Greek revolt - marxist riots and terrorism

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In June 2011 the revolt turned somewhat towards anarchism and a more general popular uprising. But there are dangers that the system may collaps into chaos, the opposite of anarchy and anarchism, i. e. real democracy. Chaos is typically ochlarchy with rivaling polyarchy, dominated by extremists, and perhaps later call for a "strong man" and a totalitarian dictatorship.

1. The authoritarian travesty of "anarchy" = ochlarchy, i.e. mob rule broadly defined, and "anarchists" = ochlarchists/ochlarchs is hard to stop... Authoritarians: Marxists, liberalists and populists/fascists all have an interest in calling ochlarchy "anarchy" and ochlarchists/ochlarchs "anarchists". And their authoritarian newsmedia/propaganda stations, say BBC marxist, CNN liberalist, etc. mostly postulate this travesty, i.e. authoritarian Orwellian "1984" newspeak. In these cases they deserve a Brown Card.

2. Anarchy is in reality and objectively seen a system significantly without archs, ochlarchs/ochlarchists included, i.e. a system with relatively small rank and income differences, orderly (optimal order, and not chaos) and efficient, also environmentally. Anarchy is real democracy - from the people and upwards, significantly. Anarchists are real democrats. The people, seen as a class, are the grassroots in contrast to the superiors in rank and/or income, the pyramid that in reality is the state/government, if significant i.e. top heavy, and it is probably always inefficent. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, as members of the people, not attacking persons or things... More and more... Until complete horizontal organization is achieved, as an ultimate aim.

3. The word anarchy origins from greek. The prefix "an" means "negation of" as in anaerobe versus aerobe and "arch" means "superior, i.e. in contrast to subordinates", as in archbishop, archangel, archduke, arch villain, etc. Thus anarchy, anarchism, anarchist, a.s.o., mean coordination on equal footing, without superiors and subordinates , i.e. horizontal organization and co-operation without coercion, ideally or practically. Anarchy, [an-arch]-y means [an = without, arch = ruler(s)]-y = system, management as in monarch-y. Thus anarchy and anarchism mean "system and management without ruler(s), i.e. co-operation without repression, tyranny and slavery". That is economic and political/administrative, societal, management from the people, grassroots, and upwards - significantly, without a top heavy pyramid in rank and/or income, i.e. without a top - down approach, without ochlarchy/ochlarchists/ochlarchs and other archs, significantly.

4. Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. The only violence anarchists accept is violence, proportionate, in self defense, i.e. not ochlarchist or other authoritarian actions. Anarchist actions are actions consistent with the here mentioned framework, i.e. non-authoritarian and non-ochlarchical, and not marxist, liberalist or populist/fascist, and nothing else.

5. When mislead youths and similar adopt this travesty and call themselves "anarchists" and do ochlarchy, and the main media reports more or less uncritical in the same way, the vicious circle is complete. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag! There is no panacea to break this circle, but it is not unbreakable. www.anarchy.no has about 15 000 visitors and 50 000 hits per month, and a lot of other websites have the same information. In the long run we will break the vicious circle, but it would certainly help if the main media sometimes let our objective information about anarchy vs ochlarchy and anarchists vs ochlarchists/ochlarchs pass on to their audience...

6. For objective information and updated news about anarchy, anarchism and anarchists, read www.anarchy.no and similar websites world wide! The first main newsstation that makes use of the word ochlarchy and reports objectively about this matter will receive a large Black Star '*' from IAT. But that will probably take some time. The IAT and anarchists in general are however patient. In the long run anarchy will be everywhere on Earth... The sooner the better... We are on party with the future...

7. To mix up opposites as a) anarchy and ochlarchy and b) anarchists with ochlarchists/ochlarchs, as outdated dictionaries and media often do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT in such cases hands out a Brown Card, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The Anarchist International, AI, and the International Anarchist Tribunal included the Anarchist Press Tribunal, IAT-APT, call on the international newsmedia and mandated persons to report fairly and objectively, and not with authoritarian newspeak, about anarchy, anarchism, anarchist and anarchists.

8. Chaos, disorder, mob rule (narrowly defined), lawlessness, the law of the jungle, criminality, riots, vandalism, arson, theft, corruption, drugs, mafia, terrorism, autocratic rule, the right to the strongest, antisocial tyrannic behavior, etc. i.e. different types of superiors and subordinates, a top - down approach. The Greek rooted word for mob rule is ochlarchy. Ochlarchy is also used as a common word for all the authoritarian evils mentioned above i.e. mob rule broadly defined.

9. People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian. They may be liberalists, fascists or marxists, practically certain not anarchists. If anti-capitalist, they are authoritarian socialists, i.e. marxists - leftists or leftwing extremists, not anarchists, although they may falsely try to pose as such, i.e. provocateurs, or wrongly be called so by the media. The media should call such ochlarchists marxists, leftists, leftist groups or leftwing extremists, because that is what they are, not anarchists! Anarchists are in the middle and upwards on the economic-political map, they are not leftists or rightists, not leftwing or rightwing extremists.

10. For more information about the Brown Card and anarchy vs chaos, see (click on) the Oslo Convention and search for anarchy vs chaos at the Anarchy debate/Anarkidebatt. For more information about provocateurs, see the footnote and more at External links.

1. An extremist, person or organization, is the same as totalitarian on the EP-map, i.e. with more than 666 per thousand, or about 67%, authoritarian degree. Leftwing extremists or just left extremists to the left of the middle of the map, and rightwing extremists or just right extremists to the right of the middle.

2. We see on the EP-map (click on System theory and economic-political map) that leftwing extremists are leftist ultra-fascists, most of left fascists, some leftist populists, a little more than half of the state-communists (leninists and maoists), and about 1/3 of left socialists. Rightwing extremists are rightist ultra-fascists, most of right fascists, some rightist populists, a little more than half of the conservative liberalists, and about 1/3 right liberalists. These figures refer to types of system, not number of persons. Anarchists are far from extremists , they are from the middlepoint and upwards on the map, not far left or far right, with 50% or less authoritarian degree. Extremists and totalitarians are practically certain either marxists, populists/fascists or liberalists, never anarchists.

3. Extremism typically also has social psychological roots. Keywords are mass hypnotic suggestion, totalitarian personality disorder, physical and psychical violence, a paranoid twisted travesty of reality, and ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) including criminality. Typically present is a form of charismatic leadership in the meaning a special quality of leadership that captures the popular imagination and inspires unswerving allegiance and devotion. Totalitarian personality disorder typically appears among both leadership and followers, rank and file, although sometimes in different forms. It may also appear at a single person or small sects, and in polyarchical networks. The main hallmark of totalitarian personality disorder is a significant will to cow, broadly defined, or support for such people or organizations. Typically is also complaining about hostility or mobbing, i.e. ochlarchy, when exposed to free, matter of fact criticism.

4. Political extremism is typically use of, or threat of use of, violence against persons and/or things, to achieve political aims. Political extremism is authoritarian, ochlarchist (ochlarchy = mob rule), the opposite of anarchist, according to the Oslo Convention. Persons doing political extremism are ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists, and are thus expelled from the anarchist movement, regardless of what they may claim to be. Such ochlarchist infiltrators to the anarchist movement, get an expelling Brown Card from the International Anarchist Tribunal, for breaking the Oslo Convention. The only violence accepted by anarchists is violence, proportionate, in self defense, i.e. not political extremism. Anarchism is neither pacifism, nor political extremism, terrorism included. The anarchists condemn all forms of extremism.

Updated news about the situation in Greece - marxist riots and terrorism

To international newsmedia, the Greek people and authorities regarding riots in Greece.

Introduction 06.12.2008...
07.12.2008. The Greek system seen all in all is mainly populist.
The violent riots in Greece are done by leftwingers, i.e. marxists.
A Greek newspaper reports "Chaos in Athens as tensions peak"! Chaos and mob rule, ochlarchy, are the right words...
Anarchist criticism of prime minister Costas Karamanlis, updated 27.12.2008.
21.01.2009. The International Workers of the World's resolution in solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva .
Actions for Konstantina Kuneva.
03.02.2009. Leftwing extremist gunmen attacked a police station.
04.02.2009. Leftwing extremist ochlarchy and police ochlarchy ..., compared to the Anarchies of Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, Greece is quite authoritarian, populist and ochlarchical.
05.02.2009. No demonstrations, but terrorist ochlarchy Thursday.
The anarchists take a clear stand against all forms of ochlarchy, also of course terrorist ochlarchy.
18.02.2009. New marxist leftwing extremist bomb attack.
12.03.2009. Revolutionary Struggle threatens to continue its bombing campaign. The anarchists condemn Revolutionary Struggle.
13.03.2009. The international anarchist movement condemns the ochlarchical riots and destruction.
19.03.2009. The international anarchist movement condemns the bomb attack.
23.03. The international anarchist movement condemns the arson attack and vandalism.
25.03. The international anarchist movement condemns the arson attacks.
28.03.2009. The anarchists condemn the vandalism.
30.03.2009. The anarchists condemn the rioters and the arson attacks.
31.03.2009. The anarchists condemn the rioters and bomb attacks.
01.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the vandalism, Voutsis-Vogiatzis and "Criminals of Thought and Action".
03.04.2009. The anarchists comdemn the shooting and bomb attacks.
07.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.
08.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the attack on the police and the theft, i.e. ochlarchy. The IAT hands out a Brown Card to Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.
09.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.
10.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and shooting.
11.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.
13.04.2009 The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
14.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the robbery and arson attack.
15.04.2009.The anarchists condemn the vandalism and arson attacks.
16.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and arson attacks.
21.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.
25.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the armed attack and firebomb attack.
27.04.2009. The anarchists condemn Greek newspapers for falsely calling ochlarchists "anarchists". They get a Brown Card from IAT-APT.
28.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the armed robbery and shooting.
29.02.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack.
01.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and ochlarchy in general.
04.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the shooting and the company raid.
05.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the bank raid.
07.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
Also 08.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the armed robberies.
09.06.2009. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy, initiated by fascists.
10.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the robberies.
12.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb and arson attacks.
14.05.2009. IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to Epaminondas Korkoneas, the killer of Alexandros Grigoropoulos. The policeman Korkonas excuses his killing of Alexandros with that he was facing a "dangerous anarchist group", see the Introduction at the bottom of this file. This is a lie - no anarchist group is dangerous in the meaning of ochlarchical, the only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The group of Alexandros was however not anarchist, but it was by no means so dangerous and ochlarchical that it defends any shooting. The talk about "dangerous anarchist group" is Orwellian "1984" newspeak, and Korkonas gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo-Convention, see http://www.anarchy.no/iat.html and http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html . The International Anarchist Tribunal also urges the Greek courts to judge Korkoneas as soon as possible. He probably deserves a life sentence in jail.
15.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
16.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the rightwing extremist ochlarchy.
17.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.
18.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
19.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.
20.05.2009. The rightwing extreme liberalist paper Kathimerini gets a dark Brown Card.
21.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchists that threw rocks and and pieces of wood, and the vandals.
22.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the rioters.
23.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.
25.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the campus attack.
26.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and vandalism.
31.05.2009. Vote for Drassi - the Action party, at the European Parliament election June 7.
01.06.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
02.06.2009. The anarchists condemn the nazi and hoodies attacks.
03.06.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
04.06.2009. The anarchists condemn the Morning Sabotage Team, the attacks on banks and the hoodies attack.
05.06.2009. The anarchists declare: After 25 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction and is degenerated. From the start it was degenerated by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there.
05.06.2009. The rightwing extremist liberalist paper Kathimerini gets a new dark Brown Card. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.
08.06.2009 and beyond. The anarchists condemn hoodies' attacks, vandalism, arson attacks and terrorism, i.e. ochlarchy, now and in the future.
12.06.2009. Korkoneas faces charges of murder.
23.06.2008. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini.
24.06.2009. Another new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini.
19.07.2009. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini. Marxist leftwing extremist group claims bombing. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack.
27.07.2009. Brown Card to Greek police.
07.08.2009. Another new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini.
12.08.2009. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini.
27.08.2009. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini.
02.09.2009. Brown Cards to Greek Police, Euronews, Reuters, etc.
05.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
07.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
10.09.2009. Brown Cards to PM Karamanlis and Kathimerini.
17.09.2009. Brown Cards to Panagis Vourloumis and Kathimerini.
21.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini
23.09.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis and the Canadian Press.
24.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
25.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
26.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
29.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
30.09.2009. Brown Card to the lie-machine Kathimerini.
01.10.2009. The lie-machine Kathimerini continues and gets another Brown Card. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is a militant marxist group - not anarchist.
03.10.2009. Brown Cards to Alfredo Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos and Kathimerini.
04.10.2009. Brown Card to Chinaview. No anarchists have been involved in terrorism in Greece.
05.10.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini. Also, ochlarchists based in Exarchia, falsely posing as anarchists, get expulsing Brown Cards...
09.10.2009. Brown Cards to 20 hooded youths and Kathimerini.
12.10.2009. About arson attacks by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs. Brown Card warning.
13.10.2009. More arson attacks by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs.
14.10.2009. A "litmus test" of whether marxists, fascists, anarchists or liberalists are behind vandalism, hooliganism and terrorism.
16.10.2009. Brown Cards to around 15 vandals and Kathimerini.
22.10.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists and the lie-machine Kathimerini.
23.10.2009. Brown Cards to vandals and the Orwellian Big Brother lie-machine Kathimerini.
24.10.2009. Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis on trial on December 15 2009.
25.10.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis and Reuters.
26.10.2009. Brown Cards to the ochlarchists and the Orwellian Big Brother lie-machine Kathimerini
27.10.2009. Brown Cards to ochlarchists falsely called "self-styled anarchists", they are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines, including Kathimerini.
28.10.2009. Brown Cards to Associated Press, Reuters, Phantis and more newsmedia, and ochlarchist gunmen/terrorists. The anarchists condemn the terrorism.
29.10.2009. The Exarchia district is an ochlarchist stronghold, not anarchist stronghold. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
31.10.2009. Anarchists are not nihilists. The anarchists condemn the 30.10. bomb attacks.
01.11.2009. Brown Cards to the so called Organization for the Proletarian Popular Self-Defense, it is not a self-defense group but an aggressive terrorist ochlarchy group, and M&C/Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Phantis.
02.11.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists. The anarchists condemn the arson attack. Gov't probes terror links.
03.11.2009. Teachers' action against violence, with anarchist support.
04.11.2009. Brown Cards to robbers, rightwing extremists, arsonists, criminal occupants and Kathimerini.
05.11.2009. Brown Card warning to Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis, and Brown Cards to Cell of Rebels and student ochlarchists.
06.11.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists and armed fugitives, suspected rightwing extremists.
07.11.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists, suspected leftwing extremists, i.e. marxists.
08.11.2009. Brown Cards to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and ERT - The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, falsely mixing up anarchists with ochlarchists in Greek prisons.
09.11.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini, Greece in December 2008 was not on "the brink of anarchy".
10.11.2009. The killing police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas' and Vassilis Saraliotis' place of trial shifted again. The anarchists call on demonstrations without ochlarchy.
11.11.2009. Vandals get Brown Cards. Suspected leftwing extremist marxists, hooded youths smash bank, stockbrokerage and cafe. The anarchists condemn the vandals.
12.11.1009. Police officers' trial up in the air. The anarchists advocate trial on December 15 in Athens.
13.11.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini, so called "anarchists" on the anti-terrorist squad's list of suspects are ochlarchists, not anarchists. Police officers in court. Mother of killed teen asks for change of venue to Athens.
14.11.2009. Bomb attack yesterday, probably done by the leftwing extremist marxist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Call for massdemonstration on November 17, without ochlarchy.
15.11.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis, and Foxnews that claims to be "fair and balanced", but is an Orwellian "1984" Big Brother newspeak liemachine "news"-agency. So called "anarchist militants" are in reality ochlarchists and leftwing extremist marxists, not anarchists.
16.11.2009. Police detain suspect allegedly linked to terror cell. The "self-styled", "anti-state" activists in Exarchia" are leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.
17.11.2009. Brown Card to Athens News Agency. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is ochlarchist and leftwing extremist marxist, not anarchist. Ochlarchist and anarchist are opposites.
18.11.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis & Taiwan News, and Kathimerini. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is leftwing extremist marxist similar to RAF (ml) and BR (ml), and not anarchist. Exarchia is not an "anarchist stronghold", but an ochlarchist stronghold.
19.11.2009. The Greek system, populism with a rivaling leftwing extremist marxist state within the state. The anarchists call for winding up of this marxist ochlarchy.
20.11.2009. Marxist-Exarchia attack. Missiles thrown at police unit. The anarchists condemn the attack.
21.11.2009. Bomb attack in Nea Ionia by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack.
23.11.2009. Firebomb attack in Thessaloniki by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack.
24.11.2009. Brown Cards to Greek police, Phantis, Taiwan News, marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" and suspected rightwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and arson attacks.
25.11.2009. Religious icons may have to go. The anarchists support the removal of religious icons. Brown Card to Kathimerini: Marxist ochlarchists - not anarchists attacked.
26.11.2009. Greek government in chaos. The anarchists call for optimal order. Strike by municipal street cleaners and landfill workers. The anarchists support the strike.
27.11.2009. Bomb attack by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack. The strike action continues. Farmers' direct action.
28.11.2009. Expulsing Brown Card to the so called "Revolutionary Anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist oclarchists, and not anarchists, and to Kathimerini.
30.11.2009. Doctors strike. Farmers' protests continue. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and Golden Dawn - rightwing extremist ochlarchists - and Phantis & Kathimerini.
01.12.20009. Bomb attacks by suspected marxists. Brown Cards to the attackers, Greek police, Phantis and IOL. Municipal strike Thursday.
02.12.2009. Acid, police and university ochlarchy condemned by the anarchists. For anarchy - not chaos, at the universities. Anarchy is optimal order!
03.12.2009. Continued strike. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
04.12.2009. Alexis demo Dec 6 without ochlarchy! More Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists", i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
05.12.2009. The anarchists will as always demonstrate with dignity, not ochlarchy, at the anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos 06.12.2009.
06.12.2009 Early morning. Brown Cards to more than hundred marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, some falsely called "anarchists", Greek police and Ananova, etc.
06.12.2009. Afternoon. Brown Cards to thousands of marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, some falsely called "anarchists", Mail Online UK and some other newsmedia.
06.12.2009. Evening. No new Brown Cards. Reports from Euronews and BBC.
07.12.2009. Athens police clash with youths. Brown Cards to marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, falsely posing as "anarchists" and misusing the black & red anarchist flag.
08.12.2009. The anarchists declare there is NO "vendetta against anarchists" in Greece. Brown Card to SYRIZA.
09.12.2009. The marxist leftwing extremist para-state showed an ugly ultra-authoritarian face 05-08.12.2009, but a Kristallnacht was avoided.
10.12.2009. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists" in "anarchists' hangout" , i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
12.12.2009. No anarchists abuse the asylum law. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists" i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
14.12.2009. Brown Cards to the so called "Anarchist Action" i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini & Phantis.
15.12.2009. Chaos prevailes in Cabinet. Greece PM seeks support for cuts. Left-wing unions protest. Farmers protest. Media blackout. Anarchist comments.
16.12.2009. Leaders united on graft. Strike Thursday. Citizens push for cleanup. Anarchist comments.
17.12.2009. Greek unions protest against cuts. Greek markets hammered as strikers march. Landfill strike. Racist attack. The anarchists comdemn the attack.
18.12.2009. Attacks on Greek ruling party offices ahead of debt talks. Communists suspected. The anarchists condemn the attacks.
19.12.2009. Academics want safer campus. The anarchists agree. PASOK urges scandal probes.
20.12.2009. Fresh Brown Cards to Revolutionary Struggle and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Matthew Campbell and Times Online/The Sunday Times & Phantis.
21.12.2009. Pre-dawn blasts. Budget row in full flow. Greece and the Global Sixties.
22.12.2009. Police updated for crime-fighting. Anarchist comment. Immigrant rights on agenda. Piraeus garbage men end strike.
23.12.2009. Greek civil servants to strike on pensions, wages. Anarchist comment. University break-in. Cars smashed. Immigrants to get citizenship.
24.12.2009. Arsonists target bank in Galatsi, minor damage. The anarchists condemn the attack. Officer is suspended after brawl in shop. 2010 budget adopted - PM says 'things must change'.
27.12.2009. Bomb attack by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack.
28.12.2009. Brown Cards to marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists and to Phantis and George Georgiopoulos/Reuters US.
29.12.2009. Blast 27.12. claimed by the Terrorist Guerrilla Group, a.k.a. Renegade Terrorists' Group, and Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.
30.12.2009. There are no anarchists in "Greek and foreign prisons". Brown Cards to the Terrorist Guerrilla Group and Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Fire Conspiracy Cell and ERT.
04.01.2020. Five officers accused of torture. Faith in state bodies waning.
07.01.2010. Terrorist suspect to appear in court.
08.01.2010. Police abuse. Officers accused of beating Chilean face magistrate. Terror suspect claims an alibi.
09.01.2010. Bomb attack. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists", i.e. terrorists, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA.
10.01.2010. More on the bomb attack. New Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists", i.e. terrorists, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA.
12-13.01.2010. Message to the Greek people about the marxist terrorist group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire from IAT-APT.
14.01.2010. Two aides injured in attack on deputy justice minister's office.
15.01.2010. More about the attack on deputy minister's office. Brown Cards to hooded attackers, and Kathimerini.
16.01.2010. Bomb at Press Secretariat. The anarchists condemn the attack. Brown Card to Chinaview and Phantis.
18.01.2010. Conceptual chaos at ERT? More about the bomb at the Press Secretariat. Athens cyclists take protests to a new level. Farmers set to block borders.
19.01.2010. Farmers are out in force. Some of the demonstrating farmers use the anarchist black flag on their tractors. Bomb hoax. Synagogue attack condemned.
20.01.2010. Farmers' mobilizations continue. The farmers' direct actions have continued anarchist support. The government takes a soft approach in dispute with farmer. ND supports farmers' demands. Rash populism. Greek court postpones trial on teen killing.
21.01.2010. More on the delay in teen death trial. Ochlarchists falsely posing as anarchists scuffled with the police. The ochlarchists get expulsing Brown Cards. Farmers' actions continue.
22.01.2010. Malcolm Brabant BBC News, Athens, is a liar and gets a Brown Card. The farmers' actions continue... Marxist group assumes responsibility for bomb attack 15.01.2010. The anarchists condemn the terrorist group.
23.01.2010. Grigoropoulos trial under way. Brown Cards and condemnations. Bulgarian PM meets with protesting Greek farmers. Arrests in synagogue arson. Bomb scare.
24.01.2010. Farmers stand fast. Teachers demonstrate. The anarchists support the direct actions.
25.01.2010. Greek farmers march in Athens holding anarchist black flags. Attack on anti-racism protest. PASOK targeted with petrol bombs. The anarchists condemn the attacks.
26.01.2010. Farmers refuse to engage with PASOK. Bomb attack. Sudden boom in bomb hoaxes. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and the bomb hoaxes.
27.01.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue. Rallying for citizenship. Call for action in historic center. Synagogue fire. Train vandals. Minor trouble.
28.01.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue, but roadblocks abandoned. Arson attacks. Violent robbery.
29.01.2010. Minister seeks farmers deal. Bomb attack by the so called Revolutionary Liberation Action. The anarchists condemn RLA. Grigoropoulos trial delayed.
29.01.2010. Later... Brown Cards to ANA-MPA, Taiwan news and Phantis, that falsely report about "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.
30.01.2010. Blast, arson by suspected marxist leftwing terrorist ochlarchists, not anarchists as Kathimerini, getting a Brown Card, suggests. The farmers' anarchist actions continue.
31.01.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue.
01.02.2010. Farmers produce list of 9 demands. Firebomb attack. The anarchists condemn the attack.
02.02.2010. Situation unchanged at roadblocks. 'Cells' arrest. Teachers strike. The anarchist support the strike.
03.02.2010. Farmers stand firm as talks fail. Psych probe. Bomb hoax. The anarchists condemn the terrorist hoax. Links to anarchist comments outdated at ERT.
04.02.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue. Farmers to retire from Strymonikos roadblock on Friday. Policemen's court case delayed after prosecutor withdraws.
05.02.2010. Farmers abandon roadblocks. Leaving the roadblocks does not equal to abandoning the demonstrations. The 10 February industrial actions.
06.02.2010. University unrest. Bomb hoax. The anarchists condemn the terrorist hoax. Farmers remove some blocks, raise others. Demonstrations by leftwing and rightwing extremists.
07.02.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continues. Promachonas closed again.
08.02.2010. Farmers keep Promachonas closed. More strikes. The anarchists support these libertarian actions. Polls show Greeks back austerity measures.
09.02.2010. Farmers' actions. Grigoropoulos killing. Trial to restart on February 17.
10.02.2010. Greeks strike over austerity plan. The anarchists in general support the strike, but condemn the small tendencies of ochlarchy. Farmers' meeting with Agriculture minister unfruitful.
11.02.2010. Brown Cards to so called selfstyled "anarchists", Vangelis Chrysochoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and to Kathimerini.
11.02.2010 later... EU deal 'agreed' on Greece debts. Taxi strike. No cabs today as drivers stage protest at tax reforms. The anarchists support the strike. How to reduce Greece's unemployment to about 3.3%.
12.02.2010. Promachonas open for all vehicles. Mylonas abduction. Police attacked. EU offers help but no specific money pledge.
13.02.2010. Farmers again block Promachonas border post. The anarchists in general support the farmers' action.
15.02.2010. The Promachonas crossing in the border with Bulgaria is opened Monday.
16.02.2010. Workers in new round of strikes. The anarchists support the strikes, except the "tax evasion strike".
Blast at JP Morgan offices in Athens. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and suspect marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists.
17.02.2010. Strikes!
18.02.2010. Vangelis Chrysochoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis are not anarchists. Brown Card to Kathimerini for falsely postulating they are.
19.02.2010. Fuel shortage hits Greece as strikes grow.
20.02.2010. Lawyer debates path of bullet. Strike by customs officials continues. Anti-racism rally held in Athens. Up to 25 bln euros in aid mulled for Greece?
22.02.2010. GSEE-ADEDY general strike on Wednesday. The anarchists call on the people in general, as opposed to the superiors in rank and /or income, to participate in the demonstrations, and protest with dignity - not ochlarchy.
23.02.2010. Union blockades Athens exchange. The International Workers of the World backs the general strike tomorrow. Stricter rules to halt graft. Rector, protesters clash over university asylum.
24.02.2010. General strike backed by IWW. Also media workers strike. About two millions participated in the strike. Brown Cards to BBC and its ultra-authoritarian marxist reporter Malcolm Brabant.
25.02.2010. Brown Card to ERT - About 300 marxist ochlarchists caused damage and clashed with the police, not anarchists, as ERT falsely reports. Anarchist comment on ERT. Wednesday's nationwide strike. News from the Grigoropoulos trial.
26.02.2010. Blast claimed by suspected marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchy group "Popular will". The anarchists condemn the terrorist group. Link to anarchist comments 25.02.2010 outdated at ERT.
27.02.2010. Youths mark Cretan teacher with swastikas. The anarchists condemn the racist attack. Cabbies appear set for a 48-hour stoppage next week. The anarchists don't support this strike.
01.03.2010. Firebomb attacks by suspected marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, falsely called "suspected anarchists" by Kathimerini. Brown Cards to the ochlarchists and Kathimerini.
02.03.2010. Taxi owners strike on Tuesday, Wednesday. The anarchists don't support the strike. Civil servants union strike for March 16. PM seeks backing for more cuts.
03.03.2010. Survey finds graft is thriving. The anarchists condemn the corruption, a form of ochlarchy. Damage and theft at university sit-in. The anarchists comdemn the theft and the damage, i.e. other forms of ochlarchy.
04.03.2010. Labor unions have announced protests for Friday. The International Workers of the World and the anarchists in general support the protests.
05.03.2010. Strike! And Greek unions announce a new general strike on 11 March. The International Workers of the World and the anarchists in general support the strikes.
06.03.2010. More about the attacks on Glezos and the GSSE leader. Greeks divided over cuts, Sarkozy vows support. Police officers face sacking for planting firebomb.
07.03.2010. Sarkozy pledges to stand by Greece.
08.03.2010. Police question 45 people after four vehicles are torched. Tax strike - officials off the job for two days. Officer assault. Unionist attack investigated. Loverdos: "Bonuses won't be cut in private sector".
09.03.2010. Annual NSS study on poverty released. New strikes and demonstrations, backed by the International Workers of the World. Anti-racism rally.
10.03.2010. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists" doing theft , in reality ochlarchists - the opposite of anarchists, and Kathimerini. Industrial mobilizations, backed by IWW, continue.
11.03.2010. Brown Cards to marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", and the Orwellian "1984" Big Brother liemachines Kathimerini and BBC - especially BBC's Malcolm Brabant. General strike backed by IWW.
12.03.2010. Unemployment at 10.2%. IWW resolution. Greece debt: EU agrees bailout deal. Anti-terrorism squad probes fatal shoot-out. Manhunt to track down second suspect continues. Greece recovers from austerity protests.
13.03.2010. G. Papandreou: "People's sacrifices will bear fruit". EU 'nearing' Greece bail-out deal. Strike action. Eleven ochlarchists charged with violence, ADEDY calls
rally for Tuesday 16.03.2010. The IWW backs the rally. And more.
15.03.2010. DNA results of blood from Dafni shoutout released. Map of cameras fuels terror fears. Power cuts?
16.03.2010. Protests and strike, backed by IWW.
17.03.2010. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and Kathimerini. Strike wave grips Greece.
18.03.2010. Brown Cards to so called "anarchists"charged for brutal attacks on Yiannis Panagopoulos, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs, and not anarchists, and to Greek police and Kathimerini.
19.03.2010. Two bomb blasts by suspected marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists. Brown Card to BBC, etc. Ad doctors and nurses' strike. Health concessions.
20.03.2010. A new Brown Card to BBC. Bomb blasts by suspected rightwing and leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchs resepectively, plus arson attacks by the marxist group Revolutionary Memory Patrols.
21.03.2010. Brown Cards to a so called "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists, and to Nicole Itano and Global Post.
22.03.2010. With unenlightened plutarchy: Greek economy 'to worsen' in 2010. Rally tomorrow. The protest is backed by IWW and anarchists in general.
23.03.2010. Bombs claimed. The marxist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire behind three weekend attacks. Taiwan News falsely calls it "anarchist" and gets the Brown Card.
24.03.2010. Another day, another angry demonstration. Students' parade and teachers' demonstration.
25.03.2010. Deal reached over Greece's debts.
26.03.2010. Brown Cards to firebomb throwing hooded youths, falsely called "suspected anarchists" by Kathimerini, but in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
27.03.2010. Racist marchers. Coast guard suspends head of special forces over chants. Power strike. Ochlarchist youths vandalize offices.
29.03.2010. BBC reports: Bomb kills boy in Greek capital, and falsely links to so called "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and BBC gets a Brown Card.
30.03.2010. More about Sunday's bomb blast. Anarchist comment. Bombs neutralized. Grigoropoulos trial. Greek apology for racist chants.
31.03.2010. Brown Cards to Zhang Pengfei and CCTV - China, that falsely links Greek terrorism to so called "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.
08.04.2010. Brown Cards to Korkoneas's lawyer, Alexis Kougias, people behind the letter falsely claiming that Grigoropoulos and friends were members of "an extremist anarchist organization,"and Kathimerini.
09.04.2010. Grigoropoulos friend, falsely called anarchist, disappears. Hoaxer stopped. Workers' walkout.
10.04.2010. Officer lied to Grigoropoulos court. Brothers in arms held for arson attack. The anarchists condemn the arsonists.
11.04.2010. 6 arrests in terrorism sweep. The anarchists welcome the arrests.
12.04.2010. More about six suspected terrorists caught. Revolutionary Struggle is a typical example of a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist group.
13.04.2010. Police seek terrorists' arms cache. Protestors of terrorism arrests stage takeover of Athens Journalists' Union building. The protesters were practically certain marxist leftwing extremists.
The anarchists condemn the protest.
14.04.2010. Three terror suspects detained. More terror arrests due. Strikes.
15.04.2010. Brown Cards to Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos, etc., for falsely calling the terrorist Lambros Fountas and terrorists in general, "anarchists".
16.04.2010. Discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. Terrorists' data found, etc.
17.04.2010. Continued discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. Police find terror group's safehouse. Strikes.
18.04.2010. Even more discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. Police update on terror safehouse finds.
19.04.2010. Still discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. New terror finds examined. Hidden explosives discovered.
20.04.2010. Brown Card to Associated Press. The discussion about anarchists vs ochlarchists including terrorists at Phantis continues, a person calling himself "George Orwell" hits on a rightwing extremist.
21.04.2010. More about marxist terrorist group's weapons cache. Ballistics report on safehouse arms. Strikes and demonstrations. Unemployment at 11.3%.
22.04.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek Police, suspected so called "anarchists" stealing gun if this hypothesis is confirmed, if so, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists and not anarchists, and Kathimerini. Strikes. Debt.
23.04.2010. New anarchist comment at the debate at Phantis. Terrorist cache may yield even more clues. More unenlightened plutarchy? ADEDY-PAME demonstrations. Greece asks activation of EU support mechanism.
24.04.2010. Marxist terror suspect. More strikes. EU-IMF ready to act. Crisis. Fears in Greece that EU-IMF aid means more cuts.
25.04.2010. New austerity a precondition for Greek aid: Germany. Comment from the World Economic Council. Germany, France signal hard line with Greece. Kathimerini: Greece soon a 'failed state'? Anarchist comment.
26.04.2010. More strikes and protests, backed by IWW. Investors still nervous on Greece.
27.04.2010. Anger to Greek austerity grows. Strikes and protests. The IWW backs the strikes and protests. Car is link to terror suspect. Grigoropoulos trial. PM: Rebirth of Greece, now or never.
28.04.2010. New Brown Cards to the lawyer defending Epaminondas Korkoneas, Alexis Kougias, and Kathimerini. A. Grigoropoulos and N.R. were/are not anarchists, and they were not so dangerous that it legitimates pulling the gun.
29.04.2010. Three 'Revolutionary Struggle' marxist terrorist group suspects admit involvement in letter to newspaper. DNA matches found in terror probe. New measures suggested for EU-IMF loans. Radio silence.
30.04.2010. Brown Card to Nikos Maziotis, that falsely claims to be an anarchist, but is a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist, similar to RAF/Baader-Meinhof. Maziotis was expulsed from the anarchist movement 20.12.2009.
01.05.2010. The liers BBC and Malcolm Brabant etc. get Brown Cards. Strikes and demonstrations on May Day. IWW backs the strikes and demonstrations, as long as they are non-ochlarchical.
02.05.2010. Brown Cards to the lier Euronews and so called "anarchists" that "threw rocks and fired fireworks", in reality marxist leftwing extremist vandals, hooligans and terrorists, i.e. ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists.
03.05.2010. Brown Card to the lier Reuters. Banks torched by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the terrorist attacks. AP: Greeks and the state: an uncomfortable couple.
04.05.2010. Member of left fascist extremist ochlarchy gang 'Robbers in Black' arrested. Brown Cards in this connection. Strikes, backed by IWW.
05.05.2010. IWW: Implement the WEC's international libertarian economic plan to stop the unenlightened plutarchy with about 10% unemployment and increasing in Greece, the Euro-zone and USA!
05.05.2010. Later... Condolences. Three dead in Athens fire during protests. Marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists are suspected. Brown Card to CNN. The anarchists condemn the violent ochlarchy and deadly terrorist attack.
06.05.2010. Fresh Brown Cards to the left fascists "Robbers in black", their supporters, Greek Police and Kathimerini.
06.05.2010. Later... Fresh Brown Cards to the liers CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank: Banks torched etc. by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and terrorist attacks.
06.05.2010. Evening... Austerity measures decided by the Greek parliament amid major demonstrations, also with some ochlarchy. In the implementation: Let the rich, the economical plutarchists, pay - not the people! The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy.
07.05.2010. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists" doing criminal occupation of a building, thus in reality ochlarchists - not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
07.05.2010. Evening... Fresh Brown Card to the lier CNN, especially directed to Diana Magnay, falsely reporting: "... anarchists out to pick a fight" with pictures indicating vandals and terrorists, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and terrorist attacks.
08.05.2010. Call for anarchist economics! EU rescue fund. Euro-zone agrees on support mechanism for Greece. PASOK and ND pick up the pieces. Internal fallout from austerity vote. Strike on Monday and Tuesday.
10.05.2010. Peaceful sit-in protest outside Parliament etc. yesterday. The peaceful demonstrations were backed by the IWW and anarchists in general.
11.05.2010. The anarchists condemn the marxist vanguardism: "Parliament, you will burn" and "The hangman is waiting" i.e. even more ochlarchy and attacks on symbols of state and capitalism, futile and the opposite of anarchism.
11.05.2010. Later... Brown Cards to so called "Belgian anarchists", vandals, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
13.05.2010. Populism in Greece! No change of the Greek populist system in libertarian direction so far... Drassi against communists. Unemployment increasing. Protests and general strike. Bomb attack by suspected marxists.
14.05.2010. New bomb attack by suspected marxists. Brown Card to BBC. No anarchist terrorist group in Greece. 3 arrests in desecration of Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki. Rally in Buenos Aires backs Greek workers' strikes.
15.05.2010.The marxist terrorist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire prime suspect of recent bomb attacks in Greece. Gov't condemnation of Jewish cemetery vandalism. The anarchists also condemn the vandalism.
17.05.2010. Strikes, backed by IWW. Greek fiscal plan needs stimulus back-up. PM hints at action against US banks. Extreme unenlightened plutarchy. The best alternative, real democracy and horizontal organization.
18.05.2010. Anarchists against the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative - cut bureaucracy costs - increase the demand of the people - for full employment - against the unenlightend plutarchy of IMF, WB, euro and EU.
19.05.2010. Greek PM: 'New development models are required'. It's time for anarchist economics! General strike and new wave of strike action on the way. IWW backs the strikes.
20.05.2010. General strike - Anarchists: No to IMF and euro etc. policy = high profit = high bureaucracy costs in private and public sector, and poor people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income...
21.05.2010. More about yesterday's non-ochlarchical general strike and demonstrations. Lots of black, and black and red, anarchist flags were used at the demonstrations. Marxist terrorgroup responsible for bomb blasts.
22.05.2010. Brown Cards to 'koukouloforoi', 'hooded ones', Panagiotis, Kostas, etc., falsely posing as "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and New York Times/International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis.
24.05.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek fascist rightwing extremist lier Nikos Hidiroglou and the nazi-papers Hellenic Lines (Greek) and Chronicle (American). Populism, with chaos/ochlarchy, not anarchy in Greece!
28.05.2010. More populism: Kallikratis approved. Anarchist comment. Unions persist. GSEE rejects appeal for talks. Crisis. Parthenon protest at scaffolding removal.
31.05.2010. Peace march in memory of Lambrakis, assassinated by a rightwing-extremist. Handball victim of hooligans. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy. Suspects in Grigoropoulos case to be bailed on Sunday. Protest broken up outside Israeli embassy. The anarchists condemn the marxist ochlarchy, but have also criticized Israel.
02.06.2010. Strikes Thursday and Friday, backed by IWW. Street protest in Athens Thursday by marxist and pro-Hamas groups.
05.06.2010. Thousands rally against pension reform in Athens, backed by IWW.
07.06.2010. Teen killing. Two policemen freed on bail.
08.06.2010. Security boosted at police officers' trial. Coroner dismissed Korkoneas's claim that he had shot into the air.
16.06.2010. Irishtimes.com and Richard Pine plus Phantis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention.
22.06.2010. Bomb hoax. Call closes Corinth court. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax. General strike June 29, supported by IWW. Farmers protest.
24.06.2010. Brown Cards to Associated Press and Nicholas Paphitis etc. for falsely postulating 'radical anarchist groups' are behind terrorist attacks in Greece. The anarchists condemn today's bomb attack.
25.06.2010. More about yesterday's terrorist attack. The anarchists declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists.
26.06.2010. Even more about the letter bomb blast 24.06.2010, from 'Christos Karavelas, Ekali'. The anarchists as mentioned condemn the terrorist attack and declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists.
29.06.2010. General strike in Greece, backed by IWW. Neonazi and marxist extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists clashed with police. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchists/ochlarchs. Firebombs target unionists.
01.07.2010. Attack on mosque by suspected nazi-group Golden Dawn. The anarchist condemn the attack.
08.07.2010. General strike in Greece, backed by IWW.
12.07.2010. Unknown group, probably marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, claims deadly hit. The anarchists condemn the group, see report of 22.05.2010 for more information why. Poll highlights public discontent.
13.07.2010. Teen killer. Police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas changes testimony. Strike tomorrow, supported by IWW.
19.07.2010. Brown Cards to BBC and Reporters Without Borders. Greek journalist shot dead in Athens. The anarchists condemn the murder.
20.07.2010. More about the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias. Hit linked to terrorist group. Clues point to the marxist extremist group Sect of Revolutionaries.
21.07.2010. Police hit wall in terror probe regarding marxist extremist group Sect of Revolutionaries.
22.07.2010. Man shot dead in the ochlarchy para-state of Exarchia.
24.07.2010. Social justice challenge to austerity measures.
26.07.2010. Police profile 'Sect of Revolutionaries' as nihilists. Molotov assault by ochlarchist youths. The anarchists condemn the attack.
Flight disruptions. Workers' action causes delays, some cancellations. The IWW supports the action.
27.07.2010. Gas running out as truckers go on strike, supported by IWW. Air-traffic controllers delay flights. Armed raid by suspected rightwing extremists.
28.07.2010. Murder of journalist by claimed by Sect of Revolutionaries in statement. The anarchists repeat the condemnation of Sect of Revolutionaries, and once more call for respect for the freedom of speech. Anarchists and Amnesty International slams treatment of migrants and asylum seekers. Social justice challenge. The truck strike. Greek government has ordered striking truck drivers to go back to work.
29.07.2010. Government orders civil mobilisation to end truckers strike. The striking truck owners rejected the government's proposal to end their strike.
Greek truck drivers clash with riot police in Athens. The marxist terrorist group Sect of Revolutionaries examined.
30.07.2010. Striking truckers continue their protest in defiance on an emergency order to return to work. Greece turns to military to restore fuel supplies. Unemployment spike to around 12 percent.
31.07.2010. Truck drivers still defy order to end their strike, and will continue the strike in a dynamic way. The armed forces, with their own means, are already guaranteeing the supply of critical sectors.
Greek truck drivers clash with police as tensions rise over strikes.
01.08.2010. Suspension of truck drivers' strike. Greek truck drivers voted to return to work. Government pledging discussions on a law to open up their profession.
The IWW and anarchists in general supported the strike, but condemn the small tendencies of ochlarchy, also police ochlarchy, and call for continued direct actions for a solution based on efficiency and fairness.
02.08.2010.Gov't statement on truck owners' decision to end mobilisations. Gov't will talk...
03.08.2010. PPC workers threaten action. After strike: Truckers are hoping for more than just pension or tax concessions.
08.08.2010. Brown Cards to the liers Time/CNN, Joanna Kakissis, Mary Bossis, Thanassis Kokkalakis and the Greek police: Sect of Revolutionaries are marxist nihilists and has no connection to the anarchist movement.
09.08.2010. Brown Cards to Phantis and once more to Time/CNN and Joanna Kakissis, i.e. Orwellian "1984" Big Brother authoritarian liers.
13.08.2010. Firebomb attack at Turkish Consulate. The anarchists condemn the attack. Youth unemployment rate at 32.5 percent.
16.08.2010. Marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, not "anarchists ... take over parts of Athens and Thessaloniki".
20.08.2010. Los Angeles Times, USA, reports: As austerity bites, more Greeks feel the pain; more and more shops close in central Athens. Anarchist comment.
03.09.2010. Grigoropoulos trial nears end. Anarchist comment.
11.09.2010. Greek protesters confront government on economy. IWW backs the demonstrations. Anarchist comment.
12.09.2010. Brown Card to Kathimerini for publishing the lies of Europol about so called 'anarchist', in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchist, terrorism, and not anarchist.
13.09.2010. Greek truck drivers started a new wave of protests Monday...
29.09.2010. Protests in Greece and world wide. Direct action by IWW.
11.10.2010. Epaminondas Korkoneas has been sentenced to life in prison.
01.11.2010. The marxist far left group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire behind new terrorist attack. The anarchists condemn the atttack. Brown Cards to Greek police and France24.
02.11.2010. Brown Cards to David Lea and Reuters, France24 and AFP, Associated Press, CBC and many more.
We are living in the middle of a mainly Big Brother "1984" world. When will these and similar horrible lies stop?
More about yesterdays terrorist attack. New terrorist attack, against the embassy of the Anarchy of Switzerland etc.
03.11.2010. Proof that marxists, not anarchists, are behind the terrorism. The truth about the terrorism in Greece: The anarchists once more condemn these terrorist attacks.
They are practically certain done by marxist extremists, not anarchists. Greece halts mail, hunts for bombing suspects.
Brown Cards to the lier police-spokesman Maj. Thanassis Kokkalakis, CNN, and the marxist leftwing extremists Panagiotis Argyrou and Gerasimos Tsakalos.
04.11.2010. Newsmedia! Stop uncritical publishing of the lies of the Greek police!
05.11.2010. CNN reports: Greece resumes air shipments after bombings. Anarchists not blamed.
06.11.2010. Ad local election tomorrow: Boycott the most authoritarian parties, including Papandreo's PASOK. Vote for the most libertarian parties, the center. For a movement in libertarian direction...
07.11.2010. Local elections - anarchist point of view. Athens newspaper headlines. PM: Result of Sunday polls crucial. The first round of local government elections.
08.11.2010. Results - first round of local elections. Anarchist comment: Status quo. The system will probably continue to be semi-democratic populist, in the coming years.
15.11.2010. Final tally of local gov't elections. The unenlightened plutarchy and populist system continue...
17.11.2010. Demonstrate with dignity - not ochlarchy - at the annual protest march commemorating the bloody student uprising against the ultra-fascist junta on November 17, 1973. Brown Card to Sympatico.ca
19.11.2010. Unions plan walkout for Nov 25, general strike for Dec 15. The anarchosyndicalist labor confederation International Workers of the World backs the strikes.
23.11.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek police, AFP, France24 and more, for the lies that the marxist extremist group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei is anarchist, according to the Oslo Convention. Stop these lies!!!
06.12.2010. Six marxist terror suspects arrested. Police seize arms in Athens, other cities; say an attack was being planned.
07.12.2010. Minor clashes mar protest rally - Marxists clashed with police.
15.12.2010. General strike and marxist ochlarchy and ochlarchists in Greece - Brown Cards to John Psaropoulos and CNN-TV for falsely calling the marxist mob, i.e. ochlarchists, 'anarchists'.
30.12.2010. Bomb explodes near Athens courthouse. Marxist leftwing extremists are probably behind the attack.
31.12.2010. Bomb explodes outside closed night club in Athens. Rightwing extremist are probably behind the attack.
17.01.2011. Greek marxist terrorists, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, go on trial. Brown Cards to Associated Press, BBC and more.
23.02.2011. Greece general strike: Clashes erupt.
01.05.2011. May Day anti-government demonstration and strike. Populism with unenlightened plutarchy is ruling Greece!
11.05.2011. Violence has erupted in Athens during a protest at government austerity measures.
15.06.2011. General strike and running battles between riot police and marxist ochlarchist protesters.
18.06.2011. Anti-government and anti-austerity protests continue.
23.06.2011. Anti-government and anti-austerity protests continue.
24.06.2011. Anarchist comment to 1. new austerity measures in Greece, a.k.a. plan A, and 2. economic troubles in general, i.e. 3. plan B.
26.06.2011. The anarchists, Greek and and international, strongly recommend that Greece soon should take an 'Argentinian', i.e. plan B. This means a.o.t. leaving the euro.
28.06.2011. 48-hour general strike, supported by IWW. Marxist ochlarchists clash with riot police. Greek populist, moderate fascist, PM plays the nationalist card, says backing austerity plan is 'patriotic duty'.
29.06.2011. Second day of general strike and protests against austerity measures.
30.06.2011. Ad recent riots. Brown Card to the Greek police for falsely putting the blame of the riots done by marxist ochlarchist youths, i.e. provocateurs, on 'anarchists'.
02.07.2011. Greece crisis: eurozone backs 12bn euros in aid.
19.07.2011. Greek marxist terrorists, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire: 6 jailed over militant marxist bombings. Brown Cards to Associated Press and 'Actforfreedomnow/boubouras'.
01.11.2011. Greek referendum planned for January 2012. The anarchists recommend 'an Argentinian'.
03.11.2011. Referendum already 04.12.2011? Later Papandreou says Greece may drop the referendum.
05.11. 20111. Papandreou backed off the referendum plan.
06.11.2011. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will resign.
10.11.2011. Lucas Papademos new PM.
16.11.20111. Anarchist reflections on the Papademos government. Technocratic populism.
17.11.2011. Protests in Greece. Marxist ochlarchists and provocateurs falsely posing as 'anarchists'.
01.12.2011. Big shift for Greece: Peaceful austerity protests.
06.12.2011. Greek students in clashes on shooting anniversary.
07.12.2011. More austerity measures and ochlarchical protests in Greece.
07.02.2012. General strike in Greece.
10.02.2012. Greece on strike as bailout deal in limbo.
12.02.2012. Clashes as Greek Parliament debates bailout law.
19.02.2012. 'Angry bikers' protest.
21.02.2012. Second bailout.
05.04.2012. Greek suicide - a potent symbol.
06-08.05.2012. Parliament election. Left gets a small chance to pull Greece out of limbo.
09.05.2012. Greece's Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras ends coalition bid.
12.05.2012. PASOK fails to form government.
16.05.2012. Judge to lead Greece to fateful June 17 vote.
16.06.2012. Greek citizens return to the polls Sunday, June 17.
20.06.2012. After the election. Problems loom as Greece parties seal coalition.
13.09.2012. Greece hit by new anti-austerity protests.
26.09.2012. General strike in Greece.
09.10.2012. Marxist ochlarchists protest against Angela Merkel.
18.10.2012. Austerity-weary Greeks stage new general strike.
06.11.2012. Greek labor unions hold 48-hour general strike.
14.11.1012. European day of action.
06.12.2012. Marxist ochlarchy.
10.01.1013. Marxist ochlarchists arrested.
14.01.2013. Shots fired at ruling party headquarters
02.02.2013. Greek marxist terrorists, associated to Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, falsely called "anarchists", arrested for bank robbery.
20.02.2013. General strike in Greece.
28.03.2013. Marxist extremist ochlarchists behind series of bomb attacks, i.e. terrorism, in Greece.
01.05.2013. Greeks stage 24-hour anti-austerity general strike.
13.06.2013. General strike protesting shut down of ERT.
17.06.2013. ERT reopens temporarily until a new public broadcaster is established.
16.07.2013. General strike.
17.07.2013. Thousands of protesters rallied outside the parliament.
16.09.2013. A week of mass strike action has begun in Greece.
18.09.2013. Left-wing musician killed by neo-nazi.
25.09.2013. Anti-nazi protests.
28.09.2013. Neo-nazi Golden Dawn leaders arrested.
01.11.2013. Two neo-nazi Golden Dawn members killed.
09.04.2014. General strike in Greece.
27.11.2014. General strike in Greece.
06.12.2014. Ochlarchy in Greece.
25.01.2015. General election in Greece.
26.02.2015. Ochlarchy in Greece.
09.03.2015. Brown Cards to Kathimerini and greek marxist extremists falsely posing as "anarchists".
18.03.2015. Brown Cards to Euronews and greek marxist extremists falsely posing "anarchists". Ochlarchy in Greece.
16.04.2015. Brown Card to greek marxist extremists falsely posing "anarchists". Ochlarchy in Greece.
01.05.2015. May Day 2015.
20.05.2015. General strike.
23.05.2015. Marxist ochlarchy in Greece.
01.06.2015. Ochlarchists, provocateurs, falsely posing as "anarchists", are on the payroll of the Greek police.
11.06.2015. Communist Party supporters have occupied the finance ministry in Greece.
17.06.2015. Large anti-austerity protest in Greece.
18.06.2015. Large pro-EU demonstration in Greece.
21.06.2015. Several thousand demonstrators gathered in Brussels.
22.06.2015. The trial of Golden Dawn.
27.06.2015. Call for referendum.
28.06.2015. Greek lawmakers authorized referendum.
29.06.2015. Greek banks closed.
30.06.2015. Thousands of pro-Europe protesters held a rally.
01.07.2015. Greece has defaulted on the 1.5 billion euros.
03.07.2015. Rival demonstrations.
04.07.2015. The anarchists say vote NO in the Greek referendum Sunday 05.07.2015.
05.07.2015. Clear NO in the referendum.
06.07.2015. The "Troika" must get serious about negotiating debt relief for Greece.
09.07.2015. Thousands of pro-euro-demonstrators rallied in front of the Greek parliament.
10.07.2015. Several thousand leftist demonstrators protested in front of parliament in Athens.
13.04.2015. No Grexit.
15.07.2015. The politicians debate, people protest. Ochlarchy in Greece. Brown Card to the Greek police.
16.07.2015. Greece's parliament early on Thursday approved a bill of tough reforms.
20.07.2015. Greek banks are reopening.
22.07.2015. The politicians debate, people protest. Ochlarchy in Greece. Brown Card to BBC.
23.07.2015. Greece's parliament has passed legislation on a second batch of reforms. Brown Card to Euronews.
31.07.2015. For Grexit - No to euro - Full employment.
13.08.2015. People protest.
14.08.2015. Third multi-billion euro bailout.
20.08.2015. Snap election.
20.09.2015. General election in Greece.
12.11.2015. General strike and ochlarchy.
24.11.2015. Bomb-ochlarchy in Greece.
04.02.2016. General strike and ochlarchy. Brown Card to Euronews.
12.02.2016. Farmer protest and ochlarchy.
06.05.2016. General strike.
08.05.2016. Ochlarchy in Athens. Brown Cards to Kathimerini and Al Jazeera.
16.06.2016. Anti-government protest.
17.10.2016. Around 7,000 trade union members demonstrated outside Greece’s parliament.
03.11.2016. Pensioners in Greece have taken to the streets.
15.11.2016. Ochlarchy in Greece.
17.11.2016. Greeks mark anniversary of bloody student uprising.
06.12.2016. Ochlarchy in Greece.
08.12.2016. General strike.
14.02.2017. Farmers' protest.
16.03.2017. Brown Cards to Conspiracy Cells of Fire and Associated Press etc. regarding letterbomb to IMF.
31.03.2017. Golden Dawn office attacked.
01.05.2017. May Day in Greece.
17.05.2017. General strike and ochlarchy in Greece.
25.05.2017. Bomb blast in Athens.
16.09.2017. Anti-fascist demonstration with ochlarchy in Greece.
28.10.2017. Letter bomb man arrested.
17.11.2017. Ochlarchy in Greece.
15.01.2018. Ochlarchy in Greece.
21.01.2018. Ochlarchy in Greece.
04.02.2018. Brown Card to Al Jazeera.
30.05.2018. Ochlarchy and general strike in Greece.
20.08.2018. Greece emerges from Eurozone bailout programme.
14.11.2018. Greece's largest public sector union staged a 24-hour walkout.
17.11.2018. Marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" attack police in Athens.
28.11.2018. Strike - The country's largest private-sector trade union is demanding salary and pension increases.
06.12.2018. Clashes in Athens as protesters mark anniversary of teen shooting.
19.01.2019. Brown Cards to Reuters, Euronews, George Georgiopoulos and Alexander Smith for falsely calling the marxist ochlarchy group 'Iconoclastic Sect' "anarchist".
09.03.2020. Brown Card to the Greek police for falsely calling the marxist ochlarchy group "comrades, comradesses" "anarchist".
20.05.2023. Ad the parliamentary elections scheduled to take place on 21 May 2023.
09.03.2024. The situation for Prof. Dr. Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini in Norway. Support action.
15.09.2024. Optimal monetary policy. Conditions for quantitative easing to be successful. Cogrips Policy. Example: Greece.

Our experts on anarchy and anarchists say: Greek so called "anarchists" are ochlarchists - not anarchists. Ochlarchy is mob rule broadly defined. The Greek ochlarchists have got an expelling Brown Card from IAT, and are thus not members of the international anarchist movement. Stop calling them anarchists, because they are not! The Anarchist International and the IAT also urge the Greek people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income, to demonstrate with dignity - not ochlarchy, i.e. mob rule broadly defined. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag. Don't act as an ochlarchical boss!!! If you do act in this way, you are no longer a member of the people, but a form of superior, i.e. ochlarch/ochlarchist. Persons throwing stones and petrol bombs, burning buildings and cars, looting etc. are ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not members of the people, and of course not anarchists. Anticapitalist ochlarchs/ochlarchists are authoritarian socialists, i.e. marxists. Use of teargas, flash or stun grenades, beating, and shooting by the police are also often ochlarchical. Harassment by the police is ochlarchist. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense.

Anarchy means a system significantly without archs, ochlarchs/ochlarchists included, i.e. a system with relatively small rank and income differences, orderly and efficient. Anarchy is real democracy - from the people and upwards, significantly. Anarchists are real democrats. The Greek system is a form of archy, not anarchy. We see a lack of organizations that can be the voice of the people in Greece. It is time to organize... Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, as members of the people, not attacking persons or things... More and more... Until complete horizontal organization is achieved, as an ultimate aim. It is many anarchists in Greece, not only ochlarchs/ochlarchists posing as such, but the police-ochlarchy repress them. Thus it is difficult to make mass organizations open and publicly... But time is working for mass organizations... The demonstrations will continue... In June 2011 the revolt turned somewhat towards anarchism and a more general popular uprising. But there are dangers that the system may collaps into chaos, the opposite of anarchy and anarchism, i. e. real democracy. Chaos is typically ochlarchy with rivaling polyarchy, dominated by extremists, and perhaps later call for a "strong man" and a totalitarian dictatorship.

15.09.2024. Optimal monetary policy. Conditions for quantitative easing to be successful. Cogrips Policy. Example: Greece.

According to Cogrips models, for an increase in the money supply to successfully lead to increased production, certain prerequisites must be fulfilled. Specifically, it is not enough to simply introduce fresh money (e.g., through quantitative easing); it needs to be combined with policies aimed at boosting the purchasing power of the general population, especially those with a high propensity to consume. This targeted increase in private demand is essential because general public consumption does not always effectively translate into economic stimulation.

Moreover, the focus must be on ensuring that the increase in demand does not "vanish" in bureaucracy or inefficient public and private sectors. Therefore, a combination of moderate quantitative easing and grassroots policies that elevate the disposable income of the general public is essential. This approach ensures the money supply translates into effective demand and ultimately increased production. In Greece, the lack of the prerequisites identified in Cogrips models—such as efficient demand management and a well-structured increase in the purchasing power of the general population— leads to adverse outcomes when the money supply is increased.

Here's why printing more money would likely cause inflation and corruption in Greece:

1. Inflation without Effective Demand Management: When the money supply is expanded without an accompanying rise in real output, the economy tends to experience inflation. This happens because more money is chasing the same amount of goods and services, driving up prices. In Greece, where economic structures and production capacities are weak, increasing the money supply would not stimulate proportional production increases. This results in demand-pull inflation—prices rise simply because more money is available, but there isn't an increase in the goods and services being produced.

2. Corruption and Bureaucracy Capture: In Greece, a top-heavy bureaucracy (as described by Cogrips models) means that a significant portion of newly created money will likely be captured by the authorities and elites rather than reaching the general population. This is a phenomenon known as bureaucratic capture, where resources, including newly printed money, are funneled toward government officials and influential private bureaucracy through corruption, mismanagement, or inefficiencies. Instead of supporting increased production or benefiting the general public, this influx of money enriches the bureaucracy and political elites, leaving less for public investment or consumption that could drive growth. This bureaucratic absorption of wealth means that the distribution of GDP becomes more unequal: the elites and authorities get more, while the ordinary people receive less.

3. Crowding Out Productive Investment: When the authorities absorb a disproportionate share of the money supply, funds that could have gone to productive investments in businesses, infrastructure, or green initiatives instead get used inefficiently within bureaucratic systems. In Greece, this could mean higher spending on non-essential public sector salaries or misdirected investments that don't stimulate economic activity. The lack of productive investment worsens the long-term growth potential, trapping the economy in stagnation.

4. Erosion of Public Trust and Economic Stability: Persistent corruption and a highly centralized bureaucracy discourage both local and foreign investments. Investors are less likely to engage in an economy where much of the new capital is captured by corrupt officials or wasted by inefficiencies. This creates a vicious cycle where inflation spirals and productive capacity shrinks, leading to further economic instability and inequality.

Summary: Without the key conditions for effective demand management in place, printing more money in Greece would cause inflation to rise, erode purchasing power, and worsen inequality. The bulk of the newly created money would flow toward authorities and elites, increasing corruption and reinforcing the inefficient bureaucratic system, leaving the general population with a smaller share of the country's GDP. This dynamic exacerbates the very problems of economic inequality and low productivity that the country is struggling to overcome.

To ensure that printing more money leads to real investment and increased production output, rather than inflation and corruption, Greece could adopt the following Cogrips policies. These policies focus on decentralization, equitable wealth distribution, and demand-side management, all of which are essential for channeling new money into productive sectors.

1. Decentralized Planning and Horizontal Organization: • Policy Example: Shift from top-heavy, centralized governance to decentralized economic planning, where decisions are made at the local level. This would reduce the control of the central bureaucracy and allow for more democratic, grassroots decision-making. • Practical Application: Local municipalities and regions could take control of budget allocation for infrastructure, green energy, and industrial projects. This would ensure that funds are directed toward productive investments that meet the specific needs of local communities, rather than being captured by national bureaucrats. • Impact: By reducing bureaucracy, you prevent money from being siphoned off by corrupt officials, ensuring that it reaches the projects and investments that will boost production.

2. Direct Fiscal Transfers to the People (Quantitative Easing for the People): • Policy Example: Instead of channeling money into government programs or banks (which might end up in corrupt hands), the money supply increase should directly target the general population. This could be done through direct cash transfers or tax cuts for the lower and middle classes. • Practical Application: Implement a system of tax rebates or direct cash payments to citizens, especially those in the lower-income brackets, where marginal propensity to consume is higher. This would stimulate consumer demand for goods and services, encouraging businesses to ramp up production in response to the increased demand. • Impact: When people have more disposable income, they spend it, and this increased demand directly supports local businesses and industries, leading to higher production and employment without causing runaway inflation.

3. Increased Investment in Green and Sustainable Industries: • Policy Example: Use newly created money to invest in green industries and infrastructure that have long-term sustainability benefits. This can include renewable energy, public transportation, and eco-friendly manufacturing. • Practical Application: Channel a portion of the money supply into public-private partnerships that develop renewable energy projects, such as solar or wind farms, while creating green jobs. Offer subsidies or low-interest loans for companies that invest in energy-efficient technologies or sustainable agriculture. • Impact: This encourages investment in sectors that increase production capacity over time, as well as boosting employment. Sustainable industries also lower the risk of economic bubbles and inflation since they are long-term investments rather than short-term speculative ventures.

4. Strengthening Labor Unions and Workforce Participation: • Policy Example: Strengthen labor unions and enhance worker participation in corporate governance. This ensures that the benefits of economic growth are equitably distributed among workers, rather than being captured by a small elite. • Practical Application: Implement policies that require large companies to allow for employee representation on corporate boards and establish minimum wage laws that ensure a living wage for all workers. Also, encourage collective bargaining so that workers can negotiate fair wages and working conditions, increasing their share of the economic pie. • Impact: By giving workers more power and better wages, you ensure that any increased money supply leads to higher consumer spending and economic activity, which drives production, rather than fueling inflationary pressures.

5. Tackling Income Inequality through Progressive Taxation: • Policy Example: Implement progressive taxation to reduce income inequality and redistribute wealth from the wealthy (who tend to save more) to the lower-income population (who spend more of their income). • Practical Application: Increase taxes on higher-income earners and wealth accumulation while offering tax breaks and subsidies to lower-income households and small businesses. This would ensure that wealth is more evenly spread across the population, helping to boost demand and production. • Impact: A progressive tax system would curb the excess accumulation of wealth at the top, reducing corruption risks while ensuring more equitable distribution of wealth and productive investments in the economy.

6. Targeted Subsidies for Productive Sectors: • Policy Example: Provide targeted subsidies for sectors that have high growth potential and can contribute to increased production capacity. This should focus on industries like technology, tourism, agriculture, and manufacturing. • Practical Application: Offer subsidies to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) involved in value-adding production, such as local manufacturing or high-tech startups. These subsidies could be in the form of lower taxes, grants for innovation, or low-interest loans to foster productivity. • Impact: This ensures that new money goes directly into productive enterprises that expand output, rather than into speculative financial markets or non-productive sectors, which can lead to inflation.

7. Combating Bureaucratic Waste and Corruption: • Policy Example: Establish strong anti-corruption frameworks and oversight mechanisms to ensure that government spending and investment decisions are transparent and efficiently managed. • Practical Application: Implement independent oversight bodies to monitor the use of public funds, particularly the newly created money. Ensure that public procurement processes are transparent and competitive, and that any misuse of funds is swiftly punished. • Impact: Reducing corruption means that more of the money supply will be used for productive purposes, such as infrastructure and business investment, rather than being funneled into private pockets or wasted on non-productive expenditures.

8. Adjusting Exchange Rates to Enhance Competitiveness: • Policy Example: Maintain a competitive exchange rate to support exports, while managing inflation pressures. A well-managed currency ensures that the new money does not lead to inflation by making imports prohibitively expensive. • Practical Application: Use a managed float or currency interventions to keep the exchange rate at a level that supports export competitiveness. This ensures that increased production output from industries can be sold abroad, increasing the overall output without causing domestic price spikes. • Impact: A competitive exchange rate will make Greek exports more attractive, increasing production in the tradable sector and reducing inflationary pressures that could arise from an over-reliance on imports.

Summary: To fulfill the prerequisites for printing more money without triggering inflation or corruption, Greece must implement Cogrips-style policies that decentralize economic decision-making, redistribute wealth, and ensure that newly created money goes directly toward productive investments in the real economy. These policies would prevent the money from being captured by corrupt elites or lost in inefficient bureaucracy and instead direct it to areas that boost production, employment, and sustainable growth.

PS. In Greece, the currency is the Euro, and what we have said about currency effects therefore applies to a small extent to Greece, as quantitative easing in Greece only affects the entire EU and Euro to a small extent, but it will apply fully to other countries, with their own national currency.

09.03.2024. The situation for Prof. Dr. Jens Hermundstad Østmoe alias Timian Sabatini in Norway. Support action:

Please join J-HØ's just demand that forced medication be stopped completely. You must understand that the question has taken on an international dimension, - and that it is necessary to explain which law gives Stensson the power to overrule SFOV's decision, - and also overrule J-HØ's demand that forced medication cease. You must ask yourselves, what is the medical duty; treat or cause a health problem in a healthy person? Stensson's decision is based on lies, so her intention is to suppress J-HØ's mental function. I honestly believe that Norway is at the forefront of the pack of countries in democratic thinking and organization, and is an example for the rest of the world. But where does one stand in the case of J-HØ? He does not allow himself to be cowed, but is in pain from the side effects and does not get to do research, which he is good at when he is medication-free. We do not want J-HØ to be a "martyr". What do you want? Stop the forced medication now!

Regards, Periklis Feresiadis, spokesperson for the Anarchist Federation in Greece (https://αναρχια.ελ/), and the Anarchist Confederation of Eastern Europe (ACEE), affiliated to the Anarchist International (ANORG-GLOBAL)

20.05.2023. Ad the parliamentary elections scheduled to take place on 21 May 2023. We think about the parliament election in Greece. The Greek system is populist and the change in progressive liberal social democrat direction goes not dialectical via "anti-everything" and ochlarchy (= mob rule broadly defined, included chaos), as this just leads to legitimate more authoritarian rule. People should vote for the least authoritarian (most libertarian) parties, to improve the societal management (e.g. employment and GINI coefficient). Most of the small parties in Greece are located to the extremes and classical liberalism which is outdated, with many of their candidates arriving to politics from the sphere of television celebrities. The three major communist parties, KKE, SYRIZA and DiEM25 (ΜεΡΑ25) take a big portion of the electoral body, i.e. over 30%! Our proposal is similar to the one for Norway, i.e. to vote for Liberal Social Democrat candidates in Nea Dimokratia aka New Democracy (centre right) and the Marxist Social Democrats (authoritarian socialists KINAL ex PASOK), in order to avoid their hijacking from fascists and communists. A centre-left alliance as in Norway, is needed for Greece aka Hellas. A Liberal Left party must be formed. AQ & PF.

09.03.2020. Brown Card to the Greek police for falsely calling the marxist ochlarchy group "comrades, comradesses" "anarchist". 09.03.2020 the Greek Police reported in www.astynomia.gr: “A citizen was arrested for his involvement in an anarchist organization's arson attack”. “ The anarchist organisation "comrades, comradesses" has taken over the responsibility for the aforementioned arson attack, with a post on 23.01.2020, as well as for the following arsonists actions in 21.01.2020...”. “Furthermore, the same anarchist group is involved in other arson attacks as well as attacks on police forces with Molotov cocktails.”

Anarchy vs ochlarchy: The word "ochlarchy" is rooted back to the ancient greek historian and philosopher Polybius (born Megapolis, Arcadia, about 205 B.C., died about 125 B.C.) referring to "ochlarchy" as mob rule. The anarchists "reinvented" the word in 1996, without knowing about its historical greek origin. From greek ochlos = people, crowd and archos = ruler(s) and archein = to rule in the meaning ruling over someone or a group. Furthermore ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) is not the same as ochlocracy, which can mean two things 1. mob rule and 2. a form of government in which the multitude or common people are governing. Ochlarchy means just mob rule broadly defined. Here mob also means to mob, i.e. 1. to crowd around and attack, 2. to crowd around and jostle, annoy etc, as in curiosity or anger 3. bullying broadly defined. Ochlarchy can be done by one person bullying another, not only by a crowd. A mobbing person is called a mobber, and the victim mob victim.

It is a fact that socialists are divided in two camps, marxists and anarchists. It is also a fact that all authoritarian socialists are marxists, not anarchists. It is a fact that ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) is authoritarian. Thus it is a fact that socialist ochlarchists are marxists, not anarchists, regardless of what they may be called by the media or call themselves or flag. The media and other persons should always report the facts in such cases, not falsely calling marxist ochlarchists anarchists. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy. The Greek police is mixing up the marxist ochlarchy group "comrades, comradesses" with anarchists, and the International Anarchist Tribunal (IAT-APT) hands out a Brown Card to Greek police for this false statement and breaking of the Oslo Convention.

19.01.2019. Brown Cards to Reuters, Euronews, George Georgiopoulos and Alexander Smith for falsely calling the marxist ochlarchy group 'Iconoclastic Sect' "anarchist". 19.01.2019 Reuters and Euronews reported: "Anarchist group claims December attack on Athens church. - An anarchist group on Saturday said it was responsible for an explosive device that wounded a police officer and a civilian outside a church in central Athens last month. The group, which calls itself the 'Iconoclastic Sect', made the claim on a Spanish web page, and said December's attack outside the Saint Dionysios church in the heavily policed, upmarket Kolonaki neighbourhood, was just the start. "Our hands will not tremble when the time comes to spill blood, we won't show mercy or sensitivity towards our enemies," the group said on the website. A source familiar with the investigation told Reuters that it was taking seriously the claim for the attack, which took place just before the church was due to open for a service in late December. Small-scale attacks on businesses, state buildings, police and politicians are not uncommon in Greece, which has a long history of political violence. (Reporting by George Georgiopoulos; Editing by Alexander Smith)".

It is a fact that socialists are divided in two camps, marxists and anarchists. It is also a fact that all authoritarian socialists are marxists, not anarchists. It is a fact that ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) is authoritarian. Thus it is a fact that socialist ochlarchists are marxists, not anarchists, regardless of what they may be called by the media or call themselves or flag. The media and other persons should always report the facts in such cases, not falsely calling marxist ochlarchists anarchists. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy. Reuters, Euronews, George Georgiopoulos and Alexander Smith are mixing up the marxist ochlarchy group 'Iconoclastic Sect' with anarchists, and the International Anarchist Tribunal (IAT-APT) hands out Brown Cards to Reuters, Euronews, George Georgiopoulos and Alexander Smith for this false statement and breaking of the Oslo Convention.

06.12.2018. Clashes in Athens as protesters mark anniversary of teen shooting. Protesters in Athens marking the 10th anniversary of the killing of a teenage boy by a police officer clashed with authorities on Thursday, with masked youths throwing firebombs and stones at officers. Hundreds gathered in the Greek capital to take part in an annual demonstration to commemorate Alexandros Grigoropoulos who was shot dead at 15 by a police officer on December 6, 2008. Clashes broke out when groups of masked youths, marxist ochlarchists, broke away from a largely peaceful demonstration in the afternoon and started throwing firebombs and stones at officers before barricading themselves in the Exarchia district where Grigoropoulos died. Authorities responded with tear gas and water cannons. Bus stops were destroyed, traffic heavily impacted and a fire was reported at a block of flats in central Athens before being put out. Grigoropoulos's death in 2008 in an altercation with police during a night out sparked violent riots across the country lasting nearly a month during which public buildings and cars were set aflame while shops were looted and barricades erected. Two police officers were convicted for the teenager's death. One was sentenced to life in prison but appealed with his trial still ongoing. The other was sentenced to 10 years in jail but was released several years ago on conditional. The annual event to commemorate Grigoropoulos has often been the theatre of clashes between protesters and police officers.

28.11.2018. Strike - The country's largest private-sector trade union is demanding salary and pension increases. A near-total public transport shutdown is underway in Greece and ships are stuck in ports as workers take part in a 24-hour strike. The country's largest private-sector trade union is demanding salary and pension increases, as well as protesting against rising taxation levels. The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), which represents 83 trades unions and 2.5 million workers, is also demanding a stoppage to cuts in holiday allowances, measures to tackle unemployment, a ban on redundancies in any firms that receive public subsidies and a higher minimum wage. The minimum wage was slashed under the terms of the country’s three international bailouts since 2010, which ended in August 2018. “Salaried employees are demanding a cancellation of the tax rises and an across-the-board (monthly) minimum wage of 751 euros,” the GSEE said in a statement. “Policies of a punishing austerity, poverty and impoverishment should end once and for all.” The walkout follows a one-day strike by Greece’s main public-sector union earlier this month, which also demanded wage and pension increases, hiring and tax cuts. Since its debt crisis began in 2009, Greece has received 260 billion euros in bailout loans. In exchange, it laid off public-sector workers, raised taxes and cut pensions as part of an austerity drive. “Today’s strike is aiming against another budget of austerity and over taxation”, said GSEE’s secretary general, Nikos Kioutsoukis. “It is not restoring the collective bargaining regime.” The GSEE have also held a protest rally in central Athens today.

17.11.2018. Marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" attack police in Athens. Clashes have broken out in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia. Marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" barricaded inside the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), also known as the “Polytechnic”, were throwing rocks and firebombs at police, while others outside erected barricades. Police responded with stun grenades. These marxist ochlarchists did not take part in the mostly peaceful march commemorating the 45th anniversary of a student uprising against Greece’s military regime of the time. But others, who did join the march, attacked police forces with rocks, wooden stakes and fire extinguishers at the Ampelokipi metro station, across from Athens Police headquarters. Police officers gave chase and have detained eight people. The march officially ended at the US Embassy, where demonstrators burned a US flag. A block of marchers from the Syriza party had plastic bottles and coffee cups thrown at them by bystanders as they marched past the Embassy. The IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to Kathimerini for falsely calling the marxist ochlarchists "anarchists", and thus breaking the Oslo-Convention.

14.11.2018. Greece's largest public sector union staged a 24-hour walkout on Wednesday 14.11.2018, demanding wage and pension increases from a government still bound to keeping expenditure in check by its lenders. The strike by the ADEDY union is the first major strike since Greece exited its bailout programme in August. Workers held a protest march in central Athens on Wednesday morning but turnout was low. Attendance and the frequency of demonstrations has progressively fallen over the years.

20.08.2018. Greece emerges from Eurozone bailout programme. Greece has successfully completed a three-year Eurozone bailout programme designed to help it cope with the fallout from its debt crisis. For the first time in eight years, Greece is now free to borrow money on the financial markets. As a condition of the loans, the Greek government was forced to introduce a series of unpopular austerity measures. The Greek economy has grown slowly in recent years but is still 25% smaller than when the crisis began. Together with assistance from International Monetary Fund (IMF), the loans given to Greece since 2010 amounted to more than €260bn - the biggest bailout in global financial history. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) provided the country with €61.9bn (£55bn; $70.8bn). This supported the Greek government's efforts to reform the nation's troubled economy and recapitalise its banks. The ESM is a fund set up by the countries that use the euro currency to deal with a financial crisis. It had made available another $27bn to Greece, but said the country had not needed to call on it. "Greece can stand on its own feet," said ESM chairman Mario Centeno. He thanked the Greek people for their co-operation, and also said there would be "no more follow-up rescue programmes" for the first time since 2010. However, Greece's freedom to manage its own economic affairs will be tempered by enhanced surveillance from the European Union's executive, the European Commission. This is designed to ensure Athens does not backtrack on reforms agreed with its lenders. Eventually, the bailout loans will have to be repaid.

30.05.2018. Ochlarchy and general strike in Greece. Greece at a stand still as thousands strike against austerity. Thousands flooded the capital, Athens, amid swelling anger over the government's ongoing austerity measures. On Wednesday 30.05.2018, thousands of Greek workers, union members, migrant labourers, students, pensioners and unemployed people flooded Athen's city centre to hold a general strike against the government's ongoing austerity regime. During Wednesday's strike, demonstrators marched to Syntagma Square, where the Greek parliament is located. "Down with taxes, let the capitalists pay," one banner read. Brief clashes between protesters, marxist ochlarchists, and riot police broke out in parts of the city. The anarchists support the general strike, but condemn the ochlarchy.

04.02.2018. Brown Card to Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera falsely continues to report "anarchist counter-demonstrators clashed with police". The fact is that marxist counter-demonstrators clashed with police, not anarchists, and Al Jazeera gets a new Brown Card from the International Anarchist Tribunal for breaking the Oslo Convention. It is a fact that socialists (anti-capitalists) are divided in two camps, marxists and anarchists. It is also a fact that all authoritarian socialists are marxists, not anarchists. It is a fact that ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) is authoritarian. Thus it is a fact that anti-capitalist (socialist) ochlarchists are marxists, not anarchists, regardless of what they may call themselves or flag. The media and other persons should always report the facts in such cases, not falsely calling anti-capitalist ochlarchists anarchists.

21.01.2018. Ochlarchy in Greece. An estimated 300,000 people gathered in the northern coastal city of Thessaloniki to voice their opposition to the negotiations over a name dispute between Athens and Skopje. White-and-blue flags fluttered above, and throngs of demonstrators wearing traditional Macedonian garb marched in anger. As that rally came to a close, marxist ochlarchist counter-demonstrators clashed with police, and nazi far-right protesters lit a marxist squat on fire. Fascist assailants later vandalised a Holocaust monument. Al Jazeera in a report 22.01.2018 falsely called the marxist ochlarchists “anarchists” and gets a Brown Card from the International Anarchist Tribunal. The anarchists condemn both the fascist and marxist ochlarchy.

15.01.2018. Ochlarchy in Greece. Protesters clashed with riot police outside the parliament on Monday 15.01.2018 evening, during a rally against a vote on the prior actions required to close Greece’s third program review. Groups of protesters, ochlarchists, threw petrol bombs, paint, stones and pieces of marble against policemen standing in front of the Monument to the Unknown Soldier, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. Small-scale clashes also took place on Amalias avenue, when Popular Unity members tried to enter the parliament’s yard from the left side. No detentions have been made. The incidents took place during a rally organized by Greece’s largest private sector umbrella union GSEE to protest against the prior actions. GSEE said it is opposed to new laws limiting the right to strike. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchists.

07.12.2017. Ochlarchy in Greece. Police and demonstrators clash in Athens overnight. Ochlarchist demonstrators have clashed with the police in Athens overnight after commemorations for a teenager shot dead by police 9 years ago. Greek police fired teargas on ochlarchist youths marching in Athens to mark the ninth anniversary of the killing of teenager by a police officer. Around 2,000 police had been deployed for the commemorations of the 2008 death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. At least twenty three people were detained overnight. On Wednesday night (07.12.2017) after the demonstration, around 200 ochlarchists with covered faces moved to the central neighbourhood of Exarchia where Grigoropoulos was killed and attacked the police with rocks and molotov cocktails. The clashes coincided with a police security operation to prepare for a two day visit to Greece by Turkish President Erdogan. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchists. Al Jazeera falsely called the ochlarchists "anarchists" and gets a Brown Card from The International Anarchist Tribunal.

17.11.2017. Ochlarchy in Greece. Youths have clashed with police in Greece’s two largest cities, injuring two bystanders. Police say a woman was hospitalized with burns in Athens after being hit in the thigh with a flare during the clashes. In Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, a motorcycle driver was taken to the hospital after driving into a barricade set up by protesters. More than 5,000 officers were on duty for annual march in the Greek capital to the US Embassy, which commemorates those who died in the 1973 crackdown by Greece's former junta. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchists. Reuters newsagency and Ekathimerini falsely called the ochlarchists "anarchists", and get Brown Cards from The International Anarchist Tribunal.

28.10.2017. Letter bomb man arrested. Greek police say they have arrested a man in Athens in connection with a series of letter bomb attacks on EU officials earlier this year. A 29-year-old Greek man was arrested by anti-terror police on Saturday 28.10.2017. Police said in a statement that they were looking for other suspects in relation to the investigation. It is not clear if the man is linked to the Greek far-left marxist ochlarchy group Conspiracy of Fire Cells which said it was responsible for the device sent to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. A number of the group's members were given heavy prison sentences in 2011. The group emerged in 2008 during the height of Greece's financial crisis.

16.09.2017. Anti-fascist demonstration with ochlarchy in Greece. Protesters marched in Athens against the Greek fascist/nazi Golden Dawn party. Greek police fired tear gas on Saturday 16.09.2017 after protesters hurled petrol bombs in Athens at an anti-racism rally. Clashes erupted after hooded demonstrators, marxist ochlarchists, broke off from a peaceful march. It marked four years since the killing of an anti-fascism rapper by a supporter of Greece’s fascist ultra-nationalist party, Golden Dawn. With a trial of Golden Dawn members still ongoing, the crowd demanded swifter justice for rapper Pavlos Fyssas and other victims. Another rally marking the rapper’s death has been called for Monday 18.09.2017 in the working-class neighbourhood of Keratsini where he was fatally stabbed. Fascist violence did not stop at Pavlos Fyssas. In the first half of 2017, Greek police recorded at least 27 attacks with a possible racist motive against refugees or immigrants. The number is estimated to be higher, as many victims are afraid to report the attacks. The anarchists support the peaceful demonstration, but condemn the marxist ochlarchists. The anarchists declare: "Demonstrate against fascim with dignity, not ochlarchy!"

25.05.2017. Bomb blast in Athens. Former Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has been injured by an explosion inside his car in Athens. Reports say the blast may have been caused by a letter bomb. Mr Papademos, 69, and his driver have suffered leg injuries but their lives are not believed to be in danger, the reports add. Mr Papademos was appointed caretaker prime minister in November 2011 amid political and economic turmoil. He served in post until May 2012. Mr Papademos has also served as vice-president of the European Central Bank. No group has said it was behind the blast. Greek far-left marxist group Conspiracy of Fire Cells is suspected. The anarchists condemn the terrorist attack.

17.05.2017. General strike and ochlarchy in Greece. Hospitals, transport services and government offices across Greece have been severely affected by a general strike over new austerity measures. Industrial action began on Tuesday but was ramped up nationally by members of the big trade unions. Thousands of people stopped work on Wednesday and marched through Athens to demonstrate over the measures being demanded by international lenders. There were isolated clashes - ochlarchy -, but the most of the protest were peaceful. Elsewhere in the country ferry services stopped and buses and trains were limited. Flights were also hit for several hours by the strike.

01.05.2017. May Day in Greece, trade union organisers and workers marched as part of a national 24-hour strike. They are opposed to further bailout measures in exchange for the continuation of international bailout loans. The demonstrators gathered outside the parliament in Athens on Monday.

31.03.2017. Golden Dawn office attacked. Police detained four people after an attack against a branch of the extreme right Golden Dawn party in Athens on Friday morning by unknown assailants. According to initial reports, the attackers used sledgehammers to smash the windows of an adjacent bookstore after failing to break through the front door of the party’s office. The incident occurred at 9.30 a.m. on Mesogeion Avenue.

16.03.2017. Brown Cards to Conspiracy Cells of Fire and Associated Press etc. regarding letterbomb to IMF. 16.03.2017 Associated Press and several newspapers falsely reported “A letter exploded Thursday at the French office of the International Monetary Fund, lightly injuring one person, amid heightened security around Europe after a string of deadly attacks. The incident came as a Greek anarchist group claimed responsibility for a failed letter bomb sent to the German Finance Ministry on Wednesday. The Greek group that claimed responsibility for the German bombing, Conspiracy Cells of Fire, claimed in an online posting Thursday on a Greek left-wing website that the attack was part of a concerted campaign by international anarchist groups. The bomb sent to Germany, containing low-grade explosives …, was destroyed Wednesday before it could explode.” The truth is that the group Conspiracy Cells of Fire is an authoritarian, ochlarchist marxist group, long time ago expulsed from the anarchist movement, and of course has no connection to the international anarchist movement. The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to Conspiracy Cells of Fire and Associated Press and the other newspapers reporting falsely about the event, according to the Oslo Convention. The international anarchist movement condemns the terrorist attack.

14.02.2017. Farmers' protest. Some 2,000 Greek farmers protested in Athens on Tuesday 14.02.2017 over increases to their tax and social security contributions amid the government’s ongoing austerity drive. They left their tractors at home but distributed farm produce for free, arguing that they can no longer earn a living from the land.

08.12.2016. General strike. Greece ground to a halt on Thursday amid a general strike in protest at planned labour reforms and painful austerity cuts demanded by its EU and IMF lenders. Public and private sector workers joined the 24-hour nationwide walkout, wary of what is to come in next year’s budget. Passenger ships remained docked at ports, city transport was disrupted and local administration offices shut down. Thousands marched in Athens where parliament is debating more tax rises and spending cuts in the 2017 budget, with a vote expected on Saturday. Many don’t think they can take any more belt-tightening. Greeks have lost almost a third of their income since the crisis began in 2009. The general strike is supported by IWW, International Workers of the World.

06.12.2016. Ochlarchy in Greece. Demonstrators clash with riot police after a rally in Athens late Tuesday marking the eighth anniversary of the murder of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos by police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas. Around 30 people were detained or arrested, after hundreds had turned out in memory of Alexis Grigoropoulos, who was 15 when he was shot dead by police in 2008. It was revealed Tuesday that the Legal Council of the State upheld a decision to award 800,000 euros in damages to Grigoropoulos’s mother and sister. The pair had demanded 2.7 million euros when they launched the legal action against the state in 2013. At first the demonstration was peaceful: 3,000 police officers had been deployed in the Greek capital. But then as protesters threw stones, fireworks, petrol bombs and set fire to cars, police responded with tear gas. The anarchists participated in the peaceful demonstration, but condemned the ochlarchy.

17.11.2016. Greeks mark anniversary of bloody student uprising. As the dust settled on Barack Obama’s Greek visit after he had left the country demonstrators young and old marched in Athens on the 43rd anniversary of the student uprising in 1973, carrying a flag soaked in the blood of some of the at least 24 victims killed. Some 17000 gathered in Athens, a far cry from the crowd for the first anniversary. Downtown Athens had 3000 extra police on duty. Another 8000 people took to the streets of Thessaloniki. Folded into the demonstration were protests against the government’s austerity policies. Some 1000 members of the governing Syriza party took part.

15.11.2016. Ochlarchy in Greece. Greek protesters and riot police have clashed in central Athens after anti-US rallies turned violent. Petrol bombs were met with tear gas as rioters tried to break through police cordons to reach parliament buildings. About 7,000 people, among then anti-war, anti-racism leftist groups, trade unionists and communist party supporters all expressed their anger at Washington. The anarchists support the action, but condemn the ochlarchy.

03.11.2016. Pensioners in Greece have taken to the streets to protest against new pension cuts. The reductions are part of the austerity package the government agreed to with international lenders. More than 4,000 retired people rallied outside the Ministry of Labour in Athens.

17.10.2016. Around 7,000 trade union members demonstrated outside Greece’s parliament on Monday evening calling on the government to protect wages, pensions and restore collective bargaining. Athens and its creditors are due to launch a fresh round of talks this week on reforming its labour market, among conditions of a multi-billion euro bailout. Lenders, particularly the International Monetary Fund (IMF), want further liberalisation of redundancy rules and to retain the current minimum wage system which is set by law and not collective bargaining as the practice in other EU member states. Although there is growing consensus among European creditors and the IMF on the need for debt relief, its form and scope remains unclear. Greece says it wants the review concluded by the end of the year, eyeing its inclusion in the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing (QE) programme.

16.06.2016. Anti-government protest. Thousands of protesters have hit the streets of Athens calling on the country’s left-populist government to quit. Demonstrators gathered in the capital’s Syntagma Square holding banners, which read ‘‘Resign and ‘Go Home’.

08.05.2016. Ochlarchy in Athens. Brown Cards to Kathimerini and Al Jazeera. Protesters, marxist ochlarchists, in Greece have hurled petrol bombs at police who responded with tear gas outside the parliament in Athens. They are protesting ahead of a vote on further austerity measures in return for more international bailout money. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the marxist ochlarchists. Kathimerini falsely called the marxist ochlarchists "anarchists" and the International Anarchist Tribunal hands out a Brown Card to Kathimerini for this break of the Oslo Convention. Kathimerini reported: "Protesters in Greece have hurled firebombs and other projectiles at police in front of Parliament before a controversial vote on an austerity bill. Police responded with bursts of tear gas to repel a small group of anarchists, some of whom started running up the steps in front of Parliament before throwing the Molotov cocktails. The anarchists were mixed among a group of several thousand peaceful demonstrators holding banners in Syntagma Square." Also Al Jazeera falsely calls the marxist ochlarchists "anarchists" and gets a Brown Card from IAT.

06.05.2016. General strike. There will be no metro, train (ISAP) or tram services in Athens Friday and Saturday due to a general strike called by labor unions after the government announced it will vote pension cuts and tax hikes through Parliament on Sunday. Buses and trolley buses will also be out of service for three days beginning Friday. Bus services for the disabled will not be affected. The strike will disrupt transport in Thessaloniki until Monday, beginning with a work stoppage by bus drivers Friday from the beginning of their shift until 9 a.m. and from 9 p.m. until the end of their shift. This will be followed by a 48-hour strike starting Saturday. Ship and ferry sailings have also been canceled because of the strike called by the Panhellenic Seaman’s Federation (PNO) that begins Friday at 6 a.m. and will run until 6 a.m. on Tuesday.

04.02.2016. General strike and ochlarchy. Brown Card to Euronews. Greece’s national trade union centre the GSEE has launched a national strike today to protest against the government’s plan to dismantle the country’s social security system. GSEE union members are being joined by a wide range of professional bodies in striking against what the GSEE has described as an “odious” decision, taken by the government following its meetings with employer associations, but with no discussion or consultation with unions. The GSEE describes an increasingly hostile attitude from the government to unions. The Anarchist International and The International Workers of the World declare: “The hope that the Greek left-populist government would chart a progressive path forward, and adopt policies that would restore livelihoods and living standards, is turning out to be a false hope. Taking yet more away from the people of Greece, who are already facing serious hardship, will pile on extra pressure on working families and have catastrophic consequences for the unemployed. The prospects of economic recovery are now even further away than before, as purchasing power falls. We express our full solidarity with the Greek people, the people seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income.”

Later on the day a demonstration ended up in ochlarchy, and police responded with teargas. The Anarchist International and The International Workers of the World condemn the ochlarchy. Thousands marched as a crippling general strike against pension reforms swept Greece on Thursday, with hooded youths, marxist ochlarchists, lobbing firebombs at riot police in scattered skirmishes in the capital. Some 40,000 people from all walks of life joined protests in Athens and another 14,000 demonstrated in Thessaloniki for the 24-hour industrial action, police said, as riot officers in the capital fired tear gas in response to the Molotov cocktails. Thursday's general strike – the third in as many months – has stopped train and ferry services and grounded dozens of flights.

24.11.2015. Bomb-ochlarchy in Greece. Bomb goes off in Athens as business federation offices targeted. The Greek capital Athens was rocked by an explosion in the small hours of Tuesday morning. A bomb went off outside the offices of the Greek business federation, damaging the building but claiming no victims. A 30-minute warning was given to two newspapers. Police suspect domestic terror groups to be behind the attack, the first since Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras became leader in January. Greece has a number of extreme right and left-wing groups who have used violence in the past in pursuit of their aims, either by attacking symbolic buildings, or assassinating public figures. The anarchists condemn the bomb-atttack.

12.11.2015. General strike and ochlarchy. On the streets of Athens the crack of tear gas being fired echoed in the city. The clashes erupted between police and anti-austerity protesters many of whom hurled petrol bombs. The violence broke out as Greek workers staged a general strike against measures introduced by Alexis Tsipras’s left-populist Syriza government.

20.09.2015. General election in Greece. Greeks have begun voting in the fifth national election in six years. The left-populist Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras, is seeking re-election a month after resigning as prime minister. The leader of the conservative New Democracy party, Vangelis Meimarakis, is his main rival. With neither party expected to secure the roughly 38 percent share of the vote that’s needed for a majority in the 300-seat parliament – a coalition appears a near certainty. Alexis Tsipras returned to power on Sunday after Syriza scored a convincing electoral win that allowed the prime-minister-in-waiting to renew the alliance with Independent Greeks and its leader Panos Kammenos.

20.08.2015. Snap election. Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced he is resigning and has called an early election. Mr Tsipras, who was only elected in January, said he had a moral duty to go to the polls now a third bailout had been secured with European creditors. The election date is yet to be set but reports suggested 20 September.

14.08.2015. Third multi-billion euro bailout. The Greek parliament has approved the details of the country’s third multi-billion euro bailout by foreign creditors in five years. It followed hours of intense debate and angry exchanges in the parliament in Athens overnight. The 85 billion euro package passed easily with 222 votes in the 300-seat chamber, thanks to support from pro-European opposition parties. But 43 Syriza lawmakers, nearly a third of the governing party, voted against or abstained – prompting talk of a government split and a vote of no-confidence.

13.08.2015. People protest. Thousands, included some anarchists, demonstrated in Athens, against austerity.

31.07.2015. For Grexit - No to euro - Full employment. The Greek government is mostly on the wrong track. The anarchists (AI) are against, and do and support direct actions against the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative -- cut bureaucracy costs -- increase the demand of the people -- the people seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income -- for full employment -- against the unenlightened plutarchy of the populist Greek government, IMF, ECB, euro and EU. Greece should leave the euro and the Euro-zone, this will make proper demand management more easy. Employment = Total demand/(price-level * labor-productivity)

23.07.2015. Greece's parliament has passed legislation on a second batch of reforms needed to help unlock a huge international bailout for the country's stricken economy. The bill - containing judicial and banking reforms - easily passed early on Tuesday morning with the support of 230 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament, thanks to the support of pro-euro opposition parties. But 36 out of 149 deputies from Greek Prime Minister's Alexis Tsipras' Syriza party voted against the overall bill or abstained - less than the rebellion by 39 deputies in last week's vote on an initial set of reforms.

Brown Card to Euronews. Euronews reported: "A small group of protesters threw petrol bombs at police officers in front of the Greek parliament ahead of Wednesday night’s key vote on further economic reforms. Until then the rally had been largely peaceful. Witnesses said the disturbances were due to a few dozen anarchists. The unrest came after a day of marches organised by the Communist Party and public sector workers. Our reporter Michalis Arampatzoglou was there...". This is not true. The truth is that petrol bombs were thrown at police by ochlarchists - marxist extremist anti-establishment protesters, not anarchists. The International Anarchist Tribunal hands out Brown Cards to Euronews, Michalis Arampatzoglou and the so called witnesses for this serious break of the Oslo Convention.

22.07.2015. The politicians debate, people protest. Ochlarchy in Greece. Brown Card to BBC. Greek MPs are debating a second set of reforms they need to approve to secure a €86bn bailout, as thousands protest against further austerity measures. The protest outside parliament briefly turned violent, with petrol bombs and stones thrown at police by ochlarchists - marxist extremist anti-establishment protesters. BBC's Piers Schofield falsely called the ochlarchists "anarchists" and the International Anarchist Tribunal hands out Brown Cards to BBC and Piers Schofield for this serious break of the Oslo Convention.

20.07.2015. Greek banks are reopening after being closed for three weeks because of the deadlock over the country's debt, as the government initiates repayment of its loans to the ECB and IMF. Queues at ATMs have been a feature of life in Greece for weeks, with people waiting in line each day to withdraw a maximum of €60 (£41) a day, a restriction imposed amid fears of a run on banks. From Monday 20.07.2015, the daily limit becomes a weekly one, capped at €420 (£291), meaning Greeks will not have to queue every day.

16.07.2015. Greece's parliament early on Thursday approved a bill of tough reforms demanded by the country's creditors in return for a new bailout, an AFP count showed. The ruling radical leftist SYRIZA party passed the bill thanks to support from pro-European opposition parties as several government lawmakers, including former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, voted against the measures.

Most suspects arrested in clashes are from abroad. Around half of the people arrested during rioting in Syntagma Square ahead of MPs voting on a new round of austerity measures on Wednesday night 15.07.2015 were foreigners, the police said on Thursday 16.07.2015. Twelve people were detained for causing damage to a metro station and another 14 were caught in front of Parliament, where rioters - marxist extremist ochlarchists - threw Molotov cocktails and chunks of marble, while police responded with tear gas. Fourteen of those arrested were from abroad: four Germans, three Poles, two French, an Australian, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, an Italian and an Albanian. No serious injuries were reported as a result of the clashes.

15.07.2015. The politicians debate, people protest. Ochlarchy in Greece. Brown Card to the Greek police. In Greece, while the politicians debate inside parliament, outside there are protests on the streets. Waving banners and chanting anti-EU slogans, they are urging the Greek parliament to reject the latest bailout proposal. There is anger and defiance at the range of tax hikes and pension reforms demanded of a country already in a deep crisis. Ochlarchists - marxist extremist anti-establishment protesters, using Molotov cocktails, clashed with the police, and police responded with tear gas. The police falsely called the ochlarchists "anarchists" and the International Anarchist Tribunal hands out a Brown Card to the Greek police for this serious break of the Oslo Convention. A wave of strikes has also spread across Greece, including public transport and pharmacies. Their impact, however, seems limited at this stage. Research suggests more than 70 percent of Greeks want parliament to approve the new bailout.

13.04.2015. No Grexit. Eurozone leaders have reached a "unanimous" agreement after marathon talks over a third bailout for Greece, EU President Donald Tusk has said. He said that a bailout programme was "all ready to go" for Greece, "with serious reforms and financial support". "There will not be a 'Grexit'," said European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker, referring to the fear that Greece would have to leave the euro

10.07.2015. Several thousand leftist demonstrators protested in front of parliament in Athens on Friday 10.07.2015 ahead of a vote to support a package of cuts and tax hikes that closely resembled a similar package rejected in a referendum on Sunday. The rally was smaller than the big demonstrations that took place just before Sunday's referendum but it underlined the deep resistance to fresh doses of austerity facing the government from the left. A smaller demonstration supporting the package of the government was also present.

09.07.2015. Thousands of pro-euro-demonstrators rallied in front of the Greek parliament.

06.07.2015. The "Troika" must get serious about negotiating debt relief for Greece. The results of Sunday’s referendum in Greece confirm that the Greek people decisively reject the austerity policies that have left a more than quarter of the country’s workforce unemployed. The Anarchist International urgently calls on the creditor institutions formerly known as "the Troika" – International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, European Commission – to unblock support for the Greek banking system, carry out disbursements on previously agreed loans and engage in serious negotiations with the Greek cabinet for reducing Greece’s unsustainable debt burden.

The Anarchist International declares: "The Greek people have clearly understood something that the creditor institutions apparently have not: that intensifying the Troika-imposed austerity policies of the past five years will only prolong the depression. The institutions must end their demands for further cuts in pensions and public services and continued destruction of labour market institutions in return for payments on loans they already approved. Instead, they should support a pro-growth investment and jobs programme in Greece, proper demand management. The IMF’s debt sustainability analysis published last Thursday reiterates what many organisations both in Greece and elsewhere have been saying for years, which is that Greece requires substantial debt relief if the economy is to have any chance of making a sustainable recovery."

05.07.2015. Clear NO in the referendum. With all the ballots counted, results from the Greek referendum show voters decisively rejecting the terms of an international bailout. Figures published by the interior ministry showed 61,31% of those whose ballots had been counted voting "No", against 38,69% voting "Yes". 62,5% of the people with voting rights voted at the referendum. Thousands of Greeks celebrated in the streets of Athens after the vote on Sunday.

04.07.2015. The anarchists say vote NO in the Greek referendum Sunday 05.07.2015.

03.07.2015. Rival demonstrations. Greeks took to the streets in their tens of thousands on Friday 03.07.2015 in rival rallies that laid bare the deep divide heading into a referendum that may decide the country's future in Europe's single currency. At the "yes" camp, thousands rallied in front of the old Olympic Stadium to Beethoven's Ode to Joy, the anthem of the European Union. There appeared to be fewer people than in the "no" crowd. Three opinion polls published on Friday had the "yes" vote marginally ahead; a fourth put the "no" camp 0.5 percent in front, but all were well within the margin of error. With tension building, police firing stun grenades briefly scuffled with a few dozen black-clad people carrying red flags, ochlarchist marxists - anti-establishment radicals. The violence appeared to be isolated.

01.07.2015. Greece has defaulted on the 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) it owes the International Monetary Fund, becoming the first developed economy to default to the IMF. It is the biggest debt default by a country ever. Greece is 323 billion euros ($352.7 billion) in debt to other European countries, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The sum is equivalent to more than 175% of the country's GDP. Greece took preemptive measures Monday, closing its banks and markets until July 6. The move caused European stocks to fall. The government in Athens also restricted bank withdrawals to 60 euros (U.S. $66) a day. Later the demonstrations continued...

30.06.2015. Thousands of pro-Europe protesters held a rally in front of the Parliament building in Athens late Tuesday 30.06.2015.

29.06.2015. Greek banks closed. The Greek government has confirmed that banks will be closed all week, after a decision by the European Central Bank not to extend emergency funding. In a decree, it cited the "extremely urgent" need to protect the financial system due to the lack of liquidity. Cash withdrawals will be limited to €60 (£42; $66) a day for this period, the decree says. Later thousands have taken part in rallies in central Athens following the government’s announcement that it’s closing the banks and imposing capital controls. Some banners conveyed a defiant call to leave the eurozone.

28.06.2015. Greek lawmakers authorized referendum. Greek lawmakers on Sunday 28.06.2015 authorized Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' proposed July 5th bailout referendum, setting Greece on course for a plebiscite that has enraged international creditors and increased Greece's chances of exiting the eurozone.

There were demonstrations in Greece with the slogan "No to euro". The anarchists support a Grexit and no to euro. Greek banks are to remain closed and capital controls will be imposed, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says.

27.06.2015. Call for referendum. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced early on Saturday 27.06.2015 that his government intends to hold a referendum on whether Greece should accept the proposals put forward by lenders. Tsipras made it clear that he is against accepting the terms offered by creditors but said that he would accept the outcome of any vote. The prime minister said he would go to Parliament on Saturday to get approval from MPs to hold the referendum on Sunday, July 5.

22.06.2015. The trial of Golden Dawn resumed on Monday briefly and was adjourned again until Thursday after lawyers representing MPs and dozens of party supporters and members asked that alleged victims of GD violence should not be allowed to appear in court as civil claimants. One of the lawyers claimed that one of several attacks attributed to the neofascist party – the violent assault of members of the Communist-affiliated union PAME – would never have taken place without the express orders of members of the GD hierarchy. The trial, which started on April 20, has been dogged by delays, not least because local authorities and residents have lobbied for the landmark trial to be moved to another venue. The government has said this cannot be done until September, by which time a space is to have been designated at the Athens Appeals Court.

Several thousand anti-austerity demonstrators and pro-EU demonstrators rallied in Athens.

21.06.2015. Several thousand demonstrators gathered in Brussels on Sunday 21.06.2015 and several hundred in Amsterdam to plead for solidarity with cash-strapped Greece on the eve of a make-or-break summit with European leaders. Thousands of people have rallied in front of parliament in Athens, in support of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who presented new proposals to European leaders on Sunday aimed at ending his country's debt crisis. More than 7,000 people took to the streets carrying banners that read "A different Europe with Tsipras" and "You can't blackmail the people, the country is not for sale". Singing, waving Greek flags and banners with slogans such as "No to the euro", several thousand people filled the street in front of parliament.

18.06.2015. Large pro-EU demonstration in Greece. Several thousand demonstrators chanting "Europe! Europe!" rallied in front of parliament in Athens on Thursday 18.06.2015 calling for Greece to keep the euro, as the country edged nearer to a default that could force it out of the single currency zone. Greece's future in the bloc and even in the EU has hung in the balance as the leftist government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, which swept to power five months ago on a platform of resisting austerity, has reached deadlock with its creditors. "This is the first demonstration I've joined in for the last five years because it's the first time that we've been at risk of quitting the euro," said Alexandra Spei, a 50-year-old accountant. "I can't imagine what the consequences would be like but I am sure it would be catastrophic." The demonstration, joined by some members of the country's previous conservative government, appeared to be slightly larger than one a day earlier by supporters of the ruling Syriza party who urged the government to reject creditor demands for pension cuts and VAT hikes in exchange for vital financial support. Thursday's rally was noisy but peaceful. However, like Wednesday's pro-Syriza demonstration, it was much smaller than the protests that regularly filled Syntagma Square in central Athens at earlier stages of the crisis.

17.06.2015. Large anti-austerity protest in Greece, backed by unions. No ochlarchy.

11.06.2015. Communist Party supporters have occupied the finance ministry in Greece, warning the government not touch pension funds in a bid to pay back its EU/IMF lenders. Greece’s creditors want Athens to commit to a deal of cash-for-reforms.

01.06.2015. Ochlarchists, provocateurs, falsely posing as "anarchists", are on the payroll of the Greek police. There are several credible reports about this problem. The International Anarchist Tribunal hands out Brown Cards to the provocateurs, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and also a Brown Card to the Greek police. The purpose of the police provocateurs is to discredit the anarchist movement, making chaos/ochlarchy, and call for the "strong man", i.e. the fascist Golden Dawn, which is supported by lots of policemen.

23.05.2015. Marxist ochlarchy in Greece. Around 40 hooded marxist, ochlarchist, anti-establishment protesters threw petrol bombs and stones at riot police in central Athens on Saturday 23.05.2015, setting fire to a trolley bus. Police fired teargas to try and control the crowd outside Athens Polytechnic University, near the central Exarchia district, a Bohemian quarter popular with artists and left-wing intellectuals. Local media said the clash started when the crowd forced the bus to stop and told passengers to get off. Their reasons were not immediately clear. Earlier on Saturday about 200 anarchists, and leftist and anti-establishment protesters, marched to the German embassy in Athens, in a peaceful protest against Berlin's hard stance in Greece's talks with lenders on a cash-for-reforms deal. Last month marxist anti-establishment protesters occupied several public buildings and briefly entered the grounds of parliament, calling for the release of jailed members of a marxist group.

20.05.2015. General strike. Members of the civil servants’ union, ADEDY, are to walk off the job on Wednesday 20.05.2015 from noon until the end of their shifts in a protest to show solidarity with state hospital employees who are to hold a one-day walkout on that day to express their objections to cutbacks. Demonstrations are planned for Athens and other major cities at around noon. Also on Wednesday, a group of around 30 self-styled anarchists staged a sit-in at the offices of German insurance giant Allianz on central Athinon Avenue. A banner draped down the building’s facade called for a “clash with the policies of the EU and its domestic lackeys.” Earlier in the day, anarchists protested outside the Hellenic Bank Association. Both protests ended peacefully without the intervention of police.

01.05.2015. May Day 2015. Much of central Athens was cordoned off on Friday as labor union members gathered for demonstrations to mark Labor Day with banners expressing continued opposition to austerity. SYRIZA banners wielded at a gathering in the city center on Friday morning underlined the party's commitment to honoring its so-called red lines in negotiations with Greece's creditors -- chiefly the protection of pensions, the labor market, state assets and a vehement opposition to any tax increases. One banner proclaimed that "nothing can stop a determined people" with others repeating a key pre-election demand by SYRIZA for a lightening of the country's debt burden. A key demand of the General Confederation of Greek Labor, the private sectors' umbrella union is the restoration of the minimum wage. The civil servants' union, ADEDY, was our in force too, protesting against the "decapitation of rights" and "the return to a labor and social Middle Ages." Similar protests were planned for Thessaloniki and other major Greek cities.

16.04.2015. Brown Card to greek marxist extremists falsely posing "anarchists". Ochlarchy in Greece. A group of marxist extremists falsely posing as "anarchists", supporting the marxist terrorist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, made ochlarchy in Greece. The so called "anarchists" get a Brown Card from the International Anarchist Tribunal for supporting marxist extremist terrorists and for the ochlarchy, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Anti-capitalist terrorism is authoritarian and extremist marxism, not anarchism. No support from the anarchists for marxist terrorists as Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire! No to ochlarchy!

18.03.2015. Brown Cards to Euronews and greek marxist extremists falsely posing "anarchists". Ochlarchy in Greece. A group of marxist extremists falsely posing as "anarchists", supporting the marxist terrorist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, made ochlarchy in Greece. The so called "anarchists" get a Brown Card from the International Anarchist Tribunal for supporting marxist extremist terrorists and for the ochlarchy, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Euronews gets a Brown Card for falsely calling the marxist extremists "anarchists". Anti-capitalist terrorism is authoritarian and extremist marxism, not anarchism. No support from the anarchists for marxist terrorists as Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire! No to ochlarchy!

09.03.2015. Brown Cards to Kathimerini and greek marxist extremists falsely posing as "anarchists". A group of marxist extremists, terrorist supporters, falsely posing as "anarchists", that had occupied SYRIZA’s headquarters in central Athens on Sunday left the building early on Monday. The action was staged in sympathy with members of the marxist terrorist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and relatives who were arrested last week. The so called "anarchists" get a Brown Card from the International Anarchist Tribunal for supporting marxist extremist terrorists, i.e. ochlarchist, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card for falsely calling the marxist extremists "anarchists". Anti-capitalist terrorism is authoritarian and extremist marxism, not anarchism. No support from the anarchists for marxist terrorists as Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire!

26.02.2015. Ochlarchy in Greece. Police and ochlarchists clashed during anti-government demonstrations in Athens. They were the first such disturbances since Greece's leftist Syriza was sworn in as the main government party.

26.01.2015. The far-left Syriza party, which won Greece's general election on Sunday, has formed an anti-austerity governing coalition with the right-wing party Greek Independents. The coalition will have a comfortable majority in Greece's new parliament. Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras has vowed to renegotiate Greece's bailout, worth €240bn (£179bn; $268bn), to end Greece's "humiliation and pain". Several European politicians have warned him to respect bailout terms.

25.01.2015. General election in Greece. Greeks vote in a general election, with the anti-austerity Syriza and the centre-right New Democracy parties seen as frontrunners in a tight race.

06.12.2014. Ochlarchy in Greece. Chaotic scenes in Athens, as peaceful march turns into clashes. Greek protesters and Athens police battle it out as a demonstration marking the anniversary of a police shooting turns to clashes.

27.11.2014. General strike in Greece. A 24-hour general strike over austerity measures has closed schools and public offices and heavily disrupted transport throughout Greece. Thousands demonstrated in Athens and other big cities in the country.

09.04.2014. General strike in Greece. Unions have called a general strike that could bring parts of the country to a standstill, in the first large anti-austerity walkout of 2014.

01.11.2013. Two neo-nazi Golden Dawn members killed. Two men have been shot dead in a drive-by shooting outside Greece's Golden Dawn party office in Athens, police said. Two attackers on a motorbike seriously injured one more man in Friday's incident in the Iraklio neighbourhood, according to information published on the party's website. Golden Dawn said in a statement that the victims were 20 and 23 years old. "The murderers - whoever they are - will be dealt with unsparingly by our democracy. Let everyone know this," government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou told reporters outside the prime minister's mansion. Scores of police in riot gear cordoned off the streets surrounding the offices in the northern Athens suburb of Neo Iraklio and TV footage showed Ourania Mihaloliakou, the daughter of the party's detained leader, had rushed to the scene

Anti-racism laws. The attack came after Greek government unveiled plans to toughen laws against racism and prohibit "malevolent" denial of the Holocaust. The draft legislation presented by the Justice Ministry on Friday provides for maximum three-year prison terms, and fines up to 20,000 euros ($27,000), for people found guilty of inciting racist crimes. Similar penalties would apply to those convicted of denying the significance of genocides, crimes against humanity and war crimes - in a way that could incite violence, hatred, or either threaten or insult ethnic, racial or religious groups. The draft legislation will be forwarded to Parliament for debate. Greece has seen a rise in violence targeting Asian and African immigrants since its financial crisis erupted in 2009.

Crackdown. The attack came amid a crackdown by the government on Golden Dawn party after a Golden Dawn sympathiser stabbed an anti-fascism rapper to death in September. The party rose from obscurity on an anti-immigrant and anti-austerity agenda to enter parliament for the first time last year. Its banner features a swastika-like emblem and its leader has denied the Holocaust took place. The party's leader, Nikolaos Mihaloliakos, and two senior lawmakers were ordered detained last month pending their trial on charges of belonging to a criminal group.

28.09.2013. Neo-nazi Golden Dawn leaders arrested. Greek police have arrested the leader of the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, on charges of forming a criminal organisation. Three more Golden Dawn MPs, a leader in an Athens suburb and nine other party members have also been arrested.

25.09.2013. Anti-nazi protests. Thousands of people have joined protests in Athens and elsewhere in Greece against the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party. In Athens, clashes erupted between protesters and police as police reportedly blocked attempts to march on Golden Dawn offices. "The days of tolerance are over," one banner was quoted as saying. The protests are part of a wave of outrage following the 18 September murder of anti-racist musician Pavlos Fyssas - stage name Killah P. Amid claims of official inaction, the government has launched a crackdown, including raids on Golden Dawn premises and the suspension of police believed to be sympathisers.

18.09.2013. Left-wing musician killed by neo-nazi. A left-wing musician has been stabbed to death in the Greek capital, Athens, and the suspect is a member of the neo-nazi party Golden Dawn. Pavlos Fyssas, 34, was killed early on Wednesday. Police arrested the suspect and searched Golden Dawn's offices. The party denied any involvement. Greece's Public Order Minister, Nikos Dendias, has cancelled a trip to Rome. He said the situation was critical. The minister expressed his deep regret over the incident, and said the government would soon put forward a new law against political violence and armed groups. Greece's Socialist Party, which is the second party in the governing coalition, has said that Golden Dawn should be considered a criminal group.

16.09.2013. A week of mass strike action has begun in Greece in protest at large public sector layoffs and forced transfers. State school teachers walked out on Monday in the first of a planned five-day rolling strike.

17.07.2013. Thousands of protesters rallied outside the parliament. The parliament in Greece has narrowly approved a public sector reform bill that will see thousands of people lose their jobs. In a 153-140 vote, MPs backed the bill tied to the country's fresh 6.8bn euros (£5.8bn) of bailout loans, needed to keep Greece afloat. During the debate thousands of protesters rallied outside the parliament in the capital Athens. Greece has recently been hit by a series of strikes against the cuts. There were protesters outside the parliament building late into the night while the vote was taking place.

16.07.2013. General strike. A day-long general strike has begun in Greece, called by trade unions, in protest against government plans to cut thousands of public sector jobs.

17.06.2013. ERT reopens temporarily until a new public broadcaster is established. Source: NRK

13.06.2013. General strike protesting shut down of ERT. Greek unions are staging a 24-hour general strike Thursday, amid a storm of protest over the government's decision to shut down public broadcaster ERT as part of sweeping cost-cutting measures. The socialist and moderate leftist parties supporting the coalition government called the decision "unacceptable" as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras refused to back down. "We are eliminating a hotbed of opacity and waste," Samaras said at a European Investment Bank event in Athens on Wednesday. "We are protecting the public interest." The broadcaster's television and radio stations were abruptly pulled off air late Tuesday 11.06.2013 and its nearly 2,700 staff suspended as part of the conservative-led coalition government's deeply unpopular austerity drive.

"The ERT lockup amounts to a coup d'etat," leading union GSEE said in a statement. It announced the 24-hour general strike for Thursday, the third in the crisis-hit country this year. There was also a protest by journalists in neighbouring Cyprus, where there are fears that the public broadcaster there could go the same way as the government looks to slash spending in the island's own austerity drive. The Samaras administration quickly presented legislation creating a new broadcaster called New Hellenic Radio, Internet and Television (NERIT) to replace the 60-year-old ERT. "You can't fix a car while it is running, you have to take it off the road," government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou told journalists. "It is a temporary postponement.... Everything will pass by parliament, I assure you it's all legal," he said, promising a "restart" during the summer.

But coalition partners insisted that even though the government must fight the crisis, this could only be done in "good faith" and through consensus. The closure of ERT has created the semblance "of a political and institutional crisis," Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos said. The sudden shutdown of ERT has caused a national uproar, with journalists kicking off their strike on Wednesday while defiant staff staged sit-ins in Athens and Greece's second-largest city Thessaloniki. Riot police were stationed outside ERT offices around the country to prevent "any destruction", said Kedikoglou, himself a former journalist at the organisation. The government has imposed sweeping public cutbacks demanded by the debt-laden country's international lenders in return for a massive bailout.

However, the spokesman insisted ERT's closure was not part of Greece's bailout obligations to the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank. Greece is caught in a six-year recession which critics say has been exacerbated by successive pay and pension cuts imposed at the behest of its creditors. Unemployment now exceeds 26 percent, with half of young people out of work. ERT employees, stunned by the sudden loss of their jobs, were defiantly transmitting rogue broadcasts on the Internet and the Communist party channel, vowing to resist the shutdown. "We are not leaving the building," Panagiotis Kalfayiannis, the head of ERT's main union, told AFP.

"We are going to Greek and European justice. Even if they want to destroy democracy, rules still apply and I am going to fight." The European Union said it did not question the government decision but pointed out that public broadcasting was "an integral part of European democracy". French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, on a visit to Spain, wondered whether the closure was the "right way to get people to love political decisions". "Closing a public television is never good news," Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo added. Public service broadcasting plays an indispensable role in a country's democracy," Mijatovic said. Media observers acknowledge that ERT has a long history of mismanagement and political meddling, but say the Samaras administration is not free of blame. Recent controversial decisions include the appointment of a former deputy minister's daughter as a show host, and the ousting of two journalists who had criticised a minister on air. Messages of support have poured in from the Greek diaspora -- for whom ERT is a vital link to the homeland -- and the Orthodox Church.

The government said ERT would reopen with around half its current 2,655 employees. The shutdown followed months of work stoppages by ERT employees angry at plans to restructure the broadcaster. Athens has pledged to cut 4,000 state-sector jobs this year and another 11,000 in 2014 to keep drawing rescue loans under the EU-IMF package.

01.05.2013. Greeks stage 24-hour anti-austerity general strike. The 24-hour action is expected to severely disrupt public services, including transport and hospitals. The organizers are demanding an end to spending cuts and tax rises. More than 20 general strikes have failed to halt the cuts, and the government feels emboldened by the cautious optimism of its international creditors.

28.03.2013. Marxist extremist ochlarchists behind series of bomb attacks, i.e. terrorism, in Greece. A makeshift bomb exploded outside the home of a prominent Greek ship owner, a capitalist, in central Athens on Wednesday 27.03.2013, shattering windows and causing other damage but no injuries, police officials said. Minor bomb and arson attacks have increased in recent months as Greece implements deeply unpopular austerity measures in exchange for bailout funds from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund for its debt-crippled economy. In January, two Greek marxist groups claimed responsibility for an explosion at an Athens shopping centre that fuelled fears of rising political violence. That incident followed a series of small homemade bomb attacks on journalists and political figures. Bomb attacks are terrorism, a form of ochlarchy, i.e. mob rule broadly defined, and thus authoritarian. Ochlarchist anti-capitalists are in reality authoritarian socialists, i.e. marxists, not anarchists. Thus the series of bomb attacks, the terrorism in Greece, is practically certain done by marxists, not anarchists.

20.02.2013. General strike in Greece. Greece is being hit by the first general strike of 2013 as workers renew their protest over austerity measures. The 24-hour strike is forcing the closure of schools and state-run offices and leaving hospitals working with emergency staff. The strike has been called by Greece's two biggest labor unions, representing half the four million-strong workforce. It comes days before international lenders are due in Athens to discuss the next instalment of a bailout. The debt-ridden country is being kept afloat by billions of euros from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund. In return, the government has imposed waves of unpopular spending cuts and tax rises, hitting pay and pensions and sending unemployment soaring to more than 26%.

Strikes and violent protests have become commonplace. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy. The International Workers of the World supports the general strike, but says a clear no to violence. Crowds marched towards parliament in Athens, beating drums and blowing whistles as part of the 24-hour strike. Minor clashes broke out at one stage when police fired tear gas at hooded youths, i.e. marxist ochlarchist extremists, throwing stones. More than 20 general strikes since the crisis erupted have failed to change government policies, and this one is unlikely to be any different.

02.02.2013. Greek marxist terrorists, associated to Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, falsely called "anarchists", arrested for bank robbery. Marxist extremist ochlarchist cell sought to finance terrorism. Four Greek radicals from the marxist terrorist group Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire have been arrested after two simultaneous robberies on Feb. 1. 2013. The guerrilla group’s 2011 essay, “The Sun Still Rises,” calls for “the rejection of work via holdups and robberies directed at the belly of the capitalist beast — the banks — with the goal being individual liberation from the eight-hour blackmail of wage-slavery on the one hand, and collective appropriation of and direct access to money for infrastructural needs and revolutionary projects on the other.” Leftist, i.e. marxist - extremist radicals in Europe have often used bank robberies to finance terrorist activities — a tactic known as “expropriation of the private banks” endorsed long ago by the marxist Leon Trotsky. The four suspects were arrested shortly after a bank and a post office branch were robbed in the village of Velvendo, near the northern Greek city of Kozani, on Friday 01.02.2013. Police released the four suspects' photos and urged citizens knowing anything about them to call a special hotline. Four other suspects were being sought.

See the reports of 03-04.11.2010 for proof that Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei is a marxist group, and thus not an anarchist group. See also the reports of 23.11.2010, 17.01.2011 and 19.07.2011. Associated Press with Costas Kantouris & Demetris Nellas and several other newsmedia that falsely called the group "anarchists" get a Brown Card from IAT for breaking the Oslo Convention. PS. 01.04.2013. A special Brown Card goes to the marxist Josh Alton, a supporter of so called "anarchist", in reality marxist, terrorism in Greece, and sailing under false anarchist flag. Josh Alton is thus expulsed from the anarchist movement.

14.01.2013. Shots fired at ruling party headquarters. A gunman fired a spray of bullets at the headquarters of the governing center-right New Democracy party near central Athens early Monday, with one hitting an office occasionally used by the prime minister, officials said. No one was hurt. Police cordoned off the area where an unknown attacker fired an automatic rifle at the building on the capital’s busy Syngrou Avenue, south of the city center. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred amid a renewed wave of politically motivated violence by marxist ochlarchists. BBC falsely called the marxist ochlarchists "anarchists" and gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention.

10.01.1013. Marxist ochlarchists arrested. 100 marxist ochlarchists, some falsely posing as "anarchists", arrested Wednesday 09.01.2013 during an eviction by Greek police will appear before judges Thursday 10.01.2013. The group were turfed out of two buildings in Athens which they had occupied for several years. 92 of them formed part of a 150 strong group who had tried to reoccupy the Villa Amalia, a central Athens building near the Polytechnic. A further eight were arrested at the Villa Maria Callas, the opera singer's namesake, where she lived between 1936 and 1945. The marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" have got a Brown Card from IAT-APT and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement.

06.12.2012. Marxist ochlarchy. Greek police fired tear gas at youths hurling petrol bombs and stones in Athens on Thursday 06.12.2012 after a peaceful march to mark the 2008 police killing of a teenager that sparked the country's worst riots in decades. Hundreds of students, teachers and leftists held rallies in the capital and other major cities throughout the day, chanting "Cops, pigs, murderers!" and "These are Alexis's days!" in reference to 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos.

Clashes erupted in the evening after dozens of hooded youths, i.e. marxist ochlarchist extremists, broke off from a 1,000-strong march, throwing petrol bombs and stones at riot police in the Exarchia neighbourhood where Grigoropoulos was shot. Six cars were set alight and at least 28 people were detained, police said. Thousands of people took to the streets of the capital just hours after the shooting on December 6 2008, torching cars and smashing shop windows. Fuelled by anger at unemployment and economic hardship, the riots lasted for weeks, turning central Athens into a virtual no-go area and helping topple the conservative government of Costas Karamanlis.

14.11.1012. European day of action. The IWW has pledged its full support to the European trade union movement’s November 14 Day of Action and Solidarity. Strike actions, general strikes, in Greece, Italy, Spain, Cyprus, Malta and Portugal are planned, along with demonstrations and solidarity activities in 23 countries across the continent. The mobilisation has been called to strengthen opposition to the destructive austerity policies being pushed by the “Troika” (European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF), and build momentum for a social compact for Europe with a proper social dialogue, an economic policy that fosters quality jobs, and economic solidarity among the countries of Europe.

Youth unemployment is one of the most damaging consequences of the Troika’s obsession with the discredited economics of austerity. More than half of young people in Greece and Spain are without work, more than a third in Italy and Portugal, and 27% in Cyprus. This is simply intolerable, and even worse, the architects of austerity have no idea and no plan of how to rebuild economic growth – they are simply focused on keeping financial markets happy without regard to the social and economic costs. IWW calls for Cogrips-policy and economics, as an alternative to outdated Keynesian policy as well as the discredited austerity policy, see the WEC resolutions. The strikes degenerated into ochlarchy, by marxist exremists. IWW condemns the ochlarchy.

06.11.2012. Greek labor unions hold 48-hour general strike. Unions in Greece began a 48-hour walk-out on Tuesday 06.11.2012 in protest against the latest raft of anti-austerity measures, due to be put before the country's parliament on Wednesday 07.11.2012. Thousands of protesters gathered for rallies in central Athens, watched over by a heavy police presence. Many such protests have turned violent in the past, with masked youths, mainly marxist ochlarchist extremists, fighting police with petrol bombs and rocks. The same happened 07.11.2012.

18.10.2012. Austerity-weary Greeks stage new general strike. Greece was facing its second general strike in a month Thursday as workers protested over another batch of austerity measures that are designed to prevent the bankruptcy of the country. The strike was taking place as European leaders headed to Brussels for a summit in which Greece's economic fate will likely feature large. The strike grounded flights, shut down public services, closed schools, hospitals and shops and hampered public transport in the capital. Taxi drivers were joining in for nine hours, while a three-hour work stoppage by air traffic controllers led to flight cancellations. Thousands of protesters gathered for rallies ahead of two separate demonstrations in central Athens, watched over by a heavy police presence. Many such protests have turned violent in the past, with masked youths, mainly marxist ochlarchist extremists, fighting police with petrol bombs and rocks. The same happened 18.10.2012.

Demonstrators' ire was focused on the new belt-tightening for 2013-14, which has been demanded by international creditors in exchange for the release of the next batch of the country's bailout. The city has seen hundreds of anti-austerity protests over the past three years, since Greece revealed it had been misreporting its public finance figures. With confidence ravaged and austerity demanded, the country has sunk into a deep economic recession that has many of the same hallmarks of the Great Depression of the 1930s.

09.10.2012. Marxist ochlarchists protest against Angela Merkel. The tough path Greece is on will pay off, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday during a visit to Athens marred by clashes between police and marxist ochlarchist protesters. In her first visit to Greece since the debt crisis erupted here in 2009, Merkel commended Athens for what she described as important reform successes, but said more work was needed to reduce the country's debt mountain and restore competitiveness. "A lot has been accomplished," Merkel said after talks with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. Samaras said Greeks were "bleeding" but would stick to their reform pledges and were determined to stay in the euro.

26.09.2012. General strike in Greece. Flights and trains were suspended, shops pulled down their shutters and hospitals worked on emergency staff today in Greece's first anti-austerity general strike since a coalition government took power in June. Thousands took to the streets to protest at a new round of belt-tightening demanded by EU and IMF lenders. Marxist ochlarchist extremists, falsely called "anarchists" by some newsmedia as, say, BBC, clashed with the police. BBC and the other newsmedia breaking the Oslo-convention get Brown Cards from IAT-APT.

13.09.2012. Greece hit by new anti-austerity protests. A fresh wave of anti-austerity strikes has hit Greece, as leaders of the governing coalition remain unable to finalize further spending cuts. Some 1,500 active and retired military personnel joined doctors, teachers and local authority employees on peaceful marches to the Finance Ministry in central Athens. They are protesting planned salary and funding cuts that will come into effect under a new 11.5 billion dollar austerity package. Debt-crippled Greece depends on international rescue loans, granted in return for a deeply unpopular austerity program. In addition to the previous cutbacks, Athens must now decide how to cut a further 11-point-5 billion dollars as demanded by the country's creditors.

20.06.2012. After the election. Problems loom as Greece parties seal coalition. The swearing-in of Antonis Samaras as prime minister after elections last Sunday ended weeks of uncertainty that rattled financial markets and threatened to push near-bankrupt Greece out of the eurozone. Samaras, a Harvard-educated economist from a prominent Greek family, will head an alliance of his New Democracy party and the so called Socialist PASOK - the same discredited establishment parties which have dominated politics since 1974. "I am fully aware how critical this time is for our nation," Samaras said after he was sworn in at a ceremony conducted by robed Orthodox priests at the presidential mansion. "I know very well that Greek people are hurt and need to regain their dignity. I know that the economy must quickly recover to reestablish social justice and cohesion."

The coalition parties are in a race to overcome public disgust with their records, face down an emboldened leftist opposition that narrowly failed to win the election, and persuade reluctant eurozone partners to ease the terms of a bailout that has caused deep economic suffering. The cabinet has yet to be named, although a technocrat banker is expected to become finance minister. Party leaders said a team would be formed to renegotiate the terms of the hated 130 billion euro ($165 billion) rescue plan with the European Union and IMF, setting up a showdown with the lenders led by paymaster Germany who say they will adjust but not re-write the document.

New Democracy and PASOK have little history of cooperation, having alternated in office from the fall of military rule in 1974 until last year, when the economic crisis forced them to share power in a short-lived national unity government. Their coalition will be the first in Greece in decades with an unrestricted mandate - last year's unity government and a coalition that took power in 1989 both had limited powers. The alliance will also be backed by the small Democratic Left party, whose leader Fotis Kouvelis called on the government "to gradually disengage from the terms of the bailout that has bled society".

An official from one of the three parties in the coalition said that they had agreed to name National Bank Chairman Vassilis Rapanos as finance minister. Rapanos is an economics professor who worked closely on reforming the economy with a previous so called Socialist government. Other ministers were expected to be named later.

Greece's crisis has left its people not only poorer but feeling humiliated. As the political leaders wrapped up talks on a government, hundreds of Greeks - many until recently members of the prosperous middle classes - gathered under the scorching sun in a big park in Athens for free vegetables offered by a farmers' association from the island of Crete. "Not even in my worst nightmares could I imagine that I would end up like this - waiting in line for food," said Eleni Moshidou, 56, a mother of three unemployed sons who was fired from a law firm when the crisis broke out in 2010. "I feel humiliated. Our politicians brought us here."

Just over a month after an inconclusive election raised fears that Greek would have to leave the eurozone, New Democracy narrowly beat the radical leftist Syriza bloc that wants to scrap the bailout deal which most Greeks blame for worsening a recession which is in its fifth year. Syriza promised on Wednesday to be a "combative" opposition force that fights on behalf of Greeks struggling through wage cuts and spending cuts that have sent unemployment to record highs. But the new government's first battle is likely to be with foreign lenders as it tries to convince them to sign off on the next installment of aid and allow more leeway on the austerity pledges.

PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos warned of a "big battle" in Brussels to craft a new bailout deal that would promote growth and contain unemployment. "The most critical issue is the formation of the national negotiation team and ensuring that it is successful," he told reporters. Both PASOK and Democratic Left have refused to place senior politicians in the cabinet and could nominate technocrats instead, a move which potentially weakens their commitment to the new government. "This government will have a very short life-span. It will disappoint expectations and its support will erode quickly," said independent political analyst John Loulis. "It will be a government entirely run by New Democracy; its two smaller partners have already weaseled their way out of it".

Europe's debt crisis began in Greece. Two and a half years and four bailouts later - two of them for Greece - there is no end in sight. Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, remains suspicious of Samaras, who switched from opposing the bailout when PASOK was in power to cautious endorsement when the so called Socialist government began to unravel late last year. "What is needed is more decisiveness in swiftly implementing the measures which have already been agreed," German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told the weekly Die Zeit. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Samaras to wish him "luck and success for the difficult work ahead of him" and to invite him to Berlin, a German government spokesman said.

European Union officials have signaled that some adjustments are likely to a program that has slipped behind target in the weeks of political uncertainty following the May election and a deeper than expected recession. One in five Greek workers is jobless, tens of thousands of businesses have closed and a growing numbers of homeless are living on the streets. A Reuters poll showed that only three out of 19 economists thought Greece would leave the eurozone following the conservative victory in Sunday's election, but predicted more economic pain ahead. Sources: Reuters and AIIS.

16.06.2012. Greek citizens return to the polls Sunday, June 17 (17.06.2012) after failing to form a government following the May 6 election.

16.05.2012. Judge to lead Greece to fateful June 17 vote. Greece put a senior judge in charge of an emergency government on Wednesday to lead it to new elections on June 17 and bankers sought to calm public fears after the president said political chaos risked causing panic and a run on deposits. In a sharp blow to confidence, sources at the European Central Bank told Reuters it had halted liquidity operations with some Greek banks because their capital had been too far depleted. The move would mean those banks are no longer able to park assets at the ECB in return for cash, and would have to seek costlier emergency financing from the Bank of Greece. It was not immediately clear which banks, or how many of them, were affected. One person familiar with the matter said the capital of four Greek banks was so depleted they were operating with negative equity capital. Greeks have been withdrawing hundreds of millions of euros from banks in recent days as the prospect of the country being forced out of the European Union's common currency zone seems ever more real - although there has so far been no sign of a run on bank branches in Athens.

European leaders who once denied vociferously that they were fretting over Greece leaving their currency union have given up pretence. Asked if he was concerned about a Greek exit, European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said simply: "No comment". Political leaders failed to form a government following an inconclusive parliamentary election on May 6, leaving the state with its coffers almost empty and no elected cabinet in place to satisfy lenders it deserves the money needed to stay afloat. President Karolos Papoulias, whose powers as head of state are limited, named supreme administrative court head Panagiotis Pikrammenos as caretaker prime minister. He will have no power to take political decisions, only to carry Greece into the vote. The parliament that was elected on May 6 will convene on Thursday and be immediately dissolved, a presidency source said.

The interim leader is little known. State television said he was born in 1945 and studied law in Athens and Paris. A court source said he would name as few ministers as possible. "Thank you for your trust, and I believe that I am worthy of this mission," Pikrammenos said at a meeting with the president. "This is purely a caretaker government. However, it escapes no one that our country is going through difficult times." He repeated a joke he said he had read in the press, that his own name, which translates as "sorrowful" in English, made him suited to be the last prime minister of a political era.

LEFTISTS LEAD. A new poll confirmed what other surveys have shown: that radical leftists who reject a bailout agreed with the European Union and International Monetary Fund are poised for victory, and the two establishment parties that agreed the rescue are sinking further after an historic wipeout 10 days ago. The leftists argue they can tear up the bailout and keep the euro, but European leaders say if Greece fails to meet promises to them, lenders will pull the plug on financing, driving Athens to bankruptcy and a swift exit from the EU single currency.

On Monday, according to an official account, the president told party chiefs that figures from the central bank headed by George Provopoulos showed savers had withdrawn up to 800 million euros ($1 billion) from banks. "Mr. Provopoulos told me there was no panic, but there was great fear that could develop into a panic," the president was quoted as saying in minutes of a meeting that failed to yield agreement on a cabinet. "Withdrawals and outflows by 4 p.m. when I called him exceeded 600 million euros and reached 700 million euros," he said. "He expects total outflows of about 800 million euros, including conversions into German Bunds and other such things." Several banking sources told Reuters similar amounts had also been withdrawn on Tuesday. Nevertheless, there was no sign of panic or queues at bank branches in Athens on Wednesday. Bankers dismissed suggestions that a bank run was looming.

A senior executive at a large Greek bank told Reuters: "There is no bank run, no queues or panic. The situation is better than I expected. The amount of deposit withdrawals the president mentioned referred to three days, not one." Still, some were taking no risks. A 60-year-old textiles store owner who gave his name only as Nasos said he had transferred 10,000 euros over the phone to a bank in fellow eurozone state Cyprus on Tuesday afternoon. "Any way you see it, things are difficult. If they call elections on June 17 - a Sunday - then everyone will take their money out on the Friday." That June 17 date was later confirmed. Charles Dallara, chief negotiator for the body representing private sector holders of Greek bonds, said there had been "a pickup in deposit flight from Greece". Dallara, who as head of the International Institute of Finance spent months negotiating the largest ever sovereign debt restructuring, said a Greek exit from the euro zone would be "somewhere between catastrophic and Armageddon" for Europe.

BANK WITHDRAWALS. Greeks have already been withdrawing their savings from banks at a sharp clip - nearly a third of bank deposits were withdrawn between January 2010 and March 2012, reducing total Greek household and business deposits to 165 billion euros. A senior bank executive said there had been withdrawals in recent days but there was no sign yet of a panic, as had happened in April 2010 when 8 billion euros were withdrawn just before Greece obtained its first foreign bailout. Analysts predicted Greece would avoid a bank run, if only because so many people have pulled out their savings already. "We have witnessed periods of tension before when the banks experienced large outflows. In my view, the majority of people with these concerns would have done so by now," said Alex Tsirigotis, Greek banks analyst at Mediobanca.

Greek banks have made up for vanishing deposits on their balance sheets by accepting costlier European Central Bank financing through the Greek central bank. The spectre of Greece quitting the single currency sent the euro and European shares to a fresh four-month low on Wednesday and raised the yields on Spanish and Italian debt, reflecting the risk that other European countries will be hurt. Greece's two wounded establishment parties hope to persuade voters that the election will be a referendum on the euro, which nearly 80 percent of Greeks say they want to keep. The view from Brussels is clearly that Greek euro membership is now at stake. "It is important that the Greek people now take a decision fully informed about the consequences," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told a news conference. "The ultimate resolve to stay in the euro area must come from Greece itself," Barroso said. "We must tell the people that the program for Greece is the least difficult of all the difficult alternatives." ($1 = 0.7828 euros). Source: Reuters.

12.05.2012. PASOK fails to form government. Greek so called socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos on Saturday 12.05.2012 becomes the last political leader to throw in the towel after failing to cobble together a government, leaving the country's president with one final chance to avoid new elections. Greece's political landscape is in disarray after voters humiliated the only parties backing a rescue plan tied to spending cuts, leaving no bloc with enough seats to form a government to secure the next tranche of financial aid. Without the aid, the debt-stricken country risks bankruptcy in weeks and a potential exit from the eurozone. Venizelos - who personally negotiated the much-hated bailout package with lenders - was the third leader to attempt and fail to form a government this week, after the conservative New Democracy and radical leftists SYRIZA both admitted failure.

A greatly weakened New Democracy and Venizelos' PASOK party, which finished an embarrassing third in Sunday's election, had hoped to renew their pro-bailout coalition but fell two seats short of a majority in parliament. Their hopes of coaxing one of the anti-austerity leftist parties into a coalition went up in smoke after the small Democratic Left refused to join without the participation of SYRIZA, which laughed off any suggestion of joining. "It is not the Left Coalition that has refused this proposal, but the Greek people who did so with their vote on Sunday," said SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, whose party was catapulted to second place on its anti-austerity
rhetoric.

Venizelos is due to meet President Karolos Papoulias on Saturday to give up his mandate. The president then faces the task of summoning each leader from parties that made it to parliament - from the Communists to the extremist neonazi Golden Dawn - to see if a coalition can be stitched together. That process could take days, and analysts say the most likely scenario remains fresh elections in mid-June. That could worsen Greece's prospects for avoiding bankruptcy, and hand 37-year-old ex-Communist Tsipras an even bigger share of the vote, according to the first poll published since Sunday's result. The opinion poll showed SYRIZA would win with 27.7 percent of the vote, almost 11 points up on its Sunday result, consolidating votes from smaller anti-bailout groups. Placing first would automatically win him an extra 50 seats at the expense of pro-bailout parties.

Tsipras wants to rip up the bailout which ties Greeks to years of wage, pension and spending cuts, even though the country's European partners have warned that would come at the price of cutting off funds keeping Greece afloat. "I think it is going to be increasingly presented as a vote to effectively leave the euro. That's how it will be seen outside of Greece and the rhetoric will build up to ensure that voters are aware of the implications," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at London-based research firm Markit."We're likely to hear: If you want to stay in Europe you need to stick to our rules; you can't have a situation whereby you escape the obligations with regards to debt and remain in the euro area." Sources: Reuters and AIIS.

09.05.2012. Greece's Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras ends coalition bid. The leader of Greece's far-left Syriza bloc, Alexis Tsipras, has abandoned his efforts to form a governing coalition. Mr Tsipras said he had failed to reach agreement with mainstream parties because of his insistence on rejecting austerity measures demanded by the EU and IMF as part of a bailout deal. He made the announcement after failed talks with the Pasok and New Democracy parties, which support the bailout. Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos is now expected to try to form a coalition. The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says there are serious doubts over whether Mr Venizelos will succeed - meaning a new election and a prolonged political crisis seem increasingly inevitable.

Financial chaos has sparked huge social unrest in Greece and led to a deep mistrust of the parties considered to be the architects of austerity. An earlier attempt by New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras to form a coalition failed on Monday. Following Wednesday's talks, Mr Tsipras told Syriza MPs: "We cannot make true our dream of a left-wing government." Earlier on Wednesday, Mr Samaras rejected Mr Tsipras's demand to tear up the bailout deal. Mr Samaras told a party meeting that the proposal would "lead to immediate internal collapse and international bankruptcy, with the inevitable exit from Europe". "[Amending] the loan deal is one thing, it is a completely different thing to unilaterally denounce it. The second option leads to catastrophe that is certain and immediate," he said.

If it rejects the deal with the IMF and EU, Athens will be unable to draw its international loan, meaning it would again face the prospect of bankruptcy and possible exit from the euro, our correspondent says. Previous Greek governments agreed to make deep cuts to pensions and pay, raise taxes and slash thousands of public sector jobs in return for two bailouts - worth a total of 240bn euros (£190bn; $310). Both Germany and the EU have made clear they expect Athens to honour its commitments. German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Wednesday: "Germany would like to keep Greece in the eurozone, but Greece's fate is now in its own hands. Greece must decide for itself which route it will take." Source: BBC.

06-08.05.2012. Parliament election. Left gets a small chance to pull Greece out of limbo. Greece's Left Coalition party will get a small chance on Tuesday to form a government opposed to the country's EU/IMF bailout, after the mainstream conservatives failed to cobble together a coalition following a shock inconclusive election. Alexis Tsipras, whose party was catapulted into second place by voters angry with austerity, will take on the tough task of wooing small groups into forming the first leftist government in Greece's modern history. Greeks plunged their country into political limbo in Sunday's election, angry with the harsh cuts dictated by the bailout deal which is keeping Greece afloat but has also brought the worst unemployment and recession in decades. By spurning the two main parties, voters shrugged off the risk of bankruptcy and the threat to Greece's future in the euro as officials warned that cash was running out fast.

On Monday, President Karolos Papoulias gave a three-day mandate to form a coalition to Antonis Samaras, whose conservative New Democracy party won the biggest share of the vote. But Samaras admitted defeat within the day after rejections from several party leaders. Tsipras, who believes the bailout is leading Greece to bankruptcy rather than averting it, is next in line and will receive the presidential mandate on Tuesday to try to rally the fragmented groups of the left. "We want to create a government of leftist forces in order to escape the bailout leading us to bankruptcy," said Tsipras, the country's youngest political leader at 37, after rejecting an offer to cooperate from Samaras."We're not going to let in through the window what Greek people kicked out the door."

A splinter group from the traditional Communist Party, the Left Coalition wants Greece to stay in the euro but rejects the 130 billion euro bailout, saying the country can survive without it. The Communists have already rejected any proposal to cooperate and the other anti-bailout parties of the left cannot bring enough parliamentary seats to produce a majority with the Left Coalition. This means Tsipras has a very slim chance of clinching a deal unless major parties offer support. Time is running out for Greece, which must come up next month with over 11 billion euros in extra spending cuts for 2013 and 2014 in exchange for more aid. Officials told Reuters Greece could run out of cash by the end of June if there was no government to negotiate a new aid tranche with the EU and IMF.

"I voted for Tsipras. If he renegotiates with the Europeans maybe our lives will get a little better. We have reached our limits. We are barely scraping by," said Ioannis Giannakopoulos, 47, an unemployed electrician. If Tsipras fails to cobble together a coalition, the mainstream so called Socialist PASOK party is next in line to give it a go. PASOK and New Democracy, which have ruled Greece for decades, suffered huge losses in the polls, punished by voters for chronic mismanagement and corruption. With counting from Sunday's vote complete, New Democracy and PASOK had won just over 32 percent of the vote and only 149 out of 300 parliament seats. PASOK won a landslide victory in the last election in 2009 with 44 percent of the vote. A total of seven parties made it into parliament, including the extremist fascist neonazi Golden Dawn.

Fotis Kouvelis, leader of the moderate Democratic Left party that had looked like a possible ally for Samaras, told Reuters he would not cooperate with New Democracy and PASOK but only left-wing groups. Another group, the splinter conservative party Independent Greeks, refused to enter talks with Samaras. Even PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos, who as finance minister arranged Greece's second bailout, said the deal should be renegotiated to lessen the burden on Greeks by spreading the cuts over three years instead of two. In the face of what looks like an intractable impasse, another election in a few weeks could be the only way out, deepening doubts about Greece's future.

Many Greeks seemed shocked at what they had done in an election that increased fears of a return to the eurozone debt crisis first sparked by Greece in 2009. "I'm more angry today than I was yesterday. They voted against the big parties as a reaction without thinking of the consequences. What is Tsipras going to do? Make the debt disappear? He is just a kid," said Thanasis Economou, 43, a mechanic, who voted for one of the big parties. Sources: Reuters and AIIS.

05.04.2012. Greek suicide - a potent symbol. A Greek pensioner's suicide outside parliament has quickly become a symbol of the pain of austerity and has been seized upon by opponents of the budget cuts imposed by Greece's international lenders. The 77-year-old retired pharmacist, Dimitris Christoulas shot himself in the head on Wednesday after declaring that financial troubles pushed him over the edge. A suicide note said he preferred to die than scavenge for food. The highly public - and symbolic - nature of the suicide prompted an outpouring of sympathy from ordinary Greeks, who held a protest march and set up an impromptu shrine with notes condemning the crisis at the spot where he killed himself. There was some ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) made by extremist marxist ochlarchists. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and ochlarchists.

Resentment is growing in Greece over repeated rounds of wage and pension cuts that have compounded the pain from a slump which has seen the economy shrink by a fifth since 2008. Unemployment has surged to a record 21 percent - twice the eurozone average - with one out of two young people without a job. The number of suicides has surged, and many Greeks feel ordinary people like the retired pharmacist are being forced to pay for a crisis that was not of their making. "When dignified people like him are brought to this state, somebody must answer for it," said Costas Lourantos, head of the pharmacists' union in the broader Attica region. Sources: Reuters and AIIS.

21.02.2012. Second bailout. Eurozone finance ministers sealed a deal Tuesday morning for a second bailout for Greece, including 130 billion euros ($173 billion) in new financing. The finance ministers from the 17 nations that use the euro, known as the Eurogroup, gave Greece funding it needs to avoid a potential default next month. While this new deal provides some short-term relief for Greece, difficult days lie ahead as the government tries to trim debt to 121% of the country's gross domestic product by 2020. Greece's debt now stands at about 160% of GDP. In a possible foretaste of tensions to come, dozens of fuel station owners and truck drivers blocked roads on Tuesday outside a finance ministry building with banners attacking international lenders to Greece as "thieves and smugglers." The country's two main unions, GSEE and ADEDY, called for protests on Wednesday and leftist parties enjoying a rise in popularity said the price of avoiding default was too high. Unemployment has leapt to 20 percent and street crime is up as the Greek economy has shrunk by over 16 percent since a 2008 peak, weighed down by spending cuts, the global downturn and the cost of servicing debt.

19.02.2012. 'Angry bikers' protest. In Athens, a morning gathering called by Greece's two main union confederations attracted fewer than a thousand protesters. Separately, there were a few scuffles when about a hundred youths, extremist ochlarchist marxists, threw stones at riot police outside Parliament. Several dozen "angry bikers" paraded through central Athens earlier Sunday afternoon honking their horns. Unionists affiliated with the communist party will hold their own protest rally and march to parliament Tuesday.

12.02.2012. Clashes as Greek Parliament debates bailout law. Protesters and police fought running battles in central Athens Sunday, as Greek lawmakers debated legislation that would introduce severe austerity measures to stave off bankruptcy. The clashes broke out around 6 p.m. local time (1600 GMT) as tens of thousands of people, responding to calls from unions to protest the measures, streamed into Syntagma Square facing parliament. Peaceful protesters fled to adjacent streets as a group of around 100 extremist marxist ochlarchists threw bottles, rocks, pieces of marble and firebombs at police, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. Associated Press falsely called the marxist ochlarchists 'anarchists' and gets a Brown Card from IAT. Police say an officer was injured by a flare shot at him from a gun. He was taken to hospital.

