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There was a forum with Greek anarchist activists last night in Brooklyn, part of a multicity tour. Below is an edited version of some notes on it which I sent to local Greek solidarity/antifascist activists. Louis should add and/or correct my take on the event, especially about the discussion which I couldn't stay for. It was videoed, and I'll post the URL once it's up. The first speaker gave a thorough and useful historical overview, as well as a description of current antifascist efforts (the whole while a film was showing behind him scenes of antifascist and GD mobilizations and confrontations, attacks on immigrants, trashing of GD offices, etc.). If I heard him right, he said that participation in elections had been a distraction from organizing and mobilizing (not sure which year's elections he's referring to, but since he and the others are anarchists it could be any year). He also said demands on the IMF were a distraction (again, clearly a product of his anarchism). The second speaker gave an interesting talk on the alleged roots of the crisis in historic battles between rationality and romanticism in Greece. Fascinating, but clearly referring to a debate which I'm too unfamiliar with to comment on. The first two-thirds of the talk by the third speaker was an unbelievably abstract philosophical discourse. But he made up for it at the end with his concrete calls for pounding fascists into the concrete and mention of occupied factories and solidarity actions with them. They made reference to Golden Dawn efforts in NY (the point being that organizing here on that front is news back home). The event was part of a multi-city tour (20-some stops?), so this might be useful for future solidarity/anti-GD efforts in the US. Andy P. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
