Newswire from Greece

[Delenda Carthago]

Situations are running like crazy in Greece.I am making this post to keep anyone that cares informed.The post will be updated even daily.



Today in the afternoon 150 people were outside the Ministry of Economics.


An hour ago(23:00) 50 unemployed teachers tryed to make an interference in a state channel while the Minster of Education was there.They were beaten by riot cops.Right now, along with 250 people that got there for solidarity they are making a small demostration to the area over there.


videos from the occupation
http://www.alfavita.gr/ank_b/ank3_5_10_1515.php

[Delenda Carthago]

Just to clarify,after all they were given 2 minutes to say what they wanted.

[Delenda Carthago]

Right now,members of KKE have occupied Akropolis.They put a huge banner on.

http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/ey.jpg

[ProudToBeFreek]

great thread please keep up the good work comrade :)
i just can t stand being on pc and reading all these
fortunately, i will be in athens tomorrow :blushing:

[bricolage]

Right now,members of KKE have occupied Akropolis.They put a huge banner on.

What is your relationship to the KKE at the moment?

[ProudToBeFreek]

barabbas, does it really matters :)
we are into a really hard situation in greece, what s the point of those concerns?
we really don t have this luxury... :crying:

[Delenda Carthago]

What is your relationship to the KKE at the moment?


we do our thing,they do theirs. KKE is away from everyone else anyway.hopefully they wont send us to gullags after they take the power in the country!:lol:

[S.Artesian]

Better to make sure that the workers take power and the KKE doesn't, rather than to hope a gulag isn't in your future.

[punisa]

That banner on Akropolis looks beautiful ! :thumbup1:

[Delenda Carthago]

8.000 thousand people did a protest today.Tommorow is a big protest called by GSEE.

Photos from todays demo here
http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/3aooons.jpg

[Nolan]

Hats off to the comrades in Greece.

[Delenda Carthago]

[QUOTE=AttackGr;1738959]8.000 thousand people did a protest today.Tommorow is a big protest called by GSEE.


edit: my bad!the photos are here http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1162958

[bricolage]

barabbas, does it really matters :)
we are into a really hard situation in greece, what s the point of those concerns?
we really don t have this luxury... :crying:

I never said it really matters that much I just think it is something worth knowing. I was just wondering what the relationship between different groups in Greece is. I don't think that just because things are very bad it means you can put aside what are, I think, fundamental political differences. However I will leave it to the Greek posters here (are you one?) to give better evaluations of it all.

[chegitz guevara]

The general strike starts tomorrow, yes?

[The Gallant Gallstone]

Are there any plans for protests at Greek embassies and/or consulates abroad?

[bailey_187]

Are there any plans for protests at Greek embassies and/or consulates abroad?

i doubt it

[bricolage]

Are there any plans for protests at Greek embassies and/or consulates abroad?

I saw a facebook event for one in London, it has 514 attending from a group of 6,684. I only mention numbers to give it some sense of validity.

Anyway;

Date: Wednesday, 05 May 2010
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Greek Embassy, 1A Holland Park London W11 3TP

[Delenda Carthago]

Tommorow general strike,today occupations!

Aspis Bank general offices are occupied from ex-customers

Occupation in the Byron's(an hood in Athens) town hall by the workers union.


Also,in Serres there was resistance to a new rubbish dump by local citizens that caused the smashing of a undercover police car and the injury of a 12 year old boy.

[Delenda Carthago]

By the way,KKE seems completly uncapable to write anything right in English!

After "against new order of things"(NWO) and "crisis pay the plutocracy"(plutocracy should pay the crisis),here comes the...peoples!

:lol:

[punisa]

By the way,KKE seems completly uncapable to write anything right in English!

After "against new order of things"(NWO) and "crisis pay the plutocracy"(plutocracy should pay the crisis),here comes the...peoples!

:lol:

ahh... I've noticed it too, too bad.. it's really a great sign (the "peoples" one) and its printed all over local newspapers today.

[manic expression]

After "against new order of things"(NWO) and "crisis pay the plutocracy"(plutocracy should pay the crisis),here comes the...peoples!
Not that this matters all that much, but "Peoples of Europe Rise Up!" is perfectly acceptable in English. It only implies many peoples (ie nations), as opposed to one people of Europe. Personally, I think it's a great banner.

But on this topic: LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS OF GREECE! LONG LIVE THE KKE! I stand speechless at these developments, seeing the workers rise up against capitalist crimes is endlessly inspiring.

[Delenda Carthago]

Just now,for the second time after December revolt, St.James(another hood in Athens) town hall is also occupied.


http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/eikona0039.jpg


FYI,you are learning this things maybe faster than the majority of Greeks.Ain internet a *****?:D

[bie]

Better to make sure that the workers take power and the KKE doesn't, rather than to hope a gulag isn't in your future.


By the way,KKE seems completly uncapable to write anything right in English!
Few examples of "leftist" anticommunism. If you want to fight against KKE better stop pretending to be "leftist" and pro-workers - you are only defending capitalism and status quo. BRUSSELS and WASHINGTON are looking for people like you.

KKE is a geniuine militant working class organisation and luckily keeps away all sort of ultraleftist youth. Best wishes in your struggle, comrades! Long life KKE!

[Delenda Carthago]

Few examples of "leftist" anticommunism. If you want to fight against KKE better stop pretending to be "leftist" and pro-workers - you are only defending capitalism and status quo. BRUSSELS and WASHINGTON are looking for people like you.

KKE is a geniuine militant working class organisation and luckily keeps away all sort of ultraleftist youth. Best wishes in your struggle, comrades! Long life KKE!

Its like listening to the average KNE(KKE's youth) member!:lol::lol:

[Delenda Carthago]

Ex minister of New Democracy got yogurt'ed in the street.

He made the front lines when it came out that he had made an off shore corp. to avoid taxes.He even had said to a TV station that "whatever is legal,is moral", phrase that is now a famous moto against politicians.

[What Would Durruti Do?]

Few examples of "leftist" anticommunism. If you want to fight against KKE better stop pretending to be "leftist" and pro-workers - you are only defending capitalism and status quo. BRUSSELS and WASHINGTON are looking for people like you.

KKE is a geniuine militant working class organisation and luckily keeps away all sort of ultraleftist youth. Best wishes in your struggle, comrades! Long life KKE!

Damn ultra leftists and their fears of gulags. If the KKE wants gulags it is obviously for the best of the working class!

[Wanted Man]

Damn ultra leftists and their fears of gulags. If the KKE wants gulags it is obviously for the best of the working class!

Because they totally want gulags.

[zimmerwald1915]

Just stop the ultraleft circle jerk already.
I don't really think the people circlejerking here are the ultraleftists.

That said, all support to the workers of Greece, and here's hoping they're able to break the clutches of GSEE and other tentacles of capitalism.

[Delenda Carthago]

another town hall got occupied.New Ionia's hall workers put the thunder flag on!

[Red Commissar]

How is the situation outside of Athens? Most of the stuff I'm seeing is within Athens but not so much news outside. I've only seen one sob story from a petit-bourgeoisie complaining about "troublesome youth" messing up his neighborhood.

[gorillafuck]

"Peoples" makes perfect sense in English.

This is interesting and good news, keep us all updated.

[S.Artesian]

Comrade AttackGr has been providing the bulk of the news. This minor diversion has not obstructed that flow.

[Delenda Carthago]

The situation in all the country is like a vutane can on fire.Its just matter of time to explode.

I m not mentioning stuff like leaflets,or banners,or an event.There are plenty of them everyday.If you take a look in athens indymedia calendar,there are 381 events(movie projections,concerts,book presentations,etc) for April.

Athens never the less,as the biggest city in the country,is the center of attention.

[Absolut]

The situation in all the country is like a vutane can on fire.Its just matter of time to explode.

You wouldnt happen to have any more information on whats going on in the northern parts of Greece, in particular Thessaloniki? I heard there were some riots there on May 1st, but I havent been able to get any more information, and its a bit hard, seeing as I dont know Greek.

[Delenda Carthago]

In thesaloniki,nothing much really.things that here in Greece are happening easy, some molotovs,some stones,2000 people.

there was an arson in a bank the other day...

but other than that,nothing.

[S.Artesian]

BBC reporting 3 dead, has a video of attempts to storm parliament:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8662117.stm

[Delenda Carthago]

200.000 on the streets,3 dead in a burned bank.

I ll come later with details

[Sentinel]

Thread stickied.

[FSL]

Until noon, this was the proudest day in Greece for decades. Hundreds of thousands in the streets of Athens, the croud roaring, many people who probably had been forced to work were sticking their heads out of company windows to sneak a peek.
I practically got goosebumps when everyone broke out chanting "Thieves" and "Burn the brothel" in front of the parliament. That was the work of workers.



But all we'll be talking for the next days is the works of some people too ashamed to show their faces, too "wild" to answer to anyone, too "free" to act in unison with everyone else.
I won't even bother to think about whether they were "agents", "provocateurs" or whatever. They can just as well be anarchists or anyone else who views carelessly burning buildings that could have people in as a form of class struggle.
What I do know though is that they are criminally stupid.


Everyone's sad these people died -except the government despite their teary eyes- and people will be shocked by it for at least a while. But I don't think they're quite willing to surrender to capital just yet.

[punisa]

Everyone's sad these people died -except the government despite their teary eyes- and people will be shocked by it for at least a while. But I don't think they're quite willing to surrender to capital just yet.

What does the local media say? Who did it?
If it turns out that indeed some anarchists did it, that will be a heavy blow to the struggle of the Greek people..

How are things at the parliament building?
Latest video reports showed mass of people in front of it, could the protesters actually capture/overthrow the government? Is that even feasible?
Or has it been already secured like a fortress?

Thank you in advance for every bit of news, we are all following these recent developments closely.
Media tends to downplay these events, so news from the scene is very valuable.

[Steve_j]

From what i can gather from various news sources things have calmed down outside the parliment, but still fighting outside athems university, much of the local media has been active in the strike but might go back to work to address the turn in events today.

[manic expression]

Everyone's sad these people died -except the government despite their teary eyes- and people will be shocked by it for at least a while. But I don't think they're quite willing to surrender to capital just yet.
Comrade, if it's not too much trouble, can you shed more light on the effect the deaths have had on the morale of the workers? Do you think it could potentially damage the workers' movement overall? What has been the reaction of leftist parties to the deaths? Are there any plans for action over the next few days or weeks?

[bie]

KKE Stance on recent developments in Greece. From: kne.gr/971.html


INTERVENTION OF G.S. OF THE CC OF KKE ALEKA PAPARIGA IN THE PARLIAMENT (05/05/10)

ON THE INCIDENTS IN ATHENS AND THE CASUALTIES



“I do not have all the necessary information that is required, one of the reasons for that is that today the media are on strike. I will not provoke an answer from you, because you may not be in the position to answer, it is possible that you do not have the information, we do not know what is true.

However, due to the fact that I myself am a witness to the incidents outside of the parliament, I want to say the following: the working people that are subject to an unforeseen attack, the worst since 1974, are capable of making the distinction between the systematic political struggle in defense of their rights, for the manifestation of their protest, which is a struggle that can partake various forms according to the underlying conditions. They can distinguish their struggle clearly from all the plans to undermine the struggle, from any provocation that creates innocent victims and provide the capability of creating a scenery of slander of the struggles to those that need it, they provide them with the capability and the necessary arguments to do so.

We say that the people not only should not tremble with fear from the provocation, but also uptake all the necessary measures in order to safeguard its struggles, struggles that must come primarily from the places of work; where it pains them the most. The start of the battle should be in the places of work where it is transformed into a nation-wide struggle.

And I should also say this: Enough with the targeting of the people. The people has been made guilty for the crisis, has been made guilty of everything; we cannot let the organized and trusted people’s movement to be targeted for actions that we do not know under which mechanisms are bred. The provocation will not pass. We will continue our struggles.”

THE ANSWER OF ALEKA PAPARIGA IN THE PROVOCATION OF G. KARATZAFERIS, LEADER OF THE NATIONALIST PARTY-LAOS

“Our exasperation is justified.

We are not enlisted in anyone’s pay book.

Secondly, we do not cover our intentions. We believe what we say, we say it openly and we do it. We do not play games.

I call for witnesses all the reporters that were there, outside of the Parliament, when the demonstration of PAME arrived. There were members of the extreme right wing organization ‘ Hrisi Avgi”, provocateurs that since 1994 had burned down the Polytecheion and there was also a group that said “burn down the Parliament”; we went there, we disarmed them, we took the banners of PAME that they had. We denounced them, we safeguarded our demonstration and as long as we were there nothing happened, even the slightest incident. Maybe those that were outside of the Parliament, I do not know if they have permanent or temporary blood bonds with mr. Karatzaferis, but honestly Mr. Karatzaferis is assuming a role of agent provocateur controlled by the government, to impose the measures that they try to impose.

The people have the right with the procedure of massive political struggle to create the conditions in order to revision or even change radically the Constitution.

Or is not the Parliament all these years changing and revising the Constitution? A Constitution that we have voted against, we say to the people that it is a bad Constitution and we appeal to the people to create the circumstances for its changing. But this is one thing, to say clearly and honestly that this Constitution is anti-worker and anti-popular, and another to be a professional, not even emotional, agent provocateur.”

[Stand Your Ground]

Holy shit this all came on here fast lol. Can anyone give me a quick rundown of what exactly is happening?

[punisa]

Holy shit this all came on here fast lol. Can anyone give me a quick rundown of what exactly is happening?

A revolution .. hopefully :star2:
Seriosuly, neighbouring and nearby countries are in need for something big and hoping that the massive working class movement will "spill over" if the things in Greece all go well.

pretty good chronological rundown:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2010_Greek_protests

[Wanted Man]

Holy shit this all came on here fast lol. Can anyone give me a quick rundown of what exactly is happening?

Extremely short version: because of a massive crisis, the Greek government has been trying to enforce harsh anti-worker measures, in order to persuade other European countries to agree with a bail-out package.

In response to these measures, a general strike was called. Mass protests and riots ensued. A fire at a bank killed three. The media basically accused anarchists or other protesters of being responsible for the deaths. Also, just moments after the fire, the main fascist party blamed the Communist Party. In regard to that, you should read this (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/05/05/an-employee-of-marfin-bank-speaks-on-tonights-tragic-deaths-in-athens/) and this (http://www.kne.gr/974.html).

[FSL]

Comrade, if it's not too much trouble, can you shed more light on the effect the deaths have had on the morale of the workers? Do you think it could potentially damage the workers' movement overall? What has been the reaction of leftist parties to the deaths? Are there any plans for action over the next few days or weeks?


There are demonstrations scheduled even today but many of the people who were just starting to abandon their couch will probably stay there for a while in an expected shock. In some time things will be better regarding morale obviously but this took us many steps behind.

[Steve_j]

Well the bill has passed :(

[theblackmask]

So, what is the status of things now? Have protests stopped now that the bill has passed?

[chegitz guevara]

Is anything still happening in Greece? I haven't heard a single freakin' update since after the bank workers were killed.

[FSL]

A general strike has been scheduled on May 20th and on this Saturday there is a demonstration called by the CP in Athens.

And since it's a party and not a union demo, lots and lots of red flags. Finally.

[Delenda Carthago]

yesterday there was a demostration.On the first degree unions call(which is basicly runned by anarchists and leftists) there was a 6.000 gathering 50/50 of leftists and anarchists.

photos:http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1168651

I think that by next week the death of the three will be forgoten.I dont think people really give a fuck.And as days passes,more people that are "around" anarchist space will show their support once again.

also,small protests were organised all around Greece by anarchists.


Mind you,that in a country that noone apologises(AND I MEAN NOONE)for their acts,the anarchist space was the only political entity that went out and said: "its our fault".

[bie]

Huge rally of KKE in Athens on 15 May 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSjwwf91rEg
From: http://inter.kke.gr/

The Saturday’s rally unfolded to a thrilling march

The rally of KKE held on Saturday May 15 at Pedion Areos Square was a thrilling red river of people. The slogans and the atmosphere of the rally reflected the determination of the whole people to resist, struggle, defend their rights and pave a new way through their class struggles. From the very first moment the nationwide rally of the party established itself as one of the most massive demonstrations held in Athens over the last years.

The impact of the rally, the message of tens of thousands communists, supporters, friends of the party and KNE, of people who cooperate with the party, of mass organisations of the people’s movement, intellectuals and artists who came from every corner of the country will have a multiplied effect in the next days.

It will have a special impact on the moments of responsibility which are about to come; for the daily workers’ and people’s struggles, for the improvement of their organization; for the tireless work of KKE and KNE for the formation of the front, the other path of development, the people’s power and economy, socialism.

The long distance and the tiredness did not prevent the people to participate in the rally. The blocks were so huge that it took them more than one hour to gather in the place where the rally was held. “KKE does not sign a statement of repentance for imperialism”, “come with us there is a solution”, “the winner must be the people not the monopolies”, “organization, alliance, people’s power” were the main slogans of the rally.

The mass rally and the march of KKE were covered by the “902” radio and TV station. The Greek bourgeois media (except from the state TV channel) sought to bury the rally and the march of KKE. The radio station “SKAI” reported in the news a demonstration of 30 people in Thessaloniki while it did not say a word about the one 100.000 protesters in the rally of KKE providing monumental bourgeois “information”.

On the other hand, “associated press” violated the truth talking about a demonstration of 6000 people.

It is obvious that the mass participation in the rally of KKE disturbed the bourgeoisie, the monopolies and their staff. Contrary to the Greek media several international media such as euronews and vesti referred to the rally of KKE (http://ru.euronews.net/nocomment/2010/05/16/demonstration-of-greek-communists/, http://www.vesti.ru/videos?vid=272706&p=2&sort=1&cid=1).

Here you can watch videos from the rally of KKE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSjwwf91rEg

The General Secretary of the CC of KKE, comrade Aleka Papariga stressed from the podium:

“The government is shamelessly lying when it claims that the measures will last for three or maximum four years. This system, which is rotten to the core, is not eternal. The people’s sacrifices will benefit the capitalists, the monopolies. And even if we assume that the Greek economy will soon exit from the cycle of the crisis and recover, things will be equally worse for the people.

The leadership of PASOK pushes us many years back; by posing to KKE the misleading, intimidating question “do you respect and obey the constitution or not” it prepares for new papers of “national loyalty”; It pursues to penalize the communist ideology, even the mere declaration and defense of socialism-communism. But this time it does not reckon an important factor namely the possibility of a people’s counterattack. But, who are those who talk about the respect of the constitution?

We declare once again, clearly, our firm self-evident orientation since 1918: to struggle at any cost not merely for the daily people’s problems, but also to convince the people that their future is socialism communism.

Constitution is the product of the balance of forces at each period. When the situation tends to be reactionary, then constitution changes to the worst. When there is a tendency for the balance of forces to be in favour of the people, then it can improve and become less blatant; and when the people win they will make their own constitution.

There has never been in history, neither will in the future, a bourgeois government, either an one-party government or a coalition government, which has not violated specific fundamental articles of its own constitution. People’s sovereignty is incompatible with capitalism.

When you defend constitution, you defend the right of the capitalists to exploit the wealth that the people produce, to possess the most important commodity, namely the labor force, the ability of man to work. You defend the supreme law, the law of surplus value.

The way out is identified with a new political choice that should be prepared distinctively through the processes of the movement and the social political alliance from the bottom up. The streams of resistance exist already; they must merge to a big precipitous river.

Nowadays, it is not enough the people to project a list of demands, appeals and requests. The demands, the goals of struggle, the concrete proposals should demonstrate the possibility to solve the people’s problems. However, they can acquire dynamics and be effective only if they are part of the strategy, of the struggle for the overthrow of monopolies, of the struggle for people’s power and economy, if they are linked with the alliance and the joint struggle with KKE, which does not presuppose the agreement with KKE’s perception on socialism, communism.

Nowadays, there are objective conditions that enable a different organisation of the society characterized by the decision of the people to transform the ownership of monopolies to social ownership.

New strike of PAME on Thursday 20 May

Communists will meet their friends again in the new strike of PAME on 20 May. Till then they will give their best for the biggest possible success of the strike.

Significant international participation

Angelo Alves, member of the Political Bureau of the Portuguese Communist Party, Erhan Nalchagi member of the Political Bureau of the Turkish Communist Party, Astor Garcia, member of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s of Spain and David Para, representative of the National Council of the Workers’ Party of Belgium expressed in a storm of applauses and slogans their solidarity with the nationwide rally of KKE as well as with the struggles of the party and the class oriented trade union movement in Greece.

Generous internationalist solidarity

55 Communist and Workers’ parties from all over the world expressed their solidarity and sent messages of support to the struggle of KKE and the working class in Greece (below you can see the list of the parties)

In addition, a message of support and solidarity with KKE was sent by the 42 parties that participated in the International Communist Seminar of the Workers’ Party of Belgium, held at this weekend in Brussels.

Furthermore, the Labour Party (EMEP) collected signatures from 180 trade unionists supporting a text of support and solidarity with the struggle of KKE and the working people in Greece.

[Delenda Carthago]

I just saw the KKE video while listening to Slipknot!:blink:

surreal!

[the last donut of the night]

What does comrade Aleka Papariga mean when she refers to "socialism communism"? Is this just a mistranslation?

[FSL]

What does comrade Aleka Papariga mean when she refers to "socialism communism"? Is this just a mistranslation?

Socialism-communism probably to distinguish social democracy's "socialism" from our own?
It's not any new theoretical concept or something like that, just an expression.

[Delenda Carthago]

Today's strike was a success.Nothing much or fancy,still with police numbers(which means less than real numbers),there was 100.000 on the street.There would me more people but metro rail and busses also striked so people from far areas couldnt come.

Police tryed to raid into the haunt of Antiauthoritarian Movement and they surrounded the haunt of Anarchist Filling Cabbinet.They also attacked the union of Book-Paper workers outside their offices(also at Exarheia).

Some fascists showed up and got beat the fuck up,which was cool because at that point it became to peacefull to keep an intrest.

[Delenda Carthago]

Couple of photos:

http://babylonia.gr/hwdphotos/uploads/63/54/k54obim283u6bh.jpg

http://babylonia.gr/hwdphotos/uploads/63/54/pqfvaee5uzxvaa.jpg

http://babylonia.gr/hwdphotos/uploads/63/54/feakqzz6bwgssf.jpg

http://babylonia.gr/hwdphotos/uploads/63/54/6ipgq4sw3akwad.jpg

[bie]

from: http://inter.kke.gr/News/2010news/2010-05-20strike

Strike on May 20: Another successful battle of PAME


Millions of strikers and tens of thousands of protestors, workers and young people, gave one more strong response to the anti-people offensive condemning the severe anti-people measures with their participation in the 9th successful strike of All workers' Militant Front (PAME) in five months.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duKiftWTM5w

Early in the dawn a few hundreds of strikers of PAME occupied the building of the Ministry of Labour denouncing the new round of anti-people measures by the government, the EU and the IMF. They hanged a banner on the building's façade bearing the slogan “Reject the measures”. The river of the strikers headed for the Ministry of Labour which has been the heart of the struggle of the class oriented forces. Public buildings were also occupied in other cities across the country.

Once again, despite the fact that the media tried to bury the strike demonstrations of PAME, the working people turned their backs on the compromised yellow leaderships of GSEE-ADEDY (trade union federations in private and public sectors) and transformed the demonstrations of the class oriented forces to massive rallies that attracted the majority of the strikers.

In their speeches the representatives of the class oriented forces pointed out the recent announcements of the social democrat government about social security system. The new measures bring a dim future for the working people as they force the people to work more than 40 years, they increase the retirement ages, they reduce the pensions and transform them to a starvation allowance of 360 euros while at the same time they abolish the list of hazardous occupations.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_-ywULpyWE2c/S_YmO7VFtwI/AAAAAAAAB0Q/U2_YbFY-Pz4/s720/athina_3.jpg

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_-ywULpyWE2c/S_YqWGVq83I/AAAAAAAAB1g/Kz_tYL0j5O8/s720/athina_ypoyrgeio.jpg

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_-ywULpyWE2c/S_YmPo7I2AI/AAAAAAAAB0Y/9DWrVuNO5TI/s720/athina_5.jpg

At the same time, communists combined the strike with a significant ideological and political struggle against the propaganda of the bourgeoisie claims that strikes allegedly damage tourism and promotes vile anticommunism and propaganda against PAME. The class oriented forces revealed that when capital talks about tourist development, it means the development that benefits the monopoly groups; it means the “Greek tourist paradise” where workers work like slaves, while at the same time the Greek people experience the shrinkage of the duration of their holidays as well as of the number of the workers who can afford holidays.

The demonstration in Athens was held at the square of Omonoia, at the centre of Athens. Representatives of PAME, Αll Greek Antimonopoly Rally of the self-employed and the small tradesman (PASEVE), All Peasants' Militant Rally (PASY), Students' Militant Front (MAS) saluted the rally. Thereafter, in a militant atmosphere, the blocks of PAME headed for the ministry of Labour without giving any rise to the provocation of the mechanisms of the bourgeois system.

We should also note that the wave of multiform and touching solidarity of communist and workers' parties, trade unions, mass organisations, workers and young people continues growing.

The working people, the self-employed, the young people declared that the struggle will continue even more dynamically paving the way for the people's alliance, for the alliance of the working class and its allies.

[RedPersonality]

REFLECTS Magazine, the new WFTU Publication (http://www.wftucentral.org/?p=3132&language=en)

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

PAME have called for a strike today.


CALL - ANNOUNCEMENT


Dear fellow workers, young people



ALL TOGETHER IN THE DEMONSTRATIONS OF PAME
ALL OVER GREECE ON TUESDAY JUNE 1st
(In Athens at Omonia square at 6.30 in the afternoon)


Come together with PAME to thunder out that THERE IS ANOTHER SOLUTION. It is not a one-way road for us to work until we will become very old without having rights, as many hours - days and with wages that the employers want, for the duration that they prefer and after 40 and 50 years of work to have pensions – benefits less than 300 euros.


These measures will not save any country, only the profits of the capital. Nobody impose them to the government. The capital needs the measures, the big employers demand them. These measures are promoted by the government of PASOK (socialdemocrats), together with the support of the leaderships of N.D.(conservative party) and LAOS (nationalists party), with the cooperation and mutual support of the IMF and the European Union, making the labor force even cheaper for the benefit of capital.
A big part of these brutal measures was promoted and applied with the help of the leaderships of the employers’ and governmental trade unionism, which is pretending today that is surprised and is trying to disorientate the workers. They are predesigned by the EU headquarters a long time ago and are written in the programs of PASOK and N.D.


