On June 23th, 2011, anti-fascists undertook a direct public action, painted with tar and sealed with a metal mesh the entrance of the nationalist hangout ‘Desmi Ellinon’ (Bonds of Greeks) that had recently opened in the neighbourhood of Kato Toumba (29, Passalides Str., Aghios Fanourios) in Thessaloniki. There is […]
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Update, June 17th Ioannina: A counter-information and solidarity PA’s (microphonics) gathering along with distribution of flyers took place in the morning of June 17th in the central square of the city regarding the events of yesterday’s repressive operation against Orfanotrofio squat. Thessaloniki: A demo of solidarity and counter-information was called […]
Athens, 7th of March: Ministry of Health’s announcement demanded the transfer of the hunger strikers from the building of Hypatia (Ipirou Str & Patission Ave). According to this announcement: “All limits of tolerance and understanding as it concerns the health issues raised practically by the struggle of the immigrants have […]
On Friday, 18 February 2011, two of the students of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki received summons from the Magistrates’ Court of Thessaloniki, “to give explanations about the occupation.” It’s not clarified in which occupation these summons refer to. It should be noted here that the students’ association has made […]
On Sunday, 23 January, 300 immigrant workers arrived at the port of Piraeus from Crete island (more photos | videos) to begin a nationwide hunger strike. On the same day 50 of the 300 immigrants arrived at the Labor Centre of Thessaloniki in order to participate in this hunger strike. […]
Beaten Up, Fitted Up, Don’t Let Them Get Banged Up Over a hundred people were arrested after a demonstration confronting the European Union summit, held in Thessaloniki in Greece back in 2003. Seven people were imprisoned and held on remand, including UK protester Simon Chapman. The prisoners began a hunger […]
On 5 January a cop of the DIAS motorcycle police force ran over a 6-year old Roma girl in the area of Menidi in NE Athens (where there are Roma’s settlements). According to eye-witnesses, the six-year old girl was run over as she was on the streets, where she was […]
In the afternoon of 4 December more than 30 cops of different services, secret cops, OPKE (special police force) and others, invaded the anarchist hangout Nadir in Thessaloniki. Previously the block had been surrounded by five police squads, motorcyclists of the DIAS and ZITA police forces. The cops invaded the […]
One day before the memorial of the assassination of Alexandros Grigoropoulos on December 6th, the Greek democratic dictatorship decided to activate in a tragicomic way its repression mechanisms in order to prevent the upcoming social uprising. All the regime’s servants are on the alert trying to manipulate the public opinion […]
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 […]
On the evening of Tuesday, 9th November, the occupied wagon that is inside the university campus of Salonica and lodges the anarchist radio station “Radio Revolt”, was burnt after the incendiary attack of a fascist gang: about 20-25 para-statists and fascists armed with clubs, hammers, sticks and knives threw three […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoKyYKgaHZA&feature=player_embedded On June 14th, anarchists stormed a super-market in Thessaloniki, Greece. They destroyed the security systems, took food and money from the cashiers, which they burnt outside. A short video from the action and a translation of the communique follows.