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Withdraw the new racist bill proposed by Voridis and Plevris.
Open borders for refugees, asylum and shelter for all,
legalization with equal rights for all immigrants.
The murderers of Pylos must be imprisoned.
No support for the far right and fascists.
Plevris and the New Democracy government are escalating their racist campaign against immigrants and refugees by pushing a bill through parliament next week that will slash the rights of refugees and immigrants. The bill was left as a legacy to Plevris by his "competitor" Voridis, who had drafted it until he was caught with his hands in the OPECEPE “scandal of goats” and resigned as Minister of Migration.
With brutal measures targeting refugees and immigrants and vulgar attacks on solidarity and organizations that support the rights of the oppressed, such as the Greek Council of Refugees and the RSA, the government is seeking to divert the attention of a public outraged by its crimes in Tempi and Pylos and scandals such as OPECEPE.
A government that targets public sector workers with new disciplinary measures and young people with mass expulsions from universities. A government that gives everything to wars, wasting billions on armament, supporting Trump and the genocidal Netanyahu, introducing racist measures and paving the way for the orphans of Golden Dawn and the far right to return to the forefront. These are the supports it seeks to save itself from collapse.
We will not let it happen!
We will not let the racist Plevris bill pass, which criminalizes immigration with imprisonment for undocumented immigrants and heavy fines, and abolishes the granting of residence permits for exceptional reasons to those who have been living in the country for seven years. Behind the cries of "cracking down on illegal immigration," he wants to fill the country with concentration camps, as he will punish offenders with 5 years in prison. In practice, it is going to impose even harsher conditions of illegal labor and exploitation on thousands of workers in the fields, hotels, small industries, construction, and factories.
It is time to thwart its coup measures, such as the three-month ban on the right to apply for asylum for refugees coming from Haftar's Libya.
Instead of ensuring a humane reception for refugees, they are sending frigates to the south of Crete for refoulements, such as the one that led to the drowning of 600 people in Pylos. They are criminalizing organizations that demand the right to apply for asylum!!!
We are fighting to send the murderers of the Coast Guard and the government to prison for the crime in Pylos. No cover-up, ALL those guilty must be brought before the Naval Court.
Let's continue with a strong presence at the rally in Thessaloniki, on September 6 at Ag. Venizelos at 6 p.m.
September is a month of anti-fascism and anti-racism, and on September 18yh, 12 years after the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, we will demonstrate in Keratsini and in all cities.
We call on trade unions, student associations, immigrant communities, and local solidarity groups to participate in a nationwide day of action on Tuesday, September 2nd.
KEERFA-MOVEMENT UNITED AGAINST RACISM AND THE FASCIST THREAT
Two years since the crime of Pylos: Tough struggles against the cover-up
Written by ΚΕΕΡΦΑ
Two years have passed on 14 June since the biggest racist crime in recent years in the Mediterranean, the shipwreck of Pylos. It is two years of a constant, persistent and hard fight to prevent its cover-up, to punish the killers, to get justice.
The crime is the responsibility of the Greek Coastguard and the government of the New Domocracy(1). The recent prosecution by the Piraeus Maritime Court against 17 members of the Coastguard, including senior officers of its leadership, paves the way for the conviction of those guilty for the crime. The defendants are being referred to a main interrogation for investigation of felony charges, including causing a shipwreck as well as endangering life resulting in the deaths of hundreds of refugees.
Murderous pushback
It is now widely known how the crime was organised and executed. The more than 750 refugees on board the fishing vessel Adriana, who had set sail from Tobruk, Libya, bound for Italy, were informed on the morning of 13 June 2023 that they were in danger. They were sailing in international waters in the Greek search and rescue zone off Pylos. A few hours later, at dawn on 14 June, only 104 would be rescued, 82 would be recovered dead and the rest, including many women and children, would be lost forever at sea.
