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Anti-fascist protests end in riots, neo-nazi HQ torched to the ground in Athens
Anti-fascist protests end in riots, neo-nazi headquarters torched to the ground in Athens
During the clashes that spread throughout the city centre several banks and expensive shops were destroyed, while protesters broke into the offices of Golden Dawn [Xrysi Avgi] the neonazi parastate organisation responsible for numerous assassination attempts against immigrants, anarchists and the left, as well as a campaign of terror against radical infrastructures. The offices were torched to the ground.
Protest marches in response to the fascist-parastate handgrenade attack against the Immigrants’ Social Centre in Athens erupt in riots seeing neonazi national offices burned.
Riots broke out twice during the last week, both times in during protest marches against the fascist-parastate attack against the Immigrants’ Social Center in Exarcheia with a hand-grenade on the 24th of February.
During the first march two days after the attack, anarchist protesters detached themselves from the main body of the demo to attack the HQs of Apogevmatini, an ultra-conservative daily making consistent attacks on social and labour movements, whose editor in chief, Momferatos, had been executed by N17 guerrillas in the mid 80s, for his cooperation with the CIA during and after the colonels’ junta.
The much larger protest march that took to the streets of Athens on Thursday 4/3 erupted in extended street battles between protesters and provocative riot police forces attacked the demo. During the clashes that spread throughout the city centre several banks and expensive shops were destroyed, while protesters broke into the offices of Golden Dawn [Xrysi Avgi] the neonazi parastate organisation responsible for numerous assassination attempts against immigrants, anarchists and the left, as well as a campaign of terror against radical infrastructures. The offices were torched to the ground.
During the corresponding antifascist protest march of the same day in Salonica, street battles erupted between protesters and the riot police along the city’s central boulevard.
The renewed tension in the streets of Athens comes at the end of another turbulent week:
On Friday 27/2, pupils from the state schools of Philothei and Palaeo Psichico, Athens richest suburbs, attacked the exclusive private school "Athens College", cradle of the country's ruling class, under the pretext of the traditional orange war between local schools at the end of the Carnival. The pupils broke the back entrance of the school smashed the guard post spraying anarchist slogans and signs on the walls. Then they fired firecrackers and piled school buses with oranges. In their effort to storm the main building they were confronted by strong police forces. The cops attacked the pupils and arrested a 13 year old boy and a 12 year old girl who was dragged on the ground. The police had to release them both when the pupils counterattacked surrounding the officers with the help of teaching stuff who accused them of brutality.
On Monday 2/3, Afghan immigrants and locals in solidarity blocked the main seaside avenue of Patras, erecting flaming barricades, after an Afghan man tried to climb on the rear of a passing truck and a driver of a follow up truck spotted him and speeded up with the intention liquidate him. The immigrant was trapped in motion between the two vehicles and is being treated in hospital with life threatening wounds, while the driver was arrested for attempted manslaughter. The reaction of over 1000 Afghan immigrants was immediate but faced fierce police reaction with the help of local fascist elements. After an extended use of tear gas and repeated brutal attacks by the riot police and their neonazi allies the Afghans were forced back into their slum. During the repression four protesters were arrested. One of them, a Greek, was brutally beaten within the riot police armoured van. Later the same night local Greeks prevented an attempted fascist attack on the slum by pilling the gathered parastatist elements with bottles and other projectiles from their balconies. Patra has a long tradition of extreme-right ‘parastate’ organisations, including the Kalabokas gang that in 1991 assassinated the Communist teacher Temboneras during the squat movement against conservative educational reform.
On Tuesday 3/3 1:00 a.m. and upon reaching the terminal station of ISAP in Kifisia, a rich northern suburb of Athens, the last night-train of the service was attacked when passengers masked in fancy costumes exited its wagons shouting slogans and pouring gasoline inside, and proceeded by throwing Molotov cocktails. The fire which completely destroyed the entire train despite efforts of the fire brigade, spread wildly to other stationed rail vehicles and the station’s roof, damaging the rail-lines and thus rendering the terminal station as well as the two next to last stations before it non-functional for the near future. ISAP has been subcontracting K. Kouneva, the immigrant cleaner attacked with acid last December by corporate thugs, and has been the target of a persistent violent and nonviolent campaign with regards to cleaners' right. The group that claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack under the name “Conscience Gang” placed its action within the framework of the new urban guerrilla warfare that government circles have referred to as “low intensity civil war”, and connected their choice of target both with the plight of K. Kouneva, and with the death of Barns, a young graffitist who was electrocuted while being chased by security guards last September in an ISAP station. The group had in the past attacked the police station at Aegaleo, a western proletarian Athens suburb.
