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Greek anti-fascist protesters ‘tortured by police’ after Golden Dawn clash
Fifteen anti-fascist protesters arrested in Athens during a clash with supporters of the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn have said they were tortured in the Attica General Police Directorate (GADA) – the Athens equivalent of Scotland Yard – and subjected to what their lawyer describes as an Abu Ghraib-style humiliation. Members of a second group of 25 who were arrested after demonstrating in support of their fellow anti-fascists the next day said they were beaten and made to strip naked and bend over in front of officers and other protesters inside the same police station.
Demonstration and March: Amnesty Now – Save London Met – No to Privatisation
Students from London Metropolitan University protested yesterday in favour of full amnesty for international students and against the marketisation of higher education, the encroachment of for-profit private providers, against threatened job cuts and also demanded the immediate scraping of management’s shared-service (outsourcing and privatisation by the backdoor) initiative.
#Greece: coverage of the September 26 General Strike
Huge protests occurred yesterday in Athens, flooding the streets of the city with rage and anger. Around 100.000 marched against austerity cuts, and their deprivation of democratic rights, by the EU-backed regime.
“Democracy kidnapped” in Spain
Thousands marched yesterday in Spain near the parliament building, demanding the resignation of Mariano Rajoy’s government as well as the rewrite of constitution. The police have fired rubber bullets and baton-charged protesters. Spanish media reported that at least 32 people had been detained and more than a dozen injured. The protesters dispersed after MPs left the building.
#Portugal: We Want Our Lives
On Saturday 15 September, the people in Portugal took the streets again to protest against the Troika and the austerity measures imposed by the Government. Between 700 thousands and a million, in over 40 cities in Portugal and abroad, they took part in what is probably the biggest protest that has ever happened in the country since the Revolution in 1974. Massive numbers, demanding the immediate suspension of the austerity measures, asking the PM to resign and the Troika to leave the country, under the banner Que se Lixe a Troika! Queremos as Nossas Vidas! (Screw troika! We want our lives!)
Greece: Golden Dawn thugs attack foreign street vendors
The above video shows a small group of street thugs and members of the Greek far-right party Golden Dawn, attacking street vendors in Rafina (area of Athens). The far-right gangs destroyed the merchandise of the vendors, only because they are immigrants. Similar anti-immigrant thuggery recently took place in many other areas of Athens, and also in the city of Messolonghi, where MPs that belong to this ultra-nationalist and openly xenophobic organisation, ruthlessly assaulted against migrants.
Protest in support of London Met students who are threatened with deportation
Over 300 students, lecturers, and members of the University and College Union gathered outside the Home Office in central London today (Sept 5th) against the UK Borders Agency’s decision to revoke the London Metropolitan Univeristy’s licence to teach non-EU students. A petition signed by more than 2500 people was handed in to officials, which demands an amnesty for the 2700 international students at LMU at risk of deportation.
South Africa: the story behind a brutal police massacre
We have seen shocking images of the South African police opening fire on striking miners in the north west of the country. It has been described as the ‘worst day of violence since the end of Apartheid’. 34 people have died and 78 people injured. The ANC government declared the strike – over a pay dispute at the Lonmin platinum mine – illegal and ordered the police to disperse the strikers after the weeklong violent protest..
Greece: Immigrant stabbed to death in Athens
On Sunday morning, at 04.30 am, approximately, an Iraqi immigrant was stabbed to death on Anaxagora Street (Athens) by a group of far right thugs. According to eye-witnesses, the perpetrators of the attack were five motorcyclists who, a few hours earlier, in the same area, attempted to attack another two migrants but, successfully, managed to escape. Later [...]
Rubber bullets shot at protesters in Skouries, Greece
Clashes occurred in Skouries, Chalkidiki between local residents and police during a demonstration against the establishment of gold mines by Canadian Eldorado Gold. The police forces made extensive use of chemicals, and plastic bullets. Note that logging has started for the creation of the mines by Eldorado Gold and AKTOR. The march started from Ierrisos with the protesters shouting slogans such as “they talk about profits and losses, we are talking about human lives.”…
Michael Theodosiadis @ Greek islands against the Golden DawnEntirely by anarchism? Philosophically speaking, they can be opposed up to a degree! You mean what the KKE is doing in this regard? Well... absolutely nothing! They have been shrink a lot, as many of...
rukmini @ Greek islands against the Golden DawnComrades... Can far right actions be opposed ENTIRELY BY ANARCHISM?what is EKK doing in this regard? 
mumakil @ Η απεργία των καθηγητών, των μαθητών και των γονέωνΓια την ελευθεριακή παιδεία συμφωνώ με την άποψη των συγγραφέων. Για το θέμα του συνδικαλισμού όμως, με καλύπτει το κείμενο αυτό σε γενικές γραμμές. Το κείμενο θέτει κάποιους προβληματισμούς για το τι θα είναι ο...
Κόκκινη ορχήστρα @ Η απεργία των καθηγητών, των μαθητών και των γονέωνΓια μια απεργία που δεν έγινε ποτέ Τα καραγκιοζιλίκια που έλαβαν χώρα στη συνέλευση των προέδρων των ΕΛΜΕ δεν έπρεπε κανονικά να εκπλήσσουν κανέναν. Για τη στάση των ΔΑΚΕ και ΠΑΣΚΕ δεν χρειάζεται να γίνει...
jimcrazee @ Η απεργία των καθηγητών, των μαθητών και των γονέωνΜα προφανώς και ο ΣΥΡΙΖΑ είναι ΛΕΡΑ. Προφανώς και παίζει άψογα τον ρόλο του ΕΡΓΑΤΟΠΑΤΕΡΑ.
