December 7th, 2012 On December 18th, 2012 the Piraeus court will examine the appeal/motion which was filed by Savvas Xiros, who requests anew his release from prison on health grounds and home hospitalization. His health condition presents multifactorial symptoms, from his eyes (he is practically blind), ears (he is almost […]
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On the night of Monday, November 19th, an incendiary device was placed at the entrance of an office of the traditional National Institute of Employment (INEM)* in the Madrid neighbourhood of Prosperidad. This location was chosen because it is considered a factory of daily humiliation, disillusion and routine; because of […]
October 18th, 2012 “Today, the State declared civil war. Those who are not killed by fascists’ knives are sent to prison through judicial decisions of the junta. We call fighters and anyone who feels that DIGNITY, SOLIDARITY, EQUALITY and FREEDOM are not empty words, but a life stance, to realize […]
APOLOGIA ON THE DELATION Sitting on the bedstead that has become one of the places where I can read and write, I decided to put the worries in my head into words. The bustle from the approximately 50 prisoners with whom I share this space takes over the surroundings; a […]
17.10.2012 Since September 27th, in the 2H north wing of the High Security Prison (C.A.S.) of Santiago, Chile, prisoners have been on strike to protest against what they consider the humiliating and degrading treatment of excessive body searches on prisoners and visiting relatives. The Gendarmerie (prison guards in Chile), under […]
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 […]
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 […]
On August 2nd, nearly 45 cops from various police units stormed Exarchia square, detained anarchist Yannis Dimitrakis from a café on Tsamadou Street where he was having his coffee, and then transferred him to Athens police headquarters. After several hours, the comrade was released. Here is a text he wrote […]
Antifascist actions have been held in numerous Greek cities ever since the massive police crackdown against immigrants/refugees started, in early August, and especially after a man was stabbed to death by apparent nationalists in the centre of Athens (12/8). On Tuesday, August 21st, at midday, nearly 150 comrades took to […]
As already reported, the First Three-Member Misdemeanor Court of Piraeus decided to discontinue the prison sentence of Savvas Xiros for a 5month period (under constant police custody), in order to receive a medical treatment for his serious health problems in his eyes, ears and legs at the AHEPA hospital 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 […]
Here follows a critique of the No Border Camp in Cologne and Düsseldorf —the event isn’t finished until later today, and its official end is July 22th. Expectations were high for the latest No Borders camp, held on July 13–22 in Cologne, to put into action a lot of what […]