Giorgos Angeletakis

– 2024

From Athens Indymedia
October 11, 2024

We say goodbye with raised fists to the anarchist fighter George Angeletakis, George who with his inexhaustible passion for struggle and life defied death until the last hours before he left us forever. Just as he lived his life, always uncompromising and passionate, defying police encirclement, repression and personal costs. Our George who, like few others, stood by the political prisoners and the imprisoned activists with a specific view and point of view in the terrain of class conflict. Because George was well aware, in the face of opportunistic and reformist notions of every nature, that without revolutionary theory and practice there can be no revolutionary process, that the path of social revolution is shown by the anti-capitalist / anti-imperialist revolutionary movements and organizations that fight with weapons in hands of independent geographical determination and ideological references. Because the existence of political prisoners and the solidarity in the struggle they carry out inside and outside the prisons, also testifies to the degree of militancy of a movement, its willingness to go from revolutionary theory to revolutionary action.

The existence of political prisoners and persecuted activists also reflects the degree of revolutionary nature of the movements themselves, their disposition for conflict with the state, capital and imperialism, their ability through action to recognize, as Che Guevara said, “that the revolution is not a fruit that will fall when it is ripe. We have to shake the tree to make it fall.”

George has been a soldier and persistent in the cause of social upheaval, always supporting armed popular anti-violence as an integral and primary element for the formation of a revolutionary movement. From this position came his passionate concern with solidarity with political prisoners and persecuted activists. A position that often brought him juxtaposed in intra-cinema conflicts and ruptures, managing most of the time with sobriety and composure to maintain the climate of unity and to prioritize the repressive attack of the State and the necessity of rallying the solidarity movement above the divisions and the consequences arising from them.

At a time when the Greek movement smelled of gunpowder, the discussions with him in the Ginis building will remain unforgettable and although sometimes the separate halls of the assemblies indicated different strategies, political rivalries and gaps, our common course in the struggle and the synchronization of our steps in the difficult situations, it implicitly indicated that through sometimes different agendas and paths of struggle on these roads we will meet again. In these seas we will fight again now, in the seas, where George’s concern, thought and solidarity will always accompany us.

Class Counterattack [Group of Anarchists and Communists]