Newswires: Greece

A brief text about “Dromos” and our engagement with immigration issues

This a part of a text we leafletted at the Antiracist Festival and the streets of Thessaloniki.  About “Dromos” see the “about us” page of this blog.  more >>

One goose step to Berlusconi’s law – and Greece?

This is an e-kathimerini article about the neofascist anti-immigrant laws by Berlusconi.  It does end with some bleak confirmation that Greece is “just one step” from this – is this a warning or a familiarization with the idea of such a development?  We are not sure about the need of such blatant barbarism in Greece: [...] more >>

Resistance Bulletin #114 July/August 2009

AF's regular paper is available online and in print SUMMER OF RAGE Iran, refinery walkouts, immigration prison struggles, Greece, the European elections, What is Anarchism? part 3, and more. Download PDF: http://www.afed.org.uk/res/resist114.pdf Read online: http://www.afed.org.uk/publications/resistance-bulletin....html Subscribe to receive Resistance in print for a year: http://www.af-north.org/?q=Organise+and+Resistance+Subs...tions Join one of our free mailing lists to receive PDF or text by email: http://www.afed.org.uk/res/reslist.html Also available: Organise! magazine no.72: http://www.afed.org.uk/publications/organise-magazine.html  more >>

Cleaners march for Kouneva – Racist Police against Pakistanis in Aegaleo

update by the user taxikipali at libcom.org. Cleaners march in Athens demanding Kouneva case to remain open Submitted by taxikipali on Jul 3 2009 tags: Cleaners of the autonomous PEKOP union march in Athens demanding that the case on the assassination attempt against their secretary, K. Kouneva, with sulfuric acid remains open. Cleaners of the PEKOP union alongside more than [...] more >>

14th Antiracist Festival, 3-4-5 July in Athens

http://www.antiracistfestival.gr  more >>

The need of oppressive states to share the risk of social unrest – “Immigration Is A Threat To Greek Democracy” says EU Commissioner

The antagonism between states is the game under which the share of the fear or the risk of social unrest due to harsh economic and social conditions becomes itself something to be negotiated between players.   Migration “flows” are a parameter of this risk – certainly not the only one, and not the severest one [...] more >>

Update From Greek Rebellion # 23

Self-styled anarchists carried out a string of arson attacks in Athens and Piraeus on Saturday, targeting police and businesses and causing widespread damage but no injuries. A group of around 100 youths attacked a riot police unit stationed near the offices of the main opposition party PASOK in the central Athens district of Exarchia early on Saturday, hurling petrol bombs and stones and damaging parked cars. At around the same time, 20 youths destroyed three buses parked at a bus depot in the Athens suburb of Aghios Dimitrios. Later on Saturday, at around 4.30 p.m., a homemade explosive device made with gas canisters detonated, damaging the entrance to the offices of a polling firm on central Patission Street. A similar bomb damaged the entrance to the Piraeus Chamber of Arts and Crafts when it went off about half an hour earlier. A device planted outside another polling firm in the Athens district of Ambelokipi at 1.30 p.m. failed to go off when a resident saw a candle burning next to two gas canisters and extinguished it. read more more >>

Arsonists burn top Greek judge's car

Police say a small incendiary device has exploded under the parked car of a top Greek judge in Athens, causing damage to the vehicle but no injury.... more >>

Cool nieuws from hot Greece

Anarchists go on arson spree more >>

Call for the march of Tuesday, 7th of July at Thessaloniki – HANDS OFF IMMIGRANTS!

