THE ASSASSINATIONS OF
ATHENS
(Article from the first
issue of the Athens based magazine “Tabula Rasa”,written and published by
“The Kakos Brothers” in 23.12.1998)
Just as Socrates was given the
hemlock to
drink,Athenians have to endure-and they take part in the process to a certain
degree-the awful conditions inflicted by car pollution,that new beast.At a
deeper level one must point that all this is the result of the lack of public
transport.And it ought to be free in order to give people an incentive,i.e avoid
using the car.
Another problem in Athens is the weight of
history.The more you dig underground the more you disturb the past.Maybe all
this could be done in a sensitive way,but as we know buldozers are not kind
machines!Neither are those who tell workers what to do.
At a deeper level one must speak of the exodus of
people towards thw city.This process begun in England during the industrial
revolution.Today 1/5 of Britain survives in London,1/2 of the population of
Greece is in Athens.To a certain degree we can blame Greek politicians who
encouraged such an exodus (to name but a few:Metaxas,Karamanlis,the bloody
colonels).All wanted cheap labour from the villages.The other side of the coin
was people leaving the hills and the valleys to escape the harsh conditions in
these places where the family,the church ruled with an iron fist.
History produced the megacity now the problems will
have to be solved.The system must be changed radically,not reformed.In any case
it is collapsing of its own accord,the black cloud of pollution is still here.
To do nothing is unacceptable!
HIC RHODUS,HIC SALTA
When Guy Debord died,a Greek pro-situ called John
Reisis rang a friend in Athens (Alexis B. Nikolaou) at 6 o’clock in the
morning to tell him the bad news,his phone call was dramatic “our father
has died”.My friend said:”I have no father”.
J. Reisis was one of the editors of the Saloniki
based magazine “DE BELLO CIVILI”.
They no longer publish it.They too have
disappeared,swallowed up by the system.
Eaten alive!
Constantine the Stupid,the ex-king of the Hellenes
is now a restaurant owner in London.His favorite food is kalamares.A forlorn
character,he can be seen in London driving his Mercedes.He listened too much to
his mother the Prussian Frederiki who acted for the CIA which arranged the
Junta’s coup in 1967.
The moustache of Ocalan reminds us of his master,the
one and only Stalin.Recently Ocalan said he had not ordered the murder of many
of those who oppose him,his reply was typical.It is not me,ti is my
second-in-command who is responsible.One can have a sympathy for the Kurdish
grassroots,but not for their leaders.Until the people shave Ocalan’s stalinist
moustache they will remain ineffective against those who deny them a
territory.”APO” (unle) Ocalan also claims to be a devoted Muslim.That is a
tactical move on his part.Ocalan is a marxist-leninist.
The Athens based newspaper called KONTRA is a strange hybrid.Those who produce it are in fact maoists.But they like to call themshelves “Anarcho-stalinists”.In the newspaper nothing of their stalinism transpires.Of course they are quite combative and ready to support anarchists who are in prison,or arrested.The KONTRA crew if they were in power (and we doubt they ever will) would set up their own Greek gulag or laogai,so to cut it short the KONTRA cadres and militants have to shed their stalinist skins,until that day we will continue to read their newspaper,say what’s good in it,but we will not stop criticizing them.Maybe only Greeks can produce such an anarcho-stalinist mousaka.It is not very tasty!