Newswire from Greece II

[Sasha]

Anarchists intervene in commercial Athens radio station to transmit solidarity message for the Revolutionary Struggle case trial; currently surrounded by scores of police

In the morning of January 10th, members of the Solidarity Aseembly for the case of the Revolutionary Struggle (whose trial is currently underway) entered the corporate radio station Flash.gr on Kifisias Ave in Athens and interrupted the station’s program, to transmit a message of solidarity with those on trial.
Despite the fact that neither the station’s management, nor its staff wished any police intervention, scores of police (DIAS, Riot Police, undercovers) arrived on the spot within minutes. At the time of writing (14.05 GMT+2) after hours of being blocked inside the building, it is becoming increasingly evident that all those in solidarity that took part in the intervention will be detained and taken to the police HQ on Alexandras Ave.
More info as it comes.
UPDATE, 15.50 GMT+2 A solidarity gathering has been called for 17.30 pm outside the police HQ on Alexandras Avenue.
UPDATE, 14.35 GMT+2 Two attorneys and scores of riot police stormed the radio station building, detaining all those who had participated in the solidarity action. The charges against them are brought automatically (aytapageltes) meaning that no call from the station’s owners was required for the attorneys/police to intervene. The charges fall under Greece’s most recent (third) anti-terrorist law and include “appraisal of terrorist actions and use of illegal force”.

[Sasha]

At approximately 7pm on Monday evening, 78-year old S.K. set himself alight with petrol at a parking lot in the town of Lefkada, in Western Greece. The man died on the spot.
This follows from a tremendous increase in suicides across Greece, and Crete in particular – where also, two days ago (on Saturday night) a homeless man died of the cold in the streets of the city of Chania.

[Sasha]

At approximately 7pm on Monday evening, 78-year old S.K. set himself alight with petrol at a parking lot in the town of Lefkada, in Western Greece. The man died on the spot.
This follows from a tremendous increase in suicides across Greece, and Crete in particular – where also, two days ago (on Saturday night) a homeless man died of the cold in the streets of the city of Chania.

this is actually the 11th case of self immolation since 2010, with the youngest case being that of a 13 year old girl!
such cases are not given any publicity by the media (in one case, that of an albanian immigrant in Chios, it was just mentioned in the police official internet page) and ofcourse no one knows the names of these martyrs:
4 jan 2010- 27 year old man in Kaisiariani, Athens

2 jun 2010- 50 year old man in a bank in Thessaloniki

14 dec 2010- 50 year old man in front of the Presidential Palace& Megaron Maximou, Athens

22 feb 2011- 49 year old man in a church in Volos

24 jun 2011- 24 year old woman in Patras

7 jun 2011-45 year old man in Karditsa

13 sept 2011- 54 year old man outside of a bank in Thessaloniki

23 sept 2011- 13 year old girl in Kaminia, Athens

20 oct 2011- 43 year old woman in Iracleio, Creta

6 nov 2011- 35 year old man in Chios

[Kornilios Sunshine]

Golden Dawn(Chresee Avgee) fuckers had a demonstration on 29/12 to "honour" the 3 soldiers who died on the Imia rock island on 1996 while battling with Turkish commandos.Their whole fascist demonstration :

+ YouTube Video

By the way, they injured two immigrants at the Omonoia Square but fortunatelly the assholes who did it were arrested.

[Kornilios Sunshine]

On a voting gallop that took place yesterday as of February 2012, it predicts that there will be 10 parties in the Greek Parliament including the Golden Dawn assholes who took 2%. PASOK has been reduced to 9,5% and ND(New Democracy) party is first with 19%. Afterwards comes the KKE(Communist Party) which takes 9%, aftewards is SYRIZA(Opportunists) with 8,5%, next is DIM.AR(Democratic Left) which takes 8,5% , next comes LAOS(Conservatives) with 4%, Green Ecologists wih 2,5% and then 2% other parties including Golden Dawn. 19,5% of the people are not voting , 10% have not decided yet and 4% votes other small parties.

[PhoenixAsh]

So after december 2011 the more radical left are losing votes while the right is winning votes? Or do I interpret the picture and results incorrectly?

