On Tuesday, December 13th, workers call for 24hour strike in the entire Thriassio Field (the biggest industrial area in Greece, located in western Attica, 25 kilometres northwest of Athens), in solidarity with the steelworkers’ struggle. On Saturday, December 10th, a number of solidarity groups spent the day outside the factory […]
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Mobilization at Koridallos dungeons – Update on his health condition On December 3rd the gathering outside Koridallos prisons in solidarity with Panagiotis Avdikos was held as planned. The place resembled a war zone, as there were cops everywhere, various officers, a police squad’s bus, DIAS motorcyclists, police blockades in every […]
On Saturday, December 3rd, approximately 200 people gathered in Omonia Square to protest ‘against fascism; for the legalization for all immigrants and refugees; for citizenship for all second generation immigrant children’. The demo was called by the Union of Immigrant Workers, the Movement ‘Unite Against Racism and the Fascist Threat’, […]
On Wednesday, November 30rd, another supermarket expropriation was carried out in the southern Athens neighborhood of Nea Smyrni. As the comrades who took part in the direct action write in their communiqué: United by shared class-conscious interests, the world’s producers of wealth must respond every day to those who dominate […]
As part of the anti-repression commemorations, across Greece and in other parts of the world, for the three years since the assassination of Alexis Grigoropoulos and the December ’08 uprising, a morning rally was held today, December 6th, 2011, in the northern suburb of Halandri, organized mainly by high school students. […]
“The Cupboard” They keep telling us: we in the ‘western world’, we live in an era of unprecedented prosperity. We have unlimited access to goods that just a few decades ago would have been considered as the privilege of the elite: mobile phones, cars, high speed connection of communication within […]
On Monday, November 28th, a pawnshop (loan shark) in the neighbourhood of Kato Petralona, on Keiriadon Street, had its storefront trashed. Leaflets with the following slogans were thrown out: ‘Black marketeers* out of our neighbourhoods; not an inch of land to the loan sharks’ / ‘All those who see our […]
On Saturday, November 26th, 2011, an antispeciesist demonstration took place against the fur industry downtown. Nearly 100 people attended the protest march which started from Syntagma Square, continued to the area of Monastiraki (a tourist destination) to return later at Syntagma via the main shopping Ermou Street. The protest was organized […]
Panagiotis Avdikos is currently confined in Aghios Pavlos ‘hospital’ of Koridallos prisons, after a long hunger strike. He was arrested outside his home on April 18th, 2011, accused for possession of drugs. He almost immediately decided to start a hunger strike in order to protest for the police frame-up which […]
Two more supermarket expropriations were carried out on November 19th in separate Athens neighbourhoods. At around 6 pm, a group of people expropriated staple foods from a supermarket on Soultani Street in Exarchia. Earlier in the morning, another group of comrades had expropriated a supermarket in Galatsi, sharing out the […]
What’s next? Event | Discussion on Friday, November 25th, at 18.30 in Patission 61 & Skaramaga squat An assessment of the Occupy movement: Two ‘American’ comrades will present an analysis of the US movement over the course of the last few months, its brief history and shortcomings, suggesting that in […]
After numerous solidarity interventions and legal aid, the 12-year-old immigrant Ali Mohammed Rasul who was arrested for scavenging through waste on October 5th and imprisoned in Amygdaleza juvenile detention centre, is finally released and has documents. The next step is family reunification, as the boy’s parents are currently in Germany. […]