Cops, Pigs, Killers! The Political Graffiti of Exarcheia, Athens, Greece

We passed by hundreds of circle-As and anti-authoritarian motifs, alongside wall after wall of painted rallying cries such as Cops, Pigs, Killers and 'Don't Live Your Life as a Slave, Riot Now!' One of these political slogans was of particular significance to Helena. Abruptly we stopped as she pointed to its large, bold, blood-red letters. Written in English, it said 'Fuck May 68, Fight Now!' 'Look at this, it is for me, everything' she began, pausing momentarily to roll her cigarette with the finesse and effortlessness of an addicted artisan:

It asks us to move on from the past. To go beyond May 68 and Paris. But we must first know May 68, what happened, the struggles, the failures, the successes. History is important to us ... to our movement. It shapes us. It influences. We learn from it. But then, listen, we must fuck it. Fuck May 68! Fuck Spain! Enough talk of old revolution, we must create our own revolution ... our own insurrections.

--Nicholas Apoifis, Anarchy in Athens: An Ethnography of Militancy, Emotions and Violence, Contemporary Anarchist Studies (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), 84-85.