[Omsk]

Can any comrade answer a question for me: Is this "Golden Dawn" openly fascist [ie. are their leader open about it,or is this common for their rank-and file members]?Do they face a unified opposition?What are their chances to win popularity during the economic crisis?

Thank you in advance.

All i know,is that their members were in the Bosnian War,and that they have certain ties with Russian nationalists.

[Sasha]

Can any comrade answer a question for me: Is this "Golden Dawn" openly fascist [ie. are their leader open about it,or is this common for their rank-and file members]?Do they face a unified opposition?What are their chances to win popularity during the economic crisis?

Thank you in advance.

All i know,is that their members were in the Bosnian War,and that they have certain ties with Russian nationalists.

afaik LAOS is the "secret" fascist/extreme-right party that is offically democratic but in reality wants to go back to the days of the junta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Orthodox_Rally)
goldendawn is openly neo-fascist/neo-nazi:

According to the Party's charter, "only Aryans in blood and Greeks in descent can be candidate members of Golden Dawn".[7] The charter also puts the leader in total control of the party, and formalizes the use of the Hitlergruss for party members.[7]

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dawn_%28Greece%29)
their youth organisation is also a offical sister-organisation to the US based National Alliance.

[Kornilios Sunshine]

Can any comrade answer a question for me: Is this "Golden Dawn" openly fascist [ie. are their leader open about it,or is this common for their rank-and file members]?Do they face a unified opposition?What are their chances to win popularity during the economic crisis?

Thank you in advance.

All i know,is that their members were in the Bosnian War,and that they have certain ties with Russian nationalists.

Take into consideration that one of the members said "They call us fascists,racists,nationalists,nazis. If it is to protect the motherland then yes we are what they say". Unfortunatelly,the youth is adopting racist stereotypes and is led to supporting Golden Dawn. Their enemies are of course the communists,anarchist and immigrants, in one word humans, but they are opposed with LAOS the conservative party. Golden Dawn labels it as a psedo-patriotic party and a one who supports the Junta period in Greece. It's really funny because tons of GD members are mad fans of the Colonels of the Junta. In my opinion,there is no chance of them being a goverment. If that comes true well then either I will be killed or I will migrate to Cuba. :P

[Kornilios Sunshine]

So after december 2011 the more radical left are losing votes while the right is winning votes? Or do I interpret the picture and results incorrectly?

Not actually like this. LAOS which is in the goverment of Greece, before it participates in it, it had 7%. But since it got to the goverment, its numbers have been reduced. I would say the KKE has rised their numbers. DIM.AR , The Democratic Left..wait they are not left! They are a true copy of PASOK. They are left only on the name. So no, they do not consist of a party in the left.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Anarchist Yannis Dimitrakis was arrested, heavily wounded by cop bullets, on January 16th, 2006, after the National Bank robbery on Solonos Street, in the centre of Athens.

A storm of misinformation was systematically supplied by the police and readily carried out by the mass media, as his arrest was followed by a delirious state propaganda about the alleged existence of a so-called “robbers’ in black gang”; in the days while he was still being hospitalized in the intensive care unit, the infamous “terror”-prosecutor Diotis attempted to interrogate him; his friends and relatives were targeted; and in the prosecution case against him, the anti-terrorist provision as well as charges for a number of additional robberies were included.

Dimitrakis defended the particular bank robbery in which he was arrested as his political choice, as a choice based on his opposition to the blackmail of work as well as to the role of banks. In addition, from the first moment and during the entire time of his captivity he was actively present in revolts and struggles within prisons and through his writings kept a vivid contact with developments on the outside. The prosecuting mechanisms also accused and proclaimed wanted for the case three more anarchists, Simos and Marios Seisidis and Grigoris Tsironis, actually reaching the point of placing a bounty on their heads in October 2009. Simos Seisidis has been acquitted both in the trial for the outrageous case of “robbers’ in black gang” and the trial for attempted murder (!) against the same cop who shot him in the leg. Nevertheless, Simos is still under pretrial detention in the “hospital” of Koridallos prisons, waiting to stand one last trial, while Marios Seisidis and Grigoris Tsironis are fugitives to this day.