Among those affected by the tear gas were well-known composer Mikis Theodorakis, 86, and veteran leftist politician Manolis Glezos, 89. The two have been actively campaigning against Greece accepting a euro130 billion ($171.46 billion) bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund that would help Greece avoid bankruptcy as early as next month, when a euro14.5 billion bond matures. The legislation will also approve a bond-swapping deal with private creditors that will allow Greece to shave off at least euro100 billion ($131 billion) of its euro360 billion debt.

An ambulance picked up two injured people from the square. At least two more injuries have been reported, including a photographer who was hit by both a firebomb and a flare. By 7 p.m. local time, clashes had spread beyond the square to other streets. A Starbucks near the Athens University main building was on fire.

The debate started shortly after 3:30 p.m. local time (1330 GMT), and will take about ten hours, finishing around midnight. At the start of the meeting, opponents of the legislation adopted a tactic of frequent and loud interruptions and objections but had calmed down by mid-evening. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the square outside Parliament as the debate began, with more arriving constantly. Communist-affiliated unions held a separate meeting at the same time and started marching to Parliament before halting their march as the clashes broke out. Pro-communist unionists had earlier driven through Athens' neighborhoods, calling for people to participate in the demonstration. Protesters are expected to remain outside the building throughout the vote.

The two parties backing the coalition government have 236 deputies in the 300-member Parliament, but at least 13 conservative and seven so called Socialist lawmakers have declared they will vote against the legislation, defying their leaders' threats of sanctions. Early Sunday, a conservative lawmaker resigned, repeating the actions of three so called Socialists earlier this week. Debt-stricken Greece does not have the money to cover a euro14.5 billion ($19.12 billion) bond repayment on March 20, and must reach a vital debt-relief deal with private bond investors before then. Greece's woes have threatened its future in the 17-country zone that uses the euro currency. The Europeans are waiting to see Greece finally act on their commitments.

Later several businesses were burnt down and dozens of shops looted across central Athens in violence after more than 100,000 demonstrated outside parliament. Dozens of people have been injured and police detained more than 20 suspected rioters. Late at night lawmakers in Greece have voted to approve another round of austerity measures, sought in return for a new eurozone bailout of the debt-stricken country. The package, which includes deep cuts in government spending, wages and pensions, will help pave the way for eurozone finance ministers to sign off on the new 130 billion euro bailout deal (that's about $172.6 billion). Greece needs the funds to meet €14.5 billion in debt repayments due next month. Prime Minister Lucas Papademos had also urged approval of the deal, warning in a speech to the cabinet on Saturday evening of "social explosion, chaos" if it failed.

10.02.2012. Greece on strike as bailout deal in limbo. Thousands took to the streets of Athens as unions launched a two-day general strike against planned austerity measures on Friday, a day after Greece's crucial international bailout was put in limbo by its partners in the 17-nation eurozone. Clashes broke out in Syntagma Square, outside Parliament, as dozens of hooded youths, marxist ochlarchists, threw fire bombs and stones at police, who responded with tear gas. No arrests or injuries were reported. Police said some 7,000 people took part in the demonstration. Another 10,000 communist supporters held a separate, peaceful march, chanting slogans against cutbacks that include reducing the minimum wage by 22 percent and cutting one in five government jobs in a country which is in its fifth year of recession.

Bailout creditors say Greece has not yet met demands for all the required austerity measures and, frustrated by days of dithering, have given political leaders in Athens until the middle of next week to do so. Otherwise, the country will lose its rescue loan lifeline, go bankrupt next month and likely leave the euro. "We are experiencing tragic moments," Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos told Parliament Friday. "These days are the last acts of a drama that we all hope will lead to a happy conclusion with a voluntary reduction in our public debt and implementation of a framework by 2015 that will allow the economy to stabilize."

The Greek populist coalition government, led by Prime Minister Lucas Papademos had hoped some of the heat had been taken out of the crisis after leaders agreed Thursday to a raft of austerity measures they hoped would pave the way for the euro130 billion ($173 billion) bailout package. However, finance ministers from the other 16 eurozone states put up a roadblock later in the day by insisting that Greece had to save an extra euro325 million ($430 million), pass the cuts through a restive parliament and guarantee in writing that they will be implemented even after planned elections in April.

A cabinet meeting has been called for the afternoon, while the majority Socialists and the conservatives were later to hold party meetings to discuss the cutbacks. The new hurdles Greece has to clear to avoid a default that could send shockwaves around the global economy dented sentiment in the markets Friday. Stocks were down all over Europe, with the benchmark index in Athens 1.8 percent lower in early afternoon trading. While facing intense pressure abroad, Greece is having to deal with another strike. The country's two biggest labor unions stopped railway, ferry and public transport schedules, and hospitals worked on skeleton staff while most public services were disrupted. Unions were planning protests in Athens and other cities around midday.

Prime Minister Papademos and heads of the three parties backing his government have already agreed to deep private sector wage cuts, civil service layoffs, and significant reductions in health, social security and military spending. But the party leaders balked at demands for more cuts to already depleted pensions, later issuing nebulous assurances that a solution had been found. "Unfortunately, the eurogroup did not take a final, positive decision," Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said after Thursday's talks in Brussels. "Many countries expressed objections, based on the fact that we did not fully complete the list of additional measures required to meet our targets for 2012." "The choice we face is one of sacrifice or even greater sacrifice - on a scale that cannot be compared," Venizelos added.

Once all the demands have been fulfilled, the eurozone will give Greece the green light to start implementing a separate bond swap deal with banks and other private investors designed to slice some euro100 billion ($132 billion) off Greece's debt load. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Friday offered hope a deal could still be struck. "I am confident that a solution will be reached next week as this is critically important for Greece and the Greek citizens first and foremost but also for the whole euro area," he said during a visit to India. "I therefore call on the responsibility and the leadership of the Greek leaders and all members of the eurozone so that we can obtain this goal that is important for the euro area and indeed for the global economy." France's central bank chief Christian Noyer also urged Greece to accept the "reasonable and indispensable" austerity plan. "Greece needs to do what other countries are doing, countries that have been in difficulty but are completely in line with the recovery plans," Noyer said on Europe-1 radio Friday. "Greece has to accept all of this."

But on the streets of Greece, the mood is grim, after two years of severe income losses, repeated tax hikes and retirement age increases that failed to signally improve the country's finances. Unemployment is at a record high of 21 percent - with more than a million people out of work - while the economy is in its fifth year of recession and is expected to contract up to 5 percent in 2012. The country's politicians have taken a lot of criticism for the situation, and polls show the majority so calle Socialists, elected in a 2009 landslide are now languishing at around 8 percent. A Greek Socialist lawmaker resigned his seat Friday to protest the new austerity, a day after the country's deputy labor ministry stepped down from his position for the same reason. But the resignation of Pavlos Stasinos will not affect the party balance in Parliament, as he will be replaced by another Socialist deputy.

"It is unacceptable that right now our politicians' petty political and public relations maneuvering should be leading the country to bankruptcy," the Kathimerini daily said in an editorial. "The country is tumbling towards a cliff-edge, and a tough European establishment is putting out the view that Greece cannot be saved and lacks credible politicians. Our politicians back that view with their carryings-on." Ta Nea daily accused Greek politicians of "theatrics and shilly-shallying," and urged lawmakers to back the new measures in the Parliamentary vote, tentatively planned for Sunday. "Nobody can happily back the painful agreement with the troika," it said in an editorial. "But neither can anyone shoulder the burden of the consequences, if the agreement is not completed." Sources: AP and AIIS.

07.02.2012. General strike in Greece. A nationwide general strike has been called on Tuesday by the country's two major umbrella federations representing the private and public sector, ADEDY and GSEE, "in the face of the storm of new measures being advanced by the co-governance and the troika (IMF, EU and the European Central Bank)". The general strike against the impending cutbacks stopped train and ferry services, while many schools and banks were closed and state hospitals worked on skeleton staff. Riot police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of anti-austerity protesters who burned a German flag and tried to break a cordon outside the parliament, chanting "Nazis out!".

07.12.2011. More austerity measures and ochlarchical protests in Greece. Greeks woke up on Wednesday morning faced with the news that next year's austerity budget has been approved by parliament. For months the country has been relying on billions of euros in rescue loans from other euro zone members and the International Monetary Fund. Pensions have been cut and salaries reduced. "I don't see anything good," said one man, “and I don't believe anything any more. They're all fairy tales. I'm utterly disappointed." Another added: "People don't have any money. People have no money. And when people don't have money nothing works and shops close." The budget was passed by parliament with 258 votes out of 300 – a large majority. It foresees a fourth year of recession but also predicts a small surplus if debt payments are excluded. Outside the building the news was greeted with the by-now-familiar response of protesters clashing with riot police. Youths hurled rocks and petrol bombs at police who responded with batons and tear gas. Source. Euronews.

06.12.2011. Greek students in clashes on shooting anniversary. Students hurled rocks and bottles during clashes with police Tuesday at a rally to mark the third anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager in central Athens. About 2,000 youths threw rocks, bottles, paving stones and oranges at police outside Parliament and smashed two nearby store fronts and three bus stops. Another group of teenagers attacked two suburban police stations with rocks and bottles. Police dispersed the youths with a small amount of tear gas after the protesters used at least two fire bombs. Police reported 14 officers were injured; nine people were arrested and six detained.

The shooting death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos on Dec. 6, 2008 sparked two weeks of the worst rioting the country has seen in decades. Some 5,000 police were on duty in the capital for Tuesday's rallies, set to continue throughout the day. Violence was also reported in Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki, where police detained two people after a crowd of youths threw rocks at a government building. Last year, a court sentenced a police officer to life in prison for Grigoropoulos' death, and a second officer to 10 years. Source: AP.

01.12.2011. Big shift for Greece: Peaceful austerity protests. The setting was familiar: White banners daubed with red-and-black anti-austerity slogans, crowds shouting outside Parliament, fists clenched. But as 20,000 Greeks marched Thursday in central Athens against government cutbacks, one key element of most Greek protests was lacking - violence. Apart from one thrown petrol bomb and a smashed car, calm reigned at two separate protests in the capital during the first general strike under Greece's new technocratic populist coalition government.

Riots during strikes have almost become the norm in the country that kicked off Europe's massive debt crisis. Greece is crippled by debt, facing record unemployment and heading into a fourth year of economic depression. Most of its people are outraged over repeated pay and pension cuts and tax hikes. Greece's fellow eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund demanded the austerity program in return for rescue loans that have shielded the country from bankruptcy since May 2010. In the last general strike in October, more than 100 police and demonstrators were injured in two days of riots, 20 people were arrested and one man died of heart failure after protesters were tear-gassed. Some of Thursday's protesters were communist-linked unionists, who seldom seek violent confrontation with police. And a relatively small turnout at the other demonstration, held by the country's two biggest labor unions, left-wing parties and anarchists, would deter marxist ochlarchist rioters who use large crowds to dodge police retribution.

17.11.2011. Protests in Greece. Marxist ochlarchists and provocateurs falsely posing as 'anarchists'. Some 7,000 police have been deployed in Athens as people gather for a large rally to mark the anniversary of the student uprising in 1973. Protesters angry at planned austerity measures which Greece will implement to tackle its public debt are also out in force. Marxist ochlarchists and provocateurs falsely posing as 'anarchists' are gathering to make violent riots. They have got expulsing Brown Cards from IAT long time ago and are of course not real anarchists and a part of the anarchist movement. BBC-TV falsely calls the marxist ochlarchists and provocateurs 'anarchists' and gets a Brown Card for breaking the Oslo Convention. There was a brief clash outside the parliament when police fired tear gas at marxist ochlarchist youths and provocateurs throwing petrol bombs, and some more ochlarchy later, but the march has been mainly peaceful. No anarchists participated in the ochlarchy. At least 50,000 persons marched in Athens with slogans as "EU and IMF: Out!".

16.11.2011. Anarchist reflections on the Papademos government. Technocratic populism. The word 'technocrat' has been plastered all over news articles describing the crisis in the eurozone in the last couple of days. It's being used to talk about the economist now installed as Prime Minister in Greece (Lucas Papademos), to replace a career politician in this time of crisis. However this will most likely not change the long run average coordinates of the Greek system on the economic-political map. Thus, the populist, moderate fascist, system in Greece, with unenlightened plutarchy, will probably continue, and may now be labeled 'technocratic populism'.

Papademos is not elected - but proponents say his expertise is much needed to rescue Greece from its perilous economic state. However the 'technocratic' solution is an erosion of democracy, although it may contribute somewhat to continued stability, in order to keep the semi-democracy afloat. Politicians are rather useless unless they have qualities that seriously help the morale and situation of the country. Economists and experts created and got us all into this mess; it is wrong to let them have much of the power. However 'the markets' are calling the shots. New technocrat era certainly shines a massive light on importance of relevant experience for top govt jobs. The protests should continue, of course without ochlarchy. The general strike, on 19-20 October, brought tens of thousands out on to the streets nationwide...

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos easily won a confidence vote for his new government Wednesday, formed last week with politicians from the so called Socialists, the rival conservatives and a small right-wing party. He won 255-38 in the 300-member parliament. Papademos' government, which is only expected to be in power until elections in February, was created to push through a euro130 billion ($177 billion) new debt deal and get vital bailout funds immediately to fend off a default. He must also oversee the implementation of a raft of austerity measures already passed, including increased taxes and the suspension of about 30,000 civil servants on partial pay. His government is also negotiating with banks about a plan to forgive half of Greece's massive debt. The Papademos government is a part of the populist unenlightened plutarchy and will probably not create increased demand for the Greek GDP, economic growth and reduced unemployment.

10.11.2011. Lucas Papademos new PM. Senior banker Lucas Papademos was named Thursday 10.11.2011 as the prime minister of the new Greek interim government, charged with keeping the debt-strapped country out of bankruptcy and firmly in the 17-nation eurozone. After four days of intense political negotiations, the 64-year-old former vice president of the European Central Bank was chosen to lead a coalition backed by both the governing so called Socialists and opposition conservatives that will operate until early elections in February. He replaces outgoing Prime Minister George Papandreou midway through his four-year term. A statement from the president's office said Papademos would form an interim government that will secure and implement the decisions of a euro130 billion ($177 billion) European debt deal agreed upon during a summit in Brussels on Oct. 27.

The new cabinet will be sworn in Friday afternoon. His selection came on the fourth day of tortuous power-sharing talks between Greece's main political parties. The latest Greek crisis erupted last week, when Papandreou said he would put the hard-fought European debt deal, that involves private bondholders canceling 50 percent of their Greek debt holdings, to a referendum. The announcement horrified European leaders, sparked a rebellion in his own party and caused an uproar in financial markets. Papandreou withdrew the referendum plan and agreed to step aside for a unity government.

06.11.2011. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will resign after the makeup of the nation's new coalition government is decided, officials said Sunday. Sunday's Cabinet meeting will be the last with Papandreou as prime minister, a government spokesman said in a statement. The meeting will focus on issues relating to Monday's Euro group meeting, at which Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos will represent Greece, the statement said. A spokesman for Papandreou's Socialist PASOK party said the prime minister will resign after the government is announced. Venizelos is likely to remain in his post as finance minister in a new government, sources told Greek television. Candidates for the prime minister's job include Petros Moliviatis and Loukas Papaimos, according to Greek television.

The new government will have a life of four months, according to Greek television, citing sources, and elections will be held in early spring. The announcement comes amid economic and political turmoil in Greece and the formation of a coalition government tasked with saving the nation from bankruptcy. A Greek default could drag down larger European economies, in particular those of Italy and Spain, as well as struggling Portugal and Ireland, analysts warn. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and the head of Greece's leading opposition party will meet Monday 07.11.2011 to discuss who will become the nation's next prime minister.

Papandreou will step down as his government's leader, the country's president announced Sunday night, agreeing to do so on the condition that the controversial 130 billion euro bailout deal is approved. The decision appears to close one chapter in Greece's tumultuous political and economic saga, as Papandreou had become a lightning rod for critics for his leadership of the south European nation as it tackles a prolonged financial crisis. It also paves the way for passage of the agreement that he negotiated October 26 with European leaders. That deal wipes out 100 billion euros in Greek debt (half of what it owes) and a promise of 30 billion euros to help the public sector pare its debts, making the whole package worth a total of 130 billion euros ($178 bi llion). Source: CNN.

05.11. 20111. Papandreou backed off the referendum plan. CNN reports: Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survives a confidence vote after days of turmoil sparked by his proposal to hold a referendum on a bailout for his country. Having backed off the referendum plan, Papandreou announced just before the confidence vote he would seek a coalition government. Political instability in Greece has caused political and financial jitters throughout Europe and beyond, as world leaders met in France for the G-20 economic summit with concerns that Greece's woes could spread to major European economies. President Barack Obama told the summit that events in Greece underscore the importance of implementing a Greek economic bailout plan fully and quickly.

03.11.2011. Referendum already 04.12.2011? Later Papandreou says Greece may drop the referendum. According to Reuters Papandreou has said that the referendum could take place on December 4 and would be focused on "whether we want to remain in the euro zone." Later the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou says Greece may drop the referendum, according to NRK.

01.11.2011. Greek referendum planned for January 2012. The anarchists recommend 'an Argentinian'. CNN reports: Greek referendum: What happens next? Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's announcement of a referendum on the new eurozone debt deal has shocked European markets and thrown the future of the euro back into disarray. Papandreou's surprise pledge to Greek lawmakers on Monday night came less than a week after the landmark EU summit seemingly put the bricks in place for the economic salvation of the continent.

Greece's government has realized that it doesn't actually have the public support needed to implement the austerity measures required by the new EU bailout deal agreed last week, according to journalist Elinda Labropoulou. There has been public unrest, unions are threatening further strikes, and a weekend survey found 60% of Greeks do not approve of the terms of the new bailout. In the face of mounting opposition and further threats of nationwide strikes, the government is calling a referendum to be held as early as January to settle the matter publicly. "The new measures must be approved by parliament and the Greek people," Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said. "Citizens are confused ... that is why the referendum is necessary."

In addition to recapitalizing Europe's banks and bolstering the European Financial Stability Fund, the deal meant Greek bondholders would take a 50% "haircut" or write-down on Greek debt -- saving the country €100 billion and bringing their debt-to-GDP ratio to a manageable level by 2020. In order for bondholders to accept the deal, however, the Greek government agreed to implement harsh austerity measures that would involve cutting public benefits and tens of thousands of public sector jobs -- a decision that will now apparently be left in the hands of Greek voters. Papandreou also asked for a vote of confidence this week in his beleaguered [so called] socialist government -- a vote he is expected to win, said Labropoulou. "He has enough support within parliament to guarantee that the vote will go through, so this is not the one for him to worry about," Labropoulou told CNN.

While the wording of the vote has yet to be determined, the referendum may address several different questions. Will it be a simple yes or no vote on whether to accept the terms of the EU debt plan agreed last week? Or will it address the broader question of whether Greeks wish to remain part of the eurozone as a whole? While a weekend survey in Greece found nearly 60% opposed the debt deal reached in Brussels last week, another survey showed that 70% of Greeks want to stay in the euro, according to RBS European Economics -- a result that may not be possible if they vote no on the referendum. "The very wording of the referendum is likely to determine its result," said Labropoulou.

The surprise referendum is "a political gamble which adds further uncertainty to the European debt crisis," said analyst Gary Jenkins of Evolution Securities. "The prime minister will be hoping for a vote in favor to strengthen his mandate, but if the Greek population votes against, it will leave the IMF and Greece's European partners in a very difficult situation," said Jenkins. If the referendum passes, Papandreou's government will have the public backing needed to implement severe austerity measures necessary to fulfil the demands of its lenders. "A 'yes' vote would mean a chance of meeting these requirements and getting out of this death spiral," said Labropoulou.

The implications of a "no" vote on the referendum will be felt far beyond Greek borders, said Louise Cooper, markets analyst at BGC Partners in London. "Papandreou will give the future of the European Union to his 12 million Greek voters," she told CNN. If the referendum fails, Greece could be bankrupt and on its way out of the euro. "A 'no' vote would break the deal immediately between Greece and its lenders -- and without the aid, Greece would not be able to meet its expenses so it would immediately default," said Labropoulou. A "no" vote would also cause "catastrophic" uncertainty in the banking system, said CNN's Felicia Taylor. "This puts us back to where we were before all the negotiations that went on in Brussels last week," said Taylor. "It's as though EU leaders didn't arrive at any kind of a deal at all." The effect of the referendum could possibly be felt before the vote happens, as Greece is set to receive another tranche of bailout money in December, according to Labropoulou. "Greece needs more money to survive," said Labropoulou. "They're due to get another tranche of bailout money in December -- but with a referendum vote due in January, it's difficult to see how they'll get the money."

Markets worldwide tumbled on the news; Japan's Nikkei closed down nearly 2% and China's Hang Seng dropped 2.5%. European markets lost even more ground, and French and German banks exposed to Greek debt registered heavy losses in Tuesday trading. The Dow Jones industrial average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all dropped more than 2% in early US trading. "We're back to square one," said Taylor. "What this does is put uncertainty back into place, and that's exactly what the markets don't want to feel."

The announcement of the referendum rattled Papandreou's hold on power Tuesday, as a lawmaker defected from his party, leaving him with a majority of only two in parliament. Milena Apostolaki announced her resignation from Papandreou's party, saying the call for a referendum was "a deeply divisive procedure." Greece's opposition leader Antonis Samaras called for snap elections Tuesday, but it is unlikely he has the votes to force one.

The anarchists recommend 'an Argentinian', a "no" vote. But without the initial ochlarchy including chaos as happened in Argentina. This means first introduction of a new Greek national currency, say a new Drachma, and goodbye to euro. More information in the reports of 24-28.06.2011. (Updated)

19.07.2011. Greek marxist terrorists, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire: 6 jailed over militant marxist bombings. Brown Cards to Associated Press and 'Actforfreedomnow/boubouras'. A Greek court found six members of a militant marxist group guilty of terrorism charges and handed down stiff jail terms for their alleged involvement in a series of bombings targeting two Greek politicians and a ministry building. The five young men and a woman were found guilty of belonging to the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, a.k.a. the Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire group, and received sentences ranging from 11 to 25 years in prison. No one was injured in the 2009 bombings. The group has also claimed responsibility for sending mail bombs last year to foreign embassies and European officials, with one parcel reaching the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel before being destroyed. Judges acquitted another two defendants of all charges, while a ninth suspect was convicted of theft not linked with the group's activities. The sentences followed a six-month trial at a special courthouse in a maximum security Athens jail. The Associated Press and several other newsmedia falsely called the bombings and the group anarchist, and get Brown Cards from the IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention.

Also the Greek brown & red marxist provocateurs 'Actforfreedomnow/boubouras', ochlarchists falsely posing as 'anarchists', and supporting and calling the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire 'anarchist', has got a Brown Card, meaning the group and its associates are expulsed from the anarchist movement. More information about the expulsion, see the International Anarchist Tribunal - IAT-APT, and click on the International Branch.

See the reports of 03-04.11.2010 for proof that Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei is a marxist group, and thus not an anarchist group. See also the reports of 23.11.2010 and 17.01.2011. (Updated).

02.07.2011. Greece crisis: eurozone backs 12bn euros in aid. BBC reports: eurozone finance ministers have approved the latest tranche of emergency help for the Greek economy. They are to release about 12bn euros (£10.4bn, $17.4bn) in the next two weeks to help Greece meet payments on its huge debts and avoid bankruptcy. Earlier this week, the Greek parliament passed tough austerity measures demanded by the European Union and International Monetary Fund. MPs backed the measures despite angry protests on the streets of Athens. The EU and IMF have already agreed to provide Greece with a total of 110bn euros in emergency loans, with eurozone finance ministers discussing the details of a second bail-out designed to help Greece pay its debts until the end of 2014. Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos welcomed the eurozone move, saying it "strengthened the country's international credibility". He added: "What is crucial now is the timely and effective implementation of the decisions taken in parliament, so we can gradually emerge from the crisis in the interest of national economy and the Greek citizens."

'Breathtaking'. Earlier on Saturday, Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski criticised Europe's handling of the Greek debt crisis. He suggested that too much emphasis had been put on austerity measures and not enough on growth. And he accused opposition parties in some unnamed eurozone countries of showing "breathtaking short-sightedness" in their opposition to support for Greece. His comments come after Poland took over the six-month presidency of the European Union (EU) on Friday. Mr Rostowski will now chair meetings of EU finance ministers, and hopes to join talks among eurozone finance ministers - even though Poland has not adopted the euro as its currency.

30.06.2011. Ad recent riots. Brown Card to the Greek police for falsely putting the blame of the riots done by marxist ochlarchist youths, i.e. provocateurs, on 'anarchists'. IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to the Greek police for falsely putting the blame of the riots done by marxist ochlarchist youths, i.e. provocateurs, on 'anarchists', according to the Oslo Convention. De facto no anarchists participated in the riots. The Greek policemen are liers in this connection. Furthermore the anarchists suspect police provocateurs within the ranks of the marxist ochlarchist youths, i.e. provocateurs, some falsely posing as 'anarchists', as a part of an anti-anarchist policy and strategy by the Greek police. This may also be a reason why the few hundred marxist ochlarchist youths, i.e. provocateurs, some falsely posing as 'anarchists', and rioting again and again, are not at large arrested by the Greek police.

Clashes continued on Syntagma (Constitution) Square outside parliament overnight, as police fired tear gas at stone-throwing youths, i.e. marxist ochlarchists. Calm now appears to have returned. Greece's parliament has passed a second vote on its austerity programme. The vote approved putting into practice the tax hikes, pay cuts, privatizations and public sector redundancies approved in principle on Wednesday.

29.06.2011. Second day of general strike and protests against austerity measures. Greek deputies are to vote Wednesday on a deeply unpopular austerity bill that also has provoked rioting by marxist ochlarchist youths in the streets of Athens. Some of these rioting marxist ochlarchist youths were provocateurs, falsely posing as 'anarchists' in 'black blocs'. Euronews reports: There were even clashes between demonstrators; union members reported being attacked by what they described as groups of 'anarchists'. Ad Greece and other places: 'Black blocs' are fascistoid and/or commie-fascistoid, violent non-libertarian and ochlarchist paramilitary & militarist hierarchies, and are thus not anarchists and anarchist! The anarchists comdemn the attack on union members by the provocateurs.

Yesterday the clashes left at least 46 people injured, most of them police. Protesters have vowed to encircle Parliament to prevent deputies from entering and voting for the bill, and a massive security operation is under way to avert the blockade. Scuffles broke out early in the morning as demonstrators attempted to block a major avenue leading to the center of the city, and to Parliament. Riot police responded with pepper spray. Services across the country were disrupted by the second day of the general strike that left ferries tied up at port, forced dozens of flights to be canceled or rescheduled and saw hospitals functioning with emergency crews.

The euro28 billion austerity bill, and an additional bill to be voted on Thursday that details how it will be implemented, must both pass if the European Union and International Monetary Fund are to release the next euro12 billion slice of the country's euro110 billion bailout fund. Prime Minister George Papandreou's so called 'Socialists' have a slim majority of five seats in the 300-member parliament, and he has faced an internal party revolt over the new punishing four-year program of spending cuts and tax hikes on even those on minimum wages. At least two of his own deputies had indicated they might not vote in favor - but the bill should muster the 151 votes it needs to pass. Greece has said it has funds only until mid-July, after which it will be unable to pay salaries and pensions, or service its debts, without the next bailout installment. The country is also in talks for additional help in the form of a second bailout, which the prime minister has said will be roughly the size of the first

The austerity measures including the cuts and tax increases passed 155-138 in Parliament, with five voting "present" and backing neither side. During the vote, stun grenades echoed across a square outside Parliament. Acrid clouds of tear gas and orange and green smoke-bomb mist hung in the air. More protests could undermine the government's ability to implement the harsh austerity measures, which tax even the lowest-paid Greeks and raise prices during a recession. Violence continued throughout the afternoon, and smoke billowed from a post office beneath the finance ministry before a fire was put out. Rioters set up burning barricades along Syntagma Square, where demonstrators have staged a sit-in for the past month. Nearby streets were littered with chunks of smashed marble and ripped-up paving stones that had been thrown at police. No anarchists were involved in the riots.

28.06.2011. 48-hour general strike, supported by IWW. Marxist ochlarchists clash with riot police. Greek populist, moderate fascist, PM plays the nationalist card, says backing austerity plan is 'patriotic duty'. Trade unions in Greece have begun a 48-hour general strike, hours after PM George Papandreou urged parliament to back an austerity package. The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has falsely told MPs that his government's austerity plan is the only chance for the country to get back on its feet. Unless it is approved, the European Union and International Monetary Fund say they won't release the fifth instalment of an international bailout. Kicking off the parliamentary debate ahead of the vote, the so called 'socialist' prime minister called on all parties to back the latest austerity measures, i.e. austerity mainly for the people - not the bureaucracy in private and public sector.

"I'm not asking you to listen to outside pressures, I ask that you listen to your soul and your internal patriotic conscience," Papandreou said. The government will need its slim majority to get the package through. Opposition parties have rejected calls by EU leaders for "national unity". Large crowds of protesters are gathering on the streets of Athens, while public transport is grinding to a halt. Opinion polls suggest three quarters of Greeks oppose the tax rises, spending cuts and privatizations. Athens needs the 12 billion euros in the short run to pay its bills and stop the Euro-zone's first default. But the anarchists suggest an 'Argentinian'. The general strike is supported by IWW, International Workers of the World.

Marxist ochlarchists clash with riot police. A few hundred marxist ochlarchist provocateurs, some falsely posing as 'anarchists', clash with riot police. The marxist propaganda station BBC reports that 'anarchists' clash with police, and gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for this ultra-authoritarian Orwellian newspeak. Similar Brown Cards are handed out to other newsmedia acting similar to BBC in this case. The marxist ochlarchist provocateurs falsely posing as 'anarchists' also get Brown Cards and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. De facto no anarchists participated in the riots.

26.06.2011. The anarchists, Greek and and international, strongly recommend that Greece soon should take an 'Argentinian' , i.e. plan B. This means a.o.t. leaving the euro.

Remember 20.05.2010. General strike - Anarchists: No to IMF and euro etc. policy = high profit = high bureaucracy costs in private and public sector, and poor people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income... Public anger has grown at deep pension and salary cuts, as well as steep tax hikes, imposed in an attempt to pull Greece out of an unprecedented debt crisis. The measures were decided as a de facto support to the bureaucracy for Greece to receive a euro110 billion ($134.97 billion) three-year 'rescue loan package' from other EU countries and the International Monetary Fund that staved off a default. It must be mentioned that Argentina did well economically after a default... Demonstrator Giorgos Koukaridis said he hoped the rally would counter the perception that salary and pension cuts are inevitable. "There is the [false] notion that whatever is meant to pass [in parliament] will pass. And that's the bad thing," he said.

Remember also 14.05.2010. Rally in Buenos Aires backs Greek workers' strikes. Kathimerini reports: "A woman makes the victory sign as she holds up a banner reading 'Greece is not for sale, long live Greece' during a demonstration outside the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, yesterday in support of Greek trade unions. The unions have called a 24-hour strike for next Thursday to protest the austerity measures and plans for pension reform." The IWW and anarchists in general back the general strike. See also "Argentina: Greek financial rescue doomed to fail.", at (click on:) IJA 6 (31).

The anarchists, Greek and and international, strongly recommend that Greece soon should take the 'Argentinian', read all about it at (click on:) IJA 6 (31). This means a.o.t. leaving the euro, i.e. plan B mentioned 24.06.2011.

24.06.2011. Anarchist comment to 1. new austerity measures in Greece, a.k.a. plan A, and 2. economic troubles in general, i.e. 3. plan B: The Greek government is mostly on the wrong track. The anarchists are against, and do and support direct actions against the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative -- cut bureaucracy costs -- increase the demand of the people -- the people seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income -- for full employment -- against the unenlightend plutarchy of the populist center-left Greek government, IMF, WB, euro and EU. Greece should leave the euro and the Euro-zone, this will make proper demand management more easy.

Meanwhile EU leaders put on a united front for the cameras in Brussels. But behind the scenes, this is one of the most testing times the bloc has ever known. Leaders urged Greece to back more cuts in a vote next week in order to get the next instalment of its EU- IMF bailout. Everything hinges on the austerity vote in the Greek parliament, which is due on June 29 and 30. If this results in a yes – then Greece gets its next instalment from the EU and IMF. If no – then the country will default on its debt.

23.06.2011. Anti-government and anti-austerity protests continue. EU heads of government are in Brussels for a summit that is likely to be overshadowed by Greece's economic troubles. Having survived a vote of confidence, leaders will be pushing Greek prime minister George Papandreou for a commitment to painful economic reforms. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said that Greece can expect help from the EU if it tackles its financial problems. But there are fresh doubts that Germany, the bloc's biggest paymaster, will support a second bailout. Athens needs a further injection of funds by mid-July to stave off bankrupcy. Mass actions with anti-government and anti-austerity protests continue. In June 2011 the Greek revolt turned somewhat towards anarchism and a more general popular uprising.

18.06.2011. Anti-government and anti-austerity protests continue. Union members are marching through central Athens to protest the government's latest austerity measures and plans to sell off state enterprises to appease international creditors. Greece has seen near-daily protests against the belt-tightening that has slashed salaries and pensions in an attempt to stem its ballooning debt. Greece was roiled by political and market turmoil in the last week over new spending cuts and tax hikes. Prime Minister George Papandreou ousted his finance minister and appointed his main party rival, Evangelos Venizelos, to the post. Germany, fearing that Greece would soon default, calmed market fears Friday by retreating from its stance that banks and other private lenders should share the pain of a second bailout for Greece. Venizelos will face his European colleagues for the first time Sunday at an EU ministers meeting.

15.06.2011. General strike and running battles between riot police and marxist ochlarchist protesters. Attempting to calm the waters after a day of fierce protest and a national strike, the Prime Minister has announced a cabinet reshuffle and says he will seek a vote of confidence on Thursday from his parliamentary group. George Papandreou spoke to the nation after a day that saw running battles between riot police and marxist ochlarchist protesters. The demonstrations were in front of the parliament, where deputies met to debate a plan to widen austerity measures. Earlier, government sources said the prime minister had made a surprise offer to the opposition conservatives. He said he would resign and form a unity government if they gave their backing to the country's EU/IMF bailout plan. To continue receiving bailout money, the government is being told it must introduce yet more reforms. These include tax rises, spending cuts and sell-offs of state property. The conservatives rejected the PM's proposal.

11.05.2011. Violence has erupted in Athens during a protest at government austerity measures. Hooded youths, ochlarchists, attacked police with stones and Molotov cocktails. Security forces responded with tear gas. Peaceful demonstrators had turned out in their thousands to denounce the latest moves to cut the giant Greek budget deficit. "They are destroying our lives. They are really destroying our lives with these measures," said pensioner Helen Hollidou, taking part in the rally. "The only thing that changes is that people are getting poorer," said a fellow protester, a student who gave his name as Nikos. "Whatever has been accomplished in the past for workers' rights is now being taken away, little by little." The protests coincided with a nationwide 24-hour strike which brought much of Greece to a halt, with major disruption to ferries, flights, hospitals, schools and other public services.

01.05.2011. May Day anti-government demonstration and strike. Populism with unenlightened plutarchy is ruling Greece! Public and private sectors unions ADEDY and GSEE held a protest rally on May Day, at Klathmonos square. An estimated 15,000 protesters marched in Athens to condemn the populist rulers' budget cuts related to the Greek debt crisis. Labor Day in Greece has also been marked by a transport strike to protest against austerity measures the government has introduced. Train and ferry services were cancelled as workers downed tools. They feel the low paid are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks that were demanded as part of an EU and IMF emergency financial rescue. Greece was forced to ask for help to avoid going bankrupt. One protester at a rally in Athens said: "They are telling us that we should pay for this crisis. Well no! Workers don't owe a single euro because it is not them who made this crisis." Another added: "The final battle has not been won. We won some fights but not the final battle over these measures they are imposing on us." It has been more than a year since the austerity measures were brought in. Jobs have been lost and workers in several sectors have had their pay cut. But the government is still facing a big budget deficit. Populism with unenlightened plutarchy is ruling Greece!

23.02.2011. Greece general strike: Clashes erupt. Police have fired tear gas to disperse dozens of stone-throwing ochlarchist marxist leftwing extremists in Athens as a 24-hour general strike grips Greece. The violence erupted during a rally by more than 30,000 angry workers near the Greek parliament. They object to the government's far-reaching budget cuts. The strike reduced public transport effectively. More than 100 flights were cancelled. Many schools are closed and hospitals have reduced services. Small businesses have joined in, closing many shops. It is Greece's first major labor protest this year, as the government sticks to austerity cuts demanded under the terms of the country's international bail-out. The so called socialist government of Prime Minister George Papandreou is cutting spending and raising taxes to reduce its debt mountain. Last year Greece secured a 110bn-euro (£84bn) bail-out from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.

17.01.2011. Greek marxist terrorists, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, go on trial. Brown Cards to Associated Press, BBC and more.

Nine suspected members of a Greek armed marxist group went on trial Monday over a series of bomb attacks, in a heavily policed Athens court set up inside a maximum security prison. The group, mostly in their early 20s, are suspected members of the group Revolutionary Nuclei of Fire a.k.a Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. Four other wanted suspects will be tried in absentia. The suspects are on trial over bombings that targeted a government building and the office and home of two politicians - in each case causing no injuries and limited damage. They face a maximum of 25 years in prison. Dozens of riot police stood guard outside Athens' Korydallos prison, amid fears of violent protests by supporters of the armed group. About 30 protesters chanted 'anti-government' slogans near the court. Terrorism is a form of ochlarchy, in itself a form of archy/government...

The marxist group claimed responsibility for a spate of parcel bombings in November and the bombing of a court building last month - reflecting a surge in recent years in violence by marxist militant groups. Revolutionary Nuclei of Fire is accused of carrying out numerous arson attacks and bombings since it first appeared in early 2008. Greece has been plagued by armed radical marxist groups for decades, but the violence was typically limited to organizations with a small number of members. "This is a decade that has seen change in organization. In some ways it is more dangerous because the suspects are very young," criminologist Angelos Tsigris told private Skai television. "It is a much more generalized phenomenon now, and no longer involves a very small number of people," he said. "Of course their actions are condemned by society ... but there are lasting and underlying factors that encourage violence: State corruption, the lack of opportunities for young people, and the feeling among these people that they have no prospects."

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the Associated Press, BBC and more newsmedia for falsely calling this marxist terrorist group 'anarchist', according to the Oslo Convention. More information, see the report of 23.11.2010.

31.12.2010. Bomb explodes outside closed night club in Athens. Rightwing extremist are probably behind the attack. Police in Greece say a powerful bomb has exploded outside a closed night club in Athens, causing no injuries, in an attack linked with criminal extortion groups. A police statement says the pre-dawn blast occurred just before 4 a.m.(0200 GMT) Friday near the city center. The explosion was heard across southern Athens and severely damaged the club's facade. The investigation is being handled by the police department responsible for extortionists, who have carried out several similar attacks in recent years. The bomb attack seems to have the hallmarks of rightwing extemist terrorism and ochlarchy.

30.12.2010. Bomb explodes near Athens courthouse. Marxist leftwing extremists are probably behind the attack. A strong bomb blast shook one of the main courthouse buildings in central Athens on Thursday morning, Greek police said. The explosion occurred about 40 minutes after an unidentified person placed warning calls to a local TV station and newspaper, saying a bomb would explode outside the "administrative first instance courthouse." The advance notice gave police enough time to evacuate the building. Police said the blast came from a motorbike rigged with explosives that was parked in the median across from the courthouse in the Ambelokipi district. The caller provided the place number on the bike. A cloud of smoke was visible in the area and there was some damage to the front of the building and nearby cars from the explosion. The bomb attack seems to have the hallmarks of marxist leftwing extremist terrorism and ochlarchy.

15.12.2010. General strike and marxist ochlarchy and ochlarchists in Greece - Brown Cards to John Psaropoulos and CNN-TV for falsely calling the marxist mob, i.e. ochlarchists, 'anarchists'.

Euronews reports: Demonstration - Violence erupts in latest Greek strike. Anger at austerity cuts has exploded on the streets of Athens as Greece marks its seventh general strike this year. Protesters clashed with police, throwing petrol bombs near parliament. Officers in riot gear fired tear gas in return. Cars and a luxury hotel were set alight. The ugly scenes erupted as thousands marched in the capital, protesting harsh reforms aimed at tackling the Greek debt crisis. A mob of leftists [marxist ochlarchists] attacked a former conservative minister with fists, sticks and stones."Thieves! Shame on you!" they shouted at Kostis Hatzidakis. Just hours earlier, parliament had voted through steps including reducing public sector pay and giving businesses more leeway in collective bargaining. This is part of the price to be paid for Greece's EU-IMF bailout. "We have to stop this law because it destroys our children's future," said private sector worker Kostas in Athens. "It is an outrage." From grounded flights, to closed schools and ferries stuck in their port, the strike has caused major disruption. It is part of a European day of anti-austerity protests ahead of this week's EU summit.

BBC reports: Former conservative minister Kostis Hatzidakis was surrounded and beaten by a crowd. The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says the scenes are some of the ugliest in a year of protests marking the country's economic crisis. He says a lynch mob atmosphere developed as former conservative minister Kostis Hatzidakis emerged from parliament and was chased by dozens of protesters. The opposition MP was pictured surrounded by a mob and with blood pourig from a head wound. Mr Hatzidakis's office said he was unable to reach hospital because of the crowds. Witnesses said demonstrators shouted at him: "Thieves! Shame on you!" Police said at least 10 people had been detained and three had been injured.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to John Psaropoulos and CNN-TV for falsely calling the marxist mob, i.e. ochlarchists, 'anarchists', and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. Anarchy and ochlarchy are opposites - anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites... The mob rule, i.e. ochlarchy, against Kostis Hatzidakis was done by leftists, i.e. marxist ochlarchists, NOT anarchists! Stop the lies NOW!

07.12.2010. Minor clashes mar protest rally - Marxists clashed with police. Demonstrations commemorating the second anniversary of the fatal shooting of a teenager by a policeman brought Athens and several other major cities to a standstill for several hours yesterday and were marred by outbreaks of violence. In Athens, where thousands of police officers were mobilized to avert a repeat of unprecedented rioting two years ago, around 6,000 schoolchildren, members of leftist organizations and labor unionists took to the streets in separate marches that were mostly peaceful. Some of the protesters chanted "Greece is not a protectorate" and held up banners saying "IMF out," in reference to the International Monetary Fund, one of the debt-ridden government's three creditors.

In the early afternoon a few dozen marxist ochlarchist youths hurled stones and chairs from street cafes at riot police officers who pushed them back. Some protesters threw red paint over bank facades and at policemen. Later in the day, a larger crowd of marxist hooded youths threw firebombs and chunks of marble and paving stones at officers, who responded by firing tear gas. Police said at least three people were injured. These included a middle-aged man who was hit on the head by a rock, a younger man who was beaten up by a group of protesters that mistook him for an undercover police officer, and a woman who went into shock after a stun grenade went off next to her. Several store facades were smashed and garbage dumpsters set alight but the damage was not extensive. Small-scale outbreaks of violence were also reported during similar demonstrations in other major cities including Thessaloniki and the Cretan port of Hania. Police said they had detained 40 people for questioning.

06.12.2010. Six marxist terror suspects arrested. Police seize arms in Athens, other cities; say an attack was being planned. The police yesterday arrested six people on terrorism charges, including two suspected members of the marxist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, and seized heavy weaponry and explosives in raids in Athens and several other cities. Greek Police Chief Lefteris Oikonomou told reporters that the force had carried out the arrests over the weekend amid "serious indications" that a new terrorist attack was being planned. He gave no details about when the attack had been expected or what the target might be. The force published on its website the names and photographs of all the detainees including Alexandros Mitrousias, 21, and Georgios Karayiannidis, 30, who are believed to be members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. The group has claimed responsibility for a spate of letter bombs sent to embassies in Athens and foreign leaders last month.

Police conducted several raids over the weekend on apartments in Athens – including a suspected hideout in the southern suburb of Nea Smyrni – in Piraeus, in the western city Agrinio and on Crete. The raids turned up three Scorpion sub-machine guns, three Kalashnikov assault rifles and seven handguns, as well as 50 kilograms of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (ANFO), 200 grams of TNT, ammunition and four hand grenades. Police also discovered a rucksack containing a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a Scorpion sub-machine gun and ammunition on farmland near Halkidiki, northern Greece.

A first round of ballistics tests had not revealed any connection between the weapons and any domestic terrorist organization by late last night. A second round of tests was under way on the remaining weapons. Earlier yesterday, police sources had indicated that the arms cache might belong to the Sect of Revolutionaries, which has claimed responsibility for the murder of a journalist and a police officer in the past two years. A connection to the Sect was not confirmed later yesterday. Authorities are on alert ahead of the second anniversary today of the killing of a teenager by a police officer, an incident that led to nearly two weeks of rioting.

23.11.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek police, AFP, France24 and more, for the lies that the marxist extremist group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei is anarchist, according to the Oslo Convention. Stop these lies!!!

AFP and France24 report: Greek extremist group claims parcel bomb campaign. A Greek anarchist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for posting more than a dozen parcel bombs to European leaders and embassies, police said, in a campaign that caused alarm but no major injuries. Two members of the radical Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei who were arrested as the rigged parcels were sent out early this month confirmed their involvement in a letter sent to the Indymedia website, police said. They claimed "the dispatch of parcel bombs to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the headquarters of the World Court in The Hague and the embassies of Belgium and Mexico in Athens," according to the letter.

"We are very proud of our action ... ," said the letter signed by chemistry student Panayotis Argyriou, 22, and Gerassimos Tsakalos, 24, who were arrested in Athens on November 1. It added that "even in the difficult conditions of our imprisonment, we are not going to stop publicising our positions in favour of armed violence and revolution". The men were detained hours after the first booby-trapped parcel, addressed for the Mexican embassy in Athens, exploded in a postal office. Police then discovered two more, one addressed to Sarkozy and the other for the Belgian embassy in the Greek capital.

In total 14 parcels containing books or folders apparently filled with an explosive powder were sent from Greece in the first week of November, including one that reached the offices of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and another intercepted in Italy and meant for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The far-left Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, labelled a "terrorist" group by Greek authorities, emerged in 2008 with the first of its arson and bomb attacks on government buildings and the offices and homes of Greek politicians that have never caused serious injury. The rigged parcels from Greece and two bombs posted from Yemen were discovered on planes headed to the United States in attempted attacks claimed by Al-Qaeda. This led to a meeting between European and US aviation security experts to identity weaknesses in air cargo and post within the European Union.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the Greek police, AFP, France24 and more newsmedia with similar false reports, for the lies that the marxist extremist group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a.k.a. Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire, is anarchist, according to the Oslo Convention. Stop these lies!!! See the reports of 03-04.11.2010 for proof that Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei is a marxist group, and thus not an anarchist group.

19.11.2010. Unions plan walkout for Nov 25, general strike for Dec 15. The anarchosyndicalist labor confederation International Workers of the World backs the strikes. The country's two main unions, the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) and the civil servants' union ADEDY, yesterday called a three-hour work stoppage for November 25 and called on their members, who number more than 2 million, to join a general strike on December 15 in protest at the debt-ridden government's ongoing austerity drive. The work stoppage next Thursday may result in public transport disruptions between noon and 3 p.m. The strike for December 15 was announced by GSEE last month and is now being joined by ADEDY amid speculation of severe cuts to spending in the public sector. ADEDY president Spyros Papaspyros described the government's austerity drive as "a marathon whose finishing line keeps moving." The anarchosyndicalist labor confederation International Workers of the World backs the strikes.

17.11.2010. Demonstrate with dignity - not ochlarchy - at the annual protest march commemorating the bloody student uprising against the ultra-fascist junta on November 17, 1973. Brown Card to Sympatico.ca

Organizers of the annual protest march commemorating the bloody student uprising against the junta on November 17, 1973, are expecting a much higher turnout this week than in previous years, largely due to the economic crisis, which has prompted police to draft an extensive security plan in an attempt to prevent violence. Events to mark the crushing of the student revolt at the Athens Polytechnic, now the National Technical University of Athens, began Monday, and there was already a strong student presence within the institution's grounds. Organizers are anticipating a big turnout for the traditional rally, to be held today and which ends with a march on the US Embassy, as many people are expected to use the march as an opportunity to voice their opposition to the austerity measures and the presence of the International Monetary Fund. There is concern that small groups of marxist extemists intent on causing violent ochlarchy might hijack the proceedings.

Later: More than 20,000 demonstrators marched through central Athens to the US Embassy on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of a 1973 student uprising against the military dictatorship then ruling Greece. Minor clashes broke out when stone-throwing youths attacked riot police, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. No injuries or arrests were immediately reported. With Greece in the midst of a severe financial crisis that has seen the government impose strict cost-cutting measures, this year's demonstration was taking on an anti-austerity plan flavour, with protesters holding banners bearing slogans against the International Monetary Fund and European Union. Another 12,000 protesters joined a rally in Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki. Police also reported clashes in the southern city of Patras.

Sympatico.ca reports: More than 6,000 police were deployed in the capital, and roads along the demonstration route were blocked off, as anarchists often take advantage of Nov. 17 marches to attack police and damage shops and banks. In fact no anarchists "attack police and damage shops and banks" in Greece, not now and not before, and the IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to Sympatico.ca, for spreading this lie, according to the Oslo Convention. Sympatico.ca has no public e-mail-address, but the Brown Card message is posted on their feedback form, with a link to www.anarchy.no added.

15.11.2010. Final tally of local gov't elections. The unenlightened plutarchy and populist system continue... The debt-ridden Greece raised its projected budget deficit figure for 2010, after the European Union's statistics agency said Monday that the country's deficit and debt levels last year were much higher than previously estimated. But the country, which has been struggling with a severe financial crisis for the past year and is receiving a euro110 billion ($150 billion) in rescue loans to keep it from defaulting on its debts, insisted it was still on track for an "unprecedented" 6 percentage point deficit reduction. "We have been able to cut our deficits even more that the target was. From 5.5 (percent), we have cut by 6 (percent) this year," Prime Minister George Papandreou said after meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. Eurostat said Greece's 2009 budget deficit reached 15.4 percent of gross domestic product, significantly above its previous figure of 13.6 percent. That means Greece will not achieve the initial target of lowering the deficit to 8.1 percent of GDP in 2010. The Finance Ministry said this year's deficit was now estimated at 9.4 percent. The ministry added that it still aims to reduce the deficit to below 3 percent of GDP in 2014.

"The new starting point for the 2009 deficit reveals the magnitude of the unprecedented fiscal effort made by the Greek government in 2010," it said in a statement. Public debt stood at 126.8 percent of GDP in 2009 - or euro298.03 billion - higher than that of any other EU state, Eurostat said. In April, it had estimated it at 115.1 percent. The ministry said the deficit revision came after data was expanded to include debts from public corporations, the downward revision of 2009 GDP, and adjusted local government and social security fund accounts. The debt figure also was revised to account for off-market swaps. Eurostat said all previous issues have been addressed and it no longer had any reservations. "Greece is on track," said Amadeu Altafaj Tardio, spokesman for European Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn. "That is the first time in five or six years that the figures are not accompanied by a footnote or an asterisk."

But some analysts saw a bleaker picture. "The revised figures make it very difficult to achieve the 2010 targets and the upward revised debt means that the interest payment will be higher," said Nicholaos Skourias, head of investment management services at Merit Securities in Athens. In a weekend newspaper interview, Papandreou conceded the long expected deficit revision would add pressure to cut costs, and he said Greece could seek an extension for repaying its rescue loans. He has pledged not to take any more measures such as increasing taxes this year. "We have a budget coming soon. We are going to be reorganizing our whole public sector in a way which won't put the burden on people," Papandreou said in Paris. "It will put the burden on cutting down the waste and making things much more transparent."

The government imposed stringent austerity measures, including cutting civil servants' salaries, increasing taxes and freezing pensions, earlier this year. The measures led to a backlash from labor unions, which have organized strikes and protests, some of which have turned violent. Hundreds of students and left-wing protesters gathered for two separate demonstrations in central Athens Monday evening. The revised data came as the finance minister was meeting with officials from the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, who were in Athens on a regular inspection visit to review Greece's implementation of the EU/IMF rescue loan agreement that saved it from default in May. Greece has struggled to raise revenue, with figures showing it is lagging behind its targets, although it has generally performed better in spending cuts. Last week, the Finance Ministry said it had narrowly missed its deficit reduction target for the January-October period this year. The 10-month shortfall stood at euro17.4 billion ($24 billion), down 30 percent from a year earlier instead of the targeted 32 percent. Without the loans, Greece would have already defaulted. It is effectively locked out of the international bond market by the massively high interest rates it would have to pay if it were to issue bonds - a reflection of low trust in the country's prospects.

Final tally of local gov't elections. The biggest "winner" was abstention, which reached an all-time high of 53.23 percent, sharply up from 39.01 percent in the first round the preceding Sunday, while blank and spoiled votes reached 11.67 percent from 5.49 percent in the first round. A major factor in yesterday's election was the low voter participation. Earlier in the day, President Karolos Papoulias had urged Greeks to get out and vote. "Democracy was established thanks to great struggles and widespread participation," he said. "Today, democracy needs new struggles. You can't sit on your sofa and speak of struggles." However, the president's words had little effect as the abstention rate reached record levels. The second round was also characterized by surprise upsets in the country's three largest cities, with a "change of guard" in Athens, Thessaloniki and Piraeus.

With the final count completed from Sunday's second-round local government elections, ruling PASOK-backed candidates were elected as regional heads in eight of the country's 13 regions, the new geographical administrations created under the Kallikratis local administration merge plan, with the remaining five regions won by main opposition New Democracy (ND) backed candidates. PASOK-backed candidates also won 73 of the country's 325 municipalities, while ND-backed candidates won in 41 municipalities. Outgoing Athens prefect Yianns Sgouros, who was backed by PASOK, will be the Attica region's first elected regional head or governor, with a percentage of 52.87 percent and 61 seats on the regional council, against 47.13 percent and 12 seats for ND-backed Vassilis Kikilias.

Despite PASOK's success on a regional level, the most notable victory of the night came in Athens where Giorgos Kaminis, the former Ombudsman and a newcomer to politics, defeated the previous, ND-backed Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis. Kaminis, was supported by PASOK and Democratic Left. Giorgos Kaminis carried the vote with 51.94 percent against incumbent mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis with 48.06 percent. In Thessaloniki PASOK-backed Yiannis Boutaris prevailed with 50.20 percent over ND-backed Costas Gioulekas with 49.80 percent. Conversely, ND-backed Vassilis Mihaloliakos won the mayoral race in Piraeus with 51.76 percent against PASOK-backed local government veteran Yiannis Mihas with 48.24 percent. Another surprise was recorded in the western port city of Patras, where Ioannis Dimaras, the candidate jointly backed by leftist parties, carried the vote with 53.63 percent against 46.37 percent for the PASOK-backed Constantine Katsikopoulos.

Premier George Papandreou said the results were a vote of support for his government. "Citizens have asked for political and social stability," he said. "They rejected the sirens of destabilization." The premier called on all parties to "assume responsibility" as Greece tries to overcome its economic problems. He pledged the government would adopt "major reforms that will help Greece breathe" following this year's austerity measures. The unenlightened plutarchy and populist system continue..., see the report of 08.11.2010.

08.11.2010. Results - first round of local elections. Anarchist comment: Status quo. The system will probably continue to be semi-democratic populist, in the coming years.

Legions of voters showed their displeasure for the populist system and the PASOK government - whose austerity policies have included cutting civil servants' salaries, hiking taxes and freezing pensions - by staying away from the ballot box. In a country where voting is compulsory and elections generally well-attended, the abstention rate ran at nearly 40 percent. A lack of Greek significant progressive, social-individualist relatively libertarian, center-parties, as are present in the Anarchies of Norway, the Swiss Confederation and Iceland, contributed to the large abstention rate, which also may be seen as a protest against the authoritarian two main parties, the conservative ND, and the so called 'socialist' PASOK. The results probably mean status quo regarding the Greek system's place on the economic-political map, see the report of 06.11.2010. The system will probably continue to be semi-democratic populist, in the coming years.

Greece's prime minister vowed to press ahead with painful austerity measures, dropping a threat to call snap elections after his party retained a slim lead in local government polls."We know that change is not easy. But it was for this change that the Greek people brought us to power a year ago. And today it again confirmed that it wants this change," George Papandreou said in a live televised speech late Sunday night. Papandreou had threatened to call snap general elections if his governing 'socialist' PASOK party fared badly in Sunday's vote for 13 regional governors and 325 mayors, billed as a referendum on the government's austerity measures.

With nearly all returns counted Monday, i.e. more than 95 percent, Papandreou's PASOK led a key race for regional governor in greater Athens Sunday but lost significant ground elsewhere to the main opposition conservative party ND, while the turn-out plunged. PASOK-backed candidates were ahead in seven of the regional governor races, as mentioned including in Athens, the country's largest administrative region. A runoff vote will be held next Sunday. Conservative incumbent Nikitas Kaklamanis was leading the race for the capital's major with 35 percent to 28 percent for the center-left populist challenger Yiannis Kaminis, and the two will face off in the runoff next Sunday.

07.11.2010. Local elections - anarchist point of view. Athens newspaper headlines. PM: Result of Sunday polls crucial. The first round of local government elections.

Voters in the crisis-hit Greek mainly populist economic-political system cast ballots in local polls Sunday, in a major test of public support for austerity measures that could trigger a snap general election. The vote pits Prime Minister George Papandreou's 13-month-old so called 'socialist' government against opposition parties all campaigning against the rescue-loan deal with the European Union and the IMF, and his austerity measures, in short the 'Memorandum'. Papandreou was elected for four years and another election is normally not due until the second half of 2013. If he does decide to call a snap election, it would have to be held within 30 days of the dissolution of parliament. Some Greek media have speculated it could be held on Dec. 12.

Athens newspaper headlines. Sunday's first round of municipal and regional elections -- with the spectre of snap elections now hanging over the result -- expectedly dominated the headlines in Athens' Sunday papers: AVGHI: "Landmark vote for future". AVRIANI: "Negative vote to George (Papandreou, the premier) and to (EU-ECB-IMF) troika". CHORA: "No to occupation. Vote against government representatives of the memorandum". ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "We can do without the IMF. Vote NO to memorandum". ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "We're in elections now". ETHNOS: The newspaper banners a front-page election-day interview by PM George Papandreou, with the headline "We're not playing with the country's future". FREE SUNDAY: "This is how they're (EU Commission) preparing (Greece's) 'controlled bankruptcy'." KATHIMERINI: "What Mr. Papandreou is afraid of; the 'troika's' concerns". PARON (weekly): "Election (bombs) to explode (today)". PROTO THEMA (weekly): "They're chasing off 10 percent (of civil servants) via early retirement". REALNEWS (weekly): "George's (Papandreou) dilemma". RIZOSPASTIS: The communist party-affiliated paper banners a headline calling for votes of the candidates it backs. TO VIMA: "They're (two major parties) afraid of (election-day) surprises, shunning snap election". VETO (weekly): "Ballot boxes sending explosive message". VRADYNI: "All of the new, painful (austerity) measures. How our lives will change with cut-backs".

PM: Result of Sunday polls crucial. Stability for the country or further adventures was the wager at stake in Sunday's local government elections, Prime Minister George Papandreou repeated in an interview published by the newspaper "Ta Nea" on Saturday. Papandreou strongly criticized the opposition parties and especially main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras for adopting anti-Memorandum rhetoric, accusing them of populism and sacrificing the country's best interests to the final tally in the ballot box. "Without a trace of compunction, for months now, they have considered that the local government elections would be a good opportunity to wound our national struggle. To outbid each other in populism, contend in demagoguery, with the exclusive goal of 'scalding' the government," Papandreou noted. "All they care about is to be able to say on the night of the elections that PASOK was defeated and that, therefore, the effort we are making to extricate the country from the great impasse has been defeated. That the government has lost the legitimacy to continue its policies," he added.

Papandreou emphasised that his statements about holding early general elections if PASOK was defeated were not a bluff. Noting that this was not his preferred course, he nevertheless stressed that his decisions would be guided by what he considered best for the country and that the results of the first Sunday would be crucial in making his decision. "On November 7 the citizens have an opportunity to give a clear answer concerning the country's course: forward to stability and self-evident changes or backward to adventures," he stressed. Papandreou also denied that he was considering "flight" from the prime minister's office - such as by taking up a post in the United Nations - underlining that "my duty is here, to my country, with the mandate given to me by the Greek people". He repeated, however, that his only criterion for making decisions was whether the country's course toward stability was threatened, in which case the "sovereign people will have to make their decisions". "The message from the ballot boxes will be of definitive importance, especially that in the first Sunday for the regional authorities," he said.

The first round of local government elections using the new 'Kallikratis' is due in Greece on Sunday, November 7, between the hours of 7.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. This election introduces a number of new elements following the sweeping changes to the boundaries of local authorities under the Kallikratis plan, which greatly reduced the number of municipalities but also made them much larger, while abolishing the second-tier local authorities governing prefectures and introducing 13 elected regional authority governors. The recent announcement by Prime Minister George Papandreou that a poor result for PASOK may lead him to consider the prospect of early general elections has also raised the stakes a great deal higher than is usual for a local government election. In areas where there is no clear winner during the first round of elections, there will be a second round on November 14 at the same times and using the same procedure.

If the vote fails to take place in a municipality or in one or more polling stations for any reason, another election will be held on Wednesday, November 10. Those eligible to vote for municipal councils and mayors are Greek nationals resident in the municipality that are over 18 and registered in their municipality or community electoral roll, as well as nationals of any of the 26 European Union member-states that are over 18, permanent residents of Greece and registered in the special electoral rolls of the municipality where they reside (up until August 31, 2010). Those eligible to vote for regional authority officials do not include EU member-state citizens, Greek expatriates without Greek nationality and legal residents from third countries.

Those deprived of their rights to vote cannot vote in these elections. Those that have no obligation to vote in the elections are foreign nationals, those aged over 70 and those that are more than 200 kilometres from the polling station where they vote (this must be certified by the municipality in the location they are in). Those wanting to vote must display either a police ID card or temporary replacement issued by a proper authority, or a valid passport, or a driving licence, or social insurance fund booklet. Voters not included in the electoral roll that have not been deprived of their voting rights can apply to the municipality or community where they are registered in order to request a certificate that they are registered in the municipal register in order to exercise their voting rights.

PS. Greece's prime minister dropped his threat to call an early election Sunday, saying [based on preliminary results, that] Greeks had shown in crucial local elections they wanted his government to continue with the austerity measures aimed at pulling the debt-ridden country out of a severe financial crisis. But George Papandreou's governing so called 'socialists' lost significant ground.

06.11.2010. Ad local election tomorrow: Boycott the most authoritarian parties, including Papandreo's PASOK. Vote for the most libertarian parties, the center. For a movement in libertarian direction...

The local election is mainly a referendum about the policy of Prime Minister George Papandreou and his so called "socialist" party PASOK. Vote NO to this policy, boycott Papandreo's PASOK. Also boycott the other most authoritarian parties. Vote for the most libertarian parties, the center. For a movement in libertarian direction, as soon as possible do away with the present top-heavy social pyramid, i.e. a populist regime with ochlarchy. 1. For higher degree of socialism, less degree of capitalism, i.e. economical plutarchy. 2. For a higher degree of autonomy, less degree of statism. 3. For a movement of the societal system in horizontal direction, i.e. more efficiency and fairness.

The Greek system seen all in all is mainly populist. Despite the so called "socialist" government, the system seen all in all is mainly populist, a moderate, parliamentarian form of fascism, with about 58% authoritarian degree and about 42% libertarian degree, ranked as no 25 of the countries in the world according to libertarian degree. The degree of capitalism is estimated to about 52,1% and the degree of statism to about 63,4%, i.e. both significant. A third of Greeks live close to the poverty line or under. The poverty limit is drawn at an income of 470 euros a month per adult (2008). Slowly but steadily a 'third world' is being created inside Greece, an EU member state with a population of 11 million.

05.11.2010. CNN reports: Greece resumes air shipments after bombings. Anarchists not blamed. Greece has resumed air delivery of packages outside the country after a 48-hour suspension, a spokesman for the prime minister's office said Friday. The country imposed the suspension amid a wave of attempted bombings against international targets this week. Police have discovered 14 parcel bombs emanating from Greece, most of which were sent to various embassies in Athens. Police intercepted and destroyed most of them in controlled explosions, but a woman at a courier office was wounded by one of the devices and another exploded in the courtyard of the Swiss Embassy.

Other parcel bombs were addressed to European targets including the leaders of Germany and Italy. Two men accused of participating in the bombings were remanded into custody Thursday. They were arrested in Athens on Monday in possession of two parcel bombs, Glock pistols, a bulletproof vest, and a wig. Panagiotis Argyrou, 22, and Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24 were also in possession of a delivery slip for another parcel containing an explosive device which had been delivered to a courier service and was addressed to the Dutch Embassy, police said.

Hellenic Police spokesman Maj. Athanasios Kokkalakis called the two suspects "important members of a terrorist group." Before this week's attacks, Argyrou already faced an arrest warrant for his alleged membership in an illegal organization called the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Greek authorities have stressed that they believe the wave of letter bombs is the work of a home-grown Greek terrorist group that does not have ties to international organizations like al-Qaeda.

CNN and some other main newsmedia are reporting more balanced also today, but 'marxist' seems to be a 'holy cow' in this connection, see yesterday's rhetorical question. However the case is mostly going out of the headlines.

By the way, Greece's prime minister said he would have no choice but to call an early national election if voters rejected his austerity policy in local polls on Sunday, according to an interview with Italian magazine Panorama.

04.11.2010. Newsmedia! Stop uncritical publishing of the lies of the Greek police! This message is mainly directed to domestic and international newsmedia. Usually newsmedia are asking critical questions, and presenting different views. Why not in this case? Why not tell the truth Big Brothers? Big Brothers here mean similar to Orwellian '1984' newspeak Big Brother liemachine newsmedia...

Take a look at the lies of the spokesperson of the Greek police, Kokkalakis, falsely calling one of the terrorists "anarchist", and the proof that the terrorists are marxist leftwing extremist, and not anarchists, in the report of 03.11.2010, and make up your own opinion... The lies of Kokkalakis are at the bottom of the report of 03.11.2010 below...

See also the AIIS-indexpage www.anarchy.no, today declaring: The terrorism in Greece is done by marxist leftwing extremists. No anarchists involved. Proof and more information: Click here!

NB! 'Extreme left anarchist groups' do not exist, not on the economic-political map - and not in reality...

The Greek authorities, the marxist government, falsely postulates the opposite, to among others Reuters: "All evidence shows this is a clear domestic case, with no connection with international terrorism," Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas said on Wednesday. "The evidence so far shows we are dealing with extreme left, anarchist groups." Droutsas, for the Greek government, and Reuters and other newsmedia publishing this lie, get Brown Cards from the IAT-APT.

Later: We have seen several more balanced reports in the evening, but no newsmedia have mentioned the word 'marxist' in this connection except the AIIS. Is 'marxist' a holy cow of the newsmedia? That is in connection with this terrorism, that de facto is done by extreme leftwing marxists! ... And the so called 'anarchist terrorists' around the beginning of the 20th century/late 19th century, have all been expulsed from the anarchist movement post mortem, and are thus not real anarchists.

03.11.2010. Proof that marxists, not anarchists, are behind the terrorism. The truth about the terrorism in Greece: The anarchists once more condemn these terrorist attacks. They are practically certain done by marxist extremists, not anarchists. Greece halts mail, hunts for bombing suspects. Brown Cards to the lier police-spokesman Maj. Thanassis Kokkalakis, CNN, and the marxist leftwing extremists Panagiotis Argyrou and Gerasimos Tsakalos.

A "litmus test" of whether marxists, fascists, anarchists or liberalists are behind terrorism

1. Terrorism is extremist, ultra-authoritarian acts, de facto very much a top down approach, se notes on extremism and anarchy at IAT-APT International Branch. Extremism is either marxist, fascist or liberalist, practically certain not anarchist, because an anarchist acting ultra-authoritarian/extremist stops to be an anarchist, and will be expulsed from the anarchist movement. All terrorists falsely called anarchists historically are expulsed from the anarchist movement post mortem, because they were not real anarchists. And all terrorists falsely called anarchists, of our time, are in general also expulsed from the anarchist movement via Brown Cards by IAT-APT. NB! Terrorists are thus not anarchists! The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense, a bottom up approach, and that excludes terrorism, a top down approach.

To be an anarchist or not is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia or others. It is not the outspoken aim - agenda, if any, that counts. The real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Anarchists actions are actions that in consequence move (or keep) the social organization in horizontal direction, and that excludes terrorism because this is actions that in consequence have a top down approach, vertical organization - a form of government. Terrorists and terrorism may be anti-government in the meaning against the present government, but terrorism is in itself government - ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and thus not anarchist or anarchy. Practically certain anarchism and anarchy cannot be created by the opposite - ochlarchy and ochlarchism - a form of government/state.

2. Terrorist actions are extremist/ultra-authoritarian and if capitalist/economical plutarchist, typically profit-motivated, the action is either fascist or liberalist, not anarchist or marxist. Ultra-authoritarian fascists in consequence also act for a "strong man", extremist liberalists not. Fascist terrorists often also have nationalist motives. Liberalist and fascist terrorism are rightwing extremism (with the rare exception of left-fascist/populist/nazi etc. terrorism which is a form of leftwing extremism).

3. If extremist acts are anti-capitalist, they are socialist, and thus ultra-authoritarian socialism, i.e. a form of marxism - governmental/state-socialism, not liberalist or fascist, and not anarchist. What is a hallmark of marxist extremism? Violent attacks on symbols of capitalism and/or the (capitalist - according to marxism) state is a marxist strategy of vanguardism, similar to the marxist-leninist terrorist organizations the Italian Red Brigades (BR) and German RAF (Baader Meinhof), etc. Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions on capitalism and statism as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, see also 1 and 2. So if there are extremist attacks on symbols of capitalism and state, it is marxist leftwing extremists, not anarchists behind. Thus terrorism that attacks symbols of capitalism and state, are done by marxist extremists, leftwingers, and not anarchists.

In short: persons that are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and terrorist ochlarchist, and thus de facto authoritarian - are authoritarian socialists - government/state-socialists, i.e. marxists - not anarchists. They may be anti-government, in the meaning against the present government, but terrorism is in itself government - ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and thus not anarchist or anarchy. Persons that try to replace one form of goverment - the present - introducing another form of government - ochlarchy, are not anarchists. Practically certain anarchism and anarchy cannot be created by the opposite - ochlarchy and ochlarchism - a form of government/state. Ochlarchists including terrorists are the opposite of anarchists. Anti-capitalist terrorists (ochlarchists) are de facto marxists - not anarchists - and should thus never be labeled anarchists, but instead be called what they really are - marxists.

4. Using this "litmus test", 1-3 we find that most terrorism world wide is done by marxist, leftwing, extremists, or rightwing extremists, practically certain never anarchists. In the future the people, police, authorities and newsmedia should use this "litmus test" when reporting about who is behind terrorism.

5. To mix up opposites as anarchists with terrorists, a form of ochlarchists, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Such Big Brother notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists and terrorists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency - according to the Oslo Convention, - to newsmedia and others that are spreading such disinformation.

6. In addition to 1.-5. only a few facts are necessary to find out whether marxists, fascists, anarchists or liberalists are behind terrorism. And terrorists are practically certain not anarchists!

Orwellian "1984" newspeak Big Brother lie-report from Europol about so called "anarchist" terrorists in Europe, in reality ochlarchists and not anarchists

In the "TE-SAT 2010 EU TERRORISM SITUATION AND TREND REPORT", see Europol - European Police - TE-SAT 2010, Europol declares: "The agenda of anarchist terrorist groups is usually revolutionary, anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian. Not all Member States distinguish between activities of left-wing and anarchist terrorist groups in their contributions. For this reason, both categories are discussed in the same chapter of this report. Greece, Italy and Spain reported 40 attacks by leftwing and anarchist terrorists. Actions by anarchist groups are becoming more violent and sometimes well planned. After a quiet period of two years, the FAI (Federazione Anarchica Informale) claimed two attacks in Italy which targeted the director of the CIE (Centro di Identifi cazione ed Espulsione), and the Bocconi University in Milan."

The so called "anarchist terrorists" mentioned, in Greece, Italy and Spain, the Italian "FAI (Federazione Anarchica Informale)" being the only such group mentioned by name in Europol's report, are in reality terrorist ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists, and have got Brown Cards from IAT-APT, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not members of the anarchist movement. Using the "litmustest" above on the mentioned cases, it is clear that the so called "anarchist terrorists" mentioned by Europol, in reality are marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists - NOT anarchists..

Europol's terrorist accusations against anarchists are completely false. The truth is that no anarchists in Greece, Italy and Spain or other places on Earth have participated in terrorist attacks, i.e. ochlarchical actions, not now and not before. Ochlarchy is mob rule broadly defined including terrorism. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense, see, say, direct action. The mentioned violence including terrorism is not of this kind, and are done by extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, practically certain marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not by anarchists.

Anarchists should in general not be mixed up with left-wingers. Anarchists are not extremists and have less than 50% authoritarian degree, and are found in the middle and upwards on the economic-political map, while the extreme left have more than 666 per thousand authoritarian degree, are totalitarian, see System theory and economic political map. Anarchists are real democrats, not the opposite, i.e. extremists and totalitarian.

To mix up opposites as anarchists with terrorists, a form of ochlarchists, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Such Big Brother notes in the media broadly defined, including Europol's report, also produce copycat ochlarchists and terrorists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency - according to the Oslo Convention, - this time to Europol and director Rob Wainwright and newsmedia spreading their disinformation. The trial and Brown Card verdict against Europol by IAT-APT, happened 22.07.2010. Europol has no public e-mail address, but the IAT-APT has posted a message to Europol on their "Media Request" mail-form with a link to this resolution.

I. The terrorism, bomb and arson attacks etc. in Greece, are clearly done by a) anticapitalists, i.e. socialists, and b) according to 1. in the "litmus test" ultra-authoritarians.

III. Thus, the terrorism, in Greece, is practically certain done by marxists - not anarchists! I and II logically implicate III. Q.E.D.
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The truth about the terrorism in Greece: The anarchists once more condemn these terrorist attacks. They are practically certain done by marxist extremists, not anarchists. Greece halts mail, hunts for bombing suspects.

Greece stopped all airborne parcels headed overseas and screened thousands of packages Wednesday in an attempt to stop a spate of bombings blamed on Greek militants, especially the marxist far left group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, targeting diplomatic missions and European leaders. A 48-hour ban on all outgoing parcel deliveries abroad took effect after mail bombs reached the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and halted flights for hours at Italy's Bologna airport, where a package addressed to Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi caught fire. The attacks, which followed an unsuccessful Yemen-based mail bomb plot, highlighted the difficulty of keeping bombs out of the international delivery system. Several European governments urged vigilance but didn't say they were increasing measures already in place at leaders' offices.

Merkel, however, called for improved checks on cargo deliveries. "This incident and the problem that we had at the chancellery with a suspect package must give cause to better coordinate checks on cargo inside Europe ... and then as far as possible worldwide," Merkel told the daily Passauer Neue Presse. Three of the bombs exploded or caught fire in Athens, causing minor damage and leaving one delivery service employee burned. Police investigators said none of the devices examined so far contained lethal amounts of explosives - unlike those used by the Yemeni militants. Government spokesman George Petalotis said that the Greek mail bombs had no link to Islamist groups.

Authorities are questioning two suspects arrested Monday in connection with the bombings, and released the photographs of five other suspects believed to be associated with them. The suspects, most in their early 20s, have been linked to the marxist militant group Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire. Greece has suffered a spike in militant attacks - including a deadly letter bombing earlier this year - since massive riots in 2008 triggered by a police shooting of a teenage boy. The country was plagued by far-left terrorism in the 1980s and 1990s, with more than 20 people killed in gunfire and bombing attacks. Although the deadliest of these organizations were eradicated over the past decade, their attacks have inspired several small radical marxist or nihilist groups violently opposed to capitalism and all forms of state authority.

Believed to recruit from students who often clash with police in Greece's frequent protests, these groups have come to dominate domestic political violence in recent years. But they are seen as lacking the sophistication and tight organization of the older far-left groups. "Clearly we are dealing with amateurs but those are amateurs who got worldwide attention," said Greek terrorism expert Mary Bossi. "The suspects are all young but I have some reservations on who might be guiding them." Prime Minister George Papandreou said the government would be "unyielding" in its pursuit of the bombers, whose attacks he linked with the debt-ridden country's financial woes. "Democracies cannot be terrorized," Papandreou said. "These irresponsible and mindless acts were intended to harm the Greek people's huge effort to set the country to rights, to set the economy on its feet and for the country to regain its credibility. They will not succeed. We will not succumb."

But terrorism experts say Greek police face a difficult task in trying to shut down the mail bombing campaign. "It's very difficult to prevent the initiation of this kind of attack ... The initiative lies with the people who want to mount the attack, not with the authorities," said Michael McKinley, a senior lecturer in International Relations at the Australian National University in Canberra. McKinley said fully screening all mail would "bring the Greek postal system to a halt" while catching the five remaining suspects might not stop the problem. "It depends how many committed people are following them," he said. "I most cases of homemade explosives, the people involved are not very expert. So effectively this problem when you have an open society: If people are determined to cause a problem they can do." Also Wednesday, police said 11 cars were burned in overnight arson attacks, most using small cooking gas canisters, including eight vehicles owned by the state electricity company. This is also a form of terrorism.

In the evening CNN reports that all in all 13 parcel bombs have been discovered by the Greek police so far.

The truth about the terrorism in Greece: The anarchists once more condemn these terrorist attacks. They are practically certain done by marxist extremists, not anarchists.

Euronews reports: A manhunt is on for members of the Greek far-left anti-capitalist group Conspiracy of [Cells of] Fire. Athens has linked a two-day international mail bomb campaign aimed at government and institutional targets in Greece and abroad with militant youths with no proven links to other extremist organisations... Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has threatened to call a snap parliamentary election if voters do not back his austerity policies in local polls to be held this Sunday. Postal service to outside Greece has been suspended until Thursday evening.

France24 and AFP reports: A "Greek organisation belonging to the anti-establishment movement is very likely" behind the attempted attacks, Athens police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis told AFP. Police arrested two men, aged 22 and 24, suspected of links to a far-left group on Monday after the discovery of the first booby-trapped packages. The 22-year-old was a suspected member of Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a far-left group that appeared in 2008 and has carried out a wave of arson and minor bomb attacks on the offices and homes of politicians.

Brown Cards to the lier police-spokesman Maj. Thanassis Kokkalakis, and CNN, that reported: A series of parcel bombs targeting embassies in Greece and officials across Europe "are not related to international terrorism and groups like al-Qaeda," Greek government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis said Wednesday. Police spokesman Maj. Thanassis Kokkalakis added that two suspects arrested in the case are "domestic terrorists without international connections." Two men arrested after the explosion at the courier office have been charged in connection to terrorism. The Citizens Protection Ministry named them as Panagiotis Argyrou, 22, and Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24. Both are Greek nationals, police said, and one of them is a suspected member of the Greek leftist militant group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. "Now we have a good start to continue our efforts to disarm these terrorists," said Kokkalakis, who said there was a warrant on one of the arrested men, saying he was a member of the militant group. "The other one is an anarchist," he said. "We just know he is an anarchist. ... They want to disturb the daily life of Greek society. They try to disturb everything we have built as a country." Police said they are looking for five other men in their 20s who seem to have links to the same group, but they have not yet linked the group to the spate of bombings.

The fact is that both the two mentioned arrested, Panagiotis Argyrou, 22, and Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24, are marxist leftwing extremists, not anarchists, see proof above. They also get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, and in case one or both of the arrested claim to be anarchists, they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and are thus not anarchists - according to the Oslo Convention. NB! Panagiotis Argyrou, 22, and Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24, are thus not anarchists!

PS. 04.11.2010. Bomb disposal experts destroyed a suspicious package returned by the French embassy Thursday, i.e. the 14th. Greek police are investigating links to Italian marxist leftwing extremists, falsely called 'anarchists' by the police, thus they continue with more lies! The two arrested suspects were both formally remanded in pretrial prison custody Thursday. They have been charged with membership in a terrorist group and multiple terrorism-related offenses.

02.11.2010. Brown Cards to David Lea and Reuters, France24 and AFP, Associated Press, CBC and many more. We are living in the middle of a mainly Big Brother "1984" world. When will these and similar horrible lies stop? More about yesterdays terrorist attack. New terrorist attack, against the embassy of the Anarchy of Switzerland etc.

Katimerini reports: Two terrorist suspects held for letter bombs. One hurt in blast; 3 devices intercepted.

Officers of the police's counter-terrorism unit yesterday were questioning two suspected members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire who are believed to be responsible for a letter bomb that exploded at a courier firm east of central Athens and another three similar devices – addressed to two embassies in Athens and to French President Nicolas Sarkozy – which police managed to intercept. Police were dispatched to the courier firm in Pangrati at around noon, after a package addressed to the Mexican Embassy in Athens exploded in the hands of a female employee who suffered minor burns to her hands. Using physical descriptions given by witnesses at the courier company, police caught up with the assailants shortly after the blast. Later yesterday, police released photographs of the suspects – both Greeks, aged 22 and 24.

The suspects had both been wearing bullet-proof vests and carrying Glock 9 mm pistols as well as a bag that was found to contain two more letter bombs – one addressed to the French President, the other to the Belgian Embassy in Athens. One of the suspects was found to be carrying a receipt from another courier company, located close to the first one. Police rushed to the second courier firm and collected the package – another letter bomb addressed to the Netherlands Embassy. Bomb disposal experts destroyed the three letter bombs in controlled explosions.

Police did not determine the composition of the bombs yesterday but they are each believed to have comprised small quantities of gunpowder and a battery. According to sources, the package that had been addressed to Sarkozy bore the name of Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos as the purported sender. As for the package addressed to the Belgian Embassy, that had ostensibly been sent by criminologist Yiannis Panousis. A similar tactic was used in June with a bomb that detonated inside the Citizens' Protection Ministry, killing the aide to the then minister, Michalis Chrysochoidis. The name written as the sender of the package was Christos Karavellas, a key suspect in the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal. For anarchist point of view see the report of 01.11.2010.

New terrorist attack, against the embassy of the Anarchy of Switzerland etc. Parcel bombs target Swiss, Bulgarian embassies in Athens. A bomb exploded at the embassy of the Anarchy of Switzerland, the Swiss Confederation, in Athens on Tuesday but there were no reports of injuries. Police later carried out a controlled explosion on a separate parcel bomb located at the Bulgarian embassy.

Greek police carried out a controlled explosion of a package sent to the Bulgarian embassy Tuesday and a small device exploded outside the Swiss embassy, a day after the discovery of a parcel-bombing campaign in Athens. A police source said a passerby threw a device at the Swiss embassy, causing a small explosion. Nobody was hurt. A bomb disposal unit detonated a suspect package that had been mailed to the Bulgarian embassy elsewhere in the capital. On Monday, several booby-trapped packages addressed to other embassies and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were defused and police arrested two men suspected of links to a far-left group.

Later, German police disarmed a potentially harmful package from Greece at German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office, hours after similar small mail bombs exploded outside the Russian and Swiss embassies in Athens in attacks blamed on Greek far-left extremists. Police late Tuesday named the suspects as 22-year-old Panagiotis Argyros, and 24-year-old Gerasimos Tsakalos. They are both ultra-authoritarian marxists, not anarchists.

The anarchists strongly condemn this direct terrorist attack on anarchy and anarchism, probably done by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire and Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a marxist red & brown ultra-authoritarian far left extremist ochlarchy and terrorist group. For more information about the Anarchy of Switzerland, see (click on:) IJA 1 (37).

Reuters reports: "The prime suspects would have to be the anarchists or far left as usual. If this is it, the story will fade but if there's another flurry tomorrow it's a different matter," said Control Risks Western Europe analyst, David Lea. NB! In fact no anarchists have been involved in terrorism in Greece, not now and not before, and thus David Lea and Reuters get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, for this false insinuation and accusation. France24 and AFP also get Brown Cards for a similar remark: "Cars with diplomatic licence plates are also regularly targeted in late-night arson attacks blamed on anarchists." Arson attacks are also terrorism.

Associated Press continues the lies: "Greece has a vocal anarchist political fringe that opposes most forms of state authority - particularly the police and party democracy - as well as capitalism and globalization. In recent decades, small radical anarchist or nihilist groups have staged attacks ranging from nighttime car burnings to bomb and gunfire attacks on symbols of state power and wealth - including the U.S. embassy in Athens," and gets another Brown Card. CBC (Canada) also gets a Brown Card, falsely declaring: "One of the men was wanted in connection with an investigation into a radical anarchist group known as Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire, which has claimed responsibility for a spate of small bomb and arson attacks over the past two years."

And all the Orwellian "1984" Big Brother newspeak liemachine newsmedia world wide with similar remarks, many quoting Reuters and Associated Press, get Brown Cards. We are living in the middle of a mainly Big Brother "1984" world. See the report of 11-12.09.2010 for a similar case. When will these and similar horrible lies stop?

Later BBC reports: Bombs target embassies in Greek capital Athens. Bombs have exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens and several other suspicious packages have been destroyed, police say. A suspected bomb was destroyed at the Bulgarian embassy and another, posted to the Chilean embassy, in a van. No-one was hurt in the explosions, which came a day after four parcel bombs were found in the city. The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says it appears to be a co-ordinated attack by an extreme left-wing group. First reports said the device at the Swiss embassy had been thrown into a courtyard, but police later said it had been left at the entrance. "When the external packaging was removed, the contents burst into flames," a police spokesman said.

The Bulgarian embassy was sealed off as experts carried out a controlled explosion on a suspected parcel bomb. Another suspected device addressed to the Chilean embassy was found in a delivery van outside the Greek parliament and destroyed, police said. Officials said another was intercepted at the offices of a courier company addressed to the German embassy.

Sarkozy parcel. "It seems this is a continuation of yesterday's attacks and that Greek guerrillas are behind it, but we are still investigating," police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis told Reuters. On Monday a parcel bomb addressed to the Mexican embassy in Athens blew up at a courier office, slightly injuring an employee. Police later arrested two suspects and found two more bombs, one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the other to the Belgian embassy. A fourth bomb was found at a delivery company addressed to the Dutch embassy.

Terrorism experts suspect the co-ordinated campaign is the work of a group called the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, which is trying to spark revolution in Greece during the current period of austerity. The parcel bombs have raised anxiety levels in Greece in the run up to this weekend's vital local elections, our correspondent says. The elections are seen as a referendum on the socialist government's handling of the economic crisis and Prime Minister George Papandreou has warned he may call a general election if his party is soundly defeated.

CNN reports: Explosions outside Swiss, Russian Embassies in Greece. No one was injured Tuesday in separate explosions outside the Swiss and Russian Embassies here, police said, a day after a parcel bomb addressed to another embassy exploded and wounded one person. The object at the Swiss Embassy was a small bomb that was thrown into the building's courtyard, police said. A separate explosion happened outside the Russian Embassy, police said. It wasn't immediately known what type of device caused that explosion. Police carried out controlled explosions Tuesday of three other suspicious parcels, all addressed to different embassies. Authorities said they detonated a package at the Bulgarian Embassy and a suspicious package addressed to the Chilean Embassy, after a courier carrying the latter parcel thought it might contain an explosive device.

The third parcel was addressed to the German Embassy, but it was detonated near a courier office because embassy officials thought it might be a parcel bomb and sent it back, police said. Monday, a parcel bomb addressed to the Mexican Embassy exploded at the same private courier company and wounded a woman there. Two suspects were arrested after police cordoned off the surrounding area, the ministry said. Both were wearing wigs and one of them was wearing a bulletproof vest. Both also were carrying Glock 9mm pistols and were in possession of two other explosive parcels, including one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the ministry and police said. The other was addressed to the Belgian Embassy. The packages were detonated by police. The arrested men are in their early 20s and are both Greek nationals, police said. One of them is a suspected member of the Greek leftist militant group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Another parcel bomb was found nearby Monday at another courier company in the same area. It was addressed to the Dutch Embassy.

In the evening AIIS reports: Greek parcel bomb plot targets Merkel and Athens embassies. A parcel bomb plot in Greece Tuesday targeted foreign embassies, an airport in Athens and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with two devices exploding at the Russian embassy and the embassy of the Anarchy of Switzerland. Parcel bombs exploded at the Russian and Swiss embassies in Athens and devices sent to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and three other embassies were intercepted Tuesday in concerted attacks linked to left-wing extremists, i.e. ultra-authoritarian marxists.Two parcels containing explosives hidden inside hollowed-out books were destroyed in controlled explosions at Athens airport late Tuesday as Greek police struggled to contain the attacks, first uncovered on Monday.

But it remained unclear if similar packages had already left the country aboard planes. The device addressed to Merkel reached her offices in Berlin before being intercepted, the chancellery said. It was delivered by courier company UPS. Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the parcel contained explosives and had been mailed from Greece on Sunday. The device was built in the same way as the bomb that burst into flames at the Swiss embassy in Athens earlier Tuesday, he said. That parcel was left at the entrance to the Swiss embassy and ignited into flames when it was being examined by staff, the Swiss foreign ministry said. "The burst of flame occurred when employees were removing the external wrapping of the package," the ministry said.

Police said in a statement that a second booby-trapped package exploded at the Russian embassy without causing injury, adding the package was already being treated with suspicion by staff. "A Greek organisation belonging to the [so called] anti-establishment movement is very likely" behind the attacks, Athens police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis told AFP. The explosions in both cases were reported to be small, and there were no injuries. Police said a total of five parcel bombs had been discovered in the capital on Tuesday before the two were found at the airport. Controlled explosions were carried out by police on suspect packages addressed to the German, Chilean and Bulgarian embassies. Those packages were similar to four devices sent to embassies in the Greek capital that were intercepted on Monday, including one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The campaign comes ahead of local elections on Sunday and during a period of social malaise after deep austerity measures adopted by the so called "socialist" government to battle an "unprecedented debt crisis". A Greek foreign ministry official said on Tuesday that embassy security had been strengthened and missions were warned to take extra vigilance when handling their correspondence. "We have taken additional security measures and all embassies have been notified since Monday to be vigilant over their correspondence," foreign ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras told AFP. "Things are under control."

On Monday, a package addressed to the Mexican embassy ignited, burning the hand of a female worker in a courier company. The package intended for the Chilean embassy was destroyed outside the Greek parliament after the courier carrying it asked police stationed nearby to check it and explosives were detected inside, the police said. The parcel for the German embassy was destroyed by controlled explosion outside a courier company where the embassy had returned it as suspect. Police arrested two men suspected of links to a far-left marxist group on Monday after the discovery of the first booby-trapped packages. The two men arrested on Monday, aged 22 and 24, were armed with handguns. One of them was also wearing a bulletproof jacket and a wig. According to investigators, they had refused to identify themselves or to cooperate with the authorities. Police late Tuesday named the suspects as 22-year-old Panagiotis Argyros, and 24-year-old Gerasimos Tsakalos. They are both ultra-authoritarian marxists, not anarchists.

The 22-year-old had been wanted by police as a suspected member of Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a far-left marxist group that appeared in 2008 and has carried out a wave of arson and minor bomb attacks on the offices and homes of politicians. Attacks on government and police targets are commonplace in Greece and are usually attributed to left-wing extremists, i.e. ultra-authoritarian marxists. Parcel bombs are rare but a similar device fatally injured the then police minister's security chief in June after being smuggled into the heavily-guarded ministry building.

According to Euronews two bomb packages have been intercepted at the city's airport – bound for Europol and the European Court of Justice. By Tuesday evening, at least 11 mail bombs had been detected in the Greek capital - one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and eight to the embassies of Bulgaria, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Chile, the Netherlands and Belgium. Two more were destroyed in controlled explosions at the Athens airport - one as mentioned addressed to the European Union's highest court in Luxembourg and the other to law enforcement agency Europol in the Netherlands.

Later, according to Greek police: Suspicious package examined in Italy. Greek police say a suspicious package addressed to Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and found on board a private mail courier company plane is being examined at Bologna airport. The package comes after a wave of mail bombs were sent to a.o.t foreign embassies in Greece and to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office. Police spokesman Athanassios Kokalakis says the plane took off from Athens airport at about 9.45 p.m. Tuesday (19.00 GMT, 3 p.m. EDT) Tuesday and was to head to Paris and Liege. He said the suspicious package was detected and the plane landed in Bologna in Italy, where experts were examining it.

Greek terrorist groups, especially the marxist far left group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, are suspected of mounting the attacks targeting embassies in Athens and international organizations and foreign leaders abroad. If that is confirmed, it would mark a dramatic escalation for organizations that have never before attempted to strike targets abroad. The campaign used small devices that only caused one injury and minimal damage. But it highlights the difficulty of keeping bombs out of the international delivery system - also a target of Yemen-based militants armed with more powerful and potentially deadly explosives. Security at all embassies in Athens has been increased and authorities on Tuesday suspended all international mail deliveries from Greece for 48 hours for further checks.

01.11.2010. The marxist far left group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire behind new terrorist attack. The anarchists condemn the attack. Brown Cards to Greek police and France24. A woman was wounded after a package exploded at a private delivery company in Athens on Monday, while two other suspected bombs were destroyed by controlled blasts in the capital, police officials said. A parcel bomb exploded at 12.40 p.m. in the hands of a courier company employee in Pangrati as she picked up a package destined for Mexico that had been left by unidentified persons at the Swift Mail courier office a few minutes earlier. The female employee suffered injuries to her fingers from the explosion, which was described as being of mild, and was rushed to hospital.

Police immediately launched an investigation and, based on descriptions provided by eyewitnesses, quickly spotted another booby-trapped parcel that had been left at another nearby courier service office in Pangrati. The second parcel bomb, left at the offices of ACS couriers, was destined for The Netherlands. Police shortly afterwards spotted two people fitting the eyewitnesses' descriptions in a nearby street, who were arrested at Rizari Street by the police unit "Dias". They were carrying handguns, wigs, and one of them was also wearing a bulletproof vest, they said. One of the two men arrested is a suspected member of the Greek leftist militant group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire and Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei.

State-run NET television reported that two of the parcels had been addressed to the embassies of Mexico and the Netherlands in Athens, but authorities did not immediately confirm the report. The Dutch Foreign Ministry confirmed that a parcel intercepted at the delivery firm was addressed to the Dutch embassy, but declined to comment on the type of explosives or why the Netherlands embassy was targeted. Details of the two male suspects, described as being Greek by police, were not given. Greek far-left and militant groups have used mail bombs in the past against government ministries and businesses. Earlier this year a senior official at the country's public order ministry was killed in a letter bomb blast which was addressed to the minister. Police in Athens also said they had arrested four people on Monday after uncovering a plot to send parcel bombs to French president Nicolas Sarkozy and three foreign embassies in the Greek capital. Police said one of the four people arrested was a suspected member of an obscure group that specialises in arson attacks on offices and homes of politicians, Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei.

One of the packages, addressed to Mexico's embassy in Athens, as mentioned, ignited as it was being sorted in the headquarters of the courier company, slightly injuring a female employee. "There was no explosion but we saw smoke coming out and heard a woman shouting," a neighbour told state television NET. "I took a fire extinguisher into the room. It was full of smoke and smelled of gunpowder, you needed a mask to go in there." The two men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested in the central district of Pangrati.Police said in a statement that they were intending to mail a total of four parcel bombs, adding that they were both armed with Glock handguns. One of the men wore a bullet-proof vest and a wig. From a postal slip found on the suspects, the police tracked down and exploded a second parcel at a neighbouring courier company, addressed to the Dutch embassy.

Two more devices found on the detainees were intended for French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the Belgian embassy, the police said. The Dutch foreign ministry said it had been informed by the Greek authorities "and remain in close contact with them." Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei had also planted a small explosive device in a garbage bin outside the Greek parliament in January, after police claimed to have arrested several of the group's members in raids around the capital. Attacks on government and police targets are relatively frequent in Greece and are commonly attributed to left-wing extremists, though they are usually designed to avoid causing injury. Parcel bombs are rare, but a similar device fatally injured the then police minister's security chief in June after being smuggled into the heavily-guarded ministry building. Police have not linked any known group to that attack. Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei appeared in early 2008, and has continued operating despite the arrest of nine of its purported members last year. [Sources: Phantis and ABC-news.] The anarchists condemn the attack.

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire and Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, is a marxist red & brown ultra-authoritarian far left extremist ochlarchy and terrorist group - not anarchist.

The Greek police falsely postulates that Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire is an anarchist group, a lie that France24 also publishes, quoting: "Police said both suspects arrested Monday were Greek, and one was suspected of belonging to Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire, a domestic anarchist group that has carried out dozens of crude bomb and arson attacks."... and both the Greek police and France24 get Brown Cards from IAT-APT. See the report of 11-12.09.2010 for a similar case. PS. Also the Associated Press published the same lie, and gets a Brown Card.

11.10.2010. Epaminondas Korkoneas has been sentenced to life in prison. A Greek policeman has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a schoolboy in 2008, an incident that sparked mass unrest. A court in the town of Amfissa convicted Epaminondas Korkoneas, 38, of intentionally killing 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. He was shot dead on 6 December 2008 in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarchia. Korkoneas's patrol partner, Vassilios Saraliotis, 32, was given a 10-year jail sentence for complicity. Source: BBC.

Greek bus and trolley drivers walked off the job for several hours, and Athens' metro and tram systems shut down. National railway workers also walked out, disrupting rail connections across the country, while doctors at state hospitals went on a 24-hour strike. Greece has already been suffering from two weeks of protests by truck drivers who have made it difficult for businesses to get supplies. Many supermarkets are seeing shortages.

The anarchosyndicalist labor confederation International Workers of the World participated in the protests - against the unenlightened plutarchy, and also condemned the tendencies of ochlarchy (i.e. mob rule broadly defined). The IWW's direct action was world wide. No anarchists, including anarchosyndicalists, were involved in the ochlarchy.

13.09.2010. Greek truck drivers started a new wave of protests Monday, declaring a work stoppage and parking hundreds of vehicles along major highways in opposition to government plans to liberalize their profession. Opening up so-called closed professions, including notaries, pharmacists, architects and truck drivers is among the government's top priorities. But unions have been fiercely opposed to those plans and the strict austerity measures introduced earlier this year, and have held six general strikes so far this year.

Motorists formed long lines at gas stations on Sunday and Monday, fearing a repetition of a weeklong strike in July that left pumps across the country dry for days. The government requisitioned fuel trucks to end that protest, and as truckers are still under the requisition order they cannot declare a strike. Instead, their union said they would organize daily protests. State railway unions also called a 24-hour strike Tuesday to protest planned salary and personnel cuts as part of efforts to reform and partially privatize the money-losing rail network.

12.09.2010. Brown Card to Kathimerini for publishing the lies of Europol about so called 'anarchist', in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchist, terrorism, and not anarchist.

11.09.2010 update. Kathimerini reports: Left-wing, anarchist terror on rise. Left-wing and anarchist terrorist attacks in the European Union increased by 43 percent in 2009 compared to 2008 and have more than doubled since 2007, the European Police Office, or Europol, has noted in its annual report on terrorism. The phenomenon is most evident in Greece, Spain and Italy, where 40 such attacks were recorded last year, the Hague-based force said. EU member states continue to be exposed to the threat of Islamic terrorism, it noted, though there was only one such incident (a bomb in Italy) last year. The overall number of terrorist attacks in the EU decreased by 33 percent compared to 2008 and was almost half that reported in 2007. (Europol does not include data from Britain due to different criteria applied to record terrorist incidents, the report said.)

In Greece, there were 15 attacks by six different left-wing or anarchist groups. A Greek "speciality" noted by Europol is the use of improvised explosive devices as well as firearms. It said that Revolutionary Struggle continued its attacks, claiming responsibility for a hit on police officers that left one officer seriously injured. Sect of Revolutionaries claimed another attack which killed a police officer. A group called OPLA claimed an attack on a police station in the Athens suburb of Aghia Paraskevi, which injured several police officers in October 2009.

The authorities in six EU member states arrested 29 people for alleged involvement in left-wing and anarchist terrorism. About 40 percent of them were aged under 30. In Greece, five alleged members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire were arrested. The report notes that attacks by left-wing and anarchist groups are becoming more violent, suggest international links and are becoming a serious problem for Europe's security forces. The report said separatist terrorism continues to affect the EU, citing attacks by Basque and Corsican groups in Spain and France. In 2009, though the total number of separatist attacks fell 40 percent year-on-year, the number of fatalities increased from four to six.

A "litmus test" of whether marxists, fascists, anarchists or liberalists are behind terrorism

6. In addition to 1.-5. only a few facts are necessary to find out whether marxists, fascists, anarchists or liberalists are behind terrorism. And terrorists are practically certain not anarchists!

Orwellian "1984" newspeak Big Brother lie-report from Europol about so called "anarchist" terrorists in Europe, in reality ochlarchists and not anarchists

Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for publishing the lies of Europol, according to the Oslo Convention.

11.09.2010. Greek protesters confront government on economy. IWW backs the demonstrations. Anarchist comment.

Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to lower corporate taxes to help revive the debt-plagued country's shrinking economy, while thousands of protesters marched - mostly peacefully - against the government's harsh austerity measures. Greece narrowly avoided bankruptcy in May when European countries and the International Monetary Fund gave it euro110 billion ($140 billion) through 2012 in emergency loans. The money came on condition Athens make deep cutbacks - moves that have angered unions. Prime Minister George Papandreou said the tax rate on companies' retained profits would be cut from 24 to 20 percent next year, providing what he called "a strong incentive for investments and competitiveness." He also pledged to open up restricted professions - including truck drivers, notaries, taxi drivers and pharmacists - deregulate the energy market, settle on privatization targets, facilitate major investments and simplify business licensing procedures by the end of this year.

Some 20,000 people gathered in three separate protests in the northern port city of Thessaloniki ahead of Papandreou's speech. They were accompanied by some 4,500 police on security duty. Minor clashes broke out as scores of ochlarchist youths attacked riot police with sticks, and were repelled with tear gas. No arrests or injuries were immediately reported. Police pre-emptively detained 20 people, including 13 from Spain, Italy, Britain and Portugal, most likely marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists. Previous protests have turned violent, and in May as mentioned three people died in a bank torched by hooded ochlarchist youths who infiltrated a large demonstration in Athens - an action that shocked Greeks and deflated the protest movement.

Earlier Saturday, an elderly man threw a shoe at Papandreou, who had just inaugurated an annual trade fair. The projectile landed wide of its target, and the alleged shoe-thrower was arrested but later freed as Papandreou declined to press charges. The populist center-left government says its daunting task of reducing the budget deficit from 13.6 percent of annual output in 2009 to 8.1 percent this year is on track, and has pledged to maintain the pace. The transport ministry announced plans Friday to overhaul the state-run rail company - with debts of euro10.7 billion ($13.62 billion)- by cutting payrolls and rail services. About 40 percent of its 6,300 workers will leave and be offered other public sector jobs, while the company faces private competition. This did not work out efficiently in UK, and will probably not work good in Greece, the IWW declares.

Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said Friday that reforms would extend to other state corporations. "As a society, we have shown that we understand the problem," he said. But amid a deepening recession and high unemployment, unions are angry at this year's deep spending cuts and consumer tax hikes, and fear new cutbacks. Heralding a new round of unrest, railway workers are planning strikes against payroll cuts, and some unionists have threatened to burn privately operated trains. State revenues are increasing at a lower-than-projected rate, and the government has said it may have to increase sales tax rates on a broad range of goods, or raise heating fuel costs.

Papandreou vowed to crack down on rampant tax evasion, but at the same time said he would offer businesses the opportunity to settle tax disputes with the state out of court - and accelerate judicial procedures. Out of the estimated 400,000 cases pending in Greek courts, some 150,000 concern tax disputes. Greek officials insist that together with the pain, the country's worst postwar economic crisis will allow key reforms to the bloated, inefficient public sector and encourage a healthier development model. "We can change the course of history and make an opportunity out of the crisis," Papandreou said, adding that Greece would seek to draw investments worth euro44 billion ($56 billion) in environmentally friendly projects by 2015. "Our choice to go from an economy that for years was based on consumption and credit to a productive model based on green development is of strategic importance," he said

Inspectors from the EU and IMF next week will review the progress of austerity measures required for the bailout loans, as well as on efforts to cut the budget deficit. The country is due to receive euro9 billion ($11.45 billion) over the next few days in the second installment of the loans. Greece remains off the market for government bonds - with interest rates at 9.6 percentage points higher than those for the benchmark German 10-year issue. Instead, Athens is seeking shorter-term loans, and is due to auction euro900 million ($1.14 billion) worth of 26-week treasury bills on Tuesday.

Anarchist comment: The Greek government is mostly on the wrong track. The anarchists are against, and do and support direct actions against the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative -- cut bureaucracy costs -- increase the demand of the people -- the people seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income -- for full employment -- against the unenlightend plutarchy of the populist center-left Greek government, IMF, WB, euro and EU. Greece should leave the euro and the Euro-zone, this will make proper demand management more easy.

Lawyers in the trial of the two police special guards accused of being involved in the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia in December 2008 began summing up yesterday and judges are expected to deliver their verdicts by the end of the month. Eight months after the trial began, Zoe Konstantopoulou, the lawyer representing the Grigoropoulos family, called for both Epaminondas Korkoneas, the policeman who pulled the trigger, and Vassilis Saraliotis, who was on duty with him, to be found guilty of murder. Konstantopoulou argued that neither man had shown the necessary remorse for their part in the teenager's death, which sparked days of protests and rioting in Athens. She said that, instead, they had displayed "cynicism" about their roles on the night of December 6, 2008.

Saraliotis insists that he has no regrets about his actions on the night of the shooting but Konstantopoulou claimed that he had provided "moral support" to Korkoneas, who fired the shot that killed the boy. The lawyer also accused Korkoneas of shooting directly at the group of people among whom the 15-year-old was standing. Korkoneas says that he fired after coming under attack from several thrown objects and had not aimed at Grigoropoulos or anyone else. Ballistic tests have shown that the bullet that killed the schoolboy ricocheted off a cement bollard. Witnesses have suggested the Korkoneas shot at the crowd rather than into the air or down at the ground. The victim's lawyer also insisted that the teenager was a normal 15-year-old who had no intention of playing the rebel, nor was he the member of any anarchist group. Anarchist comment: It is true that Alexis Grigoropoulos was not an anarchist. But if he had been, would the killing be more legitimate - less illegal???

20.08.2010. Los Angeles Times, USA, reports: As austerity bites, more Greeks feel the pain; more and more shops close in central Athens. Anarchist comment.

LA-Times/AP: The plan to rescue Greece from bankruptcy has kicked in, and with a vengeance. As the government slashes spending and hikes taxes, the deficit is way down — but jobs are vanishing, shops are closing, and on the streets gloom is prevailing. The European Union likes the swift action on the deficit. But few Greeks are in a mood to celebrate. Many predict a fall of strikes and demonstrations as those who could afford a summer holiday return to a grim reality. On paper, the turnaround is working. The Finance Ministry said Friday the budget deficit has narrowed by a whopping 39.7 percent on the year, slightly better than the original target. The European Union, which demanded the cuts in return for bailout loans, is positively purring.

On Thursday, the EU said Greece's efforts to slash spending were "impressive." Less impressed are shop owners, who say consumers have tightened their purse strings, cutting down on the nonessentials. Higher taxes and cuts in civil servant pay are removing the boost of government spending from the economy."Civil servants used to come in and buy a double espresso and something to eat. Now they get a single espresso, and a cheaper sandwich," said Constantinos Garyfallou, who spends about 15 hours a day running a coffee shop just off Athens' central Syntagma Square and near several ministries and state-run services. Even small changes in consumer spending — 50 cents less per customer each day — could translate to a fall in revenue for his coffee shop of about euro4,000 ($5,000) a month."Nobody can withstand a fall like that," Garyfallou said. Struggling under a mountain of debt, Greece was forced this year to ask for rescue loans from the International Monetary Fund and other European Union countries that use the euro as their currency in order to avoid defaulting on its loans.

In return, the center-left [populist] government is having to implement a strict austerity program that has seen it cut the pay of Greece's more than 700,000 civil servants, trim pensions, hike taxes and overhaul pension and employment rules. The main target is to slash the budget deficit to 8.1 percent of gross domestic product [GDP] by the end of the year, from the current 13.6 percent — more than four times the limit for eurozone countries. The first batch of loans under the three year, euro110 billion package arrived in May, a day before Athens faced default when it had to reservice maturing bond debt. The EU has recommended approval of a second batch in September. By then, there will probably be more shuttered shopfronts on the main streets of Athens.

In addition to the drop in turnover, banks are increasingly reluctant to hand out loans. For many businesses, the combined pinch has just been too much. "Have you seen all the 'for rent' signs in the center? I've never seen anything like it in the past 30 years," said Georgia Brezati, owner of a clothes shop just off the popular pedestrian shopping street of Ermou in central Athens, where a report this month by the National Confederation of Hellenic Commerce, or ESEE, said 15 percent of shops had shut down. A recent survey by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry revealed that 86 percent of the 523 businesses questioned said they were suffering cash flow problems, while a staggering 93 percent had suffered a fall in turnover due to the financial crisis.

The chamber's head, Constantinos Mihalos, criticized the government for implementing policies "restricted only to serving the interests of our lenders, ignoring the serious problems of the market and of society in general." Some economists [including the WEC] think the emphasis on austerity could be misplaced, and in the end could make repaying Greece's debts harder by choking off growth. Businesses in the center of Athens have also suffered from the frequent strikes and sometimes-violent demonstrations last spring, when angry Greeks took to the streets to protest the austerity program, blocking traffic from the city center for hours. Shop owners often have to close and board up their windows to protect them from youths hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails, and customers stay away.

Last May, three people died trapped in a burning bank torched by protesters [marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists] on Stadiou Street, along a demonstration route. It is that street — one of the capital's main thoroughfares — that has been the worst hit by store closures, with about 25 percent rolling down their shutters and moving out, according to ESEE figures. Brezati, who couldn't afford to go on a summer vacation for the first time in years, said she kept her store open all summer but was barely seeing a couple of customers a day. Her business would survive, she explained, because she owned the store, but many around her who were renting just couldn't make ends meet and have thrown in the towel.

Panagis Karelas, head of the of Athens Traders Association, expects closures to continue."There is a climate of insecurity which has hit turnover and means that Greek business owners, big or small, will not dare to invest in the future. So more businesses are closing and more people are losing their jobs," he said. Unemployment hit 12 percent in May, slightly up from 11.9 percent the previous month, while the country's GDP fell by 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2010, compared to the first three months of the year. And the fall is set to be tough, with the government planning to loosen state control of power generation, privatize loss-making state enterprises and liberalize tightly regulated professions that are sapping productivity.
Unions have promised more strikes and demonstrations. Which will only increase the pain.

16.08.2010. Marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, not "anarchists ... take over parts of Athens and Thessaloniki".

Kathimerini reports: Strangely enough, selfish behavior (whether by groups or individuals) has been tolerated for many years as a manifestation of freedom, as if liberty is no more than license. When any group with a grievance is allowed to block city streets or highways at will; when self-proclaimed anarchists can take over parts of Athens and Thessaloniki whenever the spirit moves them; when each special interest group is able to exert as much pressure as it can on the rest of society for its own benefit, then it is perfectly natural that professional groups should believe that their privileges should be paid for by everyone else. Like every other distortion that has cost Greek society and the economy so dearly, the issue here is one of justice. When the Constitution decrees that all citizens of this country are equal, when everyone claims to be a devoted slave of the Constitution, is it not the ultimate absurdity to fight tooth and nail to preserve inequality and injustice?

The so called "self-proclaimed anarchists" mentioned by Kathimerini are not anarchists, but marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, AIIS reports.

13.08.2010. Firebomb attack at Turkish Consulate. The anarchists condemn the attack. Youth unemployment rate at 32.5 percent.

Firebomb attack at Turkish Consulate. A predawn firebomb attack on the Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki yesterday prompted contact between diplomats in Athens and Ankara, although authorities in the northern Greek city insisted that the Molotov cocktails were thrown at the police guards rather than at the building itself. Police sources said that three men wearing motorcycle helmets approached the consulate, located on Aghiou Dimitriou Street in the city center, at about 4 a.m. From a distance, they started swearing at the two policemen who were standing guard outside the building. One of the three assailants allegedly shouted: "Pigs, we are going to burn you," before two firebombs were thrown. One Molotov cocktail landed a few meters from the guards' sentry post and set fire to a climbing ivy on the outer wall of the consulate; the other exploded in midair. Nobody was injured and no arrests were made.

Authorities are treating it as just another of the many firebomb attacks that take place in the northern city. Nevertheless, due to the sensitive nature of the matter, the Greek government was quick to condemn the incident "absolutely and categorically." "Acts like these, regardless of the motives involved, are unacceptable and are directed against Greece itself," said government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis. "Our society has zero tolerance for such acts. Those responsible will be arrested and brought to justice. "We express our sorrow to the Turkish government," he added. Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu discussed the matter over the telephone. The Foreign Ministry said that Droutsas assured Davutoglu the matter was being investigated and everything was being done to catch the attackers. The anarchists condmen the attack.

Youth unemployment rate at 32.5 percent. The unemployment rate for the country's youth is a chronic Greek problem that could lead to very explosive situations. There is a brewing feeling of injustice among the country's young people, which could have a devastating impact if it were unleashed. According to official data released yesterday, one in three, or 32.5 percent, of Greeks aged 15 to 25, are out of work, compared to 25 percent in May last year.

09.08.2010. Brown Cards to Phantis and once more to Time/CNN and Joanna Kakissis, i.e. Orwellian "1984" Big Brother authoritarian liers.

The Greek Internet newspaper Phantis promotes the 08.08. 2010 article by Time/CNN and Joanna Kakissis, now under the headline "Who is the new guerilla group", and they all get Brown Cards fron IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. Same shit in new wrapping, see the report of 08.08.2010.

08.08.2010. Brown Cards to the liers Time/CNN, Joanna Kakissis, Mary Bossis, Thanassis Kokkalakis and the Greek police: Sect of Revolutionaries are marxist nihilists and has no connection to the anarchist movement.

Time, in partnership with CNN, and Joanna Kakissis report 08.08.2010: The New Guerrilla Group Threatening Greece. It's the height of tourist season in Greece and the country needs all the visitors it can get. Struggling under massive debt and squeezed by sweeping spending cuts, Greeks are relying on the tourist trade to help give its economy a much-needed bump. So the last thing they need right now is a terrorist group threatening to turn Greece into a "war zone." But when the Sect of Revolutionaries recently warned that "tourists should learn that Greece is no longer a safe haven of capitalism," keeping the country crippled was clearly one of their goals.

In a CD containing a proclamation sent to the center-left newspaper Ta Nea on July 27, the group promised "arson, sabotage, violent demonstrations, bombings and assassinations." Greece is painfully familiar with militant extremists, its modern history scarred by the violent acts of groups like the Revolutionary Organization 17 November and the People's Revolutionary Struggle. But the threats made by the Sect of Revolutionaries — also known as the Rebel Sect — are on a whole new level of malice.

"This is the first time we have ever had a terror organization in Greece saying they plan to target innocent bystanders and even tourists," says Mary Bossis, a security expert and professor at the University of Piraeus. "It's a change in mentality that's very troubling."

In its July 27 proclamation, Sect of Revolutionaries said Giolias was the first of several prominent journalists and publishers it plans to attack for, they claim, promoting corrupt interests. The group says it will also target police, public prosecutors and prison staff. The police have received many requests for protection, says spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis, adding that authorities are still investigating leads on the group and aren't yet ready to make any arrests.

Using what they can garner from the group's communications and m.o., experts are attempting to build a profile of Greece's newest batch of domestic terrorists. Kokkalakis and security expert Bossis agree that Sect of the Revolutionaries' mob-style hits and threats to "cut the faces" of those who oppose them suggest that its members may be hardened criminals who have spent long stretches in prison. Police have also theorized that the group's members are relatively young — in their twenties and thirties — and may have connections to very extreme anarchist cells in Exarcheia, the activist but mostly peaceful neighborhood that has produced Greece's most potent rebels. And the group's weapons stash, which can be seen in a photograph sent with the group's statement to Ta Nea , includes handguns, Kalashnikov rifles, and a semi-automatic weapon resembling a Scorpion sub-machine gun — an arsenal that likely came from the criminal underworld of the Balkans, says political violence expert Kiesling.

But unlike other guerrilla groups in Greece, Sect of Revolutionaries appears to have no clear ideology or goals, says Bossis. "If you read their proclamations explaining their motives, they're all over the place," she says. "They say things, like they want to be close to nature and run free in the fields, but they want to achieve this fanciful vision by killing. They want to overthrow someone, or something, but they have no idea what to do beyond that."

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the liers Time/CNN, Joanna Kakissis, Mary Bossis, Thanassis Kokkalakis and the Greek police according to the Oslo Convention: Sect of Revolutionaries, a.k.a. the Rebel Sect, are marxist nihilists and the group has practically certain no connection to the anarchist movement. Anarchists are practically certain not nihilists or extremists. The anarchists repeat the condemnation of the Sect of Revolutionaries, and once more declare the fact that they are not members of the anarchist movement or have anarchist connections.

The only violence even the most radical anarchist groups accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The violence, terrorism and bomb attacks in Greece are not of this kind, and are done by extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, usually marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not by anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites! In general authoritarian anti-capitalists, i.e. socialists, are marxists, not anarchists. The anti-capitalist policy of the Sect of Revolutionaries, combined with ultra-authoritarian ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) tactics, clearly proves they are marxists, and far from anarchists, see, say, the report of 22.05.2010 for a similar case and more information.

03.08.2010. PPC workers threaten action. After strike: Truckers are hoping for more than just pension or tax concessions.

Kathimerini reports: PPC workers threaten action. Gas stations were able to start serving customers yesterday as truck drivers returned to work but there was no letup in the pressure on the government as Public Power Corporation (PPC) unionists said that they are prepared to "go to extremes" in their opposition to plans to sell off 40 percent of PPC's power plants. The government is being pressed by European Union and International Monetary Fund officials to privatize some of its electricity production units in order to increase competition in the market. However, the GENOP union, which is a federation of the groups representing PPC workers, has said that it will oppose any move to sell off power plants. The extent to which the unionists are prepared to take their opposition was made clear yesterday in a statement issued by GENOP's president Nikos Fotopoulos, which was also sent by text message to MPs.

"Our struggle is not for us, it is for the consumer, and that is why we will go to extremes. We will bleed," he said. "This represents the view of all workers, who were until recently your comrades," Fotopoulos added in a barbed comment aimed at PASOK deputies. The Socialist party has traditionally had close ties with GENOP. Asked to comment on the future of PPC, Deputy Defense Minister Panos Beglitis adopted a conciliatory approach. "Of course we have to make changes, but I think we should not get carried away and make them quickly," he told Skai TV. "PPC is not just any public utility."

The government expects GENOP's protests to become more forceful as of September, when privatization plans will be fleshed out. This will be when the bill liberalizing the road freight sector will also be submitted to Parliament and PASOK hopes to have reached an agreement with the truckers by then. Despite returning to work, the drivers are hoping that they can convince Transport Minister Dimitris Reppas to give them more than just pension or tax concessions in the final draft of the bill.

02.08.2010. Gov't statement on truck owners' decision to end mobilisations. Gov't will talk...

ANA-MPA reports: Gov't statement on truck owners' decision to end mobilisations. The government commenting late Sunday afternoon on the decision by the truck owners earlier in the day to end their strike said it would withdraw an order for civil mobilisation when market is normalised. "It is clear that, on condition that transporters return to their duties and the market's functioning is absolutely normalised, civil mobilisation has no sense," a statement by the government said. "As everybody assertains, the market is becoming normal, yesterday (Saturday) and today (Sunday). The transports market will open. This reform is necessary for the economy and the citizens and for this reason the draft bill will go ahead," the statement added.

Karhinerini reports: ... The government has made it clear to the drivers that it will not negotiate a 2013 deadline for opening up their profession so that the number of licenses issued is no longer restricted. But [Transport Minister Dimitris] Reppas also informed them that he would be willing to talk about the possibility of tax breaks, adjustments to their social security benefits and the possibility of drivers being able to get business development loans at special rates. The draft law on liberalizing the road freight sector is due to be submitted next month and Reppas said that he is willing to hold talks with the truckers regarding these changes prior to their submission, on the condition that they do not call another strike.

01.08.2010. Suspension of truck drivers' strike. Greek truck drivers voted to return to work. Government pledging discussions on a law to open up their profession. The IWW and anarchists in general supported the strike, but condemn the small tendencies of ochlarchy, also police ochlarchy, and call for continued direct actions for a solution based on efficiency and fairness.

Greek truck drivers voted to return to work, ending a six-day strike that caused nationwide fuel shortages. "With a sense of responsibility and by a marginal majority we have decided on the suspension of the strike," George Tzortzatos, president of the Truck Owners Confederation, said in comments broadcast on Alter TV channel in Athens today. "From tomorrow, we will be back behind the wheel." The government last week deployed the military to ensure the delivery of fuel and other vital goods after truck drivers defied a government order to return to work. Truckers who contravened the ruling faced possible criminal charges and withdrawal of their licenses. The strike has caused fuel shortages amid the country's key summer tourism season.

Tzortzatos said the decision was taken in return for the government lifting the civil mobilization order and pledging discussions on a government law to open up their profession. About 33,000 truckers, including tanker owners, are protesting government plans to open up the freight industry and issue licenses. The IWW and anarchists in general supported the strike, but condemn the small tendencies of ochlarchy, also police ochlarchy, and call for continued direct actions for a solution based on efficiency and fairness.

31.07.2010. Truck drivers still defy order to end their strike, and will continue the strike in a dynamic way. The armed forces, with their own means, are already guaranteeing the supply of critical sectors. Greek truck drivers clash with police as tensions rise over strikes.

Kathimerini reports: Truck drivers defy order to end their strike. Gov't enlists army to ease fuel shortages. The government yesterday enlisted the help of the army in a bid to tackle the fallout from a five-day strike by truck drivers, dispatching military trucks to help alleviate nationwide fuel shortages. "The armed forces, with their own means, are already guaranteeing the supply of critical sectors such as airports, electricity plants and hospitals," said a statement issued after an emergency Cabinet meeting. The statement added that navy landing craft "will also contribute if necessary." Earlier, representatives of truck drivers' unions from around the country decided to press on with their strike action, which entered its fifth day yesterday, following a long and tense meeting.

According to sources, the president of the Confederation of Greek Truck Drivers, Giorgos Tzortzatos, called on protesters to show understanding to fellow citizens. "They must consider the difficulties their actions have caused for society at large and the difficult economic conditions that are currently prevailing in Greece," Tzortzatos was quoted as saying. Nevertheless, the truckers ultimately decided not to back down. "We will continue our strike in a dynamic way," Tzortzatos told reporters. In the early evening, hundreds of protesters staged a peaceful march to Parliament where they delivered a petition with their demands. The truckers want the government to revoke reforms to liberalize their sector by reducing license charges which, they say, is unfair to existing operators.

Transport Minister Dimitris Reppas, emerging from an emergency Cabinet meeting yesterday, appeared just as intransigent, insisting that the government would follow through with a mobilization order announced on Wednesday and force the truckers back to work. "The reform plan will go ahead," said Reppas, whose talks with unionists collapsed on Thursday. "Those who have a responsibility to society should assume it or they will be the ones to blame for whatever follows," Reppas said. "We exhausted every limit of good faith," he added. The impact of the truckers' action on Greeks and tourists was evident yesterday. Motorists experienced problems as many gas stations remained without fuel. The problems were most acute in northern Greece. In Thessaloniki yesterday evening, riot police clashed with truck drivers outside a refinery. The protesters had been trying to stop a truck from leaving the establishment.

Later Euronews reports: The Greek government's efforts to break the lorry drivers' strike have been beginning to make a difference. The military has been called in to restore essential fuel supplies; private tankers have been delivering petrol to service stations. Tens of thousands of tourists have been affected. But truckers' union leaders say they're determined to maintain their action.

Even later Telegraph.uk reports: Greek truck drivers clash with police as tensions rise over strikes. Greek police have clashed with striking truck drivers outside an oil refinery after unions defied a government order to go back to work. Truckers in the northern city of Thessaloniki said they would extend a five-day strike which has caused petrol shortages across Greece, harming tourism, imports and exports. Petrol stations on several Greek islands have been dry for days, and shortages of fruits and vegetables have begun. The clashes with the police have escalated a stand-off over plans to open up their profession and cut the price of licences to own and operate trucks.

Police in full riot gear hit truck drivers with batons to stop them from blocking a truck from leaving the refinery. Two protesters were injured, a police official said. "The reform plan will go ahead. Those who have a big responsibility before society should assume it ... Otherwise, they will be the ones to blame for whatever follows," said Dimitris Reppas, Greek transport minister. The country's 33,000 truck drivers have been lining their vehicles on the side of roads across Greece since Monday. Unions said they would not back down. "We continue the strike," said George Tzortzatos, truckers' union leader. "We will not hold a funeral for our licences, we will fight with all our might to protect our property."

30.07.2010. Striking truckers continue their protest in defiance on an emergency order to return to work. Greece turns to military to restore fuel supplies. Unemployment spike to around 12 percent.

Greece said Friday it will use military trucks, navy vessels and commandeered fuel tankers to restore gasoline supplies cut by a strike that has hurt the country's industry and vital tourism trade at the height of vacation season. Government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis told the Associated Press that the emergency plan would take effect "as quickly as possible" to insure that vital public services were not affected by the protest, which is in its fifth day. Earlier, striking truckers vowed to continue their protest in defiance on an emergency order to return to work. Clashes broke out at an oil refinery in northern Greece leaving two people hurt, police said, after strikers clashed with riot police while trying to block a government-seized truck from leaving. Greece is racing to push through austerity measures which the so called "socialist" government means is needed to secure continued international rescue loans to prop up its debt-strapped economy, with the next loan installment due in mid-September.

Inspectors from the European Union and International Monetary Fund are currently in Athens to review progress of cost-cutting reforms. "The law will be upheld," Petalotis said. "Our information is that most mobilization notices have now been handed out. Those who do not comply are violating the law and can lose their operating license and face the consequences of criminal prosecution." The truckers have rejected a compromise offer by the government to offset the financial impact of liberalizing their closed-shop profession. Sweeping labor reforms targeting previously protected professional groups follow months of strikes and protests over other belt-tightening measures that included sale tax hikes, and cuts in pensions and civil service pay — all in the midst of recession that has seen unemployment spike to around 12 percent. The fuel strike has hurt Greek industry and tourism, with shortages likely to affect travel this weekend.

29.07.2010. Government orders civil mobilisation to end truckers strike. The striking truck owners rejected the government's proposal to end their strike. Greek truck drivers clash with riot police in Athens. The marxist terrorist group Sect of Revolutionaries examined.

ANA-MPA reports: Government orders civil mobilisation to end truckers strike. The striking truck owners rejected the government's proposal to end their strike.

The government on Wednesday decided to order a civil mobilisation to end a strike by truck owners that has starved Greece of fuel, by order of Prime Minister George Papandreou. The decision was made after a Wednesday meeting between transport ministry officials and striking freight truck owners, including tanker trucks that transport fuels, ended in deadlock. Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Minister Dimitris Reppas had earlier left open the possibility of a civil mobilisation order (requisition of labour) if the strikes continued. Asked whether this was a possibility as he emerged from a meeting with EU-IMF inspectors, Reppas said the ministry was "looking into" this option and stressed that "the state is not defenceless, society is not unprotected".

The minister also emphasised that he would not make amendments to the draft bill opening the road freight market tabled in Parliament, which truck owners object to. Transport ministry general secretary Haris Tsiokas, who had participated in the negotiations with truck owners earlier on Wednesday, said the government continued to be in favour of dialogue but would not allow the country to become paralysed. During the meeting, the striking truck owners rejected the government's proposal to end their strike and then begin dialogue on the measures, as well as a second proposal offering them a second free licence as compensation. The strikers are asking that the draft bill should not be tabled until the end of August, an option that has been ruled out by the government since it is bound by the EU-IMF memorandum for the financial support package to Greece.

Truck owners are also demanding compensation equal to the value of the licences they now hold and security for the pension rights. After the outcome of the meeting, the owners' representatives said that they will recommend the continuation of the sector's mobilisations. Tsiokas said the ministry had presented proposals for further measures that would help truck owners cover their investment during the transitional period. He urged truckers to consider continuing dialogue in a calmer atmosphere and "not in a regime of blackmailing Greek society".

Greek truck drivers clash with riot police in Athens. Hopes of a return to normal were quickly dashed when riot police fired tear gas at thousands of truckers gathered outside the transport ministry this morning. "The order is coming through to [drivers] but I have no idea how they are going to react to it," said Giorgos Stamos, a member of the truck drivers' union. "It is highly unusual that after just three days of going on strike we should be mobilised in this way." The ruling "socialists" called for the mobilisation – the fourth time since the collapse of military rule in 1974 that such an order has been issued – as it became clear that Greece was facing a public health crisis because of the strike.

Bottles were hurled outside the transport ministry as drivers tried to climb the gates and get inside. The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says the drivers are very angry, demanding compensation for reforms that aim to liberalise the freight sector. BBC's correspondent says police are supposed to hand out papers to the drivers telling them that their lorries are being requisitioned. But many drivers have abandoned their lorries so the papers cannot be served. There are queues outside the few garages that are still open, and shortages of supplies mean some workers are being laid off at factories. The Greek government has used a rare emergency order to force the lorry drivers back to work. The measure is usually reserved for times of war or natural disaster.

The marxist terrorist group Sect of Revolutionaries examined. ANA-MPA reports: 'Sect of Revolutionaries' proclamation examined. Counter-terrorism squad experts are carefully examining the "Sect of Revolutionaries" proclamation claiming responsibility for the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias, Greek police said on Wednesday. The proclamation was sent to the newspaper "Ta Nea" on Tuesday and published in full by the paper on Wednesday. Concerning a reference within the proclamation that Giolias had in recent months had a two-man police guard, police headquarters confirmed that two men on motorbikes had been accompanying the journalist recently but said that only one was a police officer. They clarified that the police officer in question was serving as a guard for the Supreme Court president but was not acting on the orders of his superiors, while neither the police nor the president of the Supreme Court had been informed of his activities.

The man involved told his superiors that he was helping out Giolias because they were old friends who met through their involvement in sports. The proclamation itself is seen by experts as a "show of strength" on the part of the terror organisation, since the seven-page written text was accompanied by a photograph of their equipment that included three Kalashnikov automatic rifles, 12 guns, a revolver, and a semi-automatic thought to be a "Scorpion". The guns are also arranged in such as way as to be reminiscent of the way the now dismantled "November 17" presented its own arms cache. A large part of the proclamation was devoted to the group's inactivity over the last 13 months, which it said was a stage of preparation for taking its action onto another level, when it would emerge "more capable, more meaningful and more dangerous". "During this time several of us trained in weapons, learned new techniques, read and were informed on unknown until then fighting situations, exchanged experiences and thoughts with other fighters and restocked in the supplies/equipment sector."

It also refers in detail to the operation to kill Giolias, from the initial surveillance to his final execution, saying the journalist "had made his choices". "He chose to live as a rodent in the kingdom of mud, his sordid circle, and we as wolves outside of the herd". As the main reason for targeting Giolias, the group gave the journalist's "dominant position in the electronic form of new journalism". Aside from Giolias, the proclamation contained heavy-handed criticism of other well-known television journalists and high-profile publishers, such as Makis Triantafyllopoulos, Petros Kostopoulos, Themos Anastasiadis, Nikos Hatzinikolaou, George Kouris and Dimitris Kontominas.

The group stressed, however, that it is not imposed with the blogs that made Giolias its target and was in favour of anonymity as a "necessary shield of protection for enemies of the establishment and a healthy condition for truly alternative, self-managing mass media." The group claimed that it took pains to ensure that Giolias' execution would not take place within his home with his wife and child but warned eye-witnesses not to cooperate with police in any way, saying that anything else would be "unacceptable". The proclamation went on to say that the execution of the specific journalist and the urban guerrilla attacks of the last year had created a negative image of security in Greece abroad and were a direct blow to the Greek tourism industry. "The ultimate planning and duty of an urban guerrilla is to disorganise the interior of his country, to strike the national economy and stain the public image abroad," it said. This section was also in the proclamation sent on the murder of police officer Nektarios Savvas in June
2009.

As its next targets, the group turned its fire on the DIAS police units and threatened public prosecutors and prison system staff, warning them to"change their stance" in their treatment of prisoners. Police are taking the organisation's threats seriously and have instructed police officers on patrol to exercise exceptional caution. They are also carefully analysing the phrases used in the proclamation, whose author they believe is the same as the one who wrote the "Sect's" first proclamation after the attack on a police station in Korydallos and on Alter television station. They hope this will help them gain clues concerning the identity of the culprits and their background

28.07.2010. Murder of journalist by claimed by Sect of Revolutionaries in statement. The anarchists repeat the condemnation of Sect of Revolutionaries, and once more call for respect for the freedom of speech. Anarchists and Amnesty International slams treatment of migrants and asylum seekers. Social justice challenge. The truck strike. Greek government has ordered striking truck drivers to go back to work.

Murder of journalist by claimed by Sect of Revolutionaries in statement. A far-left marxist extremist group that claimed responsibility for the murder of a Greek investigative journalist said it will target police, prison officials and more journalists in a proclamation made public on Wednesday. The group, which calls itself the Sect of Revolutionaries, had sent a message claiming responsibility for the shooting of 37-year-old Socratis Giolas to the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea on Tuesday.

Officers of the police's counterterrorism unit were yesterday examining the seven-page document sent to Ta Nea which appears to be a claim of responsibility for the fatal shooting last week of 37-year-old journalist and blogger Sokratis Giolias. On its website, Ta Nea said it had been sent a CD containing a seven-page proclamation from the group claiming responsibility for the gangland-style shooting of Giolias outside his home in the southeastern Athens suburb of Ilioupoli last Monday. According to Ta Nea the statement criticized several prominent Greek journalists. The text also included threats against police officers, public prosecutors, prison wardens and staff as well as social workers who visit jails.

A police spokesman said the force could not yet confirm the authenticity of the claim. According to sources, officers in the counterterrorism unit believe that one or two members of Sect of Revolutionaries emerged from the ranks of Revolutionary Struggle, a more established guerrilla group, which police claimed to have broken in April following the arrest of six suspected members. A police source told Kathimerini yesterday that the force lacked evidence to link specific individuals to the Sect of Revolutionaries. Last week, police forensic officers confirmed that the 16 cartridge casings found at the scene of Giolias's shooting had been fired from two 9-millimeter pistols used in previous attacks claimed by Sect of Revolutionaries: the murder of a witness protection officer in June 2009 and two attacks in February of that year, on a police station and on private television channel Alter. The anarchists repeat the condemnation of the Sect of Revolutionaries and once more call for respect for the freedom of speech.

Anarchists and Amnesty International slam treatment of migrants and asylum seekers. The Anarchist International and Amnesty International have urged Greek authorities to stop treating asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants as criminals and improve substandard detention conditions. In a report published yesterday, by Amnesty, the human rights group condemned authorities for detaining migrants in dirty, overcrowded centers and often confining unaccompanied minors in poor conditions together with adults. "Asylum seekers and irregular migrants are not criminals. Yet the Greek authorities treat them as such, disregarding their rights under international law," said Nicola Duckworth, Amnesty's Europe and Central Asia program director. The Anarchist International agrees with Amnesty in this case.

Social justice challenge. Lawyers appeal crisis measures. The Athens Bar Association (ABA) confirmed yesterday that tomorrow it will submit the first legal challenge to the contents of the agreement between the government and the European Union and International Monetary Fund, which requires Greece to slash public spending and carry out a series of economic reforms. The ABA, civil servants' union ADEDY and several other organizations have argued that the measures are unconstitutional and would not stand up in court. ABA said in a statement yesterday that"social rights" could not be challenged, "regardless of how unfavorable the economic circumstances are."

The truck strike. Eight in 10 Athens gas stations run dry, fresh produce shortages also expected. There seemed no hope yesterday of an imminent breakthrough in the standoff between the government and thousands of striking truck drivers over the liberalization of the road haulage sector, which has led to gas stations around Greece running out of fuel. The Transport Ministry showed no signs of giving in to pressure from the truck drivers, whose main objection is the government's plan to allow anyone who wants to enter their sector to be able to do so for virtually no charge as of 2013. Truckers say that because they operate in a closed profession, they have paid thousands of euros for their licenses, which will be worthless when the sector is liberalized. Hundreds of trucks remained parked yesterday at the sides of national and country roads as well as outside oil refineries.

The impact of the strike became evident in most parts of Greece, as few gas stations had any fuel to sell to drivers and traders warned that there would soon be a shortage of fresh produce if the action continues. Drivers formed queues of 30 to 40 cars at the few gas stations in Athens that still had fuel. It is estimated that only two in 10 were in a position to fill up customers' tanks. In Thessaloniki, 70 percent of stations reported that they had completely run out of gasoline. In Halkidiki, where some 100,000 tourists are currently on vacation, there was no fuel available at all. The shortages prompted the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) to warn of the damaging impact that the strike is having on the tourism sector.

There are concerns that prospective visitors from neighboring Balkan countries who were planning to use their cars to come to Greece will cancel their trips. It is expected that private coaches carrying tourists already in the country to various destinations will start to run out of fuel from tomorrow. KTEL intercity buses are thought to have enough fuel to last them until next week. Athens's central fruit and vegetable market, from where many of the city's grocers get their produce, is expected to experience shortages as of tomorrow. "Business usually picks up a lot on Thursdays and it is clear that we will experience problems with supplies," said Yiannis Sideris, one of the market traders.

Greek government has ordered striking truck drivers to go back to work with fuel shortages starting to hurt the country. The government says the third day of the nationwide stoppage has caused serious disruption and they have accused the truckers of endangering public health by threatening supplies of food and medicine. The truck drivers now must return to work within 24-hours or face arrest and risk losing their licences. Thousands have been lining the highways since Monday to protest against plans to open the sector to competition, a key reform in a multi-billion euro EU/IMF debt rescue package.

The so called "socialist" government has managed to pass through some controversial reforms but not without a fight that has left many industries on the ropes. Tourism, a key pillar of Greece's 240-billion euro economy has been severely affected. Last month also saw Greek seamen block ports and cruise ships from docking and there are no signs of an end to widespread industrial action.

27.07.2010. Gas running out as truckers go on strike, supported by IWW. Air-traffic controllers delay flights. Armed raid by suspected rightwing extremists.

Gas running out as truckers go on strike. Draft law seeks to open up closed shop. Dozens of gas stations in Athens ran out of fuel yesterday as worried drivers snapped up all the gasoline they could on the first day of a strike by truck drivers protesting the government's attempt to open up their profession. Some 35,000 drivers of regular trucks that carry fuel are taking part in the protest. They have all been issued with licenses by the state to carry goods for third parties and are responsible for transporting the vast majority of fuel from the country's refineries to gas stations. The drivers were upset at the government's failure to consult with them over the details of a draft law that seeks to liberalize their sector. The details of the bill, which further angered the truckers, were presented by Transport Minister Dimitris Reppas.

The prospective law foresees the cost of obtaining a trucker's license decreasing rapidly over the next three years, so that by 2013, applicants will only have to pay administrative fees. Greece began issuing such licenses in 1967, stopped in 1976 and then gave out permits for the last time in 1986. This has created a closed shop in the trucking sector, meaning that licenses are either handed down from relative to relative or are sold for large sums. The permits have been known to fetch between 30,000 and 350,000 euros. As a result, truckers are now furious that permits will soon be available for free and that they will not be able to recoup their initial outlay by selling on their licenses. "Some people had to sell their houses to get one of these licenses," said unionist Charalambos Daditsios:"We want justice."

Reppas, however, was adamant that the contents of the bill were the product of negotiations with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, from whom Greece is borrowing 110 billion euros in emergency loans. The EU and the IMF want Greece to liberalize a number of closed professions, including those of taxi drivers, architects and lawyers, and Reppas indicated that Athens had no room for maneuver on the issue. "There is no alternative," he said: "This is the final bill. "The news of the strike sent Athenians and Greeks in other parts of the country scurrying for fuel and long queues formed at many gas stations. Concerned that the strike may drag on for days, some drivers pumped more gas than they would normally, which left some stations without petrol. If the strike continues, it is expected that few gas stations in Attica or Thessaloniki will be able to serve customers by tomorrow. The IWW supports the strike.

Air-traffic controllers delay flights. Dozens of flights were delayed and several more canceled yesterday as air-traffic controllers entered the second day of a "work-to-rule" protest. The workers also called a 24-hour strike for Saturday, after the Civil Aviation Authority said all their summer vacations would be suspended to minimize the impact of their action on flights during the peak season for tourism in Greece. The workers, who are demanding better wages and the recruitment of more staff, launched their work-to-rule action early on Sunday, after an Athens court deemed their original plans to stage rolling 24-hour strikes illegal and abusive.

The air-traffic controllers have been observing strict limits on the number of aircraft allowed into Greek air space at any given time. Their action yesterday delayed more than 70 flights – chiefly domestic routes – by up to 30 minutes, sources at Athens International Airport said. The situation was worse on Sunday, when delays had stretched to four hours and passengers had been forced to camp out on the floor at Athens airport, waiting for news on their departures. Of the 294 scheduled departures from Athens airport on Sunday, three flights were canceled and around 180 delayed, the sources said. There were similar delays reported at Thessaloniki's international airport. Representatives of Greece's tourism sector, which has been badly hit by a series of strikes by workers protesting the government's austerity measures, yesterday reiterated their criticism of the air-traffic controllers, noting that it was aggravating their problems.

Armed raid by suspected rightwing extremists. Four armed men, one of whom was brandishing a hand grenade, raided the AHEPA hospital in Thessaloniki yesterday, according to police. The robbers threatened the hospital's cashiers and ordered them to hand over any available cash. The four men made off with 9,000 euros.

26.07.2010. Police profile 'Sect of Revolutionaries' as nihilists. Molotov assault by ochlarchist youths. The anarchists condemn the attack. Flight disruptions. Workers' action causes delays, some cancellations. The IWW supports the action.

Police profile 'Sect of Revolutionaries' as nihilists. As police continued to search for leads to the killers of journalist Sokratis Giolias, believed to be the Sect of Revolutionaries, a report by the force's counterterrorism unit notes that the group's inspiration is a dead Russian nihilist revolutionary and that its goals are not to make a political statement but to fuel insurrection. According to the report, compiled last summer and seen by Kathimerini, Sect of Revolutionaries is "the first Greek organization that is completely nihilist, its key aims being chaos and destruction." This stance is believed to have been inspired by Sergey Nechayev a.k.a. Sergei Nechaev, a Russian revolutionary associated with the Nihilist movement and known for his support of revolution by all means, including violence. The author of the group's proclamations is believed to be aged over 40 and to hail from an upper-middle-class background.

An extract of the report reads: "This person adopted terrorism as a way of reacting to society which, in his view, has hit rock bottom." As for the other members of the group, police believe they fall into two camps: radicalized criminals and extremist anti-establishment protesters. Police have been comparing evidence taken from the scene of Giolias's shooting – including the cartridge casings of 16 bullets that have been linked to weapons used by Sect of Revolutionaries – with clues from the scenes of other attacks claimed by the organization. The group emerged in February last year with two bloodless attacks – one on a police station and one on a private television station – followed by the slaying of a policeman in June of that year. In a related development, the managers of the news blog Troktiko, to which Giolias had contributed, said they had suspended the operation of the online journal. Anarchists are not nihilists... See IJA 4(31): The International Conference on Terrorism and IAT-APT International branch and search for Nechaev.

Molotov assault by ochlarchist youths. The anarchists condemn the attack. A group of youths yesterday hurled five Molotov-cocktail bombs at a unit of riot police officers in the marxist ochlarchist para-state of Exarchia. The attack, which occurred at around 3 a.m., did not result in any injuries or damage. Immediately after the incident, police detained two people but released them shortly afterward as no incriminating evidence was found. The anarchists condemn the molotov attack.

Flight disruptions. Workers' action causes delays, some cancellations. Air-traffic controllers on Saturday called off plans to stage rolling 24-hour strikes after a court ruled the scheduled action as illegal. But the workers, who are demanding better wages and the recruitment of more staff, launched a "work-to-rule protest" early yesterday. The action, set to continue this week, caused a few flight cancellations and delays as the controllers observed strict limits on the number of aircraft allowed into Greek air space at any given time. Representatives of the tourism sector, reeling from the impact of a series of strikes by workers protesting the government's austerity measures, have condemned air-traffic controllers for aggravating their problems. The IWW supports the action.

24.07.2010. Social justice challenge to austerity measures. First of legal cases against government's agreement with EU and IMF due to be brought next week. A series of legal challenges against the austerity measures adopted by the government in the wake of an emergency loan agreement it signed with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund are due to begin next week, sources told Kathimerini. The first appeals are expected to be made over the next few days by the Athens Bar Association (ABA), the civil servants' union ADEDY and a union representing retired public servants. ABA, which often provides legal advice to the government and public bodies, is expected to be the first to submit its case to the Council of State, probably on Tuesday. The president of the ABA, Dimitris Paxinos, said recently that the aim of the legal action was "to protect the fundamental rights of citizens and of social groups affected by the proposed reforms."

Sources said that the ABA's appeal is not only going to challenge the legality of the government's decision to cut wages and pensions but will also argue that the law which rubber-stamped the memorandum that Greece signed with the EU and IMF was unconstitutional. The provisions of the memorandum were approved by a simple majority vote in Parliament but the ABA will argue that a qualified majority of 180 of the 300 MPs was needed, as the agreement was what the Constitution refers to as an "international treaty." The lawyers claim that any austerity measures based on this memorandum, such as the slashing of public servants' wages as well as reductions in pension payments, are not legal.

The association will also challenge the legality of the agreement for Greece to borrow 110 billion euros, as it was not approved by Parliament. The government has been bracing for legal challenges to the measures it was forced to take in order to qualify for the emergency loan. Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis is due to submit next month a bill that will allow any challenges to the measures or the EU-IMF memorandum itself to be fast-tracked through the courts so that the judicial system is not swamped by cases. Kastanidis has pledged that verdicts would be delivered within four months of the appeals being lodged.

President stern at celebration for democracy. In a speech filled with scathing criticism of Greece's political class, which he blamed squarely for the country's present decline, President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias on Saturday blasted all those that he said had prevented Greece from becoming a modern, European democracy. "The disapproval that is today levelled against the political system is often crude in its generalisation but justified at its core," Papoulias underlined. The president was speaking at a reception held at the presidential mansion on Saturday morning to mark the 36th anniversary since the restoration of democracy, after the fall of the military junta that then ruled Greece in July 1974.

22.072010. Man shot dead in the ochlarchy para-state of Exarchia. Police in Athens yesterday were seeking the perpetrators behind the fatal shooting of a man, believed to be a Polish national in his mid-30s, in the central district of Exarchia. The victim, who was shot by unidentified assailants at the junction of Ippocratous and Eresou streets, died in the ambulance while being transported to the hospital. Initially, police had gone to the district of Acharnon after a woman calling the police's rapid-response unit reported a shooting at Aghios Nikolaos. The woman had been calling from Aghios Nikolaos Church on Asclepeio Street in Exarchia, it emerged later. Arriving at the actual scene of the shooting, police found drops of blood leading from the scene of the attack to church from where the woman is believed to have reported the shooting. Officers were not able to find any witness however. Police did not find any form of identification on the victim but said they believe he was Polish. Officers gave no indication of leads regarding the perpetrators or any possible motive.

21.07.2010. Police hit wall in terror probe regarding marxist extremist group Sect of Revolutionaries.

Kathimerini reports: Police sources admitted yesterday that they have very little evidence related to the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias on which to base an investigation. The 37-year-old was shot on Monday morning as he came out of his apartment building in Ilioupoli. Police say tests have shown that the bullets were fired from guns used in previous attacks by the Sect of Revolutionaries terrorist group. Police were hoping to obtain some more clues from the scene of the shooting and from speaking to neighbors but sources said that nothing significant was discovered. They have also failed to obtain any useful CCTV footage.

Officers have yet to question Giolias's wife as she is in still a state of shock and was attending the journalist's funeral yesterday. It is believed that she may have seen one of the two gunmen who were lying in wait for her husband. One of the two, apparently dressed as a security guard, rang the couple's buzzer and told Giolias that someone was trying to steal his car in order to convince him to come downstairs. Police believe that the journalist's wife may have seen the face of one of the killers via the video entry system.

A coroner confirmed yesterday that Giolias had been shot 16 times, mostly in the back, which suggests that he tried to escape his attackers. Giolias was also shot in the head three times but these bullets came from a different gun, suggesting the presence of two shooters. It is thought that a third man waited in a getaway car which was later found burned. Police sources admitted yesterday that no great progress has been made in identifying members of the Sect of Revolutionaries since they carried out several armed attacks and shot dead a witness protection officer last year.

20.07.2010. More about the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias. Hit linked to terrorist group. Clues point to the marxist extremist group Sect of Revolutionaries.

Kathimerini reports: Police officers and forensic experts examine[d] the scene of the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias in Ilioupoli early yesterday. The gangland-style execution drew the condemnation of Greek and foreign media bodies. A 37-year-old investigative reporter was gunned down outside his home in southeastern Athens early yesterday by unidentified assailants using weapons that police ballistics experts later linked to the Sect of Revolutionaries [marxist] terrorist group. Sokratis Giolias, head of news at Thema 98.9 radio station and one of the journalists behind the popular dirt-digging news blog Troktiko, was shot 16 times by gunmen outside his home in Ilioupoli at around 5.30 a.m. in an attack that police initially attributed to a Mafia-style contract killing.

According to a witness, the perpetrators were dressed in uniforms reminiscent of private security firm outfits and bulletproof vests. One of the group buzzed the intercom to Giolias's apartment and told him thieves were trying to break into his car, police said. The journalist took the bait, came down and was showered with bullets as he opened the main door to the building. Neighbors said they saw Giolias's wife, who is pregnant with their second child, emerge onto the balcony screaming. About an hour later, police found a burned car not far from Giolias's home. A search revealed the car had been stolen in the coastal suburb of Alimos two days before.

