió, ansietat, trastorns psicòtics amb menys freqüència… Tot plegat, conseqüències del trastorn d’estrès post- traumàtic. Això fa que, des de l’experiència, es comenci a instaurar una lògica de la prevenció, de la cura i de corresponsabilitzar: preparar-se abans que arribi la repressió per tenir més marge d’actuació i capacitat per rebre el cop.

La repressió sexuada

L’1 d’octubre, entre diversos càntics, hi havia el de “sense les iaies, no hi ha revolució”. Aquests crits ressonaven mentre les forces policials del Cos Nacional de Policia (CNP) i de la Guàrdia Civil entraven a les seus electorals per impedir les votacions durant el referèndum català. Durant la jornada, la repressió es va universalitzar i va saltar de la creació de “l’enemic intern” a petita escala a extrapolar-lo a tota la població catalana mobilitzada en defensa del referèndum.En aquest context, l’informe assenyala que es va produir “altra vegada el cos de la dona per significar el domini masculí”. L’1 d’octubre es va haver-hi casos de “repressió sexuada”, aquella en què el cos de la dona és receptacle d’uns mecanismes punitius que volen reconduir i remarcar el que ha de correspondre a la feminitat, d’una banda, i que alhora empra unes violències que cosifiquen i expressen el missatge de la dominació dels homes. És el cas, per exemple, de les agressions per les quals Marta Torrecillas va presentar una querella.

El 25 d’octubre, Torrecillas va denunciar la violència sexual a què va ser sotmesa pel CNP a l’IES Pau Claris – gravada en vídeo i que va córrer per les xarxes. Torrecillas els acusa de torçar-li els dits, tocar- li els pits i llançar-la per les escales. Moltes dones, a menor o major mesura, van patir aquesta violència policial de primera mà, també dones grans.Les autores de l’informe, alhora, estudien com la repressió sexuada s’exerceix des del patriarcat contra els homes per arrabassar-los el domini patriarcal. Per exemple, analitzen la violència sexual emprada pels cossos policials a l’Estat francès contra un jove a París: l’1 de febrer del 2017, en un “rutinari” control de drogues al veïnat Aulnay-sous- Bois, quatre agents de la policia francesa van aturar uns nois per demanar-los la documentació.

Théo, de 22 anys, va ser agredit quan els agents van “introduir una porra per l’anus, agressions fruit de les quals va haver de ser operat a l’hospital d’urgència”. Com a resposta davant d’aquesta violència policial, hi va haver disturbis en aquesta zona perifèrica de la capital francesa durant diverses nits.

Una estratègia similar, tot i que de molt més baixa intensitat, es troba en la conversa entre policies, gravada fortuïtament durant el trasllat d’Oriol Junqueras al centre penitenciari d’Estremera. Els agents feien mofa de la possibilitat de què el vicepresident de la Generalitat patís una violació a presó.

Es reproduïa tota la lògica repressiva de la violència sexuada, en aquest cas, com una eina d’homes en situació de dominació contra homes en situació de vulnerabilitat. Per tant, l’informe, impulsat per Novact i Defender a Quien Defiende, permet fer una primera aproximació a l’abast de la relació entre estat, patriarcat i repressió.

 

Turkey holds anarchist İshak Tayak on false charges

Translated and edited from Sosyal Savas with additional edits from the Black Rose/Rosa Negra Social Media Team.

Anarchist activist İshak Tayak has been arrested and accused of being a member of the Islamic, pro-capitalist Gülen movement linked to the 2016 failed coup attempt. In the pre-dawn hours of October 2, special ops police raided his Istanbul home, where they beat him before taking him into custody. İshak, a Kurdish self-identified anarchist and atheist, was later charged with downloading a messaging app used by the movement called Bylock in 2014.

Charges denied, lack of evidence

Ishak denies the charges, as well as any ties with the Gülenists, and allegedly, the state has yet to present substantial evidence supporting its claims.

“I am an anarchist, an atheist, a person who defends the rights of nature, people, and animals,” Ishak said in a statement. Under the state of emergency, he says the rule of law has been suspended and any semblance of justice discarded: “I’m being tried as a Gülenist—despite the fact that I’m an anarchist and have no connections [to this or any organization].”

Istanbul Anti-Fraud Division branch members detained 15 people in the operation for ByLock users, including Ishak Tayak, who was in the group called “Anarchists”.The evening newspaper, the government said, alleged that Tayak had downloaded ByLock over his own line.

The Turkish state accuses the Gülenists, led by the US-based Muslim cleric Fetullah Gülen, of orchestrating a July 15, 2016 coup attempt and considers it a terrorist organization. In the months after the coup, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has aggressively attempted to link dissidents—left and right—to the Gülenists, an effort to both consolidate its power and justify heavy repression of the opposition. Over 50,000 people have been jailed in post-coup purges. Continue reading “Turkey holds anarchist İshak Tayak on false charges”

Argelia da luz verde al Fracking Gas con EU Imperialistas TOTAL y CEPSA

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A pesar de las promesas, Argelia ha abandonado su moratoria sobre el gas de Fracking que adoptó después del levantamiento popular de 1915, con miles de heridos y un muerto, Mohamed Anoui, de 21 años. La fuerte resistencia unida obligó al Estado a abandonar sus planes por temor a volver a encender una guerra civil….

