New Year’s Notes from Greece under Lockdown: December 2020 and January 2021
Submitted by R Totale on Jan 21 2021 21:50
Greece: The Lockdown Resumes - New Democracy and Pandemic Opportunism
Submitted by R Totale on Dec 14 2020 15:33
The New Democracy administration continues to exploit the pandemic to take action against immigrants and anarchists, implementing an updated form of strategies that have not been seen since the Junta of the late 1960s and early ’70s. A report from Crimethinc, expanded from the Greek anarchist radio project Radio Fragmata's contribution to the monthly Bad News report.
Greek State Begins Evictions of Anarchist and Refugee Squats in Exarcheia
Submitted by R Totale on Aug 27 2019 18:36
The first major repressive attack against Exarcheia by the far-right wing New Democracy Party began on the morning of August 26, as police arrested 143 people from four different anarchist and refugee squats.
Welcome to Call Centre Athens
An personal account of working in a Greek call centre. From The Barbarian Review.
Greece: anarchist refugee squats prepare for State onslaught
Submitted by Rob Ray on Jun 23 2017 12:09
A new spate of recent evictions and interventions by the Greek State against refugee solidarity occupations run by the anarchist movement in Athens has prompted callouts for a major emergency gathering today.
Every cook can govern: a study in democracy in ancient Greece; its meaning for today
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 4 2016 14:29
CLR James gives an overview of ancient Greek democracy, how it functioned, how it came about, and how it offers features which could be emulated in a future, radically democratic socialist society.
British perfidy in Greece: a story worth remembering - Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith
Submitted by Steven. on Nov 5 2015 03:33
An account of the time in 1944 when the British Army, at war with Germany switched their allegiance, opening fire upon – and arming Greek collaborators with the Nazis to fire upon – a civilian crowd in Syntagma Square.
Light, water, telephone, class struggle in installments: social reproduction and labor struggles in the neighborhoods of Athens
Analysis by a participant on the struggles of the neighbourhood assemblies in Athens since 2008 in combating the immediate consequences of the crisis and economic restructuring.
Protests over workers' deaths met by police and fascist repression
Submitted by Thrasybulus on Jun 14 2015 14:58
A fire at the Hellenic Petroleum(EL.PE) refinery cost the lives of four workers back in May. Since then protests against this industrial 'accident' targeting the second richest family in Greece have been meet by joint police and fascist repression.
Anarchists occupy Siemens headquarters in Athens
Submitted by Perseus999 on May 12 2015 22:48
In the afternoon on May 11, 2015 anarchists and anti-authoritarians occupied for several hours the headquarters of multinational company Siemens in Athens, Greece in the context of Class War, asking for German and European workers solidarity in the fight against the Greek and European capitalist system.
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