Dimitris
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On its time, the uprising at the Polytechnic on 17th of November 1973, for the rulers of greece and their allies it was nothing more than an anti-state rebelion of anarcho-communists that had to be repressed and its memory after the end of the dictatorship should be deleted. For this reason the first elections after the end of the junta took place on the 17 of November of 1974, ignoring the uprising that had happened just a year ago which meant the end of the junta...
7 years of fascist military dictatorship had passed before this event took place. It was an uprising against the state and this fascist regime with a bloody end, as a heavy artillery tank drove through the main gate of the squated building of the Athens Polytechnic, killing people on its way.
Later on though, the same politicians that wanted people to forget this event, tried to alter the truth about it, to make it like a “democratic” student uprising, in order state “democracy” as we know it to be established, and made it a school celebration day. On 1981, the new government of the Greek Socialist Party (PASOK) who had just won the elections, together with the Greek Communist Party (KKE) tried to accomplish this with great success. Of course this falsification of the facts of the uprising and the integration of this to the political and partisan “celebration calendar”, making it known as the “celebration of democracy” it was not just an ideological but also a repression attempt against the opressed citizens of this country, because this celebration throughout the years have been proven to be a starting point for a number of anti-state uprisings and revolts.
On a tragic coincidence, it was the bloody consequences of a similar uprising on November 1980, that made the conservative regime after the end of the junta to withdraw from the government and the elections of 1981 to take place. It was about the murder of 2 demonstrators, Iakovos Koumis and Stamatina Kanelopoulou, and the heavy injury of much more even with the use of machine guns by the police on the 17th of November 1980. The conservative government (political party “New Democracy”) was responsible for this, alongside with the socialist PASOK, whose leader supported the repression tactics of the police and the Greek Communist Party that with its members the Communist Youth HELPED the police by attacking the demonstrators at the same time and taking control of the squated building of the Athens Polytechic. A similar senario as the one will mention to you a bit later on .....
Nomatter the lies that were said, that provocateurs were getting within the “genuine” demonstrators in order to destroy the celebrations, these bloody incidents, as well as others that followed on the years that came, they were all a part of a conflict that started on November 1973. A strong conflict between the anarchists and left political parties had started....
Going back to the events of November 1973, we can remember the text that the Communist Student Youth had issued (Pansoudastiki issue No 8) on January 1974 and clearly stated that the 350 anarchists, anti-authoritarians and other left people that had squated the Polytechic building on 14/11/1973, and their message for General Strike, Smash Capitalsim, Abolish Work, Smash the state, were provocateurs and people of Roufogalis (a member of the fascist regime)
We can also remember that when the uprising started the dictator Papadopoulos, was trying with the abolishment of Monarchy (greece was supposed to be a kingdom up that point), the amnesty of political prisoners and the nomination of a “democratic” government with Markenzis, to legalise his regime and try to get a deal with politicians.
This is when the uprising started at the centre of Athens, starting with the squat of the Polytechic building on 14 of November by 350 students and other young people and in the same time a lot of workers were starting a general assembly at the building Gini.
The police was unable to repress this uprising which became massive, but in the meantime problems started within this uprising and the people, with people talking about anticapitalist and antistate actions, and others (mainly members of the Greek Communist Party) who were talking about the dissolvment of the dictatorship and the start of the state “public democracy”. Even from day one, on 14th of November members of the Communist Youth were trying to stop the squat. Members of the GCP, like mr Xatzisocratis, had already stated that the GCP members were activelly trying to stop this uprising that started by anarchists....
But before managing to do anything, the uprising was already so massive and had deployed and in the streets of Athens, with attacks on public buildings, so the army came and repressed it with the bloody ending that I mentioned above.
The efford to make political state dictatorship (instead of military) by Papadopoulos failed and he was then replaced by Ioannidis. The regime was not able to continue though and finally gave up on July 1974, just after the incidents in Cyprus and the invation of turkish troops at the island ....
