Monthly Archives: September 2009

#89 | “In these strange times…” Music promoter in Athens exposed as undercover cop

May 1, 2002. Members of the Stalinist Communist Party (KKE) have just discovered an armed undercover cop to have infiltrated their Mayday demonstration in Athens. They demand to know his name (Christos Giannakoulis, pic 1) and hand him over, together with his gun (pic 2), to the head of the police present at the demonstration [...]

#88 | Financial help for Serbian anarchists

Call for solidarity with 6 comrades from Serbia. On 04.09.2009, following the decision of the investigating judge of the District Court in Belgrade, the groups of six anarchists who were arrested 3rd of September 2009 were sentenced to detention measures up to thirty days. year. The charge states that the suspects , on 25th of [...]

#87 | The last prisoners of December’s revolt are in Serbia! Solidarity with the arrested anarchosyndicalists in Belgrade.

On Friday September 4, five political activists and members of the Anarcho-syndicalist Initiative, the Serbian branch of the International Workers Association, were arrested in Belgrade under fabricated charges. The arrests are supposedly linked to an action that took place at the greek embassy in Belgrade on August 25, in solidarity to the hunger striker at [...]

#86 | Video from the September 4 police raid in Exarcheia

A short video has just been released showing part of the police raid in Exarcheia on September 4. The video, below, shows policemen of the Delta force kicking and beating two of the four arrested (mostly in the last 30-40”). According to eye-witnesses the arrested were tied to a tree. Leaving the area, the Delta [...]

#85 | “The unanimity of the fearful” (communique for the bomb at the ministry of Macedonia and Thrace in Thessaloniki)

On September 2, the same day that a bomb detonated outside the Athens Stock Exchange, another one went off at the ministry of Macedonia and Thrace in the city of Thessaloniki. As expected, the “Conspiracies of Cells of Fire” claimed responsibility. What follows is the communique, released on September 5, with which the attack was [...]

#84 | Thessaloniki: Autonomous demo against the International EXPO gathers 3-4,000; fifteen detentions so far

Thessaloniki. Today saw the opening of the international (trade) exhibition of Thessaloniki, where prime ministers traditionally lay out their plan for the coming financial year. The EXPO also sees mass demonstrations by the entire spectrum of the leftist and anarchist movement. This year the autonomous block (“for an autonomous, class demonstration”) was called by PEKOP, [...]

#83 | Athens: Exarcheia sees second night of cop siege

04:03 am For a second consecutive night the Athens neighbourhood of Exarcheia had been under siege by the cops. Some of the cops who approached the area’s self-organised park were attacked with molotov cocktails. Up until an hour ago, at least, clashes and skirmishes around the area continued. Eye-witnesses speak of barricades being set up [...]

#82 | Eye-witness report from last night’s police assault on Exarcheia

Translated from Athens IMC …soon after 01.30 a.m. two jeeps of the OPKE force (the so-called crime protection units, similar to the special guards who shot Alexis –trans.) drove down Navarinou Road, a one way street, the wrong way (that’s the road by the self-organised park –trans.) speeding, shouting and swearing at passers-by. We were [...]