In the afternoon of Sunday, September 30th, 2012, approximately 60 comrades gathered in front of the local juvenile prison, in Chiliadous neighbourhood. Carrying a banner that read “Solidarity to the prisoner struggle” and with their voices filling the air for about forty minutes, they expressed their solidarity to those behind […]
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Solidarity with anarchist Babis Tsilianidis The trial against anarchist Babis Tsilianidis is scheduled for October 15th, 2012, in Thessaloniki courts. The comrade is accused of an armed robbery which took place at the accounting department of the AHEPA hospital (in July 2010). The evidence that resulted in his third consecutive […]
After the appeal hearing of June 11th, 2012, Andrzej’s prison term was reduced to 8.5 years. Since he had completed already 2/5 of his sentence, he was entitled to release. Nevertheless, in early July 2012 – thanks to comrades from the Redakcja Portalu Baader-Meinhof (raf.espiv.net, Poland) and the Fund of […]
Since September 13th, 2012 inmates in Greek prisons carry out yet another mass mobilization, which concerns legal regulations as well as the living conditions within the hellholes. Resistance includes prison food abstention and other forms of protest. In some facilities prisoners are in total strike, abstaining from day’s wages, while […]
September 25th, 2012 An Open Letter to Striking Prisoners in Greece We, the Red and Black Umbrella Anarchist Social Centre, wish to extend solidarity to the striking prisoners of: Larissa, Trikala, Grevena, Domokos, Malandrino, Komotini, Koridallos, Patras, Corfu, Chios, Nafplion, Diavata and Alikarnassos prisons in Greece; and every rebel that […]
We urge everyone to join a protest gathering at the park on Grigoriou Lambraki Street in Koridallos (where the New Year’s concentrations outside the prisons take place) on Sunday, September 23rd, by 5pm to support us in our struggle for dignity, because since September 13th we are on strike from […]
In mid July we heard from the TV news bulletins that the police have arrested three correctional officers in Trikala prison on charges of importing drugs and other hard-to-find staples into prison. We are shocked by the lack of esprit de corps in the police force and particularly those police […]
We are witnessing the most extreme contradictions that are born and die in this shit-world. While the calculators of sorcerer’s apprentices of economic statistics are counting 23,000 dead in Syria, billions of people are watching besotted the London Olympic Games; the distance between the Olympic and the ‘practical’ shooting in […]
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 For Lambros-Viktoras Maziotis Roupas’ birthday Born behind prison bars, the visible ones, that hide the heavens The human guards, the cops and crows, the patrons of quiet sleep were the midwife of yours You celebrated your first birthday with the shadows cast by steel barriers… Bourgeois […]
Comrade Babis Tsilianidis, imprisoned now in the 1st wing of Koridallos prisons, stated that he will not attend this court, in the same way he did not attend previous court proceedings, thus ‘refusing to apologize to my judges, to prosecutors of the multiform liberation struggle,’ as he explains in his […]
[ Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 ] In the past three years, several anarchists are held in Greek prisons and even more are under a judicial hostage, as a consequence of the escalating anarchist revolutionary violence that stepped up during this period. Faced with an unusually large number of cases, which […]
The poster reads: On June 27th, 2012, the members of the R.O. Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and anarchist Theofilos Mavropoulos will stand trial charged with ‘incitement to criminal acts’, according to the provisions of Article 184 of the Greek Penal Code. The indictment refers to three different texts—of which […]