It was during the early hours of Monday 5 December 2022, when a 16 year old kid was shot in the head by a greek police officer of the DIAS motorcycle unit during a car chase in Thessaloniki. He was accused that he filled his pick-up truck with 20 euros worth of petrol and left the petrol station without paying.
Continue reading Greece: Scenes from the riot in Exarcheia after a 16-year-old kid was shot in the head by cops in Thessaloniki [Athens]
Video from the protest and the riot that followed on Saturday 24 September 2022 in Exarcheia, (Athens, Greece) against the State’s decision to destroy the historic Exarcheia Square under the excuse of constructing a metro station on top of it. This was the 3d big protest against the metso on Exarcheia Square since August 2022. In the first one approximately 1.000 people took part, in the 2nd more than 2.000 and in this 3d one approximately 4.500 protesters. Following this big protest in the streets of Exarcheia in downtown Athens, riots broke out.
Continue reading Exarcheia turned into a battleground following the State’s decision to destroy its historic square [Athens]
Exarcheia. Athens. Greece. Saturday night, around 20:30 (08:30 p.m.), June 26, 2022. In Exarcheia Square, many people have started to gather for a protest against gentrification, evictions from homes due to Airbnb, and State repression in the Exarcheia neighborhood, a place frequented by anarchists, leftists, students and artists.
Continue reading Video: From a peaceful protest to a riot in just a few seconds [Exarcheia, Athens, Greece]
Cadiz. Spain. Class War: Not just two words, representing the political and economic war of the 1% and their army of politicians, bureaucrats and the police forces against the rest of the socio-economic classes, but an actual reality as depicted in the video below from the southern city of Cadiz in Spain, where a tank was deployed on Monday 22 November 2021, in the working-class neighborhood of Río de San Pedro de Puerto Real.
Continue reading This is Class War: Spanish riot police invades the city of Cadiz like an army
Greece. The colonels are back, but this time they are wearing suits and are not part of the military, but members of the governing Nea Demokratia (New Democarcy, ND) party. The repressive laws and the way Greek cops crackdown on disidents reminds of the military regime in the 1960’s and 70’s. A few videos from the crackdown on protests in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas in Athens on March 5 and 6, 2021.
Continue reading The ugly face of the Greek ND regime and its police state [Videos]
Athens. Last night thousands of people took to the streets again in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas. It was the third day in a row that thousands of people took to the streets.
Continue reading Athens: Thousands of people took to the streets for the third night in a row in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas [Videos]
Heraklion, Crete: While people in “democracies” around the world have rights, like the right to protest or the right to freedom of assembly, the right to freedom of association, or the right to freedom of speech, in Greece, where the proud self-proclaimed democrats boast that it is the place where democracy was born, no such rights exist anymore, the greek right-wing government has quickly but steadily, in just one year and half, delved into neo-fascism .
Continue reading Greece: Riot police attacks, but faced with determined protesters, is forced to retreat (Crete)
This is happening now at Syntagma Square in Athens, in front of the greek parliament. (1st of March 2021, 18:15, local time). Huge demo in solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas.
Continue reading The greek government is about to murder Koufontinas – Thousands march in protest in Athens, Greece [Video]
Anarchist protest on 28 February 2021 at the greek embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, for political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas on hunger strike since January 8, 2021. If Dimitris Koufontinas dies it will be the first prisoner on hunger strike to die in the European Union, since the death of Bobby Sands on May 5, 1981, in Northern Ireland, under the Margaret Thatcher regime [1].
Continue reading Greece tortures political prisoners: Protest at the greek embassy in Stockholm, Sweden [Video]
Greece. While Athens is still on lockdown for the last 3 months, the right-wing greek government has used this time to act like a mafia organisation, settling scores with its perceived enemies, people, human rights and freedoms. In a violent legislative crescendo, the government aims to establish a junta-like police State when the pandemic lockdown eventually ends. From establishing police stations inside the greek universities to the banning of gatherings and protests above a certain number of people and the ban on the freedom of journalists to move freely and report the news, the ironically self-proclaimed “New Democracy” governing party has decided that hiring thousands of new policemen as the answer to everything, even the pandemic.
Continue reading Athens: Anarchist motorcade in solidarity to political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas on hunger strike [Video]
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