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Daily Archives: February 11th, 2012

Update on the people arrested on the first day of the General Strike (Feb 10)

greek original Information on those arrested during the first day of the strike mobilisations (10/02/12) Three people are charged for one felony and three misdemeanours: one 16-year old boy, one 20-year old French erasmus exchange student and one third person, who faces serious health problems. The charges are: – Resistance to authority – Attempted serious [...]

Athens: Second communiqué by the occupied Law School

english original at contra-info LET’S TURN THE SOCIAL EXPLOSION INTO REVOLUTION The era of ‘prosperity’ is over. The dream of access to consumption and advancement, as expressed by the triptych ‘show-off, consumption, career’, has suddenly become the ultimate nightmare. But now there is no turning back. The times when the employers squeezed the foreigners at [...]

Peacetime crimes

greek original (old boy) If at the first memorandum we were caught by surprise and we succumbed at the dilemma “the measures or a catastrophe”, the dilemma is now turned on its head: the signing of the new memorandum will be the catastrophe; its signing will be the road of no return; its signing will [...]

Leader of far-right LAOS party warns of possible army intervention

Karatzaferis, the leader of far-right LAOS (a member party in the coalition government) warned yesterday that “it might be necessary to turn to other forces”, when asked about the much-discussed statement by a police syndicalist union according to which “police will refuse to turn against their siblings”. The picture below comes as the most fitting [...]

Heraclion, Crete: Anarchists occupy local TV station (video)

Heraclion, Crete. February 11, 2012. Anarchists occupied the local TV station Creta TV during its lunchtime news show, as part of the propaganda activity for the 48-hour General Strike.

“Let’s organise the implacability of human dignity”

 

Thessaloniki: Olympion cinema occupied (video)

Thessaloniki, Feb 11 2012. After the end of today’s demonstration, people from the autonomous, grassroots unions occupied Olympion, the historic cinema in the centre of the city (Aristotelous Ave) in order to use it as a co-ordination centre for the struggle in the days ahead.

Photos from the General Strike demonstration in Athens, February 10 (day 1)

“Don’t predict a revolution. Do it!” (photo #1)