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Global movement/Void Network News

Not a struggle for the refugees, but with the refugees: Anarchism at work in Greece.

Live from Athens, cultural activist Tasos Sagris from Void Network discusses with Chuck Mertz from the radio program THIS IS HELL (U.S.A.) the political and social work of anarchists in austerity-era Greece – to provide support and mutual aid to the victims of capitalism and war, to defend the people from fascist and state violence, and to build and occupy the framework for a new, horizontal society, against capital, and for each… …

Local movement

ΝΑΤΟΣ ΝΑΤΟΣ Ο ΠΡΩΘΥΠΟΥΡΓΟΣ! – του Σωτήρη Λυκουργιώτη

Αυτοί που μαζεύονται φέτος στο Σύνταγμα στην συγκέντρωση “#Παραιτηθείτε” σε σχέση με αυτούς που μαζεύονταν πριν από λίγα χρόνια, παρά τις σημαντικές πολιτικές διαφορές τους, μοιράζονται μια κοινή πεποίθηση: πως η εναλλαγή της κυβέρνησης θα σηματοδοτήσει μια ουσιώδη αλλαγή στη ζωής τους. Η αντίληψη αυτή βασίζεται στην άποψή πως η κυβέρνηση αποτελεί την κεντρική πηγή της εξουσίας. Παρότι είναι προφανές πως, εντός του υπάρχοντος πλαισίου, κάτι τέτοιο δεν συμβαίνει, μια… …

Events/Local movement/Void Network News

ΚΑΤΩ ΤΑ ΧΕΡΙΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΕΜΠΡΟΣ!- SOS Κόψανε το νερό από το Εμπρός! Κάλεσμα Αλληλεγγύης / PUT YOUR HANDS DOWN FROM EMBROS ! SOS- State cut water supply from Occupied Theater Embros- Call out for Solidarity

ΚΑΤΩ ΤΑ ΧΕΡΙΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΕΜΠΡΟΣ! Αυτή η εικόνα με το σκαμμένο πεζοδρόμιο και την ασπροκόκκινη κορδέλα είναι μια συνηθισμένη εικόνα για το Εμπρός. Την είδαμε όταν μας έκοψαν το ρεύμα τη βλέπουμε ξανά από χθες που μας ξανα-έκοψαν για πολλοστή φορά το νερό! Είναι η εικόνα της κρατικής καταστολής. Η εικόνα της “ασφυξίας” που μας επιβάλλεται ξανά και ξανά από το κράτος και την, κατ’ ευφημισμό αριστερή, κυβέρνηση. Την… …

Theory

Η κουηρ λησμονια απέναντι στην μάτσο ενθύμιση – Για μια νέα αισθητική- του AMADEUS SACERPULLUS

Μεγάλωσα στην επαρχιακή ελλάδα των 90s, έφηβος την περίοδο του πολέμου στο Ιράκ, του πρώτου τηλεοπτικού πολέμου. Μια μέρα στα 15 μου ειχα ξαπλώσει, έτοιμος να κοιμηθω με το MTV ανοιχτό, όταν διακόπηκε για πρώτη φορά το μουσικό πρόγραμμα για την ανακοίνωση του θανάτου του Kurt Cobain, μια στιγμή θρησκευτικής σημασίας για τους γύρω μου, ίσως και μια γενιά. Ζούσαμε με το MTV για οξυγόνο, σανίδα σωτηρίας μέσα στην ελληνική… …

Global movement/Local movement

Επίθεση ενάντια σε 2 Κοινωνικά Κέντρα στην Αθήνα / Ανακοίνωση – 2 SOCIAL CENTERS IN ATHENS UNDER ATTACK / Announcement

[text: English/Greek] Η καταστολή του κοινωνικού απελευθερωτικού κινήματος και των καταλήψεων προσφύγων και μεταναστών δεν θα μείνει αναπάντητη. Οι αστυνομικές επιδρομές  αποτελούν ιδανικό παράδειγμα για την πολιτική που επιθυμεί να επιβάλλει η κυριαρχία στην εποχή μας: όταν εμείς κοιμόμαστε το κράτος συνεχίζει να δουλεύει εναντίον όλων μας. Τα ξημερώματα της 13/3/2017 η Ελληνική αριστερή κυβέρνηση επέλεξε να εισακούσει τις εντολές της δεξιάς συντήρησης και τα νέο-φιλελεύθερα τσιράκια των Μέσων Μαζικής… …

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Intervention (to Greek Anarchist movement) by The Barbarians

Of course, to begin with, everything needs to be broached with caution. We need to remember to make distinctionsin our thought. To speak with tact is not always the same as silence even if in some situations the only real choice is a tactful silence. Yet this is not the case in a general manner. Thus in speaking in a general way,  we can avoid this first, no doubt common… …

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S.O.S Greek coastline is destroyed by private interests and Greek government. The paradigm of the destruction of Spain’s coastline / Η Καταστροφή της Ισπανικής ακτογραμμής παράδειγμα για το μέλλον των Ελληνικών ακτών!

