The elderly man being attacked by an Athens (Greece) cop in this photo is not a member of the black bloc or a nobody. It is Manolis Glezos, the Greek national hero who, on the 30th of May 1941 tore down the swastika flag from the Acropolis, an act for which he suffered torture and imprisonment. It was the first public act of the Resistance in Greece, only a month after the Nazi take-over.
Who would have dreamed that seventy years later, a dirty coward wearing a uniform serving the capitalists that do not even deserve to wipe the soles of his feet has the gall to touch/assault him?this makes me sick.
This man is concistent in his beliefs - and his actions has something very important to tell us: The cultural diversity of the many peoples of Europe can never be held in a unidirectional straitjacket for a longer amount of time, wether it it governed from Berlin, Moscow or Brussels.
(via bitterstorms)
