Communist student wounded by police bullet in Athens!

[Honggweilo]

New attack to the mass movement-
Prompt reply by thousands of workers and youth

Dear comrades,

we would like to inform you on the direct response of tens of thousands young students and workers which participated at the demonstrations yesterday evening and today morning, denouncing the new hit against the mass- organized movement .These demonstrations condemned the latest murderous attack by unknown against a group of students in Peristeri (a working-class neighborhood of Athens region, where the KKE and KNE has significant influence) who was organizing that time the next day’s demonstration of their school union . The student Giorgos Paplomatas, member of KNE and the 15-member students’ council of his school and son of a cadre of KKE, trade-unionist of PAME and member of the direction of the Teachers’ Federation, was wounded by a gunshot at his hand.
By the time that this murderous action happened, a call of the KKE brought about a huge demonstration –condemnation of this new attack took held in the center of Peristeri. Today thousands of students of schools have demonstrated after the call of the Struggle Coordinative of School Unions.
These massive demonstrations are an immediate response to all forms of official and unofficial repression mechanisms of the state that has proved that they aim to intimidate furthermore the youth and peoples workers’ movement. Young people and workers denounced the government disclosing its heavy political responsibilities.
Taking a chance with this info we would like to inform you that we have noticed that a series of opportunists of Synaspismos Syriza ,Trotskyists and anarchists groups “broadcasting” and “informing” through national and international bourgeois media , reversing completely the reality. They try to present these mobilizations as a new kind of movement based on hooded persons organized by specific circles and secret services in Greece and in other countries of Europe. Unluckily for them the vast majority of young people and working class participate not in groups of hooded persons but in the multiple massive blocks of All Workers Militant Front (PAME) as well as the Struggle Coordinative of School Unions.
The organized and well protected movement that KKE and KNE insist on calling the youth and people to participate, has discomforted the bourgeois class. That’s why during the previous weekend “unknown” persons hit two office buildings of Local Organizations of KKE in Thessaloniki and that’s why they intensify in all forms their offense to KKE and KNE.
Despite all the plans and attempts of the capital and it's government, youth movement will not obey to their calls .It will follow the working class orientated movement and its slogan “Let’s struggle for rupture and overthrow”.


IRC OF CC OF KNE



http://www.kne.gr/english.html

[Dóchas]

sounds like the greek police are getting kinda trigger happy

[Honggweilo]

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Thousands Protest the Murderous Attack against Student



Yesterday, December 18, thousands of students from high schools and universities demonstrated towards the parliament despite the heavy rain, protesting the anti-peoples policy and the state repression, and denouncing the murderous attack against a student syndicalist. The demonstration was organized by the Athens Coordination of Secondary School Students, students’ unions and PAME. Similar rallies were held in several cities of Greece.
As we have already informed you, on Wednesday December 17, “unknown” shot against a group of students that participate in the students’ mobilizations in Peristeri. As a result Giorgos Paplomatas, member of KNE and of the 15-member students’ council of his school and son of a cadre of KKE, trade-unionist of PAME and member of the direction of the Teachers’ Federation, was wounded at his hand. The incident took place at 11.15 pm when a group of 12 students met in order to prepare the yesterdays’ demonstration.
The student was taken to the hospital, operated, and does not undergo any danger. The examination of the bullet shows that the shot came either from a “38 Special” or 357 MAGNUM pistols, contrary to the initial claims of the police that spoke of an air-gun. Costas Paplomatas, father of the student and trade-unionist of PAME, speaking to the press after the operation said that the fact is that “a gun aimed at a company of 12 children, at the time that they were discussing their participation in the mobilization of students. These children were members of the 15-member students’ school council of the 1st Lyceum of Peristeri”, he noted that this was “an attempt at assassination set up by obscure circles” and concluded that the only way out lies in the mass struggle of the people.
Yesterday evening the Athens’ organizations of KKE and KNE held a massive demonstration at the center of Peristeri, calling for an immediate militant response to the murderous attack as well as for vigilance and intensification of the struggle against the anti-people’s policy. The secretary of KNE Giannis Protoulis, speaking to the rally denounced the plans aiming to provoke, to intimidate and undermine the mass people’s movement and called for intensification of the organized struggle. “The way out lies in people’s organization and struggle” he underlined.
The press bureau of the KKE commenting on the murderous attack, as well as on the scenery of riots that once more created the “unknown” hooded groups yesterday in the center of Athens noted that “the continuous provocative action of “hooded persons” in the center of Athens affirms the statement of KKE that the repression mechanisms do not lurk only at the official mechanisms and apparatus but also at the hidden structures of the state.”
Today, Friday 19th of December, a new rally took place in the morning in Peristery, organized by the Athens Coordination of Secondary School Students and parents’ associations.

Info by the international section of KKE