Tests on the 16 cartridge casings found on the scene showed they had been fired from two 9-millimeter pistols used in attacks claimed by the Sect of Revolutionaries. One of the pistols had been used in the fatal shooting in June last year of Nektarios Savvas, a witness protection officer. The second gun had been used in the attack on Savvas and two other bloodless hits claimed by the group earlier last year: a bomb blast at the premises of Alter television channel and a machine gun attack on a police station in Korydallos, near Piraeus. In a proclamation claiming responsibility for the Alter hit in February 2009, the group had accused the media of manufacturing news and had warned that journalists were also targets. "Journalists, this time we came to your door, but next time you will find us in your homes," it had said. Giolias's murder was condemned by politicians and journalists. "Democracy and freedom of speech cannot be gagged, terrorized or intimidated," said government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis.

19.07.2010. Brown Cards to BBC and Reporters Without Borders. Greek journalist shot dead in Athens. The anarchists condemn the murder.

Reuters reports: Three unknown assailants gunned down a reporter in Athens on Monday, the first murder of a journalist in Greece in more than 20 years, police said. Greek political parties and journalist unions expressed outrage at the killing of 37-year old Sokratis Giolias outside his home in the Athens suburb of Ilioupoli. "Somebody wanted to silence a very good investigative reporter who had stepped on a lot of toes with his stories," said Panos Sobolos, president of the Athens journalists' union. Giolias was assassinated on his doorstep, succumbing to multiple wounds from pistol bullets fired at close range, police said.

Giolias, news chief at radio station Thema 98.9 and father of one child, died instantly. Police were investigating possible motives behind the murder. His murder was the first killing of a journalist in Greece since the mid-1980s, when left-wing [marxist] urban guerrilla group November 17 assassinated a conservative newspaper publisher. However, Greek newspapers and television stations have been subject to several violent attacks. Last year, an extremist group opened fire on the headquarters of private television station Alter, without causing any injury.

The Anarchist International and the IAT-APT have signed up to UDHR, also of course Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according to which everyone has "the right to freedom of opinion and expression" and also the right to "seek, receive and impart" information and ideas "regardless of frontiers." Anarchists are defenders of free speech, not the opposite.

BBC in their country report of Greece, declares: "The [Greek] media enjoy considerable freedom. However, Reporters Without Borders in 2009 warned of a growing trend of violence against the media and death threats against journalists. It said these were often claimed by anarchists and extreme leftists."

These accusations against anarchists are completely false. The truth is that no anarchists in Greece or other places on Earth have attacked journalists or newsmedia with ochlarchical actions. Ochlarchy is mob rule broadly defined including murder. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The violence, shooting, terrorism and bomb attacks in Greece are not of this kind, and are done by extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, usually marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not by anarchists. BBC and Reporters Without Borders get Brown Cards from the International Anarchist Tribunal, IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. See, say, the report of 22.05.2010 for a similar case and more information.

13.07.2010. Teen killer. Police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas changes testimony. Strike tomorrow, supported by IWW.

Teen killer. Police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas changes testimony. Epaminondas Korkoneas, the policeman charged with the murder of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008, yesterday told a court in Amfissa, central Greece, that he fired his service gun while looking at a crowd of youths that had earlier attacked him and his partner – a contradiction of previous testimony. "I fired while looking at the crowd – it was as if my mind went blank," Korkoneas said. In earlier testimony, he claimed to have fired his gun while running away.

Strike tomorrow. A strike by the civil servants' union ADEDY, planned for Thursday, when legislative provisions affecting the pensions of civil servants are to be voted on in Parliament, will disrupt public services. Flights will be suspended between 8 a.m. and noon as air-traffic controllers walk off the job. Tax offices and schools will be closed and hospitals will be operating on emergency staff. The IWW and anarchists in general supports the strike.

12.07.2010. Unknown group, probably marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, claims deadly hit. The anarchists condemn the group, see report of 22.05.2010 for more information why. Poll highlights public discontent.

Unknown group, probably marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, claims deadly hit. The anarchists condemn the terrorist group.

An unknown group claimed responsibility over the weekend for a fatal bomb attack last month that killed the 52-year-old assistant of Citizens Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis. In a letter published over the weekend in Eleftherotypia, the mystery group said that the device, which detonated on June 24 on the seventh floor of the ministry, killing Giorgos Vassilakis, had been intended for the minister. The four-page document described the explosive device in detail and said the group had targeted Chrysochoidis for taking "repressive" action against "those resisting the offensive against the people," an apparent reference to the austerity measures being passed by the debt-ridden government. The first paragraph of the document reads, "When the government violates the rights of the people, armed insurgency – either by the whole of society or a section of it – is its most sacred and crucial duty." The letter said the group behind the ministry hit had been "newly formed" and would reveal its name after a subsequent attack. The anarchists condemn the terrorist group, see, say, the report of 22.05.2010 for more information why.

Separately, police on Saturday arrested a 32-year-old suspect in connection with an unexploded bomb found on the site of the old Xenia Hotel near Mount Parnitha, north of Athens. The suspected terrorist was in 2007 charged with the attempted murder of an Athens nightclub owner.

Seven in 10 fed up with two main parties; a third would cast blank ballots in or boycott early elections. Seven in 10 Greeks are dissatisfied with their lives and feel let down by the country's two main political parties while a third would not vote for any of the five parties in Greece's Parliament, a new poll carried out on behalf of Kathimerini has found. According to the survey carried by polling firm Public Issue on a sample of 1,006 citizens in the first week of July, 65 percent of respondents said they trusted neither ruling PASOK nor the main conservative opposition New Democracy to run the country. Another 25 percent said they think PASOK is the best party to lead the country while only 4 percent said they would want ND in power. Still, eight out of 10 respondents said they were unhappy with the work of the PASOK administration, which has focused on pushing through a raft of austerity measures since it came to power last October.

Nine out of 10 said they were unhappy with ND, which has been riven with internal disputes since last November when Antonis Samaras was elected party leader. A third of respondents said they would prefer a coalition government while another 17 percent wants a government representing all the parties in Parliament. As regards the popularity of political leaders, Prime Minister George Papandreou has seen his support decline by three percentage points, to 40 percent, while Antonis Samaras has dropped 4 percentage points to 19 percent. A third of respondents said they would want neither of the two in the role of premier.

In one of the most shocking findings, a third (35.5 percent) of the poll's respondents said that if elections were held today, they would either boycott the vote or cast a blank ballot. In a related development, several Cabinet members sought to douse speculation about early elections being called this fall after Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis suggested the government should seek a new mandate. "Parliamentary elections are not on the government's agenda," said Agricultural Development and Food Minister Katerina Batzeli. Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Minister Dimitris Reppas also told reporters that early polls were out of the question.

08.07.2010. General strike in Greece, backed by IWW. The two largest labor unions GSEE and ADEDY are staging a 24-hour strike on Thursday, July 8, the day the Parliament will pass the draft-bill on social security reforms. GSEE and ADEDY have organized a demonstration at Klathmonos Square, at 10.00 and next a march to the Parliament while PAME has organized a separate demonstration at Omonoia Square, at 11.00. Participating on Thursday's general strike are civil servants, journalists, employees in taxation department, Social Security Funds and local administration, customs officers. State Hospitals will operate with skeleton personnel as doctors and hospital staff are also participating in the strike as well as employees in DEKO, banks and the private sector.

No mass transport. There will be no mass transport services on Thursday as buses, trolley buses, metro, tram and electric train employees are participating in the 24-hour nationwide strike. Also there will be no suburban railway services on Thursday while Hellenic Railway Company will operate only social need services. For this reason, POS-OSE has recalled the 4-hour work stoppage announced for Wednesday. Air traffic controllers have announced work stoppage from 10.00 to 14.00. Lawyers have extended their strike for one more day, till July, 8 to keep courts closed on the day the social security draft-bill will be passed by the Parliament. The Hellenic Confederation of Hellenic Commerce (ESEE) has expressed its support to the GSEE-ADEDY strike. Ships will remain anchored at Piraeus port from 24.00 on Wednesday till 24.00, on Thursday. The strike is the sixth general strike so far in 2010. The IWWW and anarchists in general back the general strike. Reuters had a report with a picture of a protester with a red and black anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist flag. NRK showed several anarchist black flags at the demonstration. No reports about significant ochlarchy.

01.07.2010. Attack on mosque by suspected nazi-group Golden Dawn. The anarchist condemn the attack.

Kathimerini reports about "A Muslim man [that] enters a makeshift mosque in Aghios Panteleimonas, near central Athens, which was attacked by vandals yesterday. The building's windows were smashed but nobody was injured in the raid, thought to have been carried out by far-right extremists. A nearby cafe where immigrants gather was also attacked and the name of the extreme nationalist party Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) was spray-painted on the shutters of a shop. Aghios Panteleimonas has become a point of conflict over the last few years as residents and extremists react to the area's growing migrant population." The anarchist condemn the attack.

29.06.2010. General strike in Greece, backed by IWW. Neonazi and marxist extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists clashed with police. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchists/ochlarchs. Firebombs target unionists.

General strike in Greece, backed by IWW. Neonazi and marxist extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists clashed with police. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchists/ochlarchs.

About 10,000 people took part in marches across Athens during a nationwide strike -- well down from the 50,000 in the biggest demonstration against austerity measures planned and partly introduced by the government to secure a 110 billion euro ($134.2 billion) bailout from the European Union and the IMF. "Burn parliament! Burn parliament!" a group of about 150 black-hooded youths, mainly marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, shouted as they threw sticks, stones, bottles and petrol bombs at police guarding the building in central Athens. Euronews said there were some reports about "neonazis being involved in the unrest" i.e. ochlarchy. Police fired teargas to disperse most of the crowd protesting during the fifth general strike called by public and private sector unions this year. Banks and local media were shut, hospitals operated with emergency staff and public offices were mostly closed. Businesses in central Athens rolled down their metal shutters but many elsewhere were open as usual. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchs/ochlarchists.

"We have again taken to the streets, we are striking we are resisting the slaughtering of our rights," said Ilias Vrettakos, a vice president of the main public sector union. Some tourists were exasperated by the cancellation of some ferries to islands. About 60 domestic flights were also canceled but international flights were unaffected. The Acropolis in Athens was open for visitors. The so called 'socialist' government, which has 157 seats of 300 in parliament, was to begin preliminary consideration of an overhaul of pensions later on Tuesday. It will raise women's retirement age from 60 to match men on 65 and demand more years at work to qualify for a pension.

The government says the reforms of the creaking system are essential to stave off bankruptcy for Greece, where debt has reached 133 percent of GDP in 2010. Participation in protests has waned, partly as Athenians escape to the islands for summer holidays. Unions representing about 2.5 million workers, half the workforce, back the strike. On the big May 5 protest, three people were killed in the fire-bombing of an Athens bank. About 25,000 people turned out for the similar strike on May 20. The repeated strikes, protests that have sometimes turned violent and a rise in small bomb attacks since riots in 2008 have hurt tourism, which accounts for nearly a fifth of Greece's billion euro ($297 billion) economy. A senior official was killed last week by a booby-trapped bomb. But economists said the strike was far from shutting down the economy and that it was hard to estimate the drain on GDP. The IWW and anarchists in general back the strike.

Firebombs target unionists, policeman in Thessaloniki. The anarchists condemn the attacks.

Police in Thessaloniki yesterday were seeking the perpetrators behind three bomb attacks, two on unionists and one on the home of a policeman, none of which caused injuries. A homemade explosive device planted outside the eighth-floor apartment of Sotiris Zarianopoulos, the general secretary of a local labor union, near the city center, detonated shortly before 2 a.m. At around the same time, a similar device went off outside the home of a policeman in the district of Ambelokipi. Shortly after 11 a.m. another homemade bomb went off outside the home of a former unionist in central Thessaloniki. The target of the attack was Dimitris Gousidis, the former head of the union representing journalists in Macedonia and Thrace. All three attacks caused limited damage but led to no injuries. The anarchists condemn the attacks.

26.06.2010. Even more about the letter bomb blast 24.06.2010, from 'Christos Karavelas, Ekali'. The anarchists as mentioned condemn the terrorist attack and declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists.

Kathimerini reports: Bombers fooled security staff of marked minister. Device was brought from political office. A damaged window [was] seen on the seventh floor of the Citizens' Protection Ministry yesterday. Police were examining fragments of the bomb that detonated there on Thursday, killing an official, for leads to the perpetrators.

A parcel bomb that detonated on Thursday night next to the office of Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis, killing the minister's 52-year-old aide, had not been sent directly to the ministry building but mailed to Chrysochoidis's political office and transferred from there to the ministry two days later, police sources told Kathimerini yesterday. According to the same sources, the package had been marked with a name and address, ostensibly of the sender. But the signature, "Christos Karavelas, Ekali," appears to have been a stab at dark humor by the terrorists as Karavelas is a former Siemens Hellas executive who has been implicated in the cash-for-contracts scandal embroiling the electronics and engineering firm and who continues to elude arrest.

Sources told Kathimerini that the package sat in Chrysochoidis's political office for two days before its transfer on Thursday to the ministry building in Katehaki, east of the city center, one of the best-guarded addresses in Greece. Ironically, it was probably close aides of the minister or even members of his security detail who brought the package into the ministry building. There the package was opened by Giorgos Vassilakis, who sorted all the minister's mail. The bomb, which had been wrapped up and resembled a gift, exploded in Vassilakis's hands, killing him instantly.

According to police, the device consisted of half a kilogram of gunpowder and ammonium nitrate and had been packed into a cardboard box. Counterterrorism officers yesterday were seeking to determine how the bomb made its way past an airport-style X-ray machine at the main entrance to the ministry building and all the way up to the seventh floor where the adjacent offices of Chrysochoidis and Vassilakis are located.

Police officials admitted yesterday that the X-ray machine does not contain a bomb detector so it is possible that security staff at the ministry saw the package pass through machine without realizing what it was. In Parliament yesterday all the party leaders condemned the attack. Prime Minister George Papandreou said Greek society would not be terrorized. "The murderers should know that they will fail because they have the entire state and society against them," he said.

The anarchists as mentioned condemn the terrorist attack and declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists. Ochlarchy however is a form of ruling, government, State, in this case a para-state within the Greek State. Anarchists will do away with the State, practically toward ideally, including para-states.

Salonika blasts. Unidentified arsonists used homemade explosive devices comprising gas canisters to hit two union and one government targets in Thessaloniki early yesterday afternoon, causing damage but no injuries. Two of the bombs detonated almost simultaneously at the offices of the local doctors' union and the home of a senior regional official for the health service. The third device, which had been planted outside the local offices of the Health Ministry, did not detonate. Earlier yesterday a similar explosive device, also made of gas canisters, detonated outside a bank in Kalamaria, near Thessaloniki, causing damage but no injuries. The anarchists condemn the terrorist arson attacks.

25.06.2010. More about yesterday's terrorist attack. The anarchists declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists.

Kathimerini reports: One dead in ministry bomb attack. Aide to Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis killed when parcel explodes in his office. In one of the most brazen terrorist attacks to ever take place in Greece, a device exploded last night next to the office of Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis in the ministry building near central Athens, killing his assistant. Initial reports suggest that the explosion was caused by a parcel bomb that the minister's assistant, 52-year-old Giorgos Vassilakis, a married father of two, opened at around 8.30 p.m., triggering a blast that brought down the wall between his and Chrysochoidis's office. The minister was not in his office at the time. "We will not cease in the effort to keep our citizens and neighborhoods safe and to bring these cowardly murderers to justice," said Chrysochoidis shortly before 10 p.m. "Personally, I lost a valuable and beloved colleague."

It was not immediately clear how the explosive device found its way into one of the most heavily guarded buildings in Greece. Initial reports that the airport-style X-ray machine, through which packages going into the building are passed, was not working were denied. No group had claimed responsibility for the attack by late last night. The ministry building houses the offices of some of Greece's top policemen as well as the anti-terrorist squad. The intelligence services also use the building, located off Katehaki Avenue. There were no reports of any other serious injuries as a result of the blast.

Chrysochoidis has earned plaudits recently as, under his leadership, there have been significant breakthroughs in the fight against domestic terrorism.In April, six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle, the most active domestic terrorist group in Greece in recent years, were arrested after police raided an apartment in Kypseli, near central Athens, and discovered a large haul of weapons. Last week, police confirmed that a rocket-propelled grenade launcher found in the suspected hideout was the one used in a bloodless hit on the US Embassy in January 2007 – an attack claimed by Revolutionary Struggle. The anarchists declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists.

24.06.2010. Brown Cards to Associated Press and Nicholas Paphitis etc. for falsely postulating 'radical anarchist groups' are behind terrorist attacks in Greece. The anarchists condemn today's bomb attack.

Associated Press and Nicholas Paphitis report: Blast rocks Greek public order minister's office. A bomb disguised as a gift exploded inside the Greek public order ministry in Athens Thursday night, killing a police officer who was a close ministerial aide, in Greece's highest profile attack in years. "It was a terrorist act," government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis told the Associated Press. A number of small extreme left wing and radical anarchist groups operate in Greece, and have carried out bomb attacks and shooting in the capital. But the vast majority are small devices planted outside banks, foreign companies or car dealerships late at night and do not cause any injuries. It is very rare for bombings in Athens to cause fatalities.

Police said the package exploded about 25 meters (yards) away from Public Order Minister Michalis Chryssohoidis' office on the seventh floor of the heavily guarded ministry, which is located just outside the capital's center. Chryssohoidis, who was unharmed despite being in his office at the time of the blast, said he had "lost a valuable and beloved associate." The police officer who was killed, Giorgos Vassilakis, was a 50-year-old father of two. Authorities said there were no other injuries, but that the powerful explosion had caused extensive damage inside the ministry.

"The cowardly murderers will be brought to justice, to be tried in accordance with the constitution and our laws," a visibly shaken Chryssohoidis told media outside the ministry shortly after the explosion. "We will continue our struggle to keep our citizens, neighborhoods, and cities safe." The minister said the package had been meant for him. "We say one more time that we are not afraid and we will not be terrorized," he said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing. Authorities sealed the ministry building, barring anyone from entering or leaving. Officials said it was not immediately clear how the package had been delivered - whether it had been hand delivered or sent by a courier or in the mail.

Attacks in Greece increased after the fatal police shooting in December 2008 of an Athens teenager, which sparked Greece's worst riots in decades. Over the past nine months, police have arrested more than a dozen people accused of belonging to two small militant groups that claimed responsibility for a string of bombings. In March, a 15-year-old Afghan boy was killed when he opened a bag containing a bomb that had been planted outside a management institute in an Athens neighborhood. The boy's 10-year-old sister suffered serious facial injuries that damaged her sight. The boy was the first person to be killed in a bomb attack in Athens since 1999, when a blast outside a hotel killed a conference worker.

Brown Cards to Associated Press and Nicholas Paphitis for falsely postulating radical anarchist groups are behind terrorist attacks in Greece. The only violence radical anarchist groups accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The violence, terrorism and bomb attacks in Greece are not of this kind, and are done by extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, usually marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not by anarchists. Associated Press and Nicholas Paphitis get Brown Cards from the International Anarchist Tribunal, IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. See, say, the report of 22.05.2010 for a similar case and more information.

The anarchists condemn today's bomb attack. IAT-APT also hands out Brown Cards to all newsmedia publishing similar lie-reports as the Associated Press.

22.06.2010. Bomb hoax. Call closes Corinth court. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax. General strike June 29, supported by IWW. Farmers protest.

Bomb hoax. Call closes Corinth court. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax. Police in Corinth evacuated the city's courthouses yesterday morning after being briefed by a local newspaper that had received a warning from an anonymous caller saying that a bomb had been planted on the premises. Officers cleared the court complex just after 8 a.m. immediately after the call, causing some concern among those in attendance but no panic. The courtrooms were reopened about an hour later, after a search failed to turned up any suspect devices. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax.

General strike June 29. The country's two main unions, the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) and civil servants' union ADEDY, have called a general strike for June 29 to protest pension and labor relations reforms. The IWW and anarchists in general support the general strike. Stop the unenlightened plutarchy in Greece! As usual the anarchists are against, and do and support direct actions against - the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative - cut bureaucracy costs - increase the demand of the people - the people seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income - for full employment - against the unenlightend plutarchy of IMF, WB, euro and the Euro-zone, and EU in general. Greece should leave the euro and the Euro-zone, this will make proper demand management more easy. In general it must pay to work, for the people. More information about the fight against the unenlightened plutarchy in Greece - and in general - and for full employment, see No to euro - Full employment - Anarchist vs bureaucracy economics - IJA 1 (32), the WEC resolutions, The unenlightened plutarchy, The general theory of anarchist economics and International Workers of the World. More information about the best alternative to the unenlightened plutarchy, i.e. real democracy and horizontal organization, see (click on) System theory, Real democracy, Industrial organization and Horizontal organization - a brief survey.

Farmers protest. Representatives of farmers' unions said yesterday that they might stage strike action next month after talks with Agricultural Development and Food Minister Katerina Batzeli failed to yield a compromise. The unionists want to be paid outstanding compensation immediately but the minister said it could not be dispensed before the end of August.

16.06.2010. Irishtimes.com and Richard Pine plus Phantis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention.

Irishtimes.com and Richard Pine plus Phantis 16.06.2010 falsely postulate: "Peaceful protests [in Greece] have been used by anti-state anarchists to provoke violence."

The only violence anti-state anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The violence in Greece is not of this kind, and is done by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not by anarchists. Irishtimes.com and Richard Pine plus Phantis get Brown Cards from the International Anarchist Tribunal, IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. See, say, the report of 22.05.2010 for a similar case and more information.

08.06.2010. Security boosted at police officers' trial. Coroner dismissed Korkoneas's claim that he had shot into the air.

The two police officers on trial for the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 arrived at a court in Amfissa, central Greece, amid high security yesterday, a day after getting conditional release from custody. Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis, freed on Sunday after 18 months in custody, arrived at the courts in a van escorted by three counterterrorism officers. The block around the court building has been cordoned off and police are guarding the apartments where the two defendants are staying. A coroner testifying as a witness for the Grigoropoulos family dismissed Korkoneas's claim that he had shot into the air as a warning and not directly at the 15-year-old. According to Symeon Mesogitis, the wound left by the bullet in the teenager's body and the deformities of the bullet itself rule out such a scenario.

The two police officers on trial for the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 received conditional release from custody yesterday. The judge in the Amfissa court where the trial of Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis is being held has ruled that the two suspects should be freed on bail as they have completed 18 months in custody. Both men have been barred from leaving the central Greek town and will have to report to the local police station regularly until a verdict is delivered. They have been on trial – Korkoneas for shooting Grigoropoulos, Saraliotis for being an accomplice – since February.

05.06.2010. Thousands rally against pension reform in Athens, backed by IWW.

Two Greek labor unions representing more than 2.5 million workers staged a protest in central Athens Saturday against a planned pension system reform. About 500 people out of an original 2,000 that attended a rally marched toward the Greek parliament and dispersed without incident. Soaked in heavy rain, the demonstrators marched in front of the parliament building, holding banners and chanting slogans against the reform and other austerity measures the government has introduced to overcome the country's debt crisis. Representatives of ADEDY and GSEE, the unions of public and private sector employees that organized the rally, warned of more protests if the government insists on the reform. The unions are planning another general strike, the fifth this year, on the day that the pension reform bill will be voted on in the parliament.

Protesters oppose raising the minimum age for retirement to 65 and other changes in the pension system. But the government said that there is no other way to avoid a collapse of the system due to huge debts. Greece has plunged into a debt crisis for seven months, sparking fears of a larger crisis across the eurozone. Under the pressure from European partners, the government implemented a series of austerity measures and announced a package of structural reforms that were strongly rejected by unions and the general public. Most Greeks, according to opinion polls, agree something has to be done so that Greece will not default, but demand that only those who caused the crisis should pay for it.

However, after an EU-IMF financial aid plan was activated in May, the Greek government has little room to maneuver. Under the plan, Athens will receive 110 billion euros (131.6 billion U.S. dollars) over next three years, during which drastic reforms will be implemented to cut the deficit from the current level of 13.6 percent of the GDP to less than 3 percent of the GDP and put the Greek economy back on track. But Stathis Anestis, undersecretary of the GSEE, said Greeks "will not succumb to the provocative and unfair demands of our lenders from the EU and the IMF."

02.06.2010. Strikes Thursday and Friday, backed by IWW. Street protest in Athens Thursday by marxist and pro-Hamas groups.

A nationwide media strike has been called for Thursday, in protest to the changes to the social security system being advanced by the government and in demand of the safeguarding of labor rights and the signing of "dignified" collective labor agreements. The strike begins at 6.00 a.m. Thursday and lasts to 6.00 a.m. Friday, during which no news or other items will be broadcast or dispatched by newsmedia parcticipating in the the strike. Journalists in Athens will hold a demonstration outside the Athens Journalists Union (ESIEA) building in downtown Athens, followed by a march to parliament. Public transport workers will hold a 24-hour strike on Thursday. The commuter strike includes urban buses, trolleys, trams, the ISAP electric trains and the Athens Metro. The only transport means that will be running is the Proastiakos suburban railway. IWW backs the strikes.

Street protest in Athens Thursday by marxist and pro-Hamas groups. A demonstration against the Israeli raid has been scheduled for 3 June in central Athens, arranged by marxist and pro-Hamas groups. Similar demonstrations will take place in other Greek cities, as well. More marxist extremist ochlarchy? The anarchist point of view and criticism are presented at IJA 4 (31).

31.05.2010. Peace march in memory of Lambrakis, assassinated by a rightwing-extremist. Handball victim of hooligans. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy. Suspects in Grigoropoulos case to be bailed on Sunday. Protest broken up outside Israeli embassy. The anarchists condemn the marxist ochlarchy, but have also criticized Israel.

Peace march in memory of Lambrakis, assassinated by a rightwing-extremist. Dozens of people took part yesterday in a walk for peace from Marathon, northeast of Athens, to the city center in memory of the assassinated left-wing MP and activist Grigoris Lambrakis, who organized Greece's first pacifist march. Campaigners gather each year to remember Lambrakis, who was assassinated by far-right extremists in May 1963.

Handball victim of hooligans. Ten people were injured during ugly clashes between hooligans in Lamia, central Greece, on Saturday ahead of a handball tournament. Supporters of two of the four teams taking part in the competition, AEK and PAOK, fought in the city center before continuing their brawl in the indoor arena where the matches were due to be held. Dozens of seats were ripped up and thrown by the fans, who also hurled flares at each other before riot police restored order. The tournament was called off and General Secretary for Sport Panayiotis Bitsaxis has called members of the handball federation to his office for talks today.

The worst violence took place in the center of Lamia, where more than 100 PAOK fans attacked an AEK supporters' club, throwing petrol bombs and stabbing two rival fans. Some 250 AEK fans then fought running battles with the hooligans from Thessaloniki, resulting in several shops and cars being seriously damaged. Organizers blamed the police for not being properly prepared but officers said that they were caught off guard by PAOK fans traveling through the night in private cars to stage their morning attack. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy.

Suspects in Grigoropoulos case to be bailed on Sunday. The two police officers being tried in connection to the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 are due to be released from custody on Sunday, June 6. The judge in the Amfissa court where the trial of Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis is being held has ruled that the two suspects should be freed on bail because they have completed 18 months in custody. Both men have been barred from leaving the central Greek town and will have to report to the local police station every morning and evening until a verdict is delivered. They have been on trial (Korkoneas for shooting Grigoropoulos, Saraliotis for being an accomplice) since February but it is still not clear when the case will be wrapped up.

Protest broken up outside Israeli embassy. Disturbances broke out outside the Israeli embassy in Athens early Monday evening when demonstrators hurled bottles and stones at police forces on guard outside the embassy. Police responded by using teargas, resulting in the protest dispersing. According to reports, demonstrators then headed for central Athens, with scattered "cat-&-mouse" skirmishes with police forces reported. The rally was held to press for the release of the activists and vessels by Israeli authorities. The protest was called by marxist leftist groups and pro-Hamas activists. Earlier, another protest rally was held outside the Israeli embassy by the Communist Party (KKE)-affiliated youth organization KNE. The anarchists condemn the marxist ochlarchy, but have also criticized Israel.

28.05.2010. More populism: Kallikratis approved. Anarchist comment. Unions persist. GSEE rejects appeal for talks. Crisis. Parthenon protest at scaffolding removal.

More populism: Kallikratis approved. Controversial local authority bill passes through Parliament. Kallikratis, a government plan to reorganize local authorities that has provoked widespread protests, was approved in principle in Parliament yesterday with 160 votes for and 124 against. Of the 268 deputies present in the House, 160 cast a positive ballot to the bill. The Kallikratis bill envisaging mergers between local authorities was passed by the Greek Parliament during a vote on the individual articles on Friday. The bill as mentioned had been passed in principle during a session on Thursday. Protests against the reforms continued unabated yesterday, with a group of mayors staging a small rally outside Parliament and residents of Ileia, in the Peloponnese, blockading the national highway linking Patra and Pyrgos. Elsewhere, residents in Velvento, a small town in the northern prefecture of Kozani, occupied a local power station for several hours to express their opposition to the changes.

On Wednesday 26.05.2010, about 150 residents from the small coastal town if Kymi blocked traffic for about two hours in a noisy protest against Kallikratis outside parliament. "We're here for the third time. All the stores are closed in our town so that we could come here to protest," Kymi mayor Dimitris Thomas said, barely audible over the noise drums and aerosol horns. "They want to merge our municipality into a giant area 100 kilometers (60 mile) wide, with 110 villages, many of them in mountainous terrain. How will people get access to services?"

As mentioned the plan aspires to reduce the existing 1,034 municipalities to 325, hoping to 'earn' about 1.2 billion euros ($1.5 billion). Under the new plan, also prefects are to be replaced by 12 Regions. The anarchists are as mentioned clearly against this massive centralization plan. If implemented it will probably increase, not reduce, bureaucracy costs. Longer way to civil services, more top heavy public hierarchy, and in general higher costs for the people seen as a class, as opposed to the superiors in rank/and or income, will most likely be the result.

Unions persist. GSEE rejects appeal for talks. The General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) yesterday rejected an appeal by Labor and Social and Insurance Minister Andreas Loverdos for a discussion on labor relations and pending reforms to the pension system, dismissing the measures being proposed by the government as "extreme and against the workers." ADEDY and GSEE are both planning strike action in June though no date had been set by late yesterday. The civil servants' union ADEDY on Friday announced that it had finalized plans for protest action against the austerity measures, pension reforms and the changes to labour law being pushed through by the government. The union said that nationwide rallies in Athens, Thessaloniki and Iraklio that were originally envisaged for this Saturday have been postponed for the following week, on June 5. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the public-sector staff union federations and prefectural sections will hold general meetings and regional meetings linked to forms of action, it added.

Euronews 25.05.2010 reported: Crisis. Parthenon protest at scaffolding removal. It was meant to be a day for Greeks to unite. But the unveiling of the newly restored Acropolis instead turned into another day of protest over the country's cash crisis. As the Culture Minister unveiled the recently reassembled Parthenon, one of Greece's most popular attractions, around a 100 short-term construction workers demonstrated over alleged unpaid wages. Used by successive governments since the 70s, some labourers complain they have not received any money for up to a year. "The Culture Ministry has a huge need in terms of personnel and it's been easy for all governments to use us as it's a vote winner. But they've changed personnel here like people change their shirts," said Nikos Hazomeris, President of the Culture Ministry's short-term contract workers' organisation. Thousand of archaeological site workers stand to lose their jobs because of Greece's financial woes. The government, however, has pledged to continue the restoration work which is likely to continue for another decade.

24.05.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek fascist rightwing extremist lier Nikos Hidiroglou and the nazi-papers Hellenic Lines (Greek) and Chronicle (American). Populism, with chaos/ochlarchy, not anarchy in Greece!

The fascist rightwing extremist (see the note "What is an extremist..." above) Nikos Hidiroglou wrote the following lies in the December 2009 issue of the American nazi-magazine Chronicles and also published in the Greek nazi-paper Hellenic Lines: "Left turn in Greece. Security has always been a key issue for conservatives and nationalists worldwide. But that's not the case in Greece. So voters in the homeland of democracy, displeased by riots and anarchy, the inability of the government to put down the protests, and the effects of the financial crisis, have reacted angrily against the "conservatives" on whose watch the chaos took place."

The truth is that there is no significant left turn in Greece, and the system is far from anarchy, but with clear tendencies of chaos/ochlarchy, the opposite of anarchy, see the note on "Anarchy is optimal order" above with links about a.o.t. anarchy vs chaos.

The system in Greece has been, is, and will probably for a long time be populism , as explained in the reports of

b) 19.11.2009. The Greek system, populism with a rivaling leftwing extremist marxist state within the state. The anarchists call for winding up of this marxist ochlarchy.

The long term average, structural, coordinates of the Greek system on the economic-political map, have not changed significantly. The system seen all in all is mainly populist, a moderate, parliamentarian form of fascism, with about 58% authoritarian degree and about 42% libertarian degree, ranked as no 25 of the countries in the world according to libertarian degree. The degree of capitalism is estimated to about 52,1% and the degree of statism to about 63,4%, i.e. both significant.

The change of cabinet to a so called 'socialist' party, and the strikes and demonstrations, etc. have not changed the Greek populist system in libertarian direction so far... Populism with a rivaling leftwing extremist ochlarchist marxist para-state within the state, prevails. This marxist para-state consists mainly of rioters, hooligans, vandals and terrorists, including all the present Molotov-coctail-throwing and other bomb attackers in Greece, i.e. an ochlarchy. No anarchists are a part of this para-state and it is not an anarchy.

The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism etc., i.e. extremism and ochlarchy. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and not anarchistic and not done by anarchists. People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian, and not anarchistic and anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called in the media or by others!

There is so far no momentum, a clear aim with sufficient popular support, for a change of the societal organization in horizontal direction, toward real democracy, anarchy - order included. But the anarchists call for (click on:) direct actions , i.e. actions without chaos/ochlarchy, for a change of the Greek system in horizontal direction, toward anarchy.

The concept para-state, briefly defined, means "beside; near; alongside; similar to; resembling; by;" - state, usually a rivaling state within the state of the country, as in this case.

The anarchists have called for winding up of this rivaling leftwing extremist ochlarchist marxist para-state within the state, in Exarchia and other places, as an important part of the general fight against statism.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the Greek fascist rightwing extremist lier Nikos Hidiroglou and the nazi-papers Hellenic Lines (Greek) and Chronicle (American), according to the (click on:) Oslo Convention. As mentioned anarchy and ochlarchy/chaos are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchy with ochlarchy/chaos, as the Greek fascist rightwing extremist lier Nikos Hidiroglou and the nazi-papers Hellenic Lines (Greek) and Chronicle (American) do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak.

22.05.2010. Brown Cards to 'koukouloforoi', 'hooded ones', Panagiotis, Kostas, etc., falsely posing as "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and New York Times/International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis.

New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis 19.05.2010 reported the following lie-story:

Urban guerrillas in Greece face scrutiny. Panagiotis became an anarchist at 15, a middle-class Athenian kid attracted to anti-authoritarianism and the gritty central Exarcheia [a.k.a. Exarchia and Exarhia] neighborhood, where Greece's activists came of age. Over the last 26 years, he says he has thrown stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails during hundreds of anti-government demonstrations. His identity is often hidden behind a mask and hood and layers of black clothing, the dress code of koukouloforoi, the "hooded ones" that Greek police say regularly turn peaceful protests here violent. Three people died during the last big demonstration on May 5, when a band of koukouloforoi broke away from the largely peaceful crowd of 100,000 and firebombed Marfin Egnatia bank, killing three young workers. Many Greeks call the dead martyrs of the financial crisis, and their hooded attackers murderers.

Panagiotis, now a burly 41-year-old, says he understands. He, like virtually all the anarchists, would not give his full name for fear of reprisals, but says he and other Exarcheia activists are appalled and saddened at the deaths. "We are not against violence," he said, over a shot of raki at a popular Exarcheia anarchist hangout. "But when we decide to use it, we will think a hundred times about how and why. These kids on May 5 didn't even think for a minute. They only destroyed, only for the sake of destroying." In a country where taking to the streets is part of national culture, the koukouloforoi have long been tolerated as urban guerrillas splintered from anarchists, far-left activists and anti-globalization campaigners, who articulate deep frustrations about Greek cronyism and corruption. On the eve of Greece's fourth general strike and another planned demonstration against austerity measures, they have become a leading force in what many here fear is the beginning of a long, hot summer of social unrest that could hurt the country's economic recovery.

But the koukouloforoi are by no means a unified force. In recent years, they have grown to include vigilantes and petty criminals who are not tied to any ideology, according to police and security experts. "They are not a disciplined group that's easy to profile," said Mary Bossis, a professor and security expert at the University of Piraeus. "Many are hooligans or robbers or just very angry young people who want to damage anything. These days, it's hard to know how many are activists." Wearing black clothing, helmets and masks and carrying clubs, the koukouloforoi hijack some of the hundreds of peaceful demonstrations that take place in Greece annually. Their favored targets are banks, government buildings and other symbols of wealth and power. In Greece, anti-state protest has its roots in the civil war of 1946-49 and especially the military dictatorship of 1967-74, when tens of thousands of students helped overthrow the junta.

Most anti-authoritarians in Greece are not violent, though experts note that the movements tend to attract some disaffected teenagers and twentysomethings from comfortable Athenian suburbs. They rail against authority on Facebook groups like "I want to blow up Parliament (when everyone's in there)." Like protest movements from Ukraine to China, they communicate and organize themselves using the Internet and cell phone text messages. Many anarchists approached since the May 5 demonstrations declined to be interviewed, saying they felt unfairly targeted by the Greek police and mistreated by the news media. Only a few, like Panagiotis would go so far as to provide their first names.

In an interview last month, Kostas, a 21-year-old university student and anarchist who declined to give his full name because he feared police reprisal, said that he sympathized with koukouloforoi, even if he had never donned their garb. Kostas said he lived with his parents in the upper middle-class suburb of Halandri. He was outraged that the Greek government applied for billions in loans from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, which he likened to "two faceless, soulless bosses." Greek politicians "are the criminals, not the koukouloforoi," he said, after an anti-IMF. protest on April 23 where he had broken shop windows in central Athens with pieces of broken marble.

A spokesperson for Public Order Minister, Michalis Chrysohoidis, said the minister, who in 2002 led the arrest of the long-elusive 17 November terrorist group, wanted to protect Greeks' "sacred right" to protest peacefully. But because of what the ministry called a "zero tolerance" policy toward violence, the police have also stepped up patrols in Exarcheia — often unfairly, activists say. On the evening of May 5, police officers raided the center of a prominent leftist and anti-authoritarian group called Diktio, or the Network of Political and Social Rights, injuring several people, said Yianna Kourtovik, a lawyer and longtime Diktio member. "They called us murderers," she said.

In December 2008, Athens was shaken by weeks of rioting after a police officer shot and killed 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos after a standoff in Exarcheia. The teenager, who lived in a wealthy Athens neighborhood, is considered a victim of police brutality by many Exarcheia activists. Though the activists have widely denounced the May 5 violence, they acknowledge that their call to revolution is often misunderstood by young people. Some anarchists say the movement has created a "monster." Vassilis Chajiakovou, the 44-year-old manager of the Ianos bookstore in central Athens, faced down one of the koukouloforoi who bombed Marfin Egnatia bank and his own bookstore on May 5.

The bookstore was already in flames when a wiry young man in the hood and mask threatened Mr. Chajiakovou with a gasoline bomb. "I'll burn you alive," Mr. Chajiakovou recalled the young man yelling in a shrill, boyish voice. But when Mr. Chajiakovou charged him, the young man ran away. Across the street at the bank, employees trapped inside were screaming for help. Soon, two women and a man in their 30s were dead from smoke inhalation. That day's protests had a particular resonance to Mr. Chajiakovou. A former anarchist and anti-authoritarian himself, he recalled how, at 19, he had thrown rocks at the French nationalist politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was visiting Athens in 1985, while his friends lobbed Molotov cocktails.

Years later, his bookstore, which suffered €100,000, or $126,000, in damages during the recent attack, became a popular hangout for counterculture intellectuals. Yet now he fears that a legitimate protest movement that once was motivated by social justice has become consumed by hate. "I don't want to believe the people who threw bombs at us and murdered three people across the street belong to any legitimate ideology," he said. "The people who stormed into our store wanted to kill for the thrill of it. There's nothing revolutionary about that."

1. The anarchists condemn marxist vanguardism, hallmarked by symbolic violent attacks on state and capitalism, say, "targets are banks, government buildings and other symbols of wealth and power" and "I want to blow up Parliament (when everyone's in there)," and similar, i.e. ochlarchy and ochlarchist, futile from anarchist point of view, and the opposite of anarchism and anarchist. Such symbolic violent actions are typically marxist vanguardism, similar to RAF-ml (Baader-Meinhof), etc. and the opposite of anarchism and anarchist. Say, a burnt down parliament and killed MPs, will most likely be replaced by a new parliament and new MPs, and no change of the system in anarchist direction, or, less likely, be replaced with an ultra-authoritarian "strong man", and an even more authoritarian system than the present populist system in Greece. Arrest the marxist 'vanguard', the marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, i.e. terrorists, vandals and hooligans. The anarchists have a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 and the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, in this analysis. Se also point 2. for more information.

2. Ad so called "anarchists" that use/used firebombs (Molotov coctails) and similar.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and (click on:) direct action. The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using firebombs, so called "anarchists", falsely called so by New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

As indicated above, these so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs, are in reality not anarchists, they are extremists and ochlarchists. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism, i.e. extremism and ochlarchy. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and not anarchistic.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs - mentioned by New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, to 'koukouloforoi', 'hooded ones', Panagiotis, Kostas, etc., falsely posing as "anarchists", so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the (click on:) Oslo Convention.

People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian, and not anarchistic and anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called in the media or by others! Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, not attacking persons or things... Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions on capitalism and statism as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, and not in the mentioned and similar cases. 'Koukouloforoi', 'hooded ones', Panagiotis, Kostas, etc., falsely posing as "anarchists", are as mentioned in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis do is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The liers New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

3. Ad so called "anarchists" that do/did vandalism and hooliganism, vigilantes and petty criminals and robbers (theft, see the Oslo Convention), storming banks and similar, i.e. throwing stones at police etc.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at the police etc, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at police etc, and falsely posing as "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia and others! Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, to 'koukouloforoi', 'hooded ones', Panagiotis, Kostas, etc., falsely posing as "anarchists", so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the (click on:) Oslo Convention .

Such violent attacks on police etc. are ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn these violent attacks on police etc., and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

4. The IAT-APT has commented on the so called "anarchists", in reality marxist ochlarchists, in Exarchia, in general before, say, see report of 11.03.2010 and the list of contents above. The ochlarchists of Exarchia have in general long time ago got Brown Cards meaning they are expulsed from the anarchists movement. Exarchia is a marxist-ochlarchist hangout and stronghold, not an "anarchist hangout". The anarchists have several times called for a winding up of this marxist and authoritarian para-state, i.e. an ochlarchy. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

21.05.2010. More about yesterday's non-ochlarchical general strike and demonstrations. Lots of black, and black and red, anarchist flags were used at the demonstrations. Marxist terrorgroup responsible for bomb blasts.

Kathimerini reports: Greeks protest more reforms, peacefully. Turnout smaller than fatal May 5 rally. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Athens yesterday for a peaceful demonstration as public and private sector workers joined the latest 24-hour strike against the government's austerity measures. The strike brought most public transport to a halt, shut down schools and left hospitals with only emergency staff. International flights were not affected as air-traffic controllers did not join the action to avoid aggravating disruption in air space over Europe caused by volcanic ash. But ferries remained moored in port as the strike was joined by seamen who prevented three cruise liners, carrying some 7,000 tourists, from docking at Piraeus.

The police were out in force yesterday, with orders to quell violence of the kind that led to three deaths during the last strike on May 5 when rioters firebombed a bank. Officers detained nearly 100 people for questioning following pre-emptive checks in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia [a marxist-ochlarchy stronghold]. There were no reports of skirmishes between protesters and riot police and the three rallies, organized by separate unions, concluded peacefully.

The demonstration attracted tens of thousands of protesters – estimates ranged between 20,000 and 35,000 – but was much smaller than the May 5 rally that had drawn around 100,000 people. Yesterday's protest also seemed less emotionally charged. Demonstrators chanted slogans such as "Thieves, thieves" outside Parliament – where a bill to reform the country's creaking pension system is to be tabled next week. Unionists issued rallying calls to demonstrators to "rise up" against the reforms which they condemned as "outrageous." But there were no tense standoffs or clashes. Officers closely tailed a crowd of demonstrators carrying flags in the red and black colors associated with anarchism but there were no scuffles.

The pension system overhaul is part of a raft of reforms the government has committed to push through in exchange for a 110-billion-euro aid package from the European Union and International Monetary Fund. An IMF [bureaucracy] spokesperson, Caroline Atkinson, said yesterday that the Fund is not waiting to see wage cuts in the private sector. "We agree with the government that there is no need to mandate cuts in private sector wages," she said. "Of course, there is an issue of competitiveness that the government is addressing through a number of measures in its program," she added.

The general strike and demonstrations were non-ochlarchical. Lots of black, and black and red, anarchist flags were used at the demonstrations. See also the report of 20.05.2010 updated. 'Cut in private and public bureaucracy, and its costs', the anarchists underline!

ERT reports: Support mechanism sparks wrangling in House. "We want to turn the crisis into a real opportunity," said the Greek Prime Minister from the House podium, while answering to a question posed by SYN President Alexis Tsipras on the deterioration of social indexes. George Papandreou stressed that the recovery of the country's economy and social state is a double bet that has to be won. "The choice had been between collapse and survival. We opted for survival," underlined George Papandreou, further noting that the government managed to guarantee development for the country. Alexis Tsipras, on the other hand, blasted the government for lacking the people's consent to implement the austerity measures he took along with the EU and the IMF.

ANA-MPA reports: Terrorist group assumes responsibility for Korydallos and Thessaloniki bomb blasts. "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire" terrorist group assumed on Wednesday responsibility for the two powerful explosions at the Korydallos prison last Thursday night and at the Thessaloniki courthouses at noon last Friday, in a proclamation uploaded on an Internet blogspot. In the announcement the group criticises the judicial and penitentiary system, while expressing solidarity for defendants for "participation in the revolutionary struggle". The announcement is accompanied by a second text on the tragic incident regarding the arson attack on the Marfin bank in which three employees lost their lives.

20.05.2010. General strike - Anarchists: No to IMF and euro etc. policy = high profit = high bureaucracy costs in private and public sector, and poor people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income...

General strike in Greece - Anarchists: No to IMF, WB, EU and euro etc. policy = a) high profit = high bureaucracy costs in private and public sector, and low costs = poor people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income = the bureaucracy; and b) unenlightened plutarchy with relatively low real income, low GDP per capita, high Gini-index, and high unemployment, crisis, recession and depression, in general unless special cases. Against this the libertarians call for ANARCHIST ECONOMICS, environmental included, in Greece and world wide. Implement the anarchists' PLAN!!!

More than 20,000 protesters marched through Athens to parliament Thursday as unions challenged Greece's harsh austerity measures and the unenlightened plutarchy with their fourth general strike this year - and the first since three people died when a bank was torched. Two separate rallies ended peacefully, but city officials and shopkeepers had taken extensive precautions in case the protests turned violent, like the one two weeks ago. Store owners closed up and lowered protective shutters before the march got under way, and police deployed 1,700 officers and detained 36 people in an early show of strength. Demonstrators outside the parliament building banged pots and pans and shouted "Thieves, thieves!" but did not attempt to breach a cordon of riot police holding them back.

The strike closed schools, halted ferries and trains, and kept hospitals running with only emergency staff. The Acropolis and other ancient sites in Athens were also shut. Premier George Papandreou, visiting Lebanon, said he 'sympathized' with many of the protesters, but he did not promise policy a) against the unenlightened plutarchy and the bureaucracy, and b) for anarchist economics and the people. "The Greek people are understandably voicing their views about the economic crisis, and it is painful," Papandreou said. "We understand this and I understand this myself. We also know that we must move ahead with these changes in order to make the country with a viable economy, a competitive economy." This means a.o.t. "low costs" = poor people and, high unemployment... and high profit = bureaucracy costs...

As mentioned during Greece's last general strike May 5, three workers - including a pregnant woman - died when a bank was torched by rioters. Protesters observed a minute of silence for the three victims before the march, which ended peacefully. The only tension came after the march was over, when a group of about 20 mainly young protesters sat in the middle of a major avenue in front of Parliament. Outnumbered by TV cameras, photographers and curious onlookers, the group refused to budge for about an hour, forcing dozens of cars - including an open-top double-decker tour bus with irate tourists giving them thumbs-down signs - to maneuver away and use other streets. Police in riot gear later pushed the protesters off the road.

Public anger has grown at deep pension and salary cuts, as well as steep tax hikes, imposed in an attempt to pull Greece out of an unprecedented debt crisis. The measures were decided as a de facto support to the bureaucracy for Greece to receive a euro110 billion ($134.97 billion) three-year 'rescue loan package' from other EU countries and the International Monetary Fund that staved off a default. It must be mentioned that Argentina did well economically after a default... Demonstrator Giorgos Koukaridis said he hoped the rally would counter the perception that salary and pension cuts are inevitable. "There is the [false] notion that whatever is meant to pass [in parliament] will pass. And that's the bad thing," he said.

Ilias Iliopoulos, general secretary of Greece's public servants' union, ADEDY, said low-income workers were being burdened unfairly. "Let the government hear this message very clearly: We are not retreating from our demands, and we will continue our struggle until we have won," Iliopoulos said. Earlier, members of a communist-backed labor union occupied the Labor Ministry and held a separate peaceful rally. About 5,000 protesters also marched in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city.

Thursday's major strike - the fourth this year - affected all public and many private employers. However, unlike other general walkouts, most flights were unaffected as air traffic controllers stayed on the job. Some small regional airports closed, and Greece's Olympic Air carrier said it was canceling 30 domestic flights. Greece's largest traders association urged the government to take appropriate police measures to prevent damage to stores which are frequently vandalized during protest marches. The country's debt crisis has sent shock waves through global markets. That, combined with fears for Europe's struggling economy and German warnings that the future of the euro is at stake, sent the common currency to a four-year low against the dollar Wednesday.

PS. A lot of anarchists participated in the main demonstration, some of them using anarchist black flags, also shown internationally by BBC-TV.

19.05.2010. Greek PM: 'New development models are required'. It's time for anarchist economics! General strike and new wave of strike action on the way. IWW backs the strikes.

Greek PM: 'New development models are required'. It's time for anarchist economics!

The fight against the financial and environmental crises requires a new development model, said the Greek Prime Minister while addressing an annual Euro-Mediterranean Energy Forum. It's time for anarchist economics! See the report of 18.05.2010.

General strike and new wave of strike action on the way. IWW backs the strikes. Another general strike tomorrow, called by the countries' two main unions, will disrupt public services and transport although flights will run as scheduled. The 24-hour strike, the first since May 5 when the firebombing of a bank led to the deaths of three employees, will halt services on the Athens metro, buses, trolley buses, the tram and the suburban railway and regular railway. The Piraeus-Kifissia urban electric railway (ISAP) will run a limited service between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Flights will be unaffected as air-traffic controllers announced that they would not join the walkout. But ferries will remain moored at Piraeus and other ports around the country as seamen are striking. Taxis will run as normal.

Motorists are advised to avoid the city center as rallies planned by the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) and the main civil servants' union (ADEDY) are expected to block most major roads. As usual, the strike action will close down schools and government services and oblige state hospitals to operate on emergency staff. Journalists will not join the strike and as a result there will be coverage of the protest rallies and other news on television and radio and newspapers will circulate on Friday. Labor unions, which are staging their action to emphasize their opposition to austerity measures already passed by the government and to pension reforms due to be submitted in Parliament next week, said yesterday that they are already planning a new strike for June. In a joint statement, ADEDY and GSEE condemned looming pension reform which they said would "negate and undermine the rights of insured citizens."

The 24-hour nationwide general strike heralded by Greece's two umbrella unions for the private and public sector, GSEE and ADEDY respectively, will reduce everything to a crawl on Thursday. Transport will be seriously disrupted. Reacting to the changes in the pension system, GSEE and ADEDY have urged workers to take part in a street protest in central Athens on Thursday morning. It remains to be seen what will happen with the national level exams scheduled to take place on the strike day, since OLME (Federation of Secondary School Teachers) has urged teachers to abstain from their duties. The Education Minister refused to reschedule the exams, as proposed by OLME, and called on teachers to not go out on a strike.

We cannot break the strike lest there should be problems in the exams, OLME head Dimitris Peppes said, further adding that Thursday's strike concerns all the workers and not certain groups. Lawyers will also join the strike, while services in public hospitals will be cut to a bare minimum. Transport will be seriously disrupted in the Attica basin, since there will be no bus, trolley and metro services. Ships will remain grounded in the ports. Flights as mentioned won't be affected, though, since air traffic controllers decided to abstain from the strike. IWW backs the strikes.

More about reform 'Kallikratis' protests hitting roads and borders. Opposition to Kallikratis, a government plan to redraw local government boundaries, grew yesterday with residents of a small town in northern Greece blocking the Egnatia Highway for the fifth day while protesters in Crete tried to occupy Iraklio Airport and communities close to the Bulgarian and Turkish borders prepared to block two crossings tomorrow. Residents of the small town of Siatista, near Kozani in northern Greece, continued to disrupt the flow of traffic on the Egnatia Highway yesterday by blocking the Bara junction for the fifth day. The protesters are upset that their town has not been made the capital of Voios Municipality.

Locals in the municipalities of Trigono, Kyprino and Vyssa are also angry with the Kallikratis plan. They want their three municipalities to be merged, as has been the case in other parts of the country. They are threatening to block the crossings of Ormenio and Kipoi, on the Bulgarian and Turkish borders respectively, all day tomorrow, to press their demands. "Our three municipalities fulfill all the preconditions set out in Kallikratis to be unified into one," said Trigono Mayor Manolis Hatzipanayiotou. Police on Crete yesterday afternoon removed a group of protesters who had cut through the wire fence surrounding Iraklio Airport which they had planned to occupy in a symbolic protest against the Kallikratis plan.

In Halkidiki, residents of the municipalities of Triglia, Moudania and Kallikrateia are also up in arms over the reforms. In their case, they oppose plans to merge their communities into one. In Athens, street market traders joined the protests against the reforms which, they say, would give local authorities control over the operation of the markets. "We will not allow street markets to become a vehicle for the serving of party political interests," said a statement by the union, which has called on members to join a blockade of the Economy, Competitiveness and Merchant Marine Ministry on Mesogeion Avenue this afternoon. As mentioned the anarchists are clearly against this massive centralization plan. If implemented it will probably increase, not reduce, bureaucracy costs.

Greek public debt surpasses 300 bln euros in Q1. Greece's public debt surpassed the 300-bln-euro mark in the first quarter of 2010, totaling 310.384 billion euros on March 31, 2010, up from 298.524 billion euros at the end of 2009, the General Accounting Office announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the Accounting Office said the Greek state's cash reserves totaled 7.519 billion euros at the end of the first quarter of 2010, sharply up from 1.1 billion euros at the end of 2009. Greek inflation jumped to 4.7 pct in April, up from 3.9 pct in March, Eurostat said on Tuesday.

PM appoints new Deputy Tourism and Culture Minister. Dodecanese MP George Nikitiadis was appointed by Prime Minister George Papandreou as Deputy Tourism and Culture Minister, government spokesman George Petalotis announced on Thursday. Nikitiadis replaces Angela Gerekou, who resigned from the post on Monday.

18.05.2010. Anarchists against the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative - cut bureaucracy costs - increase the demand of the people - for full employment - against the unenlightend plutarchy of IMF, WB, euro and EU.

Reuters reports: Greek unions warn of more strikes, protests in June. Greece's main labor unions said on Tuesday they would carry out more strikes in June to protest against a pension reform bill they say will further burden the poor who have been hit by government austerity measures. The [so called] Socialist government says the draft pension reform bill is aimed at saving the social security system from bankruptcy. It raises the retirement age and discourages workers from taking their pension early. The private and public sector unions which represent about 2.5 million workers, around half of the Greek workforce, have already called a one-day general strike for May 20, the first since three people died in a petrol bomb attack during a march by 50,000 protesters this month.

"We are calling workers, pensioners, young people, who expect the government policies to change, to join Thursday's strike, which will not be the last one," said Ilias Iliopoulos, public sector union's ADEDY General Secretary. "The government hasn't realized yet the size of the explosion." Parliament is expected to vote on the pension reform bill, drawn up after consultations with the EU and the IMF, early in June. The government has a comfortable parliamentary majority. Unions are to meet after the strike on Thursday and decide on further labor action.

"If the pension bill is left unchanged, we will certainly protest in June. And if the government takes more harmful measures the summer will also be a period of labor action," Iliopoulos said. Despite the growing size of the protests, opinion polls show that most Greeks agree the austerity measures are necessary, but are angry because they believe the burden is being unfairly shouldered by the general population while the rich evade taxes. Political analysts and pollsters have said that once this week's strike is over, the government could face a three-to-four month period of relative calm as Athenians flee the intense heat of the capital for the breeze and beaches of nearby islands.

Lawyers strike. Lawyers are to join a general strike due to take place on Thursday, the coordinating committee representing all the country's bar associations said yesterday. The action has been called to protest the impact of new tax measures and imminent changes to the pension system. The anarchists don't support tax-evasion and similar by the economical plutarchists.

Mass transit stike on Thursday, air traffic controllers to work. Unions representing mass transit employees in Athens, with the exception of the ISAP electric railway, have called a strike on Thursday, part of a nationwide 24-hour mobilization called by the two largest labour unions in the public and private sectors, ADEDY and GSEE, respectively. ISAP services will run from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Thursday. Hellenic Railways (OSE) employees will also participate in the 24-hour strike. Meanwhile, the air traffic controllers announced that they will not to participate in the strike, meaning that all commercial flights will be held according to schedule. Problems are likely in domestic flights mainly in small airports in case the union representing civil aviation authority employees (OSYPA) decides to strike.

KEPs closed. State Citizen Service Centers (KEP) will be closed today as employees continue a 48-hour strike launched yesterday to protest the government's austerity measures.

Bomb hoax. The Athens Appeals Court was evacuated yesterday after an anonymous caller claimed a bomb had been planted in the building but the threat was a hoax. Last week, a large bomb went off at the main court building in Thessaloniki, causing substantial damage and one injury. It was revealed yesterday that the building will remain closed until repairs have been carried out, as there are concerns that the blast severely damaged the structure. The bomb created a two-meter wide crater.Terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism, bomb hoax, and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and direct action . The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax.

Minister out over taxes. Angela Gerekou resigns after singer husband is revealed to owe 5.5 million euros. Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister Angela Gerekou resigned yesterday after allegations that her husband, a popular singer, owed 5.5 million euros in taxes, a revelation that threatened to undermine the government's efforts to tackle tax evasion. Gerekou, a former actress, tendered her resignation yesterday evening to ensure the government would not be tarnished, according to a statement issued by Government Spokesman Giorgos Petalotis. He added that the MP for Corfu insisted she had nothing to do with the tax issue of her husband, Tolis Voskopoulos.

Earlier in the day, when confronted with a report in the Eleftherotypia daily about Voskopoulos failing to settle a tax bill over the last 17 years, Petalotis said it was a personal matter. Following the publication of the allegations, Voskopoulos, who had a glittering singing and acting career in Greece spanning several decades, issued a statement denying he enjoyed special treatment by tax authorities. He said the outstanding amounts date back to a legal dispute with his previous wife (Gerekou and Voskopoulos married in 1996), which had yet to be settled. The singer said his properties had already been seized by the state and he had attempted to negotiate for the interest on the initial amount he owed to be written off.

He also denied living a life of luxury, saying that he owned only one car, which was registered in 1977 and is no longer roadworthy. A little later, the Finance Ministry issued a statement confirming that five of Voskopoulos's properties had been seized and that he is the subject of two criminal procedures. However, the ministry added that it deemed the measures taken so far to recover the debt as "not being enough," although it blamed this on the "collapse" of the tax collecting mechanism under the previous New Democracy government. PASOK has staked much of its reputation on tackling tax evasion, which could be worth as much as 15 billion euros a year, and the fact that one of its ministers was embroiled in such a case is likely to be a cause for much embarrassment. "The government is determined to restore respect for the law and to treat all citizens equally both in respect to their rights and their obligations," the Finance Ministry said.

No to "Kallikratis" centralization plan. Interior Minister Giannis Raggousis submitted Friday government's ambitious plan to redraw administrative boundaries at a local level known as "Kallikratis." The plan is expected to be voted before the end of May. The plan aspires to reduce the existing 1,034 municipalities to 325, hoping to earn about 1.2 billion euros. Under the new plan, also prefects are to be replaced by 12 Regions. The anarchists are clearly against this massive centralization plan. If implemented it will probably increase, not reduce, bureaucracy costs.

Opposition to Kallikratis grows. Protests by local authority officials against Kallikratis, an ambitious government plan to redraw administrative boundaries and overhaul local government, continued yesterday with the resignation of the entire council of a municipality in the Peloponnese. Meanwhile, residents of the small town of Siatista, near Kozani in northern Greece, blocked the Egnatia Highway for the fourth day in a row, complaining that their town has not been made the capital of Voios municipality. The leader of the main opposition conservative New Democracy party, Antonis Samaras, appeared to take advantage of the mood, calling on local government officials affiliated to ND to encourage residents in their areas to oppose the bill, due to be submitted in Parliament soon. "If the government persists with this choice, it will incur a heavy cost," Samaras said.

Although the main aim of Kallikratis is not to cut costs, it is estimated that it will save up to 2 billion euros and the merging of some local authorities will inevitably lead to job losses. Yesterday's protests, though, were not protests at planned mergers of local authorities, but the opposite. The mayor of Gargalianoi, Stavros Kalofolias, and members of his municipal council said they had decided to tender their resignations to the region's general secretary because their proposal for the merger of their municipality with that of adjacent Filiatra has not been approved by the Interior Ministry.

The municipal authorities of Corinth were also up in arms yesterday, demanding that the borders of their municipality be extended to reach the Isthmus of Corinth, while authorities in Tropaia, in the prefecture of Arcadia, want to be unified with two municipalities in the neighboring province of Gortynia and have threatened protests if their demand is not satisfied. Earlier this month, the mayor of Elliniko in southern Athens, Christos Kortzidis, went on a hunger strike to protest the changes foreseen by Kallikratis.

Local residents announce roadblocks of NE border crossings on Thursday. Local residents from the municipalities of Trigono, Kyprinos and Vissa in the northeast prefecture of Evros have warned that they will block the Ormenio post on the frontier with Bulgaria on Thursday morning. Residents said they will block the crossing until 4 p.m. in protest over their townships' proposed merger with the larger municipality of Orestiada. All stores and services will also be closed in a show of protest. The merger will take place within the framework of Kallikratis local administration reform plan. Meanwhile, the Kipi border post with Turkey will also be targetted by local residents on Thursday morning angered over the proposed merger of the Ferres and Tychero municipalities.

Greece received a 14.5-billion euro ($17.9 billion) emergency loan from the European Union on Tuesday and will use some of the money to fully repay an 8.5-billion euro bond maturing the next day, officials said. It was Greece's presumed inability to redeem this euro bond, which matures on Wednesday, that prompted the EU and IMF to intervene and eventually agree to a 110-billion euro aid package this month. The IMF has already lent Greece 5.5 billion euros. "The 14.5 billion euros was transferred to Greece a short while ago, through the ECB," said a Greek bank official close the deal, speaking on condition of anonymity. Greece will now use some of the funds to fully repay the 10-year bond, a government official said.

"Repayment to bondholders will proceed normally on May 19," the official, who declined to be named, told Reuters. The 6 percent fixed-coupon bond was a major refunding hurdle for Greece this year along with a 5-year, 8.2 billion euro bond that was repaid on April 20. According to a standard convention for Greek bonds, Greece would not technically default on its payments as long as it paid the principle within seven days and the interest within 30 days, but the markets might well have viewed any delay differently. Greece has embarked on the huge task of cutting its deficit from nearly 14 percent of GDP to 3 percent by 2014 to meet the conditions of the EU/IMF aid, but faces a series of large protests against the government's wage cuts and tax hikes.

17.05.2010. Strikes, backed by IWW. Greek fiscal plan needs stimulus back-up. PM hints at action against US banks. Extreme unenlightened plutarchy. The best alternative, real democracy and horizontal organization.

KEP strike. State Citizen Service Centers (KEP) will be closed today and tomorrow as employees stage a 48-hour strike to protest the government's austerity measures. Unionists spoke of "a violent attack on workers' rights." The strike is backed by IWW and anarchists in general, although use of the phrase "violent attack" here is an exaggeration.

General strike 20.05.2010. Greece's major umbrella unions, GSEE for the private sector and ADEDY for the public one, are getting ready for the 24-hour strike they have scheduled for 20 May. In a press conference the two unions will give on Tuesday, they will outline their positions on a socially effective and financial viable pension system. "Since the bill promoted by the government runs contradictory, GSEE and ADEDY have scheduled a 24-hour strike for 20 May and a demonstration in central Athens," said a statement issued by the two unions. The general strike is backed by IWW and anarchists in general.

Greek fiscal plan needs stimulus back-up - Papandreou. Says govt has to protect weakest in Greek society. Reuters reports: Greece's drive to cut its deficit will only work if combined with measures to stimulate growth and investment, the prime minister said on Monday, as Athens was poised to receive funds to cover a major debt refinancing due this week. Fears that deficit-cutting in Greece and elsewhere in the Euro-zone will hurt growth were at the forefront of investor concerns on Monday, sending the single currency to a four-year low and fuelling fears it may face freefall. Greece is seen by many economists as a bellwether for other vulnerable Euro-zone economies, being the first to tap an EU-IMF aid mechanism to service a 300 billion euro debt.

Athens has already received 5.5 billion euros in aid from the IMF and is due to get more from the EU on Tuesday to pay an 8.5-billion euro bond maturing on Wednesday. "The money has been secured, everything is in place," said a government official who declined to be named. Greece was obliged to impose drastic pay cuts and tax hikes in return for the 110 billion euro ($140 billion) EU/IMF bailout. Having staved off imminent default, it must now make sure revenues spur growth, Papandreou said. "This savings programme was the only way to avert the threat of a state bankruptcy," Prime Minister George Papandreou told Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper. "The programme can be sustainable only if we stimulate investment and growth."

Austerity measures are expected to further hurt the economy, which plunged into its first recession in 16 years last year and is forecast to contract by 4 percent in 2010. Investors are now watching the reaction of a restive Greek public and whether the [so called] Socialist government can withstand the pressure. Large, sometimes violent protests against the government have rocked the Greek capital and labour unions have called a general strike and major demonstration for May 20. For now though, opinion polls show most Greeks think the EU/IMF package was necessary, but are angry because they believe ordinary people will bear the brunt of the suffering while politicians and the rich continue to be pampered. While the government has pledged action against corrupt politicians, many Greeks are now hungry to see heads roll.

Safety net. As the austerity measures begin to bite, anger could rise more with the poor suffering most from cuts in public spending. "I believe we can implement our programme. But we must ensure the weakest in our society don't fall into the abyss," Papandreou said. "We can't push people below the poverty line." "Part of our savings programme is therefore a safety net. That will cost money but we have to do it." According to newspaper reports, the German government is to press other Euro-zone countries to adopt tighter fiscal rules to match Berlin's balanced budget law, which prohibits the federal government from running a deficit of more than 0.35 per cent of GDP by 2016. A finance ministry spokesman declined to comment, but said the government was drawing up plans to boost the euro and avert future debt crises, to be presented to a euro zone working group on Friday.

Asked to comment on market concerns over implementation risks and whether the belt-tightening would be too much to bear for the economy and the government, Papandreou said: "We now have the chance to prove that we can achieve it. If everyone says the Greeks can't achieve it, then they will condemn us to fail." "We're not begging for gifts of money, but asking for loans which will be paid back with high interest rates. I'm sure Greece is a good investment." Papandreou also criticised financial markets for overreacting to Greece's debt crisis and accused speculators of helping to provoke panic reactions. "Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean-Claude Juncker and I have suggested in a joint letter to Barack Obama whether the markets for credit default swaps ... should not be closed. The G20 countries want to discuss this," he said. On Sunday, Papandreou told CNN that Greece may investigate US investment banks and their role in the run-up to the Greek debt crisis which has shaken faith in euro zone economies.

PM hints at action against US banks. Prime Minister George Papandreou indicated yesterday that Greece might take legal action against certain US banks which, he said, bear "great responsibility" for the debt crisis engulfing his country. Asked during an interview with CNN whether Greece had been a victim of US investment banks, Papandreou said: "I hear the words fraud and lack of transparency. So yes, yes, there is great responsibility here." Questioned further about the possibility of Greece taking legal action against these banks, Papandreou responded: "I wouldn't rule out that this may be a recourse." Papandreou also referred to an investigation by Greece's Parliament into deals struck by Greek authorities in 2000, with help from Goldman Sachs, that allowed them to mask the extent of the country's debts through the use of complex financial instruments. "We are looking into the past – how things went in the wrong direction and what kind of practices were negative practices," Papandreou told CNN.

The role of global investment banks in a debt crisis that has undermined the euro has been criticized by several European politicians, most prominently German Chancellor Angela Merkel who has urged European governments to crack down on speculators seeking to profit by gambling on the risk of countries defaulting on their debt. In a related development over the weekend, Germany's economics and technology minister lashed out at the head of Deutsche Bank for questioning Greece's ability to repay emergency EU loans. "I find the declarations strange, surprising and annoying," Rainer Bruderle said in comments published on the website of the financial weekly WirtschaftsWoche. "At a time when the debate is being carried out so publicly, such a strong statement on the television is not helpful," he added.

15.05.2010.The marxist terrorist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire prime suspect of recent bomb attacks in Greece. Gov't condemnation of Jewish cemetery vandalism. The anarchists also condemn the vandalism.

Kathimerini reports: Conspiracy group suspected in blasts. As forensic experts of the police's counterterrorism unit yesterday examined the remnants of two bombs that targeted Attica's Korydallos Prison and Thessaloniki's main court complex within 24 hours of each other, police sources said they believe members of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire to be behind both of the attacks. Yesterday's blast occurred shortly before 1.30 p.m. when a large bomb that had been planted in the basement men's rest rooms at Thessaloniki's main court complex detonated, injuring one court employee in the leg. An anonymous caller had phoned in a warning to the Eleftherotypia daily 20 minutes beforehand.

According to sources, the caller had asked that the court complex be evacuated immediately, emphasizing several times that "this is not a hoax." Police started ushering people out of the courtrooms but the bomb went off before everyone had left the premises. Televised images at the time of the bombing showed frightened citizens and policemen streaming out the entrance. Police had not made any official statement regarding the suspected perpetrators behind the bombing by late yesterday but sources said they believed it – and Thursday night's bombing outside Korydallos jail – had been the work of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and had been intended to remind police that the urban guerrilla group is still active.

Ten suspected members of the group have been arrested over the past year. Of these, three are still in custody. According to sources, the modus operandi of the perpetrators behind the court complex bombing and the blast outside the prison resembles that of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, whose recent hits include bombings at the Athens headquarters of Ethniki Insurance, the Aliens Bureau on Petrou Ralli Street and the central Athens offices of Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn), a far-right organization. The bomb used at the court complex is believed to have comprised 10 kilograms of high-impact explosives, according to police sources. The bomb used in the Korydallos hit was very powerful, with reverberations felt as far away as central Athens, but no details about its composition were revealed. It caused significant damage and minor injuries to the 22-year-old resident of an adjacent apartment block. By late last night, there had been no claim of responsibility for either attack.

Gov't condemnation of Jewish cemetery vandalism. The Greek government on Saturday issued a stern condemnation of the incidents of vandalism and desecration at Thessaloniki's Jewish cemetery, which occurred in the early morning hours of Friday or late Thursday evening. Three suspects, two men and a woman, 21, 18 and 17, were arrested as suspects in the incident northern port city. "The government unequivocally condemns the vandalisms at the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki. Such instances of racism and hate have no place whatever in Greek society, which stands opposed to such acts of violence and chauvinism. The responsible authorities will do whatever is necessary so that the perpetrators of these acts are led, as soon as possible, before justice," government spokesman George Petalotis underlined. The anarchists also condemn the vandalism.

Some 12,000 Communist Party supporters marched through central Athens on Saturday waving red flags and chanting slogans condemning the government and capitalism. While much smaller than the 50,000-strong protest in which three people were killed a week ago, the peaceful march illustrated the strength of feeling among just one faction of the many opposed to the government's austerity measures.

14.05.2010. New bomb attack by suspected marxists. Brown Card to BBC. No anarchist terrorist group in Greece. 3 arrests in desecration of Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki. Rally in Buenos Aires backs Greek workers' strikes.

ANA-MPA reports: Explosion outside courthouse in Thessaloniki. An explosion occurred outside the Appeals Court in Thessaloniki on Friday, but no injuries were immediately reported. The building had been evacuated after warning calls to a newspaper and television station. Police have cordoned off the area.

ERT reports: The unknown perpetrators who planted a bomb at the basement of a court building in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki wanted to leave victims behind. A man was injured and extensive damage was caused. Sustaining leg injuries, the wounded man was rushed to the hospitals. Shortly after the blast, anti-terrorist squad officials and bomb technicians entered the building to collect the remains of the explosive device and to search for evidence that could shed some light to the bomb hit.

An anonymous phone call to Eleftherotypia daily had preceded the hit. Immediately after the tip-off, police cordoned off the area and started evacuating the building. However, the bomb went off before all the people inside managed to evacuate it. This makes police to believe that the perpetrators wanted to leave victims behind, as well as that the hit is associated with the explosion at the top security prison in Athens. Practically certain marxist, leftwing extremist, ochlarchist terrorists are behind the bomb attack.

BBC reports: Second bomb explosion in Greece. A bomb has exploded outside a courthouse in Thessaloniki, hours after an earlier blast at a prison near the Greek capital Athens. Two people were reported to have been injured - one in each of the blasts. Both bombs came after warning calls to local newspapers. The bomb near Athens caused extensive damage to buildings. There were no immediate claims of responsibility, but police linked the first explosion to left-wing Greek militant groups. Several members of the left-wing groups are being held at the maximum-security prison that was targeted in Korydallos, near Athens, on Thursday evening. In Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, police said most people had been evacuated from the courthouse when the bomb there exploded. One man was reported to have sustained minor injuries.

Austerity protests. Greek media reported that the device that exploded near Athens had been hidden in a travel bag. The powerful blast shattered windows of nearby homes and was heard in the centre of Athens several kilometres away. One woman was injured. Police launched an investigation and sealed off a street next to the prison.Athens has seen recent violent protests as the government unveiled tough austerity measures in return for a huge rescue package for its debt-ridden economy. It has also seen a number of bomb attacks blamed on leftist militants. In March a bomb outside a public building in the Patissia area of Athens killed a 15-year-old boy. Earlier attacks targeted banks and government buildings and were attributed to far-left or anarchist groups.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and direct action . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using bombs, so called "anarchists", falsely called so, i.e. "attributed to ... anarchist groups", by BBC, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

These so called "anarchists", terrorists using bombs, are in reality not anarchists, they are extremists and ochlarchists. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism, i.e. extremism and ochlarchy. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and not anarchistic.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of BBC the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using bombs - indicated by BBC, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention Oslo Convention.

People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian, and not anarchistic and anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called in the media or by others! Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Terrorists are clearly authoritarian, not anarchistic or anarchists. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, not attacking persons or things... Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions against capitalism and statism, including terrorism, as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, and not in this case.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as BBC does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The lier BBC gets a Brown Card, according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

3 arrests in desecration of Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki. Three suspects , two men and a woman, 21, 18 and 17, were arrested in the early morning hours on Friday as suspects in the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in the northern port city of Thessaloniki , hours earlier on Thursday evening. The trio was picked up by a police patrol after being spotted acting suspiciously outside the cemetery. A knife was found in the possession of one of the suspects , and according to police, the likelihood of their being associated with extremist groups is being investigated. Anti-Semitic graffiti was sprayed on gravestones and on the cemetery's wall , while a can with flammable liquid was found inside the cemetery but there were no signs of arson, police said.

Earlier, the Central Jewish Council of Greece (KIS) and the Jewish community of Thessaloniki condemned the desecration of the northern port city's Jewish cemetery. "Three suspects have been questioned by police, and we are convinced that the state will condemn this heinous act and take all necessary measures to bring the culprits to justice. Phenomena of anti-Semitism and similar views must be eradicated, guaranteeing the people's right to exercise their religious beliefs," according to a statement issued by the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki.

Rally in Buenos Aires backs Greek workers' strikes. Kathimerini reports: "A woman makes the victory sign as she holds up a banner reading 'Greece is not for sale, long live Greece' during a demonstration outside the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, yesterday in support of Greek trade unions. The unions have called a 24-hour strike for next Thursday to protest the austerity measures and plans for pension reform." The IWW and anarchists in general back the general strike. See also "Argentina: Greek financial rescue doomed to fail.", at (click on:) IJA 6 (31).

13.05.2010. Populism in Greece! No change of the Greek populist system in libertarian direction so far... Drassi against communists. Unemployment increasing. Protests and general strike. Bomb attack by suspected marxists.

The system in Greece has been, is, and will probably for a long time be populism, as explained in the reports of

b) 19.11.2009. The Greek system, populism with a rivaling leftwing extremist marxist state within the state. The anarchists call for winding up of this marxist ochlarchy.

The long term average coordinates of the Greek system on the economic-political map, have not changed significantly. The system seen all in all is mainly populist, a moderate, parliamentarian form of fascism, with about 58% authoritarian degree and about 42% libertarian degree, ranked as no 25 of the countries in the world according to libertarian degree. The degree of capitalism is estimated to about 52,1% and the degree of statism to about 63,4%, i.e. both significant.

The change of cabinet to a so called 'socialist' party, and the strikes and demonstrations, etc. have not changed the Greek populist system in libertarian direction so far... Populism with unenlightened plutarchy and with a rivaling leftwing extremist ochlarchist marxist para-state within the state, prevails. There is so far no momentum, a clear aim with sufficient popular support, for a change of the societal organization in horizontal direction, toward real democracy. But the anarchists call for (click on:) direct actions , i.e. actions without ochlarchy, for a change of the Greek system in horizontal direction, i.e. toward anarchy.

Unity the key, says Papandreou. PM continues to look for common ground as part of crisis exit strategy but fails to convince ND leader. Prime Minister George Papandreou said 11.05.2010 that hard work and unity would see Greece through the economic crisis, as the leader of the New Democracy opposition, Antonis Samaras, said that there would be no recovery unless taxes are slashed. Speaking at an event organized by the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Papandreou repeated his call for political consensus just 24 hours after there appeared to be only the most basic understanding between him, Samaras and the leader of the right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), Giorgos Karatzaferis, when they met for talks.

The meeting was boycotted by the Communist Party (KKE) and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) but Papandreou insisted that common ground has to be found for Greece to progress. "A basic precondition for Greece to exit the crisis is for all of us to work together," he told the audience of industrialists. "We all have the opportunity to leave behind the Greece of yesterday, of parasitism, underdevelopment and of social injustice." Samaras seemed to aim his criticism mostly at the failings of previous PASOK governments. "A political system of unchecked populism and unprecedented statism is now bankrupt," he said.

The ND leader also suggested that a conservative government would make it a priority to reverse a series of tax hikes that have been introduced by the government this year. "I want us to exit the crisis as soon as possible so that we can cut taxes," he said. "We will never achieve growth with this taxation system." Samaras went on to clarify that he does not oppose the support mechanism put together by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund but that he is against the austerity measures the government has agreed to adopt. ND voted against the spending cuts last week.

This prompted a response from government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis, who effectively labeled ND's stance irresponsible. The dispute came as Greece requested the first tranche of its 110-billion-euro bailout package, which IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said would help see the country through the crisis. "I have no doubt the program built by the Europeans without support is one that would help Greece out of trouble," he said.

Politicians lash out at critics - defending the populist system. Business leader's comments about political system failures prompt deputies and ministers to defend themselves. Greek lawmakers yesterday hit back at criticism from the media, unions, businessmen and voters about Parliament's failure to stop the country from descending into economic crisis. There was a furious response from some MPs after comments by the head of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Dimitris Daskalopoulos, in which he placed the blame for Greece's problems firmly at the feet of the country's politicians and suggested that it would be the business sector that would provide solutions in the future, not the political system.

"There is an unwillingness among politicians to saw off the branch they are sitting on," Daskalopoulos said on Tuesday during an event organized by SEV, at which both Prime Minister George Papandreou and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras spoke. Daskalopoulos was repeating a theme that has been heard repeatedly over the last few weeks, namely that the political system is desperately in need of reform in order for the country's lawmakers to be more accountable to the people. This negative mood has prompted PASOK and ND to react by competing with each other to come up with proposals about how the system could become more transparent and responsive. Samaras has proposed a reduction in the number of MPs from 300 to 200, while the government is looking at ways to ensure that ministers are not immune from prosecution for any crimes they have committed while in office.

However, the politicians hit back in force yesterday, with Papandreou leading the way when he accused some people of trying to "flatten everything." He did not mention Daskalopoulos by name but Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis was even more direct in his attack. "Politics cannot be changed by businessmen who for years have wasted public money while being protected by the state," he said. "Have they only just realized that the free market can provide solutions to the problem." Parliament Speaker Filippos Petsalnikos was also robust in his defense of Parliament, saying that accusations of waste in the House were exaggerated, as its expenditures only make up 0.0035 percent of the national budget. He also said he was against the idea of reducing the number of deputies. In response to the crisis, the high wages of parliamentary assistants are being cut, while deputies' monthly salaries are being trimmed from 6,500 to 4,000 euros.

Nikos Konstandaras 10.05.2010 expressed in Kathimerini: The government and the people are called upon to face the difficulties of an economic and social adjustment that is unprecedented in its scale and the violence of the speed with which it is coming about. And this at a time when New Democracy, the conservative opposition party, voted against the legislation and the two left-wing parties in Parliament are investing in street protests. Even within ruling PASOK, there is great tension, as the rescue mechanism goes against the very DNA of a party that established itself on foundations of populism and handouts. This is what makes Prime Minister George Papandreou's struggle that much more difficult and that much more crucial. Whether we voted for him or not, and even as we disagree with some of his choices and his mistakes, we have to support him. At the same time, we will demand that his government be serious and alert. This is what we must demand of our fellow citizens and ourselves as well.

Unemployment increasing. Unemployment in February 2010 rose to 12.1%, up from 11.3% a month ago. The unemployed climbed to 154,280 people. Unemployment has mainly hit women and people aged between 15 and 24.

Protests and general strike. Protesters shout during a rally against pension reforms in central Athens yesterday. The protest was organized by Greece's two largest unions, GSEE and ADEDY, which have decided to hold a general strike on May 20 in opposition to the government's austerity measures.

Drasi against communists. The centrist party, Drasi [a.k.a. Drassi], which failed to win a parliamentary seat in last year's general election yesterday took legal action against the Communist Party-affiliated union, PAME. Drasi wants prosecutors to ascertain whether any laws were broken when PAME members recently blocked tourists' return to a cruise ship, a number of central Athens hotels and draped banners from the Acropolis.

Suspect held. Aris Seirinidis, the man arrested with suspected "robber in black" Symeon Seisidis following a holdup near central Athens earlier this month, was remanded in custody yesterday on suspicion of armed robbery and shooting at a bus carrying riot police in July 2009.

Bomb attack by suspected marxists. A bomb exploded Thursday night near a prison in Athens, Greece, police said. Only one slight injury was reported. The bomb was placed outside the Zalaxias supermarket about 660 feet (200 meters) from the Korydallos prison, authorities said. Warning calls had been made around 09.50 p.m. - 27 minutes before the explosion - to the Eleftherotypia daily newspaper and Alter television station, police said, and authorities evacuated the area. A 22-year-old woman was injured slightly by broken glass from the door of her first-floor home, police said. Practically certain marxist, leftwing extremist, ochlarchist terrorists are behind the bomb attack.

11.05.2010. Later... Brown Cards to so called "Belgian anarchists", vandals, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and Kathimerini, that reports:

Belgian anarchists. Brussels GNTO office attacked. A Greek National Tourism Organization office in Brussels was attacked by vandals yesterday. An employee, who was not hurt, said that three masked men and one woman threw paint at the office and shouted slogans in support of Greek anarchists. They also left behind leaflets claiming their group was called the "Belgian Anarchists." Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos happened to be in Brussels for a meeting of his European Union counterparts and visited the office after the attack. He said the damage would be repaired. Discussions are also taking place about the possibility of guarding the office.

Ad so called "Belgian anarchists" that did vandalism against a Greek National Tourism Organization office in Brussels, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, falsely posing as "anarchists", and not anarchists.

Vandalism is ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and (click on:) Direct actions. The anarchists condemn the vandalism, and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "Belgian anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

As mentioned the so called "Belgian anarchists", vandals falsely posing as "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia and others! This Belgian group has clearly an ochlarchist behavior, the opposite of being anarchists. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists, and not a part of the anarchist movement! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "Belgian anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, not attacking persons or things... Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions on capitalism and statism, as this vandalism against a Greek National Tourism Organization office in Brussels, as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, and not in this case.

To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

11.05.2010. The anarchists condemn the marxist vanguardism: "Parliament, you will burn" and "The hangman is waiting" i.e. even more ochlarchy and attacks on symbols of state and capitalism, futile and the opposite of anarchism.

Resolution from IAT-APT and AI: Greece and Athens have heard loud cries with slogans in the recent large demonstrations such as "Parliament, you will burn" and "The hangman is waiting." These slogans are typically marxist vanguardism, similar to RAF-ml (Baader-Meinhof), etc., and mean even more ochlarchy and ochlarchist attacks on the symbols of the state and capitalism, futile regarding change of the societal organization in horizontal direction, and the opposite of anarchistic and anarchism. A burnt down parliament and hanged MPs, will most likely be replaced by a new parliament and new MPs, and no change of the system in anarchist direction, or, less likely, be replaced with an ultra-authoritarian "strong man", and an even more authoritarian system than the present populist system in Greece.

The anarchists condemn the marxist vanguardism, the slogans such as "Parliament, you will burn" and "The hangman is waiting", and call for (click on:) Direct actions , i.e. actions without ochlarchy, for a change of the Greek system in horizontal direction, i.e. toward anarchy. Arrest the marxist 'vanguard', the marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, i.e. terrorists, vandals and hooligans. The IAT-APT and the Anarchist International, AI, have a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 and the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, in this analysis.

10.05.2010. Peaceful sit-in protest outside Parliament etc. yesterday. The peaceful demonstrations were backed by the IWW and anarchists in general.

Peaceful sit-in protest outside Parliament etc. yesterday. Several groups gathered in Syntagma Square yesterday to protest the austerity measures. Most protests, such as one organized by citizens via the Internet to protest the deaths of three bank employees in a firebombing last week, had no political affiliation. Some 200 people marched from Syntagma to Marfin Egnatia Bank on Stadiou Street to pay tribute. The peaceful demonstrations were backed by the IWW and anarchists in general.

Regarding the EU rescue fund, decided late this weekend, see the WEC resolutions updated.

08.05.2010. Call for anarchist economics! EU rescue fund. Euro-zone agrees on support mechanism for Greece. PASOK and ND pick up the pieces. Internal fallout from austerity vote. Strike on Monday and Tuesday.

Call for anarchists economics! The International Workers of the World, IWW, declares: Implement the World Economic Council, WEC's international libertarian economic plan outlined in the WEC resolutions to do away with the unenlightened plutarchy with about 10% unemployment and increasing in Greece, the Euro-zone and USA! Proper demand management now! For the about 3% unemployment scenarios and economic growth. Mandated persons! Do it now!

EU rescue fund. The 16 Euro-zone countries have agreed to create a 70-billion-euro rescue fund to avert a Greek-style crisis from spreading to other countries. The respective leaders have asked the European Commission to draw up the details of how it would work over the weekend, the expectation being that the fund would be operational by Monday. The idea would be assist Euro-zone countries who are unable to borrow because they are being asked to pay high interest rates. Hernan van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, told reporters that increased regulation of credit ratings agency would be among the reforms. Investors are worried about a sovereign default in the EU with the most concern centred on Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. Since Euro-zone nations already represent a majority of the 27 EU states, the rescue fund is expected to be approved by finance ministers on Sunday.

Euro-zone agrees on support mechanism for Greece. The leaders of the Euro-zone countries decided in the early hours of Saturday to activate a support mechanism for Greece, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announced at the end of a special summit in Brussels. A three year joint programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) makes available 110 billion euro to help Greece meet its financing needs, with euro area member-states ready to contribute for their part 80 billion euro.
Addressing reporters, Papandreou said that with the decision the Euro-zone countries "have shown that they stand with determination by our side," adding that the disbursement of the lown will begin in the coming days.

These funds, he added, will "help us to implement without everyday's uncertainty in the international markets, the stabilisation and growth programme for our economy." "But the summit has shown something more, that the need to shield the Euro-zone relates not only to Greece's problems, but that the issue is a broader one and concerns the Euro-zone as a whole," Papandreou also said. "These decisions show that we are going to work all together not to let international speculation acting without control in the markets, to take Europe out of the crisis and contribute substantially to the world economy's recovery," the Greek premier said.

PASOK and ND pick up the pieces. Internal fallout from austerity vote. The ruling PASOK party and main opposition New Democracy yesterday began to assess the damage done by internal opposition to the austerity measures passed through Parliament on Thursday, with sources saying that Prime Minister George Papandreou may even carry out a reshuffle soon. Papandreou expelled three Socialist deputies for failing to vote for the measures, which Greece has agreed to adopt to qualify for 110 billion euros in loans from its Euro-zone partners and the International Monetary Fund. If the deputies refuse to give up their parliamentary seats and remain in the House as independent MPs, the government's majority will be reduced to seven.

One of the objectors, Vassilis Economou, said he was concerned about the impact the measures would have on the middle class, insisting that it was his right to express his opinion and indicating he was in no mood to surrender his seat. Many PASOK members seem to share these feelings as Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou and Labor Minister Andreas Loverdos found out on Thursday night when they met with 200 of the party's regional coordinators. Sources said it was a stormy session, during which the regional officials lambasted the ministers for the steps the government had taken. There is some speculation that following the passing of the measures, Papandreou may seek to reshuffle his Cabinet in a bid to create a team capable of seeing through the stringent agenda of cuts.

In the New Democracy camp, all eyes are on whether Dora Bakoyannis, who was the only conservative MP who voted for the austerity package, will create her own party after being ousted by ND leader Antonis Samaras. Bakoyannis said yesterday that it was too early to say what she would do. There was further controversy in Parliament yesterday when the government submitted a last-minute amendment to the austerity bill, which gave Papaconstantinou the right to sign binding agreements with the EU and IMF without the deals first being submitted to the House for approval. The opposition parties said that this was an affront to Parliament but PASOK said that it had been asked to make the amendment after the European Commission's legal advisers had seen the original text of the draft law approved on Thursday.

Meanwhile, during a meeting with government officials yesterday, the Association of Greek Tourist Enterprises (SETE) revealed that 5,800 overnight stays at Athens hotels were canceled as a result of the firebomb attack on a bank on Wednesday, which left three employees dead, - according to Kathimerini. Also, 21 conferences and events due to be held at the city's hotels were called off. The funerals of the two women killed in the fire, Paraskevi Zoulia and Angeliki Papathanasopoulou, took place yesterday. Epaminondas Tsakalis is due to be buried today. Papathanasopoulou's husband yesterday wrote to the media asking journalists to give his family privacy.

Germany approved its 22.4-bln-euro share of Greek bailout. Germany's parliament yesterday approved the country's sizable share of the bailout package for Greece and Chancellor Angela Merkel immediately called on fellow European leaders to tighten budgetary discipline within the Euro-zone. Both houses of parliament approved the bill that will see Germany provide 22.4 billion euros in loans to Greece over three years. "This was a very important decision that makes clear we will protect the single currency for our citizens," said Merkel. "But it will only be effective in combination with the ambitious austerity program approved by the Greek Parliament," she added in a note of warning to Athens. The German Finance Ministry said that a group of local banks and other financial institutions had agreed to provide 8.1 billion euros of financing to Greece.

Spain also approved its 9.7-billion-euro contribution to Greece's bailout yesterday. Dutch MPs gave the green light for their country's 4.7-billion-euro share and the Portuguese parliament agreed to release 2.06 billion euros in funding, despite the country's own economic difficulties. Leaders from the 16 Euro-zone countries gathered for a meeting in Brussels yesterday, ahead of which Merkel called for a "sharpening" of the rules to keep members of the single currency in check. The German chancellor said that changes should be made to EU treaties if necessary. "Otherwise, it will not work, in my opinion," she said.

One of the German proposals is for countries to lose their voting rights if they break Euro-zone rules but Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, who believes it is too soon to be talking about treaty changes, suggested this might be too harsh. "I cannot imagine withdrawing voting rights entirely," he said. He also said that there was no consensus yet on the creation of a European credit rating agency.

Strike on Monday and Tuesday. Pharmacies yesterday announced a 48-hour strike scheduled for next Monday and Tuesday in protest at government plans to liberalize their sector, one of many closed-shop professions in Greece. Information on pharmacies that will be operating on emergency duty is posted in the window of all pharmacies or is available online at www.yyka.gov.gr.

Peaceful sit-in. In a petition for more transparent governance and in protest at the government's austerity measures, the Greek chapter of the marxist France-based Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (ATTAC) is organizing a peaceful sit-in in front of Parliament in Syntagma Square on Sunday at 6 p.m.

07.05.2010. Evening... Fresh Brown Card to the lier CNN, especially directed to Diana Magnay, falsely reporting: "... anarchists out to pick a fight" with pictures indicating vandals and terrorists, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and terrorist attacks.

IAT-APT hands out a fresh Brown Card to the lier CNN, falsely reporting: "... anarchists out to pick a fight" with pictures indicating vandals and terrorists, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - not anarchists, - especially directed to the programs "Quest means business", and "The situation in Greece - The human factor" with Diana Magnay reporting.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using firebombs, so called "anarchists", falsely called so by CNN, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs, are in reality not anarchists, they are extremists and ochlarchists. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism, i.e. extremism and ochlarchy. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and not anarchistic.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of CNN, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs - indicated by CNN, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as CNN does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The lier CNN gets a Brown Card, especially directed to Diana Magnay, according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Ad so called "anarchists" that did/do vandalism and hooliganism, storming banks and similar, i.e. throwing stones at police etc.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at the police etc, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as CNN and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. CNN gets a Brown Card, especially directed to Diana Magnay, according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at police etc, and falsely posing as "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia and others! Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

Such violent attacks on police etc., vandalism and hooliganism, storming banks and similar, are ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn these violent attacks on police etc., vandalism and hooliganism, storming banks and similar, and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

07.05.2010. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists" doing criminal occupation of a building, thus in reality ochlarchists - not anarchists, and Kathimerini, that reports:

"A total of 25 people who were arrested on Wednesday during the protests and also at an empty building in Exarchia that had been taken over by self-styled anarchists faced a prosecutor yesterday."

The IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards the so called "self styled anarchists" doing criminal occupation, [i.e. a form of theft and thus a break of the Oslo Convention], of a building in Exarchia, thus in reality ochlarchists - not anarchists. These so called "anarchists", in reality ochlarchists, are thus expulsed form the anarchist movement, and are not anarchists. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card for falsely calling the ochlarchists "anarchists", and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites! Furthermore the ochlarchists are not "self styled" but styled by the newsmedia, etc. including Kathimerini, falsely calling ochlarchists - "anarchists", and giving them a lot of publisity.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The anarchists welcome the arrest of the ochlarchists doing criminal occupation. The IAT-APT has commented on the so called "anarchists", in reality marxist ochlarchists, in Exarchia, in general before, say, see report of 11.03.2010. The ochlarchists of Exarchia have in general long time ago been expulsed from the anarchists movement. The fresh Brown Cards are issued to underline the general message.

Robber's DNA provides links. Police said that they have matched the DNA of Symeon Seisidis, the alleged "robber in black" who was arrested on Monday, with evidence from two other crime scenes. Officers said his DNA matched that found on a ski mask that was discarded after an armed robbery at a branch of National Bank in January 2006, during which another member of the alleged gang, Yiannis Dimitrakis, was shot and arrested. Seisidis's DNA was also found on a black hat that was thrown in a ditch in Palaio Faliro after a 2007 raid on the home of then Supreme Court President Romylos Kedikoglou, when a weapon was stolen from a police guard. Until recently, police had thought that this raid was carried out by the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group. Police are still looking for Seisisdis's younger brother, Marios, and another suspected member of the gang, Grigoris Tsironis.

Grigoropoulos trial. The trial of two policemen accused in connection with the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 is in danger of descending into farce after Alexis Kougias, the lawyer defending one of the special guards, filed yet another suit against prosecution lawyer Nikos Konstantopoulos. Kougias, who has already sued his rival several times, objected to Konstantopoulos producing documents showing that the defense attorney had been banned from practicing law at the time when the case was in its preliminary stages.

06.05.2010. Evening... Austerity measures decided by the Greek parliament amid major demonstrations, also with some ochlarchy. In the implementation: Let the rich, the economical plutarchists, pay - not the people! The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy.

Greek lawmakers Thursday approved a controversial package of cost-cutting measures which international funders demanded, despite public anger about the move, state television reported. The vote was 172 in favor, 121 against, and three abstentions, all from Prime Minister George Papandreou's governing party, PASOK. The austerity plan includes cuts in the salaries of public-sector workers, including lawmakers; higher taxes on cigarettes, fuel, gambling and luxuries; an increase in the value-added tax consumers pay on purchases; and an increase in the retirement age for women in the public sector, Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said.

Two unions called on workers to meet Thursday at 6 p.m. in front of Parliament to protest the package of measures. Thousands of demonstrators were out on the streets Thursday as the vote was taking place, the protest was largely peaceful, however in the evening for a part it turned violent and ochlarchical. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy.

Greeks have been demonstrating against the measures for days. The International Workers of the World and anarchists in general have condemned yesterday's murder of three Greek bank workers and the injuries caused to several others as a sickening atrocity, which is the opposite of legitimate protest. "We trust that those responsible for this and the other acts of appalling violence will be brought to justice without delay," said L. Jakobsen, secretary general of IWW to AIIS.

The trade union GSEE has also condemned the "the fires, blind violence and vandalism" which took place, and deplored the fact that the tragic events overshadowed the largest demonstration in Greece in over 50 years, yesterday. The GSEE organized a mourning and protest march today, jointly with the public sector trade union confederation ADEDY, backed by IWW.

IWW declares: In the implementation: Let the rich, the economical plutarchists, pay - not the people! The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy.

06.05.2010. Later... Fresh Brown Cards to the liers CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank: Banks torched etc. by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and terrorist attacks.

CNN reports 05-06.05.2010: Violence-hit Greece votes on austerity measures. Greece's parliament is to vote Thursday on austerity measures that have sparked deadly protests on the streets of Athens as the country struggles to pull itself out of a financial crisis. The intense debate over the belt-tightening, a condition of an international bailout package, has sent thousands of public sector workers and others onto the streets to protest the plan, which includes wage freezes and higher taxes. Two unions called on workers to meet Thursday at 6 p.m. in front of Parliament to protest the package of measures. On Wednesday protest turned deadly as three employees died when a fire bomb hit a bank in central Athens. Marfin Egnatia Bank posted a statement on its Web site condemning the attack and lashing out at the country's leaders for what it said was poor handling of the situation. "We also express outrage for the hollow words of politicians and the unjust intentions of some politicians in parliament during the time that the corpses of our colleagues had not been removed from the branch, while it was still being stormed by protesters and anarchists," the statement said. Also on CNN-TV the blame of the vandalism and terrorist attack is put on a small group of "anarchists".

Fresh Brown Cards to the liers CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank: Banks torched etc. by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the and terrorist attacks.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using firebombs, so called "anarchists", falsely called so by CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs - mentioned by CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank do is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The liers CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Ad so called "anarchists" that did vandalism and hooliganism, storming banks and similar, i.e. throwing stones at police etc.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at the police etc, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at police etc, and falsely posing as "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia and others! Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

The Brown Cards are directed to CNN in general, and especially the 'CNN Wire Staff' and Diana Magnay.

06.05.2010. Fresh Brown Cards to the left fascists "Robbers in black", their supporters, Greek Police and Kathimerini, that reports:

'Robber in black' out of luck. One of the two people arrested following a bloody robbery at a hardware store in Athens late on Monday is Symeon Seisidis, a suspected member of the so-called "robbers in black" who has been at large for more than four years, police said yesterday. The 34-year-old has been on the police's wanted list since January 2006, along with his brother Marios and Grigoris Tsironis after they allegedly took part in an armed robbery of a bank in central Athens which led to another robber, Yiannis Dimitrakis, being shot and arrested. Last October, Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis offered a reward of 600,000 euros for their arrest. All four suspects are alleged to have carried out several bank robberies and to have links to anarchist groups. Police have also been examining their possible participation in terrorist attacks too.

Seisidis was arrested in Votanikos, near central Athens, at 9.15 p.m. on Monday. He tried to evade police but officers shot him in the leg during an exchange of fire. A Glock pistol, three bullets and a stun grenade were found in his possession. Another suspect, identified as A.S., was also arrested. He too had a handgun on him. Although he was not on the wanted list for the January 2006 robbery, police suspect that he may have been involved. Sources said forensic tests indicated that neither of the guns has been used in any terrorist attack.

The two men are not thought to have carried out the robbery at the Praktiker store on Pireos Street, in which another two men threatened staff with guns and took 50,000 euros in cash before shooting an employee in the chest. The two men arrested are suspected of providing backup. The police have long suspected that there are direct links between common criminals and terrorist groups. Sources said yesterday that these suspicions have grown after it emerged that a car used by the alleged leader of Revolutionary Struggle, Nikos Maziotis, was stolen at the same time from the same place as a vehicle used in the abduction of Thessaloniki industrialist Giorgos Mylonas in June 2008. (Wednesday May 5, 2010)

The IAT-APT repeats the resolution of 04.05.2010: "Member[s] of left fascist extremist ochlarchy gang 'Robbers in Black' arrested. Brown Cards in this connection. The left fascist extremist ochlarchy gang 'Robbers in Black' has sometimes falsely tried to pose as "anarchists" to get support from libertarians - on false premises, but the 'Robbers in Black' and their supporters have got Brown Cards, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, see the report of 16.12.2009 in this file, and, say, IJA 6 (31) , the report of 27.04-03.05.2010. The 'Robbers in Black' and supporters are thus not anarchists."

"Supporters" include all associates and people linked to the left fascist ochlarchists 'Robbers in black'. There are thus no "links to anarchist groups" as the Greek police alleges, and the IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards a) to the left fascist ochlarchists "Robbers in black" and their supporters, to underline that they are not anarchists, and b) to the Greek Police, and Kathimerini for mixing up these ochlarchists with the opposite, anarchists, and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. The anarchists welcome the arrests of members in "Robbers in black" and hope all of their supporters also will be arrested.

Arrested for playing police. Two policemen are to stand trial after being caught allowing two of their friends to pose as officers and to make their car look like a patrol vehicle. It is alleged that the two officers gave their friends a portable wireless set used for communication between headquarters and patrol cars. The men used a white Citroen Xsara – which is the same make, model and color as some police patrol vehicles – to follow the two officers. The civilian vehicle was also fitted with a flashing light and siren. The two men were allegedly allowed to take part in four stop-and-search operations on suspects. The incident was only discovered when members of the motorcycle-riding Dias squad stopped the Citroen and found the flashing light inside. The police officers are to face charges of dereliction of duty and illegal use of police property. The two civilians will stand trial for impersonating police officers.

Athens Mayor: Grief and rage. "The City of Athens expresses its grief for the three dead people and its rage for the new destruction in the city by the 'known-unknowns', who definitely are not the working people who demonstrated en masse over the repercussions of the economic measures on their daily lives," Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis said Wednesday night. He wondered "how many dead must we griefe, how much destruction to the city must we witness, for a democratically-elected government to be found that will say the big 'no' to this situation and wipe out, tonight, all these terrorists of our city".

City of Athens crews took up work Wednesday night to restore the extensive damage caused. An initial inventory of the damage listed vandalism of Syntagma Square's main fountain and all its marble benches, and extensive damage to sidewalks, marble fixtures and road signs in the city center, as well as the destruction of 650 garbage and recycling bins, 400 small trash bins, 10 bus stops, 20 trees, and other damage. Extensive damage was also done to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the parliament building, which hooded rioters threw rocks at. The anarchists agree with Nikitas Kaklamanis, and say a big NO the ochlarchists, including terrorists.

IAT-APT also hands out a Brown Card to ERT for yesterday reporting: "The clashes started around 1pm when a group of anarchists commenced hurling rocks and pieces of marble outside the building housing the Greek Parliament. Police responded with tear gas and stun grenades." These so called "anarchists", were practically certain marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and ERT is thus breaking the Oslo Convention. See also the reports of 05.05.2010.

05.05.2010. Later... Condolences. Three dead in Athens fire during protests. Marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists are suspected. Brown Card to CNN. The anarchists condemn the violent ochlarchy and deadly terrorist attack.

Three dead in Athens fire during protests. Three people died in a fire set by Greek protesters in central Athens on Wednesday during a protest march against government austerity measures, the fire brigade said. "We have found three dead people in the building that is on fire," it said in a statement. Marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists are suspected for the firebomb/petrolbomb attack. The police blamed what were called "hooded youths" for setting fire to the building. The victims, two women and a man, were bank employees. Unions immediately called off their general strike after news came through that a small crowd had broken away from the main march and firebombed several banks. The three workers were trapped inside one, and burned to death before the fire services could reach them.

Tens of thousands of people converged on the city center as part of a general strike that paralyzed flights, ferries, schools and hospitals. Many Greeks are angry and complain that they are paying the price for the profligacy of others. Police sirens and the smell of tear gas filled the streets around Greece's parliament building after protests against government spending cuts turned violent for a part, then as mentioned deadly. Petrol bombs were thrown at police who responded with pepper spray, tear gas and stun grenades. Practically certain marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists were behind the violence. No anarchists were involved in the ochlarchy.

The CNN-TV falsely put the blame on anarchists, and gets a Brown Card from the IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention. The demonstrations seen all in all have been largely peaceful and modest, many anarchists participated in the peaceful, non-ochlarchical protests. About 30-50 000 persons participated in the demonstrations. The anarchists condemn the violent ochlarchy and the deadly terrorist attack. Demonstrate with dignity - not ochlarchy! The anarchists express the deepest condolences with the relatives of the three victims of the deadly firebomb and terrorist attack.

05.05.2010. IWW: Implement the WEC's international libertarian economic plan to stop the unenlightened plutarchy with about 10% unemployment and increasing in Greece, the Euro-zone and USA!

Global markets hit by continuing debt concerns... The International Workers of the World, IWW, backs the general strike in Greece. In general, the IWW and the anarchists at large support the strikes and demonstrations against the unenlightened plutarchy world wide, as long as they are direct actions, i.e. without ochlarchy. This is an international fight and IWW declares: Implement the World Economic Council, WEC's international libertarian economic plan outlined in the WEC resolutions to stop the unenlightened plutarchy with about 10% unemployment and increasing in Greece, the Euro-zone and USA! Mandated persons! Do it now!

04.05.2010. Member of left fascist extremist ochlarchy gang 'Robbers in Black' arrested. Brown Cards in this connection. Strikes, backed by IWW.

The left fascist extremist ochlarchy gang 'Robbers in Black' has sometimes falsely tried to pose as "anarchists" to get support from libertarians - on false premises, but the 'Robbers in Black' and their supporters have got Brown Cards, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, see the report of 16.12.2009 in this file, and, say, IJA 6 (31) , the report of 27.04-03.05.2010. The 'Robbers in Black' and supporters are thus not anarchists.

ANA-MPA reports: Gunman arrested in cash & carry holdup a wanted member of 'Robbers in Black' gang, employee shot. Two hooded gunmen shot and seriously injured a supermarket employee during an armed robbery in a cash-and-carry in the Tavros district of Athens on Monday night, and two suspects were arrested later, one of whom is wanted for belonging to the 'Robbers in Black' gang. The gunmen fled with 50,000 euros from a Praktiker store in a stolen car, which was found abandoned a short distance away a few minutes later. The employee was rushed to hospital with chest wounds.The police counter-terrorism squad is investigating whether the detainees are members of a terrorist group.

The investigation so far has revealed that one of the two detainees, who was injured in the legs by police bullets, is not one of the suspects wanted in the "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire" terrorist group case, as the suspect had initially said himself, but is one of the "Robbers in Black" for whom a 600,000 euros rewards has been offered for information leading to their location and arrest. The injured robber has also been hospitalised in serious condition. Police also believe that other accomplices were involved in the Praktiker hold-up, given that the stolen 50,000 euros were not found on the two suspects arrested. Announcements are expected by the Greek Police (ELAS) headquarters.

ERT reports: Armed robbers could be associated with terrorism. The police manhunt that followed an armed robbery and the arrest of wanted outlaw Simeon Seisides, who was member of a gang called "robbers in black" is backed by the anti-terrorist squad, as there is information he could be involved with terrorism. Seisides was injured while clashing with police. His accomplice was seized and taken to the police headquarters for questioning. The two men had two guns and a grenade in their possession. Initial information said that Seisides was implicated with a guerrilla group, but the investigation showed he was a member of a robber gang. The anti-terrorist squad is investigating whether the two arrestees are members of another terrorist group. They also believe that at the armed robbery in Praktiker, where the two gunmen opened fire injuring an employee, they did not act alone, because police did not find the money they had stolen.

PAME protestors' takeover of Acropolis. A group of approximately 200 members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) affiliated PAME trade union movement staged a takeover of the Acropolis at dawn Tuesday, in protest of the government's austerity measures. The protestors hung a huge banner with the slogan "Peoples of Europe, rise up" in Greek and English.

Seamen's union declares strike for Wed. The seamen's union (PNO) on Monday declared a strike for Wednesday, May 5, applicable to all Greek-flagged vessels, including ferry boats. The vote by the union's board was 8-7 in favor of the industrial action. The union, properly known as the Panhellenic Seamen's Federation, said it was joining a nationwide strike declared by Greece's largest umbrella trade group, GSEE. The union said the strike will begin at midnight, Tuesday, and continue until midnight on Wednesday.

Series of strikes. The civil servants' union ADEDY executive committee has declared a 48-hour strike in the public sector on May 4-5 and will hold a protest rally in central Athens at noon to coincide with strike action by teachers. A 48-hour strike has also been declared by primary school teachers. Trade unionists say the measures loot the incomes and seriously undermine labour and insurance rights. On Wednesday, the General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE) has declared a 24-hour strike that combined with that of ADEDY is converted into a general strike. There will be a strike rally in Athens that will begin from Pedion tou Areos park at 11.00 in the morning.

On the same day, the GSEBEE and ESEE employer associations representing traders, freelance professionals and small business owners have decided to close their shops and businesses from 09.00 until 03.00 in the afternoon. Also as mentioned on Wednesday, the Panhellenic Seamen's Union (PNO) will hold a 24-hour strike that will keep ships docked in port throughout the day. The strikers will be joined by journalists in the mass media, who have declared a 24-hour strike from 06.00 on Wednesday morning until 06.00 on Thursday, based on a decision by the Panhellenic Federations of Journalists' Unions and other press-sector unions. There will be no TV or radio coverage of the protests because broadcast journalists will not be working and newspapers will not be published on Thursday as print journalists will also take part in the action. The strikes are backed by IWW.

BBC reports: Greek strikers hit Athens streets. Greek public sector workers have stormed the Acropolis and scuffled with riot police after launching a 48-hour strike against austerity measures. Their action comes ahead of a nationwide general strike on Wednesday. The austerity measures were outlined in a draft bill submitted to the Greek parliament and will be voted on by the end of the week. They have been introduced in return for a 110bn euro (£95bn) international rescue package agreed for the country. The measures include wage freezes, pension cuts and tax rises. They aim to achieve fresh budget cuts of 30bn euros over three years, with the goal of cutting Greece's public deficit to less than 3% of GDP by 2014. It currently stands at 13.6%.

Union leaders say the cuts target low-income Greeks. "There are other things the [government] can do, before taking money from a pensioner who earns 500 euros (£430) a month," Spyros Papaspyros, leader of the public servants' union ADEDY, told Greek private television. Dozens of Communist protesters broke into the ancient Acropolis at dawn, draping giant banners on the Parthenon temple reading: "Peoples of Europe Rise Up." "We want to send a message to the farthest reaches of Greece and Europe," Communist MP Nikos Papaconstantinou said. "Similar measures that eliminate social security are taken across Europe. But popular anger will rattle imperialist organisations."

Silent parade. Several thousand teachers and students marched to parliament, carrying [anarchist] black flags and banners. The demonstration was largely peaceful. Some protesters handed red roses to riot policemen. But some scuffles broke out near the parliament building, with demonstrators throwing stones at riot police, who responded with pepper spray. [The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy!] In other signs of discontent, on Monday a group of teachers forced their way into the main state broadcaster's studios in Athens to protest about education cuts. Also in Athens, some 150 members of the armed forces staged a silent parade to protest at having their bonuses cut.

The EU has agreed to provide 80bn euros (£69bn) in funding, while the rest will come from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The deal is designed to prevent Greece from defaulting on its massive debt. However, it must first be approved by some parliaments in the 15 other Euro-zone countries. Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said private banks were willing to chip in to to Germany's part of the deal, which is expected to be the largest individual contribution, at about 22m euros. In return for the loans, Greece will make major austerity cuts which Prime Minister George Papandreou said involved "great sacrifices".

03.05.2010. Brown Card to the lier Reuters. Banks torched by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the terrorist attacks. AP: Greeks and the state: an uncomfortable couple.

Banks torched by marxist leftwing terrorist arsonists. Two banks in the southern Athens suburb of Aghios Dimitrios were attacked by arsonists early yesterday. A branch of Geniki Bank and one of Emporiki Bank were severely damaged when assailants attacked them with petrol bombs. Nobody was injured in the attacks. The anarchists condemn the terrorist attacks.

Brown Card to the lier Reuters. Banks torched by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists.

Reuters reports 02.05.2010: Explosion damages HSBC branch in Athens, no injuries. A bomb exploded at a branch of HSBC bank in Athens on Sunday, damaging the entrance but causing no injuries, police said. "It appears a home-made bomb comprised of gas canisters and fuel caused small damage to the bank's facade," a police official said. Gas canister bomb attacks are common in Athens and are usually staged by leftist and anarchist groups against business and political targets. Sunday's bombing against the U.K.-based banking group was the first since the Socialist government announced tough new austerity measures in exchange for international aid to cope with a debt crisis. Opinion polls show the public opposes the measures and more than half of those asked in a recent survey said they would join protests against them.

Ad "gas canister bomb attacks are common in Athens and are usually staged by leftist and anarchist groups against business and political targets". It is true that "leftist groups", i.e. marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists, often are behind arsonist terrorist attacks in Greece, but not anarchists. Also rightwing extremists or fascist leftwing extremists may be behind arsonist terrorist attacks, but not likely in this case.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using firebombs, so called "anarchists", falsely called so by Reuters, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of Reuters, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs - mentioned by Reuters, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian, and not anarchistic and anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag! Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, not attacking persons or things... Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions on capitalism and statism as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, and not in this case.

It is practically certain that "leftist groups", i.e. marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists, were behind the above mentioned arsonist terrorist attacks, and not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the terrorist attacks.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Reuters does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The lier Reuters get a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Deal agreed, tough steps announced. More tax hikes, spending cuts to hit home. In return for receiving emergency loans of 110 billion euros from the International Monetary Fund and the Euro-zone over the next three years, Greece yesterday announced that it was adopting the most stringent austerity measures the country has seen in its modern history. Prime Minister George Papandreou said the agreement would result in "an unprecedented support package for an unprecedented effort by the Greek people." "These sacrifices will give us breathing space and the time we need to make great changes," he said in a televised address following an emergency Cabinet meeting.

Shortly after, Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou unveiled the measures agreed by the government in order to save 36.4 billion euros by 2014 and reduce Greece's public deficit from 13.6 percent of gross domestic product in 2009 to 2.6 percent in 2014. Under the plans, it is projected that Greece will not experience any growth until 2012. Under the key measures in the public sector, public servants will lose their 13th and 14th monthly salaries and their supplemental pay packages will be cut by a further 8 percent after a 30 percent reduction earlier this year. They will receive a maximum of 1,000 euros combined for Easter, summer vacation and Christmas bonuses.

The second installment of a handout to low-income workers, which PASOK set up when it came to power, will be frozen. Also, the Public Investment Program will be reduced by 1.5 billion over the next year. The government decided not to impose a salary cut in the private sector but is introducing legislation that will make it easier and cheaper to fire employees. Each of the three value-added tax rates will rise, from 23 to 25 percent, from 10 to 11 percent and from 5 to 5.5 percent, bringing in 1.8 billion euros by the end of next year. Private and public sector pensioners will receive only 12 monthly payments, as their 13th and 14th installments will also be cut. Changes to the pension system will require people to work longer before they retire.

Main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras criticized the government's handling of the crisis and reiterated he would not have appealed to the IMF for help. He stopped short of saying whether he would vote against the measures. The Communist Party (KKE) and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) both encouraged citizens to voice their opposition.

The ADEDY civil servants' union vowed to block the measures, which it claimed "make the rich richer and the poor poorer." The union backlash against the measures is due to begin today, when workers at all the country's municipalities will go on strike to protest reforms in local government that will lead to job cuts. The protesters will gather at Karaiskaki Square at noon before marching to Parliament. There will be a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, which will ground airplanes and disrupt public transport, while teachers are staging a 48-hour-strike from tomorrow.

Euro-zone and IMF preparing to release funds. The Euro-zone nations agreed yesterday to provide the bulk of 110 billion euros for Greece's support package, with the possibility that some European commercial banks may provide the necessary funds. "We have decided to activate the support plan for Greece," the head of the Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker, said after a meeting of Euro-zone finance ministers in Brussels. It now remains for the leaders of the 16 Euro-zone members to meet in the Belgian capital on Friday to sign off on the transfer of the funds.

Juncker said the 16 Euro-zone ministers agreed to, where necessary, present the plans to their national parliaments and stressed there was "no question" of the EU leaders reversing the much-awaited decision when they meet. The Luxembourg prime minister also said that each country would examine whether local banks would want to contribute to the rescue package. "All the ministers agreed to see, together with banking sector representatives of their respective countries, what voluntary contributions the banks could make."

Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund, which will cover roughly a third of the support package, is expected to approve the deal "within the week," IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in a statement. "Our collective effort will contribute to the stability of the euro, will benefit all of Europe and will help promote global financial stability and a secure recovery in the global economy," Strauss-Kahn said. Prime Minister George Papandreou also spoke to US President Barack Obama last night to discuss the agreement reached with the IMF and the Euro-zone members, according to a statement from the premier's office.

Associated Press reports: Greeks and the state: an uncomfortable couple. A pony-tailed Greek on a motorcycle pulled up onto the sidewalk, hunting for a better parking spot, and an elderly tourist with a crutch shuffled out of the way. The good-natured driver explained his illegal maneuver with a smile. One word was enough. "Greece," he told her in English. So it goes in Greece, a historical patchwork of Balkan, Mediterranean, and even Middle Eastern influences that failed to follow the European rule book. Scratch the veneer of slick highways and gleaming euro coins, and there's also a broad culture of cutting corners that helped push it into financial crisis.

With a May 19 deadline looming for Greek to repay its massive debt, European governments and the International Monetary Fund on Sunday agreed on euro110 billion in emergency loans on the condition Athens make painful budget cuts and tax increases. The talk is technical. Contagion and credit downgrades, junk status and bond spreads. But go to the root, and you find this: Greeks, though fiercely patriotic, have a problem with being told what to do by the government. That could have profound consequences for the course of the crisis: Greeks often strike when told to tighten their belts.

"Greek people don't like authority. This is good and bad at the same time," said Georgios Koutsoukos, who works in the tax collection section of the Ministry of Finance and joined a protest against government steps to blunt the crisis. The good part, Koutsoukos elaborated, is that it's OK to disobey when an injustice is in plain sight. The bad part, he said, is that things get out of hand when people ignore rules all the time. Who decides when it's good or bad? That's the hard part. As for how they got this way, Koutsoukos has no doubt: "It's a matter of history."

Short on cash, Greece has no shortage of history. Its ancestors are superstars of the ancient world. Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristotle and Sophocles are a few. But Greeks think to more recent times, the centuries under Ottoman rule that ended in independence in 1829, long after other European countries were refining democratic institutions. It was a time, they say, when Greeks became allergic to state authority. Some historians agree to a trend. "The capriciousness of Ottoman rule and the weakness of the idea of the rule of law helped to shape the underlying values of Greek society and to determine attitudes to the state and to authority that have persisted into the present," wrote Richard Clogg in "A Concise History of Greece."

In modern Greece, patronage and extended families have rivaled the state for authority at the local level, and personalities dominated charisma-driven politics in the last century. Greece is not alone, though. Mediterranean culture tends to be easygoing; Italians have a reputation for brazenly ignoring rules they consider too trivial to obey. Greece's Harvard-educated prime minister, George Papandreou, whose father and grandfather held the same job, wants to undo the habits of the past, and present. Yet he has tailored rhetoric to his compatriots' taste for defiance, asking Parliament to support reforms that he said will deliver a "genuine revolution" in Greek history.

Despite a sneering attitude to central authority, Greeks love state jobs and the security they provide, hence the bloated public sector and labor unrest that have dragged down the economy. Greeks had seemed content with the status quo for years, unwilling to deal with their debt or strip away early retirement and other cushy benefits of a state grown soft. At the micro level, Greek intransigence is petty and personal, a matter of running a red light without much fear of a slap on the wrist. But add it all up, and it's a threat to society. Tax evasion drains the state of well over $20 billion a year, and off-the-books transactions happen all the time. Having trouble getting a doctor's appointment? Parting with a few hundred extra euros, bank notes slipped discreetly across a desk at a clinic, traditionally ensures good treatment.

Unlike their philosophical ancestors, many Greeks don't wrestle much with their conscience. Salaries are low, they reason, so they have to make up the shortfall. And they find heroes in unlikely places. Last year, bank robber Vassilis Paleokostas, hailed by some Greeks as a modern Robin Hood, and an Albanian cohort escaped from prison by helicopter for the second time since 2006. Facebook fan sites mushroomed, fueled by reports that he offered loot to the poor. Never mind that his accomplice, Alket Rizaj, was a convicted murderer.

The riots that broke out in December 2008 after a teenager was killed by police, engulfing urban neighborhoods in violence, have become an iconic symbol of Greek distaste, or even contempt, for state authority. The fact that nobody died in the street clashes, however, suggested a certain leniency and accommodation on the part of protesters and police alike. The term "anarchy" comes from the Greek for "without authority," and the anarchist symbol - an "A" in a circle, or "O" for "order" - is a staple of graffiti at Athens protests, even if it seems an anachronism (another word from Greek).

More often than not, Greeks who have a problem with authority also have a problem with each other. Splinter groups abound. At one protest, a computer science teacher, Andreas Mougolias, said he doesn't side with activists who get violent because they are "demonstrating against the demonstration" as much as government policies. Fallout from Greece's National Schism between the king and prime minister hurt the country in the early 20th century, and the Western-backed government fought a civil war with the communists in the late 1940s.

Even Lord Byron, the British poet who assisted Greek forces in their 1820s fight against Ottoman rule, grew vexed at their bickering. "I do not like to speak ill of them, though they do of one another," he wrote to an Italian lover, the Countess Guiccioli. He succumbed to fever and died in Greece. Last week, in Syntagma (Constitution) Square, protesters converged on the Ministry of Finance to protest salary and pension cuts by the government. They vented briefly on police bunched in the entrance, shouting, pushing, lobbing debris and scattering when officers blasted them with pepper spray. Content with their outdoor drama, the protesters went home.

AIIS reports: As mentioned there are many anarchists in Greece, not only ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists". Many in Greece are anarchists and opposed a) to the significant pyramid that is the state/government, i.e. top heavy and inefficent, vertical organization, with significant superiors in rank and/or income, a top - down approach with relatively large rank and/or income differences, and are for b) horizontal organization, anarchy, i.e. significant, with small rank and income differences and efficient, a bottom - up approach, also the opposite of ochlarchy.

Anarchists are against ochlarchy, mob rule broadly defined, i.e. chaos, disorder, mob rule (narrowly defined), lawlessness, the law of the jungle, criminality, riots, vandalism, arson, theft, corruption, drugs, mafia, terrorism, autocratic rule, the right to the strongest, antisocial tyrannic behavior, etc. i.e. different types of superiors and subordinates, a top - down approach. The IAT-APT repeats that the Circle-A symbol of anarchist youths, is only for non-ochlarchical, non-authoritarian use, not for illegal tagging.

02.05.2010. Brown Cards to the lier Euronews and so called "anarchists" that "threw rocks and fired fireworks", in reality marxist leftwing extremist vandals, hooligans and terrorists, i.e. ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists.

Euronews reports: Crisis. Greece agrees bail-out deal to save economy. The Greek government has agreed a deal with the EU and the IMF to save the country's economy. The agreement, aimed at freeing up billions of euros in aid, paves the way for more austerity measures. After holding a cabinet meeting, The Prime Minister George Papandreou said the country would have to make great sacrifices but that avoiding bankruptcy was the priority. Thousands of Greeks took to the streets yesterday for the May Day rallies. Many are strongly opposed to the pay cuts, pension reforms and tax rises that are anticipated. They argue that ordinary people should not be made to pay for a crisis they didn't cause.

The protests also brought running battles in Athens between riot police and anarchists who threw rocks and fired fireworks. Police responded with tear gas. There are fears that the third austerity package in four months could bring further violence. Later today the Greek finance minister is to head to Brussels for an extraordinary meeting of his counterparts from other Euro-zone countries. They could then sign a deal which may be worth as much as 120 billion euros over three years. The bail-out is designed to stop Greece from defaulting on its debt and prevent the crisis from spreading.

Brown Cards to the lier Euronews and so called "anarchists" that "threw rocks and fired fireworks" on May Day, in reality marxist leftwing extremist vandals, hooligans and terrorists, i.e. ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists.

Ad so called "anarchists" that "fired fireworks", i.e. used firebombs and similar.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using firebombs, so called "anarchists", falsely called so by Euronews, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of Euronews, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs - mentioned by Euronews, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian, and not anarchistic and anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag! Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, not attacking persons or things... Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions on capitalism and statism as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, and not in this case.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Euronews does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The lier Euronews gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Ad so called "anarchists" that "threw rocks", doing vandalism and hooliganism, i.e. throwing stones at police etc.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at the police etc, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Euronews and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Euronews gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at police etc, and falsely posing as "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia! Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

Such violent attacks on police etc. are ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn these violent attacks on police etc. and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

01.05.2010. The liers BBC and Malcolm Brabant etc. get Brown Cards. Strikes and demonstrations on May Day. IWW backs the strikes and demonstrations, as long as they are non-ochlarchical.

Strikes and demonstrations on May Day. Two separate demonstrations will be held in central Athens to mark the May Day. Greece's two major umbrella unions, GSEE and ADEDY, have invited employees to join in the demonstration scheduled for 11am on Saturday at Klafthmonos Square. PAME (All Workers Militant Front) will stage a separate demonstration at Syntagma Square. There will be changes in public transport services. Ships will remain docked, while there will be no train services. The IWW backs the strikes and demonstrations, as long as they are non-ochlarchical.

Euronews reports: Crisis. Mass protest planned for May Day in Greece: The largest labour unions in Greece are planning a mass protest for May Day, against austerity measures proposed by the government. More than half the Greeks surveyed in a poll, that's just been released, have said they'll take to the streets if the measures are imposed. But Prime Minister George Papandreou says cuts are essential if the country is to keep afloat. They're the pre-conditions for a loan package, likely to be announced on Sunday. Union officials said Greece had been asked to cut its deficit by more than 10 percent of GDP by next year, by raising sales tax, freezing civil servant's wages, and scrapping public sector bonuses that add two months pay to salaries.

"I'm frightened for the future," one woman, an archaeologist, said. "I'll probably leave Greece, because there's nothing available for me in my field." "I'm an economist," another woman said. "I've been out of work for a year and a half and I have to live with my parents." May Day won't see the last of the turmoil. Unions have vowed to step up action, with a four-hour stoppage planned for Tuesday and a nationwide strike set for Wednesday next week.

BBC reports: Tear gas fired at Greek protest. Greek riot police have fired tear gas at youths protesting in Athens as a trade union march passed in front of the finance ministry. There were reports of similar scenes in the northern city of Thessaloniki as youths attacked business premises. Thousands of Greeks are taking part in May Day rallies called by trade unions and left-wing parties in protest against government austerity measures. The planned cuts are in exchange for a huge international financial bail-out. There is huge public resistance to the wage cuts, tax rises and pension reductions that are expected to be implemented. The measures are being demanded by the European Union in return for a rescue package, which is expected to total between 100-120bn euros (£87-100bn; $133-160bn) over three years. The full details of the bail-out are expected to be revealed this weekend if the Euro-zone leaders finally sign off the deal, which is designed to prevent Greece from defaulting on its enormous debt obligations.

'Unpopular measures'. The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says the mood has become serious as thousands of demonstrators march through the city towards parliament. The unions hope that the rally will demonstrate to the government, the Euro-zone, the IMF and the international markets, that they can mobilise enough "troops" to defeat the new austerity programme, our correspondent says. The value of the euro dropped on Friday after publication of a new poll suggested more than 50% of Greeks would take to the streets to try to stop the government's plans. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is expected to announce details of the cuts once the rescue package is approved. He says the package is essential to save the country and protect its future, and has warned citizens to brace themselves for a period of hardship. He has said he will not weaken despite opposition and the political cost of the unpopular measures.

Later BBC's Malcolm Brabant falsely reports: "I'm outside the University of Athens where a Greek state television truck is on fire. Anarchists who were marching past saw that it was standing there and it is a symbol of the state and so they smashed the windows and somebody put a petrol bomb inside and set it on fire. The fire brigade is now here and has put out the flames, the riot police have chased off the anarchists and there is a terrible searing taste of tear gas in the air."

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using firebomb, so called "anarchists", falsely called so by BBC and Malcolm Brabant, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebomb, are in reality not anarchists, they are extremists and ochlarchists. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism, i.e. extremism and ochlarchy. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and not anarchistic.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of BBC and Malcolm Brabant, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebomb - mentioned by BBC and Malcolm Brabant, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian, and not anarchistic and anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag! Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, not attacking persons or things... Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions on capitalism and statism as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, and not in this case.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as BBC and Malcolm Brabant do is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The liers BBC and Malcolm Brabant get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. This is not the first time BBC and Malcolm Brabant get Brown Cards.

Also BBC reports: Greek protests: Eyewitnesses. "Having been in Greece for four months of study, the most sensational aspect of these protests is how normal everyone seems to think they are. 50 feet from rock-throwing anarchists, I saw a family enjoying May Day by strolling with a child in a baby carriage. Greece is far from widespread chaos. The protesters turn a two block radius into a war zone while allowing their great uncle to still enjoy his black coffee at a cafe a block away!" signed by Jimmy Hagan, Youngstown, Ohio, USA.

IAT-APT reports: "Persons throwing stones and petrol bombs, burning buildings and cars, looting etc. are ochlarchs/ochlarchists, ... of course not anarchists," and hands out a Brown Card to Jimmy Hagan, according to the Oslo Convention. Also the paper Telegraph.co.uk, reporting: ... "there were fears that violent anarchist and hard-left factions were intent on wreaking as much havoc as possible," falsely indicating "anarchists=ochlarchists", an Orwellian "1984" newspeak oxymoron, gets a Brown Card.

Euronews reports: May Day. Greek austerity plans spark mass May Day protest. Angry Greeks have marched against planned austerity they say will hurt the poor. Thousands gathered outside Greece's parliament in Athens, only metres away from where EU and IMF officials have been hammering out a multi-billion euro rescue deal for the debt-riddled country. The 'Biggest Social Battle' is how unions have described the effort to stop the measures and it did not take long for that battle to commence. Clashes erupted when a small group of protesters tried to march on the Finance Ministry.

Police were eventually able to drive them back, but not before feeling the protester's wrath. Molotov cocktails were thrown at a line of police officers, setting one alight. Two TV trucks and scores of garbage cans also went up in smoke and a tense stand-off is reported in the Greek capital.

Prime Minister George Papandreou has warned the deal is a matter of national survival following a torrid week on the world's financial markets, which raised serious questions over the single currency's stability. Shops, ships and other transport hubs were all shut because of a nationwide 24-hour walkout with unions describing the cutbacks as 'the biggest attack on workers rights for centuries.' The EU is demanding severe austerity in exchange for a massive 120 billion-euro bailout over the next 3 years.

These protesters were marxist extremist ochlarchists, using red flags, and they were thus not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the violent ochlarchy and especially the use of Molotov coctails against the police, setting one policeman on fire. Demonstrate with dignity - NOT OCHLARCHY!!!

30.04.2010. Brown Card to Nikos Maziotis, that falsely claims to be an anarchist, but is a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist, similar to RAF/Baader-Meinhof. Maziotis was expulsed from the anarchist movement 20.12.2009.

Kathimerini, that also gets a Brown Card, reports: Revolutionary trio claim terror hits. Three of the six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle have publicly accepted what they called "political responsibility" for a string of shootings and bombings since 2003 that caused widespread damage but no deaths. In a letter to the Pontiki weekly, Nikos Maziotis, the group's alleged ringleader, his partner Panayiota Roupa and Costas Gournas, who is alleged to have managed the organization's money, admitted to their role in the attacks and vowed to continue opposing the establishment.

"As long as we are alive, as long as we live and breathe, we will do whatever we can to scupper criminal plans that harm common people," they said in a letter that was littered with references to Greece's economic woes and its appeal for help to the International Monetary Fund. In the letter, Maziotis, a self-proclaimed anarchist, Roupa and Gournas confirm that Lambros Fountas, the microbiologist whose death led to their arrests, was a member of the group. Fountas was shot dead by police as he attempted to steal a car on March 10 and subsequent searches of his property led police to the six suspects.

The fact that the three other alleged Revolutionary Struggle members arrested – Sarantos Nikitopoulos, Vangelis Stathopoulos and Christoforos Kortesis – did not sign the letter suggests that they intend to deny any role in the group when their cases go to trial. A prosecutor yesterday ordered all six suspects to allow DNA samples to be taken as police attempt to match them with evidence taken from the properties rented by the group. It was also decided that the judicial investigation would be handed to magistrates Dimitris Mokkas and Constantinos Baltas, who are also probing the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire.

The IAT-APT handed out fresh Brown Cards to Revolutionary Struggle and its members 20.12.2009, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. This also means that Nikos Maziotis was expulsed from the anarchist movement 20.12.2010, see the resolution from IAT-APT that day. The IAT-APT hands out a new Brown Card to Nikos Maziotis, to underline the expulsion, and to underline that falsely claiming to be an anarchist, while in reality being a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist similar to RAF/Baader-Meinhof, is not tolerated. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag! Nikos Maziotis is acting ultra-authoritarian, and is far from being an anarchist.

Nikos Maziotis is a marxist leftwing terrorist ochlarchist extremist. To falsely postulate that anarchists are extremists, logically means a severe break of the Oslo Convention. Anarchists are not extremists, see the resolutions "Anarchy is optimal order! For anarchist action!" and "What is an extremist, person or organization, really?" above. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. That is not extremists, or extremism.

Extremists and extremism have more than 666 per thousand authoritarian degree, while anarchists and anarchism have equal to or less than 50% authoritarian degree. Anarchists and extremists are thus opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with extremists is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media produce copycat ochlarchist extremists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency, according to the Oslo Convention, both to Nikos Maziotis and his collaborationist Kathimerini.

'Flower power' drives May Day celebration. Several floral displays created by the City of Athens to mark May Day is seen in the center of the capital. Greeks traditionally make wreaths on May Day as a way of celebrating spring. May Day also marks International Workers' Day, or Labor Day, and some professions do not work or hold stoppages to mark the occasion.

Public transport. Morning stoppage on May Day. There will be no metro, tram, bus, trolley bus or electric railway services between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. tomorrow due to a work stoppage being staged by public transport employees to mark May Day. There will be no trains running on the Hellenic Railways Organization network as employees will be staging a 24-hour strike.

Ochlarchist vandals' attack in Exarchia. Vandals broke into the political office of Deputy Environment Minister Thanos Moraitis in Exarchia, central Athens, yesterday. The five assailants wore hoods and used hammers to cause extensive damage. The deputy minister was not in the office at the time of the attack.

Ochlarchist police abuse in Patmos? Police confirmed yesterday that they are investigating allegations police officers on the island of Patmos abused several high school students who were taken in for questioning in connection to a vandalized motorcycle. The force denied claims by the boys' lawyer that the allegations had been ignored.

Grigoropoulos trial. A court in Amfissa hearing the trial of two policemen implicated in the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 is unlikely to reach a verdict by June 6, by which date the officers will be eligible for release, as they will have reached the 18-month limit on being held in custody. Sources said that the court still has to hear from 15 witnesses, including forensic experts.

Elliniko mayor goes on hunger strike again. The mayor of the southern Athens suburb of Elliniko, Christos Kortzidis, who went on a lengthy hunger strike in 2007 to protect free access to the area's beaches, yesterday launched a new fasting protest, this time at the government's plans to overhaul local administration. Kortzidis, who went more than three weeks without food three years ago, said that he was opposed to the "Kallikratis" plan, which would lead to hundreds of municipalities around Greece being merged as part of an effort to slash red tape and costs. "I think that Kallikratis will impoverish local government, distancing it from citizens and leading to employees losing their livelihoods," said Kortzidis, whose municipality would be merged with nearby Argyroupoli under the government's plans. A number of mayors are unhappy at not being consulted about the plans.

BBC Reports: Athens clash over austerity cuts. Protesters in Athens clashed with police as a group tried to force its way into the Greek finance ministry. Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd as the unrest flared over austerity measures that may be taken in return for a massive bailout deal. The European Union (EU) has said it is close to approving the details of an emergency plan to help tackle Greece crippling debt. EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said "rapid progress" was being made.

Deal deadline. "I'm confident that the talks will be concluded soon, meaning in the next days," Mr Barroso told a news conference following the clashes. "We believe that these solutions will be conducive to our actions and will prevent further possible effects of the contagion." Officials from the EU, the International Monetary Fund, and European Central Bank are in Athens to negotiate the bailout. The Greek government says it needs a deal by 19 May to avoid a devastating debt default.

ANALYSIS by Malcolm Brabant, BBC News correspondent in Athens: On Planet Greece, some civil servants get a bonus for turning up to work on time. Foresters get a bonus for working outdoors. At least they show up. There are civil servants called ghost workers, because they never go into the office, head to a second job and still claim a state salary. They can't get sacked, because a civil service post is for life. Unless the incumbent decides to retire in his or her forties, WITH a pension. And the government can continuing paying for the afterlife. Unmarried and divorced daughters of civil servants are entitled to collect their dead parents' pensions. Another lucrative sinecure is to belong to a state committee. The government has no idea how many there are. It's been estimated that they have 10,000 employees and cost nearly £200m a year, and that includes the committee to manage a lake that dried up 80 years ago.

Police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators, after some tried to break through a police cordon guarding the Greek finance ministry. The outbreaks came after Greece began talks over extra budget cuts as conditions for the bailout loans. These cuts would be in addition to an already mooted austerity drive aimed at reducing the nation's public deficit, which is more than four times bigger than the EU limit. Union officials say the IMF wants Athens to raise sales taxes, scrap bonuses amounting to two extra months of pay in the public sector and accept a three-year pay freeze. The union officials also claim that by next year, the IMF and the EU want Greece to shed 10 percentage points from the public deficit that reached 13.6% of output in 2009.

In addition, they say Athens has been asked to get rid of 13th and 14th month bonuses for public sector workers and pensioners. It was also reported in the Financial Times in London on Friday that another measure would include raising the retirement age from an average of 53 to 67. "Have you understood that these measures that are being recommended to you are measures of destruction?" the head of the Left Coalition Syriza, a small left-wing party, Alexis Tsipras, told Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and fellow lawmakers. "There is no other choice, ask for the verdict of the Greek people, call a referendum," he added.

In the face of mounting opposition to the budget cuts, Mr Papandreou insisted that the poor must not suffer disproportionately because of the austerity drive. "We are holding tough negotiations to protect what we can for the weak and the middle class in our country," he said. He said spending on healthcare would continue, but that corruption in the sector would be tackled.

'Harsh package'. Negotiations about the terms of the Greek loan come as the country prepares for annual 1 May celebrations, with three demonstrations expected against the measures. Meanwhile, there were also reports of further clashes outside the parliament building in Athens on Thursday night. The latest protests followed a meeting between Prime Minister George Papandreou and trade union leaders, who reacted angrily to his planned austerity measures. "We got a flavour of a very harsh package of measures, measures that will lead to recession," Yiannis Panagopoulos, head of the powerful GSEE umbrella trade union, was quoted by AP news agency as saying. The unions have now called a general strike for 5 May. The BBC's Gavin Hewitt in Athens says the mood is increasingly against any bailout and the Greek prime minister has said the country is in a battle for survival.

29.04.2010. Three 'Revolutionary Struggle' marxist terrorist group suspects admit involvement in letter to newspaper. DNA matches found in terror probe. New measures suggested for EU-IMF loans. Radio silence.

Three 'Revolutionary Struggle' marxist terrorist group suspects admit involvement in letter to newspaper. Three of the six people arrested and charged with involvement in the Revolutionary Struggle marxist terrorist group in a coordinated police swoop on April 11 have admitted participation in the group in a letter to the weekly newspaper "Pontiki" appearing on Thursday. The letter, signed by Panagiota (Pola) Roupa, her husband Nikos Maziotis and Constantine Gournas, also says that Lambros Fountas, a 35-year-old biologist who was killed in a shootout with police in the Dafni district of Athens, was one of their "comrades" in the group. In the letter, the three suspects -- who together with the other three detainees have been jailed pending trial -- say they are "proud" of their group, adding that "the struggle will continue". The anarchists condemn this marxist leftwing extremist communist group.

DNA matches found in terror probe. Police forensic experts yesterday found a match between DNA evidence and fingerprints found in a house in the Kalyvia, southeastern Attica, that had been rented by the suspected leader of Revolutionary Struggle and similar evidence found at the terrorist group's suspected hideout in the district of Kypseli, near central Athens. The test results indicate that the same people had frequented the home of 39-year-old Nikos Maziotis – currently in detention along with his girlfriend, Panayiota Roupa, 41, and another four suspects – as well as the Kypseli hideout, where police earlier this month discovered large quantities of explosives and guns.

More DNA evidence discovered in the car of Constantinos Gournas, 30, one of the suspects currently in detention, has been matched to evidence found at the Kypseli hideout. Police have yet to determine whether the evidence matches that of any of the detained suspects, as all six of them have refused to give police DNA samples. Police sources said that it remained unclear yesterday whether the evidence might produce leads to other suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle. The same sources said that the evidence collected from the Kypseli hideout and the Kalyvia house did not tally with DNA samples gathered from other sites of terrorist attacks over the years that have yet to be matched to individuals. A police source told Kathimerini that forensic experts had inspected much of the huge weapons haul discovered at the Kypseli hideout but that there was still a long way to go before any reliable conclusions could be drawn. "We're about 5 percent of the way through the process," the source said.

New measures suggested for EU-IMF loans. Change in private, not just public, sector. Greece is close to agreeing to a new set of austerity measures, which will affect both the public and private sectors, that would unlock the emergency loans from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund that the country needs to keep its economy afloat, it emerged yesterday. Sources said that the government has accepted the proposals put forward by IMF officials that would lead to further tax rises and public spending cuts and would make it easier for employers in the private sector to hire and fire people.

In the private sector, employers who have more than 200 people in their work force would be able to sack 4 percent of them at once rather than the 2 percent in place now. There will also be a gradual phasing out of the 13th and 14th monthly salaries that employees receive as Easter, summer and Christmas bonuses, possibly over the next five years. Employers will have the option of adjusting the remaining 12 monthly wages so that workers do not experience any sudden drop in income. Steps will also be taken to end collective contracts in certain professions.

In the public sector, civil servants will lose their 13th and 14th monthly salaries and their supplementary pay, which has already been cut by 30 percent, will be reduced by another 5 percent. This would present savings of 1.7 billion euros, or 0.6 percent of Greece's gross domestic product. If the government refuses to take these steps, it will have to increase indirect taxes, including a rise in the lower-end VAT charges. Also, there will be a freeze on hirings in the public sector for several years and contracts will not be renewed when they run out. Lastly, the government will have to sell off or shut down public organizations that lose money.

With Greece unable to borrow money on the financial markets and the crisis spreading to other European countries such as Portugal and Spain, German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday called on Athens and the IMF to speed up their discussions so that the emergency loans could be released. Merkel met in Berlin yesterday with the IMF's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet to discuss the financial package. Merkel said it was vital that the EU and the IMF do not allow Greece to collapse like US investment bank Lehman Brothers.

World markets have started showing signs of recovery amid hopes that the bailout package of Greece will come into play in good time. The Greek stock market has been stabilized, while the spreads spiraling has been eased. It was Berlin's decision for the immediate activation of the support mechanism that triggered the above change. EU officials reiterated that the activation of the bailout package is a matter of days. The European Central Bank chief highlighted yet again the need for immediate actions lest Greece's borrowing crisis should spread to other Euro-zone nations.

Radio silence. Radio programs will be disrupted throughout today due to a 48-hour strike by technicians which began yesterday. They are protesting the firing of one of their colleagues and the failure by employers to sign a collective wage contract.

28.04.2010. New Brown Cards to the lawyer defending Epaminondas Korkoneas, Alexis Kougias, and Kathimerini. A. Grigoropoulos and N.R. were/are not anarchists, and they were not so dangerous that it legitimates pulling the gun.

Kathimerini reports: Policeman's lawyer hits out. The lawyer defending Epaminondas Korkoneas, the policeman accused of shooting dead 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008, accused the teenager yesterday of being an anarchist. In a stormy court session, Alexis Kougias insisted that Grigoropoulos and his friend, who has gone into hiding after refusing to testify, were part of a group that threw objects at Korkoneas on the night of the shooting. "Alexandros Grigoropoulos was an anarchist," he said. "His friend [known only as N.R. for legal reasons] is a dangerous anti-establishment activist." Kougias's claim came after one of Korkoneas's colleagues revised his testimony. Policeman Costas Kaitsiotis had suggested Korkoneas failed to follow procedure on December 6, 2008, but yesterday told the court that the special guard "did what he could under the circumstances" and said that his actions on the night were totally out of character.

The IAT-APT handed out a Brown Card to Korkoneas 14.05.2009 for falsely postulating that he was facing a "dangerous anarchist group", i.e. Grigoropoulos and friends. In a similar case 08.04.2010 IAT-APT handed out Brown Cards to Korkoneas's lawyer, Alexis Kougias, people behind a letter falsely claiming that Grigoropoulos and friends are/were members of "an extremist anarchist organization,"and Kathimerini. This new case 28.04.2010 is also a similar case, and the IAT-APT hands out new Brown Cards to the lawyer defending Epaminondas Korkoneas, Alexis Kougias, and Kathimerini.

1. Grigoropoulos and friends, including 'N.R.', were and are not anarchists, and they were not so dangerous that any shooting from the police can be defended. Especially N.R. is practically certain not 'a dangerous anti-establishment activist', i.e. a political extremist;

2. Anarchist are not 'dangerous anti-establishment activists', i.e. extremists, see the resolutions "Anarchy is optimal order! For anarchist action!" and "What is an extremist, person or organization, really?" above. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. That is not extremists, i.e. 'dangerous anti-establishment activists'.

To falsely postulate that anarchists are 'dangerous anti-establishment activists', i.e. extremists, logically means a severe break of the Oslo Convention. Extremists and extremism have more than 666 per thousand authoritarian degree, while anarchists and anarchism have equal to or less than 50% authoritarian degree. Anarchists and extremists are thus opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with extremists is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency, according to the Oslo Convention.

Bank firebombed. A homemade explosive device comprising gas canisters caused damage but no injuries when it detonated outside a branch of Emporiki Bank in the Cretan port of Hania early yesterday. The explosion started a fire which the local fire service quickly extinguished. The anarchists condemn this terrorist extremism.

General strike called for May 5. The civil servants' union ADEDY and the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE), yesterday called a general strike for May 5 to protest the government's austerity measures as well as increasing pressure from the European Union and International Monetary Fund for additional cuts. The head of GSEE, Yiannis Panagopoulos, said the strike action was a protest at the government's plans to raise the minimum retirement age by several years and against the possibility of salary cuts being introduced to the private sector. "The 13th and 14th salaries in the private sector are non-negotiable," Panagopoulos said, referring to the two additional wages received by employees at Christmas and Easter.

ADEDY's president, Spyros Papaspyros, whose union organized a protest rally in central Athens yesterday, said civil servants will continue to oppose the cuts in holiday pay and benefits introduced in March. ADEDY's aim, Papaspyros said, is "the revocation of these measures that harm the people." The demonstration, which started outside Athens University and ended at Parliament, was relatively small, attracting about 2,000 participants.

In a related development, teachers' unions called on their members to stage strike action next week to protest a raft of proposed reforms ranging from changes to the way that teachers are hired to the abolition of a law setting a minimal grade for university entrance. The Primary School Teachers' Federation (DOE) said it would stage daily four-hour work stoppages from today through May 3 before launching a 48-hour strike on May 4 and 5. The Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OLME), which is calling for full-time jobs to be granted to substitute teachers and their unemployed counterparts, called on its members to join a 24-hour strike on May 4. The IWW backs the general strike and the other strikes and protests.

Greek debt 'junk'. Greece and its debt-ridden economy have yet again topped world media, after ratings agency Standard & Poor's slashed Greece's sovereign debt to junk status. Media coverage and press reports have focused on the immediate impact the said move had on the world markets and the fear that more EU nations will be struck by similar crises. "Global shares have tumbled after the credit rating agency Standard and Poor's downgraded Greek debt to "junk" on Tuesday. The concern among investors now is that the loss of confidence in Greece could spread to other weak Euro-zone economies," said BBC.

