ATHENS: NEO-NAZI ‘’GOLDEN DAWN’’ TRIAL Conviction combined with state repression Which “democracy” won?

More than 25,000 people gathered on Alexandras Avenue and surrounding streets _­­erupted in applause with the announcement of the decision of the Criminal Court of Appeals at the Golden Dawn trial. Only minutes later, riot police attacked with an obvious predetermined government plan to dismantle the rally with chemicals, flash grenades and water spraying from modern their new armored vehicles. The largest part (including our block) walked towards Vassilissis Sofias Avenue and completed the demonstration at the Parliament, while the smaller one headed towards Patision Avenue.

Clara Zetkin: Fascism

In Fascism, the proletariat is confronted by an extraordinarily dangerous enemy. Fascism is the concentrated expression of the general offensive undertaken by the world bourgeoisie against the proletariat. Its overthrow is therefore an absolute necessity, nay, it is even a question of the every-day existence and of the bread and butter of every ordinary worker. On these grounds the whole of the proletariat must concentrate on the fight against Fascism. It will be much easier for us to defeat Fascism if we clearly and distinctly study its nature. Hitherto there have been extremely vague ideas upon this subject not only among the large masses of the workers, but even among the revolutionary vanguard of the proletariat and the Communists. Hitherto Fascism has been put on a level with the White Terror of Horthy in Hungary. Although the methods of both are similar, in essence they are different. The Horthy Terror was established after the victorious, although shortlived, revolution of the proletariat had been suppressed, and was the expression of vengeance of the bourgeoisie. The ringleaders of the White Terror were a quite small clique of former officers. Fascism, on the contrary, viewed objectively, is not the revenge of the bourgeoisie in retaliation for proletarian aggression against the bourgeoisie, but it is a punishment of the proletariat for failing to carry on the revolution begun in Russia. The Fascist leaders are not a small and exclusive caste; they extend deeply into wide elements of the population.

The uprising of the Polytechnic School of Athens, Greece in 1973

Learnings for the revolutionary movement in our country

The uprising of the Polytechnic School of Athens in 1973 was the most important highlight in the class struggle after the revolutionary civil war that followed the Nazi occupation in our country. For this reason, the learnings of the uprising are crucial to the revolutionary movement and the communists in Greece. In order to understand these learnings, it is necessary to describe the situation before the uprising.

Fascism and the system that gave him birth are only crashed by Peoples struggle.

It has been 4 years since Roupakias, a member of the Greek neo-Nazi Party, Golden Dawn murdered antifascist rap artist Pavlos Fyssas with a knife. Such a murder was by no means an accidental incident, as Fyssas, through his songs and his actions expressed his sentiments of resistance and defiance in his neighborhood of Keratsini, Pireus. Such voices, however, do not fit into the rotten capitalist-imperialist system, which tries to terrorize the people and the youth through murders and fascistization. This is the system that “guided” Roupakias. This is the system that has set Roupakias free despite him confessing to have murdered Fyssas and his party undertaking publicly the political responsibility of the murder.

Despite the supposed disapproval of Golden Dawn and its actions by the system's representatives -from the Media to its puppet-parties these representatives cannot conceal their role in supporting the neo-Nazis political rise.