Greek original On Monday 28.11 a pawnshop in the Athens neighbourhood of Petralona, on Keiriadon Street, had its storefront trashed and leaflets with the following slogans were thrown out: “Black marketeers out of our neighbourhoods, not an inch of land to the loan sharks”. “All those who see our poverty and impoverishment as an opportunity [...]

Greek original on Athens IMC According to mainstream media reports, a 32-year old woman who was detained at the police HQ in the city of Patras hanged herself with a blanket. The 32-year old had been arrested earlier in the day, and was being detained, after stealing three t-shirts from a clothing store in the [...]

The chilling story has very slowly started to surface in mainstream Greek media: in the past few months, the dead bodies of men and women (six in total so far, all of them migrants) have been found either in garbage collection sites or garbage bins across the Greek capital. Is there a mafia behind this, [...]

According to data published by EL.STAT (the Hellenic Statistical Authority), the officially unemployed reached 14.8% in December 2010, up by an entire percentage point in a single month. Unemployment in the age range of 15-24 increased from 28.9% to 39% since December 2009. The Ionian islands are the worse-hit region in the country, with unemployment [...]