The Washington Post read that Greece's debt was given junk status. The paper also hosted an interview given by a Morgan Keegan analyst who stressed that it is too late to install a fire alarm while the house is already on fire. The International Monetary Fund is planning to raise its contribution to the bailout for Greece, said Britain's Financial Times , amid fears that the 45 billion euros of the bailout won't be enough. Greece is feared to default before its EU partners raise the money for its bailout, reported CNN, further commenting that the junk status given to a Euro-zone economy could trigger a domino reaction, with Portugal being the first in line.

French paper Le Monde's article read that Greece and Portugal are spooking the markets. The Greeks resist to the austerity measures, holding street protests in public transport, reducing everything in the country to a crawl, underlined Le Figaro paper, focusing on the problems tourists in Greece have come up against. Trying to ease tensions, La Reppublica paper read that the EU says negotiations are on good track.

27.04.2010. Anger to Greek austerity grows. Strikes and protests. The IWW backs the strikes and protests. Car is link to terror suspect. Grigoropoulos trial. PM: Rebirth of Greece, now or never.

Euronews reports: Anger to Greek austerity grows. The mood against austerity in Greece is becoming increasingly bitter. Transport workers called a six-hour walkout, bringing buses, trains and trams to halt. Many oppose the government's strict economic measures. The hostility towards the unpleasant fiscal medicine emerged in a new poll. That shows 61 percent of Greeks are against going cap in hand to the EU and IMF for a 45 billion euro loan. But, Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou insisted the reforms will give the country new life.

"We're going through one of the most difficult moments that Greece has had for decades. The challenges our country faces are unprecedented – not only for Greece, but also for the global economy and for Europe. The responsibilities we have undertaken are historic. We're making decisive political decisions – decisive for the future of Greeks and the future of Europe," said Papandreou.

Such words, however, look set to fall on deaf ears, with many people preparing to protest. "For many years in Greece there has been this practice, it's not easy to change. What can we do? Sit on the couch and protest on Facebook? Maybe young people can do that but workers don't have any other way," one man in Athens said. "The protests should take place. We all have to do something, everyone has to act, because from what I can see, they're leading us to the edge of a cliff," another man said. The public outcry is also unnerving investors. Many remain jittery that reform may take a hit if anger grows into large-scale unrest.

Crisis. Greece teeters on the brink pending bailout. Greek dockers have protested against one of their government's first measures to liberalise the country's restrictive labour market and make it more competitive. Athens is asking the Euro-zone and the International Monetary Fund for a bailout while Greece's Finance Minister, George Papaconstantinou has tried to quell Greek fears that the financial future is bleak. "On May 19 we must repay a maturing bond of about nine billion euros. Until then our borrowing needs are covered but conditions in markets today are totally prohibitive for borrowing," said Papaconstantinou.

It was investor jitters over Greece's debt repayment programme that drove its borrowing costs up to a 12-year peak. The government has already announced billions of euros in budget cuts, including tax increases and public sector wage freezes. But to get Europe's biggest economy, Germany, to back the bailout, it needs to do more. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will help if the requirements are fulfilled. "Because only if this programme is sustainable will we have a chance to ensure the stability of the Euro permanently." Time is of the essence; there are concerns that Greece could be the first of several Euro-zone countries to slide into bankruptcy – the consequences of that will be untold damage to the euro and the rest of the bloc's economic health.

Markets. Greek debt insurance hits record high. The cost of insurance against Greece missing its debt repayments hit a record high, after political murmurings in Berlin that cast doubt over Germany's role in any financial rescue. Greece has to make debt repayments on May 19th, but the coffers are bare. The country formally asked for help last week, and is currently negotiating terms for a 45-billion euro bailout with the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank. Vice-President of the ECB Lucas Papademos said: "It is essential that the economic programme currently being prepared (by the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF , together with the Greek authorities) specifies comprehensive fiscal measures and structural reforms that will address the root causes of Greece's fiscal imbalances and structural weaknesses."

The prospect of Greece becoming the first Euro-zone country to default on its debt has also sparked fears of a domino effect among other shaky Euro-zone economies. The cost of insuring Portugal's debt also hit a record high. And the euro weakened against the dollar. German analyst Klaus Wübbenhorst said: "A weaker euro is good for exports to outside the euro area. On balance, we should see that Greece is a problem that can be dealt with and that has no impact on consumers' willingness to spend." Greek banking shares tumbled after comments from Germany that it could still deny financial aid unless Athens does more to cut its budget deficit. Those remarks prompted the head of the Greek Central Bank to call for deeper cuts than those already in the government's austerity plan.

Striking seamen bar tourists from port. A group of nearly 1,000 tourists were obliged to spend the night in hotels in the capital yesterday after striking seamen blockading the port of Piraeus prevented them from boarding a Malta-flagged cruise liner that had been due to set sail late last night. The seamen, whose 24-hour nationwide strike kept ferries moored in ports across the country, were due to end their action at 6 a.m. today. They are planning another 24-hour strike for May 1, this Saturday. Seamen also participated in a 48-hour strike at the end of last week, organized by the Communist Party-affiliated labor union PAME, causing similar disruption.

As mentioned the seamen are protesting the government's plans to lift cabotage rules in order to permit non-EU-flagged vessels to moor at Greek ports and open up the market to thousands of tourists at a time that additional revenues are desperately needed. Yesterday's strike caused the biggest problems at the country's main port of Piraeus. More than 950 tourists remained trapped in their coaches for several hours after about 400 sailors and members of PAME blocked both entrances to the port. According to witnesses, several tourists got out of the coaches and blocked the road outside the port entrance in an apparent protest at the blockade. Meanwhile, a group of around 50 people, also believed to be tourists, approached protesting seamen and attempted to reason with them, to no avail. Late last night the coaches retreated, transferring the tourists to hotels in central Athens for the night. The IWW backs the strike.

Glyfada closure. The Municipality of Glyfada in southern Athens will be closed due to a protest by employees at the nonrenewal of some workers' contracts. The IWW backs the strike.

Public transport work stoppage. There will be no public transport in Attica today between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. - except for the Proastiakos suburban railway and taxis - as employees stage a work stoppage to protest the government's austerity measures. Service on city buses, the metro, tram, Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP) and trolley buses will run as usual before 11 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Protesting workers are due to stage a rally in Kotzia Square in the morning. Later in the day members of the civil servants' union ADEDY are to start a protest march at 6.30 p.m. outside Athens University. Commuters should be aware that the public transport means will start withdrawing from service at least one hour before the stoppage kicks in on Tuesday morning, while full restoration of service should be expected one hour after the end of the stoppage. The IWW backs the strike and protests.

Strike canceled. A scheduled strike today by employees of the Culture Ministry was called off yesterday.

Car is link to terror suspect. A car found burned in Lambrini, near central Athens, on Sunday had been used by suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle, including the gang's assumed ringleader Nikos Maziotis, currently in custody along with five other suspects, and is believed to have been stolen from Thessaloniki by another suspected member of the terror group still at large, police said. Counterterrorism officers are reportedly moving in on this seventh suspect, believed to be linked to the theft of the vehicle in the northern city in August 2007. Examination of the remains of the blue Renault found in Lambrini, north of central Athens, turned up a wealth of evidence: a sledgehammer, a bottle of flammable yellow liquid, several clocks with the remains of duct tape and the license plate of a stolen motorcycle. The license plate on the car itself also had been stolen from another car, police said.

Grigoropoulos trial. Two policemen who trained with the two special guards implicated in the death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008, told a court yesterday that the first thing they were taught in training was to only use their gun as a last resort if they were under threat. The policeman charged with shooting dead Grigoropoulos, Epaminondas Korkoneas, insists that he and his colleague, Vassilis Saraliotis, came under attack by a group of youths and that he fired warning shots into the air.

PM: Rebirth of Greece, now or never. Prime minister George Papandreou said the time has come for the rebirth of Greece, "it is now or never", addressing a meeting of his ruling PASOK party's parliamentary group on Tuesday. Papandreou outlined the difficult situation the country is in, but expressed optimism that, with a joint effort, the country will succeed, and called all the citizens, regardless of their political leanings, to take part in that effort. The premier said that he is personally determined to do everything necessary, in the time required and that imposed by the circumstances, for the country's recovery and so that the Greek people may once again feel pride.

"Greece has a government with the volition to not back down a single step," Papandreou said, and called on everyone to stop occupying themselves with the spreads and deal instead with the changes and reversals that are necessary. The EU support mechanism that Greece has resorted to will give the country the necessary time and calm to proceed to those changes, he said, giving assurances that his government does not fear the political cost because, above and beyond that cost is the contribution to the country.

26.04.2010. More strikes and protests, backed by IWW. Investors still nervous on Greece.

24-hour strike at Piraeus port. All Greek-flag ships remained at port in Piraeus on Monday due to a 24-hour strike by the Panhellenic Seamen's Federation (PNO) in protest of the government's plan to lift cabotage restrictions. A repeated strike will be staged on Friday, April 30. Greek seamen are protesting the imminent lifting of cabotage (regulations restricting coastal shipping to domestic vessels) announced by prime minister George Papandreou, which will allow foreign cruiseships to use the Greek sea routes and ports. Monday's strike means that 20 ships will not carry out scheduled routes to the islands of the Aegean, Crete and the Dodecanese Islands complex, while strikers will gather at the port of Piraeus for the arrival of the Malta-flag cruiseship 'Zenith'. The seamen's union described the planned cabotage lifting "a full-frontal assault on their rights." IWW backs the seamen's strike.

Commuter woes. There will be no public transport in Attica tomorrow between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. – except for the suburban railway and taxis – as employees stage a work stoppage to protest the government's austerity measures. Service on city buses, the metro, the tram, the Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP) and trolley buses will run normally before 11 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Workers are due to stage a rally in Kotzia Square in the morning. Later in the day, members of the civil servants' union ADEDY are to start a protest march at 6.30 p.m. outside Athens University. IWW backs the strikes and protests.

Union warns of more strikes. Umbrella trade union GSEE president Yiannis Panagopoulos on Monday warned of more strikes in the immediate future. The trade union's executive committee will convene on Tuesday, Panagopoulos said, adding that he will recommend the staging of industrial actions in the immediate future. Social security and labour rights' issues are non negotiable, he said, particularly those referring to collective bargaining agreements and the role of the mediation and arbitration organization, which was established to settle employee-employer disputes. IWW backs the strikes and protests.

As Greek workers continue to protest austerity measures and the involvement of the IMF in a joint rescue plan with Euro-zone countries worth some 45 billion euros, the IMF's Strauss-Kahn stressed that his organization had Greece's interests at heart. "Greek citizens shouldn't fear the IMF – we are there to try and help them," said Strauss-Kahn, a former Socialist finance minister of France.

Prime Minister George Papandreou said the EU-IMF rescue plan was "not pleasant" but crucial. "Because of our problems, the EU [officials] arrived and now the IMF is here too and they are in control, in a kind of guardianship," Papandreou told villagers at Kremasti on the Dodecanese island of Rhodes, noting that the ultimate aim was to "restore our autonomy." The premier said he understood the anger of protesters holding banners reading "IMF go home." "They will not leave in a hail of stones," but rather when Greece has regained its "credibility" and restored its reeling economy, he said. Papandreou added that his government would struggle to ensure that "those who are not to blame [for the crisis] will not pay" and again blamed the previous conservative administration for the current situation.

Opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, for his part, accused the government of making "massive mistakes" and lying about being forced to resort to IMF aid. "It was not forced, it chose to do so," Samaras charged in a speech in his native Kalamata. "The IMF is going to force new measures upon us that neither our economy nor our society will be able to bear," Samaras added.

BBC reports: Investors still nervous on Greece. Investors are still nervous over plans to rescue the Greek economy, despite indications of progress on bail-out talks over the weekend. Interest rates demanded by investors lending money to Greece are close to record highs - a sign that fears remain over Greece's ability to repay loans. Greece has been forced to request 40bn euros from the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF). But the details of the bail-out deal have not yet been finalised. There is also concern that European partners in the deal - particularly Germany - are reluctant to participate in the bail-out.

Time running out. On Monday, Greek bond yields - the interest rate that Greece must pay to borrow money on the international markets - were just below the 9.15% record seen last week. The interest rate is 6.14 percentage points higher than that charged to Germany - seen as the safest investment in Europe. That is the largest spread in bond yields for 12 years. Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said talks with the IMF over the weekend had progressed well, with the head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, saying that a deal would be agreed "in time to meet Greece's needs". Negotiations must stick to a series of deadlines, with 8.5bn euros needed before 19 May, when Greece faces its next bond repayment.

Austerity demands. The IMF is expected to provide 10bn euros of support this year, with Euro-zone nations providing a further 30bn euros. But the scale of assistance after this year remains unclear. That could affect the willingness of European countries to commit to a bailout - another source of uncertainty for investors. The Netherlands has already said it will wait to hear full details of the plan before putting the necessary legislation before its parliament. It is among those European countries looking for further austerity measures from Greece before they commit to bailout money. Senior officials in Germany's governing coalition have indicated that they are willing to help Greece as long as "strict conditions" are met, despite describing financial help as a "last resort". French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has also pledged to "hold Greece accountable" for any financial help.

However, demands for even harsher cuts in Greece would almost certainly be met with domestic opposition. There have already been public demonstrations against proposed cuts to public spending that the government says are necessary to bring down the country's massive debt mountain. Greece's budget deficit was equivalent to 13.6% of GDP last year - more than was estimated by finance ministers. Currently, ambitious government plans are to bring this down to 3% by the end of 2012. Despite the uncertainty, Mr Papaconstantinou has sought to reassure investors by denying that Greece is in danger of defaulting on its debts, pointing out that short-term bridging loans could be used should the IMF deal falter. He also warned speculators betting on a Greek default. "All I can say is that they will lose their shirts," he told reporters over the weekend.

25.04.2010. New austerity a precondition for Greek aid: Germany. Comment from the World Economic Council. Germany, France signal hard line with Greece. Kathimerini: Greece soon a 'failed state'? Anarchist comment.

New austerity a precondition for Greek aid: Germany. Greece must agree to tough new austerity measures before it receives any financial aid from the European Union and failure to do so would endanger such support, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a newspaper, according to Reuters. "The fact that neither the EU nor the German government have taken a decision (on providing aid) means that the response can be positive as well as negative," Schaeuble told the Sunday edition of Bild. "This depends entirely on whether Greece continues in the coming years with the strict savings course it has launched.

I have made this clear to the Greek finance minister." Greece bowed to pressure from financial markets on Friday, making a formal request for the activation of a joint aid package from the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that is valued at up to 45 billion euros ($60.49 billion). The debt-saddled euro zone member has already announced billions of euros in austerity measures, including tax hikes and public sector wage cuts, but is talking with the EU and IMF about additional steps. Opposition to aid for Greece runs deep in Germany and Chancellor Angela Merkel, who faces a crucial regional election on May 9, has been at pains to stress that aid will only flow if Athens takes further steps to cut a budget deficit which soared to 13.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) last year.

Schaeuble said a "tough restructuring program" for the next years was "unavoidable and an absolute prerequisite" if Germany and the EU were to approve the aid Greece has requested. But he also made clear that Germany had to be ready to support Greece to ensure the stability of the common currency. "We are defending the stability of the euro, because Germany benefits [from the currency] at least as much as all the others. Help for Greece is therefore not a waste of taxpayer money, but a move based on fundamental German interests. "Euro? Currency? Unenlightened plutarchy! The EU should do proper demand management to do away with the unemployment, and thus make a higher GDP, real income, not be so focused on the currency euro, i.e. having money illusions," a spokesperson for WEC told AIIS.

Germany, France signal hard line with Greece. European heavyweights Germany and France vowed on Sunday to take a hard line with Greece in exchange for financial support as doubts emerged over whether a 45 billion euro ($60.2 billion) aid package was sufficient to prevent a default. Greece bowed to intense pressure from financial markets on Friday, requesting funds from the European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in what would be the first bailout of a member of the 11-year-old single currency bloc. The debt-saddled country has announced billions of euros in austerity measures, including tax hikes and public sector wage cuts, but must now agree additional steps to satisfy the EU and IMF, and ensure the aid flows.

As mentioned German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned Greece that a tough restructuring of its economy was "unavoidable and an absolute prerequisite" if Berlin and the EU were to approve the aid Greece has requested. "The fact that neither the EU nor the German government have taken a decision [on providing aid] means the response can be positive as well as negative," Schaeuble told the Sunday edition of German daily Bild. "This depends entirely on whether Greece continues in the coming years with the strict savings course it has launched. I have made this clear to the Greek finance minister."

Schaeuble's French counterpart Christine Lagarde promised to hold Greece accountable for "unsuitable economic policies" that pushed its 2009 budget deficit to 13.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and its debt to 115 percent of economic output. She described the aid package as a "cocktail of indulgence and great strictness," telling the Journal du Dimanche weekly that Greece's partners would closely monitor its progress in restoring order to its creaking finances. "We will [release the aid] according to their needs and in the case of default on repayment, we will immediately put the foot on the brake," Lagarde said. Germany and France are due to provide about half of the 30 billion euros in aid the EU has tentatively pledged for Greece. The IMF is expected to put up the remaining 15 billion.

Doubts on aid package. Only days after Greece requested the aid, however, doubts were emerging over whether the package was large enough to calm market fears of a debt default. Those fears have pushed the yield on Greek 10-year bonds above 8.7 percent, a whopping 567 basis points over the rates on benchmark German Bunds. This has made it prohibitively expensive for Athens to service its mountain of debt. Greece's formal request for aid on Friday did little to ease market pressures. Speaking to reporters in Washington at the weekend, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty acknowledged that some European and G20 countries believed the aid was inadequate. "There is concern about making sure that the package is enough so that it's a one-time event," he said.

There are also worries about public opposition to further austerity steps in Greece. Greek riot police fired teargas at protesters who held an impromptu march through central Athens on Friday to protest austerity. A poll released on Saturday showed that roughly two-thirds of Greeks believe Prime Minister George Papandreou's socialist government was either too slow to react or handled the economy poorly as the country's fiscal crisis deepened. Marxist leftwing newspaper Eleftherotypia said the "specter of Hungary" was haunting Papandreou's government. Voters in Hungary booted out the socialist government this month after it tried to push through painful IMF-ordered budget cuts. Kathimerini, a rightwing liberalist extremist newspaper, said Greece was entering a tough and unpredictable period. "It may turn out for the better, or it may turn us into what the Anglo-Saxons call 'a failed state'," it said in an editorial. The anarchists say Kathimerini is exaggerating the problems, Greece will practically certain not be similar to Somalia, with about 80% authoritarian degree - a failed state, the country most far from anarchy in the world.

24.04.2010. Marxist terror suspect. More strikes. EU-IMF ready to act. Crisis. Fears in Greece that EU-IMF aid means more cuts.

Marxist terror suspect. A 19-year-old woman arrested on Thursday evening was remanded in custody yesterday on suspicion of being involved in the marxist terrorist Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire group which carried out a series of bloodless attacks with homemade explosive devices. The woman, who was not named, is the 10th suspected member of the group to be arrested. Three of those suspects remain in custody.

More strikes. No public transport between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesday. There will be no public transport in Attica on Tuesday between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. – except for the suburban railway and taxis – as employees stage a work stoppage to protest the government’s austerity measures. Services on city buses, the metro, the tram, the Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway and trolley buses will run as normal before 11 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Protesting workers are due to stage a rally at Kotzia Square that morning. Later in the day members of the civil servants’ union ADEDY are to start a protest march at 6.30 p.m. outside Athens University.

ERT reports: EU-IMF ready to act. In an immediate response to Greece's call for activation of the EU rescue mechanism, the European Commission spokesman, Amadeu Altafaj said Europe would take rapid action to assist Greece, stressing that Euro-zone Finance Ministers would take a formal decision to allocate emergency loans to Greece following European Commission and European Central Bank decision that the request was valid. The ECB has not made any comment yet while German Finance Ministry spokesman said "German government ready to act". "The IMF stands ready to act" said its managing director Dominique Straus Khan.

EU Commission: "Activation of rescue mechanism only matter of days". Both EU Commission and IMF are ready to act while EU Commission spokesman said activation of rescue mechanism is a matter of few days. EU spokesman Amadeu Altafaj expressed belief that there would not be any delay in activation of rescue mechanism as EU member states and IMF have already worked together. He underlined that Euro-group would unanimously take the final formal decision after the European Commission and European Central Bank decide whether the request was valid. In reference to the interest rate , Mr. Altafaj said that it depended on the market circumstances, however, reminding, that Euro-zone leaders had made a commitment for a 5% interest rate.

He added that EU services are in permanent contact and cooperation with Greek authorities and reminded that the EU believes Greece has taken all necessary measures to drastically cut down state deficit. He characteristically said that all Euro-zone member states have committed to participate in Greece's rescue mechanism. Concluding, spokesman for EU Commissioner Olhi Rehn assured that EU services would act rapidly , taking into consideration that the largest part of EU-IMF preparations have already been completed. Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today on Greece: "We have received Greece's request for a Stand-By Arrangement. We have been working closely with the Greek authorities for some weeks on technical assistance, and have had a mission on the ground in Athens for a few days working with the authorities and the European Union. We are prepared to move expeditiously on this request."

Euronews reports: Crisis. Fears in Greece that EU-IMF aid means more cuts. There is uncertainty on the streets of Athens today, after debt-laden Greece finally activated financial aid from the EU and IMF . The fear for many is that access to the 45 billion euro package will be granted only if tougher austerity measures are imposed. Despite this, one man in the Greek capital said asking for help seemed like the only way out."I want to be positive that, with the participation of all Greeks, things will get better." "With the wage reductions, my income is going down," a woman added. "I am suffocating. My children are helping me make ends meet."

While not formally on the agenda, Greece was a hot topic at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington. Rallying behind the bailout, they said they would not allow such debt problems to threaten the European or world economy. But outside, protesters supported a measure which divided ministers. Among their demands, demonstrators called for banks around the world to be hit with new taxes, to help pay for any future rescues of troubled financial firms.

23.04.2010. New anarchist comment at the debate at Phantis. Terrorist cache may yield even more clues. More unenlightened plutarchy? ADEDY-PAME demonstrations. Greece asks activation of EU support mechanism.

"Riots and terrorism are a ochlarchy, not anarchy, i.e. real democracy. Thus, Greece needs more, not less democracy, i.e. a higher libertarian degree, as in the anarchies of Norway and the Swiss Confederation, see http://www.anarchy.no/ija137.html .

Dictatorship means more ochlarchy - not less - and is no solution to Greece's problems.

Anarchists are not interested in long discussions with confused rightwing extremists, out of touch with the practical certain realities. We have our secrets and plans."

Kathimerini reports: Terrorist cache may yield even more clues. Police believe that the discovery of what appears to be Revolutionary Struggle's main hideout in Kypseli, near central Athens, earlier this week may also give authorities more information about another group, Sect of Revolutionaries, which claimed responsibility for the murder of a policeman last year. Sources said the date on which the fifth-floor apartment was rented could provide a link between the two groups. Revolutionary Struggle first appeared in 2003 and Sect of Revolutionaries carried out their first attack, on a police station in Korydallos, early in 2009. However, police believe the fact that the Kypseli property was rented in July 2008 may point to a falling out among members of Revolutionary Struggle with some splintering off to form Sect of Revolutionaries.

Officers are basing this theory on the fact that Revolutionary Struggle's arms and explosives were moved into the apartment more than a year after the group's previous attack, at a time when there was no indication that authorities were close to finding the cache. "Fourteen months had passed since their last hit and they had no reason to transfer their weapons to a new hideout unless they wanted to keep some of their members from getting their hands on them," an anti-terrorism squad officer who wished to remain anonymous told Kathimerini. This interpretation supports the theory that the Sect of Revolutionaries, which murdered a witness protection officer in Athens last summer, was formed by members of Revolutionary Struggle that wanted the group to be more active and more aggressive. Meanwhile, a 19-year-old woman, whose fingerprints were allegedly found at property where bombs were made by another group, the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, was arrested in central Athens yesterday, police said.

ERT reports: New arrest warrants in the next days. Five more arrest warrants are to be issued in the next days as Antiterrorist Agency continues investigations. Policemen are examining 4.000 pieces of evidence they have gathered from hide-outs and houses where they carried investigations while the three guns found in Kypseli hide-out had not been used in terrorist attacks. Evidence so far indicates that there are more weapons that have not been found yet. Police circles fear new terrorist attack from members of terrorist organizations that have not been arrested. Investigations continue in Kypseli while the region around 8 Aiginis St. remains cordoned off.

More unenlightened plutarchy? Gov't options dwindling. IMF reportedly seeking further austerity measures as workers take to the streets. Prime Minister George Papandreou chaired a gloomy Cabinet meeting yesterday, examining the debt-ridden government's dwindling options as visiting officials of the International Monetary Fund reportedly increased pressure for additional austerity measures and thousands of Greeks took to the streets. According to sources, Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou, who has been in back-to-back meetings with officials from the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, told his peers that pressure was building on the government to herald new measures.

Papaconstantinou said the officials were expecting to see changes in labor relations. It is thought that these changes would lead to a reduction of salaries in the private sector, mirroring cuts that have already been introduced to the public sector. More unenlightened plutarchy? A general reduction of salaries in the private sector will probably reduce total demand even more, reduce the real income and GDP, and increase unemployment. This is not the right medicine for Greece, a spokesperson for WEC says to AIIS.

Opinion in the government is said to be divided about the prudence of more austerity. Several top-ranking members of the Cabinet including Agriculture Minister Katerina Batzeli, Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and Defense Minister Evangelos Venizelos reportedly oppose more cuts. Batzeli and Venizelos, as well as Labor Minister Andreas Loverdos, Interior Minister Yiannis Ragousis and Economy Minister Louka Katseli reportedly called for the immediate activation of the EU-IMF loans for Greece. Papaconstantinou, however, wants any additional measures to be agreed first before the rescue plan is activated, sources said. Anger at two waves of salary cuts and tax hikes and fears over the prospect of a new raft of measures brought thousands of protesters out onto the streets of Athens yesterday.

A strike by civil servants, whose union ADEDY wants the measures introduced so far to be revoked, shut down public services, schools and left hospitals operating on emergency staff. Members of the Communist Party-affiliated labor union PAME joined a second day of strike action with protesters blockading the port of Piraeus for a second day. Participation in yesterday's rallies did not exceed 10,000, smaller than some previous gatherings, but there are fears that anger is growing and that the introduction of additional measures will fuel unrest. ADEDY spokesman Ilias Iliopoulos warned that further demands by the IMF could trigger a "social explosion."

ERT reports: ADEDY-PAME demonstrations. Industrial mobilizations culminated on Thursday with two demonstrations , ADEDY at Klathmonos Sq. and PAME at Syntagma Sq. However some minor incidents occurred during ADEDY march. ADEDY reacts to cuts in holiday benefits and equalization of men-women retirement age. Grammar and high school teachers as well as university professors participated in ADEDY demonstration in protest against the Education Ministry draft-bill. Dock workers continued their strike for a second day despite court ruling declaring it illegal and abusive. There wer no sea services from Piraeus port on Thursday.

Sectors Staging Strikes. Hospital doctors started mobilizations on Wednesday in protest against 20% cut in budget for night shifts. Judicial clerks continue mobilizations in protest against governments' refusal to meet their demands. Workers in mill , construction , pharmaceutical and paper industries are also staging a 48-hour strike demanding recall of social security bill, and rises in unemployment benefit and rise in salaries.

Union Reactions. ADEDY president Sp. Papaspyrou in his speech said: "We do not negotiate the future of our children"and called on all workers to form a broad social resistance front. Mr. Papaspyrou asked for an end to lies about one-way roads in economic policy, block free fall of labour rights and return of whatever workers have lost. ADEDY president committed himself to continue mobilizations, speaking of alternative actions but with depth and content.

ANA-MPA reports: Greece asks activation of EU support mechanism. Prime minister George Papandreou on Friday announced that Greece is formally asking for activation of the EU support mechanism for the Greek economy. "The time has come for the decision the leaders of the European member countries to support Greece to give us the time that the markets are not giving us. It is a national and pressing need to formally ask of our EU partners the activation of the support mechanism that we jointly created, Papandreou said in a televised statement from the southeastern island of Kastelorizo, where he is on a visit. Papandreou added that he has instructed finance minister George Papaconstantinou to make the necessary actions.

The premier said that the revised figures of the true size of the Greek fiscal deficit for 2009 released on Thursday (by Eurostat) "reminded all of us of the unfathomable mistakes, omissions and criminal choices and the storm of problems legated to us by the previous government". "We all -- the present government and the Greek people -- inherited a boat ready to sink, a country without prestige and credibility that had lost the respect of even its friends and partners, an economy exposed to the mercy of doubt and the appetites of speculation," he said. From the very first day the PASOK government rolled up its sleeves and went to work to reverse this negative climate, set out a plan, took tough measures that many times hurt, but regained the country's credibility and created new alliances, Papandreou continued.

22.04.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek Police, suspected so called "anarchists" stealing gun if this hypothesis is confirmed, if so, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists and not anarchists, and Kathimerini. Strikes. Debt.

Kathimerini reports. Terrorist evidence being gathered. Police believe they have collected enough fingerprints and DNA evidence from the five hideouts used by Revolutionary Struggle to build a case against the six suspects already arrested. Sources said yesterday that officers have enough evidence to prove that the suspects had all visited the apartments and houses, some of which contained arms and explosives. Prime Minister George Papandreou said that the arrest of six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle was evidence that the public sector could work effectively and that the government was beginning to put the country "in order." Papandreou made the comments after meeting with Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and Police Chief Lefteris Economou.

"The police force had lost its way until a few months ago but now we are sorting things out and sending a message to everyone here and abroad," said the prime minister, who added that proving the country was safe was also important for Greece's economic growth. Meanwhile, police are investigating how an MP5 submachine gun that was stolen during a bank robbery in Thessaloniki in August 2004 ended up in the hands of Revolutionary Struggle. The gun, later used in an armed raid on a police station in Athens, was one of several weapons found in an apartment in Kypseli, in downtown Athens, on Monday night. Officers are looking into the possibility that a group of self-styled anarchists in the northern port city stole the gun and then passed it onto the terrorist group. Police want to find out if there is any link between the August 2004 incident and another bank raid in the city in July 2006 when another gun was stolen. That firearm ended being used by the gang that kidnapped industrialist Giorgos Mylonas.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the Greek Police, suspected so called "self styled anarchists" stealing a gun if this hypothesis is confirmed, if so, they are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists and not anarchists, and Kathimerini, according to the Oslo Convention.

Let us assume that the police's hypothesis about the stealing of the gun is correct. Then, the so called "self-styled anarchists", stealing the gun, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The so called "self-styled anarchists", stealing a gun, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. They also get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", the so called "self-styled anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Stealing of guns is ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn stealing of guns, and theft in general, and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "self-styled anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

The IAT-APT however very much doubts the Greek police's hypothesis about so called "self styled anarchists" stealing a gun and handing it over to the marxist terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle, is correct. It sounds more like a smear-campaign against anarchists in Greece from rightwing extremists in the police, and a false attempt to connect anarchists to terrorism.

P.S. Theft including robbery and similar, is in itself a capitalist tendency, but the profit motive and capitalism are not the significant in such cases, anti-capitalism and socialism are the dominant tendency.

ANA-MPA reports. Ballistics examination concluded. The first stage of the ballistics examination of firearms found in a Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group safehouse in the central Athens district of Kypseli earlier in the week was completed late Wednesday night, police said. Three guns -- two Yugoslav-made Zastava 9mm pistols and a Browning 22mm pistol of unknown origin -- have not been used in terrorist attacks, the ballistics report showed, while the investigation is continuing to find whether the three pistols have been used in common crimes.

Strike action set to peak today. The latest wave of strike action against the government's austerity measures is set to peak today as civil servants join a 24-hour strike called by their union ADEDY with thousands expected to take to the streets. Once again government services, tax offices and schools will remain closed. Hospitals will be operating on emergency staff for a second day as doctors join the action. There are no anticipated disruptions to public transport services. But motorists are advised to steer clear of central Athens due to two scheduled protest rallies – by ADEDY at 11 a.m. in Klafthmonos Square and another being organized by the Communist-affiliated labor union PAME at noon in Syntagma Square. Hundreds of PAME members yesterday launched the union's 48-hour strike with a demonstration at the port of Piraeus, preventing passenger ferries destined for the Cycladic Islands from setting sail.

PAME and ADEDY are both protesting tax reforms voted through Parliament last week and are opposed to imminent pension reforms that will see the average retirement age rise by several years. "It shouldn't be the workers who pay for the crisis but those who have the money," ADEDY said in a statement. A chief concern of PAME, and other labor unions, is that the government's austerity program will lead to job losses. Hotel employees blocked the entrances to three major hotels in central Athens yesterday, calling for job security. Meanwhile in Piraeus, unionists expressed skepticism after Prime Minister George Papandreou announced, following talks with representatives of the tourism sector, that cabotage rules would be lifted. The measures would allow non-EU-flagged vessels to moor at Greek ports, opening up the market to thousands of tourists. Labor unionists said opening up ports to foreign vessels would pose a threat to Greek dock workers' jobs.

ERT reports: 48-hour industrial mobilizations. Two-days industrial mobilizations begin on Wednesday in protest against reforms in social security system and labour relations. Staging 2-day strikes are PAME, the federation of hospital doctors, judicial clerks and the union of Greek actors. ADEDY with the participation of teachers and state hospital employees are stating a 24-hour strike on Thursday in protest against cuts in salaries and bonuses and equal retirement age for men and women. Piraeus Court has ruled dock workers 48-hour strike as illegal and abusive, but PAME supporters create problems to ship set to sail from Piraeus port.

Reactions against new social security bill. Workers in mill, construction, pharmaceutical and paper industries are also staging a 48-hour strike demanding recall of social security bill, and rises in unemployment benefit and rise in salaries. Hospital doctors started mobilizations in protest against 20% cut in budget for night shifts. Students supporting leftists movements gathered in the city center and marched to the Parliament at noon, on Wednesday.

Unrest at Piraeus port. Morning sea services to Argosaronikos islands were cancelled as well as "Blue Star Ithaki" and "Blue Star Paros" services to Cyclades although the 48-hour dock workers strike was ruled illegal and abusive. Members of two dock workers unions, which support GCP, blocked the ships from early morning preventing sailing in the mid of strong passenger complaints who wanted to travel. Some 300 PAME members are in Piraeus port protesting against social security reforms and the government's measures for recovery and said that they would not allow any ship to sail off during GSEE and ADEDY mobilizations. The IWW and anarchists in general support the industrial mobilizations.

Reuters reports: Greece deficit worse than feared, markets tumble. Greece's budget gap last year was worse than feared, the European Union's statistics office revealed on Thursday, triggering a fresh slide of asset prices in Greece and other debt-choked European countries.

The news hurt financial markets' waning hopes for Greece to bring its swelling national debt under control, and increased pressure on Athens to seek billions of euros of emergency loans from the EU and the International Monetary Fund. "It looks like a terrible situation just got worse," said Nick Kounis, economist at Fortis. The budget figures were announced as tens of thousands of Greek nurses, teachers and other public workers staged a one-day strike to protest against the government's austerity measures. They demanded that Athens reject any pressure for further spending cuts in crisis talks that it launched this week with the EU and the IMF.

The Greek government posted a budget deficit of 32.34 billion euros or 13.6 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, not the 12.7 percent which it had reported earlier, Eurostat said in a review of countries' deficits throughout the region. It added that the Greek deficit might be revised again, by between 0.3 and 0.5 percentage points of GDP, because of uncertainty about the quality of Greece's data and accounting procedures. In a brief statement, the Greek Finance Ministry insisted the new numbers would not change its intention to shrink the deficit by four percentage points this year. It said measures already taken would be enough to cut the deficit by six points.

Backing away. But both Athens and EU officials appeared to be backing away from a previously announced target for Greece to slash the deficit to 8.7 percent of GDP this year. "The target for 2010 is a four percentage point reduction of the deficit. We did not refer to the starting point or the arrival figure, only the reduction effort," European Commission spokesman Amadeu Altafaj said in Brussels. "Greece is on track to meet the target for 2010; that is what counts." Some revision to the 2009 budget gap had been expected, and several analysts said Athens might still succeed in cutting its deficit sharply this year.

But the financial markets were worried by the revision because inaccuracies in Greek data -- some of them apparently deliberate and politically motivated -- have fueled its debt crisis by angering investors and Greece's EU partners. Last October, the incoming socialist government said Greece's 2009 budget deficit would be twice as big as a previous estimates -- and four times the EU ceiling. "What concerns me is the general uncertainty about the Greek official figures. This affects market perception about Greece ...that one can't rely on the Greek statistics and that the deficit is revised up and up and up," Giada Giani, economist at Citigroup, said on Thursday. The Greek Finance Ministry attributed the latest revision to a deep recession, which reduced GDP more than expected, and a reassessment of the financial accounts of pension funds.

Markets. In response to the deficit news, Greece's two-year government bond yield soared to 9.81 percent, from 8.26 percent on Tuesday and just 1.38 percent before the crisis last November. The 10-year bond yield also jumped but by a smaller amount to 8.79 percent, increasing the inversion of the Greek yield curve -- a classic sign that investors fear Greece may have trouble servicing its debt. The cost of insuring five-year Greek government debt against a default shot up to the highest level in Europe, surpassing Ukraine. Greek credit default swaps hit 565 basis points, or 565,000 euros per 10 million of bonds, against 485 on Wednesday. Investors fear other weak euro zone states could become the next "dominos" if Greece defaults; bond yields and CDS for Spain, Portugal and Ireland rose on Thursday. The euro fell back near 10-month lows against the dollar, as investors worried about the long-term cohesion of the euro zone.

Greece will need to refinance 8.5 billion euros of bonds maturing on May 19, and the markets think it will almost certainly have to apply for a 40-45 billion euro aid package from euro zone states and the IMF -- though the German public's opposition to helping Greece could delay the disbursal of funds. Austrian Finance Minister Josef Proell said Athens was apparently unwilling to accept conditions that would be attached to the aid, and was therefore hesitating about applying for funds. But he added that "the time for action is now." "The Greeks must put their cards on the table now and say how much exactly (they need) and when," Proell told Austrian broadcaster ORF. "The unenlightened plutarchy continues and is becoming worse," WEC repeats.

21.04.2010. More about marxist terrorist group's weapons cache. Ballistics report on safehouse arms. Strikes and demonstrations. Unemployment at 11.3%.

More about marxist terrorist group's weapons cache. Katimerini reports: Police link rocket launcher, submachine gun to Revolutionary Struggle; bank raids thought to have funded hits. Police forensic staff yesterday were examining large quantities of guns and explosives confiscated from a fifth-floor apartment in the district of Kypseli, near central Athens, that was raided by counterterrorism officers on Monday night and is believed to have operated as the central weapons cache of Revolutionary Struggle. Among the weapons seized by officers was an RPG-7 anti-tank grenade launcher believed to have been used in January 2007 in a bloodless attack on the US Embassy in Athens.

Another weapon removed from the apartment – an MP5 submachine gun – bears the same serial number as the gun stolen from a guard during a raid on a Thessaloniki bank in August 2004, police said. This contradicts the police's original theory that a submachine gun used in an armed attack on a police station in Nea Ionia in April 2007 was the weapon stolen from a guard outside the home of a former supreme court president earlier that month. Police sources said yesterday that this development also consolidates their suspicions that Revolutionary Struggle had funded its attacks from the proceeds of bank robberies. The discovery of 119,000 euros in cash in the trunk of a car belonging to Constantinos Gournas, one of six suspected members of the terror group currently in custody, had fueled this theory.

In addition to the grenade launcher and the submachine gun, police confiscated several hand grenades and pistols as well as dynamite and other explosives from the apartment on Aiginis Street. Emptying the apartment took several hours as police first had to evacuate residents, who were put up in a hotel overnight, and to check that the cache was not booby-trapped. According to sources, police traced the arms cache using one of three forged identity cards used by Gournas. The name on the forged card, Anastassios Grivocostopoulos, had been used by Gournas to rent the Aiginis Street apartment. Forensic experts yesterday examined other weapons for DNA evidence that might match the six suspects in custody or lead to new suspects.

Ballistics report on safehouse arms. ANA-MPA reports: A ballistics study has conclusively linked three firearms found in a Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group safehouse in the central Athens district of Kypseli earlier in the week to several terrorist attacks by the group, police announced late Tuesday night. According to police, the two Kalshnikovs and MP5 machine gun had been used in the attacks against a riot police (MAT) bus in the Athens district of Goudi on December 23, 2008 and also in the January 5, 2009, attack outside the Culture Ministry in Exarhia in which a riot police officer was seriously wounded. Moreover, the MP5 had been used in the attack against the Nea Ionia police station on April 30, 2007.

Kiosk protest brief but noticeable. Some 40,000 kiosks around the country did not open for business yesterday. The kiosk owners held a 24-hour strike to protest changes in the tobacco tax which, they say, threaten their livelihoods. Kiosks are also among the businesses that have to issue receipts as part of new tax rules. The protest was not supported by the IWW.

Next wave of strike action. State hospitals will be operating on emergency staff today as doctors launch a new wave of protests at the government's austerity measures with a 48-hour strike. Proceedings at the country's courts will be disrupted too as staff walk off the job for two days. The Communist-affiliated labor union PAME also starts a 48-hour strike today. The serious disruptions will begin tomorrow though, when hundreds of thousands of civil servants are expected to stay home as their union ADEDY stages the latest in a series of 24-hour strikes in protests at salary cuts and tax increases introduced over the past few months as well as a tax law voted through Parliament last week. Government offices and schools will remain closed as will tax offices and state banks. The union has called a protest rally, due to begin at 11 a.m. in Klafthmonos Square. The rally is expected to cause congestion in central Athens, although strike action is not expected to affect public transport. The IWW mainly backs these strikes and calls for protests without ochlarchy.

Farming cuts. The government plans to reduce the 15.5 million euros it spends on the wages of employees at 55 nationwide centers that promote rural development and the state-run Agrogi SA company, which is responsible for improving agricultural productivity, by shutting all of them down. In a decision signed yesterday by Agricultural Development Minister Katerina Batzeli, some 700 employees will be moved to other parts of the public sector and their wages adjusted accordingly.

Cleaning drive. The capital's municipal street-cleaning department has taken delivery of 303 new vehicles to be used in a drive to clean up the city center, Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis said yesterday. Kaklamanis highlighted the large number of homeless migrants, burgeoning illegal street trade, illegal billboards and frequent public protests as the key reasons for squalid conditions in many parts of central Athens.

Landfill appeal. The Environment and Interior ministries yesterday sent a joint letter to regional and local authorities, asking them to shut down all illegal landfills and replace them with sanitary waste-processing units by July 16.

Explosives haul. Police in Halkidiki, northern Greece, yesterday detained a 45-year-old man after confiscating nearly 400 grams of dynamite from his home in the small town of Sykia. Officers also confiscated 32 cannabis plants from the suspect's home.

Unemployment at 11.3%. The unemployment rate in January 2010 rose to 11.3% compared to 9,4% in January 2009 and 10.2% in December 2009, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). "The unenlightened plutarchy continues and is becoming worse," says WEC.

20.04.2010. Brown Card to Associated Press. The discussion about anarchists vs ochlarchists including terrorists at Phantis continues, a person calling himself "George Orwell" hits on a rightwing extremist.

A person calling himself "George Orwell" hits on a comment by the rightwing extremist Dion F. at the mentioned debate at Phantis:

You've been coming here and you either want to provoke or demonstrate your idiotic approach to serious issues. You've made your point: the salvation of Greece is a dictatorship that pursues ultra-nationalist goals. We heard you. Now just leave. You're not adding value to the conversation.

Unfortunately, it's people like you (and those you support) that have inflicted the greatest damage to Greece over the years. But, in predictable fashion, all simpletons are only interested in a selective use of history to justify their views that suit them."

We doubt the real George Orwell if he was still alive would have used an invective as "idiotic", but besides this, it is a nice supplement to the IAT's reply to the comment by the rightwing extremist Dion F..

As mentioned the debate at Phantis is moderated by the Phantis-editors, and this takes time. The IAT's post Monday, the reply to the rightwing extremist Dion F., see the report of 19.04.2010, was not published before Tuesday at Phantis. The IAT-APT has not posted any new comment today, but is well represented in the debate with 10 out of 21 comments per this evening.

Brown Card to Associated Press, that 19.10.2010 reports: "The surge in far-left and radical anarchist violence followed the police shooting of a teenager in December 2008, which triggered riots in Greece's largest cities". Associated Press gets a Brown Card for falsely calling violent ochlarchists "radical anarchists", and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. AP also is insulting anarchists in general, because anarchists at large are radical, but not ochlarchists, including terrorists and rioters, etc.

ANA-MPA reports: Terror group arms cache found. Weapons and explosives have been found in a safehouse of the "Revolutionary Struggle" group in the Athens district of Kypseli. According to police sources, it is the group's main safehouse and the greatest part of weapons, if not all, has been found. Due to the materials found in the apartment, the police were evacuating the tenants from the apartment building as a precaution, until the materials are removed.

Terrorist suspects freed. Four people arrested last week over suspected links to the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire urban guerrilla group, after a police raid on an apartment in southern Athens turned up explosives, received conditional release yesterday following their testimonies to an investigating magistrate. The three young men reportedly claimed that the firecrackers found in the home of the fourth suspect – the mother of one of three – had been destined for use at soccer games.

Air-traffic controllers suspend strike for Thursday, Friday. The union representing the country’s air-traffic controllers yesterday called off a 48-hour strike it had called for Thursday and Friday to avoid aggravating flight disruptions provoked by a cloud of volcanic ash hanging over much of Europe. The union, which had called the action to protest austerity measures introduced by the debt-ridden government, said it would hold its strike at a later date without providing any details about when this might be.

Strikes. Owners protest tobacco tax. Street kiosks will be closed today as the union representing kiosk owners stages a 24-hour strike in protest at the government's decision to raise tobacco duties. The reform was voted through Parliament last week along with dozens of other provisions in a new tax law. The kiosk owners claim that the new tax reduces their profit margins. The IWW does not support this strike.

Judicial workers will go out on a 48-hour strike as of Wednesday. ADEDY (Civil Servants' Confederation) has scheduled a nationwide strike for Thursday, while PAME (All Militants' Front) has called for a 48-hour strike for Wednesday and Thursday. University and school teachers' associations are also considering going out on a strike. The IWW and anarchists in general support these strikes.

19.04.2010. Still discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. New terror finds examined. Hidden explosives discovered.

As mentioned the debate at Phantis is moderated by the Phantis-editors, and this takes time, and they can of course also stop publishing a comment. The IAT's last post Sunday, a reply to the rightwing extremist Sotiris, see the report of 18.04.2010, was not published before Monday at Phantis.

The discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Phantis continues, see http://www.phantis.com/cosmos/spip.php?article731 , and our reports of 15.04.2010, 16.04.2010, 17.04.2010 and 18.04.2010. IAT-APT's comment to the rightwing extremist Dion F.'s note, posted late on Monday, is the following:

"The anarchists see Greece as a stable democracy, although more of a semi-democracy and not real-democracy, i.e. anarchy, yet, see http://www.anarchy.no/realdemocracy.html . But the tendency is slowly going our way.

Rightwing extremists, that use invectives instead of real arguments, say, Sotiris: "the opinions of the IAT-APT are invalid and naive.", and Dion F.: "foolish movements like yours", will never get a critical mass of people to support their rightwing extremist ideas, dictatorship, etc.

The Greek and international anarchist movement will never "be desolved by law", as Dion F. suggests."

ERT reports: New terror finds examined. The evidence collected from the hideout located in Kareas district last Saturday are being examined by the anti-terror squad. The evidence, including several fingerprints, is plenty, while police is sorting out the DNA samples taken from the houses searched so far. The 180 kilos of the explosive material found in the hideout of the guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle were taken to police's offices in Elliniko district. The garage was leased in November 2007 to the name "Dimosthenis Mandalozis," a name used by arrestee Konstantinos Gournas. The explosive material is similar to the one used in two hits of the guerrilla group

Kathimerini reports: Hidden explosives discovered. Police seize significant amount of ANFO from garage in Athens suburb rented by Revolutionary Struggle suspect. Police have found what appears to be one of Revolutionary Struggle's main storage facilities after seizing 195 kilograms of a powerful explosive in a garage in eastern Athens. Spokesman Athanassios Kokkalakis revealed yesterday that police raided a garage underneath a five-story apartment block in the Kareas suburb after discovering it had been rented by a man claiming to be Dimosthenis Mandalozis – one of the aliases used by Constantinos Gournas, one of the six suspected members of the terrorist group arrested last Sunday. Police identified the explosive as being a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (ANFO), which is a common explosive used in mining and quarrying.

"It is quite a big quantity," Kokkalakis told Reuters. "It could have brought down a six-story apartment block." ANFO first came to the police's attention in February 2009 when a car containing 60 kilos of the explosive was left outside Citibank's offices in Nea Kifissia. The device failed to explode, probably due to faulty wiring. Tests at the time revealed that the substance had been made by the terrorists and did not come from an industrial source. Police confirmed yesterday that the ANFO they found in the garage in Kareas had also been prepared by the terrorists and had not been stolen.

There were also three high-powered motorcycles in the garage and officers found several license plates, which the terrorists presumably used to avoid detection. Officers did not say whether any of the motorbikes were connected to specific strikes by Revolutionary Struggle. Police also asked anyone who had information about other properties rented under the alias of Dimosthenis Mandalozis or Anastasios Grivokostopoulos to come forward. Kokkalakis said that the home in which Revolutionary Struggle's alleged mastermind Nikos Maziotis and fellow suspect Panayiota Roupa had been living was also rented using a forged identification card.

Car bomb. Police believe that an explosion in Metaxourgeio, central Athens, early on Saturday was an attempt to settle scores. The bomb exploded as a sports utility vehicle drove through the neighborhood. The man and woman in the car, both Albanians, were not injured. The man indicated that the explosion occurred as he drove over a plastic bag but police found that the device had actually been attached to the car. The windows of a cafe and a veterinarian's office shattered during the blast but there were no injuries.

18.04.2010. Even more discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. Police update on terror safehouse finds.

The debate at Phantis is moderated by the Phantis-editors, and this takes time, and they can of course also stop publishing a comment. Furthermore the space is very limited in each post, so you must often use more than one post to get the message through. The IAT's last post Saturday, see the report of 17.04.2010, was not published before Sunday at Phantis.

The discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Phantis continues, see http://www.phantis.com/cosmos/spip.php?article731 , and our reports of 15.04.2010, 16.04.2010 and 17.04.2010. Comments from IAT-APT to the second comment of George Picoulas:

"Anarchist are in general, unless special cases, not pacifists, but the only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, a bottom up approach. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, a top down approach, and thus not anarchistic. Terrorism is always ochlarchy, and a top down approach, not anarchistic.

Loss of dignity is thus not a valid excuse for war and terrorism, killing, as the two extremist, ochlarchist, non-anarchist women suggest, in Mottas' article."

Chaos, disorder, mob rule (narrowly defined), lawlessness, the law of the jungle, criminality, riots, vandalism, arson, theft, corruption, drugs, mafia, terrorism, autocratic rule, the right to the strongest, antisocial tyrannic behavior, etc. i.e. different types of superiors and subordinates, a top - down approach, and thus not anarchy - a bottom up approach. The Greek rooted word for mob rule is ochlarchy.

Ochlarchy is also used as a common word for all the authoritarian evils mentioned above i.e. mob rule broadly defined. Ochlarchy is clearly authoritarian, a top down approach - the opposite of anarchy, a bottom up approach - optimal order included. Thus, anarchists have no problems with following laws, see http://www.anarchy.no/anrights.html for more information."

"The opinions of the IAT-APT are not invalid and not naive. We don't spread fear and pessimism, but promote anarchism and anarchy, i.e. real democracy, see http://www.anarchy.no/realdemocracy.html .

Furthermore, the PEOPLE, i.e. seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income, is mainly not responsible for Greece's problems.

These problems should however not be exaggerated, Greece is among the 25 countries in the world with highest libertarian degree, very far from as authoritarian as, say, Somalia, a country with rivaling oligarchy/polyarchy and much ochlarchy, very far from anarchy."

ANA-MPA reports: Police update on terror safehouse finds. In an update on the explosives discovered inside a safehouse used by the terrorist group "Revolutionary Struggle" in Kareas, the Greek Police on Sunday announced further details regarding the composition of the substances found, based on the findings of police laboratories. The announcement said that the solid substances in the three gas canisters were derived from agricultural fertiliser composed mainly of ammonium nitrate, impregnated with lamp oil.

The substance in the two metallic cans were also made of agricultural fertiliser composed mainly of ammonium nitrate, with fuel oil added. Police said the substance thus formed was similar to the explosive ANFO and not a standardised factory product. "A similar type explosive with that found in the gas canisters (ammonium nitrate with lamp oil) was found in the makeshift time bomb that was neutralised on 18 February 2009, in a car parked outside the building housing the Citibank administrative services in Nea Kifissia," police said. The substance found in the plastic bin liner was mainly agricultural fertiliser with ammonium nitrate as its main component.

17.04.2010. Continued discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. Police find terror group's safehouse. Strikes.

The discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Phantis continues, see http://www.phantis.com/cosmos/spip.php?article731 , and our reports of 15.04.2010 and 16.04.2010. Comments from IAT-APT, to a comment from Nicolas Mottas:

"Anarchists have a whole variety of viewpoints. However as far as the IAT knows, anarchists at large today agree to the following basic principles:

1. People doing ochlarchy - mob rule broadly defined, including terrorism, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs are clearly authoritarian - a top down approach, and not anarchistic and anarchists - that have a bottom up approach.

2. Terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including logistics, threats of terrorism and calls and support for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy,

3. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are, or flag, or be called by the newsmedia or others!

4. Thus anarchists are practically certain not terrorists. And terrorists calling themselves anarchists or be called so by newsmedia or others are practically certain not anarchists. They are ochlarchists - the opposite of anarchists!"

"The article of Nicolas Mottas is somewhat unclear, and opens for different interpretations, of which the IAT-APT has a valid one. The comment by Mottas clearifies some points, but does not rebuff the main points of IAT-APT, see http://www.anarchy.no/greek.html .

For more information about the mandate and tasks of the IAT, se the IAT-homepage http://www.anarchy.no/iat.html with links."

"To mix up opposites as a) anarchy and ochlarchy and b) anarchists with ochlarchists/ochlarchs, as outdated dictionaries, newsmedia including Phantis, and mislead youths often do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak.

It should be stopped and the IAT is mandated to expuls ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" from the anarchist movement, by giving them Brown Cards.

Greek ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" have been expulsed from the anarchist movement, more than usual in other countries. The Greek newsmedia produce copycat ochlarchists falsely posing as anarchists, by giving these false "anarchists" a lot of publisity. But also in Greece the vast majority are real anarchists but they are not so big in the newsmedia."

"Ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" throw shit on the anarchist policy of freedom etc. and the anarchist movement and IAT work actively to expuls, isolate, and stop them. Anti-capitalist ochlarchists are authoritarian socialists, i.e. in reality marxist leftwing extremists, and not anarchists. The anarchist movement work actively against marxist leftwing extremists, especially they who try to profit on the anarchist policy of freedom etc.

The anarchist movement is not only against ochlarchy, but also monarchy, oligarchy, polyarchy, plutarchy, matriarchy, patriarchy, hierarchy, etc, i.e. in real terms, economic and/or political/administrative. All forms of archies should be done away with, practically toward ideally, and should be replaced with anarchy, i.e. "system and management without ruler(s), i.e. co-operation without repression, tyranny and slavery". In short an-arch-y = (an = without - arch = ruler(s)) - y = system and management, as, say, in monarch-y."

ANA-MPA reports: Police find terror group's safehouse. The Greek police counter-terrorism squad on Saturday announced the discovery of an apartment and a basement garage used by the terrorist group 'Revolutionary Struggle' in Athens' Kareas district. Police sources said the apartment was found on Saturday afternoon and contained a cache of gas canisters laced with the explosive ANFO, while stolen motorbikes were stored in the garage. Investigating officers believe the apartment was used as an intermediate safehouse. It had been rented two years earlier by one of the people arrested as suspected members of the group, using a fake ID found in a car that was located in Nea Philadelphia two days ago. Further announcements concerning the find are due to be made later on Saturday at the headquarters of the Greek Police (ELAS).

ERT reports: Anti-terror probe continues. The anti-terrorist squad is waiting for the forensic results on suspects believed to be involved in the guerrilla group Revolutionary Army. In the meantime, police is still searching for the group's hideout and weaponry. Another two suspected members of the guerrilla group, Christoforos Kortesis and Evangelos Stathopoulos, were detained Friday after their depositions before the magistrate. Stathopoulos blamed his being implication in the case to his political activities, arguing that he had been unable to move for large periods of time due to serious car crashes he had, while Kortesis just made a typical statement.

Kathimerini reports: All six terrorist suspects held for trial. The final two of the six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle arrested on Sunday were remanded in custody yesterday, as the police gathered more information about how the terrorist group rented apartments in Athens they used as safe houses. A magistrate decided that authorities had gathered enough evidence to warrant Evangelos Stathopoulos and Christoforos Kortesis being held in custody. Stathopoulos denied playing any part in the organization and argued that an injury suffered in a car crash several years ago had left him with serious health problems. He added that between 2000 and 2007 he had to appear at his local police station twice a month after being released on bail following a conviction for another offense. Stathopoulos claimed that he was being persecuted for his political beliefs. Kortesis's lawyers argued that the charges against him were not specific enough for him to answer. They said that this confirmed there was no evidence to link him to the terrorist group, which had been active since 2003. The magistrate rejected both arguments.

Meanwhile, police confirmed that the gang used forged identification cards, found in the car of another suspect, Constantinos Gournas, to rent two apartments in Kypseli, near central Athens. The fifth-story apartments were next to each other. Police only found balaclavas, handcuffs and gloves in one of the apartments. The other property had been emptied four to six months ago, officers believe. They think the gang rented the second apartment so they would not have to worry about neighbors becoming suspicious of their activities. Police continued to search for a property where the group may have hidden their arms and explosives.

Teachers' strikes. The executive committee of the Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OLME) yesterday called a 24-hour strike for May 4 and confirmed that its members would be participating in next Thursday's 24-hour strike by the main civil servants' union ADEDY. The committee also proposed further strike action as of May 14, the first day of university entrance examinations for senior high school pupils. Unionists said they had failed to find common ground in talks with Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou on Thursday. The IWW and anarchists in general back the strikes.

Meanwhile: Greece will decide within weeks on whether to activate an Euro-zone aid package, Prime Minister George Papandreou said, as a poll showed austerity measures had begun hitting Athenians' pocket books....

16.04.2010. Discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. Terrorists' data found, etc.

"The terrorists in Greek, except for a few rightwing terrorists, are marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, the quite opposite of anarchists, as proven beyond doubt at http://www.anarchy.no/greek.html . You cannot have read this file properly, since you still insist that there are anarchist terrorists in Greece.

There are many anarchists in Greece, but anarchists are practically certain not ochlarchists, including terrorists.

Kathimerini reports: Terrorists' data found. Police discover bomb manual and hit list on Revolutionary Struggle's computer. Police believe that they have found the main computer used by Revolutionary Struggle to plan its terrorist attacks. A search on a car parked in Nea Philadelphia, northern Athens, turned up two Zastava handguns that do not appear to have been used in any attack, 119,000 euros in cash and a computer. Officers are most interested in the information they discovered on the computer's hard drive. This included all of Revolutionary Struggle's proclamations, including that issued after their first attack in 2003, information on making explosives and a list of possible targets, including politicians, businessmen and journalists. Next to each potential target, there was detailed information about their security arrangements, including the number of guards they have and what kind of protection their vehicles have against bullets or bombs. There was also a list of companies that use explosives in their business.

The vehicle belongs to 30-year-old Constantinos Gournas, one of the six people who have been arrested on suspicion of being members of Revolutionary Struggle. Gournas appeared before a judge yesterday and, like the group's alleged mastermind Nikos Maziotis, refused to recognize the court and suggested that the "real terrorists" were the policemen who arrested him. He also claimed that officers had beaten him and threatened the lives of his children to extract information from him. The other two suspects arrested on Sunday, Christoforos Kortesis and Evangelos Stathopoulos, are due appear in court today.

Meanwhile, an Athens prosecutor yesterday deemed that there was not enough evidence to charge three men and the mother of one of them with terrorism offenses. The four suspects were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of being members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, which has carried out several bomb attacks. The prosecutor referred the case to a magistrate after rejecting the police's claim that the suspects' possession of 25 large firecrackers was evidence of their involvement in the terrorist group. Officers insist the firecrackers are vital in the construction of explosive devices. Also, one of the suspected members of the group, Manolis Giospas, who had been in custody since last year, was released yesterday pending trial.

ANA-MPA reports: Police finds on terrorist group. A car whose luggage compartment contained weapons, hard electronic computer discs, forged identity cards and many thousands of euros in cash, as well as two apartments that were possibly safehouses of the terrorist organisation "Revolutionary Struggle" are the new findings of the Greek police in investigations being carried out on the specific case. Police chief Eleftherios Economou made relevant announcements on the findings on Thursday evening, beginning his briefing by referring to the vehicle found and which belongs to one of the defendants.

ERT reports: Two terror suspects referred to magistrate. Two suspected members of guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle Christoforos Kortesis and Evangelos Stathopoulos were referred Friday to the magistrate. In the meantime, police are still searching door to door to track down the group's hideout. All evidence collected from Konstantinos Gournas' car is being examined at forensic labs.

Politicians, businessmen and journalists targeted. High-profile politicians, businessmen and journalists had been targeted by the terrorists, evidence collected from Gournas' car suggested. Among the evidence were notes including information on their targets' residence and place of work. Inside the car, which has been termed as a "movable hideout", some 120,000 euros was found. It is believed that the money probably came from burglaries. The two guns found in the car have never been used in a previous act of terror, while the five hard discs are still being examined.

Channel sit-in. A group of anti-establishment protesters late on Wednesday occupied Creta Television's premises in Iraklio, Crete, complaining about the arrest of six suspected members of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group and the government's austerity measures. They burst into the studio during a news bulletin. There were no arrests as the protesters left the premises peacefully. The protesters were practically certain marxist leftwing extremists, says IAT-APT. The anarchists condemn the protest, and also condemn support for terrorists in general.

Father of dead Afghan boy to set up charity. The father of a 15-year-old Afghan boy, killed in an explosion at the end of last month after unwittingly picking up a bomb planted by unknown terrorists, is planning to set up a charity foundation for child victims of violence. In a letter to the Greek office of the United Nations refugee agency, Mohammed Isa Najafi said the pain of losing his son was the culmination of a string of trials and tribulations for him and his family. "In the midst of all this disappointment and sadness, the dirty hands of terrorism appeared before me, as they had done in my homeland," he said. Najafi, whose 11-year-old daughter was partially blinded in the same blast, said he wanted to set up a foundation in the name of his son Hamidullah for "child victims of violence." He said he had founded a similar school for children in Afghanistan. Donations to Najafi's family can be made to National Bank, account number 129/341635-64.

Teachers to protest reform. Teachers yesterday threatened strike action after failing to find common ground in talks with Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou, who earlier this week heralded a raft of proposed reforms ranging from changes to the way that teachers are hired to the abolition of a law setting a minimal grade for university entrance. The Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OLME), which is calling for full-time jobs to be granted to substitute teachers and their unemployed counterparts, is planning a 48-hour strike on May 5 and 6.

The union's leader, Dimitris Peppes, said the union is also considering further action later in May and June, which would seriously disrupt scheduled exams. Meanwhile, representatives of the Primary School Teachers' Federation (DOE) told Diamantopoulou that they object to her proposed changes to the appointment of schoolteachers who henceforth can only be hired after sitting exams set by the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP). DOE president Dimitris Bratis said his members would strike if the changes are implemented.

15.04.2010. Brown Cards to Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos, etc., for falsely calling the terrorist Lambros Fountas and terrorists in general, "anarchists".

Phantis, by Nicolas Mottas 14.04.2010 reports: Greece: the deeper source of anti-authoritarian terrorism. It's night in a central Athens' bar. I'm having a conversation with two women – students in their 20s – members of anti-authoritarian anarchist groups of Exarhia. Our discussion leads to the issue of Terrorism in Greece; the aftermath of the 2008 riots, the emergence of new urban guerrilla groups, the death of anarchist Lambros Fountas in a gunfight. "The state and the batsoi (police) get what they deserve" said one of the women while the other added, "This State kills you every day, condemning people to unemployment and poverty. When they take your dignity you have to react!" When I reminded them that this kind of reaction may include innocent victims, like Thanos Axarlian in 1992, their response astonished; "Well, in every war there are always collateral damages. This is a war."

I was thinking about their response while watching the news coverage of the tragic death of 15-year-old Hammidulah Najafi in Patissia, who lost his life when a bomb exploded outside a public building. Why do some young and educated people refuse to condemn anti-state terrorist attacks? What's the source of this deep-rooted enmity against the state, the police and authority in general? After the dissolution of November 17 and ELA terrorist groups, a new kind of urban guerrilla terrorist group has emerged. Its ideological motives, contrary to their predecessors, are nebulous but they seem determined to vent their vendetta against the state. Since 2007 a police guard has been murdered, two officers have been seriously wounded, at least five police departments have been attacked while numerous buildings including public services, banks or companies – in the capital have been targets of explosive devices.

Hundreds of articles and essays have been written about terrorism in Greece. However, we are still searching for the roots of this evil. This new generation of terrorists is clearly angry and ruthless. They are products of modern Greek society; they weren't born terrorists, they became that. But apart from ideologies, the reason they take up arms is rooted in an ongoing social political and institutional crisis faced by Greece. Since restoration of Democracy in 1974, the Greek State has become a caricature of a modern welfare state despite periodic attempts at reform. The continuous corruption and scandals within the political system along with the exasperating inefficiencies in public services' has led to the diminution of faith in the state as a whole.

Young people read and hear about financial scandals involving ministers, but in the end nobody with power and influence goes to jail. That partly explains why young people detest the state and its mechanisms; an enmity which in times of economic crisis may be expressed through violence and antisocial behaviour. The 2008 riots provide evidence of how fragile relations really are between society and the state. What's the point? It is of utmost importance to find the roots of terrorism and violence and to locate the source which feeds them.

For those who don't want to turn a blind eye to reality, the absence of a truly modern welfare state and the lack of a proper educational system are responsible for the disaffection felt by young people. The passage of draconian laws on terrorism or the placement of CCTV or police forces in all over the streets won't solve the problem. The country needs a strong social contract; an in-depth re-examination of the relation between Society and the State, of the Society with itself. Our political leadership has to listen closely the needs of society, but most importantly the needs of those who feel socially excluded and abandoned. Such an approach will release Greek society from 36 years of violence and terror. P.S. Also published in Neos Kosmos, 14 April 2010.

1. "Anti-authoritarian" may just mean "anarchist", but is a more vague concept, that may spread confusion and conceptual chaos, and should be avoided. "Antigovernment", also sometimes called "anti-establishment", "anti-authority" or "anti-authoritarian", i.e. vague concepts, that can be used of any political group who is opposed to the established authorities, - marxist, fascist and liberalist included.

Two groups of extreme liberalists may be mentioned. One is the conservative blue&brown anti-government tendency, mainly in the USA, with the late Oklahoma-bomber. Another is the extreme right blue&brown tendency, sometimes called "anarcho"-capitalists, with, say, the Swedish Olympian-bomber. They are opposed to the political-administrative state in a way, especially the established central administration, but often mix up government with public sector, and do not account for economical plutarchy and economical hierarchies in general. "Anarcho"-capitalism is "anarcho"-economical plutarchy, i.e. an oxymoron and not anarchism. Thus, they are not anarchists.

Also often called "anti-authoritarian" are marxist leftwing extremist terrorist-groups, such as RAF (Baader-Meinhof) in Germany, Red Brigades in Italy, and several Greek terrorist-groups, say, Revolutionary Struggle. They are not anarchists, see the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009.

It may also be mentioned that Bakunin's faction in the 1st International at first used the vague term anti-authoritarian, but later changed the name to anarchists, similar to P. J. Proudhon, to avoid misunderstandings. Ochlarchy, mob rule broadly defined, including terrorism, is a form of government/state/authority, and not anarchy and anarchism, and ochlarchists/ochlarchs, bosses of vandalism, terrorists, etc, called "anti-government" or "anti-authoritarian", are not anarchists. In general, anarchists are anti-authoritarain, but all persons and groups called anti-authoritarian are not anarchists. The phrase "anti-authoritarian anarchist" used by Nicolas Mottas, thus in general means just "anarchist", "anti-authoritarian" is redundant and probably also contributes to confusion, and should be avoided.

2. The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These so called terrorist "anarchists", falsely called so by Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

Especially the mentioned two women – students in their 20s – members of so called "anti-authoritarian anarchist groups of Exarhia [a.k.a Exarchia]" and the so called "anarchist" terrorist Lambros Fountas, are in reality not anarchists, they are extremists and ochlarchists. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism, i.e. extremism and ochlarchy. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and not anarchistic. Loss of dignity is thus not a valid excuse for war and terrorism, killing, as the two extremist, ochlarchist, non-anarchist women suggest. The IAT-APT has commented on the so called "anarchists", in reality marxist ochlarchists, in Exarchia, before, say, see report of 11.03.2010.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists - mentioned by Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos,, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT also hands out fresh Brown Cards to the two ochlarchist extremist women falsely posing as "anarchists", and the so called "anarchist" terrorist Lambros Fountas, to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos, do is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The liers Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

3. The IAT-APT does not have the e-mailaddresses of Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos, but have posted the following message at the feedback form of Phantis:

The International Anarchist Tribunal has handed out Brown Cards to Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos for mixing up terrorism, a form of ochlarchy and ochlarchists, with anarchism and anarchists, the quite opposite. Ochlarchy is mob rule broadly defined, the opposite of anarchy.

Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos, do is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. More information at http://www.anarchy.no/greek.html .

PS. The message 3. is also published by Phantis as a comment to Nicolas Mottas article, see http://www.phantis.com/cosmos/spip.php?article731 . The IAT-APT will also put attention to the anarchist 'International Conference on Terrorism', see http://www.anarchy.no/ija431.html , especially chapter IX. 'The roots of terrorism' and chapter XI. 'Terrorism defined'.

Kathimerini reports: Terror suspects in holding cells. Three suspected members of terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle were remanded in custody yesterday after two refused to testify before an investigating magistrate and the third denied the charges. Another three suspects are to appear before the same magistrate today. Meanwhile, police detained three suspected members of the less established urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, as well as the mother of one of the suspects. The suspected leader of Revolutionary Struggle, 39-year-old Nikos Maziotis, and his girlfriend, 41-year-old Panayiota Roupa, who is pregnant, both issued short statements. "You are the criminals, the state and capitalism," Maziotis is cited as saying, while Roupa was quoted as stating, "I don't recognize your procedures, your state or your political system."

Sarantos Nikitopoulos, 32, refuted charges linking him to the organization. According to sources, Nikitopoulos claimed to only have been linked to the group because his fingerprints were found on a petition expressing solidarity with jailed anarchist Polykarpos Georgiadis. Nikitopoulos was quoted as saying that the same petition had circulated "across half of Greece." In a related development, police detained three suspected members of guerrilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, as well as the mother of one of the suspects, following a raid on the latter's home in Kallithea, southern Athens, where they had gathered on Tuesday night. The three suspects are believed to be members of a hardcore supporters' club of Athens soccer team AEK. One of the three is said to have been linked to a house in Halandri, northern Athens, believed to have functioned as the group's hideout.

Terrorist attacks. Politicians' offices attacked. Small incendiary devices went off outside the offices of two politicians in Thessaloniki yesterday, while another two at other locations were safely detonated. The police said that the first device exploded shortly after 1 p.m. outside the office of Ecologist Greens MEP Michalis Tremopoulos. Shortly afterward, there was a blast outside the office of Kyriakos Velopoulos, a deputy of the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS). Both explosions caused minor damage to the entrances of the offices but no injuries. Police said they found and detonated another device at the office of New Democracy MP Elena Rapti and another at a shipping firm.

Explosive device outside PASOK MP's office. A makeshift explosive device composed of gas cannisters exploded at the entrance to the offices of ruling PASOK party Deputy Christos Protopappas, located in Sina street in Athens, at 8:25 on Wednesday evening. The explosion and ensuing fire damaged the door to the office. The blaze was extinguished by a citizen before the Fire Brigade arrived at the scene. The anarchists condemn the terrorist attacks, probably done by marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists.

ERT reports: Police searches for guerilla group's hideout. A gun and some other objects were found in a car whose owner is one of the six suspected members of terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle, police sources said. The car was tracked down on Wednesday night in Nea Filadelfia district. In the meantime, police are searching for clues a house in Kypseli district, central Athens. Police believe the house had been used as a hideout. However, it has been uninhabited for five months. A bag containing a gun and burglary tools was located near the house in question.

Depositions and detention. Another three suspected members of the terrorist group were referred Thursday morning to the magistrate to testify. Two of them were given until Friday to testify, while Konstantinos Gournas was remanded in custody. The first group of the suspected members – Maziotis, Roupa and Nikitopoulos, has been detained since Wednesday. All six defendants have been charged with four felonies and four misdemeanors. The indictment issued against them recognizes Maziotis and Roupa as the leaders of the guerrilla group. Another four people who were seized Wednesday in Kallithea will be also referred to the magistrate. They are suspected members of the less established urban guerrilla group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire.

14.04.2010. Three terror suspects detained. More terror arrests due. Strikes.

ERT reports: Three terror suspects detained. The two of the three suspects charged with involvement in the guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle refused to testify, while the third denied all accusations. The three arrestees who were referred Wednesday morning to the magistrate under tight security were remanded in custody. Police keeps searching for the group's weaponry, while all evidence found in their hideout are being closely examined. According to information, more suspects are to be arrested for their involvement in Revolutionary Struggle. The rest three suspects will testify on Thursday.

Nikitopoulos denied accusations. Sarantos Nikitopoulos denied all accusations, claiming that he is acquainted with defendants and he had been friends with Labros Fountas. He then stressed that a fingerprint of his found on an object in Fountas' house cannot implicate him in anything. Evangelos Stathopoulos, Christoforos Kortesis and Konstantinos Gournas are to testify on Thursday.

New arrest warrants are due. In the meantime, new arrest warrants for four people, including two women and two men, who are believed to have been involved in the guerrilla group, are due out. Police are trying to track down a 32-year-old man who is believed to be a hard core member of the group. His fingertips have been found in Fountas' place. He has been known to the police for his participation in clashes in the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising in 1995, and his house in Abelokipi district was among the first to be searched. The second suspect is a woman, 35, who has also participated in clashes at the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. Her fingerprints have been found on a hand-written document in Fountas' place. Another woman, 31, wanted is one of the authors of the proclamations. She was arrested in the 1995 anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising and her fingerprints have also been found in Fountas' house, as well.

Kathimerini reports: More terror arrests due. Up to another six suspects identified as police sift through mountain of evidence. Police are expected to be looking to arrest up to six more people who are suspected of being members of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group, sources said yesterday, as more details emerged about the contacts between the six alleged members that have already been caught. Forensic officers are in a race against time to process all the evidence that has been collected from various homes in Attica that were used by the suspects already apprehended. They are hoping that they will be able to gather enough evidence to warrant further arrests and to discover where the weapons and explosives used by Revolutionary Struggle might be hidden.

Sources said that four suspects have been identified through fingerprints, some of which where found at the home of another suspect, Lambros Fountas, whose shooting last month proved a turning point in the police's investigation into the urban guerrilla group, which has been active since 2003. These four also exchanged phone calls with the group's alleged mastermind, Nikos Maziotis. The 39-year-old Maziotis had been known to police since the late 1990s. He was sentenced to 15 years in jail in 1999 for having planted a bomb outside the Development Ministry two years earlier. The bomb did not go off and Maziotis's fingerprint was found on the device. He admitted in court to planting the bomb. On appeal, his sentence was reduced to five years but he served just over three before being released.

After recovering Fountas's phone records, police placed several of the suspects under surveillance at the beginning of April. Police said that the alleged terrorists took care to avoid detection, using public pay phones to make calls where possible and driving in such a manner as to make it difficult for officers to follow without being noticed. However, in the four days leading up to their arrests on Sunday, the suspects appeared to have become careless, as they were closely monitored by police, who witnessed them meeting in one of their safe houses in Nea Ionia, northern Athens, and subsequently followed one of the six, Vangelis Stathopoulos, to a remote spot on Mount Hymettus where he is believed to have practiced shooting.

Bus, tram and train employees off work for six hours tomorrow. There will be no buses, trolley buses, tram or service on the Kifissia-Piraeus electric railway (ISAP) between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. tomorrow due to a work stoppage by employees. The stoppage is taking place so that union members can attend the general meeting. Commuters are reminded that taxi drivers are on strike today and tomorrow in protest at the government's tax reforms.

ADEDY action. The executive committee of the civil servants' union ADEDY yesterday confirmed that its members would be staging a 24-hour strike on April 22 in protest at the government's austerity measures and at the repercussions of a new tax law.

13.04.2010. Police seek terrorists' arms cache. Protestors of terrorism arrests stage takeover of Athens Journalists' Union building. The protesters were practically certain marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the protest.

Kathimerini reports: Police seek terrorists' arms cache - Six suspects charged, 10 being sought. "A man speaks on a mobile phone as armed policemen wearing balaclavas and bulletproof vests stand guard at the main Athens court complex where six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle were charged yesterday. The suspects also wore bulletproof vests as they were escorted into court while a small group of people shouted their support."

As six suspected members of the Revolutionary Struggle extremist guerrilla group faced a prosecutor yesterday, officers of the police's counterterrorism unit continued their search for a hideout containing explosives and weapons used by the organization. The five men and one woman, aged between 30 and 41, were charged with membership of a terrorist group and with multiple counts of murder, causing explosions and weapons offenses in connection with a string of attacks on police and business and government targets over the past seven years. Three of the six suspects were given until tomorrow to prepare their defense; the other three have until Thursday morning. Nikos Maziotis, the group's suspected leader, was quoted as saying that he would not testify tomorrow.

"These charges are politically motivated and so we will not defend ourselves; we are not going to legitimize this process," the 39-year-old Maziotis allegedly told the court. Meanwhile, sources told Kathimerini that police have information linking another 10 people to bombings and armed attacks that have been claimed by Revolutionary Struggle. Officers are seeking the incriminating evidence that will allow them to issue warrants for the additional suspects' arrests. But there is reportedly a lot of material to get through. One police source told Kathimerini that officers have only examined 10 percent of the evidence that has been gathered following dozens of raids on homes of suspects over the weekend.

Police are also seeking the hideout where the organization stored the weaponry and explosives for its attacks. So far raids on a string of apartments – including one in Nea Philadelphia, northern Athens, where the suspects are alleged to have met before nearly all the attacks – have turned up only computer hard drives containing proclamations and hand-drawn sketches, not explosives and weapons. According to sources, police believe the weapons cache is located in the triangle formed by the Athens districts of Nea Ionia, Nea Philadelphia and Perissos.

Forensic experts yesterday were examining bullet casings from a Kalashnikov assault rifle found in a remote spot on the slopes of Mount Hymettus by officers who had followed one of the six suspects there over the weekend ahead of their arrests. Police believe the group had used the spot for firing practice.

ANA-MPA reports: Protestors of terrorism arrests stage takeover of Athens Journalists' Union building. A group of 40 people protesting the arrest of six alleged members of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group staged a takeover of the Athens Journalists' Union (ESIEA) building in downtown Athens, while approximately another 40 protestors were outside the building putting up banners protesting the arrests. One of several ESIEA board members in the building at the time told the ANA-MPA in a telephone call that the members were told that they were not being kept hostage, and have just been allowed to exit the facility, and that the protestors told them they would also leave the building "soon". Police who rushed to the scene were negotiating with the protestors. The protesters were practically certain marxist leftwing extremists, says IAT-APT. The anarchists condemn the protest.

Terror investigation finds. Police provided officially information on Monday evening on the findings at the house searched in the morning in the Athens district of Nea Philadelphia, as well as a remote location on Hymettus where the defendants and other persons reportedly involved in the "Revolutionary Struggle" organisation had target practice with Kalashnikov weapons. It was announced that the findings included part of a proclamation of the "Revolutionary Struggle" which was detected in the hard disc of an electronic computer. With this proclamation they had assumed responsibility for three attacks and specifically:

The armed attack with Kalashnikovs against a riot police company outside the Culture ministry in Boumboulinas street, in Exarchia on 5.1.2009 during which riot policeman Diamantis Matzounis was seriously wounded. The attack also with Kalashnikovs against the riot police bus at Goudi outside the Politechnioupoli on 23.12.2008 and the placing of an explosive device at the offices of the shell petroleum company in Paleo Faliro on 24.10.2008, that had not exploded and was neutralised. Also on Hymettus, at the perpetrators' "firing range", about 40 bullet caps from Kalashnikovs were confiscated that, as was ascertained, have been fired by weapons that have not been used in a criminal act.

The "firing range" was detected two days before the arrest of the six defendants during the stalking of one of them, who went to the remote district that is located near the mountain's peak, about 20 kilometres from Koropi. Lastly, photographs were publicised of the handwritten drawings of the location at the intersection of Panormou and Vatheos streets where a terrorist attack was to take place against static police forces, that were found in the home of Nikos Maziotis and that bear his fingerprints.

ERT reports: Terror investigation in full swing. The police investigation to track down the hideout and the arsenal of the Greek guerrilla group, Revolutionary Army, is in full swing. The evidence authorities have collected has directed investigations into several directions, while more arrests are expected. The arrest warrants for more than three suspects have already been issued, while the hideout is believed to be somewhere near the districts of Nea Filadelfia, Nea Ionia and Perissos. Labros Fountas was proved to be a key suspect to the investigations Authorities found in his house and confiscated:

* A piece of paper entitled "There is no need for much talking" with the fingertips of other two suspects on it

Telephone interceptions proved that Fountas was associated with suspects Maziotis, Gournas, Nikitopoulo, as well as with other people who are unknown to the authorities investigating the case.

Lawyers' action. The country's lawyers are due to begin a new three-day strike today. Their protest has been designed to coincide with the debate about the government's new tax bill in Parliament. Lawyers are due to be back at work on Friday.

Taxi strike. No cabs tomorrow, Thursday as drivers stage new protest. There will be no taxis serving the capital and other major Greek cities tomorrow and Thursday as cabbies stage a 48-hour strike. Taxi drivers are protesting government plans to make them issue receipts, keep account books and pay tax according to their income. Under the current system, drivers pay just over 1,200 euros in tax each year, regardless of what they earn. Unionists complain that the government has "not responded to our queries about how it will tackle the problems raised by the changes in the tax law." The anarchists and IWW don't back this strike.

12.04.2010. More about six suspected terrorists caught. Revolutionary Struggle is a typical example of a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist group.

ANA-MPA reports: Evidence on terrorist group. Police investigations to locate the "Revolutionary Struggle" terrorist group's main safehouse where the group's arms are stashed continued on Monday. The counter-terrorism squad conducted searches in several houses in Athens in the last few hours, including a house in the western Athens district of Nea Philadelphia which was considered very important, but no weaponry or explosives were found.

Kathimerini reports: Six suspected terrorists caught. Greek police appear to have made the most significant breakthrough in their efforts to halt domestic terrorism for almost a decade, as they announced yesterday that six suspected members of extremist guerrilla group, Revolutionary Struggle, have been arrested. Police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis said that after raids on several properties in Athens and other parts of Greece, five men (Nikolaos Maziotis, 39; Evangelos Stathopoulos, 32; Christoforos Kortesis, 31; Sarantos Nikitopoulos, 32, and Constantinos Gournas, 30) and one woman (Panayiota Roupa, 41) had been detained.

"During searches on homes, many findings were seized and are now being examined," said Kokkalakis, adding that at a house in Kalyvia, east of Athens, used by Maziotis and Roupa, officers confiscated a computer that contained several proclamations by Revolutionary Struggle. Hand-drawn plans of possible targets were also found. Revolutionary Struggle first emerged in 2003 and is best known for its attack with a rocket-propelled grenade on the US Embassy in Athens in 2007. The group also claimed an armed attack last year that left a riot policeman severely injured. Its proclamations mostly consist of anti-capitalist, anti-establishment rhetoric.

Police did not give details on what led to the arrests but it is believed they were prompted by information officers gained following the shooting of microbiologist Lambros Fountas on March 10 as he attempted to steal a car with an accomplice. Police believe Fountas was linked to the group and checks on his possessions are likely to have provided police with leads. Officers also suggested one of the six suspects accompanied Fountas on the night he was shot in an exchange of fire with police.

IAT-APT reports: Revolutionary Struggle is a typical example of a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist group. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

The euro has jumped sharply against the dollar and the pound after the Euro-zone agreed details of a multi-billion euro loan package to debt-ridden Greece. The euro rose by 2 cents, or 1.5%, against the dollar, to $1.3672, before slipping slightly. Against the pound, it rose by 0.75p to 88.45p. Euro-zone nations have agreed to provide up to 30bn euros ($41bn; £27bn) in the first year of a three-year package. Greece hopes it will not have to ask for the emergency loans.

11.04.2010. 6 arrests in terrorism sweep. The anarchists welcome the arrests.

ANA-MPA reports: 6 arrests in terrorism sweep. Counter-terrorism police investigators on Sunday arrested six people allegedly belonging to the "Revolutionary Struggle" ultra-leftist terrorist group, after first detaining them for questioning during a handful of house raids on Saturday. A police spokesman said the six -- identified as Nikolaos Maziotis (39 years old), his wife Panagiota Roupa (41), Evangelos Stathopoulos (32), Christoforos Kortesis (31), Sarantos Nikitopoulos (32) and Constantinos Gournas (30) -- will be referred to a prosecutor on charges of participation in a terrorist organisation, based on evidence collected in the ongoing investigation. The anarchists welcome the arrests.

ERT reports: Greek police close to break up guerrilla group. New facts have been added up in Greece's fight against terrorism. The anti-terrorism squad seized another six people allegedly involved in the Greek guerrilla group called Revolutionary Army [a.k.a. Revolutionary Struggle]. Earlier, six people had been taken in for questioning. The anti-terrorism squad raided houses in several Athenian districts, where they came up with important evidence, including a hard disc with proclamations and maps of possible future targets.

Interrelated Groups. According to information, six of the seven people taken in for questioning have already been arrested. Police said that those arrested are known to the authorities and are believed to be involved not only in the guerrilla group Revolutionary Army but also in other guerilla groups which have mounted attacks using improvised explosive devices. The above clue has come to yet again confirm the theory whereby there are interrelated groups in terrorism. Among the people who will be referred to the prosecutor is Labros Fountas' accomplice, who had managed to escape the deadly clashes with police. The police raid had been originally scheduled to take place in late April. However, information whereby members of the Revolutionary Army were plotting a deadly hit in central Athens, forced police to act sooner.

10.04.2010. Officer lied to Grigoropoulos court. Brothers in arms held for arson attack. The anarchists condemn the arsonists.

Kathimerini reports: Officer lied to Grigoropoulos court. Doubt was cast yesterday on the accuracy of the crime scene recreation that followed the shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police special guard on December 6, 2008. Judge Angelita Papavassiliou revealed to the court in Amfissa, northwest of Athens, where the policeman is being tried that the officer in charge of the recreation, Dimos Minoudis, lied about the number of times he spoke to a witness who told him where Grigoropoulos and special guard Epaminondas Korkoneas were standing. Minoudis had told the court that he spoke to the alleged witness, Ada Tzorbatzioudi, one the day of the recreation, December 21, 2008. However, the judge said mobile phone records that had just been released showed Minoudis had called the woman some three hours after Grigoropoulos was shot and that they spoke eight times on December 21.

Both the prosecution and the defense said that this revelation supported their case. Prosecution lawyer Nikos Konstantopoulos said it was evidence the police had attempted a cover-up. Defense counsel Alexis Kougias said it indicated that there was an attempt to implicate Korkoneas in the murder of Grigoropoulos. Korkoneas admits firing warning shots in the air after allegedly coming under attack from a group of youths Exarchia, central Athens, but denies shooting directly at a group of people that included Grigoropoulous. His colleague, Vassilis Saraliotis, who is also on trial, did not fire his gun. Ballistic and forensic tests indicate the bullet that killed Grigoropoulous struck a cement bollard, suggesting it had not been fired in the air. Also, several witnesses claim they saw Korkoneas firing directly at the group of people. Kougias has challenged the accuracy of these statements.

Brothers in arms held for arson attack. Two brothers who allegedly torched a shooting club in Halkida after having their membership revoked for aggressive behavior have been detained, police said. The pair, aged 35 and 37, were caught early yesterday after an arson attack on the Evia Shooting Club that resulted in major damage but no injuries. According to police, the brothers had been dressed in masks and military uniforms and had been armed with crowbars. It is believed that one of the two kept watch while the second broke into the club and planted a homemade explosive device, made of gas canisters, which caused serious damage when it detonated. Police believe the pair planned the attack as revenge for the club president's decision to expel them for "antisocial and problematic behavior." A search of the siblings' home unearthed four hand grenades and three hunting rifles, with corresponding licenses, as well as two unlicensed shotguns. The anarchists condemn the arsonists.

09.04.2010. Grigoropoulos friend, falsely called anarchist, disappears. Hoaxer stopped. Workers' walkout.

Grigoropoulos friend, falsely called anarchist, disappears. A friend of Alexis Grigoropoulos, who was shot dead by a police officer in December 2008, failed for a fourth time to appear in court yesterday and is now being sought by authorities. The judge in the trial of the two officers involved in the teenager's shooting had ordered police to bring the 17-year-old witness, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to court by force if necessary but he was not at his house yesterday morning. The boy's father said that he had left during the night and that there was no way of contacting him because he recently changed his mobile phone number and had not given it to anyone. The teenager failed to testify on three previous occasions, initially citing psychological problems but earlier this week claiming the police were spying on him, which was denied by the force.

Despite disappearing, the 17-year-old reportedly sent a message to the Zougla.gr news website in which he explained his reasons for not attending court. "I have no intention of appearing at the trial because it does not interest me in the slightest," the message said. "I see as political my decision not to attend when authorities decide and instead to express my opinion as I see fit," he added. Alexis Kougias, the lawyer of Epaminondas Korkoneas, the officer charged with shooting Grigoropoulos, said that the message confirmed his belief that the teenager was an active anarchist. But the boy went on to deny this in his message. "These are the conspiracy theories of a puffed-up lawyer who likes to make an impression and tries to use the limelight to his advantage," he said. The trial continued without the witness but prosecutor Haralambos Lakafosis said that he was determined to hear the teenager's testimony.

Hoaxer stopped. A 39-year-old man thought to be behind 21 bomb hoaxes over the last seven months has been charged with disturbing the peace, spreading false information and wasting police time. He is alleged to have posed as a member of a terrorist group, phoning police with bogus warnings of bombs planted at banks, organizations and on public transport. Police did not specify which hoaxes the suspect is believed to have staged. The anarchists welcome that the hoaxer is stopped.

Workers' walkout. City of Athens services were suspended yesterday as municipal employees stayed home to protest the government's decision to cut some state subsidies going toward their wages. Protesting workers staged a peaceful protest in central Klafthmonos Square early in the day. The walkout and protest were backed by the IWW.

08.04.2010. Brown Cards to Korkoneas's lawyer, Alexis Kougias, people behind the letter falsely claiming that Grigoropoulos and friends were members of "an extremist anarchist organization,"and Kathimerini, that reports:

Grigoropoulos friend to testify. A friend of Alexis Grigoropoulos, who was standing next to the 15-year-old when he was killed by a policeman's bullet in December 2008, will have to answer questions in court today, even if he has to be taken there by force, a judge ruled yesterday. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was due to appear in court in Amfissa, northwest of Athens, yesterday but said that he could not attend because he feared that he was being spied on by police. The teenager has twice before failed to attend court. On both occasions, he cited psychological problems.

However, yesterday's no-show prompted judge Angelita Papavassiliou to order that the teenager be arrested and brought to court today if he fails to attend on his own. The police issued a statement saying that neither the 17-year-old nor anyone else connected to the case has ever been monitored by officers. In his initial deposition, Grigoropoulos's friend said that the two teenagers had been sitting in a pedestrianized area of Exarchia in central Athens when a group of youths near them became involved in a dispute with two police officers. One of the policemen, Epaminondas Korkoneas, allegedly shot at the youths. Forensic tests indicated that the bullet that killed Grigoropoulos hit him after ricocheting off a cement bollard.

There was further tension in court yesterday when Korkoneas's lawyer, Alexis Kougias, said that he had received a letter claiming that Grigoropoulos, his 17-year-old friend and several of the witnesses to the shooting were members of "an extremist anarchist organization." Kougias claimed that the witnesses had been coached by lawyers to claim that Korkoneas shot directly at the crowd.

The IAT-APT handed out a Brown Card to Korkoneas 14.05.2009 for falsely postulating that he was facing a "dangerous anarchist group", i.e. Grigoropoulos and friends. This is a similar case and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to Korkoneas's lawyer, Alexis Kougias, people behind the letter falsely claiming that Grigoropoulos and friends are/were members of "an extremist anarchist organization,"and Kathimerini, according to the Oslo Convention.

1. Grigoropoulos and friends were and are not anarchists, and they were not so dangerous that any shooting from the police can be defended;

2. Anarchist are not extremists, see the resolution "What is an extremist, person or organization, really?" above. There exists no "extremist anarchist organization" in Greece, not now and not before, and not tomorrow!

To falsely postulate that anarchists are extremists, logically means a severe break of the Oslo Convention. Extremists and extremism have more than 666 per thousand authoritarian degree, while anarchists and anarchism have equal to or less than 50% authoritarian degree. Anarchists and extremists are thus opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with extremists is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency, according to the Oslo Convention.

ADEDY strike. The ADEDY civil servants' union said yesterday that its members would hold a 24-hour strike between April 20 and 30 in protest at the government's austerity measures, in what will be the fourth such protest by public sector workers. ADEDY said that the private sector workers' union GSEE would also take part in the action.

Municipal services. All City of Athens services will be suspended today due to a protest by workers against the government's decisions to cut some state subsidies for the wages of local government employees. Only the sanitation service will be operating today as a result of the protest by municipal workers, who are due to gather in Klafthmonos Square at 11.45 a.m.

31.03.2010. Brown Cards to Zhang Pengfei and CCTV - China, that falsely links Greek terrorism to so called "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.

Zhang Pengfei and CCTV report: Greek new terrorist group claims responsibility for Sunday's bomb attack in Athens. Greek terrorist group "Revolutionary National Socialist Front" claimed on Tuesday responsibility for Sunday's bomb attack in the central Athens which caused the death of a 15-year-old Afghan boy and serious injury of his 10-year-old sister. In a new development for local guerrilla groups which operate in Greece for years and mostly are anarchist and far-Left, the new terrorist group is pro-racist and targets immigrants on purpose, as well as political and financial targets. That is the first conclusion of counter-terrorism experts based on a statement released on an internet site.

"In Greece in 2010 we are in danger of ending up as foreigners in our own country ... Greek governments have no policy on migration ... We will not accept this situation. Not at Patisia nor anywhere else. For their sake and ours, foreigners leave every district," said the statement which concluded with a warning that in the future no gathering in a mosque should be considered safe in Athens. The perpetrators did not confirm police estimations that the Afghan teenager is a victim of a tragic mistake made by whoever is responsible, but stressed that they do not apologize for any death. "We are at war and in wars even minors die," the statement said. Greek police still have not confirmed the authenticity of the claim of responsibility, as just a few hours earlier on Tuesday another group "Guerrilla Group Lambros Fountas" also claimed responsibility for the same attack with a phone call to a Greek newspaper.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These so called terrorist "anarchists", falsely called so by Zhang Pengfei and CCTV - China, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of Zhang Pengfei and CCTV, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists - mentioned by Zhang Pengfei and CCTV, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists!

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Zhang Pengfei and CCTV do is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The brown and red marxist extremist Big Brother lie machine CCTV and Zhang Pengfei get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The persons behind this bomb blast are right- or leftwing extremist ochlarchists, most likely marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists!!! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to the terrorists.

Kathimerini reports: Blast claims rebuffed as hoaxes. Counterterrorism police officers yesterday intensified their search for leads to the perpetrators who planted a pipe bomb that killed an Afghan boy in Kato Patissia on Sunday night after terrorist guerrilla group the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire denied any link to the blast and two claims of responsibility were dismissed as hoaxes. Meanwhile, doctors at the Athens hospital treating the dead boy's 10-year-old sister, whose eyes were injured by shrapnel from the bomb, said the girl would undergo another operation today.

Police said they were not treating as serious a phone call made to Kathimerini shortly before noon yesterday by an unidentified man who said an unknown organization called the "Lambros Fountas Guerrilla Group" had been behind Sunday's blast. Fountas was a 35-year-old suspected terrorist killed in a shootout in southeast Athens earlier this month. The fact that the call to Kathimerini was not followed by a written proclamation and that the caller warned of forthcoming hits raised the suspicions of police. Counterterrorism officers were also unconvinced by a written claim of responsibility uploaded onto the Internet by another previously unknown group calling itself the Revolutionary National Socialist Front.

Forensic experts said Sunday's pipe bomb had comprised the same slow-burning explosive as that used in last weekend's bomb blast at the central Athens offices of the extreme-right organization Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn), an attack claimed by the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Sunday's device also resembled a bomb used in an attack on the Chilean Consulate in Thessaloniki in July, claimed by the same group. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said he was "determined to deliver a strong response to terrorists and common criminals." Meanwhile the leader of conservative opposition New Democracy, Antonis Samaras, visited the police station in Patissia, near the spot of Sunday's blast. "This can't go on any longer," Samaras said, referring to the recent spike in domestic terrorism.

Witness says officer shot at Grigoropoulos. A second witness to the shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in Exarchia in December 2008 told a court in Amfissa yesterday that he saw one of the two policemen on trial pull out his gun and fire directly at a group of youngsters following a verbal exchange. Police special guard Epaminondas Korkoneas denies murdering the 15-year-old and claims he fired warning shots into the air, one of which ricocheted and hit Grigoropoulos in the heart. However, 33-year-old Vangelis Zervas is the second witness whose testimony contradicts this version of events. Zervas said that he was sitting at the Milos cafe in the bohemian neighborhood of Exarchia when he saw a patrol car reverse and two policemen get out. They approached a group of youths that had gathered on a pedestrianized area of Tzavella Street and soon afterward two shots were fired, the witness said.

Rioters indicted. A Thessaloniki misdemeanors council yesterday indicted eight people, including three minors, alleged to have participated in riots that broke out in the northern port city last December during a rally marking the one-year anniversary of the police killing of a teenager in Exarchia, central Athens. Five of the suspects are aged 18 to 27, while the minors, who will face a juvenile court, include two girls. The suspects are alleged to have been part of a group of around 20 people who pelted police with Molotov cocktail bombs and stones in the city center. They face charges of possession and manufacture of explosives and attempted bodily harm.

Strikes Tuesday and Wednesday. Timetable of train services has changed due to 3-hour rolling strikes staged by Hellenic Railways employees. Local Administration employees have staged a 4-hour work stoppage on Tuesday while lawyers nationwide abstain from duties on Tuesday and Wednesday. Finally PAME supporters occupied the Labor Ministry demanding government support to the unemployed. ADEDY staged a protest rally in the center of Athens in the afternoon.

30.03.2010. More about Sunday's bomb blast. Anarchist comment. Bombs neutralized. Grigoropoulos trial. Greek apology for racist chants.

More about Sunday's bomb blast. Kathimerini reports: Bomb kills youth, maims sister. Afghan family become hapless victims of blast; police suspect known terror group, which denies link. A pipe bomb that had been placed on the steps outside a business institute in the Athens district of Kato Patissia killed a 15-year-old Afghan boy, seriously injured his 10-year-old sister and hurt his 45-year-old mother when it detonated late on Sunday. Police said the device bore the hallmarks of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire but the organization posted a statement on the Internet yesterday evening denying any link. The bomb exploded at 10.40 p.m. on Sunday night outside the Hellenic Management Association. The 15-year-old was killed instantly and his sister hospitalized with severe shrapnel wounds to the eyes and burns to the face. Doctors said late last night that they were fighting to save her eyesight but that the outlook was bad.

Police are certain that the Afghan family was not the target of the attack and that their involvement had been a tragic twist of fate. Officers believe that the boy picked up the device, which had been placed in a rucksack, out of curiosity, minutes after the perpetrators had planted it. The bombers had probably been planning to phone in a warning call to the police or media after planting the bomb, police said. Police had been on standby since Sunday morning when an anonymous caller told Alter television channel that a bomb was about to explode outside a business association but the acronym given did not correspond to any registered institute and no blast occurred – until Sunday night. Forensic experts examining the remnants of the explosive device believe it was a pipe bomb containing ammonia dynamite. According to police, the device that detonated on Sunday is virtually identical to the bomb used in an attack on the Chilean Consulate in Thessaloniki in July and claimed by the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. In a message uploaded onto the Internet yesterday, the group expressed "utter sorrow" at the death of the Afghan youth and said that attempts to link the organization to the explosion were "totally baseless." AIIS reports: It is clear that the bomb is the work of extremist terrorist ochlarchists, most likely marxist leftwing extremist terrorist extremist ochlarchists, say, Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, and of course not anarchists. See also reports by anarchists 29.03.2010.

Bombs neutralized. Police bomb disposal experts yesterday carried out controlled explosions to destroy two explosive devices discovered outside two different targets in Thessaloniki's Evosmos district. The bombs were located shortly before 4 a.m. – one outside a branch of a major toy retailer and the other outside a bank – and destroyed them before they could detonate. The bombs had been placed inside rucksacks which triggered police suspicions.

Grigoropoulos trial. A 17-year-old boy who witnessed the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 in Exarchia, central Athens, told a court in Amfissa yesterday that the policeman who fired at the 15-year-old did not shout a warning first. The witness, who cannot be named, described how 10 to 12 youngsters had gathered at the spot where Grigoropoulos was shot. He said that some of the youths had a verbal exchange with the special guard who fired, Epaminondas Korkoneas, and his colleague, Vassilis Saraliotis. But the witness insisted that none of the youngsters behaved aggressively. The 17-year-old broke down when he described the moment he realized Grigoropoulos had been fatally wounded.

Greek apology for racist chants. In what has turned into an embarrassing diplomatic development for Greece, the country's ambassador in Tirana yesterday apologized to Albania after members of the coast guard special operations unit were filmed chanting racist slogans during the March 25 Independence Day march in Athens. As the investigation into the incident gathers pace, Greece's Ambassador Nikolaos Pazios expressed his disappointment at the incident and assured Albania's Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ilir Meta that those responsible would be found and dealt with suitably. Meta said the actions of the coast guard officers were "scandalous" but praised the Greek government's determination to deal with the incident and said relations between the two countries would not be harmed. Several students gathered to protest the chants in the Albanian city of Shkoder, where they burned Greek flags.

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has also complained about the incident, which has been condemned by all the Greek parties apart from the nationalist Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS). Speaking on Sunday, President Karolos Papoulias said, "Patriotism is not rhetoric, nor slogans." The head of the coast guard squadron has been suspended in connection with last week's incident and an internal investigation has been launched. All 36 frogmen who took part in the march will be called to answer questions as part of the probe, which could widen to include their superiors. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis has asked inspectors to ascertain whether members of the coast guard special forces have links to extreme right-wing groups such as Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn).

29.03.2010. BBC reports: Bomb kills boy in Greek capital, and falsely links to so called "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and BBC gets a Brown Card.

BBC reports: Bomb kills boy in Greek capital. A bomb has exploded outside a building in the Patissia area of the Greek capital Athens, killing a 15-year-old boy, police say. The boy's 10-year-old sister was seriously injured and their mother, 45, was slightly hurt, officials said. Police said the family, all Afghans, were apparently just walking past the building when the bomb, contained in a bag, exploded. Greek anti-terrorism officers have cordoned off the area. The device exploded late on Sunday in front of an institute for training public officials. Police said there had been no warning. Early reports described the victim as a man, but police later issued a clarification.

"We do not know yet about the motive or the intended target. All I can tell you, from what the mother told the police, is that the victim was her 15-year-old son," police spokesman Athanasios Kokalakis told the Associated Press. Athens has seen a number of recent attacks blamed on leftist militants. Bomb attacks earlier this month targeted the home of a Pakistani community leader and the office of a far-right anti-immigration group. Earlier attacks targeted banks and government buildings and were attributed to far-left or anarchist groups. Greece has faced severe anti-government protests and rioting since police shot dead a teenager in December 2008.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These so called "anarchists", falsely called so by BBC, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of BBC the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists - mentioned by BBC, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists!

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as BBC does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The brown and red marxist extremist Big Brother lie machine BBC gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The persons behind this bomb blast are right- or leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists!!! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to them.

Euronews reports: Attack. Bomb kills 15-years-old in Greece. A fifteen-year-old boy has been killed and his mother and sister injured in a bomb explosion in central Athens. The woman, who was slightly injured and the girl, whose injuries were more serious, were both taken to hospital. Police said the victims were Afghan immigrants. The device which went off outside an association for business management also damaged nearby cars. Bomb attacks by militant leftist groups are frequent in Greece, but usually target police and public buildings. Last night's explosion was the first in years to kill someone. An official said there had been no warning. Urban violence increased in the country after the police shooting of a teenager in December 2008. A self-proclaimed guerilla group, "Fire Conspiracy Cells" has said they were behind three small-scale bomb attacks against police and a far-right group last week.

Heraldsun Australia reports: A powerful bomb exploded in front of an institute for training public officials in the west of Athens late Sunday, killing a 15-year-old boy and injuring a girl and her mother, police said. The boy was killed on the spot while his 10-year-old sister was seriously wounded and their mother escaped with slight injuries. Police said the family, Afghan nationals, were probably walking past the building when the explosion occurred. The girl was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition after the bomb placed in a bag went off without warning in the city's busy Patissia district at 10.50pm (6.50am Monday AEDT). Greek anti-terrorism police cordoned off the area. Attacks on public buildings and businesses are relatively frequent in Athens and the northern city of Salonika, but rarely injure anyone as there are usually warning calls that allow police to clear the area.

The last attack to have injured anyone was in October 2009, when six police officers were wounded in a machine gun attack on a police station. Greece has been rocked by a string of attacks against economic interests and offices of politicians since a youth was killed by a police officer in December 2008. A Greek extremist group last Monday claimed responsibility for three bomb attacks over the weekend that caused damage to the offices of a neo-Nazi movement, the home of a Pakistani and migration offices. The group, the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, said in a message posted on the left-leaning Indymedia website the attacks were a contribution to the ongoing debate in the country on immigration. It said Greece, which has become a major entry point for clandestine migrants, was an "off-putting example" of exploitation and lack of assistance. While denouncing widespread "racism", Conspiracy also said the Pakistani targeted was co-operating with Greek authorities.

ANA-MPA reports: Teen killed in Patissia explosion. A 15-year-old boy was killed when a bomb exploded outside a public building in the Athens district of Patissia late Sunday night, and his 10-year-old sister was seriously injured and their mother suffered superficial wounds. The family, Afghani nationals, are believed to have been searching the garbage bins for food and other items. Citizens Protection minister Michalis Chryssohoidis, who rushed to the scene, said that terrorism has shown its most abhorrent face, and pledged that the perpetrators will be found and brought to justice. According to reports by police, citing the mother, the girl found a travel bag next to a garbage bin and opened it up to see what it contained. The son, who approached the travel bag, saw a clock which he believed was broken and took the travel bag and threw it away, at which time the explosion occurred, dismembering the boy and injuring the girl.

Police have cordoned off an extensive are around the explosion site, and counter-terrorism police and bomb disposal experts were still combing the area for evidence on Monday morning. Although there was no warning call for the explosion, which occurred at 10.41 p.m. outside the building housing the Hellenic Management Association (EEDE) on the corner of 1 Iakovaton Street and Ionias Avenue, police are investigating a possible link between the explosion outside the EEDE premises and a warning call several hours earlier, at 8.46 p.m., to private Alter television station that a bomb would explode in six minutes (at 8:52 p.m.) in Patissia at an "EBEE" building, according to announcements by police and the ministry.

A police turned up no service with the initials "EBEE", while no explosion took place at or after the time claimed by the anonymous caller. Police are investigating the possibility that the anonymous caller had given mistaken details. They are also investigating the possibility that the call was unrelated to the actual explosion, in which case it is highly likely that the bomb had been planted just minutes before it was found by the migrant family before the perpetrators made a warning call. Several other possibilities are also being looked into. The results of crime lab tests are awaited to see if the syndesmology of the bomb is similar to that of others from recent explosions. The girl was rushed to a Children's Hospital in Athens. According to initial information collected by police, the migrant family went to the area every night, searching the garbage bins for food or other items.

Citizens Protection Minister Michalis Chryssohoidis, who rushed to the scene, said that "terrorism has shown its most abhorrent face". "A young person lost his life from the death trap planted by terrorists. The murderers consider all of us, whether police, or immigrants, or any other citizen, enemies," he said. "The terrorists are against an entire society, but society, too, is against them. It is our duty that they be arrested and led to justice. Every time they carry out such actions they make mistakes, and bring us closer to their tracks. These actions denude them, and will reveal them," the minister added. The anarchists agree with Chryssohoidis, and strongly condemn the terrorist attack.

Aegaleo blast. A homemade explosive device went off outside the offices of PASOK's youth organization in Aegaleo, western Athens, early on Saturday. Police said that the entrance to the building was damaged but there were no injuries as a result of the 2.15 a.m. blast. The anarchists condemn the attack.

100th anniversary of farmers' uprising. The statue of a farmer was seen amid flags of agricultural unionists, as farmers gathered in the village of Kypseli (formerly known as Kileler), near Larissa in central Greece, yesterday to mark the 100th anniversary of an uprising by local peasants. In March 1910, Thessaly farmers rallied in Larissa to demand that large farms, known as cifliks, be expropriated and redistributed but two people were shot dead and several others injured after soldiers opened fire to prevent protesters from boarding a train at Kileler without tickets.

Crime-fighting team hits road. More than 2,000 motorcycle-riding police officers will be unleashed today on the streets of Athens and another 400 in Thessaloniki as part of the government's latest bid to tackle rising crime. In a scheme similar to the Delta squad created by the previous New Democracy government, the current PASOK administration has set up the Dias (the ancient Greek name for Zeus) team to fight criminal activity. Almost 2,500 officers completed their training yesterday and will begin patrolling in pairs as of today. This means that there will be 1,002 pairs of officers on 650cc class motorcycles riding through Athens and another 211 pairs in Thessaloniki. The officers in Athens will be responsible for patrolling 167 sectors of the city. Each police station is responsible for between two and four of these sectors, which have been worked out based on the level of criminal activity. The Delta squad, set up last April as a rapid reaction unit for central Athens, is made up of some 400 officers.

27.03.2010. Racist marchers. Coast guard suspends head of special forces over chants. Power strike. Ochlarchist youths vandalize offices.

Racist marchers. Coast guard suspends head of special forces over chants. The coast guard yesterday suspended the head of its special forces after some of its members were videotaped shouting racist slogans during Thursday's Independence Day parade in the capital. The coast guard has ordered an internal investigation to determine exactly who was involved in the chanting of slogans such as: "You do not become a Greek, you are born one," and "We're going to spill your blood, Albanian pig." Reacting to the video, which was uploaded onto the Internet, Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis remarked, "No idiot has the right to blacken his service and the celebration of a historic national day with racist slogans of hatred and xenophobia." The anarchist agree....

Power strike. Ochlarchist youths vandalize offices. Police were seeking a group of around 25 hooded youths who used sledgehammers to vandalize the offices of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) in Sepolia, west of central Athens, early yesterday morning. The vandals, who struck at around 8.30 a.m., smashed the facade of the offices and a PPC vehicle parked outside, hurled paint at the walls of the building but caused no injuries. Before fleeing they scattered leaflets blaming PPC for "bleeding us dry, downgrading our lives" and for the death and injury of countless workers. The anarchist condemn the ochlarchist youths, suspected marxist leftwing extremists.

26.03.2010. Brown Cards to firebomb throwing hooded youths, falsely called "suspected anarchists" by Kathimerini, but in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and Kathimerini, that reports:

Fiery encounter. Suspected anarchists early yesterday hurled firebombs at a riot police unit stationed outside the offices of ruling PASOK near the central district of Exarchia. The attack was carried out by a group of around 15 hooded youths who managed to elude arrest. There were no injuries as the firebombs did not hit their target.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks, also with Molotov cocktails and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These so called "anarchists", falsely called so by Kathimerini, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of Kathimerini the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", firebomb - Molotov cocktail - throwing hooded youths, mentioned by Kathimerini, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists!

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The brown and blue liberalist extremist Big Brother lie machine Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. The marxist terrorist ochlarchists also get new Brown Cards, but since they are not anarchists, they are not expulsed. The IAT-APT can of course not expulse people from the anarchist movement that not are members.

ANA-MPA reports: Arson attack on PASOK headquarters. A group of some 15 people wearing hoods threw home-made fire bombs (molotov cocktails) at a riot police (MAT) squad outside the headquarters of the ruling PASOK party in downtown Athens in the first hours of Thursday, but no injuries were reported. The perpetrators threw five molotov cocktails, four of which exploded on the pavement. A fifth fire-bomb remained intact, and has been taken for examination to the police crime lab. The attackers quickly fled the scene, evading arrest.

Terrorism arrest. A 22-year-old man was arrested in Volos, central Greece, yesterday after his fingerprint was found at a residence in Halandri, northeastern Athens, that was allegedly used by the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire group to construct time bombs, police said. The suspect was not named.

Protesters see red over highway tolls. Just as the traffic police are preparing to step up their presence on national roads ahead of Holy Week, when many Greeks leave the big cities and head for the countryside, officers were told that they will have to deal with a completely different type of problem: people on the highway. A nationwide organization that is coordinating protests against rises in toll charges said yesterday that its members will take to the country's highways to force toll operators to allow cars to pass through the tollgates without any charge. The protests are due to take place at Afidnes and Metamorphosi tollbooths in Attica and another six exits around Greece in opposition to the "thieving exploitation" of the national roads by the government and construction firms, the group said.

25.03.2010. Deal reached over Greece's debts. All 16 Euro-zone countries have backed a financing plan to help debt-laden Greece, which will include IMF money. The safety net would total about 22bn euros (£20bn). It would apply only if market lending to Greece dries up. Euro-zone countries would grant co-ordinated bilateral loans, and there would be "substantial" IMF loans. The "majority" funding would be European. The plan was worked out at a summit in Brussels. Greek PM George Papandreou called it "a very satisfactory" move. A draft of the plan indicates the Greek government "has not requested any financial support", so "no decision has been taken to activate" the mechanism yet. The office of the French president said there would be "very precise conditions" under which the Euro-zone countries "could be led to intervene" to help Greece. The Euro-zone had avoided seeking an IMF loan for Greece, preferring a European solution and anxious to maintain global confidence in the euro.

Revision of rules? Earlier on Thursday Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said the German government "will press for emergency aid combining IMF and joint bilateral aid from the Euro-zone but... only as a last resort". It was, as is so often the case, German approval that swung it, and it is a deal done on German terms. Early on in this crisis the idea that the IMF would be involved in bailing out Greece was regarded as a humiliation for Europe; but Germany insisted that the IMF would play a role, and so it will, alongside loans from individual members of the Euro-zone. There's more in the deal that Germany wanted - a call for strengthened surveillance of economic and budgetary risks and a task force to look at what further measures are needed.

Angela Merkel has signalled reluctance to offer Greece anything resembling a bail-out, which is not allowed under the single currency rules. Greece has enacted unpopular measures to curb its deficit, including a freeze on public sector wages, pension reforms and increases in fuel taxes. It is also having to refinance its debt. Because of doubts over its ability to pay, it is having to pay interest at about 6% - around double what Germany has to pay. Mrs Merkel said she would press for the EU to amend its treaties to strengthen its ability to prevent future budget crises. Stressing the need to learn lessons from the crisis, she wants a treaty change to allow sanctions to come into force should a Euro-zone country ever default on its debts. Mr Papandreou urged EU leaders to act to stabilize the euro. The single currency hit a 10-month low against the dollar on Wednesday after a credit downgrade for Portugal, which is also struggling with heavy debts.

Focus on Greece. Greece's woes have exposed fundamental disagreements about how the 11-year-old euro project should work. The Euro-zone's governance will have to be re-examined. A deal to help Greece could prevent the crisis sapping market confidence in the euro and ease fears of contagion in the Euro-zone. EU members Hungary, Latvia and Romania have received emergency loans from the IMF and EU as their budgets have been hit hard by the global economic downturn. But, unlike Greece, they are not in the Euro-zone. The Greek crisis is not formally on the agenda of the summit, which is officially concerned with the EU's 10-year economic strategy, and reinvigorating international negotiations over global warming. But it is Greece that is on everybody's mind. German taxpayers are fiercely opposed to bailing out Greece, which is burdened by debt of nearly 300bn euros (£267bn, $407bn) and a public deficit of 12.7% of GDP - more than four times the official Euro-zone limit.

24.03.2010. Another day, another angry demonstration. Students' parade and teachers' demonstration.

Another day, another angry demonstration in Greece against its government's crash austerity programme, but tomorrow European Socialists are due to announce a plan for a Euro-zone-backed borrowing facility to aid their colleagues in Athens, ahead of a Council of Europe summit. Today socialists in the European parliament discuss the plan, which has been drawn up in consultations with the European Investment bank. Germany and France are increasingly looking ready to back the creation of a rescue model but they insist on tough conditions, while EU President Herman Van Rompuy is trying to organize a Euro-zone summit ahead of the Council meeting. However just hours ago leading ratings agency Fitchs' downgraded Portugal's sovereign debt, driving the euro down instantly, a sign that if the money men can't profit from Greece's woes, they may be turning their attention elsewhere.

Students' parade and teachers' demonstration. Stundents' parade in front of the Unknown Soldier to mark March, 25, 1821 national day took place in Athens, on Wednesday. Athens students opened national day celebrations that culminate on Thursday with the grand military parade in the Athens center. During the parade, a small group of teachers staged a demonstration in protest against the government's economic and educational policy. "History is in our side" said Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou, adding "during this dramatic period for our country, we all have the duty to achieve and place we against I". Statements by representatives of opposition political parties were in the same line with all expressing optimism that Greece would overcome the present financial crisis.

23.03.2010. Bombs claimed. The marxist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire behind three weekend attacks. Taiwan News falsely calls it "anarchist" and gets the Brown Card.

Bombs claimed. The marxist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire behind three weekend attacks. The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire terror group, a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist group, claimed responsibility in a statement published on the Internet yesterday for a string of three bloodless bomb blasts over the weekend – one at the central Athens offices of Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) on Friday morning, an explosion outside the Athens Aliens Bureau on Petrou Ralli Street on Saturday afternoon and a blast outside the home of a Pakistani community leader in the run-down district of Aghios Panteleimonas, near the city center, also on Saturday. In their statement on the indymedia.gr website, the group described the attacks as the first phase of a bombing campaign they had warned of after an explosion outside the Greek Parliament on January 9.

Taiwan News falsely reports: Greek radical anarchists claim Athens bombings. A Greek anarchist group has claimed responsibility for three bomb attacks in Athens last week that caused no injury and minor damage. In an online posting Monday, the Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire group said it targeted the offices of an ultra-right party and a police immigration center to highlight the issue of racism in Greece. The group also said it bombed a Pakistani immigrant leader's home because he once sided with authorities to deny claims that foreign agents abducted Pakistanis in Greece for questioning on terrorism. The anarchists have claimed a series of bombings on politicians, which caused no injury, as well as a Jan. 9 blast outside Greece's parliament building. Police have arrested seven alleged group members.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb and arson attacks, also with Molotov cocktails, and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These so called "anarchists", falsely called so by Taiwan News, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before.

Anarchists and ochlarchists are as mentioned opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Taiwan News does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Taiwan News gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. The marxist terrorist ochlarchists also get new Brown Cards, but since they are not anarchists, they are not expulsed. The IAT-APT can of course not expulse people from the anarchist movement that not are members.

Office targeted. A suspected explosive device found outside the political office of Economy,Competitiveness and Merchant Marine Minister Louka Katseli in central Athens early yesterday afternoon was destroyed in a controlled explosion by members of the police's bomb disposal squad. Police briefly cordoned off Sina Street, where the office is located. There were no indications about who planted the device.

Cafe blast. An explosion outside a cafe-bar in Aghia Paraskevi, northern Athens, early yesterday caused serious damage – smashing its windows and those of adjacent buildings – but no one was injured. According to police, who attributed the attack to a personal dispute, the blast was probably caused using dynamite.

New round of strikes, protests. As the country's lawyers walk off the job today in the first of a series of strikes to protest the government's austerity measures, members of civil servants' union ADEDY are to hold a rally in central Athens this afternoon to express their opposition to wage and benefit cuts in their sector. Lawyers will not be working today, tomorrow and Friday to express their discontent at an increase in value-added tax on their services. They also criticize the government for failing to address underlying problems in the legal sector, including a huge backlog of cases, noting that their working conditions are "tragic". They are not the only ones who will be striking this week.

An increasing number of state hospital doctors are set to join action that has led to dozens of hospitals across the country operating with only emergency staff. Employees of post offices, the national railway network and the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization are to stage a three-hour work stoppage from noon in protest at feared reductions of their pensions. Meanwhile the civil servants' union, though not joining today's strike action, has called on members to join a protest rally in central Athens at 6 p.m. today. The rally comes exactly a week after the previous civil servants' march in the capital which was marred by isolated outbreaks of violence. As mentioned ADEDY claims the government's cuts of holiday pay and benefits in the public sector are "unfair and one-sided." The union, which has staged three 24-hour strikes over the past month, is planning further strike action next month.

Real revolution in Greece? Papandreou asks opposition leaders to join 'real revolution' as EU, Germany remain at odds over rescue package. As the European Union and Germany remained at loggerheads over a possible rescue package for debt-ridden Greece, Prime Minister George Papandreou yesterday called on opposition party leaders to support his government's efforts to push through reforms and join a "real revolution" to get the country back on its feet. Addressing Parliament, Papandreou said he was not seeking carte blanche for the government's austerity measures but "a spirit of support for the most important battle we face: creating a well-functioning state." The premier sought to appeal to the patriotic sentiments of MPs. "I am seeking your constructive support in what will be a genuine revolution, your contribution to a new course for the country and for Hellenism," he said.

Papandreou took another jab at market speculators who have been betting on Greece's risks of bankruptcy as did his outspoken deputy premier, Theodoros Pangalos, at a conference in Athens organized by the International Herald Tribune. Referring to the "German position," Pangalos said, "By speculating on Greek bonds at the expense of your friend and partner, by allowing your credit institutions to participate in this deplorable game, some people are making money." Pangalos added that a swift move was crucial. "I am worried that if this decision is not taken quickly... then the euro will make no sense and if the euro fails this will take us back several decades in terms of European integration," he said.

Papandreou, for his part, appeared cautiously upbeat about the prospect of European Union leaders offering Greece concrete support when they convene in Brussels on Thursday. "We fought our first battle, the battle for credibility and we won it. We convinced people that we are turning our words into actions," he said. But elsewhere in Europe, support for Greece appeared divided. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, whose country holds the EU presidency, stressed the importance of showing Greece "trust and solidarity." European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to overcome domestic concerns and contribute to a rescue deal for Greece or put the entire Euro-zone at risk. "We can't carry on as we are, as this would threaten the stability of the Euro-zone and encourage speculation," Barroso told a German newspaper. Merkel stuck to her guns though, noting that the EU should only bail out Greece when it's "on the brink of bankruptcy, which luckily it is not at the moment."

22.03.2010. With unenlightened plutarchy: Greek economy 'to worsen' in 2010. Rally tomorrow. The protest is backed by IWW and anarchists in general.

With unenlightened plutarchy: Greek economy 'to worsen' in 2010. BBC reports: Greece's economy is in a "vicious circle" and will contract more severely than the government says, according to the country's central bank. The Bank of Greece (BoG) said economic output in 2010 will fall by 2%, worse than the government's prediction of between 1.2% and 1.7%. BoG says the recession will be worse due to planned public spending cuts. The report comes ahead of a European Union summit which may discuss Greece's economic crisis. BoG said that it approves of Athens' strategy to bring down the country's budget deficit, but that the impact will be worse than first thought.

"The Greek economy has fallen into a vicious circle with only one way out: the drastic reduction of the deficit and debt," the Bank's annual monetary policy report says. The report warned that the Euro-zone's economic recovery remains fragile, having relied to a large extent on fiscal stimulus, which must gradually be reversed as it is leading to large budget deficits. The report said: "The economic policy that has been announced is the start of this effort. "Its efficient implementation will lead to a virtuous circle that will bring the Greek economy back on a sustainable growth orbit."

European aid. Greece's budget deficit last year was 12.9% of GDP, more than four times the limit under Euro-zone rules. There have been conflicting reports about whether Euro-zone countries will discuss Greece's plight at a summit on Thursday. Germany has irritated some of its European partners with its opposition to a financial aid to help Greece overcome its debt crisis, believing that Athens itself can solve the problem. German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Sunday that the European Union was ready to "do what is necessary to preserve the stability of the Euro-zone".

Yet, in a radio interview, she said she opposed any move by EU leaders to take a firm decision on the Greek question at Thursday's summit, as Greece does not need money at the moment. Financial markets have intensified pressure on Greece, which must refinance more than 50bn euros (£44.8bn) in debt this year, including more than 20bn euros by the end of May. Athens must now pay roughly twice the interest that Germany does to borrow money, and has asked the EU to either guarantee loans or lend money outright if Greece cannot raise the funds it needs at reasonable rates.

Rally tomorrow. Members of the civil servants' union ADEDY are to hold another rally in central Athens tomorrow to protest the government's austerity measures. The rally will come a week after the previous civil servants' march in the capital which was marred by violence. ADEDY, which has staged three 24-hour strikes in a month, complains that cuts in the public sector are "unfair and one-sided." The protest is backed by IWW and anarchists in general.

Lawyers' strike. Lawyers are to walk off the job for three days this week after the coordinating committee of the country's bar associations called strikes for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday in protest at an increase in value-added tax on their services. The committee criticized the government for failing to address problems in the legal sector, including a huge backlog of cases.

Terror probe. Police honing in on 15 suspects, two currently in jail. Counterterrorism police who have intensified their search for members of a new generation of terrorist groups following the death of a 35-year-old suspected terrorist in a shootout in southeastern Athens earlier this month are focusing on 15 suspects, sources have told Kathimerini. Two of the suspects are believed to be in jail, the sources said. Police stepped up their investigation into the suspected involvement of Lambros Fountas in terrorist activities after a posthumous search of his home turned up a detailed map of the capital's police surveillance cameras.

Migrant camps. Minister heralds border units. Deputy Citizens' Protection Minister Spyros Vougias said yesterday that a new migrant reception center would be up and running on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos by summer and that another unit would open in Evros, near the Turkish land border, by next year. Both the units are to replace now-defunct centers that have drawn the criticism of human rights organizations. Local authorities at the borders have said they do not have the resources to deal with a relentless influx of undocumented immigrants.

More about the bomb attacks during the weekend, Kathimerini reports: Bomb targets Aliens Bureau. A powerful homemade bomb detonated outside the building housing the Athens Aliens Bureau on Petrou Ralli Street on Saturday afternoon, causing damage but no injuries. Police cordoned off the area after an anonymous caller phoned in warnings to Eleftherotypia newspaper and Alter private television channel at around 3.30 p.m, warning that a bomb would go off at the bureau's premises. The blast occured 15 minutes later, damaging the wall and fence around the building, a bus shelter and nearby shop windows and leaving a crater some 1.5 meter deep in the ground. According to police forensic experts, who were examining the remnants of the device for leads to the perpetrators, the bomb had been placed in a plastic bag near the bus shelter.

Earlier on Saturday, a bomb exploded outside the home of a Pakistani community leader in the run-down district of Aghios Panteleimonas, near the city center, which has a burgeoning population of immigrants. The blast caused no injuries. There had been no claim of responsibility for either of the attacks by late yesterday. The blasts came just one day after a powerful time bomb detonated outside the central Athens offices of the extreme-right Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) organization, causing significant damage but no injuries. An unidentified caller telephoned Eleftherotypia 25 minutes before the blast, prompting police to evacuate the building, which is on busy Socratous Street, near Omonia Square, as well as a neighboring hotel and surrounding roads. There had been no claim for the attack on the Chryssi Avgi offices by late last night.

21.03.2010. Brown Cards to a so called "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists, and to Nicole Itano and Global Post, that report about the situation in Greece:

"The wealthy should pay!" "No to working to the grave!" "We must become their crisis!" According to the ideology of the left, Greece's massive state debt is the result of thievery and corruption by the country's wealthy elite — and it's the wealthy elite who should suffer now to pay it off. The language and analysis of international class struggle is still a powerful force here. Increasingly too, the European Union is seen by the left as a tool of capitalism. "Their goal is to weaken the worker to increase the wealth of employers," said Nikos Theodorakis, a 27-year-old protester and communist.

Perhaps only in Greece, birthplace of democracy and origin of many English words describing forms of political organization, does everyday political rhetoric regularly refer to the "plutocracy" (government by the wealthy) [read plutarchy, rule by the rich] and the "oligarchy" (government by a small group) [rule by a few]. "The crisis should be paid by the oligarchy, not the democracy," shouted a man with a bullhorn at one recent protest. "War against the plutocracy," read a sign at another. These days the streets of central Athens are adorned with political slogans in dueling black and red. In Greece, communists generally use red spray paint, while anarchists leave their messages in black. "Molotovs not loans," scrawled one anarchist on the wall of a bank. "Their wealth, our blood," remarked a communist.

AIIS reports: The fight against the unenlightened plutarchy over Greece and other places, is the fight of the International Workers of the World and anarchists in general, as long as the fight is non-authoritarian and non-ochlarchical, i.e. without mob rule broadly defined. In general tagging of slogans on other people's rightful possessions without permission is ochlarchist, authoritarian, and thus the opposite of anarchist. Persons tagging as described above are thus not anarchists, but are authoritarian socialists, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and they have got Brown Cards from IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement.

Furthermore Molotov cocktails should be used only in pure self defense, and this is not the case in Greece in the present situation. Other use of Molotov cocktails, i.e. as called for by this so called "anarchist", is terrorism, ochlarchist, the opposite of anarchist. The so called "anarchist", calling for "Molotovs not loans," is in reality a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist, the opposite of anarchist, and this person also has got a Brown Card from IAT, meaning this person has been expulsed from the anarchist movement. The same goes for all other so called "anarchists" with similar behavior in Greece and other places. They are not members of the anarchist movement!

In general: Terrorism, including bomb and arson attacks, also with Molotov cocktails, and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These so called "anarchists", are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before.

Anarchists and ochlarchists are as mentioned opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Nicole Itano and Global Post do is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Nicole Itano and Global Post get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. The marxist ochlarchists also get new Brown Cards, but since they are not anarchists, they are not expulsed. The IAT-APT can of course not expulse people from the anarchist movement that not are members.

Terrorist Squad probes bomb hit at Aliens' Division. One of the security cameras of the police building has recorded the movements of those who planted a bomb a bust stop outside the building housing the Aliens' Division. The footage is under investigation, while according to information, the perpetrators were two. The terrorists reached the place on a car. The co-driver stepped out and left a bag with the explosive device at the bus stop. The police officials are trying to figure out the moves of the terrorists before and after the hit. The blast caused serious damage to a shop situated opposite the Aliens' Division. Police is investigating whether the last three terrorist hits are associated with each other.

20.03.2010. A new Brown Card to BBC. Bomb blasts by suspected rightwing and leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchs resepectively, plus arson attacks by the marxist group Revolutionary Memory Patrols.

BBC reports. Second blast hits Greek capital. A bomb has exploded outside the home of a Pakistani community leader in the Greek capital Athens - the second blast in the area in less than 24 hours. Police said there were no injuries, but some damage was done to the entrance of the apartment building and three cars. On Friday, a bomb damaged the office of a far-right anti-immigration group [Chryssi Avghi = Golden Dawn]. No group has said it carried out the attacks, but there have been numerous bombings attributed to far-left or anarchist groups in recent years. Recent attacks have targeted banks and government buildings. Greece has faced severe anti-government protests and rioting since police shot dead a teenager in December 2008. In the latest attack, police were able to seal off the area after anonymous warning calls were made to a Greek TV station and a newspaper 15 minutes before the explosion.

The IAT-APT suspects that marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists are behind the bomb attack Friday. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. The anarchists are of course very much against "Chryssi Avghi" (Golden Dawn) and their racism, but they should be fought by direct actions, not terrorism, see http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The criminal activities of "Chryssi Avghi" (Golden Dawn) should also be investigated by the police. Terrorism, a form of ochlarchy, is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism.

Against the lies from BBC, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: The so called "anarchists" mentioned by BBC is in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. These marxist, extremist ochlarchists have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists!

Terrorism, including bomb and arson attacks and similar, a form of ochlarchy, is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These so called "anarchists", are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before.

Anarchists and ochlarchists are as mentioned opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as BBC does, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The red and brown marxist extremist Big Brother propagandastation BBC gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. The marxist ochlarchists also get new Brown Cards, but since they are not anarchists, they are not expulsed. The IAT-APT can of course not expulse people from the anarchist movement that not are members.

The bomb attack that BBC reports about is by probably done by rightwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, getting dark Brown Cards from IAT-APT.

Bomb blast next to detention centre's wall, by suspected rightwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists. A strong bomb explosion was reported at 15.58 (13.58 GMT) Saturday outside an illegal migrants processing and detention centre in downtown Athens. The bomb was planted in a bus station next to the wall of the centre. Earlier, an unidentified caller phoned a local newspaper and television station warning of the imminent explosion, while also reportedly providing information on the exact spot where the bomb was planted. Before the phone call, a guard at the building reported seeing a suspicious object and later discovered the explosive device.

A bomb went off on Saturday evening outside the building housing the Alien's Division of the Greek Police. The blast caused minor damage to nearby shops. In the meantime, another bomb blast was reported in the early hours of Saturday outside the house of the vice president of the Greek-Pakistani community and board member of the immigrants forum. Earlier, there had been a call to Eleftherotypia paper and ALTER private television warning of a bomb blast at police department housed in the same building with the Alien's Division. Prior to the warning call, the guard outside the building had taken notice of a suspect object. Upon approaching it, he realized it was an explosive device. He informed the authorities immediately. The explosive devise was a time bomb placed inside a box. Bomb experts and members of the antiterrorist squad rushed to investigate the site. No organization has yet claimed responsibility. Probably marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchs are behind the blast, according to AIIS.

Arson attacks. A previously unknown marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchy group calling itself Revolutionary Memory Patrols yesterday claimed responsibility for a bloodless firebomb attack on an annex of the Culture Ministry in the central Athens district of Exarchia on Thursday and arson attacks yesterday on six parked cars in the district of Kypseli, near the center. The arson attack in Kypseli destroyed the vehicles and started a fire but caused no injuries. Firemen managed to extinguish the blaze before it could spread to adjacent vehicles and buildings. In a related development yesterday, police were investigating a suspected arson attack on a school in the Olympic Village, north of Athens. The fire, which broke out in a staff room at the school, caused serious damage.

19.03.2010. Two bomb blasts by suspected marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists. Brown Card to BBC, etc. Ad doctors and nurses' strike. Health concessions.

Ministry blast by suspected marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists. A homemade explosive device planted outside an annex of the Culture Ministry in the central Athens district of Exarchia early yesterday caused minor damage and no injuries when it detonated. Bomb disposal experts gathered fragments of the device, which had comprised two gas canisters, and were examining them yesterday in a bid to find leads to the perpetrators. The IAT-APT suspects that marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists are behind the bomb attack. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

Bomb blast against neo-nazi-organization 'Chryssi Avghi' office, no injuries. A bomb exploded early Friday morning at the 5th-floor office of the "Chryssi Avghi" (Golden Dawn) ultra-right youth organization off downtown Omonia Square in Athens, causing damage but no injury as the area had been cordoned off by police following a warning call to an Athens daily. The bomb exploded at 8.46 a.m., and 22 minutes earlier, at 8.24 a.m., an anonymous caller telephoned Eleftherotypia newspaper warning that "A bomb has been placed at 48 Socratous street, on the 5th floor at the Chryssi Avghi offices" and will explode in 25 minutes. The caller urged that the building be evacuated as well as Socratous street and an adjacent hotel. Police were immediately alerted, who cordoned off the area. The explosion caused material damage to the Chryssi Avghi offices and the building, and broke windows in surrounding buildings.

According to early reports by police, the bomb had a time mechanism, and had been left in the hallway of the 5th floor. Security Police bomb disposal experts and counter-terrorism squad officers are conducting an on-the-spot investigation. No organization immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The IAT-APT suspects that marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists are behind the bomb attack. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. The anarchists are of course very much against "Chryssi Avghi" (Golden Dawn) and their racism, but they should be fought by direct actions, not terrorism, see http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The criminal activities of "Chryssi Avghi" (Golden Dawn) should also be investigated by the police.

BBC reports: Bomb hits Greek far-right group. A makeshift bomb has caused significant damage to the office of a Greek far-right group in Athens, police say. A local newspaper received a warning shortly before the bomb exploded outside the fifth-floor office of the group, Chryssi Avghi. No injuries were reported and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Chryssi Avghi, which means Golden Dawn in Greek, has reportedly been accused by left-wing groups of attacks against immigrants and anti-racist militants. The device that exploded early on Friday was packed in a shoe box, reports said. There have been a number of home-made bomb attacks blamed on Greek far-left militants or anarchists. Recent attacks have targeted symbols of the state and banks. Greece has faced severe anti-government protests and rioting since police shot dead a teenager in December 2008.

Ad doctors and nurses' strike. Health concessions. Minister says cuts won't apply to overtime for doctors, nurses. Health Minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou yesterday pledged that the cuts to benefits heralded in the government's latest round of austerity measures would not apply to doctors' additional duty shift hours nor to nurses' overtime hours. The minister added that 36 million euros in outstanding payments owed to nursing and hospital staff at state hospitals would be disbursed by Easter. Xenogiannakopoulou also said that she would promote demands by nurses to be included on a list of arduous and hazardous professions offering early retirement and benefits. The nurses' demand to join the list, which currently includes dozens of professions ranging from coal miners to hairdressers, is "justifiable," the minister said.

18.03.2010. Brown Cards to so called "anarchists"charged for brutal attacks on Yiannis Panagopoulos, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs, and not anarchists, and to Greek police and Kathimerini.

Brown Cards to so called "anarchists"charged for brutal attacks on Yiannis Panagopoulos, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs, and not anarchists, and to Greek police and Kathimerini, that reports:

Three identified over assault on union chief. Three men, aged 32, 33 and 37, are to be charged in connection with a brutal attack earlier this month on Yiannis Panagopoulos, the head of Greece's largest private sector union GSEE, it was revealed yesterday. Panagopoulos was beaten and his clothes torn as he prepared to address a crowd of striking workers in central Athens on March 5. There were accusations that members of unions affiliated to the Communist Party (KKE) and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) had been involved in the attack but both parties denied this. The police suspect that at least two of the men have anarchist links. The 32-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of arson in the past while the 33-year-old was arrested after violence at a soccer match. The 37-year-old had no criminal record but was arrested for fighting with police shortly after the attack on Panagopoulos. None of the suspects was named.

The so called "anarchists", charged for brutal attacks on Yiannis Panagopoulos, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini, the Greek Police and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini and the Greek police get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The so called "anarchists", charged for brutal attacks on Yiannis Panagopoulos and falsely posing as "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. They also get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", charged for brutal attacks on Yiannis Panagopoulos, are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Violent attacks on persons, be it police or Yiannis Panagopoulos, unless proportionate in pure self defense, is clearly ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn the violent attacks and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and put them in jail!

Unemployment at 10.3 pct. Up to 12% by the end of March? The unenlightened plutarchy rules so far in Greece. Greek unemployment jumped to 10.3 pct in the fourth quarter of 2009, from 7.9 pct in the corresponding period in 2008, the National Statistical Service said on Thursday. The statistics service said the number of unemployed people totaled 514,401 in the October-December period last year, up 121,733 from the same period in 2008, while the number of employed people totaled 4,476,806. Unemployment was higher among less educated people, while Southern Aegean (13.2 pct), Eastern Macedonia-Thrace (12.2 pct) and Western Macedonia (12 pct) recorded the highest unemployment rates among the country's regions. Northern Aegean (5.3 pct), Western Greece and the Peloponese (8.7 pct) recorded the lowest unemployment rates.

Unemployment among first-time job seekers totaled 25.8 pct of total unemployed people, while long-term unemployment accounted for 43.3 pct of total. The statistics service said 87 pct of unemployed people were seeking full-time employment, while part-time employment remained a low 6.2 pct. The Greek Employment Ministry's forecast on employment is rather gloomy, since the National Statistical Agency has suggested that unemployment will shoot up to 12% by the end of March.

There is "zero chance" of Greece leaving the Euro-zone [where the unenlightened plutarchy rules very much], Prime Minister George Papandreou said yesterday after suggestions by German Chancellor Angela Merkel that members should face expulsion if they do not comply with the euro's fiscal criteria.

Grigoropoulos trial. The court in Amfissa, central Greece, that is hearing the trial of the two policemen involved in the shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 yesterday rejected an appeal by the two new prosecution lawyers for a one-week suspension so they could get up to speed with the case file. Nikos Konstantopoulos and Zoe Konstantopoulou have taken over the case after the two previous prosecution lawyers quit after a dispute with the judge over legal procedures. Judge Angelita Papavassiliou said that she would consider a request by Grigoropoulos's mother, Gina Tsalikian, to testify for a second time.

Bomb hoax. Police cordoned off the roads around central Syntagma Square yesterday after an anonymous caller phoned in to warn that two bombs had been planted in the area – one in a car parked underneath the main offices of the Finance Ministry and the second in a garbage dumpster outside Parliament. Police searched the area but found no suspect devices. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax.

17.03.2010. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and Kathimerini. Strike wave grips Greece.

Strike wave grips Greece. An ongoing strike wave has gripped Greece, since employees are escalating their reactions to the new financial and pension measures taken by the government. There will be no night shifts in several public hospitals, since the meeting held between the Health Minister and the public hospital doctors fell flat. Hospital doctors are withholding their labor, although Ms Xenogiannakopoulou pledged to pay December's night shift wages. The IWW and the anarchists in general back this strike.

ADEDY, the umbrella union of civil servants' union, is as mentioned planning to stage yet another demonstration in the coming week, protesting the wage cuts in the public sector and the imminent changes in the pension system. A nationwide strike on Thursday by gas station owners will apparently not include vendors in Crete and the prefectures of Thessaloniki and Grevena, as the petrol station owners' federation appears divided in two. Meanwhile, taxi drivers in the greater Athens area are also set to hold a 24-hour strike on Thursday. A demand by both sectors, according to reports, is to overturn a decision whereby petrol stations and taxi drivers will be obliged to issue receipts to customers. IWW and the anarchists in general don't not support these strikes.

Meanwhile European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso offered his backing to the Greek government's efforts, following his meeting with the Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou. Barroso expressed his conviction that the measures announced by the Greek government would succeed and that Greece would manage to bring its deficit down to 4%. After terming the Greek government's achievement as remarkable, Barroso addressed the Greek people and told that the decisions taken by the government were correct. The Euro-zone is not here to create problems but to offer its aid, added he. "Barroso is a representative of the EU and Euro-zones unenlightened plutarchy, and his analysis is wrong," a spokesperson of the World Economic Council told AIIS.

Greek Prime Minister, on his part, stressed he had a really constructive dialogue with Barroso. He thanked the European Commission President for acknowledging the progress made. "I briefed the Commission on the progress of our actions. We are ahead of the timeline. Key provisions, including the pension system, have been advanced. We took tough measures amounting to 2% of GDP in order to have the deficit trimmed by 3% by the end of 2010. The decisions are tough for the people of Greece, yet they are meant to give a boost to our country so as to safeguard a prosperous, viable and competitive economy in the future. Never has Greece asked for financial aid. Greece has called for support which was clearly given by the Euro-zone representatives," added he.

The members of the Euro-zone have agreed to the structure of a groundbreaking financial assistance package for Greece should it need it in its battle to restore the country's public finances, but the green light for the scheme will have to be given by European Union leaders, possibly when they meet at the end of next week, it was confirmed yesterday.

Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and Kathimerini that reports:

Strikes hit hospitals, power. Doctors said yesterday that they would continue a strike that has left several state hospitals operating on emergency staff as employees of the Public Power Corporation vowed to press on with protest action expected to cause electricity shortages across the country. Unionists representing protesting doctors said they were planning to scale up their action after emerging unsatisfied from a meeting with Health Minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou. The minister pledged to disburse outstanding pay for additional duty hours worked by doctors by early next month. This is not soon enough for the union, which is expected to intensify work stoppages, leaving an increasing number of hospitals across the country handling only emergency cases. Several hundred union members staged a peaceful protest outside the Health Ministry in central Athens in the early afternoon yesterday.

Meanwhile Public Power Corporation workers, who occupied the main offices of the Manpower Organization in Alimos, southeastern Athens, on Monday, launched a 48-hour strike that is expected to lead to brief blackouts in Attica and elsewhere. The PPC workers, who have accused the government of "unfair, disastrous and absurd policies," are protesting a freeze on scheduled hirings at PPC as well as bonus and holiday pay reductions. In a related development yesterday, civil servants joined a protest rally by their union ADEDY, which claims that the government's austerity measures have unfairly targeted the public sector. The rally was marred by isolated outbreaks of violence involving self-styled anarchists hurling rocks at police who responded with tear gas. ADEDY, which has staged three 24-hour strikes over the past month, has already called another protest rally for next Tuesday and warned of fresh strike action on a date to be set soon. In Thessaloniki, teachers protesting cuts to holiday pay also staged a march. Gas station owners are due to stage a 24-hour strike tomorrow, in protest at increases in fuel tax.

The so called "self-styled anarchists", throwing stones at the police, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The so called "self-styled anarchists", throwing stones at police, and falsely posing as "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. They also get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", the so called "self-styled anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Violent attacks on police are ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the violent attacks on police and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "self-styled anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

16.03.2010. Protests and strike, backed by IWW. ADEDY, which hold a rally in Athens on Tuesday, represents about 500,000 civil servants out of a total Greek labour force of 5 million. Workers at Public Power Corp, Greece's biggest electricity company, begin a 48-hour strike on Tuesday to protest against wage and pension cuts of at least 7 percent. The state-controlled company's labour union, GENOP, will shut down some power plants but will stop short of disrupting power supply, its leader said. "Some units will be taken offline but we don't want a single light bulb to go out, at this stage," GENOP president Nikos Photopoulos said. Although labor unions have threatened to step up protests, opinion polls show just over half of Greeks back the government's effort to cut a ballooning debt and budget deficit. A survey published on Sunday showed 50.1 percent of those questioned believed the government's cutbacks are along the right lines while many said unions should be restrained in their opposition until the crisis is over.

15.03.2010. DNA results of blood from Dafni shoutout released. Map of cameras fuels terror fears. Power cuts?

DNA results of blood from Dafni shoutout released. DNA examination of blood stains from a shootout with police last week in the Dafni district of Athens in which a 35-year-old gunman was killed has positively indentified the blood as belonging to the dead gunman, but does not identify with genetic material taken from the sites of recent terrorist attacks, police announced on Monday. Police said the blood belongs to 35-year-old biologist Lambros Fountas, and not to his accomplice at the time of the shootout, as initially believed by police, who suspect that the accomplice was also injured.

Map of cameras fuels terror fears. Counterterrorism police officers have stepped up their investigation into the suspected terrorist activities of a 35-year-old man who was killed in a shootout with police in southeastern Athens on Wednesday, following the discovery at the man's home of a map of the capital's surveillance cameras. According to police, the sketch pinpoints all the capital's street cameras and includes notes regarding the scope and blind spots of each camera's lens. The sketch is said to have strengthened police suspicions that Lambros Fountas was a key member of a major terrorist group, probably the marxist leftwing extremist Revolutionary Struggle, which has claimed responsibility for a string of terrorist hits in recent years, including a rocket-propelled grenade attack on the US Embassy, the murder of a witness protection officer and the detonation of a car bomb outside the Athens Exchange. Police are now stepping up their efforts to locate a possible hideout and have intensified surveillance of the dead man's relatives and close friends. Officers are also examining a set of keys found at Fountas's home in Ambelokipi, near central Athens.

Power cuts? A 48-hour strike by employees at the Public Power Corporation, due to begin tomorrow morning, is likely to result in electricity shortages in many parts of the country. The workers, who are to meet at the end of the scheduled strike late on Wednesday to plan further action, object to austerity measures that trim their bonuses and holiday pay and have accused the government of "unfair, disastrous and absurd policies." The IWW and anarchists in general agree!

13.03.2010. G. Papandreou: "People's sacrifices will bear fruit". EU 'nearing' Greece bail-out deal. Strike action. Eleven ochlarchists charged with violence, ADEDY calls rally for Tuesday 16.03.2010. The IWW backs the strike. And more.

G. Papandreou: "People's sacrifices will bear fruit". Greek Prime-minister calls for Greek people unity in the battle to bail out the country's economy reassuring them that their sacrifices will bear fruit and the country's picture will change in 3 years. Mr. Papandreou said , in an interview with daily "Ta Nea", priority is placed in restoring the country's credibility lost in the criminal selections of the previous government and underlined his recent contacts abroad and efforts to crack speculative practices. He also stressed that the government will meet the challenge to uproot bad practices of the past that led the country in the present situation, adding that he would no longer put up with blatant favouritism , privileges of the few, disregard of society, provocative rise to wealth, illicit profiteering and tax evasion.

"The cost Greek people are paying for the criminal selections in previous years is very high. We had to take painful decisions , unfair for many people. But it would be more unfair to let the country undefended in the hands of speculators, unable to pay salaries and pensions and meet basic obligations", said the Prime-minister."Top priority is placed to bail out our country's economy. The first and mandatory step to look forward to the future", said Mr. Papandreou, adding that he would not allow blatant favouritism and priviledges of the few to be named justice, disregard of the big part of society named justice, provocative rise to wealth named civilization, illicit profiteering named entrepreneurship.

