The dirty side of the lovely Greek holiday. Greece is a beautiful place, its people friendly and it has a fascinating history, though at the moment they are suffering from being ten years under the cosh of the EU, (Expert Users) ECB, (Expedient Criminal Bastards) and the IMF, (International Mankind Fuckers) and the level of poverty in that country is a criminal indictment of the system. Like all countries in this economic exploitative system of capitalism, the pleasant scenery and friendly people of Greece, has an underbelly. Apart from the "legal" exploitation of the people, there is the "illegal" abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people. Those who top the "legal" exploitation, CEO, politicians etc. are lauded and gifted privileges, the top thugs of the "illegal" exploitation reach such a position of wealth and power that they are welcomed into the exploitation club where an expensive suit and car are seen as badges of respectability. Both seek favours from the other and deliver, to form a cosy little network of exploitation and corruption, much to their mutual benefit.
If the one hand for laundering is the star-celebrity system, then the other one is the state.
As a mafioso, but also as an employer, A.G. wouldn’t even survive for 30
years without the State’s tolerance, coverage and assistance. From the
police “failures” to catch him, to the Financial Crime Investigation
Unit / Social Insurance Institute / revenue that find his VAT number
alright, all state auditing and repressive institutions bail him out. On
his face we see the usual way of the local nocturnal business, with too
much cruelty and gall. Still, we acknowledge him for his image of a
self-made jeune premier that makes him special in our hearts.
He is the first pimp, drug dealer and extortionist we know that not only
doesn’t hide, but also seeks prominence and publicity.
Women burnt at the stake
The captive migrant women of A.G. and his mafia is the tip of the
iceberg in a patriarchal society, where women are to be submissive to
man, the husband, the father, the boyfriend, the brother, the client,
the trafficker, and the sex client. The recent murders of Helen in
Rhodes and Aggeliki in Corfu represent this condition. With the same
ease that the Greek society points the finger at and condemns the
murderers, it winks at the conditions that produce the rapists from next
door. Patriarchal violence, due to class, sex, race, sexuality, age,
and any type of violence exerted by authoritarians doesn’t cease in
punishment, but it goes further: it exemplifies, sending out a message
to all women to remain silent, obedient, “normal” and they may not be
the next victims.
This violence is ubiquitous in daily reality. From the looks that
strip, the sexist comments and harassment in the street, sexual assaults
at work, to the rapes, assaults and murders, patriarchy opens wounds on
our bodies and beings, delimits them with ideologies, institutions and
mechanisms. Christian morality defines the woman as the inferior of the
man, while stigmatizing any woman who deviates from the standard of a
good Christian as a two-faced, sly, deceitful, liar, dirty. On the other
hand, lifestyle reduces femininity to a refined, glossy image, always
on men’s scale. At the same time, Capital binds women to production
chains, while family imposes the exclusive role of motherhood,
procreation and housework on them.
Immigrants burnt at the stake
After the economic and social downturn in eastern Europe, “illegal”
Capital has established networks of trafficking through employment
offices and abductions as well. From Athens to the furthest villages of
the Greek provinces, we got full of shabby bars, where women from
Eastern Europe are being prostituted slaves to traffickers and punters,
experiencing the first-hand exploitation-plunder and the male biopower.
On the other side of the coin, the remaining immigrant women take
care of the local middle and petty bourgeoisie, babysitting children,
cleaning houses and looking after the elderly. And in addition to the
daily patriarchal decay, migrant women are experiencing nationalism,
racism and xenophobia, so the Russian is identified as a prostitute, the
Albanian as a cleaner, and the Bulgarian as a domestic servant.
Turning the longest night into day
Giannakopoulos family’s comings and goings had made us stay out late.
Thus, late at night of 19th to 20th December, we went to the former
hellhole of Heraklion Avenue, we left three simple incendiary devices
(candle, gasoline, duct tape) on some of their vehicles, set them ablaze
and lit up the night.
For each Natascia, Olga, Maria.
For all.
NOT AN INCH OF GROUND FOR PIMPS – RAPISTS.
THE PATH OF FREEDOM WILL PASS OVER YOU!
ATTACK ON LEGAL AND ILLEGAL STRUCTURES OF CAPITAL
“Sophia Perovskaya” Cell, January 2019
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