This is the only truth that they are trying to hide with tons of lies, slandering, undermining and provoking the struggles of PAME.
They are mistaken if they think that their vile propaganda, provocations, blackmails and faked dilemmas will deceive or terrorize us. They are mistaken if they think that we will allow this brutality to be implemented without struggles and that it will be legalized in our minds.


The huge mobilizations of this period, which were unprecedented for our country, compose the first response. We know that we need our struggles to be even more mass and well-organized to face effectively the reactionary front that we have opposite to us, to overthrow this brutality.


More and more people realize every day that the parties of N.D. (conservative party), PASOK (socialdemocrats) and all the parties that support EU and are responsible for this policy, should be massively abandoned and weakened. We realize that we have to project our own socio-political front which will assert the authority in favour of our class, the popular strata. This is the direction we are following, this path we are tracing strengthening our struggles and PAME. We struggle to abolish the domination of monopolies, the business activities in Health, Education and Social Security. To be released from the EU and the imperialist organizations.


We continue. All together participate in the demonstrations of PAME on Tuesday June 1st even more decisively, massively and prepare the next general Pan-Hellenic strike when the government will deposit the antipopular law for the social security rights at the parliament. Our slogan is: THE WORKERS SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY SACRIFICE – THE CAPITAL MUST PAY THE CRISIS




May 2010



Hopefully some comrades will be attending this and will be able to report on it.

[Delenda Carthago]

yesterday a protest was called in front of the isrel embassy.tens of thousands of people gathered.police was very agresive,using teargases(brought by Israel) and flashbanks,hitting people.Unfortunatly,lots of people was unprepeared for that,so the answer was not as dynamic as it should.

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[RedPersonality]

From demonstration of PAME


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[Delenda Carthago]

what?no palestinians on KKE's protest?:lol:

[FSL]

Synaspismos started having their congress on Thursday, ending today. Its right wing is "blackmailing" the party, as it wants it out of Syriza and in an alliance with our Green Party (and presumably with Pasok). Its members have decided to leave the congress to show they're not joking and are threatening to leave the party altogether if their demands are not met.

At the same time, the party's previous leader didn't show up at the congress and instead send a letter to "wish luck". In that letter he signs as a member of the so-called "Solidarity front" that includes KOE and some other minor Syriza forces.

At this point no one can tell if this "experiment on unity" will be torn in 2 or 3 pieces or if it will carry on as if nothing happened.

[Saorsa]

what?no palestinians on KKE's protest?

There are a lot of human beings on the protest. And that's what counts. Enough with the childish sectarianism.

[Delenda Carthago]

There are a lot of human beings on the protest. And that's what counts. Enough with the childish sectarianism.

no my friend.you know what is sectarism?that yesterday KKE members attacked some comrades who tryed to give away some leaflets about the crisis during a manifestation of some Ikaria island inside immigrants.making jokes on revleft is irrelevant.

[RedPersonality]

From an oldest demonstration of KNE(Communist Youth of Greece)

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[Delenda Carthago]

From an oldest demonstration of KNE(Communist Youth of Greece)

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Are you happy now?

a huge palestinian flag!!! impresive!

[Ravachol]

no my friend.you know what is sectarism?that yesterday KKE members attacked some comrades who tryed to give away some leaflets about the crisis during a manifestation of some Ikaria island inside immigrants.making jokes on revleft is irrelevant.

Can this be confirmed? If so that's pretty damn sectarian yeah.
I think sectarianism (from whatever tendency) serves us no good but meh that seems to be just me :rolleyes:

[RedPersonality]

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Protest of KKE-KNE outside the Polish Embassy in Athnes yesterday.


Speech of G. Toussas, MEP and Member of the CC of KKE in Warsaw (http://inter.kke.gr/News/2010news/2010-06-09-toussas-warsa)

Against the anti-communist measures in Poland (http://inter.kke.gr/News/2010news/2010-06-08-polonia)

[Delenda Carthago]

Anarchist's Sarantos Nikitopoulos (who is prosecuted for the case of the revolutionary group Epanastatikos Agonas - Revolutionary Struggle) letter from Korydallos prison 18/5/10

On April 10, 2010 I was brought (sic)-kidnapped by the anti-terrorism department of the Greek Police. After an unnecessary show attended and conducted by numerous riot squads, undercover cops, emergency patrol, prosecutors, etc., who broke doors (although I surrendered my keys) and found funny 'finds' in my home such as anti-authoritarian printed material, romans, political books and many movies, I was sent to the police headquarters in Athens, where for several hours several masked men passed in front of me without answering my question on what I was prosecuted or arrested for, without allowing any communication with my lawyer, and without asking me anything at all. Late in the evening on April 11th, I was notified by the arrest report that I was accused for participating in the organization of Revolutionary Struggle and I was charged with nothing less than the entire criminal code. For the record, although I was arrested, I was not allowed again to contact my lawyers.
All subsequent days, unfolded a spiral of lies based on a shameful reproduction of the climate being cultivated by the police through alleged journalist working as the 'press office' of the anti-terrorism department, uncritically reproducing rumors from anonymous police sources, press releases, the police and what is needed anyway for creating a burdensome and ultimately condemnatory climate against any "alleged" ... This time it was me. The so called "key man", "leading member", "link", "who escaped the gunfight in Daphne, "the intellectual", "rebellious, tough" etc. The only thing I was not called is "the mysterious woman". Journalists worth their wages. A continuation of Goebbels, but sorry I forgot he was a fascist, while now we have "democracy with an iron fist" in the Declaration of our American prime minister Pre-Po.

THOSE GROUNDS TO OTHERS

From the first moment I denied the charges, including my alleged participation in the organization EA. What I do not deny, and is essentially what led to the plight that I am in today (an underground prison in a state of near isolation and a field more than 20 meters long) is my participation in the so called anarchist-antiauthoritarian sphere, my participation in a whole range of ongoing activities, and I think my constant involvement in social struggles of the political sphere to which I belong as a historical integral part. This is not to deny the comradely civil and social relationship I had with the dead militant Lambros Foundas as well as with some of my co-defendants. After being active in the anarchist-antiauthoritarian sphere and social struggles for many years, it is not strange that I am familiar with hundreds of comrades if not thousands of people, some of whom I am socially connected. Unfortunately I feel on my skin the new "luminary" doctrine of repression, the criminalization of political, social and social relations.

We live in a country where the tradition of struggle has deep roots that are soaked in blood of fighters on the mountains, in cities, on the "new Parthenon Makronissos" and other islets, in prisons. The country has also a long tradition of state terrorism. Times are changing however the substance remains the same: two worlds in conflict, the world of murderous capitalist interests and the world of social resistance. In this conflict, I have chosen sides, defending the "roadblock" in which I stand. I have no intention of signing a certificate of social conscience nor any statement of repentance and renunciation of my engagement and activist background, which I am proud of. In times when the attack of the state and capital to society is getting sharper and clearer than ever with the presence of the IMF in Greece, I remember that 10 years ago in Prague, along with thousands of activists from around the world, the meeting paused after violent conflicts against this criminal scheme, I remember the year after in Genoa where the capitalist criminals responded with the only language they know (violence) by murdering CARLO JULIANI. I remember when we declared war to criminal Tony Blair who entitled us as a "traveling circus of anarchists ", I remember other times when we were the "troublemakers who creep and denigrate", the "apolitical hooligans", sometimes in other "fringe of Exarchia" Mr. t.l.

The truth is different of course. The truth is that we are a political space in which the cause and the effect exists and interacts with society, as seen in the outbreak of December 2008! the truth is that we are a political space that resists the accidents of permanent human sacrifice on the altar of the capitalists, resist the permanent crime of prison with almost 400 deaths in the last 10 years, stand in solidarity with immigrants who are murdered daily in land and maritime borders of the country, tortured and humiliated in police stations but in modern concentration camps (eg, Pagani and others) We are a political space that stands in solidarity with political prisoners, resists to the destruction of the environment and participates in different kinds of social events. We are a space that questions state monopoly to violence and attempts to measure the forces to join social mound constant attack on the state and capital, showing forth solidarity, self-organization, and selflessness.

We are therefore targeted by repression that does not hesitate to kill a 15 year old children, to demonize entire regions (which the residents of Exarchia in Athens know well), to criminalize political, personal and social relationships and even build indictments for temporary political expediency, as in the case of anarchist meeting place Resalto in Keratsini, Pireaus 'baptizing it into a "terrorist" organization in December 2009, in the case of a student with green shoes in Thessaloniki some years ago, as in the case of Aristotle square again in December 2009 when the "praetors protection of citizens" loaded Molotovs on to a passersby man, as in the case of protester Simon Chapman in Thessaloniki again in 2003, as in the flower boxes in which the popular saying "and pelts and cuckold", as in the case of demonstrator Marios G. who carried shampoo and a bathrobe in his backpack but the police baptized them weapons, as in the case ... and how much we do not know?

In a country that injustice dominates and politicians in charge are more interested in the abolition of university asylum law while themselves, protected by parliamentary immunity, behave like modern mafia and plead innocent for all major scandals (such as SIEMENS, Vatopedi, BONDS, wiretapping, C4I )... In a country where the state has declared war on society, as evidenced by the motorcycle police gangs occupying the streets, dedicated to preventing and breaking social events. In a country that is now officially under the dictatorship of the IMF, in a country where the words lose their meaning and nine bullets in the body of young Albanian Nicola Toddy are translated into "sense of security". In a country where to bend your head and accept austerity measures that annul rights and privileges that have been gained with the blood and sacrifices to the benefit of capitalists is called "patriotic duty"... in a country where the arrogance, the audacity and double standards of authoritarians does not allow them to admit that it was their policies that led Greece to this tragic economic situation and not some "vague" and "faceless" speculators.

In this country, therefore resistance to the plans of capitalists is an one-way task. Resistance through self-organized and non-hierarchical projects, based on freedom, dignity and social justice. As for me, I will continue to struggle. I will continue to deny the accusations attributed to me, but in no way my political identity, belonging and action.

The state is the only terrorist! Lambros lives in the heart of every fighter

The "accused", for I do not know what, Sarantos Nikitopoulos
F Wing
Korydallos prison,
Athens

PS. 1 The special law on hoods is not applicable for those who "kidnapped" me and drove me from the police headquarters in Athens to the Cadet and vice versa showing me as a trophy in front of cameras?

PS. 2 A big 'thanks' to those who in any way express/ed their solidarity.

[RedPersonality]

The new attack against the working class must not pass!




PAME calls on all workers to rise up and to go on strike on 23rd June
With the Presidential Decree promulgated by the ministry of Labour on Wednesday, the government creates the most barbarous jungle in the working relations. It seeks to deliver a decisive blow on the workers’ rights. It implements the respective regulations of the memorandum that were promoted by the government, the EU and the IMF.
According to these measures:


Collective labour agreements are abolished.
Minimum wages are drastically reduced, especially for the young people.
Redundancy pays are drastically reduced by 50%.
Minimum wage is abolished for young people up to 25 years.
Young people up to 21 years will receive 80% of the corresponding collective agreement or the National Collective Labour Agreement.
Young people between 21 and 25 years will receive the 85% of the minimum wages.
The current minimum wage according to the collective labour agreement (740 euro) falls to 592 euro gross which means that a young employee will earn 470 euros nett and a day wage of 21 euro!
The regulations for the trainees entail two-year cuts of 500 euros on their already low wages.
Mass dismissals are promoted more decisively by law, as the current redundancy threshold (2% per month), which applies for enterprises employing more than 200 employees, increases to 5% and applies for enterprises employing more than 150 employees while in enterprises with less than 20 employees it does not exist at all.
Redundancy pays are reduced by 50% (from 24 wages to 12).

At the same time, the government, the EU and the IMF demolish the rights of the people to social security and pensions, abolishing pensions and replacing them by an allowance and forcing the people to work after the age of 65. In addition, they cut and commercialise healthcare.

KKE: the working people must realise the depth of the attack
KKE responded immediately to these measures. The General Secretary of the CC of KKE , Aleka Papariga gave a press conference on these developments and stressed:
“The high public debt was not created by the employees and the people but by the high profitability, the huge state subsidies, the privileges and the tax breaks of the business groups. The business groups are the plunderers. Nowadays, they are the creditors of the Greek government. They participated in the elaboration of the grotesque anti-people memorandum. The Greek people must not recognise and respect neither the debt nor the memorandum.
We ask the government and the Prime Minister personally what the tens of thousands of workers’ families should do, when they will not be able to pay the bills, the tolls, the taxes, when they will not be able buy the necessary food for their families. What will the government do, will it send them all to prison?
The people must declare war to the war of the government of PASOK, the plutocracy, the EU and the IMF that is constantly intensified. The working people are transformed into armies of hungry people.
The Presidential Decree on the working relations demonstrates that the government and its allies are literally unhesitating. They are the gravediggers of peoples’ remaining gains. They impose a lifelong Dachau regime. People are condemned to live and work from the age of 15 till their old age for a single purpose: to feed the capitalist Minotaur. The measures for the working relations and the social security system they promote condemn the working people to work for a minimum wage, pension and healthcare.
There is a deregulation of the dismissals threshold, a drastic reduction of redundancy pays, a legalisation allowing unregistered employment for the young people, who are led to the slavery of traineeship with a starvation wage of 592 € gross- 470 € net!
The dismantlement of the social security system, the drastic increase of retirement ages for all and even more so for the working women and the drastic reduction of pensions condemns workers to work 40 years in succession in order to receive a welfare allowance instead of a pension. These measures actually abolish pensions and impose drastic cuts on healthcare services.
The working people and their children are condemned to a nightmarish insecurity, to a lifelong hard struggle for survival.
Workers need to realise the depth and ferocity of the offensive against their class. The government, LAOS that strongly supports it, ND that consents, aim to serve the interests and needs of the big capital. Their goal is to make workers pay for the consequences of the capitalist crisis, for which they bear no responsibility, and to ensure the future high profits and the strengthening of the Greek capital. They abolish the remaining gains of the workers in order to breathe life into the terminally ill capitalist mode of production. Capitalism is obsolete, rotten and parasitic. It cannot overcome its inherent contradictions, and therefore becomes more aggressive towards the working class, the self-employed, small and medium entrepreneurs.
The workers’ and youth’s duty towards their present and future is not to surrender to the government, the bourgeois parties and the mechanisms of the bourgeoisie. Now, they must resolutely, stubbornly and in an organised manner resist the barbaric capitalist measures. Advocate for their rights and go to the offensive.
KKE calls upon the working class, youth, women, pensioners and the poor peasants to rally their forces in a united decisive battle. We must prevent these measures and overthrow the anti-people policy and its carriers. We must begin our own struggle so as to overthrow the power of monopolies. Stop deceiving us, capitalist development only leads to hardships and suffering, to wild exploitation of youth and to abandonment of the elderly.
A united front of struggle for a path of development serving the people's needs rather than the profitability of the monopolies is needed. In this way, the working class and the people will gain their modern rights to life”.

PAME calls for a 24-hour Nationwide General Strike


The working class, people are not responsible for the debt. PAME (All workers’ militant front) calls for a mass militant Nationwide General Strike on 23 June. It urges workers to abandon the conciliatory trade union leaderships of GSEE and ADEDY (confederations of private and public sectors respectively) who shamelessly stated about the government measures that: “At places where these measures were introduced, competitiveness has not risen, food prices have not fallen, the number of jobs has not risen"!!! They merely described the decree as “unconstitutional and unacceptable”.
On the contrary, PAME has issued a class oriented statement: “23 June will be a massive, decisive, militant response. Everybody go on strike. We can stop them. Trade unions must organise the struggle in workplaces. The workers of each and every company must take part in the strike in order to respond successfully to the crime against the rights of the working class”.
On Thursday, 17 June, meetings were held in all major cities of the country. An initial response was given. The demands of the workers are:




Cancel laws against social insurance.
Immediately sign the national collective agreement and branch collective agreements providing for substantial increase in wages.
“No” to the elimination of redundancy pay.
“No” to layoffs.
Protection of the unemployed, unemployment benefits amounting to 1.120 euros.

[RedPersonality]

23.06.2010 Strike of PAME: A resolute response to the capital and its supporters
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[FSL]

For those that are in these kinds of things, a bomb was sent, hidden in a package, to the Ministry of Security. Possibly one dead.

[Delenda Carthago]

For those that are in these kinds of things, a bomb was sent, hidden in a package, to the Ministry of Security. Possibly one dead.
The minister's right hand!

[Delenda Carthago]

From today's demo against the new retirement pension law.

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OWNED!

[Delenda Carthago]

Also,there was a supermarket raid in another area where goods where given away to the people.

[Black Sheep]

How many people in Athens?

[RedPersonality]

Huge success of the strike of PAME


Against the dirtiest methods of the capital
Valuable experience form the hard class conflict


The massive successful strike of PAME on 29th June acquires a much greater significance as it confronted one of the dirtiest operations against the workers’ movement. The 11th strike of the class oriented forces in a period of 6 months paralysed factories, workplaces, ports, train stations and airports throughout the country. Picket lines were mounted in front of numerous workplaces.

The port of Piraeus once again became the field of hard class conflict. The class oriented trade unions of the lower engine crews and merchant maritime engineers and the forces of PAME resisted bravely and guarded their strike. Despite the intimidation exerted by the social democrat government, the ship-owners and the other bourgeois parties, the strike has been a huge success. Those forces used the dirtiest methods such as:

-court decisions that declared the strike illegal

-warrants of arrest against trade unionists of PAME, heads of the boards of the seamen’s trade unions

-terrorist bomb attack outside the house of the head of PAME in Thessalonica one day before the strike aiming at the intimidation of the class oriented forces

-terrorism, repression and chemicals by the repressive forces and the port police corps. Despite that they did not manage to prevent the class oriented forces from entering the port in order to guard the strike. The forces of PAME managed to block the vast majority of the ships. A few ships left the port “with the gun on the head of the crews” though without passengers and vehicles!! In fact they sailed aided by the repression forces that beat and wounded enough workers. The crews of the ships played a crucial role despite the extortions of the employers.

-the lies of the bourgeois media that it is PAME and strikes that allegedly damage tourism and not the poverty spread by the government’s measures.

These methods met the immediate response of the class oriented forces that guarded their strike successfully, with determination and discipline and the tens of thousands of workers who participated in the strike.

In addition, tens of thousands took part in the strike demonstration of PAME in Athens, that took place outside the parliament as well as in the demonstrations held in 60 cities throughout the country against the destructive measures that increase retirement ages, cut down salaries and pensions, deregulate the redundancy threshold, increase taxes, extend flexible labour relations, freeze wages for three years and abolish the 13th and 14th pension.

“They legitimate the crime against our social security rights, the plundering of a big part of our income. The plunderers are accusing their victims of resisting the plundering and blaming the plunders and those who commit the crimes. Our answer to their legitimacy is: law is the rights of the workers and not the profits of the capitalists. For that reason they will always have to confront us” stressed Yiannis Tassioulas, president of the Construction Workers’ Trade Union from the platform of the demonstration.

The strike demonstration of PAME in Athens addressed a class, internationalist appeal to the working class and the militant trade unions in Europe, to the European trade unionists who struggle against the severe anti-workers’ attack calling them to coordinate their struggle and reject the compromised ETUC and all the forces that have disarmed the workers’ movement through the policy of conciliation, of class collaboration and submission.

The experience from these struggles makes the struggle for radical changes even more urgent. The working class produces the wealth and must assert it. The means of production, the wealth must pass into the hands of the people. This goal can reinforce the struggle.



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[RedPersonality]

Call-Summon from the strike rally of PAME to the working class and the militant Trade Unions of Europe


CALL - SUMMON of PAME

To the working class of the European countries
To all the militant trade unions of Europe
To all the European trade unionists who struggle


Dear colleagues,
We are sending you a resolution – call adopted today, Tuesday June 29, 2010 by all the workers of Athens, who participated in the strike demonstration of PAME in front of the Greek Parliament.
“All of us, the tens of thousands of people who demonstrate in Athens, we express once again our radical contrast to the brutal anti-labor measures of the social democratic government. Measures that radically reverse conquests that we had achieved through decades, in favour of the monopolistic capital.
We uncompromisingly continue the class-oriented struggle, with the demands of the class-oriented trade union movement in our country which is expressed and represented by PAME that gathers thousands of workers in its lines from hundreds of first-degree and second-degree trade union organizations.
Struggles of workers in many other European countries against the policies of their governments are in progress during this period. We express our support and solidarity with them. Some common conclusions come out from all these small and big struggles:


The working class in all the European countries faces a unified elaborated strategy of the monopolistic capital. This strategy does not only aim to transfer to the working class all the consequences of the capitalist economic crisis, but rather to ensure its long-term profitability by the complete abolition of all the labor rights and the increase of the exploitation degree. We witness the most brutal and coordinated, pan-European attack and simultaneously the most furious struggle of each separate capitalist country to ensure the lion’s share for itself. This competition will bring new sufferings to all the people.
The governments either neoliberal, or social democrats apply the same harsh measures. They express the same interests.
Conquests and fundamental rights that had been achieved through hard struggles, blood and sacrifices, are being now abolished with the excuse “to exit the crisis”, a crisis that was born by the capitalist anarchy and the capitalist super-profits. It is a deep crisis that indicates the historical limits of capitalism, a system which rots and gives birth to mass unemployment, poverty, war, oppression.
The European Union is proved to be a union of capitalists. It is a union which together with International Monetary Fund and the U.S, together with the governments, forms a coalition that steals the people in favor of the capital.
The European Trade Union Confederation is constantly proved that it is not a trade union organization, but a bureaucratic staff of the European Union, which essentially supports the strategies of the European Union. The responsibilities of these forces are huge, because they have disarmed the labor movement through the policy of reconciliation with the capital, the policy of class collaboration, of submission.


Dear colleagues,
Facing this situation, it is necessary today for a pan-European coordination of all the militant trade unions and all the European workers as a main priority.
Today we need, more than before:


Internationalism and Labor Solidarity
Militant Trade Union Coordination
Common class-oriented struggles with common goals



in all the countries of the Eurozone, throughout Europe.

The reversals in social security, working relations, public Health, Education, privatizations in all sectors, mass unemployment, reduction in wages and pensions are not temporary, but permanent. Through these reversals capital tries to strengthen the capitalist system itself, condemning many workers to unemployment and degradation. Women, young people and teenagers will pay a heavy price.

Dear workers of Europe,
We can not wait! We must be coordinated!

We Greek workers, unemployed people, migrants, women, young people and pensioners express our solidarity with the people of Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Italy, Romania, France, with the workers of all the countries who go out on the streets and demonstrate.
We express our internationalism to all the European workers who overcome – leave behind – the subjugated, bureaucratic trade union leaderships and trace new paths, with new militant, honest trade unions which organize our counter-attack.

The target of our struggles must be the counteraction of these antilabor measures. These policies should not be implemented.
We should demand measures that will meet the modern needs of the popular families.
We must help the working class of Europe to understand that capitalism is not our future.
We struggle to abolish the exploitation of man by man”.

PAME will continue its efforts to coordinate our forces, for common struggles. We suggest to have a meeting in the close future in Athens or in other European country.

[Rusty Shackleford]

If you look at some of the images in this thread, you will notics a large portion of the flag carryers, strikers, and protestrs are well into their 30s.

i personally believe this means, among other things, a very developed working class movement. that and its ability to shut down athens when it wants.

[vyborg]

the programme is not bad even if a bit abstract, the problem is the tactic of the party, it is a nonsense. it is so nationalistic and sectarian that it seems a joke

[Delenda Carthago]

the programme is not bad even if a bit abstract, the problem is the tactic of the party, it is a nonsense. it is so nationalistic and sectarian that it seems a joke

you anticommunist,opportunist,agent provocateur,goebellist,boy toy of the capitalists!:mad:

DONT YOU EVER IN YOUR MOTHERFUCKIN LIFE CRITISIZE THE PARTY!

THEY KNOW BETTER.

[vyborg]

The KKE has many thousands marvelous and militant members. They deserve a lot better than the half digested third-periodical nonsense of their leadership.

[bie]

half digested third-periodical nonsense of their leadership.
Thanks god that the marvelous and militant members have different opinions.

[Rusty Shackleford]

seriously stop bashing the KKE and the KNE please!
a comrade of mine was in the KNE and hes a great revolutionary. their party is fine as well. keep in mind, no tendency is perfect.

[MilkmanofHumanKindness]

Greek Parliament Pension System Reform Passed

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/business/global/09drachma.html?src=me

Greece Approves Pension Overhaul Despite Protests
By LANDON THOMAS Jr. and NIKI KITSANTONIS
ATHENS — Greece took a big step toward overhauling its debt-plagued economy on Thursday by forcing through a pension bill that would sharply pare down the country’s welfare state by increasing the retirement age and reducing benefits.

For Prime Minister George Papandreou, who commands a seven-member majority in Parliament, the bill represents the beginning of the end of the cradle-to-grave state compact that his father put in place as prime minister in the early 1980s.

The plan was approved in principle late Wednesday. Individual provisions were approved on Thursday as workers protested outside the Parliament building, and the whole package passed Thursday night by a vote of 157-134.

Three months after Europe provided Greece with a financial rescue program worth 110 billion euros — about $140 billion, and half of Greece’s gross domestic product — the government has exceeded the deficit-cutting benchmarks set by the International Monetary Fund. Officials see the bill’s passage as further evidence for skeptical investors that Greece is committed to pushing through painful overhaul measures that will restore fiscal stability.

“This is a major reform,” the finance minister, George Papaconstantinou, said by e-mail Thursday night. “In one stroke, we are putting the system on a viable path and safeguarding future pensions.”

Yannis Stournaras, an economist in Athens who has advised past Socialist governments, called the bill “our passport out of hell.”

“It represents the toughest challenge for Papandreou and goes to the very heart of his party,” he said. “No politician has ever been able to do this.”

In Greece’s generous pension system, many employees retire before they turn 50 and earn the right to rich payouts calculated on the basis of bonus-laden salaries. The bill would unify the retirement age at 65 for men and women and would reduce payouts by calculating salaries on lifetime income, as opposed to a worker’s highest, most recent pay.

