Proclamation by the Antiauthoritarian Movement
on the occasion of its
Eleventh Panhelladic Conference
“Nosotros” Free Social Space, Athens, Greece
16 to 18 January 2015
Reviewing the past fifteen years since 1999 and particularly the conjuncture of the new global and multilevel social movement, we may easily observe that the project of social autonomy has been infused with a new compactness and content. In the brief period of the anti-globalization movement spanning between Seattle (1999) and Thessaloniki (2014), the political discourse of those at the bottom have acquired a global audience, complemented by the Paris and London uprisings of the excluded, who posed their questions before all aspects of political thought. Following these the December 2008 insurrection in Greece promoted new forms of public discourse, disrupting the temporality of the status quo on all levels. A harbinger of the unrest to follow in the ensuing years, this insurrection shook up the bedrock of the state’s authority, as it advocated the demand for a free and social public space. The struggles of the residents in Keratea and Halkidiki, the confrontations for urban space in Athens and in a number of other Greek cities emerged as the results of rifts triggered by the December 2008 insurrection, thus widening the field of action for the movement already pursuing the cause for local autonomy. In this framework no faction with ideological or identity politics could avoid decline in appeal.
