pogrom
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On Monday, January 28th, 2013 around 50 people went to the Hellenic Foundation (Jourdain Boulevard, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris) to give a talk at the beginning of an evening dedicated to ‘the destiny of modern Greece.’ They unfurled a banner before the public which read: ‘In Greece like […]
From the antimilitarist brochure ‘War Against War’ by the collective of total objectors to military service Xipolito Tagma (‘Barefoot Battalion’ in Ioannina, Greece) Rapes in wartime can be committed and have indeed been perpetrated by organized armies, paramilitary and fascist groups, and various fundamentalists. Sexual abuse and rapes against girls […]
On Friday evening, October 12th, in Kypseli, residents and supporters who resist fascism and social cannibalism carried out a large antifascist–antiracist demo. The PA’s gathering in Amerikis square was organized by antifascists from the neighbourhoods of Kypseli and Patissia—as a direct response to a concentration called by fascists and racists […]
The morning of Monday, October 1st, saw another police operation under the name ‘Xenios Zeus’ against immigrants and refugees, this time in the port city of Patras. There was heavy police presence in the city since the day before, including anti-riot squadrons from Athens and other cities, as well as […]
LIVING IN TIMES OF TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY Following the summer campaign against immigrants, sarcastically named ‘Xenios Zeus’ that continues nationwide to date, with tens of thousands of detentions and arrests, the enemy within was targeted for repression and compliance, just as expected. So, after the first ‘warm-up’ with the Hollywoodian invasion of […]
Excerpts from the call by antifascists in the neighbourhoods of Kypseli and Patissia: No tolerance to Nazi and fascist gangs Lately, in the vicinity of Amerikis square, on Patission Street in Kypseli, a small group of racists/fascists attempts to create a state of fear and intolerance against African immigrants living […]
An antiracist rally was called in the evening of September 26th, in Patissia district, downtown Athens, as an immediate response to yet another fascist pogrom in the area surrounding Amerikis square just the day before (25/9), and a counter-protest against neo-Nazis (so-called “indignant Greek citizens”) that had threatened to come […]
After the transfer of nearly four hundred migrants in a military camp of Corinth (about 80 kilometres southwest of Athens) literally in the middle of the night, antiracist/antifascist citizens released the following call for immediate protest and resistance: “The Antiracist Initiative of Corinth denounces the conversion of Corinth military camp […]
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 […]
In the past few days, police have been conducting their largest ever pogrom operation in the centre of Athens. According to the released information, 1,500 people were detained by police in the first two days of the operation (August 2-3) and another 4,900 in its third day alone (August 4). […]
On July 10th, just one day after a direct action was carried out successfully by antifascists in the town of Agrinio, a very dangerous arson attack on Apertus squat took place. Here follows the squatters’ communiqué: In the night of Tuesday, July 10th, shortly before midnight, the free social space […]