İstanbul: Cops stormed Taksim on June 11th

Announcement by the Revolutionary Anarchist Action (Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet, DAF):

Against the State and police terror: Our rage is growing, so does our struggle!

The ongoing occupation of Taksim Square and Gezi Park was attacked by the police this morning (June 11th, 2013). After the meeting of the council of ministers yesterday, the police [...]

Dortmund, Germany: Solidarity action with the revolt in Turkey

On the 4th of June an unauthorized anarchist rally took place at the Katharinentreppen, just opposite the main railway station of Dortmund, and a spontaneous demonstration followed on the city’s central commercial street, Westenhellweg.

Around 80 participants were gathered at the rally, which began at 7pm according to schedule. Three militant speeches were read [...]

Kaunas, Lithuania: Banner drop for the rebellion in Turkey

This banner was found in Kaunas, Lithuania. It’s a solidarity gesture for the rebels in Turkey.

İstanbul: Reportback from Beşiktaş and Taksim

The TV channel CNNtürk broadcasted a documentary about penguins at the same time that thousands of people were clashing out on the streets, so somebody made this video to mock them:

In the morning of June 3rd, after two days of heavy clashes in the district of Beşiktaş, police presence there was huge. Cops were [...]

Turkey: Raw news from the Taksim Gezi Park struggle and ongoing riots

Banner on Lesvos Island (opposite Turkish shores): ‘Solidarity with the rebels in Turkey’

On June 1st we were in Taksim at about 3pm. After clashes that started in the morning, police was forced to leave the area. The cops disappeared for some hours. For two hours there was no police presence in any area [...]

Turkey: Few slogans chanted in the streets of İstanbul – Ongoing street protests and police repression on June 1st

solidarity banner at Liontaria square in Heraklion, Crete (Greece)

faşizme karşı omuz omuza / stand shoulder-to-shoulder against fascism

hükümet istifa / government, resign

katil Erdoğan / murderer Erdoğan

Taksim bizim, İstanbul bizim / Taksim is ours, Istanbul is ours

direne direne kazanacağız / we will win by resisting

her yer Taksim, her yer direniş [...]

İstanbul, Turkey: Raw updates from the occupation at Taksim Gezi Park

Crowd of protesters at Istiklal street, Istanbul

Please contribute info from the streets.

The occupation of Taksim Gezi Park in İstanbul began on May 28th, 2013. Following the police raid in the park area on May 30th, hackers from the RedHack sabotaged the website of the Beyoglu police headquarters in response [...]

Switzerland: Rhymes of resistance and solidarity from Geneva

The collective “Les Partisans du Hip Hop” has one goal: unite revolutionary hip-hop and support autonomous, anarchist and antifascist struggle.

Big up from the heart of the beast!

RAGE – Antifascist Network Geneva – Agitation Network Geneva

Listen and download the collection of subversive sounds “Rap Guerrilla” by Les Partisans du Hip Hop, recently performed [...]

İstanbul, Turkey: Taksim Gezi Park occupied

It is the third day of occupation of Taksim Gezi Park in İstanbul. The protest camp started when construction vehicles entered the park and tried to pull out the trees.

Government wants to build a shopping mall at the location of the park. So, many people are camping in Taksim Gezi Park to defend [...]

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

Northern Greece: Struggle against the gold-mining projects in the Halkidiki Peninsula

OUR SILENCE… THEIR GOLD: Video of the Open Coordinative of Thessaloniki against the goldmines that was first screened in an event of counter-information at Aristotelous Square in the city of Thessaloniki (April 26, 2012) —press cc button to enable English subtitles (trans. by Contra Info)

Porto, Portugal: “Repression is the fear of the powerful”

Reclaim your freedom and resist collectively against the repressive State! Fascism shall not pass! Solidarity!

click on photo to read the solidarity text by CasaViva

Athens: Antifascist acts in Zografou and Halandri – Two self-organized centres went under attack

‘Yes to love, no to turnoff; beat the fascists ten times a day’ (slogan which rhymes in Greek)

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 [...]

