Thessaloniki, Greece: Court statement by Polykarpos Georgiadis –February 2010

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Thessaloniki, Greece: Benefit gig for the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire comrades

Live concert for financially supporting the CCF comrade Panagiotis Argirou, who will soon need another surgery.

Saturday, May 25th, 2013 at 22.00 in Asteroskopeio, Thessaloniki.

Anarchist hangout Nadir

Contra Info note: Recall the grave injury and hospitalization of imprisoned anarchist Panagiotis Argirou (e.g. see here). The CCF member will soon need to [...]

Greece: Counter-information cannot be gagged or stifled…

No matter what state power does to stifle our voice, no matter how hard they try to suppress and silence counter-information, they will not succeed… We will continue to fight for a world without borders, without fatherlands, without national flags, without any prisons, without cops, without judges, without gods or demons, and we shall [...]

Cyprus: Action in solidarity with the 6 prosecuted anarchists of Delta squat

On Monday, April 8th, 2013, at around 1pm, comrades made a surprise intervention outside the Greek Embassy in Nicosia, which lasted about an hour. A solidarity banner was placed at the entrance of the building and many slogans were chanted.

The banner reads: “Solidarity to the 6 fighters of Delta squat, to all squats [...]

Thessaloniki: New trial against 6 comrades of Delta squat, that was evicted in September 2012

Delta squat, in Thessaloniki, was violently evicted on the 12th of September 2012. In the subsequent trial-farce, ten arrested comrades received suspended sentences and were ordered to pay fines (7,950 euros in total). One of the arrestees, anarchist immigrant Gustavo Quiroga, remained incarcerated and was even deported to Colombia on the 4th of November. That [...]

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)

Zaragoza, Spain: Solidarity banner with the struggle in Greece from the assembly of Kike Mur squatted social centre

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in Spanish, also here

Germany: Benefit gig for squats in Athens

On January 25th, 2013 in Witzenhausen, Germany, we organized a concert featuring the band Guts Pie Earshot in solidarity with squats under attack across Greece. We placed a banner in our self-managed student club which read: You can’t evict an idea. Hands off all squats. Solidarity to Villa Amalias, Skaramaga [...]

Thessaloniki: Anarchist prisoner Babis Tsilianidis faces trial, accused of an armed robbery at the accounting department of the AHEPA hospital

“Rather it is the rage of our desires unchained, the return of the repressed in full force and undisguised. But more essentially, total revolt is fueled by a spirit of free play and of joy in adventure — by a desire to explore every possibility for intense life which society [...]

Thessaloniki, Greece: Attack against bank branches

In the night of January 11th, we smashed the front windows of three bank branches: one of Eurobank, another of Alpha Bank in the area of Triandria, and a third one of the National Bank of Greece on Papanastassiou street. We threw leaflets in the locations with messages of solidarity with Villa [...]

Greece: Ongoing solidarity gestures for Villa Amalias squat

The images are just indicative: A large banner was placed on the Patras Castle in solidarity with Villa Amalias; another banner in Mytilini, on Lesvos Island, reads “Solidarity with Villa Amalias squat” (while the slogan behind, on the wall, reads “The State and the Capital are the only terrorists”); and the last photo is [...]

[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 [...]

Athens: Update on imprisoned anarchists Tsilianidis, Tzifkas, Dimtsiadis and Fessas, known as ‘the 4 of Vyronas’

December 5th was the last day of trial against the four remanded anarchists Babis Tsilianidis, Sokratis Tzifkas, Dimitris Dimtsiadis and Dimitris Fessas for the case of arrests in the Athens districts of Tavros and Vyronas in January 2011.

The charges of participation in an anonymous terrorist organization and disposal of firearms to terrorist groups were [...]

Athens: Solidarity with squats and self-organized spaces

“Solidarity with squats, self-organized undertakings and struggling people”

“Squats are part of social struggles – Solidarity with Delta squat” / “We are the first raindrops of a coming storm”

Main text for the demonstration in solidarity with squats, which was held on 1.12.2012 on the streets of downtown Athens, starting from [...]

