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Thessaloniki: The struggle for a squat

It has been said before, but it is worth repeating, that an okupied social centre is not defined by the physical space occupied (appropriated from the circuits of capital accumulation) but by those who animate it and those to which … Continue reading

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Athens,Greece: One year of resistance against state terrorism 10, 100, thousands of squats

August 27, 2020 by actforfreedom 10, 100, thousands of squats One year of resistance against state terrorism Today 26.8.20 marks one year since the armed hooded men of Chrysochoidis invaded the refugee squat of Spyrou Trikoupi 17 and the neighboring Transito … Continue reading

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Greece: Everything Is Coming to a Boil

Posted with the CrimethInc. Collective (15/07/2020) … Looming Recession, the Ban on Freedom of Assembly, and the Death of Vassilis Maggos Since coming to power last summer, Greece’s far-right New Democracy party has waged an all-out war against immigrants, anarchists, and rebels, attempting … Continue reading

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Greece: The politics of exception in times of the pandemic (2)

Greece is often presented as an example to follow in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, having kept numbers of infection and death comparatively low. (the Guardian) What is so often ignored or passed over in these celebratory judgements is … Continue reading

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Greece: The politics of exception in times of the pandemic

Greece is often presented as an example to follow in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, having kept numbers of infection and death comparatively low. (the Guardian) What is so often ignored or passed over in these celebratory judgements is … Continue reading

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Reading state repression in greece

From Roarmag (07/01/2020) … Repression, eviction and dispossession in New Democracy’s Greece Theodoros Karyotis The latest attack on the squatting movement in Greece is the preamble for a massive operation of housing dispossession by the right-wing government. imitris Indares was … Continue reading

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Greece: The war against squats continues

Athens: Massive intervention in the streets of Kolonaki (19/12/2019) There is a completely false belief that Exarchia is an area on the map bordered by Patision, Alexandra, Charilaou Trikoupi streets and the hills of Steki. In fact, there is today … Continue reading

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Exarchia: Repression and resistance

From the Crimethinc. Collective (23/11/2019), reading events in greece … New Democracy: The New Face of State Violence in Greece A View from Exarchia as the Showdown Looms The neighborhood of Exarchia in Athens, Greece is known worldwide as an … Continue reading

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The repression of autonomy: Exarchia

The day after November 17, 2019 in Athens: a taste of blood in the mouth Yannis Youlountas (18/11/2019) Many of our comrades spent the night between four walls after systematic beatings. Others were injured, three of whom were transferred to … Continue reading

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Scenes from the civil war in greece: A call to wake up!

News from greece, from Yannis Youlountas … November 12: In the early morning, the refugee/migrant squat of Bouboulinas in Exarchia is besieged and evacuated, after the anti-terrorist OPKE had sealed off the north-east corner of the neighbourhood. November 11: Anti-riot … Continue reading

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