Monthly Archives: December 2008

Burn baby, burn! A love letter to Athens.

I’ve been meaning to write you this letter for a while, from the moment I heard about Alex’s murder… but there had been no time for love letters so far. There was no time to think, no time to write. Since it all happened you had been on fire. How can you hand a letter [...]

International Electronic Civil Disobedience in Solidarity with Greek Anarchists

From http://www.anarchistnews.org/?q=node/5860 Monday Dec. 29 2008 Hackers Against Oppression have called for Electronic Civil Disobedience in Solidarity with Greek Anarchists on Wednesday Dec 31, the final day of December. December is the month in which Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old Anarchist, was murdered in cold blood by Greek Police. It is also the month that will [...]

A Bedouin anytime! A citizen never.

The following text was one of the final to come out of an initiative from the occupied Athens University of Economics and Business. The occupation is no more, yet two new public buildings have been occupied in Athens in the last few days only: Another university property is now temporarily liberated (more about this tomorrow) [...]

World Revolution Manifesto

(Translator’s note: The greek version of the manifesto below has been circulating across websites in the country and arrived in the blog’s inbox as well. While I might not personally agree with all points raised in the text, what I particularly liked about it is that the ideas and what it calls for could have [...]

Barricade and history / Notes on the intensification of bourgeois antagonism

The greek version of the text below was distributed in the occupied Economics University of Athens (and elsewhere, I imagine) in the first week of the revolt. The photo is from Athens yesterday, posted on Indymedia. At first sight the image and the text might seem to clash – yet this is one good reason [...]

Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear

(the 2007 cover of the legendary “Vavel” magazine’s “christmas special”, which became one of the main slogans of the 2008 revolt) “Normality” (read: their normality; the capitalist norm of exploitation, misery, repression and death) is what we are standing up against. This is what we do now, what we have always done, yet in these [...]

Announcement by the Athens Polytechnic Occupation (24.12.2008)

The Occupation of the Polytechnic ended at midnight of the 24th of December – The struggle continues… ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE POLYTECHNIC OCCUPATION Immediately after the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos by the special police guard Ep. Korkoneas and the first clashes in the streets of Exarchia, the Polytechnic university was occupied and turned into a focus [...]

#35, 15:09: Prisoner solidarity demonstration in Athens today; radio, newspaper occupations continue; grassroots organising in bloom

A prisoner solidarity demonstration has been called for today (4pm) by the assembly of the occupied GSEE (the general confederation of workers building – now vacated). According to a decision by yesterday’s open anarchist assembly of the Economics University, the occupiers will use the demonstration as an opportunity to vacate the building en mass – [...]