AGAINST THE STATE
AND ITS EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

The summit of the European Union in Thessaloniki will be realized in the echo of the military crusade against Iraq by the USA and its allies, in the circumstances of its military occupation and of all negotiations for looting it through "development" and "humanitarian" programs, launched not only by those forces who military invaded the country, but also by the so-called "peace-loving" part of the european block.

And if the "big idea" of the European super-state and of the ambitious role it wishes to play in the game for global domination seemed to stagger by the partial interests of the member-states, this -given the hierarchy existing in inter/state relations and the inter/authoritarian antagonisms when the stake is the distribution of the world - does not reverse the orientation of European Integration: The establishment of an integrated space of exploitation, social control and repression, that functions as a base for the capitalist attack over its borders, as a fortress for the refugees and immigrants who try to cross them and as a vast prison for the inside.

The construction -and the enlargement- of Fortress-Europe, the elaboration of a common constitution and the efforts to form concrete policies in issues like "defense", security and international affairs, are part of the procedure of political and economic integrations for the expansion of Capitalist pillage and the consolidation of State terrorism in the frame of globalization of domination; of that campaign to re-conquest the world in all levels and with all means, triggered by the collapse of the cold-war scene, promoted by trans-national lobbies and reinforced by the modern weapon of technology and the infinite possibilities it provides for the approach of the nightmarish authoritarian vision to control any aspect, space and time of life.

If the massive slaughter in Iraq highlights the barbarity of war, then the political management of exploitation, persecutions and death by the EU institutions outline the barbarity of capitalist peace, for which war is a precondition.

It is a "peace" that means the relentless draining of the "expendable" populations living outside the european borders, and whose misery feeds the stock-markets; a "peace" that means looting the natural resources of the Balkans, of their destroyed by the war regions, and of all the territories integrated in the Union, transforming their societies into cheap labor to refresh the european markets; a "peace" that means the deepening of social inequalities and exclusions within the "developed" european countries. This "peace" is nothing but a continuous human sacrifice in the altar of profit, where thousands of workers are killed or injured in the so-called working "accidents", thousands of immigrants suffer a modern form of slavery in order to be allowed to stay in the "capitalist paradise", and thousands more people are buried alive in the dungeons of wage slavery. It is an undeclared war where human dignity is daily mutilated by class oppression, alienation and the chase of survival.

Together with the modernization of the methods of exploitation, the methods to impose it are also modernized. Within the international orwelian scene of the "anti"terrorist crusade, these methods tend more and more to totalitarianism, as the institutional, military and police violence, the technologically supported surveillance and repression are the necessary responses to the insecurities caused to the rulers by the existing or possible threats, incubated against the hurricane of the authoritarian aggression.

In the case of the E.U., the european army is to serve its imperialist aspirations, while the further fortification of its borders for the murderous confrontation of immigrants is dictating the formation of a common frontier police, concentration camps and the remodeling of Schengen Information System, according to the requirements of the enlargement. At the same time, the integrated judicial space, the european terror-law that criminalizes any subversive expression against the structures of exploitation and oppression, the treaty of extradition to the global cop and owner of the Guantanamo -that will be signed by the greek P.M.-chairman of the EU and US president after Thessaloniki summit- signify the passage to the era of globalized repression.

Globalization of domination has never been an unhindered procedure without opponents, nor simply an object of academic research by its apologists. On the contrary, the modern assault of the State and Capital, and its unbearable for the people consequences, became the point of reference and explosion of social and class resistances throughout the planet, from Chiapas to Argentina and from Seattle to Genoa where the rulers' clubs were meeting. More than a reflex action, these struggles, free from the cold-war antagonism between two different authoritarian systems, brought back in the forefront of history an internationalist revolutionary perspective, where there is no place for "national" or partial "solutions". It was the actions of resistance themselves that created a new sense of collective, the one of communities in revolt of the South and the North, of the armed Indians and the youth in the capitalist cities that re-liberated the forces of Utopia, for a world without borders, globalized from below...

Especially concerning the resistance that broke out against the summits, as only one of the infinite expressions of struggle against global domination, they became moments of social counter-attack to the symbolic galas of the bosses, who arrogantly take cover in luxurious guarded zones in order to announce decisions that mark the future of the world. These summits became meeting points of those engaged in the daily struggle in the different places that these decisions are realized, and created opportunities for interaction and for the outbreak of insurrectional events that assailed the artificial social peace and the fake one-way of submission.

Against this fiery wave, it was not only the ideological propaganda and the repressive violence of the State that were organized to confront. It was also a rag-bag of obsolete aspects of the regime (political parties and syndicates, stalinists and nationalists) on the one hand, as well as those post-modern versions of political represantation (NGOs, Social Forum etc) on the other, who both rushed to chain whatever new was arising, in the bonds of the old world and its defense, or in the limits of the "possible"; a term that meant nothing but the transformation of the dynamics expressed in the streets into some packages of supposedly "realistic" proposals aiming to reform capitalism or find alternatives for the management of the authoritarian system. Basically though it only meant their effort to present resistance as a well-controlled phenomenon to put in the sales, as a reality that can function as pressure so that these self-appointed leaders will be recognized by the bosses as trustful interlocutors.

This antagonism with the representatives of the european super-state, and also with Reformist international and with the stalinist and patriotic relics of the past, passes this time through the streets of Thessaloniki; a city that is a symbol for the capitalist assault in the Balkans, and consists one more "red zone", a space colonized by the values of merchandise and social control; a city that will be guarded by both the state forces of repressions and the institutional "antiglobalization". The role of the latter part was already shown during the previous summits within the greek presidency of the Union, where they hurried to provide their guarantees to the state, to try marginalise the self-organized anarchist black blocs in coordination with the police and to dull things through ruritarian manipulations -like their novelty to lead the demonstration during the EU summit for the Enlargement that was taking place in Athens on April 16 towards the U.S. embassy!!

This summit, under the greek presidency, is a chance for the expression of social resistance against the local dictatorship of political and economical bosses: the dictatorship of profit crushing the lives of the workers and the jobless, of the hundreds of people losing their works and those who survive under the "black labor"; the dictatorship that is promoting doctrines, like the enhancement of the country's image through its ascent to the ladder of domination, meaning the increase of its percents on the pillage of other societies and further misery for local proletarians; the dictatorship of police death squads in the cities and the borders, of the "democratic court-martials" for militants, white cells and acceleration of state terrorism.

It is a chance to challenge the foundations of Fortress-Europe, shattering the illusions of social consent to their criminal projects. A chance to oppose self-organization and direct action against hierarchy and capitulation. A chance to send a message of solidarity to all the oppressed in the world, to all who fight with any means against the tyranny of the State and the Capital, demonstrating that the way from protest to revolt is always open.

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