Kathimerini English

Solidarity with what?

- BY MARIA KATSOUNAKI

Dutch nationals) who have arrived on their motorbikes with their tents and makeshift kitchens to spend a full 10-days at the campus, as if they own the place? How can they take over this public space, snubbing an official ban by the authoritie­s? Where does all this attitude come from? How can they go around imposing their own law and order? The only type of ideology that can be identified behind all this activity is one of utterly arbitrary behavior. The only solidarity that can be identified is solidarity with lawlessnes­s. When they are not busy challengin­g, fighting against, or humiliatin­g the nation’s institutio­ns, these people claim to be working for the good of society. But the bullying way in which they act and operate shows nothing but anger and marginaliz­ation. The activists are seeking to impose their own rules. They want to camp out on university grounds but they do not want any media presence on the site. They take decisions in the absence of authoritie­s and the local community but they refuse to take any criticism.

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