The outcome of Dimitrakis’ trial in the first degree, in July 2007, was an exterminating sentence of 35 years. During his appeal court, in December 2010, his sentence was reduced to 12.5 years. Finally, after being incarcerated six whole years, the comrade was released from prison on parole.
NO FIGHTER A HOSTAGE IN THE HANDS OF THE POWER
AND ECONOMIC ELITES
FREEDOM NOW TO ALL IN PRISON

http://anarchistnews.org/node/21594

good news I suppose

[Kornilios Sunshine]

Anonymous posted a protest against Greece's EU and IMF-inspired austerity policies on the website of the country's justice ministry today.

"You have joined the IMF against your people's acquiescence... democracy was given birth in your country but you have killed it," said a the posted video.


"What is going on in your country is unacceptable. You were chosen by your people to act on behalf of them and express their wishes. But you have derogatorily failed. You have killed the most sacred element your country had, and that is democracy."


You Should have Expected Us!

+ YouTube Video

Source : http://anonops.blogspot.com/2012/02/...ministrys.html


However, according to the Greek PCC(Prosecution of Cyber Crime or ΔΗΕ/DHE in Greek) the hacking attacks do not come from the hacktivist group Anonymous but from the Greek Hacking Scene who impersonated Anonymous. Besides, official Anonymous tweeted that they had no idea about the attack on the Greek Ministry of Justice.

[Sasha]

Call for Rally and March in Athens on Saturday 4/2/12

Friday, February 3, 2012
Several groups are calling for a rally and march in Monastiraki Square in Athens on Saturday 4/2/12 at 12:00. Some of the posters calling for the demonstration.
"Let's put back on our lips the word REVOLUTION"

"No Tolerance - No Consensus To the emergency regime that is enforced by the local and global economic and political bosses - For the social and class counter offensive, for a society of social equality, solidarity and freedom"


the red letters write: "Consensus or Default" - They have declared a war against us and they are asking as to keep peaceful - General Social Revolt

"Against the wild exploitation, misery, fear, racism, social cannibalism and intensive repression promoted by the sweeping attack of the state, the bosses and transnational mechanisms of sovereignty We should respond with social and class solidarity in the workplaces, in the neighbourhoods and on the streets. In front of institutional deployment, the state of emergency and the blackmailing dilemma: “Consensus or Default” we should set the real dilemma from below: “Capitalism or Revolution” Self-organised – Uncontrolled and Radical Struggles -Social and Class Counter Offensive for a society of freedom, equality solidarity for a society without exploitation of human by human being. March 4 February 2012 at 12:00 Monastiraki Square"






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[PhoenixAsh]

That was yesterday...is there any news what came of it?

[Ele'ill]

(Reuters) - Greece's two major labor unions plan a 24-hour strike on Tuesday against austerity measures and reforms demanded by international lenders in exchange for a new bailout package, union officials said on Sunday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8140Q920120205

[GoddessCleoLover]

Is there any hope for a general strike?

[Os Cangaceiros]

Hospital occupation in Greece

http://libcom.org/blog/greek-hospita...ntrol-05022012

[GoddessCleoLover]

A wave of occupations in Greece in support of the hospital occupiers would be a significant step forward for Greek workers in their struggle against the neoliberal monsters who are destroying the Greek social safety net.

[Os Cangaceiros]

On Saturday, February 4th, at 20.00 in the evening, 60 solidaritarians attacked the personal guard, the guard booth and official vehicles outside the residence of the president of democracy Karolos Papoulias. Papoulias’ personal guard fled, and flyers were thrown at the spot in solidarity with the anarchists Stella Antoniou, Kostas Sakkas, Giorgos Karagiannidis and Alexandros Mitroussias.

The solidaritarians withdrew in coordinated pace from the place, which is located at short distance from the police headquarters. A few minutes later, a DELTA police motorcycle unit appeared, that used flash-bang grenades in an effort to reach the solidaritarians, but with no success.

Yesterday’s action was held in solidarity with Stella Antoniou and the other comrades accused for the same case, as a first response to the denial of her application for release on bail.

These actions will continue until Stella Antoniou is released from prison.

http://actforfree.nostate.net/?p=7685 (originally posted on Athens Indymedia)

If that really happened, it's pretty cool. Moar mob violence pleaz

[Kornilios Sunshine]

Yes

Is there any hope for a general strike?

Yes. There's gonna be one tomorrow.