Athens, 1 May3 May Teachers occupy the National Broadcasting Corporation. Teachers that work under precarious conditions in the public sector (not hired permanently) occupied the studio of the National Broadcasting Corporation in order to step in during a television program where the minister of education was invited. There was a […]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
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The general strike on May 5, in Greece, against the harshest financial anti-social measures imposed the last decades became the moment for the expression of a combative social and class dispute of the entire bankrupt political-economic system. That day, we witnessed the manifestation of the accumulated popular rage and resentment, […]
5 APRIL Vaggelis Pissias, a member of the ‘Ship to Gaza’ initiative, received a threatening phone call in English accusing him of supporting ‘Palestinian terrorism’. Next morning he found his car windows smashed; nothing was missing. ‘Street Attack’ (squat in Thessaloniki) was evacuated. The law on university asylum was violated […]
The signs of war on the horizon are clear. War has the same smell as fear; and now it exudes its stench in our land.Rebellious Subcommander Marcos, December 2007If the signs of war were evident in December 2007, attacks in recent months show that war breaks out continuously on a […]
The following post is part of the ‘Recent Past, Present Day‘ counter-information bulletinWhat occasioned the uprising in prisons all over Greece was the fact that the anarchist Yannis Dimitrakis was beaten up in the prison of Malandrino on Monday 23rd April 2007. Detainees initially protested about the incident, but the […]
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.
The Greek working class is angry, and with good reason, with the attempt to load responsibility for the bankruptcy of the Greek State onto their shoulders. We maintain instead that it is the international financial institutions and the European Union who are responsible. The financial institutions have plunged the world, […]
Unrest is prevalent among the workers of the Metropolis store chain, after the notification from the new administration, (Andreas Kouris of MAD group – son of Makis Kouris, owner of the “Paron” newspaper), of his intention to unilaterally establish an obligatory 4-day work schedule with a corresponding reduction in wages, […]
Nikos Maziotis Responding to the question “Do you accept or deny the charges?”: “I am a revolutionary, and I am fighting an unjust, criminal regime known as the state and capitalism. If anyone should make a plea in defense, it is not me but those who are accusing me: the […]
The brutal beating of Carmen M., a worker of a café at Stadiou St., by henchmen outside her home, on March 27th late in the evening , cause she “dared” to claim compensation for her dismissal from her employer, inevitably brings to our mind the”Case of Kouneva“. The attack was […]
Immediately after the uprising of December 2008, the state attempted to restore its wounded prestige and re-establish a funereal social peace, fearing riots and unrests that could erupt in anticipation of the economic recession.
IntroductionIn my new book, extracts of which follow, an outline of the drug command of all prisoners in Greek prisons by cognitive degrading is attempted. My experience I have gained from psychotropic substance administration has proven useful for the writing of this book – “with rape and rape of will” […]