Monday, July 19, 2010
Hunger strike against vengeance.
The treatment that the state reserves for captive rebels and its political enemies is a given. Vengeance, sadism, physical and psychological violence, disrespect for human dignity, indifference about their health, their physical wellbeing, for human life itself.
For the security of the state and power, the deprivation of freedom is above everything, above life itself or “human rights”.
For the officials of the state, the political and economic elite and the rich, “human rights” only concern themselves and those of the same class.
They are not concerned about the people, the poor, the workers, the unemployed, the veterans of work, the immigrants, those who search in the garbage of the local markets to eat.
Neither are they concerned about prisoners – social prisoners, of which the overwhelming majority come from the poor social strata and whose life is worth absolutely nothing to the system-.
And they are not concerned of course about the revolutionaries and political prisoners, for which the system has always pursued their physical and moral annihilation.
In this framework, my companion, comrade and co-fighter Panagiota Roupa and I, who are members of Revolutionary Struggle, are deprived of the right of visiting each other thanks to the public prosecutor of Koridallos prisons, who has rejected for “reasons of security” my transfer to the maternity clinic “Alexandra” in order to visit my comrade who will bring our son into the world, the youngest political prisoner of Greek “democracy”.
Also he has rejected, for the same “security reasons”, my application to visit the female section of Koridallos because, due to her condition my comrade is unable to visit
the male prison as would normally happen.
Requiring, therefore, the “obvious” as a comrade and as a father to visit my comrade-cofighter and our son, I’m going on hunger strike from the 15th of July in order to satisfy the two following demands:
1. My transfer to visit the maternity clinic “Alexandra” on July 25th to see my companion Panagiota Roupa and our son, since the birth has been scheduled by caesarean section for July 24th and she will remain hospitalised there for a few days and
2. My transfer to visit the female prison for the first period after the birth because my comrade and our son will inevitably be too weak to be moved.
If the repressive mechanisms believe that by putting us jail they’ll get rid of us politically, they are wrong.
From outside or from inside the prisons the struggle for us is a question of honour and dignity, it will continue.
The revolutionary struggle continues.
NIKOS MAZIOTIS
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