It would also make it easier for Greek companies to fire workers.

Central Athens was largely shut down on Thursday as public sector workers protested in Syntagma Square, outside Parliament. Police estimated that 12,000 people demonstrated. Despite a few challenges by hooded youths carrying sticks and axes, riot police officers with gas masks and shields seemed to be in control of the situation. There were no arrests and one demonstrator was reported injured; the police said officers were not involved.

“Nobody expected this — this is worse than the occupation under the Germans,” said Nikos Stathas, 60, a plumber who recently retired. He said he had just gotten his pension, but was worried about his children and grandchildren. “This will demolish their retirement,” he said.

Protests here have been relatively restrained since three people were killed in an attack on a bank in early May — a sign perhaps that Greeks, while angry about the sacrifices forced upon them, understand that they have little choice but to tighten their belts.

Mr. Papandreou, a lifelong Socialist, has managed to keep control of his party despite some disagreement from influential advisers, like the economy minister, Louka Katseli.

A team from the I.M.F. and the European Union is due in Athens next month to examine the government’s progress, before the next portion of aid, 9 billion euros, is to be released.

Mr. Stournaras, the economist, pointed out that the Greek economy had performed better than expected in the first quarter, sustained by surprisingly robust consumer spending, which rose 1.5 percent.

A sharp cutback in public investment caused overall growth to decline 2.5 percent for the quarter, but Mr. Stournaras said he expected the economy to shrink by less than the I.M.F. estimate of 4 percent, and he forecast a budget deficit of about 7 percent for this year.

According to a presentation by the government’s debt management agency, sharp decreases in public sector wages and investment, plus an increase in taxes, have improved the deficit picture.

“The government’s popularity is holding up very well,” said Paul Mylonas, chief economist at the National Bank of Greece. “But after several years of reform, adjustment fatigue may set in if light does not appear at the end of the tunnel.”

Indeed, senior government officials concede that they have yet to win back the confidence of foreign bond investors, many of whom say they believe that some form of a debt restructuring is inevitable and are demanding yields of more than 10 percent on Greece’s long-term debt.

Greek officials dismiss the notion of a restructuring. “It’s just not going to happen,” Petros Christodoulou, the head of the debt management agency, insisted last month at an investor conference in London.

[FSL]

Updates on some things.

Don't know if it's mentioned but the split in Syriza was finalized and the people that left formed a party called "Democratic Left". They're shameless rightists but they might take a sizable chunk of Syriza's supporters with them.


There are voices calling for early elections among the government itself with one minister saying that they lack the "democratic mandate to push the necessary reforms". This could come with the municipal elections in November but is yet nothing concrete.


There was a strike yesterday. Participation in the strike itself was good but the rallies were smaller compared to the ones in May. Being in the middle of July and having no means of transport might be one reason, fear of reprisals and a sense of helplessness among workers might be another one (I'm quite happy with our rallies by the way, trying to be all "independent viewer" here. Oh, and by "our" I mean Pame's). Here is a vid from it. From 0:40 to 4:00 the PAME rally, the rest is the GSEE demo.


Ez9Bxd3F1CQ

One "odd" thing that happened yesterday was a group of anarchists attacking someone in the protest after he was accused of being a cop. Someone claimed they'd found a policeman ID on them and the crowd around him went berserk.
Things become weird when it's shown (?) that he doesn't work for the police and when the people that claimed he had the policeman ID are nowhere to be found along with said ID they took. Since the guy was in a pretty bad shape it does make sense for them to not just show up but they could scan the ID and put it online if such a thing existed.

Now whether that guy was just some random person and the initiator was insane/a thrill seeking sadist/an officer himself is anyone's guess. What I'm sure of (make that "more sure of") is that at all times rallies must be protected from people sharing any of these traits.

Photo of the guy when the ambulance came to take him.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Moz08RhEWgo/TDXgfhXKy9I/AAAAAAAD2Cs/kiZDuvE3Nko/s320/1531877.jpg

[FSL]

Photo from another Pame rally held yesterday in Piraeus port that has seen some intense strike action these past two weeks. Ships didn't sail on the 23rd and the 29th of June as well as yesterday as a result of strikes of militant sailor unions.


http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=giannissouidos.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgiannissouidos.files.wordpress.co m%2F2010%2F07%2Fpireus-8-juli.jpg&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fgiannissouidos.wordpress.com%2F

[this is an invasion]

One "odd" thing that happened yesterday was a group of anarchists attacking someone in the protest after he was accused of being a cop. Someone claimed they'd found a policeman ID on them and the crowd around him went berserk.
Things become weird when it's shown (?) that he doesn't work for the police and when the people that claimed he had the policeman ID are nowhere to be found along with said ID they took. Since the guy was in a pretty bad shape it does make sense for them to not just show up but they could scan the ID and put it online if such a thing existed.

Now whether that guy was just some random person and the initiator was insane/a thrill seeking sadist/an officer himself is anyone's guess. What I'm sure of (make that "more sure of") is that at all times rallies must be protected from people sharing any of these traits.

Photo of the guy when the ambulance came to take him.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Moz08RhEWgo/TDXgfhXKy9I/AAAAAAAD2Cs/kiZDuvE3Nko/s320/1531877.jpg
It sucks that this person got hurt despite them being "innocent." However, I am firm believer that under covers need to be confronted at all times. They should be beaten. It just sucks when this back fires.

[the last donut of the night]

Photo from another Pame rally held yesterday in Piraeus port that has seen some intense strike action these past two weeks. Ships didn't sail on the 23rd and the 29th of June as well as yesterday as a result of strikes of militant sailor unions.


http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=giannissouidos.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgiannissouidos.files.wordpress.co m%2F2010%2F07%2Fpireus-8-juli.jpg&sref=http%3A%2F%2Fgiannissouidos.wordpress.com%2F

What does the banner say?

[FSL]

What does the banner say?

No consent-no sacrifice
Fight for dignity
Fight to stop the crimes of the
government, the troika, of capital.


*Troika from the russian word meaning three of a kind. It's how people and media here refer to the IMF-EU Commision-ECB trio that's overlooking the austerity measures.

[Delenda Carthago]

Updates on some things.

Don't know if it's mentioned but the split in Syriza was finalized and the people that left formed a party called "Democratic Left". They're shameless rightists but they might take a sizable chunk of Syriza's supporters with them.


There are voices calling for early elections among the government itself with one minister saying that they lack the "democratic mandate to push the necessary reforms". This could come with the municipal elections in November but is yet nothing concrete.


There was a strike yesterday. Participation in the strike itself was good but the rallies were smaller compared to the ones in May. Being in the middle of July and having no means of transport might be one reason, fear of reprisals and a sense of helplessness among workers might be another one (I'm quite happy with our rallies by the way, trying to be all "independent viewer" here. Oh, and by "our" I mean Pame's). Here is a vid from it. From 0:40 to 4:00 the PAME rally, the rest is the GSEE demo.


Ez9Bxd3F1CQ

One "odd" thing that happened yesterday was a group of anarchists attacking someone in the protest after he was accused of being a cop. Someone claimed they'd found a policeman ID on them and the crowd around him went berserk.
Things become weird when it's shown (?) that he doesn't work for the police and when the people that claimed he had the policeman ID are nowhere to be found along with said ID they took. Since the guy was in a pretty bad shape it does make sense for them to not just show up but they could scan the ID and put it online if such a thing existed.

Now whether that guy was just some random person and the initiator was insane/a thrill seeking sadist/an officer himself is anyone's guess. What I'm sure of (make that "more sure of") is that at all times rallies must be protected from people sharing any of these traits.

Photo of the guy when the ambulance came to take him.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Moz08RhEWgo/TDXgfhXKy9I/AAAAAAAD2Cs/kiZDuvE3Nko/s320/1531877.jpg
that guy was an undercover.That day he was working as security personnel on a ministry.

[Delenda Carthago]

Nedanyahu came in Athens to meet with the prime minister.It was the first time an Israelian leader ever came to Greece.

There was some small demostrations,around 300-400 people,and some leftists hang a palestinian flag on Acropolis.


http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/p10005651.jpg

[COMPLEXproductions]

A salute to those fighting back in Greece. We'll see how this plays out.

[Delenda Carthago]

http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/f_chile.jpg

[Jeoh]

That's the president's residency, right?

[anar]

no, its on the Polytechnic university (i think thats what its called in english)

[RedPersonality]

Today is the International Action Day from the call of the WFTU.Photos from Greece.
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_pti4_dfJjUM/TIYoOk4x-QI/AAAAAAAAEWE/kLShI0KDiqU/_MG_2193.JPG

Occupation on BP's Ofiice

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_pti4_dfJjUM/TIY1yTcxRRI/AAAAAAAAEYs/tvI9LtAIXm0/P9070132.JPG

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_pti4_dfJjUM/TIY1Kx7zHVI/AAAAAAAAEYA/E74yTvqP2yw/P9070130.JPG

and against railway privatization.

[RedPersonality]

On September 7, the World Day of Action of WFTU, PAME having being invited by CTA
On September 7, the World Day of Action of WFTU, PAME, having being invited by the Argentine Federation of Trade Unions, took part in a demonstration mobilization organized by various Trade Unions outside the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires.
The subject of this demonstration was: Solidarity with the struggles of the working class and people of Greece. Many people participated in this massive event and afterwards a rally on a main road followed. The speakers expressed their solidarity with the struggle of the working class of Greece, stressed that the crisis is a capitalistic one and doesn´ t affect only Greece but it hits all countries and thas International Solidarity is necessary.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_pti4_dfJjUM/TIcoI4WkokI/AAAAAAAAEaw/R5A9I7fNkYM/s912/DSC_7232.JPG

[FSL]

The annual International Trade Fair has started in Thessaloniki and the whole government has moved there for the occasion. Tomorrow the prime minister will be making a customary speech for the coming year announcing... more austerity I suppose. There are demonstrations called.

Early skirmishes also errupted between some demonstrators (unions that side mainly with Antarsya or Syriza's leftwing) and the police.


Here Pame calls for people to participate in the demo (this is the White Tower of Thessaloniki, the city's "symbol").

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/5639/82dc31088011785be1d77ff.jpg

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/518/6d14eae9bffe80e6ea776b4.jpg

[What Would Durruti Do?]

ah, PAME, the masters of photo-ops

[Black Sheep]

How come PAME is side by side with WFTU? :confused:

[Honggweilo]

How come PAME is side by side with WFTU? :confused:

uhm, because the World Federation of Trade Unions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federation_of_Trade_Unions) is a communist led international of red trade-unions, not to be confused with the ITUC

[Delenda Carthago]

Occupation of the building of Foreign Press for counter info reasons for the issue of Revolutionary Struggle.

http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/27sept.jpg

The banners are saying "No prosicution on Stathopoulos,Kortesis,Nikitopoulos"(the 3 that are denying their partitipation in RS) "solidarity to the members of Revolutionary Struggle" and "the state is the only terrorist.solidarity is our weapon".

[Delenda Carthago]

Today,150 fascists and conservative pricks came outside the Villa Amalias squat.Within 30 minutes,even though athens.indymedia is down,more than 200 people gathered and went to the square of Ag.Panteleimonas and back to Villa.

After that some nazis tryed to come over,but they got stopped by the riot cops who at the same time attacked Villa with tear gases.

[Delenda Carthago]

Today,Nikos Maziotis(prisoned for the Revolutionary Struggle case) refused to face the DA.

"I refuse to go to court about the case of the revolutionary group I was a part of,"Revolutionary Struggle" " he said,"cause there is nothing culpable that I have done.The revolutionaries do not apologize to the criminals of the State."

Tommorow,3 others,including Maziotis baby mother Pola Roupa who also claimed responsibility for the case are (supposed) to go to court.

[Delenda Carthago]

A demo was thrown by the public sector syndicate.Nothing fancy,around 7-8.000 people,also some students.

[Delenda Carthago]

Ok,its been a while for the updates(I ve been bored as fuck to write about it)so I m gonna say many combined things.

A.School occupations are on the rise.Many schools everyday revolt against the new laws try to pull out by the Education Ministry,and its getting bigger and bigger...

B.Since today,univercities are starting their uprise too.Dozens occupations where discited today by the General Assemblies and it just started.

C.Yesterday, 3.000 people demo called by the first degree unions for the 94 firings from the "Ellinika Grammata" publicities.

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/10/13/392-2-3000-attend-the-solidarity-demonstration-for-the-ellinika-grammata-workers-we-can-do-this-alone-we-need-no-sold-out-unions/

D.Anarchists and leftists* gathered in Corfu when the prime minister paid a visit.More than 100 people,big numbers for the island.

*KKE is never included

E.Banners where throughed yesterday in the soccer match between Greece and Israel from Palestinians comrades about the Palestine situation.

F.Kostas Gournas and 5 other anarchists began hunger strike against the revenging methods of the state against Gournas's family.

[Magón]

B.Since today,univercities are starting their uprise too.Dozens occupations where discited today by the General Assemblies and it just started.

Awesome. I wish my University would start up protests.

[Delenda Carthago]

Solidarity gathering called for 5pm at the Acropolis
Contractual employees of the ministry of culture had stayed in the Acropolis site overnight, demanding two years of back-pay and permanent contracts. Developments since 10 am today:
- Riot police have stormed the site, chasing and beating the ministry employees inside the Acropolis.
- They tear-gassed the employees and passers-by. There are people injured (unconfirmed number) and at least one witnessed arrest.
- According to eye-witnesses, journalists and cameramen were also targeted as the riot police attempted their attack, trying to have a minimum amount of witnesses of it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dC18rUCNhw&feature=player_embedded

[Delenda Carthago]

A new squat/social center started today by anarchists in Patras,Greece's third biggest city.

[griffjam]

Awesome. I wish my University would start up protests.

not-revolutionary=wishing people would protest.
revolutionary=you setting up a protest for everyone to join.

[Ivan Jansa]

This might sound stupid to ask, but what is LGBT situation in Greece? I hear on Yahoo answers that the homosexuals enjoy a greater degree of freedoms in Greece than anywhere else in Europe. Is it true or not?

[griffjam]

This might sound stupid to ask, but what is LGBT situation in Greece? I hear on Yahoo answers that the homosexuals enjoy a greater degree of freedoms in Greece than anywhere else in Europe. Is it true or not?

Not.

[Delenda Carthago]

http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/21-10-2010_greek_students_riot__01_.jpg

greek students demo 2 days ago

[Delenda Carthago]

a litle something for you KKE fans...

http://www2.rizospastis.gr/getImage.do?size=medium&id=305609&format=.jpg

yesterday Papariga spoke.more people than the last time.

[Wanted Man]

Another telling example, where the political forces that support the EU use other tactics is that of Ikaria. An island, which in the past was an exile colony for communists and in which the KKE maintains a serious electoral base. In the most recent parliamentary elections KKE received 35% of the vote, while in the previous local elections candidates supported by KKE were elected as mayors in all the 3 municipalities of the Island. This time, due to the merger of the municipalities, the island of Ikaria has become one municipality and there will be only 1 mayor elected. The other political forces (PASOK,ND,,SYN/SYRIZA, LAOS) have decided to join together in one list, in order to stop the election of a communist mayor.

http://inter.kke.gr/News/2010news/2010-10-29-ekloges

:lol:

Speaking of "fans", there used to be a few people who were totally impressed with SYRIZA (and other "left coalitions" in Europe). Whatever happened to that?

[Delenda Carthago]

Announcement of the three members of Revolutionary Struggle (http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcement-of-three-members-of.html)

In the modern junta of the I.M.F., the E.C.B., the E.U. and the Greek government, methods from the Nazi occupation in Greece are being mobilized. Just like when the Nazis attacked the families and the social environment of the guerrillas in order to isolate them and exterminate them easier, today the modern fascists that govern us target families, friends and comrades of ours and of the three comrades that are in prison accused of participating in “Revolutionary Struggle”, in an operation to terrorize a whole political movement, through new persecutions and mass interrogations.
The aim of our pursuers is revenge for the actions of “Revolutionary Struggle” and our political attitude from inside the prisons, our political isolation and that of our other three imprisoned comrades and the inactivity of the whole subversive movement through the imposition of a special hostage regime on a number of comrades.
Its of decisive importance the need to not let them terrorize fighters, do not allow the re-folding of the struggle for liberation. We should immediately go on the counter-attack. Anyway, the dominators are those who have been discredited politically and socially by the vast majority of the Greek society, while the fighters that fight for freedom, is the hope for the oppressed of this land, that are slowly dying under the yoke of modern totalitarianism of capitalism, market economy and representative democracy.


Pola Roupa, Nikos Maziotis, Kostas Gournas actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcement-of-three-... (http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcement-of-three-members-of.html)

[Delenda Carthago]

http://inter.kke.gr/News/2010news/2010-10-29-ekloges

:lol:

Speaking of "fans", there used to be a few people who were totally impressed with SYRIZA (and other "left coalitions" in Europe). Whatever happened to that?
Syriza had a break up.The more rightist part of Synaspismos(the biggest party in the coalition)left and created their own party(Democratic Left),which is actually a small PASOK.They are against strikes and they propose the working class to "be patient" about the measures.I havent heard from SYRIZA doing anything for a while.I dont know.

PS.Also,the more leftist part of SYRIZA have left in the last months,when Synaspismos ex-leader Alekos Alavanos(the most radical leader SYN ever had) created a "front" and took two of the smaller but more radical left parties of the SYRIZA coalition.

[RedPersonality]

Statement of the GS of the CC of the KKE, Al. Papariga, concerning the results of the November 2010 elections



http://inter.kke.gr/mail_icon.gif (http://inter.kke.gr/News/2010news/2010-11-9-ekloges/sendto_form)
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http://inter.kke.gr/AboutGreece/greekgi/2010ekloges
“You know very well that the lists put together by the KKE nationwide with the same name in the regions and in the municipalities, together with other militants with whom we have worked together in the struggles have seen a significant upwards surge everywhere in the regions and the municipalities. It is correct when the commentators say that the KKE is the only political force which had a significant increase in the elections at a local and regional level. You know that from the beginning we gave our fight in the local elections a general political character.

We called on the people to vote against PASOK and ND because of their deeds over the last 20 years and undoubtedly amongst these we must include the “memorandum”, the barbaric measures that have been taken, and those that will be taken from now on. We called on the people to rally, to struggle, to counterattack in order to tackle their urgent problems and also to create the preconditions of a more general overturning of these policies-a radical change in the balance of forces at a political level. We heard what the Prime minister has just said and we are of the opinion that he was unable and unwilling to understand anything concerning the election results which in our opinion clearly express a condemnation of the policies of PASOK without strengthening ND, which may claim that its anti-memorandum struggle is genuine-for us it remains fake and counterfeit.

We thank all those men and women who for the first or second time voted for lists which were supported by the KKE. We are of the opinion that they contributed decisively to this positive political message which emanates from this political battle. We know very well that it is not enough to feel vindicated and satisfied. We understand that we must combat our own weaknesses in order to do what is most important: to contribute to popular unity, to the rallying of the people, to the organization of the people’s struggle on a daily basis so that we can avert the worst and also so that we can create the preconditions for this election result to liberate the dynamism of the people, so that we may see better days in our country. We address those who abstained, with the intention of condemning the policies of ND and PASOK, and we urge them to think again. They have the opportunity from here on to send the message of condemnation in an active and positive manner inside the movement and at the ballot box, whenever the next elections take place, and they can show this in the second round. We call on those who voted for other lists, believing that they were protesting against the government in this way, to think hard. We believe that over the coming period they will have the opportunity to understand that this vote does not provide a solution. We can talk today about the possibilities and opportunities to rally and introduce dynamism into the people, and it is this that will be at the centre of our attention. There will be a second round in the local and regional elections. In several instances it seems that we have the possibility of being in the second round. We call on those who abstained or voted for other parties to strengthen the dynamism which has been created up to now.

In areas where the lists of “People’s rally” will not be in the second round, we call on the people to vote against the both the parties. Not to get involved with them, not to settle which of the two, PASOK or ND, will be the winner. This would be a real backward step. The solution is this: No involvement with the two parties, neither of them is going to change. In any case the Prime minister proved this himself: No self-criticism, aloof from the election results. We believe the same is true for ND. The people must look forwards; let the 2 parties sort out the balance of forces amongst themselves. The working class and popular strata must show that they are beginning to liberate themselves and struggle for the overthrow of the balance of forces, without which the road for social prosperity for the people cannot be opened. We are clear, we made it clear from the beginning- We had made it clear in previous elections- the people should not show preference to either of them in the second round. This does not mean passivity or neutrality. It means we point to the real way out, which our country needs”.

Journalist: Based on what we can see concerning the analysis of the elections, is that at a nationwide level the KKE has achieved the best result from the end of the dictatorship in 1974.

“I avoided mentioning the percentage because we are waiting for the final result. In any case the final and official statement will be made by the Central Committee. But everything points to the fact that the KKE could approach 12%. And we underline this: We did not enter the elections saying that you should vote with narrow local government issues as the criteria. We called on the people to vote with political criteria and to open up new vistas. This led us, as I said earlier, to feel vindicated and satisfied, and we are conscious of the great responsibility which we are taking on now.”

e-mail:[email protected]

[chegitz guevara]

That's a very low level of support, given the situation. How did the left do overall?

[Delenda Carthago]

That's a very low level of support, given the situation. How did the left do overall?
How many communist parties you know that reach 15% in all the western world?

[Rusty Shackleford]

Congrats to the KKE.

Didnt they get something like a 30-40% increase?

[Wanted Man]

That's a very low level of support, given the situation.

Yeah, like, that totally sucks. Everyone knows that class consciousness automatically results in landslide victories for communists and socialists. The KKE suck for not getting at least 50%. 15% is more appropriate for countries with relatively low class consciousness, like the USA. That's why 15% of the people voted for your SPUSA candidacy, no doubt. If you managed to collect enough signatures to even end up on the ballot, anyway. Why, with the deepening of the crisis, I'm sure we can call you Mr. Congressman soon. :rolleyes:

Typical uninformed comment. Not that there's anything wrong with not knowing stuff, but it's kind of sad when people don't even try, but just spout off. There's also nothing wrong with criticising people who have achieved more than your own fine self, but at least try to base it in reality.


How did the left do overall?

From the other thread:


Abstained: 39%

Among those votes that were valid (5% of them weren't):
The governing Pasok 34%
The rightist-populist ND 32%
KKE 11%
The far-right LAOS 5%
Syriza 4,5%

The Greens had a respectable showing and so did Democratic Left (don't let the name fool you)

Also, Antarsya, the coalition that includes the greek version of SWP, went quite well and reached 1,7% of the national vote, up from 0,3% a year ago.

I don't know what you mean by "the rest of the left". Some would consider the ruling "socialist party" on the left...

[Delenda Carthago]

Fascists attacked and burned down an anarchist radio station.The studio of Radio Revolt in Thesaloniki(http://www.radio-revolt.org/index/)got burned to ashes last night.Neonazis attacked the van the studio was in and also tryed to trap the comrades that where inside.Fortunatly the comrades got out before its too late.

This comes just a month after the arson of an anarchist social center in Crete by nazis.

[Delenda Carthago]

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/11/11/414-statement-by-anarchist-station-radio-revolt-concerning-the-attack-on-its-wagon/
Translation from Athens IMC On Tuesday November 9th at around 11pm, while there were five comrades in the wagon of radio revolt, around 20-25 para-statists and fascists attacked it. Armed with clubs, hammers, sticks and knives they threw three molotovs inside the wagon and tried to block its door. The response of the comrades was instant – they grabbed sticks, managed to get out of the wagon and responded to the attack. The fascists chanted their totally unimaginative slogans and threw stones, but the comrades nevertheless managed to push them back, chasing them to their motorcycles. However, the fire had already gone out of control while the coordinated attempts of all who arrived resulted in limiting the damage to the wagon, the inside of which was destroyed. Six fire brigade cars arrived in the area, which (according to the fire brigade unit) were blocked from the police, who demanded that they accompany the cars inside the campus – something we could not by any means accept [university campuses are protected by academic asylum in Greece –trans]. At the same time, while the electricity remained connected therefore posing an additional threat to the gathered people who were putting off the fire, the water supply was cut off (twice) by the university administration. We obviously did not await the intervention of any state mechanism to “save” us and we believe that the attack was organised by this very mechanism. More specifically, from the early evening the streets around the university were full of cops with at least three riot police units outside the (closed) EXPO building, motorcycle cops hovering around in groups of fours at a nearby square and the confirmed presence of helmet-wearing individuals (possibly undercovers) outside the nearby sports stadium, shortly after the attack. As it has been repeatedly proven, the fascists do not have the capacity to conduct such an attack without assistance. Typical examples of this are the racist pogroms under cop protection in Ayios Panteleimonas in Athens, the taxi-riot police unit at Larissis Station and the attack against the haunt in the West, in Athens again, where one riot police unit arrived only seconds after the fascists had left. Likewise, the fascists’ motorcycles cut through the police cordons with no hassle whatsoever. We easily see this is another attack in the generalised attack against radical parts of society. An attack which is only to be expected in the present socio-economic condition in Greece. We live through a period in which a government is desperately trying to keep a country float, where it condemns to impoverishment the largest part of the population, resulting in new poles of radical action springing up while the existing ones strengthen. In this period the panicked system choses to escalate its repression using all means at its disposal. Its aim is the prevention of any resistance to the new measures, the state or the system from any individual, collective or group. It tries to defend against this generalised discontent across society. All these comprise the full picture of the events of Tuesday. Fascists make a murderous attack against a self-organised anarchist radio with the backing of the police, which plays the double role of safeguarding their escape and blocking an intervention by the fire brigade. The university authorities “rest their case”, while the systemic Mass Media talk of “disturbances” at the university and about clashes between gangs, hiding away and distorting the true events. The wagon has been burned down but Radio Revolt continues. Twenty minutes after the disruption of the show, the station returned on both the internet and FM and of course the flow of the station continues as normal and aggresively. The wagon will operate again to aid the station project. All perpetrators of Tuesday’s attack will find us against them, ready to respond to any attempt of silencing of counter-information, of the support of subversive action and the dissemination of subversive ideas. Additionally, each attack of this kind crouches us together as proven by the material solidarity we immediately received. They don’t deter us, they enrage us! Cops, TV, neonazis – all scum work together. You will find us against you.