The Prime-minister committed himself to give a permanent battle for the country and stated determined to clash with the deeper causes that the led the country to the present situation. "We call all Greeks to participate in this new course to rebuild our country on firm ground. We only rely on the unity of the majority of Greek people and nowhere else. I reassure all Greeks that their sacrifices will bear fruit", said Mr. Papandreou. The Prime-minister called for Greek people unity in the battle against tax evasion and illicit profiteering that are the two top targets. The Prime-minister notes that Greece is again participating in the formulation of developments concerning itself and Europe adding: "Our partners recognize our willingness to correct the wrongdoing in our country but also see that Greece could not be left alone in the battle against globe speculation.

BBC reports: EU 'nearing' Greece bail-out deal. The EU is poised to reach agreement on a potential multi-billion euro bail-out for Greece after weeks of crisis, senior officials have told the BBC. They say the rescue package would be available if Greece asked for assistance to finance its huge deficit. Euro-zone ministers are expected to finalise a proposal setting out a range of options as early as Monday. Greece has not requested help so far. The EU says no deal has been agreed but technical work is continuing. Greece is struggling to deal with a 300bn euro ($419bn; £259bn) debt. It needs to raise about 20bn euros ($27bn) on bond markets to refinance debt maturing in April and May. Its deficit is more than four times higher than Euro-zone rules allow. Austerity measures aimed at reducing it have provoked public anger.

The crisis has also undermined the euro. The BBC's Gavin Hewitt in Brussels says the hope is that the proposed deal will be there as a last resort, and the funding will not actually be needed. Germany and France would be the main backers, with no contribution from Britain and other non-euro countries, our correspondent adds. European media reports say options being considered include the provision of loans to Greece and a bond issue guaranteed by Euro-zone countries. Officials are quoted as saying that the aid could amount to 25bn euros.

'Speculation'. Any potential rescue package will be hugely controversial in Germany where there is strong opposition to helping Greece, our correspondent adds. It would also have to avoid the possibility of a challenge from country's supreme court. The German finance ministry denied the reports on Saturday. Reuters news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying: "We are not aware that this is being planned." European Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd said: "The commission stands ready to act if necessary. Technical work is ongoing and has not yet been concluded. All the rest is speculation." Alongside the relief package, the commission is working on tougher rules to monitor fiscal discipline among Euro-zone countries, said Olli Rehn, the commissioner for economic and monetary affairs.

"The Greek case is a potential turning point for the Euro-zone," he told the Guardian newspaper, adding that failure would "do serious and maybe permanent damage to the credibility of the European Union". The deal would have to be constructed to get around rules governing the euro currency which prohibit a bail-out for a country on the brink of insolvency. Greece's austerity measures have sparked protests and nationwide strikes. European Union rules state that no nation in the euro bloc should have an annual budget deficit which is higher than 3% of its gross domestic product. Greece has pledged to reduce its deficit from 12.7% to 8.7% during 2010. Its long-term plan aims to cut the budget shortfall drastically, to less than 3% by 2012.

Forensics probe terror connection. Police forensic experts yesterday were comparing the fingerprints and DNA of a 35-year-old man killed in a shootout with police in southeastern Athens on Wednesday with forensic evidence gathered from the sites of various terrorist attacks and bank robberies. Police were examining the contents of a cell phone and laptop found at the home of Lambros Fountas in the district of Ambelokipi, near central Athens. Officers also raided the homes of Fountas's relatives and those of individuals believed to have had links with the 35-year-old. Among the individuals summoned by police to testify is a woman alleged to have been romantically involved with Fountas over the past three years. According to sources, the woman claims to have had no inkling of the 35-year-old being involved in terrorist activities.

Police yesterday also interviewed the director of a private diagnostic clinic in Ambelokipi where Fountas worked. According to the director, Fountas had asked to take Thursday off, saying that he had to take his mother to her hometown. This revelation is believed to have confirmed police suspicions that the 35-year-old had been involved in plans to carry out a terrorist attack on that day. Fountas and another two suspects were seen trying to steal a car from the southeastern district of Dafni early on Wednesday. Fountas was killed in a shootout with police who surprised the suspects. Based on the results of forensic tests carried out on evidence found at the scene, police believe that one of the other two suspects had participated in a recent attack carried out by Revolutionary Struggle.

Grigoropoulos judge quits trial. The judge presiding over the trial of two policemen charged with the murder of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos in Exarchia in December 2008 quit yesterday, complaining that the prosecution lawyers had cast doubts about her impartiality following her questioning of testimony given by a witness to the shooting. "I cannot take anymore. My impartiality has been questioned before the trial has even begun," Angelita Papavassileiou, said. She condemned the behavior of lawyers on both sides, accusing them of "turning this court into a wrestling ring even though I know you drink coffee together." Papavassileiou's withdrawal came after the two prosecution lawyers said they would quit due to the judge's interpretation of some laws. It is unclear who will preside over the court on Wednesday when the trial is to resume with testimony from a friend of the dead teenager who had been with him on the night of the shooting.

Anti-war protesters gathered... Anti-war protesters gathered outside the Defense Ministry yesterday after it was announced that Greece would complete the purchase of four submarines from Germany as part of a deal that allows shipbuilder Abu Dhabi MAR to buy a 75 percent stake in Hellenic Shipyards.

Strike action. Eleven ochlarchists charged with violence, ADEDY calls rally for Tuesday 16.03.2010. Eleven ochlarchist youths, including a minor, faced a prosecutor yesterday after their alleged involvement in violence that marred Thursday's demonstration in Athens by some 30,000 workers protesting the government's austerity measures. Five of the young men face criminal charges of grievous bodily harm and illegal weapons possession. The civil servants' union, which claims its members have been unfairly targeted by the measures, yesterday called another protest rally for Tuesday. The IWW backs the rally.

Bomb hoax. Police cordon off Parliament. Police cordoned off the road around Parliament yesterday after an anonymous caller phoned in a warning that a bomb had been planted at a florist's shop adjacent to the Parliament building. Bomb disposal experts found no suspect devices. On January 9, a bomb exploded outside Parliament, causing minor damage but no injuries. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax.

OA protest. Former employees of Olympic Air were last night locked in talks aimed at ending a payoff dispute that has kept the General Accounting Office closed for more than a week. The protesters, who had also closed Panepistimiou Street in central Athens, are demanding that the government sign a decision taken by the previous New Democracy administration that would secure them another job in the public sector or a generous payoff.

Glezos apology. The 22-year-old riot police officer who sprayed tear gas at the World War II resistance hero Manolis Glezos during a protest last Friday met the 87-year-old yesterday to apologize. The officer, who was not named, was accompanied by the head of the riot police squad Spyros Papaspyros. Glezos suggested that cadets should be given history lessons as part of their training and agreed to deliver two speeches to trainee riot policemen.

12.03.2010. Unemployment at 10.2%. IWW resolution. Greece debt: EU agrees bailout deal. Anti-terrorism squad probes fatal shoot-out. Manhunt to track down second suspect continues. Greece recovers from austerity protests.

Unemployment at 10.2%. Greek unemployment jumped to 10.2 pct of the workforce in December 2009, from 8.9 pct in December 2008, the National Statistical Service said on Friday. The statistics service, in a report, said the number of unemployed people totaled 505,110 in December, up 16.3 pct from a year earlier, while the financially non-active population totaled 4,323,071. The number of employed people totaled 4,457,657 in December 2009, down 0.1 pct from December 2008. The statistics service said unemployment among women was more than double compared with that among men (14.8 pct and 6.9 pct respectively), while the age group between 15 and 24 years old (28.9 pct) recorded the highest unemployment rate. Ionian Islands (15 pct), southern Aegean (13.6 pct) and eastern Macedonia-Thrace (12.5 pct) recorded the higher unemployment rates among the country's regions, while northern Aegean (6.9 pct), western Greece (7.0 pct), the Peloponese (8.4 pct) and Attica (9.2 pct) the lowest rates.

IWW resolution: "The unenlightened plutarchy is ruling the Greek economy more and more," a spokesperson of the International Workers of the World, told AIIS, and added: "The IWW calls for new and more broad based direct actions, i.e. based on the people in general, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income -- the people: workers, farmers, students, pensioners, etc. -- a) against the unenlightened plutarchy, and b) for proper demand management broadly defined, in line with the resolutions of the World Economic Council, see the WEC."

The Guardian.co.uk. reports: Greece debt: EU agrees bailout deal. Exclusive: Germany plays pivotal role in potential Euro-zone rescue package for Greek debts. The Euro-zone has agreed a multibillion-euro bailout for Greece as part of a package to shore up the single currency after weeks of crisis, the Guardian has learnt. Senior sources in Brussels said that Berlin had bowed to the bailout agreement despite huge resistance in Germany and that the finance ministers of the "Euro-zone" – the 16 member states including Greece who use the euro – are to finalise the rescue package on Monday. The single currency's rulebook will also be rewritten to enforce greater fiscal discipline among members. The member states have agreed on "co-ordinated bilateral contributions" in the form of loans or loan guarantees to Greece if Athens finds itself unable to refinance its soaring debt and requests help from the EU, a senior European commission official said.

Other sources said the aid could rise to €25bn (£22.6bn), although it is estimated in European capitals that Greece could need up to €55bn by the end of the year. Germany, the EU's traditional paymaster, but the most reluctant to come to the rescue of a fiscal delinquent in the current crisis, has played the pivotal role in organising the rescue package, the sources added. "There have been quite intensive preparations under the eurogroup. We have the ways and means to do it," said the senior official, asking not to be named because of the subject's sensitivity. "It will be a co-ordinated approach of bilateral contributions [between EU governments] … A bilateral contribution can be a loan or a loan guarantee. The guarantees will facilitate the kind of funds potentially needed in this context."

The rules governing the operation of the single currency proscribe a bailout for a country on the brink of insolvency. Berlin, in particular, has been worried that any bailout of Greece could be challenged in its constitutional court. The senior official said the agreement – which will not involve any contribution from the UK taxpayer – had been tailored to respect the bailout ban and avoid a supreme court challenge in Germany. Alongside the financial relief package for Greece, the European commission is rushing through tougher rules for the Euro-zone, using powers conferred by the recently enacted Lisbon treaty to try to establish a system of rigorous "budgetary surveillance" of all 16 participating countries. The aim is a new regime of "reinforced economic policy co-ordination" in the EU. "This is the essential lesson that has to be learned from the Greek case," Olli Rehn of Finland, the new commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, told the Guardian (and four other European papers).

"The Greek case is a potential turning point for the Euro-zone," said Rehn in the interview. "If Greece fails and we fail, this will do serious and maybe permanent damage to the credibility of the European Union . The euro is not only a monetary arrangement, but a core political project of the European Union … In that sense, we are at a crossroads." While ready to bail out the Greeks if only on terms of "rigorous conditionality", European leaders are hoping that the rescue will not be needed, that the draconian package of austerity measures announced by Prime Minister George Papandreou will be enough to calm the markets and stabilise the euro. EU leaders are to rule next week on whether Papandreou is doing enough to slash the 12.7% budget deficit by four percentage points this year, part of his ambition to cut the deficit by 10 points over three years.

Rehn said he would unveil new proposals next month, enshrining a new single currency regime of "rigorous surveillance of national budgets" and that Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency, would need to be given formidable new auditing powers over the books of Euro-zone member states, a demand that may be resisted by EU governments. "That's the hard core of our proposal. [The surveillance] should be automatic," said Rehn. "We have an immediate corrective instrument for the Greek case, plus another framework to prevent new Greek crises." Inside the commission, officials are confident that Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister, supports the tough new regime being plotted. Schäuble, who uses a wheelchair and is currently in hospital, and will not attend key meetings in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday.

Schäuble enjoys a longstanding reputation as a European integrationist and is said to have played a central role in shaping the Greek bailout plans despite widespread hostility to any such moves in Germany. Over the past week, he has sparked a major debate by calling for a European Monetary Fund to underpin the currency, and yesterday stoked more controversy by proposing that serial sinners in the Euro-zone could be expelled from the single currency club. The EMF concept is for the long-term and a new rule enabling expulsion from the euro club would require the Lisbon treaty to be re-opened, a nightmare for most after labouring over it for almost nine years. While senior figures in Brussels believe that Chancellor Angela Merkel and Schäuble are intensely serious about establishing an EMF, they also suspect they are using the idea to assuage hostile public opinion in Germany and "prepare a short-term fire brigade operation for Greece".

ANA-MPA reports: Anti-terrorism squad probes fatal shoot-out. Officers from the anti-terrorist squad on Friday continued an investigation into a shootout early Wednesday morning in which a 35-year-old gunman was shot dead by police during the exchange, with the probe examining possible urban terrorist links. Two police officers exchanged gunfire with at least two suspects in the central Athens district of Dafni after apparently breaking up an attempt by the two suspects to steal a car. The fatally shot suspect was identified as Lambros Fountas, whom authorities believe was affiliated with violent so-called "anti-establishment" or "anti-state" cells. Fountas is listed as a biologist and was employed by a well-known medical diagnostic centre in Athens, while both of his parents are physicians. Results of ballistic testing on the handguns and cartridges found at the crime scene were released on Thursday. The weapon found next to Fountas was identified as a "Zastava" and has not been used in another registered criminal act.

ERT reports: Manhunt to track down second suspect continues. Authorities in Greece are searching for clues that could lead them to Labros Fountas' contacts with people implicated in domestic terrorism. Labros Fountas was killed in a clash with police. The anti-terrorist squad is examining a mobile phone and a personal computer found in the victim's apartment. Ballistic tests, though, showed that his gun had never been used in other crimes. Police is considering whether the two gunmen were plotting a terrorist hit and has launched a manhunt to track down the second individual, who, according to information, was injured during the shootout. Call for Information. Police released new footage of the 35-year-old male who was killed in a dawn shootout with police, urging anyone who may know something regarding his whereabouts to contact the anti-terrorist squad. Police hope that any information could lead them to some hideout or to people Labros Fountas knew. The search so far has yielded evidence implicating him in terrorist attacks. However, anti-terrorist squad officials believe that his effort to steal a car of low value has less to do with common crime and more with the plotting of a terrorist hit. Besides, similar practices are followed by Revolutionary Struggle, a Greek urban guerrilla group.

Greece recovers from austerity protests. Calm returned on Friday to the streets of Athens after strikes and protests against the government's new austerity measures wracked the capital of Greece on Thursday. The debt-ridden country is under intense pressure from both the financial markets and the European Union to reduce its deficit from 12.7 per cent of economic output in 2009 to 8.7 per cent this year. Last week, Greece introduced a second harsh $6.5-billion US austerity package that cut civil servants' wages, froze pensions and raised consumer taxes. The new cutbacks, added to a previous $15.24-billion austerity plan, sparked a wave of strikes and protests from labour unions whose reaction to the initial raft of measures had been muted. Thursday's 24-hour general strike, the second in a week, grounded airline flights, halted public transport, suspended news broadcasts and left hospitals working with emergency staff. These services were mostly resumed by Friday. Clashes between riot police and rock-throwing, masked youths broke out during Thursday's demonstration in central Athens by tens of thousands of striking workers. An unofficial police estimate put the Athens crowd at about 20,000; organizers said the actual number was much higher.

11.03.2010. Brown Cards to marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", and the Orwellian "1984" Big Brother liemachines Kathimerini and BBC - especially BBC's Malcolm Brabant. General strike backed by IWW.

BBC reports on its Website: Greeks stage fresh general strike. Public services and transport in Greece have ground to a halt as workers stage a third general strike in protest at the government's austerity measures. Flights are grounded, and schools and hospitals closed in the 24-hour walk-out called by the two largest unions. Protesters and police clashed during a march in central Athens, with reports of tear gas being used. The government says it sympathises with public anger over tax rises and wage cuts but is refusing to back down. The head of the employers' association has accused the strikers of trying to make Greece into a charity case. The country currently has a spiralling public deficit of 12.7%, more than four times higher than Euro-zone rules allow. The government has pledged to cut this to 8.7% this year, and also reduce the 300bn-euro ($409bn) national debt, by cutting public sector salaries, raising the average retirement age, and increasing sales taxes. Riot police fired tear gas to disperse some protesters who threw rocks and other projectiles at one point during the demonstration on Thursday morning, reports say.

'Deep freeze'. In the latest action, air traffic controllers have closed the country's airspace for 24 hours and ferries are stuck in harbours as maritime unions join the strike. Officers from the police, fire and customs services are also due to join the street protests. Buses and trams will not operate in Athens or the second city of Thessaloniki throughout the day. Hospitals will deal only with emergencies, and news broadcasts have been suspended because journalists are on strike. Thousands of strikers gathered for a rally on Thursday morning outside the headquarters of strike organiser, private sector union GSEE. Its public sector sister union, ADEDY, is also taking part. Together they represent half of the country's five million workers. Unions say the European Union-backed austerity plan will only hurt the poor and aggravate the recession-hit country's economic problems. "They are trying to make workers pay the price for this crisis," GSEE leader Yiannis Panagopoulos told the Associated Press. "These measures will not be effective and will throw the economy into deep freeze."

Potential rebels within the governing socialist party who have objected to the belt-tightening have been forced to toe the official line, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens. Dimitris Daskalopoulos, the head of Greece's employers' association, denounced the street protests in his first major public pronouncement. He said the government had no alternative but to reform the country and accused strikers of wanting to maintain the deplorable conditions that had forced Greece to look for charity from foreign markets. "Between bankruptcy and recession, between the devil and the deep blue sea, there is no other alternative to the abyss," he told reporters. "It is necessary to start again and to reform the country."

Budget crunch. Workers in Athens are currently marching towards parliament and riot police are out in force to avoid a repeat of the violence seen during last Friday's strike. The unrest, which saw protesters clash with police, followed the approval by MPs of an additional 4.8bn euros ($6.5bn) in savings, which included rises in sales taxes, a cut in holiday bonuses paid to civil servants, and a pensions freeze. The measures came on top of the government's initial 11.2bn-euro ($15.2bn) austerity plan. Another general strike has been called for 16 March. By spring, Greece must refinance a large chunk of its national debt or risk defaulting on its loans.

Concerns about its giant debts currently make it more expensive for Greece to borrow money compared with most other European nations.Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is seeking assistance from fellow Euro-zone nations to make it cheaper to borrow funds on the international financial markets. European Union leaders have pledged to help Greece, but have not outlined any concrete measures. During a visit to Washington on Tuesday, Mr Papandreou also appealed to US President Barack Obama to crack down on speculators, who he said were trying to undermine Greece. "It is very important to stabilise international markets and to not allow the crises that may occur... to be used to create wider destabilisation, either of the Euro-zone or of the world financial system," he said.

AIIS and IAT-APT comment and report: Thus, the BBC's Website did not mention so called "anarchists", but on the BBC-TV World News, BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens said "anarchists" clashed with police. This is a lie.

The protests were mostly peaceful, but it is true that some violent protesters clashed with police, that used teargas to disperse the crowd, but they were not anarchists. The IWW and IAT condemn the violent ochlarchy and ochlarchists. Ochlarchy is not direct action, see http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html , Direct action defined - Direct action definition. The protesters' violent attack on police is clearly ochlarchy. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. Other violence is ochlarchy and ochlarchist. The International Workers of the World, IWW, and the anarchists in general, only back and participate in direct actions against the unenlightened plutarchy. See a.o.t. "IWW backs the general strike in Greece .... and the fight against the unenlightened plutarchy in general", click on http://www.anarchy.no/iwwai.html .

Chaos, disorder, mob rule (narrowly defined), lawlessness, the law of the jungle, criminality, riots, vandalism, arson, theft, corruption, drugs, mafia, terrorism, autocratic rule, the right to the strongest, antisocial tyrannic behavior, etc. i.e. different types of superiors and subordinates, a top - down approach. The Greek rooted word for mob rule is ochlarchy. Ochlarchy is also used as a common word for all the authoritarian evils mentioned above, i.e. mob rule broadly defined.

Later BBC - the Website, put up pictures of youths with black and black and red anarchist flags, doing ochlarchy, but these persons were not anarchists, but acting non-anarchist, ultra-authoritarian. As mentioned the difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag! These so called "anarchists", are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. These marxist ochlarchists, authoritarian ochlarchist infiltrators to the anarchist movement - and falsely posing as "anarchists", get Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Stop calling them anarchists, for they are not!

BBC and its ultra-authoritarian marxist reporter Malcolm Brabant falsely called the ochlarchists "anarchists". The ochlarchists were not anarchists, but marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs. This is not the first time Malcolm Brabant breaks the Oslo Convention. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Malcolm Brabant and BBC do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The red-brown Big Brother Malcolm Brabant and BBC get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above mentioned disinformation.

By the way, some of the violent ochlarchists used white flags, a typical marxist dialectical expression to use the peace flag related to ochlarchical activities...

Euronews reports: Greece grinds to a strike standstill. The Greek economic nightmare appears to show no sign of ending fast. Tens of thousands of public and private sector workers poured on to the streets of Athens angry at government wage cuts and tax hikes. The fresh national walkout saw schools shut and brought ports, trains and planes to a standstill. Many believe that the steps taken by the government go too far. "I feel with the measures the government has taken, we'll all have a problem. I've been working for so many years. Why should I lose what I've earned with my year's of service," one woman said.

"We are hoping that with our fight and determination at least the new plans will be overturned, or at least there will be some impact against the measures overall," another man said. There were also a few pigs among the 30,000 or so protesters in the Greek capital. That is the acronym being used by some to describe Europe's most indebted economies – Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. Outside Greece, financial markets and EU policymakers are hoping the belt-tightening measures being proposed by Athens can be implemented quickly before things get any worse.

Clashes break out in Greek capital. The growing resentment over the Greek government's strict austerity plans is still only at simmering point, but in places it has boiled. Earlier, as tens of thousands marched to demonstrate against the severe cutbacks and tax rises some protesters clashed with riot police. Around 50 hooded youths, away from the main rally in Athens, hurled sticks and pieces of broken marble from the steps of the Bank of Greece at security forces. The level of violence was nothing like that which was seen in 2008 following the police killing of a teenager. But with fears anything similar could lead to weeks of paralysis authorities weren't taking any chances.

Associated Press reports: Greece hit by strikes, clashes over austerity plan. Clashes between riot police and rock-throwing, masked youths broke out during a demonstration. Thursday in central Athens by tens of thousands of striking workers protesting austerity measures that the Greek government has said it has no choice but to implement. The debt-ridden country is under intense pressure from both markets and the European Union to reduce its deficit from 12.7 percent of economic output in 2009 to 8.7 percent this year. Last week, Greece introduced a harsh $6.5 billion austerity package that cut civil servants' wages, froze pensions and raised consumer taxes. The new cutbacks, added to a previous $15.24 billion austerity plan, sparked a wave of strikes and protests from labor unions whose reaction to the initial measures had been muted. Thursday's 24-hour general strike, the second in about a week, grounded airline flights, halted public transport, suspended news broadcasts and left public hospitals working with emergency staff.

Demonstrators took to the streets of Athens and Thessaloniki, banging drums and chanting slogans such as "no sacrifice for plutocracy," [read: unenlightened plutarchy] and "real jobs, higher pay." They were joined by uniformed police, coast guard and fire service officers. "The fight must be constant until the stability pact - these unpopular measures passed by the government - is overturned," said demonstrator Olga Raptou. An unofficial police estimate put the Athens crowd at about 20,000; organizers said the actual number was much higher. Clashes broke out soon after the march began, with riot police firing tear gas and stun grenades to disperse masked youths who smashed pavement, marble steps and building facades to use as projectiles to throw at police. Businessmen in suits scurried for cover, their eyes streaming.

About 200 black-clad youths in crash helmets and ski masks [i.e. ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremists - and not all in black] fought sporadic street battles with the police through central Athens, smashing shop, bank and hotel windows and bus stops, setting trash bins on fire, and punching and kicking motorcycle police. After the march ended, the violence spread to a nearby square where tear gas sent customers running from open-air cafes. Police said 13 policemen were injured and 16 people were detained, nine of whom were arrested. Limited clashes also broke out during a demonstration by about 14,000 people in the northern city of Thessaloniki. While public anger has grown, it has been mitigated by a general understanding that something must be done to pull the country out of a crisis that has made its cost of borrowing skyrocket.

An opinion poll published last weekend, just after Parliament approved the measures, found Greeks split - with 47 percent opposing the austerity package and 46 percent supporting it. The poll, in To Vima newspaper, did not give a margin of error. "It is to be expected that there will be reaction to these measures. We took very difficult decisions that were very unpleasant, and they personally upset me a great deal," Deputy Prime Minister Theodore Pangalos said Wednesday. "But we cannot do anything differently." Prime Minister George Papandreou's [so called] Socialists, who came to power in a landslide election victory in October, enjoy a comfortable majority with 160 of Parliament's 300 seats and easily pushed the measures through Parliament on March 5. "We have made a choice which could lead the country to a radical clean up of the past," Pangalos said on Mega TV. "We will find the way forward and we will not turn back. And no one can obstruct this given that a large section of Greek society supports us."

Unions have been increasingly vocal in their opposition. While their colleagues clashed with groups of protesters in Athens, some police joined the demonstration. "The police and other security forces have been particularly hard hit by the new measures because our salaries are very low," said Yiannis Fanariotis, general secretary of one police association, who was among some 200 uniformed police, coast guard and fire brigade officers, who cannot strike but can hold protests. He said the average policeman made about $1,360-$1,635 a month, if weekend and night shifts were included. "The reduction in our salaries has reached 30 percent," said coast guard Lt. Giorgos Dirvakos. "And if we figure into that the increase in taxes, every family of a coast guard, police officer and firefighter will see its income reduced to 8,000 euros ($10,900) annually."

The government says the cuts are its only way to dig Greece out of a crisis that has hammered the euro and alarmed international markets, inflating the loan-dependent country's borrowing costs. But unions say ordinary Greeks are being forced to pay a disproportionate price for past fiscal mismanagement. "They are trying to make workers pay the price for this crisis," said Yiannis Panagopoulos, leader of Greece's largest union, the GSEE. "These measures will not be effective and will throw the economy into deep freeze." A general strike March 5 was also marked by violence, with riot police clashing with rock-throwing protesters. Leftist protesters roughed up Panagopoulos as he addressed a rally. Papandreou, who has been on a four-nation tour to drum up support for his austerity package, told Greek reporters in Washington on Wednesday that he understood the reactions to the measures, but that demonstrations could harm Greece's image abroad.

CNN reports: Thousands protest Greek austerity measures. Thousands of people marched through Athens Thursday as part of a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest further austerity measures by the embattled government. The strike began at midnight and caused all government-run institutions -- including schools, airports, trams, subways, and most buses -- to close down. Banks and the media were also shut, meaning no broadcast news Thursday and no newspapers Friday. There were small clashes with police and protesters threw two petrol bombs at officers in Constitution Square, in front of the Parliament building. Police fired some tear gas and pepper spray in return, but otherwise the march was relatively calm. Sixteen people were arrested and two police officers were injured, police told CNN. Many people appeared to be suffering from the tear gas.

The protesters are angry about further government measures aimed at cutting Greece's massive deficit. They oppose the cutting of benefits and salaries, and the raising of taxes, and want more of the measures to be aimed at the wealthy. The government says Greece has to modernize its tax structure as the country suffers from tax avoidance and other structural impediments to job growth. But younger workers say they already pay high taxes, have little job security and make less money than older generations. Some of the same measures prompted large demonstrations and some violence two weeks ago, but polls at the time still showed the majority of Greeks backing the government plans. Since then, government has introduced a third round of austerity measures in Parliament amounting to $6.5 billion of cuts and tax increases, and that has caused support for the government to slip -- polls now show only a bare majority in favor of the government's actions.

The Greek government revealed late last year that its budget deficit was 12.7 percent of its gross domestic product, far exceeding the European Union limit of 3 percent. Countries participating in the EU must agree to that condition and other economic goals. Greece aims to reduce that deficit to 8.7 percent this year and reach the EU target by 2012. Thursday's strikes were rescheduled from March 16, when European Union officials plan to go to Athens and assess Greece's financial pledges to Europe. Protesters moved the strikes to Thursday in order to maximize disruption, because both public and private sector workers would be able to strike. The Greek government has said it will not back down in the face of strikes.

Al Jazeera reports: Greece hit by nationwide strike. More than 30,000 people have demonstrated in Athens during a nationwide strike in Greece against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures. Thursday's walkout by public and private sector workers, the second nationwide action to have taken place in the past two weeks, grounded flights, shut schools and halted public transport. Street clashes took place on the sidelines of the mainly peaceful demonstration, with hundreds of masked and hooded youths punching and kicking motorcycle police. Riot police used volleys of tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the youths. Earlier, rioters used sledge hammers to smash the glass fronts of more than a dozen shops, banks and a cinema in the capital. Police said at least nine suspected rioters were detained, while two officers were injured.

'No more sacrifices'. Thursday's strike shut down all public services and schools, leaving ferries tied up at port and suspending all news broadcasts for the day. State hospitals were left with emergency staff as workers walked off the job for 24 hours to protest against spending cuts and tax hikes planned by George Papandreou, the Greek prime minister. The GSEE and Adedy, its public-sector sister union, have said that the measures will hurt the poor and worsen the economy. About half of the nation's five million workers are represented by the unions for the 24-hour strike. Strikers and protesters banged drums and chanted slogans such as "no sacrifice for plutocracy," [read: unenlightened plutarchy] and "real jobs, higher pay". People draped banners from apartment buildings reading: "No more sacrifices, war against war."

Some private bank branches were open despite calls from the bank employees' union to participate in the strike. Barnaby Phillips, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Athens, said: He [Papandreou] is in a very tight spot, but there is perhaps a feeling ... that support for him is beginning to ebb, perhaps inevitably, as people begin to understand the details of this austerity programme and how it's going to hit them in their pockets. "The latest opinion polls show most people are against many of the measures he is proposing and the main opposition party, New Democracy, has broken ranks with the centre-left party that is in power and is speaking against many of the policies. "When you go out on the streets into the demonstrations people will tell you it's simply not fair that they are being targeted, they are going to have to pay for a mess which they did not create."

Police protest. While their colleagues clashed with groups of protesters, some police joined the demonstration. About 200 uniformed police, coast guard and fire brigade officers, who cannot go on strike but can hold protests, gathered at a square in the centre of Athens shortly before the marches got under way. "The police and other security forces have been particularly hard hit by the new measures because our salaries are very low," said Yiannis Fanariotis, general secretary of one police association. He said the average police officer made about $1,360 to $1,635 a month if weekend and night shifts were included. Fanariotis said joining the protest "doesn't feel strange, because we are working people like everybody else and we are all shouting out for our rights". Shopkeepers along the demonstration route scrambled to roll down their shutters for fear of violence, while a few blocks away, people sat at outdoor restaurants, nonchalantly continuing their meals. Minor clashes also broke out in the northern city of Thessaloniki, where about 14,000 people marched through the centre.

Euro pressured. The government says the tough cuts are the only way to dig Greece out of a crisis that has hammered the common European currency and inflated the loan-dependent country's borrowing costs. But unions say ordinary Greeks are being called to pay a disproportionate price for past fiscal mismanagement. "They are trying to make workers pay the price for this crisis," said Yiannis Panagopoulos, the leader of the GSEE, Greece's largest union. "These measures will not be effective and will throw the economy into deep freeze." Fears of a Greek default have undermined the euro for all 16 countries that share the currency, putting the Greek government under intense European Union pressure to quickly show fiscal improvement. It has announced an additional $6.5bn in savings through public sector salary cuts, pension freezes and consumer tax hikes to deal with its ballooning deficit. The latest cutbacks, added to a previous $15.24bn of austerity measures, seek to reduce the country's budget deficit from 12.7 per cent of annual output to 8.7 per cent this year. The long-term target is to bring overspending below the EU ceiling of 3 per cent of GDP in 2012.

Brown Card to Kathimerini, that reports: Terrorist link in Dafni shootout. A 35-year-old man who was killed during a shootout with police in the southeastern Athens neighborhood of Dafni early yesterday is thought to have been involved in Greece's domestic terrorist scene, source said. Lambros Fountas was shot dead when he and an accomplice were seen by two police officers in a patrol car at 4.40 a.m. as they attempted to steal a parked vehicle. Fountas had been known to police since he was arrested during disturbances at the National Technical University of Athens in 1995. He allegedly had contact with members of the Exarchia-based anarchist movement and had been on the anti-terrorist squad's watch list for a long time.

The suspect with whom Fountas was allegedly attempting to steal the car managed to evade arrest but based on forensic tests carried out on evidence found at the scene, police believe that the second man had taken part in a recent attack carried out by Revolutionary Struggle. The urban guerrilla group has carried out a number of attacks in recent years, including firing a rocket-propelled grenade at the US Embassy, murdering a witness protection officer and detonating a car bomb outside the Athens Exchange. Sources suggested that the two men had been stealing the car so that it could be used in an imminent strike.

According to the police, the two suspects had already broken into the Seat Ibiza when a patrol car pulled up a short distance away. One of the officers turned on the siren, prompting Fountas and his accomplice to jump out of the vehicle and begin shooting at the policemen. The officers took cover behind their patrol car and in the ensuing exchange of fire, the 35-year-old was killed. A Zastava handgun, with two bullets missing from the chamber, and an assault grenade were found in his possession. He was also carrying a walkie-talkie and wearing two pairs of leather gloves. Police also searched Fountas's home but did not reveal if they had found any clues.

Against the lies from Kathimerini, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: The so called "Exarchia-based anarchist movement" falsely postulated by Kathimerini is in reality a marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchist movement, and thus not an anarchist movement. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. These marxist, extremist ochlarchists based in Exarchia have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists! This Exarchia-based marxist ochlarchist movement has many types of ochlarchy on the agenda, also terrorism including arson attacks.

Terrorism, including arson attacks, a form of ochlarchy, is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These so called "anarchists", are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including arson attacks, in Greece, not now and not before.

Anarchists and ochlarchists are as mentioned opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini does, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The blue and brown liberalist extremist Big Brother propagandapaper Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. The Exarchia-based marxist ochlarchists also get new Brown Cards, but since they are not anarchists, they are not expulsed. The IAT-APT can of course not expulse people from the anarchist movement that not are members.

Kathimerini also reports: Police to break up protest. Prosecutor calls for roadblock to be removed as second general strike begins. An Athens prosecutor yesterday asked police to arrest dozens of former employees of Olympic Air, who have been causing congestion in central Athens for the past week by barring the entrance to the General Accounting Office, as labor unions geared up for the second 24-hour strike in the past month. The general strike, called by the country's main labor unions to protest the government's new austerity measures, will ground planes and disrupt public services and transport in the capital.

Today's main protest rally, by labor union GSEE and the civil servants' union ADEDY, is to start at the Pedio tou Areos park at 11 a.m. while another, organized by the Communist-affiliated labor union PAME, is to start in Omonia Square at the same time. to avoid additional disruption on the streets, the prosecutor is asking police to forcibly remove about 150 former OA employees whose weeklong protest over their termination settlements has effectively shut off central Panepistimiou Street and suspended the operation of the General Accounting Office, which dispenses state salaries and pensions. Those visiting the city center today are advised to do so on foot, as many roads will be closed.

There will be no services on the metro, buses, trolley buses, tram, railway and suburban railway. Only the Kifissia-Piraeus electric railway (ISAP) will be operating between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. All flights will be postponed as air-traffic controllers walk off the job and ferries will remain moored at ports as seamen join the action. Schools and tax offices will close and hospitals will operate on emergency staff. Courts will also be closed as lawyers and clerks stay at home. Meanwhile, trash is expected to continue piling up on the streets as landfill staff press on with protest action. Striking workers object to the government's new austerity measures, comprising tax hikes and slashed holiday pay for civil servants. Yesterday the president of the Federation of Greek Industries (SEV), Dimitris Daskalopoulos, said that reductions in the so-called 13th and 14th salaries would not apply to the private sector.

Athens-Thessaloniki national road... Local officials and residents of three municipalities (Eastern Olympus, Lower Olympus and Evrimeno) block the railway line at Rapsani in central Greece for about an hour yesterday to complain about the ongoing closure of the Athens-Thessaloniki national road at the Vale of Tempe. The highway has been closed since last December after a massive rockfall, which damaged the road surface. The private company which manages that section of the road has undertaken the task of repairing it but the project will not be completed until April at the earliest.

Bomb hoax. An anonymous telephone call, warning that a bomb had been planted on an Olympic Air flight due to leave Athens for Lesvos yesterday morning, turned out to be a hoax. Police bomb-disposal experts boarded the aircraft to search for an explosive device but found none. The plane took off three hours later than scheduled and the 66 passengers arrived safely on Lesvos. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax.

10.03.2010. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists" doing theft , in reality ochlarchists - the opposite of anarchists, and Kathimerini. Industrial mobilizations, backed by IWW, continue.

Kathimerini reports: Supermarket sweep. Robin Hood thieves reappear. A group of around 20 youths wearing masks and hoods yesterday stormed into a branch of the Sklavenitis supermarket chain in Kaisariani, eastern Athens, and loaded up several trolleys with food before charging past the cash registers and distributing the goods to passers-by in the street. After distributing the goods, the thieves fled. Such raids became a frequent occurence in some Athens neighborhoods last year after self-styled anarchists promoting the "free distribution of goods" claimed responsibility for the first raid of its kind in May 2008.

IAT-APT declares: This is not "free distribution of goods", but theft, i.e. a form of ochlarchy, a very authoritarian tendency, as mentioned in the Oslo Convention, see http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html, and Libertarian Human Rights, see http://www.anarchy.no/anrights.html.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the so called "self-styled anarchists" doing theft, a very authoritarian tendency. They are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, the so called "self-styled anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement.

As mentioned the so called "self-styled anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, similar other newsmedia, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Theft, a form of ochlarchy, is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn theft and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "self-styled anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. As these ochlarchists do not have a significant profit motive for themselves they are mainly socialists, anti-capitalist, although theft in itself is capitalist. The more theft, the higher costs for the supermarkets, and thus higher prices for the people...

Industrial mobilizations, backed by IWW, continue with GSEE- ADEDY 24-hour strike on Thursday in protest against additional measures to face the financial crisis. Judicial clerks are staging 2-hour stoppages on Wednesday while employees of former Olympic Airways have occupied the General Accounting Office and temporary Stage contract workers have occupied the Employment Ministry. ADEDY demonstration. Employees in local administration will keep landfills closed till Thursday while they are staging a 4-hour work stoppage from 11.00, on Wednesday. OLME has announced two 3-hour work stoppages, from 11.00 - 14.00 and 14.00 - 17.00. ADEDY has planned demonstration at 12.30, in the center of Athens to be joined by POE-OTA.

Thursday general strike, backed by IWW. Participating in Thursday's general strike are all means of mass transport, blue and trolley buses, metro, tram and suburban railway. Electric train will run between 10.00 - 16.00. Scheduled flights and Hellenic railways services will be cancelled while participating in the strike are also dock workers and sailmen. The two large airway companies ?EGEAN and OLYMPIC AIR are cancelling all their scheduled flights on Thursday and changing departure time in some flights before the start of the general strike. Passengers scheduled to travel from Wednesday afternoon to midnight are advised to call the companies to be informed on cancelations or reschedule of their flights. Hospitals, health centers and ambulance service will operate with skeleton staff. Also joining the strike are journalists, Piraeus Union lawyers, grammar and high school teachers and DEH employees. The major demonstration will be staged at 11.00, in the Pedion tou Areos park. Policemen have also planned mobilizations as they will stage protest demonstration in front of GADA (Athens General Police Headquarters)

09.03.2010. Annual NSS study on poverty released. New strikes and demonstrations, backed by the International Workers of the World. Anti-racism rally.

Annual NSS study on poverty released. Annual NSS study on poverty released. A survey conducted by the National Statistics Service on living conditions and income earned in 2008 indicates that 20% of Greece's population are facing poverty. Greece's national statistical service (NSS) on Tuesday put the number of families threatened by poverty at 832,975, -- or roughly 2.1 million people -- based on an incomes and living conditions for 2008. The poverty index -- calculated with the same methodology -- apparently shows a relevant consistency over the past 14 years, from 1994 to 2007. The benchmarks are 6,480 euros for a single person living on their own and 13,608 euros for a nuclear family of two adults and two children, whereas the average income of households in the country was set at 22,243 euros. However, as in previous years, there was no variable in the study taking into account the phenomenon of tax evasion in the country, with instances of well-paid physicians and attorneys, amongst others, declaring annual incomes below the above figures.

New strikes and demonstrations, backed by the International Workers of the World. Reacting to the measures announced by the Greek government, employees are staging new strikes and demonstrations. Tax offices remained closed on Tuesday, while judicial workers staged a work stoppage from 12.00 till noon. Landfills will remain closed until Thursday. GSEE and ADEDY have as mentioned scheduled a 24-hour nationwide general strike for Thursday, as well as a demonstration in central Athens. Furthermore, petrol station owners announced they will go out on a 24-hour strike on 18 March. A survey carried out by GPO on behalf of MEGA private television suggested that 59.3% of the respondent gave a negative rating to the measures, while 65.3% of them termed them as unfair. The same survey showed that the ruling party of PASOK (Panhellenic Socialist Movement) enjoys a 10.7% lead over the main opposition New Democracy party.

Anti-racism rally. Residents of Hania as well as teachers and students staged a demonstration in the Cretan port yesterday to protest a string of racist attacks in the area in recent weeks, culminating at the end of last month in an attack on a teacher who had swastikas carved into her skin. "We are marching today to remind young people that their grandfathers fought so that the swastika would not fly on flags in the Cretan sky," a protest organizer said. Police said they believe the perpetrators had targeted the 27-year-old teacher because she had been offering Greek language lessons to the children of immigrants.

08.03.2010. Police question 45 people after four vehicles are torched. Tax strike - officials off the job for two days. Officer assault. Unionist attack investigated. Loverdos: "Bonuses won't be cut in private sector".

Police question 45 people after four vehicles are torched. Police took in 45 people for questioning after a predawn arson attack on four parked cars in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia yesterday. The attack occurred at about 1 a.m. at the corner of Tsamadou and Tositsa streets. Firefighters soon put out the blaze. The suspects were released several hours later. No arrests were made.

Tax strike - officials off the job for two days. Tax officials are staging a 48-hour strike starting today in protest at the cuts to their salaries that the government is imposing as part of its efforts to reduce public spending. They will also be demanding the hiring of more personnel. Judicial officials are also staging a three-hour work stoppage today.

Officer assault. Five people appeared before a prosecutor in Athens on Saturday charged with disturbing the peace and attacking a police officer during the protests a day earlier against the government’s austerity measures. The policeman had his helmet removed and was hit over the head with a piece of marble during the skirmishes on Friday.

Unionist attack investigated. A violent attack on the head of Greece's largest private-sector workers' union, Yiannis Panagopoulos, as he was preparing to speak during a protest on Friday against the government's austerity measures, is to be investigated by high-ranking Attica police detectives. A police statement released on Saturday gave no details about whether any suspects had been questioned in connection with the attack, which left GSEE chief Panagopoulos with two cracked ribs and extensive bruising. The police also explained the circumstances that led to World War II resistance hero Manolis Glezos being sprayed in the face with tear gas during protests in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. They said a group of protesters had attempted to use force to free a suspect who had been detained for attacking officers with a piece of wood. Glezos, 87, was apparently caught up in the group of these protesters.

Loverdos: "Bonuses won't be cut in private sector". Employment Minister Andreas Loverdos assured Monday that the government's measures to fix Greece's fiscal problems won't be implemented in the private sector. Sounding on the same wavelength, GSEVEE (Hellenic Confederation of Professionals Craftsmen and Merchants) head Dimitris Asimakopoulos stressed that no GSEVEE head will sign a suggestion to have 14th salary in the private sector. Never did the EU recommend the wage cuts decided be implemented in the private sector, reiterated Monday Andreas Loverdos, who is in Brussels to attend a meeting of the EU's Employment Ministers. Loverdos reassured that neither EU Commissioner for Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn nor the experts of the European Commission, Eurostat and the European Central Bank called for such measures. The Greek Employment Minister also stressed that the he had the opportunity to brief his counterparts on Greece's struggle to deal with the crisis and the speculators. Andreas Loverdos then highlighted the need for Greece's herculean effort to that it earns EU support both at political and institutional level. In the meantime, reacting to the new measures taken by the government to address the financial crisis, employees have scheduled more strikes and demonstrations.

07.03.2010. Sarkozy pledges to stand by Greece. A meeting between Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Sunday ended with the French president's pledge for solidarity toward Greece and Sarkozy's call to Greece's European partners to show their support, stressing that this solidarity was precisely the reason why the Euro-zone and the euro had been established in the first place. The French president stressed that France's support for Greece would not be political only and he agreed with the need to combat financial speculators, noting that they were now targeting Greece but could potentially target any other country in the future. Papandreou said he had found active support from France, which recognized and supported the efforts of the Greek people. Noting that resort to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was not Greece's preferred choice, Papandreou again stressed that Greece was not asking for financial assistance, only the opportunity to borrow at a similar rate as that available to other Euro-zone countries.

On his part, the French president made it clear that the Euro area countries would rise to the occasion. "There must be no doubt on this point," Sarkozy underlined after his one-hour meeting with the Greek premier, also attended on the French side by Economy Minister Christine Lagarde and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. "The Greek government has taken the measures expected of it. The countries of the Euro-zone must now be ready to take their own [measures]. France will therefore do what is necessary," Sarkozy added, while repeating that Greece did not currently need financing. Prior to his meeting with Papandreou, the French president held a 45-minute conversation over the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who had met Papandreou on Friday. He said the countries of the Euro-zone were currently working on "a number of precise measures" designed to support Greece but declined to specify what these were.

"Christine Lagarde, working in tandem with her colleagues in the Euro-zone and in Europe, is working on a number of precise measures if Greece needs them," he stated. Among other things, the French president agreed that speculators were artificially raising the cost of borrowing for Greece and he underlined that they had to be tackled. He stressed that this was a problem that could potentially affect many countries, unless there was a "collective" reply to it. He cited "specific, precise means" for achieving this and clarified that "these will not be announced tonight" but that, when they were unveiled, would show that Greece was not supported only just politically but in all aspects of any future requirements it might have.

06.03.2010. More about the attacks on Glezos and the GSSE leader. Greeks divided over cuts, Sarkozy vows support. Police officers face sacking for planting firebomb.

More about the attacks on Glezos and the GSSE leader. Attica police on Saturday announced the start of an investigation into the attack on trade union leader Yiannis Panagopoulos during Friday's large-scale rally outside Parliament, in protest against the measures announced by the government. They also issued an announcement concerning the incident in which the veteran leftist politician Manolis Glezos, aged 88, was sprayed in the face with tear gas by police. Panagopoulos, who is president of the General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE), Greece's largest umbrella trade union organization representing the private sector workforce, was attacked by unidentified individuals from within the crowd and had to be admitted to hospital. The announcement said the spraying of Glezos was an accident that occurred as the police guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were attempting to drive back a group that was attacking police, harrassing the Evzones guards stationed outside Parliament and causing damage.

"Police [were] rushing to the scene proceeded to arrest one individual that took part in the incidents and was holding a plank ... when a group of individuals moved against police attempting to free the detainee, police forces made limited use of tear gas against those resisting the arrest, which caused Manolis Glezos to suffer respiratory discomfort and he was then taken to hospital." Twelve people were detained for incidents that took place during Friday's demonstration before Parliament, of which five were placed under arrest. Both Panagopoulos and Glezos are still in hospital but not considered any danger. Athens was the scene of several marches and rallies on Friday, as well as incidents of violence and vandalism that echoed the events of the previous December, while shops throughout the downtown section were closed.

Police are as mentioned carrying out investigations on the attack against GSSE president Yiannis Panagopoulos. He was released from hospital, where he was admitted for preventive care, on Saturday morning. Manolis Glezos, historical member of the GCP is still in hospital but he is expected to be released on Sunday. They both as mentioned were injured during GSEE and ADEDY demonstrations. Yiannis Panagopoulos is said to have been attacked by SYRIZA groups while Manolis Glezos fainted when security forces fired tear gas against him. Minister for Protection of Citizens, Mihalis Hrisohoidis apologized for the incedent involving Manolis Gleezos, underlining that it was an accident and in no case he was targeted.

Also Security Forces Federation apologized to the national resistance fighter. Of the 12 people brought to police station, five were arrested and will face public prosecutor on Saturday. The secretary of PASOK National Council, Socratis Xynidis visited Manolis Glezos and Yiannis Panagopoulos on Friday evening. In the meantime, the five people arrested are facing charges of assault against policemen, disruption of peace, illegal weapon possession and use. A law- suit was filed against unknown people for possession of explosives. GSEE and ADEDY are as mentioned staging new mobilization on Thursday 11.03.2010.

Kathimerini reports: Street protests at cuts marred by violence - Austerity package voted through Parliament. The head of Greece’s main private sector workers’ union (GSEE), Yiannis Panagopoulos (r), [was] helped by an aide after being attacked by a group of protesters outside Parliament. Panagopoulos had been due to address a crowd of strikers but became embroiled in an argument with a small group of protesters as he was about to speak to journalists. They began to punch and kick him and Panagopoulos had to be dragged from the crowd and into Parliament for his safety.

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Athens yesterday to protest a new raft of austerity measures being voted through Parliament as isolated outbursts of violence resulted in several injuries and arrests. More than 10,000 people converged on central Syntagma Square in the morning for a rally organized by the Communist-affiliated labor union PAME which ended peacefully shortly after noon. The union's members joined a 24-hour strike called by PAME yesterday. Together with four-hour work stoppages called by the the main labor union GSEE and the civil servants' union ADEDY, the action halted public transport services, closed down schools and disrupted hospitals.

In the early afternoon, a smaller rally, organized by the country's two largest unions – the main labor union GSEE and the civil servants' union ADEDY – was marred by outbreaks of violence by demonstrators who squared up against riot police officers, throwing stones and other objects. Police fired tear gas to disperse them and the ensuing scuffles led to at least five arrests and seven policemen being injured. In one outbreak of violence, the leader of the main labor union Yiannis Panagopoulos was beaten by a group of rioters as he prepared to deliver a speech. Panagopoulos was led away by fellow trade unionists, bleeding and with his shirt torn open, and taken to the hospital, where he received first-aid treatment.

Another high-profile protester, 87-year-old WWII resistance hero and former MP Manolis Glezos, was hospitalized with breathing problems after a riot officer sprayed tear gas in his face. The clashes occurred a few meters away from Parliament where the controversial new austerity measures were approved by the ruling Socialists and the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS). The main conservative opposition New Democracy and the Coalition Radical Left (SYRIZA) voted against the measures which comprise tax hikes and a 30 percent reduction in civil servants' holiday pay. The Communist Party (KKE) boycotted the vote. "There is nothing to discuss," KKE leader Aleka Papariga said before leaving Parliament. "Our response to these measures will be seen on the streets," she said.

In a related development, an opinion poll carried out by Public Issue for Skai Television showed that nine out of 10 civil servants object to the 30 percent reduction in their 13th and 14th salaries, as foreseen in the new raft of measures voted through Parliament. Of the private sector employees questioned, seven out of 10 said they objected to the same measure. The poll results came after a series of surveys indicated that between 60 and 70 percent of the public understood the need for drastic economic measures to revive the country's economy.

German chancellor douses speculation about financial aid to Greece. German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday doused mounting speculation about her country providing support for Greece's reeling economy, telling a joint press conference with Prime Minister George Papandreou in Berlin that Athens would not be receiving any kind of financial assistance from Germany. "Greece has not asked for financial assistance and, as a result, the question [of aid to Greece] is not being discussed," Merkel said. Papandreou, for his part, sought to reassure Germans that Greece was able to handle its fiscal problems alone. "We are determined to tackle the problems we are currently facing alone," Papandreou said. "We are not trying to transfer these problems elsewhere," he said, adding that Merkel had offered the "moral support" that Athens is seeking.

The Greek premier also referred to press reports in Germany that have lambasted Greeks as swindlers and cheats and indicated that these isolated reactions should not be allowed to damage Greek-German relations. "The Germans know the Greeks very well. Hundreds of thousands of Germans travel to Greece every year for their holidays, and they are welcome again this year," he said. In a related development, the German mass-circulation newspaper Bild published an "open letter" to Papandreou which called on Greeks to follow the example of Germans and work harder to pay off their debt. Prior to his visit to Berlin, Papandreou had stressed that Greece was not seeking a bailout from the European Union or any particular EU member state but a commitment to a rescue plan that would reassure financial markets. Papandreou is to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy tomorrow in Paris and US President Barack Obama on Tuesday in Washington.

Reuters reports: Greeks divided over cuts, Sarkozy vows support. Greeks are evenly divided over the government's increasingly harsh austerity measures, a poll showed on Saturday, a day after thousands marched in Athens to protest steps to rein in the country's swollen budget deficit. The poll, published in the To Vima newspaper, showed 46.6 percent of 1,044 people surveyed backed fiscal measures that include 4.8 billion euros ($6.5 billion) in new savings and tax hikes, while 47.9 percent disapproved. The survey suggests the government cannot expect an easy ride in pushing through its consolidation drive. But protests have been much more low key than the riots seen in Greece in December 2008. Police estimated that about 12,000 people had taken part in the Friday marches in Athens, a small fraction of the capital's population of 3 million.

Saturday's survey came after European leaders expressed confidence on Friday that the new measures would be enough to pull the country out of a budget crisis that has shaken the 16-nation euro zone and make any bailout unnecessary. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou received political support but no promise of any specific financial aid at talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and with Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker in Luxembourg. But French President Nicolas Sarkozy made clear in remarks on Saturday that Paris stood ready to help Athens if its financial situation were to deteriorate further. Papandreou is due in Paris on Sunday to meet Sarkozy as part of a tour to seek backing for his country, whose debt has swollen to about 300 billion euros, well above its annual economic output.

"If we created the euro, we cannot let a country fall that is in the euro zone. Otherwise, there was no point in creating the euro," Sarkozy said at a meeting with farmers. "The euro has no sense if there is no solidarity," The Saturday poll, carried out by Kapa Research, showed most Greeks opposed measures immediately affecting them, such as a 2 percentage point rise in value added tax (VAT), a 30 percent cut in public sector holiday bonuses and a pension freeze. But about nine out of 10 appeared to strongly support salary cuts for senior officials and civil servants. The findings echoed a survey published on Friday which showed strong opposition to some elements of the belt-tightening package but support for others.

Two opinion polls published in late February, before the new fiscal measures were announced this week, showed just over half of Greeks believed the government was tackling the crisis effectively. Analysts say the government has relatively high levels of political capital after winning a snap election in October. Papandreou's socialist PASOK party has 160 out of 300 seats in parliament and replaced a conservative administration accused of concealing the full extent of Greece's economic woes. Ratings agencies and other EU governments have said ability to deliver will be key to determining whether Greece can re-establish its credibility diplomatically and as a borrower. Economists also say the performance of the Greek economy, and the extent to which the cuts hamper any recovery from recession, will be a major risk in the coming months.

"The choice facing all Greeks today is collapse or rescuing Greece," Labor Minister Andreas Loverdos said in an interview published in the Greek Isotimia newspaper on Saturday. Police said about 12,000 demonstrators took to the streets to protest against the new package on Friday when lawmakers passed the austerity measures in an emergency vote. The main public sector union ADEDY brought forward a planned national strike to March 11 from March 16 and its sister private sector union GSEE said it would join them. The two unions represent half Greece's 5-million work force. Workers spent the night boarding up broken shop windows and painting over graffiti in Athens after the protests but the levels of opposition to the government and the cuts have so far been relatively muted by both Greek and European standards. In Ireland, which has also slashed spending aggressively but did so much more quickly, some 100,000 protesters last year marched through Dublin, which is one-third the size of Athens. The latest protests in Greece have been far less violent than those seen in December 2008, when dozens of people were injured, hundreds arrested, scores of shops destroyed and more than 15,000 police deployed on the streets of Athens alone.

Police officers face sacking for planting firebomb. Three police officers from Thessaloniki face the possibility of losing their jobs after being called to appear before a disciplinary committee on charges of planting incriminating evidence on a suspect, it emerged yesterday. The policeman arrested a 24-year-old student during disturbances in the northern city last December on suspicion of possessing a Molotov cocktail. But a prosecutor freed the suspect when video and photographic evidence emerged appearing to show officers placing a bag containing a petrol bomb that did not belong to the student next to him. The student protested his innocence in court, saying he had come down from his apartment in his pyjamas to throw rubbish into a dumpster when he was caught up in rioting. The police apologized for the incident and launched an internal investigation. A prosecutor is also looking into the affair.

05.03.2010. Strike! And Greek unions announce a new general strike on 11 March. The International Workers of the World and the anarchists in general support the strikes. Greece's two main unions have called a new general strike on 11 March to protest against austerity cuts they say are "anti-popular" and "barbaric". Public sector workers are currently striking and protestors gathered in front of the Parliament in Athens. Meanwhile Greece's Prime Minister will meet the German Chancellor in Berlin later to discuss Greece's financial crisis. George Papandreou hopes for a German commitment to provide support if it cannot raise money from the markets. However, reports of potential support for Greece are proving unpopular in Germany. Its economy minister said earlier that his government "does not intend to give a cent" to Greece in financial aid. On Wednesday, Mr Papandreou revealed further tax rises and spending cuts that have gone down very badly with public sector workers, but could reduce the risk of Greece needing help. Members of the so called Socialist-led Greek parliament are set to approve the austerity measures on Friday.

Athens was quiet early this morning, apart from the demonstrators, as the 24-hour public transport strike bites deep. It is the latest expression of opposition to the Greek governmenrt's emergency austerity plan. For protestors burning the EU flag in front of the Greek parliament, Brussels is to blame for their plight. Rock-throwing protestors outside the parliament clashed with police, who used tear gas to disperse them. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy!

Later Friday the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens said the mood on the streets degenerated after three months of relatively mild protests. Trouble broke out after the leader of Greece's biggest union, Yannis Panagopoulos of the GSEE was attacked by three assailants, as he addressed demonstrators. TV pictures subsequently showed officers spraying gas into the face of veteran left-winger Manolis Glezos, who is in his mid-80s. Mr Glezos is one of the country's most beloved figures because of his exploits during the World War Two, when he climbed the Acropolis walls to tear down the swastika during the Nazi occupation. Greece's two main unions have [as mentioned] called another general strike on 11 March, arguing that the austerity cuts put forward by the prime minister are "anti-popular" and "barbaric". This didn't deter the [so called] Socialist-led Greek parliament from approving the measures, which include further tax rises and spending cuts. The anarchists tell Brabant that the marxist protests in Greece degenerated long time ago...

Many Germans do not support their taxes being used for bailouts. Despite mounting speculation about an EU bail-out, most Germans oppose giving aid to a country that has misreported budget figures for years to hide its mountain of debt. Chancellor Merkel has warned that the euro is in the most difficult phase since its creation. Few doubt that Mrs Merkel will eventually take action if she sees the stability - or credibility - of the euro under threat. But with support for her centre-right coalition slipping, Mrs Merkel has reassured voters that she will not use taxpayers' money, nor breach the "no bail-out clause" in the EU's Maastricht Treaty. A recent poll shows that 71% of Germans think the EU should not help Greece at all.

You could call it a culture clash. Germans are big savers, not big spenders. There are also fears that rescuing one country could encourage others to expect the same. Meanwhile, Germany passed its budget for 2010, with borrowing set to soar this year. New borrowing is expected to reach 80.2bn euros ($109bn; £72.5bn) - double the previous highest debt record, set in 1996. However this is less than the 85.8bn euros initially proposed by the government. Later Friday German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Greece does not need financial aid, after talks with Prime Minister George Papandreou in Berlin. She said Greece has not asked for financial support and that the stability of the Euro-zone is "assured".

On Thursday, the Greek government went to the financial markets to borrow money and saw its 5bn euro ($6.8bn; £4.5bn) bond issue oversubscribed. But Greece will need to borrow more in the coming months - more than $70bn for the year as a whole. Mr Papandreou has suggested that Greece might go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for help. But the other countries in the Euro-zone would not welcome what would be seen as a sign that they could not fix their own problems. The president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, has dismissed the idea of the IMF providing financial aid for Greece. "I do not trust that it would be appropriate to have the introduction of the IMF as a supplier of help through standby or through any kind of such help," he told reporters in Frankfurt on Thursday. Mr Papandreou will also meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Sunday before travelling to Washington to meet US President Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Yesterday afternoon, thousands of members of the Communist Party-affiliated labor union PAME and the powerful civil servants' union ADEDY converged in central Athens for two separate protest rallies which both ended peacefully. Earlier in the day more than 100 members of PAME had occupied the main offices of the Finance Ministry for a sit-in that lasted several hours. Some of the protesters had barred ministry employees from entering their workplace, while others climbed to the top floor of the building and scattered leaflets with messages calling on workers to "rise up" against the income cuts and tax hikes proposed in the new austerity package. A couple of blocks away, hundreds of former employees of the now defunct state-carrier Olympic Airlines staged a rally, calling on the government to sign an agreement settling the terms of their departure. On Wednesday night, hundreds of laid-off airline workers had occupied the offices of the General Accounting Office which calculates pensions for public sector workers.

04.03 .2010. Labor unions have announced protests for Friday. The International Workers of the World and the anarchists in general support the protests.

Greece launched a critical 10-year bond issue on Thursday, a key test of its ability to raise funds to pay off expiring debts - and dig out of a financial crisis that has shaken the European Union. The bond was already oversubscribed - meaning more takers than there were bonds available - within an hour of the book opening, with euro 7 billion ($9.5 billion) in offers received. The government was seeking a maximum of euro 5 billion ($6.8 billion), said the chief of Greece's debt management agency, Petros Christodoulou. The sale is a key test of Greece's ability to raise money to pay off expiring bonds and avoid the risk of default. The announcement of the issue comes a day after debt-ridden Greece detailed a whole new round of painful austerity measures, including salary cuts for civil servants, pension freezes and tax hikes on cigarettes, alcohol, luxury goods and gems.

Labor unions fiercely oppose the measures, and have announced protests for Friday, when parliament is set to approve draft legislation on the new austerity plan that aims at euro 4.8 billion ($6.55 billion) in budget savings this year. The measures were intended to show markets that the government is serious about getting spending under control and will have the money to pay its debts. Greece has to borrow some euro 54 billion ($74 billion) through sovereign debt issues this year, and has so far raised around euro13 billion ($18 billion), including treasury bill sales. It has around euro 20 billion ($27 billion) worth of debt maturing in April and May. But low market confidence in the country has translated into extremely high borrowing costs for Athens, and the government has been seeking for a way to borrow at more reasonable rates.

Greece is pressing its European Union partners for stronger support in return for its new harsh austerity plan, saying it needed a vote of confidence that would calm the markets. Prime Minister George Papandreou is to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel whose country has the 16-nation Euro-zone's biggest economy, in Berlin Friday, and with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris Sunday. The European Union has made a vague expression of support, and there has been market speculation that Germany and France might extend help in the form of state-owned banks guaranteeing Greek bonds. Many analysts think the EU would step in to stop a Greek default and avoid the severe blow it would cause to the euro currency and to the balance sheets of European banks who hold Greek bonds.

"What we expect from our EU partners and above all Germany - because Germany's voice is a particularly important one in this context - is a clear expression of solidarity and confidence" in the Greek government and its new austerity plan, Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas told Germany's ARD television. Droutsas stressed that "the Greek government at no point demanded or asked for direct financial support from its EU partners or, naturally, from Germany." "We are of the opinion that we can master this crisis alone," he said. "What we need is a really strong expression of solidarity."

Government spokesman George Petalotis said there was no bailout deal with the EU. What Athens was looking for, he said, was "a clear and explicit statement ... that Greece genuinely is a solvent country on which everyone can rely - so risks will be lowered on international markets and we can borrow money." "That is enough for us," he said. Germany has stressed repeatedly that Greece bears the main responsibility for overcoming its debt crisis. Merkel welcomed the deeper austerity measures Wednesday, but stressed that her meeting with Papandreou would "not be about pledges of aid."

Greece's two largest labor unions are organizing work stoppages and a protest rally outside parliament Friday, as lawmakers vote on the austerity plan. The ADEDY umbrella union representing civil servants, who will suffer most from the measures, decided Thursday to walk off the job from noon onward, shutting down public services and grounding flights for four hours. The private sector umbrella union, GSEE, also called for a three-hour walkout from noon, and the two unions will hold a demonstration in Athens. A Communist-affiliated labor union has also called a general strike and demonstration for Friday. That union occupied the finance ministry building in central Athens early Thursday, hanging a massive banner from the roof, and was planning a demonstration Thursday evening.

France's New Anti-Capitalist Party voiced support for the Greek union protests, calling for coordinated resistance in Europe. "The European Commission is using the Greek crisis to get the idea accepted that Europe must impose a policy which hits at the social rights of workers," said a statement from the small party, whose leader Olivier Besancenot won around 4 percent in the first round of France's 2007 presidential elections.

The Executive Board of the Athens Journalists Union (ESHEA) lashed out at the measures announced by the Greek government, calling for their abolishment as they blatantly affect crucial labor rights. Therefore, ESHEA called a 24-hour strike on Friday protesting wages cuts. ERTonline will not be updated, as its journalists will join the strike called.

The International Workers of the World and the anarchists in general support the protests, see http://www.anarchy.no/iwwai.html .

Terror probe - Cells of Fire suspect released. A 21-year-old man man who has been in custody since early last month for suspected connections to the terrorist organization Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire was freed yesterday after defending himself before an investigating magistrate. According to sources, the suspect has denied having visited an apartment in Halandri, northern Athens, believed to have been the group's hideout, where police say they found his fingerprints. The 21-year-old is being released on the condition that he remains in the country and regularly reports to his local police station. Following a series of bloodless bomb attacks against politicians over the past year, Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for a large explosion outside Parliament on January 9.

03.03.2010. Survey finds graft is thriving. The anarchists condemn the corruption, a form of ochlarchy. Damage and theft at university sit-in. The anarchists comdemn the theft and the damage, i.e. other forms of ochlarchy.

Survey finds graft is thriving. Corruption is thriving in Greece's public and private sectors, with staff at hospitals, tax offices and town-planning offices among the worst offenders, Transparency International's Greek office said yesterday. Bribes paid to Greek officials last year rose by 50 million euros to 790 million euros, the corruption watchdog said, noting that the bulk of the increase was due to illicit transactions in the private sector. In the state sector, the usual suspects topped the chart. According to a survey of 6,122 people carried out for TI's Greek office by polling firm Public Issue, hospitals accounted for 33.5 percent of bribes taken, with tax offices and local authority services accounting for 15.7 and 15.9 percent, respectively. Banks and lawyers are next on the list with 10.8 percent and 9 percent of cases.

In the state sector, the average bribe was 1,355 euros and in the private sector 1,671 euros, according to the survey. The head of TI's Athens office, Costas Bakouris, said the report also showed that the overwhelming majority (98 percent) of Greeks believed the implementation of existing laws is the best way to crack down on graft. A similarly large majority (96 percent) wants to see bribe-takers punished. According to Bakouris, the problem is not the lack of legal provisions for curbing corruption but the nonimplementation of existing ones. "The problem is lax and sometimes selective implementation," he said.

Bakouris and Public Issue Director Yiannis Mavris both said that Greece's financial crisis is closely linked to graft. "It is a problem with very deep roots," Mavris said. Last November, Greece was ranked at the bottom of a list of the 27 member states of the European Union on TI's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2008. The index awarded Greece a score of 3.8, where 10 is highly clean and 0 is highly corrupt. The rating was equal to that of Bulgaria and Romania, and below non-EU countries such as Botswana and Tunisia. The anarchists condemn the corruption, a form of ochlarchy.

Damage an theft at university sit-in. A bust of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and some 10,000 euros' worth of snacks and soft drinks were stolen from the grounds of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, it was revealed yesterday after the end of a sit-in that began last Wednesday. Some 30 nonstudents had occupied the university's administrative building since last week after taking refuge there to avoid arrest by police when they were spotted forcing their way onto the campus. Authorities said that the group left substantial damage in its wake, including graffiti on the walls and a burned Greek flag. No arrests were made. The anarchists comdemn the theft and the damage, i.e. other forms of ochlarchy.

02.03.2010. Taxi owners strike on Tuesday, Wednesday. The anarchists don't support the strike. Civil servants union strike for March 16. PM seeks backing for more cuts.

Taxi owners strike on Tuesday, Wednesday. Taxi owners will hold a 48-hour strike on Tuesday and Wednesday in protest against government measures requiring them to provide receipts to customers.

Civil servants union strike for March 16. The civil servants' union (ADEDY) called on public sector employees to participate in a nationwide 24-hour strike on Tuesday, March 16, in protest the government's austerity measures involving the wider public sector in the country.

PM seeks backing for more cuts. As Brussels pushes for further austerity measures, Papandreou asks Greeks to stop country 'going under'. Prime Minister George Papandreou yesterday called on Greeks to "rally together" to stop the country from "going under" shortly before the European Union's Commissioner for Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn, in Athens on an official visit, called on the government to take additional austerity measures to plug a gaping budget deficit. During a televised Cabinet meeting, Papandreou appealed to all Greeks to back the government's efforts to exit the crisis. "Otherwise, we risk losing the ability to determine our own fate," Papandreou said, a clear reference to the risk of Brussels taking over Greek financial decision-making. The premier said the government already had the backing of a large section of the public. "I am touched that citizens are stopping me in the street and telling me they are ready to sacrifice a salary for the good of the country," he said. The reference to the salary touched a nerve among unionists, angered by speculation that a new raft of austerity measures might include the abolition of the so-called 14th salary – one of two additional annual salaries paid to civil servants and employees in the private sector.

The leader of the civil servants' union, Spyros Papaspyros, said the 14th salary was a right established in history and that attempts to cut it would "provoke reactions commensurate with its significance." The new raft of measures, expected to include a 2 percent increase to value-added tax, currently at 19 percent, a further increase in fuel tax and a new tax on luxury goods, is expected to be announced within days and certainly before Papandreou sets off for Berlin on Friday for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel, who late on Sunday doused rumors of a financial rescue package for Athens, yesterday said that pushing through austerity measures would help stop market speculation that is posing a threat to the Euro-zone. Addressing a press conference after talks with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Merkel said it was vital that "Greece really implements its announced program." "This will be the best way of avoiding further speculation against the euro," she said, adding that "Greece can do it."

01.03.2010. Firebomb attacks by suspected marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, falsely called "suspected anarchists" by Kathimerini. Brown Cards to the ochlarchists and Kathimerini, that reports: Firebomb attacks. Police, bank, PASOK MP targeted in city bomb blasts. A group of about 15 suspected anarchists attacked a group of police officers patroling a street corner near the central district of Exarchia early yesterday, pelting them with stones and Molotov cocktails but causing no injuries or damage. The assailants eluded arrest. At around the same time in Thessaloniki, a homemade explosive device made of gas canisters detonated outside a branch of Millennium Bank, damaging the facade of the building but hurting no one. Late on Friday, a similar device planted outside the office of ruling PASOK deputy Pemi Zouni, on the fifth floor of an apartment block near central Syntagma Square, caused no injuries and little damage.

Terrorism, including arson attacks, a form of ochlarchy, is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "anarchists", are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including arson attacks, in Greece, not now and not before. By the way, these marxist ochlarchists have not called themselves anarchists. It is pure lies and speculations by Kathimerini. Try to be more matter of fact!!!

Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini does, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The blue and brown liberalist extremist propagandapaper Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. The marxist ochlarchists also get Brown Cards, but since they have not falsely called themselves anarchists, they are not expulsed. The IAT-APT can of course not expulse people from the anarchist movement that not are members.

27.02.2010. Youths mark Cretan teacher with swastikas. The anarchists condemn the racist attack. Cabbies appear set for a 48-hour stoppage next week. The anarchists don't support this strike.

Youths mark Cretan teacher with swastikas. Police on Crete yesterday were seeking the two men who carved swastika symbols on the arm of a 27-year-old teacher on Wednesday night – the latest in a string of racist crimes on the island in the past two months. The woman was attacked while getting into her car in the Halepa suburb of Hania by two masked youths who used a razor blade to carve two Nazi symbols onto the skin of her left arm and another three on her jacket sleeve. Police said they believe the perpetrators had targeted her as she had been offering Greek language lessons to the children of immigrants. Nikos Tzaras, a spokesman for the Cretan Migrant Forum condemned the attack as "barbaric and cowardly" and said he believed the assault and other racist attacks were being coordinated by "a center in Hania." Wednesday's attack follows a string of assaults on migrants and two attacks on a synagogue in Hania last month. The anarchists condemn the racist attack.

Cabbies appear set for a 48-hour stoppage next week. Taxi drivers are expected to go on strike again next week but this time they will stage a 48-hour stoppage on Tuesday and Wednesday, it emerged yesterday. Their union is opposed to government plans to make cabbies issue receipts, keep account books and pay tax according to their income. Under the current system, drivers pay just over 1,200 euros in tax each year, regardless of what they earn. Cabbies have already staged two 24-hour strikes this month and say they will keep protesting until the government changes its mind. The anarchists don't support this strike.

26.02.2010. Blast claimed by suspected marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchy group "Popular will". The anarchists condemn the terrorist group. Link to anarchist comments 25.02.2010 outdated at ERT.

Blast claimed. A little-known terrorist group called Popular Will on Wednesday claimed responsibility for planting a homemade bomb outside the political office of Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis in Peristeri, western Athens, on Wednesday night last week. The device was destroyed in a controlled explosion by bomb disposal experts. The discovery of the device came a day after a blast outside the offices of US investment firm JP Morgan.

Link to anarchist comments 25.02.2010 outdated at ERT. The article with the anarchist comment on ERT published 25.02.2010 is outdated and thus no longer available at ERT, but the article and the IAT-APT resolution/comment is of course still available here on this file, see report of 25.02.2010..

25.02.2010. Brown Card to ERT - About 300 marxist ochlarchists caused damage and clashed with the police, not anarchists, as ERT falsely reports. Anarchist comment on ERT. Wednesday's nationwide strike. News from the Grigoropoulos trial.

Brown Card to ERT. About 300 marxist ochlarchists caused damage and clashed with the police, not anarchists, as ERT falsely reports: Nation wide strike in Greece. Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets on Wednesday to participate in the 24-hour general strike organized by the country's two largest trade union groups, the private sector GSEE and the public sector ADEDY in protest against austerity measures. Demonstrations in Athens, Thessaloniki and other large cities were larger compared to previous demonstrations. The two marches, GSEE- ADEDY and PAME were peaceful but some 300 anarchists broke out between some demonstrators and caused damages to 13 shops and 5 bank ATMs'. During the clashes 23 policemen were slightly injured and three people arrested.

Some minor incidents occurred during the march from Pedion tou Areos towards Syntagma when a small group broke out between demonstrators and smashed shop windows of Ianos bookstore because 3 workers had been laid off. The government should adopt a mix of economic and social policies that would not lead to recession, but create jobs said the head of the GSEE, Yiannis Panagopoulos. On his part, the head of the umbrella union for public sector workers ADEDY Spiros Papaspiros told Reuters that strike actions will continue in March. The secretary of European Unions John Monks expressed European workers solidarity to Greece's efforts to face its state debt.

Brown Card to ERT - The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. About 300 marxist ochlarchists caused damage and clashed with the police, not anarchists, as ERT falsely reports. The ochlarchists were not anarchists, but marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs, also using red flags. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as ERT does, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The red-brown propagandastation ERT gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Wednesday's nationwide strike. ANA-MPA, Athens News Agency reports: A nationwide labor strike was staged in Greece on Wednesday, called by the country's two largest umbrella federations GSEE and ADEDY in protest of the government's tough economic measures. Labor rallies were held in Athens, Thessaloniki and other large cities throughout the country, while according to unions participation in the strike was very large. The central rally in Athens was addressed by General Confederation of Workers of Greece (GSEE) president Yiannis Panagopoulos and Civil Servants' Supreme Administrative Council (ADEDY) president Spyros Papaspyros, at the Pedion tou Areos park. Panagopoulos spoke of a "major political strike" and sharply criticised "the neoliberals of the markets, the Brussels bureaucrats and the sharks of the foreign rating firms", calling for coordination with the trade unions in the countries of the European south.

He said that those who are responsible for the crisis should be made to pay for the crisis, namely those who evade taxes, evade making contributions to the social security funds. Addressing himself to employers' organizations, the GSEE leader stressed that the collective labor agreements "are a non-negotiable conquest of the trade unions". As for criticism towards him from the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the KKE-affiliated labor organization PAME, which held their own separate rally in nearby Omonia Square, Panagopoulos accused them of attempting an organizational and operational break-up of the trade unions. Papaspyros, in turn, invited the working people to take their fates into their own hands, and called Greece's Stability Program a "stupidity program", calling on the union leaders to escalate their opposition to that policy. Main opposition New Democracy (ND) was represented by a delegation headed by its secretary for trade union issues Yiannis Manolis, and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA parliamentary alliance) was represented by a delegation headed by its parliamentary group leader Alexis Tsipras. He also warned that ADEDY will not allow the salary scale, labor and social security rights of the civil servants to be razed as a gift to the markets, charging that the EU policy undermined Greece's growth momentum.

The Athens rally was also attended and addressed by European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) general secretary John Monks, who pledged the confederation's solidarity with the Greek workers, noting that the working people of Europe will not leave their Greek colleagues alone to face the risk of dissolution of the social fiber. Also attending the rally were representatives of European civil servant's federations. After the speeches, the protestors marched to parliament.

News from the Grigoropoulos trial. Tensions ran high during a trial sitting against two special guards who have been charged with killing teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos. The teenager's mother, Vergin Tsalikian called the two defendants murderers and the lawyer of one of the two Alexis Kougias an abettor. As a result, Alexis Kougias walked out of the court room. In the meantime, shortly before Grigoropoulos' mother testifies, the court said it was not going to ask her question in memory of Alexandros. Ms Tsalikian spoke about her child's personality, which, as she said, was not aggressive. She also referred to the incidents of the night of the shooting.

24.02.2010. General strike backed by IWW. Also media workers strike. About two millions participated in the strike. Brown Cards to BBC and its ultra-authoritarian marxist reporter Malcolm Brabant.

General Strike. Greece hit by nationwide strike against austerity. About two millions of Greeks were on strike to protest at the imposition of austerity measures to "save" the economy. Employees in the public and private sector were staging a 24 hour strike in protest against abolition of labor, economic and social security rights. One parole expressed that the plutocracy, read the unenlightened plutarchy, should pay for the crisis, and thus not the people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income. "We demand a fair distribution of the burden so that wage-earners and pensioners do not pay the price for a crisis they did not create," said Yiannis Panagopoulos, a spokesperson for GSEE private sector union. Demonstrations were also being held in Athens and Thessaloniki. At one protest attended by at least 25,000 people in the centre of the capital, the mood was resolute.

The protests were mostly peaceful, but som violent protesters clashed with police, that used teargas to disperse the crowd. The IWW and IAT condemn the violent ochlarchy and ochlarchists. Ochlarchy is not direct action, see http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html , Direct action defined - Direct action definition . The International Workers of the World, IWW, only backs direct action against the unenlightened plutarchy. To see the IWW-resolution "IWW backs the general strike in Greece 24.02.2010 and the fight against the unenlightened plutarchy in general", click on http://www.anarchy.no/iwwai.html .

BBC and its ultra-authoritarian marxist reporter Malcolm Brabant falsely called the ochlarchists "anarchists". The ochlarchists were not anarchists, but marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs. This is not the first time Malcolm Brabant breaks the Oslo Convention. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Malcolm Brabant and BBC do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The red-brown Malcolm Brabant and BBC get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above mentioned disinformation.

The strike made a stand still in the public sector services, banks, hospitals, schools, tax offices and means of mass transport. Greek unions staged a nationwide strike, grounding flights, shutting schools and crippling public services, in a show of strength against government austerity measures aimed at pulling the debt-ridden country out of financial crisis. In the first general strike since the center-left government's election in October, all flights to and from Greek airports have been canceled, while trains and ferries were also idle. Commuters in Athens were left without most forms of public transport. Public schools, tax offices and municipal offices were closed, while public hospitals were using emergency staff. Journalists were also holding a 24-hour strike. The country's two largest umbrella labor groups, the private sector GSEE and public sector ADEDY, fiercely oppose a wave of belt-tightening measures announced over the past weeks to reduce the bloated budget deficit from 12.7 percent of gross domestic product to 8.7 percent this year.

"If all these measures are enforced, unemployment will skyrocket. Our country will enter a massive recession and unemployment will reach a Europe-wide record," said GSEE spokesman Stathis Anestis. "This will be tragic because it will provoke social [unrest] and clashes." Greek unemployment hit a five-year high of 10.6 percent in November 2009, up from 9.8 percent in October. The country's woes have affected confidence in the euro as a common currency, and hiked the country's borrowing costs. The governing Socialists have frozen civil service wages and hiring while cutting bonuses, hiking consumer taxes and raising retirement ages. Greek borrowing rates nevertheless remained high on Wednesday, reflecting market worries of a default. Spreads on government bonds over their German equivalent widened to 340.2 basis points after Fitch ratings agency on Tuesday downgraded ratings for four Greek banks.

Shares on the Athens Stock Exchange were also 0.59 percent lower in late morning trading. Greece is facing a March 16 deadline from the European Union to show signs of fiscal improvement and is under pressure to take additional measures. These could include a hike in the Value Added Tax, currently at 19 percent, and further civil service bonus cuts. Greece's central bank governor George Provopoulos said in a speech Tuesday that Greece's crisis heightened a pressing need for major economic reforms. "The crisis could present an opportunity to carry out necessary reforms - and not just have a debate about them - given that not implementing these reforms would have a great price." Wednesday's strike will be a crucial test of support for the unions, with polls showing strong public support for the government's austerity plan. A poll Sunday in the Ethnos newspaper showed some 57.6 percent of Greeks believe measures taken so far are "in the right direction," while 75.8 percent think unions should show restraint until the end of the crisis.

Mass media workers strike. ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, takes part in the 24-hour strike. ERT news online will be disrupted from 06.00 on Wednesday, February 24 till 06.00 Thursday, February 25, after ERT and POSPERT trade unions decision to take part in GSEE strike action requesting protection of employees' labor, financial and social security rights and the signing of collective agreement. ESHEA (Union of Daily Newspaper Journalists) and all employees in Mass Media, apart from reporters covering the demonstrations, take part in the strike action. Also participating in the strike are employees in the administration sector of Mass Media (EPHEA), magazine journalists (ESPHT), television and radio technicians (ETITA and ETER). In Athens, Mass Media trade unions participated in demonstration at 10.30 organized by GSEE and ADEDY. Posting of news will start on Thursday morning, February 25. Kathimerini English Edition and the International Herald Tribune will not be published in Greece and Cyprus tomorrow because of the participation of the ESIEA journalist's union in the 24-hour general strike today. They will be back on Friday.

23.02.2010. Union blockades Athens exchange. The International Workers of the World backs the general strike tomorrow. Stricter rules to halt graft. Rector, protesters clash over university asylum.

Union blockades Athens exchange. A trade union group has blockaded the Athens stock exchange in protest at the Greek government's sweeping budget cuts, but trading has been unaffected. The protest has been organized by the communist PAME union, whose members have blocked the main entrances. A spokesman for the Athens Exchange said workers had been able to trade from remote computers. The action comes a day before a 24-hour general strike, called by the country's main unions, is set to begin. As mentioned the anarchists at large support the general strike and also the International Workers of the World backs the general strike tomorrow, see http://www.anarchy.no/iwwai.html .

As mentioned Greece currently has a public deficit - the difference between what the government spends and the funds it receives though taxation and other measures - of 12.7%. This is more than four times higher than Euro-zone rules allow, and Athens has pledged to reduce this to 8.7% this year under an austerity plan that involves major cuts in public spending. At the same time it is trying to reduce the 300bn euros ($419bn; £259bn) total national debt. Giorgos Perros, one of the organizers of the PAME protest at the stock exchange, said the government's plans placed an unfair burden on low-income Greeks. "We believe these stock market indices - gauges of wealth - should halt for a day," he said.

Under the government's deficit reduction plans, it aims to freeze public sector salaries, raise the retirement age to 63 by 2015, and increase taxes on petrol, alcohol and tobacco. Greece is due to report back to the other Euro-zone nations next month on how well its efforts are progressing. Finance ministers from the other 15 nations that share the single currency have warned that the Greek government may have to adopt further measures if the ones currently being enforced are not shown to be working fast enough. At the weekend, Greece's Prime Minister, George Papandreou, said that Greece was not looking for a financial bail-out from other European countries. He said that Greece was looking for political support from across Europe to enable it to borrow money at the same interest rates as other countries.

The general strike will paralyze transport, services. The 24-hour strike by thousands of workers in the public and private sectors tomorrow – the second major protest against austerity measures heralded by the government – is expected to bring transport services to a halt as well as shutting down banks and other services and imposing a media blackout as journalists join the action. All but a handful of flights into and out of Greece will be canceled as air-traffic controllers join the walkout. Passengers scheduled to fly tomorrow should contact their airline for information about changes. As mentioned the strike will also affect public transport in the capital as employees of the metro, trolley buses, the tram, the suburban railway and the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) stay home. There will be disruptions on the Piraeus-Kifissia urban electric railway (ISAP), where services will be suspended between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. and between 4 p.m. and midnight, and on city buses, where services will be suspended between 5 a.m. and 07.30 a.m. and from 10 p.m. onward.

Public transport will be subject to similar disruptions in Thessaloniki. Union leaders representing striking workers yesterday justified the protests against the cash-strapped government which is trying to plug a gaping budget deficit and revive the confidence of international investors in Greece's reeling economy. "We are aware of the intense pressure [on the government] but we have to react," Yiannis Panagopoulos, the president of the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE), which called tomorrow's strike, said in an interview with To Vima daily's radio station. Panagopoulos stressed that "people are more important than markets." The anarchists agree!

EFJ backs media strike in Greece. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the European group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), on Tuesday announced its full support for the a strike by journalists in Greece on Wednesday, who will take part in a 24-hour nationwide general strike organized by the country's trade unions. "As the country is going through a terrible financial and economic crisis, Greek journalists and media workers are put under pressure, but they should not suffer from a situation which they are not responsible for," said EFJ President Arne Konig. "All over Europe we see social standards attacked in the name of the crisis, but unions will oppose this and fight for justice and for the truth: we do not accept that workers should be made scapegoats of the financial crisis". The EFJ represents more than 250,000 journalists in more than 30 countries worldwide

Fuel supplies back to normal after six-day walkout ends. Fuel supplies were returning to normal in Attica and elsewhere yesterday after customs officers called off a 6-day strike that had led to shortages. The customs officers had wanted to extend their protest action until tomorrow so that they could take part in a general strike that has the backing of private and public sector unions. But late on Sunday night they decided to call off their action after a court ruling on Saturday declared their strike to be unlawful and abusive.

Stricter rules to halt graft. Public servants to face tougher punishment for corrupt practices, according to bill. The drive to target graft in the public sector continued yesterday as the government unveiled a new bill which imposes stricter penalties on corrupt civil servants while also offering incentives to their colleagues to inform on them. According to the proposals unveiled by Justice, Transparency and Human Rights Minister Haris Kastanidis, any public servant coming forward with information about corrupt practices in their department, even if it is for offenses that are subject to the statute of limitations, will be given an amnesty even if he or she is involved too. The proposed law would also give the minister the right to order an investigation into the personal wealth of any bureaucrat under suspicion of breaking the law based on a complaint from someone either within the public sector or an ordinary citizen.

The draft law also makes it a felony rather than a misdemeanor for a public servant, a tax inspector or a customs official to be found guilty of a breach of trust. Also, any public servants found to be submitting false declarations on their source of wealth ("pothen esches") will also face criminal prosecution. Prime Minister George Papandreou made tackling graft one of his main election pledges and his government has moved quickly to attempt to draw up new legislation to stamp out corruption while also building up political consensus on the issue. In an unusual display of harmony, PASOK and New Democracy found common ground during a meeting of parliamentary party leaders in December when methods of tackling corruption and boosting transparency were discussed. The rare meeting was convened at the request of Papandreou.

Also last December, the Cabinet approved a bill that will see all public sector decisions, budgets and even the wages of some bureaucrats published on the Internet. Under the proposals it will be compulsory for each government department and the wider public sector in general to publish all its decisions, including appointments, the formation of committees and the remuneration paid to their members. Each department will also have to make public its budget as well as its balance sheets.

Anti-racism arrests. Two members of an anti-racism organization yesterday faced a prosecutor in Larissa for allegedly provoking clashes between leftist demonstrators and members of far-right groups in the central city on Sunday night. The scuffles on Sunday began when anti-racist demonstrators gathered in the city center where members of two far-right groups had been due to stage a rally in protest at the granting of citizenship and voting rights to immigrants. A small rally followed without any major unrest. The two anti-racist protesters were released after testifying before a prosecutor.

Rector, protesters clash over university asylum. A group of anti-establishment protesters who yesterday briefly occupied the offices of the rector of the National Technical University of Athens have clashed with the rector over what constitutes university asylum. The protesters occupied the office of Constantinos Moutzouris yesterday morning in protest at the arrest late Saturday of 30 people who had been attending a party on a student campus in Zografou, eastern Athens, where university property was reportedly vandalized. Police entered the grounds as the asylum law barring their presence was lifted at Moutzouris's request. Of the detainees, all released early Sunday, only five were students, police said. The protesters condemned the rector's move and said the asylum law should never be lifted again. Moutzouris retorted that "squatters" had exploited university premises to "vandalize, steal and threaten [i.e. ochlarchy]." The anarchists at large comdemn squatting as capitalist, and ochlarchy in general.

22.02.2010. GSEE-ADEDY general strike on Wednesday. The anarchists call on the people in general, as opposed to the superiors in rank and /or income, to participate in the demonstrations, and protest with dignity - not ochlarchy.

Normal supply of fuel started on Monday morning after suspension of customs officials strike on Sunday evening. All petrol stations are open while petrol station owners expect that fuel supply will have returned to normal till the evening. The Coordination Body of the Customs Officials Federation decided suspension of the strike on Sunday evening after Athens Court ruled the strike illegal. However, customs officials will participate in the 24 hour nationwide strike on Wednesday staged by a.o. the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE). The strike is expected to create problems in the public sector services, banks, hospitals, schools, tax offices and means of mass transport.

• in private sector
• in DEKO (Public Utilities Companies)
• in banks (OTOE)
• public servants
• grammar and high school teachers
• hospital personnel and doctors
• bank clerks
• tax office employees
• journalists

Tram, trolley buses, Metro and suburban railway will not run on Wednesday, February 24, while buses will not run from the start of the first shift till 07.30 and from 22.00 till the end of the night shift. The electric train will not run from the start of the morning shift till 10.00 and from 16.00 to 12.00. Hellenic Railways will not have any services as its employees are participating in GSEE-ADEDY 24 hour strike with 3-hour stoppages. Inbound and outbound aircrafts will be grounded as air traffic controllers participate in the 24 hour nationwide strike. Protest demonstrations will be held in Athens on Wednesday. Protestors will gather at Pedion tou Areos at 11.00 and will march to the Parliament. PAME will stage a separate demonstration at 12.00, in Omonoia square. The anarchists call on the people in general, as opposed to the superiors in rank and /or income, to participate in the demonstrations, and protest with dignity - not ochlarchy.

20.02.2010. Lawyer debates path of bullet. Strike by customs officials continues. Anti-racism rally held in Athens. Up to 25 bln euros in aid mulled for Greece?

Lawyer debates path of bullet. The lawyer defending Epaminondas Korkoneas, the police special guard who shot dead teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Exarchia, central Athens, in December 2008, argued in court yesterday that the fatal bullet was fired into the air and not toward the victim. "There is no question that Korkoneas's shot caused the death," said lawyer Alexis Kougias. "It's also certain that the bullet ricocheted. What we are challenging is the point where it richocheted." Kougias argued that the coroner's assessment that the bullet struck a cylindrical cement bollard was wrong because he placed the victim and Korkoneas in the wrong positions. "The point of impact is somewhere else, high up, but they ignored it because it did not fit in with the positions they had worked out," said Kougias. Coroner Christos Lefkidis rejected this, saying that the marks on the bullet were on its side, not at its tip, indicating the gun was not fired into the air. He also said traces of the bullet's casing were found on the bollard.

Strike by customs officials continues. Talks to end a strike by customs officials, which has left dozens of gas stations without fuel, ended in a stalemate last night but there are hopes that negotiations would continue over the weekend and that petrol deliveries would resume. Customs officials have been on strike since Tuesday and decided yesterday to extend their action until next Wednesday, when they will join in a general walkout. The present action has led to dozens of gas stations in Attica being left without fuel. The Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EBEA) held talks yesterday with customs representatives in a bid to end the action but no agreement was reached.

EBEA said it was hopeful it could talk the public servants around by tomorrow. The customs officials are protesting planned changes to their social security benefits as well as cuts to their salaries. There were signs, though, yesterday that participation in the strike was beginning to wane and that by Monday only a few unionists will still be staying away from work, which would mean that fuel deliveries could resume normally. Already yesterday, fuel tankers were headed for Thessaloniki, where only one in five customs officials was on strike, to fill up with gas that would be distributed in Attica. The fuel shortage has caused the price of gas to skyrocket. The average price of unleaded fuel in Athens was 1.23 euros per liter yesterday. The highest price recorded was 1.34 euros. An Athens court on Saturday declared the ongoing strike by customs employees as "illegal", following an injunction submitted Friday night by the finance ministry.

Anti-racism rally held in Athens. A march with the participation of 55 anti-racism and migrants' organizations and unions was held on Saturday afternoon from Omonia Square to Syntagma Square in downtown Athens. Participants demonstrated for migrants' and refugees rights and against xenophobia and racism. The Coaltion of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and the Ecologists-Greens parties also took part in the march. Afterwards, a concert was staged at Syntagma Square featuring bands comprising second-generation migrant youths.

Up to 25 bln euros in aid mulled for Greece? Germany's finance ministry has sketched out a plan in which countries using the euro currency will provide aid worth between 20 billion and 25 billion euros ($27-$33.7 billion) for Greece, a magazine reported on Saturday. Citing "initial considerations" by the ministry, German weekly Der Spiegel said the share of financial aid for Greece would be calculated according to the proportion of capital each country holds in the European Central Bank. A spokesman for the German finance ministry said he would not comment on the report, which stated that the financial assistance should take the form of loans and guarantees. The report said all euro countries would shoulder the burden and that Germany's share in the package would amount to 4-5 billion euros, and be handled by state-owned bank KfW.

According to the German planning, the aid should be tied to strict conditions, the magazine said, adding that loan tranches should only be paid out once these are met. Spokesmen for both the Greek finance ministry and the European Commission declined to comment on the report. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has so far resolutely deflected appeals to promise Greece aid despite fears that failure to help Athens could threaten the euro. Germany in public argues that leniency would take pressure off Athens and other Euro-zone debtors to cut their budget deficits. Behind the scenes, lawmakers acknowledge that Berlin has prepared measures if a rescue becomes inevitable. Merkel's position has been complicated by the fact the country is embroiled in a highly charged debate on the sustainability of Germany's welfare state.

This has helped to galvanise public opposition to Berlin funding a bailout just as her centre-right coalition braces for a big test of its popularity in May, when voters go to the polls in Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. Speaking to Der Spiegel, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou told Germany he was not seeking aid, and criticized the Commission for failing to ensure member states adhered to the EU's Stability and Growth Pact that limits budget deficits. "The union could in the past have more rigorously policed whether the stability pact was being observed -- with us too," he said. "In future we should allow the European statistics office direct access to individual member states' data." "We suggested that, but not all countries wanted to have so much transparency," Papandreou said.

Greece's deficit as mentioned swelled to 12.7 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, way above the EU's cap of 3 percent, and Athens needs to sell some 53 billion euros of debt this year, including at least 20 billion euros in April and May. In case demand should falter, German lawmakers have been quietly thinking about how Greece could be helped. A senior financial official in the ruling coalition said last week Germany was considering using the KfW to buy Greek government bonds. A separate proposal saw the KfW issuing guarantees to German banks that bought the Greek bonds. Separately, Der Spiegel said that an internal report by Germany's financial market watchdog BaFin concluded that German banks could be seriously threatened if Greece or other countries including Spain, Portugal and Italy become insolvent.

19.02.2010. Fuel shortage hits Greece as strikes grow. Greek drivers lined up for gas at the few stations still open Friday as a customs strike against government austerity measures left many pumps running dry. The fuel shortage was the first serious consequence of growing labor protests against the socialist government's emergency spending cuts program, aimed at easing the debt crisis in Greece and shoring up market confidence. Customs workers have extended their strike against salary freezes and bonus cuts through next Wednesday, when unions across Greece will hold a general strike that is set to bring the country to a standstill. European finance ministers have told Athens it must demonstrate signs of fiscal improvement by March 16 or it will be ordered to impose even tougher budget cuts. Greece has promised to slash its deficit from an estimated 12.7 percent of gross domestic product to 8.7 percent this year.

Finance Ministry officials say they are under EU pressure to ax the public servants' so-called "14th salary." Greek workers get their annual salary divided into 14 payments, with two of them given as holiday bonuses, in a measure originally designed to alleviate those with low incomes. "We would consider cutting the 14th (salary) to be an act of war," said Yiannis Papagopoulos, leader of Greece's trade union umbrella group, the GSEE. "The measures must be socially just. And this is something that we have not seen so far. They are generally aimed at wage-earners and pensioners, while business remains immune. It is finally time for those who for so many years gathered riches to pay up, invest, and help deal with the major problem at this time, which is unemployment." The customs walkout has hampered imports and exports, but the supply of fuel has been the most affected. Gas stations around greater Athens were rationing fuel while stocks lasted. Traffic policemen were posted at some gas stations in Athens as cars queued for hundreds of meters (yards).

18.02.2010. Vangelis Chrysochoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis are not anarchists. Brown Card to Kathimerini for falsely postulating they are, and reports: Mylonas kidnapping. Four jailed for abducting Thessaloniki businessman. A court in Thessaloniki yesterday sentenced four people to jail for the kidnapping of industrialist Giorgos Mylonas in June 2008. Two self-styled anarchists, Vangelis Chrysochoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis, were given 22 years and three months in jail, Asimakis Lazaridis, a waiter from Crete, was sentenced to 13 years and two months while convict Giorgos Haralambidis received a term of 13 years and six months. All four appealed their sentences but were not released from custody. The ring's alleged mastermind, fugitive Vassilis Palaiocostas, was given a jail sentence of eight years and nine months in his absence but only for misdemeanor charges. He will stand trial on felony charges whenever he is recaptured. Haralambidis's parents and sisters were given suspended sentences after being found guilty of accepting some of the ransom money. The kidnappers allegedly received 10.8 million euros after holding Mylonas for 13 days. Vangelis Chrysochoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis are not anarchists, and not "self styled anarchists", the IAT-APT has expulsed them from the anarchist movement by giving them Brown Cards 11.02.2010. They may have a capitalist tendency, but seen all in all they are marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. They are not left fascists or rightwing extremists. See full report 11.02.2010, where also Kathimerini has got a Brown Card, today getting a similar one.

Trolley bus stoppage. Trolley bus drivers staged a five-hour work stoppage from 11 a.m. today. They were protesting planned changes to their social security benefits.

Officer shot 'at Grigoropoulos'. A coroner told a court in Amfissa, northwest of Athens, yesterday that the policeman's bullet which killed 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 ricocheted off a cement bollard but had been fired in the direction of the youngster, not up in the air. Christos Lefkidis was giving evidence on the first day of the trial of police special guards Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis. An attempt to try the two men last month was aborted after the public prosecutor had to withdraw from the case. Lefkidis said that Korkoneas was holding his gun about 1.5 meters above the ground when he fired toward where Grigoropoulos was crouching. He rejected the policeman's claims that he fired into the air, saying that the bullet recovered from the teenager's body contained a dent on its side, not at its tip. Korkoneas alleges that he fired twice into the air and that his gun also went off as he attempted to holster it. The trial continues tomorrow.

Authorities in Greece say they have carried out a controlled explosion on a bomb placed outside the office of a government minister in charge of police. The blast shattered nearby windows but caused no injuries. No group claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack in the western Peristeri area of the capital. The anarchists condemn the attack.

17.02.2010. Strikes! The last two days picture of gas stations with long car queues has radically changed as the majority of motorists have already filled up car tanks. Some gas stations ran short of unleaded fuel due to high demand in the last two days. In the meantime custom officials continue mobilizations till Thursday creating problems with customs clearance of thousands of products. Closed are customs services at Evzonoi, Doirani, Nikaia and Kristalopigi in Florina prefecture border crossings and railway border crossing at Eidomenis in Kilkis prefecture.

Serres farmers allow vehicles access to Promachonas border station and Kipoi customs station, in Ebros prefecture is operating normally. Trolley buses are not running from 11.00-16.00 on Thursday while taxi owners are staging a 24 hour strike on Friday. Hundreds of striking finance ministry and customs employees held a protest rally in Athens Wednesday, as Prime Minister George Papandreou prepared to meet opposition leaders and host a Cabinet meeting to discuss Greece's financial crisis. The customs workers' strike was affecting imports and exports, while gas station owners issued appeals through the media to keep drivers from rushing to fill up their cars with fuel because it could cause a run on supplies until the end of the strike on Friday. A broader, general strike is planned for Feb. 24.

16.02.2010. Workers in new round of strikes. The anarchists support the strikes, except the "tax evasion strike". Blast at JP Morgan offices in Athens. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and suspect marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists.

Workers in new round of strikes. As authorities balk at calls by the European Commission for additional austerity measures, employees in various sectors are today to launch a new round of strikes in protest at cuts to the supplementary income payments the government has said are necessary to get the economy back on its feet. A three-day strike by customs officials, starting today, is expected to cause serious disruptions to fuel supplies and to hamper cross-border trade. Meanwhile, gas station owners are threatening to shut down their outlets if the government proceeds with plans to force them to install cash registers on their premises and issue receipts - in a bid to clamp down on rampant tax evasion in the sector.

Another strike due to start today is a four-day walkout by employees of various state bodies that fall under the umbrella of the Finance Ministry, including the General Accounting Office, the National Statistical Service, the Capital Markets Commission and the State Legal Council. This week's strike action is to culminate on Friday with another 24-hour strike by taxi drivers, who walked off the job last Thursday in protest at the impact of new tax reforms. Unionists claim that the measures "would create a series of new problems and make our occupation more difficult, if not impossible."

The next major strike is scheduled for next Wednesday, February 24. The General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) has called on hundreds of thousands of members to join its 24-hour strike and take to the streets in protest at austerity measures. A protest rally organized by the main civil servants' union (ADEDY) last Wednesday attracted a surprisingly low turnout though tens of thousands of civil servants "participated" in the strike itself by staying at home. The anarchists support the strikes, except the "tax evasion strike".

Blast at JP Morgan offices in Athens. A bomb exlosion occurred outside the offices of the JP Morgan brokerage firm in the upscale central Athens district of Kolonaki at approximately 19.50 on Tuesday. An unidentified caller had earlier warned an Athens daily that a bomb was going to explode in half an hour, as was the case. Police sealed off the area and no injuries were reported. The time bomb had been placed at the entrance of a building where the offices were located on the second floor, causing considerable damage. Bomb disposal experts and the anti-terrorist squad arrived at the scene. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and suspect marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists.

The farmers who were keeping the Promachonas crossing in the border with Bulgaria left the roadblock, after their meeting with Deputy Agricultural Minister Mihalis Karhimakis and Deputy Interior Minister Markos Bolaris.

15.02.2010. The Promachonas crossing in the border with Bulgaria is opened Monday. Farmers remain there, without obstructing traffic. A representative of the Serres farmers said they will keep it open during Monday to facilitate the holidaymakers. However, he did not rule out closing it again late on Monday. Local farmers will meet Tuesday with Deputy Agricultural Minister Mr Karhimakis to discuss their grievances.

13.02.2010. Farmers again block Promachonas border post. The anarchists in general support the farmers' action. Protesting farmers again blocked traffic on the important Promachonas border post on the Greek-Bulgarian frontier on Saturday morning, following an opening of the road the previous days. The blocking of border posts by disgruntled farmers over the past few weeks has generated international media attention and heated criticism on both sides of the border. The anarchists in general support the farmers' action.

12.02.2010. Promachonas open for all vehicles. Mylonas abduction. Police attacked. EU offers help but no specific money pledge.

Promachonas open for all vehicles. Promachonas border post on Friday was open for all vehicles following a decision by the Serres farmers' association to open their roadblock and permit trucks to cross the border. However, protesting farmers remain in place with their tractors and are intermittently blocking the road access to the checkpoint. This situation will continue until at least Tuesday when farmers' representatives will meet with Deputy Agriculture Minister Michalis Kachrimakis at the Macedonia-Thrace General Secretary in Thessaloniki. Promchonas is the last remaining roadblock in the country. According to sources, the majority of protesting farmers have accepted that the reforms pledged by the government might not provide the immediate cash support they had initially sought but do offer a crucial temporary grace period for the repayment of some 200 million euros in loans. "This does not mean that the farmers will not be obliged to repay this money later," a spokesperson for the Agriculture Ministry remarked.

Mylonas abduction. Prosecutor seeks guilty verdicts for all three suspects. A public prosecutor yesterday recommended to a Thessaloniki court that the three suspects accused of taking part in the abduction of local industrialist Giorgos Mylonas in June 2008 should all be found guilty. Vangelis Chrysochoidis, Polykarpos Georgiadis and Asimakis Lazaridis are accused of being three of the four suspects that held Mylonas hostage for 13 days, releasing him only after a ransom of 10.8 million euros had been paid. The other suspect is Vassilis Palaiocostas, one of Greece's most wanted men, who escaped from Korydallos Prison last year. Lazaridis has confessed to his part in the kidnap but Georgiadis and Lazaridis said that they simply ran errands for Palaiocostas and did not abduct Mylonas.

Police attacked. An officer of the police motorcycle patrol squad sustained minor injuries yesterday afternoon when he and a colleague were set upon by a group of youths outside the Athens University of Economics and Business. The two officers had gone to the location after a resident called to report someone attempting to break into a car. As it turned out, the supposed break-in was in fact a motorist trying to get into his own car after having lost the keys. When the officers arrived at the scene, they were attacked by 10 youths wearing motorcycle helmets who pelted them with stones and other objects. The attackers managed to elude arrest. The anarchists condemn the attack.

EU offers help but no specific money pledge. As mentioend the European Union yesterday pledged political and moral, if not necessarily financial, support for Greece in a bid to ringfence the country's economy and the Euro-zone from speculators as Prime Minister George Papandreou insisted that his government is not looking for an injection of cash from abroad. Euro-zone finance ministers, will not discuss specific ways of supporting Greece in their meeting on Monday, five Euro-zone sources preparing the meeting said on Friday. "No. Very definitely not. It is too early," one senior Euro-zone source with insight into the Eurogroup meeting said.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has criticized the European Union's response to the country's financial crisis as timid and too slow. Mr Papandreou told cabinet members at a televised meeting in Athens that the EU lacked coordination and undermined Greece's credibility. At a summit in Brussels on Thursday, the EU offered Greece its backing but gave no details of any plans to help. Greece's debt crisis has put pressure on the euro, causing it to lose value. Speaking on his return from Brussels, Mr Papandreou said that while Greece had received a statement of support, delays and conflicting statements over the past few months had made things worse. "But in the battle against the impressions and the psychology of the market, it was at the very least timid, " he added. He said that speculation about the country had "created a psychology of imminent collapse". Mr Papandreou also accused EU institutions - the Commission, the member states and the European central bank - of a lack of coordination.

11.02.2010 later... EU deal 'agreed' on Greece debts. Taxi strike. No cabs today as drivers stage protest at tax reforms. The anarchists support the strike. How to reduce Greece's unemployment to about 3.3%.

EU deal 'agreed' on Greece debts. EU leaders have reached a deal on helping Greece tackle its debt crisis, EU President Herman Van Rompuy says. He gave no further details, but all 27 EU leaders are now set to discuss it. The question of how to contain Greece's debt problems and ease pressure on the euro will dominate the EU summit starting in Brussels. The leaders are under pressure to give a clear signal to financial markets that Greece's budget crisis will not destabilise the euro. France and Germany are reported to have worked on a political declaration of support for Greece. It is the first big test for European Council President Herman Van Rompuy. He wanted the summit to focus on a new strategy for jobs and growth - a blueprint for the next 10 years. But defending the euro is now a more pressing issue. EU rules prevent the 16-nation Euro-zone from collectively bailing out Greece, but bilateral help might be forthcoming. The specifics of any EU aid are not expected before Monday, when Euro-zone finance ministers meet.

The summit's other main agenda items are climate change and help for earthquake-devastated Haiti. The markets remain sceptical that Greece will be able to pay its debts. Any EU budget support for Greece is likely to come with stringent conditions, to ensure that Athens fulfils its austerity plans and to reassure European voters that their taxes will not be diverted to propping up Greece. Thursday's talks are all the more urgent coming just hours after a public sector strike brought many services to a standstill in Greece. The government's decision to freeze public sector salaries and raise the retirement age are among the austerity measures that have angered Greek trade unions. Other Euro-zone countries with big deficits, such as Portugal and Spain, are seen as vulnerable if Greece's budget crisis is not tackled resolutely.

Greece's deficit is as mentioned, at 12.7%, more than four times higher than Euro-zone rules allow. For years Greek spending has ballooned while tax revenue has diminished. Its debt is about 300bn euros ($419bn; £259bn), and the government estimates it will need to borrow about 53bn euros this year to cover budget shortfalls. Debt servicing is now costing Greece 11.6% of its gross domestic product and it has to pay more interest on loans now because its credit rating has been downgraded. Analysts say that powerful Euro-zone members such as Germany may be able to help by buying Greek government debt or by providing loan guarantees.

In addition, the European Commission may decide to disburse regional aid to Greece earlier than planned. But EU leaders appear reluctant to call on the International Monetary Fund to shore up the Greek economy. That would be a big blow to pride in the single currency. After talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Wednesday, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said his government would do whatever it took to cut its deficit. "We have not asked for help," he said. "We have said that we just want you to support our own will, our country's credibility in implementing this programme."

Mr Van Rompuy has chosen a quiet old wood-panelled library, Bibliotheque Solvay, as the secluded setting for his first summit as EU president. It is just a short walk from the usual EU venue - the modern Justus Lipsius building, which houses hundreds of journalists and delegation officials. Greece is not even mentioned in Mr Van Rompuy's invitation letter to the EU leaders, but correspondents say it is bound to figure prominently in the day-long discussions. A default by any of the high-deficit Euro-zone countries would hit banks in Europe which hold government debt. The risk is that the contagion could hurt European exports and even trigger a rapid decline in the euro's value, if international investors took fright and tried to shift their assets into other currencies. So far the decline of the euro has been substantial - about 9% since early December - but not disorderly.

The European Commission is working on a blueprint for the EU's long-term recovery and growth, called Europe 2020, which is expected by early March. It will replace the Lisbon Strategy, launched in 2000, which became a victim of the global financial crisis and of fiscal rule-breaking by EU governments. Mr Van Rompuy is reported to favour tighter EU co-ordination of economic policy and enhanced EU surveillance of member states' budgets. Mr Van Rompuy's priorities on climate change include "changing the dynamics of the negotiating process", to put the EU back in the driving seat after the disappointment of Copenhagen in December. In Copenhagen the EU failed to get binding global targets on greenhouse gas emissions, in what was widely seen as a big diplomatic setback.

Taxi strike. No cabs today as drivers stage protest at tax reforms. There will be no taxis serving the capital today following a decision by the Association of Attica Taxi Drivers (SATA) to stage a 24-hour strike from 5 a.m. Cabbies in other cities are expected to follow suit, joining the protest against the impact of new tax reforms announced by the government. A written statement by SATA denounced the proposed measures, saying that they they "would create a series of new problems and make our occupation more difficult, if not impossible." Taxi drivers are considering further strike action next week. The anarchists support the strike.

How to reduce Greece's unemployment to about 3.3%. The World Economic Council, WEC, has presented a scenarioanalysis on how Greece, with about 10% unemployment, can reduce it to about 3.3% in 2010, see http://www.anarchy.no/wec.html .

11.02.2010. Brown Cards to so called selfstyled "anarchists", Vangelis Chrysochoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and to Kathimerini, that reports:

Anarchist and fugitive discussed books in jail. A self-styled anarchist accused of being a member of the gang that kidnapped industrialist Giorgos Mylonas for 13 days in June 2008, told a Thessaloniki court yesterday about how he met the group's alleged mastermind and current fugitive, Vassilis Palaiocostas, in prison where the pair discussed the works of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Polykarpos Georgiadis said that he met Palaiocostas in Korydallos Prison in 2004 and was impressed by the convict's collection of books. Georgiadis had been jailed for attempted arson. He said that Palaiocostas contacted him following his first escape from Korydallos. Georgiadis said that he agreed to run errands for the convicted robber. Georgiadis and another [selfstyled] anarchist, Vangelis Chrysochoidis, said they brought things to the house where Mylonas was held but did not take part in the abduction.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the so called "self-styled anarchists" Vangelis Chrysochoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis i.e. terrorist arsonists. They are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, the so called "self-styled anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Also, running errands for the rightwing extremist robber Vassilis Palaiocostas clearly shows Polykarpos Georgiadis and Vangelis Chrysochoidis are not anarchists. Furthemore, they are practically certain terrorist arsonists.

As mentioned the so called "self-styled anarchists", are in reality terrorist leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, similar other newsmedia, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Terrorism, including arson, a form of ochlarchy, is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn arson attacks and terrorism in general and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "self-styled anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

10.02.2010. Greeks strike over austerity plan. The anarchists in general support the strike, but condemn the small tendencies of ochlarchy. Farmers' meeting with Agriculture minister unfruitful.

Greeks strike over austerity plan. Thousands of Greeks have rallied against deficit-cutting measures during a national public sector strike. Flights have been grounded, many schools are closed and hospitals are operating an emergency-only service. The prime minister, who wants to freeze pay, gather more taxes and reform pensions, insisted that the proposals would be fully implemented. EU leaders will discuss Greece's difficulties on Thursday amid concern the crisis could threaten the euro. European finance ministers are also due to hold a teleconference on Wednesday to talk about the issue. Despite heavy rain, there have been rallies across Greece throughout the day, with thousands of striking workers and pensioners gathering in the capital, Athens.

Several thousand people were also reported to have protested in Greece's second city, Thessaloniki. The rallies have been mainly peaceful, but in one incident police fired tear gas at rubbish collectors who tried to drive through a police cordon. Some demonstrators threw stones at the police but the trouble was quickly defused. Some labor unions regard the austerity programme as a declaration of war against the working and middle classes. Their resolve is strengthened by their belief that this crisis has been engineered by external forces, such as international speculators and European central bankers. "It's a war against workers and we will answer with war, with constant struggles until this policy is overturned," said Christos Katsiotis, a union member affiliated to the Communist Party, at the Athens rally.

Others in the capital either see the cuts as necessary or argue that the strike is politically motivated. "We have to implement the austerity measures, or the country will not be able to get out of this crisis," said Katerina, a private sector employee. "We have to pay for the mistakes of the past." On Tuesday, Prime Minister George Papandreou's so called socialist government, the system seen all in all is populist, announced that it intends to raise the average retirement age from 61 to 63 by 2015 in a bid to save the cash-strapped pensions system. The move comes on top of other planned austerity measures, including a public sector salary freeze and a hike in petrol prices, announced last week.

Further government measures include the non-replacement of departing civil servants, and tax collectors recovering billions of euros lost to tax evasion. Mr Papandreou, who was in Paris on Wednesday for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy, pledged to "take any necessary measures" to reduce Greece's deficit. "The stability programme will be implemented in every measure," he said. Mr Papandreou has already faced down a three-week protest by farmers demanding higher government subsidies. Public sector workers will not be hit as hard as they have been in the Irish Republic, but they complain that some of the lowest paid will suffer while the rich dodge tax with impunity.

Financial markets around the world and politicians from across Europe will be watching the situation carefully. Greece's deficit is, at 12.7%, more than four times higher than Euro-zone rules allow. Its debt is about 300bn euros ($419bn; £259bn). The markets remain sceptical that Greece will be able to pay its debts and many investors believe the country will have to be bailed out. The uncertainty has recently buffeted the euro and the problems have extended to Spain and Portugal, which are also struggling with their deficits. The possibility of Greece or one of the other stricken countries being unable to pay its debts - and either needing an EU bailout or having to abandon the euro - has been called the biggest threat yet to the single currency. Ahead of the talks between EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday, some business media reported that Germany is preparing to lead a possible bail-out, supported by France and other Euro-zone members.

The strikes began with government tax workers last week, now as mentioned other Greek civil servants have taken to the streets. Union leaders say this action is just the first in a series of strikes. The government, urged on by Brussels, maintains it has no choice but take drastic action to cut its debt and budget deficit. But opinion remains divided on whether austerity is the answer. One man said: "Everyone must get off their couches, out of their beds and take to the streets, because life has taught me that that is the only way to get justice. It's not handed to us on a plate." A woman said: "We have to implement the austerity measures or the country will not be able to get out of this crisis. We have to pay for the mistakes of the past." Unions oppose plans to freeze public wages and the hiring of new staff and slash overtime payments. Tax and retirement reforms are also causing anger. The crisis facing Greece has struck fear into the heart of the European Union. This amid debate about the stability of the Euro-zone and the risk of a domino effect.

Athens has promised to get its deficit down to the level accepted in the European Union rulebook: no more than three percent of GDP. But it is a classic case of the medicine being too bitter to swallow, and the Greek government is struggling to get the public behind its plan. Experts are also warning that many Greeks are in desperate situations, and this is a country where social unrest and violence is not uncommon. EU diplomats warn Athens that it must remain firm, as it will not get assistance without radical reform. The anarchists in general support the strike, but condemn the small tendencies of ochlarchy.

Farmers' meeting with Agriculture minister unfruitful. The fourth and last meeting between the representatives of farmers from various roadblocks along the national motorway with the leadership of the Agricultural Development and Food ministry ended with no conclusive result on Tuesday. A representative from the Nikea roadblock said that the minister moved along "the same antipopular and antifarmer policy and refused to satisfy the farming world's nine demands" and called on farmers to continue their struggle with decisions that will be taken at the roadblocks. It was revealed that assemblies will be held at roadblocks in Thessaly on Wednesday morning with a proposal on lifting blockades.

Wednesday traffic on Greek highways returned back to normal, since farmers decided to suspend their protests and leave the roadblocks. The roadblocks in Nikea, central Greece, and in Promachonas, the crossing in the border with Bulgaria, will open on Thursday morning. The farmers think that their protests proved their gloomy economical situation they are in and are waiting for the government to commit itself to its pledges. Giorgos Kasapides, Conservative deputy and section head for agricultural affairs: "If the Agricultural Minister wishes to upgrade her presence at the Ministry and gain the farmers' respect, she has to deal with the farmers' serious problems. We have had enough with her just criticizing ND's work, expressing wishes and good intentions."

09.02.2010. Farmers' actions. Grigoropoulos killing. Trial to restart on February 17.

Farmers' actions. Representatives of Thessaly and Macedonia farmers will have a meeting with Agriculture Minister K. Bazelis on Tuesday afternoon. Representatives of 19 farmers' blockades, among them Nikaia and Promahonas blockades, who met in Nikaia on Monday afternoon, appeared optimistic regarding the outcome of today's meeting with Agriculture Minister. They said that the ministry's leadership should have realized the size of their problems and would give the right solutions.

Grigoropoulos killing. Trial to restart on February 17. The trial of the two policemen charged with involvement in the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 – suspended last week after the public prosecutor withdrew from the case due to the death of a relative – is to start from scratch on February 17. Court of first instance prosecutor Haralambos Lakafosis has been appointed to replace Vassiliki Vlachou. The trial of Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis is to start again in Amfissa, some 200 kilometers northwest of Athens, with the testimony of the dead teenager's mother Gina Tsalikian.

08.02.2010. Farmers keep Promachonas closed. More strikes. The anarchists support these libertarian actions. Polls show Greeks back austerity measures.

Farmers keep Promachonas closed. Protesting farmers remained at Promachonas border post on Monday, blocking trucks from passing through the border. The Ormenio checkpoint in Evros prefecture was open however, although farmers kept their tractors lined up on both sides of the road. The road passing through the Doirani border post in Kilkis prefecture was open throughout the night.In Grevena prefecture, farmers with 40 tractors remain on the Egnatia road and at the Servia bridge but without disrupting traffic. Thessaly farmers kept closed the Athens-Thessaloniki highway at the Nikaia and Microthebes intersections.

More strikes. Greek civil servants warned on Monday they could call more strikes if the Socialist government unveils tough austerity measures to cut its deficit and ballooning public debt. The ADEDY public sector union already plans a 24-hour strike on Wednesday as Prime Minister George Papandreou puts the finishing touches to a deficit-cutting plan, endorsed by the European Commission to pull Greek finances back from the brink. His socialist government has promised to tighten one of Europe's leakiest tax systems and freeze public sector wages in a bid to slash Greece's deficit from 12.7 percent last year to below the EU's 3 percent ceiling by 2012. "We will strike on Wednesday to defend our dignity, to put an end to our sacrifices on the altar of financial markets. These are pointless sacrifices," ADEDY President Spyros Papaspyros told a news conference.

The government's emergency tax reform and wages bills are expected to be unveiled this week and become law by the end of the month, but details have angered Greece's powerful unions. ADEDY said it would decide on Thursday after the government makes public the bills whether to call another strike in early March or join one on Feb. 24 by the GSEE private sector union. Together the two group half Greece's 5 million workers. ADEDY demands salary increases for public sector workers, more job creation and an overhaul to make the tax system fairer. The government's response to this week's strike will be closely watched by international markets, keen to see whether Greece can contain a fiscal crisis that has already spread to Euro-zone periphery countries, Portugal and Spain. ADEDY's strike threat drove the spread of 10-year Greek bonds over benchmark German bunds higher and reversed an earlier fall in the cost of insuring Greek sovereign debt against default. However, analysts said union sabre rattling would not necessarily derail the government's austerity drive. "Of course, the unions have to show their muscles in order to please their members," said Sebastian Wanke of Dekabank. "The strike will probably be a dead end and not lead to any changes in the government's plans to reduce spending." The anarchists support these libertarian actions, by the farmers and the workers.

Polls show Greeks back austerity measures. Opinion polls published at the weekend suggested most Greeks back the government's economic policy and consider the fiscal measures announced as necessary and fair. A survey by pollster Kapa Research and published in To Vima newspaper on Sunday suggested 64 percent of Greeks believed the measures were essential. Nearly one-third of people polled believed they did not go far enough. Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, who took part in an impromptu cabinet meeting on Monday to discuss the package, said the raft of reforms would involve lowering the top tax rate, as the government seeks to shield the poorest Greeks. "The 40 percent tax rate will be applied on income levels that are lower than what is the case today, but there will also be intermediate rates that will provide relief for low and middle incomes," he told Ta Nea newspaper.

He said that as a result of the tax changes, the biggest burden would be felt by a small percentage of tax payers as 95 percent of earners report incomes below 30,000 euros a year. Worries over Greece's fiscal woes have battered its bond and stock markets, pushing its borrowing costs higher and helping to drive the euro currency to 8-1/2 month lows against the dollar. European ministers told their counterparts at a weekend G7 meeting they would make sure Greece sticks to its budget-cutting plan, but the pledges failed to reassure currency markets and the euro lost more ground on Monday. "We are making a huge effort to protect our economy from speculation and a lack of credibility, which have led to adverse borrowing terms," Papaconstantinou told the paper.

07.02.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continues. Promachonas closed again. The tail end of the farmer protests continued to cause problems at the Greek-Bulgarian border crossing in Promachonas on Sunday, where hardline farmers voted to once more close the border post to truck traffic after 15.00 in the afternoon. The blockade at Promachonas is the last in Serres after the road blocks at Strymonikos and Kerdyllia dispersed on Friday morning. Only the passage of trucks is being blocked at present, with cars and buses free to cross the border in both directions. Earlier on Sunday, in a meeting held at Tyrnavos in Larisa at midday, farmers taking part in the 12 remaining road blocks in Thessaly and Macedonia decided to stay put until the government backed down and met their demands. They will meet again on Monday afternoon at Nikaia.

06.02.2010. University unrest. Bomb hoax. The anarchists condemn the terrorist hoax. Farmers remove some blocks, raise others. Demonstrations by leftwing and rightwing extremists.

University unrest. A group of about 150 people wearing motorcycle helmets yesterday stormed the Athens University rector's office for reasons that remained unclear late last night. The rector's office remained under occupation last night, according to Vice Rector Yiannis Karakostas, who said that no damage had been caused by the protesters. There is concern that planned protests in the area today by extreme leftists and right-wing extremists could lead to trouble.

Bomb hoax. A call claiming that a bomb had been placed yesterday at the headquarters of the ESIEA journalists' union in central Athens turned out to be a hoax. Police evacuated the building and closed off the surrounding streets for half an hour after an anonymous caller told Eleftherotypia that a bomb had been placed in the building. No suspect device was found. A similar hoax call regarding the ESIEA premises occurred on January 18. The anarchists condemn the terrorist hoax.

Farmers remove some blocks, raise others. Farmers yesterday appeared to scale back their protests after three weeks, with several roadblocks coming to an end in central and northern Greece. But some blockades remained in place, including one at the Promachonas crossing at the Bulgarian border which has caused huge problems with cross-border trade, while a couple of new ones appeared. Dozens of farmers withdrew their tractors from 13 roadblocks after their representatives reached a consensus. But they stressed that they were "not leaving with their tails between their legs." "We're retreating but we're not backing down. We are going to wait and see if the government makes good on its promises," said Stathis Tsaprounis, a unionist representing farmers from a blockade at Elateia in central Greece.

Another spokesperson for farmers blocking a junction near Thessaloniki said protesters understood that the cash-strapped government is not in a position to give handouts but that they expected some kind of support. "We're going to stay a few more days to see if we can get a result, possibly the negotiation of better terms for bank loans" he said. Some new roadblocks sprung up, too. Producers in Achaia prefecture parked their tractors at the Rio toll gates on the Patras-Corinth national road, causing traffic problems. Meanwhile, farmers at the Promachonas border crossing stood firm, causing kilometers-long lines of trucks on both sides of the border. Representatives of the remaining 13 roadblocks in Thessaly and Macedonia were in talks late into the night yesterday to decide whether and how to continue with protest action.

The Greek-Bulgarian border crossing at Promachonas was kept closed by protesting farmers and their tractors for the third consecutive week on Saturday, even as protest road blocks elsewhere in Greece were gradually dispersing. The 'hardliners' at Promachonas are one of 20 farmer road blocks that remain, while they were the last to abandon protest action during similar protests in 2009. The rest of the road blocks are mainly clustered in the prefecture of Thessaly, where the Nikaia, Tyrnavos and Mikrothives junctions remain closed to traffic. Access to and from the Promachonas border post has been open to cars and buses every four hours since Friday morning, while emergency cases are immediately allowed through. The number of trucks waiting to cross has also been reduced, as most truck drivers take the alternative route via the Exohi border crossing in Drama. Representatives of the farming associations still manning the road blocks will hold a meeting on Sunday to decide what further action they will take, if any.

Demonstrations by leftwing and rightwing extremists. So called antiauthoritarian marxist groups staged a demonstration in central Athens in protest against racism and xenophobia while they continued occupation of Athens University Dean's Office. Also extreme right organizations objecting to the draft-bill on immigrants citizenship staged a demonstration at noon on Saturday. The marxists extremists threw stones and flares against security forces, and sparked some tension at Korai square which faded away and situation returned to normal when police left. The so called antiauthoritarians staged a demonstration at Propylaia in protest against the extreme rightists groups who object to the draft-bill providing for immigrants citizenship. The extreme right groups had planned a demonstration at 15.00 at Propylaia but they agreed to move the demonstration to Kolokotroni square after police intervention so the two opposite groups were not in the same site. Police were out in force to avert possible incidents among protesters.

05.02.2010. Farmers abandon roadblocks. Leaving the roadblocks does not equal to abandoning the demonstrations. The 10 February industrial actions.

Farmers abandon roadblocks. Farmers on Friday noon began to gradually withdraw their tractors from their roadblocks in Northern Greece and Thessaly following a decision taken by the Farmers Panhellenic Coordination Body, which convened late Thursday night in Veria, to suspend mobilisations. Farmers at the Kedryllia, Strymonikos, Amfipolis intersections in Serres and Vogatsiko in Kastoria had already started pulling out of the roadblocks and later in the day farmers will withdraw their tractors from the rest of the roadblocks.

Leaving the roadblocks does not equal to abandoning the demonstrations, since the farmers' association called on their colleagues to join the 10 February industrial actions organized by ADEDY and PAME. Anestis Kemanitzoglou, member of the farmers' association, said the farmers "are leaving the road blocks, giving the government six months to implement its institutional pledges." Speaking on NET radio station, farmers Vaios Ganis from the Alamana roadblock said: "We have been on the streets for 22 days. We are leaving the roadblocks in a gesture of good will and acknowledge the difficult situation the country has sunk into. We wish to open an honest dialogue with the government on our problems. If not, we will take to the streets again." The anarchists in general support the farmers' actions and the protests of ADEDY and PAME on the 10 February.

04.02.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue. Farmers to retire from Strymonikos roadblock on Friday. Policemen's court case delayed after prosecutor withdraws.

Farmers to retire from Strymonikos roadblock on Friday. Protesting farmers decided on Thursday to pull out on Friday from their roadblock at the Strymonikos interchange. According to the farmers' federation president Anastassios Katos, the farmers will withdraw their tractors from the road, although disappointed by the government's stance, and called on all their fellow farmers not to pay the PPC (electricity) bills instead as a show of protest. The tractors will remain on Thursday on the national highway but without disrupting the traffic. Protesting farmers at Promachonas on Thursday kept the border with Bulgaria closed. The farmers opened up the road late Wednesday night for a few hours to allow cars and trucks that had been blocked at the checkpoint since last Sunday to pass through before reclosing the checkpoint. Moreover, the Ormenio and Kipi checkpoints in Evros prefecture were open, with farmers intermmittently closing the Ormenio checkpoint.

Farmers on the Serres-Thessaloniki highway at the Strymonikos intersection remained at the site without however disrupting the traffic. Roads bypassing the Doirani and Evzoni checkpoints in Kilkis prefecture were open, as were the Krystallopigi and Niki checkpoints in Florina prefecture. Protesting farmers of Serres prefecture blocked the Egnatia motorway at the Kedryllia intersection. The Exochi border post in Drama prefecture was open during the night but the Chryssoupoli interchange in Kavala was blocked. Grevena prefecture farmers remained on the Egnatia motorway and several others gathered at the Servia bridge in Kozani, but without obstructing the traffic. However, Thessaly farmers remained at their roadblocks at the Nikaia and Microthebes intersections on the Athens-Thessaloniki highway. As mentioned the farmers have support from anarchists in general.

Policemen's court case delayed after prosecutor withdraws. The trial of the two policemen charged with being involved in the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 was suspended yesterday after the public prosecutor withdrew from the case due to the death of a relative. It is not known how long the trial will be suspended but the court in Amfissa, northwest of Athens, can either appoint new officials or file a request with the Supreme Court for the case to heard in the capital. Authorities had moved the trial to Amfissa because of security fears. Epaminondas Korkoneas, the policeman charged with shooting Grigoropoulos, was not in court yesterday as he was being treated in Korydallos Prison after complaining of depression.

03.02.2010. Farmers stand firm as talks fail. Psych probe. Bomb hoax. The anarchists condemn the terrorist hoax. Links to anarchist comments outdated at ERT.

Farmers stand firm as talks fail. Protesting farmers pressed on yesterday with a third week of strike action, blocking key road junctions and border crossings, after a third meeting with Agriculture Minister Katerina Batzeli failed to yield a compromise. Livestock farmers joined the action by crop producers, spilling milk onto roads in symbolic protests aimed at drawing attention to dropping retail prices for their goods. Representatives from several blockades in Thessaly and Macedonia declared their determination to press on with their action after a meeting with Batzeli yesterday ended in deadlock. The third meeting with the minister followed a marathon session of talks between unionists on Monday that ran well into the night, lasting nearly six hours.

According to a spokesperson for farmers in Kilkis, Giorgos Terzis, the measures heralded by Batzeli would not save them from an "asphyxiating" situation. "Even most of the institutional reforms that have been announced are abstract and lack a timeframe," he remarked. The farmers said they would release a statement explaining their decision to maintain roadblocks, which have crippled transport and strained cross-border relations. They are expected to press their demands for a meeting with Prime Minister George Papandreou. The premier has not responded directly to farmers' requests for a face-to-face meeting with him but yesterday reiterated calls to the producers to adopt a responsible stance as the government "has no leeway for satisfying the financial demands of various sectors."

Psych probe. Epaminondas Korkoneas, the policeman charged with shooting teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008, was transferred to the psychiatric hospital of Attica's Korydallos Prison yesterday after reportedly displaying aggressive behavior at the prison in Malandrino, in central Greece, where he was being detained as his trial gets under way in nearby Amfissa. Korkoneas will be examined by doctors to determine whether he is suffering from a psychiatric disorder. If it is deemed that he is, the trial is likely to be delayed a third time.

Bomb hoax. Police sealed off roads around Stadiou and Aeolou streets in central Athens shortly before 1 p.m. yesterday after an anonymous caller telephoned the Eleftherotypia daily warning that a bomb had been planted at the busy junction. A search by bomb disposal experts failed to turn up any explosive devices. The anarchists condemn the terrorist hoax.

Links to anarchist comments outdated at ERT (the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation). All links below to ERT online are no dead and the articles and comments are thus no longer available at the newspaper. The comments have however served their purpose, and all of the IAT-APT resolutions earlier published at ERT are still available at this html-file. They are important historical documents a.o.t. because the word ochlarchy was defined and used for the first time by a Greek main newspaper.

02.02.2010. Situation unchanged at roadblocks. 'Cells' arrest. Teachers strike. The anarchist support the strike.

Situation unchanged at roadblocks. The border posts of Ormenio and Kipi in Evros prefecture were open on Tuesday, however protesting farmers kept their tractors lined up on both sides of the road but without disrupting traffic. Farmers at Ormenio were intermittently closing the border post. The Promachonas checkpoint remained closed for trucks during the night, while farmers on the Serres-Thessaloniki highway at the Strymonikos intersection were intermittently blocking the road. Roads bypassing by the Doirani and Evzoni checkpoints in Kilkis prefecture were open, as were the Krystallopigi and Niki checkpoints in Florina prefecture. Protesting farmers of Serres prefecture remained throughout the night at their roadblocks at the Kedryllia intersection on the Egnatia motorway. The Exochi border post in Drama Prefecture was open during the night, but the Chryssoupoli interchange at Kavala was blocked. Grevena prefecture farmers remained on the Egnatia motorway and several others gathered at the Servia bridge in Kozani, but without obstructing the traffic. Thessaly (central Greece) farmers remained at their roadblocks at the Nikaia and Mikrothebes intersections.

'Cells' arrest. A 21-year-old Greek man was arrested in Aghios Dimitrios, southern Attica, yesterday afternoon and charged with participation in the terrorist organization, the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. According to reports, the man's fingerprints were found on objects in a Halandri apartment that police say had been used as a hideout by the increasingly active group. Following a series of bloodless bomb attacks against politicians over the past year, Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire last month claimed responsibility for a large explosion outside Parliament on January 9.

Teachers strike. State secondary school teachers decided yesterday that they would stage their own strike on March 8, protesting scheduled salary freezes and funding cuts, in addition to participating in the civil servants' union (ADEDY) strike due on February 10. Teachers object to plans by the government to hire several thousand part-time staff rather than full-time teachers and fear that their wages will be frozen along with those of other civil servants. The anarchist support the strike.

01.02.2010. Farmers produce list of 9 demands. Firebomb attack. The anarchists condemn the attack.

Farmers produce list of 9 demands. Farmers pressed on with their anarchist protest action over the weekend, blocking key road junctions and border crossings for a third week after talks with Agriculture Minister Katerina Batzeli failed to produce a compromise. Representatives from 23 different road and border blocks from Thessaly and Macedonia, in central and northern Greece, agreed on a list of nine demands, which they were due to submit to Batzeli late last night. The demands on the list include: the immediate disbursement of compensation for lost income and the announcement of minimum prices for crops; the protection of domestic agricultural produce from the competition posed by foreign imports; the reduction of rising production costs through the abolition of value-added tax on agricultural supplies and machinery and the scrapping of tax on fuel; the imposition of a three-year freeze on the repayment of farmers' loans; and the reduction of the minimum retirement age to 60 for men and 55 for women.

Representatives for the farmers said that, in addition to this list of nine demands in common, each group had additional demands specific to their region and specialization. There had been no response by the ministry to the farmers' demands by late yesterday. But on Friday Batzeli had said that the government would look into ways of boosting the incomes of farmers, who claim their sector is on the verge of bankruptcy. According to sources, Batzeli said that the government was considering channeling 1 billion euros of a 28-billion-euro rescue package set aside for banks last year to the agriculture sector.

The border posts of Ormenio and Kipi in Evros prefecture were open on Monday, however protesting farmers kept their tractors lined up on both sides of the road but without disrupting traffic. The Promachonas checkpoint remained closed for trucks, while farmers on Serres-Thessaloniki highway at the Strymonikos intersection were intermittently blocking the road. Roads bypassing by the Doirani and Evzoni checkpoints in Kilkis prefecture were open, as were the Krystallopigi and Niki checkpoints in Florina prefecture. Protesting farmers of Serres prefecture remained throughout the night at their roadblocks at the Kedryllia intersection on the Egnatia motorway. The Exochi border post in Drama Prefecture was open during the night but the Chryssoupoli interchange in Kavala was blocked. Grevena prefecture farmers remained on the Egnatia motorway and several others gathered at the Servia bridge in Kozani, but without obstructing the traffic. Thessaly (central Greece) farmers remained at their roadblocks at the Nikaia and Mikrothebes intersections.

Firebomb attack. Unidentified vandals early yesterday smashed the glass facade of a tax office in the district of Neos Cosmos, near central Athens, before hurling firebombs into the interior. According to local residents, six youths carried out the attack that caused serious damage but no injuries. The anarchists condemn the attack.

31.01.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue. The farmers from 20 roadblocks decided to escalate their protests. Earlier, the farmers from central Greece had taken the same decision, reducing traffic to a crawl and causing chain side-effects to economy. The Agricultural Ministry keeps saying it is open to dialogue with the farmers, yet stressing that it cannot meet their financial grievances. Later on Sunday, the farmers from Tirnavos, Platikabos and Mikrothives are to hold a meeting to determine their future stance, while asking for an immediate meeting with the Agricultural Minster. The Egnatia motorway at the Kedryllia interchange is also closed but the old Serres-Kavala road is open. Lines of tracks are waiting at the Greek-Bulgarian border, since the protesting farmers allow only cars and buses to cross the border post towards the neighbouring country. The president of the farmers' union in Nigrita, northern Greece said the farmers won't leave the roadblocks unless their nine grievances are met.

30.01.2010. Blast, arson by suspected marxist leftwing terrorist ochlarchists, not anarchists as Kathimerini, getting a Brown Card, suggests. The farmers' anarchist actions continue.

Blast, arson by suspected marxist leftwing terrorist ochlarchists. Police on the island of Kalymnos in the Dodecanese were yesterday seeking the assailants who planted a large quantity of dynamite that exploded under the car of a 35-year-old local teacher, causing serious damage but no injuries. Officers gave no indication of a possible motive for the attack which destroyed the car and damaged the exterior of a nearby house. Meanwhile in Athens, suspected anarchists staged a string of bloodless arson attacks. In the southern Athens district of Nea Smyrni, homemade bombs detonated under two parked cars belonging to United Nations diplomats. At around the same time vandals smashed the facade of conservative New Democracy's local office before dousing the interior with gasoline and setting it alight. In Thessaloniki, several cars were destroyed in three arson hits. Marxist leftwing terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, as Kathimerini suggests, are probably behind the blast and arson. See reports of 29.01.2010 for more information. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention, for spreading the above quoted disinfomation.

The farmers' anarchist actions continue. The protesting farmers are not as centralized organized as in the past years and their demands and actions differ according to their specific areas. This is more of a grassroots movement with media-savvy farmers serving as spokesmen in interminable televised clashes with Agriculture Development Minister Katerina Batzeli and disapproving TV anchors. Agriculture Minister Katerina Batzeli yesterday indicated that the government would look into ways of boosting the incomes of farmers, who have been blocking key road junctions and border crossings for the past two weeks, as the representatives of 12 different protest groups sought to agree on a list of demands to present to Batzeli. According to sources, Batzeli said the government was considering channeling 1 billion euros of a 28-billion-euro rescue package set aside for banks last year to the country's ailing agricultural sector. Batzeli, whose meetings with representatives of various farmers' unions ran late into the night yesterday, also pledged a freeze for at least two years on the repayment of all loans taken out by farmers and refunds for tax paid on fuel.

The farmers did not appear to have been convinced. "We will not leave the table of talks until a solution is found, even if this means us staying at the ministry all night," said Vaios Ganis, a spokesperson for farmers in the prefecture of Fthiotida, central Greece. "We have studied the proposals made by the ministry and there are certain gaps," he added. Protesting farmers heading into the 16th day of mobilizations on Saturday continued to block the Promahonas border post from truck traffic. The Egnatia motorway at the Kedryllia interchange is also closed but the old Serres-Kavala road is open. Traffic will not be blocked on Saturday on the Serres-Thessaloniki highway at Strymonikos. However, Grevena-area farmers decided not to close the Egnatia link with the Grevena-Kozani old road over the weekend in order to facilitate hotel proprietors and tourism businesses. Meanwhile, a second meeting among farmers from 16 roadblocks from the regions of Macedonia and Thessaly was held on Saturday near the Promahonas checkpoint. Protesting farmers from central Greece decided to escalate mobilizations in the next days and to remain at roadblocks at Alamana, Kastro, Elatia and Livanates. As mentioned the farmers have support from anarchists in general.

29.01.2010. Later... Brown Cards to ANA-MPA, Taiwan news and Phantis, that falsely report about "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.

Brown Cards to so called "anarchists"; "self-styled youths", "small groups" and "RLA", i.e. marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchy groups, and not anarchists, and ANA-MPA, Taiwan news and Phantis, that falsely report:

Arson attacks in Athens, Thessaloniki. (ANA-MPA) - A number of arson attacks were recorded overnight in Athens targeting parked vehicles. A company truck parked in the district of Exarchia was set ablaze on Thursday night and was slightly damaged. Two propane canisters found intact at the scene are being examined by police. A few hours later two UN vehicles parked in the Athens district of Nea Sm y rni were completely destroyed when unidentified individuals doused them with flammable liquid and set them on fire. A nother truck parked in the district of Zografos was slightly damaged in a similar arson attack. A few minutes earlier, at 01.05 am, a group of 8-10 individuals broke the glass façade of the local offices of main opposition New Democracy (ND) party in Nea Sm y rni and set them on fire using flammable liquid. The damage caused was minor. In Thessaloniki, a number of high-end cars parked in different parts of the city were set ablaze between02.40 a.m. and 02.45 a.m. The arson attacks continued at 04.35 a.m. in the municipality of Kalamaria where firefighters quickly put out a fire before spreading to a fast food outlet . A nearby bank ATM was completely destroyed. The "modus operandi" of the attacks points to self-styled anarchist youths mostly active in criminal mischief in central Athens and Thessaloniki.

Greek group claims bombing of former PM's office. (Taiwan news) An anarchist group called Revolutionary Liberation Action has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack against the office of former Socialist Prime Minister Costas Simitis. The daily newspaper Eleftherotypia said Friday it had received an e-mail from the group claiming responsibility for Thursday's attack, which caused minor damage and no injuries. In its e-mail, the group said it targeted Simitis as a representative of the country's political and economic elite. Simitis served as prime minister from 1996-2004. The group has struck several times in the past few years, usually planting bombs at politicians' offices, ministry buildings or banks. Small anarchist groups frequently target symbols of wealth and authority in Greece.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the so called "anarchists"; "self-styled youths", "small groups" and "RLA". They are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, the so called "anarchists"; "self-styled youths", "small groups" and "RLA", are expulsed from the anarchist movement.

As mentioned the so called "anarchists"; "self-styled youths", "small groups" and "RLA", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist terrorist ochlarchists and not anarchists. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as ANA-MPA, Taiwan news and Phantis do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. ANA-MPA, Taiwan news and Phantis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Terrorism, including arson attacks, a form of ochlarchy, is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "anarchists"; "self-styled youths", "small groups" and "RLA" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including arson attacks, in Greece, not now and not before. By the way, these marxist ochlarchists have not called themselves anarchists. It is pure lies and speculations by ANA-MPA, Taiwan news and Phantis. Try to be more matter of fact!!!

29.01.2010. Minister seeks farmers deal. Bomb attack by the so called Revolutionary Liberation Action. The anarchists condemn RLA. Grigoropoulos trial delayed.

Minister seeks farmers deal. Agriculture Minister Katerina Batzeli is today to sit down and try and reach a compromise with protesting farmers who have been blocking the country's roads and border crossings for the past two weeks. Delegates of different groups of farmers are due to meet in Nea Malgara, near Thessaloniki, with the aim of agreeing on a list of demands that they intend to later present to Batzeli. There were signs yesterday that some group leaders were reluctant to yield on any of their demands, while others appeared more flexible. Meanwhile, dozens of roadblocks across the country continued to cause problems for trade and transport, both domestic and cross-border. KTEL intercity bus routes between Athens and Serres, in northern Greece, were suspended due to severe disruptions caused by the farmers' action. These problems were aggravated after farmers set up additional roadblocks on diversions around the Vale of Tempe section of the Athens-Thessaloniki highway, closed since December because of a major rockfall.

Bomb attack by the so called Revolutionary Liberation Action. A relatively new domestic terrorist group calling itself Revolutionary Liberation Action yesterday called Skai TV and Radio to claim responsibility for an explosion outside the central Athens office of former Prime Minister Costas Simitis earlier in the day which caused serious damage but no injuries. The group first appeared last March when it claimed responsibility for a similar device planted outside the offices of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a New Democracy MP. Unidentified arsonists had placed the homemade explosive device, comprising four gas canisters, outside Simitis's political office on the fifth floor of an apartment block on Academias Street. The 73-year-old former premier was not in the office at the time of the blast. Two workers from the office who had been on its balcony were unharmed. The anarchists condemn RLA.

Grigoropoulos trial delayed. The trial of the two policemen charged in connection with the December 2008 shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos was suspended yesterday after the public prosecutor asked for time away from her duties due to the death of a close relative. A court in Amfissa, a small town some 200 kilometers northwest of Athens, is to decide today when the trial of Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis will resume. Legal experts told Kathimerini that a delay of at least a week is usual in such cases. But the request by prosecutor Vassiliki Vlachou was rejected by the Supreme Court. In view of this unusual development, the experts said, it is quite likely that Vlachou will stay on the case. If she does not, and a replacement prosecutor needs to be appointed, the trial – which began on January 20 – will probably have to start from the beginning and Grigoropoulos's mother, Gina Tsalikian, will be obliged to repeat her testimony. The trial was relocated to Amfissa from Athens by authorities who feared mass protests in the capital. Source: Kathimerini.

28.01.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue, but roadblocks abandoned. Arson attacks. Violent robbery.

The farmers' anarchist actions continue, but roadblocks abandoned. The European Commission (EC) said yesterday that it had launched an investigation into whether 425 million euros paid out to farmers in 2008 and 2009 as compensation for damages actually constituted state subsidies, which would violate European common market regulations. In a statement yesterday, the EC gave the government a month to provide more details about the payouts made by the Hellenic Agricultural Insurance Organization (ELGA), which oversees the compensation to farmers. "It cannot be ruled out that the compensation paid by ELGA in 2008 and 2009 under the compulsory insurance scheme constitutes state aid," was the message from the headquarter of EU's unenlightened plutarchy. If it transpires that theses payments were state subsidies, the government will be obliged to recover the 425 million euros from farmers or face the European Court.

Such a move seemed inconceivable yesterday as hundreds of farmers maintained 28 roadblocks across the country, pressing their demands for the release of subsidies. Successive meetings yesterday between Agriculture Minister Katerina Batzeli and various groups of farmers ended in deadlock as she stressed the government's inability to make immediate cash payments. Meanwhile, talks aimed at establishing a communist style central committee to coordinate the various groups of farmers that have set up roadblocks across the country reportedly stalled. According to sources, there were various reasons for the deadlock, including conflicting political affiliations and disagreements between young farmers and older producers with more traditional beliefs. The intention had been for representatives of a central committee to sit down with Batzeli for more talks aimed at lifting the farmers' 13-day action.

The attempt by farmers at the Promachonas crossing with Bulgaria to extend their action by parking their tractors on the tracks of a cross-border railway route nearly ended in disaster yesterday. The local station master on the Greek side of the border warned farmers to withdraw five tractors from the tracks just a few minutes before a Bulgarian freight train en route to Thessaloniki traversed the spot.

Subzero temperatures and snowfall in Northern Greece forced protesting farmers to abandon their roadblocks on Thursday. The Promachonas border post and railroad station are open. Egnatia motorway at the Kedryllia intersection opened at 06.30 a.m. due to heavy snowfall. Farmers said they decided to leave their posts in order to facilitate the snowgraders' work. Moreover, Egnatia motorway on the section linking Serres with Kavala and the old national highway will remain open throughout the day. Traffic is unobstructed at the Ormenio and Kipi checkpoints, although with farmers maintain their tractors lined up on both sides of the road.

The Greek Prime Minister yesterday again invited the protesting farmers to a dialogue. "Road blocks cannot solve the problems, but dialogue can," stressed George Papandreou, further assuring that the government has the will to carry out major reforms that require everyone's contribution. As mentioned the farmers have support from anarchists in general.

Arson attacks. A homemade bomb made of gas canisters started a large fire at a branch of the Carrefour-Marinopoulos supermarket in Argyropouli, southern Attica, when it detonated late on Tuesday. Firemen managed to extinguish the blaze before could wreak serious damage. Early yesterday police reported two more arson attacks, one in coastal Glyfada and another in nearby Terpsithea. In the first incident, vandals doused a sports utility vehicle with American license plates with gas before setting it alight. In the second, three motorcycles were destroyed in the same way. There were no reports of arrests. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks by suspected leftwing extremists.

