Greece

The Reality of Denial and the Denial of Reality

This text was meant as a polemic intervention in the debate around the questions of the Sars-CoV-2 virus in Greece. Above all, it was triggered by our surprise towards the fact that many of our comrades and friends within the radical milieu had embraced a denialist approach, while quite a few of them gradually but surely slid into conspiracy thinking and shocking absurdities. Even though the text tries to answer the question of what the Covid pandemic (and its management) tells us about contemporary capitalism and the state, it also asks the difficult question of what it tells us about the subjects of the contemporary period and the material conditions for collective thinking and struggle.

International call for a week of solidarity with the Iranian anarchist refugee Abtin Parsa (12th-19th of July 2021)

Submitted by R Totale on Jul 12 2021 18:48

A call for a week of solidarity with Abtin Parsa, an Iranian anarchist refugee in danger of extradition from the Dutch state, and brief statement from Abtin about his case.

Hot Summer in Greece: The Lockdown Abates—the Struggle Continues

Submitted by R Totale on Jun 30 2021 21:12

In this update, our correspondents in Greece describe the state of the anarchist movement following the easing of the lockdown and review the court cases that remain from the last year of struggle. This report was first published by Crimethinc. Content warning: this article contains mentions of domestic and sexual violence.

The kidnap of Alexander Haitoglou

To mark Freedom Press’s fundraising campaign to publish A Normal Life, the autobiography of “Greek Robin Hood” Vassilis Palaiokostas, this piece recounts the events of when Vassilis and his brother, Nikos, kidnapped and ransomed a Greek industrialist in 1995. The brothers, whose nicknames range from "The Phantom" to "The Greek Robin Hood", were known throughout the 1990s and 2000s as the country's most successful bankrobbers and prison escape artists — and among the working classes for their habit of robbing from the rich to give to the poor.

Barricade Bulletin 13 - April/May 2021

Issue 13 of Barricade Bulletin, with articles on the struggle at Debenhams, further education college strikes in Northern Ireland, local councillors, repression against Spanish anarchist and tenants union organiser Ruyman Rodriguez, solidarity with the "Kill the Bill" movement, anarchists arrested in Barcelona, the 100th and 150th anniversaries of Kronstadt and the Paris Commune, anarcho-punks in the Philippines, a review of the Working Class History book, and resistance to police violence in Greece.

The New Democracy administration continues to exploit the pandemic to take action against immigrants and anarchists, implementing an updated form of strategies that have not been seen since the Junta of the late 1960s and early ’70s. A report from Crimethinc, expanded from the Greek anarchist radio project Radio Fragmata's contribution to the monthly Bad News report.