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Monthly Archives: June 2010

#316 | Another day, another migrant killed by the police in Greece

Corporate media report that two Algerians were chased by the police at the beach of Kineta, in Attica, near Athens. The two were had been suspect of carjacking. While the one of the two was arrested by the police, the second threw himself into the sea in order to escape – and drowned.

#315 | Fresh General Strike called for June 29th

The two main trade unions in Greece (GSEE and ADEDY) have announced a general strike for June 29th. The strike will come six days late, as it is so far confirmed that the government will bring the new law for public insurance and labour issues to parliament on June 23d (!) The new law more [...]

#314 | The Belgrade 6 are free, all charges dropped

Some excellent news from Athens IMC today: the Belgrade 6 have been released and all charges against them have been dropped. The six comrades had been arrested in September 2009 in Belgrade, charged with an action that took place at the greek embassy in Belgrade on August 25, in solidarity to then hunger striker Thodoros [...]

#313 | Video and communique from the anarchist super-market action in Thessaloniki

On June 14th, anarchists stormed a super-market in Thessaloniki, Greece. They destroyed the security systems, took food and money from the cashiers, which they burnt outside. A short video from the action and a translation of the communique follos (greek original here). On 14/06/10 we stormed into a super-market of the chain Masoutis on M.Kyriakou [...]

#312 | Anarchists invade supermarket in Thessaloniki

On 14th of June, anarchists went into a supermarket, destroyed the security systems and took food and other products from inside and left without paying. They also took the money from the cash desk and burnt it outside the supermarket! photos from the burnt money and information in greek: http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1183814

#311 | Counter-info website goes live!

Contrainfo.espiv.net is an open and self-managed translation collective in the wider Greek anarchist/ anti-authoritarian/ libertarian movement. We aim to disseminate counter-information against the misinformation of totalitarianism, to connect the Greek anti-authoritarian movement with those from abroad, and diffuse anarchist discourse throughout society. The new project will be translating into and from an impressive 12 languages, [...]

#310 | Little stories from IMF-run Greece: 50-year old man sets himself alight in a bank

A 50-year old man set himself alight in a bank branch in the city of Thessaloniki last week. The story wasn’t paraded in national or international media; it doesn’t sell enough, or perhaps it’s just too uncomfortable to handle. A rough translation of the snippet that’s been circulating around news agencies: A man of aproximately [...]

#309 | Greece’s political parties split one after another: will they all become small enough to fit into the helicopters that will take them out of parliament?

 We are anarchists; parliamentary politics is not quite our thing. Any parliament; but a parliament that is now under the full control of the IMF takes our disgust at a different level: on May 7th, the social-democrat PASOK government passed a law amendment according to which parliament will no longer decide, only “discuss” all future [...]