L.K. 37 squat is facing a new repressive attempt. Since the end of July, the rector authorities of the university proceeded in a low blackmail to achieve the expulsion of the squatters, by cutting off the water and ordering the same for the electricity.

The building of L.K. 37 was bequeathed to the University, the Polytechnic and the Fine Arts School in 1960 with the condition to make it house for homeless and poor students, but it remained abandoned since then for more than 25 years, as the owners didn't even care to make any repairs. On the contrary, their only interest was focused on how they would invalidate the will so that they could use it "more profitably" as they had written! In 1980 they even tried to agree on demolishing it and make a new modern building in the same place in order to rent it and collect the hire. This was hindered when the old house was officially recognized "traditional" and not to be demolished.

The end of abandonment came in 1988 when a group of students, workers and jobless youth occupied the building, transforming it from a rubbish dump and pet cemetery into a creative and active space for housing and for political, cultural and social discussions and events, publications and interventions. Until today, in this continuous and always renewing course the squat became a source for a collective project to self-organize and resist, beginning from criticizing the housing issue and its commercialization, and spreading in a series of other aspects of social oppression, class exploitation and repression of the social fights and specific militants. As such as space for anti-institutional and antiauthoritarian activities, it was often target for repression, like in 1994 and 1995 when there were police raids and arrests. Then the building was re-occupied and the squat continued thanks to the solidarity of many comrades.

Today, the rector authorities remembered the building again, asserting as a pretext that they want to make use of it. The fact is that this house represents for them a means to take more money from the European financing programs, which by the way have no provision for housing poor students! It would be ridiculous anyway to believe that the rectors care for this issue when at the same time they throw out 1000 students living in Ilisia Students' House in order to prepare the building for the journalists coming for the 2004 Olympics. And while hundreds of other buildings that were bequethed to the university are used for profit, rented to companies such as banks...)

It's obvious that the squat is an obstacle for the revelry they are preparing with the european money and so repression comes to serve the business...

This attempt to repress one of the oldest squats, temporary liberated zones in suffocating cities, is one more chance to express active social resistance. Especially today, in conditions of intensifying capitalist exploitation and state terrorism this resistance needs more than ever its own self-managed spaces...