Violent robbery by suspected rightwing extremists. Police seek pair who fired at them with Kalashnikov. Police last night were seeking the two robbers who held up a branch of Eurobank in Corinth earlier in the day, fleeing with 17,000 euros before firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at officers who chased them in a patrol car. There were no reports of anyone being injured following the raid on the bank, which the robbers entered holding shotguns, nor of any injuries to officers in the patrol car that followed them. At one point during the chase, the robbers stopped the getaway car and got out before opening fire on the police car, causing damage but no injuries. The thieves then jumped back into the vehicle and fled. A police helicopter and patrol cars were scouring the area for signs of the fugitives.

27.01.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue. Rallying for citizenship. Call for action in historic center. Synagogue fire. Train vandals. Minor trouble.

The farmers' anarchist actions continue. As protesters maintain roadblocks, PASOK officials appear divided on how to resolve financial dispute. As farmers maintained numerous roadblocks at key junctions and border crossings yesterday, Prime Minister George Papandreou appealed to them to rechannel their energy "into making the country more productive", as top-ranking officials of ruling PASOK reportedly disagreed about how to resolve the crisis. The premier, whom the farmers have insisted on meeting to discuss their demands even though he has plainly said that "there is no money," is due back in Athens today from Strasbourg but will depart tomorrow for the World Economic Forum at Davos. So it is likely that Agricultural Development and Food Minister Katerina Batzeli will have to deal with the farmers.

Batzeli, who is due to to hold talks with farmers from Thessaly and Macedonia tomorrow, yesterday joined a meeting of top government officials convened by Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos. According to sources, opinion was divided among officials about how farmers can be persuaded to lift roadblocks that have paralyzed trade and transport for two weeks. The one point on which officials agreed, the sources said, was that trade unionists affiliated to the main opposition New Democracy and the Communist Party (KKE) are supposedly behind the protest action. This is not true, it is anarchist actions.

Some officials also reportedly expressed fears about possible protests in other sectors with financial demands. Meanwhile the disruption on the national road network continued to provoke the anger of other sectors. Intercity (KTEL) bus drivers yesterday threatened to set up their own roadblocks unless a solution to the farmers' actions is found by tomorrow. The continuing presence of tractors at the Promachonas border crossing drew the anger of authorities in Bulgaria, prompting Serres Prefect Stefanos Fotiadis to meet with his counterpart in the adjacent prefecture of Blagoevgrad.

Rallying for citizenship. It was an anti-racism rally in central Athens yesterday, demanding that all second-generation immigrants be given Greek citizenship. Similar protests were held in several cities around the country. The government has pledged to table a bill in Parliament which would entitle the children of immigrants to citizenship. The anarchists support the action.

Call for action in historic center. A committee of local and central government officials as well as residents and businesspeople from the capital's run-down historic center yesterday agreed on the need for an organized initiative to improve quality of life in the increasingly dirty and crime-ridden district. Addressing Parliament's environment committee, the participants – including Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis and Athens Prefect Yiannis Sgouros – submitted proposals for ways in which the area can be purged. "Upgrading Athens's historic center cannot be achieved with police sweeps but with an organized and gradual intervention that tackles town-planning, architectural, environmental, social and financial concerns," the committee's president, Costas Kartalis, said.

Sgouros, who has long campaigned for a cleanup of the historic center, blamed a lack of political will for the absence of progress and said a real improvement could be overseen by a special committee comprising local and central government officials. The prefect also called for legislative reform that would allow the restoration of dozens of derelict buildings in the center, many of which have been occupied by destitute drug addicts and illegal immigrants. Kaklamanis said the pedestrianization of busy Athinas Street would smarten up the area. Yesterday's initiative by the parliamentary committee came a few days after a European Commission report ranked Athens, Hamburg and Bratislava, the Slovakian capital, as the EU cities that have the most worrying rates of "ghettoization." A committee representing citizens and traders in the area has long protested the flourishing activities of local drug and prostitution rack "If we want to upgrade Athens, we need to set down some rules and faithfully adhere to them." The anarchists support the action.

Synagogue fire. One man held, two bailed. A 33-year-old Briton was yesterday remanded in custody over two arson attacks on the Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Hania, Crete but two other suspects were released on bail pending trial. The Briton, from Manchester, has been charged with arson and forming a criminal gang. A 24-year-old local man and a 23-year-old Briton were also charged. A fourth suspect, a 24-year-old American, is due to face a prosecutor tomorrow. A fifth man, also an American, is being sought but he is believed to have fled to Italy. The synagogue was severely damaged in the January 5 and 16 attacks.

Train vandals. Police in Athens were seeking the youths who vandalized a train that had been moving in to the Patissia station of the Piraeus-Kifissia urban electric railway (ISAP) at 3 a.m. yesterday. According to ISAP staff, a group of youths littered the tracks with objects to hinder the passage of the train, which had been pulling in to the station well after the end of services on the line. The youths also smashed the window of one of the train's carriages and sprayed graffiti on its side. The anarchists condemn the vandals.

Minor trouble. Thirteen minors who were allegedly part of a group of 45 people that disrupted an anti-racism rally in Ambelokipi, central Athens, on Saturday were released from custody late on Monday night. The teenagers denied charges of disrupting the peace, using threatening behavior and illegally carrying and using weapons. All 13 will have to face an investigating magistrate. Another 32 suspects were arrested following Saturday's disturbances and have already been charged with various felonies.

26.01.2010. Farmers refuse to engage with PASOK. Bomb attack. Sudden boom in bomb hoaxes. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and the bomb hoaxes.

Farmers refuse to engage with PASOK. A bid to reopen the lines of communication between the government and protesting farmers yesterday failed to get off the ground as members of the agricultural sector and representatives of New Democracy (ND) boycotted round-table discussions in Athens. Just a day after talks between Agricultural Development Minister Katerina Batzeli and farmers failed to result in any breakthrough, PASOK was dealt a further blow as its effort to establish common ground with the protesters, who have set up more than 20 roadblocks around Greece, ended in disappointment.

Only a handful of younger farmers who are keeping a distance from the more traditional groupings took part in yesterday's discussions. At the same time, several hundred farmers from central Greece protested outside the Zappeio Hall, where the meeting was being held, and then continued their gathering in Kolonaki Square. Batzeli reiterated that the government is not in a position to promise more handouts due to the budgetary constraints it faces. She also criticized ND representatives for walking out, saying that it was just a public relations gesture aimed at winning back the farmers the party lost in the last general election.

The minister said the government wants to reform the agricultural sector, that the renegotiation of the terms of farmers' bank loans would be examined in March, that imported meat would undergo inspections to ensure it is not labeled as Greek and that there would be an effort to close the gap between the prices producers sell at and retail prices. Thousands of farmers who did not make the trip to Athens responded to yesterday's talks by reinforcing their roadblocks, such as the one at the Promahonas border crossing with Bulgaria. There appears to be little or no central coordination as to where roadblocks are set up and for how long. Each group of farmers seems to be deciding among themselves what action to take.

Bomb attack. A homemade explosive device caused minor damage when it detonated outside the offices of AEK soccer club in Aghioi Anargyroi, a northwestern suburb of Athens, at around 5 a.m. yesterday. The device, comprising three gas canisters, damaged the facades of the offices and of an adjacent bakery. The anarchists condemn the attack.

Sudden boom in bomb hoaxes. An anonymous telephone call to police yesterday morning, warning that a bomb had been placed in Thessaloniki's court complex, turned out to be hoax – the 121st such incident since a time bomb detonated outside Parliament on January 9. Police bomb disposal experts evacuated the court complex immediately after receiving word of the anonymous call. But several hours spent inspecting the premises turned up no suspicious devices. The same drill has been conducted dozens of times in Thessaloniki, Athens and other cities over the past two weeks as anonymous callers take advantage of heightened police sensitivity to potential terrorist attacks following the bloodless blast outside Parliament earlier this month, claimed by the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and another lesser-known group.

Two such false alarms over the weekend caused concern among the public. On Saturday a hoax caller warned that a bomb would go off in the Attica department store in central Athens while on Sunday a caller told police to prepare for a blast in the Metropolitan Expo exhibition hall at Athens Airport. In the case of the department store hoax, police ordered an immediate evacuation of the busy shopping venue, causing public concern though most people left the area calmly. The bomb threat at Athens Airport caused similar anxiety and aggravation for the dozens of businesses at the exhibition. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoaxes.

Synagogue fire: fourth arrest. An American man yesterday became the fourth person to be arrested in connection with two arson attacks on Crete's only remaining synagogue, the Etz Hayyim in Hania. A 24-year-old local man and two Britons aged 23 and 33 were arrested last week on suspicion of being part of a group of five men that took part in the raids. The American man arrested yesterday was also aged 24 and has been living in Hania for the last few months, working in various jobs. Another American, thought to have fled to Italy, is also wanted in connection with the attacks. The two Britons deny any involvement in the incidents but sources said that British police are checking whether they were involved with any extremist organizations in their own country. The American is due to face a prosecutor on Thursday while the other three suspects are expected in court today. The synagogue suffered extensive damage but its director Nicholas Stavroulakis has pledged to restore the building. As mentioned, the anarchists suspect rightwing terrorists.

25.01.2010. Greek farmers march in Athens holding anarchist black flags. Attack on anti-racism protest. PASOK targeted with petrol bombs. The anarchists condemn the attacks.

Greek farmers march in Athens holding anarchist black flags. Greek farmers who have blocked highways and border crossings for nine days marched through Athens on Monday, piling pressure on the socialist government struggling with a financial crisis. Hundreds of angry farmers demanding more subsidies and higher prices for produce marched through the streets of the capital, holding anarchist black flags and chanting: "They are drinking our blood, farmers fight back!" Thousands of wheat, corn and cotton growers have caused major transport disruption across Greece by blocking roads with their trucks and tractors. Others have blocked the Promahonas border crossing with Bulgaria and the railway, ignoring appeals by Greek businesses and complaints from Sofia. The farmers' protest is seen as the first test for the ruling socialists, who need to impose tough austerity measures but face unions' opposition. If the government stands its ground in negotiations, the signal to other unions will be clear.

After a meeting with farmers on Sunday, Agriculture Minister Katerina Batzeli said the government would not satisfy their financial demands. "The government is determined to get the country out of the crisis," Batzeli said. "It can't afford the money they are asking for." The government has promised the EU to narrow its double-digit budget shortfall to 2.8 percent of GDP by 2012 through welfare spending cuts, tax reforms and savings on public sector wages. The EU and markets have piled pressure on the government to quickly implement the plan to reduce its deficit and debt which is seen rising to 124.9 percent of GDP this year, according to EU estimates, making Greece the bloc's most indebted country. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has urged farmers to end protests that add further strain to Greece's image, as the country struggles with its worst financial crisis in decades.

On Friday, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov met farmers at the border crossing and called on them to end the blockades. Bulgaria and Romania have called the European Commission to press Greece to reopen border crossings, while Sofia said it would seek 10 million euros ($14.20 million) in compensation, to cover Bulgarian transport companies' losses. Farmers frequently block roads in winter time in Greece to demand higher prices and grants for their products. Greece has one of the EU's biggest farming sectors, accounting for about 5 percent of the country's GDP. But most of it consists of small-scale farmers who rely on EU subsidies and guaranteed minimum prices to survive.

Open dialogue on agriculture. "The farmers' issue has been put to the society. We are determined to proceed with the necessary institutional changes in absolute cooperation with the farmers," Agricultural Development Minister Katerini Batzeli said on Monday, speaking at a two day conference at the Zappeion Mansion in Athens where an open discussion on agriculture problems is taking place. Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping Minister Louka Katseli underlined that "from our sector, that of Development and Competiteveness, we will contribute to solving the serious problems faced by the farmers in order to enhance their income". Moreover, ad hoc committees have started examining the eight key problem areas in Greek agriculture, with the participation of over 350 representatives of related organizations and agencies. The farmers have support from anarchists in general.

Attack on anti-racism protest leads to arrests. A prosecutor yesterday remanded in custody 44 suspected rightwing extremists for violently disrupting an anti-racism rally in Ambelokipi, central Athens, on Saturday and causing one woman to require hospital treatment. The suspects have been charged with a range of offenses, including disrupting the peace, using threatening behavior and illegally carrying and using weapons. All the charges have been changed from misdemeanors to felonies, as the 44 were allegedly wearing hoods or had their faces covered when they committed them. The anti-racism rally was held after extremists recently forced their way into a local social club, where they caused widespread damage. A 50-year-old woman was injured during the scuffles on Saturday, when the assailants allegedly used various objects to attack the protesters that had gathered outside the Panormou metro station. The anarchists condemn the attack by rightwing extremists.

PASOK targeted with petrol bombs. A group of assailants threw petrol bombs at PASOK's central headquarters on Ippocratous Street in downtown Athens early yesterday. Police said that four firebombs were thrown as officers stood guard outside the building at 01.40 a.m. Nobody was injured and no arrests were made. The anarchists condemn the attack.

24.01.2010. Farmers stand fast. Teachers demonstrate. The anarchists support the direct actions.

Farmers stand fast. Protesting farmers remained at their roadblocks throughout Greece on Saturday and Sunday, obstructing the flow of traffic on many roads and determined to force the government to concede to their demands. The border blockade at Promahonas, on the Greek-Bulgarian border, was temporarily opened from Saturday night as Serres farmers were awaiting the results of their meeting with Agricultural Development and Foods Minister Katerina Batzeli on Monday. Their representatives stressed, however, that they were ready to escalate their protest action from Monday, not ruling out a blockade of the Thessaloniki-Bulgaria rail connection, if their demands were refused. Their protests have had an impact on the local ski resorts, which had expected heightened traffic as a result of the recent snows but had few visitors, since few excursionists braved the prospect of finding roads closed by tractors.

In addition to several intersections and border crossings, farmers used tractors to obstruct the passage of trucks and heavy goods vehicles at the port of Igoumenitsa in northwestern Greece, preventing truckers from boarding ferries for Italy or leaving the port. Goods vehicles coming off the ferry "Champion" of ANEK lines remained trapped inside the port after their arrival from Italy. A public prosecutor has visited the port of Igoumenitsa to hold talks with the farmers, while several trucks that had intended to board the "Superfast" ferry to Italy were waiting outside the port. In a comment on the protests in the newspaper "Free Sunday", Batzeli stressed that the yearly going forth of tractors onto the roads every winter by farmers was doing them a disservice and "sending the wrong messages to society, which saw and judged them."

The minister stressed that representatives of all production and social bodies will be meeting at Zappion on Monday for the start of dialogue on farm issues, while the invitation to the representatives of the farmers at the road blocks to take part and outline their positions and proposals remained open. Batzeli also stressed that the amounts demanded by farmers were excessive: "given that those eligible for farming subsidies number nearly 900,000, if we gave 15,000 euros for every agricultural enterprise the total would be in the region of 13.5 billion euros," she pointed out. As mentioned the anarchists support the farmers' direct actions.

Teachers demonstrate. Substitute and hourly paid high-school teachers staged mobilizations in Athens and Thessaloniki on Saturday demanding permanent jobs, abolition of hourly paid teachers institutions. Demonstrators shouting slogans such as "half job, half life" supported OLME (High-school teachers federation) for legislation to consolidate largest number of students in classroom to 25, to 20 students in university preparatory classes and 10 students in laboratory classes. Grammar and high school teachers federations joined in the mobilizations to support their demands. Announcements by Education Ministry to which teachers object have sparked the mobilizations. The anarchists support the demonstration.

23.01.2010. Grigoropoulos trial under way. Brown Cards and condemnations. Bulgarian PM meets with protesting Greek farmers. Arrests in synagogue arson. Bomb scare.

Grigoropoulos trial under way. Brown Cards and condemnations. Policemen face 15-year-old's mother in court but deny intention to kill youngster shot in Exarchia. The two policemen accused of involvement in the December 2008 shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos, whose death sparked widespread rioting, yesterday denied murder, as the boy's mother accused the pair of treating her son like a "cockroach." "I do not accept liability for anyone's death," said special guard Epaminondas Korkoneas, accused of shooting at Grigoropoulos following a verbal exchange in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia. "I would have stepped forward to shield anyone, including those kids. It was the outcome of a difficult moment." Korkoneas's lawyers are arguing that he fired a warning shot after a group of youths had thrown objects at him and his partner Vassilis Saraliotis. Korkoneas will argue that the bullet ricocheted before striking Grigoropoulos.

Saraliotis denies any involvement, despite accusations that he encouraged Korkoneas, 39, to shoot. "I do not accept I intended to be involved in his death," said Saraliotis, 33. "I have nothing to do with my colleague's action. I am certain that I am innocent and I plan to prove it." The trial was due to start Wednesday but was delayed for 48 hours as Grigoropoulos's mother, Gina Tsalikian, could not attend. She was in court yesterday and accused the two special guards of murdering her son. "They started swearing at the kids and telling them to leave: 'Get out of here,' said the policeman; 'Why? What are you going to do to me?' replied Alexis, at which point he got out his gun and shot him," said Tsalikian. "They saw a child fall to the ground dead and just left. They went back to their headquarters and did not say they had shot a child. It was like they had killed a little mouse. These people valued the life of my son as much as a cockroach's."

Tsalikian said that Alexis and a friend had unwittingly found themselves between a group of anarchists and the two officers after the policemen used a stun grenade, prompting the two youngsters to go and see what was going on. "He was a quiet, reserved boy loved by everyone," said Tsalikian. "He trusted the police and they shot him." Korkoneas's lawyer, Alexis Kougias, asked the court to investigate whether Grigoropoulos had been involved in crowd trouble at a water polo match just hours before he was killed. The trial is due to resume next Friday.

The mentioned so called "group of anarchists" throwing "objects" at the police is an ochlarchist, leftwing extremist marxist group, and not an anarchist group, and the members of the group get expulsing Brown Cards from IAT-APT. They are not members of the anarchist movement. The anarchists condemn the group. And shooting at people, even if they throw "objects", is not a proportionate act of self defense, but extreme ochlarchy, and thus Korkoneas is strongly condemned by the IAT-APT. He should have called for more police, not pulled the gun. See also report 14.05.2009. The IAT-APT has not much faith in the Greek justice system but hope for a fair trial. See also reports 20-22.01.2010.

Bulgarian PM meets with protesting Greek farmers. Protesting Greek farmers at the Promachonas border crossing roadblock spoke with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov Friday afternoon just inside the Bulgarian border. The meeting has held on Bulgarian soil following a request by farmers from the prefecture of Serres, in northern Greece, who in a goodwill gesture, as they said, opened the border crossing from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m. allowing the unhindered passage of vehicles. Farmers' representatives said they will hold a meeting to decide on the course of their mobilizations. The Bulgarian prime minister arrived at the Kulata border station, on the Bulgarian side of the borders, aboard a helicopter. He told a nine-member delegation of protesters that before leaving Sofia he had contacted Greek PM George Papandreou, who did not object to the meeting, as well as main opposition New Democracy (ND) party leader Antonis Samaras. Borissov welcomed the delegation, saying "you asked for me and I'm here" and called on them to lift the blockades and open the borders "in the name of the Greek-Bulgarian friendship". Earlier, a Bulgarian state television crew crossed the border to interview protesting farmers.

Arrests in synagogue arson. Three people have been arrested and two more are wanted by police on the island of Crete, accused of participating in two arson attacks on Jan. 5 and 16 targeting the historic Jewish synagogue in the port-city of Hania. In a press conference on Friday, police announced that a local man from the nearby city of Irakleio, aged 24, and two British nationals, aged 23 and 33, are in custody, while another two suspects, both US citizens, are wanted. The 33-year-old Briton, who is accused of being the perpetrator of the second arson attack on Jan. 16, denied the charges against him. The two US nationals are accused of the first arson attack on Jan. 5, while in the three detained suspects are accused of involvement in that incident, too. The Greek man and the 23-year-old Briton are accused of keeping watch in the second arson attack.

The three suspects were led to the synagogue on Thursday night where a crime reconstruction took place. The first fire broke out at 01.15 a.m. on Jan. 5. The culprits broke into the synagogue's courtyard and set fire to an outdoor wooden ladder which leads to the library. The fire was extinguished immediately before it threatened the temple and the adjoining library, which features roughly 1,600 rare books and manuscripts. A bottle with a flammable liquid still burning was found at the scene by fire-fighters. The second fire broke out at 4 a.m. on Jan. 16 and destroyed digital discs, four computers, tapes with Jewish music and books. Both attacks destroyed a total of 2,500 books. The medieval synagogue in Hania's old quarter is amongst the most noted Jewish temples in Greece, functioning as both a cultural centre and a house of worship. The anarchists assume that the suspects are rightwing extremists.

Bomb scare. Turkish plane forced to land in Thessaloniki following hoax call. A passenger plane traveling from Germany to Turkey made a safe emergency landing in Thessaloniki yesterday after the pilot apparently received a bomb threat on his mobile phone. The plane, a Turkish SunExpress aircraft with 69 passengers on board, landed just before 6 p.m."Someone called the pilot on his mobile phone and threatened him," Greek air-traffic controller Panagiotis Hatzakis said. There were also reports that the words "will die today" were found daubed on the wall of one of the airplane's bathrooms. No explosive device was found on the aircraft. The anarchists condemn the bomb scare, and suspect rightwing extremists.

22.01.2010. Malcolm Brabant BBC News, Athens, is a liar and gets a Brown Card. The farmers' actions continue... Marxist group assumes responsibility for bomb attack 15.01.2010. The anarchists condemn the terrorist group. A proclamation assuming responsibility for the bomb attack at the General Press Secretariat on Friday, January 15, 2010, has appeared in a website on the Internet. Responsibility is assumed by the marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchy group "Revolutionary Organization 6 December", that also assumes responsibility for the bullets sent on December 2008 after the killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, to lawyer Alexis Kouyias and journalist Yiannis Pretenteris. According to a senior Police officer, they believe that the proclamation is genuine and it is being examined with great seriousness. The anarchists condemn the marxist group "Revolutionary Organization 6 December".

Athens police deny youth murder. By Malcolm Brabant BBC News, Athens. Two policemen have pleaded innocent at a trial aimed at determining the true facts behind a shooting that sparked major riots in Greece in 2008. One policeman is accused of murdering a 15-year-old schoolboy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, and his colleague is accused of complicity. The trial was moved from Athens to deter attacks by anarchist groups who have vowed to kill the two defendants. One policeman fired a warning shot that ricocheted fatally, the defence says. The trial is being held in Amfissa, a small town nearly 200km (120 miles) west of Athens. There is no dispute that a veteran police officer called Epaminondas Korkoneas fired the shot that pierced the schoolboy's heart and killed him. What the prosecution will claim is that the policeman aimed directly at Alexandros Grigoropoulos.

Ballistic tests on the bullet and service pistol will be the key evidence, as will that of friends of Alexandros who were with him in the rebellious Athenian district of Exarchia when the shooting took place. The boy's family have been hurt by accusations made shortly after his death, that Alexandros was a troublemaker. The family spokesman, Andreas Constantinou insists he was an innocent teenager. Both the boy's family and the main police union have objected to the trial taking place so far from Athens. The family believes the distance will make it difficult for key witnesses to attend. The police regard the move as an insult that implies they could not guarantee security in the Greek capital. The restricted number of access roads into Amfissa has given the authorities a chance to prevent large numbers of potential rioters from getting through. But shopkeepers in the town have pulled down the shutters in anticipation that they will bear the brunt of anti-establishment wrath.

The IAT-APT hands out new Brown Cards to the so called "anarchist groups who have vowed to kill the two defendants", i.e. threats of terrorism. They are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, the so called "anarchist groups who have vowed to kill the two defendants", are expulsed from the anarchist movement.

As mentioned the so called "anarchist groups who have vowed to kill the two defendants", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Malcolm Brabant BBC News and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Malcolm Brabant BBC News gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Terrorism and threats of terrorism, a form of ochlarchy, are very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn threats of terrorism and terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "anarchist groups who have vowed to kill the two defendants" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. No anarchist groups have vowed to kill the two defendants. Malcolm Brabant BBC News is a lier.

Bomb scare. Police destroy device found under car of port worker. Police bomb disposal experts conducted a controlled explosion on an explosive device that unidentified assailants had planted under the car of an employee of the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP). According to police, the bomb had comprised the motherboard of a cell phone, four cell phone batteries, a SIM card and a sponge. Officers deemed that the device had been planted by someone who had had a personal dispute with the owner of the car.

The farmers' actions continue... Farmers seem determined to not take a single step back, seriously disrupting traffic and movement of products both in Greece and beyond. The government spokesman stressed that the farmers' grievances are fair, however, road blocks do no good to them, the society and the country's international image. A spokesman of the farmers met Thursday with the Ministers of State and Agricultural Development at Maximos Mansion. Adamant in their positions, farmers keep erecting new road blocks throughout Greece.

21.01.2010. More on the delay in teen death trial. Ochlarchists falsely posing as anarchists scuffled with the police. The ochlarchists get expulsing Brown Cards. Farmers' actions continue.

More on the delay in teen death trial, Kathimerini reports: A group of 400 students, leftists and anarchists held a demonstration yesterday in Amfissa, where the trial of two policemen accused of being involved in the shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos was due to begin yesterday. Protesters were involved in minor scuffles with riot police. There were no reports of arrests or injuries. The long-awaited trial of the two police officers charged in connection to the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 was postponed yesterday and instead will start tomorrow. Amid tight security, lawyers, witnesses and the two suspects, Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis, gathered yesterday at the courthouse in Amfissa where the trial has been moved because authorities feared that anarchists or possibly even terrorists might target proceedings if they were held in Athens. Korkoneas has been charged with shooting the 15-year-old dead in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia. Saraliotis is accused of being an accessory. The killing sparked more than two weeks of protests and riots in Athens.

An extra 700 police officers were drafted in to protect the town, some 200 kilometers northwest of Athens, and three checkpoints were set up on surrounding roads in a bid to ensure that troublemakers were kept away from the court. Yesterday's proceedings passed off peacefully, although there were brief scuffles outside the courthouse between anarchists and riot police. Judge Angelita Papavassiliou decided to postpone the start of the trial until tomorrow, as Grigoropoulos's mother, Gina Tsalikian, was unable to attend because her 84-year-old mother is in the hospital. Korkoneas has employed the high-profile lawyer Alexis Kougias, who was also not present yesterday because he was taking part in another trial. Tsalikian is considered a key witness and is first on the list of those due to testify. However, if she is also unable to attend tomorrow, witnesses to the shooting and the teenager's friends will give evidence instead.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the so called "anarchists" scuffling with the police. They are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, the so called "anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement.

As mentioned, the so called "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Ochlarchy is typically very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy done by the so called "anarchists", and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. No anarchists have been "scuffling with the police". Anarchists demonstrate with dignity, not ochlarchy. The anarchists call on all protesters in this case to demonstrate with dignity, not ochlarchy, and not "scuffle with the police".

Farmers' actions continue. EU concerned about about the farmers' actions. European Commission and Bulgaria concerned about roadblocks, which now number more than 30. Pressure is growing on Greece from neighboring countries and the European Commission to end the farmers' blockade, which is restricting trade and the movement of people. Prime Minister George Papandreou held an informal Cabinet meeting yesterday to discuss the issue as the number of roadblocks, including those at Greece's borders, grew to more than 30. "The government is open to dialogue if that is what the farmers want as well," said Papandreou, who promised wide reforms to the agricultural sector. PASOK has already organized round-table talks with farmers next week. The farmers have issued a series of financial demands, as they did last January when the then New Democracy government resolved by the dispute by pledging 425 million euros in compensation payments for damaged crops.

The financial aid package has yet to receive the approval of the European Commission. Sources said that Brussels could still ask for the money to be returned as the payments could breach competition rules or Greece may be fined. The Comission also indicated yesterday that it is monitoring Athens's reaction to the current protests and did not rule out the possibility of legal action if the government fails to restore the free movement of goods and people. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov reportedly contacted EC President Jose Manuel Barroso on Tuesday to express his frustration with the fact that the entry of his country's products to Greece is being blocked and requested up to 10 million euros in compensation.

"Many European Union directives are being violated. This is not Bulgaria's problem and there is no reason why this country should bear the brunt of the problem," Borisov was quoted as saying in local media. "Why are the Greeks protesting now, and not in the summer when they have to do the harvest, or at Easter when more than 50,000 Bulgarians go to their country on holiday? They do it now because they have nothing better to do." Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naidenov said he has written to Brussels with his Romanian counterpart, Mihail Dumitru, to demand that the EC take action against Greece.

A group of around 100 prostitutes staged a protest rally in Athens. The protesters are demanding operating licenses for brothels across the country. The anarchists don't support the action.

20.01.2010. Farmers' mobilizations continue. The farmers' direct actions have continued anarchist support. The government takes a soft approach in dispute with farmer. ND supports farmers' demands. Rash populism. Greek court postpones trial on teen killing.

Farmers' mobilizations continue. Protesting farmers entered their 7th day of mobilizations on Wednesday with stepped on roadblocks throughout the country in demand of solutions to chronic problems faced by the sector. A spokesman for the farmers' nationwide coordination body, Tryfon Arapoglou, said Wednesday that mobilisations will be escalated, with roadblocks spreading to diversion routes as well. Arapoglou said that farmers were discouraged by the Agricultural Development and Food ministry's stance, adding that no progress has been made in a series of fundamental institutional and financial demands such as immediate measures to boost farmers' incomes, reduction of production costs and controls on the market. The farmers' direct actions have continued anarchist support.

The government takes a soft approach in dispute with farmers. PASOK pins hopes on next week's talks. Protesting farmers are demanding more state aid due to a drop in prices for a range of products, including wheat, cotton and milk. More farmers joined roadblocks across Greece yesterday, as the government decided that following the path of least resistance in the face of growing protests would be the best policy despite anger from neighboring countries due to trade being hampered by the action. Farmers from Thessaloniki, Evros, the Peloponnese and Crete added their presence to existing protests and their colleagues from Larissa, Magnesia, Pieria, Pella, Grevena and Kozani are due to join in today. Representatives of farmers from 14 prefectures met in Veria, northern Greece, yesterday and decided to step up their action, which is based around a series of financial demands and requests for reforms to be carried out in the agricultural sector.

Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes spoke to his subordinates around the country and instructed them to issue charges against those involved only in cases where traffic was being severely affected. Apart from causing problems on various sections of Greece's highways, the farmers have also mounted blocks on the roads leading to the country's border crossings with Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Romania and Bulgaria. This prompted Bucharest and Sofia to complain about the closures. "We will appeal to the European Commission to intervene immediately," said Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov. "Unless the border posts are reopened by Wednesday, we will demand action."

The government, however, seems unwilling to engage in any action that could cause it to clash with the farmers, preferring instead to air its views at round-table discussions with unionists that are due to begin in Athens on Monday. This tactic was approved at a Cabinet meeting yesterday, when Prime Minister George Papandreou assured his ministers that he fully understands the problems faced by farmers but that he does not want PASOK to appease them with short-term measures, preferring instead to find permanent solutions. "We have a plan, which will be revealed during [next week's] discussions," said government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis. "We will ultimately convince the farmers that the government is capable of adopting immediate measures, in which we want them to have a say."

ND supports farmers' demands. Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Antonis Samaras met Wednesday with the leaders of Greece's two largest farmers' umbrella federations PASEGES and SYDASE and was briefed on the problems faced by the sector and the demands of protesting farmers, who have set up roadblocks along the country's major highways for the 7th consecutive day. ND agricultural development 'shadow minister', Kozani MP George Kasapidis, who was also present at the meeting, said afterwards that ND considers the farmers' demands "fair" and called on the government to stand by the farmers and give immediate solutions, but clarified that the main opposition party objects to the closure of the roads and the problems caused to other social groups as a result.

Kasapidis added that the agriculture issues are a top priority for Samaras and ND, stressing that the party will "stand by the farmers waging a battle for their survival". Noting that the farmers' roadblocks had been "spontaneous under the pressure of the problems that have been intensifying in recent years", Kasapidis reiterated that ND does not agree with the closure of the roads, thus causing problems to other social groups. ND transport and communications 'shadow minister' Stavros Kalafatis also called on the government to find a solution to the problems caused by the farmers' mobilisations, warning that the closure of the country's motorways will have adverse repercussions on the operation of businesses, the supply of the markets, and on the Greek economy in general.

Rash populism, by Alexis Papachelas, Kathimerini: All the wrong messages sent by this administration to international markets have one thing in common: the stamp of PASOK's pre-election promises that nothing would be withdrawn. The government adopted this line in its first crucial weeks in the administration as well. How differently things would have turned out had Prime Minister George Papandreou said that, based on the data he was presented with, he had either to cut subsidies by half or implement promises over three years. PASOK's program, despite the shocking financial data, unfortunately became gospel for a handful of opportunists. A typical example is the fiasco with Chinese port operator Cosco, which irreparably tarnished Greece's credibility abroad. Peel away the surface of this fiasco and the same stamp appears: Some of those involved allowed the port workers to believe that the deal with Cosco was negotiable.

The same is happening now in the matter of the draft law on bank debt repayment, which may very well stifle rather than stimulate the market. The argument used here is that the cost of this measure had been accounted for in the campaign manifesto. In all these cases, someone behaved arrogantly, backing out of a done deal with China, brushing aside the authority of the European Commission and ignoring warnings from credit rating agencies. Maybe some analysts are right to lay the blame for the current situation partly on the previous administration and partly on Economy Minister Louka Katseli. Most members of the government see the rashness of such a policy and are trying to salvage what they can. No one, after all, wants to push the prime minister into taking Ireland-style measures that neither provide a real solution nor are in accordance with his viewpoint. They simply know that such extreme measures will become inevitable if the other members of the administration continue in this rash, populist manner.

Greek court postpones trial on teen killing. AFP and Phantis report: Ringed by riot police and an anarchist demonstration, a court in central Greece on Wednesday postponed the trial of a policeman accused of shooting a teenager a year ago, sparking major violence. The court in the small town of Amfissa, where the trial was relocated for security purposes, moved the trial to Friday as the main lawyer of accused officer Epaminondas Korkoneas was occupied with another trial. Korkoneas, 38, is accused of fatally shooting 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos during a December 2008 night patrol in the bohemian Athens district of Exarchia. The incident sparked several days of riots. Around 200 anarchists marched through the centre of Amfissa on Wednesday, chanting anti-police slogans and demanding that the process be moved to Athens. Korkoneas is on trial for voluntary homicide, while his partner Vassilis Saraliotis, 32, is accused of complicity.

One far-left extremist group has threatened to kill Korkoneas, prompting authorities to send more than 400 police to Amfissa, which is 200 kilometres (125 miles) northwest of Athens. Greece's Supreme Court has rejected bids by the teenager's family to move it back to the capital. The court was told Wednesday that Grigoropoulos' mother Gina Tsalikian was also unable to attend the trial opening as her own mother is in grave condition in an Athens hospital. Tsalikian, who has also appealed to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, argues that holding the trial far from Athens hampers the presence of key witnesses. "We do not understand why this trial has to be held in Amfissa," one of the Grigoropoulos family lawyers, Alexandros Katsantonis, told reporters outside the courthouse. Several banks and shops in the town of 12,000 inhabitants boarded their storefronts for fear of violence. Korkoneas has said that in the December incident he fired in the air to disperse youths, including Grigoropoulos, who threw stones at his squad car. An autopsy report indicated that the boy was hit by a bullet that ricocheted onto him but lawyers for the boy's family point to the testimony of witnesses who say the policeman took aim and fired.

19.01.2010. Farmers are out in force. Some of the demonstrating farmers use the anarchist black flag on their tractors. Bomb hoax. Synagogue attack condemned.

Farmers are out in force. More roadblocks spring up as government refuses to budge on money. Farmers ramped up their protests yesterday, closing national roads at six more points, and appearing to catch the government, which insists that it has no extra money to give them, unprepared. Eight roadblocks had already been set up on Friday and the decision by farmers yesterday to park their tractors on roads leading to Greece's borders with neighboring countries is set to make it even more difficult for people and goods to be transported around the country. There are no blocks on the Athens-Thessaloniki national road, which is already burdened by the closure of the Vale of Tempe section due to a December rockfall, and the Egnatia Highway which runs between northeastern and northwestern Greece. Furthermore, farmers are also protesting in Evros, Serres, Kilkis, Florina and Thessaly and have blocked access to the borders with Bulgaria, Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, although they said that these blockades would not be in place around the clock, so some goods would be able to pass through.

As opposed to previous years, the focus of the protests is in northern, rather than central, Greece, although this may change today when unionists from Thessaly that are affiliated with New Democracy are set to join in the protests. The farmers are demanding better prices for their produce, more substantial compensation for poor crops and increased subsidies. In a departure from recent protests, they are also asking for reforms in the agriculture sector. The government has organized a two-day conference, on January 25 and 26, to discuss farming matters with representatives of the sector and has turned down requests by unionists for a meeting with Prime Minister George Papandreou. PASOK has also made it clear to the farmers that there is no way that extra money for them will be found in the budget. "There is no more room for other subsidies," Deputy Finance Minister Filippos Sachinidis told farmers in Thessaly on Sunday. As mentioned the anarchists support the direct action, i.e. as long as it is non-ochlarchical. Some of the demonstrating farmers use the anarchist black flag on their tractors.

Bomb hoax. A call claiming that a bomb had been placed yesterday at the headquarters of the ESIEA journalists' union in central Athens turned out to be a hoax. Police evacuated the building and closed Academias Street for a few minutes as they searched for the device at around 2 p.m. in what was the latest in a series of bomb hoaxes in Athens over the past couple of weeks. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax.

Synagogue attack condemned. An attack by arsonists on Crete's only remaining Jewish monument, the 17th-century Etz Hayyim Synagogue, was condemned yesterday, as fears were expressed about more anti-Semitic attacks. The synagogue was attacked for the second time in 11 days early on Saturday, resulting in severe damage to the building and its contents. Nicholas Stavroulakis, the founder and director emeritus of the Jewish Museum of Greece and the man responsible for reconstructing the synagogue, described in an e-mail text the extent of the destruction from the two fires. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.

18.01.2010. Conceptual chaos at ERT? More about the bomb at the Press Secretariat. Athens cyclists take protests to a new level. Farmers set to block borders.

More about the bomb at the Press Secretariat. Bomb targets gov't media HQ. Officers of the police's counter-terrorism department expressed their conviction over the weekend that the increasingly active terrorist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire was behind Friday night's bomb blast outside the government's press and media office in the Athens district of Kallithea but there had been no claim of responsibility for the attack by late yesterday. The time bomb detonated outside the offices of the General Secretariat of Communication & Information just before midnight on Friday, causing damage to adjacent buildings and parked cars but no injuries. About 15 minutes before the bloodless blast, anonymous callers had telephoned warnings to two private television channels and a newspaper. The police were briefed and cordoned off the area.

The procedure and the type of bomb used are reminiscent of the bomb blast outside Parliament on January 9, according to police, who are still seeking the perpetrators of that attack, claimed by the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. The government spokesman reacted to Friday night's attack in a statement on state television. "Certain cowardly individuals are trying to terrorize democracy – democracy will not be terrorized," Giorgos Petalotis said. Another reaction to Friday's blast, by former Deputy Public Order minister Christos Markoyiannakis, cast aspersions on the work of counter-terrorism officers. "I do not understand why there has been no progress in dismantling even the smallest terrorist group," he said. The former conservative minister added that he feared the recent spike in terrorist attacks "would create a certain immunity." "We will get used to it and bombs and explosions will become a part of our lives," he said. As mentioned the anarchists condemn the bomb attack.

Athens cyclists take protests to a new level. Cyclists raised their bicycles during a protest march through central Athens yesterday. The protesters are calling on authorities to designate special lanes for cyclists so that they are segregated from the capital's heavy traffic. A scheme heralded by the previous conservative government foresaw the creation of two bicycle lanes in Athens by the end of 2010. The anarchists support the action.

Farmers set to block borders. Protesting farmers, who caused road disruption in central and northern Greece over the weekend after parking their tractors at major junctions, are to step up their action as of today by blocking off border crossings. The farmers want the government to help boost their incomes and reduce production costs by releasing subsidies. But Deputy Finance Minister Filippos Sachinidis stated outright yesterday that "the economy has no scope or leeway for such benefits." Protesters responded by pressing Sachinidis to "intervene so that an essential dialogue can begin about strategies for the agricultural sector." The farmers have threatened to maintain roadblocks, which are already causing serious disruptions for motorists, and to set up new ones starting today at major crossings at Greece's borders with Turkey, Bulgaria, Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. If the action goes ahead, it will cause havoc with cross-border trade. As mentioned the anarchists support the direct action, i.e. as long as it is non-ochlarchical.

Anarchy? It is rivaling polyarchy with ochlarchy and chaos, and a failed state, in Haiti - the quite opposite of anarchy

Brown Card to Luis Carballo and Euronews, that speak about "total anarchy" in Haiti. Haiti is after the massive earthquake to be considered as a FAILED STATE. The central administration is no longer functioning. Haiti is now a failed STATE, i.e. a STATE, not anarchy. It is a STATE, i.e. archy, with rivaling polyarchy, ochlarchy and chaos. NOT ANARCHY! Anarchy and State are opposites. Anarchy and rivaling polyarchy with ochlarchy, i.e. archy, are opposites. Anarchy and chaos are opposites, see the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html and search for anarchy vs chaos at http://www.anarchy.no/andebatt.html . To mix up opposites as 1. Anarchy and State, 2. Anarchy and rivaling polyarchy with ochlarchy, i.e. archy, and 3. Anarchy and chaos, as Luis Carballo and Euronews do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to Luis Carballo and Euronews, as free, libertarian criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The Anarchist International and the IAT-APT of course condemn the chaos and ochlarchy in Haiti, and call for law and order. It is not anarchy in Haiti, not total anarchy and not anarchy of lower degree! Jan Espen Kruse and NRK report "kaotisk ... totalt lovløse tilstander ... anarki," in Haiti, setting chaos and lawlessness, i.e. ochlarchy, falsely equal to anarchy, and thus get Brown Cards.

CNN and Lucia Newman describe the situation in Port-au-Prince, as "anarchy ... anarchy grips Haitian capital", they falsey postulate, mentioning "armed gangs, thugs, are ransacking, patrolling the streets at will, and there are no police to be seen." This is however rivaling polyarchy with ochlarchy, and not anarchy, and thus CNN and Lucia Newman get Brown Cards. NY-Times and Mark Lacey report "patience was wearing thin, and reports of looting increased, ... for the moment, this is anarchy," said Adolphe Reynald, a top aide to the mayor of Port-au-Prince. "For the moment", it is not anarchy, but as mentioned rivaling polyarchy with ochlarchy and chaos, and NY-Times, Mark Lacey and Adolphe Reynald get Brown Cards. In another article in NY-Times the "Big Brothers" Mark Lacey and Simon Romero report "there were pockets of violence and anarchy, reports of looting and ransacking, and at least one lynching of an accused looter as police officers stood aside." As mentioned it is rivaling polyarchy with ochlarchy and chaos, and a failed state, in Haiti - the quite opposite of anarchy. The central administration is not functioning in Haiti, and a functioning central administration - with law and order - is necessary for anarchy. Thus NY-Times, Mark Lacey and Simon Romero get a fresh Brown Card. Reuters and Carlos Barria report "It's anarchy there now, total chaos, the police have gone away," about Haiti, and also they get a Brown Card.

ERT headlines an article Despair and Anarchy Rules Haiti , but in the text writes "chaos rules in the Haitian capital", thus implicitly sets anarchy = chaos, and gets a Brown Card. By the way anarchy is not without rules, and anarchy may very well "rule" in the meaning be the system of a country, and the system of course not be archy. In this meaning "Anarchy rules OK" just mean anarchy is a good economic-political system, as, say in Norway and Switzerland, anarchies of low degree... ERT may publish this comment or not. We will anyway publish it at www.anarchy.no , where "Anarchy rules OK".

IAT has posted this message as a comment to ERT, and ERT has responded with "The message added. Your comment will be reviewed by the administrator". We are still waiting for the "arch"-administrators review...

PS. 19.01.2010. ERT has removed the comment by IAT it published yesterday - this is an action of a newspaper which is the 4th power of the state, not a free press. ERT really deserves the Brown Card. [ERT has however later Tuesday published the PS- note as a comment, perhaps ERT is not a 4th power of the state after all? Perhaps they are something in the middle? Perhaps they will remove this comment also. Perhaps not. Who knows... But there is for sure some conceptual chaos regarding anarchy vs archy/chaos at ERT, :-)].

16.01.2010. Bomb at Press Secretariat. The anarchists condemn the attack. Brown Card to Chinaview and Phantis. An explosive device that police described as "medium-strength" went off shortly before midnight on Friday outside the General Secretariat for Press building in the Athens district of Neos Kosmos, at the junction of Fragoudi and Al. Pandou streets. It had been preceded by two warning phone calls to television stations, which gave police time to cordon off the area and avoid any injuries as a result of the blast. This caused significant damage to the back of the building, however, shattered the plate glass windows in the entrance and damaged ceilings, as well as cars parked outside and two adjoining shops. The anarchists condemn the attack. China-view and Phantis report: "Greece has adopted a firm approach to anarchist and leftist terrorist groups that have operated in the country for years." In fact no Greek or international anarchist terrorist group has "operated in the country for years", only marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchy groups. Terrorism, a form of ochlarchy, is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist. See also anarchist comment at ERT, http://news.ert.gr/en/domestic/society/32019-se-ekseliksi-oi-ereynes-gia-tin-ekriksi-sti-gg-typou .

Bomb hoax. An Athens court had to be evacuated for the third time this week following a bomb threat yesterday. An anonymous caller phoned authorities at 9 a.m. to warn that two explosive devices had been placed at the main Athens appeals court. No bomb was found on the premises.

Farmers in Greece have erected road blocks in the Athens-Lamia highway and the Egnatia Odos, while others throughout the country are staging demonstrations without blocking the traffic. Agricultural Minister Katerina Batzeli invited the farmers to a dialogue, placing emphasis on the debate on the agricultural policy. "The Agricultural Ministry's gates are open to all," commented Minister Katerina Batzeli, noting, however, that it is impossible to meet the entire spectrum of the farmers' grievances. Batzeli stressed that the government is still young and that it is now proceeding with the changes. Supporting the farmers' income is one of the government's key priority, along with education and employment. As mentioned the anarchists support the action, it may move the system horizontal direction.

15.01.2010. More about the attack on deputy minister's office. Brown Cards to hooded attackers, and Kathimerini that reports. Brutal raid at minister's office. A group of masked assailants broke into the central Athens office of Deputy Justice Minister Apostolos Katsifaras shortly after noon yesterday and beat two of the minister's aides using batons and hammers before vandalizing the premises. According to police, five of the attackers entered the office in Exarchia – a traditional anarchist stronghold – while another five or so stood guard outside. The intruders burst into Katsifaras's office and beat his secretary and another employee using batons and hammers. The two men were hospitalized with bruises to their heads and bodies. Katsifaras was absent at the time of the attack, attending a Cabinet meeting. Before fleeing, the attackers smashed up the office and scattered leaflets with anti-establishment slogans.

Police later detained five suspects but subsequently released them due to a lack of incriminating evidence. Katsifaras's office had been targeted by arsonists last November in an attack which caused minor damage but no injuries. It was unclear yesterday whether the two attacks were linked. In a statement issued yesterday afternoon, Katsifaras said: "Democracy cannot be exploited, terrorized or murdered. It responds by boosting individual and social rights, protecting the weak and eradicating inequalities." Katsifaras added that he would press on with plans to improve conditions in jails. Prime Minister George Papandreou, speaking on the sidelines of yesterday's Cabinet meeting, condemned the attack as "an act of senseless violence."

IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the hooded attackers, they are ultra-authoritarian ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement - and to Kathimerini - according to the Oslo Convention. Exarchia is not an "anarchist stronghold", but an ochlarchist stronghold. The anarchists call for winding up of the ochlarchy of Exarchia, a rivaling state, a para-state, within the Greek state, as a part of the fight towards anarchy in Greece. This is not only a police matter, but a question of dialog and organizing the mislead youths in sound, libertarian, direction, and creating more opportunities for the youths. See also comment from IAT-APT at ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, at http://news.ert.gr/en/domestic/politics/31933-epithesi-sto-grafeio-tou-yfypourgou-dikaiosynis .

Farmers protest. Protesting farmers from the northern prefectures of Serres and Kavala blocked key junctions of the national road network yesterday, complaining about low crop prices and high production costs. Agricultural Development and Food Minister Katerina Batzeli is due to visit Larissa today for meetings with farmers there. Producers from the broader Thessaly region have threatened to intensify protest action next week. The anarchists support the action.

PS. More about the farmers' protest. Farmers from Serres and Kavala have erected first barricades on Egnatia road while farmers from 19 prefectures nationwide have planned to drive to main points of national roads at 14.00, not ruling out road blocks. In the meantime, Agriculture Minister Katerina Baltezis is visiting Larissa today Friday to meet with Prefecture Administration officials and farmers representatives to discuss issues of their concern. Mrs. Baltezis is to give press interview 18.00. On the grounds of farmers mobilizations, Bulgaria has warned to refer to European Commission in order to achieve unhampered road access of Bulgarian lorries.

14.01.2010. Two aides injured in attack on deputy justice minister's office. Two aides of deputy justice minister Apostolos Katsifaras were injured on Thursday during an attack by a group of hooded individuals on his first-floor office in downtown Athens. The minister's secretary and another assistant were injured when a group of 5-6 people wearing hoods stormed into the office, while about 10 others waited outside the building. The assailants beat up Katsifaras' secretary, who was rushed to hospital by ambulance, and also vandalized the office before fleeing. Katsifaras was not in his office at the time of the attack, as he was attending an Inner Cabinet meeting. Police were investigating the attack and seeking the assailants.

Bomb hoax. A phone call warning for a bomb at the Evelpidon court complex has upset the people working there. An anonymous call on Thursday morning at Eleftherotypia daily said that two bombs planted in two buildings of the complex were to go off at 9:30am. All the buildings were evacuated for precautionary reasons, however no explosion took place.

The IAT-APT declares: Regarding bomb threats... Bomb threats are also a form of ochlarchy, mob rule broadly defined, and not anarchistic. See also comment from IAT-APT at ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, at http://news.ert.gr/en/domestic/society/31918-anastatosi-sta-dikastiria-tis-eyelpidon .

Terrorist hit speeds up overhaul of police force. The bomb blast outside Parliament on Saturday night, claimed on Tuesday by Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and the little-known Terrorist Guerrilla Group, has prompted police to bring forward a planned overhaul of the police force's measures to boost security at other high-profile landmarks that could be targeted by terrorists in the future. According to sources at the Citizens' Protection Ministry, high-level government and police officials are currently discussing a radical overhaul of the system currently in operation. "We are changing our whole philosophy of guarding high-profile targets and plan to coordinate all the competent bodies as soon as possible," one high-level police source told Kathimerini. No details were revealed about the planned overhaul but top police officials are said to be studying methods that have already been successfully implemented in several European countries and in the US. The intention of Greek Police Chief Lefteris Economou, according to police sources, is to make optimum use of the experience gained by some 2,000 Greek officers sent to the US for special training in the runup to the Athens 2004 Olympics. The same sources described the project as "the most expensive training program yet for police officers whose full potential has yet to be tapped." Defending his first 100 days as the minister responsible for public order yesterday, Michalis Chrysochoidis noted that more than 1,100 officers previously employed as guards for high-profile public figures had been taken off these duties and were now available to boost the police's efforts to protect the public at large.

12-13.01.2010. Message to the Greek people about the marxist terrorist group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire from IAT-APT. "Fire Conspiracy Cells", a.k.a. Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, in a proclamation posted on the internet 3 days after the attack, has claimed responsibility for the bomb explosion on Saturday, outside the Greek Parliament. This is not an anarchist group, they are terrorist marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists. Ochlarchy means mob rule broadly defined. See also comment from IAT-APT at ERT, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, at http://news.ert.gr/en/domestic/koinonia/31850-i-synomosia-pyrinon-tis-fotias-anelabe-tin-bombistiki-epithesi-sti-bouli . In a publication in the "Athens.indymedia.org" website on Tuesday evening, the terrorist groups "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire" and "Terrorists guerrila group" said they were responsible for the explosion that caused only minor material damage. The "Terrorists guerrila group" is also a terrorist marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchist group, and not anarchist.

In the notice posted on the Internet the group confirms estimates by counter terrorism experts that the attack which caused no injuries, since the area was evacuated after a warning telephone call, was carried out by two persons. "We wanted to dishonor this symbol of democracy," the group says in a reference to the Parliament and the nearby Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The terrorists claim that the group's strength has not been diminished by recent antiterrorism operations and warn with new attacks, if three men arrested as members of the "Conspiracy of Nuclei of Fire" will not be released. Expressing solidarity with one of the imprisoned members of "November 17" group which was responsible for dozens of fatal attacks against Greek and foreign politicians, diplomats and entrepreneurs for three decades until 2002 when key members were arrested, the group tries to connect the past with the present of extremism in Greece. Greek guerrilla groups who took over 'November 17" have stepped up attacks since December 2008, after the fatal shooting of a teenager by police fire. "Conspiracy of Nuclei of Fire - Nihilists Sect" claimed responsibility also for the strong explosion which caused severe damages at the offices of a Greek insurance company on Dec. 27. The Greek government maintains a tough line against terrorist groups, replying that "democracy cannot be terrorized" as Premier George Papandreou said on Saturday night.

The Greek system seen all in all is mainly populist.

The system seen all in all is mainly populist, a moderate, parliamentarian form of fascism, with about 58% authoritarian degree and about 42% libertarian degree, ranked as no 25 of the countries in the world according to libertarian degree. The degree of capitalism is estimated to about 52,1% and the degree of statism to about 63,4%, i.e. both significant. A third of Greeks live close to the poverty line or under. The poverty limit is drawn at an income of 470 euros a month per adult. Slowly but steadily a 'third world' is being created inside Greece, an EU member state with a population of 11 million.

The Anarchist International and the IAT urge the Greek people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income, to demonstrate with dignity - not ochlarchy, i.e. mob rule broadly defined. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag. Don't act as an ochlarchical boss!!! If you do act in this way, you are no longer a member of the people, but a form of superior, i.e. ochlarch/ochlarchist. Persons throwing stones and petrol bombs, burning buildings and cars, looting etc. are ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not members of the people, and of course not anarchists. Anticapitalist ochlarchs/ochlarchists are authoritarian socialists, i.e. marxists. Use of teargas, flash or stun grenades, beating, harassment and shooting by the police are also ochlarchical. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense.

11.01.2010. Metro bomb hoax. Sunday morning claim of device at Attiki station a prank. A call to police and a TV station at 01.20 a.m. yesterday warning that a bomb had been placed at Attiki metro station proved to be a hoax. The metro was operating at the time due to its extended hours over the weekend. Officers had to temporarily shut down the line and cordon off Liosion Street outside the station while they checked for the presence of an explosive device. No bomb was found.

President commends Presidential Guard for not abandoning posts during explosion outside Parliament. President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias on Monday received three members of the Presidential Guard (Evzones) and praised them for their devotion to their duty, for not abandoning their posts at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside parliament on Saturday despite a warning that a bomb was due to explode in minutes in a trash receptacle next to their posts. Papoulias commended Marios Theodorou, Vassilis Vernikos and Ioannis Andreakos for their bravery in remaining at their posts when the home-made time bomb exploded, stressing that "the psyche of the Greeks is evident in times of difficulty" and adding that the three Evzones had "given a message", congratulating them warmly "for your devotion".

10.01.2010. More on the bomb attack. New Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists", i.e. terrorists, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA, that reports: Bomb explodes outside Parliament. A makeshift explosive device went off early Saturday evening in front of the Greek Parliament building. The time-bomb was placed in a trash bin located several dozen metres from Parliament's facade and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The explosion caused minor material damage but no injuries. The country's political leadership condemned the attack, while Prime Minister George Papandreou tersely warned that "Democracy cannot be terrorized". An anonymous caller phoned the Athens afternoon daily Eleftherotypia at 7:45 p.m. local time (17:45 GMT) and warned of an impending blast in 10 minutes' time at a trash receptacle outside parliament near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Police quickly evacuated the area and cordoned off the vicinity, and also warned the Presidential Guard (Evzones) which, however, remained in place. The incident's modus operandi resembles previous attacks by self-styled anarchist groups and so-called "anti-state" terror cells usually operating in the greater Athens area.

Counter-terrorismm officers arrived at the blast site, while a massive police presence rushed to the vicinity, one of the Greek capital's most central locations. The home-made time bomb exploded just before 08.00 p.m., causing minor damage to Parliament's entrance facing Syntagma Square and breaking a 3rd-floor window in the parliament building, while metal shards were found in the parliament's courtyard. Police bomb disposal experts said later that the bomb was a 'fast-burning' device made of dynamite and of medium power, while no remnants were found of the explosive material.

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"Democracy cannot be terrorized," Prime Minister George Papandreou stated tersely as he arrived at the parliament building after the attack while Citizens' Protection minister Michalis Chryssohoidis stressed that "we are not afraid or panic-stricken", noting that "some want to terrify and panic us". Chryssohoidis stressed that the Parliament's vicinity "is of high symbolism" and therefore is accessible and will remain so. "Athens is a safe city and will not become militarized," he said, adding that the perpetrators should know that they will be brought before justice, and very soon.

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) spokesman and MP Panos Panagiotopoulos said that the bomb attack at one of the most well-guarded spots in Athens was a "heavy provocation against the democratic Greek state's lawful order". "Beyond its apparent symbolism, this attack also targets the entire Greek society and hurts our country's image abroad, harming the interests of the Greek people," he said. Panagiotopoulos stressed that terrorism is a major problem that needs to be tackled immediately with across-the-board cooperation of the government, the political parties, the social agencies, the trade unions and the wider society of the citizens, adding that it is a given that ND will give its full support if the proper measures and correct policy are applied for combating terrorism in Greece.

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE), in an announcement, condemned the attack, stressing that "this action must in no way comprise an act of resistance to the government's harsh and all-fronted attack on the people's rights", and warned that, on the contrary, such acts "aid and serve those who wish to daunt the people". Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) spokesman Costis Aivaliotis opined that the "domestic terrorists perhaps got the idea from the website of the Turkish arms (rocket and projectile systems) manufacturer Roketsan's website that shows the Hellenic Parliament in flames". "Democracy cannot be terrorized, it cannot be daunted, it cannot be struck down. On the contrary, it reinforces its determination to confront its underminers," Aivaliotis added. The Coalition of the Left, Movements and Ecology (SYN), in an announcement, condemned the attack as "a provocation against democracy". "At a critical time for the Greek economy, as it faces the repercussions of a deep economic crisis, such acts only mislead and are exploited as an alibi to discourage the necessary social and political struggles against a policy that negatively affects the majority of the citizens," SYN added.

The IAT-APT hands out new Brown Cards to the so called "self-styled anarchists", i.e. terrorists. They are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, the so called "self-styled anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement.

As mentioned the so called "self-styled anarchists", are in reality terrorist leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Terrorism, a form of ochlarchy, is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "self-styled anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. See also comment from IAT-APT at ERT the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation: http://news.ert.gr/en/domestic/politics/31715-ekriksi-bombas-dipla-ston-agnosto-stratioti .

09.01.2010. Bomb attack. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists", i.e. terrorists, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA, that reports: Bomb planted in trash bin near Parliament. A makeshift explosive device went off early Saturday evening in front of the Greek Parliament building. The bomb was placed in a trash bin located several dozen metres from Parliament's facade and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A caller reportedly warned an Athens daily of the impending blast at 7:45 p.m. local time (17:45 GMT). Police subsequently evacuated the area and the Presidential Guard also withdrew from the site. The incident's modus operandi resembles previous attacks by self-styled anarchist groups and so-called "anti-state" terror cells usually operating in the greater Athens area. Counter-terrorist officers arrived at the blast site, while a massive police presence was reported in the vicinity, one of the Greek capital's most central locations.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the so called "self-styled anarchists", i.e. terrorists. They are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, the so called "self-styled anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement.

As mentioned the so called "self-styled anarchists", are in reality terrorist leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Terror suspect. A 26-year-old man charged in connection with the activities of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire yesterday told an investigating magistrate that he had no links to the terrorist group and gave the names of 10 people who he said could back his claims to have been out of the capital on the dates of two attacks on politicians' homes claimed by the group. Responding to police claims that his fingerprints were found in the group's hideout in Halandri, northern Athens, the suspect reportedly claimed to have visited the apartment in early 2007 to install a computer.

Debate on religious symbols intensifies. The public debate about whether crucifixes and religious icons should be displayed in Greece's classrooms is set to intensify after it was revealed yesterday that the country's Ombudsman received several complaints about infringement of religious freedoms. Four sets of parents have asked for religious symbols to be removed from their children's classrooms and one pupil has filed a complaint about her school making her attend religious education classes. The issue of whether crosses and icons should be hung in schools, as well as other public service offices, has been a subject of discussion since last December when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the presence of crucifixes in classrooms was a breach of human rights after hearing a case brought by a mother from Italy.

"We believe that the European Court of Human Rights ruling on the removal of religious symbols from Italian schools must also be applied by Greece," said Panayote Dimitras, spokesman for the Greek Helsinki Monitor human rights watchdog. The possible implications of the ECHR decision for Greece prompted the Greek Orthodox Church to immediately declare its opposition to any effort to remove religious symbols from public buildings. However, Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis admitted at the time that Greece could not ignore the court's ruling if it stands. The complaints filed with the Ombudsman could also end up at the ECHR and are certain to stoke debate in Greece. "Religious symbols are part of our country's cultural heritage, which cannot be shaped by legislation," said theologian Stavros Yiagazoglou. "In a democratic country, we must respect the rights of minorities but of the majority as well." The anarchists as mentioned 25.11.2009, support the removal of religious icons from public buildings, according to the anarchist principle of atheism.

Condemnation of arson attack. Two major Greek-American groups this week expressed outrage over a recent arson attempt against the historic Hania synagogue, in Crete's eponymous port city, with the first condemnation issued in Chicago on Thursday by the World Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE) / USA Region coordinator. "The Greek American community is outraged at the recent act of anti-Semitism at the historic Hania Synagogue in Crete. We are deeply disturbed that such acts of terrorism happen in 21st century Greece..." the statement read. In addition, a statement issued in Washington on Wednesday by the Pan-Cretan Association of America (PAA), underlined that Greek-Americans "castigate the arson attempt against the Hania Synagogue on Jan. 5, 2010." "After the attempt, January 5, 2010, to torch to the ground the historic Hania Synagogue, in Crete, we Cretans in the United States are outraged at all actions of anti-Semitism in Greece and all attempts to terrorize Greeks of Jewish faith," the statement read. "As an expression of our outrage at all actions against the Jewish Community in Greece we sign this statement and we appeal to all people of good will to voice their support in efforts to eradicate hatred and racism in Greece," the statement also read. Also the anarchists condemn the arson attack.

08.01.2010. Police abuse. Officers accused of beating Chilean face magistrate. Three policemen alleged to have beaten up a 30-year-old Chilean detainee in a central Athens police precinct on New Year's Eve were due to defend themselves before an investigating magistrate yesterday after being charged with abuse of power and torturing a detainee. Another two officers, who are alleged to have stood by during the beating, were conditionally released on Tuesday. According to sources, they claimed to have seen their colleagues start hitting the Chilean but to have left the precinct before the attack intensified. Meanwhile, the parents of four schoolboys on the Aegean island of Patmos yesterday took legal action against local police officers who are alleged to have verbally abused the boys after accusing them of vandalizing a police motorcycle.

Terror suspect claims an alibi. A 26-year-old man suspected of being a member of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire urban guerrilla group is due to face a magistrate today but his lawyer revealed yesterday that the suspect can prove he did not take part in any of the group's bombings. The unnamed man was arrested on Tuesday night when he presented himself at a police station as part of his bail terms following a previous arrest for public order offenses. Police said that the suspect was taken into custody because his fingerprints were found at a house in the northeastern Athens suburb of Halandri which is believed to have been one of the terrorists' bomb-making facilities. However, the 26-year-old denies any involvement in the group and said that he had only visited the property once in 2007 to install a computer when he was a fellow student of another suspected member of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, Harilaos Hatzimichelakis, who owned the apartment.

The suspect's lawyer, Antonia Legaki, said her client can prove that he was not in Athens when bombs exploded outside the homes of former Deputy Interior Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis and Economy Minister Louka Katseli. According to Legaki, her client had been helping his father set up sound systems for political and cultural events in central Greece on both occasions. Legaki also claimed that a senior police officer told the 26-year-old's mother that her son is not a suspect but that authorities are simply following procedures in order to eliminate him from their inquiries. Meanwhile, efforts to secretly observe another terrorist suspect were dealt a severe blow when it emerged that a 40-year-old suspect performed a citizen's arrest on an National Intelligence Service officer who had been monitoring the former's movements, forcing police at a precinct in Aghia Paraskevi to reveal the agent's identity.

07.01.2010. Terrorist suspect to appear in court. A 26-year-old man arrested in Athens on Tuesday as a suspected member of the increasingly active Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire terrorist group is due to defend himself before an investigating magistrate today. Police said they had been seeking the suspect since a raid last September on the group's hideout in the northeastern Athens district of Halandri where his fingerprints are said to have been found. The man, who was not identified, has been known to police since his arrest in May 2006 after allegedly participating in violence during a rally organized by the leftist European Social Forum in Athens. After his release on conditional terms, the suspect had been reporting to a police station regularly. It was during one of these visits on Tuesday that he was arrested.

Three suspected members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire have been in detention since the September raid and arrest warrants have been issued for several more. In recent months, the relatively new terror group had stepped up its attacks, targeting several politicians in attacks using small homemade bombs made of cooking pots and timers, which however did not cause any injuries. The group also claimed partial responsibility for a bomb attack on December 27 against an insurance firm in Athens. A message posted on the Internet after the bloodless attack said that the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire had orchestrated the attack along with the little-known Terrorist Guerrilla Group. No one was hurt in the blast that was caused by a device containing some 3 kilos of dynamite. Initially police had thought that the more established Revolutionary Struggle had planted the insurance firm bomb, as the attack resembled similar attacks claimed by the terrorist group in the past.

Officers freed over beating. Two policemen alleged to have stood by as three of their colleagues brutally beat a 30-year-old Chilean detainee in a central Athens police precinct on New Year's Eve were released on conditional terms on Tuesday. The officers were freed on the condition that they do not leave the country and visit their police precinct regularly. The other three policemen, who are in custody after being charged with abuse of power and torturing a detainee, are to defend themselves before an investigating magistrate today. The two officers freed on Tuesday were charged with complicity. All five policemen were suspended from the force on Sunday after Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis expressed his disgust that "a group of officers without consciences turned a migrant detainee into a punching bag." An investigation is to determine the exact circumstances of the migrant's alleged abuse at the Acropolis police precinct but initial reports indicated that it was prompted by a dispute over a broken public card-phone.

Fire in Hania Synagogue attributed to arson. Unknown individuals were the perpetrators of the fire that broke out inside a synagogue in Hania's historic old quarter, on the island of Crete on Tuesday, according to a police announcement released on Wednesday. According to the announcement, unknown individuals broke into the synagogue's yard an hour after midnight and set fire to an outdoor wooden ladder which leads to the library. The fire was extinguished immediately before it threatened the temple and the adjoining library, which features roughly 1,600 rare books and manuscripts.Hania Fire Brigade chief said that at the scene, firefighters found a bottle with a flammable liquid still burning. Authorities in the Cretan port city said the synagogue's main doors were locked and that the alarm system sounded when firefighters broke down the main gate to enter the building. The medieval synagogue in Hania's old quarter is amongst the most noted Jewish temples in Greece, functioning as both a cultural centre and a house of worship.

06.01.2019. Fake bomb threat. An unknown man called an Athens newspaper warning of an explosive device placed on a train tunnel in Tembi. Six trains were immediately immobilized for many hours and after thorough investigation the call proved false. Police authorities were placed on alert after the unknown mans call. The man maintained that the bomb would explode at 19.42. After thorough investigation the bomb threat proved fake. Hundreds of passengers in the six trains spent several hours in the wagons from the time of phone call 18.45 till 22.30 when the investigation finished.

05.01.2010. A small fire was reported in the early morning hours of Tuesday inside a synagogue in Hania's historic old quarter, on the island of Crete. According to fire brigade reports, the blaze was centred under a wooden ladder that leads to the library. Firefighters immediately rushed to the scene and extinguished the fire before it threatened the temple and the adjoining library, which features roughly 1,600 rare books and manuscripts. Authorities in the Cretan port city said the synagogue's main doors were locked and that the alarm system sounded when firefighters broke down the main gate to enter the building. However, a full investigation is underway to determine the exact cause of the incident. The medieval synagogue in Hania's old quarter is amongst the most noted Jewish temples in Greece, functioning as both a cultural centre and a house of worship.

04.01.2020. Five officers accused of torture. Faith in state bodies waning.

Five officers accused of torture. Policemen suspended after allegedly violently beating a Chilean detainee at central Acropolis precinct. An off-duty police officer from Corinth was suspended yesterday after allegedly threatening a motorist with a knife following a dispute over a parking spot, just one day after five Athens policemen were accused of torturing a Chilean detainee at a police precinct in the city center. Reacting to the news of the alleged abuse of the 30-year-old Chilean, who remained in the hospital yesterday with serious injuries, Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis expressed outrage that a "group of officers without consciences turned a migrant detainee into a punching bag." The five officers were suspended from the force after being charged with abuse of power and torturing a detainee.

The minister noted that "torture and the violation of human decency are signs of barbarism that denigrate the rule of law, democracy and the values of Greek society," adding that those resorting to such behavior "have no place on the police force." An investigation is to determine the exact circumstances of the migrant's alleged abuse but initial reports indicated that it began when an officer on duty at the Acropolis police precinct refused to respond to the Chilean's request to make a telephone call. According to sources, the precinct's public phone that the detainee had tried to use had been out of order, prompting him to seek the officer's help. Irked at the detainee's insistence, the officer is alleged to have punched him in the face. When the detainee resisted, a second officer reportedly rushed to his colleague's aid. The two are alleged to have beaten the detainee using batons. It appears that the other three implicated officers stood by. The Chilean, who had been detained on charges of arms possession, sustained serious injuries to his torso and limbs. A day later, a 40-year-old police officer from Corinth was suspended after allegedly pulling a knife on a motorist in Loutraki following an argument over a parking space. The officer, off-duty at the time, was charged with weapons possession and threatening behavior.

Faith in state bodies waning. The faith that citizens have in state institutions plunged last year – a development believed to be linked to Greece's worsening financial situation – while trust in independent authorities has risen, according to a survey carried out by polling firm Public Issue on behalf of Kathimerini. Public Issue questioned 1,001 respondents about their trust in 48 different institutions, including political parties, state bodies and independent organizations, and rated them on an index according to the number of points they were awarded. The index showed a dramatic increase in the perceived trustworthiness of the National Meteorological Service (EMY), which rose to the top of the index, a spot previously occupied by the fire service, which was blamed for last summer's catastrophic forest fires near Athens. There was also a marked increase in faith in the police force, which came under attack several times last year by members of resurgent domestic terror groups. The armed forces rose to sixth place on the index, which also revealed a boost in public faith in newly privatized, former state carrier Olympic Air and the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP), which is the civil service recruitment watchdog.

The index also showed a boost in the public's trust in President Karolos Papoulias, who was ranked third. The role of president was the only political institution to receive a vote of confidence from the public, possibly because it is a largely ceremonial role. Meanwhile, the status of the government as well as municipal and prefectural authorities remained near the bottom of the index. The government retained the rock-bottom slot it had occupied in 2008, despite the change in administration from the conservatives to socialists last October. Local government was rated only slightly above the country's central administration. Apart from the fire service and the country's political system, other losers on the index were the media and the Internet, deemed to be increasingly unreliable.

30.12.2009. There are no anarchists in "Greek and foreign prisons". Brown Cards to the Terrorist Guerrilla Group and Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Fire Conspiracy Cell and ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) that 29.12.2009 reports: Terrorist group claims responsibility for bomb attack. In a proclamation posted in the Internet on Monday evening, "Fire Conspiracy Cell" organization claims responsibility for the bomb attack that wrecked the ground floor of Greece's biggest insurance company. The proclamation is co-signed by a newly emerged organization "Terrorist Guerilla Group". The antiterrorist service is detailing the text of the proclamation while a senior police officer said that the proclamation text is being seriously considered as the "Conspiracy Fire Cell" organization has for the first time used such a developed explosive device. Police believe that cooperation with Terrorist Guerilla Group opens a new era in terrorist acts.

The proclamation writes that upgraded explosive device – product of the cooperation within the frame of revolutionary development caused the extensive damage and the same explosive material will be used in the future. The proclamation also underlines that bomb attacks aim at material damage and the warning allowed time for the evacuation of the building, taking into consideration the large number of policemen in the area. It also underlines that police have to evacuate promptly the site of bomb warning. It also refers to fake bomb warnings, saying that they partially disorganize the function of the system but police should take all warnings seriously otherwise there would be big problems if the warning is real. The proclamation writes that the motive of the bomb attack is overconsumption promoted by the western society that underrates human relations, cultivates exhibitionism, chase of popularity, opportunity for a dream and sets ultimatum: submission or punishment. It also states solidarity to Greek and foreign anarchists held in prison. The proclamation concludes: "we fight against alienation and all that society heralds. Days of abundance are numbered".

There are no anarchists in "Greek and foreign prisons", i.e. political prisoners, according to reliable libertarian sources, included ABC http://www.anarchy.no/abc.html , and the anarchists reject all forms of "support" from terrorist groups. The IAT-APT has given expelling Brown Cards to the Terrorist Guerrilla Group and Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Fire Conspiracy Cell, see reports 27-29.12.2009, and ERT also get a Brown Card similar to Reuters and Phantis in this connection. Arrest the Terrorist Guerrilla Group and Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Fire Conspiracy Cell and put them in jail!

29.12.2009. Blast 27.12. claimed by the Terrorist Guerrilla Group, a.k.a. Renegade Terrorists' Group, and Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists. The little-known Terrorist Guerrilla Group and the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, of which five suspected members were arrested earlier this year, yesterday posted a message on the Internet claiming responsibility for a blast at the headquarters of the Ethniki Insurance firm in Athens. The blast occurred at about 11 p.m. on Sunday night and was heard in many parts of central Athens. Officers said that a device containing some 3 kilos of dynamite was placed outside the building, which is located in Neos Cosmos toward the northern end of busy Syngrou Avenue, not far from the center of Athens. Nobody was hurt in the explosion but it destroyed the ground floor of the building, where a branch of the National Bank of Greece was also located, and smashed the windows of several cars parked close by. Some adjacent buildings also suffered minor damage.

Police had sealed off the area after warning was given of the imminent explosion in an anonymous telephone call to the Eleftherotypia daily newspaper 15 minutes before the bomb went off. Initially it was thought that Revolutionary Struggle had planted the bomb as it has carried out similar attacks in the past. However, the joint claim of responsibility by the Terrorist Guerrilla Group and the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire seemed to douse this theory. The two groups claimed an attack on the home of PASOK MP Mimis Androulakis last month. In the online statement, the groups gave details about how the attack was carried out. Fragments of the explosive device were recovered yesterday by forensic experts and officers will also be examining CCTV footage. A senior police official said Tuesday that the proclamation is being scrutinized by the counter-terrorism squad, given that this was the first time that the Conspiracy of Fire Cells has claimed an attack with such a sophisticated explosive mechanism, although it was not disputed that the group was behind the attack. This, he added, coupled by the group's collaboration with the Renegade Terrorists' Group, launched a new era in terrorist activity. The Terrorist Guerrilla Group, a.k.a. Renegade Terrorists' Group, and the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire are marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, see reports 27-28.12.2009.

Bomb hoax. Several roads in central Athens were briefly closed yesterday after authorities received an anonymous call shortly after 1 p.m. claiming that a bomb had been placed at the National Bank of Greece in Omonia. Bomb disposal experts were dispatched but no explosive device was found.

28.12.2009. Brown Cards to marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists and to Phantis and George Georgiopoulos/Reuters US, that report 27.12.2009: Makeshift bomb damages insurance building in Athens. - A makeshift bomb went off late on Sunday outside the offices of National Insurance company in central Athens causing damage to the building and nearby cars but no injuries, police said. "There was a warning phone call to a newspaper about 15 minutes before the explosion but no claim of responsibility," a police official said. Police said the explosive device was placed near the entrance of the insurance company's building, located near the Ledra Marriott hotel. The company is a subsidiary of National Bank, the country's biggest lender. The incident is the latest in a series of gas canister and bomb attacks by leftist and anarchist groups that have rocked Greece since the police shooting of a teenager sparked the country's worst riots in decades in December 2008.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the practically certain marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists that are behind the "makeshift bomb", and similar terrorist groups, sometimes falsely called "anarchists"- but they are not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists are expulsed from the anarchist movement. The difference between ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag, or be called by the newsmedia. And the marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists and similar terrorist groups are acting authoritarian, not anarchist. Terrorism is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists and similar terrorist groups are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Practically certain no anarchist groups are involved in terrorism in Greece.

Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Phantis and George Georgiopoulos/Reuters US do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Phantis and George Georgiopoulos/Reuters US get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. See also report 27.12.2009.

PS. Harry Papachristou, Andrew Dobbie & Reuters 28.12.1009 report: "No group had yet claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest in a series of violent incidents by left-wing and anarchist groups since the shooting of a teenager...", and also get Brown Cards. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in self defense, not terrorism.

27.12.2009. Bomb attack by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack. A makeshift bomb went off at 23.01 on Sunday night in the Athens district of Neos Kosmos. The explosion targeted the Ethniki Asfalistiki building on Galaxia Street off Syngrou Avenue, which houses a branch of National Bank of Greece on the ground floor. An unidentified caller called the newspaper "Eleftherotypia" at 22.46 on Sunday and warned that the bomb would go off in the building within 15 minutes. There were no injuries as a result of the blast because the police managed to cordon off the area but there was extensive damage. Anti-terrorism squad officers were on the scene conducting an investigation, with a forensics team. Marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists are suspected for the bomb attack. The anarchists condemn the attack.

24.12.2009. Arsonists target bank in Galatsi, minor damage. The anarchists condemn the attack. Officer is suspended after brawl in shop. 2010 budget adopted - PM says 'things must change'.

Arsonists target bank in Galatsi, minor damage. A home-made incendiary device exploded in the early morning hours outside a bank branch in the Galatsi suburb of Athens, causing material damage but no injuries. The device, comprising four small propane canisters and a canister of flammable liquid, exploded at 4:00 a.m., breaking the Piraeus Bank branch's glass facade and damaging two parked cars. The anarchists condemn the attack. Marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists are suspected.

Officer is suspended after brawl in shop. Moments after Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said yesterday that the government would adopt a policy of zero tolerance toward violence "wherever it comes from," it was announced that a police officer was suspended following allegations that he punched the owner of a store in central Athens while off duty. In a statement, the police said that the officer, from the force's instant-response unit, was involved in a fight with the store owner that led to the shop being damaged. The alleged victim then filed a suit against the unnamed officer. In an unrelated speech, Chrysochoidis said that a separate body to investigate claims of police misbehavior would be up and running by February and that disciplinary rules would soon be changed so that officers can be arrested on the spot for some offenses.

2010 budget adopted - PM says 'things must change'. Parliament adopted in the early hours of Thursday the 2010 state budget. 160 deputies of the ruling PASOK party voted for, while 139 deputies from the four opposition parties voted against. One deputy, out of the 300-member House, was absent. Conluding a five-day Parliamentary debate, Prime Minister George Papandreou said late Wednesday night that his government had transparency as condition of governance. Papandreou reiterated that his government was determined to "change things in the country...Those who search to downgrade our great institutional reforms regarding the state should ask themselves why our efforts failed in the past." The basic target of the government is, as the premier said, "apart from fiscal and economic adjustment, the regaining of the confidence of the citizen towards the state and re-establishing Greece's credibility in the eyes of its European partners." "We should, all together, prepare a strict timeframe regarding necessary reforms," Papandreou said. The principles that would govern the budgets of the new government and their implementation are transparency, rentability and fair taxation for a fair redistribution of wealth, the premier said. "In this difficult conjuncture, all must contribute according to their capability. Because there are 500,000 unemployed that need real support, and social inequalities provoke tensions," the premier said. Referring to the government's work since its coming to office last October, Papandreou said the cabinet has already approved nine bills, and added that the difference between his PASOK government and the previous New Democracy government was not quantitave "but concerns the orientation it serves: Who is being served by it. Our option is crystal clear: We serve the Greek citizen and only him."

23.12.2009. Greek civil servants to strike on pensions, wages. Anarchist comment. University break-in. Cars smashed. Immigrants to get citizenship.

Greek civils servants to strike on pensions, wages. Greece's civil servants union ADEDY said yesterday it plans to hold a 24-hour strike in late January or early February to protest against government reforms it said were being forced by markets. "We will not accept that the cost of the crisis will be borne by our shoulders," the haead of ADEDY union Spyros Papaspyros said. "Specific forces from the markets are attacking us, it is to them that we will answer." Moody's said on Tuesday that social acceptance of deficit reducing measures would be key to decide on any further downgrade of the country's rating which it lowered one notch to A2. The anarchists support the strike.

University break-in. Several laptops belonging to the Geology Department at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki were reported stolen yesterday. Police said that the thieves had climbed up scaffolding on the building's exterior and smashed windows to get into the first-floor laboratory. University authorities are in the process of installing burglar alarms throughout the campus.

Cars smashed. A group of up to 15 people damaged nine parked cars in the Thessaloniki district of Evosmos early yesterday. Police said the assailants smashed the vehicles' windshields in the pre-dawn attack.

Immigrants to get citizenship. Cabinet approves pioneering draft law to give foreigners and their children greater rights. Second-generation immigrants are going to be given the right to claim Greek citizenship and vote in the country's elections, the Cabinet decided yesterday. In what will be groundbreaking legislation for Greece, the proposed law would allow some 250,000 children who have been born in the country to migrant parents to call themselves Greek. Under the draft law, now open to public consultation, if one of the child's parents has been living in Greece for at least five years in a row, then their son or daughter will be able to claim citizenship. This right will also be available to children who have attended the first three years of primary school in Greece or have studied at Greek schools for a total of six years. The Interior Ministry estimates that if the law is passed before next year's municipal elections, then 150,000 second-generation immigrants will be able to vote in the polls.

The bill also proposes that foreigners living and working in Greece legally for five consecutive years will be able to be naturalized, allowing them to vote and run in local elections but not general elections. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said that police have already been instructed not to arrest or deport second-generation immigrants over paperwork discrepancies. New Democracy accused the government of ignoring the significance of awarding someone citizenship, while the nationalists Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) accused PASOK of "distorting the electoral body." Yesterday's Cabinet meeting was also memorable for another reason, as it was the first time that the head of the Church of Greece was invited to take part. Archbishop Ieronymos repeated proposals that unused Church property be used to help raise money for noble causes.

22.12.2009. Police updated for crime-fighting. Anarchist comment. Immigrant rights on agenda. Piraeus garbage men end strike.

Police updated for crime-fighting. Precincts to keep better records, minister says, as he unveils new policy for making neighborhoods safer. Police will use more modern and accurate techniques to record crime, so that crime-fighting policy can be tailored to each area individually, Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said at a news conference yesterday as he presented the force's policy for 2010-14. Chrysochoidis said that a new online system would allow police chiefs to systematically observe crimes according to area and the time they were carried out. Authorities believe that this will help them tackle crime more effectively. The various police departments and stations around the country have each already submitted operational plans. Also 21 precincts in Athens and Thessaloniki that face serious crime problems, such as Aghios Panteleimonas, Omonia and Aspropyrgos, are going to be given more personnel and equipment.

The police stations will also be staffed with psychologists and interpreters with the aim of helping officers to develop closer links with the immigrant communities that live in some of the areas where crime is rife. Chrysochoidis said that 1,100 officers who had been guarding VIPs until recently had returned to normal duty and that another 350 policemen would join them by the end of the year. Neighborhood police officers, who will patrol districts on foot and have regular contact with residents and store owners, will also be introduced as of the start of the new year to 18 precincts in Attica, six in Thessaloniki and 21 in the rest of Greece. Chrysochoidis said he was also hopeful that his plans to set up an FBI-style department would materialize by March next year. The new service would tackle organized crime, particularly financial and electronic crimes.

This new department would also incorporate the anti-terrorist squad, said Chrysochoidis, who added that this merging of services would only happen once the current force completes its task of rooting out the so-called new generation of terrorists. Chrysochoidis was adamant at the news conference that there is a clear link between organized crime and terrorist groups. He claimed that the urban guerrillas carry out robberies and kidnappings to fund their purchase of weapons, which they buy from criminals. Meanwhile, doctors said last night that the lives of two policemen who were shot during a bank robbery on the island of Salamina were not in danger. One officer was hit in the leg, the other in the head. The two gunmen escaped. The anarchists demand: Arrest all the marxist leftwing exstremist and all the rightwing extremist, ochlarchist terrorist groups.

Immigrant rights on agenda. The Cabinet is due to discuss this afternoon a piece of groundbreaking legislation that the government wants to introduce that would lead to the children of immigrants living in Greece legally being given Greek citizenship and foreigners gaining the right to vote in municipal elections. One of PASOK's election pledges was that it would break with the past and allow immigrants' children to have the right to call themselves Greek, as opposed to leaving them to fall into a bureaucratic limbo. According to recent European Union statistics, there are just over 900,000 immigrants in Greece, comprising 8.1 percent of the country's population. According to sources, the Interior Ministry is in the process of preparing two bills that will be discussed during today's Cabinet meeting. The first proposes that children of immigrants who have been living legally in Greece for the last five years be allowed to gain Greek citizenship.

This right will also be afforded to children who have not been born in Greece but who have attended the first three years of primary school or have studied for a total of six years at Greek schools. In both cases, when they reach the age of 18, these children will be asked if they want Greek citizenship: If they do, they will immediately gain the right to vote but, in the case of the boys, will also have to carry out military service. If they reject Greek citizenship, they will not be offered it again. The second bill that will be up for discussion today is one that would grant some 220,000 ethnic Greeks from abroad and foreigners who live in Greece on indefinite residence permits the right to vote in municipal elections. Sources said the Interior Ministry estimates that two-thirds of this group is made up of ethnic Greeks. The government hopes that by giving them the right to vote, it will deter criticism from right-wingers, the nationalist Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), that it is favoring foreigners over people with Greek roots. The Interior Ministry organized an event last Friday for the first time, "Feels Like Home," which was dedicated to immigrants, giving them an opportunity to showcase their cultures in central Athens.

Piraeus garbage men end strike. Just as hundreds of tons of trash had begun to build up on the streets of Piraeus, refuse collectors called an end to their strike after the local municipality promised their jobs would not go to private companies. The announcement came as it was revealed that a pilot scheme whereby households pay for the trash they throw away would be put into place for the first time in Greece. Refuse collectors in Piraeus went on strike last Thursday when the municipality revealed that it would divide its sanitation services into two departments: road sweeping and trash collection. The employees reacted by starting rolling 24-hour strikes because they feared the move was a step toward road-sweeping contracts being awarded to a private company. The garbage men ended their strike yesterday afternoon after municipal officials assured them that no private firms would be involved and that the new road-sweeping service would employ either existing municipal employees or those hired through the process run by the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP), the state body that handles applications for jobs in the public sector. Meanwhile, it was revealed that a pilot scheme involving 1,500 families in Elefsina, west of Athens, would begin next year whereby each household will pay municipal taxes in line with the amount of trash it throws away. The pay-as-you-throw scheme is currently being used by municipalities in 14 European Union member states but has never been tried before in Greece. Each household will be given garbage bags with a unique bar code so that they can be weighed and a record kept of what each family throws away.

Moody's Investors Service cut Greece's debt rating on Tuesday but partially reassured financial markets by saying the country remained far from a crisis, igniting a rally in Greek bonds and bank stocks. The rating agency downgraded Greece to A2 from A1, citing the country's swelling budget deficit. It was Greece's third downgrade by a major agency this month; Fitch took action early this month, followed by Standard & Poor's.

21.12.2009. Pre-dawn blasts. Budget row in full flow. Greece and the Global Sixties.

Pre-dawn blasts. An explosive device that was placed under a parked car in the southern Athens suburb of Neo Faliro went off at just before 5 a.m., causing damage to the vehicle but no injuries. Police said the car belonged to the owner of a company but gave no further details. Meanwhile, arsonists in Thessaloniki damaged three parked cars early yesterday. The attacks took place between 4.30 a.m. and 5.30 a.m. in three different neighborhoods. Nobody was injured.

Budget row in full flow. PASOK and New Democracy trade accusations over the state of the economy. Greece's political parties reverted to type yesterday, as they slugged it out in Parliament during the debate about the 2010 budget, just a few days after a rare show of unity during which all sides had agreed to the necessity of measures against corruption. The budget is due to be voted through on Wednesday thanks to the majority support of the PASOK MPs but in the meantime the government is vehemently defending its position and trying to make clear who is responsible for the current economic crisis in Greece. "The size of the deficit that we are faced with is 30 billion euros and it is your doing: your policies and mismanagement," Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou told the New Democracy representatives in the House.

"New Democracy appears to be unrepentant. Its members do not have the political courage to ask forgiveness from the Greek people for the fact that during their five-and-a-half years in power, they led this country to an unprecedented fiscal derailment and dragged its name through the mud," added the minister. Late on Saturday, New Democracy had issued a statement criticizing Prime Minister George Papandreou for his attack on the conservatives over their handling of the economy and suggesting that he was using this to cover up for his government's failure to come up with effective policies. In his speech in Parliament on Saturday, Papandreou had also called for the country to unite to tackle the country's economic problems. "We need a mobilization of our political parties, unions, entrepreneurial forces, labor and all our citizens," said the premier. "We have to put our house in order." The 2010 budget aims to reduce the public deficit from 12.7 percent of gross domestic product to 9.1 by cutting spending and slashing waste but not through taxes on low- and middle-income earners. A poll conducted by Public Issue for Sunday's Kathimerini indicated that 75 percent of Greeks are "very" or "quite" worried about the state of the economy and that only 15 percent think the problems will be resolved in the next year.

Tom Hayden: Greece and the Global Sixties. I am here as a witness to the importance of memory to the future. Direct action to build a participatory democracy in the image of the Greek city state was the chosen ideal of the first activists of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the early 1960s. The college papers of the young Martin Luther King Jr., written in the 1950s at Crozer Theological Seminary, included 13 references to Greek thought, typical of students in those years. That the Greeks held slaves in the midst of their democracy only meant that the struggle for a democratic polis was unfinished or not even begun for the many. It was apparent to Martin Luther King and millions more that the representative democracy of elected officialdom could not, and would not, meet our needs, most obviously because we were disenfranchised -- 27 million young people and African Americans in our South.

We could not wait for the older generation to notice that the future they had prepared for us was nothing more than the past recycled, history as a Xerox machine. We believed in action to win our freedom in the moment, to create communities of resistance, and to challenge the tired and complacent. With Henry David Thoreau, we wanted to vote with our whole lives, not with a mere piece of paper. We believed that everyone deserved a voice in the process of making decisions that put their lives at risk (like the Freedom Rides), or threatened their expulsion from school or their forced draft for Vietnam (the same issues faced by Greek students under the dictatorship). Our decision-making assemblies became latter-day versions of the ecclesia (at least as we imagined it), with sometimes as many as 3,000 participating in decisions, and with rotating leadership. Socratic dialogue, though not the notion of philosopher-kings, was basic to community organizing. We wanted people to gain their own authentic voices, not follow charismatic demagogues.

An organizing principle of our movements, and of the new society we aspired to build, was that every person should have a voice in the decisions affecting their lives. Only such a commitment, we believed, could motivate people to dedicate their lives to a cause that might take a lifetime. We were aware, of course, that ancient Greeks were themselves divided about the ideas of participatory democracy, and how American conservatives would cite the Greeks against our experiment in democracy. Like my experience with Irish-Americans, the face of Greece in Sixties America was Spiro Agnew. Then during the resistance to dictatorship we met and admired the Greece of Ritsos, Mercouri, Theodorakis, Lambrakis, Costa-Gavras, Pappas, and Andreas Papandreou.

We never resolved how and whether participatory democracy could be constructed after our revolution, but it suited the needs of a seemingly spontaneous movement that was challenging all hierarchies. But I am here to acknowledge the contribution of the early Greek city-state vision to the global change of the Sixties, in which a younger generation cast off the repressive yoke of the Cold War nuclear arms race and sought to throw open the future to more democratic, communal and sustainable possibilities.

The Sixties at Fifty

I have yet to meet anyone who realizes that next month, January 2010, marks the beginning of the fiftieth anniversary of everything we experienced in the Sixties. We never aspired to be Immortals, and now our time is passing rapidly. But the nature of the media offers us one more opportunity to engage in the battle for memory. Put simply, there are many who want to erase the memory of the Sixties, because they still consider it a virus to be contained. When the first George Bush invaded Iraq, for example, he declared that "the Sixties syndrome was defeated," as if the "syndrome" was a weakness that had to be removed if America's reputation as global policeman was to be restored. Others like myself are champions of the legacy of Sixties social movements with an interest in teaching and transmitting those principles of participatory democracy to future generations.

Still others I describe as the politicians of memory. They wish a selective memory that proves their belief that America's system is flexible, responsive, the most adaptable in the world. They have a point, but the danger with the politics of memory is that the radicals who made change possible are forgotten or reduced to faces on postage stamps. There are no monuments to the movement against the Vietnam War.

We need to understand the roots of the Sixties in the global Cold War which began with the Truman Doctrine here in Greece, extended through years of repression and silence in many countries like ours, but also contained the seeds, or precursors, of the Sixties before they were noticed. For example, the process of African decolonization, and the rise of the Non-Aligned Movement, stimulated alternatives to the Cold War nuclear arms race. One indirect result was the US decision to desegregate public schools -- partly in response to global criticism by the Soviet Union and newly-independent African countries. These undercurrents burst to the surface in 1960 with the release of Epitaphios here in Greece and the assertion of a new sensibility. In America there was the so-called Beat Generation of oppositional poets and lifestyles suddenly attracting a new generation to a counter culture far outside conventional politics. The consciousness of the Beats was built in large part on the African-American blues culture. In Greece perhaps a similar development occurred with the rebetiko cultural revival.

The end of this "Long Sixties" should be drawn in the mid-Seventies, I believe. The date is important, for it partly answers the question why the period came to its end. There were many false moments when the death of the Sixties was declared; for example, the killings at Kent State University in 1970. Our innocence, according to this autopsy, died under the onslaught of extremism on all sides. Our generation died of an overdose of excesses, it usually is added. This is nonsense. The Sixties ended when our causes succeeded, leading to the decline of our unified focus, and the opening of new channels of expression within the mainstream. A parenthesis spanning the decade of our twenties came to an end with the end of the Vietnam War, the uncovering of Watergate and purging of Richard Nixon and imprisonment of his cronies (Agnew among them). Then came the end of the 21-year-old vote, the end of the forced draft, the return of thousands from exile in Canada.

In Greece, I believe the Sixties ended with the collapse of the dictatorship in 1974. Perhaps the closure was represented by the huge concert in Athens, "the most legendary musical concert in modern Greek history" honoring the return of Democracy, captured on film in the documentary Songs of Fire . The banned songs of Theodorakis, and the banning of Theodorakis himself, ended with the composer on stage side by side with Ritsos. November 17, the date when the tanks occupied the Polytechnic and the killing commenced, became the date of the first democratic elections after the dictatorship and a national day of commemoration ever since.

I have titled a recent book The Long Sixties, from 1960 to Barack Obama because I believe the print of the Sixties is felt reverberating even five decades later. The demonstrations against corporate globalization in Seattle, Genoa, Cancun; the massive social forums begun in Porto Allegre; the elections in Latin America of former guerrilla leaders and political prisoners; and even the youth uprisings in Greece in recent months, constitute a recycling of the human desire for justice that arises when the old institutions fail.
Barack Obama was conceived in 1963, the time of the great Washington March, a time when interracial sex and marriage was criminalized in much of my country. In time he became president, not simply on the strength of his political gifts, but because the Sixties made him possible -- the changes in voting rights laws, the crushing of segregation, the achievement of affirmative action, the reforms of the formerly-segregated Democratic Party and the presidential primary process allowing greater popular participation in elections, all as a direct result of the Sixties in America. But I am getting ahead of my narrative.

The Global Sixties

There has been too little research on the global nature of the Sixties, since the Sixties were experienced mainly on local and national levels, not through some sort of international Comintern of the old model. There were transnational movements before in history, like the European working class movements of the 19th century. And there were periods, such as the 1770s or 1840s, when multiple currents of social activism erupted surprisingly at the same time around the world. More reflection is required on how these global upheavals occur so spontaneously. One of the best analyses is the book 1968 in Europe by my German friend Martin Klimke (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Another, oddly enough, is the declassified CIA report titled "Restless Youth," sent to President Johnson in 1968. These attribute the Sixties to the Cold War, Vietnam, and the expanding enrollment of alienated youth in colleges and universities. The CIA report concludes that the movements were far from being "communist-inspired"; in fact, it says youth rebellions were occurring in the Soviet bloc as well. Of course the CIA report was unable to depict itself -- and other clandestine and faceless bureaucracies -- as the target of the rebellion. The CIA concluded delicately that "the role of the United States in world affairs, particularly US involvement in Vietnam, is most evocative" in sparking student passions.

The Greek student movement is little mentioned in these reports. The CIA analyzed 18 countries, but not Greece, despite its hand in the 1967 coup. The newer book 1968 in Europe covers 15 separate countries, but with Greece lumped in a chapter with Spain. I looked through 15 histories of the Sixties, with titles like 1968: The Year that Rocked the World , The Global Revolutions of 1968 , and 1968: The World Transformed -- and found no references to Greece -- with the exception of the $549,000 secret check to Richard Nixon from the Greek dictators' intelligence service, passed through Thomas Pappas (in Ric Perlstein's Nixonland , 2008, p. 518). Perhaps "Greece in the Sixties" is remembered in another historical category because of the dictatorship, but the omission in Sixties historical literature is a serious one, promoting the popular understanding of the Sixties as mainly concerned with middle class lifestyles.

This is distorted historiography. Greece after all was the fulcrum of the Cold War which dominated the Sixties generation. The 1967 coup was one of many CIA-assisted ventures that were typical of the time. The Greek dictatorship was imposed in response to the departure from Cold War politics that the Center Union coalition represented. The November 17 movement's resistance to tanks on the Polytechnic campus was a symbol as great historically as that of Tlatelolco Square in Mexico City five years earlier. If I may say so, Melina Mercouri was as great a global figure representing a revolution in the arts as was Jane Fonda -- and Mikis Theodorakis as great as Pete Seeger, and Costa-Gavras as great as Stanley Kubrick.
So I think it is very important to write Greece into the history of the Sixties. And not only Greece, but all the countries of the global South, who have been neglected by the media's preference to obsess on music, marijuana, long hair, lost bras, and the end of innocence.

Movements Against Machiavellians

Finally, I would like to spend a few minutes on an alternative model of the Sixties, a model of social change drawn from my experience, research and teaching over the years. (If I may say so here in Greece, I feel like something of an archeological site myself, with decade buried under decade. This long experience does bring the gift of perspective, which I now want to share). Definitions: by social movements, I mean determined gatherings of unrepresented people outside the hierarchal institutions bringing pressure to bear to address moral injuries or material grievances. In time, their longings consolidate into more moderate (pragmatic) and militant (radical) tendencies.

By Machiavellians, I mean those technicians of power who seek to preserve power and advantage for such institutions as the state, the corporation, the military, and the media, drawing on the maxims contained in Machiavelli's small book The Prince . They too divide over time into moderate reformers and militant fundamentalists or dictators. There was one figure whom Machiavelli was unable to conform to his philosophy of power, that of the prophet Moses, who represented another sort of power. Machiavelli uncomfortably classified Moses as a religious agent of God, and therefore irrelevant to the exercise of power. In doing so, he left Moses as the enduring symbol of the spirit of social movements against slavery, at least in the West. As I have said, social movements germinate at the margins, usually invisible from the contented view of the Machiavellians. They erupt by surprise, as with the poem "Epitaphio," based in the memory of a suffering woman and child from an old photograph.

They must pass through moments of trial where their cries, if not stifled, will reach a broader constituency and become a movement. The 1963 murder of Deputy Grigoris Lambrakis, meant to stifle protest, turned instead into a mass movement of dedicated young people. (The Mayor of New York City, John Lindsay, later told me that he held a private screening of Costa-Gavras' film Z for the hierarchy of his police department, so concerned was he about a similar pattern in the United States.) The first killing of a student leader, Sotiris Petroulis, in 1965, only mobilized greater anger among the Lambrakis' generation. The murder of John F. Kennedy, shortly after he began supporting the civil rights movement and alternatives to the Cold War, had an opposite effect to the Lambrakis' killing, causing a confused depression that only worsened as murder followed murder in America, effectively decapitating the potential leadership of a progressive majority governing coalition.

The movement marches towards the political mainstream, becoming a measurable factor in public opinion surveys and the electoral process. In time, the demands of the movement reflect a majority of opinion, testing the willingness of the Machiavellians to accommodate. In the case of Greece, this majority was reflected in the Center Union's 53 percent parliamentary vote in 1964, and its momentum towards a future prospective victory at the polls in 1968. This probability was too much for the national Machiavellians, and their backers in Washington, to accept. And so there came the coup, and a more ferocious coup after that, leading to 28 deaths on the campus in 1973. But the repression only deepened the public disenchantment and resistance, which led to even more irrationality from the elites, culminating in the Cyprus crisis, finally ending in their demise in 1974. (At the risk of misunderstanding, the Greek unraveling seemed not unlike Watergate, in which a generalized constitutional crisis brought more moderate Machiavellians to force Nixon from office.)

When the movement succeeds in its main objective (democratic voting rights for disenfranchised people, ending an unpopular war, dissolving a dictatorship), the resulting paradox is that the movements tend to demobilize and divide. Many people enjoy the return to normalcy with new protections, and they return to their private lives in everyday life, enriched by the reform. On the other hand, the Machiavellians, having conceded an enormous reform under popular pressure, are mobilized to redefine and do battle for their core interests (preventing a left-wing government from emerging from the new democratic process, protecting investment opportunities for their patrons, covering up their unpunished crimes, polishing their reputations anew, urging the population to "not look back," etc.)

The activists who have been deeply revolutionized by their experiences often are unable to join the more pragmatic of their generation in plunging into the new democratic space. Instead, they can become bitter avengers, as happened with violent underground groups in most of Europe and North America, typically in the late Sixties but later in Greece. These factions in Germany, Italy, France, and North America (the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, the Front de Liberacion du Quebec, etc.) were mirrored by the November 17 faction in Greece, and their violent aftershocks lasted for decades. [I found the recent novel about the November 17 group by Tobias Hill, The Hidden , as well as the recent German film The Baader-Meinhof Complex to be fruitful in portraying the dynamics of these undergrounds.) My point is that these patterns of violence are rooted in sociology and history, not the defects in ethnic character which are almost always alleged.

On the Reforms of the Sixties

The Sixties era ended in significant reforms almost everywhere in the world as a result of the clash between movements and Machiavellians. In my country, the following happened in a short historical period:

- voting rights for southern black people and 18-21 year olds, totaling 26 million Americans
- the end of the Indochina wars
- the end of the compulsory draft
- the fall of two presidents
- new oversight of the imperial presidency, the CIA and the FBI
- amnesty for 50,000 draft evaders in Canada
- normalized relations with Vietnam
- the freedom of information act
- the media fairness doctrine
- the Roe v Wade supreme court decision legalizing abortion
- the strongest environmental, consumer and health and safety laws of the past 40 years
- democratic reforms of the presidential primary, delegate selection rules
- union rights for public sector employees
- fundamental reform of school and university curriculum
- freedom of sexual desire and lessening of censorship
- expanded participatory rights for marginalized minorities, from college students to disabled Americans.

There are lessons here. After 50 years of personally supporting generalized revolutionary aspirations, time and again I have witnessed reform as the result. These reforms would not have been achievable without revolutionaries of one sort or another. These reforms cannot be dismissed as superficial, because they created new openings for the disenfranchised and reallocated resources in positive ways. They were won through the power of social movements, not because the established powers decided on their own to become more generous. For these reasons, those who call themselves radicals and revolutionaries might want to take some credit and embrace these reforms before the memory of how they were achieved fades away.

On the other hand, the more radical among us are not wrong in their complaint that the powerful institutions remain the same, that they have co-opted some of yesterday's radicalism to regain a certain legitimacy. But it seems wrong and indulgent to maintain that the more things change the more they remain the same. Tell that to African-Americans, to American women. Tell that to the people of Bolivia, Chile, or Venezuela. It is not exactly so. And where the Machiavellian institutions still dominate, there are communities of meaning everywhere where progressive people pursue their cultural, political, educational and environmental rights in an atmosphere where struggle is encouraged from one generation to the next. Only remember Earth Day in 1970 and look at Europe's environmental policies or the streets and halls of Copenhagen today, and one sees that the struggle is progressive, expanding, and ongoing.

Reform is the space of cross-pressures where movements and Machiavellians negotiate new norms versus old privileges, not in a final sense but only in a provisional one. I urge you to reflect on the reforms that emerged from Greece in the Sixties, from greater democracy to women's rights, from the margins to the mainstream, from confrontations to unnoticed acceptance. I think you will find the paradox I have found, that great things have happened in our lifetimes and yet the poison of undemocratic power continues to threaten our very lives.

From Vietnam to Afghanistan

Let me conclude by noting an example of how these Sixties memories influence our perception of the present. Our American president, whom I strongly have supported, recently began a speech on his decision to escalate the Afghanistan War with a reference to Vietnam. He said the two wars were not alike, in part because "the world" -- or 41 countries -- support the broad coalition. It was multiculturalism in defense of a military occupation led and controlled by the United States government, despite grave reservations by the public in America, Europe and around the world. But Barack Obama could not speak of unilateralism. Barack Obama is trying to use the image of European and NATO support to convince the Congress, the media and the doubting public that this is truly a war supported by a supposed "international community."

Have we come full circle? Is the Cold War being replaced by a Pentagon doctrine of The Long War against international terrorism? Are NATO nations expected once again to be satellites of the United States or face the consequences? Are domestic liberties to be limited by new anti-terrorism laws? Are whole subpopulations of Europe to be considered an enemy within? Is the bombing of faraway Muslim countries the response to Muslim grievances in Europe? Many American and British counterinsurgency officials actually say that Europe is becoming the new "center of gravity" in this Long War. I have been in four European countries in recent years -- the UK, Sweden, Norway, Germany -- before coming here to urge another alliance, an alliance for peace, before all of us are swallowed in an old alliance in new packaging, the same North Atlantic Treaty Organization, now killing and bombing across South Asia.

Recently, Gen. James Jones, President Obama's current national security adviser and the former commander of NATO, said that "NATO has bet its future in committing the alliance to sustained ground combat operations in Afghanistan. If NATO were to fail, alliance cohesion would be at grave risk. A moribund or unraveled NATO would have a profoundly negative geo-strategic impact." There you have it. This is an American war with a NATO cover, a reminder of Andreas Papandreou's long ago warnings about superpower dominance. A war fought to maintain the distribution of power and resources in the world. A war that will destroy any hope for a renewal of the Great Society in the Sixties. A war based on deficit spending for militarism for the few and cuts in social expenditures for the many.

Greece is only a tiny part of this venture, with official reports of $260,000 (US) in spending and 145 troops in Afghanistan. (Europe as a whole has spent over $4 billion (US), sent over 35,000 troops, suffered at least 450 deaths and some 1,500 wounded.) Greece, I understand, has refused to send additional troops as President Obama is requesting. I hope that Greece, with its progressive tradition and government, will go even further, and announce a firm deadline for the withdrawal of all its troops from Afghanistan in less than 18 months, the time President Obama says he will begin to draw down. Greece could lead Europe towards a new approach to NATO's role in Afghanistan and beyond. That is my hope and my appeal to you.

Tom Hayden was the keynote speaker Dec. 14 at month-long festival on Greece in the Sixties in Athens. He is the author of The Long Sixties (Paradigm, 2009). (Source: The Huffington Post 20.12.2009 and Phantis)

20.12.2009. Fresh Brown Cards to Revolutionary Struggle and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Matthew Campbell and Times Online/The Sunday Times & Phantis, that report: Party's over for Greek graspers. The carnival of corruption and waste has brought the country close to ruin. A black mood has settled upon Athens. After the bonanza of European Union development aid and the euphoria of hosting the Olympics, the Greeks are shocked to realise that their gravy train has rolled off the tracks. Forget about British MPs putting the occasional duck house on expenses. Sumptuous villas have sprouted around Athens on altogether more lavish government spoils. The carnival of corruption and waste has brought Greece close to ruin."The party is over," said a senior official in the former conservative government last week as fears grew that Greece might default on its £270 billion debt and trigger another global financial crisis. The former official, who now works in the private sector, offered a candid assessment of the Greek malaise on condition that he would not be identified. He slapped a newspaper down on his desk and jabbed at it with his finger. "This is what it is all about," he said.

On the front page the newspaper reported that the health minister was talking to drug companies about cancelling 8m doses of swine flu vaccine. Her predecessor had ordered 16m doses, considered excessive in a country with a population of 11m. Only 320,000 people have been vaccinated since the campaign began a little more than a month ago."It's a terrible waste of money," said the former official. "It happens all the time. This is the Greek reality." He estimated that hosting the Olympic Games in 2004 cost Greece more than £12 billion, double what it would have been without "money flying this way, that way and often under the table". Bribes are routinely paid by Athenians to speed up bureaucracy. Tax evasion is also rampant. As for the new, centre-left government of George Papandreou, the prime minister, who is also the son and grandson of Greek prime ministers, the former official was dismissive. "They're a bunch of amateurs," he said. "Not one of them has ever earned a penny in the private sector." The previous government — of which he had been a member — was just as incompetent. He confirmed a rumour that Costas Karamanlis, the former prime minister, spent long hours on a PlayStation computer game at home when he might have been attending to matters of state.

No wonder Greece is in so much trouble. It is, however, far from being the only one. Just as things are stabilising from the last financial crisis — and aftershocks such as last month's announcement that Dubai World, the emirate's investment vehicle, was delaying debt repayments — experts can feel another quake coming. This time the culprits are the Piigs — Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, some of the most economically troubled members of the EU. After Greece's credit rating was downgraded this month, the government pledged to do anything necessary to save the economy. Investors were unimpressed by the measures announced last week and speculation grew that the country might eventually be forced to go cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or, as seems more likely, the EU."The measures being proposed [by Papandreou] are too vague," said Antonis Samaras, leader of the conservative opposition, "and the more he procrastinates, the more painful it will be in the end." There was so much waste and misuse of funds, said Samaras, that Greece could easily "cut fat" without pain. But it is feared that slashing perks such as an extra month's salary, to which workers are entitled each year by law, could provoke a repeat of the rioting that set central Athens ablaze last year after a schoolboy was shot by the police.

Police have declared a "zero tolerance" approach to riots but attacks on police stations with home-made bombs and the emergence of new anarchist groups with names such as Revolutionary Struggle and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire could presage more violence to come. There are suspicions that 17N, the terrorist group that was said to have been disbanded in 2002 after the trial of several of its members, may still be operating behind the scenes. Talk of revolutionary groups and an IMF bailout is not the only thing about Greece these days that is evocative of a banana republic. Women were rooting in rubbish bins for food in one area of Athens last week and children were begging in the city centre. With only a few days to go before Christmas, the shops, restaurants and bars seemed eerily empty in some districts. Many had closed. "It's like a ghost town compared with before," said Yannis, a waiter forlornly surveying an expanse of empty tables. Some of the great sporting complexes built for the Olympics have today been abandoned to weeds. A gypsy camp has sprung up outside one.

For the time being, though, the anger is directed mainly at the credit rating agencies whose decision to downgrade Greece makes its bonds a less safe bet for investors. This means it will be more expensive for the government to borrow funds in future. Under such circumstances, the debt risks ballooning even further out of control. "The credit rating agencies have a real nerve to be giving us lessons when they didn't say a single thing about the banks responsible for the financial crisis," said Agamemnon Koliatsos, an economist, angrily pacing up and down in his office and jiggling his worry beads. "Everyone should be looking at themselves in the mirror. Not just us." He believes that Italy, whose debt, according to some calculations, is even higher, is in just as much trouble as Greece. Others sounded contrite over their country's mismanagement. Announcing debt reduction measures on Monday, Papandreou called corruption "the heart of the Greek problem", adding, : "We will change or we will sink." A similar clean-up campaign was announced by Karamanlis, the previous prime minister, but this did not stop him from being voted out of office by a landslide 10 weeks ago after a series of corruption scandals in which several of his closest associates were forced to resign.

"People in power," said Yannis Panaretos, the deputy minister of education in charge of an open government programme, "were abusing it in a way that was beyond any level of acceptability." A new, more austere regime will attempt to convince the world that Greece is serious about putting its house in order. Police are being brought in for the first time to combat the twin scourges of fuel smuggling and tax evasion, which cost the government billions in lost revenue each year. Private doctors will think twice before demanding payments in cash so that they can claim their incomes are only slightly higher than the rent on their lucrative practices. An independent statistics office will be set up to give more credibility to Greek economic indicators after complaints that the country has hoodwinked the EU over the size of its budget deficit. Samaras, the opposition leader, has proposed a law that would allow officials to be pursued for corruption for 15 years after leaving government. At present they have immunity once they leave office and few government officials have ever been prosecuted for corruption. That may soon change.

The IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to Revolutionary Struggle and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and similar terrorist groups. They are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, sometimes falsely called "anarchists"- and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, Revolutionary Struggle and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and similar terrorist groups, are expulsed from the anarchist movement. The difference between ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag, or be called by the newsmedia. And Revolutionary Struggle and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and similar terrorist groups are acting authoritarian, not anarchist. Terrorism is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. Revolutionary Struggle and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and similar terrorist groups are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Matthew Campbell and Times Online/The Sunday Times & Phantis and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Matthew Campbell and Times Online/The Sunday Times & Phantis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

19.12.2009. Academics want safer campus. The anarchists agree. PASOK urges scandal probes.

Academics want safer campus. More than 100 lecturers and professors at the Athens Law School declared their support yesterday for a recent initiative by the university's dean to introduce security guards and identity cards on campus, following recent unrest at several institutions in the city. "We are not willing to accept any longer the degradation of universities, the fear and psychological violence, the destruction of property, the usurping of past student struggles and the use of institutions for niche interests," said the 103 academics in a written statement, which called on the university community to "wake from its slumber." In the aftermath of the violence that accompanied the commemoration of the first anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos by a policeman, Dean Theodoros Fortsakis and the council of the Athens Law School, a department of the University of Athens, proposed that his school should adopt security measures that are in place at thousands of other universities around the world.

He proposed that Greece's universities come together to set up a separate body of security guards that would be responsible for patrolling campuses and for checking who enters school grounds. He also suggested that all students should acquire ID cards that would be needed to gain access to campuses. Both measures have the aim of preventing the current situation in which people who have no connection with the universities are able to use the grounds to escape the clutches of the police. For example, a pirate radio station has been based and broadcasting for some time from the Athens Law School and cleaners recently found 20 petrol bombs on the campus. Students are opposed to Fortsakis's proposals as they fear it undermines the university asylum law, which prevents police entering campuses other than in extreme cases. But the academics believe the situation has to change. "We dream of seeing the university become a driving force in academic life, a pillar of society and free speech and to have an asylum arrangement that ensures the dissemination of ideas." The anarchists agree.

PASOK urges scandal probes. Socialist MPs table requests for four major corruption affairs to be investigated by Parliament. In what appears to be a bid by the government to change the main topic of political discussion, 128 PASOK MPs have tabled requests for Parliament to investigate four of the biggest corruption scandals that have rocked Greece over the last 11 years. In a motion tabled late on Thursday night and another submitted to Parliament yesterday, the Socialist deputies requested that parliamentary committees be set up to investigate the possible involvement of politicians or state officials in the manipulation of share prices between 1999 and 2008, whether any public servants or party representatives accepted bribes from Siemens Hellas, the purchase of structured government bonds by pension funds at allegedly inflated prices and the transfer, against the public interest, of property between the state and the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos. The four cases allegedly cost taxpayers, investors and workers hundreds of millions of euros and span periods when both PASOK and New Democracy were in power.

The decision by the PASOK MPs to submit the requests comes just after Prime Minister George Papandreou and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras appeared to agree during a rare meeting of all the parliamentary party leaders that steps had to be taken to combat corruption. Samaras agreed to the launching of fresh investigations into a number of corruption scandals on the condition that a probe into the 1999-2000 stock market bubble was also included. Commentators believe that the requests for new investigations are designed to show that PASOK is taking the initiative in the fight against graft but is also aimed at shifting the spotlight from worrying financial developments. By submitting the motions now, the PASOK deputies are attempting to ensure that the committees are formed in January, when the government will have to adopt some tough economic measures while also tackling Greece's ailing pension system. The investigations, should they proceed, will not result in any former ministers or MPs facing legal action as the statute of limitations has expired in all cases. The Vatopedi land swap was investigated by a parliamentary committee last year but the majority of deputies on the panel found that no public officials or members of the New Democracy government should face trial.

18.12.2009. Attacks on Greek ruling party offices ahead of debt talks. Communists suspected. The anarchists condemn the attacks. Arsonists attacked offices of Greece's ruling Socialist party in Athens on Friday as the country suffered a new credit blow ahead of a parliament debate on how to confront its massive debt. Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's downgraded two Greek banks and put two others on negative watch. International ratings agencies have delivered a series of heavy blows to Greece's standing in recent weeks. Prime Minister George Papandreou has ordered major austerity measures to cut Greece's 300-billion-euro (436-billion-dollar) debt that has roiled markets and pushed down the euro currency which Greece shares as a member of the Euro-zone. The attacks on the six Socialist party offices in Athens came hours after a day of protests by communist-led unions against the austerity measures. Minor fire damage was caused by police gas canisters and small incendiary bombs at offices in the Dafni, Melissia and Palio Faliro districts. All the attacks appeared to be coordinated.

Markets were jolted meanwhile by a new credit downgrade. Standard and Poor's cut Eurobank and Alpha Bank to BBB from BBB-plus and had placed National Bank of Greece, the country's biggest private institution, and Bank of Piraeus, its fifth biggest, on negative watch. S&P downgraded Greek sovereign debt on Wednesday, and Moody's is expected to issue a judgement by Christmas after warning Greece in October that its grade could be cut. Papandreou hit out at the power wielded by the agencies and said France and Spain would support him in the matter. "The Spanish prime minister, for example, says agencies which answer to no one should not be able to make economies rise and fall (...) this is not possible in a democratic country with a government elected on a clear programme," Ana quoted Papandreou as saying. Speaking to reporters in Copenhagen, where he was attending the UN climate change conference, Papandreou said he expected Spanish PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to make the agencies an issue during Spain's European presidency, which begins next month. Papandreou also mentioned French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

"He said the agencies which are rating us are the same ones that gave A grades to banks that collapsed the next day," Papandreou said. The interest rate which Greece has to pay to attract international savings to finance its overspending, via the bond market, has shot up in recent weeks and is now about twice the rate Germany has to pay. Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou has just been on a three-day tour of European capitals seeking to salvage Greece's financial credibility. He is to lead the Socialist government's call at a parliament debate on Saturday for radical spending cuts to curb the debt and a deficit estimated at 12.7 percent of output. The government's targeted cuts already go beyond the planned deficit reduction of 3.6 percent included in next year's budget. The finance minister reaffirmed that he wants a bigger cut, saying he was aiming for a "more ambitious reduction" close to four percent. European Central Bank vice president Lucas Papademos meanwhile urged Greek authorities to take "courageous" measures to tackle the swollen fiscal deficit.

Papademos, himself a Greek, said: "These measures would need to be decisive, substantial, and given the magnitude of the problem ... they would have to be courageous." Speaking at the ECB's twice-yearly Financial Stability Review, Papademos further stressed that Britain, Ireland, Spain and the United States also had large deficits and that "the issue is really global." Some unions have said they do not believe government's promises that it will avoid excessively taxing the poor. The government insists that most of the cuts will come out of more effective taxation of the rich, a crackdown on chronic tax evasion and the trimming of waste in the overblown Greek state bureaucracy. After the debate, the budget will be put to a vote in the 300-seat chamber late on Wednesday. The governing party has a 10-seat parliamentary majority and is expected to carry the vote. Greece is mired in recession and has an unemployment rate of 9.3 percent in the third quarter, up from 7.2 percent in the same period of 2008.

17.12.2009. Greek unions protest against cuts. Greek markets hammered as strikers march. Landfill strike. Racist attack. The anarchists comdemn the attack.

BBC reports: Greek unions protest against cuts. Left-wing trade unions in Greece have protested against spending cuts aimed at restoring international confidence in the country's economy. Thousands of supporters of PAME, a Communist-backed union, marched through Athens saying they should not pay the consequences of a capitalist crisis. PAME had called on workers across the country to enforce a 24-hour strike. Meanwhile, a second credit agency questioned whether Greece's austerity measures went far enough. The agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) followed Fitch in downgrading the country's credit rating - meaning it thinks Greece is now a riskier place to invest. S&P warned that the government's measures were unlikely to lead to a sustainable reduction in the public debt burden, and said Greece's credit worthiness might slide still further. The measures announced by Prime Minister George Papandreou this week included a 10% cut in social security spending, cuts in defence spending and pay and hiring freezes for public sector workers, as well as the closure of a third of Greece's overseas tourism offices. But Greek financial markets have not fared well since the announcement. Shares in banks - which have dropped nearly 18% in the past month - fell by a further 3% on Thursday, while new figures showed the country's rate of unemployment had leapt to a four-year high of 9.3%.

Unity at risk. Dozens of demonstrations were scheduled in Athens and towns across the country on Thursday. But while the challenge to the two-month-old Socialist government had the backing of journalist's unions, the strikes were not expected to disrupt transportation links as the main Socialist-led transport unions did not back the protests. Greece has come under increasing pressure from the European Central Bank to take action over its deficit. The country's public debt stands at 300bn euros ($442bn; £269bn). Mr Papandreou says his plan will help reduce Greece's public deficit from the current 12% to less than 3% by 2013. Announcing his measures to target "systemic corruption" and "red tape", Mr Papandreou said all members of society would have to pull their weight if Greece was to avoid "sinking under all its debts". Although Mr Papandreou has a big enough parliamentary majority to force through such cuts, he has held talks with opposition leaders in an attempt to forge a cross-party political consensus. But such groups as the Communists have already made it clear they do not think the financial crisis is a matter that requires national unity, correspondents say. As mentioned earlier, the anarchists support the strike.

Reuters reports: Greek markets hammered as strikers march. Greece's debt and bank stocks took another hammering on Thursday as unemployment figures soared and striking communist workers marched on parliament in protest at austerity plans. The risk premium on 10-year government bonds over benchmark German Bunds hit its highest level since April after a second credit rating downgrade in a week highlighted a lack of trust in a country set to become the Euro-zone's most indebted next year. Ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut Greece's rating by one notch to BBB+ from A- late on Wednesday, saying deficit-cutting measures announced by Prime Minister George Papandreou on Monday were unlikely to achieve a sustainable reduction in the debt burden. Fitch Ratings downgraded Greece last week and Moody's, the other major arbiter of creditworthiness, is expected to make its own move in the coming weeks. The cost of insuring Greek debt against default also rose again. Bank shares which have shed 17.8 percent in the last 30 days were down a further 3.14 percent at 1300 GMT, while the wider Athens stock index was off 2.3 percent. Unemployment rose to 9.3 percent in the third quarter from 8.9 in the previous quarter, the country's statistics service (NSS) said, with big job losses in construction and retailing as recession bites. Thousands of members of the communist workers group PAME walked off their jobs and marched in central Athens in protest at the socialist government's austerity measures to overcome the country's fiscal woes. Journalists joined the strike, leaving the country without television and radio news for 24 hours, but the stoppage otherwise appeared to cause little disruption.

"Rich should pay". About 2,500 protesters, including students and public sector doctors, marched to parliament, beating drums and chanting slogans such as "George, remember who your allies are!" Some were dressed in their working uniforms and others held banners reading: "The debts and deficits are yours, the rich should pay for the crisis." Ratings agencies cite expected political resistance to the Socialist government's plans to slash the state deficit from an expected 12.7 percent of gross domestic product this year to the EU limit of 3 percent by 2013 as one reason for the downgrades. "We believe that the government's efforts to reform the public finances face domestic obstacles that would likely require sustained efforts over a number of years to overcome," S&P said in a statement explaining its downgrade. Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said after talks with his British counterpart Alistair Darling in London he was disappointed by the latest downgrade. "We will continue to work to gain the trust of Greek citizens, our European partners and markets, doing what's needed to reduce the deficit and the public debt," he said.

Greece's debt mountain is set to hit 135 percent of GDP in 2011 unless policies change, giving the nation of 10 million far bigger problems than fellow Euro-zone laggards Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Economists say the government needs to cut public sector pay to achieve deep deficit cuts but Papandreou, elected in October on pledges to aid the poor and tax the rich, has maintained real pay rises for lower-paid public servants next year. Instead, he aims to narrow the gap by raising taxes and fighting corruption and tax evasion, reducing bureaucracy and cutting social security spending, but details remain sketchy. In an attempt to lend credibility to the debt reduction plan, Papaconstantinou said on Wednesday that Athens expected privatization revenues next year of about 2.5 billion euros ($3.60 billion), roughly 1 percent of GDP. He gave the figure in a conference call with institutional investors but declined to say which assets he intends to sell, two analysts who listened to the call said. The state has stakes in about 20 listed companies including lenders ATEbank, Post Savings Bank, gaming firm OPAP and telecoms group OTE. Greece's main public and private sector unions GSEE and ADEDY, which represent about half the 5 million workforce, did not take part in Thursday's protest, saying they were giving the government time to spell out its measures. They have said they will move to labor action after the Christmas holidays, if the measures are to hurt the poor.

Landfill strike. As trash cleanup continues, new action signals more woes. As municipal employees yesterday continued gathering thousands of tons of trash from the streets of the capital, workers at Attica's main landfill walked off the job, demanding permanent status for some 200 colleagues on short-term contracts. A spokesman for the landfill workers' union, Giorgos Hardas, said that these employees have special training in how to operate the waste-processing plant adjacent to the landfill and that their likely redundancy would hamper the smooth operation of the plant. Of some 10,000 tons of trash that accumulated on the streets of the capital over a three-week municipal workers' strike, an estimated two-thirds of it had been picked up by yesterday. The anarchists support the strike.

Racist attack. Masked vandals early yesterday broke into a building in the Cretan port of Hania that accommodates a center for immigrants, set fire to furniture and painted swastika symbols on the interior and exterior walls, according to witnesses. The fire set by the vandals was small and fizzled out before firemen arrived at the scene, according to police, who were given descriptions of the perpetrators but had not traced them by late last night. There had been no one at the center at the time of the attack and so no injuries were reported. The anarchists comdemn the attack.

16.12.2009. Leaders united on graft. Strike Thursday. Citizens push for cleanup. Anarchist comments.

Leaders united on graft. During rare meeting, PASOK, ND find common ground on ways to tackle corruption. In a rare display of political harmony, PASOK and New Democracy appeared to find plenty of common ground during a meeting of parliamentary party leaders yesterday when methods of tackling corruption and increasing transparency were discussed. Prime Minister George Papandreou appeared to have the full backing of ND leader Antonis Samaras on a range of proposals that were discussed during the leaders' council. These included the publishing of state procurements on the Internet, the ability to set up parliamentary investigative committees on the initiative of a minority of MPs and the inclusion of migrants in the social security system. Such meetings are rarely convened but Papandreou had made it a priority when he was voted into power. He used the discussion as an opportunity to present his proposals for stamping out graft and taking measures to rebuild citizens' trust in the political system, which have both been touchstones of his vision for Greece.

The prime minister said that tackling graft was an issue of "the utmost national importance" as he proposed that the funding of political parties be changed so that only party members could donate money and that all donations should be made public. He also suggested that any politicians found to be making false declarations on their source of wealth ("pothen esches") should face criminal proceedings. Papandreou additionally proposed that an initiative by just 120 of the total 300 parliamentary deputies suffice to form a committee to investigate suspected corrupt practices by MPs or members of the government. This would mean that opposition parties could instigate the setting up of such panels. Samaras agreed to this measure with the proviso that the probes would begin with the 1999-2000 stock market bubble that occurred under a previous PASOK government. Samaras's only real objection was to PASOK's plan to change the country's electoral law in favor of one similar to Germany's. The five party leaders agreed that a committee should be set up in Parliament to come up with proposals by next June about how corruption in Greece can be tackled. Too little - too late, the anarchists declare.

Strike Thursday. The left-wing PAME and SYRIZA movements are planning strikes and demonstrations in dozens of Greek cities Thursday against cost-cutting plans unveiled by the Socialist government under pressure from financial markets and the European Union. "The new government measures aim to completely overturn (our) rights," the Athens journalists' union, which is backing the action with a 24-hour strike, said in a statement. School teachers are also expected to walk off the job. But the two main unions representing workers and civil servants, GSEE and ADEDY, have so far failed to support Thursday's industrial action. The anarchists support the strike.

Citizens push for cleanup. An association of citizens and storeowners based in Athens's historic center is considering appealing to the European Court of Justice if Greek authorities fail to take the necessary action to improve quality of life in the run-down district, Kathimerini has learned. According to the Central Athens Residents' Initiative, spiraling crime, the rampant trade and use of drugs and the exploitation of undocumented migrants in the area are fueling unease among residents and have led to significant losses for storeowners. Members of the group said they have been encouraged by meetings with government officials and Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes, noting that policing has been boosted. But they want more radical improvements and are launching an awareness campaign. "If we all respect the law and isolate those who break it, be they Greek or foreigners, we can create a safe environment," said a statement by the association. The anarchists support the action.

Trial of the left fascist Yiannis Dimitrakis delayed again, until April 2010. The appeal hearing of left fascist Yiannis Dimitrakis, a 30-year-old student linked to the so-called "Robbers in Black," was yesterday postponed for a second time, until April 18. The trial, due to be heard yesterday, was postponed last week after Dimitrakis's lawyers requested additional time to confer with their client following his transfer from Domokos Prison in central Greece to Attica's Korydallos. The lawyers cited the same reason for the second extension. At a first instance hearing, Dimitrakis was handed a 25-year sentence for his part in an armed robbery of a branch of National Bank in central Athens in January 2006.

PS. Warning! The bank robber, left fascist and criminal ochlarchist Yannis Dimitrakis, a.k.a. Giannis Dimitrakis, has sometimes falsely tried to pose as "anarchist", a.o.t. to get support from libertarians on false premises, but he is of course not an anarchist, but as mentioned an ochlarchist, the quite opposite, and should of course not get any support from libertarians. Ochlarchy is mob rule broadly defined. Yannis Dimitrakis, a.k.a. Giannis Dimitrakis and the rest of his left fascist ochlarchist gang "Robbers in black" have got Brown Cards from the International Anarchist Tribunal, IAT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement.

Also of course, ochlarchists, falsely posing as "anarchists", and supporting the left fascist and criminal ochlarchist Yannis Dimitrakis and/or his gang 'Robbers in Black', will get Brown Cards and be expulsed from the anarchist movement. The IAT issues a general warning to anarchists against support for the left fascist and criminal ochlarchist Yannis Dimitrakis, a.k.a. Giannis Dimitrakis, and his ochlarchist supporters and followers. Support of an ochlarchist is the same as being an ochlarchist! Support for mob rule, mafia, is the same as being mafia. Ochlarchists, falsely posing as "anarchists" get Brown Cards from the IAT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. The anarchists condemn the left fascist and criminal ochlarchist Yannis Dimitrakis, a.k.a. Giannis Dimitrakis and his gang "Robbers in black", and all supporters and followers.

15.12.2009. Chaos prevailes in Cabinet. Greece PM seeks support for cuts. Left-wing unions protest. Farmers protest. Media blackout. Anarchist comments.

Eleftheros reports: "Chaos prevailes in Cabinet meeting on measures for economy - Papandreou disagrees with FinMin George Papaconstantinou on severity of measures". Rizospastis reports: "Government the 'gravedigger' of working classes' rights for capital's sake". The anarchists are against chaos.

BBC reports: Greece PM seeks support for cuts. Greek PM George Papandreou has met opposition party leaders to discuss his debt-reduction plan aimed at quelling the country's economic crisis. He earlier unveiled a raft of spending cuts, warning the country was at risk of "sinking under its debts". The planned cuts would include a 10% cut in social security and government spending, as well as a 90% tax on senior bankers' bonuses. Trade unions have called for nationwide strikes to protest against the reforms. Tuesday's meeting with opposition leaders ranging from the conservatives to the Communists was chaired by the country's president, and focused on tackling corruption. Speaking after the meeting, Mr Papandreou said he and the party leaders had been in agreement on several points, "despite our possible ideological differences", AP reported. However, opposition leaders were less welcoming about the measures announced on Monday, which Mr Papandreou said would help reduce Greece's public deficit from the current 12% to under 3% by 2013. "What is he asking us to support? His generalities? His delays?" said conservative leader Antonis Samaras, in comments reported by Associated Press.

Protection racketeers? Mr Papandreou proposed cuts in defence spending, pay and hiring freezes for public sector workers, and the closure of a third of Greece's overseas tourism offices. He also called for reforms of the tax inspectorate, designed to remove corruption and end tax evasion. Many businesses regard the inspectors as all-powerful protection racketeers who threaten companies with audits and heavy fines unless they pay bribes, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens. Mr Papandreou says the inspectors will be monitored by a new finance police, designed to guarantee that companies and individuals pay fair amounts of tax. In a speech to business and union leaders on Monday, Mr Papandreou said that Greece had "lost every trace of credibility" and needed to "change or sink". The comments came a week after international ratings agency Fitch downgraded the country's credit rating - meaning it thought Greece was now a riskier place to invest.

Risky business. Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou earlier defended Greece's position in the Euro-zone, despite its deficit being far above the European Union limit of 3%. He said Greece was worthy of its place because it "abides by the rules". Mr Papaconstantinou told the BBC: "Greece is not the next Iceland, nor is it the next Dubai... it is tackling the very serious situation that we have." Since last week's decision by Fitch, Greece has come under increasing pressure to take action over its deficit from the European Central Bank. The country's public debt stands at 300bn euros ($442bn; £269bn). On Tuesday, the Athens Stock Exchange was down by more than 1%. Meanwhile, supporters of the left-wing PAME union attempted to blockade the entry to the finance ministry where the cuts were being orchestrated. The 100-strong protest was, says our correspondent, a carefully choreographed demonstration designed for maximum coverage on Greek morning television, and the start of what is likely to be a nationwide campaign of industrial unrest. Protestors climbed onto the roof and lowered a banner reading "Rise up" covering four floors at the building. "There will be no truce, no truce in fighting for the rights of the workers," said PAME spokesman Giorgos Skiadiotis.

Farmers protest. Farmers in northern Greece yesterday staged a blockade on the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, preventing trucks carrying foreign produce from entering the country and demanding the immediate payment of subsidies for their sector. The anarchists support the action.

Media blackout. The Athens Union of Journalists (ESIEA) yesterday called a 24-hour strike for Thursday, protesting recent redundancies at newspapers and proposed reforms to the country's pension funds that it fears will be prejudicial to its members. The strike, due to begin at 6 a.m. on Thursday and to end at the same time the following day, means no newspapers will circulate on Friday. The anarchists support the strike.

14.12.2009. Brown Cards to the so called "Anarchist Action" i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini & Phantis, that report: Extremists active in Athens, Thessaloniki. Two homemade explosive devices placed outside a journalists' pension fund in the Athens district of Neos Cosmos were destroyed in a controlled blast by police bomb disposal experts early on Saturday without any injuries being caused. Officers were sent to the scene after an anonymous caller warned private television station Alter that there would be an explosion outside the premises of TSPEATH. There had been no claim of responsibility for the attempted attack by late yesterday and it was unclear whether the protest might have been prompted by the government's plans to overhaul the country's bloated pension system. In Thessaloniki, a group called Anarchist Action claimed responsibility for a bloodless arson attack on a diplomatic vehicle belonging to the Albanian consulate on Saturday, declaring its opposition to the "state machine."

Rectors arrive at asylum consensus. Rectors attending a summit on Saturday chaired by Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou agreed that the university asylum law preventing police from entering campuses should not be abolished but effectively enforced, as the minister called for a tally of all institutions currently under partial occupation by students or self-styled anarchists. "We reached a general consensus to work together, with specific initiatives, to ensure that the ideal of safeguarding university asylum becomes a reality," Diamantopoulou said. These initiatives include determining which areas should be protected by the asylum law and which should not. "Sidewalks and roads do not fall within the remit of the law," the minister said. Diamantopoulou said she also wants a list to be drawn up of all campuses, or sections of campuses, currently under occupation. "It is unacceptable for public areas to be under occupation by individuals," she said. Rectors will be asked to monitor faculty buildings more carefully and, if they feel it is necessary, introduce security-boosting measures such as the employment of guards outside campus gates or the issuing of identity cards to students. Diamantopoulou said that she wanted student unions involved in debate about the new proposed measures. "I would like to make a public appeal to students to express their opinions," the minister said, noting "an absence of dialogue in this whole debate about universities and asylum." Diamantopoulou said that it would be a debate among academics, students and the government that would result in changes to the enforcement of the asylum law, not the activities of "thugs and criminals" – a clear reference to the self-styled anarchists who broke into university buildings and attacked academics last weekend.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the members of so called "Anarchist Action", a terrorist arsonist group. They are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists"- and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, the members of so called "Anarchist Action" group", are expulsed from the anarchist movement. The difference between ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag. And "Anarchist Action" is acting authoritarian, not anarchist. Terrorism is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "Anarchist Action"are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini & Phantis and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini and Phantis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

12.12.2009. No anarchists abuse the asylum law. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists" i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini, that reports: Minister wants asylum law intact. Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou yesterday said that legislation describing the exceptional circumstances that would allow police to gain access to university campuses was adequate and rejected calls by some academics for a review of the controversial university asylum law. "The legislative framework for university asylum is entirely adequate; we are not going to change it," Diamantopoulou told Parliament, adding that the government would help academic authorities enforce the provisions. Referring to new legislation introduced in 2007 by the then New Democracy administration, Diamantopoulou was responding to a question submitted to her by an MP of the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) party. The minister noted that "democracy has certain institutions and rules that must be respected," adding that "we cannot tolerate islands of lawlessness."

Meanwhile, university rectors and deans convened for a summit in the port of Lavrio, southeast of Athens, to discuss the recent spike in abuse of the asylum law by self-styled anarchists. Some of the academics attending proposed a review of the asylum law, which has been in force since 1982 and has been religiously observed on all but a couple of occasions. One of the most senior academics backing reform was Leonidas Louloudis, vice rector of the Agricultural University of Athens. Louloudis noted that university asylum law was "symbolic" rather than practical and suggested the law be amended to determine which parts of the university grounds should be barred to police and which should be accessible if necessary. Another pro-reformist, Haris Xanthoudakis, vice rector of the Corfu-based Ionian University, told the academics' summit that he believed the asylum law "hampered the smooth operation of universities by leading to delinquent behavior which he said was spilling over into schools and society in general. The academics' meeting is to continue in Lavrio today, when Diamantopoulou is expected to attend and exchange views with the attending professors.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the so called "self-styled anarchists" abusing the university asylum law for ochlarchical, including criminal purposes. They are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, the so called "self-styled anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement.

As mentioned the so called "self-styled anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Abuse of the university asylum law for ochlarchical, including criminal purposes, is very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the abuse of the university asylum law for ochlarchical, including criminal purposes, and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "self-styled anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. No anarchists abuse the asylum law.

Campus safety is crucial. The professors of Athens Law School reached an important decision toward safeguarding the historic building that houses it, by suggesting that universities pool their resources to create an independent body to provide security on campuses and issue students with identity cards that would allow them access to university grounds. These measures are obvious and should be adopted by everyone, especially as they have already been seen to work at many universities around the world, including the prestigious Sorbonne in Paris. However, the fact that the student party affiliated with New Democracy rejected the initiative has created a very bad impression and has illustrated the magnitude of the problem that reigns in the country's academic halls, as well as the twisted understanding of the role of universities adopted by certain student groups. The opposition, for its part, should support the initiative by the Law School administration and demand that the youth wing of its party behave maturely and responsibly.

Asylum dominates Rectors' Assembly. The Assembly of University Rectors ended on Saturday, with education minister Anna Diamantopoulou reaffirming that the government has no intention of changing the university asylum regime. "There will be no change. There is a general consensus for us all to work together, with specific actions, so that guarding of asylum will become a reality," she said. Thessaloniki Aristotle University (AUTH) rector Anastasios Manthos said that there was no essential difference between the minister's positions on aslyum and those of the academic community, stressing that the problem did not concern asylum as an idea, but had to do with its implementation.

'Planting' of firebomb on student probed. A Thessaloniki prosecutor has ordered a preliminary investigation into how a student was arrested last Sunday for possessing a petrol bomb only to be freed later when video and photographic evidence emerged appearing to show officers placing a bag containing a petrol bomb that did not belong to the 24-year-old next to him. The student protested his innocence in court, saying he had come down from his apartment in his pyjamas to throw rubbish into a dumpster when he was caught up in rioting in the northern city. The suspect used the video evidence to back up his claims that the bag with the Molotov cocktail had been planted on him. The 24-year-old was released on the strength of the video and photographs of the arrest. The police apologized and said its officers would be investigated but prosecutor Dimitris Papageorgiou has launched a separate probe into the affair.

Kifissias protest brings footbridge pledge. Infrastructure Minister Dimitris Reppas promised yesterday that a footbridge would be constructed in Filothei, northern Athens, so pedestrians could get from one side of Kifissias Avenue to the other safely. His pledge came after pupils from Athens and Psychico colleges closed the road for an hour yesterday morning to demand a footbridge be built after a 15-year-old classmate was knocked down and killed while crossing the street.

Bombs defused outside Greek pension fund. Police in Athens defused early on Saturday two bombs placed outside the Greek media pension fund, a police source said. The bombs placed outside the ETAP-MME fund in the central Athens district of Neos Kosmos each contained a kilogramme of explosives but faulty wiring prevented them from going off. The police had earlier sealed off the area after private television station Alter received an anonymous phone call warning of an imminent explosion. The ETAP-MME fund was pieced together in 2008 in a controversial pensions cost-cutting reform by the previous conservative government that drew strong union opposition and sparked three general strikes. The new socialist administration that was elected in October is also planning to reform the Greek pensions system which is again threatened with bankruptcy. The unions have again warned that they will oppose the move.

11.12.2009. Students stand firm on asylum. Protection for Athens Christmas tree. Trash collectors go back to work. Kifissias Ave protest.

Students stand firm on asylum. As students at Athens Law School continued a sit-in, protesting a decision by the institution's authorities to monitor access to the campus by placing security guards at its gates, thousands more students took to the streets to condemn the move and call for more state funding for universities. More than 2,000 students joined a largely peaceful demonstration in Athens yesterday, while a demonstration in Thessaloniki attracted about 1,300 people. As the Law School's left-leaning student union continued with its sit-in on campus, members of the student union affiliated with the main conservative opposition New Democracy (DAP) also opposed the proposed recruitment of university guards, noting that existing legislative provisions would be adequate if they were enforced. Georgios Papadomichelakis, a spokesperson for DAP, told Kathimerini that legislation introduced in 2007 that describes the exceptional circumstances that would allow police to gain access to campuses "has never been enforced, even though there have been many situations when the asylum law should have been lifted." According to Papadomichelakis, the proposal for the recruitment of guards outside universities and issuance of security cards to students "would not only not help matters but might actually end up fueling tensions at a very difficult time." One student interviewed by Kathimerini said he thought that the proposed measures would not be effective as "those visiting the university to cause trouble are not going to come through the front door." The reaction by students to the initiative by the Athens Law School, and the general unrest in the higher education sector, is expected to be the focus of debate at a summit of university rectors and deans at the port of Lavrio today. In a related development, the rector of the University of Athens, Christos Kittas, who was hospitalized on Sunday after being beaten up by assailants wielding iron bars, tendered his resignation. Kittas, who was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday after recovering from a heart attack, appealed to academics to avert sit-ins, which "unwittingly serve to protect those who believe in and promote violence."

Protection for Athens Christmas tree. Riot police stand around the Christmas tree erected in Syntagma Square, central Athens, yesterday. Security around the tree has been tightened since last year, when rioters set fire to it during protests following the shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos. It is not clear if there will be a full-time police guard around the tree this year.

Trash collectors go back to work. The effort to collect mounds of garbage across central Athens began last night, as municipal contract workers ended their strike, although they threatened to start a new round of action in the new year. It is estimated that some 9,000 tons of rubbish has gathered on the streets of Athens over the past three weeks during which refuse collectors on short-term contracts were on strike most days, demanding that their positions be made permanent by the City of Athens. However, the 850 garbage men, who were supported by some 1,600 full-time refuse collectors, decided yesterday to abandon their protest after a second court deemed the strike illegal and threatened the refuse collectors with prison and a daily fine of 1,000 euros each. Even though the garbage men went back to work last night, it is expected that it will take them 16 days to collect all the trash that has built up during the strike. Furthermore, the municipal employees are threatening more action in the near future. "We want to send a message to [Interior Minister Yiannis] Ragousis: He will have to deal with us in the new year," said the head of the POP-OTA union Panagiotis Velentzas. "Athenians can enjoy a Christmas and New Year without rubbish but we definitely will not enjoy the holidays, as we will be working." The end of the strike did not signal an end to the war of words between Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis, who announced this week that he will seek re-election next year, and Ragousis. Kaklamanis accused Ragousis of failing to deal with the demands of the strikers, while the minister lambasted the mayor for supporting their demands. "Athens will be ready to celebrate Christmas but, because those who should apologize for this inconvenience will not, I will do so on behalf of everyone," said Kaklamanis in a pointed comment.

Kifissias Ave protest. Pupils at the Athens and Psychico colleges are due to stage a sit-down protest at a junction of Kifissias Avenue in Psychico, northern Athens, at 8 a.m. today. They are demanding the construction of a pedestrian bridge over the busy road after a 15-year-old schoolboy was killed last week when he was struck by a car while trying to cross the street.

10.12.2009. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists" in "anarchists' hangout" , i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini, that reports: Student sit-in over security measures. Students at Athens Law School yesterday launched a sit-in on their campus to protest a move by the institution's authorities to tackle the abuse of university asylum by limiting access to the premises with the issuance of identity cards for students and by placing security guards at its gates. The Law School's left-leaning student union decided earlier yesterday to protest the move and called two rallies for today, both in central Athens, to emphasize their objection to the decision by university authorities. Protesters are also reportedly objecting to the presence on campus of a so-called "anarchists' hangout." According to a police spokesperson, cleaning staff on the grounds of the Athens Law School campus disposed of about 20 Molotov cocktail bombs. It was unclear exactly where these bombs were found but there was no indication of any suspicion of student involvement in their manufacture. Self-styled anarchists are often accused of exploiting the immunity offered by university campuses to manufacture firebombs to use during street clashes with riot police.

In a related development, the rector of the University of Athens, Christos Kittas, who was hospitalized on Sunday after being beaten up by assailants wielding iron bars, was discharged. Kittas, who suffered a heart attack following the assault, issued an appeal to academics to tackle the problem at universities. "Watching young people who could be my grandchildren or students commit crimes and vandalize the shrine to free thought, I feel dead inside," he said. But he asked academics and politicians alike "not to give up on our youth... or on the problems in education."

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the so called "self-styled anarchists" in "anarchists' hangout" , in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists, the so called "self-styled anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement. It is also clear that the mentioned hangout is leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchist, and not anarchist.

As mentioned the so called "self-styled anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Making and use of Molotov cocktail bombs - if not used proportionate in self defense, which is not the case here - are very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the Molotov cocktail bombs and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "self-styled anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

Protest rally. An elderly protester shelters from a light drizzle yesterday while brandishing a flag depicting the late revolutionary figure Che Guevara during a protest rally in central Athens yesterday. Thousands of people employed on short-term contracts with the public sector joined the rally, which brought traffic to a standstill for a few hours. The protesters are accusing the new Socialist government of planning reforms that would result in 70,000 job losses for those working for the state on contracts. They are demanding permanent status and have threatened further action if their calls are not heeded.

Trial against left-fascist Yiannis Dimitrakis postponed. The trial of the left-fascist Yiannis Dimitrakis, a 30-year-old student who has been linked to the so-called "Robbers in Black," was yesterday postponed until December 15 after his lawyers requested additional time to confer with their client following his transfer from Domokos Prison in central Greece to Attica's Korydallos. Dimitrakis is currently serving a 25-year sentence for his part in an armed robbery on a branch of National Bank in central Athens in January 2006.

Suspected marxist rioters remanded. Three in custody for alleged part in Thessaloniki riots. Three Thessaloniki residents alleged to have participated in riots in the northern port city last Sunday were remanded in custody yesterday after defending themselves before an investigating magistrate against criminal charges. The three men, aged 26, 33 and 37, all refuted the charges, according to sources. Meanwhile a 24-year-old suspected rioter detained after Sunday's unrest, charged with possession of explosives, was released on conditional terms after claiming that a rucksack containing ready-made Molotov cocktails and a gas mask had been planted on him by police.

09.12.2009. The marxist leftwing extremist para-state showed an ugly ultra-authoritarian face 05-08.12.2009, but a Kristallnacht was avoided. The marxist leftwing extremist para-state, a rivaling state within the Greek state - an ochlarchy, a bit inflated mainly Sunday probably due to copycat ochlarchist youths, showed an ugly ultra-authoritarian face 05-08.12.2009. The typical marxist violent attacks on symbols of "capitalist power" were frequent, and ordinary people opposing the ochlarchy were also beaten by the marxist ochlarchists. For more information see the reports 07.12.2008. The Greek system seen all in all is mainly populist. 14.10.2009. A "litmus test" of whether marxists, fascists, anarchists or liberalists are behind vandalism, hooliganism and terrorism. 19.11.2009. The Greek system, populism with a rivaling leftwing extremist marxist state within the state. The anarchists call for winding up of this marxist ochlarchy. Plus the reports 05-08.12.2009 and the notes "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above.

Kathimerini reports: Police riot tactics defended. Minister says pre-emptive detentions were necessary; officers to stop using tear gas to control crowds. The use of tear gas by riot police as a way of controlling crowds of protesters is to be phased out, said Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis yesterday, as he defended the police's recent tactic of detaining dozens of people as a precautionary measure. Officers detained some 850 people on Saturday, Sunday and Monday before and during protests to mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police special guard. This led to some people criticizing the force for what were deemed to be heavy-handed tactics, with some lawyers even expressing doubt about the legality of these pre-emptive detentions. But, despite the fact that only about a dozen of those detained face felony charges, Chrysochoidis said that "targeted" detentions were a necessary part of the police operation to limit serious incidents of violence in central Athens.