Heraklion, Crete: Head-to-head clash between antifascists and neo-Nazis

(some trophies from the fight with the golden dawn thugs)

In the evening of January 15th, 2013 antifascists confronted a Nazi group of the Chrissi Avgi/Golden Dawn party in the city of Heraklion, on Crete.

Approximately 30 fascists were passing out their texts for the second time on one of the city’s avenues. A [...]

Ano Petralona, Athens: Invitation to the Children’s Space in PIKPA squat

Let’s get together this Sunday, January 6th, from 12pm at the Children’s Space in PIKPA squat, which is located on Timodimou and Antoniadou streets (in the vicinity of ‘Asyrmatos’) in the neighbourhood of Ano Petralona.

We want to have fun playing games and making children’s constructions. Later, we would like to cook and [...]

San José, Costa Rica: Reportback from a student demo on October 9th

In October 2012, San José (capital of Costa Rica) saw a large student demonstration against a veto that the country’s president Laura Chinchilla Miranda put on the law amendment which suggested the free use of copyrighted material or intellectual property for nonprofit educational purposes. In other words, she recently blocked the decision of the [...]

Trikala: A letter from prison

Good evening, comrades, from the D2 wing of the Trikala closed prison.

Autumn 2012 saw a lot of action in this particular wing. In September, we stopped working in our section but also in almost all the prison wards. It was a massive protest, in which all prisoners participated, that [...]

[Greece] Announcement of Athens IMC collective, 22.12.2012

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 statements were made [...]

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Street party against police curfew

On Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 the residents of the Borel favela (Morro do Borel, occupied since 1921 in Rio de Janeiro) went out in the streets in a collective effort to break the curfew that the cops of the local UPP (‘Police Pacification Unit’) have imposed in the area since November 28th. This particular [...]

Strasbourg, France: Action in solidarity with the prosecuted in the ZAD

Compost and dung against tear gas and stun grenades

In the morning of November 30th, an action was carried out against the Strasbourg gendarmerie recruitment branch (these are in fact cops, who are also deployed across the ZAD with their helicopters, their tear gas and stun grenades).

Individuals screwed the place up [...]

November 24th – December 2nd: Week of action against the gold-mining projects in the Halkidiki Peninsula in northern Greece

The poster reads:

Saturday, November 24th, Thessaloniki: Demo against the golden death

Gathering location: White Tower of Thessaloniki (Lefkos Pyrgos), by 11am

After the demo, there will be an open discussion/assembly for upcoming actions at the Ciné ‘Alexandros’

Counter-information events:

Thursday, November [...]

Cardiff, UK: Video communiqué from the Gremlins, 11.10.2012

video with greek/english subtitles —english pdf

ps. a gremlin is an imaginary creature commonly depicted as mischievous, while their inclination to sabotage machinery is more modern

~gremlin alley social centre

‘Beyond borders,’ a 98FM & Contra Info radio broadcast – Monday, November 5th

Contra Info radio broadcast ‘Beyond borders’ makes a comeback on Monday, November 5th at 15.00 (GMT+2), in collaboration with comrades of the Athens free radio station 98FM.

This time, we will have an opportunity to discuss (in French/Greek) with comrades currently fighting on the site of the ZAD near the [...]

Athens: Ten years of popular assemblies and self-organization of residents in the neighbourhoods of Petralona, Thissio and Koukaki

A few words on the projects of residents in the district:

The popular assembly of Petralona–Thissio–Koukaki stands as a collective activity since November 2002. After several interruptions throughout a journey of 10 years, in which we have dealt with various different matters, the assembly’s participants continue to meet, discuss, decide and act to [...]

Nantes, France: Call for reoccupation demonstration on 17/11 in the ZAD, where the fight against repressive forces is still raging

To the developers, the ZAD is merely a ‘deferred development zone’ since decades. To fighters, this is a zone to be defended (Zone À Défendre). Either way, the space is located in the countryside north of Nantes, in France. According to the Power, it should make way for industrialist plans, [...]