In trying to write a quick, retrospective chronicle of what I lived through from the 6th of December until today Christmas Day of 2008, it is certain that I have forgotten and omitted a lot. I don’t know if the insurrection is continuing or not, although it looks like it has calmed down. It is certain, however, that those of us who lived those moments have changed. We have been transformed forever. The ferocity of our attacks in the city and on the temples of the commodities, the battles with those who stand as an obstacle in our attempt to destroy authority and its symbols, the joy of razing everything that stands in our way the moment we're not thinking but acting, will be engraved in my memory forever. As will be the courage of my friends and comrades who showed more bravery and decisiveness than I did by staying for eighteen consecutive days inside the Polytechnic. The insurrection is not a utopia, viva la anarquia!
- The street has its own history
- Solidarity is a flame
- 1. Prologues
- 2. And now one slogan that unites us all: cops, pigs, murders!
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3. These days are for Alexis
- The world left behind
- Suddenly i heard a bang
- I ran to the Polytechnic
- Homo sacer quartet
- I was in the heart of the catastrophe
- Okay, now we're going to fuck everything up
- We started with 300 people, and came back with 500
- That's how big this thing was
- In Patras, 1000 people came out to the demonstrations
- That was the craziest moment of all December for me
- This is the spirit of the revolt
- Their democracy murders
- All the kids felt so much power yelling at the cops
- A black immigrant's cry of despair
- These days are ours, too
- Invitation to the Open Popular Assembly of the Liberated City Hall of Aghios Dimitrios
- I thought the revolution was coming
- I want to eliminate everything that represents the alienation of our lives
- Before the revolt, all the Greeks were enslaved
- One day we jacked a fire engine, got on the CB radio, and said, "Tonight, you motherfuckers, we will burn you all"
- We are here / We are everywhere / We are an image from the future
- The media as part of the counter-insurgency
- The occupation of the national TV
- Call for a new international
- In London, the response was immediate
- In Barcelona, we quickly organised a solidarity protest
- Many foreigners have been killed
- Open letter from the soldiers
- The Treaty of Varkiza is broken
- The logic of not demanding
- Not this history but this rage is ours
- To those who rise up in Greece
- A bedouin anytime! A citizen never
- I don't care if I don't take even one more picture, I just want to be okay with myself
- Journal entry of one of the insurrectionists
- 4. Obedience stopped, life is magical
- 5. Breaking new ground
- Glossary