"We had clear indications that some people were preparing to re-enact Kristallnacht [Night of the Broken Glass] in Athens, in another pogrom of violence and hatred," said the minister, who added that the police were aware of up to 100 plans to cause destruction in the city center. Questioned by journalists about the serious injuries suffered on Sunday by a protester when she was struck by a police motorcycle, the minister said an internal investigation had been launched to ascertain whether the officer was guilty of any offense. "It is possible that there were cases when authorities were overzealous," he said. "I have given orders that everything should be investigated. I express my sympathy and support for the woman who was injured." Chrysochoidis has also been using the social networking site Twitter to defend the government's stance and police tactics. He used the site to announce that, as of January 2, all police officers would have to display identification numbers but possibly not their name and rank, on their uniform so citizens could file complaints about police behavior more easily. Chrysochoidis added that a working committee would be set up at the ministry to examine how to end the use of tear gas at protests. The minister said its use "damages public health" but did not indicate what crowd control measures the police would use instead. Also, he did not give a time frame for phasing out its use.

Keratsinin squat. Suspects released from custody. The 22 people who were arrested at a squat in Keratsini, near Piraeus, on Saturday on suspicion of preparing petrol bombs for use in rioting last weekend were released from custody late on Monday. Half of the suspects were bailed and have been prohibited from leaving the country, while the others were released without any restrictions. Three people were arrested on Athinon Avenue yesterday during a protest by high school students after oranges and rocks were thrown at a police department that issues passports. The pupils were marking the first anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos.

08.12.2009. The anarchists declare there is NO "vendetta against anarchists" in Greece. Brown Card to SYRIZA. Kathimerini reports: Second day of riots in Athens. More than 850 detained by authorities over weekend; SYRIZA accuses minister of 'anarchist vendetta' . Protesters clashed with police in Athens and Thessaloniki for the second day in a row yesterday, as hundreds of youths continued a sit-in on the grounds of Athens University and dozens more took over the central administrative offices of Thessaloniki's Aristotle University. Meanwhile, as academics called for a review of a law banning police from entering university grounds, a dispute broke out between Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). In a statement, SYRIZA accused Chrysochoidis of engaging in a "vendetta against anarchists" and called on the government to "intervene to stop the unchecked police repression being enforced by its minister." Chrysochoidis reacted to the SYRIZA statement with "genuine surprise," claiming to have spoken to Tsipras several times by telephone during the course of the rioting and noting "a gulf between the content of our conversations and SYRIZA's announcement."

Chrysochoidis mobilized some 10,000 police officers over the weekend, ordering a zero-tolerance policy to avert rioting of the scale that followed the police killing of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos last December. According to police, more than 850 people were detained and 147 arrested in protests across the country on Saturday and Sunday. Of these, the vast majority were released without charges being filed. Of those arrested in Athens, 31 are to face a prosecutor charged in connection with rioting outside the premises of Athens University and an attack on the institution's rector Christos Kittas, who was admitted to the hospital after rioters stormed his office. He was said to be in stable condition yesterday. A member of the police's Z force motorcycle unit who knocked down a 55-year-old female protestor in Athens is being sought, sources said. Of those arrested in Thessaloniki, 13 faced a prosecutor yesterday for their alleged part in riots. There were more problems in the northern city yesterday when around 50 students took over the administrative offices of the city's Aristotle University. According to sources, some of the students verbally attacked Anastassios Manthos, the university's rector who has suffered physical attacks on campus in the past.

Violence prompts new calls for review of university ban on police. There were calls yesterday from politicians and academics for the government to begin a review of the university asylum law, which restricts the presence of police on campus. A day after its rector was attacked and placed in intensive care, the University of Athens asked in writing for the police to protect its premises. Also, moments before rioters used the National Technical University of Athens's grounds to launch assaults on police, its rector, Constantinos Moutzouris, suggested the law might need to be reviewed. "As much as I am in favor of the asylum, I am troubled by the intensity of the incidents and how we can confront violence," he told Kathimerini. Meanwhile, New Democracy offered its support to PASOK in getting a debate on the law under way.

The anarchists declare there is NO "vendetta against anarchists" in Greece. The riots were practically certain done by leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, see the reports from 05-07.12.2009. Most of the police actions were within the framework of a society's proportional self defense against violent marxist ochlarchy, but some police actions seemed to be a bit too heavy-handed. Thus the IAT- APT hands out a Brown Card warning to the Greek police in this connection. IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention to the authoritarian marxist SYRIZA for falsely indirectly connecting the anarchists to the riots - and falsely postulating a "vendetta against anarchists" in Greece. SYRIZA! Don't try to drag the anarchists into the violent marxist ochlarchy. No anarchist participated in the riots, only marxist ochlarchists, of which several were arrested. There are no reports of arrested anarchists. See also the resolutions from IAT-APT 06-07.12.2009.

07.12.2009. Athens police clash with youths. Brown Cards to marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, falsely posing as "anarchists" and misusing the black & red anarchist flag. BBC reports: Athens police clash with youths. Masked youths have clashed with police in Athens on a second day of protests to mark the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of a teenager by police. Police charged the crowds in the Greek capital as protesters threw stones on the fringes of a 5,000-strong student-led march to the city's parliament. More than a dozen protesters were arrested in the fracas. Police stations were also attacked as protests were held in other parts of the country. More than 400 people were arrested during a weekend in which police armed with batons and tear gas fought running street battles with youths who threw stones and set fire to rubbish bins. Six thousand police had been deployed on the streets of the capital to maintain order. The family and friends of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos held a memorial service in the Exarchia district of Athens on Sunday evening to mark a year since his killing. They appealed for calm, but posters had appeared in the capital saying: "We won't forget, we won't forgive."

Dozens of arrests. The heavy police presence in Athens prevented a repeat of Sunday's occupation of university buildings by masked protesters. Christos Kittas, the dean of Athens University, was among 30 people injured on Sunday after youths broke into university offices, authorities said. Dozens of shop windows were smashed, cars were damaged and on Monday morning the capital's Syntagma Square was left littered with rocks and piles of smouldering rubbish. But the protests have been nothing like the two weeks of riots sparked by the killing last year, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens. To head off trouble, riot police had carried out a series of raids on Saturday across Athens, reportedly arresting scores of people.

The demonstrations marked a dramatic change in police tactics, says our correspondent, as they employed a 21st Century version of the cavalry charge using riot police on motorbikes. Greece's government had warned it would have a zero-tolerance policy towards violence, and has rejected allegations of heavy-handedness from left-wing groups. Police said up to 150 foreign anarchists arrived over the weekend from Italy, France and other European countries. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou had acknowledged the weekend was a "crucial moment" for his new socialist government and for the nation. Two police officers have been charged with the murder and attempted murder of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Their trial is due to begin in the new year.

Reuters reports: Greek police fire teargas in second day of riots. Greek police fired teargas at hundreds of rioting youths on Monday, in the second day of violent protests to mark the one-year anniversary of the police killing of a 15-year-old boy. About 5,000 students, workers and leftists marched to parliament. The teenager's death in Athens' bohemian Exarchia district last year triggered the worst riots in Greece in decades fueled by the public's discontent over the economy. "Everyone on the streets, not at the balconies! Cops, pigs, murderers," chanted demonstrators. Hundreds of hooded youths broke from the march to hurl stones and sticks at police, damaging cars and bus stops. A group of youths in black grabbed bitter oranges from trees in central Athens and flung them at police, and some threw stones at the window of a store full with customers. Other demonstrators disagreed with the violence [also the anarchists] . "This won't change anything, but if 5 million people take to the streets we might have a chance," said 51-year old school teacher Christos Fousekis, as he watched a hooded boy smashing a corner shop wall with a piece of marble. "I'm here because I want to drink my coffee in Exarchia without being afraid a policemen will kill me," he said [the anarchists agree with Fousekis].

Schools, ministries and tax offices closed down and transport was halted as teachers and public servants walked off the job for three hours to join nationwide demonstrations. Riot police formed a cordon around the Athens university area, where most of the clashes took place the day before, stopping more rioters from rallying there after the march. Two policemen were injured and about 30 youths were detained in Monday's unrest in Athens, police said. In the northern city of Thessaloniki police fired teargas at dozens of violent youths, who broke from a march of 2,500 people. "The clashes are not significant overall, the protests went as expected," said a police official who declined to be named. More than 400 have been detained over the weekend across the country. Greece's new socialist government has deployed more than 6,000 police on Athens streets saying it was determined to avert a repeat of last year's unrest that hit the capital and major cities causing millions of euros of damage. In contrast to 2008, when rioters and looters rampaged unabated for weeks, police said mass detentions prevented more widespread damage this year. "The message sent is that Athens and Greece's major cities are not defenseless," said government spokesman George Petalotis.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, falsely posing as "anarchists" and misusing the black & red anarchist flag in connections with ochlarchy. It is of course OK to use the red & black flag in non-ochlarchical demonstrations and similar, but not connected to ochlarchy as in these cases. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists are expulsed from the anarchist movement. See also reports from IAT-APT 06.12.2009.

PS. The IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention to Euronews that falsely reports: "Running battles between anarchists and police have rocked Athens for a second day." It is clear that leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists have battles with police, and not anarchists, see also the reports of 06.12.2009. The IAT-APT also hands out a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention to Kathimerini, that reports: "Police made a preemptive raid on an anarchist hangout in Keratsini near Piraeus on Saturday night. They discovered some 200 empty bottles they believe were going to be used to make Molotov cocktails, two jerry cans of fuel, two hammers, three sledgehammers, three helmets, 13 gas masks and a stun grenade. They also seized a computer. Officers arrested 22 people, two of whom were identified as the son and daughter of PASOK MP and deputy parliamentary speaker Grigoris Niotis. "I have total faith in Greek justice, just as I trust my children," said Niotis in a statement. It is clear that the mentioned hangout is leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchist, and not anarchist, see also the reports of 06.12.2009.

Euronews reports. Violence. Riots in Greece on shooting anniversary. Rioting has broken out in Greece on the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenage boy. In Athens shops and banks were vandalised and rubbish bins set on fire by protestors, some of whom police say have travelled from across Europe to take part. On Saturday more than 150 people were arrested, including Spaniards, Italians and Albanians. The new socialist government had deployed around 6,000 extra riot police on the streets of the capital in anticipation of trouble. Earlier in the day thousands marched to remember Alexis Grigoropoulos, a 15-year old boy shot dead by police. One officer will stand trial next month accused of his murder. Another is charged with attempted murder. That killing, along with general discontent at economic hardship among young Greeks, sparked some of the worst riots in living memory that lasted for two weeks.

AT THE SCENE. Malcolm Brabant, BBC News, Athens, reports: Police officers corralled demonstrators into restricted areas and denied them the chance to run amok. Snatch squads on motorbikes roamed the streets and carried out a number of arrests. Some officers were pulled from their machines, and there were reports of bike riding policemen lashing out at people with their truncheons. The government has carried out a number of reforms designed to give the police a more human face. But these clashes will not have won them any friends amongst Greek youths. Many young people, who had their first taste of rebellion last year, remain angry with the authorities. The overwhelming perception of teenagers and university students is that the force remains institutionally violent. Several newsmedia have similar reports, mainly not falsely mixing up marxist ochlarchists with anarchists. Thus no new Brown Cards from IAT-APT 06.12.2009.

06.12.2009. Afternoon. Brown Cards to thousands of marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, some falsely called "anarchists", Mail Online UK and some other newsmedia. Mail Online UK, reports. Athens riot police set alight by petrol bomb as thousands of anarchists go on rampage. Anarchists throw stones at riot police during clashes in Athens. Clashes broke out Sunday during a march to commemorate the first anniversary of the police shooting of a teenager, whose death sparked massive riots. Police fired tear gas at youths throwing rocks and firecrackers in central Athens, as several thousand demonstrators gathered to mark the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Violence also broke out in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, where youths threw petrol bombs at police and smashed the storefront of a Starbucks cafe. Concern was heightened by reports that far-left groups and anarchists from other European countries have traveled to Greece to join the protests. About 3,000 mostly students, anarchists and leftists began a march to parliament on Sunday and more protests were expected on Monday. An evening memorial service was planned in the Exarchia district, where the 15-year-old was shot dead.

Protesters in central Athens unfolded a banner reading 'Remember, remember, the 6th of December'. Some dressed in black chanted 'Policemen, Pigs, Murderers'. Greece's new socialist government has deployed more than 6,000 policemen onto Athens streets to avert a repeat of last year's unrest that hit the capital and major cities causing millions of euros of damages. 'It's been a year since police murdered the boy and the government which caused the murder has collapsed but nothing has changed in terms of police brutality,' said Panos Garganas, 63, a university employee. 'We want more jobs, more education and no more police.' Thousands of people took to the streets and clashed with police hours after the killing of the 15-year-old last year, destroying shops, attacking public buildings and burning cars, in rampages that went on for weeks. Greek police said about 150 foreign anarchists had arrived this weekend from Italy, France and other European countries. Police arrested 75 youths on Saturday ahead of the march, including 5 Italians and 1 Spaniard, for carrying wooden sticks or throwing stones at police. Some other newsmedia, but fewer than expected, have similar false reports.

The so called "thousands of anarchists that go on rampage, and anarchists that throw stones at riot police", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists, and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Mail Online UK and some other newsmedia do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Mail Online UK and the other newsmedia get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above mentioned disinformation.

The so called "thousands of anarchists that go on rampage, and anarchists that throw stones at riot police", in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, also get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Riots, going on rampage, petrol bombs, vandalism, throwing stones at riot police, etc. are ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the riots, going on rampage, petrol bombs, vandalism, throwing stones at riot police, etc. and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "thousands of anarchists that go on rampage, and anarchists that throw stones at riot police"are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists, there may be more! Don't call the marxist ochlarchists "anarchists", because they are not anarchists! Call them something else that fits, say "far left groups", or most correct "leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists".

06.12.2009. Early morning. Brown Cards to more than hundred marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, some falsely called "anarchists", Greek police and Ananova, etc. Ananova reports: Hundreds held amid Greek riot fears. Police in Greece have arrested more than a hundred youths and raided a suspected firebomb-making hideout. They said the action was taken in a bid to prevent riots on the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a youth by police. Police said the house - in the Athens district of Keratsini, near the port of Piraeus - contained several sledgehammers, gas masks, a stun grenade and 200 empty beer bottles used to make firebombs. Police said they were attacked with rocks by about 60 youths and 20 people were arrested at the scene. Meanwhile, a memorial gathering at the spot where 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot on December 6 2008, passed off peacefully. Police said some youths later attacked officers and burned two cars. Fourteen were arrested, including five Italian and three Albanian anarchists. Some other newsmedia falsely report of many more so called "anarchists" arrested.

The so called "five Italian and three Albanian anarchists (and more)", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists, and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as the Greek police and Ananova and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The Greek police and Ananova and the others get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above mentioned disinformation.

The so called "five Italian and three Albanian anarchists (and more)", in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, also get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Riots, firebombs, vandalism, etc. are ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the riots, firebombs, vandalism, etc. and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "five Italian and three Albanian anarchists (and more)" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists, there may be more!

PS. Among "the others" that get a Brown Card Al Jazeera Net must be mentioned. Al Jazeera Net is falsely reporting: "In a raid in the western district of Keratsini, police detained at least 20 people in a suspected anarchist hideout where petrol cannisters, hammers and gas masks were found on the premises, police said." It is clear that the mentioned hideout is leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchist, and not anarchist! Furthermore Al Jazeera Net reports: "Greek police fear that groups of anarchists from other European countries plan to join the protests [AFP]", and "Fears of violence have been heightened by reports that groups of anarchists from other European countries are planning to join the protests in Athens." It is true that anarchists from other European countries are planning to join the protests in Athens, but there is no need to fear ochlarchy in this connection. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. The police should concentrate on leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists, the real danger.

The IAT-APT also hands out Brown Card warnings to Chinaview and People's Daily China, that report: "As Greece's President Karolos Papoulias, Prime Minister George Papandreou, leaders of other political parties and the family of the victim call for peaceful events to honor the boy's memory, groups of so-called anarchists already try to cause trouble." It is true that "so called anarchists" - and not real anarchists - try to cause trouble, but it would be more correct to call the troublemakers what they really are, i.e. leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists, and that the anarchists have called for demonstrations without ochlarchy!

05.12.2009. The anarchists will as always demonstrate with dignity, not ochlarchy, at the anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos 06.12.2009.

Kathimerini reports: Appealing for calm, prepared for violence. Police gear up for anniversary protests. Dozens of students from schools in the northeastern Athens suburb of Halandri marched on the area's police station yesterday to mark the anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos. Some youths hurled stones at police. More than 6,000 police officers will be deployed in Athens this weekend, it was revealed yesterday, as authorities issued a plea for calm ahead of events that will be held in the city to mark the one-year anniversary of the killing of a teenager by a policeman. Authorities fear that the December 6 anniversary of Alexis Grigoropoulos's shooting could see a repeat of last year's widespread riots. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis said that unlike 12 months ago, authorities would be prepared. "Various fringe groups will try to create their own anniversary of violence, which bears no relation to the demands of the new generation," said Chrysochoidis. "The organized state will do everything it can to prevent this." Chrysochoidis said that authorities and citizens had to form "a social and political front" against violence. He revealed that the police had been instructed to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to any trouble and to ensure that peaceful protest are not disrupted by vandals and troublemakers.

Sources said that police have received information that some anti-establishment groups intend to make their mark in Athens and other cities this weekend. Some 500 anarchists from abroad are also expected to be in Athens for the anniversary of Grigoropoulos's killing, which Chrysochoidis described as "an incident of extreme police and state violence" adding that young people were justified in "rising up" after the shooting in Exarchia. [The anarchists will as always demonstrate with dignity, not ochlarchy, at the anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos 06.12.2009.]

Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos insisted that the necessary "planning and preparation" was in place to deal with any trouble, which, he suggested, could include people targeting police officers. "We will not tolerate attacks on police with murderous weapons," he said. A police foot patrol came under attack from a group of some 20 hooded assailants wielding chains and hammers near Exarchia Square late on Thursday. Two officers were injured and had to be taken to hospital for head stitches. A second foot patrol that was called to the scene was also attacked but by a different group of assailants, officers said. There were no further injuries but 13 people were later taken in for questioning.

Athens News Agency (ANA-MPA), reports: Gov't warns against violence. The government on Friday called for a "united social front" to discourage and vilify all and any forms of violence during this weekend's one-year anniversary of a police shooting in central Athens that left a 16-year-old pupil dead, an incident that sparked widespread demonstrations and vandalism-fueled destruction in its wake. Citizen Protection Minister Mihalis Chryssochoidis, who holds the law enforcement and public order portfolios, announced that he has met and briefed the country's political leadership in a bid to promote such a unified front. Urban rioting caused unprecedented destruction in downtown Athens and other cities last year following Alexis Grigoropoulos' shooting death on the evening of Dec. 6. Chryssochoidis referred to "marginal groups" preparing to engage in vandalism in Athens and other cities , using the anniversary of Grigoropoulos' death as an alibi. "One year ago, a 16-year-old boy was murdered by an on-duty policeman in downtown Athens, in a case of extreme police violence ... the murder marked the course of the country, affected the people's confidence and the state's ability to protect them. Young people were right to take to the streets to express their anger and rage ... the difference with today is that there is hope for a new beginning because the leaderships that led to that situation are no longer present," he said.

Chryssochoidis underlined that "a resurgence of terror in urban centres will not be tolerated", adding that "Athens will not surrender to vandalism. The exploitation of Alexis' memory will not be allowed ... marginal groups that want to create ' no-go ' areas and ghettos will be isolated." Along those lines, government vice-president Theodoros Pangalos, responding to a relevant question tabled in Parliament by Popular Orthodox Rally (LA.OS) President George Karatzaferis, said the government will not tolerate illegal acts that will mar the meaning of the anniversary of Grigoropoulos' death. Pangalos reaffirmed that police authorities are adequately prepared, something proven in the recent Athens Polytechnic uprising commemoration. On his part, Karatzaferis cited press reports and referred to "hordes of anti-establishment demonstrators" allegedly heading for Greece from different countries set to engage in violent street protests, as he said. He also referred to a recent article published in an Athens daily penned by Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) [authoritarian marxists] parliamentary group leader Alexis Tsipras who, among others, mentioned that "we do no regret December (2009)". In response, Tsipras said Karatzaferis has no right to launch unfounded accusations against [a] small leftist party. The anarchists are warning against marxist ochlarchist infiltration of the demonstration 06.12.2009.

The newspaper Eleftheros reports: "Anarchists thirsty for police officers' blood". The anarchists can assure that this is a lie. The anarchists agree with another newspaper Avgi, that reports: "We protest peacefully against state violence".

BBC and Phantis report: Athens set for anniversary of fatal police shooting. The family of a Greek schoolboy shot dead by a policeman last year have appealed for calm as the anniversary of his death approaches. A march and demonstration has been planned for Athens on Sunday. More than 6,000 police will be on the streets of Athens this weekend as the city marks the first anniversary of the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy. The teenager's death at the hands of police in December last year sparked Greece's worst riots in decades. In the run-up to the anniversary, dozens of schools and university campuses have been occupied by students preparing to mark the uprising. Greece's government says it will have a zero tolerance policy towards violence. "We want to send a clear message, we won't tolerate a repeat of the violence and terror scene in central Athens, we won't hand Athens to vandals," said Citizen Protection Minister Mihalis Chrysohoidis.

Memorial service. Family and friends of teenager Alexandros Grigoropoulos will hold a memorial service on Sunday to mark a year since his killing. They have appealed for calm, but posters have appeared in the capital saying: "We won't forget, we won't forgive." Police said they expect about 150 foreign anarchists to arrive this weekend from Italy, France and other European countries. [As mentioned, the anarchists will as always demonstrate with dignity, not ochlarchy, at the anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos 06.12.2009.]

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has acknowledged that the weekend is a "crucial moment" for his new socialist government and for the nation. "All of us, citizens, political leaders, parties, students representatives, we must protect Athens," he said. Shop owners in the Greek capital are braced for trouble although some believe it will not be as bad as last year. "Like all other shops on this street, we have put [up] steel shutters," said Athens music store manager George Stouraitis. "But I don't think anything major will happen this year because the government is still young." The BBC's Malcolm Brabant, in Athens, says police hope to repeat the success they had with an annual demonstration two weeks ago which normally ends in violence. Officers managed to contain trouble by briefly detaining 300 youngsters, he says. Two police officers have been charged with the murder and attempted murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos and their trial is due to begin in the New Year.

Solidarity action. The country's main Civil Servants' Union (ADEDY) yesterday called a strike for Monday 07.12.20009 to allow workers to participate in a protest rally that has been planned to mark a year since a policeman shot dead a teenager in the central district of Exarchia. ADEDY noted that this action was being staged to express solidarity with "a new generation which is growing up in an environment in which its democratic, social and labor rights are constantly being disputed and whose future is increasingly uncertain."

04.12.2009. Alexis demo Dec 6 without ochlarchy! More Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists", i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini, that reports: Authorities seek to avert violence. With fears mounting of outbreaks of violence on Sunday, which marks one year since a policeman killed a teenager in central Athens, Prime Minister George Papandreou yesterday sought to reassure the nation's disaffected youth that authorities are "by their side." Just a few hours later, however, familiar scenes returned to the streets of the capital as youths clashed with police outside a university that authorities had shut down."We are here to give a message of hope to these youngsters who feel marginalized," Papandreou said, adding that his government was "against all violence, whether committed by the state or by individuals."

The prime minister then issued an appeal to representatives of student unions to "protect Athens" against a repeat of the unprecedented riots that followed the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos last December 6. But shortly after Papandreou's speech, clashes erupted outside the Athens University of Economics and Business that authorities had closed down, citing a sharp increase in people testing positive for swine flu. Students reacted to the move, charging the gates. Riot police were dispatched to disperse the youths and fired tear gas. The outburst was contained without any reported injuries. But authorities were yesterday bracing for further tension as students launched sit-ins at several universities including the National Technical University of Athens and Thessaloniki's Aristotle University. The sit-in at the NTUA was backed by professors there who said the students would keep out self-styled anarchists, blamed for a string of violent attacks on professors.

As mentioned the so called "self-styled anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The so called "self-styled anarchists", falsely posing as "anarchists", but in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, also get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", the so called "self-styled anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Violent attacks on professors are ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn the violent attacks on professors and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "self-styled anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

Papoulias plea for peaceful remembrance of pupil Grigoropoulos. President Karolos Papoulias, in a message on Friday referring to 15-year-old pupil Alexis Grigoropoulos' killing by a police officer on December 6, 2008, during an incident in the Exarhia district of Athens, said that "Alexis Grigoropoulos' murder was not only a heinous act. It was a lesson to all of us on where arbitrariness may lead". Papoulias noted "the action and its dimensions do not lessen and are not forgotten in the subconscious of society, and particularly the youth". "I once again express my support to Grigoropoulos' parents and friends. I once again express my faith in and guilt towards the young generation, to which we owe the ensurance of a more just society. I hope that Alexis' memory will be commemorated peacefully, because that is the least we owe him," the President concluded. (Source: ANA-MPA). The anarchists call for peaceful remembrance of Alexis Grigoropoulos on Sunday December 6, i.e. demonstrations with dignity, and not ochlarchy, and with many guards against ochlarchist infiltration. In short: Alexis demo Dec 6 without ochlarchy!

Int'l journalist groups condemn recent attacks against media in Greece. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) on Thursday issued a strongly worded condemnation of what the two groups called "an outbreak of violence against media in Greece after a series of bombings targeting the offices and home of union leaders." The criticism follows two attacks late last month targeting the office of Moschos Voitsidis, the president of the Macedonia-Thrace Daily Newspapers' Journalists Union and the apartment of Panagiotis Nestoridis, the vice-president of EDOEAP, journalists' and press sector employees healthcare and supplementary pension fund -- an entity managed by its members and considered the best fund in the country. "These actions are shocking and indicate a violent trend in attacks on media in Greece," EFJ President Arne König said. "We demand that there is a full investigation of these attacks and we call on the authorities to bring those responsible to justice."

An IFJ press release posted on the organization's website stated: "During this year, journalists and media were victims of violence, to the dismay and outrage of the journalists' Unions and society. In Athens, several attacks against buildings of newspapers and TV stations took place, producing considerable material damages. Last week, journalist Paschos Mandravelis, a well-known newspaper and TV commentator, has also been the target of violence at the Athens University. "The EFJ supports Greek journalists who need determination and courage to practice their profession, regardless of violence and intimidation. The EFJ calls on authorities to take all necessary steps to protect journalists and media professionals from similar attacks and to act against impunity." The EFJ is also considering the dispatch of a fact-finding mission to Greece to collect further information on the specific cases. (Source: ANA-MPA) The anarchists condemn the attacks on freedom of press.

ELA acquittals. Ex-members of terrorist group cleared on appeal. An Athens appeals court yesterday cleared three former members of the now defunct left-wing terrorist group Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) of a series of attacks linked to the group between 1989 and 1995. Angeletos Kanas, Christos Tsigaridas and Irini Athanassaki, who had all been released pending appeal following their conviction in 2004, were finally cleared of involvement in a string of attacks, including a blast that killed a policeman in 1994. The court deemed that there was insufficient proof to implicate the three suspects, upholding their appeals.

03.12.2009. Continued strike. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini, that reports: No repeat of last year’s chaos. All the signs indicate that certain extremist elements from within the ranks of self-styled anarchists are preparing to instigate the same kind of unrest this year that ended in widespread riots in response to the death of a teenage boy from police fire last December. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis has very correctly announced a policy of zero tolerance should such phenomena be repeated this weekend on the anniversary of the shooting. However, beyond the state apparatus and the government, it is also the responsibility of citizens, students, academics, labor groups and political parties to do their best to protect the country from the chaos that shook it last year. Responsibility lies with everyone because those incidents took a heavy toll on Greece as a whole. If we prove incapable of protecting our legitimate democratic institutions from the brutish behavior of a small minority, then we will deserve what they dish out. There is no excuse for covering up for these troublemakers nor for helping them, either implicitly or explicitly.

The so called "self-styled anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Continued strike. Citizens asked to hold on to trash during 5-day strike. Athens City Hall yesterday appealed to citizens to keep their household trash on their balconies for the third week in a row as employees of Attica’s main landfill are to resume strike action today and continue through Monday. Last week, trash was overflowing from dumpsters onto the streets of the capital after landfill workers, who are demanding the payment of outstanding wages, walked off the job for three straight days. The anarchists support the strike.

Violent raid by suspected rightwing extremists. Five armed robbers broke into a branch of Hellenic Postbank in Glyka Nera, eastern Attica, yesterday, using a sledgehammer and an ax. The robbers fled with an undetermined sum using two motorcycles and a car. During their getaway, two of the assailants on a motorcycle stopped a car and forced the driver to take them to Menidi, western Athens. On arriving there they let her go and she informed police. The robbers, believed likely to be rightwing extremist ochlarchists, get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, based on a.o.t. the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009.

02.12.2009. Acid, police and university ochlarchy condemned by the anarchists. For anarchy - not chaos, at the universities. Anarchy is optimal order!

Acid poured on cleaner's car. A 50-year-old member of a cleaners' union in Thessaloniki yesterday described as "a clear act of intimidation" the dousing of her car with acid – an attack reminiscent of a brutal assault on a Bulgarian trade unionist in Athens nearly a year ago."I don't have enemies but I recently chose to speak out about my rights and those of my colleagues, so I think this act is linked to my work," Venetia Manolopoulou told Kathimerini. The unionist, who works as a cleaner at Thessaloniki's airport, said her car appeared wet. She tried to wipe away what she had thought to be water but felt her hands burning and immediately washed them. According to police, the substance used was hydrochloric acid. Konstantina Kuneva, the 43-year-old general secretary of the Attica cleaners' association, was seriously injured after being attacked by assailants who threw sulfuric acid in her face and mouth last December 22. The anarchists condemn the acid attacks.

Exarchia protest. Members of a residents' association in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia said yesterday that they intend to file a suit against the police due to their behavior in the district. The residents said that they are unhappy that officers are allegedly repeatedly making unnecessary arrests and using violent methods to detain suspects. The anarchists condemn the police ochlarchy in Exarchia.

Battle for control of Law School. Academics at Athens Law School say they are coming under pressure not to shut down the institution in a bid to avoid it becoming a hotbed of violence this weekend, the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police officer in central Athens. "Over the last few days, various groups of young people at the main building of the Athens Law School are demanding – and threatening unpleasant consequences – that the building remain open during the protests in question while showing disregard for the implications that this could have if it is used by people from outside the university," the academics said in a statement. Some students have asked that the school remain open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the day that will mark one year since Grigoropoulos was killed in Exarchia.

The marxist-leftist student union EAAK, which is not affiliated with any of the parliamentary parties, has called for a meeting of the student body today to discuss the issue and possibly agree on a sit-in protest that would ensure the institution remains open over the weekend. However, the student unions associated with PASOK, New Democracy and the Communist Party have expressed their opposition to these plans. A lecturer at the Law School who preferred to remain anonymous told Kathimerini that should the academics choose to shut the school then some students will "make our lives hell." The Athens Law School is attempting to follow in the footsteps of Athens University, which last month shut down for several days before the commemoration of the 1973 November 17 uprising.

The Hellenic Federation of University Teachers' Associations (POSDEP) issued a statement yesterday saying that state universities were entering "the most crucial period in their history." It called on rectors to examine the issue of safety on campus but also appealed to political parties to find common ground in a bid to stamp out the violence that has plagued the institutions.

Kathimerini comments: Open for learning, not chaos. Just when we thought we'd seen it all, a group of extremist university students, the ones that usually stage sit-ins at the country's universities and keep them closed, protested because they want university grounds to remain open this coming weekend. Obviously they don't want the campuses open so that they can facilitate the dissemination of knowledge and the free movement of ideas. No, what they most likely want is the freedom to disseminate flammable materials and incendiary devices among those who want to re-enact the riots of last December on the anniversary of a policeman's fatal shooting of a schoolboy.

Thankfully, the majority of political groups on university grounds as well as the academic community have voiced their opposition to these extremists and wish to protect their campuses and public property. After all, Greek taxpayers should not be obliged to pick up the pieces and pay the tab for millions of euros whenever these groups go on the rampage. Everyone wants universities whose doors are always open, but we want the doors open to those who wish to learn, not to those who want to create chaos. The anarchists comdemn the ochlarchy and violence that has plagued the universities. For anarchy - not chaos at the universities! Anarchy is optimal order, see note above.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the acid, police and university ochlarchists.

01.12.20009. Bomb attacks by suspected marxists. Brown Cards to the attackers, Greek police, Phantis and IOL. Municipal strike Thursday.

Bomb attacks by suspected marxists. Brown Cards to the attackers, Greek police, Phantis and IOL, that 30.11.2009 report: Bombers target second city in Greece. Five small petrol bombs in Greece's second city of Salonika caused light damage on Monday, two days before the start of a trial of a self-proclaimed anarchist, police said. The bombs made of small gas cartridges were placed before the offices of a lawyer who heads the bar association, the president of the local journalists' union and a hotel firm. They were also set off outside the homes of a police officer and a journalist who is a union official, according to police. Police blamed an anarchist movement for the petrol bombs ahead of Wednesday's trial of a suspect arrested in January over a similar attack against a municipal building. Such attacks have increased in Athens and Salonika following the police killing of a teenager on December 6 last year. Authorities have pledged to maintain calm in the run-up to the anniversary of the incident, which set off violent riots. [ IOL = Independent Online, South Africa]

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the attackers, that believed likely are marxist leftwing extremists. The so called "self-proclaimed anarchist" and "an anarchist movement", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. The difference between ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag. Bomb attack - terrorism - means ochlarchy, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian, and not anarchist, see the note "Anarchy is optimal order" above. The so called "self-proclaimed anarchist" and "an anarchist movement" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention to these marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists". The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", the so called "self-proclaimed anarchist" and "an anarchist movement", are expulsed from the anarchist movement. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as the Greek police, Phantis and IOL do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The Greek police, Phantis and IOL get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Municipal strike Thursday. The union of municipal employees (POE-OTA) said yesterday that its members would hold a 24-hour strike on Thursday. Workers will gather at Karaiskaki Square in central Athens at 11 a.m. for a march to the Interior Ministry. The employees are demanding better pay and working conditions. The anarchists support the strike and call for a march without ochlarchy, i.e. with many guards.

Tight security for OSCE talks. Extremely stringent security measures will be adopted in Athens today and tomorrow, as foreign ministers and representatives of 56 countries will be in the city to take part in the 17th ministerial council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). More than 3,000 police officers will be on duty to provide security for the event, taking place at the Olympic fencing center in Elleniko, southeastern Athens. A number of roads in central Athens will be closed this afternoon as the diplomats attending the talks are due to be given a tour of the Acropolis Museum at 6 p.m. The annual meeting gives the participants "an opportunity to review and assess" the OSCE's activities over the past year and "offer national viewpoints on security matters." However, Prime Minister George Papandreou, also Greece's foreign minister, is expected to use the meeting as an opportunity to hold sideline talks with the foreign ministers of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Antonio Milososki, and Turkey, Ahmet Davutoglu.

30.11.2009. Doctors strike. Farmers' protests continue. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and Golden Dawn - rightwing extremist ochlarchists - and Phantis & Kathimerini, that report: Fringe group violence on the rise. Hooded youths caused serious damage to the premises of Thessaloniki's Aristotle University early yesterday as academics warned that violence on campus is escalating and that they are becoming hostages to a small group of troublemakers. In the center of Thessaloniki, dozens of self-styled anarchists hurled Molotov cocktails and stones at riot police, who responded by firing tear gas. The youths torched a number of parked cars and wrecked the facades of several banks near the campus. There were no reports of injuries nor, as usual, of any arrests.

This kind of violence, as well as attacks on individual professors inside lecture halls, is on the rise, professors told Sunday's Kathimerini, noting that troublemakers are exploiting a ban on police entering university grounds to essentially do whatever they want. "We have to put a stop to this violence which unfortunately appears to be spreading," said Evgenia Bournova, a senior official of the Federation of University Teachers' Associations (POSDEP). "This behavior is an affront to the institution of university asylum," Bournova said, noting that "universities are places where the free exchange of ideas should be promoted."

Yiannis Panousis, an Athens University criminologist who was badly beaten in a lecture hall last year by assailants wielding iron bars for his criticism of domestic terrorism, told Kathimerini that the situation is no better now. "There is a climate of fear in universities," he said, adding that the upheaval cannot be blamed purely on organized groups but is also due to a "general climate of lawlessness" prevailing on campuses.

As self-styled anarchists cause problems on campuses, there are reports of a spike in violent behavior by another group, much further to the right of the political spectrum. A series of attacks against immigrants living in districts close to the center of Athens, such as Neos Cosmos and Aghios Panteleimonas, is being linked to the extreme right-wing group Chrysi Avgi, or Golden Dawn. Last Monday, a group of youths beat up an Iraqi teenager in Neos Cosmos, the latest in a string of attacks on migrants in the area.

The anarchists call for more guards at the Greek universities, to do away with the ochlarchy, including lawlessness. The so called "self-styled anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini and Phantis, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini, Phantis and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini and Phantis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The IAT-APT also hands out Brown Cards to Golden Dawn - rightwing extremist ochlarchists, that together with other rightwing extremists in Greece form an ultra-authoritarian para-state, a polyarchical rivaling state within the Greek state. The anarchists call for winding up of the rightwing extremist ochlarchy in Greece, a rivaling state within the Greek state, as a part of the fight towards anarchy in Greece.

Doctors strike. Several state hospitals will be operating on skeleton staff today as doctors are due to go on strike. Unionists are demanding that the government sign a new collective labor contract, make good on a promise to hire 2,000 additional doctors to tackle understaffing and boost their salaries. Protesting doctors are to stage a rally outside the Health Ministry in central Athens today.

Farmers' protest continue. Peach growers from Imathia, northern Greece, yesterday continued to block a section of the Egnatia Highway for the fourth day in a row, saying they would not move their tractors unless the government takes action to allay their grievances. On Friday, the producers gave Prime Minister George Papandreou a memo outlining their demands, which include the adoption of measures to boost their sector.

28.11.2009. Expulsing Brown Card to the so called "Revolutionary Anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist oclarchists, and not anarchists, and to Kathimerini, that reports. Arson attacks. Self-styled anarchists vandalized a branch of Alpha Bank in the northeastern suburb of Geraka early yesterday morning, smashing the facade of the ground-floor offices and throwing two Molotov cocktails into the premises. The fire brigade extinguished the blaze before it could spread to adjacent buildings. The attack was later claimed by an unknown group calling itself Revolutionary Anarchists. Late on Thursday night, unidentified vandals torched garbage dumpsters in Exarchia, central Athens, and set fire to a car in Zografou, close to the city's main student residence halls.

The so called "Revolutionary Anarchists" are in reality marxist leftwing extremist oclarchists. The difference between ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do , not what you say you are or flag. The so called "Revolutionary Anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Thus, this is not revolutionary anarchists, but ultra-authoritarian, reactionary, contra-revolutionary, ochlarchist marxists. Members of the Anarchist International are real revolutionary anarchists.

IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention to the marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", the so called "Revolutionary Anarchists". The anarchists condemn the arson attacks, and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The Brown Card means the marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", the so called "Revolutionary Anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement. The IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

Furthermore, the ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", the so called "Revolutionary Anarchists", are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, outdated dictionaries, etc. As mentioned ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media produce copycat ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. The IAT-APT also hands out a Brown Card to the unidentified vandals.

Gang assaults AUEB lecturer. A lecturer at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) was attacked by a group of people who wanted to take over the theater where he was teaching students, it emerged yesterday. Gerasimos Sapountzoglou revealed that about 15 people who were not students at the AUEB entered the lecture hall on Wednesday and assaulted him when he refused to end his lesson so they could use the room. Police also reported that patrol cars passing outside the university came under attack both yesterday and on Thursday from assailants who emerged from the AUEB's grounds. No arrests were made. Academics at the university have asked the Education Ministry and other authorities to intervene to restore order and ensure the security of staff and students on campus. "The state has to begin a coordinated effort," a lecturer who wished to remain anonymous told Kathimerini. "The rector's office also has responsibility but they are afraid, which is perfectly understandable." The anarchists condemn the gang, that gets a Brown Card, and call for more guards at the AUEB.

Careless police officers. Investigations were launched yesterday against two police officers' whose service guns went off, apparently by accident, in the police precinct at Ilioupoli, in southern Athens. The first incident occurred at 6 a.m. when the pistol of the officer on duty at the time went off as the shift was about to change. In the second incident, shortly after 4 p.m., the MP5 submachine gun of a special guard went off. No one was injured in either of the shootings. The anarchists condemn the careless police officers.

27.11.2009. Bomb attack by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack. The strike action continues. Farmers' direct action.

Bomb attack by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. A bomb blast caused minor damage to the political office of Deputy Justice Minister Apostolos Katsifaras in central Athens yesterday afternoon. Attackers set alight two gas canisters at the door to his office, prompting a minor explosion. Police were called and managed to put out the flames before the fire service arrived. There were no injuries or arrests. The anarchists condemn the attack. The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the attackers, that probably are marxist leftwing extremists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

The strike action continues. Athens City Hall yesterday once again appealed to citizens to keep their household trash on their balconies rather than taking refuse down to garbage dumpsters, which have been overflowing onto the streets as employees of Attica's main landfill enter the third day in a row of strike action.

Also... A union representing civil aviation employees has called a strike that will ground all flights in Greece for four hours on Friday. The Federation of Civil Aviation Workers decision will affect all flights between 8.00 a.m. and noon (0600 to 1000GMT). Dozens of flights are expected to be canceled or rescheduled. The union said Thursday the strike was called in response to an agreement earlier this year to privatize Olympic Airways. As part of the deal scores of former airline employees will be given public sector jobs at the Civil Aviation Authority.

Farmers' direct action. Dozens of peach producers lined up their tractors to block the Kouloura junction on the Egnatia Highway in Veria, northern Greece, yesterday, causing hours of traffic disruption. The farmers are calling on the government to take measures to boost their dwindling incomes.

Sources said that the law would also be changed so that any citizens who win their case at the European Court of Justice would then be allowed to settle the dispute in Greece. The government believes that apart from financial compensation, this would provide and ethical redress for those wronged by the Greek justice system. Greece is convicted more than 250 times a year by the court, the highest number among 47 European countries.

26.11.2009. Greek government in chaos. The anarchists call for optimal order. Strike by municipal street cleaners and landfill workers. The anarchists support the strike.

Strike! Trash bins were overflowed with garbage in central Athens yesterday on the second day of a strike by municipal street cleaners and landfill workers. The employees, who are demanding the payment of outstanding wages, staged a similar action at the end of last week. The anarchists support the strike.

Government in chaos. The Greek newspaper Vradyni reports: "Government in chaos - We passed from the stage of surveillance to that of exposure". The anarchists call for optimal order, see note/links on "anarchy vs chaos" above.

25.11.2009. Religious icons may have to go. The anarchists support the removal of religious icons. Brown Card to Kathimerini: Marxist ochlarchists - not anarchists attacked.

Religious icons may have to go. Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis admitted yesterday that Greece will have no choice but to remove religious icons from school classrooms and other public buildings if the European Court of Human Rights stands by a ruling it made earlier this month. "If the European Court of Human Rights sticks to its original decision that religious symbols should be removed from all public buildings, then I think our country will have to adapt to the new situation arising from this decision," said Kastanidis in response to a question from right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) MP Asterios Rondoulis. However, Kastanidis added that any change to the status quo, which sees icons of the Virgin Mary hung in classrooms, courtrooms and public service offices, would take place "only after agreement has been reached with the Church of Greece."

However, it seems that the Church is highly unlikely to concede to the removal of icons or crucifixes from buildings. The Church of Greece reacted angrily to such suggestions when it emerged earlier this month that the European Court of Human Rights had ruled that the presence of crucifixes in classrooms was a breach of human rights after hearing a case brought by a mother from Italy. "It is not only minorities that have rights, the majority has them as well," said the head of the Greek Church, Archbishop Ieronymos, adding that the matter would be discussed by the Holy Synod if necessary. "Youngsters will soon not have any symbols to inspire and protect them," said Bishop Nikolaos of Fthiotida. Bishop Anthimos of Thessaloniki said he hopes Greek officials will appeal any decision by the court in Strasbourg. The European court found that the right of parents to educate their children according to their own beliefs, and children's right to freedom of religion, were breached by the presence of a crucifix in classrooms. The anarchists support the removal of religious icons from public buildings, according to the anarchist principle of atheism.

Brown Card to Kathimerini that reports: Anarchists targeted. A firebomb exploded outside a club frequented by anarchists, police said yesterday, noting that the explosion caused minor damage but no injuries. There had been no claim of responsibility by late yesterday. The attacked club is frequented by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, not anarchists. IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention to Kathimerini for spreading the disinformation that anarchists were attacked, i.e. falsely postulating "anarchists targeted". Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as the Kathimerini does, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. See also Brown Card to the Greek police etc. of 24.11.2009.

24.11.2009. Brown Cards to Greek police, Phantis, Taiwan News, marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" and suspected rightwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and arson attacks. A small bomb has exploded outside a marxist club, i.e. a club mainly for marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, falsely called "anarchist" by the Greek police, Phantis and Taiwan News, in the northern city of Thessaloniki, causing minor damage but no injury. The pre-dawn blast in central Thessaloniki damaged the club entrance and three cars parked outside the building. It also broke windows in nearby flats and offices. There was no warning for Tuesday's attack and no claim of responsibility. Greek ochlarchist leftwing extremist marxist militants frequently attack symbols of wealth and state power. Recently, leftwing extremist marxist ohlarchist militants, falsely posing as "anarchists", claimed arson attacks on two Thessaloniki sex shops. IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention to Greek police, Phantis, Taiwan News, the marxists falsely posing as "anarchists" and suspected rightwing extremists that probably are behind the bomb attack. The anarchists condemn both the bomb attack and the arson attacks, and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with ochlarchists, as the Greek police, Phantis and Taiwan News do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

Hair-raising attacks. Two hair salons, one in the southern Athens suburb of Aghios Dimitrios and the other in Kolonos near the city center, were damaged early yesterday when hand grenades were thrown at both establishments. Police believe that the attacks, which did not cause any injuries, were carried out by gangs trying to sell protection. According to the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 criminal rightwing extremists are suspected, and they get a Brown Card from IAT-APT.

Agency to probe police offenses. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis yesterday heralded the creation of an agency to investigate alleged cases of abusive or violent treatment of citizens by police after sacking two officers for allegedly mistreating a 35-year-old immigrant in front of her child in central Athens. "Those two gentlemen are to leave the police force immediately and will never return," Chrysochoidis said, referring to the two officers alleged to have handcuffed an Armenian woman in front of her 2-year-old child before bringing them both to the police precinct in Kypseli. According to sources, the officers said they had reacted after the woman called them "animals" – a claim the woman has rejected. Chrysochoidis said that a new agency would be set up to probe similar claims of misconduct by officers of the regular police force and the riot police unit (MAT). The agency would comprise ministry officials as well as former prosecutors and legal experts but no active members of the police force, to ensure that it remains independent, the minister said.

Chrysochoidis also heralded a review of the disciplinary process currently employed for police officers accused of alleged offenses with the aim of getting through a backlog of claims. "The problem up until now has been that the system for dispensing justice in such cases has been hampered by bureaucracy, a lack of meritocracy and the absence of a serious examination of complaints lodged by citizens," he said. The minister noted that he could not guarantee that such instances of alleged police misconduct would not occur in the future. "What I am saying is that from now on, those who are guilty will be punished... we will crack down on lawlessness and safeguard human rights so that the minority that behaves unacceptably does not tarnish the image of the majority of officers," Chrysochoidis said. The minister added that officers will be expected to display their police ID numbers on their uniforms to ensure accountability.

23.11.2009. Firebomb attack in Thessaloniki by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack. Police in Thessaloniki fired tear gas early yesterday morning after coming under attack from a group of people who exited the grounds of the city's Aristotle University and threw Molotov cocktails at the cargo entrance to the Thessaloniki International Fair exhibition center, where the officers were stationed. Police did not make any arrests but five sets of traffic lights were destroyed during the exchange. Police did arrest a 29-year-old man some time later, after catching him trying to set fire to a newspaper stand, but they said that he was not connected to the previous incident. The firebomb - Molotov cocktails - attack in Thessaloniki is probably done by marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack.

Three arrested in arson attack on city bus in Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki police have arrested three people in connection with an arson attack on a public transport bus, in which a minor was injured, it was announced on Monday. Police said a group of approximately 20 individuals broke the windows of the bus and threw lit torches into its interior, resulting in the injury of a 10-year-old boy. The detainees, aged 18, 27 and 37, believed to be fans of a local soccer team, will be led before a public prosecutor on Monday.

New force for organized crime. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis has been given the green light by Prime Minister George Papandreou to set up a crack police squad that will tackle organized crime. Chrysochoidis has identified organized crime as one of the main problems that needs to be tackled. In a bid to so, he has put forward plans to create a team that would consist of top experts, including those with extensive knowledge of finance, to track down gangs that make money from a series of offenses. "Evidence indicates that organized crime is spreading around the country at a dangerous rate," Chrysochoidis said. "Money is being laundered very quickly and all this is also linked to [domestic] terrorism."

Under the minister's scheme, the new squad would comprise high-ranking police officers and financial and information technology experts who would be working closely with experienced prosecutors who, in turn, would clear the team's access to sensitive public and private data, including tax statements and bank accounts. The squad would investigate all kinds of organized crime, including fraud, bribery and blackmail.

In its 2009 report, Europol, the European Union's criminal intelligence agency, has warned that the global economic crisis means that international organized gangs could be looking to make money from usury in Greece. Europol also sees Greece as a "crossroad" for international gangs involved in the smuggling of immigrants, drugs and women for sexual exploitation. The agency also warns that if Greece does not take action soon to stem the tide of this criminal activity, it will soon be overwhelmed by it. Chrysochoidis envisages the new force working more closely with Europol as well as the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) in an effort to trace international gangs that are currently active in the country.

21.11.2009. Bomb attack in Nea Ionia by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack. An explosive device made from gas canisters went off early yesterday at the headquarters of the municipal police in Nea Ionia, northern Athens. Nobody was injured in the attack, which damaged the entrance to the building and a parked car. Meanwhile, a PASOK office in the Aghios Pavlos-Evangelistria area of Thessaloniki suffered damage in a blaze early yesterday. It was not clear what caused the fire to break out. The bomb attack in Nea Ionia is probably done by marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack.

20.11.2009. Marxist-Exarchia attack. Missiles thrown at police unit. The anarchists condemn the attack. A policewoman was slightly hurt during an attack in the central Athens district of Exarchia yesterday. A group of youths is alleged to have thrown rocks and pieces of wood at a police foot patrol yesterday afternoon at the corner of Emmanouil Benaki and Kallidromiou streets. The policewoman was injured when she fell over as she tried to take cover from the hail of missiles. The anarchists condemn the attack.

19.11.2009. The Greek system, populism with a rivaling leftwing extremist marxist state within the state. The anarchists call for winding up of this marxist ochlarchy. This rivaling leftwing extremist marxist state is a polyarchical organization a bit similar to al-Qaeda but also to the German RAF (ml) and Italian BR (ml). This small polyarchy consists of several more or less interlinked even smaller states within the Greek state. The main different "departments" of this polyarchical state, an ultra-authoritarian ochlarchy, are different terrorist groups and criminals (se below) and the rank and files are mainly hooded youths, based in Exarchia, Athens, but also some in Thessaloniki and other cities. All in all this rivaling state within the state is quite small, probably about 300 - 500 persons, but very big in the newsmedia, which contribute to keep this ochlarchical state going and to copycat recruiting. The main short term target of this state is attention in the newsmedia, as it is all too small to be real threat to the system. This polyarchical state has only destructive power, and no constructive ability. It is "a pimple on the populist system's ass", and nothing more. These marxist groups are often falsely called anarchist, they are not, and this irritates the real anarchist movement. As marxists, they are expulsed from the anarchist movement.

The main terrorist groups and criminals, the main and most authoritarian part of this polyarchical state, all leftwing extremist marxists, are: Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, Nihilist Faction, Organization for the Proletarian Popular Self-Defense, Cell of Rebels, Alfredo Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos, Morning Sabotage Team, Voutsis-Vogiatzis, Criminals of Thought and Action, Revolutionary Struggle, Rebel Sect, Popular Will, Sect of Revolutionaries, perhaps some with links to November 17, Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) and MK & Enraged Wolves. The anarchists call for winding up of the leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchy in Greece, a rivaling state within the Greek state, as a part of the fight towards anarchy in Greece.

Terror suspect points to case flaws. A 22-year-old woman who was arrested last week on suspicion of being a member of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire urban guerrilla group was released from custody yesterday after mounting a vigorous defense. It was revealed in court that Antigone Helioti-Hatzidimitriou was arrested after a candleholder at a house in Halandri, which allegedly served as a bomb-making factory for four other suspects that were arrested in September, was found to have the 22-year-old's fingerprints on it. However, Helioti-Hatzidimitriou's lawyers pointed out that the candleholder had not been singled out and bagged as evidence during the sweep of the Halandri property and was therefore inadmissible as evidence. Lawyer Costas Papadakis likened the 22-year-old's predicament to being accused of a murder when no body had been discovered.

Papadakis also objected to the way that his client was arrested. He explained to the judge that Helioti-Hatzidimitriou had been taken into custody in 2007 during some disturbances at a student rally. As a condition of her subsequent bail, she was required to appear at her local police station twice a month. Papadakis said that the police detected her fingerprint on the candlestick on October 4, after which Helioti-Hatzidimitriou went to a police precinct twice but was not asked to answer any questions. There was further controversy after the hearing when the suspect was not released immediately, as is normal. Instead, members of the anti-terrorist squad took her back to police headquarters before releasing her, prompting scuffles between riot police and some 100 people who had come to support her at court. Meanwhile, six of the nine people arrested following the protest march on November 17 were yesterday charged with attempted grievous bodily harm, causing damage and disturbing the peace. The other three suspects are minors and will appear in juvenile court.

NTUA anger over charges. The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) said yesterday that it is the victim of "coordinated attacks" after a prosecutor charged rector Constantinos Moutzouros over the institution's failure to stop its computer terminals being used to update the website of the Athens branch of the anti-capitalist news network Indymedia. Earlier this year OTE telecom threatened to cut the NTUA's Internet connection because by allowing the Indymedia site to be updated from its computers, the NTUA was breaching its contract with the telecommunications company. This week, a prosecutor took action against the university because the Indymedia site does not serve any "educational or research purpose." In a statement issued yesterday the university said that it refused to engage in any kind of censorship "regardless of the ideological or political gap that may separate it from the opinions being expressed."

18.11.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis & Taiwan News, and Kathimerini. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is leftwing extremist marxist similar to RAF (ml) and BR (ml), and not anarchist. Exarchia is not an "anarchist stronghold", but an ochlarchist stronghold.

Teen shooting trial put off until January. The trial of the two policemen implicated in the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos last December, due to take place in Amfissa, central Greece, on December 15, was yesterday postponed until January 20. Court sources said that the trial was postponed due to a backlog of cases. Originally scheduled to take place in Athens, the trial of Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis was moved to Halkida, Evia, to avert mass protests, and then shifted to Amfissa when it emerged that activists were planning protests in Halkida on the day of the trial. The trial is to go ahead in Amfissa on January 20 despite protests by local authorities and by the teenager's family, who wants it to be held in Athens fearing that certain key witnesses will not travel to Amfissa.

Peaceful rally ends with police sweep. Police took 292 people to the police headquarters for questioning after disturbances broke out along Alexandras avenue in Athens on Tuesday evening, at the end of the march marking the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising, and 10 of them were arrested. The 292 people were stopped on Alexandras avenue and in the district of Exarchia, after small-scale scuffles in central Athens followed a largely peaceful demonstration marking the anniversary of a bloodily suppressed student rebellion in 1973. Of those arrested, only eight were to face a prosecutor, police said. The traditional march from Athens University to the US Embassy yesterday afternoon was not marred by serious violence. But later in the evening isolated attacks by youths throwing stones at officers on Alexandras Avenue, where the Attica police headquarters are located, resulted in the injury of 13 policemen. Most of the demonstrators taken in for questioning had been on Alexandras Avenue when small groups of hooded youths were seen throwing stones at riot police. According to witnesses, a large group of protesters had been taking part in a sit-down protest in the street. Dozens more demonstrators were arrested following unrest in nearby Exarchia, an anarchist stronghold. Police said that the eight people that were to face a prosecutor had either been caught throwing stones at officers or had been carrying improvised gas canister bombs.

Thousands of officers had been on duty yesterday in the first real test of the police force's readiness since socialist PASOK came to power last month. A similar mobilization is expected on December 6 when thousands of people are expected to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos who was shot by a police officer in Exarchia. Protesters during yesterday's march in Athens hold aloft a banner reading, ‘Remember, remember the 6th of December,' a reference to the day last year when a police special guard shot dead 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos in the Exarchia district of the capital.

Brown Cards to Phantis & Taiwan News, that report 16.11.2009: Greek radical anarchists claim attack on lawmaker. A Greek radical anarchist group has claimed responsibility for a small bomb that exploded last week outside the home of a Socialist lawmaker. Nobody was injured in the attack, which caused minor damage to the suburban Athens apartment building where Mimis Androulakis, a member of the governing party, lives. The Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire group says Androulakis, a former Communist, is "a television-friendly lackey of those in power." Since the end of September, Greek police have arrested and charged with terrorism five suspected group members. Monday's proclamation, posted online, said none of the five were linked with the Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire. The group has targeted several politicians over the past few months with small bombs, causing no injuries.

IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to Phantis and Taiwan News according to the Oslo Convention, the Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire [a.k.a. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire] terrorist group, is in reality ochlarchist, not anarchist. Ochlarchist and anarchist are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchist with ochlarchist, as Phantis and Taiwan News do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The terrorist ochlarchists have also got Brown Cards from IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Ochlarchy is a form of State, broadly defined, not anarchy. These terrorist ochlarchists are not "anti-state", they represent a rivaling state within the Greek state, and known from several episodes as anti-capitalists, see below and the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is ultra-authoritarian socialist, they are leftwing extremist marxists, similar to the German RAF (ml), Baader-Meinhof, and the Italian BR (ml), Red Brigades, and they are not anarchists.

IAT-APT also hands out a Brown Card to Kathimerini. Exarchia is not an "anarchist stronghold", but an ochlarchist stronghold. The anarchists call for winding up of the ochlarchy of Exarchia, a rivaling state within the Greek state, as a part of the fight towards anarchy in Greece. This is not only a police matter, but a question of dialog and organizing the mislead youths in sound, libertarian, direction, and creating more opportunities for the youths.

17.11.2009. Brown Card to Athens News Agency. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is ochlarchist and leftwing extremist marxist, not anarchist. Ochlarchist and anarchist are opposites.

1973 uprising memorial. Prime Minister George Papandreou placed flowers yesterday at the memorial to the students killed in the November 17, 1973 uprising against the military junta, stressing that fighting for a cause is "always relevant" The gates of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), or Athens Polytechnic as it was formerly known, will be closed this afternoon so the annual remembrance service can take place. This will be followed by the traditional march toward the US Embassy. Some 6,000 policemen will be on duty in a bid to prevent any trouble but the NTUA grounds will be guarded by teaching staff and students.

Arson attack. Unidentified assailants staged an arson attack against the entrance to an apartment block in Nikaia, near Piraeus, shortly after 3 a.m. yesterday, destroying five cars and two motorcycles but causing no injuries. The fire that ensued from the blast caused a panic in the block, where most of the residents had been asleep, but was quickly extinguished by firemen who were called to the scene. Police officers said it was likely that the attackers had doused the vehicles with petrol before setting them alight. There was no indication of any motive. The anarchists comdemn the attack.

Grigoropoulos trial in Amfissa. The trial of the two policemen implicated in the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos last December will take place in Amfissa, central Greece, after Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes rejected an appeal from the teenager's mother for the case to be heard in Athens. Authorities moved the trial to Amfissa, northwest of the capital, amid fears about the safety of the two officers and concern about general disorder. However, Grigoropoulos's mother, Gina Tsakalian, claimed that the location of the trial would make it difficult for the witnesses, who are mostly teenagers as well, to attend and give evidence. But Tentes decided that the risk of holding the trial at a specially constructed courtroom in Korydallos Prison, where members of November 17 were tried, was too great. The trial of of Epaminondas Korkoneas, who shot Grigoropoulos, and Vassilis Saraliotis, who had been on duty with Korkoneas at the time, is due to begin on December 15.

Blast claimed. The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire terrorist group yesterday claimed responsibility for a bloodless bomb blast outside the Athens home of a ruling PASOK MP last Friday. In a statement posted on the Internet, the group claimed that Mimis Androulakis was "a television-friendly yes-man to those in power."

Brown Card to Athens News Agency, that reports: 'Conspiracy of Cells of Fire' suspect receives extension for testimony. A 22-year-old woman arrested for alleged involvement in the "Conspiracy of Cells of Fire - Faction of Nihilists" urban terror group asked for and received an extension until Wednesday for giving testimony, in an appearance on Monday before examining magistrate Antigone Helioti. The detainee faces three felony charges for participation in a terrorist group; several counts of acquisition, construction and possession of explosive materials and bombs; and causing an explosion in complicity with others. According to the accused's defence attorney Dimitris Kappos, the woman denies all the charges and claims that she does not know any of the other three co-defendants, while she also maintains that she had never gone to the group's safehouse in the northern Athens suburb of Halandri.

The woman was arrested in central Athens on Friday evening after clashes between riot police and self-styled "anti-state" activists in Exarchia, while three other suspects linked with the "Conspiracy of Cells of Fire" group were arrested on September 23 during a police raid in what authorities labelled a "bomb-making" safehouse in Halandri. The three have been remanded in custody pending trial, while arrest warrants have been issued for six more individuals. According to Kappos, the woman's fingerprints found by police in the Halandri safehouse were on a "movable object" and not on a stationary spot. A group of approximately 50 youths had gathered outside the court complex at Evelpidon street in support of the 22-year-old woman, a university student, and shouted slogans as she was taken to and from the examining magistrate's office. By ruling of the prosecutor assigned to the case, the release of the woman's name has been allowed due to the gravity of the case. All four of the other suspects have also denied any wrongdoing in statements before an examining magistrate.

The case of the "Conspiracy Fire Cells - Faction of Nihilists" urban terrorist group, described as an anti-state anarchist cell, has been assigned, due to its gravity, to a Court of Appeals Examining Judge following a recommendation by Supreme Court Judge Ioannis Tentes. The plenum of the Court of Appeals Judges unanimously last week appointed Dimitris Flegas in charge of the case, while Constantinos Baltas was appointed assistant examining judge.

IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to Athens News Agency according to the Oslo Convention, the "Conspiracy Fire Cells - Faction of Nihilists" [a.k.a. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire] urban terrorist group, described as an anti-state anarchist cell, are in reality ochlarchist, not anarchist. Ochlarchist and anarchist are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchist with ochlarchist, as Athens News Agency does, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Also the terrorist ochlarchists get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Ochlarchy is a form of State, broadly defined, not anarchy. These terrorist ochlarchists are thus in reality not "anti-state", they represent a rivaling state within the Greek state, and known from several episodes as anti-capitalists, see below and the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009. They are thus authoritarian socialists, leftwing extremist marxists, and not anarchists.

16.11.2009. Police detain suspect allegedly linked to terror cell. The "self-styled", "anti-state" activists in Exarchia" are leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists, and not anarchists. Athens News Agency (ANA) reports: Police detain suspect allegedly linked to terror cell. A 22-year-old local woman reportedly sought by authorities for her alleged involvement in a shadowy ultra-left terror gang that recently sprung onto the forefront of law enforcement attention was arrested on Friday evening. The suspect was scheduled to face a special judicial magistrate on Saturday. According to initial reports, the woman was arrested in central Athens after clashes between riot police and self-styled "anti-state" activists in Exarchia, the Greek capital's more-or-less "bohemian" district. Four other suspects linked with the "Conspiracy of Cells of Fire" group were arrested on Sept 23, 2009 following a police raid in what authorities labeled a "bomb-making" safehouse in the northern Athens suburb of Halandri. All four of the latter suspects have denied any wrongdoing. The "self-styled", "anti-state" activists in Exarchia" are leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists, and not anarchists. Ochlarchy is a form of State, broadly defined, not anarchy. These ochlarchists are thus in reality not "anti-state", but known from several episodes as anti-capitalists, see the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009. They are thus authoritarian socialists, leftwing extremist marxists.

Kathimerini reports: Police detain terror suspect. A 22-year-old female student charged with membership of the terrorist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire,which has claimed responsibility for several attacks this year, is to face an investigating magistrate today. The woman was arrested on Saturday with another two suspects who were later released. She has been detained in the past in connection to gas canister bombings, according to police who said her fingerprints had been found in the terror group's hideout in Halandri, northern Athens. Three suspected members of the group have been held since September and arrest warrants have been issued for another six. In a related development, police detained a 24-year-old man arrested after around 50 hooded youths attacked riot police in Exarchia, central Athens, early Saturday. Another man arrested at the scene was released. Sources close to the 24-year-old said witnesses could prove that he had been a bystander.

Unionist spotlights root causes of violence. Constantina Kuneva, the Bulgarian migrant and trade union activist who was seriously injured in an acid attack in Petralona last December, has told Kathimerini that she feels no anger, only pity for her assailants, noting that society must fight the root causes that drive people to violence. "We must not allow the creation of causes and circumstances that fuel violence," the 43-year-old general secretary of the Attica cleaners' association said in an interview, noting that unemployment and job insecurity may have motivated the assault. Asked how she felt toward her attackers, she said she was not angry. "I wondered what problem that kid could have had to push him to resort to violence. How did he grow up?" She added that it was clear her assailant, who threw acid onto her face and down her throat, had been paid. "There is no doubt that he was put up to it," she said.

15.11.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis, and Foxnews that claims to be "fair and balanced", but is an Orwellian "1984" Big Brother newspeak liemachine "news"-agency. So called "anarchist militants" are in reality ochlarchists and leftwing extremist marxists, not anarchists. Foxnews and Phantis report 13.11.2009: Greece's new Socialist government has pledged to crack down on far-left and anarchist militants who oppose government economic and social policies and have stepped up bombing and shooting attacks on police and politicians over the past year.

IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to Phantis and Foxnews according to the Oslo Convention, the so called "anarchist militants" are in reality ochlarchists, not anarchists. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with ochlarchists, as Phantis and Foxnews do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Also the ochlarchists get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. These ochlarchists are not anarchists, but leftwing extremist marxists.

14.11.2009. Bomb attack yesterday, probably done by the leftwing extremist marxist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Call for massdemonstration on November 17, without ochlarchy. A time bomb that detonated outside the Athens home of a ruling PASOK deputy yesterday afternoon, causing damage but no injuries, was believed to be the work of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire terror group, according to Kathimerini. The bomb exploded shortly after 2 p.m. outside the entrance to the block in Kareas, eastern Athens, where Mimis Androulakis has an apartment on the second floor. Fifteen minutes earlier, an anonymous caller had telephoned the police's emergency line to warn of the impending blast. According to police, the bomb comprised a cooking pot containing explosives and two timers, almost exactly the same composition as the device used in an attack on the Athens home of conservative New Democracy MEP Marietta Giannakou last month for which the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire subsequently claimed responsibility.

Androulakis was not at the apartment at the time of yesterday's blast but his cleaner was, and told officers that she had heard shuffling outside the door and opened it to see a bag, which had contained the bomb. She told police that she had taken the bag downstairs and left it outside the entrance to the apartment block, without looking inside. The attack came a day after a Supreme Court prosecutor assigned a probe into the activities of the terror group, which is relatively new, having become active in the past year. Three suspected members of the group have been in detention since September when police raided the organization's suspected hideout in the northern Athens district of Halandri. As mentioned arrest warrants have been issued for another six suspected group members whose fingerprints were found at the hideout.

November 17 - Universities shut down ahead of events marking 1973 uprising. Several universities in Athens closed down yesterday ahead of events that begin tomorrow to mark the 36th anniversary of the bloody student uprising against the ultra-authoritarian right fascist military junta in 1973. The event will be commemorated on November 17 with a protest march, supported by the anarchists, from central Athens to the US Embassy. The police have been ordered to maintain a low profile but the rector of the National Technical University of Athens, Constantinos Moutzouris, complained that their presence in front of some buildings was more visible than is necessary. The anarchists call for a massdemonstration on November 17, without ochlarchy. The massdemonstration must have many guards to be without ochlarchy, see http://www.anarchy.no/abcde.html .

13.11.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini, so called "anarchists" on the anti-terrorist squad's list of suspects are ochlarchists, not anarchists. Police officers in court. Mother of killed teen asks for change of venue to Athens. The mother of Alexis Grigoropoulos, the 15-year-old shot dead by police in central Athens last December, yesterday appealed to a Supreme Court prosecutor to shift the scheduled trial of the two officers linked to her son's death to the capital from the central town of Amfissa. In her appeal, Gina Tsakalian is quoted as saying that the presence of all the crucial witnesses in Amfissa on the day of the trial is "difficult, if not impossible." Her appeal came a day after authorities and businesses in Amfissa protested against the trial being held there. The trial had originally been scheduled to take place in Athens before being shifted to Halkida, Evia, to avert mass protests, and then moved to Amfissa when it emerged that riots were planned in Halkida.

Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes yesterday decided to assign a probe into the activities of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire terror group to an investigating magistrate due to the seriousness of the case. Three suspected members of the group have been in detention since September when police raided the organization's suspected hideout in the northern Athens district of Halandri. Arrest warrants have been issued for another six suspected group members whose fingerprints were found at the hideout.

Bomb blast by ochlarchists that get Brown Cards from IAT-APT. A small homemade explosive device detonated outside a Panathinaikos supporters' club in in the southern Athens suburb of Aghios Dimitrios early yesterday, causing minor damage but no injuries. The explosion, caused by a bomb comprising gas canisters, damaged the entrance to the club and smashed windows in nearby apartments. There were no injuries, as the club was closed at the time of the blast. Police said no group or individual had claimed responsibility for the blast by late yesterday.

Kathimerini reports: Terrorist-netting ploy fails, again. Police tried to track down domestic terrorists this summer by enlisting the help of a convicted criminal to sell them a weapon that officers could then trace, despite the failure of a similar scheme when authorities were trying to pinpoint members of November 17 several years ago. Sources revealed to Kathimerini yesterday that last July officers, acting with the knowledge of their political superiors in the Interior Ministry, approached a prisoner serving a life sentence for his part in a bloody robbery in Piraeus in 1990, to act as a middleman in dealings with suspected terrorists.

The convict was instructed to contact a fellow inmate known to have links with anarchists who were on the anti-terrorist squad's list of prime suspects. The police's middleman was asked to arrange a meeting between the anarchists and the convict's supposed underworld contacts to buy a weapon. The rendezvous went ahead at a cafeteria in the northern Athens suburb of Aghios Stefanos. Police used covert surveillance methods to monitor the meeting but it appears that the two sides, for reasons not made clear, could not agree on a deal.

The police's operation really fell apart when the anarchists attending the meeting were able to evade the attention of undercover officers by speeding off on high-powered motorcycles, which the members of the anti-terrorist squad were unable to follow. The failure of the operation mirrors a similar attempt to entrap members of the November 17 group some years ago. Then, the anti-terrorist squad cooperated with the National Intelligence Service, and the USA's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to pass on weapons that had been fitted with tiny tracking devices to suspected terrorists. Although the transaction was made, when the authorities traced the signal from the devices, they were led to a garbage dumpster and, thus, were not able to arrest anyone.

IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to Kathimerini according to the Oslo Convention, the so called "anarchists" on the anti-terrorist squad's list of suspects are in reality ochlarchists, not anarchists. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with ochlarchists, as Kathimerini does, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Also the ochlarchists get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. These ochlarchists are not anarchists, but leftwing extremist marxists.

12.11.1009. Police officers' trial up in the air. The anarchists advocate trial on December 15 in Athens. It was unclear yesterday whether the scheduled trial on December 15 of the two policemen linked to the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos last December will take place at a court in Amfissa, central Greece, following protests by local authorities and businesses as well as the teenager's relatives. Originally scheduled to take place in Athens, the trial was moved to Halkida, Evia, to avert mass protests, and then shifted again to Amfissa, central Greece, when it emerged that activists were planning protests in Halkida on the day of the trial. Now local authorities and store owners in Amfissa are opposing the move, fearing upheaval in the city. Also Grigoropoulos's relatives have appealed for the trial to be brought back to Athens, fearing that certain witnesses might not turn up if the trial is too far away. Court sources said it was likely that the location of the trial might be changed again, and possibly also the date. The anarchists advocate trial on December 15 in Athens. It is quite possible to have an orderly and fair trial, and massdemonstrations without significant ochlarchy, see note of 10.11.2009.

11.11.2009. Vandals get Brown Cards. Suspected leftwing extremist marxists, hooded youths smash bank, stockbrokerage and cafe. The anarchists condemn the vandals. A group of between 10 and 15 hooded youths ran amok at various spots in central Athens yesterday. Using sledgehammers and iron bars to smash the facade of a branch of Piraeus Bank on George Street, a stockbroker's office on Klisovis Street and a branch of the US coffee franchise Starbucks on Academias Street. There were no reports of any injuries nor arrests. IAT hands out Brown Cards to the vandals and suspected leftwing extremist marxists, i.e. hooded youths smashing bank, stockbrokerage and cafe. The IAT-APT has used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009... The anarchists condemn the vandals.

10.11.2009. The killing police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas' and Vassilis Saraliotis' place of trial shifted again. The anarchists call on demonstrations without ochlarchy. The trial on December 15 of the two police special guards involved in the incident that led to the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos last December is to take place at a court in Amfissa, central Greece, to reduce the likelihood of violent protests, it was revealed yesterday. The Supreme Court's criminal section approved a proposal by prosecutor Yiannis Tentes for the trial to be shifted to Amfissa from Halkida, Evia. Tentes's proposal came after police on Evia warned of announcements being uploaded onto the Internet, calling for mass protests in Halkida on December 15. Businessmen on Halkida also lodged complaints, fearing wide-scale damage to their stores. The trial of Epaminondas Korkoneas, who shot Grigoropoulos, and Vassilis Saraliotis, who had been on duty with Korkoneas at the time, had originally been scheduled to take place in Athens but was shifted to Halkida for security reasons.

The anarchists call on demonstrations without ochlarchy, mob rule broadly defined. We know from experience a.o.t. from demonstrations in Norway, see http://www.anarchy.no/abcde.html , that orderly and peaceful massdemonstrations work best. Ochlarchy is not the way to do it... The massdemonstration must have many guards... mainly selfmanagement. At the ABCDE action in Norway there were many guards, protecting against ochlarchists.

09.11.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini, Greece in December 2008 was not on "the brink of anarchy". Kathimerini reports: Law & order. Greece's public order impasse stems from the confluence of two very serious problems – the inadequate training of police officers and the public's very ambivalent attitude toward youthful violence. Each problem alone would be dangerous; the two together are disastrous. We saw this most starkly 11 months ago, when a police officer on patrol in Exarchia shot and killed a teenager, sparking days of riots that brought central Athens to the brink of anarchy as the police heeded orders to let the protests rage without impediment.

The system in Greece seen all in all is populist, a moderate, parliamentarian form of fascism, with about 58% authoritarian degree and about 42% libertarian degree. Populism typically have a lot of ochlarchy, mob rule broadly defined, sometimes a bit less, sometimes a bit more, as in December 2008. Anarchies have equal to or less than 50% authoritarian degree, say, as in the Anarchy of Norway, with about 54% anarchy degree and about 46% authoritarian degree, and little ochlarchical tendencies compared to Greece. The Greek system in December 2009 was about 58% authoritarian degree, and probably a bit more authoritarian temporarily, and thus not on "the brink of anarchy", but quite far from anarchy, i.e. with equal to or less than 50% authoritarian degree. 58% - 50% = 8% is a quite significant distance from anarchy, not on "the brink of anarchy". More ochlarchy indicates a movement away from anarchy, not towards anarchy. IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to Kathimerini for spreading the lie that Greece was on "the brink of anarchy" in December 2008, according to the Oslo Convention.

08.11.2009. Brown Cards to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and ERT - The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, falsely mixing up anarchists with ochlarchists in Greek prisons. ERT 31.10.2009 reports: "Fire Conspiracy Cells" [A.k.a Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire] claims responsibility for the explosion outside M. Yiannakou's house. In a text posted in the website Indymedia, "Fire Conspiracy Cells" claims responsibility for the bomb explosion on Friday [30.10.2009], outside the house of ND European Parliament deputy and former Education Minister, Marietta Yiannakou. The terrorists had called mass media 15 minutes before the explosion and police had cordoned off the area. Mrs. Yiannakou was in her home with her daughter and mother. The home made bomb was placed in a pot and caused damage to the entrance of the apartment building and a car parked nearby.

In their proclamation the "Fire Conspiracy Cells" refers to reforms in Education and stress that the selection of their target was based on recent school occupations and Mrs. Yiannakou's term in the Education Ministry."We have selected to honor with our visit to her house within the frame of what we have said before: we do not forget what one serves and what one had served during the course of ones life and particularly when one does not regret but provocatively continues ones career". They also refer to the appointment of M. Hrisohoidis at the Ministry for the Protection of Citizens, criticizing the recent sweeping operations in the Exarchia district and stressing that the Minister moves with the certainty accredited by the success of having dismantled the November 17 Terrorist organization. Finally, they stress that they are monitoring political developments and will not stop terrorist actions and dedicate their energy to imprisoned anarchists.

Guard of Mrs. Yiannakou house was suspended in July , shortly after European Parliament elections as she would bent most of her time in Brussels. Only seven policemen for her personal guard remained. Speaking to NET 105.8, Mrs. Yiannakou underlined that combat of terrorism requires strategy and long planning, adding that terrorists have supporting mechanisms and much money. She, however, hinted at the suspension of the night guard outside her house.

IAT hands out Brown Cards to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and ERT - The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation: There are no anarchists in Greek prisons. The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire mixes up anarchists with ochlarchists in Greek prisons. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Thus, the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is breaking the Oslo Convention and gets a Brown Card. Also ERT - The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, spreading the lies of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, gets a Brown Card.

07.11.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists, suspected leftwing extremists, i.e. marxists. Anti-terrorist squad overhauled. Department chief and 11 personnel replaced as government seeks to crack domestic urban guerrilla groups. The head of Greece's anti-terrorist squad as well as 11 of his colleagues have been replaced as part of sweeping changes in the police force currently being made by the government. It was revealed yesterday that Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis asked anti-terrorist chief Dimitris Chorianopoulos to step down. He will be replaced by Alkiviadis Tziotis. A further 11 officers are also leaving the department but 14 others have been drafted in, as the government seeks to make headway in its efforts to dismantle the country's terrorist groups.

Three of the officers being brought in played a significant role in the operation that led to the capture of members of the November 17 terrorist group earlier this decade. Chrysochoidis's predecessor, New Democracy deputy Christos Markoyiannakis, said that the only aim of the changes made by PASOK was to "devalue the previous leadership."

Chrysochoidis has asked the anti-terrorist squad to reopen its N17 case file and look into any possible connections with today's active urban guerrillas. As mentioned, in a recent domestic terrorist incident on October 28, gunmen fired almost 100 rounds at a police station in the northeastern Athens suburb of Aghia Paraskevi. The changes in the anti-terrorist squad came just 24 hours after a new police chief was appointed. As mentioend, Lefteris Economou takes over from Vassilis Tsiatouras, who was sacked following a police operation in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia.

In his first public appearance yesterday, the new chief of police acknowledged that the force is facing a tough task. "In this fluid and unpredictable environment in which we live, we have to strengthen the feeling of security among citizens, while not ignoring the fact that there is a section of society that treats us with suspicion," said Economou.

Also yesterday, Deputy Citizens' Protection Minister Spyros Vougias defended in Parliament the government's decision to announce that guard posts would be removed from outside police precincts in the wake of the Aghia Paraskevi attack, in which six people were injured. Vougias said that electronic surveillance methods would be used instead to secure the safety of the precincts and that the measure would allow up to 2,000 officers to be assigned to other duties.

Arson attacks. Two firebomb attacks in Thessaloniki caused minor damage but no injuries early yesterday. One device went off near the Papafeio Orphanage, damaging a shop window. The other exploded near the seafront, destroying one scooter and damaging two parked cars. The facade of a pharmaceutical warehouse was also damaged.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the arsonists, they are ochlarchists and probably leftwing extremists, i.e. marxists. By the way, the rumors that there are anarchist prisoners in Greece, are false. There are no anarchists in Greek prisons.

06.11.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists and armed fugitives, suspected rightwing extremists. New police chief. Press officer when force dismantled N17 gets top job. Lefteris Economou, an experienced police official who was the force's press spokesman during the campaign that led to the dismantling of the November 17 terrorist group in 2002, was yesterday appointed head of the Greek Police. The Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) chose Economou to replace Vassilis Tsiatouras who stepped down last month after police arrested several members of a left-wing party and journalists during a sweep in the central district of Exarchia. The arrests were subsequently described as "unacceptable" by Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis.

Armed fugitives. Ochlarchist gunmen fire at patrol car. Police in Thessaloniki yesterday were seeking five gunmen who opened fire on a police patrol car on the outskirts of the city early yesterday. The patrol car had approached two suspect vehicles that had been parked outside a store, indicating that the occupants should step outside for an inspection. But three suspects got out of the cars and started firing shotguns at the officers. Then another two suspects emerged from the store and also started firing at the patrol car. A car chase ensued but the suspects managed to elude arrest. There were no reports of any injuries.

Arson attacks. Unidentified arsonist ochlarchists early yesterday hurled petrol bombs at an office of Synaspismos, the largest party in the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), in the central Athens district of Exarchia, smashing the glass facade of the premises and starting a fire but causing no injuries. The blaze was quickly doused by firefighters. In another pre-dawn incident, in the Gyzi district of the capital, a homemade firebomb made of gas canisters detonated outside the building housing the supporters' club of Athens soccer team Panathinaikos, causing minor damage but no injuries.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the arsonists and the armed fugitives, they are ochlarchists and probably rightwing extremists.

05.11.2009. Brown Card warning to Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis, and Brown Cards to Cell of Rebels and student ochlarchists. New group emerges to claim Kifissia bomb. A new group calling itself the Cell of Rebels claimed responsibility late on Tuesday for Sunday's bomb blast at a shopping center in the northern suburb of Kifissia. The group posted a proclamation on the Greek branch of Indymedia in which it said the attack, which caused extensive damage to the Gant clothing store, aimed to "create a sense of insecurity and panic among those who have cause to be concerned." The Cell of Rebels dedicated the attack to the three alleged members of another urban guerrilla group, the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, who are in custody and six other suspects being sought by authorities."We are at war and we are taking a position," the group said in response to Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis's comment that the government is "at war" with terrorists. Student clashes. Tension returned to the Athens University of Economics and Business yesterday when clashes between students affiliated to ruling PASOK and opposition New Democracy broke out for the third time in less than a week. The row has been sparked by the two groups' political differences.

The IAT-APT, using the Oslo Convention etc., declares: The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. Other violence is ochlarchy and ochlarchist.

1. The fight against terrorism in Greece should be a law and order issue, not a question of war. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis's comment that the government is "at war" with terrorists, may indicate that the government will act ochlarchist, not only use defensive violence, proportionate in self defense, in the fight against the terrorists, and he thus gets a Brown Card warning. Mind your language, Chrysochoidis! Don't introduce more ochlarchy in Greece!

2. The Cell of Rebels is not a self-defense group responding to the war-declaration of Michalis Chrysochoidis, but an aggressive terrorist ochlarchy group. As mentioned, the only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense, not the ochlarchical aggressive violence of the Cell of Rebels, that gets a Brown Card. Cell of Rebels is a marxist, leftwing extremist group, see the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009, not an anarchist group.

3. The student clashes have clearly elements of ochlarchy. The student ochlarchists get Brown Cards.

04.11.2009. Brown Cards to robbers, rightwing extremists, arsonists, criminal occupants and Kathimerini, that reports: Sledgehammer raid. Robbers make bold entrance. Police yesterday were seeking four robbers who raided a branch of Bank of Cyprus in the northern Athens suburb of Pefki after smashing the facade of the building with a sledgehammer. No one was injured in the raid after which the four robbers fled with an undetermined sum. Police believe the suspects are behind a similar raid on another branch of the same bank in the nearby suburb of Metamorphosi on Monday. Protesters charged. A 28-year-old man alleged to have been involved in a scuffle with riot police in the central Athens district of Aghios Panteleimonas on Monday faced a prosecutor yesterday on charges of weapons possession and attempted bodily harm. The suspect is alleged to have punched a police officer in the face when local residents and suspected members of far-right organizations [rightwing extremists] gathered to protest against an anti-racist rally in the area. Police found two stiletto knives and a rubber baton in his possession. Another suspect, aged 23, was also detained after a sling shot was found on him. Firebombing. Unidentified arsonists yesterday hurled five petrol bombs at a derelict building in the central Athens district of Victoria which is being used as a squat, police said. No serious damage or injuries were reported. It is unclear if the building is one of several in the city center being occupied by illegal immigrants or a hangout for self-styled anarchists.

The IAT-APT hands out a) Brown Cards to the to robbers, rightwing extremists, arsonists and criminal occupants, and b) especially Brown Cards meaning expulsion from the anarchists movement, to ochlarchist criminal occupants falsely called "self-styled anarchists", they are c) not anarchists and not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, that also get a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention. Criminal activities, also occupation, are ochlarchist, the opposite of anarchist, and criminals are ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists.

03.11.2009. Teachers' action against violence, with anarchist support. Prompted by the recent terrorist attack on an Athens police station, university teachers yesterday took an initiative trying to organize a movement against violence and called on other groups to join them in a common protest. The Hellenic Federation of University Teachers' Associations (POSDEP) issued a statement saying that the latest "cycle of violence" had prompted it to take action. "This cycle is different to others mainly in that the terrorist attacks are directed at citizens, and consequently at society as a whole… society should not and cannot remain indifferent," said POSDEP. The teachers' union suggested that people from all walks of life should join forces to show their opposition to violence. POSDEP's announcement came after a weekend during which students at the Athens University of Economics and Business who are affiliated to PASOK and New Democracy clashed during an effort to re-establish the student union. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. Thus, the anarchists mainly support POSDEP's initiative, i.e. the anarchists are against ochlarchical, aggressive, violence.

02.11.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists. The anarchists condemn the arson attack. Gov't probes terror links. As young group claims hit on ND deputy, police examine ties with old organizations. The government is planning a shake-up of the police's counterterrorism unit and a close examination of suspected links between old and new terrorist groups, sources told Kathimerini after Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire claimed responsibility late on Friday for a time bomb that had detonated outside the Athens home of a prominent conservative member of the European Parliament earlier in the day. In a statement posted on the Internet, the group said it was behind the attack on the home of Marietta Giannakou, a former education minister who had her right leg amputated below the knee last year due to an infection, and that it was "ready to strike again." The rambling proclamation criticizes the previous government's approach to the education sector and condemns Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis for authorizing an intensified police presence in the central Athens district of Exarchia where a teenager was shot dead by a police officer last December.

Meanwhile sources told Kathimerini that Chrysochoidis, instrumental in breaking up the November 17 terror group in 2002 when he was public order minister, is planning a shake-up of the police's counterterrorism department. One of the aims is to streamline the department into a leaner and more efficient unit, with 250 officers rather than the current 650. Another priority is the examination of suspected links between old terror groups such as November 17 and resurgent ones such as Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, which has claimed a string of bloodless attacks in recent months, culminating in Friday's hit outside Giannakou's home. There had been no claim of responsibility by late yesterday for last Tuesday's attack on a police station in the northeastern suburb of Aghia Paraskevi when gunmen opened fire with machine guns, injuring six officers. It is suspected that the perpetrators are either members of Sect of Revolutionaries, which claimed an armed attack on a police station in Korydallos in February, or Revolutionary Struggle which is believed to have links to N17.

Arson attack. An explosive device comprising five gas canisters detonated outside a clothing store on Kolokotronis Street, central Athens, yesterday afternoon, igniting a fire on the ground floor but causing no injuries. The fire service brought the blaze under control before it could spread. The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the arsonist ochlarchists. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.

01.11.2009. Brown Cards to the so called Organization for the Proletarian Popular Self-Defense, it is not a self-defense group but an aggressive terrorist ochlarchy group, and M&C/Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Phantis, that 30.10.2009 report: Bomb explodes outside European lawmaker's Athens home. A small bomb exploded Friday outside the private residence of a Greek member of the European Parliament near the centre of Athens, causing damage but no injuries, reports said. The bomb was placed outside the entrance of the building where Marietta Giannakou, a former education minister under the main opposition New Democracy Party, lives. The device, which was contained within a bag, smashed windows and damaged the entrance of the apartment building. Local newspaper and television station received a warning from an unknown caller minutes before the detonation.

Other smaller explosions were reported near the Spanish consulate in the northern port city of Thessaloniki and a car dealership in Athens. No injuries were reported. The explosions took place 24 hours after four hooded gunmen opened fire with automatic rifles on the Agios Pareskevis police station in northern Athens late Tuesday, injuring six police officers, two seriously. A media report on Friday says a little-known group, the Organization for the Proletarian Popular Self-Defense, has claimed responsibility for the attack in a letter to a daily Greek newspaper.

Hundreds of riot officers and anti-terrorist police were stationed throughout Athens and other parts of the country this week, stopping and searching vehicles as officials launched a nationwide manhunt after the police shooting. The attack occurred after Greece's new Socialist government vowed to crack down on the criminal activities of self-styled anarchists and far-left militant groups. Police offered a reward of 600,000 euros (893,000 dollars) for information that could lead to the arrest of criminals believed to have links to domestic terrorism. Greece has been plagued by frequent bombings and arson attacks targeting banks and multinational businesses since police shot a teenager in December. The shooting sparked the worst riots the country had seen in decades.

1. The so called Organization for the Proletarian Popular Self-Defense, it is not a self-defense group but an aggressive terrorist ochlarchy group. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense, not the ochlarchical aggressive violence of the so called Organization for the Proletarian Popular Self-Defense.

2. The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards a) to the so called Organization for the Proletarian Popular Self-Defense and b) ochlarchists falsely called "self-styled anarchists", they are not anarchists and not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines, including M&C/Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Phantis, that also get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention. Criminal activities are ochlarchist, the opposite of anarchist, and criminals are ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists.

31.10.2009. Anarchists are not nihilists. The anarchists condemn the 30.10. bomb attacks. Kathimerini reports: Bomb targets MEP home. Established group suspected; police skeptical about claim for Tuesday's hit. A time bomb that detonated outside the Athens home of a prominent conservative opposition member of the European Parliament early yesterday, causing minor damage and no injuries, was believed to be the work of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, police said yesterday, while questioning the authenticity of a claim of responsibility for Tuesday's armed attack on police by an unknown group. The attack outside the home of former Education Minister Marietta Giannakou in Kato Patissia was carried out using a bomb comprising a cooking pot containing gunpowder, a similar composition to the devices used in attacks earlier this year claimed by the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, police said. The device detonated just after 4.30 a.m., around 20 minutes after warning calls were made by telephone to the Eleftherotypia newspaper and private television channel Alter. According to forensic experts, the bomb blast was not as powerful as had been intended because the lid of the cooking pot had not been sealed properly.

Speaking after the blast yesterday, Giannakou's bitterness was clear. "I feel sorry for people who feel such undiscriminating hatred. These are nihilists, unscrupulous people who will stop at nothing," she said. Giannakou, who in February 2008 had her right leg amputated below the knee because of an infection, lives on the fourth floor of the Kato Patissia building, while her mother and daughter live on the first and third floors, respectively. The blast outside the politician's home came just a few hours after Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis called on six suspected members of the group, whose fingerprints have been found in one of the group's hideouts, to turn themselves in to police. In a related development, counterterrorism officers were examining a written statement, left in a mailbox outside a house in the northern suburb of Maroussi, in which an unknown group calling itself Squads of Proletarian Popular Self-Defense, OPLA, claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack on a police station which injured six officers. According to sources, police are not convinced of the authenticity of the claim. The proclamation of OPLA is one page and refers to state terrorism and the communist international, according to ERT 30.10.2009.

Consulate blast. A gas-canister bomb planted outside the premises of the Spanish Consulate in Thessaloniki detonated early yesterday but caused no damage or injuries, police said.

Anarchists are not nihilists. The anarchists condemn the 30.10. bomb attacks.

PS. In a text posted in the website Indymedia, Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire claims responsibility for the bomb explosion on Friday, outside the house of ND European Parliament deputy and former Education Minister, Marietta Yiannakou.

29.10.2009. The Exarchia district is an ochlarchist stronghold, not anarchist stronghold. Brown Card to Kathimerini, that reports: Terrorists attack police station. Gunmen fire almost 100 rounds, injuring six officers, during late-night raid in Athens suburb. Six policemen, two of whom remain in serious condition, were being treated in the hospital in Athens yesterday after gunmen fired almost 100 rounds at a police station in one of the city's northeastern suburbs late on Tuesday night. In what is being treated as a terrorist attack, at least two gunmen opened fire on the Aghia Paraskevi Precinct after approaching the police station on a motorbike. It is thought that up to four other assailants on another two motorbikes blocked the road that runs in front of the station while the attack took place.

Three suspect motorbikes were later found at the Halandri metro station, less than a kilometer from where the attack took place. Police said that the three motorbikes had been stolen in the days preceding the attack. Forensic experts collected 99 bullet casings from Kalashnikov assault rifles. A pin from a hand grenade was also discovered. It appears these weapons have not been used in any previous attack. As of last night, no group had claimed responsibility but it is suspected that either the Sect of Revolutionaries or Revolutionary Struggle were behind it. Of the six officers injured, four suffered slight wounds but two, including a trainee policewoman, were severely hurt and were in serious but stable condition in the hospital. "Greece will not become a state of fear," said Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis. "Democracy cannot be terrorized." The attack comes after a clampdown by authorities on the anarchist stronghold in the central Athens Exarchia district, the announcement of a 600,000-euro award for information leading to three suspected bank robbers with anarchist links and ahead of the appointment of a new police chief.

The truth is that the Exarchia district is an ochlarchist stronghold, not anarchist stronghold. Bank robbers are clearly ochlarchists, not anarchists. The three suspected bank robbers have no anarchist links, they have ochlarchist links. The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the ochlarchists and Kathimerini, that in an Orwellian Big Brother lie-machine style presents disinformation in this connection. Anarchist and ochlarchist are opposites! Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites!

28.10.2009. Brown Cards to Associated Press, Reuters, Phantis and more newsmedia, and ochlarchist gunmen/terrorists. The anarchists condemn the terrorism.

Associated Press reports: 6 Greek police officers wounded in attack. Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on a suburban Athens police station with automatic weapons late Tuesday, wounding six police officers, authorities said. The attack occurred after Greece's new Socialist government promised to crack down on anarchist and far-left militant groups that have stepped up bombings and shootings in the wake of riots in Athens and other cities in December. Two officers were seriously wounded in Tuesday's shooting, which occurred at 9:40 p.m. (1840 GMT, 2:40 p.m. EDT) in the Agia Paraskevi area, north of the Greek capital, police said. Four other officers were hospitalized with less serious injuries, while a bystander was treated for shock, state hospital officials said.

"This was a cowardly and murderous attack ... it was 100 percent terrorism," said Michalis Chrisochoidis, a government minister in charge of police. Two men on a motorcycle stopped and opened fire on police officers standing outside the station before driving away. The gunmen fired about 50 shots, authorities said. Officers from the police's anti-terrorism division gathered evidence at the targeted police station, while police stopped and searched vehicles across northern Athens. No group claimed responsibility for the shooting, but suspicion fell on far-left militant groups that have increased attacks since the December riots that were triggered by the fatal shooting of a teenage boy by police.

In June, gunmen shot dead an anti-terrorist policeman guarding a witness in central Athens. A group called Sect of Revolutionaries later claimed responsibility, saying it acted to avenge the teenage boy's death. The country's Socialist government, which won general elections earlier this month, has promised to crack down on domestic terrorist groups. Police were also bracing for potential violence on the Dec. 6 anniversary of the police shooting that sparked the riots in Athens and other Greece cities. "These cowardly killers will be caught and brought to justice," Chrisochoidis said.

Reuters reports: Gunmen wound seven in Athens attack: Greek police. Two gunmen on a motorcycle launched an attack outside a police station in Athens on Tuesday, wounding six Greek police officers and a passer-by, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but Greece's new Socialist government, which swept to power earlier this month, vowed to track down and arrest the gunmen. Leftist and anarchist groups have mounted a series of attacks against police, businesses, public institutions and politicians since a policeman shot dead a teenager in Athens in December, sparking Greece's worst riots in decades.

"Two unknown assailants riding a motorcycle shot and injured police officers outside the police station," said a police official, who declined to be named. One policeman, who was guarding the police station at the time of the attack, was in a serious condition, said the official. "Our response will be immediate and resolute," Civil Protection Minister Mihalis Chrysohoidis, who has made combating guerrilla groups a top priority, told reporters after visiting some of the wounded at an Athens hospital. "Coward murderers will be arrested and brought before justice," he said. The far-left Rebel Sect urban guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the killing of an anti-terrorism policeman in June, the worst attack since the December riots. A little-known group, The Council for the Deconstruction of Order, said on Tuesday it was responsible for makeshift bomb attacks outside the party offices of a minister and a deputy minister last week in the northern city of Thessaloniki.

Terrorism is clearly ultra-authoritarian and ochlarchist, the opposite of anarchist. Ochlarchists, including terrorists, and anarchists are opposites. No anarchists have been involved in bombings and shootings in Greece. The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to Associated Press, Reuters, Phantis and more newsmedia presenting lies that anarchists are behind the shootings and bombings. And also hands out Brown Cards the ochlarchist gunmen/terrorists. The anarchists condemn the terrorism.

27.10.2009. Brown Cards to ochlarchists falsely called "self-styled anarchists", they are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines, including Kathimerini, that reports: Reward offered for terror suspects. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis yesterday offered a reward of 600,000 euros to anyone who can provide information about three wanted criminal suspects known as the"robbers in black," as it emerged that the three men are believed to have links to resurgent domestic terrorism. Chrysochoidis, whose newly formed ministry has pledged a crackdown on the criminal activities of self-styled anarchists, promised anonymity to anyone with information about Simeon Seisidis and his brother Marios, aged 33 and 28 respectively, as well as Grigoris Tsironis, aged 30.

The Seisidis brothers and Tsironis are believed to have planned and carried out an armed robbery on a branch of National Bank in central Athens in January 2006 which resulted in the injury of one of the perpetrators, 28-year-old student Yiannis Dimitrakis, who is currently serving a 25-year sentence for his part in the raid. Chrysochoidis's decision to issue a reward for the capture of the other three suspects comes just a few days after he called for the reinvestigation of the terror group November 17, which was disbanded in 2002 and whose key suspected members are serving long jail sentences.

According to police sources, the result of forensic tests link one of the three robbery suspects to an attack on the private guard of a former judge in April 2007 and to a subsequent shooting against an Athens police station claimed by Revolutionary Struggle, a terror group that is still active. According to police, the attack on the Nea Ionia Police Station was carried out using bullets from the same batch as a submachine gun taken from the guard. The development has consolidated police suspicions that the three robbery suspects are involved in domestic terrorism. In a related development yesterday, Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes asked the council of appeal court judges to convene so it could appoint an investigative magistrate to oversee the probe into the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Four suspected members of the group, which has claimed several bomb blasts, were arrested last month and Tentes believes that an experienced, high-ranking magistrate should be appointed to the case due to its importance.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to ochlarchists falsely called "self-styled anarchists", they are not anarchists and not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines, including Kathimerini, that also get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention. Criminal activities are ochlarchist, the opposite of anarchist, and criminals are ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists.

26.10.2009. Brown Cards to the ochlarchists and the Orwellian Big Brother lie-machine Kathimerini, that reports: Two-track method on public order. Public order will be achieved by maintaining a policy of zero tolerance toward both illegal activity and police misbehavior, government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis said on Saturday, as PASOK prepares to shake up the force's leadership. Petalotis was speaking after incendiary devices went off outside the offices of two ministers and one Socialist deputy in Thessaloniki on Friday night. The bombs, made from gas canisters, went off outside the party offices of Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis, Deputy Citizens' Protection Minister Spyros Vougias and Thessaloniki MP Chryssa Arapoglou. Nobody was injured by the devices, which caused some minor damage. The explosions came after further police operations in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, known for being a hotbed of anarchist activity.

Petalotis said that the government was determined to ensure there were no"gray zones" or "areas under occupation" in Greece's cities. "There is no way we are going to back down from the policy we have set in this area," said the government spokesman, who added that all action would be driven by three rules: upholding the constitution, protecting human rights and not tolerating abuse of power by the police. Petalotis was speaking ahead of changes in the hierarchy of the police force. Last week, Vassilis Tsiatouras was sacked as police chief when it emerged that some members of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) who were attending a book launch had been arrested during Wednesday's raid in Exarchia.

The government is due to announce today or tomorrow who will be Tsiatouras's replacement. It is expected that Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis would favor the appointment of Inspector for Southern Greece Lefteris Economou, with whom Chrysochoidis worked closely in his previous stint in the same department. Economou was police spokesman at the time the force arrested members of the November 17 terrorist group and it is thought that Chrysochoidis wants to pick up the strands of that investigation in the hope that they will lead to revelations about the urban guerrilla organizations that are currently active.

The Exarchia neighborhood of Athens is a hotbed of ochlarchist - not anarchist - activity. Ochlarchists are the opposite of anarchists. Ochlarchists falsely posing as anarchists in Exarchia or other places are not anarchists. The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the ochlarchists and the Orwellian Big Brother lie-machine Kathimerini, according to the Oslo Convention.

25.10.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis and Reuters, that report Oct 23: Makeshift bombs placed at Greek ministers' offices-police. Makeshift bombs were placed outside the party offices of a new Greek Socialist minister and a deputy minister in the northern city of Thessaloniki on Friday, police said. One device, made up of three gas canisters, exploded outside the party office of Greece's Deputy Civil Protection Minister Spyros Vougias, a police spokesman said. There were no injuries. Another two home-made explosive devices were placed outside the party offices of Justice Minister Harris Kastanidis and a socialist party deputy in the city but did not go off, the spokesman added. The incidents are the latest in a series of gas canister and bomb attacks by leftist and anarchist groups that have rocked Greece since the police shooting of a teenager sparked the country's worst riots in decades in December. A new Socialist government swept to power after an Oct. 4 snap election, replacing the conservatives who had ruled the country since 2004. It is true that marxist leftwing extremists are behind a series of gas canister and bomb attacks in Greece, but no anarchists have been involved. The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to Phantis and Reuters for spreading the lie that anarchists are behind such attacks, according to the Oslo Convention.

24.10.2009. Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis on trial on December 15 2009. 'Hoodies law' is to be scrapped. As part of changes in public order, PASOK set to repeal stiff terms for offenders concealing faces. In a move that came 24 hours after the police chief was sacked and which signals a further break from the previous government's law and order policy, PASOK indicated it would scrap a law that imposes stiff sentences for anyone committing a crime while concealing their face. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis recommended to the Cabinet yesterday that the law passed by New Democracy earlier this year, which deems wearing a hood or masking one's face as an aggravating factor in public order offenses, should be repealed.

The law came into effect a few months after large-scale rioting in central Athens followed the shooting on December 6 of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police officer. Three people arrested last Saturday during a protest over the death of an immigrant shortly after being released from police custody became the first to be charged under the "hoodies law." It is expected that there will be more protests on the anniversary of Grigoropoulos's death but Chrysochoidis said that the government would not tolerate more violence. The two policemen charged in connection with the teenager's shooting, Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis, are due to go on trial on December 15.

Chrysochoidis said that he had ordered police to stamp out violence in central Athens but accepted they went too far on Wednesday night when, during a wider operation, they arrested members of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) that were attending a book launch. As mentioned police chief Vassilis Tsiatouras was sacked as a result. His replacement is due to be named on Monday or Tuesday. Chrysochoidis said that he would have made changes in the force anyway. "I do not like firing people but after returning to the ministry six years on from my previous tenure, I am shocked and concerned," he said.

23.10.2009. Brown Cards to vandals and the Orwellian Big Brother lie-machine Kathimerini, that reports: Police chief steps down.

Minister apologizes for 'unacceptable' arrests at Exarchia book launch. Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis yesterday sacked police chief Vassilis Tsiatouras, just a few hours after the "unacceptable" arrests of several members of a left-wing party and journalists during a police sweep in the central district of Exarchia on Wednesday night. "This behavior by police, who raided a venue where a book was being launched and made arrests, is unacceptable," Chrysochoidis said after delivering a public apology for the detention of several members of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). The minister said he had asked for Tsiatouras's resignation and promptly received it, noting that a new police chief will be appointed in the next few days. "This sheriff or Rambo-style logic is down to overzealousness and is not a good yardstick for the force," said Chrysochoidis, noting that such behavior would no longer be tolerated.

Members of the force's Delta rapid-reaction force raided the cafe where the book launch was being held late on Wednesday after a group of youths attacked a police patrol car in the area with stones and other objects, [i.e. vandals]. The youngsters, who managed to elude arrest, had been protesting the beefed-up presence of police in the district, a notorious hangout for anarchists and popular nightspot, since the new PASOK government came to power. It was still unclear late yesterday why police entered the cafe after failing to catch the young vandals. Some police sources claimed that certain participants at the book launch had emerged from the venue and had taunted officers, provoking their reaction.

Chrysochoidis, who is reportedly planning a reshuffle of the top echelons of the police force, is said to have pressed officers to carry out "immediate arrests" of troublemakers from now on. In another of his public statements yesterday, the minister said the force was determined to crack down on violent demonstrators without resorting to heavy-handed tactics. "The government has received a mandate to restore law and order and will not compromise the need to curb illegal behavior while respecting basic human rights," the minister said.

Vandals are clearly ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists. Ochlarchists falsely posing as anarchists in the "notorious hangout" of Exarchia or other places are not anarchists. The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the vandals and the Orwellian Big Brother lie-machine Kathimerini, according to the Oslo Convention.

22.10.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists and the lie-machine Kathimerini, that reports: Arson attack. A homemade incendiary device planted by unidentified arsonists outside the premises of the Greek-Italian Chamber of Commerce in Thessaloniki damaged the facade of the building when it detonated but caused no injuries, police said. The device had been made from a gas canister, usually favored in attacks claimed by self-styled anarchists. Arson attack is clearly ochlarchist, the opposite of anarchist. No anarchists have used gas canisters in arson attacks in Greece. The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the ochlarchist arsonists and the lie-machine Kathimerini, according to the Oslo Convention.

19.10.2009. Piraeus port workers suspend strike. A two-and-a-half-week strike by stevedores at the country's main port of Piraeus was suspended on Saturday after protesters accepted the government's proposal for the renegotiation of a deal with Chinese company Cosco to take over the operation of two cargo terminals. The decision by the dock workers, whose action had seriously disrupted operations at the port and is believed to have cost Greek businesses some 30 million euros, is not to terminate their action but to suspend it until November 2. The workers said they would return to work today, noting that it would take three or four days to clear thousands of containers that had piled up at the port. They said they expect the revised contract to include assurances of job security. "We look forward to radical revisions that will change the core of the agreement,"said union spokesman Giorgos Georgakopoulos.

In the meantime, Economy, Competitiveness and Merchant Marine Minister Louka Katseli, whose PASOK government inherited the deal sealed by the outgoing conservatives, has promised to sit down with the Chinese to review the terms of the 3.4-billion-euro agreement. Responding to the union's announcement on Saturday afternoon, Katseli was upbeat, describing it as "a positive development." "This proves that, with substantial dialogue, a spirit of cooperation, constant effort and persistence, we can solve even the most complex problems for the common public good," she said. Direct action, say, strike, combined with free criticism and dialogue etc. is a libertarian way of problem-solving, the anarchists say.

16.10.2009. Brown Cards to around 15 vandals and Kathimerini that reports: Tabloid attacked. A group of around 15 suspected anarchist youths attacked the offices of the celebrity gossip tabloid newspaper Espresso in the Athens district of Nea Ionia early yesterday afternoon, causing serious damage to equipment in the lobby and to cars parked nearby but causing no injuries. The vandals, who used sticks and stones in their attack, also sprayed graffiti on the facade of the building. After the attack, which occurred before 1 p.m., the vandals fled, eluding arrest. It is clear that vandalism is ochlarchist, the opposite of anarchist, and IAT-APT according to the Oslo Convention thus hands out expelling Brown Cards to the around 15 vandals/ochlarchists falsely posing as anarchists, i.e. they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. IAT-APT also hands out a Brown Card to Kathimerini for spreading this disinformation and breaking the Oslo Convention. See also the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009.

14.10.2009. A "litmus test" of whether marxists, fascists, anarchists or liberalists are behind vandalism, hooliganism and terrorism.

1. Vandalism, hooliganism and terrorism are extremist, ultra-authoritarian acts, de facto very much a top down approach, se notes on extremism and anarchy above in this file. Extremism is either marxist, fascist or liberalist, practically certain not anarchist, because an anarchist acting ultra-authoritarian/extremist stops to be an anarchist, and will be expulsed from the anarchist movement. To be an anarchist or not is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia or others. It is not the outspoken aim, if any, that counts. The real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Anarchists actions are actions that in consequence move (or keep) the social organization in horizontal direction, and that excludes vandalism, hooliganism and terrorism because they are actions that in consequence have a top down approach, vertical organization. If an action is extremist/ultra-authoritarian and capitalist/economical plutarchist, typically profit-motivated, the action is either fascist or liberalist, not anarchist or marxist. Ultra-authoritarian fascists in consequence also act for a "strong man", extremist liberalists not.

2. If extremist acts are anti-capitalist, they are socialist, and thus ultra-authoritarian socialism, i.e. a form of marxism, not liberalist or fascist, and not anarchist. What is a hallmark of marxist extremism? Violent attacks on symbols of capitalism and/or the (capitalist - according to marxism) state is a marxist strategy of vanguardism, similar to the marxist-leninist Italian Red Brigades (BR) and German RAF (Baader-Meinhof), etc. Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions on capitalism and statism as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, see also 1. So if there are extremist attacks on symbols of capitalism and state, it is marxist leftwing extremists, not anarchists behind. Thus vandalism, hooliganism and terrorism that attacks symbols of capitalism and state, are done by marxist extremists, leftwingers, and not anarchists.

3. Using this "litmus test", 1 and 2. we find that most of the vandalism, hooliganism and terrorism in Greece are done by marxist, leftwing, extremists, practically certain never anarchists. In the future the Greek people, police, authorities and newsmedia should use this "litmus test" when reporting about who is behind the vandalism, hooliganism and terrorism.

13.10.2009. More arson attacks by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs. Unidentified arsonists early yesterday torched four luxury cars parked in Pylaia, Thessaloniki, causing extensive damage but no injuries, police said. The fires were set almost simultaneously, shortly after 2 a.m., according to police, who did not give any indication of the vandals' motive. The anarchists know more than the Greek police. It is clear the arson attacks were done by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs, see report 12.10.2009.

12.10.2009. About arson attacks by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs. Brown Card warning. Arsonists set fire to three luxury cars in the Ano Poli and Kalamaria neighborhoods of Thessaloniki late on Saturday, police said. No arrests were made. Attacks on luxury cars mean anti-capitalism, and arson is clearly very authoritarian, extremist and ochlarchist. Thus the arson attacks represent very authoritarian socialism, i.e. marxism on the economic-political map. And thus the arson attacks are done by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs. No anarchists were involved. This conclusion is valid also for similar arson attacks in the past and in the future. The IAT-APT issues a Brown Card warning: Media and others that falsely call such arsonists, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs -- anarchists -- will get Brown Cards.

10.10.2009. Arrest the ochlarchists, falsely posing as anarchists! Police to put on friendlier face? A shake-up of Greece's security forces will lead to the reorganization of the anti-terrorist squad and the introduction of neighborhood policemen, said new Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis, just hours after more than 400 officers conducted an operation in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia. Chrysochoidis said he was "saddened" by the state of the police force that he inherited, adding that it was his aim to make it "democratic and friendlier to the citizen." He said that he would favor community policing over the general sweeps conducted by the force in recent months. "As of January 2 next year, neighborhood policemen will be present and at the same time foot patrols will also start," he said. "The police will have a constant presence in every neighborhood that is a refuge for lawlessness."

His comments came in contrast to the operation conducted in the bohemian neighborhood of Exarchia, a notorious hangout for anarchists. Eight people were arrested and 81 detained, mostly for minor drug offenses. Chrysochoidis used the opportunity to state clearly that he would not allow the police to target people based on their political beliefs. "I have friends that are anti-establishmentarians and anarchists," said Chrysochoidis. "We will not stigmatize beliefs or particular groups but we will stand against vandalism and hooliganism." Most of the so called "anarchists" based in Exarchia are ochlarchists and in reality not anarchists. Bohemian drug slaves/dope heads, and drug dealers are not anarchists. Drugs/narcotics mean ochlarchy. Ochlarchists should face law and order, says IAT-APT. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchists, especially the ones falsely posing as "anarchists".

The minister also warned policemen that they would have to watch their behavior when dealing with citizens. "Any policeman who touches a citizen illegally, any policeman that breaches the constitution will be thrown out of the force on my orders." Chrysochoidis also said there would be an overhaul of the anti-terrorist squad and its strategy. He suggested that there would be changes in personnel. "We have to look for the best people for this sensitive service," he said. The changes will not stop there, sources said. The recently appointed head of the National Intelligence Service, Dimitris Papangelopoulos, is set to be replaced and sweeping changes are likely in the fire service.

Officers involved in shooting of the teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos face December trial. The two police special guards who were involved in the incident that led to the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos last December are to stand trial on December 15, court sources said yesterday. Epaminondas Korkoneas, who shot the teenager, faces charges of murder with malice aforethought. He claims the bullet that killed the teenager was fired as a warning and ricocheted. Vassilis Saraliotis, who had been on duty with Korkoneas, is charged with being an accomplice to murder. The trial is to take place at a court in Halkida, Evia, for security reasons.

Meanwhile one of the three suspected members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire urban guerrilla group has lodged an appeal against his detention, labeling the reasoning behind it as being "counter to common sense." Panagiotis Masouras, 19, argues that the house that police raided before arresting the suspects was a lodging for students, not a hideout for terrorists.

09.10.2009. Brown Cards to 20 hooded youths and Kathimerini that reports: Anarchists run amok in center. A group of around 20 hooded youths went on the rampage in central Athens yesterday, using sledgehammers and rocks to smash four bank facades and a bookshop belonging to a member of the nationalist party Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) and causing widespread damage but no injuries. According to witnesses, the youths stormed down central Harilaou Trikoupi Street and started smashing up banks in the area. They also vandalized a bookstore belonging to LAOS deputy Adonis Georgiadis before fleeing to Exarchia Square, an anarchist stronghold. Leaflets scattered in the area proclaimed solidarity with the militant group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, which has claimed a string of bloodless bomb blasts in Athens, most recently an explosion in a garbage dumpster at Pedio tou Areos earlier this month, near an election rally, and an attack on the Kolonaki home of Louka Katseli, now economy minister. The 20 hooded youths are ochlarchists, falsely posing as anarchists, and get expulsing Brown Cards, i.e. they are in reality not anarchists, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. The anarchists condemn Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Also Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention in this connection.

05.10.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini that reports: Group claims blast at ND rally. The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire claimed responsibility on Saturday for an improvised bomb that detonated in a garbage dumpster in central Athens on Friday night, causing damage but no injuries, shortly before an election speech by Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis. In a proclamation published on the Internet, the group said it had carried out last month's bloodless bomb blast outside the Kolonaki home of main opposition PASOK deputy Louka Katseli as well as Friday's blast near Pedion Tou Areos, where Karamanlis subsequently addressed a large rally of supporters. "We made the decision to plant a bomb right in front of their faces and send a message during the prime minister's last campaign speech," an excerpt from the proclamation said. "The kids have nothing to do with us... we are proud of our actions and would not hide our faces if we were arrested," another section of the text notes – a clear reference to the four suspected members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire arrested following a police raid last week on an apartment in Halandri. The Halandri raid turned up a homemade explosive device comprising a cooking pot and a timer, almost identical to the one used in the attack on Katseli's home and in the blast near Pedion tou Areos. The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire said it planned and executed these two attacks in cooperation with another group calling itself Nihilist Faction.

Meanwhile, suspicions of links between anarchists based in the central district of Exarchia and resurgent terrorism grew stronger over the weekend as it emerged that three of the six additional suspects of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire being sought by police had been arrested in a raid on an Exarchia apartment in January. According to sources, the three suspects – two men and a woman – were sent for trial. The woman, known to police as Miss Punk, was acquitted while the two men received suspended jail sentences. Police found dozens of helmets, batons and cellphone SIM cards in the raid on the apartment which, sources told Kathimerini, had been visited by all suspects currently linked to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Also, ochlarchists based in Exarchia, falsely posing as anarchists, get expulsing Brown Cards, i.e. they are in reality not anarchists, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention in this connection.

04.10.2009. Brown Card to Chinaview, that reports: On the eve of Sunday's general elections in Greece, the "Conspiracy of Nuclei of Fire - Nihilists Sect" group claimed responsibility Saturday night for the home-made bomb that exploded on Friday evening during the incumbent Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' final rally in the center of Athens. Anarchist and far-left groups have made a series of attacks against political, financial and police targets in Greece this year. It is clear that Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire - Nihilists Sect is anti-capitalist and terrorist ochlarchist, and thus very authoritarian socialist, i.e. they are marxist leftwing extremists and thus not anarchists. Marxists/ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. No anarchists have been involved in terrorism in Greece. Chinaview gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for spreading this disinformation, breaking the Oslo Convention.

03.10.2009. Brown Cards to Alfredo Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos and Kathimerini that reports: Anarchist bank robber caught. A well-known Italian anarchist and a Greek man have been arrested in Trikala, central Greece, on suspicion of carrying out an armed robbery at a local bank. Police sources named the men as Alfredo Bonanno, 72, and Christos Stratigopoulos, 46. Bonanno has served 18 months in jail for his 1998 essay called "Anarchist Tension" and was also given a six-year term in 2003 for armed robbery and other crimes when he was found to be the ideological leader of an armed group. According to police, Stratigopoulos carried out the robbery at a branch of Piraeus bank on Thursday. He forced employees to hand over 46,900 euros, which he then apparently handed to Bonanno, who was waiting outside in a rented car. A witness noted the license plate of the vehicle and informed the police, who stopped the car on a road leading to Kalambaka. Officers found the stolen cash in the vehicle. Stratigopoulos was arrested in Kalabaka. Alfredo Bonanno has been and is living up to the authoritarian travesty of anarchy and anarchism, and is an ochlarchist - not an anarchist. The same is valid for Christos Stratigopoulos. Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos have got Brown Cards from IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for spreading lies that Alfredo Bonanno and Christos Stratigopoulos are anarchists, and thus breaking the Oslo Convention.

Halandri bomb. Police said yesterday that forensic experts did not find any fingerprints on a time bomb found in a Halandri apartment that has been linked to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire urban guerrilla group. However, the fingerprints of three people sought by police were found on the bomb's plastic wrapping.

Far-left group claims responsibility for 2 Athens bombings in web-posting. The far-left group called Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire a.k.a. Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, Conspiracy of Nuclei of Fire - Nihilists Sect, Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire - Nihilists Sect, Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire - Nihilist Faction and The Fire Conspiracy Cells, has claimed responsibility for two recent bombings in Athens. One detonated during Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' final election rally on Friday 02.10.2009. The post, published Saturday, also takes responsibility for a small time bomb that exploded outside the central Athens apartment of deputy Louka Katseli, the socialists' spokeswoman on the economy, on Sept. 23. That day, police broke into an apartment in the district of Halandri, north of Athens, and arrested four people, aged 20-21, whom they suspect of being active members of Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei members. Bomb-making materials were found in the house. At least seven others are on the run, police have said.

02.10.2009. Kathimerini reports: Focus on missing terror suspects. An investigating magistrate questioning four suspected members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire has largely focused on discovering more about an additional six suspected members of the group being sought by counterterrorism officers, sources told Kathimerini yesterday. The six additional suspects are Giorgos Nikolopoulos, his brother Michalis, Giorgos Karayiannidis, Constantina Karayiannidis, Eleni Contopoulou and Bolano Damiano. According to the same sources, the magistrate is particularly interested in Giorgos Nikolopoulos, as he is alleged to have lived in the apartment in Halandri belonging to Hatzimichelakis where police found an improvised explosive device last week.

The device is virtually identical to that used in an attack on the Macedonia-Thrace Ministry in Thessaloniki last month, sources revealed. Earlier this week officers had highlighted the similarity between the device found in Halandri and bombs used to target the Kolonaki home of PASOK Deputy Louka Katseli last week and the Palaio Faliro home of former Deputy Interior Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis in July. Hatzimichelakis reportedly testified that he knew the Nikolopoulos brothers, as they had all attended the Arsakeio, a top private school in Athens. Manolis Yiospas, another detained suspect, reportedly revealed that some of the six suspects being sought by police had gathered at Hatzimichelakis's apartment several times but that he had heard no suspicious discussions.

Far-rightists suspected - Youths spray singer in face. Singer Sofia Papazoglou received first-aid treatment yesterday after being attacked outside Katehaki metro station by assailants who released a can of pepper spray in her face. According to Papazoglou's account of events, a young man outside the station had handed her a leaflet promoting the extreme-right organization Chryssi Avgi which she threw in a nearby trash bin. The action reportedly prompted a hail of verbal abuse from a group of youths, one of whom attacked her with the spray. Later yesterday, Chryssi Avgi denied that members of their group were involved in the attack.

01.10.2009. The lie-machine Kathimerini continues and gets another Brown Card. Kathimerini reports: Three terror suspects in custody. Three suspected members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire militant anarchist group were in custody yesterday, while a fourth received conditional release following a second day of depositions that saw scuffles break out between supporters of the defendants and riot police outside the city's main court complex. Myrto Panteloglou, who had been remanded in custody after her testimony on Tuesday, was released yesterday on the condition that she does not leave the country and reports to her local police station every week. Panteloglou claimed to have visited the apartment in Halandri, believed to be the organization's suspected hideout, only to see Manolis Yiospas, another suspect, with whom she is romantically involved. Yiospas, who also testified on Tuesday, remained in custody yesterday and was joined by his cousin Harilaos Hatzimichelakis and Panayiotis Masouras following their testimonies. All the suspects face a string of eight misdemeanor and criminal charges, including membership of a terrorist organization.

Hatzimichelakis, who owns the apartment in Halandri which police raided last week and where an improvised bomb was discovered, reportedly suggested in his testimony that someone else might have planted the device in his home. The device is said to be virtually identical to that used in last week's bomb blast at the Kolonaki home of prominent main opposition PASOK deputy Louka Katseli and at the Palaio Faliro home of former Deputy Interior Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis in July. Hatzimichelakis said that two other people, including Masouras and one of another six suspected members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire being sought by police, have keys to his apartment. Masouras, for his part, admitted to having keys to Hatzimichelakis's apartment, adding that he had been leaving his scooter outside the property as it was close to a repair shop. As the suspects were being led out of the court complex following their testimonies, a crowd of supporters scuffled with police, resulting in minor injuries to a traffic police officer.

The anarchists repeat the truth. It is clear that Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is anti-capitalist and terrorist ochlarchist, and thus very authoritarian socialist, i.e. they are marxist leftwing extremists and thus not anarchists or a "militant anarchist group". Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is a militant marxist group - not anarchist. The only violence anarchists accept is violence, proportionate, in self defense. Other violence is ochlarchist. Marxists/ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for spreading this disinformation, breaking the Oslo Convention.

30.09.2009. Brown Card to the lie-machine Kathimerini that reports: Two terror suspects deny links to group. Two of the four young people detained as suspected members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, following a raid last week on the militant anarchist group's suspected hideout, were remanded in custody yesterday after an investigating magistrate brought against them the additional charge of being members of a terrorist organization despite their insistence of having no knowledge about a string of bomb attacks. Myrto Panteloglou is alleged to have testified that she had no connection to the group and only visited the organization's suspected hideout in Halandri to see Manolis Yiospas, another suspect, with whom she is romantically involved. Yiospas, for his part, reportedly also denied any connection to the group, claiming to have visited the apartment in Halandri, which is located below his own apartment, to see his cousin Harilaos Hatzimichelakis.

Hatzimichelakis and Panayiotis Masouras, the fourth suspect detained in last week's raid, are today to testify before the same investigating magistrate. According to sources, the key piece of evidence upon which the charges have been built are the homemade explosive device discovered at the Halandri hideout. The device is said to be virtually identical to the one used in last week's bomb blast at the Kolonaki home of prominent main opposition PASOK deputy Louka Katseli and at the Palaio Faliro home of former Deputy Interior Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis in July. Meanwhile, police confirmed that a statement that had appeared on Katseli's website earlier this week, describing the arrest of the four terror suspects as a "pre-election trick," had been uploaded onto her site by hackers from a server based in the USA.

It is clear that Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is anti-capitalist and terrorist ochlarchist, and thus very authoritarian socialist, i.e. they are marxist leftwing extremists and thus not anarchists or a "militant anarchist group". The only violence anarchists accept is violence, proportionate, in self defense. Other violence is ochlarchist. Marxists/ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for spreading this disinformation, breaking the Oslo Convention.

29.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini that reports: Probe leads to terror 'leader'. A police investigation aimed at breaking up a domestic terrorist group that has become increasingly active over the past four years yesterday focused on several houses in Karpenisi, central Greece, thought to have been used as hideouts by a 30-year-old man believed to have been a leading force in the group. The man, believed to be a very active figure among the anarchists in Exarchia, central Athens, was reportedly seen visiting a house in Halandri, northeastern Athens, that is believed to have acted as a key base for the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Sources said yesterday that his visits to the house, which had been under observation for several months, prompted last week's raid that led to the arrest of four suspects. The fingerprints of three of these four suspects have reportedly been discovered on garbage bags taken from outside the Halandri house. According to sources, two of another six suspected members of the group also have their prints on the bags, which contained remnants of components used to assemble explosive devices. The four detained suspects are due to testify before an investigating magistrate today in connection with two attacks – one on the Kolonaki home of opposition PASOK deputy Louka Katseli last Wednesday and another in July on the home of former Deputy Interior Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis in Palaio Faliro.

In a related development yesterday, Katseli clashed with the pre-election press spokesperson for ruling New Democracy over a comment the former is alleged to have made on her website describing the arrest of the four young terror suspects last week as "a pre-election trick." Katseli claimed that the statement had been uploaded onto her site by hackers. Earlier yesterday, ND spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos had said the statement was a testimony to "PASOK's nervousness." Meanwhile, forensic experts were examining explosives and arms fished out of the sea off Vouliagmeni. Divers retrieved a package containing hand grenades, shell launchers and detonators after an anonymous caller reported seeing someone dump a package into the sea. The material is believed to have been stolen from the army but no terrorist links have been established.

It is clear that Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is anti-capitalist and terrorist ochlarchist, and thus very authoritarian socialist, i.e. they are marxist leftwing extremists and thus not anarchists. Marxists/ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Thus, if so called "anarchists in Exarchia" are involved in Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, they are in reality marxists - and not anarchists. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for spreading this disinformation, breaking the Oslo Convention.

28.09.2009. Kathimerini reports: Police seek terror group links. Counterterrorism officers are investigating evidence gathered from suspected members of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire for possible links with the more brutal urban guerrilla group Sect of Revolutionaries, sources told Sunday's Kathimerini. A high-ranking Interior Ministry official, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that police operations are under way to look for any ties between the Sect of Revolutionaries and the four people arrested last week and another six still being sought. "There are indications that there are links between members of these two organizations," the source said. "It is possible that if the evidence is used correctly, the investigation will lead to more suspects and other organizations." The official revealed that police have been monitoring the movements of a group of 20 to 30 young people since July who they believed to be possible suspects in the murder of policeman Nektarios Savvas. Sect of Revolutionaries claimed the shooting.

Some of those who were being watched were among the 10 people now being linked to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Sources revealed that the house in the northeastern Athens suburb of Halandri – raided by police last week and where a device similar to that which exploded outside the home of PASOK MP Louka Katseli is said to have been found – had been under observation since June 2008 after its occupants were linked to an arson attack. Officers only moved in last week after a bag thrown into a dumpster outside the Halandri home was found to contain the remnants of components used to make an explosive device like the one that went off outside Katseli's home. The four people arrested – Harilaos Hatzimichelakis, Emmanouil Yiospas, Myrto Panteloglou and Panayiotis Masouras – deny being members of any terrorist group. It was revealed that several of the 10 suspects knew each other, as they went to the same private schools in Athens's affluent northern suburbs.

26.09.2009. Brown Card to to Kathimerini that reports: Terror probe widens as six more sought - Four original suspects to testify Tuesday. Four suspected members of a militant anarchist group believed to be responsible for dozens of bomb blasts over the past four years will remain in custody until Tuesday, when they are to defend themselves before an investigating magistrate on multiple crime and misdemeanor charges. A prosecutor yesterday identified the four suspected members of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire as Harilaos Hatzimichelakis, Emmanouil Yio-spas, Myrto Panteloglou and Panayiotis Masouras. The charges they face include participating in bomb attacks, membership in a criminal organization and the illegal possession of explosives and concern two bloodless attacks – one on the Kolonaki home of opposition PASOK deputy Louka Katseli on Wednesday and another in July that targeted the home of former Deputy Interior Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis in Palaio Faliro.

The attack on Hinofotis, for which Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire claimed responsibility at the time, was carried out using a bomb planted in a cooking pot, almost identical to a device used in the attack on Katseli's home and another, intact, device discovered at a house in the Athens district of Halandri which the group is believed to have used as a hideout. As police forensic experts continued to examine explosives and documents found at the Halandri property yesterday, sources said that they believed the group had maintained a second hideout in the district of Galatsi. It is thought that the bomb used in the attack on Katseli's home was manufactured at the Galatsi property, as police had been monitoring the Halandri residence for several weeks. Meanwhile, arrest warrants were issued for another six suspected members of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. These suspects were identified as Giorgos Nikolopoulos, Michalis Nikolopoulos, Damianos Balanos, Giorgos Karayiannidis, Eleni Contopoulou and Constantinos Karakatsanis. Police said yesterday that they had found the fingerprints of all six suspects in the Halandri hideout.

It is clear that Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is anti-capitalist and terrorist ochlarchist, and thus very authoritarian socialist, i.e. they are marxist leftwing extremists and thus not anarchists. Marxists/ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for spreading this disinformation, breaking the Oslo Convention.

25.09.2009. Brown Card to to Kathimerini that reports: Terror breakthrough for police - Four suspected members of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire face prosecutor after Athens blast. Four suspected members of a militant anarchist group believed to have organized Wednesday's bloodless attack on the central Athens home of an opposition PASOK deputy, and several other bomb blasts this year, faced a prosecutor yesterday. According to sources, police had been monitoring the suspects for months and had originally believed them to belong to the ranks of another militant group called Armed Revolutionary Action, best known for a tax office hit in Argyroupoli in 2007. But police said that evidence found after a raid on the home of two of the suspects in the northeastern Athens district of Halandri "indisputably" links them to a group called Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, which has become increasingly active over the past year. A homemade explosive device virtually identical to the one used in the bomb blast on the Kolonaki home of Louka Katseli on Wednesday was found in the Halandri house. Both devices had been deposited in cooking pots, as had been the case with a bomb that targeted the home of former Deputy Interior Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis in Palaio Faliro in July that was claimed by Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire.

The four suspects detained, aged between 19 and 21, are all unemployed but from well-to-do families, sources said. The two arrested at the Halandri apartment on Wednesday night were the 21-year-old nephew of the apartment's owner and his 20-year-old girlfriend. The other two were reportedly arrested in raids in Galatsi. The police raid on the Halandri property turned up a homemade time bomb along with quantities of explosives, timers and numerous written documents that police were analyzing yesterday. In what was seen as a protest at the arrest of the four terrorism suspects, a group of around 500 self-styled anarchists staged a rally in the central district of Exarchia late last night. At one point around 200 of them started throwing stones at a local police station and set fire to trash cans. No arrests or injuries were reported. It is clear that both Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and the so called "500 self-styled anarchists" are marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists and thus not anarchists. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for spreading this disinformation, breaking the Oslo Convention.

24.09.2009. Brown Card to to Kathimerini that reports: Thessaloniki ruling. A Thessaloniki court yesterday exonerated two young men charged with disturbing the peace after being arrested near the site of clashes last week between self-styled anarchists and students on the grounds of the city's Aristotle University. The court found one of the men guilty of charges of illegal arms possession, noting that he had been holding a club upon his arrest. Illegal arms possession is criminal, and thus ochlarchist. Thus the guilty is an ochlarchist and not anarchist. As far as IAT-APT knows, the so called "self-styled anarchists" participating in clashes were mainly not acting proportionate in self defense, and were thus ochlarchists - not anarchists. The only violence anarchists accept is violence, proportionate, in self defense. Other violence by humans is ochlarchist - not anarchist. Ochlarchist and anarchist are opposites. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for spreading this disinformation, breaking the Oslo Convention.

More about terror suspects detained after bomb blast. A raid last night on a house in the northeastern Athens district of Halandri that counterterrorism officers have been monitoring for months resulted in the arrest of four suspects that police believe might be responsible for a bomb planted at the central Athens home of a prominent opposition PASOK deputy earlier in the day, causing damage but no injuries. Police were last night said to be questioning a young couple found at the house in Halandri and two other young people arrested subsequently in connection with yesterday's blast outside the home of Louka Katseli, PASOK's shadow minister for finance. According to sources, officers seized explosives from the Halandri property. Sources told Kathimerini yesterday that counterterrorism police had been monitoring suspects and several houses in anticipation of a politically motivated attack ahead of the October 4 elections.

The bomb, which was placed outside the apartment block where Katseli lives in Kolonaki, central Athens, was described by police as being "of moderate strength." It had been deposited in a cooking pot and planted outside the apartment, which is located on heavily policed Tsakalov Street. Katseli, who is married to former PASOK Minister Gerasimos Arsenis, was not home at the time of the explosion. The cooking pot technique was used in July by Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchy group, when it targeted the home of former Deputy Interior Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis in Palaio Faliro. Unconfirmed reports yesterday said that cooking pots were seized in the Halandri house raid.

23.09.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis and the Canadian Press. Attack: Small bomb in Athens as election day approaches. In the run-up to Greece's early general election, a homemade bomb has exploded outside the home of a senior member of the opposition socialist party. No one was hurt in the blast in Athens. Greek police have detained four people suspected of taking part in a string of bomb attacks, hours after the device exploded, causing only minor damage. It comes the day after a key televised debate between the men vying for power. Socialist challenger George Papandreou outlined his plans to boost public spending to revive the country's flagging fortunes."We are talking about a different philosphy that will clean up and redistribute finances," he said. Arguing that Greece is suffering less from the financial crisis than other countries, conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis defended his record on the economy. Social programmes for the unemployed had been supported to the tune of more than three billion euros, he said.

Trailing in the opinion polls, the premier's performance and that of his rival failed to impress some of those watching. In an Athens coffee shop where he followed the debate, Alexandros Hadzalas said that actions not words count. "When I hear them talking to each other it is like a tennis match," he said. "They keep throwing the blame at each other. Every year it is the same, talk, talk, talk but nothing is ever done for the people." Initially holding up better than many other nations during the global downturn, Greece is now on the verge of recession as confidence and tourism slump.

Phantis and the Canadian Press report: Greece has a long history of domestic far-left terrorist violence, although authorities had believed the problem had diminished after the arrest of several members of the country's deadliest group, November 17, following a botched bombing in 2002. But attacks by far-left militants and anarchist groups have increased since December's police shooting of an Athens teenager that sparked days of the worst rioting Greece had seen in decades. Earlier this month, the far-left militant group Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for a Sept. 2 van bombing of the Athens Stock Exchange which caused serious damage and injured one person. The group issued a statement saying that attack was a warning to "large shareholders, golden boys and capitalists." No anarchists have been involved in bomb attacks in Greece. The terrorists are ochlarchists, mainly marxist leftwing extremist groups. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. The IAT-APT issues Brown Cards to Phantis and the Canadian Press for spreading this disinformation and breaking the Oslo Convention.

21.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini that reports: Thessaloniki clashes - Two men face trial this week. Two young men alleged to have participated in clashes last Friday between self-styled anarchists and students on the grounds of Thessaloniki's Aristotle University faced a prosecutor in the northern city on Saturday on charges of illegal arms possession and disturbing the peace. According to police, the two suspects, both 20, had been spotted in the area around the time of the clashes – which resulted in the injury of four students. Officers said one of the two men had been carrying a club. The two men were indicted to trial and are to appear before a Thessaloniki misdemeanors court on Wednesday. It is clear that the two suspects, if guilty, are ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention.

17.09.2009. Brown Cards to Panagis Vourloumis and Kathimerini. Panagis Vourloumis writes in Kathimerini: "Deal dynamically with anarchy, with immediate and strict punishment. The events of last December, the "university asylum" policy and many other things destroy our economy, scare off any foreign investors who are still here and force productive Greeks to move abroad." Anarchy is optimal order and should thus of course not be dealt with with punishment. Panagis Vorloumis is mixing up anarchy with ochlarchy. Anarchy and ochlarchy are opposites. The IAT-APT issues Brown Cards to Panagis Vourloumis and Kathimerini for breaking the Oslo Convention.

10.09.2009. Brown Cards to PM Karamanlis and Kathimerini. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday served up more of the straight talk that earned him plaudits following his speech at the launch of the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) last weekend, appealing to young New Democracy supporters in Athens to vote for ND next month "in the national interest" even if the party has disappointed them in the past. Karamanlis also appealed to disenchanted voters who might be leaning toward the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), pledging a review of the controversial institution of university asylum, exploited by suspected anarchists staging street battles with police during last December's riots in Athens. It is clear that groups staging street battles with police are ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. The IAT-APT issues Brown Cards to PM Karamanlis and Kathimerini for breaking the Oslo Convention.

07.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini, that reports: Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday defended his decision to call early elections next month saying it had been made "in the nation's best interests" and stressing that he would continue to lead his beleaguered conservative party even in the event of defeat at snap polls on October 4. A spokesman for PASOK condemned Karamanlis as "unrepentant" for the failure of his party's policies. "Citizens have no reason to give a third chance to Mr Karamanlis," said Giorgos Papaconstantinou. On the streets of Thessaloniki, thousands of citizens expressed their exasperation more actively. Around 7,000 people marched to protest the government's policies, while small groups of self-styled anarchists clashed with police and smashed bank facades. There was also unrest in Exarchia, central Athens. It is clear that groups that clashed with police and smashed bank facades are ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention.

05.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini, that reports: Unrest returns to Exarchia. Four young men arrested following clashes between police and suspected members of anarchist groups in the central district of Exarchia early yesterday were beaten by officers, the lawyers for the four defendants told Kathimerini, noting that one of the men had to be hospitalized for treatment. The unrest in Exarchia began at around 2 a.m. following the arrest of a 19-year-old alleged to have been spray-painting graffiti on a wall. Police said they were pelted with Molotov cocktails, stones and bottles by a group of youths, resulting in minor injuries to three officers. After calling for backup, members of the riot police squad and Delta rapid reaction force arrived to help them. In the end, they arrested four men, aged between 21 and 29. The men now face criminal charges due to the alleged use of Molotov cocktails but their lawyers insist that they were not involved in the attacks on officers. - It si clear that the group of youths that clashed with the police was a group of ochlarchists, and not anarchists! Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention.

Euronews reports: Terrorism - Greek bombers target stock exchange. Greece has been hit by two separate bombings. The biggest blast occurred outside the stock exchange in Athens early this morning. A telephone warning had been made to a newspaper beforehand. The area was evacuated, although one woman living nearby was slightly injured. At around the same time another bomb went off near a government building in Thessaloniki, causing minor damage to buildings but no injuries. The head of the Athens bourse which houses both the Greek and Cypriot stock exchanges, said despite the bombing today would be business as usual. No-one has yet claimed responsibility for either explosion. Leftist and anarchist groups have admitted carrying out several attacks against businesses and police and government offices since the police shooting of a teenager last December.

Reuters reports: TIMELINE - Bomb attacks in Greece. A car bomb blew up outside the Athens stock exchange on Wednesday, slightly injuring one woman, in what Greek police suspect was the latest attack by leftist or anarchist groups.

Here is a timeline of some major attacks in Greece over the last two years: Jan. 2007 - Guerrillas fire a grenade at the U.S. embassy in Athens, hitting its facade. April 2007 - Gunmen attack the Nea Ionia police station in Athens. In May, the Revolutionary Struggle group, which has emerged as Greece's most serious domestic security threat since the dismantling of the November 17 guerrilla group in 2002, claim responsibility for this and the January attack. Oct. 24, 2008 - An attempted bomb attack outside Royal Dutch Shell's headquarters in the south of Athens, fails. The Revolutionary Struggle group later claim responsibility. Jan. 5, 2009 - Weeks after the police shooting of a teenager in Dec. 2008, gunmen linked to the Revolutionary Struggle seriously wound a 21-year-old policeman guarding the Culture Ministry in Athens. They said it was in revenge for the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Feb. 3 - Left-wing guerrillas from the Rebel Sect group fire shots and throw a grenade at a police station in Athens. A fortnight later, gunmen fire at least a dozen shots outside a private TV station, without injuring anyone in either attack. March 4 - Arsonists throw gas canisters and firebombs causing a fire which seriously damages the Piraeus Bank branch in the northern Athens suburb of New Psychico. March 11 - Revolutionary Struggle claim it was behind two bomb attacks at Citibank branches in Athens. One attack was outside the headquarters on Feb. 18 and the other, a bomb that went off outside a Citibank branch in Athens on March 10. March 13 - A bomb explodes about 250 metres from Athens central police headquarters, causing serious damage to a state building and shops but no injuries. The leftist urban guerrilla group Popular Will later claims responsibility. May 12 - A powerful bomb wrecks a Greek Eurobank branch in the outskirts of Athens. There are no injuries. May 20 - A time bomb goes off outside the office of a Greek investment company, damaging three floors of the central Athens building. Popular Will says it planted the bomb. May 19 - Two small time bombs explode at Greek police stations under construction, causing minor damage but no injuries. The leftist group Fire Conspiracy Cells later claims responsibility. June 17 - A Greek anti-terrorism policeman is killed in Athens. He was shot several times at close range. On June 22, the far-left Rebel Sect urban guerrilla group claim the killing. July 11 - A bomb explodes at the entrance to the home of former deputy minister Panagiotis Hinofotis in southern Athens, causing damage but no injuries. The Fire Conspiracy Cells group later claims responsibility.

Sept 2 - The Athens bourse is struck by a bomb causing extensive damage, but it opens for trading at the usual time. -- A home-made bomb explodes outside a government building in the northern city of Thessaloniki, causing minor damage.

All bomb attacks mentioned in Reuters' historical note were done by marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchy groups, and not by anarchists. Practically certain the 02.09.2009 bomb attacks also were done by marxist leftwingers, and not anarchists. Greek Police, Euronews, Reuters and other media with similar reports get Brown Cards from IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention and spreading this disinformation.

28.08.2009. Hunger strike. 'Rioter' free after 49-day protest. Theodoros Iliopoulos, the only person remanded in custody after last December's riots in Athens, was released from temporary detention yesterday following 49 days on hunger strike. A misdemeanors council approved the release of the 29-year-old who had lodged two appeals for his release. Iliopoulos, who was last week transferred to the intensive-care unit of an Athens hospital, was said to be in an extremely fragile but stable condition. Theodoros Iliopoulos is not an anarchist.

27.08.2009. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini, that writes "'Unknown Hooligan' explained'. Appropriating the visual symbolism of the hooded sweater - the uniform of the millennium's miscreants, the bust makes references to the December 2008 Greek riots, the "known-unknowns", the self-styled anarchists, and more specifically, the UK's ASBO (Anti-Social Behavior Order) generation of hooded youths, a social issue that reached boiling point when one shopping mall banned hooded sweaters in 2005, a move that encouraged other shopping venues to follow suit." It is clear that "unknown hooded hooligans" are ochlarchists, not anarchists. Furthermore Kathimerini writes "One of the peculiarities of the Greek political system is that it is not democratic, i.e. there are no rules that have to be respected by all and at all times. It has a touch of anarchy that reflects the Greeks' penchant for such a society." The truth is that Greece has a semi-democratic populist economic-political system with a clear tendency - "touch of" - ochlarchy, not anarchy. The Greek systen is thus far from anarchy and anarchism. The rightwing extremist liberalist paper Kathimerini gets a new dark Brown Card from IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention, for spreading this disinformation.

12.08.2009. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini, that writes "Hatzakis's take on 'The Birds' set to open at Epidaurus. A story mixing elements of utopia, anarchy and loss goes on stage this week, with Sotiris Hatzakis directing Aristophanes' "Birds." It is clear from Aristophanes' play that it is a story mixing up elements of utopia, ochlarchy - not anarchy, and loss. Anarchy is found, say, in Norway, and the system is significantly not ochlarchist. Thus, the rightwing extremist liberalist, economical plutarchist paper Kathimerini is breaking the Oslo Convention, falsely mixing up the opposites ochlarchy and anarchy, and gets a new dark Brown Card. The Brown Card is also for Kathimerini's/Nikos Konstandaras' breaking of the Oslo Convention, mixing up ochlarchy and anarchy, 02.02.2009, falsely postulating: "The most dramatic instance of the phenomenon occurred in 1997. An entire country – Albania – collapsed in violent anarchy when it was revealed that the whole nation had fallen victim to a number of pyramid schemes." It was ochlarchy - not anarchy, in Albania at that time. The Brown Card is also for Kathimerini's/Sergey Stanishev's breaking of the Oslo Convention, mixing up ochlarchy and anarchy, 03.07.2009, falsely postulating: "There are a number of post-election scenarios. The worst would be anarchy amid crisis [in Bulgaria]."

07.08.2009. Another new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini. The rightwing extremist liberalist paper Kathimerini falsely calls the violent ochlarchy in December 2008 "last December's anarchist rampage" and gets another new dark Brown Card from IAT-APT, for breaking the Oslo Convention. The Brown Card is also for Kathimerini's breaking of the Oslo Conventionen 03.08.2009, falsely postulating "a group of around 10 self-styled anarchists hurled Molotov cocktails and flares at a riot police unit in the central Athens district of Exarchia early on Saturday". No anarchists were involved. It was marxist leftwing extremists ochlarcists that hurled Molotov cocktails, not anarchists. Noboby should believe the economical plutarchist lie-machine Kathimerini.

27.07.2009. Brown Card to Greek police. Terrorists proclaim links to the past. The members of the terrorist group Sect of Revolutionaries, which claimed the murder of an anti-terrorist officer, see themselves as the successors of the most extreme elements of the Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA), one of the largest urban guerrilla groups ever to operate in Greece, according to officers who have been analyzing a proclamation published in Ta Nea newspaper 24.06.2009. References to fringe groups, which experts believe made up the most extreme wing of ELA, suggest that the members of the Sect of Revolutionaries believe they are continuing ELA's work. "We do not seek their historical justification but to continue and surpass what they achieved," the proclamation read. ELA was formed in 1971 in opposition to the military junta but carried on committing terrorist acts until 1995. Nektarios Savvas, the officer killed, was guarding a female witness in the appeals hearing of convicted members of the group. The proclamation warned that if she continued to give evidence or if "she continues with her delusions and lies," as the proclamation put it, the terrorists would "pull out her tongue at the root." The proclamation threatened the same action against anyone else testifying in the case and said that it would treat any witnesses to last week's shooting as targets. Sources said that officers believe the members of the Sect of Revolutionaries are Exarchia-based anarchists who have swapped Molotov cocktails for guns. In their proclamation, they make no attempt to justify their actions politically, instead presenting terrorism as an end in itself. "We are realists and we are happy that we do not have to defend the vision and hope for a better world," they said in their message. Investigations by anarchists conclude that Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA) was a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchy group with no links to anarchism or anarchists, and that Sect of Revolutionaries is the "same shit in new wrapping", and has no links to anarchism or anarchists. The Greek police gets a Brown Card for spreading this disinformation, falsely postulating that anarchists are involved in Sect of Revolutionaries. Anarchist aims and means do not include terrorism. The only violence anarchists accept is violence, proportionate, in self defense.

19.07.2009. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini. Marxist leftwing extremist group claims bombing. The militant marxist group "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire" Friday claimed responsibility for a bomb attack last Saturday on the Athens home of a former deputy minister and warned the newly appointed National Intelligence Service (EYP) chief that he could be the next target. In a proclamation posted on the Internet, the group – whose previous actions had been confined to gas canister attacks on police and government targets – described Saturday's attack in great detail, including how the explosive device was planted in the backyard of the home of former Deputy Interior Minister Panayiotis Hinofotis in Palaio Faliro, and providing insights into how the 2-kilo bomb was made, including details about its wiring. The statement added that the attack, which caused no injuries, was a follow-up to last December's unrest triggered by the police killing of a teenager in the central Athens district of Exarchia. It noted that Hinofitis had been in office at the time and had targeted "revolutionary groups." The group added that it would continue with its action and warned of an attack on Dimitris Papangelopoulos, recently appointed as head of EYP, whose home they had targeted in February when he had been a prosecutor. Police expressed concern that the "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire" had "graduated" to a full-blown terrorist group. "We had expected an escalation of the group's actions following its gas canister bomb attacks on two buildings in Attica and Thessaloniki where new police divisions were to be set up," a source at the police's counterterrorism department said. He expressed fears that the group's knowledge of bomb-making techniques suggested links with more established terrorist groups. Kathimerini 18.07.2009 falsely calls the marxist leftwing extremist terrorist group "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire", "anarchist", and gets a new deep Brown Card, from IAT-APT. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack.

