Thursday, December 31, 2009
Greek original
Our being is on fire. Behind the bars we have set ourselves, sometimes even for our own selves.
Our being is on fire. In front of shiny storefronts, between humans who demand nothing. In the workspaces, the consumerist “wants”, in the economy’s suffocating flow. In representation, idleness, the rottenness that eats away the last cells [...]
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Since May 16th Agros (=plot of land/field) is a free, vivid place within the abandoned and commercialized Tritsi Park (NW Athens). Agros carries out collective land cultivation, weekly assemblies on social/political issues and initiatives against the state’s destructive development plans. Their modus operandi is based on making individual needs and wishes collective and pursuing them [...]
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
On Monday night, the group conspiracy of cells of fire posted a communique on Athens Indymedia (greek original here) claiming Sunday night’s attack on the national bank and insurance agency on Sygrou Avenue in Athens. The explosion was very strong, marking an upgrading in the group’s capacities – as they themselves note in the communique. [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
(reposted from Last Hours)
“Molotovs, sticks, banners, slogans, clashes, road-blocks, demonstrations, bins, fires. Always finding itself in the middle of the action, our company became a target many times over and its walls turned into ’spaces for expression’ – the highlight being the torching alight of our building on Stournari Street!”
From a recent advertising campaign by [...]
Friday, December 25, 2009
Zero tolerance, preemptive arrests, setting a price on peoples’ heads, violation of the academic asylum, police state, beatings, surveillance, raid of political spaces, evidence fabrication, torturing, white cells, repression…
The Minister of “Citizen Protection” Wishes You a Happy 1967
- Tank’s Not Dead
(1967 was the year that the seven-year long Junta commenced in Greece –trans.)
Thursday, December 17, 2009
A few days before this year’s anniversary, some friends in Athens put together the poster below. We are gladly reposting it here with apologies for the massive delay. Greek original comes first, followed by a quick attempt to offer a poster version with an English translation. For anyone that can do a better job with [...]
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Pictured: our features editor thinks delaying issue #5 is called for and is about to throw the idea out there.
We appreciate the interest, potential reader, we really do. But you see, it’s just that things in life sometimes work a bit differently to what you’d expect them to. “How could they fail us this time”, [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
The antiauthoritarian centre Resalto in Athens was raided by the police on the evening of December the 5th, as part of the ‘preventive’ strategy of the Greek state to repress any form of social and political action, a year after the assassination of Alexis Grigoropoulos by the Greek police. In response, the Town Hall [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
“Resalto” is the anarchist space in Western Athens that was raided by police on the evening of December 5th (background info on the case is here). The 22 comrades arrested during the brutal break-in of the space were released by the Piraeus Court at the dawn of Tuesday, December, 8th. However, the court imposed strict [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Anti-repression demonstration took place yesterday in Thessaloniki too. About 2000 demonstrators. No riots erupted and no chemical gasses were used (something actually rare). Demonstrations yesterday also in Trikala, Chania, Rethymno, Giannena, and many neighborhoods of Athens. Also gatherings happened in metro stations and central squares of Athens and text were handed to people and read [...]