In April (2016) the total objector to military service Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis made a public statement in view of his coming trial at the court-martial: “…on the 2nd of June, when I will be tried for the second time on appeal for refusing to enlist for military service, I will stand once again in front of the military judges and I will articulate the polemic of the ones below against the state and its privileged castes. But this time I will not give in to buying off the sentence. Conviction will mean imprisonment, And prison brings us face to face with a situation of real war, politically, objectively and as a lived experience. And even if the generals of militarist repression give me the chance by setting a usual sentence of a few months, I will go on hunger strike so that the might of the extortionate and larcenous measures against Total Objection is once and for all overturned…”

Following an open meeting on the 4th of May in Athens for political briefing and for the organization of actions called by a collective where the comrade, total objector participates, the Solidarity Assembly to total objector Dimitris Chatzivasieliadis was formed. The main cohesive position of the assembly was that it is imperative for the movement as a whole, for collectives and individuals to take initiatives from which would emerge the collective struggle and response to the intensified onslaught of state and capital. We deemed that the stance of the persecuted comrade contributed to this direction. And so we mobilized immediately bearing in mind that the true answers are contained within the struggle, within its questions and its stakes. Continue reading A breifing and a political account of the court-martial of total objector to military service, Dimitri Chatzivasileidi (2 june 2016) →