El fracking utiliza un cóctel químico tóxico y una presión explosiva incontrolable para romper rocas abiertas y puede envenenar permanentemente las aguas subterráneas de las cuales las comunidades argelinas del desierto son 100% dependientes.

El gas natural es más del 90% de metano que escapa fácilmente y es docenas de veces más letal que el CO2 en el marco de 20 años.

El “apuesto por el gas” de la UE como un sustituto “verde” es un fraude flagrante que ignora la urgente necesidad de salvarnos de Climate Meltdown. Los nuevos oleoductos subsidiados por el público de la UE, NordStream, TAP y Midcat son peligrosos e inmorales apostados por la codiciosa industria de combustibles fósiles corruptos para encerrarnos en su producto para las generaciones venideras.

La tubería de Midcat es especialmente perversa. Se promueve para “traer gas africano a Europa” cuando la capacidad de los oleoductos actuales de Argelia no puede satisfacer ni la mitad de las necesidades de Iberia. El único uso para Midcat será bombear gas LNG de Barcelona a Francia (en lugar de enviarlo directamente a Francia). Si Midcat se construye será puramente porque la UE pagará por ello y los políticos españoles obtendrán su parte. Una vez que se construya Midcat, el argumento puede cambiar a “necesitamos nuevos gaseoductos de Argelia para incorporar Fracking Gas y hacer que Midcat sea viable”.

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En 2015, la industria, incluida Halliburton, prometió que sus operaciones previas al Frackinjg en Argelia eran “absolutamente limpias”, pero los activistas visitaron los sitios de la encuesta y descubrieron desbordamientos de lagos de desechos tóxicos y productos químicos esparcidos por todas partes. Fotos y vídeos publicados en sitios de redes sociales revelaron la ausencia de instalaciones para tratar el agua y el lodo de perforación, llevando a la gente de Ain Salah a rebelar y sacar a la luz la falsidad de las afirmaciones de Sonatrach.

El Gas de Fracking es mucho peor que el gas extraido por métodos convencionales. Es al menos el doble de dañino que el carbón para el cambio climático. debido a las inevitables filtraciones de metano. (De hecho, algunos estudios han calculado que podría ser hasta 5 veces peor que el carbón; nunca se han realizado mediciones en los EE. UU. A pesar de que se perforaron varios millones de pozos de Fracking, excepto en casos limitados controlados por la propia industria corrupta.) El Presidente Trump ha ABOLIDO POR DECRETO hasta los controles voluntarios que iban a ser introducidos)

Timimoun, donde comenzará el fracking, es el antiguo centro de un centenar de pueblos de oasis impresionantes, Se ubica entre majestuosos acantilados. Todos los oases se encuentran 100% dependientes del agua limpia del acuífero.

La UE todavía acepta el fraude del Gas de Fracking de los Estados Unidos, bajo una fuerte presión para permitir su ingreso a Europa, a pesar de ser más caro y dos veces más letal para el clima que el gas de Rusia y otros competidores. Continue reading “Argelia da luz verde al Fracking Gas con EU Imperialistas TOTAL y CEPSA”

Algeria Green-lights climate-lethal Fracking Gas with EU Imperialists TOTAL and CEPSA

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Despite promises Algeria has abandoned its Moratorium on Fracking Gas which it adopted after the 1915 popular uprising, with thousands of injured and one death, 21 year old Mohamed Anoui. In 2015 the strong united popular resistance forced the State to drop its plans for fear of re-igniting civil war. Now Total and Cepsa are back and due to Start Fracking in April 2018.

The first fracking fields are planned withTotal and Cepsa, in the Tight gas fields of SW Algeria, first in the fields of Ahnet.Timimoun, Touat and Reggane which were already extensively prepared before Total was temporarily expelled during the Anti Fracking Uprising in 2015.

Fracking uses a toxic chemical cocktail and uncontrollable explosive pressure to splinter open rocks and can permanently poison groundwater on which Algerian desert communities are 100% dependent.

‘Natural’ gas is over 90% methane which escapes easily and is dozens of times more lethal than CO2 in the 20 year time frame.

The EU’s ‘dash for gas’ as a ‘green’ substitute is a blatant fraud which ignores the urgent necessity to save us from Climate Meltdown. The new pipelines subsidised by the EU public, NordStream, TAP and Midcat are a dangerous and immoral  bid by the greedy corrupt fossil fuel industry to lock us into their product for generations to come.

The Midcat pipeline is especially perverse. It is being promoted to ‘bring African gas to Europe’ when the capacity of the present pipelines from Algeria can’t supply even half of Iberia’s needs. The only use for Midcat will be to pump LNG gas from Barcelona to France (instead of shipping it directly to France). If Midcat is built it will be purely because the EU will pay for it and Spanish politicians will get their cut. Once Midcat is built the argument may shift to ‘we need new pipelines from Algeria to bring in Fracking Gas and  make Midcat viable’.

