The video footage below was screened on the corporate tv station ‘Mega’, with the inexplicable hiding of the faces of the fascist perpetrators of the series of attacks against a migrant-owned shop in central Athens. The fascists’ faces are hidden (with pixellation) but the immigrant’s face is shown while he […]
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A brief chronicle (11 December–22 March) Keratea is a town of 16,000 residents in Lavreotiki municipality, situated in southeastern Attica, 40km from Athens, near Lavrion. The site has an ancient history that has left many remains, an amphitheatre, parts of the ancient fortification, etc. As many parts of Attica, it […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhBec1_Z3bE&feature=player_embedded On Tuesday, 8 February, by 4pm, the coordinated attack of junta’s henchmen culminated against the people of Keratea (Attica-Greece). During the last two months, since 11 December, residents and people in solidarity resist strongly against the landfill construction project in Lavreotiki area. People oppose by any means to the […]
Letter by Sarantos Nikitopoulos’ parents Déjà vu (As long as we leave these practices unanswered, they’ll keep repeating as a bad hoax) With feelings of anger, we witnessed the previous days’ orgy of disinformation fed by the Greek police against Marie Fee Meyer. The vile lies about her parents came […]
In 1974, German novelist Heinrich Böll publishes a short story that is now considered an archetypical example of the critique against a certain practice of the newspapers. The book, widely known today, was titled The lost honor of Katharina Blum and deals with the story of an ordinary girl who […]
About the political witch hunt across Greece Only days before the commencing of the trial of a number of people accused of participating in the urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire (the trial starts on Monday, 17/1), the police’s anti-terrorist unit has launched an operation across Greece. Four […]
The recent strikes of the contractual employees working as guardians of the archeological site of the Acropolis of Athens, for the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism, is a good example of the coordinated disinformation of the media and their role. Read a brief coverage of the news by contrainfo […]
The attack of the greek and international Capital in order to achieve a number of changes concerning first of all the reform of the productive procedure model, with violent and sweeping changes of working, insurance and retirement conditions, and aiming to increase the working people’s exploitation, did not leave out […]
November 17, 2010. 37 years after the Polytechnic uprising, dynamic demonstrations took place almost nationwide. The state put thousands of cops and secret cops to enforce the “order” with brutal attacks in most cities but the state terrorism did not pass. The mass media did one-minute (and of course one-sided) […]
On Wednesday 11.10.1910 at 11.30 am, an occupation of the ESIEMTH building (Union of Daily Newspapers Journalists of Macedonia – Thrace) took place in Salonica, in solidarity with the comrades Gerasimos Tsakalos and Panagiotis Argirou and the 5 “wanted” persons for the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” case. Banners were […]
Approximately 100 ministry contractual employees barricaded themselves inside the Acropolis site overnight on Wednesday, 13 October, demanding two years of back pay and permanent contracts. They padlocked the entrance gates and refused to allow in tourists. Guardians of the Acropolis site (Athens, Greece) work in behalf of the Hellenic Ministry […]