Greece unrest
Articles about the wave of riots following the shooting of a 15 year old boy by police, and the issues and struggles which have led up to the events.
Continued tension in Greece with strikes, riots and urban guerrillas
A second tense week of strikes and protest marches in Greece seeing hospital doctors, public transport and lorry drivers on strike, solidarity demonstrations with K. Kouneva erupt in riots, and a return of the spectre of urban guerrilla warfare.
As K. Kouneva is slowly recovering from the assassination attempt against her with sulphuric acid in December by corporate thugs, solidarity towards her and the cleaners subcontracted by OIKOMET and other companies to the civil service and state-owned enterprises is on the rise.
National Opera House occupied in Athens and turned into counterinformation and resistance base
Last week the National Opera House (Ethniki Lyriki Skini) was occupied by dancers renaming the historic Athens building "Insurgent People's . Opera". Since the Opera has been functioning as a free space for revolutionary workshops and forums in solidarity to K. Kouneva and the arrested insurgents of December, as well as against the police state and the culture of the Spectacle.
The occupation of the National Opera House in one of Athens most busy high street (Akadimias Bulevard) last week by dancers has created yet another center of resistance and counterinformation in the greek capital, receiving the active support of the entire range of insurgents including the Cleaner's Union (PEKOP) who continues to receive death threats from the OIKOMET bosses behind the murderous a
Protests resume in Athens
Protesters and riot police have clashed in central Athens today during a protest calling for the release of prisoners arrested during last month's riots, as farmers continued a week-long road blockade over prices.
The clashes occurred outside the University of Athens, as police charged with batons and pepper spray, while protesters used sticks and stones. Several hundred people were involved in the protests, and around 300 continued a march through the town centre. The International Herald Tribune reported that most participants were anarchists.
Occupation of news editors union HQ in Athens
ESIEA, the Union of News Editors HQ have been occupied by radical journalists and transformed into a counterinformation center and anti-spectacle forum.
On Saturday 10/1/09 in Athens radical reporters and journalists have occupied the HQ of the Union of Athens Daily Press Editors (ESIEA) which functions as a control institution regarding journalism across the country. The squatters have called for a series of open assemblies to discuss the nature and problems of broadcasting and reporting December's insurgency and its aftermath.
Clashes in Athens during protest march
Clashes unravel in Athens after riot police attacks protest march. Police repression targets lawyers and journalists who try to help trapped protesters. Many were wounded, and one elderly lady seriously brutalised.
On Friday 9/1/09 protest marches took place in all major cities of Greece in commemeration for the assassination of the communist teacher Nikos Temboneras by Kababokas, a government thug, during the educational movement of 1991 against neoliberal policies.
Repression escalates across Greece with arbitrary arrests, house searches and intimidation of the legal defence
Since the shooting of a riot-policeman in Exarheia on Monday 4/1, repression has taken the form of arbitrary house searches, arrests of anarchists, and widespread intimidation. Nevertheless, the movement is still on the streets with ptorest marches and new occupations throughout the country.
After the suspicious shooting against one riot police squad outside the Ministry of Culture on Monday 4/1 3:00 am, that has left one riot-policeman seriously wounded by AK bullets, and is alleged to be an act of armed revenge on part of the leftist urban guerrilla group “Revolutionary Struggle”, the entire area of Exarheia was cordoned off by police forces that unleashed a mass pogrom against anyo
New year enters with riots, demos and occupations across Greece
Demos outside prisons, occupations of city halls, and riots start with the change of year across Greece
The strike of twelve, and the beginning of the New Year saw hundreds of protesters gathered outside the central prison of the country in Koridallos, SW Athens, where the majority of arrested insurgents are kept pending trial. The protesters set off fireworks and chanted solidarity slogans to hundreds of prisoners who shouted back cordially from their cell windows.
Statements from the occupied Thessaloniki trade union centre
Statements from the assembly of the Thessaloniki trade union centre, which was occupied in solidarity with attacked cleaning worker Konstantina Kuneva.
Occupation of the Thessaloniki Trade Unions Center for Konstantina Kuneva - text of Dec.30 assembly
Greece unrest: the story so far - TPTG
A detailed updated summary of the recent events in Athens, from the perspective of some proletarian participants. (Updated 2 Jan 2009)
A shooting by police on Saturday 6th of December has triggered off in cities all over Greece the fiercest riots in decades. What follows is a first –and incomplete– presentation of the recent riots in Athens based on our own experiences and on what we have heard of.
Chronology of the Greece unrest - Blaumachen
An updated summary of events of the Greek riots in Thessaloniki from 6 December-31 December 2008 by communist group Blaumachen. (Updated 2nd Jan 2009.)
We present below a rough chronology of events that took place in Greece’s second largest city from Saturday 6th of December up until Wednesday 31st of December. During the first five days, when thousands of enraged proletarians got to the streets and set these cities of commodity on fire, we lived the peak of the recent upheaval, at least in Thessaloniki and other provincial cities and towns.