[Ravachol]

Fascists attacked and burned down an anarchist radio station.The studio of Radio Revolt in Thesaloniki(http://www.radio-revolt.org/index/)got burned to ashes last night.Neonazis attacked the van the studio was in and also tryed to trap the comrades that where inside.Fortunatly the comrades got out before its too late.

This comes just a month after the arson of an anarchist social center in Crete by nazis.

I have some questions regarding Fascism in Greece. How much of the far-right in Greece is truly para-statist (as in, financed and trained by the State, like the Italian Ordine Nuovo and other P2-affiliated groups during the 'years of lead') and how much is just 'genuine' fascists being, well, fascist assholes?

Also, given the capacity of the Greek revolutionary milieu, what is the state of antifascist documentation and 'intelligence' groups, monitoring fascists so that one can effectively combat them? In Western Europe, for example, it's pretty normal for the antifascist milieu to have one or several groups which monitor fascist groups and individuals.

[Delenda Carthago]

I have some questions regarding Fascism in Greece. How much of the far-right in Greece is truly para-statist (as in, financed and trained by the State, like the Italian Ordine Nuovo and other P2-affiliated groups during the 'years of lead') and how much is just 'genuine' fascists being, well, fascist assholes?

Also, given the capacity of the Greek revolutionary milieu, what is the state of antifascist documentation and 'intelligence' groups, monitoring fascists so that one can effectively combat them? In Western Europe, for example, it's pretty normal for the antifascist milieu to have one or several groups which monitor fascist groups and individuals.
Right now the nazi milieu in Greece is about to have a "civil war".Nationalists "autonomists" are at the burst to attack Golden Dawn.They accuse the leader of GD to be an agent of the state,that wants to control the nationalists to work for the cause of the greek state.But,still they are nobodys.Matter of fact,it was only in 2009 that we first saw that "nazis go pop" phenomenon,and in the beggining we kinda laughed at it,cause they try to immitate us in everything(slogans,aesthetics,ways to act) but they are nobodies.

Golden Dawn has really few members ready to do something.But because they are beeing founded by the state,they are able to move.Matter of fact,in the last 3 months,a party that gathered 100 people in mayday,managed to:
rebuild their offices in Omonia,after the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire demolished them
Rent new ones in another area
Open a social center in Thesaloniki
Found one of the biggest campaigns in the last elections.Even PASOK didnt had that much of a presence during the last elections


As far as the "inteligence" thing,I have no idea.We have some antifa groups,but I m not familiar to what they do.For sure they do attacks against nazis,but other than that...I dunno.

[Delenda Carthago]

I mean,OK...

Just to give you a picture:If the nazis got 5%,if there were-lets say- an anarchist party,it would have got at least 10%.we are everywhere,they are almost nowhere.

[Delenda Carthago]

even though I dont post small incidents,I m gonna post this one:

yesterday,GSEE building was attacked with red paints and hunderds of leaflets that wrote "wild strike.everybody on the streets" were thrown around.

http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/gsee1.jpg

http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/gsee5.jpg


GSEE in this fuckin situation the working class is going through,had called a strike for 15 December since...August!!!And some people are not willing to let it be another demo-funeral.

For those who dont know,in Greece we only have ONE federation,so only GSEE can call for a strike.

[griffjam]

I shit on the KKE.

[Wanted Man]

I shit on the KKE.

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:p0P1Mxz4ggPNiM:http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z161/WhackyClock/OMGSTFUNEWBIE.jpg&t=1

VS

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_-ywULpyWE2c/TNKtUABnSgI/AAAAAAAACS8/0f0onFOZzfo/s640/2.jpg

:w00t:

[griffjam]

I wasn't aware that two years of wading through pseudo-intellectual masturbation still makes me a newbie.

[Delenda Carthago]

10.000 on the street to "welcome" the IMF for the second time.Very strong demo,banks were attacked,slogans were shouted.

At the end of the demo,cops on bikes attacked the anarchist blocks all of the sudden.They hited very bad an american girl which was send to the hospital.


Photos

from the attack of the cops outside the Polytechnic school
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1224707

from the demo
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1224517

from the girl
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1224483




PS.This 10.000 is leftists,anarchists or workers of base unions.KKE did somethin seperate.I dunno what.

[Delenda Carthago]

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1224760

videos from yesterday

[RedPersonality]

Mass rallies of KKE against the government and the troika


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On the 15th of November, the day after the second round of the regional and municipal elections, the KKE, which had a significant increase in votes, organised mass rallies in Athens Thessalonica, Patras and other cities throughout Greece.

The mass rallies were organised on the occasion of the visit of the “troika” representatives to Greece, who along with the social democrat government of PASOK plan new anti-people measures aside from those which have already been outlined in the memorandum and have already been agreed on and implemented.

In Athens the huge rally of the KKE was held at the central square of the city opposite the Parliament and in front of the Ministry of Finance. The General Secretary of the CC of the KKE, comrade Aleka Papariga, delivered a speech and stressed amongst other things:

“They bombard the people using the revision of the deficit as a weapon in order to increase the plundering of the people. The troika did not come uninvited to Greece, it has been a choice of PASOK. The memorandum and the troika are nothing but the continuation and the consequence of the “EU one-way road”, of the policy that serves the interests of the capital, of the capitalist restructuring. If we want to get rid of the troika we have to get rid of the majority of PASOK and ND at the political level, to get rid of the power of monopolies”.

The General Secretary of the CC of the KKE called on the workers and the youth to strengthen the class oriented labour and trade union movement (PAME) and the other class-oriented antimonopoly mass organizations of the farmers (PASY), the self employed (PASEVE), the youth (MAS) and the women (OGE) not only in order to block the measures and achieve some gains but also in order to pave the way for the people’s economy and power.

[revolution inaction]

On the 15th of November, the day after the second round of the regional and municipal elections, the KKE, which had a significant increase in votes, organised mass rallies in Athens Thessalonica, Patras and other cities throughout Greece.

i saw some thing on the news about greek elections, they said the turnout was unusually low with less than half of people voting, so did the kke actually get more votes or just a bigger share?

[Wanted Man]

What do they mean by the "troika"?

[FSL]

i saw some thing on the news about greek elections, they said the turnout was unusually low with less than half of people voting, so did the kke actually get more votes or just a bigger share?
It went from 517 thousand votes to 593 and increased its share from 7,5% to 11.
There is a more detailed thread mentioning pretty much all the parties.

Edit: Abstention was at an all-time high in the second round, when it hit 53%. But the vast majority of the candidates that made iit into the second round were from the two major parties.
It was 39% in the first round.
May I add that in many working class suburbs, communist party candidates for mayoral elections only barely didn't manage to enter the second round. Where I live, we went from 12% 4 years ago to 19% while the person running with the major "conservative party" got 23%.





What do they mean by the "troika"? It means "three of a kind". It's used to refer to the people keeping an eye on our austerity programme, the representatives of the IMF, the ECB and the Comission.

[RedPersonality]

Mass anti-imperialist demonstrations honoured the 37th anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising

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The participation of thousands of workers, employees, small and medium tradesmen and students in the mass anti-imperialist mobilizations all over the country, demonstrated their decision to keep alive the message of the uprising of the Polytechnic students and the working people of Athens against the junta in 1973. The Mass Media admitted that they were the largest anti-imperialist demonstrations in recent years. In Athens and in Thessalonica the demonstrators marched to the American embassy and consulate respectively.

In Athens, tens of thousands participated in the blocks of PAME, the Students’ Front of Struggle, PASEBE, PASY, The Coordinating committee of the struggle committees of the Schools of Athens, and despite the rain marched along the central streets, shouting the slogan “ Worker, without you the cog cannot turn, you can do without the bosses”. At the head of the demonstration was a banner with the slogan “Anti-monopoly alliance for the overthrow of the anti-people policies, for people’s power” written on it. Behind it were the federations and unions which belong to PAME, and the workers with flags in their hands shouted “The law for us is what is in the interests of the workers and not the profits of the capitalist”.

Next in line was the Women’s Union of Greece, led by a banner with the following slogan “Steady on the road of November” and after them the association of the self-employed headed up by PASEBE. Behind them were the school students, with the banner of the Coordinating committee of the struggle committees of the Schools of Athens singing popular revolutionary songs, while the Students’ Front of Struggle (MAS) added dynamism to the rally shouting slogans “ The games must end, Capitalism cannot become humane”. Young conscripts marched in their uniforms this year again with MAS, sending the message that the armed forces cannot be used against the people’s movement, as happened during the period of the junta. The Association of Prisoners and the Exiled during the junta had a special presence.

The slogans did not stop during the march “ European Union and NATO, the syndicate of war” was heard outside the offices of the EU, when the demonstrators approached the American embassy the message was heard loud and clear “ Struggle-Rupture-Overthrow, history is written with disobedience”, “Our future is not capitalism, but the new world, socialism”.

The march yesterday was yet another response of the workers to the anti-people measures which have been imposed, and also against the imperialist organizations of NATO and the EU.

The CC of the KKE stressed in its message on the 37th anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising that “The people have another way forward apart from that of the monopolies. No sacrifice for their profits, for their crisis. Capitalism, now in its old age, cannot be changed or corrected. The contemporary rights of the people can only be achieved in a Greece, where the monopolies and all the large businesses become the property of the people and operate under the control of the workers and the people, without the chains of the EU and NATO.”

A.Papariga : “ NATO will take dangerous decisions in Lisbon”

The GS of the CC of the KKE, Aleka Papariga, who participated in the march, made the following statement to the media: “In two days the NATO summit will take place in Lisbon, Portugal and the decisions that will be taken there are exceptionally dangerous. One aspect has to do with the anti-missile shield which will be installed in the Aegean, on Turkish soil and more generally in the Middle East. This will worsen the situation in relation to Greece’s Sovereignty. The Greek government has agreed to all this under the table and in public claims that this is not true”.

[Sasha]

at least the anarchists aknowledge the pressence of the KKE (admitly too talk shit about them, but still), the KKE seem to completly deny the existence of anyone but themselfs

[Delenda Carthago]

at least the anarchists aknowledge the pressence of the KKE (admitly too talk shit about them, but still), the KKE seem to completly deny the existence of anyone but themselfs
thats not true.KKE has a special place for everyone.

anarchists are agent provocateurs whose target is to hurt "the organised workers movement"(aka KKE)

ANTARSYA and other leftists/communists are opportunists

Trotskyists are fascsits

Everyone has a one way ticket for the gulags if ever KKE takes power as enemys of the people,because only KKE is the people and only KKE is the working class.


PS.You should see them for the last 2 weeks.Whatever you say to them as an argument,their answer is "KKE 10%.You cant tell me shit.KKE 10%"

[What Would Durruti Do?]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8h5Uj7Zfs

fuck PASOK

[RedPersonality]

The CP of China and its strategic dialogues with PASOK and the Socialist International

Comment of the Newspaper «Rizospastis”-Organ of the CC of the KKE (19/12/2010)


It is well-known that the KKE has come to the conclusion that capitalist relations are developing in China today, with the peculiarity that this is happening under the political leadership of the governing party which bears the title “communist”.

The consequences of this development are well-known: the elevation of China to the top of the countries with the fastest rates of capitalist development and the largest number of billionaires, the abolition of important workers’ gains, such as free health care and education, which the workers have to now pay for, and the existence of millions of unemployed and low-paid workers.

It was not by accident, then, that Liu Jieyi, Deputy Director of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, in his meeting (16/11) with G. Papandreou, Greek Prime minister and President of PASOK and the Socialist International stated that “ The relationship between PASOK and the Communist Party of China is exceptional and we have every intention of working more closely together, in order to promote our inter-party relations and through inter-party dialogue to reinforce the exceptional strategic cooperation between our two countries, especially now as we face many challenges”. Liu Jieyi did not forget to congratulate G. Papandreou on the “excellent election results”. It could not be otherwise, as the political representatives of the monopolies (such as COSCO), regardless of their packaging, (“socialist” in Greece or “communist” in China), understand their common class interests.

The anti-people choices of the PASOK government are saluted and supported by Chinese officials, as long as they are combined with the opening of the road for the Chinese monopolies.

But as we learned from Liu Jieyi, the “love” of the CPC is not only reserved for “socialist” PASOK but for the whole Socialist International. As he himself said: “We are of the opinion that the continuation of coordination and the exchange of views are important, as is the strategic dialogue between the Socialist International and the Communist Party of China. We have every intention of continuing this dialogue further, because as we discovered in the meetings over the last two days, there are many points of agreement between the Socialist International and the political orientation of the Communist Party of China.”

We should remember that this “International” supported the wars of the USA and NATO, and is a political pillar of support for the exploitative capitalist system in Europe and the entire world.

After all this, one may well wonder that maybe the CP China is getting ready to abandon its last “fig-leaf”-its title?

[Delenda Carthago]

Just another day in Athens:

12.00 to 5.00 the workers in the subway strike

12.00 the students have a demo against the IMF

12.00 unions gather outside of the offices of ALPHA TV station after the owners proposal that he fires everyone and rehires them with 10% lower payment

13.30 PAME is gathering in Omonoia

18.00 the anarchists call for a demostration against the repression of the state,which is probably gonna be big

[Delenda Carthago]

Text distributed at thessaloniki schools for the general strike on December 15th



http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2010/11/greece_1560755c-300x187.jpg (http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2010/11/greece_1560755c.jpg)We are all students, working peole, unemployed, precarious, some teachers, and all of us always learners.

We all live in a world where injustice and exploitation prevail.

We want a world with the values of respect, of solidarity, of social self-management, without any racial or other segregation, with no sovereignty.

We struggle in our workplaces, our neighborhoods, our universities, our schools.

Our means are strikes, base-unions, occupations, demonstrations, road blockades, popular assemblies, our anti-ierarchic organisation.

We live in a world of disaster and alienation, dreaming of a reality with no masters or bosses.

Teachers and students fighting together for a different life.

To make school our libertarian meeting place. It is a lesson we all have to teach and be taught.
12-15-2010


Make it a real general strike. Stop production.
Everyone on the streets. Everything is ours.
Either economy or society will be saved.
Libertarians

http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/

[RedPersonality]

6ZbxDs5t74k

[Delenda Carthago]

Two big strikes in Greece.One in the ports by the sailors which ended up for the goverment to handicap the strikers.

One from the workers in media.
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1230006

[RedPersonality]

Letter of the KKE to the communist and workers’ parties of Europe



Athens 01 December 2010
Dear Comrades,

In a few days the 3rd congress of the so-called “European Left Party” (ELP) will take place in Paris. This is being carried out on exactly the same dates (3-5 of December) as the International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties, which will be held this year in South Africa. In this provocative and symbolic way the divisive and undermining role of the ELP against the international communist movement is clearly displayed.

As is well-known the KKE took a clear position from the beginning against the possible establishment of a “European Party”. Other parties which in the past had followed in Europe the so-called eurocommunist current and were in opposition to the USSR and the other socialist countries of Europe, played a leading role in its foundation. A series of parties which had given up any reference to communist ideals also supported its establishment, such as the SYNASPISMOS party from Greece which plays a consistent anti-communist role, as well as the DIE LINKE party from Germany. Finally a series of CPs decided to join as “observers” taking into account in each instance various factors.

Some years have passed since then and today we are of the opinion that our assessments have been confirmed, if we evaluate the activity, theses and all the experience of the ELP’s existence.

In its programmatic documents (constitution and programme) the ELP rejects anything communist, the revolutionary traditions; it is hostile to scientific socialism, class struggle and socialist revolution. In its constitution it accepts as part of the EU institutional framework that the capitalist EU is eternal, and a basic condition for its existence is its acceptance that it will not question the framework of the EU.

This is also apparent in the materials of the 3rd congress of the ELP, where through proposals such as “Concrete steps can and should be taken to free EU and national government policymaking from the grip of financial markets”, the view of a “humanized” capitalism is promoted. As alleged “radical changes”, measures are being proposed to modernize capitalism through the dead-end goal concerning “the democratization of the European Union”, the union which was formed by European capital for the more effective exploitation of the peoples of Europe and for it to prevail in its global competition with the USA and other imperialist powers.

The fact that the leading forces in the ELP, which lead this party and shape its political line, operate within the bounds of the capitalist mode of production, is apparent from their calls of support for the imperialist EU, in which they call on it to play an enhanced role in global affairs. It is also apparent from the fact that in their documents they focus on the so-called “neo-liberalism”, fostering illusions amongst the workers of Europe that there can exist another “management” policy within the framework of capitalism, which allegedly can solve the problems of the people. Yet again the dangerous role of the ELP is clear, as a vehicle to entrap forces within the framework of capitalism and as a “tail” of European social-democracy.

The “tears” which the ELP sheds in the documents of its 3rd congress in recognition of the fact that the disappearance of “existing socialism” has led to a deterioration of the life of the workers, are hypocritical when one takes into account that the forces which lead the ELP were amongst those that fought against the USSR and the other socialist countries, together with the right wing and the social-democrats, and today they still accepts and use the entire line of argument of the bourgeoisie, which ends up identifying communism with fascism. It is not by accident that in the documents of the ELP there is no mention of the unacceptable distortion of history, which the EU, the Council of Europe and the other imperialist organizations are carrying out against the history of the communist and workers’ movement in Europe.

The disagreements of the ELP with the militarization of the EU and international relations come across like the sermons of missionaries, when one considers that at the same time this party has declared its support for the more active role of the EU in the world and has accepted the Common Foreign and Security Policy. The same is true for its appeal concerning the “dissolution of NATO”, when this demand is not combined with the struggle for the disengagement of every member-state from it.

The references concerning a just solution to a series of international problems (Palestine, Cyprus, the blockade of Cuba) are extremely hypocritical when it is stated that they will be resolved, not through the anti-imperialist struggle of the peoples, but through the implementation of international and European law. What “law” is the ELP talking about? The decision of the Hague tribunal, which legitimized the NATO intervention in the Balkans and the protectorate of Kosovo, demonstrates clearly what international and European law means in reality. Another example is the decision of the European Court of Human Rights which vindicated Latvia, where the anti-fascist veteran Vasili Kononov has been persecuted and imprisoned by the government, because according to the court he acted as a “terrorist” in 1944, fighting against the Nazi hordes which had invaded his country, the USSR. Another demonstration of this is the disgusting and hostile common position of EU in relation to Cuba. It is shown by the legislative banning of the operations of CPs in a series of EU countries. It is shown by the banning of the symbols of the communist and workers movement in various EU countries. The ELP was once again silent on all these issues. It turns a blind eye and shows that it takes no account of imperialist barbarity which is demonstrated in various ways in the “law” which is prevalent today and is none other than the imperialist law of the strongest.

Comrades,

The time is ripe for illusions concerning the role which the ELP plays, to be overcome. The KKE calls on the communist and workers’ parties, which for different reasons joined as members and observers this specific “fabricated” party (which was created according to the EU’s conditions in order to serve it), to re-examine their position. The further weakening of this “left” party of the EU, the strengthening of the equal cooperation of communist and workers’ parties in Europe on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism, regardless of the conditions and boundaries which the EU places, constitutes the only hope for the regroupment of the European communist movement and is the only reliable response to the aggressiveness of European capital against the rights of the workers.

CC’s International Section of the KKE

[El Rojo]

greek conrades,

thankyou for the constant updates of the events in greece. your actions are dead useful to those of us who have no trust in the mainstream media.

i would like to put a question to you: do you think the radical struggle has advanced in greece since the large demonstrations and general strikes which paralysed greece months ago and caught the eye of the world's media? is revolution in yr country closer? i know this may be a tricky one to answer, but i would appreciate yr opinion

cheers

[Delenda Carthago]

greek conrades,

thankyou for the constant updates of the events in greece. your actions are dead useful to those of us who have no trust in the mainstream media.

i would like to put a question to you: do you think the radical struggle has advanced in greece since the large demonstrations and general strikes which paralysed greece months ago and caught the eye of the world's media? is revolution in yr country closer? i know this may be a tricky one to answer, but i would appreciate yr opinion

cheers
Ι have told this before many times in here: if there is no hope for other countries in Europe,there is no hope for Greece either.One small country with very small production cannot do something by itself.If the revolutionary dance would rise in Europe in general,sure.I think the chances are pretty good.

[Delenda Carthago]

This is from Germany,but since its aobut Greece and we dont have a thread about international solidarity actions, I post it here.



http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/spreepicture006_2746486.jpg (http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/spreepicture006_2746486.jpg)
Image scaled down
an autonomous group claims to be responsible for three arsons against atm money machines in districts of berlin. this happend 30/11/2010 in kreuzberg, friedrichshain and neukoelln, areas with lot of trouble.
the message says:
"we have in the night to 30 november ATMs in Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg and Neukölln pass to the flame.
We express our solidarity with the hostages of the Greek State. the names of those prisons in the greek are in our hearts are endless!
for freedom!
for the revolt!
groups of the flaming heart"

the declaration was published https://directactionde.ucrony.net/node/870
newspaper article about this action http://www.bz-berlin.de/tatorte/feuerattacke-auf-geldautomaten-article1049415.html


https://directactionde.ucrony.net/de/ (http://https//directactionde.ucrony.net/de/)

[Delenda Carthago]

students demo today.
photos http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1230943

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1230894

there was also an arson on the major's offices in Thesaloniki by some comrades.

also,nazis burned a squated harvest field by some comrades.its the third one this year on that field and the fifth they are making against anarchist squats,social centers and radio stations.

[Delenda Carthago]

Mexico – Communique for prisoners in Greece
(http://culmine.noblogs.org/files/2010/12/cailogo71.jpg)
[reposted from Culmine]
Time passes and everything stays the same… It could be for some like this, describing the reality that whips many of us, under a pessimistic pretext, like at the end of their conviction. Repression goes up a level, hate against the poor, destruction of the environment, exploitation of human dignity, assassinations of lives, like the small wild life that remains on this planet called Earth. Nothing has changed. Little we have influenced in the disruption of this reality, of this world that our free minds don´t belong to. If nothing has changed it´s perhaps for the lack of obligation, of courage and of conviction. For many this all seems like a game, to stand with a placard, yell a slogan, reform a law, only to alleviate their sense of guilt… but for many others this is serious, the thing here is, to what point one is seriously willing to go? The struggle needs obligation, it needs dedication, discipline, the struggle for the individual freedom as equal to that of the collective freedom. But what is wrong here is that many misunderstand these practices, confusing obligation with boredom, dedication with martyrdom and discipline with authoritarianism. The struggle doesn´t need bitter people, ready to die for the cause without living their lives fighting, without living with passion… and it doesn´t need temporary games, of fashion, of senseless acts. The struggle needs obligation and responsibility, obligation which is principally individual.
The enemy is strong, as strong as it has already demonstrated to us on many occasions, but us anarchists, authentic fighters, who are against injustice, racism, sexism, the domination of all forms of expression, we who are anti-authoritarian, we have our convictions and our desires to live, those which urge us to get up every morning with the fist held high, to confront a depressing reality, grey, boring and genocidal. These convictions are that which move us, which make us strong in front of the repressive assaults of the state, of which we are absolutely not afraid of, even when we know what it is capable of. Our conviction is the urge, the internal fire that takes us on our journey in the fight against power, in solidarity with out imprisoned compañ[email protected] in their dirty cells, tortured or killed by the jailers of the state: those for whom we have a bomb in our hands. Guarding it for the moment to give the most direct strike.
The whole world is in crisis. Each day, each moment, while we turn on the television, waiting to see some news that will be pleasing to us: riots in France, fascist journalists brought to justice in Greece, bombs in Chile, police killed in the black and immigrant neighbourhoods of the United State… etc. In each moment, in each instance capital and its power advances more, inundating the forests with urbanisation, inundating the lower class neighbourhoods with unnecessary luxuries, inundating the minds of the youth with the most absurd fashions, inundating the rest of society with a culture of misogyny and xenophobia, imposing the fear of the state and respect for the police. Terrorism is the order of the day.
Narco-insurgencia? What the fuck is that? The criminalisation of our struggle is knocking on the doors of the sleeping minds of society. Drug trafficking is our common enemy, or at least it has been converted into it. The sad part is that the majority of those in our struggle, sectors and movements ignore this problem, or don´t want to take it seriously. We aren´t willing to live in a Narco-State, which wouldn´t differentiate in any way to the current Capital-State. Even though the world is how it is, like many compañ[email protected] in Mexico and around the world, we maintain our convictions, willing to go to war until its final consequences, for life, for freedom, for dignity, for Anarchy!
Some of us are going to fall, we know this, we are going to die in the combat for liberty, but we are seriously willing to die fighting, to die living, because the struggle is our life, because it is that which makes us happy. We know that the enemy is strong, but we also know that our fight is just and necessary, authentic, nourishing with honesty, and wewholly trust our own intelligence.
We still have much to give, we still have many intentions to discharge the bullets of our guns against the federal police and the army. We have many bombs to detonate against genocidal and ecocidal corporations, against banks, against torture houses. We have many bullets for heads of power, for each judge, for each MP. We have many discourses; crude or appassionate. But also we have many dreams and utopias to realise, many things and reality to construct, many social relations to transform, many desires to love, much love for ourselves. We know that around the world there are also compañ[email protected], that give their lives in the combat against the indifference of the system, to liberate themselves and their people, they are fighting in the way that they prefer most, and how they most prefer to organise themselves: affinity groups, decentralised cells, armed anarchist groups, informal co- ordinations etc. We know that they are also convinced, we know that they are our compañ[email protected], we feel affinity with them. And it is for this, for them and for ourselves that this war will continue. For the struggle for social transformation, for a radical change, for the destruction of that which oppresses us, for Anarchy.
You mustn´t despair compañ[email protected] We have to be strategic. The war is present. The powerful and their bodies of protection of capital, politicians and torturers, are going to wish they were never born… it is one of our intentions that they will feel like this. Everything is going to explode, we have to prepare ourselves and maintain ourselves alert.
These words are dedicated to the compañ[email protected] of the group Revolutionary Struggle that are currency in prison: Panagiota Roupa, Kostas Gournas, Nikos Maziotis, to their conviction which gives us force. To our compañ[email protected] Giannis Dimitrakis, Konstantina Karakatsani, Lambros Foundas, and all those in Greece who are prisoners in this social war.
To the compañ[email protected] that proudly claim their participation in the Conspiration of the Cells of Fire. Compañ[email protected]: imprisoned or fallen- we will always have you present!
Even though prison is a depressing concept, you should know that there are free individuals who are fighting and that in each attack they direct against power, it is also in solidarity with you. The war is growing. The war for freedom is to the death and without truces with the enemy.
From Mexico to Greece: that the powerful who defend and perpetuate power tremble!
Sincerely:
The Autonomous Cells of the Immediate Revolution – Praxedis G. Guerrerro


maybe we should make a thread for the solidarity actions...

