Con un comunicato -tradotto in inglese da From the Greek
Streets, che riportiamo integralmente- i compagni che si
firmano The thieves’ thieves
rivendicano l’azione diretta ai danni di un supermercato
di Salonicco. In particolare tengono a precisare il perché
quest’azione è diversa dalle altre in cui la merce espropriata
dai supermercati viene distribuita ai passanti. Stavolta l’iniziativa
aveva altre caratteristiche, tra le quali è da annoverarsi
questa dei soldi bruciati.
Un abbraccio complice
Culmine
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On 14/06/10 we stormed into a super-market of the chain Masoutis on
M.Kyriakou street, we took basic need goods (olive oil, pasta, milk
etc.) and destroyed the anti-theft systems and the surveillance
camera while we also smashed the cashiers and burnt all the money
they had inside.
From the beginning we had decided that the goods of the appropriation
would be distributed among the comrades who participated, not outside
the super-market. With this choice of ours we want to make clear that
this, and other practices aim not at promoting some of us as saviours
of the society – rather, we want society itself to familiarise
itself with such practices and to embrace them without waiting for
the “revolutionary” philanthropist/ friends of the poor.
Especially in a period like this one, where the rottenness of the
present system is pushing it toward collapse. As for the term “Robin
Hoodies” (in Greek: Super-market Robins) we believe it consists
another typical attempt to twist the meaning of such actions by Mass
Media, which present comrades as some sort of elite stealing for the
poor. In result, the distribution of the goods is presented in a way
that refers to the narcosis and the passivity reflected in the
thinking “someone will think-act-take care of us”.
We do not believe in a society of “weak-minded” people who must
necessarily be ruled, as is wished by the ruling propaganda. We are
happy when people walk on with the belief that their life belongs to
them, away from mediators and needless gabble, when they organise
under the premise of solidarity, anti-authoritarianism and
self-organisation; under the guidance of active negation and attack.
When they do not fall for the fallacy of the regime that “by
helping each other we will scrape through the crisis”. It is
important, finally that when distributing goods you have no way of
telling if the recipients are indeed in solidarity, even if that is
not active, or if they are just hypocrites taking care of themselves
only – and perhaps even, in another case, they would be the first
to inform to the police. Of course we applaud similar actions by
comrades who distribute the goods: as as we said earlier the aims are
the same.
The burning of money is a symbolic action speaking for itself. These
little pieces of paper that turned into ashes within seconds have
managed, in even less seconds, to destroy lives, relationships, to
transform the human and her desires by transforming life into
indexes, digitalising feelings and experiences, simplifying the
feelings of joy and misery down to the dipole I have/ I have no
money.
As for the action itself it took place exactly as planned. Our getaway
was relaxed and with no unexpected incidents. We used bins to block
off some roads precautionary while we made sure to know the movements
of the cops before and during the action. It is telling that pigs of
the Z force (motorcycle cops –trans.) were sitting around confused
by the fountain on Egnatia Ave, obviously waiting for reinforcements
and tried to approach only when we were already gone.
We are consciously and actively in solidarity with every other action
sabotaging capitalism within the urban environment in which we act.
PS 1. A warning toward the “macho Greeks” who might want to become
heroes: they’ll receive the treatment they deserve, exactly as it
happened when one of them was spotted to be calling the cops – he
was chased, along with the bunch who were about to intervene. But as
the saying goes, “the mother of the fast one has never mourned”
PS 2. We can only laugh at the misinformation of the media about
supposed clashes with repression forces, trolleys filled with goods
that we never managed to hand out etc…
PS 3. Of course we support the appropriation of money for the needs of
the movement, it is just that we wanted to give a different context
to this particular action.
The thieves’ thieves