In our series 10 years after police murder on Alexis we publish “We are an image from the future: the Greek revolt of December 2008” a collection of interviews, recollections, communiqués and articles about the December 2008 uprising in Greece in the wake of the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos by the police in Athens.
Originally published by Void Network in March 2010.
You will find the all articles of our series 10 years after police murder on Alexis: here.
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Introduction of the book by Void Network and AK Press
What causes a city, then a whole country, to explode? How did one neighborhood’s outrage over the tragic death of one teenager transform itself into a generalized insurrection against State and capital, paralyzing an entire nation for a month?
This is a book about the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, killed by the police in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens on December 6th, 2008, and of the revolution in the streets that followed, bringing business as usual in Greece to a screeching, burning halt for three marvelous weeks, and putting the fear of history back into the bureaucrats of Fortress Europe and beyond.
We Are an Image From the Future delves into the December insurrection and its aftermath through interviews with those who witnessed and participated in it, alongside the communiqués and texts that circulated through the networks of revolt. It provides the on-the-ground facts needed to understand these historic events, and also dispels the myths activists outside of Greece have constructed around them. What emerges is not just the intensity of the riots, but the stories of organizing and solidarity, the questions of strategy and tactics: a desperately needed examination of the fabric of the Greek movements that made December possible.
“This book is just what Dr. Fucking
Anarchy ordered. How to turn insurrection into revolution. The Greek
revolt will inspire a generation as Paris ’68 did 40 years earlier.”
—Ian Bone, class warrior and author of Bash the Rich
“If protest is when I say I disagree,
and resistance is when I do something about it, then insurrection is
when everyone else is on-board too. So it was in December of 2008, when
Greece burned…. We Are an Image from the Future is a quintessential portrait of revolution in action. The coming global insurrection has already begun.”
—Ramor Ryan, author of Clandestines
“What the Zapatista uprising of 1994
was to the antiglobalization movement, the Greek uprising of 2008 could
be to the demise of capitalism itself.”
—CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective
“This dazzling collection is not a book
about the great insurrection of 2008-it is a living piece of it that
can become a part of us, and through us, it opens the prospect of a
universe we might never otherwise have imagined possible. Future
historians may well conclude that the Revolution finally began in 2008.
If they do, this book will have played a crucial role in that
realization.”
—David Graeber, author of Direct Action: An Ethnography
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