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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Five migrants vaguely dead in a road accident in western Greece

The news only appeared in the “inside pages” of corporate press. Five “migrants” (as simple as that: non-Greeks) died when the van carrying them to a remote beach of Western Greece ran off the road (destination unknown: their driver, the only person who knew the exact location where they were going, ran away after the [...]

European day of action against capitalism · 31.03.2012

Left Wing Organisations and Libertarian Grassroots Unions Call for an International Day of Action march31.net During an international meeting in December 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, several left wing organisations and grassroots unions from Greece, Spain, Poland, Austria and Germany decided to launch a joint effort against capitalist reforms under the current crisis. On march [...]

The government attacks to the indepedent free soup kicthens

The government just issued a decree which in the name of public health, attacks to the regular soup kitchens organised by political groups that cook and offer food to the increasing mumber of homeless (reaching 20,000 in Athens only).  Homelss people though are not the only ones depending on these soup kicthens, but plenty more [...]

Pawn shop in Athens goes up in flames – claim of responsibility

Greek original On Saturday, January 21 we placed an inflammatory device in a pawn shop on Ragavi Street, in Gizi (Athens). It was a symbolic response to the spread of these contemporary black-marketeers in the neighbourhoods of Athens, who, taking advantage of the condition of generalised poverty attempt to loot our fellow humans who are [...]

“Dignity out of steel” – two and a half months of the steelworks strike in Greece: two-day solidarity event in Barcelona

Film-maker Theo Angelopoulos dies

Theo Angelopoulos, (1935-2012). Killed in a road accident, run over by an off-duty cop. The symbolism of it all… Instead of words:

“The historical sweetness”

Translation of a text published by the blogger “old boy” — Greek original here. The text was also published in Unfollow, a new, independently-run magazine in the country. Euro and memorandum-permitting, I will be turning forty this year. I think of those who were born forty years before me. Someone born in 1932 would have [...]

Gang-style police raid migrants’ houses, robs them from valuables and cash – statement by the “movement united against racism and the fascist threat”

The “movement united against racism and the fascist threat” has issued the following statement in response to the near-inconceivable events taking place in the neighbourhoods around the axis of Acharnon Street in central Athens (including the neighbourhoods of Agios Panteleimonas, Attikis Sq, Victoria and Amerikis Sq) over the course of the past few months. A [...]