The anti-anarchist campaign of LAOS

greece / turkey / cyprus | community struggles | press release Saturday February 24, 2007 10:58 by OAE-Greece - Anarkismo outetheos at yahoo dot com dot au

A provocative policy

Statement of OAE (Press Office)

For one year the political party LAOS of G. Karatzaferis is systematically delivered in a classic bourgeois tactic of slander against the anarchist movement. It debits to anarchists every counteractive fascist behavior which (according to him) leads to social disarray and chaos. Every such action, from the multiple burn of the bookshop of Georgiadis Publications to the stupid and unjustifiable incidents in university buildings after night parties, have become butter in the bread of Karatzaferis who, in combination with the criminality in the poor neighbourhoods, presents his party as the unique defender of public order and safety.

However, they believe in LAOS that the terms “anarchist” and “anarchism” can be used anywhere that crime exist (hooliganism, violent episodes, fires, robberies, burn of bookshops, destruction of cars, hoods and generally counteractive behavior). By this stance, LAOS brings in our memory the decades between the A’ and B’ World Wars when the bourgeois class organised such a systematic tactic of slandering against the anarchist movement by its fear because the movement starred in the trade-union and political life of many countries.

Today this tactic of LAOS, through European Parliament in which it is represented by G. Karatzaferis, through its television station TILEASTY, the newspaper “A1”, their various political events and the mass media where he is participating, should not astonish us. Because wanting his party to constitute the main representative of nationalism in Greece, is wrestling against the genuine internationalistic anarchist movement, degrading the political content of anarchism on the subject of internationalism, and is accusing amongst the others the anarchists as anti-Greek.

Moreover with the word “anarchists” he is communicating via slogans, for internal party reasons, with big parts of the population which having enough of the bourgeois class propaganda for decades, identifing the word “anarchy” with the disarray. But the more important aim of LAOS is, by identifying the anarchists with antisocial and marginal behavior, seeing to convince the marginalised people to find a life preserver in a fake anarchist movement in the metres of the ruling class. LAOS tries by this way to follow the policy of the ruling class which seeks to support fake anarchist movements believing that they can impende the real anarchist activity which has as its flag the emancipation of the oppressed and exploited via the organised mass fight. But this seems not enough for LAOS.

Recently it tries to connect organisationaly the anarchists with the parliamentary party of Synapsismos declaring that this party is functioning as their political umbrella! G. Karatzaferis knows well that the anarchists never can have relation with parliamentary parties and particularly all these of the professional politicians of the Left who have deceited for more than one century the workers in the name of socialism. In this crescendo of demagoguery G. Karatzaferis admits almost a time per month saying in his television programme that he "mentions only the 300 known-unknown and not the anarchist groupings that they do an ideological struggle" (!). This consent of G. Karatzaferis makes more heavier his political behavior because is proved that it is a conscious political tactic of slandering against the anarchist movement. His wage by the bourgeois class is worthful!

There are no good and bad aarchists. The anarchist movement has a deep knowledge of the prococatiiv tactic of the ruling class. OAE believes that the only revolutionary choice of the anarchists is the organisation of the class struggle, the mapping out of a strategy by which the anarchist movement will return dynamically in the trade-union and political life of every country. Then the exploited and oppressed, who are the beginning and the end of anarchism, will have deeply engraved in their memory this dirty policy of the ruling class and only a word can with precision summarise their answer: REVENGE!

Forward in the class struggle!

Down with the bourgeois policy!

P.S.: You can look for the hoods Mr. G. Karatzaferis amongst the public order forces and the informers during the German possession.

Federation of Anarchists of Greece (OAE) – Press Office

23 February 2007