from Culmine (May 21, 2011):
Our comrade, revolutionary anarchist Theofilos Mavropoulos, lies wounded in the hospital after an armed confrontation with the fucking Police pigs in the suburb of Pefki. There, together with another comrade, he chose the path of no surrender when a patrol car stopped to identify them. During the confrontation, two pigs were wounded, as was our comrade. Meanwhile, the other comrade who was there managed to escape by taking the police patrol car.
This is about an active member of the revolutionary anarchist movement, and we therefore call on every revolutionary anarchist, as well as everyone who sees themselves as part of a broad subversive milieu, to stand by him and take the initiative of action using whatever method you deem suitable and essential. Right now our brother is wounded and locked up in a room guarded by every species of pig. We think it’s of the utmost importance that a demonstration be held in front of the hospital where they’re keeping our wounded comrade, in order to thus break the condition of isolation imposed on him as a prisoner of the Antiterrorist maggots and other units that are “taking care” of him the only way they know how. Due to difficulties caused by the regime we live under, as well as conditions that determine our actions and movement, we unfortunately can’t be by our proud comrade’s side (in other words, in the hospital itself) to give him strength and courage from up close.
We must show the enemy that NOT A SINGLE COMRADE IS ALONE, that every arrest involving our comrades will be met with a response, that we will allow no comrade of ours to be devoured alive. Because comradeship and solidarity are not defined according to salaries and ranks. Instead, they form the basis of relationships we develop and propose in place of and in opposition to the rottenness of prevailing social relationships. We don’t view Theofilos’ arrest in the light of a “highly publicized” yet simultaneously vile logic of victimization that allows us to protest against the “bad” pigs who shot and wounded our comrade. In the light of such logic, solidarity loses its essential meaning. Our comrade’s defiant attitude and values clashed with resignation and surrender. He demonstrated that in this conflict, in this war, there are neither martyrs nor those who worship them. Rather, there are combatants who are ready for anything. May the riches he left us become the weapons in our hands.
BESIDE REVOLUTIONARY ANARCHIST THEOFILOS MAVROPOULOS WE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM USING ALL METHODS.
P.S. We also want to send our comrade the most sincere thanks for the struggles we undertook together, for all the setbacks and mishaps we faced, for all the good times and all the bad times. Finally, we send him our more than sincere promises regarding the informal commitments we made, the unrealized dreams, and the hyperbole. It’s all or nothing. Brother, they might be able to change your living conditions right now, but they will never change your indomitable state of mind.