Athens: Responsibility claim for arson on two police cars, spotted at an auto repair shop in the district of Goudi

And time is passing by, minutes are crowding alongside each other, and days are whistling carefree. Our thoughts slip from the dictatorships of watches and monotonous repetitions, seeking paths of transgression.

Morning alarms ring loudly in our ears, identical figures scare us on the streets, our nightmares lurk…

Dreams are [...]

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 [...]

Yekaterinburg, Russia: Solidarity action with Delta squat, comrade Gustavo Quiroga and all other anarchists in Greece

Freedom for comrade Gustavo Quiroga González

On November 18th, comrades in Yekaterinburg carried out an action for the Food Not Bombs campaign that they dedicated to anarchists from Delta squat, in Thessaloniki, as a token of international solidarity.

Here follows a raw translation of brief excerpts from their communiqué: “When people commit [...]

Thessaloniki: Urgent appeal for international support with Delta squat and imprisoned anarchist immigrant Gustavo Quiroga

Please spread the following statement along with these texts: i, ii and iii

Statement by Delta squat about the events of eviction

Sunday, September 16th, 2012 A BRIEF CHRONICLE On September 12th at 6.30 in the morning various different police departments were mobilized for the eviction of Delta squat. EKAM special suppressive antiterrorist units and [...]

Greece: Text of compa Gustavo Quiroga González, imprisoned since the eviction of Delta squat in Thessaloniki

We hope you can help us spread the word.

On September 12th, at 6.30am, Delta occupied social centre was evicted. In the past, this building served as a university residence hall of the Alexandreio Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki, and was occupied since 2007. During the eviction, ten of us [...]

Thessaloniki: Symbolic occupation of the journalists’ union headquarters in solidarity with comrade Gustavo Ε. Quiroga González, imprisoned since the eviction of Delta squat (12/9)

On Thursday, October 4th, at 11am, a group of 30 comrades occupied the headquarters of the Journalists’ Union of the Macedonia and Thrace Daily Newspapers (ESIEMTH), in order to send mass emails and faxes and disclose the case of the Colombian comrade Gustavo, who is still held in a prison [...]

Thessaloniki: Solidarity actions for imprisoned anarchist Babis Tsilianidis

Solidarity with anarchist Babis Tsilianidis

The trial against anarchist Babis Tsilianidis is scheduled for October 15th, 2012, in Thessaloniki courts. The comrade is accused of an armed robbery which took place at the accounting department of the AHEPA hospital (in July 2010). The evidence that resulted in his third consecutive prosecution (and pretrial incarceration) [...]

Thessaloniki: ‘Now we are all persona non grata’ – Text by an English comrade who was arrested during the raid on Delta squat

Nine of the arrestees in Delta squat’s eviction were set free on bail after the trial, where they made a collective political statement. All defendants were found guilty for diverse misdemeanor charges, received suspended prison sentences (from 3 months to 16 months) and got 3 years probation. The total monetary amount of their [...]

Volos, Greece: Nocturnal protest march in direct solidarity with Delta squat and people in struggle

In the city of Volos on late Wednesday night, 12/9, we held a spontaneous meeting after hearing the news of Delta squat’s eviction in Thessaloniki. Our discussion was followed by a protest march, starting from Aghiou Nikolaou square at 01.10am, where nearly 80 people took to the streets and passed nearby the police station and [...]

Thessaloniki: Delta squat evicted

indefinite squatting

At approximately 7.30am on Wednesday, September 12th, in Thessaloniki, at least five MAT anti-riot police squadrons and two jeeps with EKAM special suppressive antiterrorist units lined up outside the anarchist squat Delta and stormed the building soon thereafter.

Ten people were arrested inside the building and others who arrived in solidarity were [...]

Thessaloniki: Texts about the Public Power Corporation’s attempts to cut off Delta squat’s electricity supply

Since late July, Delta squat is being actively repressed by DEI (Public Power Corporation, PPC) that attempts to cut off the space’s electricity supply. The electric power company got the green light from the Alexandreio Technological Education Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, which is the legal owner of the building (squatted for 5 years already).

This [...]