In 2015 the industry, including Halliburton, vowed that their pre.fracking operations in Algeria were ‘squeaky clean’, but activists visited the survey sites and found open overflowing  toxic waste lakes and chemicals strewn everywhere. Photos and videos posted on social network sites revealed the absence of facilities to treat water and drilling mud, leading the people of Ain Salah to blow the whistle on Sonatrach’s claims..

Fracked Gas is much much worse, it is at least twice as Bad as Coal for Climate Change, due to inevitable methane leaks. (Indeed some studies have calculated it could be up to 5 times as bad as coal, measurements in the US have never been done despite several million fracking wells being drilled, except in limited cases controlled by the corrupt industry itself. Trump ABOLISHED BY DECREE the voluntary controls which were due to be introduced

Timimoun, where the fracking will begin, is the ancient center of 200 magical oasis villages set into majestic cliffs. All are 100% dependent on clean aquifer water.

The EU still accepts the fraud of US Frack Gas, under heavy pressure to allow it into Europe, despite being more expensive and twice as climate lethal as its Russian and other competitors. Continue reading “Algeria Green-lights climate-lethal Fracking Gas with EU Imperialists TOTAL and CEPSA”

Yaqui Tribe Defends Land by Digging Up Gas Pipeline

  Wednesday, December 20th, 2017

from Bloomberg News and Earth First

A chunk of Sempra Energy’s natural gas pipeline sits in the dirt behind a community center in the village of Loma de Bacum in northwest Mexico. Guadalupe Flores thinks it would make a great barbecue pit.“Cut it here, lift the top,’’ he says, pointing to the 30-inch diameter steel tube. “Perfect for a cook-out.’’Photo: Yael Martinez/Bloomberg

It would be an expensive meal. The pipeline cost $400 million, part of a network that’s supposed to carry gas from Arizona more than 500 miles to Mexico’s Pacific coast. It hasn’t done that since August, when members of the indigenous Yaqui tribe – enraged by what they viewed as an unauthorized trespass their land – used a backhoe truck to puncture and extract a 25-foot segment. They left the main chunk about a mile from the community center, perpendicular to the rest of the pipeline, like a lower-case t.

 The impact extends far beyond Loma de Bacum and its 4,500 residents. Arizona’s gas exports to Mexico have plunged 37 percent since the shutdown, hitting an eight-month low in December. Mexico’s state utility is having to burn fuel oil instead to generate power, raising costs.

It’s not an isolated case. Mexico’s opening of its energy industry has succeeded in attracting capital, but it’s also been beset by territorial or environmental disputes, often involving the country’s myriad indigenous groups. When protest turns into sabotage, there’s a risk that investors will be put off from future phases, like an extensive shale development. It’s also grist to the mill of the leftist frontrunner for next year’s presidential election, who’s vowing to reverse some of the reforms.

‘Refused Consent’

The Yaquis of Loma de Bacum say they were asked by community authorities in 2015 if they wanted a 9-mile tract of the pipeline running through their farmland — and said no. Construction went ahead anyway.

The Energy Ministry acknowledged that account is true, in a statement that highlights the difficulties its officials confront. Consultation of the eight Yaqui communities along the route was carried out, as required by law. Seven of them gave a green light, the ministry said by e-mail, “while the town of Loma de Bacum refused consent.’’A piece of the gas pipeline extracted by the Yaquis of Loma de Bacum.  Photo: Yael Martinez/Bloomberg

The project is now in a legal limbo. Ienova, the Sempra unit that operates the pipeline, is awaiting a judicial ruling that could allow them to go in and repair it — or require a costlier re-route. “If they want to build a pipeline, that’s fine,’’ said Flores, the would-be barbecue designer who’s a local community leader. “But it won’t pass through here.’’

At the Energy Ministry in Mexico City, that’s becoming a familiar refrain. Continue reading “Yaqui Tribe Defends Land by Digging Up Gas Pipeline”

Water Protectors block all entrances LNG facility in Tacoma

  from Puget Sound Anarchists

150+ Water Protectors are still blocking all entrances of the construction site to the LNG facility in Tacoma, WA.

*Multiple reports saying there have been arrests and heavy riot police presence*

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Reasons to oppose this project include Continue reading “Water Protectors block all entrances LNG facility in Tacoma”

Victory! Nikos and Pola end Hunger Strike. Victory!

Just when comrades were preparing for their imminent deaths the Greek authorities have finally backed down on their evil campaign of victimisation and isolation.

A welcome anti-Christmas present  for Pola,  Nikos and their family and supporters, though they still face a while in jail… Nikos got Life + 129 years!

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This Monday, December 18, after he was discharged from the hospital at Korydallos Prison, Nikos Maziotis was transferred to Unit 5 and is no longer under special detention / isolation regime. Therefore since our demands regarding our imprisonment have been met, Pola Roupa has terminated the hunger strike and will stay for a few days in the Korydallos Prison hospital to recuperate.

Our struggle does not end here. Article 11 and the fascist provisions of the new prison code in general are still ahead of us. We will not remain idle. The fight continues. The solidarity of comrades outside the walls was and is decisive. Strength to everyone. Continue reading “Victory! Nikos and Pola end Hunger Strike. Victory!”