As Freedom Press launches its (first ever) crowdfunder to get the story of the Greek Robin Hood into print, George F waxes lyrical about the import…
Impressions: A Normal Life, the memoir of Vassilis Palaiokostas
Tag: Greece
On the periphery of police violence: dispatches from London, Athens & Mexico City
The first time I encountered violence outside of the family I was fifteen and there was a machete pointed at my throat.
10,000 march in Thessaloniki after police siege of university
Campaigners against a new government law allowing police to attack university grounds had been occupying the Aristotle University’s Rector…
Ego te provoco: Thanatopolitics as new governance in Greece
On a warm day in September 2002, a freshly shaved man appeared in Athens General Police Headquarters.
Greek Horror: How an Epstein level paedophile scandal could connect to the first time in Greek history that a political prisoner dies of hunger strike
CW: mentions of child sexual abuse.
Hell for Refugees in Kara Tepe as Temperatures Lower: Greek Government Responds by Banning Photo and Video Capturing
After a few sunny days here in Greece winter has finally arrived.
Greece: call for solidarity with eight persecuted students
Eight Athenian students are facing charges, including “forming of a criminal organisation” in an apparently bogus case brought forward by t…
Greece marks 12th anniversary of Alexis Grigoropoulos murder
This year’s 6th of December marked 12 years since the cold-blooded murder by the Greek police of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos in the neig…
Greece: state suppresses demonstrations in memory of 1973 Polytechnic Uprising
This year the anniversary of the 1973 uprising at the Polytechnic University in Athens, which the junta of the colonels drowned in blood by sending…
Greece: Golden Dawn trial ends with guilty verdict
CW: descriptions of murder, violence, racism and racist violence.
Greece: Terra Incognita evicted
After a 16-year run the squatted centre just off Agora Square in the port city of Thessaloniki was cleared out in an early-morning raid.
Greece: dictatorship-era anti-protest law triggers large demonstrations
Thousands of people protested in Greece yesterday in response to the new law giving the police new powers to regulate protests.
Greece: Riot police ambush in Exarcheia goes after its migrant presence
The attack follows a recent attempted re-occupation of the zone’s evicted Dervenia 56 centre (pictured) by anarchist militants and a brutal a…
America, Empire and Us: The Benefits of International Solidarity
Solidarity demonstrations and support for the uprising in America and the Black Lives Matter movement are spreading around the world.
Greece: crowd gathers in Athens to protest new environmental legislation
Thousands gathered in Athens last Monday (04.05), to protest the new anti-environmental bill, which the ruling right-wing New Democracy party made …
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