More anti-austerity protests swept Greece on Thursday (17th) during the largest ever annual commemorative demonstration for the 38th anniversary of the student uprising of 1973. Ever since, it has been traditional to watch the fires burn bright around Athens, in places such as Exarcheia and Syntagma square. Since the events of 2008 this day has gone from merely rebellious to properly revolutionary.

The Cigarrones travellers’ site is one of several communities which have sprung up near Orgiva in Andalucía, Spain, in recent decades. Coming to the southern tip of Europe to escape the repression against travellers in Britain and elsewhere, they have carved out a life of avin’ it autonomous anarchy – despite increasing attention from tinpot local authorities who act like Franco is still in. Since 1997 the site has held the annual Dragon Festival - now arguably one of the most significant free festivals in Europe – but this is also under attack. Here is a brief history written by a resident of Cigarrones:

Greece roundup- Protests mark the 3rd anniversary of Alexis Grigoropoulos's death, yet another austerity package, 400 steel workers strike over unfair treatment.

On Tuesday 13th December, two Senegalese market traders – Samb Modou and Diop Mor – were shot dead and three more were injured when Gianluca Casseri, Italian fascist accountant and member of CasaPound, decided to vent his racism in the most brutal way possible.

Three Ukrainian activists return home after being caught, abducted and abused by KGB security forces after taking part in a protest in Minsk, Belarus.

Russian state clampdown on dissident activists

Irish activists move in to liberate government-owned empty buildings.

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French cops at la ZAD tear gassed as land occupation continues.

Winter truce ends with migrant evictions in Calais

Hundred of thousands joined general strike to protest against the harshest austerity budget in Europe.

A new community-based bartering system emerged in Volos, Greece to counteract the devastating effects of an all time high recession.

While fighting closure, the Portuguese Es.Col.A movement has been inspiring the whole country to engage on self-management of abandoned spaces...

Recoiling from the austerity measures activists and organisations worldwide are starting to get together to fight back against the illegitimacy of the national debts and bailouts. On 7th April the first Euro-Mediterranean Meeting of the newly formed International Network for Citizen Debt Audits took place in Brussels.

Rundown on Greece's latest electoral chaos

On 13th May fascists after one of their silly marches decided to attack Art Festival in squatted social center Rozbrat in Poznan (West Poland). Due to reaction of activists present attack failed but the story doesn't end there..

Greek fascist organisation Golden Dawn celebrate gaining electoral seats with violence against immigrants.

Spanish miners riot and roadblock against government cuts

As police round up and deport the homeless.

The Black Fish release hundreds of captive bluefin tuna into the Adriatic Sea.

Countering Olympic Repression in Calais as 'Jeux Sans Frontieres' demo successful

6,400 migrants detained by police in the largest ethnic cleansing operation ever to hit Athens.

Calais migrants fight back with road-blocking action

Anti-fascist vigilantes take to the roads on motorbikes around Athens as racist attacks increase.

Land occupiers fight back as cops try to evict for airport development in France

Protesters hold an anti-austerity Plebs and PIIGS Banquet outside Lord Mayor's Banquet as a precursor to day of action and strikes across Europe.

UPDATE: The sh*t's well and truly hit the fan since we published this interview last week... Stay tuned for more SchNEWS from the front...

German anti-fascists take Berlin on 20th anniversary of comrade Silvio Meier's murder.

Sadness and disappointment but no surprises as judges in Amsterdam rule against releasing Morgan the Orca back into the wild.

Since October, Europe's longest, largest 'Postcapitalist land occupation', la ZAD (Zone A Defendre) has been under attack from French authorities who want to clear it and build an airport. Here's another update from 'le frontline'...

One group of Spanish workers has come together to stick a spanner in the works of austerity misery. Or more specifically, in the locks.

  SchNEWS interview's one of the ZAD crew

Civil liberties activists in Germany and elsewhere are taking a novel, and militant, approach to CCTV culture.

'Non-citizens'  take to the streets of Berlin in the latest instalment of the Refugee Strike shaking things up in Germany.

Neonazi Golden Dawn persecute far left leader over anti-fascist slogan.