Monthly Archives: November 2009

# 132 | Mass xenophobic attack and solidarity demo in Athens as social tension rises

Neos Kosmos is a neighbourhood on the south edge of Athens’ city centre. For the past few years the neighbourhood has seen a relatively large Arab community grow, with small migrant-owned shops springing around. On Tuesday night (24.11), a group of 40-50 masked up fascists attacked migrants in these shops. They injured at least three [...]

# 131 | Thessaloniki anti-authoritarian space attacked with explosives – statement by the collective

greek original here Regarding the ignition of an explosive device at the free social space “Buena Ventura” (Thessaloniki) At the dawn of November 24, at 03:55 am, the free social space Buena Ventura (which hosts the assembly of the group Solidarity – Antiauthoritarian Movement) came under attack with a strong explosive device. The way in [...]

# 130 | Call-out for a collective grassroots reporting project from the Greek cities’ streets in December // Κάλεσμα για συλλογική ενημέρωση από τους δρόμους των ελληνικών πόλεων το φετινό Δεκέμβρη

(scroll down for English version) Κάλεσμα για συλλογική ενημέρωση από τους δρόμους της Αθήνας και των άλλων πόλεων το φετινό Δεκέμβρη (από το Occupied London). Από πέρυσι το Δεκέμβρη λειτουργεί στη διεύθυνση http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog ιστοσελίδα αντιπληροφόρησης στα αγγλικά, για την εξέγερση και όσα την ακολούθησαν. Τις μέρες εκείνες, κείμενα από την ιστοσελίδα μεταφράστηκαν και αναδημοσιεύτηκαν σε [...]

# 129 | The fake jump of the diver (December’s revolt in Greece, eleven months on)

The following article was written by members of the Occupied London collective for Svartur Svanur, Iceland’s first anarchist magazine – an Icelandic translation will appear soon in the magazine’s third issue. We are reposting the article here with the usual disclaimer that this is far from an “objective” take on the situation in the country; [...]

#128 | December 2008, Greece: An attempt to detect the power and the limits of our struggle (analysis by the Blaumachen collective)

‘From borders to police departments, democracy murders’ (slogan on a wall) Although the state and the spectacle attempted to reduce the events of December 2008 to “riots by youngsters” whose inherent in their age sensitivity justifies their reaction against grown-ups‟ world, these events are the most important historical ones during the last 35 years in [...]

# 127 | Excerpts from the most recent “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” communiqué

Two brief excerpts from the most recent Conspiracy of Cells of Fire communiqué, published after a bomb was set off outside the house of Mimis Androulakis, a turncoat communist – current government MP. The first excerpt explains why Androulakis was targeted, whilst the second one refers to their relationship with (and contains their critique of) [...]

#126 | “The state knows it, we know it, its time for society to learn it as well” (statement by the Skaramanga squat in Athens about a recent arrest)

On Friday, 13th November Antigoni, a 22-year old comrade was arrested only meters away from the Patission and Skaramanga squat in Athens. Accused with participation to the “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire”, she was released on bail only days later – a solid proof of the state’s non-existent evidence against her. The following text on [...]

#125 | 277 people were detained in Athens tonight: All hail the democracy!

36 years from the anti-dictatorial student uprising in Athens. It’s been a long while and democracy seems old enough to show its teeth: at tonight’s commemorative demonstration, 277 people (!) were in total detained by police (a “detention” also means being forcefully taken to a police station for ID checking etc). So far, out of [...]