[Jazzhands]

maybe we should make a thread for the solidarity actions...

That's a good idea. If there comes to be a lot of them, we should move those posts in this thread to a new one and put all the new ones there too.

[Sentinel]

maybe we should make a thread for the solidarity actions...

Make it, and I will sticky it. Same goes for any other threads you think should be stickied, or other actions in this forum that you think should be done. Just PM me and I'll look into it.

I'm talking to everyone basically who physically is in Greece, or one of the other fronts of struggle we are discussing. I value any help from you greatly.

[Delenda Carthago]

Make it, and I will sticky it. Same goes for any other threads you think should be stickied, or other actions in this forum that you think should be done. Just PM me and I'll look into it.

I'm talking to everyone basically who physically is in Greece, or one of the other fronts of struggle we are discussing. I value any help from you greatly.
Ok I m making it.Please transfer the posts that are about solidarity over there.Thank you.

[Delenda Carthago]

The system is terrified!They closed all the streets of the center of Athens from tommorow at 10.00 till Tuesday 7.00!!Also all the metro stations around the place that the demostration was been called will be closed after police orders.

So much democracy havent happened since military dicatorship.


In other news: 4 people have been arrested yesterday with lots of guns.The cops say they are probably involved in the Revolutionaries Secht.

Huge fight broke out in GSEE when the GS Panagopoulos admited he had secret meetings with the bosses.People from base unions(runned mostly by anarchists and leftists)started to shout,DAKE(the right wing syndicate) and Autonomy Intervantion(Synaspismos syndicate)left the room.

[Delenda Carthago]

http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/wqeqwqw.jpg


These are the streets that will be closed even 10 hours after the call of for the demo. The place that the demo is been called is in the M spot close to the green part that says Αλσος Λυκαβητου.

http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/kentro.jpg

[Delenda Carthago]

We are at WAR. Political arrests and state terrorism

One day before the memorial of the assassination of Alexandros Grigoropoulos on December 6th, the Greek democratic dictatorship decided to activate in a tragicomic way its repression mechanisms in order to prevent the upcoming uprising of the society. All the regime’s servants are on the alert trying to manipulate the public opinion and terrorize the parts of the society that resist.
Yesterday night (December 4th), the scums of the anti-terrorist squad raid into various apartments and social spaces in Athens, Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Agrinio and Crete claiming that weaponry was found. The well-paid state media puppets set up feasts for the cop’s “success against terrorism”, producing hysteria and terror. After 24 hours it was announced that the weaponry found have never been used in any attacks.
After a full day of deliberate lack of information, in the evening of December 5th the police gave in publicity the names and the photos of the 6 persons arrested in Athens, Piraeus and Crete, asking “citizens” for more information… For the 2 of the 6 arrested persons, there were arrest warrants for the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” case.
The same night in Thessaloniki, secret cops and hooded cops of the anti-terrorist squad raid into the occupied anti-authoritarian space “Nadir” which is located in the students residence of Thessaloniki’s University. They seized papers and computers, beat the people inside, while they went on numerous detains and 11 arrests. Dozens of people in solidarity gathered outside the place. The cop’s raid followed after an attack to a private security guardhouse inside the University campus.
Also, cops blockaded streets in Agrinio, near the anarchist “Agrinio Haunt”. The electricity went off in the whole house block with the excuse of the “anti-terrorism raids”.
Junta banned the basic right of the detained and the arrested to contact with their lawyers for more than 24 hours.
Τhe announcement of the defense counsel of one of the allegedly arrested is characteristic:
“What with certainty so far has been disarticulated are the procedural rights of the detainees and to communicate with relatives and advocates. The absolute prohibition on the exercise of their fundamental rights, upon the completion of nearly 24 hours after their arrest, and the denial of confirmation of the names of the detainees, borders on rapture. Contempt is complemented by the usual method of selective leaks and communication manipulation of public opinion. And if all these are happening under the cover of the public prosecutor’s office, the coincidence of the mechanisms of repression not concerning protection, but in the abolition of the legal and constitutional order, is confirmed.
One day before the completion of two years of the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos, and while the whole society is in turmoil and is being prepared for mobilizations, the guilty State obviously needs to atone, to present successes and mainly to legitimize the authoritarianism which is being prepared for tomorrow’s anniversary.
Zero tolerance! No political and communication intentionality over rights and freedoms!
Athens, 5 of December of 2010, 12.00
The defense counsel of one of the alleged detainees”
Apart from the yesterday’s raids, detains and arrests, state went on an another pre-emptive move prohibiting the passage of vehicles in the whole center of Athens (!), because of tomorrow’s demonstration on December 6th. In particular, the vehicles passage will stop from 10am on December 6th till 7am on December 7th, while the parking in central Athens is prohibited from 6am of December 6th till 7am on December 7th as you can see on the picture.
http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2010/12/wqeqwqw-300x218.jpg (http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2010/12/wqeqwqw.jpg)
The students community and many anarchists/anti-authoritarian and far-left organizations are calling for gathering/demo in Propylea, central Athens. There are calls for demonstrations in more than 20 cities throughout Greece.

SOLIDARITY TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
WE ARE AT WAR
contrainfo.espiv.net (http://contrainfo.espiv.net/)

[Delenda Carthago]

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polytechnic school students protesting in Syntagma

[Delenda Carthago]

Remember, remember the 6th of December...


All around Greece, high school students are doing demostrations, attacking local police stations etc. At one hour the central student demostration begins.
At 4(GSM+2) is the big demo.The center of Athens is shut down. December uprise is not to be forgot.

[Ele'ill]

I was just gonna post that link- good deal

On second viewing I don't think it's a specific link

http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2010/12/05/we-are-at-war-political-arrests-and-state-terrorism/

[Delenda Carthago]

Ι dont fuckin know where to begin with about today...

just check the links

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1233057

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1232971

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1232776

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1232803

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1233102

[Delenda Carthago]

w-JipF0Nyck

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1233126

[bricolage]

How did these compare the anniversary demonstrations last year?

[Delenda Carthago]

How did these compare the anniversary demonstrations last year?
it was nothing like last year.for many many reasons.Some of them are:

A. Last year it was just a riot that lasted some hours and then we all went home.Now it was all day long with many different situations.In that sence,many people said that it reminded them of December(THE December).

B.Last year the cops were not as organised and as brutal. This year it was like we were fighting an army.

C.Last year we didnt had a May 5th behind us.Yesterday it was the first time after a long long time that molotvs were used massively.After May 5th there were no fires and shit around. Now its kinda came back.

D.Some of the last years students are this years collage and univercity students.So there was new people coming in.

[Delenda Carthago]

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Today there was a demo for the coming of Dominique Stauss-Kahn.

[Delenda Carthago]

| 2,000 locals attack riot police with molotovs, sticks, stones and gun shots in Keratea, Attica; Athens gears up for long week of anti-cuts mobilisations and General Strike

In the past two days, local residents of the area of Keratea in Attica (Greater Athens) have been engaged in a fierce battle with riot police (MAT). The riot police are there to protect the construction of a waste burial site (HITA). Such burial sites have not only been judged to be illegal by European courts but additionally, the site in Keratea is of archeological significance.
On Saturday, riot police arrived at the site to protect the ongoing construction works from the enraged locals. Clashes quickly erupted, with locals attacking the police with sticks, stones and scores of molotov cocktails. The police responded with tear gas while for the first time ever in Greece, water cannons also made their appearance. On Sunday evening, gunshots were aimed in the direction of the police from nearby hills.
Photos from Sunday’s clashes and corporate news video footage:
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1592769-300x195.jpg (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1592769.jpg)
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1592753-300x232.jpg (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/1592753.jpg)
http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/15927721-300x197.jpg (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/15927721.jpg)

At the same time, Athens is gearing up for what seems to be the largest general strike in a while. Tomorrow, the discussion over the new labour law will be commence in parliament. The law, expected to be voted in by Tuesday,will override the collective working sector agreements and allow bosses to set individual contracts instead. The law will also waive the number of workers that bosses are allowed to fire, along with the compensation that they must pay them. Corporate newspapers have dubbed this a “Taiwan model” for Greece.
The General Strike, called for Wednesday 15.12, is expected to be one of the largest the country has seen in a while. Workers in Public Transport will be on strike for the best part of the week; transportation will be available before and after the strike demonstration on Wednesday however, to facilitate people’s participation to the demo.
More news on the preparations for the strike will be published here over the next few days.


http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/13/442-2000-locals-attack-riot-police-with-molotovs-sticks-stones-and-gun-shots-athens-gears-up-for-long-week-of-anti-cuts-mobilisations-and-general-strike/

[Red Commissar]

Greece has never employed water cannons? Wow, I didn't know that.

[Delenda Carthago]

Greece has never employed water cannons? Wow, I didn't know that.
Athens is a city with small roads,where big cars cannot be used effectively. they used to had some auras, but they throw it away cause it wasnt any good at all.Chemicals is their first weapon, flash banks and of course,brute force and direct violence.And sometimes plastic bullets.

[Delenda Carthago]

shit is still going down in Keratea.Its completely nuts.Photos from today.

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1236686

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1236662

[Delenda Carthago]

For the 3rd time within 2 weeks,Athens burns.

General strike had more than 100.000 people(stupid ass BBC is talking about...15.000)

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/15/450-report-from-the-athens-march/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/8203486/Protesters-clash-with-police-on-streets-of-Athens.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWr9p-HhSps&feature=player_embedded

Before greek workers expirience

http://media2.feed.gr/filesystem/images/20090205/engine/assets_LARGE_t_420_2409189_type11495.jpg


Αfter greek workers expirience

http://static.madata.gr/files/xatzidakis1_140645181.jpg


From the base unions attempt to occupy the building of GSEE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G28CI8trJ_A

And another epic one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJZdWTiaJM&feature=player_embedded

edit 2: http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1237676

edit 3:
6 new threads of photos from yesterday
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1238315

follow the links in Indymedia.

[Sasha]

jezus, look like an fullblown war zone there.

[Sasha]

[GIO] Eyewitness report from Athens
Griekenland is overal! - 16.12.2010 02:17


A full description of today's demonstrations in Athens, by an active Greece is Everywhere participant. See below and: http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://griekenlandisoveral.wordpress.com/



http://www.indymedia.nl/img/2010/12/72371.jpg



(note: Use of a google map of Athens will help)

An eyewitness report

In Today’s demonstration in Athens, the gathering of the demonstrators extended from the junction of Leoforos Alexandras and Eikostis Ogdopis Oktovrioy/ Patision street, to Omonoias Square (Plateia Omonoias in Greek) , up Stadioy street until Korai square (Dragatsanioy and Paparigopoulou cross Stadioy street). It was thus one of the biggest demonstrations of late, equivalent to the massive demonstration of the 5th of May that took place in Athens, if not slightly bigger. It was a indisputably massive demonstration. Since we in Greece practically have a junta, and like the previous time we had a junta in Greece we had to listen to the international media in order to know what was going on in Greece, we will present here the figure that the BBC journalist covering the event gave for today’s demonstration. The BBC journalist calculated today’s demonstrators between 100.000 and 200.000.

Please see the following videos and read the descriptions of the events that took place in Athens today. You will find nowhere else such an objective and detailed description, especially not in the Dutch press.

The demonstrators marched up Stadiou street and towards Syntagma square where the Greek parliament is. As the demonstrators were pouring in Syntagama square in their tens of thousands, outraged and impoverished normal demonstrators attacked the Conservative MP K. Xatzidakis, a well know advocate of extreme neoliberal policies, which was arrogant enough to take a walk with his armed bodyguards next to the demonstrators at a crossing street of Panepistimioy street. What happened you can see in the following videos at 2:52 – 3:18 http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJZdWTiaJM&

and: http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWr9p-HhSps&

Following this event the riot police started attacking the whole demonstration at Syntagma square. Its aim was obviously to disperse the demonstration, cut it into two and remove all the demonstrators from Synatgma square so that the demonstration would not be able to be conducted and completed. It goes without saying that this strategy of the police is a gross violation of the Greek constitution and especially article 9 which guarantees and safeguards the right of the people to demonstrate. But the Greek police was never bind by the laws and the constitutional arrangements of the Greek state, so it proceded doing with what it knows best i.e. oppress democracy and the people’s democratic rights.

In this CNN video http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBCaDrG-_KI you see the riot police attacking the demonstration. The violent attack carried out by the riot police was of course directed against the demonstration as a whole. As the demonstrators received a barrage of tear gas and chemical gas attack by the riot police, they were swept from the Syntagma square. See video http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Tres394UM& which presents fragments of the massive police tear and chemical gas attacks in order to disperse the demonstrators on Syntagma square and cut the demonstration into two parts.

As a result of this attack, the massive blocks of demonstrators that were marching up the Stadio street were prohibited from entering Syntagma square and continuing their march, passing by the Greek parliament and then turning left on Leoforos Eleftherioy Venizeloy and then march down Panepistimioy street. Massive blocks of demonstrators were trapped between the junction of Leoforos Alexandras and Patision – Plateia Omonoias – and Stadio street and Servias Karagiorgi street. Masses of demonstrators remained on Panepistimioy street up to the area of Panepistimioy metro station, where the “Rectorship building” of the University of Athens is.

The riot police that was stationed in every crossing street of the previous mentioned boulevards were constantly bombarding all the demonstrators with every possible tear gas and chemical gas that you can imagine. Indicative of the atmosphere that the demonstrators faced are the images shown in the following video: http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv80b-E2pT0 There was not a single demonstrator today that was not affected by the tear and chemical gas attacks of the riot police. Nobody could breath properly without coughing, without feeling their eyes burning or without his or her skin being affected by the tear and chemical gas used by the Greek riot police.

The “Greek” government has made massive shipments of all these “products”, illegal according to international law, from the state of Israel recently.

In the CNN video http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBCaDrG-_KI you can see form 0:00 to 0:48 fragments of the attack of the riot police against the whole demonstration that happened on Syntagma square. Later on, you can see at 1:06 – 2:14 the attack by the riot police which cut the demonstration into two parts at Leoforos Eleftherioy Venizeloy and Synatgma square, while some demonstrators return in kind the violence to the riot police which had initiated far in advance a planned attack on the demonstrators.

You can also see in this video the demonstrators as well as the top parts of their banners as they are trapped on Servias Karagiorgi street and Leoforos Eleftherioy Venizeloy. Of course the masses of the demonstrators are marching up Stadio Street and not being able to enter the Syntagma square due to the actions of the riot police.

It goes with out saying that some demonstrators responded in the same terms to the violence of the riot police. In the following video http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJZdWTiaJM between 0:05 and 0:45 you can see the response of radical demonstrators, mainly anarchists, to the tear gas attacks that the riot police had unleashed upon the demonstrators. The violent scenes took place in front of the most expensive hotels in Athens: King George Hotel and Great Britain Hotel. Here multiple members of the EU–IMF troika who follow the implementation of the draconic neoliberal policies in Greece live and spent there time as well as the money of the Greek taxpayers who they are skinning alive with their policies. Two very expensive cars were burned during these clashes.

Between 0:46 – 0:50 you can see the result of the police tear and chemical gas barrage as it was redirected towards the area where the above mentioned demonstrators were.

Minutes 0:51 – 1:39 present part of the main police attack that took place at Leoforos Eleftherioy Venizeloy and Syntagma. The aim of the massive police attack was to cut the demonstration into two, which of course it achieved due to the violence and above all chemical and tear gas barrages that were used.

As the police attack against the demonstration intensified and the demonstration continued being cut into two parts at Leoforos Eleftherioy Venizeloy and Syntagma square, half of the block of the “Initiative of the Work floor Trade Unions” (i.e. the radical base trade unions, something close to the Italian COMBAS) were forced to retreat on Leoforos Vassilissis Amalias towards Zappeio and in front of the National Gardens, due to the police tear gas and chemical gas attacks.

In the video: http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_NPLjkVL5A from 0:00 to 0:19 you can see the movement of the demonstrators mentioned above, that were trapped in Syntagma square.

Simultaneously to these events, the police attacked the demonstrators at the junction of Stadio and Servias Karagiorgi street, which is the second entry for the demonstrators to Syntagma square. This can be seen in this video: http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_xjM_KNEp0

The demonstrators reacted and clashes between radical demonstrators broke out with the riot police units that were blocking the rest of the demonstrators from entering Syntagma square.

See minutes 1:40 – 2:21 of this video: http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuJZdWTiaJM

Clashes also took place near the ministry of Economics, as demonstrators that were on Syntagma square responded to the police maneuver that had cut the demonstration into two while other demonstrators tried to leave Syntagma square as they could not bear the tear and chemical gas attacks that the riot police had unleashed upon the whole demonstration. See video: http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tyMYevfgdo

However the demonstrators were not dispersing despite the police violence and the gas attacks. Instead they were constantly regrouping and trying to continue to march.

Following these events, the riot police carried out a massive attack sweeping every demonstrator from Syntagma square. Part of that police attack can be seen in the following video: http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EKfiN7iFUE

The police force shown in this video was stationed next to the Ministry of Economics at the junction of Fileleinon and Mitropoleos street (Syntagma square).

As time went by, the part of the block of the “Initiative of the Work Floor Trade Unions” that had retreated on Leoforos Vassilissis Amalias marched down Leoforos Vassilissis Amalias, Leoforos Eleftherioy Venizeloy and Panepistimioy street.

The demonstrators of the “Initiative of the Work floor Trade Unions” gathered in their way all the isolated groups of demonstrators that had found themselves trapped between the riot police units on the surrounding areas of Syntagma square. Thus gathering these scattered groups of demonstrators, liberating them and taking them with them. As soon as the block of the “Initiative of the Work floor Trade Unions” and other radical demonstrators reached Panepistimioy street, the massive blocks of demonstrators was reunited with the rest of the demonstrators.

In the mean time on the junction of Panepistimioy street and Sina street, a blood thirsty attack of the riot police units was unleashed against the student unions of the University of Athens. The students of the Physics Department of the University of Athens were in the unfortunate position to receive the main thrust of the murderous riot police attack. Of course the attack was as always unprovoked. Many students ended up in hospital once again, while the medical doctors that treated them were once again appalled by the violence of the riot police. (For previous condemnations by NHS Medical Doctors, of the violence exercised by the riot police against the Greek students see http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.enet.gr/?i=issue.el.home&date=12/12/2010&id=232511 text in Greek, a “google translation” is indicative enough though. The text is published in the third biggest Greek daily newspaper)

The student demonstrators were able to regroup – which is a miracle in itself – and continued their demonstration.

The “Initiative of Work floor Trade Unions” and the demonstrators of the Anti-Authoritarian Movement (A.K.) continued marching down Panepistimiou street towards Omoneia square, were they turned right on Eikostis Ogdopis Oktovrioy/ Patision street. The demonstrators marched towards junction of Leoforos Alexandras and Eikostis Ogdopis Oktovrioy/ Patision street, the place which they had initially gathered at the start of the demonstration. The offices of the official trade union federation (GSEE) are to be found near that junction. As the official trade union federation has been actively involved in the implementation of the cancellation of collective bargaining in Greece (a decision which has lead to the disintegration of the presidency of the Trade Union federation, the official president of which has gone into hiding in his villa in Politia, the most expensive suburb of Athens and was nowhere to be found today) the demonstrators attempted to occupy the offices of the Trade union federation (GSEE). They were met though by units of riot police which underestimated the strength of the demonstrators and attacked them. Fragments of the clashes that took place in the surrounding areas of the offices of the official trade union federation can be seen in the following video: http://www.indymedia.nl/images/extlink.gif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G28CI8trJ_A

The riot police units were forced to retreat, while a riot police unit pulled out their guns and threatened the demonstrators with their guns in their attempt to prevent the demonstrators which had pulled them aside from entering and occupying the offices of the official trade union federation. It is the second time in the past weeks that the police pulled their guns against striking demonstrators. The junta is back.

However 100.000 – 200.000 people that participated in today’s demonstration in Athens as well as the millions that were on strike today have given their verdict to the government of the rich Greeks, the IMF and the EU, your time has passed, it is time for all of you to go.

The junta will fall. As it has happened in the resent past, once again the coming days or months the junta governing Greece will fall.

The struggle continues.

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[RedPersonality]

On the 15th of December the 14th general strike in the space of one year (from 17/12/2009) took place against the barbaric anti-people measures of the social-democratic government, which has the support of the EU and IMF.
The 24hour strike mobilization, which the All-workers Militant Front (PAME) called, embraced every sphere of the economic and social life of the country: Production halted in the factories, public transport stopped, the airports and ports ceased to function, the schools and universities closed, while the hospitals serviced only emergencies.

Thousands of communists, members of the KKE and KNE, together with other militants, were on the picket lines from the crack of dawn on the 15th of December defending the strike at the factory gates, on the ships’ ramps, at every workplace where it was necessary.

On the 15/12 PAME organized demonstrations in 63 towns, in which a large majority of the striking workers participated, showing in this way that more and more workers are turning their backs on the compromised trade union leaderships of the federations in the public and private sector (GSEE and ADEDY), which have participated in social dialogues to decide on these savage anti-worker measures both openly and in secret.

The self employed and poor and medium farmers demonstrated together with the workers and employees, while everywhere the massive participation of the youth (students and workers) was evident in the strike mobilizations.(...)
more here (http://inter.kke.gr/News/2010news/2010-12-16-strike)

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[Sasha]

@ greeks;

i see in the recent vids lots of rioters use fire extinguishers to repell/confuse the cops, is it known in greece that if the extinguishers are not permanently under pressure you can take out the powder (watch out, very bad for your health) and replace it for thinned down oil/therpetine based paint?

[thälmann]

"nevertheless, the international media once again focused on the isolated incidents of the provocateur mechanisms with the police and not on the hundreds of thousands of workers who demonstrated in dozens of greek cities." why the hell are the kke always calling militant people provocateurs? this is tactically stupid and also wrong.

[Palingenisis]

"nevertheless, the international media once again focused on the isolated incidents of the provocateur mechanisms with the police and not on the hundreds of thousands of workers who demonstrated in dozens of greek cities." why the hell are the kke always calling militant people provocateurs? this is tactically stupid and also wrong.

To be honest I have heard a lot bad about the KKE.

They should not have condemned the December uprising.

A lot of the anarchists are basically decent working class kids...While Greek cops have a rep which I believe is true for being fascist scum.

[Delenda Carthago]

To be honest I have heard a lot bad about the KKE.

They should not have condemned the December uprising.

A lot of the anarchists are basically decent working class kids...While Greek cops have a rep which I believe is true for being fascist scum.
KKE even condemned the beating of Hatzidakis(which was done by 50 year old workers) as "not the real peoples angst against the political system". Why "the real"? Because if its not KKE,for them its not the REAL people, the REAL working class.Its ridiculus. During December,they had stated that cops "are also children of the working class". Fuck KKE on that matter.

[RedPersonality]

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[thälmann]

i remember the "peoples of europe rise up" thing from kke, what do they think rise up means?
and its also wrong to say only anarchists in greece are militant. kke are not the only communists there. but i guess the problems with revisionist partys are everywhere the same...

[Delenda Carthago]

i remember the "peoples of europe rise up" thing from kke, what do they think rise up means?
and its also wrong to say only anarchists in greece are militant. kke are not the only communists there. but i guess the problems with revisionist partys are everywhere the same...
The only communist party that can match up on militant level with the anarchists is a small trot party called EEK, part of the CRFI.And anyway, they are the closest to the antiauthoritarian space. The rest of the left, 90% of the times are aplauding the fires that happened in the past or in other countries.

Other than that, "peoples of the Europe rise up" probably means "vote for those that KKE approves".

[Delenda Carthago]

Today was announced the final sentence at the court of appeals for comrade Giannis Dimitrakis. The sentence after the fusions is 12,5 years of imprisonment (less than the 35 years he got at the first trial).

GIANNIS DIMITRAKIS TRIAL UPDATE SENTENCED ANNOUNCED 23/12/10 Today was announced the final sentence at the court of appeals for comrade Giannis Dimitrakis. The sentence after the fusions is 12,5 years of imprisonment (less than the 35 years he got at the first trial). All together he was found guilty for the robbery in the national bank on Solonos str, (7 years imprisonment), guilty for mental support in the attempted homicide of the guard of the bank (6 years imprisonment), guilty for participating in a gang (4 years imprisonment), guilty for using a gun (2 years imprisonment). He was not recognized with mitigations but with the fusion of the sentences the final sentence is 12.5 years. The sentence he has to serve is 3/5 so Giannis Dimitrakis has to serve 7.5 years. He has already served almost 5 years. The room was full of supporters, that burst out in slogans and clapping after the announcement of the decision. The presence of the cops was discreet without EKAM (greek special forces) and masked ones as at previous trials. The speeches and points made of the defence lawyers were remarkable and they didn't speak of a "victory" ofcourse but for a "proportional sentence that corresponds the charges" The comrade was led again to prison with his fists raised and in the next days he is expected to be led to Domokos prison from the prisons of Koridallos where he was kept temporarily for the trial.

THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN THEIR PRISONS
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[Delenda Carthago]

LETTER FROM COMRADE CHRISTOFOROS KORTESIS IMPRISONED FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE CASE 18/11/10 Seven months after my arrest and the well advertised TV, and not only, delirium of the authorities and the antiterrorist police, I am still imprisoned for participation inRevolutionary Struggle. I am convinced that my persecution has a clear character, with an obvious target the penalisation of the political movement to which I belong, my comrade and friendly relationships, and at the same time the exemplification and terrorisation of wider parts of society who are already fighting, or will choose to resist, the current economic and social conditions of oppression, imposed with an increasingly intensified pace.To clarify my position, from the first moment of my arrest I said I am an anarchist. I deny to renounce my political identity and for years now conscious choice to openly participate with hundreds of comrades in all social struggles. I deny to renounce my comrade and friendly relationship -as many comrades- with Anarchist fighter Lambros Foundas. The ʽstrongʼ, ʽincriminatingʼ evidence that the prosecution throws against me, is as follows a fingerprint of mine on a political pamphlet in the house of L.Foundas and an alleged visit to the house of a friend and comrade, co-accused, of mine. My application for release was denied because of the fingerprint mentioned above and one more ʽstrong piece of evidenceʼ: a fingerprint of a co-accused of mine on a ʽsuspiciousʼ object in my house, a dvd of an american movie.

