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Monthly Archives: May 2012

Anti-fascist and anti-nazi demonstrations taking place across Greece

Athens School of Economics: In response to recent attacks on migrants by members of the nazi party Golden Dawn in open collaboration with police, students of the Athens School of Economics (ASOEE) and anarchists called for an anti-fascist demonstration on May 29th, in Athens. The demonstration was attended by approximately 1,000. In the working class Athenian suburb of [...]

Anarchist Simos Seisidis acquitted by court and due to be released tomorrow (May 29)

Earlier today, anarchist Simos Seisidis was acquitted in court and will be finally be released tomorrow (May 29th, 2012). Simos was shot in the leg by police on May 3, 2010 and had his leg amputated soon thereafter. He has been targeted by authorities for more than 15 years. Full background on his case at [...]

André Mazurek, prisoner of the December 2008 uprising, writes a letter from prison 3,5 years on

More on André’s case on contrainfo | Greek original 3,5 YEARS LATER… For 3,5 years now, I am being kept in the Greek prisons, more precisely since 11-12-2008 and the clashes that followed after the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Exarchia. My name is Andrea Mazourek and I live in Greece since 2007, more accurately from May 2007. [...]

Golden Dawn MP attacked in the city of Volos

On Friday, 25/5 a newly elected member of parliament for the neo-nazi Golden Dawn was spotted eating in a restaurant in the city of Volos. He was swiftly surrounded and attacked by local anti-fascists who escaped before the police had any time to arrive to the spot. The newly elected MP (Iliopoulos) was eating with [...]

Reel News release – Greece First Cut Preview: Community Organising

Check the reelnews website for updates! This is one of 9 films on the growing resistance in Greece that are nearing completion. This one shows the community organisation running in parallel to the growing rank and file organisation in the unions. Reel News 32 – Our Present is Your Future! will be out by early June. Pre-order [...]

Little stories from IMF-run Greece: 90-year old mother and 60-year old son jump to their death

This morning, in the Vathis square area of central Athens, a 90-year old mother and her son (in his 50s-60s according to mainstream media report) walked up to their building’s rooftop and jumped to their death. Suicide rates have increased sharply in the country since the arrival of the IMF/EU/ECB in May 2010. Between May [...]

Justice? The people deliver – far-right politician Pleuris assaulted by people outside the Athens Courthouse

This morning would have seen Themis Skordeli, a Golden Dawn candidate, be tried at the Athens Courthouse, charged with stabbing migrants in the area of Agios Panteleimonas in Athens.  At the same time when Skordeli’s case was postponed once again (for September 25th, 2012) the gathered anti-fascists recognised another familiar face at the Courthouse: Thanasis Pleuris, [...]

Patras: Neo-nazis gather from around Greece and storm ex-factory space undocumented migrants use for shelter

22:05 GMT+2 An antifascist gathering has been called for this Thursday, 24/05, at Olgas Square in Patras. 22:00 GMT+2 People attacked Golden Dawn MP Michalis Arvanitis, who was scheduled to speak at a local TV station. The nazi was attacked inside the station building. Nazi riot in Patras: Golden Dawn supporters chant “foreigners out of [...]