SchNEWS - Friday 26th February 2010 | Issue 711

Greece has once again been rocked by protests, strikes and civil unrest. This time in response to a series of swinging government cutbacks aimed at bringing the country into line with neo-liberal dogma and reducing its budget deficit. In response to proposed attacks on workers’ rights and pensions, virtually the entire country came out on strike on Wednesday. 30,000 marched through Athens and violently clashed with police.

By Rick Wolff - February 12, 2010

...[T]he Greek government and its business leaders are now forced to make a big decision...Will they force the mass of Greek workers and their families to pay higher taxes, earn lower incomes, and lose government services to "service Greece's creditors"? Or will they be blocked from doing so by the Greek peoples' resistance? That's what is at stake in the mass strikes now rocking Greece.

By Mark Salzmann - December 09, 2009

Police were instructed to observe the demonstrations and, in the event of violence, show "zero tolerance"...Just in Athens, at least 10,000 police were mobilized for Sunday's protest in the city center. Fighting broke out between police and demonstrators during the march and the windows of a number of banks and shops in Athens were shattered. Over 200 demonstrators were arrested.

By Jake Carman - December 08, 2009

On Dec. 6, 2008, the Athens police's murder of 15-year-old anarchist Alexandros Grigoropoulos sparked a broad social uprising that raged all month, has been simmering ever since, and is now flaring up again. Before the killing, Greece was already a heavily polarized country. On one side, anarchists strongly influenced workers and youth...On the other side, there was a far right-wing government, and police...who were often members or supporters of fascist organizations...

December 07, 2009 - Znet

...We Are an Image from the Future explores the history of Greek social struggles and the anarchist space in particular, while trying to give multiple answers to the questions about where insurrections come from, what role do anarchists play, to what extent is the State able to repress them, what obstacles prevent insurrections from maturing into revolutions, and in what ways do they change society when they stop short of total revolution?

By taxikipali - November 19, 2009

The day after the mass repression of the 36th anniversary march of the Polytechnic Uprising and Massacre, which saw the detention of 277 people in Athens only, and the arrest of 13 throughout the country, the reaction to the latest leg of socialist counterinsurgency was voiced today...in a variety of ways.

No Border Camp Lesvos 2009

In the last few years the island of Lesvos has represented one of the main entrance gate for thousands of refugees and migrants seeking to reach Europe. Packed in tiny plastic boats they try to cross the sea border between Turkey and Greece but some of them can’t make it. More than 1,100 migrants and refugees have lost their lives that way in [the] Aegean sea in the last 20 years.

July 17, 2009 - Znet

It has been around a year and a half now since the first attempt of the state to demolish the self-made Afghani refugee camp in Patras, which was prevented due to a vast and eminent solidarity movement. Nevertheless, the public authorities struck back and eventually succeeded to fulfil their initial plan on the dawn of Sunday 12th of July. This action can be only described as part of a major concrete plan of "zero tolerance" designed and declared by Markoyannakis, the Minister of Public Order of Greece.

July 8 2009 - libcom

The first mass anti-racist protest march of the week, organised by anarchists, clash[ed] with strong riot police forces and a handful of collaborating nazis leading to long street battles around the coveted Agios Panteleimonas area.