On Wednesday 4/3 in the morning local youth gathered at the site of Alexandros Grigoropoulos’ assassination in Exarcheia, downtown Athens. The youth tried to stop the works of the construction company which is trying to erect a block of flats in the empty lot next to the site of the murder. In the past days efforts at setting up building infrastructures have been halted by protesters. That morning the youth attacked the construction vehicles, burning a big bulldozer to the ground, leading the riot police to attack with tear gas and limited street battles in the surrounding alleys. Another big empty lot near Alexandros’ assassination site, belonging to the Municipality of Athens is being reclaimed by locals as a free public space, leading to renewed tensions of the urban social movements with Athens City Hall.
The same day workers of mental health institutions from throughout Greece gathered in Athens and pitched tents outside the Labour Ministry demanding their due salaries. The mental health workers have not been paid since last August. Mental health institutions of the greek NHS are suffering from both serious underfunding and lack of political initiative regarding the half started half completed de-asylumisation of mental health services.
The archaelogical site of the Akropolis (Parthenon) remains closed by an open-end strike of workers demanding an immediate payment of 4 months unpaid salaries by the Ministry of Culture.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
Hats off to the greek brothers and sisters who torched the building. This is how you handle fascist scum!
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
-Thomas H. Huxley
I'm more and more impressed by the Greek left. This is the only way to deal with fascists.
I just came.
PETER
Human beings weren't meant to sit in little cubicles, starring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements.
MICHAEL
I told those fudge-packers that I like Michael Bolton's music. God.
This is great, good work.
Outstanding job.
I think everything that needs to be said has already.
Excellent.
+ YouTube Video
Hahaha~
I know how you feel!
GO GREEKS!
By the way does anyone have any information on Golden Dawn?
Yeah, they are always hidding in their "nests", they never come out except if they have all the police forces protecting them, but that as it appears numerous times, dont gives them and much, they still get their asses beated. They only exist in their minds, and their tiny "homes".
Fuserg9
ANARCHO
COMMUNISM
You're never over
wow i didnt know that events like this were still happening in greece the media are really ignoring it at the moment. how long since the riots first started? a couple of months and they are still raging!! i gotaa say the greeks sure know how to be heard
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Ní Neart Go Cur Le Chéile
One revolutionary act a day can change the world
Formerly - Rise As One
it is said that the cop who murdered the kid back in the winter was an golden dawn member....
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
how do they know?
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Ní Neart Go Cur Le Chéile
One revolutionary act a day can change the world
Formerly - Rise As One
Last few weeks, where they were some "problems" with some of the "foreigners" "revolting" and of course Leftists where on their side, and of course cops and "fascists" were against them, but the thing got "out of hand" when some (state) people tried to throw a grenade inside a place filled with leftists and "foreigners" which if the glass wasnt double, we would have been talking for tens of deaths now.Fortunately the grenade didnt explode in the place, and none got hurt.This was the "spark" and all those are the consequences.wow i didnt know that events like this were still happening in greece the media are really ignoring it at the moment. how long since the riots first started? a couple of months and they are still raging!! i gotaa say the greeks sure know how to be heard
Yeah there is the rumor(almost sure its true) that he have been member, but left when joined the cops, just for the "procedure".
Fuserg9
You're never over
so someone working for the state threw a grenade at innocent people with intent to kill them? WTF!!!!
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Ní Neart Go Cur Le Chéile
One revolutionary act a day can change the world
Formerly - Rise As One
Yeah usual "greek" shit..
You're never over
shit! thats really fucked up but i suppose it shows just how desperate they are getting if they are willing to blow up innocent people
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Ní Neart Go Cur Le Chéile
One revolutionary act a day can change the world
Formerly - Rise As One
So these kids are from pretty affluent areas? Not a bad sign if I have understood that properly.
Good on the Greeks for their persistence
Jizzed in my pants bro
But seriously, thumbs up to our greek comrades.
Greece the prime example of a state where ex-fascists still effectively control the apparatus of repression.
Where conservatism manifests itself through the enormous influence of the orthodox church, where the state actively employs fascist death squads to do it's dirty work, where the ex-junta members (aided by the CIA and NATO) are still in positions of social control, whether in governement or business.
It is no more than justified that the people strike back at both state and capital as well as the fascist thugs that manifest themselves as their lackeys.
Fire and Flames for state and capital.
"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree..."
- John Milton -
"The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh"
- Amadeo Bordiga
Not wanting to "break" it for you people(as happened to me) but this article, sadly isnt true.I was amazed with what the article said, that i had to contact, to learn some more, but when i did, the answer i got is that such thing never happened, i mean there were clashes with golden dawn and cops, but their HQ didnt burned.
I dont know how this got up and where, maybe an "overdose" of passion and lack of misunderstanding-translating got us here.Anw the neonazis of golden dawm are beaten teir asses off regularly, and their HQ is smaller than your room, its like a hole not a HQ.
Fuserg9
Last edited by F9; 9th March 2009 at 21:26.
You're never over
^
ahh well, greece still rocks
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