It seems though, that the message of this uprising has managed to pass to a number of people so uprisings continue to happen on that day during the last decades nomatter the effords of the various regimes up to now to repress them with the help of the Communist Youth of the GCP ....
7 years of fascist military dictatorship had passed before this event took place. It was an uprising against the state and this fascist regime with a bloody end, as a heavy artillery tank drove through the main gate of the squated building of the Athens Polytechnic, killing people on its way.
Later on though, the same politicians that wanted people to forget this event, tried to alter the truth about it, to make it like a “democratic” student uprising, in order state “democracy” as we know it to be established, and made it a school celebration day. On 1981, the new government of the Greek Socialist Party (PASOK) who had just won the elections, together with the Greek Communist Party (KKE) tried to accomplish this with great success. Of course this falsification of the facts of the uprising and the integration of this to the political and partisan “celebration calendar”, making it known as the “celebration of democracy” it was not just an ideological but also a repression attempt against the opressed citizens of this country, because this celebration throughout the years have been proven to be a starting point for a number of anti-state uprisings and revolts.
On a tragic coincidence, it was the bloody consequences of a similar uprising on November 1980, that made the conservative regime after the end of the junta to withdraw from the government and the elections of 1981 to take place. It was about the murder of 2 demonstrators, Iakovos Koumis and Stamatina Kanelopoulou, and the heavy injury of much more even with the use of machine guns by the police on the 17th of November 1980. The conservative government (political party “New Democracy”) was responsible for this, alongside with the socialist PASOK, whose leader supported the repression tactics of the police and the Greek Communist Party that with its members the Communist Youth HELPED the police by attacking the demonstrators at the same time and taking control of the squated building of the Athens Polytechic. A similar senario as the one will mention to you a bit later on .....
Nomatter the lies that were said, that provocateurs were getting within the “genuine” demonstrators in order to destroy the celebrations, these bloody incidents, as well as others that followed on the years that came, they were all a part of a conflict that started on November 1973. A strong conflict between the anarchists and left political parties had started....
Going back to the events of November 1973, we can remember the text that the Communist Student Youth had issued (Pansoudastiki issue No 8) on January 1974 and clearly stated that the 350 anarchists, anti-authoritarians and other left people that had squated the Polytechic building on 14/11/1973, and their message for General Strike, Smash Capitalsim, Abolish Work, Smash the state, were provocateurs and people of Roufogalis (a member of the fascist regime)
We can also remember that when the uprising started the dictator Papadopoulos, was trying with the abolishment of Monarchy (greece was supposed to be a kingdom up that point), the amnesty of political prisoners and the nomination of a “democratic” government with Markenzis, to legalise his regime and try to get a deal with politicians.
This is when the uprising started at the centre of Athens, starting with the squat of the Polytechic building on 14 of November by 350 students and other young people and in the same time a lot of workers were starting a general assembly at the building Gini.
The police was unable to repress this uprising which became massive, but in the meantime problems started within this uprising and the people, with people talking about anticapitalist and antistate actions, and others (mainly members of the Greek Communist Party) who were talking about the dissolvment of the dictatorship and the start of the state “public democracy”. Even from day one, on 14th of November members of the Communist Youth were trying to stop the squat. Members of the GCP, like mr Xatzisocratis, had already stated that the GCP members were activelly trying to stop this uprising that started by anarchists....
But before managing to do anything, the uprising was already so massive and had deployed and in the streets of Athens, with attacks on public buildings, so the army came and repressed it with the bloody ending that I mentioned above.
The efford to make political state dictatorship (instead of military) by Papadopoulos failed and he was then replaced by Ioannidis. The regime was not able to continue though and finally gave up on July 1974, just after the incidents in Cyprus and the invation of turkish troops at the island ....
It seems though, that the message of this uprising has managed to pass to a number of people so uprisings continue to happen on that day during the last decades nomatter the effords of the various regimes up to now to repress them with the help of the Communist Youth of the GCP ....