Protest March against the dropping of Kuneva’s case today in Athens

protest called for 19.00 by ΠΕΚΟΠ (Kuneva’s union) initiative of first degree unions for solidarity with Kuneva and the abolishment of slave trade in the private and public sector working people in solidarity See about the dropping of Kuneva’s case Investigation of Kuneva’s case is in effect about to cease about the dropping of Kuneva’s case. Extensive coverage in Greek here. [...] more >>

“From its migrant concentration camps, totalitarian democracy salutes us”

(poster reads: “Totalitarian Democracy salutes us: With its Migrant Concentration Camps”. Thursday, 2.7 - screening, soundsystem, discussion in the Libertaria Squat, Thessaloniki. Tuesday 7.7, demonstration. This summer, the issue of migration is set to become the main field of struggle in the country - what with government plans to set up UK-style “welcoming stations” (read, concentration [...] more >>

GREECE: IMMIGRANTS AND ANARCHISTS STRUGGLE AGAINST RACIST ATTACKS

This is a part of the Britain, RESISTANCE bulletin issue 114 July/August 2009 providing some context and links of the on-going anti-immigrant campaign with December’s revolt and the State’s “counter-revolt” since then. clandestinenglish GREECE: IMMIGRANTS AND ANARCHISTS STRUGGLE AGAINST RACIST ATTACKS Throughout December, Greece was alive with working class dissent. Police stations burned, luxury shops were ransacked, roads blockaded [...] more >>

EU torture watchdog: detainees at high risk in Greece police

Detainees run a high risk of being ill-treated in Greek police or border stations, a European watchdog on torture said in a report published. Wednesday, 01 July 2009 15:09 Detainees run a high risk of being ill-treated in Greek police or border stations, a European watchdog on torture said in a report published on Tuesday. The Council of [...] more >>

Press and media strike in Greece in midst of repression and urban guerrilla flareup

The entire press and media world goes on 24h strike across Greece in response to the closing down of a major daily and radio station, in a context ... more >>

(en) Britain, RESISTANCE bulletin issue 114 July/August 2009

Full contents of the July/August 2009 issue: ---- Refinery walkouts: the return of solidarity ---- Iran: on the brink? ---- Solidarity wins! – workers beat victimisation --- On the frontline: workplace roundup ---- Popular protest saves Glasgow park ---- Hunger strike and rioting in immigration prisons ---- SOAS occupation gets the goods ---- Sussex uni students occupy land over job cuts ---- Greece: immigrants and anarchists struggle against racist attacks ---- The BNP: time to panic? ---- What is anarchism part 3 – from capitalism to a free society ---- REFINERY WALKOUTS:THE RETURN OF SOLIDARITY ---- The sacking of 650 workers for wildcat strike action at the Total-owned Lindsay Oil Refinery has led to an unofficial walkout by thousands of riggers, laggers, fitters and ... more >>

Losing your marbles & sundry other reliquaries, only to want them "back".

Greece opens her Acropolis museum "fit" to display the Elgin marbles. Europeans were mostly responsible for the museum industry as much as the grand symphonic orchestras, opera and zoos. They used these things at first not out of any wish to educate nor illuminate in the laudable manner of contemporary interpretative centres but to solve three important 19th century bourgois problems. 1) how to gainfully employ people who really smellt bad but are now represented as Indiano Jones. 2) how to reclaim supposedly civilised history from the church of Rome. 3) how to offer vandals like Lord Elgin bequest options and subsequent relief from death taxes.  more >>

Greece: Instead of a Conclusion

This is taken from the English-language blog from Greece, 277streetfights. We are reposting it, firstly because it is an amazing text, but secondly because it weighs in on the events surrounding the recent Bash Back! Convergence in Chicago. - Bash Back! News The text below, “Instead of a Conclusion”, appears as the last chapter in the [...] more >>

Greece: Anarchists go on arson spree

Self-styled anarchists carried out a string of arson attacks in Athens and Piraeus on Saturday, targeting police and businesses and causing widespr... more >>

Update on mass media crisis, urban guerillas and anti-immigrant & repression laws in Greece

This is an article submitted by the author taxikipali on Jun 30 2009 at libcom.org covering much of what is going on in the country now.  Originally appeared here.  Emphasis on the recent police state regulations added. clandestinenglish Press and media strike in Greece in midst of repression and urban guerrilla flareup The entire press and media world [...] more >>