For 15 hours the Coast Guard Operations Center watched the overloaded skiff without transmitting MAYDAY. Greek authotities and Coast Guard knew that there were already dead refugees on board, that its engine had serious problems. They knew it was rocking dangerously all the time. But instead of calling in lifeboats as they should have done - such as the Aigaion Pelagos, which was in the nearby port of Gythio that day - they mobilized a patrol boat, the PPLS 920.
1st MAY , GENERAL STRIKE! DEMONSTRATION AT KLAFTMONOS SQUARE 11AM-STADIOU 22 STREET. PUT THE KILLERS OF PYLOS IN PRISON PAPERS, ASYLUM, OPEN BORDER FOR REFUGEES SMASH FASCISM FREE PALESTINE
Written by ΚΕΕΡΦΑ
May 1 is a day of strike, resistance and struggle of the working class throughout the Planet to put an end to exploitation, oppression, injustice, sexism, war, racism. To overthrow the killer governments with a mass uprising, as the students and workers did in Bangladesh. On February 28th , we opened the way to expel the government of murderers and we continue!
We demand an end to the murders of immigrants at the borders, in police stations, in concentration camps. The organizers of the Coast Guard and the government who drowned the 600 refugees in Pylos on 14/6/2023 should go to the Naval Court and to prison. The murderers of Mohamed Kamran and Mia Harizoul should go to prison. For open borders for refugees, asylum and for the death camps to be closed.
To put an end to the escalation of the racist campaign by Boridis-Kikilias-Chrysochoidis. The government appointed Tryfonas Kontizas as head of the Coast Guard instead of suspending him at a time when the Ombudsman has requested that he be referred to the military court for the crime of Pylos. It is a scandal, it is a cover-up just like in Tempi!
It is the same government that froze the law on papers for migrant workers with a three-year stay in the country. It is the same government that delays the renewal of residence permits for up to three years or issues them after they have expired, making life difficult for all migrants. The government, overwhelmed by the anger over Tempi, is trying to divert it into hatred against migrants and refugees by turning the borders into death traps for the Coast Guard with chases and pushbacks. We will stop it!
9 April - General Strike Plateia Klathmonos 11am-metro Panepistimio Overthrow the killers Increases in salaries, jobs - No to armaments and wars!
Written by ΚΕΕΡΦΑ
On 9 April, we all strike and demonstrate in the General strike, picking up the thread from the great General strike of 28 February and the biggest strike demonstrations ever organized in Greece. We are continuing and escalating our strikes to put an end to this gang of unrepentant murderers in government.
The Mitsotakis government, after the vote in parliament on the motion of censure, pretends that it has 'heard the message' and therefore the mobilizations are over, 'you have shouted, you have shouted; now back to business as usual'. The government's reshuffle has shown that they remain determined to escalate their attacks on the working class and its rights.
The main orchestrators of the 'bazaar' remain unmoved with Florides in Justice and Chrysochoidis in Public Order, and the same goes for Adonis Georgaides, the man who is destroying the National Health Service on a daily basis. Even worse, Voridis goes to Immigration in a direct challenge to the movement demanding that the murderers of Pylos be punished.
Mitsotakis and his gang are preparing a new round of escalating attacks. They are aligning themselves with NATO to increase armaments to 3% of GDP as demanded by Trump and the EU, announcing a ferocious program of tens of billions of euros in new armaments, but at the same time declaring that the economy cannot afford to give wage increases, nor the 13th and 14th wage in the public sector.
Hospitals, schools and municipalities are suffering from a shortage of staff, but Mitsotakis' answer is not the recruitment and the regularization of thousands of contract workers, but the evaluation in the public sector, the dismissals and the persecution of 2000 teachers.
These are unrepentant killers who have turned all workplaces into mounds, but at the same time they are hanging on by a thread, ready to collapse, because they are the weakest government, the most hated one that has gathered the wrath of all workers.
It is now obvious to all of us that motions of censure and parliamentary manoeuvres cannot overthrow them. On 9 April, we all strike and demonstrate in the General strike, picking up the thread from the great General strike of 28 February and the biggest strike demonstrations until today. We are continuing and escalating our strikes to put an end to this gang of unrepentant murderers in government
The strike on April 9 can be as big and massive as the one on February 28, and therefore it needs to be organized from below, by the grassroots militants.
