Belgium – “Operation Ashes”: Comrades’ houses raided and searched

Brussels – May 22, 2013 to 6am, dozens of police officers from the anti-terrorist section of the Federal Judicial Police raided three homes where, among other people, anarchist and anti-authoritarian companions live. The cops also raided the anarchist library Acrata. All those who were present (11) were arrested and taken to the offices of [...]

Migrants on hunger and thirst strike in Dutch detention centers

The banner is in Nijmegen and reads: ‘Solidarity with the migrants on hungerstrike!’

Since May 1st, 2013 more than a hundred prisoners in migrant detention centers throughout the Netherlands have gone on hunger and thirst strike. Some have already been broken by intimidation and isolation, but some, such as Nessar, who is [...]

Patras, Greece: Clashes with cops on May 17th – Antifascist demonstration on May 19th

On the evening of Friday, May 17th in Patras, large-scale clashes took place between anarchists and wild youth, on one side, and law enforcement on the other. It kicked off when cops surrounded the Olgas square, in the centre of the city, in order to break up a group of people who had gathered there, [...]

Switzerland: Andrea ‘Andi’ Stauffacher arrested

Communist Andrea ‘Andi’ Stauffacher (member of the Revolutionärer Aufbau as well as the International Red Aid) is one of the solidarians that normally visit Marco Camenisch in prison, and since decades gives support to our anarchist comrade. Every so often the Swiss State prosecutes Andi, threatening her with imprisonment. This time, and according to informa-azione, [...]

Barcelona: ALF liberate 29 rabbits

Responsibility claim by the Animal Liberation Front–Kodama Cell in Spanish and English

Amsterdam: Public wall reclaimed for public information over Oosterparkstraat

“Silence is complicity” —in solidarity with athens.indymedia.org and radio98fm.org

Squatters and anti-system warriors throughout Europe realize that inactivity among us will be the best opportunity for the capitalists to wait until the crisis explodes, and for the fascists to rise.

This is 2013, bad luck. The only way to make a change [...]

Madrid, Spain: Communiqué by Black Flag Group after the repression in Sabadell (Catalonia)

Today, in the night of May 15th, our group received news from Catalan comrades that the National High Court has delivered several detention warrants, 5 in total. However, while this communiqué is being written, only one is confirmed. The mass media, for its part, has been spreading half truths, non-corroborated information, and different forms of [...]

Resistance to the Nordic mining boom – Action camp in Finnish North Karelia starting the 18th of June 2013

More info: TURVA – Action network against uranium industry

Piraeus, Greece: Open letter from a secondary school student

To my teachers… and the others:

My name is K.M., and I am a student in the first class of secondary school, at the 10th Lyceum in Drapetsona, Piraeus.

I decided to write this text because I wanted to express my outrage, my indignation, at the nerve and hypocrisy of those who govern us [...]

Athens: Roma community threatened with violent eviction by Greek authorities

On Monday, May 13th, Roma residents of the Halandri municipality protested the eviction threat against their settlement that is located on Iridos and Sarantaporou streets, a few metres away from the relatively new metro station ‘Nomismatokopeio’ on Mesogeion Avenue.

Dozens of Roma families have been living in this settlement for over 40 years, since [...]

Athens: Action in solidarity with the repressed rioters of Quatre Camins prison

On Sunday evening, May 12th, in the context of a week of decentralized actions against torture and impunity (13–19 May 2013), we hung a banner at the gate of the Athens Polytechnic School, on Patission street downtown. The banner reads: “The trial against the torturers of Quatre Camins (Barcelona) began on May 6th. Solidarity [...]

Greece: The tripartite government ordered the forced return to work of all the secondary school teachers, even before they went on strike

The Greek Federation of Secondary Education State-School Teachers (OLME) proposed a 24hour strike for the 17th of May but also a 5day strike from the 20th to the 24th of May (first week of the nationwide university entrance examinations that take place at public secondary education schools). In response, the Greek government banned the [...]

Barcelona: Discussion on the anarchist movement and the repression in Chile

Historical journey from the 70s, when the current anarchist practices, repression and solidarity as well as internationalism were first developed.

A talk-debate will be held about the situation of the anarchist movement and the repression in Chile this Saturday, May 11th, at 6pm in the Espai Obert (71, Violant d’Hongria Street, Sants) in Barcelona. [...]