Since when is it illegal to possess and exchange leaflets with a political antiauthoritarian content? Since when are visits to friendsʼ houses persecuted? What morbid imagination baptises the house Iʼve lived in permanently in nea filadelifia, a ʽsafe houseʼ? Letʼs get serious. For those that forgot or for those that donʼt know, forbidding people to go out after 10pm, gathering in groups of 3 or more, to freely distribute pamphlets with a political content, belongs to other regimes, which those as well (accidental? I donʼt think so) call themselves democratic.

My refusal to give a DNA sample is due solely to my political beliefs and values and not dictated by any fear to prove my ʽguiltʼ, as its being implied. Of course I refuse to cooperate with the authorities and repressive mechanisms in their attempt of biological (and any other) data basing with obvious aims.At this point I would like to clarify that I am not possessed with the logic of victimisation, since I have no illusions about democracy, neither about the ʽfairnessʼ of Justice. As an anarchist I do not condemn any form of struggle – postering, actions of counter-information, political texts, occupations, protests, dynamic actions, ex-appropriations, urban guerrilla warfare- which historically have been chosen and used by fighting people (anarchists, communists, wider resisting parts of society).I am not willing to give away to the authorities any information of my personal life and no ʽprintʼ of my comrade relations and my political choices.

And the carousel of the targeting not only of specific people but ultimately of the concept of comradeship itself and the choice of solidarity is widened. Dozens of comrades from the antiauthoritarian movement are called as witnesses with always the same reasoning (fingerprints on books, CDs, doors and windows…now in the houses of friends and comrades imprisoned for participation in Revolutionary Struggle) culminating in the indictments of four more people from the friends or even the family of the arrested!

The attack of the Regime- with its current spokesmen the ʽantiauthoritarianʼ PASOK (governing party) and the fellow governing parties- of course is not aimed exclusively to the anarchist movement, but the generalised explosions that are being prepared by wider social parts as healthy reactions to the economic misery (wage and pension cuts, of working relationships, thousands of layoffs etc.) and the complete degradation of human dignity. The images of the violent treatment of the strikers, unemployed, worker protestors, (gathering of workers at the acropolis and outside ministries) are neither fragmented actions, or ʽunfortunateʼ incidents of police brutality.

The state arms not only its repressive (hundreds of new recruits to the security forces) but also its legal arsenal. How else can you interpret the new antiterrorist law that baptises ʽterrorismʼ even syndicalist actions (with obvious target the basic unions and not of course the ʽmilitantʼ GSEE), the participation in dynamic protests and brings back the anonymous prosecution witnesses- does this remind anyone of those collaborators with the hoods and their fingers stretched out? Who exactly does the infamous ʽdogma of securityʼ want to protect with the police filled cities and neighbourhoods, if not the system itself? And who purposely cultivates the fear (e.g. of a coming bankruptcy for which everyone supposedly has a responsibility!) in order to obtain a social consensus insidious plans?Christoforos Kortesiscourt prisons of Corinthos.
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[Sasha]

some posts from the occupied london website:


#460 | Anarchist squat evicted in the city of Patras; ten detained (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/28/460-anarchist-squat-evicted-in-the-city-of-patras-ten-detained/)

Tuesday, December 28, 2010
At around 07.30 this morning police raided the anarchist squat Maragopouleio that had been in operation for the past few months in the city of Patras, W. Greece. Ten people were detained and have now been transferred to the local police HQ where the police are trying to force them to sign papers admitting responsibility for the occupation, while it seems that the lawyer who had been called to the spot is not allowed access to them.
More info as it comes.
UPDATE 10.25 AM The ten people arrested at the Maragopouleio squat have now been released. They have all been charged with a misdemeanor (“disruption of public peace”) and will be facing a trial.

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#459 | Keratea residents symbolically block Athens International Airport in their struggle against waste burial site (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/27/459-keratea-residents-symbolically-block-athens-international-airport/)

Monday, December 27, 2010
The residents of the town of Keratea, in SE Attica, have been in a fierce struggle against the construction of a waste burial in their area (in what is in fact an archaeological site) and have clashed fiercely with riot police who have come to protect the construction works, as a response. Yesterday (26.12) a small contingency of the Keratea residents went up to Athens International Airport (around 10 miles north from their town) and symbolically blocked access to it. The struggle of the locals continues – updates at the Keratea anti-landfill struggle tag (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/tag/keratea-anti-landfill-struggle/)

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#458 | 32-year old Egyptian migrant Emad Aziz dies while working without insurance at the Greek Ministry of Employment (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/24/458-32-year-old-egyptian-migrant-emad-aziz-dies-while-working-without-insurance-at-the-greek-ministry-of-employment/)

Friday, December 24, 2010
On Sunday 19.12 32-year old Emad Aziz, from Egypt, slipped off the third floor of a building of the Ministry of Employment and Social Security in central Athens. Emad, who was cleaning the exterior windows at the time, worked with no social insurance. He was immediately transferred to hospital where he passed away.
Vlasia Papathanasi, the general secretary of the Union of Cleaners and Domestic Workers, stressed that the cleaning of the building had been commissioned to a labour recruitment office which used a loophole in the law in order to employ Emad without offering him social insurance.
Emad was the father of four children. The Cleaners Union is calling for a gathering on Wednesday 29.12 at 6 pm outside the building where he died at number 4, Korai Street in Athens.

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#457 | Immigrants under attack by fascist/police mob in the streets of Athens (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/23/457-immigrants-under-attack-by-fascistpolice-mob-in-the-streets-of-athens/)

Thursday, December 23, 2010
Early this afternoon, on Patision street just outside ASOEE (the Athens School of Economics and Business), immigrant street vendors were attacked by a large group of between 30-50 police and what people suspect were either undercovers or fascists. This brutal attack resembled nothing less than a lynch mob.
It is common for many immigrants to gather on this crowded part of the street to sell things to passersby, normally looking out for each other and moving away if cops are seen approaching.
The police and undercovers/fascists (including DIAS, Delta, and municipal police) hid in the back streets in order to take the street vendors by surprise. They attacked, chasing, smashing their belongings, and beating the immigrants. They ran to the university trying to take refuge. The immigrants together with comrades who were in ASOEE repulsed the cops at the gate of the university with the help of some fire extinguishers. In this scuffle a municipal police van was smashed by the immigrants.
Coincidentally at this time some anarchist/antiauthoritarian comrades were already gathering nearby, handing out texts in the buses outside ASOEE, continuing the public transport interventions (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2010/12/11/440-transportation-interventions-continue-across-athens/) in solidarity with striking workers, and against the payment of tickets, the inspectors, and the logic of the public transport service in a capitalist society. Unfortunately, due to the events concerning the police attack on the immigrants, this action was cut short.
About an hour after the initial police attack a group of police on motorcycles passed by. A small measure of vengeance was had as they were attacked and beaten with poles by some enraged immigrants together with comrades in solidarity.
Moments later a larger squad of motorcycle cops rushed in to attack the people gathered outside of ASOEE, throwing flashbangs into the crowd. Many immigrants and comrades outside fought back with poles, chairs, and other objects.
Arrests may have occurred earlier but at this point none are confirmed.

[Delenda Carthago]

In 6 cities and towns there were the annual demostrations outside of the prisons for the change of the year.2010 brought many more comrades behind the bars, I think the number its 25 right now, but I m not really sure because its so many cases.

video from Koridalos prisons,[email protected]
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1243848

edit: a very good picture taken from Athens prisons. This is the best way to celebrate New Years Eve!
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[Delenda Carthago]

Greek government announces plan to construct security fence on the Turkish border

On December 31st, 2010 the Greek minister of civil protection, Christos Papoutsis, announced his ministry’s plan to construct a so-called “security fence” on the country’s overland border with Turkey in Thrace. Papoutsis added that “only migrants with a right to asylum” would be allowed to remain in the country. Greece is already notorious for the extremely low percentage of successful asylum applications.
The original announcement was for a fence that would cover the entire length of the Greek-Turkish border (206 km). The ministry was swift to amend this announcement with a new one according to which only the “weakest spot” of the border would be covered by a fence – approximately 12,5 km in length and 3m tall.



The wall of shame, greek version...

[RedPersonality]

Symbolic Events at the Banks
Currently workers, Workers´ Federations, trade unions, women´s associations, self-employed belonging to the forces of PAME of PASEVE of PASY, of the Students´ Struggle Front of Students, of OGE are holding a symbolic event in Athens at the Bank of Greece, in Thessaloniki at the Agricultural Bank , the National Bank of Piraeus, in Heraklion at Eurobank, in Nafplion and Tripoli at the Agricultural Bank, in Chania and Rethymno at the National Bank, in Arta and Corinthos at the Agricultural Bank, in Kefalonia and Kalamata at the National Bank, in Larissa at the Agricultural and National Bank, in Zakynthos and Pyrgos at the National Bank, in Corfu at Eurobank, in Patras at the Agricultural and the National Bank, in Sparta and Ioannina at the Agricultural Bank, and many more will follow.

We denounce the overall attack on workers, working strata by the government, Troika, EU and monopolies and the bank capital which acts as a spearhead. Its owners are bankers, industrialists, businessmen, merchants, who jointly exploit and rob the people.
They rob the working classes with the difference between deposits and loans, the "legal usury”. They grab by the throat these people who are forced to get loans, mortgages or other kind. They strangle small, medium, craftsmen and merchants, poor farmers. At the same time they exploit the bank employees in the severest way.

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We demand:

-Delete now the debts of the unemployed, the self-employed, the people who have closed their businesses, and poor farmers. To prohibit banks from using the different collection agencies for the intimidation of workers and popular households.
-Give the seized houses to unemployed people or young couples who do not have a job. Granting of loans at an interest rate of 1% to people with low income, poor farmers, low pension people, under the responsibility of the state.
-Prohibition by law of all auctions of primary and secondary houses and farmlands, with today´s objective value of 300.000 Euros and up to 150 sqm for the popular four-member family.
-Abolition of the compound for all loans.
-Prohibition of the rate gap between deposits and loans to exceed the 1% difference.

[Delenda Carthago]

PRESS RELEASE 8/1/2011
End of the Road Tolls Tomorrow in Greece.
People's massive response to the economic crisis and austerity measures. There is a massive citizens movement growing rapidly over the last few weeks in Greece,called "WE DO NOT PAY ROAD TOLLS -WE DO NOT PAY YOUR CRISIS".Watch tomorrow's massive movement on STOPCARTEL web TV.
There is a massive citizens movement growing rapidly over the last few weeks in Greece,called "WE DO NOT PAY ROAD TOLLS -WE DO NOT PAY YOUR CRISIS".Private multinational Companies, granded by the government the right to establish Road Tolls all over the country announced this week that already 30% of the Greek drivers refuse to pay daily.The movement organizers point out that the roads are the people's property, constructed with the money of the taxpayers over the
years and therefore nobody has the right to demand payment for their use.They also remind that the taxpayers provide for the maintenance of their National Roads Network through the multiple heavy taxation they pay for this purpose.
Three days ago a massive government and multinational companies combined campaign errupted through the conventional Greek Media, terrorising the citizens refusing to pay the road tolls,with imposition of heavy penalties and imprisonment !The movement's legal advisors response is catalytic ,refering to violation of basic constitutional rights in case the government tries to materialize their threats...
The citizens angry response to the government and multinational companies terrorism, is going to be Road Tolls "defacto" elimination from Nothern Greece ,Macedonia to the Southern city of Kalamata.This is planed for tomorrow Sunday 9 of January.
The response of the mass citizens movement fighting for the complete abolition of the Road tolls throughout the country to the Greek government's hysteria
is to take place tomorrow Sunday, January 9 at all tolls throughout the country.
Local commitees of the movement, formed all over the country, will open at the same time, starting 3 pm local Athens time, all the Road Toll Stations so the drivers will be passing through without payment !

STOPCARTEL web TV-GR will be broadcasting LIVE the demonstrations as from 3 pm local Athens time
Site,blog,facebook owners are able to re-broadcast in real time this extraordinary political event from Greece,clicking the EMBED button on the left lower edge of the screen at the Greek section of www.stopcartel.org (http://www.stopcartel.org/)
STOPCARTEL TV links :
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OR
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[Delenda Carthago]

LETTER OF KOSTAS SAKKAS FROM NAVPLIO PRISONS 3/1/11 http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2011/01/letter-of-kostas-sakkas-from-navplio.html

Letter from imprisoned comrade Christos Politis, one of the 6 arrested on the 4th of December 2010 READ....actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2011/01/letter-from-imprisoned-comrade-christos.html
On 4 December 2010, G.Karagiannidis and A.Mitroussias were arrested and detained due to warrants pending against them for The Conspiracy of Cells of Fire case
Letter from Alexandros Mitrousias, Kostas Sakkas and Giorgos Karagiannidis ( GREECE) Letter from Alexandros Mitrousias,Kostas Sakkasand Giorgos Karagiannidis19/1/2011

We declare clearly and to all directions that no one from our three co-defendants has any relation with the charges they are accused for. The prosecution of anarchist Christos Politis was clearly carried out for political reasons, since it had been attempted unsuccessfully by the persecutory authorities, few days before his arrest, to sentence him for the case of arson on the Court of Appeals inAthens. We clarify that this person never had any relation or contact with us and he is persecuted with the ridiculous evidence that he supposedly provided counter-observation for one of us, only because he happened to be in near by streets of Peiraias. We express our solidarity to his person and demand the ceasing of any prosecution against him and that he is released immediately.Regarding the other two of our co-defendants, Stella Antoniou and Dimitris Michail, we clarify that they are persecuted based on their personal and friendly acquaintance with us. Unfortunately it is not the first time that friendly relations of people belonging to the anarchsit movement, are criminalized and turned into charges, since they were obviously imprisoned for revenge by the State. They also have our unreserved solidarity, our friendship and our love, and we also demand their release as well.
Alexandros MitrousiasKostas SakkasGiorgos Karagiannidis

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[Delenda Carthago]

Stylianos Glykofrydis should have been a really prominent man during his times, while he had served as director and general supervisor of prisons. He had been calling the government to fight against communism “imitating straightly or in a milder way the acts of Hitler” while in 1936 proposed for the Communists waiting for a trial to limit their rights during the visiting and the courtyard time (toavoidcontactwithotherprisoners “that lead to the well-known and unwanted results”). The thoughts, the perception, the proposals of Stylianos Glykofridis certainly were not left untapped by the modern state.
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The truth is that they are interested in keeping me as a hostage exactly because I am an anarchist. Because during the last 15 years I am active in this radical political part. Inmy case, it is not simplyattempted only theupgrading but also the development of the repression method of criminalizing friend and comrade relationships, the results of which are experienced lately by dozens of fighters. In my case, the antiterrorist unit moves to build up relationships which do not exist in reality while I do not even know personally my co-defendants. After my pre-jailing, while the hooded antiterrorist units were talking more often with the investigator judge than my lawyers were, I get led to Grevena jailhouse, a detention establishment of C Type. Despite that according to the penal code “In C Type jailhouses are kept without communication with prisoners of other categories, prisoners who serve penalty of life-time imprisoning or temporary imprisoning for at least ten years and are accounted as particularly dangerous for the smooth co-existence in other types of jailhouses”. An isolated jailhouse, with law buildings and high walls in order to cut from sight anything from the environment, with cameras and electronic security systems everywhere. A static and stony construction that wants to deprive any exoteric stimulus, to flatten your personality, to destroy you mentally. Obviously, while following orders they put me in a “security” sector, without being asked for something like this from mine, without being threatened by anyone and despite my continues applies to get out of here. The result of this deliberate persistence is to impose on me an aberrational status quo of absolute isolation, trying to – up to a level – to raise my request for my transfer to Korydallos jailhouse. The economical policy definitely includes as a supplement also a new “quality” of state repression. Today that capitalism can not hide its real face, the social consent can be approached only through violence. Through the courts’ decision that judge the workers’ strikes as illegal, through water cannons, through threatens for levy en mass, through tear-gases, through “antiterrorist” operations. Through the callouts for self-control and through the screams of journalists. Only and only through these methods, the Greek state will become a successful experiment, that will turn the country into a region-part of strong Europe and make it an economical paradise for the bosses. With a population keeping holding on, waiting for someone to come and save them and the persons who are counted as left-over crowding in front of soup-kitchens or inside the jailhouses. Already, since the beginning of the 70’s, the “antiterrorist” policy has overcome the traditional anticommunist policy. It has turned into the answer coming straightly from the status quo, into the repression of an enemy who was everywhere present, diffused, flexible and not specific and static like the formal Communistic Parties or the Soviet Army in Eastern Europe. Already, the new enemy was found among the dynamic and polymorphic movements, among the proletarian parts that do not get homogenized, among the urban guerilla. So today, when more and more actions and political practices are under the targeting of the Counter Authority for Crimes of Special Violence, the “antiterrorism” for the Authorities is something to be commanded in order to keep the people’s rage encaged inside the limits of a pretended realism and conformism. That’s the reason of the persecutions with doubtful DNA samples, of the cascade upgrades on the “terror-law”, of the “wanted” callouts, of the special offences (ιδιώνυμο) against comrade and social relationships, of the continues surveillances, of the hundreds of fighting persons who are judicial hostages and the dozens of persons who are kept inside the jailhouses, of the mass media propaganda that talks about “terrorists” and “co-transportingvessels”… All these, in order to lend fake meanings on words, to isolate and finally smash the internal enemy. To smash all these people who stir up the class hate and escalate the national division, all those who boost solidarity, self-organized action and clash with the status quo. The bet for us on the time of our seasons is, more urgent than ever, to determinate the line of history. Because Capitalism, its total poverty and misery that are imposed, is not a one-way direction.
Christos Politis Grevena Isolation Jailhouse 8th January 2011

[PhoenixAsh]

Thank you.

What has irritated me is the lack of open international support from revolutionary movements in the form of world wide solidarity protests.

There were, to my recollection, some small protests launched. But these were more informal than a united left front.

Workers solidarity was not there and was in fact discouraged by the unions. I have heard several union representatives argue against the protests in Greece since their workers rights caused problems for the workers within the EU. And socialist parties declare solidarity but do not actively mobilize their people.

While I am no longer active in organized political parties and no longer in any position to influence their decissions...perhaps I do not have right to denounce that.

but I do find it odd...

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Workers solidarity was not there and was in fact discouraged by the unions. I have heard several union representatives argue against the protests in Greece since their workers rights caused problems for the workers within the EU.
Sorry,what?

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American presses attempted murder charges against Delta Police for beating in demonstration- Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler are amongst 170 internationals to denounce Delta Police and call for investigation

[ Text and photos in greek http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1252246 ]

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American presses attempted murder charges against Delta Police for beating in demonstration- Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler are amongst 170 internationals to denounce Delta Police and call for investigation

This morning in Athens, an American anarchist has pressed attempted murder charges against Delta and Dias motorcycle police, as well as the relevant commanding officers, for a beating she suffered at the intersection of Patision and Stournari streets, while demonstrating against the IMF on November 15th, 2010. Meanwhile, over 170 members of the American and European scholarly community, including Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, and Immanuel Wallerstein, have denounced the behavior of the Delta police towards demonstrations and specifically the beating of the American demonstrator, calling the attack on her “nearly fatal”.
The November 15th Beating
On the night of the 15th of November, the 27 year old, 48 kilo protester was rushed bleeding and semi-conscious to the Erythros Stavros emergency room, where she was diagnosed as multiply- injured and having been brutally beaten by S. Marianou, a forensic surgeon. She was released after three days. Among multiple injuries to her head, neck, back, and abdomen, she suffered from a skull fracture, blood hemorrhaging, and permanent damage to her inner ear. She also received stitches on the side of her head where she was injured by the first blow from the police by what surgeons in the hospital called a “blunt object”- the impact of which had rendered her immediately unconscious.
The demonstration took place on the first day of anniversary celebrations of the historic 1973 Polytechnio uprising, and was attended by thousands of people ranging from base unions to student organizations to left parties and anarchists, protesting the arrival of IMF officials in Athens that day.
Eye-witness say that as the demonstration was coming to end at Polytechnio at approximately 8pm, up to 15 Delta police on motorcycles charged a student block at the back of the demonstration on Patision street, throwing concussion grenades into the crowd and sending people into a panic.
According to eye-witness accounts, one of the Delta police ran towards the American woman and hit her from behind with a blunt object, immediately knocking her unconscious and causing her head to gush blood. Then multiple officers beat her with batons and kicked her before dragging her to an adjacent sidewalk, where she was beaten again by multiple officers. The officers attempted to handcuff her, but because of her condition they decided to leave her. She later recovered her consciousness. – “When I woke up I was surprised because I was in a different place than I had last remembered when the police first hit me. I could not hear anything from my right ear, and I could not turn my head or move my right arm- I thought my neck was broken. I saw blood on the sidewalk all around me and on the column in front of me. I was incredibly dizzy and it was difficult to remain conscious.”
The American demonstrator was brought to the hospital by ambulance after being given first aid in the Alpha theater on Patision by members of EEK(Workers Revolutionary Party).
Eleytherotypia reported, “We saw her in the ambulance full of blood. She was bleeding from her head, her ear, and her nose.”
The doctors said that she had multiple injuries and admitted her for care. She was also screened for internal bleeding, as she had lost urine during the beating as a result of being kicked directly in the kidneys. Four police officers had followed her to the hospital, where they repeatedly tried to intimidate her and interrogate her throughout the night despite her debilitated condition. However, people who showed up in solidarity as well as the doctors prevented them from approaching her bed well into the late hours of the night.
Attempted Homicide Charges Against the Delta
Her lawyer, Giota Massouridou, claims that the policeʼs actions were intentionally lethal given that she was beaten for a prolonged amount of time while clearly bleeding from the head and unconscious, and that the medical reports show that the police targeted the most vulnerable parts of her body- repeatedly beating her on the head, neck, and mid-section. The fact that the officers dragged her limp body several meters to the sidewalk evidences that they were aware that she was completely unconscious and unresponsive, and yet they continued the beating on the sidewalk- as witnesses say- for up to two minutes. Massouridou also says that given the American womanʼs petite size, it obviously would have been difficult for her to sustain such an attack from multiple policemen, and that it is by pure luck she is alive.
Additionally, the officers left her unconscious on the sidewalk, indicating that they wanted to avoid responsibility for the extent of her injuries, especially in the case that she would not survive.
Along with attempted murder, the American woman is also charging the police with continuous and collective use of illegal violence, breach of duty, and abuse of authority.
In light of the beating of the American anarchist, an international denouncement of Delta police was made by over 170 professors, journalists, legal scholars, and university students from the United States and Europe, including several well-known academics and writers such as Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler.
“There is a long history of complaints against Delta police for physical brutality, as there are several other cases of demonstrators being hospitalized with severe injuries after receiving beatings from Delta police, ” the statement reads. “We urge a full disclosure of information regarding the identity of the Delta unit responsible for the excessive attack on the night of the 15th of November. ”
There are other indicative charges which have been brought against the Delta police for brutality towards demonstrations. Charges were brought by Professor Aggeliki Koutsoumpou, who was seriously injured on the 6th of December 2009, when a Delta police officer rammed her with his motorcycles during a demonstration. On January 4rth, the political organization ʽDikaiomaʼ sued the DELTA and DIAS for an assault on their block during a December 15, 2010 general strike demonstration.
In a press conference the lawyer for Dikaioma, Kostas Papadakis, said, “It is only a matter of time before the Delta police kill someone.”
The american anarchist, who still suffers from a fractured skull and permanent hearing loss, said in reference to the actions of the police: “What happened to me is not an isolated incident, it is a daily occurance because it is the very role of the police in co-operation with state and capital. This beating will not make me afraid, it does not stop me or anyone else from going to demonstrations – although itʼs true that the police came close to killing me that night, we go into the streets because capitalism murders us everyday.”

[Delenda Carthago]

<H2 class=entry-title> (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/01/28/485-middle-of-the-night-operation-sees-hunger-strikers-and-people-in-solidarity-move-to-another-building/)#485 | Middle-of-the-night operation sees hunger strikers and people in solidarity move to another building (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/01/28/485-middle-of-the-night-operation-sees-hunger-strikers-and-people-in-solidarity-move-to-another-building/)

Friday, January 28, 2011
09.00 GMT+2 In the middle of what seemed like a very long night, the hunger strikers who were in the Law School in Athens and the people who were with them in solidarity moved to another central Athens building (privately owned) where they will continue their strike. A fresh solidarity demonstration has been called for today in Athens (6pm at the Archaeological Museum).
Photos from the demonstration yesterday at 4 a.m. (!)
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22.00 GMT+2 Negotiations are taking place the last two hours. The hunger strikers set several conditions in order to leave the Law School but the government does not seem ready as yet to agree with all of them so the huger-strikers and several hundred of supporters incl. some university teachers, students, human rights groups and activists are ready to defend the academic freedom by the police. Cops have surrounded the School and do not allow to people to approach.
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The hunger strikers in the Law School
http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/1611244.jpg People who gathered in solidarity to the hunger strikers and the rest of the people in the Law School

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(http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/01/28/485-middle-of-the-night-operation-sees-hunger-strikers-and-people-in-solidarity-move-to-another-building/)</H2>
that was huge...

[Delenda Carthago]

#492 | Hospital Doctors Occupy the Ministry of Health / Unlimited Strike of the sector (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/02/04/492-medical-doctors-occupy-the-ministry-of-health/)

Friday, February 4, 2011
update:
Unlimited strike has been announced by the unions of all the doctors (not only Hospital Doctors). The strike started on Friday and will continue until the final day of discussion of the legal act in the parliament (when they will announce further mobilizations). The occupation of the ministry of Health will also continue until then.
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The banner reads:
Unlimited strike of all the doctors’ unions.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Government-EU-IMF destroy our lives and the lives of our patients
Take back immediately the montrous legal act of Loverdos

Hospital doctors have occupied part of the ministry of health since 1/2/2011. After they were brutally attacked by the riot police during their protest in front of the ministry’s building the hospital doctors and students of medicine moved into the ministry’s central lecture theatre where they remain until now.
The doctors protest against the new law which puts forwards the plans for privatization of the health system and the end to the free public health care. The hospital doctors union (EINAP), the Medical Doctors Association of Athens along the rest of doctor unions and health-related professional associations including pharmacists have announced strikes against the new legal act.
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Banner from inside the ministry’s occupation reads: ‘OCCUPATION withdraw now the legal act of Loverdos’ (the minister’s name)
the BLOG (http://arsigr.blogspot.com/)of the Radical Left Coalition of Doctors has the occupiers’ comminiques

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A leftist students social center has been bombed in Thesaloniki

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that was the second time they were attacked with bombs

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SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!

