According to rough estimates, nearly 4,000 individuals participated in the anarchist-antiauthoritarian demonstration on the 28th of June in downtown Athens. People in struggle and in solidarity are obviously not figures in accounting books, nor does any total number equal the desire for freedom. However, the last few days, numbers are […]
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Type C-maximum security prisons, which the government is prepared to vote for, are intended for the political adversaries of the system, the anarchists, the communists, and “indiscipline” prisoners… They are a prison within a prison, guarded by Greek police’s forces, in which inmates will have to serve 10 full years, […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCpZjTpZRg Solidarity cannot be caged in prison cells. Last night, June 26th, around 20 individuals carried out a solidarity intervention outside Corfu prison, which was met with a big and touching response from inside the walls, with prisoners responding immediately to shouts and slogans. The last update refers to 120 […]
In the coming days, the State is promoting the passage of a draft bill related to the creation of special detention conditions, the new ‘Type C Prisons’. The bill provides for a series of reforms intended to impose further control and oppression on ‘dangerous’ prisoners. The struggle against the imposition […]
Draft bill on new Type-C maximum security prisons will be put to a vote within a week. The Greek parliament is in summer recess; the recess section (consisting of one third of the total number of MPs) is scheduled to vote the bill on Thursday the 3rd of July 2014. […]
Below are the participants in the hunger strike (to our knowledge, from men’s prisons) in numbers, according to latest updates: Koridallos (Athens): circa 1,480 prisoners Patras: circa 550 prisoners Grevena: 400 prisoners Domokos: 350 prisoners; also, the rest of the inmates abstain from prison meals to support the struggle. Larissa: […]
25/6/2014 – From the E wing of Koridallos men’s prison (Athens), 180 prisoners have also joined the hunger strike. So, in Koridallos prison alone, those who participate in the strike are now 1,480 inmates. Meanwhile, hearings in terror courts have been interrupted, because all of the imprisoned anarchists on trial […]
On the evening of June 24th – 2nd day of mass hunger strike of over 3,900 prisoners across Greece — nearly 60 anarchists made an anti-prison intervention outside the house of Antonis Samaras, Prime Minister of Greece, in the northern suburb of Kifissia, Athens. Comrades threw anti-repression leaflets in the […]
On June 23rd alone, prisoners in struggle who participated in the mass mobilization against the new bill were as follows: Koridallos, Athens: 1,300 inmates Patras: 550 inmates Grevena: 400 inmates Larissa: 300 inmates Chania, Crete: 280 inmates Domokos (where the Greek State intends to establish the first maximum security prison): […]
ANNOUNCEMENT OF HUNGER STRIKE From June 18th, 2014, prisoners in all Greek prisons have abstained from prison meals as a way of protest against the fascist bill for type C prisons, and in defense of the right to furlough and release on parole. However the minister of Justice and the […]
Vaggelis Koutsibelas was sentenced to 15 years in prison at first instance, accused of a string of arsons in the city of Trikala. The heavy indictment against him was based largely on statements of a police informant. On the 17th of June 2014, the comrade’s case was tried in the […]
We live in an era when the State is becoming more and more totalitarian, authoritarian and exploitative. It no longer wraps itself in the mantle of the ‘social state’ but rather brings its real face out in the open: an instrument of oppression and domination, an institutional exponent of bourgeois […]