Events come thick and fast these days in Greece. While the attacks on immigrants, their houses and shops are still going on, the last months showed more and more antifascist activities like manifestations, leaflet distribution and direct answers. Last week, the state power showed once again on which side it […]
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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 […]
We demand freedom for the May 1st prisoners | July 21st, 2012 On Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 the police raided the homes of comrades. The majority of them are between 18 and 20 years old. It is obvious that repression is aiming at young people to show them that their […]
On Thursday, July 19th, the court of Piraeus rejected as unfounded the motion of the chief prosecutor of Piraeus, who sought to change the hospital where Savvas Xiros would be treated. Savvas has already been transferred into the AHEPA hospital of Thessaloniki, since Wednesday, July 18th, and remains under constant […]
Savvas Xiros has not yet been transferred to Thessaloniki’s hospital, and remains in the dungeon of Koridallos prisons. The public prosecutor of Piraeus reintroduced the case of Savvas’ motion for a stay of execution of his sentence. The prosecutor now demands that the prisoner will not be treated in a […]
On July 5th, 2012 the First Three-Member Misdemeanor Court of Piraeus decided to discontinue the prison sentence of Savvas Xiros only for five months, accepting this time his umpteenth motion for a stay of execution of his sentence so as to be hospitalized at the AHEPA hospital of Thessaloniki. According […]
The new Inquisition, anarchists hunting The witch hunt continues! Just like the inquisitions once, yet this time the victims are not women suspected of witchcraft but anarchists accused of terrorism, word that is very much in vogue for nearly 12 years. This time, however, the news we receive upset us […]
“You can cut down all of the flowers but you cannot stop the spring” —poster circulating around the strike THE LAWS On Friday, May 18th, 2012, two new laws came into effect in Montréal. Their purpose is to stifle the anti-capitalist revolt that has emerged from the student strike that […]
Social resistance in Exarchia Personal testimonies and historical background Video screenings/Audio documents/Photography and printed material exhibition 26/27 May 2012, Exarchia Square Saturday 26th (1850-1980) 18:00 The unofficial history of Exarchia: slogans, stencils, messages on walls. Open-air stencil workshop. 20:00 Narrations of the Axis Occupation (Katochi), the December-1944 events (Dekemvriana), the […]
Public denouncement by an initiative of builder workers in Kallithea Hands off our fellow worker Nikos Katsifis Our initiative of builder and construction workers denounces the arrest of the builder worker Nikos Katsifis that was made on Sunday, May 13th, 2012, outside his home by plainclothes cops. This followed a […]
Here follows an article of one participant or contributor in the ‘Xekinima–Socialist Internationalist Organization’ with whom translators clearly don’t affiliate ourselves; nevertheless, it summarizes positions of the neo-Nazi party ‘Chrissi Avgi/Golden Dawn’ regarding the role of women, so we present it as reference of counter-propaganda (in this case leftist) against […]