Greece unrest
Greek riots 2008 eyewitness reports
Daily reports, eyewitness and participant accounts and documents from the December 2008 uprising in Greece following the police killing of 15-year-old Alexander Grigoropoulos.
The reports cover the murder of Alexander 6 December 2008, participants then document the rebellion on a daily basis from 8 December to 20 December 2008.
These reports were compiled daily at the time by libcom.org and were grouped together retrospectively in order for easy browsing in November 2009.
December 2008, Greece: An attempt to detect the power and the limits of our struggle - Blaumachen
A thorough account of the December 2008 rebellion in Greece
Although the state and the spectacle attempted to reduce the events of December 2008 to “riots by youngsters” whose inherent in their age sensitivity justifies their reaction against grown-ups’ world, these events are the most important historical ones during the last 35 years in Greece. In December a minority of the working class that lives in this little corner of the world rebelled.
The rebellious passage of a proletarian minority through a brief period of time - TPTG
An analysis of the Greek rebellion of December 2008 and the post-rebellion developments as aspects of the crisis of capitalist relations in Greece.
AN EPOCHAL CRISIS?
Hunger striker Thodoris Iliopoulos released from Greek prisons
The last person remaining in prison pending trial for the December uprising in Greece, Theodoris Iliopoulos, was released after 49 days of hunger strike
Theodoris Iliopoulos the last remaining person in jail pending trial for the December uprising that rocked Greece last year after the police assassination of Alexandros Grigoropoulos was released on Thursday 27 August, after 49 days of hunger strike that nearly cost his life.
Greece unrest: Like a winter with a thousand Decembers - TPTG/Blaumachen
Reflections on the recent unrest in Greece; "The rise of new organisational forms and contents of struggle is being discussed by all the insurgent elements"...
[i]‘VIOLENCE means working for 40 years, getting miserable wages
and wondering if you ever get retired…
VIOLENCE means state bonds, robbed pension funds
and the stock-market fraud…
VIOLENCE means being forced to get housing loans which finally
you pay back as if they were gold…
VIOLENCE means the management’s right to fire you any time they want…
Prison activist's death sparks uprising in women's prison of Thebe, Greece
The second uprising in the Greek prisons in only two days was sparked by the death of Katerina Goulioni, inmate activist against vaginal inspection in jail. Clashes have erupted outside the prison between riot police and solidarity protesters. Koridalos Athens prisons also in turmoil.
The death of Katerina Goulioni, a female prison activist known for her struggle against vaginal inspection of inmates sparked a violent uprising in the Women's Prison of Thebes on Sunday 22/3. Inmates have refused to return to their cells, and are setting fires and smashing the jail premises, while a protest march in solidarity to Goulioni clashed with riot police forces outside the prison.
Warm weekend in Athens: protests, street battles and occupations
The first weekend of spring has been another warm one for Athens with protest marches, street battles, and occupations over a variety of social issues.
On Friday 6/3 afternoon protestors occupied the metro/ISAP station of Attiki a central transit station between the two urban rail systems in solidarity to K. Kouneva. All ticket machines were disabled so that transport could be rendered free of charge. Despite propaganda from the megaphones of ISAP, damage was done to the station.
Anti-fascist protests end in riots, neo-nazi headquarters torched to the ground in Athens
Protest marches in response to the fascist-parastate handgrenade attack against the Immigrants’ Social Centre in Athens erupt in riots seeing neonazi national offices burned.
Riots broke out twice during the last week, both times in during protest marches against the fascist-parastate attack against the Immigrants’ Social Center in Exarcheia with a hand-grenade on the 24th of February.
Greek unions call 24 hour general strike
Greece's main labour body said Thursday it is calling a 24-hour general strike to protest more than 4,000 lay-offs that have swept the country in February.
Workers should not "pay the price of the financial crisis," the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) said in a statement.
GSEE - which did not specify the date for the strike - said February's figure followed significant job losses between November and January when nearly 8,000 people lost their jobs.
Victory for cleaners union in Greece during new ISAP occupation
Cleaners union occupies ISAP (metro) HQs and secures series of concessions.
On Wen. 25/2/09, during the 24h strike of ADEDY, the umbrella trade union for the public sector, across Greece which saw all schools, universities and civil services shut down, 90 autonomous trade unions headed by PEKOP the autonomous union of cleaners whose gen. secretary K.
