‘War Against War’, an antimilitarist brochure by the collective of total objectors to military service Xipolito Tagma (‘Barefoot Battalion’ in Ioannina, Greece), is now available in English. Click image to read / download / distribute the pdf. All texts were translated from the 1st Greek edition (03/2011), without any chronological […]
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The following letter by Farid El Yamni – brother of Wissam, who was killed by police in 2012 – is addressed to the mother of Rémi Fraisse (21), murdered by police in the early hours of October 26th, 2014. Wissam El Yamni (30) was brutally assaulted by cops in Clermont-Ferrand […]
In the early hours of October 17th, 2013 Paulo Roberto Pinho de Menezes, 18, was beaten to death by officers of the ‘Police Pacification Unit’ (UPP) in the Manguinhos favela of Rio de Janeiro. The cops immobilized the teenager and took him in a dark back-alley, where they fiercely beat […]
“When a prison riot starts, even those who accept the rules of society are roused by the noble temptation of freedom; when the ceilings of the prisons are pulled off by fire or rebels, we throw their hands off our shoulders and identify the enemy.” Editor’s note: In their zeal, […]
On Monday, August 19th, the first refugees and asylum seekers from Syria, Russia, Serbia and Vietnam arrived in the freshly inaugurated ‘refugee shelter’ in Hellersdorf, on the outskirts of Berlin. They were welcomed by antifascist comrades, who opposed a racist mob of residents as well as organized neo-Nazis that deployed […]
Below is a short summary of the events in Zografou, based on raw reports that were transmitted here: Late in the evening of February 2nd (day that fascists commemorated the ‘Imia conflict’, and particularly the Golden Dawn party held its annual nationalist march), two self-managed social centres were attacked by […]
On Thursday, December 20th, 2012 Nikos Stavrakakis, president of the POSDEP (the so-called Pan-Hellenic Federation of University Professors–Researchers’ Associations), made sobbing statements about the occurrence of violence inside Greece’s faculties, asking the State to wipe away any occupied space in universities but also to get rid of Indymedia Athens. These […]
On December 9th, another assassination attempt by cops in downtown Athens was reported: On Thursday, December 6th, 2012, shortly before the commemorative evening demonstration for the killing of Alexis Grigoropoulos, an extremely violent police assault took place at Propylaea, on Panepistimiou street. At around 19.00pm, during the protest gathering, first […]
The days following the nationalist riots of November 11th, 2012 (marking the ‘Poland Independence Day’) in Warsaw have been a time of solemn reflection for those of us in Poland and our friends watching around the world. We have awoken to a new reality, not in a hyperbolic or theoretical […]
Thursday, June 21st, 2012 WHEREVER YOU LOOK, JUST LOOK CAREFULLY: Society’s violence is everywhere. It’s simply being transformed each time. It becomes a bullet wedged in the body of a teenage boy, or a forest burned in the name of industrial or touristic development. It becomes extinction of populations in […]
“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 […]
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