Earlier today it was announced that lorry drivers have vowed to go ahead with their mobilisations, despite the law being voted in and the government openly threatening them with legal/ police action. In the general of their unions, 76 voted in favour of continuing, while only 6 voted against and 14 absented. Already, more than [...]

Just got back from Syntagma square in Athens. The situation there is very odd: of the hundreds (could easily be in the thousands, too, it’s very hard to estimate) of lorry drivers there, many are carrying greek national flags, they cheer the soldiers guarding parliament and some, as the tv news reported, even cheered the [...]

Tomorrow, Wednesday 22.09, is the day when the government is planning to vote in the law “opening up” truck driving, so far a closed profession (for more background on the strike, follow our lorry drivers tag). In response, approximately 1.500 lorry drivers are currently (13.00 GMT+2) gathered outside their union’s office in Piraeus Avenue in [...]

What has been happening in Greece in the past few months (and in a way, extending from December 2008 to present) is simply phenomenal: deep changes, one after the other, in the social backbone come at breakneck speed. This fluid landscape has found us, the wider social antagonist movement (anarchists, anti-authoritarians, the libertarian left) numb [...]