Arson against ministry of development offices because of new coal power stations (Athens, 21/4/2008)

A trans­la­tion of the parts of a com­mu­nique sent to “Eleft­herotip­ia” news­pa­per and pub­lished on 25/04/2008, not men­tion­ing any group’s name:

A trans­la­tion of the parts of a com­mu­nique sent to “Eleft­herotip­ia” news­pa­per and pub­lished on 25/04/2008, not men­tion­ing any group’s name:

“Kavala, Almy­ros at Volos, Man­tou­di at Evia, Astakos at Etoloakar­na­nia, Elef­si­na: Res­i­dents mobi­liza­tions are realised against the plans of build­ing new pow­er plants using coal. Pub­lic Pow­er Com­pa­ny (PPC) in coop­er­a­tion with nation­al or inter­na­tion­al part­ners pro­motes its invest­ment plans, with­in the coun­try as well as in the Balka­ns, respond­ing to the sys­tem’s increas­ing needs for pow­er con­sump­tion, some­thing that sig­ni­fies the con­stant ampli­fi­ca­tion of econ­o­my and the wider sub­or­di­na­tion of our exis­tance to it.”

“When cap­i­tal­ism is self-declared envi­ron­ment friend­ly, it is only to mea­sure and man­age the symp­toms of the cri­sis it pro­duced itself.”

“We don’t share any envi­ron­men­tal­ist com­pa­sion. It is impos­si­ble to fit with­in any green slo­gans that belit­tle any per­spec­tive of rup­ture in their par­tial­i­ty. The con­cern raised by the envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion is dis­armed through the par­tic­i­pa­tion of active cit­i­zens in iron­ic pro­gramms of beach clean­ing or the ridicu­lous con­sumers prefer­ance for “eco-friend­ly” enter­pris­es.”

“The impacts of the use of coal are only a part of the symp­toms of the devel­op­ment this world promis­es: cli­mate change, species extinc­tion, deser­ta­tions, for­est destruc­tion. This is why, the way we talk and act against every­thing that turns our lives to a total dis­as­ter, aims at the con­stant sub­ver­sion of the cap­i­tal­ist struc­tures, the total over­throw of the author­i­tar­i­an rela­tion­ships.”