On Sunday, November 30th, 2014, nearly 70 comrades gathered outside the barbed wires of the Amygdaleza concentration camp. Detained migrants, outside the containers, stood on the other side. We saw them and they saw us, we shouted and they shouted back, at some moments we joined our voices: “FREEDOM”. Then […]
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The trial of anarchist Thodoris Sipsas in Athens was postponed to the 21st of September 2015. Until then, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the solidarity assembly for this case will continue to meet every Wednesday at 19:00 in the Athens Polytechnic School (Gini building) in Exarchia.
In the evening of October 29th, 2014, two comrades were badly beaten by undercover cops shortly after they hung a banner against national celebrations reading “Every fatherland is a prison – Class consciousness, instead of national consciousness” in the central square of Messolonghi, where nearly 30 neo-Nazis of the Golden […]
Below is a text about the repressive waves following the destruction of JCDecaux advertising boards in the city of Besançon. On November 18th, 2013 two people were charged with destruction of billboards which took place in Besançon between 2011 and 2013. After 24 hours of detention and search of their […]
I prefer insanity to their normality On July 15, 2014, the investigation of the proceeding for the facts in Piazza Verdi in Bologna in 2007* was concluded, a trial against five comrades which has not yet reached even a first-instance judgment. On this occasion the public prosecutor Simone Purgato asked […]
Comrade Thodoris Sipsas has been framed for the tragic incident in the Marfin bank branch on May 5, 2010, indicted on charges that were blatantly fabricated. The court case is scheduled to take place in Athens in December 2014. A solidarity bar will be held on June 14 in the […]
Solidarity is a living force! Light it up! On Monday, December 16th, 2013, as a hot sun of 34°C was setting and the full moon was rising against the sky that covers us, we paid a visit to a Santander bank branch located on Osvaldo Aranha Avenue, right in front […]
Comrade Spyros Stratoulis was incarcerated in Greek prisons at the age of 17, and has been held for nearly 22 years in a peculiar hostage situation. He has fought for two decades against the rottenness of the prison system, exposing its hypocritical face, and claiming dignity. The dozens of solidarity […]
Not one step back; down with the state fabrication! Solidarity with comrade Thodoris Sipsas, who is wrongfully accused in the case of the Marfin bank arson… Trial date set for the 9th of December 2013. The trial of Thodoris Sipsas will begin on December 9, 2013 at the building of […]
On November 11th, 2013 brother Spyros Stratoulis started a hunger strike demanding an end of his prosecution for the case dubbed ‘Criminal Organization Hangouts of Thessaloniki’. At this point, I could write who Spyros is, I could write about his fighting days throughout two decades of incarceration, his indomitable spirit, […]
On Wednesday, November 20th, 2013, at around 6pm, nearly 200 supporters gathered at the back of the prison in Larissa, where we had visual contact with the cell of comrade Spyros Stratoulis. Spyros is currently at the 11th day of hunger strike that he initiated on November 11th to denounce […]