Monthly Archives: July 2010

#343 | Lorry-drivers continue their strike, clash with riot police in Thessaloniki

Earlier on Friday evening, the lorry-drivers’ general assembly decided to go ahead with their strike, despite the civil conscription ordered by the government and the risk of arrest this ensues for every striker. Hours after the decision was announced, riot police appeared in an distribution point in Thessaloniki and tried to guard  a conscripted lorry, [...]

#342 | The whole of Greece is now a factory: Resist, strike, occupy! (or, some notes on the unwillingness of the social antagonist movement to support some resisting parts of society)

What has been happening in Greece in the past few months (and in a way, extending from December 2008 to present) is simply phenomenal: deep changes, one after the other, in the social backbone come at breakneck speed. This fluid landscape has found us, the wider social antagonist movement (anarchists, anti-authoritarians, the libertarian left) numb [...]

#341 | What is civil conscription?

At this moment, the socialist government of PASOK has just ordered the so-called “civil conscription” of lorry drivers, who have been on strike for a fourth consecutive day. International media described this as an “emergency order”, but it is well worth to look a bit deeper into this measure, as it is now likely that [...]

#340 | Striking lorry drivers clash with riot police as they’re being ordered back to work – constant updates

On Wednesday, the PASOK government issued an emergency order against the strike of the lorry drivers. The order (in greek: politiki epistrateusi, i.e. civil conscription)  in theory means that every striking lorry driver will receive a personal letter calling them back to work; disobeying this could result in imprisonment. Also, the political conscription allows the [...]

#339 | The ‘Sect of Revolutionaries’ claims the responsibility for the excecution of Socratis Giolias a week ago

A man called yesterday at the newspaper ‘Ta Nea’ and told the journalist where the communique was left. The full text is published today in this newspaper. As the police had predicted, the ‘Sect of Revolutionaries’ has claimed responsibility for the excecution of Socratis Giolias a week ago. They have also published a photo of [...]

#338 | Anarchist Nikos Maziotis ends hunger strike as his demands are met and Pola Roupa gives birth

Nikos Maziotis and Pola Roupa are two of the anarchists imprisoned in relation the Revolutionary Struggle case. As we published earlier, Nikos had gone on hunger strike, demanding access to the hospital where Pola Roupa would be giving birth and also, access to visits to her and their son at the female wing of Korydalos [...]

#337 | Who was Sokratis Giolias? (or, what planet do international media correspondents in Athens live on?)

The assassination of Sokratis Giolias is not a news item that would concern this blog much, not normally: his mafia-styled execution has absolutely nothing to do with the morality of the social antagonist movement, to which we belong. Neither of course had Giolias himself; a far cry from an “investigative journalist”, he has been much [...]

#336 | Tabloid journalist assassinated outside his house in Athens with 16 bullet rounds

Tabloid journalist Sokratis Giolias was assassinated outside his house in the suburb of Ilioupoli, Athens at approximately 05.25 local time on Monday morning. According to media reports Giolias was shot by three men who fired at least sixteen times. Giolias was allegedly a main contributor to “troktiko” (rodent), a popular news blog with ties to [...]