Tens of banks and other buildings are burning across Athens after today’s demonstrations. There are huge riots in Thessaloniki and Patra as well. The situation seems to be spiralling out of control. We will try to summarise key developments through the night, below: All times are GMT+2 01.06 The new memorandum has just been voted [...]

All times are local ATH time (GMT+2). The updates continue here: Athens, the long night of February 12: “burning and looting tonight”   21:00 Thousands of people on Amalias st. Police uses tear gas en masse trying to disperse the demonstrators who defend themselves with any means available and remain in front of the parliament [...]

In Berlin, a demo in solidarity to the protesters in Greece is going on at 13:00 (GMT+1). In Paris, the solidarity demo is at 15:00 (GMT+2) in front of the embassy (23 rue galilée, metro Kleber) Unconfirmed tweets talk about a solidarity demo in Trafalgar Sq in London. More information as it comes.

Reaching a climax of three days of mobilisations across the country, thousands are preparing to take to the streets on Sunday to demonstrate against the voting in parliament of the new memorandum between the troika and the greek government. In Athens, neighbourhood assemblies are calling for pre-demonstration gatherings in Pagrati, Exarcheia, Brahami, Kerameikos, Kalithea and [...]