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On the night of May 16th, DELTA and DIAS motorcycle police forces that were on Patision Avenue in Athens stormed the courtyard of the Athens School of Economics (ASOEE) and minutes later, the building through its main entrance as well. Both the courtyard and the building were full with people despite the storming happening late in the night, as many students had amassed there for the student elections that took place on the day. The DELTA and DIAS forces that stormed the building chased all the students (regardless of their political affinities), hitting them with their fold-able clubs; the students reacted, eventually holding the gates of the university and keeping the police at bay.

Via Act for Freedom Now

Responsibility Claim for the arson of the vehicle of Themis Skordeli (Golden Dawn candidate)

It’s been 3,5 years since the infamous war against the immigrants of Ag.Panteleimonas broke out. And you made sure from the start to be a frontline soldier in its everyday raids.

You were in the front line of the cleansing of the square in your area and you even sealed its playground. You roamed through the tv channels and proudly vomited your racist poison transforming it into a media spectacle.

And when you thought that fear had possessed everyone of a different religion and every foreign neighbour of yours, you organized new racist patrols in another square, this time a bit further away.

Then, you starred again in the days of racist pogroms in May 2011. And a few months later, you even made your friends the cops drag you to court, along with another two shitheads with the same beliefs as you, accused of stabbing immigrants.

Finally, you managed to get on the candidate list of your beloved Golden Dawn, as a reward for all the shit work you have been doing all these years. And till then you thought everything is going well.

But the memory you see is not easy to fool. Just when you think you stuffed it once and for all in the bin of History, it pops up in front of you all of a sudden without asking.

Themis, you were an important symbolic chapter for these reactionary formations called “resident committees”. But your actions, first of all had serious, bloody results. And we do not forget them. That’s why we decided on 2/5/2012 to burn your motorbike, in broad day light on Aharnon street, in the heart of your infamous neighbourhood. Just so you can’t feel safe never and nowhere. We know that a few burnt ccs is nothing compared to the traumas you have caused. But the hostilities continue.

Till we meet again therefore…

metropolitan antifascist patrol

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Bookshop and publishing house workers went on strike in Athens on May 15th, demanding a collective labour agreement rather than individual (personal) ones; an end to redundancies and increase in salaries according to the workers’ needs.

The strikers’ march just ended in Athens.

As mainstream national and international media occupy themselves with the forming of a coalition government, an extremely significant story has received little coverage in Greece: today marks the expiration of the collective agreement continuance (metenergeia ) for 80 out of a total 0f 220 branch collective agreements in the private sector in the country.

Effectively, this means that every single worker previously covered  by these agreements is now left facing their bosses alone; it is expected that hundreds of thousands will see their salary reduced to the national minimum wage, while a number of allowances would also be cut. According to the official timeframe, the remaining 140 branch collective agreements will also expire by May 2013.