The countdown has begun. Nikos Maziotis will walk out of Domokos Prison on September 14, having served out his sentence.
Maziotis was convicted for participating in the terrorist organization “Revolutionary Struggle,” as well as for a series of serious offenses, including a bombing, attempted homicide, and armed robbery.
According to reports, he has served 14 years behind bars, with six additional years credited through prison work, bringing his total sentence to 20 years of imprisonment.
Particular attention has been drawn to a letter he wrote, in which he refers to the repeated rejections of his requests for conditional release.
According to his account, the judicial councils in Lamia have rejected his conditional release seven times, citing among other reasons that he has not been “rehabilitated” and has not shown moral “improvement.”
He states in the letter: “Not even in 1,000,000 years will that happen.” In another letter written in 2025, he wrote, “Revolutionaries are not ‘rehabilitated’ and do not ‘morally improve.'”
Even more notable is his reference to today’s social and political conditions, in which he argues that the struggle “against the State and capital” is “just,” “necessary,” and “imperative.”
His upcoming release has caused significant concern among authorities, since through his statements he does not appear to disavow the actions for which he was convicted.
Counter-terrorism officers are now also scrutinizing the content of his statements, particularly those that leave open the possibility that he may resume his activities.
The full letter
“A special September…
Today, September 2, marks the anniversary of one of the most significant actions carried out by Revolutionary Struggle, and by the domestic urban guerrilla movement in general: the car-bomb attack using 150 kilos of ANFO explosives against the Athens Stock Exchange, back in 2009.
That was when Revolutionary Struggle was already talking about the crisis, starting in 2005, before it broke out in the United States and before it hit our country in 2009-2010. When we spoke about the bailout memorandums before they were even imposed.
When we spoke about the opportunity, at that time, for a systemic overthrow and revolution that unfortunately never came to pass.
September 5, 2003, marks the anniversary of when Revolutionary Struggle began its activity, with the double bombing attack on the Evelpidon courthouse in Athens.
In a few days, on September 14, I will be released upon completion of my sentence, having served 14 years in prison plus six years of work credit, for a total of 20 years of imprisonment, the sentence I was given for the activities of Revolutionary Struggle.
At a time when criminal and ‘correctional’ codes keep changing one after another, extending the length of sentences and the actual time served, even through illegal manipulations regarding the retroactive application of laws, when the state’s ongoing priority has always been dealing with its political opponents, I am the first inmate in Greek prisons, and the first political prisoner with a 20-year fixed-term sentence, to serve his entire sentence without suspension, as had usually been the practice until now. This outcome is the result of the Lamia judicial councils having rejected my conditional release seven times, on the grounds that I have not been ‘rehabilitated,’ have not shown moral ‘improvement,’ and refuse to acknowledge the actions of Revolutionary Struggle as criminal.
They’re right about that! At one hearing of the judicial council, when asked whether I had been ‘rehabilitated,’ I answered that not even in 1,000,000 years would that happen.
So I refuse to adopt their ‘morality,’ the morality of submission, nor have I in any way reconsidered the actions of Revolutionary Struggle, which were beneficial and necessary for the social majority, for the people and the working class, since they were directed against the criminal state-capitalist system of power. Especially under today’s conditions, where the system grows ever more brutal, condemning us to a lifetime of debt slavery, condemning us to poverty and destitution, wiping out peoples and populations deemed surplus through wars, genocides, and the policies enacted to preserve itself, and slowly but steadily killing the planet we live on for the sake of the profit and power of a shameful minority.
Under these conditions, the struggle against the State and capital is not only just but also necessary and imperative.
I would not change my political and activist choices in the slightest, even if I could turn back time.
This outcome, serving my full sentence, does have a positive side, since I will not even be subject to restrictive conditions, meaning I won’t have to report to the local police station wherever I end up living.
From the bottom of my heart, I thank all my comrades, everyone who stood in solidarity with us in any way over all these years, with us, the members of Revolutionary Struggle, who remained faithful to the choices of struggle we made.
NO RECONSIDERATION, NO REPENTANCE
LONG LIVE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
HONOR FOREVER TO COMRADE LAMBROS FOUNTAS
September 2, 2026
Domokos Prison,
Nikos Maziotis”
His partner, Pola Roupa, was released from prison in November 2023.
Authorities are now focused on what comes next following his release and the developments that may follow.
