ANARCHIST REVOLUTIONARY KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS IS IMMORTAL!
HANDS OFF FROM ANARCHIST MARIANNA AND OTHER COMRADES FOR AMPELOKIPOI CASE !
On October 31st, 2024, an explosion happened in an apartment in Athens, in Ampelokipoi, that we don’t know the details of the incident. It became the main topic in the Greek media and public discourse during the last weeks. This incident has a huge impact on the Greek state, the public and the left movement.
As a result of this explosion, the anarchist revolutionary Kyriakos Xymitiris was martyred. Another comrade, Marianna, was in the same apartment and was seriously injured by the explosion. After her first treatment in Evangelismos hospital, under constant harassment by the police, she was transferred to Korydallos prison.
After that, the Greek state started a witch-hunt against the people they suspected to be connected to the case. As a result, comrades Dimitra and Dimitris were arrested. The state did not stop there and
after a few weeks they targeted Nikos Romanos and another comrade.
Nikos Romanos is a well-known person in Greece because of his past political activities.
He and other comrades are targeted only because of their personal relations and their past or present political ideas. This has nothing to do with jurisdiction, but is a form of clan principle perpetrated
by the imperialists and their local collaborators. If you are a revolutionary, anarchist, socialist, antifascist or anti-imperialist, the criminal law is not about your actions but about your political affiliation.
Marianna suffered extreme injuries in the explosion. Normally, a person in such a condition should be hospitalized for a long period of time for medical treatment. Unfortunately, after a few days she
was transferred to a prison cell with unacceptable sanitary conditions, where even a healthy person will eventually suffer health consequences. For Marianna, these conditions can lead to serious health problems even death. We demand that the Greek state provide her with the medical treatment she needs. We will hold the Greek state responsible for any inconvenience she suffers.
We know those comrades from the struggles in Berlin and their committed internationalism.
Kyriakos and Marianna were arrested after intervention on the Turkish Airlines Office in Athens, in solidarity with the death fast resistance fighters Gökhan Yıldırım and Sibel Balaç of the People’s Front in prisons of Turkey.
We express our sincere condolences to the friends, comrades and family of Kyriakos.
After this explosion, the Greek state has gone completely crazy. A single explosion was enough to make them panic. Of course, this is not without reason; the oppression and injustice is so immense that even the slightest sign of uprising frightens them. But nothing will help them, one day justice
will prevail in Greece and everywhere in the world.
We will follow the case of Ampelokipi closely, we will not leave anti-fascist, anti-imperialist and especially sick prisoners alone.
FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS, FREEDOM FOR MARIANNA, DIMITRA, DIMITRIS AND NIKOS!
FREEDOM FOR SICK PRISONERS! HANDS OFF MARIANNA! TRANSFERRING A PERSON TO A PRISON JUST THE SAME DAY AS THEY HAD A SURGERY IS TORTURE!
PEOPLES MARTYR KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS IS IMMORTAL!
*“you get used to everything”
don’t say this
even when you say “I can die for the way you are!”
don’t tell me “you’ll die”
I can’t get used to what you say
even though you tell me to get used to
even others tell me to
you can not get used to
the heart doesn’t get used to deaths
we died the most
killed
broken
kidnapped from the light
shot in the depths of the night
we lived in the arms of death
do you think we get used to fallen braves?
are we used to it?
flames upon my body for the love of you
is it used to death?
heart is a river of pains
even our sadness is beautiful
dense as blood
flows
flows in my veins
no one can get used to deaths
no one can get used to absence of the fallen
ranks are stronger now
voids are filling
absence of the fallen?
don’t tell me
don’t tell me “I’ll die”
I can not get used to it
unless the black barrel in my hands
get red…
Ümit İlter
* this is an amateur translation of the poem by Ümit İlter; a revolutionary prisoner from Turkey.
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“alışılır her şeye”
deme bana
“ölürüm” deyişlerine
“ölürüm” deme bana
dediğine alışılmaz ki
alışılır desen de
deseler de
alışılmaz bir kere
yürek alışmaz ölümlere
en çok biz öldük
öldürüldük
kırıldık
aydınlıktan kaçırılıp
vurulduk gecelerin kuytusunda
ölümün koynunda yaşadık da
alıştık mı sanırsın düşen yiğitlere?
alıştık mı?
yandı sevdana tutuşan bedenim
ölüme alıştın mı?
yüreğim çağlayandır acılara
hüznümüz de güzeldir
kan kıvamında ağır
akar ha akar
akar durur da damarlarımda
alışılmaz ölümlere
düşenlerin yokluğu?
saflar daha bir sıklaşıyor
boşluklar binlerle doluyor
düşenlerin yokluğu?
deme bana
ölürüm deyişlerine
elimdeki kara demir
kızıllaşmadan
alışamam…
Ümit İlter
