From the Greek Streets http://blog.occupiedlondon.org Irregular updates and articles on the situation in Greece, in English Wed, 16 May 2012 23:02:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 DELTA and DIAS police forces storm the Athens School of Economics, before being pushed out by students in the building http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/05/16/delta-and-dias-police-forces-storm-the-athens-school-of-economics-before-being-pushed-out-by-students-in-the-building/ http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/2012/05/16/delta-and-dias-police-forces-storm-the-athens-school-of-economics-before-being-pushed-out-by-students-in-the-building/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 23:02:10 +0000 admin http://blog.occupiedlondon.org/?p=6624 Source (greek)

On the night of May 16th, DELTA and DIAS motorcycle police forces that were on Patision Avenue in Athens stormed the courtyard of the Athens School of Economics (ASOEE) and minutes later, the building through its main entrance as well. Both the courtyard and the building were full with people despite the storming happening late in the night, as many students had amassed there for the student elections that took place on the day. The DELTA and DIAS forces that stormed the building chased all the students (regardless of their political affinities), hitting them with their fold-able clubs; the students reacted, eventually holding the gates of the university and keeping the police at bay.

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At the age of 25… she is fired because she costs too much!

On Saturday she’ll turn 25, on Friday she’s… fired! It is no science fiction, but the reality as shaped up by the monopolies and governments in our country, for workers and the youth. A typical example is that of a young female worker in a big company of the Food sector,which has already started hiring young workers (younger than 25) with 511 euros per month before taxes. This particular worker has been working in the production line for the past 1,5 months, under the new labor relations of slavery, for 511 euros per month. The young woman has her birthday on Saturday and she was notified that on Friday she would be… fired because she turns 25. “They are laying me off on Friday, not earlier, in order for me not to lose on those days’ work. They are supposed to be making me a favor” she said yesterday to people outside the factory, and went on: “From Saturday on, I’ll be looking for work again, because I turned 25″.

This is their new barmarism, the contemporary Middle Ages. The Middle Ages shaped up for the younger generation, for the worker who even though all conditions exist for her to live a life with a permanent job, free Health and Welfare, with a high-level Education, she is nevertheless turned into a beggar of the monopoly-corporations and businessmen, because she turned… 25 years old!

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Responsibility Claim for the arson of the vehicle of Themis Skordeli (Golden Dawn candidate)

It’s been 3,5 years since the infamous war against the immigrants of Ag.Panteleimonas broke out. And you made sure from the start to be a frontline soldier in its everyday raids.

You were in the front line of the cleansing of the square in your area and you even sealed its playground. You roamed through the tv channels and proudly vomited your racist poison transforming it into a media spectacle.

And when you thought that fear had possessed everyone of a different religion and every foreign neighbour of yours, you organized new racist patrols in another square, this time a bit further away.

Then, you starred again in the days of racist pogroms in May 2011. And a few months later, you even made your friends the cops drag you to court, along with another two shitheads with the same beliefs as you, accused of stabbing immigrants.

Finally, you managed to get on the candidate list of your beloved Golden Dawn, as a reward for all the shit work you have been doing all these years. And till then you thought everything is going well.

But the memory you see is not easy to fool. Just when you think you stuffed it once and for all in the bin of History, it pops up in front of you all of a sudden without asking.

Themis, you were an important symbolic chapter for these reactionary formations called “resident committees”. But your actions, first of all had serious, bloody results. And we do not forget them. That’s why we decided on 2/5/2012 to burn your motorbike, in broad day light on Aharnon street, in the heart of your infamous neighbourhood. Just so you can’t feel safe never and nowhere. We know that a few burnt ccs is nothing compared to the traumas you have caused. But the hostilities continue.

Till we meet again therefore…

metropolitan antifascist patrol

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Fascist attacks against migrants and refugees in Greece.
from www.docupraxi.net


fascist attacks – www.docupraxi.net by docupraxi

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The strikers’ march just ended in Athens.

 

http://bookworker.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/apergia_syvxa_15_5_12_afisa.jpg

 

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On the morning of May 15th, at least 16 protesters (out of an alleged 25) of the pacifist March 2 Athens were detained by riot police and removed from Syntagma square.

Some photographs here.

 

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Effectively, this means that every single worker previously covered  by these agreements is now left facing their bosses alone; it is expected that hundreds of thousands will see their salary reduced to the national minimum wage, while a number of allowances would also be cut. According to the official timeframe, the remaining 140 branch collective agreements will also expire by May 2013.

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In the neighboring district of Kalithea last night one more migrant was attacked and stabbed, two days before in Kalithea Nazis attacked to Egyptian migrants. Yesterday the offices of Golden Dawn in the city of Patras were attacked by antifascists.

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On the night of May 10th, the office of the Nazi party Golden Dawn was once again trashed in the city of Patras by anarchists. The anarchists left the scene and no arrests were made.

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On Wednesday’s operation the police openly co-operated with members of the Nazi group Golden Dawn. The two have cooperated many times in the past, whether openly or in disguise. In the videos and photos below members of the GD chant ‘Greece belongs to the Greeks’, sway crow-bars and throw stones to the anarchists who chant ‘the tin-cans have yet to rot’, a reference to the execution (even slaying with tin-cans) of members of the Nazi-collaborating Security Battalions by partisans of EAM-ELAS in September 1944, following the battle between them in the town of Meligalas, SW Peloponnese.

Nazis and riot police in joint operation against migrant traders and anarchists. Athens School of Economics, May 10, 2012

 

Nazis and riot police in joint operation against migrant traders and anarchists. Athens School of Economics, May 10, 2012 (2)

Nazis and riot police in joint operation against migrant traders and anarchists. Athens School of Economics, May 10, 2012 (3)

 

Amazingly, the banner above the nazis and the police reads "I don't hear, I don't see, I don't speak" - advertising a theatre production

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