As the far-right government in Greece is preparing a new law that allows the destruction of Greek coast-line by private interests and all kinds of capitalist’s investments we publish here a serial of photos from Spain where anyone can see clear the destructive effects of capitalistic development in Mediterranean environment. We are asking all people of Europe to fight for the defense of Greek coast-line and the paradesiac Greek beaches… …

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The talk of Giorgio Agamben in Athens: “From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power”

This is the transcript of a public lecture by Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben delivered to a packed auditorium in Athens on November 16, 2013 and recently published by Chronos e-magazine. A reflection on the destiny of democracy today here in Athens is in some way disturbing, because it obliges us to think the end of democracy in the very place where it was born. As a matter of fact, the… …

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“Down and Out in Athens” Documenting the unemployed and homeless in Greece / a photo journal by Yannis Behrakis

Reuters photographer Yannis Behrakis, based in Athens, spent several weeks documenting the unemployed and homeless in Greece as the continued economic downturn has impacted the numbers of homeless. Since the debt crisis erupted in 2009, hundreds of thousands of Greeks have lost their jobs — the unemployment rate in the country reached 26.8 percent, as the economy contracted by another 5.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013, and even… …

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Slavoj Žižek: “Trouble in Paradise” On the protests in Turkey and Greece

In his early writings, Marx described the German situation as one in which the only answer to particular problems was the universal solution: global revolution. This is a succinct expression of the difference between a reformist and a revolutionary period: in a reformist period, global revolution remains a dream which, if it does anything, merely lends weight to attempts to change things locally; in a revolutionary period, it becomes clear… …

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Leave your myth in Greece (a peculiar junta)

After June’s 2012 elections, a three-party coalition between the two former big corrupted governmental parties (neo liberal right wing “New Democracy” and neo liberal ex-social democrats PA.SO.K.) and a third social-democratic puppet (reformist left DIM.AR) has led the country into a peculiar coup regime with constitutional facade. Although elected by the people the three together marginally pass 48% of total voters and also each one of them pledged not to… …

Void Network News

Void Network presents “THE CONDITION OF CRISIS AND THE SYMPTOMS OF SOCIAL CHANGE: FIVE FLIGHTS OF THOUGHT ON THE POST OF THE GREEK POST-POLITY ERA by Leandros Kyriakopoulos

Abstract: It is widely known that Greece faces one of the most precarious and transformative periods of its modern history. Greek society has come to learn, in a baleful manner, that crisis is the sequence of its former political inefficiencies and a slump that must be overcome. The pressure of this awareness leads people to deface previously established social convictions about the self and the world. In this procedure, social… …

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“Sustainable Prosperity: A Greek Perspective II” by Michalis Theodoropoulos

In Worldwatch Institute Europe’s second article examining the current situation in Greece we explore the particularities behind the current social situation, the ongoing changes taking place within Greek society and the notion of sustainable prosperity as viewed from a Greek standpoint.Worldwatch researcher Eirini Glyki [ http://www.worldwatch-europe.org/node/52 ] interviews Michalis Theodoropoulos [ http://www.linkedin.com/in/michalistheodoropoulos ], European Parliament assistant for the Greek Green Ecologists and responsible for environmental, food safety and health issues:… …

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Witness: Children of the Riots. (Words, Images & Moments from the streets of Athens)

As the financial crisis weighs heavily on Greece, the country seems trapped in a dead end.  But discontent over the misuse of power has long been simmering.  Greek youths reflect on how the killing of a teenager by police and the global spreading of economic, political and social crisis changed their lives for ever. This is a short documentary about children of the streets, children from the streets of Athens, same children like these children  in the… …

Global movement

“Greece: the European version of shock doctrine. The dawn of a new obscure era” by Kostas Svolis

All austerity measures forced on Greek people since 2010 constitute a small hors d’oeuvre in relation to the upcoming tsunami of social poverty and squalor that will be served to them as the main course by the capital and the Greek government, the IMF and EU directorate. The percentage of “official” unemployment has surpassed 16%, while the real one is estimated to be more than 20%. The situation is really… …

Global movement

“Democracy: There’s no escape.” by Greek political group “Agents of Chaos”

                                Democracy There’s no escape. The big pricks are out. They’ll fuck everything in sight. Watch your back.   Harold Pinter (He already said it on February 2003)   At the historical point we are now in, the contradiction of capital is increasingly clear worldwide. Proletarians around the world are in turmoil as the reproduction… …

Global movement

“There’s only one thing left settle: our accounts with capital and its state” by TPTG / greek autonomous communist group

A report on the working class struggles against austerity measures in Greece by Proles and Poor’s Credit Rating Agency aka TPTG a greek autonomous communist group. In periods of crisis, such as the current period of overaccumulation crisis, capitalists use the politics of “public debt” in order to devise new ways to intensify exploitation. In contrast with capitalist upturns when the private debt is increased, downturns are characterized by the… …

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