ANARCHIST ASSEMBLY OF THESSALONIKI
SOLIDARITY ASSEMBLY OF ATHENS
ANARCHISTS FROM VOLOS
ANARCHISTS FROM KAVALA
UΤΟPIA AD ΚΟΜΟΤΗΝΗ

THE POSTER SAYS: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tF1uomEycz8/TUljBcHpNaI/AAAAAAAAEPg/HOwU2hbFA5k/s320/aylvna.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_tF1uomEycz8/TUljBcHpNaI/AAAAAAAAEPg/HOwU2hbFA5k/s1600/aylvna.jpg)file:///C:/Users/TOSHIBA/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-27.pngSOLIDARITY GATHERING AT AVLONA PRISONS 6th OF FEBRUARY
Three cases, eight comrades in jail

On 13/10/2010 comrade Giannis Skouloudis is arrested red handed just as he had torched a vehicle of the Greek Electricity Company. Immediately 4 arrest warrants are issued for close friends and comrades of his, while he is imprisoned in Avlona prisons, accused of participating in a criminal organization.
On 4/12/2010 Anarchist squat Nadir is raided in the frames of the methodical repression before the 6th of December and 9 people are arrested inside Nadir and 3 people in the centre of Thessaloniki. They are charged with occupying a building, possession of weapons (some flags that are used at protests etc.), running an illegal radio station as well as forming a criminal organization. Three comrades are still imprisoned, two in Avlona prisons and one in Diavata prisons.
On 13/1/2011 comrades Fessas, Tsilianidis, Tzifkas and Dimtsiadis who were wanted since 13/10/2010 for Skouloudis case are arrested in Athens and accused of consisting and participating in a criminal organization. The three are imprisoned in the 1st wing of Koridallos prisons and Tzifkas in Avlona prisons.The system attempts the isolation of dozens of our comrades who are right now confined in the modern hellholes. The continuation of the struggle as well as the strengthening of consciences is a battle that has not been lost. Inside and outside of the walls the looks of all those who do not bow the head, who deny to subject will continue to meet with every way.
SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!
ANARCHIST ASSEMBLY OF THESSALONIKISOLIDARITY ASSEMBLY OF ATHENSANARCHISTS FROM VOLOSANARCHISTS FROM KAVALA
UΤΟPIA AD ΚΟΜΟΤΗΝΗ
actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com (http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/)

[Delenda Carthago]

Another huge fuckin day just ended....

First, there was a 2 hour occupation of the building of GSEE, in solidarity with the 300 hunger strikers immigrants.

Then there was a prety good demo against unemployentment in a kinda big town which was very succesful.

25 toll stations nationwide where opened by the movement against the tolls.It was one of the biggest organised moves they have done.

But all these are small news.The headlines is the situation in Keratea.

Keratea struggle in “civil war twist” as riot police indiscriminately storm houses in the town and 1,000 people besiege the local police station for hours in response

(Breaking news, post to be updated later tonight)
The struggle of locals in the area of Keratea in Attica against the construction of a landfill in their area has been going since December 12, 2010. Near-daily clashes of the locals with the riot police occupying the site of the planned landfill have taken a new twist tonight: Riot police stormed the town itself, breaking in houses and arresting at least one 30-year resident who, according to the locals, has been entirely uninvolved in the clashes. According to the ex-mayor of Keratea, the 30 year old’s mother had a heart attack after watching her son being arrested.
At the time of writing (19.40 GMT+2) more than 1,000 enraged locals have besieged the local police station, hurling stones, sticks and molotov cocktails to the police guarding it. A local described the scene as “reminiscent of the civil war”.



Today it was kinda like a local revolt.Photos and pictures here
http://antixyta.blogspot.com/
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1259405
Fuc6YApiR20

its kinda fucked up cause there are no pictures yet from the huge phase of the clashes in the streets of Keratea.But one thing is sure,this is not over...

edit:
new photos and videos

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1259898
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1259761

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http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2011/02/09/keratea-lavreotiki-two-month-state-terrorism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhBec1_Z3bE&feature=player_embedded
On Tuesday, 8 February, by 4pm, the coordinated attack of junta’s henchmen culminated against the people of Keratea (Attica-Greece) (http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2010/12/13/keratea-atticagreece-no-more-trash-in-our-lives-residents-against-landfill-constructions/). During the last two months, since 11 December, residents and people in solidarity resist strongly against the landfill construction project in Lavreotiki area. People oppose by any means to the plan of their lives’ deterioration and the natural wealth’s plunder that are attempted by the construction companies’ hyenas and their political crutches of democratic dictatorship.
The resistance of the local society through institutions but also by widespread social counter-violence – such as almost daily clashes with riot police at the barricades with Molotov cocktails, stone throwing and sabotage of the constructions – could not be left unanswered.
In an unprecedented (as far as this area is concerned) motivation of all State repressive mechanism’s instruments, police security bastards raided houses of fighters-residents so as to criminalize their actions and intimidate all those who resist. http://en.contrainfo.espivblogs.net/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gifPolicemen beat and arrested many persons. One detainee’s mother suffered a heart attack, as was witnessed even by the town’s mayor. People in solidarity tried to prevent the arrest and demanded his immediate release, circling the local police station. In this way, the State launched its military-style operation. Police squads unleashed a biological warfare, with continued use of tear and asphyxiant gas, pepper spray, as well as flash bang grenades, aiming to exterminate the local community.
The deafening silence of corporate media was once again in full coordination with the uniformed pigs’ misanthropy: while plainclothes thugs and riot cops wacked ‘young and old men, women and children’ (according to many in situ reports) and shouted at times Alexis Grigoropoulos’ name in an apparent show-off of their murderous self-satisfaction, on the parliament’s benches the new health policy amendments (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/2011/02/04/492-medical-doctors-occupy-the-ministry-of-health/) were discussed. The mass media provided for full disclosure of the events in Keratea-Lavreotiki – ironically, provoking nostalgia for former ‘breaking news bulletin’ of misinformation. At the same time that the corporate left limited its reaction to a query on the parliament’s agenda, and made vague denouncements of police violence, people of all ages and ideologies were practicing their right to active self-defense, throwing pots, oranges, stones and any other handy object from balconies and streets against the town’s fully-armored invaders.
The junta’s henchmen turned an entire region into a militarized zone, broke the blockade of the Industrial Park (VIO.PA), occupied the main streets of Keratea and restricted the fighting residents to small pockets of resistance in streets around Agios Dimitrios central square. Indicative of the events – which the State, the bosses and the media parrots want to wipe out – was the overall wake of war: churches’ bells resounded from early afternoon calling people to go on the streets while the municipal radio of Lavreotiki hosted (even for a few hours) live correspondence against junta’s regime.
Lavreotiki area and particularly the town of Keratea have been secluded, literally and figuratively; this can be proved by dozens of angry eye-witnesses, dozens of injured and wounded citizens, the guarded approaches to the region, the all-out attack on a radical struggle which is convicted in obscurity by the regime and its mouthpieces. But mainly this is indicated by the common testimony of all those who publicly denounced State’s brutality, stressing that only by chance did we not mourn victims tonight (until 9/2). At least in one case, a plainclothes cop pulled his gun against people (http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1259447).
The exact number of injured, detained and arrested has not yet been verified. The only certainty is that the struggle of Keratea and Lavreotiki residents is our struggle, a struggle on the verge of despair and mere survival. The most conservative to the most radical individuals of the local community recognize the State as terrorizing mechanism, and call out for solidarity that might and shall be expressed by any means, throughout Greece and abroad. On Wednesday, 9/2 at 7pm residents and people in solidarity call an open gathering in Agios Dimitrios central square (in front of the church), in Keratea.
There will be more updates on the situation
and a brief bulletin on the two-month mobilizations.

More info:
rioter.info (http://rioter.info/2010/12/20/keratea)
occupiedlondon (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/tag/keratea-anti-landfill-struggle)

[Delenda Carthago]

Occupation of the Amnesty International (Greek section) building in solidarity of the 300 emigrants hunger strike
Today we worked-in the building of Amnesty International considering that they are jointly responsible for the protection and propulsion of human, social and political rights.
The hunger strike of 300 immigrants has reached the 22nd day. This grand fight marks a turning point to the matter of immigration. The immigrants prefix the only means they have, their body and their lives, trying to make visible an existence that dominion has forced to nothingness. They fight for obvious rights of every human. They ask for their legalization and a life with freedom and dignity.
In times of crisis, like the one that we are experiencing today, authority tries to make up enemies and put the blame on them in order to disorientate society from the true causes that create barbarity against society. This way, immigrants are presented as the ones responsible for the suffering of society and so they must disappear in any possible way. Here implies a logic of camps, pogrom in the center of the cities and the wall of Evros. The finalization of exclusion. Of course nobody speaks the truth as far as the real causes that led those people to leave their countries are concerned.
There is an obvious try of the rulers to create opt zones. The only thing left to the authorities is a spread of fear and threat. And this is the common fact that binds us with immigrants in the first place. The steadily growing suppression, the fact that we are reaching a permanent state of exclusion and alert. In this logic, those immigrants fight is a fight for every single one of us, the workers and the society. Facing this straight attack that the regime unleashes, we are in great need of creating spaces of enlarged solidarity.
Victory to the 300 hunger strikers
Legalization of all immigrants
Antiauthoritarian Movement of Athens

[Delenda Carthago]

"General strike"(my ass) coming tommorow.

[(A)(_|]

"General strike"(my ass) coming tommorow.

Aren't you a bit optimistic that something might come from this especially with the events going on elsewhere, that people might push it to the limit this time. I know the government isn't going to nudge so this might be a chance to radicalize?

I know you guys have had many general strikes last year, so I might be too hopeful or simply not fully aware of your situation, but the first general strike of the year, I hope, should be something big.

[Delenda Carthago]

More than 250.000 gathered.Bigger demostration than May 5th last year.There are a lot of incidents,right now people are gathering back in Syntagma sq. This is gonna be a Tahrir sq. night!

I ll come back with more in a while.

[Delenda Carthago]

Aren't you a bit optimistic that something might come from this especially with the events going on elsewhere, that people might push it to the limit this time. I know the government isn't going to nudge so this might be a chance to radicalize?

I know you guys have had many general strikes last year, so I might be too hopeful or simply not fully aware of your situation, but the first general strike of the year, I hope, should be something big.
On the street it was a huge thing.The fucked up thing is that people want to strike but cant because of the stupid organisation of GSEE(which is the only confederation in Greece).

[(A)(_|]

That's just awesome man. I'm sure if you can occupy the square for a while you might gather some momentum, and people might muster the courage to extend the general strike and join in. Just try to hold on to it for as long as possible. Even if they try to forcefully disperse you, it's still a minor victory.

[Delenda Carthago]

That's just awesome man. I'm sure if you can occupy the square for a while you might gather some momentum, and people might muster the courage to extend the general strike and join in. Just try to hold on to it for as long as possible. Even if they try to forcefully disperse you, it's still a minor victory.
up until now(6.30) few hunderds of people remain.It suposed to be a call for 7, but I dunno.Cops have throw a chemical warfare, tons of teargses today.Syntagma sq. is a gas chamber.

GthZEd35xwI

A lil supm from the riots.I want to find photos or video to show you the size of the demo.

[Delirium]

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Young demonstrators hurled rocks and fire bombs at riot police as clashes broke out Wednesday in Athens during a mass rally against austerity measures, part of a general strike that crippled services and public transportation around the country.

Police fired tear gas and flash grenades at protesters, blanketing parts of the city center in choking smoke. Thousands of peaceful demonstrators ran to side streets to take cover. A police officer was attacked and his uniform caught fire in the city's main Syntagma Square, and his motorcycle was burned.

At least two people were injured and another three arrested. One group of rioting youths smashed paving stones in front of the central Bank of Greece, but there were no immediate reports of any serious damage.

More than 30,000 protesters attended the Athens rally, which had been calm before the clashes. Protesters chanting "Don't obey the rich - Fight back!" marched to parliament as the city center was heavily policed. A brass band, tractors and cyclists joined the rally.

The rally was part of Greece's first major labor protest this year as Prime Minister George Papandreou's Socialist government faces international pressure to make more lasting cuts after the nation's debt-crippled economy was rescued from bankruptcy by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

The 24-hour strike halted trains, ferries and most public transport across the country, and led to the cancellation of more than 100 flights at Athens International Airport. The strike also the closed the Acropolis and other major tourist sites.
State hospital doctors, ambulance drivers, pharmacists, lawyers and tax collectors joined school teachers, journalists and thousands of small businesses as more middle-class groups took part in the protest than have in the past. Athens' main shopping district was mostly empty, as many small business owners shuttered their stores.

Unions are angry at the ongoing austerity measures put in place by the Socialist government in exchange for a euro110 billion ($150 billion) bailout loan package from European countries and the IMF.
Stathis Anestis, deputy leader of Greece's largest union, the GSEE, said workers should not be asked to make more sacrifices during a third straight year of recession.

"The measures forced on us by the agreement with our lenders are harsh and unfair. ... We are facing long-term austerity with high unemployment and destabilizing our social structure," Anestis told The Associated Press. "What is increasing is the level of anger and desperation ... If these harsh policies continue, so will we."

Elsewhere, about 15,000 people rallied and minor scuffles broke out in Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, while Anestis said around 60 demonstrations were being planned in cities and towns across Greece. He said the GSEE was in talks with European labor unions to try and coordinate future strikes with other EU countries.

Earlier this month, international debt monitors said Greece needed a "significant acceleration" of long-term reforms to avoid missing its economic targets. It also urged the Socialist government to embark on a euro50 billion ($68 billion) privatization program to pay for some of its mounting national debt that is set to exceed 150 percent of the GDP this year.
The IMF has said some of the frequent demonstrations against the Greek government's reforms were being carried out by groups angry at losing their "unfair advantages and privileges."
from (http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2011022315082)

[Delenda Carthago]

At last I found a picture that kinda shows the size:

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg612/scaled.php?tn=0&server=612&filename=5etvf.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

unfortunatly,its not the whole demostration(and of course ut doesnt show KKE-they are always alone),but its good enough...

[chegitz guevara]

On the street it was a huge thing.The fucked up thing is that people want to strike but cant because of the stupid organisation of GSEE(which is the only confederation in Greece).

Then they need to go on a wildcat.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

This sounds like good news. I have not had time to follow events in Greece.I would love to see an "Egypt" or a "Tunisia" occur in Greece.Being already a bourgeois democracy there needs to be greater working class organization though, something existing to replace the existing state system of class control.The events in the Middle East and North Africa are inspiring to working people everywhere.

If there is a "Greek 1968" (the Acropolis as Tharir Square?)and the working class moves towards contesting state power, this example will spread like wildfire. Then we will see the true "Eurabia".

[Delenda Carthago]

Then they need to go on a wildcat.
Damn,how can noone thought of that?Its so simple:your union doesnt have your back against your boss,you do it anyway.And if you get fired,dont worry.Numbers show the nudity of capitalism,so you ll be the best anticapitalist example.

Anyway, some more photos from the thing with the "Ghost Rider Cop"

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1265944

edit:holy shit! check out that guy!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8343215/Riot-police-and-photographer-on-fire-after-petrol-bombs-thrown-in-Athens-during-general-strike.html?image=10

[PhoenixAsh]

Damn,how can noone thought of that?Its so simple:your union doesnt have your back against your boss,you do it anyway.And if you get fired,dont worry.Numbers show the nudity of capitalism,so you ll be the best anticapitalist example.

Anyway, some more photos from the thing with the "Ghost Rider Cop"

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1265944

edit:holy shit! check out that guy!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/8343215/Riot-police-and-photographer-on-fire-after-petrol-bombs-thrown-in-Athens-during-general-strike.html?image=10


I haven't got the money to come to Greece again :blushing: ...but man...would I want to....

Keep it up.

Also could you elaborate more on GSEE?

[PhoenixAsh]

Sorry,what?

I was refereing to unions here. They were criticising the strikes and protests in Greece because its bad for the employment here. Obviously (according to the unions) since we are stupid enough to swallow the bullshit about working until we are 67....means everybody else has to awel....and since the Greeck government has managed to fiancially mismanage and "we" have to bail them out we need the budget cuts and law changes to happen in Greece because otherwise we have to cut back more here...

Its one of the worst cases of class unsolidarity by unions ever. Fuckers :mad::mad:

[Delenda Carthago]

In Greece he have a diferent system on our syndicalism comparing to other countries.He only have one third degree confederation for the people workin on the private sector,which is GSEE.On the public sector,is ADEDY.

So, in order to call for a general strike, you have to get the OK of GSEE.The problem is,as you can guess,that GSEE is a fuckin sold out institution that is beeing runned by PASOK's mechanisms. Dont say its reformist:reformists dont believe in radical changes, but they do fight against the bosses.These dudes are 100% sold out and the most funny thing is, you will not find a single person in Greece who doesnt know it.Why dont we change the system and demand more than one confederation you will ask?Its the fuckin left that doesnt want to "destroy the unity of working class".If you consider that we have unions that consist by workers and bosses too,you can see what a big deal of "unity" we have.

The revolutionary answer to all that, is the network of base unions that are beeing created for the last 3 years.Ιt startet in a small range, 2-3 of them, and now we have more than 35 unions like that.One of the best things anarchists and leftists have done in this country.

[Delenda Carthago]

I was refereing to unions here. They were criticising the strikes and protests in Greece because its bad for the employment here. Obviously (according to the unions) since we are stupid enough to swallow the bullshit about working until we are 67....means everybody else has to awel....and since the Greeck government has managed to fiancially mismanage and "we" have to bail them out we need the budget cuts and law changes to happen in Greece because otherwise we have to cut back more here...

Its one of the worst cases of class unsolidarity by unions ever. Fuckers :mad::mad:
Talkin about working class unity...

[PhoenixAsh]

Talkin about working class unity...

Exactly...the unions have sold out. Its the same everywhere.

[Mather]

Exactly...the unions have sold out. Its the same everywhere.

Are the Greek unions tied to left reformist social democratic parties like PASOK and the KKE?

What is the state of syndicalist and militant/revolutionary unions (ones democratically controlled by the workers themselves without a bureaucratic 'leadership') in Greece, do such unions exist?

[Black Sheep]

"Ghost rider cop"

:laugh::laugh:

[thälmann]

iam also interested in those base unions. how strong are they, and from which political backgrounds do they come?
iam always confused about the different demontrations in greece during the strikes. who is marching with who, and what demonstration is it, where the clashes with the police mostly happened?

[Delenda Carthago]

iam also interested in those base unions. how strong are they
Νot very strong,apparently.If they were more strong,we would have a different conversation right now.But,if you consider that 3 years ago they were not excisting, you get the picture.


and from which political backgrounds do they come?
Mostly anarchist and leftist.And thats their main disadvantage,their very political and anticapitalist speech,which makes difficult for other workers to join.


iam always confused about the different demontrations in greece during the strikes. who is marching with who, and what demonstration is it, where the clashes with the police mostly happened?

There are 3 calls,2 demos. One call is the PAME(KKE federation) who takes its own course(even though PAME is a second degree federation within GSEE)
And the other demo comes from two seperate calls.The one is the call of GSEE,and the other one by base unions(we also call them first degree unions), anarchists,leftists etc. The clashes mostly happen in front of the parliament,in Syntagma sq. but in other places too.It depends.

[Delenda Carthago]

I should mention that base unions are not a part of GSEE.For everything this comes with...

[Delenda Carthago]

something for you KKE fanboys

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(PAME is the only political force that calls for a demo in the center of Athens and in Peireas at the same time)

[Black Sheep]

something for you kke fanboys
1:30 :d;)

[Delenda Carthago]

Letter from imprisoned anarchist prisoner Aris Sirinidis (Greece)
από S. 11:39μμ, Δευτέρα 28 Φεβρουαρίου 2011
(Τροποποιήθηκε 0:03πμ, Τρίτη 1 Μαρτίου 2011)
θεματικές: Πολιτικοί κρατούμενοι (http://athens.indymedia.org/topics.php3?lang=el&topic=63)
On the 9th of March 2011 the urban justice is to judge in a public procedure my “case”. A “case” that was manufactured in the biological laboratories of GADA (central police headquarters in Athens), but was not in any case a product of science fiction.
Letter from imprisoned anarchist prisoner Aris Sirinidis (Greece) On the 9th of March 2011 the urban justice is to judge in a public procedure my “case”. A “case” that was manufactured in the biological laboratories of GADA (central police headquarters in Athens), but was not in any case a product of science fiction.

The political character of my prosecution can, I believe, be summarized in a abomination of the interrogative proposal, with which it was attempted to confirm the decision of my imprisonment. Immediately after the monotonous effort to support the sole, and this of minimal importance, evidence that the police brought as proof of guilt – a surgical mask with my DNA-, the interrogator continues as follows: “Testifying, anyway, the defendant, in his own phraseology, declares himself an anarchist, does not hide his subversive action, he includes himself in the anarchist movement, he considers himself a revolutionary and he wishes to reverse this world, being included in the daily struggle against the state and capitalism”.





The gravity that is taken by the word “anyway” in the oratory of the denouncing authority excellently reveals the content of the probative statements. It means the reliability of the preceded legal argumentation, which obviously is evaluated as incomplete and mobilizes in order to strengthen it and for it to gain entity and prestige by my ideological convictions and objectives, substantially my political DNA.




If this is, therefore, something that gives substance to the official charge, this is not the genetic material that was found on one of the scattered masks that were found in the area of Exarchia because of the riots of the previous days, but my political genetic material, my presence on that side of the barricade that defines my class position and conscience, against capitalistic sovereignty and the governmental terrorism.


Inevitably, the content of the upcoming trial on the 9th of March is defined also by this precise conflict of two hostile worlds, the world of sovereignty on one, and the resistance and revolt on the other. A conflict that in the particular field of my prosecution is represented by the direct juxtaposition of the henceforth totalitarian core of urban democracy, the police-juridical cluster, with me and the movement of solidarity to political prisoners.


Besides however the politics, the imminent trial is also a pilot: in my case what is tried substantially is the possibility of authority to neutralize the political opponents, manufacturing guilty people with only proof of evidence scientific results of the biological laboratories of GADA.




The up to now evidence of my prosecution are more or less known. Immediately after the failed attempt of the police and the electronic and printed office pushers to invest in my arrest for a felony offence with charges that aimed at my moral stigmatization (but also the blackout of the conditions of the severe wounding of fighter Simos Seisidis), the directing was taken over by the Antiterrorist cops, pulling out a forgotten case of a shooting against a riotcop van of the MAT in the summer of 2009 in Exarchia. With proof of evidence the identification of my genetic material that was taken illegally from my wallet with the genetic material that was found on a surgical mask that was collected in the area of the incident, just a few minutes before I am let free, a warrant for my arrest is published and they order my detention. Only the script of the antiterrorist police beyond imaginative was also extremely amateur. Nowhere in the brief does it result that the mask – the only alleged evidence- belonged to the perpetrator of the shooter, while the body shape and the characteristics of the perpetrator that the eye witnesses and the police officers describe are in obvious contradiction to mine. As for the infamous genetic material, it never was clarified what kind and type it was, while a report of the police laboratories themselves were deliberately kept secret – which strengthens my main defense statement, according to which in the mask-evidence was also located genetic material of more individuals.




Substance to the script of the antiterrorist police pending someone else “that did not come”, as he himself admitted, was attempted to be given by the interrogator. With selective use of evidence of the brief and unacceptable procedural counterbalancing of the witnesses statements, the interrogator composes a reality adapted in the truth of the antiterrorist police and founds as proof the sole evidence of the abused procedurally and disputed scientifically DNA.

It appears, however, that the manufacturing did not satisfy the interrogator, that mobilizes finally the decisive argument in order to tie up the case: my as I confessed, he mentions, subversive position and action. My political commitment was not, of course, unknown to the juridical authorities that obviously were not waiting for my statement in order to learn them. What needs however particular attention here, is that the political DNA of a defendant is presented henceforth in juridical proceedings as a powerful evidence of guilt, something that at least up to a while ago the authorities made sure to keep outside of their official rhetoric. The infamous governmental paperwork of the Police and the Antiterrorist police, which constituted for years the guide on the prosecutions and imprisonments of dozens of fighters, are surrounded henceforth with a legal force and are changed into a juridical official. In the new antiterrorist frame that was voted, a few months ago by the government of the memorandum, the prosecution of belief has become law. A new idiom, together with extraordinary juridical-police authorities, is from now on in force and opens the way for mass preregistering of fighters, political spaces and movements.




In the new era of repression, in the time of the IMF and the totalitarian war that the capital and state has declared on society, the prosecutions against the political enemies of the regime cannot be carried out anymore with the long gone and stiff methods of the in anyway shrunken urban democracy. The same moment that the IMF, the EU and their domestic representatives impose a regime of capitalistic economic totalitarianism, the same moment the cloak of democracy falls. Then the files of social beliefs open and the similar to post civil war constabulary scenarios “are tied up” with the cogent research of DNA in the laboratories of GADA. It is the moment where the stinky deliverance of domestic governmental repression meets the totalitarianism of the future.




The analysis, therefore, of my politician DNA acquires a fundamental importance to the reading of particular facts of my prosecution. Because what, in the end, the state aims for in this trial -as in the trials of other comrades that are coming up-, beyond even the actions that are attributed is the imaginative of the fight and the resistance that each one of us represents. The qualitative and quantitative evidence that are detected in my personal sample, are identified within the collective imprint that is left by the small and big moments of social class struggles of the last twenty years, composing with thousands more unique traces the mosaic of the revolutionary anticapitalist movement.


This way each political trial and at extension each struggle is also an exploration of our own history.