In every workplace we should set up strike committees and struggle committees that will take on their shoulders the information and organization of the strike. With daily rallies everywhere and general assemblies in every union and every place. We will ensure that all workplaces will be closed down. Wherever security personnel are needed, the Union should pick them not the management. That they will guard the strike on 9 April and that all of them will come out en masse to the strike rallies of all colleagues.
We are fighting to overthrow the government of the murderers and open another perspective for the labour movement. A perspective that is not limited to the parliamentary solutions of the opposition, but instead puts forward the workers' way out. Workers' control in every workplace, and throughout society. Let the workers take the baton of society, so that we can put an end once and for all to the system that sacrifices our lives every day for the bosses' profits.
WORKERS' RESISTANCE COORDINATION
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KEERFA-MOVEMENT UNITED AGAINST RACISM AND FASCIST THREAT
1/4/2025
Saturday 22/3 International day against racism and fascism DEMONSTRATION, SATURDAY 22 MARCH, SYNTAGMA, 3pm SMUSH FASCISM GET THE TRIAL IN THE MARITIME COURT NOW! IN JAIL THE MURDERERS OF PYLOS, TEMPI AND KAMRAN ASYLUM, OPEN BORDERS FOR REFUGEES
Written by ΚΕΕΡΦΑ
On March 22, we rise up around the globe after Trump's inauguration to crush the threat of fascism and end the murder of migrant refugees at the border. Don't let the government cover up its crimes in Pylos, Tempi and police stations.
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in support of the relatives of the victims in Tempi to prevent from being covered up the murder of 57 students and workers, locals and migrants. These people stand with the families of the refugees who saw over 600 children, parents and siblings murdered in Pylos and are demanding justice.
In Tempi, they destroyed the crime scene and deleted video from cameras to cover up their crime. In Pylos, the cameras of the state-of-the-art chase boat they sent were not working! The cell phones of the eyewitness survivors initially disappeared and the authorities claim they were destroyed! The people in charge on the high floors were not questioned in either case! No cover-up, no more impunity for the killers at the border! Thirty thousand murdered in the last 15 years in the Mediterranean!
In Tempi, privatization has killed 57 of our fellow citizens. In Pylos, the racism of persecution and pushbacks, systematically organized by the government of New Democracy, brought the sinking of the refugee ship on 14/6/2023. The Coast Guard towed it with a rope to chase it to Italy, causing it to sink. For 15 hours, the Coast Guard and Frontex did not rescue the 750 refugees but sank it and recovered over 80 bodies and only 104 survivors.
For this crime, the trial in the Maritime Court is necessary now and the murderers must go to prison. All the evidence of the crime is in the hands of the authorities and they know the perpetrators. Mitsotakis, as he ran to make a "conclusion" of a cover-up for Tempi, did the same with Pylos, putting the responsibility on the refugees themselves, that they did not want to be saved!
Polytechnio 2024 Demonstration, Sunday 17 November, Klathmonos Square, 2 pm. Pylos, Tempi, Agios Panteleimon Kick out the government of murderers and destruction. Open borders for refugees, fascists in jail. Let the trial of crime of Pylos finally t
Written by ΚΕΕΡΦΑ
On November 17th, we march with the workers and youth to kick out the government of the murderers of Pylos, Tempi and Mohamed Kamran, to overthrow the government of destruction, racism and war.
We are up in arms after the election of Trump in the USA, a friend of Mitsotakis, who is giving a boost to the far right everywhere. The Democrats have "reinvigorated" him by fully embracing the racist agenda, the fences, the deportations of immigrants, the police killings and the attack on the Palestine solidarity movement.
Put an end to the drownings in the Aegean and the Mediterranean.
Punishment of the murderers of Pylos.
We demand that, at last, the trial be held at the Maritime Court. All survivors must be given papers.
The ND government is giving everything for covering up its major crimes, such as those of Pylos and Tempi. The resistance is not letting it cover up its responsibilities for the Pylos wreck with its policies of pushback-pushbacks at the border.
ND failed to remove Andreas Pottakis from the post of Ombudsman and thus prevent the investigation that has begun. He failed to incriminate the nine Egyptian survivors who were brought to trial in Kalamata as traffickers and were solemnly acquitted. By denying asylum instead of papers to the survivors, he wants to silence the eyewitnesses of the Pylos crime.
The murderers of Mohammed Kamran in jail!
The murder of migrant delivery worker Mohamed Kamran at the Agios Panteleimon police station after torture will not go unpunished. The police murder migrants, the Coast Guard drowns refugees and throws babies into the sea. His fellow delinquents at the top of the march to the Agios Panteleimon police station showed the way to end the brutality from police stations to concentration camps and prisons.
Smash the fascists.
They tortured to death the migrant delivery boy Mohamed Kamran Asik at the Agios Panteleimon Police Station
Written by ΚΕΕΡΦΑ
Κεερφα-Keerfa-Κίνηση Ενωμένοι Ενάντια στο Ρατσισμό και τη Φασιστική Απειλή
We express our condolences to the mother, wife and three children of Mohamed Kamran.
The gruesome images of Mohamed Kamran Asik's lifeless body from the inhuman torture at the hands of the humanguards of the police officers in the inferno of Agios Panteleimonas testify to the racist hate cultivated by the government of the neoliberal party of New Democracy. When it is not drowning refugees in Pylos and women and children in the Aegean Sea, it is torturing migrants to death in the police stations and shooting Roma in the camps. And with more audacity the police attempt a cover-up, as they are doing now, that they are even registering as homeless and that he does not speak Greek a man with a twenty-year stay in the country, with a residence permit since 2017, with a housing contract and stable employment with hundreds of days of social security at his jobs ...
From September 13 to September 21, when the ambulance picks him up dead from the Agios Panteleimon police station, Mohamed Kamran lives a midnight express in 5 police stations to end up dead in the last one. Before that, he passed through the police stations of Omonia, Patision, Kolonou and Galatsi. During all this time, he was not allowed any communication with his many relatives and his lawyer. These are the departments with a rich history of cooperation with Golden Dawn, with the Agios Panteleimonas police station that had been turned into a centre for the collective torture of refugees.
At the Agios Panteleimon police station, the cover-up is provocative. They kept him in the only place where there are no cameras (!!!) and they show him causing destruction in the area...The ambulance went for the first time a few hours after the detention to the Agios Panteleimon AT and left without taking him to a hospital. Three days later, how does a body full of wounds appear to have been driven to death?
It is inconceivable that the investigation should remain in the hands of the demons at the St. Panteleimon police station. We demand that the prosecutor's office take it over, that the St. Panteleimon Security Department be immediately excluded. We will appeal to the Ombudsman to proceed with an investigation, as he did with the drowning of 600 refugees in the Pylos shipwreck.
The responsibility for the murder is in the hands of Chrysochoidis and Mitsotakis with their racist policy of devaluing migrants and turning them into targets for every border guard and policeman.
We call on the trade unions, the student associations, the organisations of the left to escalate the struggles to put an end to the police racist brutality of the government, which is backing the genocide of the Palestinians, the government that has the crime of the 600 drowned refugees of Pylos in its hands.
The delivery workers of WOLD and EFOOD, supported by the Attica Food and Tourism Trade Union, are striking and demonstrating on 11 October.
We call on all migrant and local workers in this sector to participate en masse and demand along with all their demands that there be no cover-up of the murder of migrant delivery driver Mohamed Kamran.
The relatives are leaving for the burial of the deceased in Pakistan and for the family to mourn him. On their return, we call for a rally on Saturday, October 12, at Victoria Square ,at 2.30pm and a march to St. Panteleimon Police Station.
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FAMILY OF MOHAMMED KAMRAN
PAKISTANI COMMUNITY OF GREECE "THE UNITY"
KEERFA-MOVEMENT UNITED AGAINST RACISM AND THE FASCIST THREAT
26/9/2024