Giannis Skouloudis was released from prison on Friday afternoon, June 22nd, 2012. The comrade had been remanded in custody in Avlona juvenile prisons since October 13th, 2010. Following the court decision on March 26th, 2012, for Giannis Skouloudis, Sokratis Tzifkas, Babis Tsilianidis, Dimitris Dimtsiadis and Dimitris Fessas regarding the case […]
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012 WHEREVER YOU LOOK, JUST LOOK CAREFULLY: Society’s violence is everywhere. It’s simply being transformed each time. It becomes a bullet wedged in the body of a teenage boy, or a forest burned in the name of industrial or touristic development. It becomes extinction of populations in […]
‘Those of you who today see your children playing carefree at playgrounds and school courtyards, do not be surprised if tomorrow you’ll see them forming revolutionary affinities or participating in armed attacks against the State and the Capital…’ Solidarity with anarchist Theofilos Mavropoulos Solidarity with all members of the R.O. […]
Saturday, June 23rd, by 21.00 in the grass space at the Department of Theology (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Concert for financial support of imprisoned fighters, with Dinos Sadikis, Ektos Elenchou (‘Out of Control’), P.R.C (from the city of Veria), Creepy Society, Home ’n’ Dry I know they never aim at […]
Today marks the second anniversary of the international day of solidarity with Marie Mason, Eric McDavid and other long-term anarchist prisoners. On the same day in Athens, a solidarity gathering was called for the appeal trial of comrade Andrzej Mazurek, who was convicted on frame-up charges amid the December ’08 […]
André was one of the thousands of rebellious participants in the December ’08 uprising. The date of his appeal trial is approaching. Monday, 11th of June 2012, Court of Appeals, Loukareos Street, Athens Call for morning gathering in solidarity with André, last prisoner of the December ’08 uprising Here Andrzej […]
CONSPIRACY OF CELLS OF FIRE CASE 250 are the incendiary and explosive actions of the organization against state and capitalist targets, such as residences of Members of Parliament and of judges, police stations, bank branches, the offices of Chrissi Avgi/Golden Dawn, Koridallos prisons, the Greek Parliament, Sarkozy, Merkel… 137 are […]
Prison abolition is what we fight for, since the prison system is only meant to isolate and exterminate people. Even by their own laws, any inmate’s isolation from the general prison population cannot exceed 10 consecutive days. But Olga has been in disciplinary/solitary confinement since May 4th, 2012, punished for […]
Saturday, June 2nd, 2012 In this moment I am writing these few lines from inside isolation; 30 days of solitary confinement is the price I pay for my refusal to sell out my dignity and obey the humiliation of a full body search, which would last 5 minutes. I remain […]
I don’t care if I am now held in prison because I stood a just or unjust trial, or because my charges were cooked inside a department of the Greek police; not even if some mass media, like zougla, espresso, and so forth, were in a hurry for their next […]
Lately (during the last three months) there has been an intense problem with food supply in Corinth prisons, where 84 inmates are obliged to live under circumstances incompatible with any notion of human dignity. Specifically (and according to information confirmed even by the prison administration), the inmates are literally malnourished […]
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 Comrade Olga Ekonomidou, member of the anarchist revolutionary organization Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, has been in solitary confinement for 25 days now in Diavata women’s prison, because she refused to undergo the—humiliating to her dignity—process of prison strip search, refusal realized by all comrades-members of […]