23.17 GMT+2 Dissent is generalised, there are people hurdling rocks to the police across the centre of Athens. In Stadiou Ave, police are now attacking demonstrators and the clashes continue in Syntagma as before. 23.15 GMT+2 A huge crowd at Syntagma tonight, multiple times larger than the crowd at the General Strike demo in the [...]

16.03 GMT+2, Syntagma, Athens. Back at Syntagma. A good number of people have managed to stay on the square. The block that was cut off earlier returns to huge applause. 15.25 GMT+2, Syntagma, Athens.Demonstrators pushed out of the square and split in half. At least two arrests. A large group has been pushed back to [...]

English original Excerpt of a prisoners’ text about the mid-term memorandum — ‘[...] Prisons are a mechanism which is based on poverty and reproduces inequalities and injustice. Prisons are an unjust and inhumane mechanism which demoralizes and enrages people. It is a class and antisocial mechanism which should be abolished. We know that there is [...]

As it has been announced, the Athens metro will operate as normal during the two days of the General Strike, as the workers have overcome the bureaucratic unions – affiliated to PASOK – and decided in favour of the metro running, in order to facilitate the transportation of strikers to the demonstration.