Greece: Regime tries to tell media what to report. Police repression turns media them

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Excerpts from http://libcom.org/news/police-raid-a...thens-05122009

At around 17:00 strong police forces smashed the front doors and windows and invaded Resalto, the anarchist social centre of Keratsini, a proletarian suburb of Peiraeus... Claims by the police that the space was used as a laboratory for explosives are astounding given that the centre is an open space used by the neighbourhood on daily bases.

the state has been pressuring street-cleaners and garbage-collectors to end their strike which has filled Athens streets with piles of garbage the police claims can be used as projectiles or flaming barricades in the following days. The workers have refused to cooperate. As a result the notoriously extreme-right mayor of Athens has started a process to render their strike illegal.

protesters occupied the city hall of Keratsini. Despite broad local support, the riot police stormed the building and detained the protesters... the vice-mayor of Keratsini has gone public condemning the raid as barbarous and received delirious threats by the Minister of Public Order that he is covering murderers and terrorists. The bourgeois media claim the eviction has gone through without the presence of a state persecutor, rendering the whole operation in breach of the constitution. The police repression has turned many of the usually anti-anarchist media against the ministry

workers from the media have published a communique uncovering that the Minister of Public Order has held meetings with the owners of major stations and journals giving them directions on how to broadcast news in the following days.