#smashfascism

someone: “why are you always so political?”

me, sipping my oat milk latte, wearing a thrifted jacket with a “smash the patriarchy” pin:

because the personal is political and i’m not trying to vibe on a sinking ship, babe

capitalism has us clocking in to die slowly,

climate change is literally cooking the planet,

and billionaires are racing to space while ppl can’t afford rent.

and you're asking me why I care?

maybe if we all stopped pretending neutrality was an option

and started organizing, protesting, voting, disrupting...

we could actually build a future that doesn’t suck??

Description: "Transphobes and fascists have decided to hold a rally again at Wi Spa. Apparently they need another reminder. Los Angeles is anti-fascist and anti-transphobic! We need everyone out in the streets! 📷 #SmashTransphobia #SmashFascism"

“Pavlo, you won”/ “Pavlo, tu as gagné”           (Description in English)   Golden Dawn (gr: “Χρυσή Αυγή”) is a neo-Nazi party -a former member of the Greek and Europe Parliament- which was founded on the first years of the Greek 3rd Democracy from the neo-fascist branch of the reminiscing collaborators of the Greek Military Dictatorship, 1967-1974. Although throughout the 80s and the 90s Golden Dawn was at the fringe of the Greek political spectrum, it was underground supported by the Greek state, operating under the protection of the security services, acting, at times, as a subserving force to its counter-insurgency operations and conducted attacks against anarchists, leftists, and immigrant workers from the Balkan peninsula. In the late ’00s, Golden Dawn gains leverage from the Greek Debt Crisis and the austerity programs imposed by the EU, ECB, and IMF, appealing to the sentiments of frustration and insecurity of the more «retrogressive» strata’s and exploiting to the maximum the, rather, positive stance of the Greek mainstream media towards them, who depicted them as a “cult” group who were “escorting the grandmother to the ATM’s to withdraw safely their pensions”. As a result, Golden Dawn, (preceded by a “surprising” success in the Athens municipal, during the 2010’s Greek local election’s),  entered in the Greek Parliament in 2012 and made the use of publicity, state’s subventions, and parliamentary immunity, strengthen the ties with the Greek state’s security apparatus, opened offices all over Greece and formed “raid battalions” which conducted numerous violent assault’s against democrats, antifascists, leftists, immigrants, and refugees, during 2010-2013, which lead to the assassination of the Pakistani 27-year-old migrant worker, Sahzat Luqman, in January 2013, in Petralona, Athens and the 34-year-old rap musician and anti-fascist activist, Pavlos Fyssas, in September 2013 at Keratsini, Peiraeus. The public outcry that followed the murder of Pavlos Fyssas and the mass protests that took place, forced the Greek Government to launch a crackdown on Golden Dawn’s leadership, charging them with managing a criminal organization. The trial of the Golden Dawn lasted 7 years. All of that time, the greek antifascist movement mobilize for the conviction of the neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn, with Magda Fyssa, the mother of Pavlos, playing a major role in the process of social de-legitimation of the fascists, due to her dignity, commitment, and combativeness for delivering justice for Pavlos and all the other’s victims of the Golden Dawn’s action. However, in 2019 the prosecutor’s proposal on the trial of the Nazi-criminal organization to acquit the leadership and its cadres of the serious crimes they are accused of reinforced the movements and spurred in dozens of rallies and teach-ins all over Greece, under the campaign “They are not innocent”, which conclude in a mass gathering outside of the court, in 7. 10. 2020 where the verdict for the Golden Dawn was delivered, ruled that the neo-Nazi party is a criminal organization in disguise and the actual and former leadership and the cadre of the party are guilty of managing and belonging to a criminal organization. Celebrating this historical verdict and commemorating Pavlos Fyssas and the major contribution of the Greek antifascist movement for the condemnation, not only in the courts but also at a society level, of the neo-Nazis of the Golden Dawn, we made this street-bomb in a central highway of Athens, declaring “Pavlo, you won”!                         ————————————————————————————— (Description en Francais) Aube Dorée (gr: “Χρυσή Αυγή”) est un parti néonaziste - ancien membre du Parlement grec et européen - qui a été fondé sur les premières années de la 3ème Démocratie grecque à partir de la branche néofasciste des collaborateurs de la Dictature militaire grecque 1967-1974. Même si, tout au long des années 80 et 90, Aube Dorée était à la frange du spectre politique grec, elle était soutenue dans la clandestinité par l'État grec, opérant sous la protection des services de sécurité, agissant parfois comme une force de réserve pour ses opérations anti-insurrectionnelles et menant des attaques contre les anarchistes, les gauchistes et les travailleurs immigrés de la péninsule des Balkans.