Since we are speaking of history therefore, the festive “end of History” that in the early 1990s was claimed for itself by the capitalistic globalization and aspired to express the domestic fabricated argument of modernization, was also the starting point of the formation of my own political matter, in other words, my own history. The school occupations of the warm winter of ʼ90-ʼ91, as an experience of rage, self-organized struggle, conflict and victory, were the motivational starting points and the reference points for dozens of teenagers from different areas of Athens that met in the streets of the center. In the social and political laboratory of Exarchia the adolescent rage was located, socialized and evolved into insurrectionist social and political action, without however stopping its playful dimension: the momentum, stubbornness, improvisation, companionship, friendship, left their own indelible traces so much on the form as well as in the content of political action. An action, that although geographically located, sought the thread of connection -and to a great degree accomplished it- with almost all the clashes of the domestic and worldwide class-social struggle. From the insurrectionist attempt of the Polytechnic university in ʼ95 to the barricades outside from the school exam centers the summer of ʼ98 and the school mobilizations against the school reform law. From the warm reception of the “leader of the planet” Bill Clinton in November ʼ99 and the demonstrations against the imperialistic wars, to the movement against the capitalistic globalization. From the local actions and assemblies in neighborhoods to the practices of direct action. From the assemblies of workers unions to the solidarity to immigrants. From the student mobilizations against the privatization of education, to the revolt of December 2008. And of course, as a steady value that runs through the total of the struggle: solidarity to the political prisoners and the underlining of the memory of comrades that left us during it.




This therefore political DNA, mine and that of all those who socialized politically in the same context and continue to define themselves through the fight for social freedom, is in the end what essentially is being tried in this trial.
My arrest coincided one day after the subordination of the country to the IMF and the announcements from the Prime Minister of the first measures of harsh austerity. At the ceremony of deliverance of the last labour rights to capital, the speech about the “end of an era” and “turning a page” sounded coquettish again. But, sovereignty should be careful. Another “end of History”, twenty years before, was for many the starting point of crossing from the region of adolescent rage to subversive political action. Through the painful process of self-knowledge, self-criticism and maturity that accompanies each new and accumulated fighting experience, the new “end of an era” is the beginning of new conflicts, politically and militantly upgraded as is the nowadays explosive objective condition.


Aris Seirinidis

Political prisoner
1st wing prisons of Koridallos


ofu translations actforfreedomnow!

[Delenda Carthago]

The death of the first migrants on hunger strike is near.Some of them have stoped drikning water for the last 3 days.80 of them are at the hospital.They begun the hunger strike at Jan 25.

There is a massive wave of actions of solidarity with them.Occupations in ministries,TV stations,radio stations, demonstrations, concerts, even arson attacks.There is also a huge number of actions of solidarity coming from other countries, but unfortunatly the texts are always not in english,so I dont post them here anyway.

[Delenda Carthago]

2 demos yesterday.One in Athens for Aris Seirinides, and one in Thesaloniki for the 300 hunger strikers.Both around 2000

Thesaloniki


http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/45svgxn.jpg

Athens


http://athens.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/aris3.jpg

[Delenda Carthago]

A year without Lambros Fountas.1326 prisoners(not onlyanarchists obviously) from all around Greece signed a text in honor of him.A demostration in the spot he got killed is called for today.

http://www.zoomnews.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/8E6650F88D1E3CC5B93ED212193DE7271.jpg


and a song in honor of him
KHKNsEBcNho

(the title of the song means "I ll come back in 5 generations")

from the demo last year on that spot, a shout out for our dead comrades fallen from the hands of the State.

IonKDyg119k

Kassimis-Immortal
Koumis-Immortal
Kanelopoulou-Immortal
Kaltezas-Immortal
Tsironis-Immortal
Marinos-Immortal
Guiliani-Immortal
Grigoropoulos-Immortal
Fountas-Immortal
And to the snitches of the State-Death

[Os Cangaceiros]

I would expect that there would be commemorative actions on the day of his passing. Didn't some Italian anarchist group name themselves after him? Pretty sure they were the same folks involved in the whole embassy bombing episode a while back.

[Delenda Carthago]

I would expect that there would be commemorative actions on the day of his passing. Didn't some Italian anarchist group name themselves after him? Pretty sure they were the same folks involved in the whole embassy bombing episode a while back.
Well, that would normally be the case, if there wasnt so many anarchists in jail with terrorist charges.Actually, the whole "armed struggle" has kinda fucked the whole movement up, lots of people in jail, lots of people afraid that they are going to be emprisoned because of their friendship relationships with the first people, lots of people in a bad mood because of the other two groups of people....and it goes like this.Once again in history, individual armed struggle is the cause for movements to get fucked up. I hope the greek anarchists will be able to step above the whole stupid ass situation.

[Delenda Carthago]

Chile embassy occupation for the hunger strikers anarchists


Solidaridad con los presos politicos chilenos en huelga de hambre (vigesimo tercer dia)

Los callejones sin salida de la dominación, la violencia autoritaria y la estrategia de guerra para la neutralización del enemigo interno son, hoy mas que nunca, características evidentes en todos los estados en los cuales se desarrolla la resistencia social organizada. En el 14 de Agosto de 2010, un maravilloso espectáculo represivo ha tomado lugar en las ciudades chilenas de Santiago y Valparaíso conduciendo à la persecución de 14 personas, 8 de las cuales han sido encarceladas y acusadas de todos los ataques armados, con explosivos e incendiarios, que han acontecido en los últimos 3 años, en contra de objetivos del estado y del capital en el país. La única prueba concreta que los ha llevado a la cárcel es su identidad política, que es sintetizada por sus círculos sociales y sus actividades de lucha.

Andrea Urzúa, Camilo Pérez, Carlos Riveros, Felipe Guajardo, Francisco Solar, Mónica Caballero, Pablo Morales, Rodolfo Retamales, que desde entonces están encarcelados, libran una lucha muy importante desde el 21-2-2011, en que han empezado una huelga de hambre exigiendo su libertad así como la abolición de la ley antiterrorista. Nada mas empezar la huelga, otros 2 compañeros han sido reenviados a la cárcel después de un periodo de arresto domiciliario. Vinicio Aguillera y Omar Hermosilla se han unido à la huelga 2 días después. A través de este posicionamiento todos ellos demuestran claramente que no están dispuestos a resignarse en las jaulas de le democracia. A través de su segunda exigencia, han conseguido quebrar el aislamiento social que formaba parte de los planes del estado, poniendo en evidencia la profunda dimensión política de su caso la cual es significativamente importante para todas las luchas sociales. El arsenal de la ley, que todos los estados totalitarios modernos tienen a su disposición, es una herramienta para la eliminación de cualquiera que sea un enemigo consciente en contra del dominio. Aunque sean los anarquistas los principales receptores de la violencia enmascarada por las leyes, la fuerza de la ley del terror no va extinguirse después de ellos. El resultado de esta lucha será un legado histórico para el movimiento que no quedara atrapado dentro de las fronteras de ningún país. Que suceda entonces lo mismo con la solidaridad que sera expresada, desde todos los rincones de este planeta, para con estos compañeros.

Nosotros les deseamos mucha fuerza hasta la liberación. Nos quedamos juntos a ellos en esta difícil lucha contra las mazmorras del estado, contra el proceso judicial discriminatorio y clasista, contra las alcantarillas de los media y contra todos aquellos que intentaran bloquear su camino hacia la libertad.


Asamblea por el fomento de la solidaridad y otros compañeros, 15/3/2011

Sálonica, Grecia

[Delenda Carthago]

Another day of inerventions on the public transportations issue.

4 citizen assemblies(mostly runned by anarchists) form all around Athens worked together spreading the word that public transortations are a people's good and a social need not a profit area or a merchandise and also promoting the idea of common struggles between the workers and the users of public transportations. They entered busses, they gave away leaflets,they cancelled the validation machines, they sticked some stickers.

pictures here

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1274654

[Delenda Carthago]

Funny times for politicians to be in public view: clashes as PM Papandreou visits the island of Syros

On March 21 PM George Papandreou visited the island of Syros. Along with him traveled riot police from Athens, who threw tear gas to protesters – according to locals, this was the first time ever that the picturesque island saw tear gas thrown in its streets. At 1’05” in the video below, a riot policeman is overheard saying “we will turn everything into a brothel” (“tha ta kanoyme mpoyrdelo”) to the students protesting Papandreou’s visit. One fifteen-year old student was injured, and one policeman.


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few days after this...

Tough times to be in power: Government vice-president has yoghurt thrown at him, booed during visit near Keratea

The vice president of the government, Theodoros Pangalos, was spotted at a restaurant in the town of Kalyvia – near Keratea – last night. Enraged locals immediately approached him demanding that he leaves and that riot police withdraw from the town of Keratea. Last night’s attack on Pangalos was the last in a very long string in which major party politicians have been confronted by people in the streets, universities and other public spaces:


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now there is anxiety for the PASOK members because in Friday there is the parade for the liberation from Turkey, and they are afraid they are going to get attacked.

[Delenda Carthago]

Today, March 25th, it was the national celebration from the start of the revolution against the Othoman empire.As expected, in more than 20 parades, comrades and angry people did intervensions.As expected, some people from the goverment got booed, like Anna Ntalara minister of "Employment and migrant policy" who got booed by some teachers in an area of Athens.
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1276781

[RedPersonality]

Mass and dynamic reaction of the KKE against the imperialist war in Libya
http://inter.kke.gr/News/news2011/2011-03-21-libya

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_-ywULpyWE2c/TYdGLnt05cI/AAAAAAAAC4A/CatMSloH-wo/s912/athina8.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_-ywULpyWE2c/TYdDfXvF-zI/AAAAAAAAC40/TPvgtQkKge8/s912/thes4.jpg

(I know it was 6 day before but...better late than never!)

[bricolage]

what is he burning?

[Rusty Shackleford]

french flag.

[Delenda Carthago]

french flag.
Considering that Greece is a basic part in this war, maybe they should be burning greek flags instead.

[Gorilla]

Considering that Greece is a basic part in this war, maybe they should be burning greek flags instead.

Hahaha. Like you could get the social-patriots in KKE to even look sideways at a Greek flag.

[Delenda Carthago]

For many years KKE had this slogan shouted at its demo's:murderers of the people, americans.

That day, on our demo(everybody else besides KKE) some of us shouted: in Souda(a place in Crete which has a NATO base) the base of the airplanes, we are the murderers of the people.

That is the pure anti imperialist stance. First you attack your own country's imperialism, and then all the others.

[Delenda Carthago]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dZIa4PrGIbM/TZCE7WjCbcI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/fkpbsnU58XY/s640/megamicius.png

A brief chronicle for the Keratea issue


http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2011/03/28/the-social-struggle-in-keratea-lavreotiki

There is immediate need of solidarity gatherings at the blockades of Keratea!
A brief chronicle (11 December–22 March)

Keratea is a town of 16,000 residents in Lavreotiki municipality, situated in southeastern Attica, 40km from Athens, near Lavrion. The site has an ancient history that has left many remains, an amphitheatre, parts of the ancient fortification, etc. As many parts of Attica, it has also a strong Arbanitic tradition, which highlights values such as extended family solidarity and social cohesion against a usually alienated authority, as well as a sense of pride and putting head to a cause. Most residents are small farmers (wine, olives, etc.), workers and/or unemployed, retired. During the last decade, after the construction of the international airport at Spata (2001), and also Lavrion and Rafina ports development to unburden Piraeus’ heavy traffic, eastern Attica suffered a sort of gentrification with Athens recreational, touristic and construction firms moving eastern (this movement can be tracked by almost annual forest fires, taking care of what’s left of Attica’s ‘unexploited’ space). Of course, infrastructure and any kind of social services (even proper sewage systems) remain significantly inadequate. The suggested creation of a huge open dump would be the top of the iceberg – or the mountain of garbage – to the complete subjugation of the territory and its people to private profit, as a dangerous and typically illegal ‘solution’ to the garbage disposal problem of all Attica is proclaimed against the will of those that will have to suffer it, and once they make clear their disagreement, they are violently repressed. No time for the old days’ ‘negotiations’ in the socialist government’s ‘fast track’ capitalism. The issue of dump constructions and garbage disposal in general has given birth to diverse militant struggles held in different parts of Greece these last years, with most significant the ones in Grammatikon (northern Attica), Neraida-Serres, Varnavas, Naxos island, Karvounari, Elliniko-Ioannina, and of course Leukimmi, Corfu, where a small village manages to block the construction works and confront the police by all means for three years now, having one woman dead to the police violence, and many facing charges. http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2011/03/keratea-arch.jpg (http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2011/03/keratea-arch.jpg)

On Saturday, 11 December, at dawn, residents of Keratea resisted against riot police’s and the prosecutor’s attempts to break their defense in order to establish landfill construction machines in the area (at a place sited since 2003). The residents clashed with police squads by stone throwing, slingshots, melee, barricades and Molotov cocktails. For the first time the cops responded with blasts from water cannon, against the protesters. Shootings were heard, and many citizens were injured. Five residents of Lavrion were arrested after they barricaded the Vromopousi node. In the surrounding areas, all schools were occupied; many pupils attended the blockages giving militant battles.
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The media regime tried to misinform the ‘public opinion’, corresponding that in the clashes non- locals were involved but professional helmeted people… Since the beginning, the government blatantly ignored the mobilizations of the residents of Keratea and Lavreotiki. In fact, there was an order for urgent preliminary investigation, on the occasion of the clashes of the early days, after the request of the Athens First Instance Court chief prosecutor, Helen Raikou. Urban media reported that she ordered an investigation about the crime of attempted murder against police officers and against the prosecutor that was there! On 15/12, the cops arrested seven people in Lavrion Avenue in Keratea, including an underage, accused of 2 felonies, 2 misdemeanors, while one of them has been charged with the burdensome provisions of the ‘anti-hood’ law. On 20/12, they were called for apology at Evelpidon court and were released on bail.

Struggle for the rescue and liberation of O(m)vriokastro
21 Dec.
The beauty of nature and its protection is not a negotiable value of people and its local needs today; it’s a liability for future generations. Already the ‘development’ of this civilization has plundered much of the land, and the disaster on a large part of the environment by the human intervention is irreparable. The earth is neither a tool nor a domain of contemporary man to serve his needs and activities. Neither the residents of Keratea nor the locals of other regions of the globe decided to erase the natural beauty of a mountainside such as Ovriokastro to repeat the wretchedness of another dump. The only reason was the bosses of the political system and the financial sharks of construction companies. With only the rule of profit against a society that [they] continue to rob and terrorize, capital and the bosses found yet another nice place to destroy to gain wealth. They won’t have it their way; we will not let them have it in their way. Enough! The only dump that would be built, it will be the one where state and capitalism will be buried in, the only source of litter on the planet.

The coincidence of the strike of ‘journalists’ fends for the obscurity of this struggle from publicity, and the viewfinder of political analysts are always trying to shape and mold the facts to the effect that raises their own individual political and economic interests. Misfortune and fortunate at the same time because the same mechanisms of information displayed on popular resistance operate as a mechanism of repression and undermining any social event. If the dogs of suppression of resistance fighters mercilessly beat the blockade of Keratea, imagine how they would act if we take our trash and throwing in Ekali, Filothei, and Kavouri (posh suburbs of Attica).

Conversely, the distribution of information to the people here and the rest of the world should be part and tool of this struggle and every social struggle, as a counter-information to media misinformation. While tens of thousands went to Athens to protest, the occupation forces cripple them with violence and chemicals; the front of Keratea detained in a repressive manner, but this time with a new-but memorable by the junta-method AVRAS! What the people all over the world was informed of was that a former minister was beaten without any provocation; a former minister who left thousands jobless families and sold out for pennies a huge infrastructure as the Olympic airways, to the jaws of capital and profitability. What else should a minister do to provoke the anger?
We are not just in solidarity with the struggle of locals who will be affected by the looting of Ovriokastro, we are all in struggle for the defense of nature that will meet the next generation of repression against the state and capitalists.

That and other works are hypocritically wrapped with the label of green development, landfill / sanitary landfill, eco-energy and other bubbles, when in fact they charge us all for hundreds of years, reduce our revenues and benefits, increase funds under management bosses growing the proportion going into the pockets of an elite of industrialists, manufacturers and banks. The fighters are called terrorists and thugs and treated with murderous campaigns, people are terrified to not participate in any resistance, provocation undermine the movement, while the junta of robbers pimp IMF and the EU feeding us chemicals – banned by international treaty even to war as inhumane and toxic!

If there was democracy, albeit a long shot, the battlefield would actually be the parliament and the courts. In Ovriokastro upset by and suspicious of it, defied the court and the prosecutor while the soldiers of the junta continue the war. War will be continued here and everywhere. Our grandchildren will gather poppies on the hill of Ovriokastro and wash their faces in the crystal waters of Mouzaki that crosses the area. This land belongs to future generations and not to us to negotiate with the junta contractors. Without brokers, agents and leaders, we will all fight on the same side of the barricade against the pillage of nature!
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This System cannot be cleaned; it can only be overthrown!
Its overthrow starts from Lavrion Avenue’s barricades!


All these days, 20 squads of the riot police and at least 600 police officers were making excessive checks in the area on passing vehicles. Tons of chemicals and rubber bullets were fired against the residents, while the repressive forces did not hesitate to revile underage children and elderly people. Meanwhile, there was an injunction by the magistrate to stop any project: on 30/12 the protective measures submitted by the municipality and the residents of Keratea that are against the landfill construction went on a trial. By decision against the contractors, the county court of Lavrion recognized the right of the residents and the municipality, by prohibiting the start of any project in the region until:
a) the forced expropriation of the land for the execution of the first phase of the landfill construction in Keratea is carried out,
b) the studies, provided by the building contract, with which the promoters of this project were set, are undertaken,
c) the relevant archaeological services decide if there are archaeological finds in the same place and
d) the relevant permissions for the implementation of the project of the contractors are issued.
Although the above decision was communicated to the chief officer of the riot police, the cops remained in the area. On 26/12, the residents and people in solidarity symbolically blockaded the international airport Eleftherios Venizelos. Later, in Keratea, the riot police attacked the residents that were gathered near the contractors’ machines. They threw so many flash bang grenades, that caused a fire, and the intervention of the fire department was needed!


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On 30/12, at Prolylaea, a protest and sound system in solidarity to the people of Keratea and Lavreotiki was held. The residents went in the area where the machines are installed for New Year’s omen to the ‘security guards’ hired by the contractor. Specifically, on 2/1 at 4pm, about 80 people, passing through streams managed to arrive at the contractors’ machines. They broke the machines’ windows, before the cops realize it. The riot police fired tear gas and flash bang grenades, that fell upon them cause of the opposite direction of air! Stone throwing followed. At the same time, more than 300 people marched from the blockade of the Industrial Park (VIO.PA.) to the blockade of the riot police at the entrance of Ovriokastro.
On 4/1, just after 22.30, there was tension at Lavrion Avenue, at the node of VIO.PA, between the police forces and the residents that protest against the construction of the landfill.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlo2-PMb3g&feature=player_embedded

Once again, in the evening of 12/1, the residents of Keratea were there to fight against the repressive forces. The clashes lasted until 2 in the morning, giving the message that the civilization pollution is not cleaned, it’s overturned. On 16/1, in the morning, a concentration-demonstration was called in Keratea, mainly by the members of the extra-parliamentary left-wing groups.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39cVlWlR24&feature=player_embedded

Counter-information actions were held from about 400 people in solidarity, despite the adverse weather conditions. The same evening, clashes between the residents and people in solidarity with the cops, followed.
On January 18th two people were arrested in the region of Keratea and then were released with the restrictive condition not to leave the country. Outside the court, dozens of Keratea’s residents had gathered in support. The two persons were accused for 3 misdemeanors and 3 felonies: According to cops charges, the two young people were members of a 100 people group who threw objects on them in order to kill them…
On January 30th at night, police ‘occupation’ forces once again made extensive use of chemicals. From short distance, cops were shooting with a teargas bullet gun, targeting demonstrators’ heads, resulting in a resident’s injury. After this, dozens of residents attacked the riot cops squad. On the same day, a solidarity event was organized in the self-managed Navarinou Park, Exarchia. Earlier residents of Keratea who had come to Athens for the same event, visited the immigrant workers hunger strikers at the Ipirou & Patission road building and expressed their solidarity with their struggle, also by bringing them basic necessities (blankets, water, etc).
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On the night of February 1st, Lavreotiki residents began to symbolically ‘build’ the entrance of the building that houses DOY (tax office) and Lavrion IKA (insurance fund). Then, 2-3 police and secret cops’ cars appeared, encircled the residents and arrested 3 of them, including a youngster. The news of the arrests was instantly spread to Lavrion and Keratea barricades: Immediately, dozens of people besieged the police station of Lavrion in support to those arrested, demanding their immediate release. About an hour later, the two arrested were released – the child had let free earlier. The people gathered were directed to the building of the tax office and completed the ‘building’ of the entrance.


Many incidents followed our previous coverage of the events on February 8-9th (http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2011/02/09/keratea-lavreotiki-two-month-state-terrorism/):

The repression forces, supported by the government, never left the landfill spot and never stopped guarding the machines and terrorizing the residents, although there was a judicial decision for prohibition of the works on March 1st that justified the residents! Nevertheless, the residents never give up and continue resisting by all means.
On March 9th at 3 a.m., during a snowstorm, 25 residents surprised 20 cops who guarded the machinery with four police cars, made them clear that they were not their target, and then smashed the windows of a truck and machinery with axes and hammers, threw gasoline and set them on fire resulting in their complete destruction. Then they left without any clashes with the cops.
On March 16th, the same night of the yogurt throwing to the government’s vice-president (http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/2011/03/17/pangalos-had-a-digestive-yogurt-near-keratea-last-night/), Keratea’s residents clashed with the riot police as they do nearly every day.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNCOPywBeE&feature=player_embedded

On March 20th at noon, after a riot police attack near the road barricade, residents attacked and completely burned down a ‘hut’ that cops use, 1 police car and 1 police van full with ammunition, tear gas, flash bang grenades etc! Cops will remember the explosions of their burnt equipment for a long time.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTh2hWefdrQ&feature=player_embedded

The struggle continues.
There is immediate need of solidarity gatherings at the blockades of Keratea!

http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2011/03/fate-mas-to-mouti.jpg (http://en.contrainfo.espiv.net/files/2011/03/fate-mas-to-mouti.jpg)'Fate mas to muti': Eat our shit!

There will be more updates as they come.
Sources: athens.indymedia (http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1259432) / ovriokastro (http://ovriokastro.squat.gr/?p=49) / radio98fm (http://deltio.radio98fm.org/) /actforfreedomnow (http://actforfreedomnow.blogspot.com/2010/12/tha-mas-fate-to-mouti-well-make-you-eat.html) / mylavrio.gr/radio (http://www.mylavrio.gr/radio.html)
More info:rioter.info (http://rioter.info/2010/12/20/keratea/) / occupiedlondon (http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/tag/keratea-anti-landfill-struggle/)
More photos: www.babylonia.gr (http://www.babylonia.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2796:-----82---&catid=87:koinonikesantistaseis%E2%8C%A9=el)

Another occupation on the Chile embassy in solidarity with the anarchist hunger strikers
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[Delenda Carthago]

Keratea wartime pt 2.

For the second time in a short while, police storms against the residents of Keratea. With teargases throwed by helicopters, clashes with the cops etc, the State trys to bring the machinery for the dumpster up to the mountain. Residents and people in solidarity(mostly anarchists) have create huge barigades and try to defend the town with molotovs and dynamite sticks.

Photos and videos, until a more descent text is posted:

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1277827

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1278021

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1277981

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5NIT_onE2p8

A nice funny video from Keratea. Somebdy took the broadcast sound from TV from the military parade and did this! I remind you that Keratea is a town of 10.000 (together with Lavrio who is also givin the struggle, 20.000). I just wonder, what would have been the reactions worldwide if this was an openly dictatorship and not "democracy".

Also, fascists attacked with molotov attacked to vutane can to a new anarchist squat that started a week ago in Athens.

14 anarchists were arrested yesterday,after an activist spray attack outside the house of the judge who is in charge for the CoCoF case.

[Delenda Carthago]

Since the last time I wasnt bored to update:

A. Big "Art Resistance" festival in Keratea. More than 10.000 people showed up on the Keratea barricades. The fest was organised by comrades and residents and had some of the most major names in many art forms in Greece.

Some photos
http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1281469

http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1280913

B.KKE had a WFTU conferance with unions from 16 countries. Dunno what they talked about, but it was kinda like a big deal.
photos
http://www2.rizospastis.gr/story.do?id=6194760&publDate=12/4/2011

Aleka Papariga is to talk on the 14th of the month I think in Syntagma sq.

C.Today some port workers had a strike and clashed with the cops.Also there is a 4 day strike in the media sector.

D. Some paramilitary scums did and arson on a anarchist squat/social center in Corfu Island. Luckily, the people managed to stop it before it got really nasty.

E. Two members of the "I m not paying" movement got arrested on some silly charges who got droped. This shows the fear of the System against that movement.

F. Some students from Peristeri(workers neibourhood known for its Lefty identity) stormed in the Education Ministry.

G. "Αntiterrorist Festival" in armed struggle and prisons, with some ex fighters of Tupamaros, 2nd of July(Germany), ETA(Spain) and some greek anarchists jailed for armed struggle.


H. More than 6 banks got attacked in solidarity with Simos Seisidis.



And many other arsons, strikes, banners, etc

[RedPersonality]

Massive Rally of the KKE in Athens

The people’s guide must be its desire for a people’s victory

Thousands of workers, self-employed, young people, thousands of people who struggle for a living from every corner of Attica participated in the massive rally of the people which was organized by the KKE in the centre of Athens opposite the Parliament building, in Constitution Square.(...)

http://www.solidnet.org/index.php/greece-communist-party-of-greece-/1424-cp-of-greece-massive-rally-of-the-kke-in-athens-en-ru

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[Anarchrusty]

I have leftist friends in Greece so I am very well versed in the developping situation over there, and the fire these people have in mobilizing the masses for the cause in awe inspiring. Sometimes I am ashamed that we here in the West are not able to perpetuate a revolt. Look at the protests in London, where is the fire of these days left?

[Delenda Carthago]

I have leftist friends in Greece so I am very well versed in the developping situation over there, and the fire these people have in mobilizing the masses for the cause in awe inspiring. Sometimes I am ashamed that we here in the West are not able to perpetuate a revolt. Look at the protests in London, where is the fire of these days left?

Things very valuable which are not to be described in this specific thread wich is dedicated to bring the news from Greece.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I'm looking foward to the May Day update. :thumbup1: