Greece
Christakis, Leonidas, 1928-2009
A short biography of Leonidas Christakis, publisher of the first counterculture antiauthoritarian magazines in Greece during the colonels' junta, who has died aged 81 in Athens.
Leonidas Christakis who died at the age of 81 in Athens and was burried with a political funeral last Thursday (30/04/09) was born is Thessaloniki in 1928. He graduated from the Paedagogical Academy and the Fine Arts School, and first worked as a classical violinist. During the Nazi occupation of the 1940s, he took part in the Resistance and participated in numerous ant-occupation actions.
Protest marches across Greece for Mayday, ISAP headquarters entrance smashed by anarchist march
Protest marches take to all major cities in Greece on Mayday. Big anarchist march in Athens smashes ISAP's entrance.
Protest marches took the the streets of all major Greek cities on Mayday 2009: Athens, Salonica, Patras, Larissa, Lesbos, and Heraclion, Crete. In Athens the independent march of anarchists, anarchosyndicalists and autonomous unions attracted over a thousand protesters in defiance of anti-anarchist measures.
Massive protest marches in Athens and Salonica in solidarity to squats
Athens and Salonica streets flooded by mass protest marches in solidarity to squats threatened by anti-anarchist measures
On Tuesday 29/04 protesters flooded the streets of Athens and Salonica, in coordinated mass protest marches in solidarity to squats and occupied public spaces.
Radio station occupied in Salonica in solidarity to squats
Radio station "Imagine" occupied in Salonica in the run-up to the cross-country marches in solidarity to anarchist squats.
As the right-wing government in Athens has revealed its proposed anti-anarchist legislation amidst procedures of impeachment that may lead to immediate elections, anarchists, antiauthoritarians, libertarians and the entire spectrum of the social antagonistic movement is stepping up its response to State repression by holding a series of cross-country protest marches in solidarity to political and
Recent racist assaults in Rethymno and Laconia, Greece
A snapshot of how everyday diffuse racism operates in tourist- or agriculture-economy provinces in Greece forcing immigrants to keep heads down.
Between 12 and 14 of April in Rethymno, Crete, some racist scum attacked high school pupils both of Greek and Albanian origin who were hanging out together in the street.
Two students wounded during police raid in Athens
Two students wounded during punitive pogrom by riot police on Colonels' coup anniversary.
Two students were seriously wounded on Tuesday 21/4 night and are in hospital with broken limbs after riot-police forces surrounded and invaded the liberated parking lot turned park in Exarcheia, downtown Athens, only ten meters away from Alexandros Grifgoropoulos murder site.
Protest march climaxes struggle for the liberation of imprisoned December insurgents in Athens
The protest march of Saturday 11/4 marks a climax for the solidarity struggle regarding imprisoned insurgents of the December uprising in Athens
On Saturday 11/4 noon a big protest march took to the streets of Koridallos, Athens, towards the central jail of Greece. The march was in protest to the continuing imprisonment of last December insurgents against who all evidence are little more than circumstantial.
Athens Airport: death, redundacies, corruption and the pretext of economic crisis
This is an Athens Indymedia article translated roughly by http://clandestinenglish.wordpress.com/
J&P-ΑΒΑΞ Α.Ε. business group operating at the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport has sacked 42 people[b], both Greek and immigrants, who had been employed by the company in cleaning services. They were dismissed with summary procedures on the pretext of the economic crisis, of course. They all had completed three years at the job and were all anticipating the increase of wages that the law foresees.
Protest marches and occupations and anti-church attacks despite police-state threats in Greece
Police-state threats of extraordinary measures of repression and control fail to hamper social antagonism in Greece.
The week before Easter was marked by rising tension in a wide range of social milieus in Greek cities in a climate of defiance to police-state promises made almost daily by the frail right-wing government. On Monday 7/4 the government called a closed doors security meeting comprising of ministers, high civil servants, head of police and of the army.
Cleaners' subhiring company smashed in Thessaloniki
Protesters attack and smash slavedriver's offices in Salonica in solidarity to the cleaners' struggle and the plight of K. Kouneva.
On Saturday 4/4 protestors attacked the offices of Ecological Ltd., a partner of the OIKOMET directed subhiring trust that has been letting cleaners to hospitals, universities and civil services in Thessaloniki. OIKOMET has been denounced as responsible for the December attack with sulphuric acid against the gen. secretary of the autonomous union of Athens cleaners (PEKOP), K.
