As Horizons Burn

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Grigoris Afxentiou: A True Greek-Cypriot Hero

Grigoris Afxentiou is a national hero in Cyprus, as he was one of the most prominent fighters in the 1955-1959 EOKA struggle to liberate the island from British colonial rule and unite Cyprus with Greece.

EOKA began the fight for liberation from the British on April 1, 1955, a day that is still celebrated in Cyprus as a national holiday.

Afxentiou was one of the leaders of the revolutionary group, and his death served as a reminder of Cyprus‘ painful struggle for freedom.

It was March 3, 1957 when the iconic Cypriot hero was burned alive by British troops during the four-year war for the liberation of Cyprus from British rule.

His death, after holding out against surrounding British soldiers for 10 hours all by himself, in the Battle of Machairas, has become an illustrious and tragic page in Cypriot history.

The life of EOKA fighter Grigoris Afxentiou

Afxentiou was born in the village of Lysi, in the district of Famagusta, which is now under Turkish occupation, on February 22, 1928. In 1948 he went to Greece to study literature at the University of Athens.

However, he could not afford the cost of living there, and he went to serve in the Army Reserves as a lieutenant on the Greek-Bulgarian border.

In 1952, Afxentiou returned to Cyprus, where he worked with his father in the fields and then as a taxi driver.

When the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) was formed in 1955, his military background, boldness, and natural charisma brought him next to leader Giorgos Grivas, who made him his second in command.

Grigoris Afxentiou led many attacks on British troops

Afxentiou led attacks on crucial British facilities on the island, such as the power company and the broadcasting corporation, and was responsible for training EOKA recruits in using arms, bomb making techniques, and guerrilla warfare.

The British soon put a £5,000 bounty on his head.

Constantly on the move, often disguised, Afxentiou continued to direct and conduct operations from hideouts in the Troodos Mountains, and in March 1957 found himself holed up near Machairas Monastery, south of Nicosia.

On March 3, 1957, British troops, acting on a tipoff, surrounded Afxentiou and his four comrades in their hideout, and called for the men to surrender.

Afxentiou ordered his men to leave to fight another day but insisted that he himself had to stay. “I will fight and die,” he told them. “I have to die,” he said emphatically, repeating the phrase four times.

After his comrades left, Afxentiou had to hold off the British alone. The occupation troops stormed the hideout, but Afxentiou held them at bay.

They tried to kill him by throwing hand grenades into the shelter, but the wounded Afxentiou wouldn’t give up and continued to fight.

The iconic fighter was burned alive at 29

The British sent in one of Afxentiou’s comrades, Avgoustinos Efstathiou, to persuade him to surrender — but Efstathiou decided to stay and fight with his leader.

Eventually, after Afxentiou put up a resistance that lasted 10 hours, and all conventional methods had failed, the British poured petrol into the hideout to burn out the EOKA men.

They threw explosives and blasted the hideout, burning the men alive.

The intensity of the fire that ensued made it impossible for the British soldiers to approach the cave and it wasn’t until the following morning that they were able to get inside.

There they found Afxentiou’s burned body, and next to it a sub-machine gun, revolvers, grenades and a copy of Nikos Kazantzakis’ “Christ Recrucified” that had been given to Afxentiou by the Abbot of Machairas.

Afxentiou was more than willing to give his life to see Cyprus liberated from British rule and unite with Greece. “I will fight and fall like a Greek,” he once wrote to his wife Vassiliki once. And indeed he did.

Monument of Afxentiou at Machairas Monastery in Cyprus. Credit: Public Domain

Resurgence of the Flame

 

We wait to pounce

"We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce..."

-George Lincoln Rockwell

Peruvian Ethnocacerism

Peru has some of the most interesting and idiosyncratic politics I have ever seen.

On the one hand you have the Fujimorist’s who have lost the last 3 presidential elections by a point or so. These people fit nicely into what we in the west would call “right wing populism” essentially, token opposition to the establishment on social issues, but failing to challenge the economic order which renders them politically impotent. They also have close connections to the LDP in Japan. They ruled from 1990 to 2000 until their president fled to Japan amid mounting corruption charges, but saw a resurgence in 2017 following the introduction of gender studies in the country.

On the other hand we have an ideology unique to Peru known as Ethnocacerism, which is what you could call Peru’s third positionist movement. They are similar to Nazi-Maoist’s or perhaps some Arab Baathists in that they lie on the furthest left section of Fascism, even seeking to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat. This group is currently on the rise in Peru attracting some supporters among the officer core in the Peruvian military. It is also on the verge of achieving tangible political power, organizing its first serious political party in 2023.

The Ethnocacerist third positionist party is called the National Alliance of Workers, Farmers, University Students, and Reservists and is in 2nd place in some polls for the 2026 election. The party is led by army major Antauro Humala who led a failed coup in 2005 and spent his years in prison crafting his political manifesto, publishing his book “Etnonacionalismo: Izquierda y Globalidad (Visión Etnocacerista)”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocacerism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujimorism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_of_Workers,_Farmers,_University_Students,_and_Reservists

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Beware of the English!

What the German press in the Third Reich used to say about the "White Supremacy" practiced by America and Britain. This was written by Dr. Robert Ley, on the 9th of June, 1939.

Source: Beware of the English (1939)! 

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The christian concept of sin is foreign to racial purity

"The doctrine of original sin would have been incomprehensible to a people whose racial identity was unadulterated. In such a people, there dwells a secure confidence in itself and in its will, which it regards as destiny. The concept of sin was as alien to the Homeric heroes as it was to the ancient Indians, the Germans of Tacitus, or the epics and sagas of Dietrich von Bern [ca. 500s AD], An oppressive sense of sin is a sure symptom of racial bastardy. Race pollution shows itself in a number of ways: in an absence of clear direction in thought and action; in an inner self-doubt; in the feeling that existence is simply the wages of sin, rather than the necessary and mysterious imperative of self-development. The sense of personal depravity leads to a yearning for grace, and this is the only hope for the products of miscegenation." 

— Alfred Rosenberg 

Source: The Myth of the 20th Century p.72

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