Spyros Mandylas and Andreas Tsavdaridis were released from prison on January 12, 2015 owning to the expiry of the maximum 18-month period of pretrial detention. The two anarchists were arrested on July 11, 2013 in Thessaloniki and then sent to pretrial detention in Koridallos prison, in Athens, on terrorism charges. […]
Andreas Tsavdaridis
Note of Contra Info: In early January 2014, while on furlough, Christodoulos Xiros, convicted member of the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary organization 17 November (17Ν), did not voluntarily return to prison. The Greek police placed a huge bounty on his head, in addition to launching a series of raids in Athens and […]
September 4, 2013 “Others unthinkingly followed the paths learned once and for all, to their work and their home, to their predictable future. For them duty had already become a habit, and habit a duty. They did not see the deficiency of their city. They thought the deficiency of their […]
September 4, 2013 “To my goal I will go—on my own way; over those who hesitate and lag behind I shall leap. Thus let my going be their going under.” Friedrich Nietzsche This open letter is not addressed to the official milieu and its weathered structures. I despise its stereotypes, […]
Late in the evening of August 9th, comrades from the anarchist hangout Utopia A.D. put up a banner at the central square of Komotini that reads: “The State is the only terrorist. On July 11th, cops raided the anarchist hangout Nadir (in Thessaloniki). On August 5th, squats in Patras were […]
Solidarians intervened in the city of Volos with banners for Spyros Mandylas and Andreas Tsavdaridis, anarchists from Thessaloniki that are both held in pretrial incarceration, accused for the Phoenix Project. Andreas, Spyros: hold strong until freedom. The more sheep will be bleating, the more wolves will be howling. source
At Friday dawn, July 26th, 6 ATMs were sabotaged in the area of Stavroupoli in Thessaloniki. Strength to the two remanded anarchists from Thessaloniki, who are accused of participation in the project ‘Phoenix.’ Strength to the anarchists of Nadir squat, who were assaulted in their infrastructure by the petty hooligans […]
On July 17th, at 10am, a gathering of solidarians took place at the Athens Court of Appeals where the two arrested anarchists appeared before interrogator, who issued a remand order against both of them. Then they were transferred to Koridallos men’s prison. Following an umpteenth anti-anarchist operation, these comrades are […]
Thessaloniki, night of July 11th, 2013: two anarchists were arrested on charges of terrorism in relation to four responsibility claims for the PHOENIX PROJECT by FAI/FRI direct action groups. Also, the Nadir squat was raided and searched by the anti-terrorist force. In the same police operation, one person was arrested […]