We live in an era when the State is becoming more and more totalitarian, authoritarian and exploitative. It no longer wraps itself in the mantle of the ‘social state’ but rather brings its real face out in the open: an instrument of oppression and domination, an institutional exponent of bourgeois power, a guarantor of wage slavery and classist prevalence of the bosses.
The State attacks any part of the society that still resists, or any part classified as a margin or a ‘foreign body’, with persecutions, with incarcerations, with tortures, with executions, with labour conscription, with ban on street protests, with fear.
This attack includes the recently introduced penal code reform bill; a bill that seeks to make the already deplorable conditions of confinement even worse; a new draft law that creates a prison inside the prison, by cutting down prison furloughs, restricting communications and visitations, promoting and rewarding snitching among inmates, determining more stringent prison sentences and further punitive sanctions, and imposing psychological and physical torture.
At the same time, both inside and outside the prisons, struggles are being held against this new incarceration regime and against the special conditions of detention; moments of negation and fight against the State’s monopoly on power.
For our part, we wanted to connect with these struggles standing in solidarity with the prisoners, so we contributed to the polymorphous struggle for an upsurge in the social-class war in our own way, by putting out of use the following ATMs in the early hours of May 1st, 2014:
Galatsi: 2 of National Bank of Greece (Papaflessa Street), 1 of Piraeus Bank (Tralleon St.), 1 of Alpha Bank (Tralleon St.)
Gyzi: 1 of Piraeus Bank (Valtinon St.), 1 of Alpha Bank (Gyzi Square)
Aghia Paraskevi: 1 of Piraeus Bank (Ipirou St.)
Holargos: 1 of National Bank of Greece (Mesogeion Avenue)
Ano Patissia: 1 of Piraeus Bank (Patission St.)
Polygono: 1 of National Bank of Greece (Mitropetrova St.)
Maroussi: 2 of National Bank of Greece
Kypseli: 1 of Eurobank (Evelpidon St.), 2 of National Bank of Greece (Kerkyras St.), 1 of Piraeus Bank (Kerkyras St.)
Pangrati: 1 of National Bank of Greece (Varnava Sq.), 1 of Piraeus Bank (Eratosthenous St.), 1 of Alpha Bank (Eftichidou St.), 1 of Piraeus Bank, 4 of Geniki Bank (Ymittou Av.)
Kaisariani: 1 of Alpha Bank (Ethnikis Antistaseos St.), 1 of Piraeus Bank (Ethnikis Antistaseos St.), 1 of Eurobank (Ethnikis Antistaseos St.), 1 of TT Hellenic Postbank (Ethnikis Antistaseos St.), 2 of National Bank of Greece (Ethnikis Antistaseos St.), 1 of Piraeus Bank (Nikiforidi St.)
Vyronas: 1 of Alpha Bank, 2 of National Bank of Greece, 1 of Piraeus Bank
Alimos: 3 of Alpha Bank, 2 of Piraeus Bank
Ymittos: 1 of Alpha Bank (Ymittou Sq.), 1 of TT Hellenic Postbank (Ymittou Sq.)
Petralona: 1 of Alpha Bank (Trion Ierarchon St.), 1 of Eurobank (Trion Ierarchon St.), 2 of Piraeus Bank (Trion Ierarchon St.)
Nea Smyrni: 1 of Alpha Bank (Nea Smyrni Sq.), 1 of TT Hellenic Postbank (Nea Smyrni Sq.)
Elliniko: 1 of Alpha Bank (Iasonidou St.), 1 of Eurobank (Iasonidou St.), 1 of Piraeus Bank (Iasonidou St.)
Glyfada: 1 of Eurobank (Gounari St.), 1 of National Bank of Greece (Gounari St.), 1 of TT Hellenic Postbank (Gounari St.)
Dafni: 1 of Eurobank (Ethnarchou Makariou St.), 1 of Alpha Bank (Aghiou Dimitriou St.), 1 of Alpha Bank (Vouliagmenis Av.), 1 of Eurobank (Eleftheriou Venizelou St.), 1 of Piraeus Bank (Aghios Ioannis metro station), 1 of National Bank of Greece (Aghios Ioannis m.s.)
Aghios Dimitrios: 1 of Geniki Bank, 1 of Alpha Bank, 1 of National Bank of Greece
Faliro: 1 of Alpha Bank (Aghias Varvaras St.)
Neos Kosmos: 2 of National Bank of Greece
source: asirmatista