Greece: Recent antifascist action

On April 26th, 2013 comrades held their third antifascist motorcycle demo in Kavala:

In the town of Igoumenitsa, neo-Nazis threaten regularly with carrying of weapons, and put up flags of their party to spread their poison in the local community. On May 8th, one such flag of the Chrissi Avgi/Golden Dawn was ripped off by [...]

Catalonia: Events in regards to the trial against the torturers of Quatre Camins

Friday, April 19 in Casal Okupat Atzur (Arquimedes street, 89 Terrassa) 7pm, Talk: Trial against 13 jailers because of tortures after the riot at Quatre Camins (the Cuatro Caminos prison in Barcelona) Exposing the FIES Regime: letters, poems, drawing, complaints… from inside

Thursday, April 25 at La Reina de África [...]

Greece: The deadly effect of work

Walls across Attiki (Athens) and the city of Patras were pasted with 2,000 copies of this poster. The reason that kitchen and home delivery workers at ‘pizza fan’ stores (pizza franchise chain in Greece) made this flyposting was to speak about the death of Bulgarian-born Radka Nikolova at work in the Patras pizza fan store [...]

Germany: Solidarity with Sibylle S., Sonja Suder and Christian Gauger

Since September 2012 the trial against Sonja Suder and Christian Gauger is underway at the Frankfurt federal court. In this context, two women are currently imprisoned. Sonja is in custody since September 2011. Sibylle S. was called as a witness in the trial case but firmly denied to give any statements. For this reason, on [...]

Gothenburg, Sweden: Mayday banner for counter-information media that are still under repression in Greece

‘Hands off Indymedia Athens – Combat censorship,’ banner in Kungsparken, Gothenburg

At noon on May 1st, this banner was raised at a central location in the city: it was the least we could do as solidarity action for Indymedia Athens, 98FM and ‘Entasi FM’.

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Madrid: Mayday antifascist demo reportback – Comrades detained

Brief chronicle of the counter-demonstration in the neighbourhood of Chueca on May 1st

At 6pm on May 1st, various fascist organizations, every one cheesier than the last, called a demonstration that began in Tribunal, a central area in Madrid, very close to Chueca.

On the same day, at 5pm, [...]

Turkey: MayDay in İstanbul – Police bombed protesters with tear gas for seven hours in the area of Beşiktaş

May 1st – İstanbul:

In 1977, 36 workers were murdered at the Taksim square and the Turkish government forbid demonstrations at the same square.

In 2007, the “1 may platform” announced that they will be in Taksim square to commemorate the 36 workers that were killed 30 years ago.

In 2007, 2008 and 2009, people [...]

Setúbal, Portugal: Reportback from MayDay

Nearly 120 persons participated in the anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist demonstration in the city of Setúbal. This was the 4th year in a row that comrades from various libertarian tendencies marched in the streets of Setúbal, in order to vindicate MayDay and promote the fight against the State/Capital.

In 2011, comrades actively resisted the detention [...]

Greece: Communiqué by Athens IMC administration assembly, 18.4.2013

We continue to respond in a political manner to the political decision toward censorship that all of the minions of Capital and totalitarianism undertook silently

On Thursday noon, April 11th, 2013 the rector of the National Technical University of Athens (Athens Polytechnic School), Simos Simopoulos, took the political decision to repress counter-information media by [...]

Barcelona: 2013 Expo/Auction for supporting prisoners in struggle

The exhibition/auction for supporting prisoners is an initiative with which we intend to aid all those behind bars through our paintings, drawings or other forms of expression, as much as we wish the extermination of any type of prison.

We are not artists, nor do we like to commodify our ideas. This is an activity [...]

Lausanne: Short interview with the Loc(A)motive collective

EVERY AGE TRASH THEIR CAGE

Below is an interview with participants in the Loc(A)motive squat that was made possible on the occasion of counter-information gatherings in Lausanne. Since April 8th, Loc(A)motive is in danger of eviction, and the squatters are organizing a defense of the house. So, this would be the time to support [...]

Athens: Our voices can neither be repressed, nor silenced

Footage from the anti-repression demo on April 25th in downtown Athens, in solidarity with Athens IMC and 98FM radio station

http://www.vimeo.com/64851614

A few slogans chanted during the protest march:

‘From Athens to Mexico, create thousands of indymedia sites so that repressors get wiser’

‘Indymedia is a voice from the streets; not one step back [...]