01.07.2009. Report claims police abuse. Those held in Greek jails and detention centers "run a considerable risk of being mistreated," according to a report by the Council of Europe's anti-torture committee that notes several instances of alleged police brutality against detainees and highlights immigrants as particularly vulnerable. According to the committee, which published its report yesterday, detainees at police stations around the country claim to have been beaten by officers wielding clubs. One migrant detained at a police station in Thessaloniki claimed to have been threatened with a hot poker by officers. Another detainee claimed to have been forced to undress before being beaten and humiliated by officers. Responding to the report, the Foreign Ministry contested the findings and stressed that all allegations of improper behavior by police officers are "thoroughly investigated."

24.06.2009. Another new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini. A 32-year-old ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchist, falsely called "self-styled anarchist"by Kathimerini, who is reported to have claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of a special guard outside the British attache's residence in the northern suburb of Kifissia on New Year's Eve in 2004 was remanded in custody yesterday after testifying before an investigating magistrate. The suspect faces murder charges. The rightwing extremist liberalist paper Kathimerini gets a new dark Brown Card from IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention, for spreading this disinformation.

23.06.2008. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini. Group claims police hit. Sect of Revolutionaries behind fatal shooting in Athens of witness protection officer. The militant left-wing group Sect of Revolutionaries claimed responsibility for last Wednesday's killing of a witness protection police officer in a proclamation published yesterday in daily newspaper Ta Nea. "We will strike again at all mechanisms of domination, at institutions and their representatives," the group said in an extract from the proclamation submitted to the newspaper in the form of a CD-ROM. The claim confirms conclusions drawn by police ballistics experts linking cartridge cases found at the scene of the shooting in the Athens district of Patissia to a 9-millimeter pistol used in two attacks by Sect of Revolutionaries in February when the group first appeared. In a proclamation issued by the militants after its first attack on the Korydallos police station, the group had expressed fierce contempt for police officers and warned that they would henceforth be a target.

Police said that a probe into the fatal shooting of 41-year-old Nektarios Savvas, who had been in an unmarked car guarding the home of a witness in a terrorism trial when he was shot 20 times by two gunmen, had yielded some leads but not necessarily useful ones. Officers have established that an unidentified individual believed to have been an accomplice to the two gunmen had sent a mobile text message to the perpetrators to inform them when Savvas had been due to start his shift. The problem is that the text was sent from a prepaid mobile telephone whose owner would not have been obliged to divulge personal details. In any case, officers regard it as highly unlikely that the same phone will be used again.

In a related development, police are said to be questioning the credibility of another claim of responsibility, by "known anarchist Nikos Kountardas", as Kathimerini falsely postulates, regarding the fatal shooting of a special guard outside the British attache's residence in 2004. Officers are said to be skeptical about Kountardas's claim to have killed Haralambos Amanatidis with the help of an accomplice who is now dead. Police are looking into cases of recently deceased "anarchists" to see whether they shed any further light on Kountardas's claims. Nikos Kountarda is not an anarchist, but an ultra-authoritarian, marxist leftwing extremist ochlarch, and the rightwing extremist liberalist paper Kathimerini gets a new dark Brown Card from IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention, for spreading this disinformation.

12.06.2009. Korkoneas faces charges of murder. Police trial. Two indicted over teen shooting. The two police special guards who were involved in the incident that led to the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos last December, were indicted to stand trial on murder charges. Epaminondas Korkoneas, who shot the teenager, faces charges of murder with malice aforethought. He claims the bullet that killed the teenager was fired as a warning and ricocheted. Vassilis Saraliotis, who had been on duty with Korkoneas, is charged with being an accomplice to murder. No trial date was announced.

The two special guards accused of murdering the 15 year sold student Alexandros Grigoropoulos who was shot in cold blood in December in Athens city center Exarceia are going to stand trial on felony charges. The special guard who shot the student is going to stand trial for homicide while his colleague who was present during the shooting is accused of accessory to homicide. The two police officers are detained before trial. "Athens Mmisdemeanours Court confirmed what the victims' family claimed that this was a criminal act, contradicting that way the accused's provocative claims" the defendant of the victims' family Dimitris Tsovolas said.

08.06.2009 and beyond. PASOK wins Euro election in lowest poll turnout ever. Sizable defeat for New Democracy, as almost one in two voters stays away. The results coming in last night from the European parliamentary elections dealt a blow to the government but also indicated voter apathy on a scale never seen before in Greece. Drassi, the Action party, did not get enough votes to join the EU parliament. Apathy, combined with 100% futile marxist leftwing extremist violence from a very small minority [about 300 - 500 persons] of ochlarchs and no action from the people, grassroots, is the situation in Greece. The anarchists, i.e. not marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs falsely posing as "anarchists", are disorganized and passive, afraid of getting mixed up with ochlarchists. We see no reason to report daily about marginal actions by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs, including hoodies, vandals and terrorists. The anarchists condemn hoodies' attacks, vandalism, arson attacks and terrorism, i.e. ochlarchy, now and in the future. We will report when something important happens, i.e. non-ochlarchical mass demonstrations and dialog. The Greek revolt has been degenerated from the start, and at the moment it is totally dead and degenerated. IAT-APT will hand out Brown Cards when needed...

07.06.2009. Vote for Drassi today, meanwhile 18.00 vegan kitchen + view, Athens. Attack on Patras station. A group of hooded youths threw six Molotov cocktails at a police station in Patras early Sunday, causing minor damage but no injuries. The police station came under attack at about 5.30 a.m. The firebombs damaged the road surface, but the fire did not spread to the building nor the cars parked there. The assailants sped off on motorcycles. No arrests were made. Thus significant ochlarchy Sunday. The anarchists condemn the attack.

06.06.2009. Vote for Drassi tomorrow, gathering, discussion and concert, etc. The anarchists once more urge all libertarians to vote for Drassi, the Action party in the EU parliament election Sunday 07.06.2009. 13.00 leftwing extremist solidarity gathering for N. Kountarda, Athens, 18.00 party and concert, Athens, 19.00 lecture-discussion, Thessaloniki, concert, Thessaloniki, "anti" concert, Xalandri, Theater Rematia, 21.00 live in Mytilini, Spiral, Indico, Ntestoi, etc., Mytilini, 6/12/08 - 6/6/09, Athens.

05.06.2009. The anarchists declare: After 25 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction and is degenerated. From the start it was degenerated by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Meanwhile: Festival and concerts, etc. 19.00 painting exhibition assistance, Athens, 20.30 3 days documentary festival (Rodos), 21.00 leftwing extremist "live against elections"; concert assistance, Athens. The anarchists once more call on all libertarians to vote for Drassi - The Action party, in the EU parliament election Sunday 07.06.2009.

The rightwing extremist liberalist paper Kathimerini still calls marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs "anarchists"and gets a new dark Brown Card, from IAT-APT according to the Oslo Convention.

Bomb attack. A group called Armed Revolutionary Action claimed responsibility for setting off a bomb outside a tax office in the northern Athens suburb of Psychico Friday. The explosion occurred at 2.55 a.m., 10 minutes after an anonymous caller rang the Eleftherotypia newspaper and warned that a device had been planted at the tax office. This gave police the opportunity to stop traffic on Kifissias Avenue, but the blast was relatively minor and caused little damage. Officers said that not all of the 500 grams of explosive material that had been placed inside a cooking pot had gone off. Armed Revolutionary Action has claimed similar small blasts in the past.

Hania explosion. A small explosive device went off outside a travel agency near Hania on Crete early yesterday, but caused more damage to a neighboring house rather than the business, police said. The explosion occurred at 1.40 a.m. and led to all the windows in the house next to the travel agency being smashed. The elderly couple living in the house was not injured. Police did not suggest a motive for the attack. Thus significant ochlarchy Friday. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.

SYRIZA hammered. Assailants destroyed a stand belonging to the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) using a sledgehammer in the Cretan city of Hania early yesterday. SYRIZA officials claimed the leftist party was singled out, as the adjacent stands of two other parties were left untouched.

04.06.2009. Firebombs, attacks on banks and stands, protests and meetings, etc. 09.00 collection of solidarity to the imprisoned of the uprising, Athens, Evelpidon Courts, 12.00 leading solidarity for the persecuted of December, Larissa, 13.00 publicity documentary - the occupation (the take), Athens, 14.00 general assembly of the SSM, Athens, 15.00 information for N. Kountarda, Thessaloniki, 17.30 discussion: elections, politics & "anarchy" in the "aftermath" of December, Athens, 18.00 Microphone for Gkoilioni, Kountarda, Thessaloniki, 19.00 painting exhibition assistance, Athens, workshop, Thessaloniki, extraordinary meeting, Athens, 19.30 concert "Under the hands of the asylum", Rhodes, by solidarity in custody Kountarda +, Volos, 20.00 book-view-update for the Zapatistas, occupation Lela Karagianni 37, in favor of abstinence collection, Thessaloniki, call for solidarity in the custody of the uprising, Athens, 21.00 view: "Howls moving castle" of Hayao Miyazaki, Athens, event, Athens.

Hunger strike fuels attacks. A man suspected of taking part in a vicious attack on a former union leader as well as torching banks has gone on hunger strike to protest his detention, which, in turn, has led to marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs committing acts of vandalism in sympathy with his plight. Doctors at the Nikaia General Hospital near Piraeus said that the health of Nikos Kountardas is in danger. He went on hunger strike on May 16 and has at times refused to drink water as well. Kountardas was remanded in custody after breaking the terms of his bail, which he denies. The 31-year-old had been held for 17 months in connection with a violent attack on the head of the GSEE umbrella union, Christos Polyzogopoulos, in January 2006. However, he was released on bail pending his trial in October. A group calling itself the Morning Sabotage Team damaged the stands of six political parties in the central Athens neighborhood of Ano Patissia early Thursday. According to a statement posted on the Internet, the attack was an act of solidarity with Kountardas.

Banks torched. Three banks in different parts of Athens were damaged by incendiary devices in a period of about 20 minutes early yesterday. Police said that the devices went off outside a branch of Millennium Bank in Palaio Faliron, southern Athens, Alpha Bank in Maroussi, northern Athens, and Aspis Bank in Halandri, northeastern Athens. The attacks occurred between 1.03 a.m. and 1.25 a.m. The blasts caused minor damage but no injuries.

Police firebombed. A group of about 10 people wearing hoods threw Molotov cocktails at a police station in the northern Athens suburb of Melissia early Thursday. Nobody was hurt in the incident but six cars were seriously damaged. The guard on duty fired warning shots into the air, while another officer threw two stun grenades in an attempt to deter the assailants. Some of the attackers escaped on foot while others rode off on motorcycles.

Thus significant ochlarchy Thursday. The anarchists condemn the Morning Sabotage Team, the attacks on banks and the hoodies attack.

03.06.2009. Arson attacks, meetings, etc. 09.00 gather in solidarity, 12.00 event, 13.00 call for an open assembly, 18.00 leftwing extremist statement of solidarity for the prisoners of the insurgency, Athens, 19.00 painting exhibition assistance, Athens, to create self-servers and other club, Thessaloniki, 19.30 debate of "Fortress Europe", 20.00 leftwing extremist rebels open meeting for solidarity, Athens, 20.00 leftist event-discussion on military denial; documentaries, an Albanian example gender, Salonika, 20.30 against the high concentration of radiation of mobile antennas, Athens, 21.00 call of solidarity in Sofia Pride, Athens, assembly to come hungry related to Nick Kountarda, Athens, 22.00 "Coralline, house in the fog", Athens.

Arsonists set fire early Wednesday to the stand that had been set up in central Athens by the leftist party ANT.AR.SYA. The small communist party is taking part in the European parliamentary election on Sunday. Assailants doused the kiosk with a flammable liquid and then set it alight. The stand was completely destroyed but nobody was injured.

A group of some 20 people forced their way into the Athens Technical College and attacked two teachers before daubing slogans on the walls. They were protesting a decision to put several marxist leftwing extremists on trial.

Thessaloniki arsonists. Two cars belonging to Thessaloniki's municipal TV station and another two vehicles of OTE telecoms were severely damaged by arsonists in the northern city early Wednesday. Authorities said that that 10 cooking gas canisters had been placed under the cars of the TV 100 station in an attack that occurred at about 4 a.m. A couple of hours earlier, assailants threw a flammable liquid over the two OTE cars. Both incidents occurred in the Sykies area of Thessaloniki. Thus, significant ochlarchy Wednesday. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.

02.06.2009. Nazi attack, strike, hoodies attack, debate and assembly, etc. 00.00 microphone solidarity for those arrested, Athens, 15.00 update-debate on the new plans for Ymittos, Athens, 17.30 concentration against elections, Athens, the anarchists are against election boycott: Vote for Drassi - the Action Party. 18.00 open democratic convention - Agios Dimitrios, Athens, 19.00 painting exhibition assistance, Athens, workshop, Thessaloniki, 20.00 assembly workers / unemployed / student media, Athens.

Municipal strike. The union of municipal workers (POE-OTA) decided Tuesday that its members will go on strike from 11 a.m. until the end of their shift next Wednesday, June 10. Municipalities will shut down as a result of the employees demanding permanent jobs and that cleaning and hygiene work not be contracted out to private companies.

Hoodies attack. Seven hooded assailants threw Molotov cocktails and paint at the guard posts outside the Secretariat General for Information and Communication in Neos Cosmos, near central Athens, Tuesday. The attack, which occurred at about 4 p.m., led to one guard post being destroyed but no injuries.

Nazis target Athens event. Members of the ultranationalist Chryssi Avgi group disrupted the presentation on Tuesday night of the "Modern Greek-Macedonian Dictionary" organized by the Rainbow organization at the Foreign Press Association in central Athens.

Thus, significant ochlarchy Tuesday. The anarchists condemn the nazi and hoodies attacks.

01.06.2009. Firebombs, debate, etc. 12.30 Microphone solidarity to the prisoners revolt, Athens, Pl. Kapnikareas, Hermes, 19.00 painting exhibition assistance, Athens, event-policy debate, 19,30 outside the EU ... Patras.

Firebombs. Arsonists planted gas canister bombs under two parked cars on a central Thessaloniki street early Monday, resulting in damage but no injuries. The fire caused by the blasts destroyed both vehicles, one of which reportedly belonged to a TV channel. Thus, significant ochlarchy Monday. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.

Arson trial. A council of judges in Thessaloniki Monday decided to send to trial a 27-year-old man caught while allegedly placing an incendiary device outside the premises of the city's municipal police headquarters in January. Police said they caught the suspect red-handed but an accomplice got away. The 27-year-old has also been accused of carrying out several arson attacks in Thessaloniki.

31.05.2009. Vote for Drassi - Action, at the European Parliament election June 7. The anarchists call on all Greeks with a libertarian tendency to join the party Drassi - Action, and vote for it at the European Parliament election June 7. The main activist in Drassi - Action, Stephanos Manos, 69, said his centrist Drassi Party would participate in the European Parliament elections. He launched Drassi — which means "action" in Greek — in the wake of the massive riots in December, and as Greece's economic growth declines and its unemployment rates rise. "The financial crisis has added to all other crises — there is a feeling of insecurity and the general feeling that (crimes) are not brought to justice," Manos said. As the anarchists, Manos has criticized the current conservative government, as well as the opposition Socialists, who governed Greece for all by three years between 1981 and 2004. "The government does not want to respond. It's not even listening," he said. "The first step is to take part in the European elections — to get our foot in the door."

Manos, Harvard-educated, served as finance minister in 1992-93. He later formed a conservative splinter party that made little impact before he sided with the Socialists as an independent member of parliament. Drassi has won endorsements from among others several Greek academics and veteran politicians, and aims to target a growing number of undecided and dissatisfied voters — more than 10 percent of Greeks according to opinion polls. Manos said his party had not yet outlined its main policies or chosen its leadership. As anarchism is the progressive middle on the economic-political map, this is interesting, the anarchists say: Greece certainly need som action, i.e. a movement of the societal organization in horizontal direction! Manos should listen to the anarchists when outlining the policy! Greece does not need another populist, liberalist, or a marxist - state-socialist - party. Greece needs a social-individualist party, that can function as a voice of the people, seen as a class in contrast to the superiors in rank and/or income - in public and private sector, i.e. a party with strong democratic connection with the people, working from the people and upwards, significantly horizontally - and not vertically - organized! We call on Action/Drassi to make a policy similar to the mainly social-individualist parties, the centrist Left/Venstre and the significantly rural- and agrar-socialist Centerparty/Senterpartiet in Norway, that have anarchist support as the most libertarian parties.

Meanwhile: Festivals, labor convention, etc. 00.00 4th Balkan "anarchist" Book Festival, Athens, 11.00 against concentration camps for immigrants, Marousi, 12.00 International Festival anti BFEST: discussions-workshops, Athens, 16.00 film musictheatre & illustration, Heraklion, Crete, 17.00 screenings at BFEST, Athens, call to tour and assembly etc., Athens, 18.30 solidarity events for immigrants, Athens, 19.00 painting exhibition assistance, Athens, labor convention, Athens, 20.00 extraordinary meeting, Athens, 21.00 International Festival anti BFEST: concerts-theater Athens, view documentary: "The Race", Thessaloniki, cinema: "In the snow", Sotiris Goritsas, Athens, film promotion of "Libertarias", Athens, viewing of the film, Thessaloniki, 21.30 celebrations for immigrants welfare, Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

30.05.2009. Actions, festivals, meetings, etc. 09.00 day of action for mental health 30 May 2009, 11.00 course, 9th proceedings and progress against prosecution for December, Volos, 11.30 celebration, Volos, 12.00 event regarding European, Athens, gratuitous bazaar & open conversation with seeds and Sid, mobilizing hourly rates, Athens, microphone, 13.00 concentration in solidarity - hunger strikers-thirsty - N. Kountarda, Athens, 16.00 screenings at BFEST, 17.00 International Festival anti BFEST: discussions-workshops, Athens, 18.00 Agros events, Athens, update - discussion, Heraklion, Crete, undo 2009, Thessaloniki, event: immigrants, Chania, 18.30 Festival Maydays 2009, Heraklion, discussion of event-vet, Volos, 19.00 special: trade unions and themselves, Thessaloniki, 4th Balkan "anarchist" Book Festival, Athens, painting exhibition assistance, Athens, self-education - open call, Athens, appeals 2009, Patras, emission (radiozones subversive expression), 19.30 political-cultural events, Athens, event 09, Athens, 20.00 solidarity concert, Chania, Crete, concert party, Athens, undo 2009, Thessaloniki, a part of the campaign for a school in Gaza, Pothia, Kalimnos, illness and policies of the college, Thessaloniki, 21.00 International Festival anti BFEST: Concerts, Athens, cinema: Correction of Thanos Anastopoulos, Athens, concert, Xanthi, 21.30 party alternative vision of football in society, Athens, 22.00 concert, Heraklion, Crete, 22.00 undo 2009, Thessaloniki.

29.5.2009. The anarchists declare: After 24 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction and is degenerated. From the start it was degenerated by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Meanwhile: 17.00 International Festival of anti BFEST: discussions-workshops, Athens, 18.00 drama, Heraklion, Crete, 4th Balkan "anarchic" Book Festival, Athens, undo 2009, Thessaloniki, antiracist rally and demonstration, Athens, ahead! Patra, 18.30 screenings at BFEST, Athens, Festival Maydays 2009 Heraklion, 19.00 video & discussion, Heraklion, Crete, 19.00 three film festivals for the homeless of the world, Athens, painting exhibition assistance, Athens, appeals 2009, Patras, open meeting unregulated, Athens, great event for Giona, Athens, event for Niko Kountarda, 19.30 political-cultural events, Athens, 20.00 undo 2009, Thessaloniki, presentation book discussion, Thessaloniki, gratuitous bazaar, theatrical carryings, workshop dialogue/discussion, Tripoli, book-view-update for the Zapatistas, Athens, screening of "An underground world" of E-Petropoulos , Halandri, 3rd view - documentary "Football frontline", Athens, 20.30 debate: crisis of capitalism - "What it means to live", Athens, aid concert, Volos, film "Bird", Athens, view Elias Petropoulos, Chalandri, 21.00 International anti Festival: Concerts, Athens, view: "Kicking it", Susan Koch and Jeff Werner, Athens, 21.30 live, Thessaloniki, 22.30 undo 2009, Thessaloniki.

Migrants take to the streets again. Immigrants holding banners saying "Stop racist attacks; no to Islamophobia" staged a passionate but largely peaceful demonstration in central Athens Friday. The rally came exactly a week after a similar demonstration degenerated into violence when a small group of protesters vandalized storefronts and traffic lights and clashed with riot police. Hundreds of immigrants and leftist sympathizers took part in the anti-racism rally in central Athens. Clusters of riot police had been stationed around the city center yesterday due to fears that the migrants would clash with some 250 far-rightists who staged their own demonstration a couple of blocks away near the Athens Cathedral in protest at the growing influx of immigrants into the capital. By late last night, there had been no reports of any clashes between the two groups. One minor scuffle reportedly broke out between some migrant protesters who wanted the rally to end and others who wanted it to continue. There were reports of some minor damage to a couple of storefronts but it was unclear whether this was the work of migrant protesters or leftists who joined the rally. Organizations representing the country's immigrants did not participate in yesterday's demonstration, saying that they did not want to fuel tensions or have their members branded as troublemakers. "We do not want the presence of immigrants in Aghios Panteleimonas to be linked with outbreaks of violence in the center of the capital which is also our city," the Muslim Union of Greece said in a statement, referring to a central Athens district with a large immigrant population. In its statement, the union also reiterated its calls for the creation of a mosque for the capital's Muslims, something authorities promised years ago but have failed to make good on following protests by the Orthodox Church and residents at the proposed locations. Thus, no reports of significant ochlarchy Friday.

28.05.2009. Festival and other events. 16.00 call to Piraeus, 17.00 International anti Festival: political debates-workshops, Athens, 18.00 course, Heraklion, Crete, course, Lions, event, Chania, view documentary: "How to understand ...", 18.30 Screenings at BFEST, Athens, progress against the new repressive measures and for democratic rights, Thessaloniki, 19.00 4th Balkan "anarchist" Book Festival, Thessaloniki, painting exhibition assistance, Athens, gender relations and social oppression; Athens, 19.30 by solidarity, Volos, 20.00 hunger strike, law, Kountarda, Athens, 21.00 International Festival anti BFEST: Concerts, Athens, view information on the KYT Ilioupoli, Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy Thursday.

27.05.2009. Festival, protests, etc. 09.00 trial, Athens, 10.00 event about "not criminalize", Xanthi, 17.00 International Festival anti BFEST: Discussion Workshop, Athens, 18.30 screenings at BFEST, Athens, collection of protest on the estate Kaba, 19.00 4th "anarchic" Balkan Book Festival, Thessaloniki, painting exhibition assistance, Athens, rebels open meeting for solidarity, Athens, waitresses / organized, Thessaloniki, anti event - concert immigrants - projections, Thessaloniki, next meeting to meeting residents Chalandri ADS, 20.30 promotion & information on the social resistance to Giona, Cyprus Patission Park, promotion and information for Giona, Athens, 21.00 International Festival anti BFEST: Concerts, Athens, Concerts at 21.30 bfestival, Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

26.05.2009. Bomb blast, camp vandalized, assembly, etc. 18.30 marketing to the Town Hall, Zografou, 19.00 exhibition assistance, Athens, 20.00 assembly workers / unemployed / student media, Athens, 20.30 teachers seminar, French Campus, 21.00 Film: "The International", Thessaloniki.

Bomb blast. An explosive device believed to comprise a significant quantity of dynamite detonated early Tuesday at a gas station in Aspropyrgos, northwest of Athens, causing limited damage as the fuel tanks on the site remained intact. Officers of Attica's extortion department said they thought the attack was an attempt to settle accounts.

Camp vandalized. Unidentified vandals caused serious damage to a children's summer camp, run by the Orthodox Church, in the Cretan prefecture of Hania, after raiding the premises late on Tuesday evening. The intruders spray-painted the walls of the camp, vandalized furniture and stole some children's toys. Thus, significant ochlarchy Tuesday. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and vandalism.

Police attacks. Fringe groups claim raids. Two marxist leftwing extremist organizations, calling themselves the Nihilist Splinter Group and the Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire, Tuesday claimed responsibility for two recent arson attacks on buildings in Athens and Thessaloniki destined to accommodate new police stations. Both attacks caused damage but no injuries.

25.05.2009. Campus attack, meetings, etc. 12.30 solidarity actions for Kountarda, Athens, 13.00 press conference for the political persecution in Xanthi, 18.00 meeting for action in support of Nikos Kountarda, Athens, 19.00 painting exhibition assistance, Athens, 20.00 Updated discussion for the custody of the uprising, Athens, 20.30 Bradia review by EPOS, Athens.

Campus attack. Thessaloniki student in hospital. A 22-year-old student was recovering in a Thessaloniki hospital yesterday after being mugged by four unidentified assailants in the early hours on the main campus of the northern city's Aristotle University. The victim said he was robbed of his wallet, which contained cash and several important personal documents, and beaten by the four men. Doctors did not say yesterday how serious his injuries were. Thus significant ochlarchy Monday. The anarchists condemn the campus attack.

24.05.2009. Actions and assemblies, etc. 08.30 "makronisos", 11.00 Agros events, Athens, antennas mobile murder, Thessaloniki, 14.00 meeting, Thessalonik, 15.00 event for wide path, Xanthi, 16.00 call to tour and assembly in the field Areos, Athens, 17.00 event against repression, Xanthi, day of actions on the hill Finopoulou, Athens, 18.30 assembly initiative translators - curators, Athens, 18.30 we continue with actions for Ymittos, 19.00 two-day solidarity event for Konstantina Kuneva, Athens, Upper Petralona, open meeting precariously workers, Athens, 21.00 open general assembly Nosotros, Athens, film: "Mondays in sunshine", Thessaloniki, start of the film festival groups, Thessaloniki, 21.00 film "Boemiki life", Athens.

In an open letter published on Sunday, the Muslim Union of Greece said that any Muslims involved in violence or looting brought shame upon their community. No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

23.05.2009. Arson attack, solidarity and other actions, etc. 12.00 action to rescue the Ymittos, Athens, actions against the city exclusion, Thessaloniki, freedom to Elias, Kozani, concentration in solidarity with Niko Kountarda, Athens, all-day event, Athens, 16.00 free radio and independent music, Thessaloniki, 18.00 two-day solidarity for Konstantina Kuneva, Athens, events Agros, Athens, 19.00 event discussion with Stergios Katsaros in Larissa, European Union and work, Athens, assembly, Athens, convention on the subject of Niko Kountarda - convention on the law Kountarda, Athens, event-debate - state repression, Xanthi, 19.30 antennas mobile murder, Thessaloniki, 21.00 report group camera photography, Athens, Wolfy Funk Project - live, Athens, 23.00 S.O.S. Pentagon urged Moscow , Athens.

Tension in Athens stoked up. Makeshift mosque near center set on fire following migrant protest over Quran 'defacing' on Friday. Five people were injured in an arson attack on a makeshift mosque early on Saturday, in an incident that seemed to be a result of the clashes in central Athens on Friday that followed the alleged desecration of a copy of the Quran by a police officer. Police said that assailants broke a window to a basement in the neighborhood of Aghios Panteleimonas, near central Athens, at 2.45 a.m. on Saturday and then set fire to the room, which was used as a place of worship by migrants living in the area. Five Bangladeshis who were in the room had to be rescued by the 12 firefighters who arrived at the scene and were then taken to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries. Police sources said the incident was probably linked to Friday's protest, prompted by allegations from a Syrian migrant that a policeman defaced a miniature copy of pages from the Quran during a search for drugs. The protest by some 1,500 migrants was marred by some clashes with police and incidents of vandalism that led to some 75 vehicles and about a dozen stores being attacked. Police made 46 arrests. Two migrants were injured during the unrest. Muslim organizations held another, more peaceful protest in Omonia Square on Saturday. The incidents of the past few days have heightened fears about tensions in the city center, which were fueled earlier this month when members of the extreme nationalist group Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) attacked migrants who are squatting in an abandoned courthouse in central Athens. Thus, significant ochlarchy Saturday. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.

More about the migrants clash with police Thursday and Friday. Chanting "Allah is great!" and waving leather-bound copies of Islam's holy book, about 1,500 Muslim immigrants - mostly young men - marched to Parliament in the centre of Athens to express their anger. Police clashed with hundreds of Muslim immigrants in central Athens for a second day yesterday in an escalating protest at reports that a policeman had defaced a copy of the Quran during a routine inspection earlier this week. An estimated 1,500 demonstrators, mostly immigrants from Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, hurled sticks and stones at police officers in full riot gear who had been stationed outside Parliament yesterday afternoon. Police responded with tear gas and stun grenades. In the escalating unrest, which saw several store facades smashed, parked cars overturned and traffic lights vandalized, one officer and four protesters were said to have sustained minor injuries. The government said 46 protesters were arrested and 75 cars were damaged.

The demonstration followed a less violent protest that broke out near Omonia Square on Thursday in the wake of reports that a policeman had torn up a copy of the Quran and then stamped on it during a routine inspection conducted on four Syrian migrants in the city center. After word spread about the alleged incident, local migrant groups organized the protest. Later on Thursday an Afghan national was arrested in the run-down Athens district of Aghios Panteleimonas after allegedly throwing a firebomb at a police station, causing limited damage but serious injury to himself. The Muslim Union of Greece, which represents thousands of immigrants in the capital, said that it had taken legal action against the unidentified policeman alleged to have defaced the Syrian's copy of Islam's holy book. Police said an internal investigation had been launched. Police said they will investigate the allegation that a police officer tore up the Iraqi immigrant's copy of the Koran while checking his identity papers in Athens on Wednesday. "Anyone found responsible will be strictly held to account. But this isolated incident cannot justify these acts of violence," said Christos Markoyiannakis, a minister in charge of police. Meanwhile, in a related development, Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis welcomed a proposal by Athens Prefect Yiannis Sgouros to purchase the building of the old Athens appeals court in the city center where hundreds of illegal immigrants have been squatting for the past six months.

22.5.2009. The anarchists declare: After 23 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction and is degenerated. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Meanwhile: Meetings and discussions, etc. 15.00 assembly, Xanthi, 16.00 free radio and independent music, Thessaloniki, 16.00 event, Athens, 17.00 the primary advent of materialistic and communist visa, Thessaloniki, 18.30 worker councils and trade unions in Germany1918-23 , Piraeus, 18.30-event discussion, 19.00 open meeting unregulated , Athens, 20.00 event, Athens, 20.00 book -event, Thessaloniki, event / debate, Athens, event / debate on the new prosecutions in Volos, theater: Hamlet Area, Athens, 20.30 film "Round Midnight", Athens, film "Harlan County, USA", Thessaloniki, Film "Zita", Thessaloniki, 21.00 show: sit & wind instruments dancing barley, Heraklion.

Clashes between emigrants-police in Central Athens. Extensive incidents were reported in Omonia Square in central Athens this afternoon when emigrants clashed with police. Muslim emigrants started riots in the wake of an Iraqi man's claims that a police officer stepped on and tore a piece of paper he was carrying featuring religious verses in Arabic. Thousand of emigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and mainly from Asian countries along with a handful of Greek supporters from left-wing and immigrant rights groups fought with police outside the Parliament. Rocks rained in while police used tear gazes to disperse groups of stone-throwing protesters. Protestors headed to Parliament and tried to storm the building but were stopped by special police units (MAT). It must be noted that on Thursday night, similar incidents broke out in Ag. Panteleimonos police department when a young Syrian was arrested after allegedly throwing a firebomb near the Aghios Panteleimonas police station, which is a neighborhood that according to residents there is criminality as gangs comprised of illegal immigrants and economic migrants are trigger incidents. El.AS general headquarters announced that investigation on the case is in progress. The situation calmed at about six when the protestors scattered in small groups of 10-15 people. However, strong police forces remain in the area and are in constant alert for possible rekindles of the riots. Thus significant ochlarchy Friday. The anarchists condemn the rioters.

Two sentenced, two cleared of Thessaloniki unrest in 2007. A court in Katerini, near Thessaloniki, yesterday passed down two suspended jail sentences to two men, aged 30 and 32, after finding them guilty of participating in violent clashes with riot police outside the philosophy faculty of the northern city’s Aristotle University in May 2007. The two received suspended jail sentences of 10 months and 17 months respectively. Two other people, a 21-year-old student and a 26-year-old man, were cleared of all charges.

21.05.2009. Ochlarchists threw rocks and pieces of wood, vandalism, strike, demonstration, etc. 06.00 strike at Marousi, 10.00 exclusion of union, Thessaloniki, 14.00 cycle film and documentaries, Egaleo, 15.30 Call to Piraeus, 18.00 collection of solidarity in Turkish fighter Ozkiok, Athens, 18.00 demonstration - none camp, Patras, 19.00 illegal mobile antenna, Athens, call for EVATH, Thessaloniki, 20.00 meeting for festival, Thessaloniki, meeting for the events in Xanthi, 21.00 party assistance, Thessaloniki.

Ochlarchists threw rocks and pieces of wood. Officer hurt. A policeman was slightly injured and two people were detained after a group of some 30 ochlarchists threw rocks and pieces of wood at two officers on motorcycles near the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Both policemen were members of the rapid response Z squad who ride motorbikes.

Store vandalized. Unidentified assailants early Thursday vandalized a supermarket in the district of Rizoupoli, in northwestern Athens, before torching it, giving rise to a large fire that caused serious damage but no injuries. According to police, the vandals used sledgehammers to smash up the store's glass facade before dousing shelves and cash registers with gasoline and setting them alight. Thus significant ochlarchy Thursday. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchists, probably leftwing extremist marxists, that threw rocks and and pieces of wood, and the vandals.

Nine fans detained after game. Nine basketball fans were detained late on Thursday and an official slightly injured following clashes between supporters of Panathinaikos and Olympiakos in the opening game of the Greek League finals in the coastal suburb of Neo Faliron. Fans of Olympiakos, which was defeated 69-67, threw flares, plastic bottles and other missiles during halftime as players ran for cover. A timekeeper sustained minor head injuries during these incidents. Around 200 fans clashed with riot police after the game with some trying to storm the teams' locker rooms and the press room.

20.05.2009. Brown Card, protest, etc. 09.00 Trial of Timo B., Thessaloniki, 10.00 protest against animal abuse, Athens, 18.30 protest against plans to build Mall Kantza, Pallini, 19.00 meeting, Athens, rebels open meeting for solidarity, Athens, outside the EU-declining ..., Thessaloniki, assembly / operations, Athens, 19.30 lecture: "Art and Revolution", art as social action, Thessaloniki, book presentation, Athens, 20.00 documentaries, Salonika, 20.30 update-action against antennas, Thessaloniki, 21.00 no ticket cinema- "Creative Resistors", Athens, 22.00 party of solidarity, Larissa.

The rightwing extreme liberalist paper Kathimerini gets a dark Brown Card from IAT-APT, for breaking the Oslo Convention very severely several times, and for falsely calling the marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchy group Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire: Athens and Thessaloniki, "anarchist". Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire has not an anarchist policy and no anarchist members. Kathimerini is as usual spreading disinformation about anarchists and anarchism. Nobody should believe what Kathimerini reports.

Bomb hoax. A police search of the premises of the Athens Appeals Court on Alexandras Avenue failed to turn up any suspect devices following an anonymous telephone call to authorities warning that two bombs had been planted at the building. Thus significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

Poor teachers. The State Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OLME) said that some 20,000 substitute teachers will not be paid for work they have carried out until the start of the new academic year. OLME says the total amount owed to the teachers stands at 31 million euros. The federation blames the Economy and Finance Ministry for the problem.

Hospital personnel stage working stoppage. Attika hospital personnel stage today from 10.00 to 15.00 a working stoppage protesting on working conditions in National Health System (ESY) asking for additional personnel to be employed.

Athens sweep. A team of 200 officers was involved in a police sweep on Wednesday night in the Athens district of Aghios Panteleimonas that led to dozens of arrests. Of those detained for questioning, charges were brought against 43, most on charges of pandering or illegal residence.

19.05.2009. Bomb attacks, protests, etc. 09.00 collection of solidarity with immigrants, Athens, 10.00 protest, Athens, 10.00 microphone - protest against the contract in AUTH, Thessaloniki, 18.30 concentration-demonstration, Thessaloniki, 18.30 way - solidarity in Kuneva - abolition of slavery, Athens, 21.00 Report on Painting: Queer, Athens.

Marxists set sights on police in double raid. A leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchy group falsely posing as "anarchist" claimed responsibility for placing two crude explosive devices at building sites in Athens and Thessaloniki that are due to house new police stations. Nobody was hurt in the explosions, which caused a limited amount of damage but signaled an increase in the intensity of the activity of a marxist group calling itself Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire: Athens and Thessaloniki.

An anonymous caller rang Antenna TV in the morning to claim the blasts. The group has carried out several attacks in the past, including the torching of an electric railway train in Kifissia, northern Athens, on March 3. One explosive device went off in the early hours at a building site in Nea Pendeli, northern Athens, where the area's police station is due to move. Another homemade bomb went off in the Stavroupoli area of Thessaloniki at another building site where a new police station is to be housed. Police experts said that both devices had timers and could have caused more serious damage had they been wired correctly.

Officers are linking the latest round of attacks with the arrest of a 32-year-old man in northeastern Greece on Sunday who had breached his bail terms after being arrested in connection to the beating of former General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) chief Christos Polyzogopoulos in 2006. A 22-year-old student was also arrested in the city early yesterday after being found in possession of cooking gas canisters and a CD containing texts written by the 32-year-old. Meanwhile, the US State Department designated Revolutionary Struggle as a foreign terrorist organization. Thus significant ochlarchy Tuesday. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.

The rightwing extreme liberalist paper Kathimerini gets a new Brown Card from IAT-APT, for breaking the Oslo Convention, by falsely putting the blame for yesterdays arson attacks on anarchists. Kathimerini writes: "Suspected anarchists target stores, cars for second day. Suspected anarchists staged a second day of arson attacks in different parts of the capital yesterday..." The attacks were probably done by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs. Anarchists were certainly not involved in the attacks.

18.05.2009. Arson attacks, discussions, etc. 19.00 event-discussion on the creation of self association, Thessaloniki, discussion of the refugee, Athens, 19.30 four events Exarchia Square, Athens, 20.00 event ..., 20.30 update-discussion on recent prosecutions in Xanthi.

Arson attacks. Suspected leftwing extremist marxists target stores, cars for second day. Suspected ochlarchists staged a second day of arson attacks in different parts of the capital, causing serious damage to stores, including a car dealership, and several vehicles but no injuries. A gas canister bomb caused significant damage when it went off outside a dealership of Skoda, which supplies the police force with vehicles. Similar devices damaged stores and vehicles in the districts of Sepolia, Palaio Faliron, Aghia Paraskevi and Kolonos. Thus significant ochlarchy Monday. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.

The Greek newspaper Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for falsely putting the blame on yesterdays bomb and arson attacks on anarchists. Kathimerini writes: Arsonists amok in major cities. Suspected anarchists staged a barrage of arson attacks in Athens and Thessaloniki early yesterday, causing damage to firms supplying military and security equipment as well as car dealerships supplying police but causing no injuries. The blasts in the capital, caused by gas canister bombs, targeted several stores in the city and northern suburbs. In most cases the damage was not very extensive, though the attack on a Skoda dealership in Holargos was more serious. A Suzuki car dealership in Kypseli was also targeted. The two firms supply the police with cars and motorcycles. There was similar trouble in Thessaloniki. In one incident unidentified vandals broke into a state-run depot used to store impounded vehicles and torched four cars. Another attack involved suspected anarchists hurling Molotov cocktails at the guardhouse of the Thessaloniki International Fair premises opposite the main campus of Aristotle University. The attacks were probably done by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs. Anarchists were certainly not involved in the attacks.

Officer assaulted. A police officer sustained minor injuries early Monday after being attacked outside the premises of the old appeals court in central Athens by a group of around 30 youths who started throwing stones and bottles. Police had been called to the area to investigate reports of a mugging at knifepoint. According to the officer, and a colleague who had been in the patrol car with him at the time of the attack, the youths had been in the rear yard of the derelict appeals court building, currently under occupation by some 500 illegal immigrants, just before they launched their attack.

Kuneva home. Employment and Social Security Minister Fani Palli-Petralia Monday told the mother of Konstantina Kuneva, the leader of the Attica cleaners' union, that the Workers' Housing Organization (OEK) had approved an appeal for a home to be granted to the 44-year-old unionist who was left disfigured and with severe damage to her internal organs after being attacked last December by assailants who threw acid in her face. The 100-square-meter apartment is in the Athens district of Ano Petralona.

17.05.2009. Bomb attacks, marxism and other events. 09.00 view documentary: "Great nights, young dawn", Thessaloniki, 10.00 marxism 2009, 14-17 MAH AUEB (The battle of the European elections 7.30 pm), Athens, 11.00 four events Exarchia Square, Athens, 12.00 panhellenic weekend for resistance to biotechnology, Thessaloniki, ten days of events, against the consumption ..., Athens, event, Thessaloniki, events to strengthen the park, Athens, fries and string quartet, Athens, 17.00 news open meeting hourly rates, Athens, 18.00 meeting occupation, Heraklion, 19.00 we are building bridges instead of walls, Athens, 19.30 lecture 13th: "The Macedonian question", Athens, 20.00 festival solidarity & support for migrant stallholders, Athens, 21.00 LGBTQ view: "But I am a cheerleader!" of Jamie Babbit, Athens, film, Heraklion, 21.30 event ... solidarity gathering.

A string of bomb hits on car dealerships, private security companies and shops took place after midnight throughout the Attica basin. The first three explosive devices went off shortly after midnight and a second round was reported at about 1.05am. The blasts caused extensive damage, while fire broke out after the hit on a SKODA car dealership on Mesogeiwn Avenue. No group has claimed responsibility for the hits, so far. - String of Attacks in Athens. A string of explosive attacks with gas canisters occurred late on Sunday evening. The attacks targeted a car dealer in Aharnon St., a weapons' shop in Sepolia and a private car in the northern suburb of Ag. Paraskevi. The explosions caused only material damages. Thus significant ochlarchy Sunday. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.

16.05.2009. Rightwing extremist ochlarchy, more marxism and other events. 10.00 marxism 2009, 4-17 MAH AUEB, Athens, four events Exarchia Square, Athens, 12.00 anti-event, gather-way, course and progress in Ymittos against "new highways", events to strengthen the park, Exarchia, Athens, 16.00 panhellenic weekend for resistance to biotechnology, Thessaloniki, 19.00 event-concert, 20.30 documentary: self: from theory to practice, Athens, 21.00 concert for the support of solidarity fund for prisoners, Athens, party, event, Athens, party at hangout immigration, 22.30 party for financial support to newspaper Babylonia, Athens, 23.00 "The Life of Brian" (Monty Python), Athens.

Students show moderation. The results of the university student elections are ample proof that the power wielded by a small minority of extremist elements is much less than imagined, considering their ability to close down entire universities. The fact that the parties affiliated with these groups did not succeed in increasing their percentage of support among the student body also proves that the widespread riots of last December did not reflect any deeper sense of reaction or radicalization among the country's youth. The vast majority of the student body is obviously not interested in political parties nor does it participate in the kind of extremist action that we have seen over the past few months. What most university students seem to be interested in is an improvement in the standards of education and, more importantly, being able to secure a decent job in the future. Hopefully, the larger parties will heed the message that has emerged from the student polls and it will teach them not to bow down to the blackmail of the small extremist elements active within the country's universities.

Greek nationalists protest Bilderberg Club meeting. Police heavily guarded a luxury resort in Greece on Saturday where a secretive annual rendezvous of top politicians and business leaders reportedly took place. Several dozen Greek demonstrators gathered outside the Astir Palace hotel in the coastal town of Vouliagmeni to criticize the Bilderberg Group, an international group that was founded half a century ago in the Netherlands. It has no widely known headquarters, meets secretly at luxury hotels and resorts throughout the world by invitation only, and generally makes no public announcements afterward. The demonstrators, from Greece's right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally party, shouted slogans and held a large banner saying "Bilderberg Unwelcome" outside the hotel, which is 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Athens on the Aegean Sea. One demonstrator was arrested when the group tried to break through a police cordon.

"We came here to protest this anti-Greek meeting," Argyris Sideris, a regional party secretary said. "We need to do something to protect our country." The popular hotel was closed to the public. A police officer said the resort was being protected by hundreds of police, navy commandos, coast guard speedboats and two F-16 fighter planes. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity, in keeping with his department's regulations. Outside the hotel on Friday, Greek Communist Party members conducted a peaceful demonstration against the Bilderberg Group. Greek newspapers said the secret meeting of the politicians and managers of world capitalism included Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis. The papers said this year's invitees also included U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner; Larry Summers, the director of the U.S. National Economic Council; the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke; World Bank President Robert Zoellick; European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso. But those reports could not be independently confirmed. The three-day meeting apparently ended Saturday. Thus significant ochlarchy Saturday. The anarchists condemn the rightwing extremist ochlarchy.

15.05.2009. The anarchists declare: After 22 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction and is degenerated. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Meanwhile: 10.00 marxism 2009, 14-17 MAH AUEB, Athens, 17.00 new technologies & social movements, Thessaloniki, 18.00 intervention of solidarity to immigrant retailers, Athens, 19.00 presentation / discussion, Athens, 19.00 the "anarchist" area in Cyprus, Athens. No real anarchist area exist in Cyprus... self-education - open call, Athens, open meeting unregulated, Athens, 19.00 presentation of solidarity to the persecuted of the insurgency, Athens, talk-show, Corfu, 19.30 four events, Exarchia Square, Athens, 20.00 panhellenic weekend for resistance to biotechnology, Thessaloniki, discrimination in schools, Athens, 20.30 film "The Salt of the Earth", Thessaloniki, event update, Athens, 21.00 film show, 21.30 "Feast-Tsimpousi", Athens.

Arson attacks - Stores targeted in Salonika. Improvised explosive devices comprising gas canisters detonated outside three stores in Thessaloniki early Friday, causing widespread damage but no injuries. The blasts damaged the facades of the businesses – a security goods store, a military goods retailer and a store selling hunting gear. One of the explosions also damaged a truck parked outside one of the shops. Thus significant ochlarchy Friday. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.

14.05.2009. IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to Epaminondas Korkoneas, the killer of Alexandros Grigoropoulos. The policeman Korkonas excuses his killing of Alexandros with that he was facing a "dangerous anarchist group", see the Introduction at the bottom of this file. This is a lie - no anarchist group is dangerous in the meaning of ochlarchical, the only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The group of Alexandros was however not anarchist, but it was by no means so dangerous and ochlarchical that it defends any shooting. The talk about "dangerous anarchist group" is Orwellian "1984" newspeak, and Korkonas gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo-Convention, see http://www.anarchy.no/iat.html and http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html . The International Anarchist Tribunal also urges the Greek courts to judge Korkoneas as soon as possible. He probably deserves a life sentence in jail.

Meanwhile: 10.00 collection of protest, Athens, 12.30 press conference, Athens, 14.00 general assembly of the SSM, 17.00 marxism, 14-17 ??? AUEB, Athens, "provoli", 18.00 marxism 2009, Athens, ten days of events, against the consumption ..., Athens, microphone, Thessaloniki, 18.30 EVATH initiative, Thessaloniki, 19.00 "provoli" antifascist event, 21.00 show: The communist manifesto & prisons..., Heraklion, screening of the documentary "The revolt of Oaxaca", Athens, 22.30 Film: "The garden of God", Takis Spyridaki, Athens.

Strike. Civil servants walk off job. A 24-hour strike today by the civil servants' union ADEDY will result in dozens of flights being canceled. Olympic Airlines said yesterday that more than 100 domestic and international flights will be affected, while Aegean Airlines said it was canceling 48 flights and rescheduling dozens more. The strike will not affect public transport but will close most schools and result in state hospitals running on skeleton staff. Protesting workers are seeking salary increases and better benefits. Joining the 24-hour nationwide strike called by the Civil Servants Supreme Administrative Council (ADEDY), public sector employees took to the streets on Thursday, demanding wage raises, the financing of the Solidarity Fund and the public sector employees' fund, as well as permanent working status in the public sector. Employees in ministries, pension funds, tax offices are taking place in the 24-hour strike. Hospitals and EKAV operated with skeleton staff, while there were no flights between 10am and 2pm due to the work stoppage of the air traffic control staff. Train services will be seriously disrupted, since the OSE employees will too join the strike. Strikers gathered in central Athens at 11.00 hours and then marched towards the building housing the Parliament and the Finance Ministry. "We, the public sector employees, are obliged not to abandon our struggle, because the government not only refuses to meet the grievances, but it also limits the basic rights, including the health case, the income and the labor relations. We have to fight so that those who are behind the crisis and increased their excessive profits thanks to the neo-liberal policies pay the cost," read a statement released by ADEDY.

13.05.2009. Meetings, etc. 07.00 meeting in solidarity with the arrested of rebellion and not with, Athens, 10.00 microphone against elections, in Thessaloniki, 14.30 ten days of events, against the consumption ..., Athens, 19.00 meeting, 20.00 rebels open meeting for solidarity, Athens, mobilization against the Athens Summit 2009 on climate, Athens, why? anarchists ask. Judith Butler. Philosophe en tout genre, 2006, documentary, Thessaloniki, View, Salonika, 21.00 view- "Merida-sgd public enemy number 1", Athens.

Bomb hit raises questions. Police is looking for leads that could possibly help them to track down the assailants who mounted a bomb hit against a Eurobank bank in Argyroupoli district and see whether they can associated them with the persons behind past attacks. Although it is more than certain that the "Revolutionary Struggle" terrorist group is behind the hit, no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. At the same time, the strategy and the reasoning upon which the hit was based have raised questions. In particular, the four assailants were reduced to just pointing their guns at the policemen who tried to check on them, instead of injuring them or even killing them, thus putting their repeated threats against policemen into action. Policemen estimate that after the public outcry for the deadly attacks on policemen, the members of the organization just want to prove that taking human lives is not what they are after. No reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

12.5.2009. Bomb and arson attacks, protests, debate and mobilization, etc. 12.00 mobilization against the Athens Summit 2009 on climate, Athens, 18.00 ten days of events, against the consumption ..., Athens, 19.00 call to debate on the field Areos, Athens, avian fever: Health, media & the imposition of terror, Petralona, 20.00 assembly of workers / unemployed / student media, Athens, 21.00 show "The soul in the mouth", Patras.

International conference on climate in Athens. An international conference on global warming and energy security is being held in Athens. Declaring the works of the conference open this morning, the President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias called for unification of forces in an ecumenical and beyond political parties' vision for a viable development and protection of the environment. Greece is far behind its obligations regarding protection of environment issues both within the EU and Kyoto frameworks. Development Minister Kostis Hatzidakis stressed that Greece is present in the apn-european struggle to deal with the impacts of global warming, adding that common efforts aim at sufficiency of energy along with effective dealing with global warming. "Energy, protection of the environment, viable development are the greatest challenges of humanity. Governments worldwide, all sectors, all peoples should take coordinated actions to lay firm ground for the protection of the environment, viable development and better quality of life", Mr. Hatzidakis concluded.

Strong blast in Eurobank branch. A strong explosion rocked the southern suburb of Athens Tuesday after unknown assailants set off a bomb at a Eurobank branch, causing severe damages but no injuries, reports said. Reports said the pre-dawn attack against the branch of Eurobank in the southern of Agrigroupoli at 4.00 startled residents who ran out of their homes in panic. Police said the unknown assailants had used 20 kilos of explosives planted in a suitcase at the entrance of the bank. Nearby cars and building suffered extensive damage from the explosion. Bomb experts were notified of the attack after an anonymous call was placed to a local police station and the Greek daily newspaper Eleftherotypia. According to reports, bomb experts had arrived at the scene of the attack just as four hooded individuals were fleeing the bank on motorcycles, threatening police at gun-point to back off. Curfew stopped and strong police forces surrounded the area.

More details on the bomb blast. The powerful bomb that exploded outside a bank in Argyroupoli, southeast Athens, causing massive damage but no injuries, is believed to be the work of the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group, police sources said. As well as resurrecting concerns about resurgent domestic terrorist activity, the explosion was something of an embarrassment to police after it emerged that three officers in a patrol car had spotted the perpetrators half an hour before the explosion but had failed to take the necessary action to avert the attack. According to police, the officers spotted two men on a motorcycle outside a branch of Eurobank during a routine patrol at around 3.30 a.m. One of the two men, who both wore helmets, was seen leaving a bag in front of the bank, police said. By the time the officers got out of the patrol car, the suspects had started up the motorcycle and drawn guns on the police. They then drove off, followed by another two suspects on another motorcycle. A few minutes later, an anonymous telephone call was made to the Eleftherotypia newspaper, warning that a bomb would go off within half an hour outside the branch of Eurobank on the corner of Vouliagmenis Avenue and Geroulanos Street. The blast, which occurred just after 4 a.m., totally wrecked the first floor of the building, damaged several parked cars and shattered the windows of apartment blocks up to 100 meters away. The device is believed to have consisted of some 10 kilos of gelatin dynamite and to have been operated by a timer. The official police stance yesterday was that the three officers in the patrol car reacted properly, as a more aggressive response could have provoked a shootout and led to injuries. But in private police sources conceded that the officers in the patrol car "were caught off guard and did not properly assess the seriousness of the situation."

Barrage of arson attacks. A barrage of bomb attacks in PPC (Public Power Cooporation S.A.) buildings exploding almost at the same time, rocked Athens. Another explosive device blasted in Sykies Athletic Union, Thessaloniki. The explosion caused severe damages in nearby cars and buildings but no injuries, reports said. In Nea Ionia, Athens, unidentified individuals destroyed three PPC cars in Roumeli-Kappodistriou conjunction using a Molotov bomb. In the Agios Dimitrios area, Athens assailants broke the window of PPC central building and started a fire in Gr. Labrakis Av, 1 in Panagoulis square. Fire brigade forces managed to put out the fire. Police is conducting investigation on the case. Thus, significant ochlarchy Tuesday. The anarchists condemn the bomb and arson attacks.

Hospital protest. State hospital workers are today due to lodge a legal suit with the Supreme Court to complain about their working conditions. According to sources, employees claim that the conditions in which they work violate labor laws. Protesting staff are to stage a four-hour work stoppage from 7 a.m. today and have said they will participate in a 24-hour strike called by the civil servants' union ADEDY on Thursday.

11.05.2009. Athens sweep, events and discussion, etc. 12.00 microphone - event againts election, 18.00 ten days of events, against the consumption ..., Athens, 19.30 news-discussion, Athens, 20.30 night poetry, Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy Monday.

ADEDY stages 24-hour strike Thursday. ADEDY (Civil Servants Supreme Administrative Council) is staging a 24-hour strike across Greece at Klafthmonos Square at 11.00, 14 May, in protest of the government's revenue policy. The civil servants also demand the Social Welfare Fund and the Fund for Civil Servants to be financed immediately, as well as real pay and pension rises, as well as a permanent work contract with the public sector. As per ADEDY President Spyros Papaspyros, the majority of civil servants will not get a pay rise this year but instead have a nominal decrease of his income due to the non-indexation of the tax table. The ADEDY Presidium points out that civil servants see their wages and salaries decreasing, while pending applications for lump sum will exceed 20,000 in the next five months and moreover seven months have to pass until the main pension is paid to benefactors. In parallel, new problems have arisen in medical treatment as more than 90 examinations have been excluded.

Athens sweep. Some 1,500 arrested last week. A police sweep in the capital's historic center last week led to the arrest of at least 1,500 people on charges including drug dealing, fraud and theft, police said. Officers said they confiscated more than 100 kilos of cannabis and 3.5 kilos of heroin as well as breaking up a ring trading in forged euro bills. "Very well", the anarchists say, "but what about marxist, leftwing extremist ochlarchists?"

10.05.2009. Robberies, different events, discussion, etc. 11.30 gathering event for residents, Daphne, 12.00 ten days of events, against the consumption, etc, Athens, three days of events "Breaking the fences", Thessaloniki, 13.00 event, 14.00 celebration event and market, Athens, 17.00 residents meeting, Athens, 17.30 open call for organization, Athens, 18.00 action for protection, open call for awareness and discussion of further actions, call for action, Thessaloniki, meeting, Athens, 19.00 book - view - discussion, assembly of labor, Athens.

Municipal robbery. Two armed robbers stole some 70,000 euros in cash from the Peristeri municipal offices early Sunday. The masked men threatened the security guard and then used an electric angle grinder to open the safe, which they emptied before making off.

Hit-and-rob. A 62-year-old businessman in Thessaloniki was the victim of a hit-and-run robbery Sunday evening when, according to police, robbers crashed into his car in the Sindos area using another vehicle. Believing that it was a traffic accident, the businessman got out of the car to exchange details, but at that point he was assaulted by the two robbers, who forced him to hand over a significant amount of cash that he had just taken out of an ATM. The exact amount was not made known. The 62-year-old was treated for slight injuries. Thus, significant ochlarchy Sunday. The anarchists condemn the robberies.

09.05.2009. Athens rallies, etc. Riot police out in force today as leftists, rightists march. The police said yesterday that dozens of riot police will be posted around the city center today to avoid clashes between members of leftist and human rights organizations on the one hand and far-rightists on the other. Both groups have planned demonstrations this afternoon. The leftists are to start their rally at Omonia Square at 5 p.m. to lobby for the rights of migrants squatting in dire conditions in central Athens. The rightists, who are protesting the migrants' growing presence in the capital, have not determined where they will march. Traffic in the center will be restricted.

Clashes at Athens building taken over by migrants. Far-right protesters tried to storm an old courthouse in central Athens Saturday where hundreds of illegal immigrants have lived for months amid piles of fetid rubbish and human waste without electricity, running water or sanitation. The group of several dozen people hurled rocks and firecrackers at the eight-story building from the street and nearby buildings, while those living inside threw back slabs of masonry and bricks. At least three people were hurt in the clashes, two of them with head injuries. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades, and a tense standoff followed. Some immigrants accused the police of ailing to protect them and said they would stand guard around the building throughout the night because of fears of further attacks. The attack followed an anti-immigrant demonstration by the far-right Chrisi Avgi, or Golden Dawn group. Scores of protesters waved banners reading "foreigners means crime" and "we have become foreigners in our own country."

"We didn't do anything. Why do they treat us like this?" questioned Fouad, a 33-year-old Moroccan immigrant living in the building. "The police did nothing. ... Here in Greece, human rights don't exist." Left-wing and immigrants' rights groups staged a counter-demonstration nearby, and riot police kept the two sides apart. Greece is on a main smuggling route for immigrants heading to Europe, with tens of thousands entering the country every year. Authorities say the Greece needs help to cope because it stands on Europe's eastern frontier. Thousands of the new arrivals head to the cities in search of work. But with the global financial crisis beginning to bite in Greece, both immigrants and aid groups say jobs are becoming scarcer, leaving many unable to pay for even basic necessities. Although Greece has not yet faced major layoffs, the economy is slowing and unemployment jumped to 9.4 percent in January.

Aid workers said Saturday that conditions at the courthouse had been allowed to spiral out of control and turn into a public health hazard. The building is owned by an insurance fund and has been vacant since 2000. "It's a lot worse now," said Maurice, a 22-year-old Algerian living among the estimated 500 squatters, mostly men from Morocco and Algeria, inside the old Appeals Court building. "We live in misery." He, like all the other squatters willing to speak, would only give his first name for fear of trouble from the authorities. "It is an epidemiological time bomb in the center of Athens," said Nikitas Kanakis, head of the Greek section of the medical aid group Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World), which set up a mobile medical unit outside the building Friday. The immigrants live amid piles of rubbish and human waste in former judges' offices. Several men share a room, with most using cardboard covered with the occasional blanket to sleep on. With no sanitation, they use empty offices, the roof and even the corridors as toilets. But the stench emanating from the building is so strong that it wafts across the street, a few hundred yards (meters) away from tourist hotels.

The immigrants began cleaning up the worst of the rotting garbage in the building this week, removing dozens of bags of trash. It is unclear when the first immigrants broke in, but many say they have been there for months, even a year. Medecins du Monde said the situation came to their attention in the last few days. They believe diseases such as hepatitis are rife, while many of those seeking their help were suffering from skin complaints such as scabies. "It's clear that we don't have the means to cover the massive health issues that this place has," said Yiannis Mouzalas of Medecins du Monde. He said authorities must help to sanitize and clean the building, and that they had been irresponsible in allowing the situation to become so severe. "We consider it's not possible for this situation to have been created without (their) knowledge," he said. "We are afraid that they have chosen irresponsibility so that the problem is solved by the police and through racism." Athens Deputy Mayor Eleftherios Skiadas told media that City Hall has no jurisdiction over abandoned private buildings.

BBC falsely reports that "leftist anarchists" were involved in the clashes and ochlarchy, and gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT. There is no such thing as "leftist anarchists". Anarchists are in the middle, and are not leftist or rightist on the economic-political map. Anarchists may support immigrants' human rights, but not with ochlarchy. Anarchists only use violence proportionate in self defense, if attacked violently. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy, initiated by fascists.

Meanwhile: 10.30 workshop: Gender and sexuality, Athens, 11.00 concentration-course against the Congress Bionova, Athens, 11.00 preparatory meeting for the NoBorder Camp Lesbos 26-31 in Australia, Athens, memory memory rebel-class (1934-2009): collection discussion, Kalamata, 12.00 ten days of events, against the consumption ... , Athens, birthday event, Athens, 14.00 glenti assistance, Thessaloniki, 16.00 market offer Thessaloniki, no culture of consumption, 17.00 antifascist concentration, Athens, antiracist rally, Athens, against the fascist concentration, Athens, consentration by workers and immigrants, 18.00 event - discussion on the mobile phone masts, Thessaloniki, three days of events "Breaking the fences", Thessaloniki, 19.00 presentation of the book and viewing Deputy Markos discussion, Heraklion, celebration for slave workers and flexible work, Thessaloniki, event discussion, Thessaloniki, 19.30 lecture on the graffiti, Karditsa, 20.30 Valise / the You and What Army Faction / Mother Disobedience, Athens, concert in Kallidromiou94, Athens, 21.00 concert assistance, Athens, 21.30 D.I.Y. concerts in Kavala, 22.00 Live: Urban phsychedelic pop live with project (is it in), Athens, 22.30 concert, Kavala. Thus, significant ochlarchy Saturday.

08.05.2009. The anarchists declare: After 22 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction and is degenerated. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Meanwhile: 12.00 festival "3 days, 2 wheels", "Behind the club", Heraklion, 17.00 microphone, event against elections, Athens, 18.30 debate on the democratic rights of our time, Heraklion, Crete, 19.00 Warning! Event for the creation of a single polymorphic movement of ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!! The anarchists demand: Arrest the criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism. Also 19.00 self-education, open call, Athens, economic/deposits and institutional crisis of December, Athens, testimony from Gaza, meeting, Athens, event for antifascist concentration Saturday 09.05 in pl.Kannigkos at 17, Athens, three days of events "Breaking the fences", Thessaloniki, 19.30 screening of the documentary "Birds in Valte" and discussion, Athens, event for new motorways in Ymittos, the European elections and the anticapitalist left, Athens, 20.00 theater: Hamlet Area, Athens, 20.30 discussion: The Attic in hurricane vortex energy, Athens, film "Shadows", Athens, 21.30 show documentary alienation and labor struggles, view.

Armed robberies. Armed robbers held up a branch of Millennium Bank in the northern suburb of Pefki and a branch of Proton Bank in the Athens district of Nea Ionia, both shortly after 8.30 a.m. In Thessaloniki at around noon, two gunmen raided a branch of Piraeus Bank in the area of Diavata. Meanwhile three robbers held up a branch of Hellenic Postbank in the district of Ambelokipi. There were no injuries in any of the raids, according to police who did not disclose how much cash was netted in the robberies. Thus, signficant ochlarchy Friday. The anarchists condemn the armed robberies.

07.05.2009. Arson attacks, call to action and meeting, etc. 14.30 viewing of the movie "They live - They live among us", Athens, 17.30 The social nature of the USSR and the communist perspective, Thessaloniki, 19.00 show film: "Buddha collapsed out of shame", Thessaloniki, 20.00 call to action against the climate summit, Athens, 21.00 open meeting west, Thessaloniki, viewing of the movie "Day is tomorrow", Athens, experimental music, Athens.

Arson attacks. Unidentified assailants staged to two arson attacks in the Cretan port of Iraklion early Thursday, causing damage but no injuries. In the first hit, the arsonists targeted the entrance to an apartment block, using gas canister bombs to cause limited damage. The second attack, which targeted a car, caused serious damage. Thus, significant ochlarchy Thursday. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.

06.05.2009. Strike, demonstration, meetings etc. 11.00 local time microphone against the student, not just elections, Heraklion, 12.00 microphone event against elections, Athens, 18.00 open meeting, Thessaloniki, 19.00 rebels open meeting for solidarity, Athens, 20.30 concert, 21.30 film, Thessaloniki.

Guards protest. Prisons not secure, they say. Prison guards across the country joined a 48-hour strike in protest at inadequate security measures at Greek penitentiary institutions. According to the president of the union representing the prison officers, Giorgos Kostikas, no action has been taken to improve security since serial robber Vassilis Palaiocostas and convicted Albanian murderer Alket Rizai escaped from Attica's Korydallos jail by helicopter in February. The guards threatened further strikes if no action is taken.

Cretan farmers' demonstration in Syntagma. Some 1.500 Cretan farmers, who arrived in Piraeus on Wednesday morning without their tractors this time, are staging a demonstration outside the Finance Ministry demanding support of their income. Next they will march to Maximos Mansion to hand a protest resolution. Filellinon St. is closed to traffic. The first 850 farmers aboard "Ariadni" passenger boat arrived in Piraeus port at 06.00 and some 600 farmers from Hania aboard "El. Benizelos" ship arrived at 06.30. Later convoy of buses transferred them to Syntagma Square where they are staging a demonstration. They want to meet with Prime-minister Kostas Karamanlis to hand him a resolution maintaining that their financial and institutional demands have not been met. Cretan farmers demand refund of VAT and €100 million support package which includes:

Olive Oil: €40 for each 1000 m2 piece of land
Greenhouse Cultivations: €500 for each 1000 m2 piece of land
Citrus Fruit: €30 for each 1000 m2 piece of land
Vineyards: €50 for each 1000 m2 piece of land
Stock Farming: €15 for each animal
Beekeeping: €15 for each hive

Traffic around Syntagma Square has been interrupted. Security forces stand guarding Basilissis Sophia Av.

The farmers staged a peaceful protest in Syntagma Square in central Athens, as representatives met with aides of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis. The farmers, who descended on Athens in larger numbers earlier this year but were prevented from leaving the port of Piraeus, also met with officials of the opposition parties in their bid to draw attention to low prices and to demand more state aid for their sector.

Activists convicted. A court in Thessaloniki handed down suspended sentences to three activists who broke into the office of the regional governor for Central Macedonia, Giorgos Tsiotras, in June 2007 and poured three sacks of gravel onto his floor. The stunt was intended as a protest at what they referred to as illegal "environmental interventions" in the area, the court heard. Each activist received a suspended five-month jail sentence.

05.05.2009. Bank raid, meetings, etc. 07.00 Warning! Open meeting on a single polymorphic movement of ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!! The anarchists demand: Arrest the criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism. 17:00 paste-cultural event of two days, Thessaloniki, 18.00 concentration about serious injury of Kurdish refugees from the port, Athens, open democratic convention, Athens, 19.00 moving to the Kurdish refugee Arivan Osman Abdullah, moving to beating of Kurdish refugee from port , Thessaloniki, 19.30 collection about mortal injury towards Kurdish refugee, Volos, 20.00 assembly of workers / unemployed / students and media, Athens, 21.00 painting exhibition, Athens, show "The Matchbox", Patras.

Bank raid. A lone robber netted 12,000 euros in the morning after holding up a branch of ATE-bank in the northern city of Serres. The robber, armed with a shotgun and wearing a motorcycle helmet, fled with the cash before police arrived on the scene. No one was injured. Thus significant ochlarchy Tuesday. The anarchists condemn the bank raid. Arrest the rightwing extremist economical plutarchist/capitalist criminal ochlarchist, the anarchists say.

Drug ring. Police in Athens were questioning two Albanian nationals after finding a total of 92 kilos of cannabis and 2 kilos of heroin in their possession. Officers first arrested a 29-year-old man after a search of his home in Nea Ionia, north of Athens, turned up the heroin and 80 kilos of cannabis. A subsequent raid on the central Athens home of a 25-year-old compatriot unearthed another 12 kilos of cannabis.

Vandals identified. Police in Athens said that analysis of video footage had helped them to identify three of the people involved in a daytime vandalism spree in the upmarket district of Kolonaki in March that caused serious damage to stores and parked cars in the area. Officers examined footage of the incident that had been taken by cameras in Dexameni Square.

Plan to clear city center of migrants. As the news broke yesterday of government plans to transfer hundreds of illegal immigrants squatting in abandoned buildings in the city center to a disused military facility west of Athens, police said they were intensifying a crackdown on drug dealing and other crimes in the heart of the capital. Sources said the Interior Ministry is eyeing an old NATO base in Aspropyrgos as the site of a reception center for hundreds of migrants currently living in cramped and filthy old buildings in Athens's historic center. The site would also be the new home to dozens of migrants crammed into the old premises of the Athens appeals court on Socratous Street. But there seem to be objections to the scheme. The Hellenic Public Real Estate Corporation (KED) reportedly wants the site for the construction of a new jail.

Local authorities told Kathimerini that they opposed both eventualities. "We will not allow the construction of a jail or a detention center. Such a move would downgrade Aspropyrgos which has enough problems," the prefect of western Attica, Aristidis Arkoudaris, said. Sources said that two other prospective sites for the migrant center had been considered but were not believed to be "appropriate." In a related development police said officers had been given orders to carry out a series of sweeps aimed at arresting suspects linked to drug dealing, prostitution and extortion in the city center. "Our aim is to eradicate the ghettos where criminals feel safe and the only way to do this is by intensifying raids," a senior police official said. Since mid-March there have been three large-scale sweeps in the area involving 400 officers. Yesterday a dawn raid in the area led to the arrest of 16 foreign nationals.

Top anti-terror officer quits force. Greece's anti-terrorist squad, which has been under pressure following a dramatic resurgence of activity by domestic urban guerrillas over the last six months, suffered another blow yesterday when one of its top officers resigned, citing complaints about the way the department is being run. Until recently, Fotis Papageorgiou served as commander of the anti-terrorist squad and, with 27 years of experience in the police, he was one of the most respected senior officers. In March he was promoted and put in charge of the squad that tackles violent crime. However, sources said Papageorgiou felt that he had been isolated as he was not adequately briefed by his colleagues when he assumed the new post.

He claimed he was not made privy to intelligence gathered by the department before he moved there and that the lines of communication with the anti-terrorist squad broke down. "I can no longer fulfill my duties in a way that will be useful for the force," Papageorgiou is reported to have written in a letter to police chief Vassilis Tsiatouras. Papageorgiou is said to have expressed strong disagreement with the way that members of the anti-terrorist squad have been evaluated while also raising questions about the department's plan of action. Papageorgiou, then in charge of the department that was responsible for gathering information, played a key role in uncovering the members of the November 17 terrorist group earlier this decade. His departure from the force is likely to pile more pressure on Tsiatouras as well as the anti-terrorist squad, which has come under scrutiny due to recent brazen attacks by Revolutionary Struggle and the newly emerged Sect of Revolutionaries. Both groups have claimed attacks on the police but no suspects have yet been arrested in connection with the armed raids.

04.05.2009. Company raid, shooting, meetings, etc. 17.00 local time, 2 days of political-cultural events, Thessaloniki, 17.00 discussion, Heraklion Crete, 19.30 formation of commission of Byron struggle against the plans of the ministry, Byron.

Rogue bullet injures policeman out jogging. A 34-year-old police psychologist was in intensive care yesterday after being shot in the stomach while jogging near his home in Sepolia, western Athens, by what police believe was a rogue bullet. Michalis Matzanas told police he had felt a blinding pain in his stomach while jogging near a park on Sunday night and realized he was bleeding. He managed to get to his house where a neighbor saw him and took him to the hospital. Doctors said he was in critical condition, as the bullet had perforated his liver. Police noted that the bullet had been fired from a small-caliber pistol but said the shooting probably had been accidental, as the victim had no personal disputes. However senior officers said foul play had not been ruled out. Sepolia and nearby Aghios Panteleimonas are the frequent site of shootings attributed to the settling of accounts

Three hurt in company raid. Three employees of the EKO petroleum products company were in hospital after an armed raid on the firm's offices at Haidari in western Athens. Police said that three armed men wearing ski masks entered the premises and found the accounts office, where they each hit an employee with the butt of their handguns. The robbers then grabbed cash off the desks and fled. Meanwhile, it was revealed that thieves broke into a pharmaceutical company in Peristeri, western Athens, over the weekend and emptied an ATM there. They entered the building by digging a hole in one of the walls before using a blowtorch to open the cash machine and remove an unspecified sum. Thus significant ochlarchy Monday. The anarchists condemn the shooting and the company raid. Arrest these rightwing extremist economical plutarchist/capitalist criminal ochlarchists, the anarchists say.

Kuneva petition. Amnesty International has collected 22,000 signatures for a petition calling for a thorough police investigation into the circumstances of an acid attack on the leader of the Attica cleaners' union, Constantina Kuneva, last December. Protesters are also pressing for compensation for Kuneva, who has been disfigured and suffered severe damage to internal organs because of the attack, believed to have been carried out by members of an organized ring objecting to her unionist activities. The petition is to be submitted to Alternate Interior Minister Christos Markoyiannakis tomorrow. The anarchists have supported the petition.

Hair provides link to terror group suspect. Police in the country's counterterrorism force claim to have identified one of the members of terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle following fresh tests on DNA evidence taken from the sites of the group's attacks over the past two years. According to a report in Sunday's Vima newspaper, a hair found in a ski mask left at one of the sites is believed to belong to an active member of the terrorist group. He is thought to be one of the two assailants involved in an attack on a special guard outside the Glyfada home of Romilos Kedikoglou in April 2007, when the latter had been Supreme Court president. After taking a submachine gun from the special guard, one of the assailants left behind the ski mask while fleeing the scene. Although the terror group never accepted responsibility for the April 2007 attack, the similarity of the weapons used in subsequent attacks led police to make the connection. The breakthrough was achieved after Alternate Interior Minister Christos Markoyiannakis asked police forensic experts to re-examine and cross-check all evidence taken from the scene of attacks linked to Revolutionary Struggle.

This year alone the group has claimed responsibility for a large explosion outside a Citibank branch in Filothei, northern Athens, in March and a powerful car bomb placed out outside the headquarters of Citibank in Kifissia in February, which however failed to detonate. The group, believed to have strong links with certain far-left and anarchist groups, is thought to be behind many more attacks that have not been claimed. Last year the group claimed an attack on a riot police bus in the Athens district of Goudi in December and on the Athens headquarters of oil company Shell in October. Both these attacks were mentioned in the US State Department's terrorism report for 2008. The belief that Revolutionary Struggle has links to anarchist groups is false. Anarchists are neither pacifists nor political extremists, terrorists included. Khatimerini falsely trying to connect anarchists to terrorism, gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT. The anarchists demand: Arrest all criminal marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, including Revolutionary Struggle etc. and all ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists"! They are not anarchists!

03.05.209. Bomb scare and meetings, etc. 13.00 park attendance, bazaar, snacks, Athens, 17.00 empty camps do not belong to the contractors, Thessaloniki, 18.00 meeting .Athens, 20.00 theater representation, Athens, 21.00 LBGTQ view: Lesbian sex and sexuality, Athens. Bomb scare. A passenger ferry due to leave Piraeus was delayed by 40 minutes after an anonymous caller telephoned authorities to warn that a bomb had been placed on the vessel. Police and sniffer dogs were called in but no suspect device was found. Thus significant ochlarchy Sunday.

02.05.2009.The anarchists declare: After 21 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction and is degenerated. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Meanwhile: 00.00 demonstration, Ioannina, 20.00 concert to 3 days of rebellion (3rd day), Thessaloniki, 21.00 concert + Drum & Bass Party. Solidarity and economic aid, Athens, 21.30 "Sunablia", Athens, 22.00 concert, Athens, 22.00 Party of financial support to the Festival of Babylon. Athens.

Greece a terrorist transit route. In its annual report on international terrorism, the US State Department expressed concern about the "dramatic increase" in illegal immigrants entering Greece last year and suggested that the country risked becoming "a transit route for terrorists traveling to Europe and the United States." Starting its country report on Greece, the State Department noted that "Greece and the United States have a strong record of counterterrorism cooperation." It also praised Greek authorities for "cooperating with US officials on information sharing as well as the training of Greek security and customs officials, and judicial personnel." But it expressed concern about the implications of the growing influx of immigrants streaming into Greece. "Greece is increasingly an EU entry point for illegal immigrants coming from the Middle East and South Asia, and there was concern that it could be used as a transit route for terrorists traveling to Europe and the United States," the report said. It also noted that the number of would-be migrants entering Greece through the Aegean "increased dramatically in 2008 and about 100,000 illegal immigrants were arrested."

The report also makes reference to disbanded terror group November 17, noting that convicted hit man Dimitris Koufodinas had issued a written statement from prison "extolling ‘direct action' that would ‘strike blows to the capital system.'" It also mentions Revolutionary Struggle and the attacks the leftist group has claimed on a riot police bus in the Athens district of Goudi in December and on the Athens headquarters of oil company Shell in October. Rounding off, the report refers to attacks by self-styled anarchists and to the Athens riots last December, noting that "police officials pursued a more proactive approach to deterring these attacks and arrested perpetrators." A Foreign Ministry source in Athens said yesterday that it would examine the report and, "if it deems it necessary, will take the required action."

The so called "self-styled anarchists" mentioned in the report are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", and not anarchists. The US State Department gets a Brown Card from the IAT-APT for falsely calling Greek ochlarchists "self styled anarchists". And they are not "selfstyled" but acting according to the authoritarian travesty of anarchists, presented by media and the rulers world wide.

01.05.2009. May Day. May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in most countries, also Greece. The anarchists urge the people of Greece to put attention to the history of May Day, see http://www.anarchy.no/mayday.html and the "May Day Manifesto 2009 - Full employment now!" of the International Workers of the World, see http://www.anarchy.no/iwwai.html . Demonstrate with dignity for full employment now!

Warning! Events of ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists". The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott these events and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!! The events are 10.00 intervention-concentration/speeches collection, Thessaloniki, 11.00 concentration - Labor Day 2009, Athens and 19.00 event for the creation of a single polymorphic movement, Athens. These and other leftwing extremist ochlarchs will certainly "mark the day" with vandalism. The anarchists demand: Arrest these criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism. And newsmedia falsely reporting about and calling these ochlarchs/ochlarchists "anarchists" will get Brown Cards from IAT-APT. The ochlarchs/ochlarchists are NOT ANARCHISTS!

Meanwhile: 10.00 Gather Day 2009, Thessaloniki, May 1st - self-collection center of the labor Dramas, Drama. 10.30 collection and progress on Labor Day several places. 11.00 May 1st call - Labor Day 2009!, participation in strike and course, Athens, 12.30 feast - solidarity, 13.00 travel i line, feast in the (new) social center - hangout immigrants, planting of trees in the former camp of Pavlos Melas, Thessaloniki, 15.30 event "Tsimpousi", Athens, 17.00 weekend in South Philadelphia, 20.00 3 days for rebellion (continued), Thessaloniki, 22.00 independent concentration, Thessaloniki, and more.

Greek employees honored Labor Day. Greek employees honor Labor Day with a pan-Hellenic strike, rallies and concerts amid the global financial crisis, chanting slogans against unemployment, the high cost of living, austerity and changes in labor relations. Two separate rallies were held today. GSEE (General Confederation of Labor)-ADEDY (Greek General Confederation of Labor) and the Athens Labor Centre were to stage a rally at Klafthmonos Square. Participating in the concert that was held at the rally were Thanos Mikroutsikos, Miltos Paschalidis and Rita Antonopoulou. Attendants shouted slogans against the financial crisis and unemployment. More rallies were staged in Thessaloniki and other cities.The Labor Centre and Trade Unions inclined to PASKE (Socialists) SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) and Aftonomi Paremvasi held rallies in Pasalimani. A solidarity march for Konstantina Kouveva was held at the Piraeus electric rail station. A memorial service was held in the memory of Alekos Panagoulis at the Athens First Cemetery at 12.00.

PAME (All Workers Militant Front) held a rally at Syntagma Square and Korai Square in Piraeus, while it will later lay a wreath at the monument of the workers killed in Pasalimani in 1923. Manolis Mitsias gave a concert at PAME's rally in Syntagma.On the occasion of May 1st, the City of Athens ornamented with flowers seven points in Athens, namely, Syntagma Square, the Discus Thrower opposite Kallimarmaro Stadium, Asomatoi Square, Plato Academy, Fix in Patisia, Evelpidon, Katechaki and Messogion Avenue. City of Athens volunteers have been offering 7,000 plants to passers by in various parts of the city since Friday.

Three rallies were held in Thessaloniki in the rain. The Workers and Employees Centre and the Civil Servants Association held a rally at Aristotelous Square, Leftist parties held a rally at Venizelos statue and PAME held a rally at Kamara. Minor incidents took place at Aristotelous Square when a group of ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" launched eggs, bottles of water and other objects against the president of the Workers and Employees Centre Nikos Giannopoulos and other cadres. Employees tried to stop them but incidents broke out, with the ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" chanting slogans against the Trade Unionists. Speeches were delivered by the above organizations' presidents, while anarchists chanted slogans against the KKE (Communists), while PAME was marching along Tsimiski street. PAME head in Thessaloniki Sotiris Zarianopoulos delivered a speech. The demonstrators, headed by a tractor, ended at the Egnatia and Venizelos crossroads, where the first man was killed during the uprise in May 1936. The protesters lay wreaths. Employee representatives argue that unemployment has touched 20% in Thessaloniki in the last three years, while flexible forms of employment especially at big supermarkets exceed 70%. They add that 1,439 full time working contracts have been transformed to part time contracts.

Transport means in Athens stage work stoppages. Busses and trolley busses staged a work stoppage from the begging of the shift to 08.00 and staged another stoppage from 22.00 to the end of the shift. The Metro held a work stoppage from the begging of the shift to 09.00 and hold another one from 23.00 to the end of the shift. The Electric Rail did not operate. Changes on OSE services. OSE has proceeded to changes with its services as its employees and Suburban Rail employees are participating in the 24-hour strike staged by GSEE. Thus, it suspended all its services today except for international ones and so-called "Social needs" itineraries. Organization of urban transportation of Thessaloniki on skeleton staff. Busses of the Organization of Urban Transportation of Thessaloniki operated on skeleton staff due to the 24-hour strike staged by GSEE. Thus, they run with skeleton staff.

Hundreds of thousands of European workers feeling the pinch of the economic crisis rallied at May Day protests Friday from Moscow to Berlin to Istanbul. Violence and clashes between police and angry protesters disrupted some events, including in Greece, Germany and Turkey. But overall participation fell short of what many countries' unions had hoped for on May Day, a public holiday in many countries that has long celebrated the social and economic achievements of labor movements. Greek officers used flash grenades to disperse violent protesters, i.e. leftwing extremist ochlarchs, in Athens after attacks on banks and traffic cameras. No arrests or injuries were reported, but transport strikes disrupted bus, train and ferry services as well as flights by Greek carrier Olympic Airlines.

Greek police fired tear gas against May Day demonstrators who burnt at least one car in the streets of central Athens on Friday. "It's a group of 300 people at the Athens Polytechnic," a police official said. The clashes with these marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs falsely posing as "self-styled anarchists" came after more than 6,000 people marched peacefully in the Greek capital in the traditional May Day rallies. There were no injuries or arrests. More than 4,000 police officers were deployed in central Athens to prevent violence. "We won't pay for their crisis," read banners at the central rally held earlier today by the country's main trade union GSEE, which represents about 2 million employees. Unemployment is rising for the first time since 2004 in Greece as the economy grinds to a halt and may even contract in 2009 for the first time in 15 years, according to the IMF.

Thus, significant ochlarchy in Greece Friday. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and ochlarchy in general. ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation), Phantis and Reuters and get Brown Cards from IAT-APT for calling ochlarchs falsely posing as "anarchists" - anarchists. They are not anarchists - but ochlarchists! The marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs falsely posing as "anarchists" also get Brown Cards. All anarchists demonstrated with dignity May Day - not ochlarchy!

30.04.2009. Protests and meetings, etc. 00.00 local time microphone, Thessaloniki, 11.00 "I say goodbye...", Athens, 13.00 performance protest at the Prefectural Council, Thessaloniki; general assembly S.F. law of Athens, Athens, 18.00 3 days for rebellion, Thessaloniki, 19.30 performance event; open call for self-education, Athens, 20.00 event-screening of the documentary of Valto Birds, Athens, call to action against the summit for climate, Athens, 20.30 film "Bread and Roses", Thessaloniki, 21.00 view documentary "Alienation and Labor Struggles", Athens; open meeting west, Thessaloniki. No reports of significant ochlarchy Thursday.

May Day: Workers' action to affect public transport, city center. The Athens-Piraeus urban electric railway (ISAP) will not be operating tomorrow as workers go on strike to join the May Day protests. Buses and trolley buses will not run between 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. and from 10 p.m. to the end of the shift. Metro services will also be suspended between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. and between 11 p.m. and the end of the shift. Two rallies are planned for Athens, both starting at 10.30 a.m., one at Klafthmonos Square and the other at Syntagma Square. A protest is also planned for Thessaloniki.

29.04.2009. Barrage of bomb hits. Prefects' protest, meetings, etc. 13.00 general assembly, Thessaloniki, 18.30 discussion of events for the assembly on Labor Day 09, Athens, 19.00 Warning! Event for the creation of a single polymorphic movement of ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!! The anarchists demand: Arrest the criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism. Also 19.00 open meeting of residents in Chalandri k surrounding areas, Chalandri, commercialization, free country ... open meeting of rebels for solidarity, Athens, update on developments on the Kurdish refugee - talk about, Thessaloniki, 19.30 event on premises, 20.00 lecture-discussion on prisons, Volos, lecture-discussion on the Labor Day, Thessaloniki, 20.30 history of world Literature: "Reset and Literature", Athens, concert of solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva, Athens, open meeting, Athens.

Prefects' protest. Prefectural offices around the country will be closed today as local authorities protest new legislation abolishing certain fees and charges that would result in them losing some 110 million euros in revenues. The authorities have called for the revocation of the law, noting that losses would be restricted to 40 million euros if action is taken within the next four months.

Barrage of bomb hits. A barrage of bomb hits in the early hours of Wednesday and caused damage to the local offices of the ruling party of ND (New Democracy) in Peristeri district and an Attica Bank branch in Galatsi district. Thus, significant ochlarchy Wednesday. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack.

28.04.2009. Anarchists against occupations! The anarchists are in general against occupations, that unless special cases are authoritarian and theft, i.e. economical plutarchy/capitalism, say, as the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, squatters, Hitler's occupations during the second world war, etc. Meanwhile: 09.00 No association of the prosecution! Terrorism will not be!, Corinth, 18.00 leading solidarity, demonstration against the occupation and suppression, Athens, 18.00 course, progress, Thessaloniki, nothing gives ..., course, leading solidarity in their occupations and self-X, Athens, 18.30 solidarity event, Volos, 19.00 day for katalipseis,Volos, event against the new repressive metra.a, Arta, 19.30 microphones-show, 20.00 Open meeting , Athens, 21.00 assembly workers / unemployed / student media, Athens.

Prefecture strike. Prefectural offices around the country are to shut down tomorrow for 24 hours in protest at new legislation abolishing certain fees and charges that would result in prefectures losing some 110 million euros in revenues. Addressing a press conference yesterday, Messinia Prefect Dimitris Drakos, who is also the president of the Union of Prefectural Authorities (ENEA), called for the revocation of the law, noting that losses would be restricted to 40 million euros if action is taken within the next four months.

Cretans connected to Zoniana raid face trial. The trial of 53 Cretans charged in connection with crimes ranging from attempted murder and drug dealing to money laundering begins today at a Piraeus court. Charges were brought against the 53 defendants following a police raid on the mountain village of Zoniana in November 2007, which resulted in a police officer being shot in the head. A subsequent police probe unraveled a web of criminal activity in the broader central prefecture of Rethymnon. Of the 53 defendants, seven face charges of the attempted murder of police officers, who were showered with gunfire when they tried to raid Zoniana. Of the remainder, 12 face charges of trading in cocaine, six are charged with the possession of and suspected trade in arms and 14 are accused of money laundering. Yes, jail these rightwing extremist economical plutarchist/capitalist criminal ochlarchists, the anarchists say.

Delta squad to patrol more cities. The Delta squad, set up to tackle outbursts of violence in central Athens following an unprecedented spree by hooded vandals in the upmarket district of Kolonaki in mid-March, is to be extended to other parts of the capital and to Thessaloniki. According to Interior Ministry sources, an additional 1,500 special guards will be recruited to police troublesome districts of Athens and Thessaloniki on motorcycles. Despite widespread criticism about the efficiency of the existing Delta squad in the city center, a ministry source expressed optimism about the unit's prospects. "About 80 percent of crime is in Athens and Thessaloniki. If we can tackle the problem there, the image of the police force will change dramatically" the source said. Yesterday Delta squad officers detained at least 10 fans of rival Athens soccer teams Ethnikos Asteras and Atromitos believed to have been involved in a brawl in Kaisariani, eastern Athens.

Earlier this month, officers from the same unit arrested two hooded youths believed to have been involved in clashes in central Syntagma Square. But doubts have been raised about the overall effectiveness of the rapid-reaction force in Athens, with many suggesting that the squad might suffer the same fate as previous units in the past and be disbanded. Criticism began in the very first week of the squad's operation in early April when a 30-year-old officer was shot in the head after a standoff with two gunmen in the central Athens district of Kypseli. The squad's presence in Thessaloniki is to begin with 50 or 60 officers being dispatched to patrol the city's busiest districts on motorcycles. The officers, who will patrol the city's crime hot spots in groups of between five and 10, are to focus on curbing outbreaks of vandalism and petty crime. Arrest the criminal ochlarchists, the anarchists demand.

Athens shooting. A young Afghan man was in the hospital Tuesday after being shot in the chest by a compatriot in the central Athens district of Aghios Panteleimonas. According to witnesses, the shooting occurred following an argument. The suspect was still at large late last night. Doctors said the shooting victim was out of danger.

Armed Robbery in EDOEAP. An armed robber barged into the basement of EDOEAP journalist Security Fund building in Ilisia area and stole unknown sum of money. Another two accomplices were waiting for him in the entrance of the building. The culprit hit the security guard with the handle of the gun and run away stealing from the funds unknown sum of money. Initially the culprit had asked from the employees to open the safe but the employee had to enter the code number and as the procedure was time consuming the robbers disappeared. Police is conducting investigation. Arrest these rightwing extremist economical plutarchist/capitalist criminal ochlarchists, the anarchists say. Thus, significant ochlarchy Tuesday. The anarchists condemn the armed robbery and shooting.

27.04.2009. The anarchists condemn Greek newspapers for falsely calling ochlarchists "anarchists". Meetings, etc. 08.30 book of the anthology "Epos" and "Umbrella", Athens, 19.00 progress against state repression, Athens, 19:00 open meeting for Labor Day 2009, Athens.

Fugitive and ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" have been in touch. Police knew that fugitive robber Vassilis Palaiocostas, who has been on the run from authorities since breaking out of Korydallos Prison in February, had repeated contact with members of the anti-establishment before his escape, sources have told a Greek newspaper. While in prison, Palaiocostas often spoke on the phone to anti-establishment figures known to police. It has also emerged that a woman known to belong to the anti-establishment ranks and who operates a business in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, obtained a document from a Citizen Service Center (KEP) confirming her claim that she was Palaiocostas's fiancee, which gave her the right to visit him in prison.

Sources said that Palaiocostas explained to her over the phone how he had ensured that he and Alket Rizai, the convicted murderer with whom he escaped, were placed in neighboring cells ahead of their breakout. Police also believe that Palaiocostas has been in touch with figures of the ochlarchist movement, that are false posing as "anarchists", since his release. Officers think that Polykarpos Georgiadis, an ochlarchists falsesly posing as a "self-styled anarchist" who was arrested in connection with the kidnapping of businessman Giorgos Mylonas last year, has acted as a link for Palaiocostas, who also allegedly masterminded the abduction.

Palaiocostas narrowly evaded arrest earlier this month, when police stopped a car in western Attica before raiding a hideout allegedly used by him and Rizai. The police has identified some of the individuals who were involved in the ochlarchist raid, falsely called "anarchist raid", on shops in the central Athens district of Kolonaki last month thanks to CCTV images taken before they concealed their faces. However, sources have said that this evidence is not admissible in court due to privacy laws. The anarchists condemn Greek newspapers' reports, falsely calling these ochlarchists "anarchists", and thus falsely trying to connect anarchists and anarchism to criminality. The anarchists declare: Arrest the criminals! The anarchists are against all forms of criminality! These Greek newspapers also get a Brown Card from the International Anarchist Tribunal - the Anarchist Press Tribunal.

May 1st: Trade unions prepare. Trade Unions are entering the final stretch of their preparations to celebrate May 1st with different rallies. ADEDY (The Civil Servants Supreme Administrative Council) will hold a protest march to the Finance Ministry Wednesday noon and will stage a 24-hour strike, as well as a rally at Klafthmonos Square on 14 May. PAME (All Workers Militant Front) will hold a rally at Syntagma square at 10:30 Friday, May 1st, with singer Manolis Mitsias giving a concert. GSEE (General Confederation of Greek Workers), ADEDY and the Athens labor centre will hold a rally at Klafthmonos Square, with Thanos Mikroutsikos giving a concert.

Incidents in Kaisariani ended. "Delta" police force arrested two people after the incidents that broke out after the end of the football game between Ethnikos Asteras and Atromitos Ahinon outside Michalis Krytikopoulos football court. After the end of the game, fans of both groups clashed outside the court. Police forces restored the order using tear gazes. Jail the hooligans and ochlarchists, the anarchists say.

Car bomb. Police arrested two men on Monday in the Athens neighborhood of Dafni after stopping a car in which they found a homemade bomb. During a check, officers found the device, which consisted of a propane gas cylinder, a detonator and a slow-burning fuse. One of the suspects, a 30-year-old from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, had previously been expelled from Greece for drug offenses. The other suspect, a 29-year-old Greek, had been linked to extortion cases. Thus, significant ochlarchy Monday.

26.04.2009. Meetings and treasure hunt, etc. 03.00 3rd cycle treasure hunt sunday April 26th 2009, Athens, 10.00 market of books, 10.30 journey to the planned space stations, gather course, 11.00 event, Athens, 12.00 solidarity festival, Athens, 17.00 news and open meeting on hourly rates, Athens, 18.00 meeting, Athens, 19.00 Cyprus: Police violence and repression, Athens, 20.30 view "The day I became a woman", with Marsigie Meskini, Athens 21.00 viewing "The visit of the band" and "Thanasi tighten their belts and another", Thessaloniki. No reports of significant ochlarcy Sunday.

25.04.2009. Armed attack, firebomb attack, concerts and meetings, etc. 10.00 market of books, 11.00 protest against animal experiments, Athens, 12.00 protest, Athens, residents of Petralona folk meeting, Athens,17.30 continue ... 19.00 discussion: LGBT film and Identity-Hits, Athens, 19.00 event for women's prisons, Thessaloniki, party of ochlarchists to aid prisoners in Greece, London. The anarchists don't support ochlarchists in jail, that destroyed for many millions... 20.00 concert against state repression, Athens, people's assembly.

Mystery covers an armed attack recorded before ALTER TV station at 11.20 Saturday. Two individuals in a white car shot three times in the air, 300 metres before the entrance of the building and another four times in front of the central entrance of the station, as well as two more times while leaving the area. The Police found four nine-millimeter cartridges on the spot that will be examined at the police's labs. The police are investigating the case and even the possibility for an organization to be behind the attack. On 17, February ALTER vehicles had been riddled by the organization Sechta Epanastaton (Revolutionaries' Sect).

Police firebombed. A group of about 50 people threw Molotov cocktails at policemen stationed at Kaningos Square early on Saturday morning. The attack occurred at 3.20 a.m. and police said that the hooded assailants emerged from George Street, threw the firebombs and then fled the scene. No injuries or arrests were reported. Thus, significant ochlarchy Saturday. The anarchists condemn the armed attack and firebomb attack. Arrest these criminals!

24.04.2009. The anarchists declare: After 20 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction and is degenerated. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Meanwhile: 11.00 local time party of aid, Polytechnic, 18.00 solidaity concert in occupations, Thessaloniki, 19.00 open meeting, Thessaloniki, Free Social Space Buena Ventura, 19.00 Warning! Event for the creation of a single polymorphic movement of ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!! The anarchists demand: Arrest the criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism. 20.00 Video show of propaganda beam on 28/4, 21.00 update on Hiv / AIDS and view, 23.00 to parties postponed, Athens, Herring 23.00 pm, Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy Friday.

23.04.2009. Meetings, etc. 14.00 local time general meeting of the SSM, 18.00 local time, open call of self-education, Athens, 19.00 open meeting for Labor Day 2009, 20.00 calling a meeting to organize against the road Biono, Athens, 21.00 view movie "Gran Torino", 22.00 event in Thessaloniki, Free Social Space Buena Ventura. No reports of significant ochlarchy Thursday.

22.04.2009. Burnt warehouse, meetings, etc. 19.00 local time meeting for solidarity, 19.00 Warning! Event for the creation of a single polymorphic movement of ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!!; The anarchists demand: Arrest these criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism. 20.00 Meeting , Athens, 21.00 View movie "Stroszek (1977) in Werne" and "The Way", and assembly on the Labor Day.

Burnt warehouse. A blaze that broke out in a large warehouse in the central Athens district of Rouf in the early hours of yesterday morning completely destroyed the structure but caused no injuries as no one had been on the site at the time, the fire service said. It was unclear whether the blaze was the result of an arson attack or an accident. Ochlarchy?

21.04.2009. Arson attack, meetings and show, etc. 18.00 open public meeting, Agios Dimitrios, 19.00 event for the social rebellion of December, Berlin, 20.30 show film, 22.00 tribute to political song, painter. An unidentified assailant caused minor damage to a car belonging to a journalist employed by Skai radio and television late on Tuesday night by using a firecracker, police said. There were no injuries reported. Thus significant ochlarchy Tuesday. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.

19.04.2009. Concerts, etc.14.00 GLENTI and a good cause, Athens, publicity19.00 and the concert of December, Frankfurt, 21.00 show film, Kavala.

18.04.2009. Concerts, etc. 19.00 show and concert of December, Düsseldorf, 22.00 live MoHa!, Athens.

17.04.2009. The anarchists declare: After 19 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction and is degenerated. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Meanwile 19.00 Warning! Event for the creation of a single polymorphic movement of ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!!, 21.00 view and solidarity concert, Friese / Bremen, 22.00 metal party kai roast, Volos, 23.00 live, Kavala. The anarchists demand: Arrest the criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism.

16.04.2009. Arson attack/vandalism, protests and meetings, etc. 11.00 Protest against the slaughter of lambs for Easter, Athens, 17.00 vegan kitchen, Athens, 19.00 discussion view, 20.00 publicity and film show, Athens, 21.00 open meeting, Thessaloniki, 21.30 show, Volos. Vandals target metro construction site with arson attack. A home-made explosive device comprised of camping gas cannisters exploded at 2.15 a.m. on Thursday at the under-construction Argyroupoli (Argiropolis) metro station in southern Athens. Damages to machinery were reported. The fire caused damages to a bridge crane parked in the site. The fire brigade extinguished a resulting blaze. Thus, significant ochlarchy Thursday. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and arson attacks. The anarchists demand: Arrest the criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism.

15.04.2009. Vandalism, arson attacks, meetings, etc. 18.00 local time meeting, Athens, 19.00 open meeting of rebels, Polytechnic, Room Guinea, Athens, Gomorra-open view kitchen-bar, Thessaloniki, 20.00 debriefing and the health assembly, Athens, 20.00 with the usual procedures .. ,Upper City of Thessaloniki, view, Athens. Vandalism sprees. Arsonists used gas canister bombs early Wednesday to target security equipment firms in the Athens districts of Kallithea and Nea Smyrni, causing minor damage and no injuries. Meanwhile in central Thessaloniki hooded youths hurled stones through the windows of a technical college, causing widespread damage. Thus, significant ochlarchy Wednesday. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and arson attacks.

14.04.2009. Arson attack, robbery, discussions and meetings, etc. 19.00 event discussion with partners from Vancouver, Canada, Athens, antipolemic coordination meeting-debate, Athens, view of the social revolt of December, Berlin, also 19.00 Warning! Event for the creation of a single polymorphic front of ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!! 19.30 Discussion on Ymittos, Athens, Upper Ilissia, 20.00 screening of the film ''Working with our pass'', 21.00 concert solidarity, Leipzig. Indymedia Athens has a memorial note on the death of the Spanish anarchist Diego Camacho, known by the pseudonym Abel Paz, and writer of several books.

Terror link to failed blast. An explosive device that was placed outside offices in the southern Athens neighborhood of Kallithea on Saturday but failed to detonate is likely to have been the work of the terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle, which has been particularly active in the city over the last few months. Initial tests suggest that the device contained ANFO, a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil that is a common explosive used in mining and quarrying. A massive bomb that went off outside Citibank's headquarters in Kifissia in February, and which was also claimed by Revolutionary Struggle, was found to contain ANFO too. Police said that Saturday's bomb was placed outside the entrance to a building that houses offices for Alpha Bank, a shipping company and, until recently, served as the headquarters of a French company. A recorded telephone warning was made to the Eleftherotypia newspaper.

Bullying - ochlarchy - on the rise at schools and online. One in four schoolchildren has been the victim of bullying, a problem well documented in other countries but only now appearing in Greece, experts say. A study by the Association for the Psychosocial Health of Children and Adolescents in Athens shows that 22.5 percent of schoolchildren have suffered some form of verbal or physical bullying - in the schoolyard, the classroom or even on the Internet. "Intimidation has arrived in Greek schools and is affecting hundreds of children," said Stamatis Antoniou, psychology professor at Manchester Business School. Antoniou said most victims were depressive and anti-social and called on teachers to encourage them to communicate. In a related development, police in Athens said they had traced four young people who had posted messages on the Internet expressing their intention of taking their own lives.

"Clown" robs two banks in northern Athens. An armed robber wearing a clown mask held up two Millenium bank branches in the northern Athens suburbs of Holargos and Gerakas on Tuesday in the space of 20 minutes. The perpetrator took off with a total of 4,500 euros from both robberies and escaped on a motorcycle.

Last week, as mentioned, arsonists planted incendiary devices at Greece's main Orthodox cathedral and three other churches. One of the devices exploded, causing minor damage. A group calling itself "Nihilist Faction" claimed responsibility. Anarchists are against nihilism and nihilists.

Arson attack. Unidentified arsonists used gas-canister bombs to cause minor damage to a store selling security systems in the central Athens district of Gyzi. There were no injuries.

Thus, significant ochlarchy Tuesday. Arrest the criminal ochlarchists! The anarchists condemn the robbery and arson attack.

13.04.2009. Anarchy vs chaos, government and rulers of chaos. "Say, two people stranded on an island may co-operate without coercion to survive, i.e. anarchy, or act as superior vs subordinates, i.e. hierarchy, government, and more or less chaos."

1. Rulers of chaos. Authoritarians notoriously mix up anarchy, anarchist and anarchism with authoritarian tendencies : Chaos , disorder, mob rule (narrowly defined), lawlessness, the law of the jungle, criminality, riots, theft, corruption, drugs, mafia, terrorism, autocratic rule, the right to the strongest, antisocial tyrannic behavior, etc. i.e. different types of superiors and subordinates . The Greek rooted word for mob rule is ochlarchy. Ochlarchy broadly defined may also be used as a common word for all the authoritarian evils mentioned above, i.e. in general lack of security and law and order in a society as a public sector service. This is ochlarchy, the opposite of anarchy, i.e. based on libertarian law and order and security as public sector services, according to the anarchist (IFA) principle of social justice. The ochlarcists/ochlarchs are rulers of chaos, with equal to or more than 666 per thousand (67%) authoritarian degree, i.e. very evil.

2. The word anarchy origins from greek. The prefix "an" means "negation of" as in anaerobe versus aerobe and "arch" means "superior, i.e. in contrast to subordinates", as in archbishop, archangel, archduke, arch villain, etc. Thus anarchy, anarchism, anarchist, a.s.o., mean coordination on equal footing, without superiors and subordinates , i.e. horizontal organization and co-operation without coercion, ideally or practically. This is the opposite of the above mentioned authoritarian tendencies, i.e. different types of superiors and subordinates, chaos - and rulers of chaos...

3. The rulers of chaos, ochlarchists/ochlarchs, in Greece should be stopped once and for all, via direct actions of the people and the police, and arrested.

Meanwhile: 19.00 local time discussion with the partner of America on remedies, Athens.

Arson attacks. Simultaneous hits on banks and cars in Athens and Thessaloniki. Arsonists staged coordinated attacks on bank branches and parked cars in central Athens and Thessaloniki early Tuesday, causing widespread damage but no injuries. In Athens, unidentified vandals doused a truck in Neos Cosmos with fuel before setting it alight. In Patissia, gas canister bombs were used to damage a local bank branch. Cars were also torched in Petralona and Aspropyrgos and a bank targeted in Ilion. In Thessaloniki, arsonists torched cars in four districts. Thus, significant ochlarchy Monday. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.

12.04.2009. Discussion on revolutionary theory, drugs, etc. 08.00 local time screening of documentary "2nd Generation", 10.00 revolutionary theory conference, Athens, 11.30 2nd celebration in Tripoli, 13.00 meeting in Arta (political persecution and free space), 14.00 two-day event, Athens, 17.00 two-day event 11-12 April, Athens, "we are still here ...", 18.00 meeting, and open Labor Day meeting for 2009, Athens, 19.00 open discussion on drugs, 20.30 show film "Central Station" by Walter Salles, Athens, 20.30 view documentary on the history of occupations, 21.00 view LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer), Trans America, Athens, 21.00 view "Lemon Tree", 22.30 live. No reports of significnt ochlarchy Sunday.

Dimitris Kokkinis, the 18-year-old student of a vocational training college in Renti district, western Athens, is in a stable yet critical condition, after being shot in the chest by fellow student Dimitris Patmanidis on Friday. Dimitris Kokkinis has escaped danger, whereas the rest injuries he has sustained will be dealt with as soon as he grows stronger, said his doctors.

11.09.2009 Bomb attacks, boycott, futile prisoner support, revolutionary theory, etc. 10. 00 local time revolutionary theory conference, Athens, 12.00 gather way, concentration-path in solidarity with prisoners of the rebellion, collection - leading solidarity to the persecuted of December, at Liberty Square, Athens-Koridalos, (a futile action, the ochlarchists have got what they deserve), also course and "Outside the Golden Dawn by schools", 14.00 two-day event, Athens, 16.00 hours to lie down Technopolis, Athens, 17.00 new technologies & social movement, and "against pinch and depression", Athens, 18.00 self-education - open call, Athens,19.00 event for the rights of children (2nd generation), Athens, 20.00 concert, 21.00 film "A cry in December", show video - inform the sacking of Parnitha, Athens, 21.00 solidarity concert in occupations, and solidarity concert in factory occupations in Yfanet, Thessaloniki, 22.00 party, 23.00 Breaks / Dubstep / Drum'n Bass party, Athens.

Bomb attacks. A building in the central Athens district of Kallithea housing Alpha Bank, and a subsidiary of French banking group BNP Paribas, and SELETEN insurance company offices as well as the ND party offices in the northern suburb of Filothei were the targets of attacks at 05.00 and 02.40 respectively. Assailants placed self made explosives and gas canisters at the entrance of the buildings causing only material damage. The explosion shattered windows and cracked marble, but caused no injuries. Police cordoned off the area in Kallithea for safety reasons while bomb disposal experts collected parts of the explosive device to be tested at the Hellas Police laboratory. Two fire brigades arrived at the site of the ruling ND party offices in Filothei but fortunately the explosion of the gas canisters had not ignited a fire. Police are carrying out investigations. No organization has claimed responsibility so far but an unknown person called a newspaper to warn about the explosion. Earlier the same night unidentified arsonists used a gas canister bomb to target the offices of ruling New Democracy in the central Athens district of Kypseli. Thus, significant ochlarchy Saturday. The anarchists suspect ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.

Online bid for boycott of pricey Athens cafes. An online campaign against the high cost of coffee in the capital could result in many city dwellers boycotting Athens cafes Saturday. In an e-mail message sent to thousands of addresses over the past few days, organizers call on consumers to demand the respect that "they, their pockets and their intelligence deserve" by staying away from cafes today. Protesters complain that the average price of coffee served at Athens outlets is 2 euros, compared to 95 cents in Barcelona, 1.80 euros in Berlin and 1 euro in London. In many cafes in the center of the Greek capital, the price of a simple coffee can reach 4 euros. Coffee shop owners reportedly argue the cost of coffee has increased due to higher rents and other charges. Organizers of the boycott contend that foreign cafe owners face the same problems but still manage to serve cheaper coffee.

10.04.2009.The anarchists declare: After 18 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Open meetings and discussions, etc. 16.00 Linux install fest, Athens, 18.00 party, Thessaloniki. 19.00 Warning! Open meeting for a unified movement of ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!! Also 19.00 reform or revolution, economic aid concert for the arrested in December, meeting for the establishment of club for translation-curators and film show, Athens, 20.00 discussion "New technologies and social movements", films, Athens; the battle against the contract works to AUTH, Thessaloniki, 20.30 films , Thessaloniki and Athens, 21.00 concert, political memorial of George Gkountouna, film; "if the whole world consumed like the Greeks will need 3", Athens. 22.00 Live.

School shooting gunman dies. An unprecedented school shooting was reported around 08.30 a.m. local time (06.30 GMT) in Athens, with three people injured, one seriously, while the gunman, a student, died later in surgery from a self-inflicted shot to the head. The incident occurred when a student of the Manpower Employment Organisation's (OAED) vocational training programmes in the Renti district, near Piraeus, opened fire and injured a fellow student and two passers-by, then shot himself. The gunman was a Greek national from Sukhumi, Abkhazia. A note was found in the gunman's schoolbag, stating his intent to shoot anyone he saw in front of him and then commit suicide. According to testimonies to police, the 19-year-old had psychological problems and suicidal tendencies. The note also said that "I am an egotist and can't stand being deprecated". The incident marks the first time a spree-type shooting by a student occurs in a Greek school.

The shooting comes amid a recent surge of bloody bank robberies, homicides, muggings, violent burglaries, arson attacks, vandalism and organized theft in Greece. The country has no history of violent crime, and the incidents have embarrassed Greece's conservative government, which has been shaken by a series of financial scandals and holds a slim one-seat majority in parliament. Greece's Left Coalition party said Friday's shooting served as a "warning bell" for the government. "There is so much despair, fear, anger and aggression among young people looking for jobs that we can have such incidents," the party's parliamentary spokesman Alekos Alavanos said. The anarchists declare that there is no real difference between so called politically motived criminality and other criminality, it is all ochlarchy - mob rule broadly defined. Arrest the criminals! Arrest the ochlarchists/ ochlarchs! And do away with the unemployment via expansive finance and monetary policy, do way with the corruption and tax the ritch!

Vandals amok. Youths with sledgehammers smash four banks in Petralona. A group of around 20 hooded youths used sledgehammers and iron bars to vandalize four bank branches on a busy street in the central Athens district of Petralona early in the afternoon. Millennium, Piraeus and National Bank branches sustained serious damage in the attacks, though there were no reports of any injuries. The perpetrators managed to elude arrest. Meanwhile, police said they had detained 20 suspects for questioning after a sweep in the central district of Exarchia. They did not say whether the detentions were connected to the Petralona spree. Thus, significant ochlarchy Friday. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and shooting.

Green rage at Acheloos plan. The country's six major conservation groups Friday issued a joint statement condemning the promotion by Environment and Public Works Minister Giorgos Souflias of a project to divert the waters of the Acheloos River in western Greece to the heavily farmed Thessaly Plain, accusing the government of squandering dwindling water reserves and funds. In the statement, WWF Hellas, Greenpeace and other groups dispute Souflias's claims that the project will solve Thessaly's irrigation problem and claim instead that it will "become an alibi for the continuation of the catastrophic water management and unacceptable agricultural practices that have been undermining the Thessaly Plain for years." The statement added that Souflias "had christened the project as environmentally sound," noting that the European Commission has refused to fund the diversion since 1994. Souflias yesterday described the conservationists' claims as "inaccurate and unsubstantiated."

Pensioners staged a demonstration. Pensioners staged a demonstration through central Athens Friday, protesting about their dwindling social security payments. They had a placard reading, "No to their profits and our losses." One elderly man was taken to the hospital for first-aid treatment after passing out during the protest.

09.04.2009. Incendiary devices planted at cathedrals, rebellion and meetings, etc. 11.00 "rebellion first ever", 12.00 The crisis hits and academic libraries, Athens, 14.00 feast of financial aid mobilization, Thessaloniki, 18.30 concentration-course, Athens, 18.30 new measures - we are not afraid! U.S. incense!; event on order and security related to the crisis; demonstration; no to new terrorism measures!; Athens, 19.00 open public meeting, Athens, live and information from fellow Danes, Volos, 19.30 Call to Piraeus, 20.00 night and art course for united writers; show; Athens, marxist and pacifist event for refusing military conscription, 21.00 viewing of the films "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Pan's Labyrinth" by Guillermo del Toro, Athens, and music representation "Votani-Votanaki", Thessaloniki.

Incendiary devices planted at cathedrals in Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki. In an unprecedented series of attacks, unidentified arsonists yesterday planted explosive devices in four major churches in Athens, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, though only the Piraeus bomb detonated, causing damage but no injuries. A homemade incendiary device at the Athens Metropolitan Cathedral, in the heart of the city, was defused by bomb disposal experts on Thursday afternoon, following warning calls made at 14.10 to police and local media. The unidentified caller said that a bomb would go off at the Athens Cathedral in 45 minutes. The area was immediately cordoned off and the bomb squad sent in, which located the explosive device in a small rucksack within the cathedral. The bomb consisted of a battery-operated clock detonator and either gas canisters or explosives and it was defused by bomb disposal experts. An identical device caught fire but without igniting at the Aghia Triada Church in Piraeus, while another two were located in churches in the northern port city of Thessaloniki. A blast and small fire were caused by the device, again hidden inside a travel bag, planted in the Aghia Triada Cathedral in Piraeus at 14.45 on Thursday. The homemade device comprised at least two gas canisters, fire-starters used in fireplaces and a bottle of unidentified liquid. A priest and a church sexton present at the time managed to quickly extinguish the fire. No material damage was caused. An investigation is underway by police.Another call warning of a bomb at the National Certification Centre at 49 Constantinoupoleos Street was made at 15.45. This area was also been cordoned off by police. Thus, significant ochlarchy Thursday. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.

08.04.2009. Hooded youths attacked police, theft, protests and meetings, etc. 09.30 show of protest to Ministry of Education, Athens, 15.00 promotion of "Punishment park movie" and discussion, 18.30 protest, Athens, 19.00 view video information and concert, 19.00 rule revenge: Deaths - Switchover - Discipline, Thessaloniki; open Labor Day meeting for 2009, Athens, open meeting of rebels for solidarity with the persons prosecuted, Athens; lecture/concert: Black Sheep, Abra Macabra, Skarpretter (Denmark), Athens, 19.30 event-debate, Athens, 20.00 Discussion: the Franco Basaglia, Athens, open assembly of cooperation lawyers & trainees, Thessaloniki, 20.30 D.I.Y. Grindcore Live, 21.00 view documentary "Underground World", Thessaloniki. Store raid. A group of around 20 leftwing extremist ultra-authoritarian marxists entered a supermarket in the Athens suburb of Nea Philadelphia, filled up carts with food, stormed past the checkout registers and distributed the goods to passers-by. The robbers scattered leaflets with the communist slogan "We will share out your wealth" to local shoppers.

Raider in red. A woman wearing a red jacket, red cap and glasses raided a bank branch in the northern Athens district of Halandri after calmly handing the chief cashier a note reading, "This is a robbery; I have a gun, give me the money." According to staff at the Eurobank branch, the woman handed over the note and then opened her jacket to show a gun she had concealed there. The cashier gave a bag of cash to the woman who left on foot. There had been no sign of her by late Wednesday.

PM heralds crime crackdown. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis called for a crackdown on rising crime and extremism, linking "self-styled anarchists" [i.e. in reality not anarchists, but leftwing extremist, ochlarchist, ultra-authoritarian marxists] to common criminals and raising the possibility of a change to the law on university asylum to discourage troublemakers from exploiting campus sites as zones of immunity. "Blind violence and vandalism is not asylum, it is immunity for crime and we cannot tolerate such immunity," Karamanlis told Parliament ahead of a heated exchange with opposition leaders who charged that the government's inactivity had fueled a rise in crime. Karamanlis struck back at opposition criticism, calling for zero tolerance of violence committed in the name of "false progressiveness" and heralded a possible change to the law governing university immunity unless there is closer cooperation between academic authorities and the state. "If this does not happen, then the law will change again in order to protect the free exchange of ideas, not its enemies," he said. Karamanlis said the government would not permit a repeat of last December's unprecedented riots.

His comments came just a few hours before hooded youths attacked police in central Athens and a few hours after a police sweep in the city that led to the arrest of 56 people found in possession of drugs or weapons. The premier added that the government would make use of surveillance infrastructure put in place for the Athens 2004 Olympics in its efforts to crack down on crime. "We have decided to activate the system after the necessary legal procedures," he said. Opposition party leaders responded to the premier's comments with strong criticism. "You came to power on a pledge to reinvent the state, and you leave having destroyed any sense of a well-governed state," said PASOK leader George Papandreou. He also accused Karamanlis of "seeking an alibi... every time he needed to take political responsibility for rising lawlessness." Alekos Alavanos, leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), criticized the prime minister for exploiting the December riots "to cultivate a climate of fear."

Thus, significant ochlarchy Wednesday. The anarchists condemn the attack on the police and the theft, i.e. ochlarchy. The IAT hands out a Brown Card to Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis for falsely calling the leftwing extremist, ochlarchist, ultra-authoritarian marxists "self-styled anarchists", and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. No anarchists have been involved in the ochlarchy.

University sit-in. One group leaves Aristotle campus after three weeks. The protesters who have been occupying the main administrative building of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki for the last three weeks decided to end their sit-in protest after accepting the assurances given by the school's senate about the employment of contract workers in the future. However, another group of protesters continues to occupy an old train carriage that is located on the university premises but rector Anastassios Manthos did not give any indication yesterday that academic authorities would be asking the police to remove these demonstrators.

07.04.2009. Arson attack, meetings and discussions, etc. 02.00 local time "Kini free software", 18.00 open public meeting, 19.00 open meeting, Athens, protest in Board Marousi to change land use, 19.30 both sides of the history of Cyprus, Athens, 20.00 lecture-discussion "NATO's 60 years", Thessaloniki, 21.00 theatrical performance "Art freak + other mono-practice", Athens, and open meeting of rebels. Athens-Exarchia unrest. Unidentified arsonists hurled Molotov cocktail bombs late at night at police who had been trying to clear the road for a fire engine to access a building site where a fire had broken out. The cause of the blaze, which burnt some wooden scaffolding, was unclear. Thus, significant significant ochlarchy Tuesday. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.

06.04.2009 Farmers' action, autonomous feminism, meetings and consentration, etc. 08.30 local time welfare consentration, 16.00 event on construction, Athens, 18.00 public convention of residents, Holargos, 18.00 open meeting, Thessaloniki, 19.00 civil ceremony for the left, 21.00 concentration and autonomous feminist workshop, Athens. Farmers' action in Athens protesting against too low prices on agricultural goods, giving milk away for free, meaning they earn so little on their products that they could almost give it away for free. Sit-in debate. Dozens of self-professed leftist, i.e. marxist, demonstrators, who concluded the 20th day of a sit-in at the administrative offices of Thessaloniki's Aristotle University, convened to decide whether to continue their action. No reports of significant ochlarchy Monday.

05.04.2009. Meetings and assemblies, etc. 10.30 local time gather in prisons Eleonas Thebes, 11.00 event of experimentation and debate, Athens, 11.00 treasure hunt for children and adults, all Sunday, 12.00 event of construction, Athens, 13.00 democratic blowout, 14.00 three birthday, 15.00 assembly and meeting, Athens, 16.00 gather-way and assembly to create an association of translators-curators, Athens, 17.00 day cycling, Athens, event of self-defense sites, 18.00 meeting, Athens, 19.00 update - meeting on Ymittos, Athens, discussion, 20.30 Film "Life of Brian", Thessaloniki, 21.00 theatrical improvisation invites you in-class performance, Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

04.04.2009. Day of anti- and solidarity-actions, etc. 00.00 local time event on construction, Athens, 01.00 antiwar rally, Athens, 07.00 solidarity event to Zapatistas, Thessaloniki, 11.00 experimentation and debate, and anti-easter event, Athens, 12.00 masked course, mascara, Athens, speech-planting in a public place, ultra-authoritarian marxist concentration against NATO, Thessaloniki, 13.00 Course, Athens, ultra-authoritarian marxist anti-NATO demonstration, Athens, 18.00 self-education, open call, update, Athens, three birthday, lecture-talk & live, Thessaloniki, 19.00 solidarity event to Zapatistas, Thessaloniki, 20.00 two-day events, hip hop concert, events, 20.30 two-day events for Palestine, Thessaloniki, 21.00 live/punk vs r'n'roll, 22.00 percussion concert, Athens, 22.00 party of solidarity and support of the hostages of the state, Athens. 22.00 live with zero zero, asymmetric threat, Thessaloniki, 22.30 live with "Tube-A-Bassa", Athens, 23.00 party of solidarity with the persecuted of December, Athens, and party hangout, Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy in Greece Saturday. But ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist anti-NATO actions in central Europe were very ochlarchical.

Eight years in jail for Giorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis. The leftwing extremist ultra-authoritarian marxist and the son of a Synaspismos Left Coalition politician, Giorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis, was sentenced to eight years in prison for the armed robbery of a bank in Gyzi, central Athens, in October 2007. The court found him guilty of robbery and illegally carrying a weapon. Voutsis was caught while carrying a firearm and a hand grenade. "I apologize to the customers and bank employees for the five seconds that I acted like those in power," said the 23-year-old, who admitted that the incident had a huge effect on his family. "I do not regret my action but I would not do such a thing again." Voutsis insisted that his aim had not been to steal money but to harm the banking system. He said that he and his accomplices, none of whom have been caught, had not thought about what to do with the money. The court rejected an appeal for a reduced term due to his good behavior since being arrested. Such an ochlarchical, anti-capitalist action is authoritarian socialist, i.e. marxist, and far from anarchist. As typical for leftwing extremist marxists, he does not regret his ultra-authoritarian criminal behavior. As mentioned the anarchists comdemn Voutsis-Vogiatzis.

03.04.2009. The anarchists declare: After 17 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Meanwhile... 11.30 local time event, 12.00 party, Thessaloniki, 18.00 event forward, 19.00 Warning! Event for the creation of an open meeting of marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the international anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!! Also 19.00 3rd open meeting on Labor Day of 2009, and two-day events, etc., 20.00 events, 20.30 film, 20.30 ultra-authoritarian marxist two-day event for Palestine, Thessaloniki, 20.30 films, 21.00 "for all what happened", Athens, 21.00 theatrical performance "Art freak + other mono-practice", Athens, 21.30 Party, Thessaloniki.

Shooting against Policemen. A 30-year-old policeman was in critical condition and another 26-year-old officer suffered lighter injuries after being shot at close range by an unidentified person in the first hours of Friday, in the Grava neighborhood of central Athens' Kypseli residential district.

Bomb blasts. Police Friday were examining the remains of an improvised explosive device found in an underground parking lot in the central Athens district of Kypseli. The remains of the device were found at noon, although it is unclear when it detonated. There was only limited damage caused and no injuries. In Thessaloniki, meanwhile, unidentified assailants planted explosive devices on two security firm vans. One failed to detonated, the other went off at 3.30 a.m., causing limited damage to the vehicle and no injuries. Thus, significant ochlarchy Friday. The anarchists comdemn the shooting and bomb attacks.

02.04.2009 Protest and strike, etc. 08.30 local time performance protest, 10.00 gathering for strike. 11.00 participation in the strike of GSEE-ADEDY, 19.00 event discussion, 21. 00 view films, "Dark city" and "A cry in December".

Strike action. Public transport disruptions and flight cancellations. A workers' strike today will ground aircraft between noon and 4 p.m. and cause significant disruptions to public transport in the capital. The Athens tram, intercity rail routes and the suburban railway will not operate at all today as staff join the 24-hour strike called by civil servants' union ADEDY and labor union GSEE. The Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway and the metro will run between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. while buses and trolley buses will run from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Teachers, hospital workers and journalists will also join the strike.

Thousands of Greeks went on strike Thursday, crippling the country's public and private sector in an action that labor unions said was timed to coincide with the Group of 20 summit in London. The 24-hour nationwide walkout is the latest show of opposition to austerity measures taken by the center-right government here in response to the international financial crisis. It is the second such action since the police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in December sparked a rash of riots and uncorked labor unrest over the country's sharp economic downturn.

"This strike is Greece's response to the G-20 summit in London," said Stathis Anestis, a spokesman for the country's confederation of workers. "Those who created the crisis," he said, "are now trying to fix it, and the solutions they're handing down to governments like ours are not to be trusted." The strike Thursday grounded more than 160 domestic and international flights. Across the country, commercial ships remained anchored at harbors while the Athens subway system, urban buses and trolleys operated briefly to allow protesters to travel to the center of the city to take part in protest marches. Teachers, bankers and public servants also stayed away from work as state-run hospitals operated on skeleton staff and public utilities corporations shut their client-service departments for the day.

A 24-hour news blackout was ordered by the country's powerful journalists' union. The walkout follows a government decision earlier this month to freeze public sector salaries of more than 1,700 euros a month and impose a one-off tax on high income earners. It also follows a wave of private-sector layoffs that the confederation of workers predicts will reach 150,000 -- 16 percent of the country's labor force -- by the end of the year. "The government is doing nothing to safeguard our jobs and labor rights," Mr. Anestis said. "To the contrary, it's squeezing our incomes." Nearly 20 percent of Greeks earn less than 5,000 euros a year, according to state statistics, and the country's huge debt has stifled the government's ability to provide a stimulus package for the poor. The strike Thursday was organized by Greece's two main labor unions, which represent more than half of the country's workforce of 4.5 million.

01.04.2009. Vandalism, criminal marxist condemned, open meetings, etc. 09.00 local time trial C. Voutsis-Vogiatzis, view, Thessaloniki, 10.30 event about depression, 13.00 general assemblies and meetings at universities, and event against repression, 17.30 event about mobile phone masts, 18.00 "It is a lie...", Athens, 18.30 event about asylum, 19.30 open meeting of solidarity for rebels, Athens, 20.00 event - debate on terrorism, employer, job, precariousness (sounds a bit paranoid), 21.00 viewing documentaries - "Triangle Waist Company" , Thessaloniki.

Vandals terrorize university. Tensions peaked at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University Wednesday after leftwing extremist ultra-authoritarian marxist vandals smashed up the institution's computer center just one day after protesters staging a sit-in at the university's administrative offices hijacked an open debate and assaulted the university rector. Around 20 hooded youths broke into the first-floor computer room and used iron bars to wreak widespread damage, knocking the university's online system out of order. The spree of vandalism came just a few hours after the university's senate reassured self-styled leftists staging the campus sit-in that it would set up a committee to assess the status of the university's contracts with cleaning firms. This was expected to appease the protesters, who have claimed that their sit-in is in solidarity with the head of the Attica cleaners' union, Konstantina Kuneva, who suffered an acid attack in December. But it was unclear yesterday whether the perpetrators behind the computer-bashing spree were the same as those staging the campus sit-in. Orestis Kalogirou, a member of the union of research staff at the university's Physics Department said that members of another sit-in in another part of the campus had threatened to smash up the university's computer center if the center's director refused to connect their base to the Internet. "As they were leaving they threatened to come back and burn everything if they did not get an Internet connection," Kalogirou said. "In a university that is under occupation... all manner of opportunists can dictate to authorities," he added. Speculation mounted yesterday that the university's rector, Anastassios Manthos, who was jeered and pelted with an egg during an open debate on Tuesday, was considering stepping down. Manthos reportedly avoided answering telephone calls Wednesday, intensifying speculation that he was considering quitting his post.

Leftwing extremist bank robber on trial. The trial of 23-year-old Giorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis, a leftwing extremist ultra-authoritarian marxist bank robber and son of Synaspismos Left Coalition politician Nikos Voutsis, began Wednesday, as arsonists continued to strike targets in sympathy. A group calling itself the "Criminals of Thought and Action" claimed responsibility for planting an incendiary device outside two banks in the western suburb of Peristeri. The group dropped leaflets saying the attack was carried out in sympathy for Voutsis-Vogiatzis. It was the third night in a row that arsonists struck in Athens. Meanwhile, Voutsis-Vogiatzis admitted to robbing a National Bank branch in Gyzi, central Athens, in October 2007 but denied that he intended to use the hand grenade which was found in his possession when he was caught red-handed. His father told the court that he respected his son's choices even though he did not agree with them. Thus, significant ochlarchy Wednesday. The anarchists condemn the vandalism, Voutsis-Vogiatzis and "Criminals of Thought and Action".

31.03.2009. Riots and bomb attacks, meetings and concentration, etc. Banks, post offices, diplomats' cars were among the targets of organized hooded youth attacks from 00.30 to 02.00 on Tuesday evening. They used self-made bombs and gas canisters in the attacks spread in many parts of Athens. In response to a residents disgust over the attack of a bank, the unknown assailant said that banks and not people were their targets. Unknown people caused material damages to political offices of several deputies in Thessaloniki. An explosive device, which did not go off, was planted in Sports undersecretary Ioannis Ioannidis political office. The attacks were carried out during office hours but luckily no one was injured. Strong Fire Brigade forces arrived at the sites of the explosions where they freed two persons trapped from smoke. Ten incidents were recorded from 00.30 to 02.00. Meanwhile: 05.00 local time event about contract work, Athens, 09.00 trial of conscientious objector L. Petromelidi, 10.00 event, Thessaloniki, 13.00 concentration against nationalism, 17.30 event against "state terrorism", sounds a bit paranoid..., 18.000 4 days in the center, Iraklion, open democratic convention, Athens, and event about Katerina Gkoulioni, Thessaloniki, 20.30 open meeting. Athens, 21.00 meeting about gender, Thessaloniki. Thus, significant ochlarchy Tuesday. The riots and bomb attacks were done by ultra-authoritarian marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists. The anarchists condemn the rioters and bomb attacks.

The Greek newspaper Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for wrongly putting the blame of yesterday's arson attacks on the four banks and the New Democracy office on "anarchists", and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. Well informed libertarian sources say the arsonists were marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, and not anarchists.

GSEE-ADEDY strike on Thursday. GSEE and ADEDY are staging a 24-hour nationwide strike on Thursday, April, 2, day of pan-european mobilizations sparked by the G20 Summit Meeting in London, in protest against violation of workers rights and pass on to them burden of financial crisis. Trade Unions presidiums are to brief the President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias on their claims at noon, on Tuesday while the Prime-minister will have a cooperation meeting with Employment Minister Fani Petralia at 11.00 in the Maximos Mansion. The Employment Minister warned employers not to take the global financial crisis as an opportunity to violate labor rights, stressing that the government would not allow deviations from labor legislation. Mass Transport employees are taking part in the 24-hour strike with interruption of services. Buses and trolleys will not operate from the beginning of the shift till 08.00 and from 22.00 to the end of the shift. The electric train and Metro from the beginning of the shift till 09.00 and from 21.00 to the end of the shift while employees in the Railways Organization and tram are staging a 24-hour strike. Air traffic controllers are staging a strike from 12.00 to 15.00 leading to changes in domestic and international flights schedule. Apart from the strike, street protests have also been scheduled to take place in several Greek cities.

University tensions rise. Protesters, defying deadline to end sit-in, disrupt senate debate, attack dean. Tension returned to Thessaloniki's Aristotle University Tuesdy when, instead of ending a sit-in on campus after being threatened with eviction by authorities, protesters hijacked an open debate in a university auditorium and lobbed an egg at the dean. As the sit-in at the university's administrative offices entered its 16th day, the senate did not follow through with its threat to restore order on campus "by all legal means," which some thought would involve calling in the police. Instead senior academics pressed ahead with a debate on the subject of contracts with private service providers. But the session was disrupted by a group of self-proclaimed leftists who demanded that academics cancel the university's contracts with cleaning firms. The reason behind the sit-in, protesters have said, is to express solidarity with the head of the Attica cleaners' union, Constantina Kuneva, who suffered an acid attack in December.

When the university dean Anastassios Manthos declared that he was not in a position to cancel the university's contracts with cleaning firms, tension grew inside the auditorium. Protesters jeered him and other academics and one threw an egg at Manthos. The dean left the auditorium, sending his deputy as a replacement with a letter, signed by Manthos, pledging the speedy formation of a committee to examine the issue of the contracts. Protesters subsequently issued a statement, saying that the decision had been ""the outcome of the pressure of the sit-in and the struggle." Sit-ins were also held in Athens and Patras though no unrest was reported. Meanwhile Education Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos met with the president of the Panhellenic Federation of University Teachers' Associations (POSDEP), Nikolaos Stavrakakis, who asked the minister for more funding and an increase in professors' salaries. Spiliotopoulos made no commitment on demands related to funding but heralded closer ties between the government and the academic community. "We are turning the page on a past which was helping neither the state university nor social progress," Spiliotopoulos said. The anarchists are against throwing of eggs etc. at persons, and say a clear NO to all forms of ochlarchy.

Protesting the low price of farm products... Dairy farmers danced around a milk urn on a replica coffin outside the premises of the Agricultural Development and Food Ministry in central Athens Tuesday, protesting the low price of farm products. The protest began after Minister Sotiris Hatzigakis cut short talks with the farmers, who had been visiting the capital from northern Greece, citing obligations in Parliament. The producers subsequently staged a protest outside Parliament. They are protesting the low retail prices of milk and lamb ahead of Orthodox Easter, when lamb is traditionally roasted on the spit, and have threatened to stage road blocks if their demands go unmet.

Hospital suppliers press for payment. Firms that supply state hospitals with medical equipment Tuesday began five-day rolling work stoppages in protest at what they say is the government's failure to settle the massive debts they are owed by the public sector.

30.03.2009 Riots, arson attacks, demonstrations and meetings, etc. Four bank branches and the local offices of the ruling party of ND in Vyronas district in Athens were damaged when about 30 rioters attacked them hurling petrol bombs at 1.30 after midnight. In the meantime, an improvised explosive devise planted at the offices of the ruling party in Zografou district caused minor damage. The offices of four politicians in Thessalonki were attacked by arsonists in the evening, i.e. the offices of Deputy Interior Minister Costas Gioulekas, Deputy Culture Minister Yiannis Ioannidis, the head of Democratic Revival Stelios Papathemelis and PASOK MP Stathis Koutmeridis. One of the socialist party's offices in the northern city was also torched. No injuries or arrests were reported. Arsonists also attacked a boatyard in Argyroupoli, southeastern Athens. An incendiary device went off outside the premises of Kappa Marine at 3.25 a.m., according to officers. More than 20 boats were destroyed or damaged by the fire.

Demonstration outside the Finance Ministry. Demanding the government commit itself to its pledge to support the textile and clothing sector, employees of former Lanaras company are demonstrating outside the Ministry of Finance. Not having been paid in the past four months, they demand they be given the rest €16mn dictated by the restructuring plan aspired to restore the company to viability. They also want to discuss their problems with the Finance Minister and get answers to them. The protesters are even determined to stay outside the Ministry for as long as it takes, until the problems of the textile and clothing sector are addressed. Meanwhile: 12.00 local time gathering against the acquittal of the police and the state, 14.00 open meeting to capture the atrium Panteion, 16.00 gathering in concert hall, 17.00 protests, Athens, 18.00 science and knowledge: contradictions and possibilities of our time, Thessaloniki, 19.00 open call for masked collectives in progress, and workshop/laboratory of the report "Bodies", Athens, 20.00 meeting on "60 years of NATO", 20.30 event of solidarity with hunger strikers, Athens. Thus, significant ochlarchy Monday. The anarchists condemn the rioters and the arson attacks

Amnesty International has published a report called "Alleged abuses in the context of policing demonstrations in Greece", see http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/alleged-abuses-context-policing-demonstrations-greece . The anarchists join Amnesty International in urging the Greek government to set up an independent commission of inquiry, mandated to investigate the full circumstances surrounding the death of Alexis Gregoropoulos and the police response to the demonstrations and the riots that began on 6 December.

29.03.2009. Knife attack and events for children, students, teachers, etc. 11.00 events for children and adults, lecture for children: welcoming spring and the swallows, to get to know and make sure of the pens of our neighborhood and concentration, Athens. Event to fight, Aegina. 11.30 general meeting of association, Athens, 12.00 people's feast, meeting for a two-day school, and event for students, Athens, 16.00 gather-way, 17.00 call for assembly, teachers open meeting, 4 days in the center, 18.00 December 2008: results and prospects of the popular uprising, event about the sacking Ymittos, open meeting, meeting about working deregulation, precariousness and insecurity, capitalist crisis and labor. 19.00 ultra-authoritarian marxists' week of action against NATO continues, 20.00 event with AATW, Volos, and film: "The Birds of Valte", 20.30 film about a mouse, Thessaloniki, 21.00 view LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer): Caravaggio, Athens.

Off-duty policeman stabbed. A drug addict attacked with a knife an off-duty policeman in regular clothes close to the Metro station in Omonoia. The policeman refused to give him money and the drug addict stabbed him on the face. The victim was transferred to hospital. Thus, significant ochlarchy Sunday.

28.03.2009. Vandalism, protests and meetings, etc. 00.00 local time events for children and adults, Athens, 11.00 Open meeting of residents in Marousi, and event of "explosion", 16.30 event, Athens, 17.00 December 2008: Results and prospects of the popular uprising, "4 days in the center" and the 2nd Festival E.A.A.K., Volos, 17.30 documentaries about the war, Volos, 18.00 self-education - open call how; protest, collection and call against homophobic attack, Athens, 19.00 publicity for discussion of the uprising in December, Athens, "two-day", Thessaloniki, ultra-authoritarian marxists hold a " week in action against NATO" and "three-day events against NATO", Athens, event for Palestine, discussion: "crisis and war", Volos, 20.00 lecture on Manos Hadjidakis , Thessaloniki, concert with student groups, and concert with financial support for Konstantina Kuneva, Sparta, 22.00 Concert, Volos, and "hip hop live", Thessaloniki, 23.00 party, Thessaloniki.

Youths run amok in Thessaloniki and Athens. Hooded youths smashed store facades in central Thessaloniki at lunchtime on Saturday in a vandalism spree similar to a rampage in the upmarket Athens district of Kolonaki earlier this month. The 15 or so youths, who used sledgehammers and bats to cause widespread damage but no injuries, eluded arrest. Earlier that day arsonists broke into a Thessaloniki branch of Millennium Bank and torched it with petrol bombs. There was unrest in Athens, too. Early on Saturday hooded youths assaulted a group of municipal police officers in the historic center, leaving one with head injuries. They too eluded arrest. The same group later smashed up a branch of National Bank on Aiolou Street. Also on Saturday arsonists targeted a luxury car dealership in the northern district of Halandri. Thus, significant ochlarchy Saturday. The anarchists condemn the vandalism.

27.03.2009. The anarchists declare: After 16 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html !

Day of ultra-authoritarian marxists - leftwing extremist ochlarchs falsely posing as "anarchists", etc. 09.00 local time collection at the Court of Appeal - case Poulopoulos, Athens, 17.00 the emergence of marxist theory: methodological issues study, Thessaloniki, 2nd Festival E.A.A.K, Volos, 4 days in the center, 18.00 lecture, 19.00 weekend, Thessalonik. 19.00 Warning! Event for the creation of an open meeting of marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present. They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the international anarchist movement. The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!! Also 19.00 ultra-authoritarian marxists introduce a week of action against NATO, call of residents initiative recommendation, Holargos, "antiauthoritarian" movement and call on participating in events, Athens, and event for Palestine, 19.30 solidarity event. 20.00 film "V for Vendetta", Thessaloniki, 20.30 film "Quote slowness", Athens, 21.00 show film "Hunger", Thessaloniki, feast, Athens, 22.00 disco party, 23.30 party, Volos.

University ups ante on sit-in. The senate of Thessaloniki's Aristotle University, which is under occupation by protesting students for the second week in a row, decided to resort to "every legal measure" to restore order if the action continues, suggesting that it might invite law enforcement to intervene. The senate reached the decision after an emergency meeting at a building belonging to the AHEPA university hospital, as the dean's office was under occupation. The talks were disrupted by a group of protesters who tried to stop the proceedings and refused to leave until the end. After a tense session, the senate decided to stage a rally to protest the university occupation on Tuesday and to proceed with action if the sit-in continues. "If all our efforts to solve the problem are ineffective, we shall seek to restore the violation of asylum with every legal measure," the senate said in a statement. In an unprecedented move, the senate invited all students and university staff to contribute to efforts to stop the occupation, which senate members said did not involve students but "self-appointed individuals who declare neither their names, status, nor whom they represent."

The protesters occupying the dean's office, believed to be "self-styled anarchists", i.e. in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists/ochlarchs sometimes falsely posing as "anarchists", and members of the so-called "extra-parliamentary left," have said they will continue their action until the university breaks its contract with the cleaning services firm it uses. The protest is in solidarity with the head of the Attica cleaners' union Konstantina Kuneva, who suffered an acid attack in December, though it is unclear if the firm used by the university is implicated in any wrongdoing. In a related development, Supreme Court prosecutor Giorgos Sanidas asked his subordinates to investigate which public buildings are under occupation in the northern city, a week after giving the same order to prosecutors in Athens. Sanidas wants to determine which buildings have been taken over by "self-styled anarchists", i.e. in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists/ochlarchs, and whether criminal activities, such as the manufacture of petrol bombs or drug dealing, were under way. The International Anarchist Tribunal - The Anarchist Press Tribunal, IAT-APT, issues a Brown Card to Giorgos Sanidas for calling the in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists/ochlarchs, "self-styled anarchists", and the Greek newsmedia spreading this disinformation, according to the Oslo Convention, see http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html . There are no anarchists involved in this matter.

Migrant unrest in Athens. Riot police stood guard on a street corner in Athens Friday afternoon after arresting five immigrants believed to have been involved in a brawl between Afghans and Pakistanis. Witnesses reported seeing migrants wielding axes and knives running down central Sophocleous and Menandrou streets. Local residents and storekeepers said that immigrants often carry out muggings at knife-point in the area.

Blast near Piraeus was "settling of accounts". A bomb exploded outside the offices of a ship repair firm in Keratsini, west of Piraeus, early Friday, causing widespread damage but no injuries in an attack that police attributed to a settling of accounts. The ammonia dynamite bomb, which had been planted in a dumpster outside the offices of DT Marine, caused serious damage to the ground and first floors of the block and wrecked about 10 parked cars. The force of the explosion shattered windows in nearby apartment blocks. Police ruled out any political motive behind the attack, saying that the owners of the firm claimed to have received threats over outstanding payments. Police forensic experts were examining the remains of the bomb, which had been made of ammonia dynamite placed inside a metal pipe and attached to a slow-burning fuse, in a bid to find clues about the perpetrators. Thus, significant ochlarchy Friday.

26.03.2009. More violence and open meetings and debates, etc. 13.00 local time screening of the film "Lilya 4 Ever", 16.00 open meeting in the western districts, the meeting in the western neighborhoods will be on 9mm, Thessaloniki, 17.00 open meeting of the hill Strefi and 19.00 open liberalized meeting lyric, Athens, 20.00 view documentaries and Israeli-Palestinian wall, Thessaloniki, call for open debate, Athens, 21.00 viewing of the film "Milk", Athens, and open meeting in the western districts, Thessaloniki.

Greek firefighters stage demo. There's been more violence in downtown Athens. This time Greek fire fighters have been demonstrating and clashed with police. They are demanding full time contracts. At the moment Greek fire fighters are employed part time. The government promised them full time jobs but the fire fighters said the promise has been broken. Violence flared when the protesters tried to break through a police cordon to try to reach a relevant ministry. In the end the police responded with tear gas and stun grenades. There were no arrests and no serious injuries. Thus, significant ochlarchy Thursday.

Bid to tackle campus violence. Newly elected university professors' union proposes "seven-policy" action plan, talks with Education Ministry. Hopes for a breakthrough in tackling an upsurge of violence on university grounds have received a boost with the new leadership of the Panhellenic Federation of University Teachers' Associations (POSDEP) telling it is ready for talks with the Education Ministry aimed at stopping the abuse of university asylum. Heralding seven measures to kick-start broad-ranging talks aimed at breaking the deadlock in universities, POSDEP's new president distinguished the association's position from that of the previous administration, which had been dominated by left-wing groups reluctant to cooperate with the ruling party. "All political forces must condemn reprehensible acts of violence and threats wherever they come from," Nikolaos Stavrakakis said. He condemned those who "under the cover of asylum... hinder the free elections of university bodies and interrupt university teaching and research."

POSDEP's vice president Socrates Katsikas stressed that enforcing the asylum law was not only the responsibility of university communities but of the state too. "We cannot expect everything from the deans," he said. The seven "policies of intervention" agreed by POSDEP members include "re-establishing channels of communication with the Education Ministry," working with the National Education Council and cooperating with the council of university deans. POSDEP also wants a role in planning university research programs and promoting the cooperation of Greek institutions with others in Europe. The association also intends to push for more government funding and better organization of universities as well as joining a debate about the reorganization of senior high school teaching and university entrance examinations. The anarchists condemn the violence on university grounds.

25.03.2009. Prisoner support, etc. 10.00 local time call for invention in the parade. 12.00 event in Thessaloniki and 13.00 event in Athens, 19.00 open meeting of solidarity with prosecuted rebels, 20.00 view, Thessaloniki, and lecture on the equipment (after the "explosion" of the chord), Athens. The anarchists are again warning about ochlarchy.

Car targeted at French Institute. Unidentified arsonists targeted a car with diplomatic license plates parked outside the premises of the French Institute in Thessaloniki shortly after 11 p.m. on Wednesday, damaging the vehicle but causing no injuries. Police said a container of fuel had been placed underneath the car and set alight.

Arson spree! Banks, asset management company attacked in Athens. A group of arsonists used petrol bombs in arson attacks on a mobile phone services firm and the branch of an asset management company in the Athens district of Nea Ionia shortly after midnight on Tuesday. The attacks caused serious damage but no injuries, according to police. Meanwhile, unidentified assailants used a gas canister bomb to damage the facade of a branch of Proton Bank in Ilioupolis, southeastern Athens. At around dawn Wednesday another improvised explosive device, made from gas canisters, detonated outside a branch of Piraeus Bank in Kypseli, causing minor damage. Thus, significant ochlarchy Wednesday! The international anarchist movement condemns the arson attacks.

24.03.2009. Open meetings, etc. Assembly call about school science, 19.00 discusssion on joint course on 30/3, Athens, open meeting, Thessaloniki, architects open meeting, Athens, and course, Volos. 20.00 update - discussion, Athens, 21.00 film: "teach my child letters", Athens, and event on gender, Thessaloniki. No reports of significant ochlarchy Tuesday!

Universities at the mercy of thieves. University officials and leftist students argued yesterday over whether the police should have been called in to investigate vandalism and theft at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), as it was revealed that hundreds of thousands of euros worth of equipment has been stolen from Greek universities this year alone. The disagreement between students and academics was sparked by an incident over the weekend, when vandals caused damage to the Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences Department. A computer was also stolen during the raid. The university decided to ask police to look into the incident but this prompted a response yesterday by leftist students who are not affiliated to any of the parliamentary parties. They demonstrated outside the office of the NTUA's vice rector, Gerasimos Spathis, and suggested that the vandalism may have been a ruse in order to lift the asylum law that prevents officers from entering university grounds.

The students argued that a meeting of the senate should have been convened, as stipulated by the law. The academics, however, argued that the law allows police to intervene if a crime has been committed. The incident drew attention to the fact that a number of universities have recently been ransacked by vandals and thieves. It is estimated, for instance, that some 400,000 euros' worth of items have been stolen from Thessaloniki's Aristotle University since the start of the year. Ten days ago, thieves broke in to a lecture hall at the NTUA and stole a public address system worth 3,000 euros. Equipment worth 40,000 euros was stolen from the school's Nuclear Science Laboratory at the start of the year. The NTUA actually includes in its annual budget losses of 150,000 euros that are expected to accrue from vandalism and theft.

NTUA rector Constantinos Moutzouris identified the lack of security guards as the key factor behind the theft and vandalism. "Exactly two years ago, the Education Ministry accepted our demand and agreed to the hiring of 17 permanent guards," he said. "We are still waiting for the guards to arrive." The anarchists condemn the vandalism and theft at the universities, including at the NTUA.

23.03.2009. Store gutted, bank damaged in Greek attacks. Solidarity events, etc. 09.00 local time solidarity gathering of Palli, 10.00 trial Vangelis Palli for participation in the rebellion, 17.00 meeting, Athens, 19.00 lecture on Palestine, 20.30 discussion on "the keepers". Store gutted, bank damaged in Greek attacks: Authorities say an upscale furniture store was gutted and a bank was damaged in arson attacks in the Greek capital. The attacks occurred despite heightened police measures in Athens in the wake of massive riots, arson attacks and recent bombings by domestic militant groups. The Fire Service says the assailants, youngsters, smashed the furniture storefront with sledgehammers before starting a fire with petrol bombs and small cooking gas canisters in the city's Halandri area. The entrance of a Greek bank in Athens' Alimos suburb was damaged in a gas canister attack. No groups claimed responsibility for Monday's incidents. However marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, sometimes falsely posing as "anarchists" are suspected. Thus, significant vandalism and ochlarchy Monday. The anarchists condemn the attack!

22.03.2009 Day of marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs falsely posing as "anarchists", etc. 10.00 local time protest against the death of the prisoner Katerina Gkoulioni 11.00 film: "Birds in the swamp", 15.00 meeting St. Pauli, Athens, 16.00 assembly, Athens, 17.00 event of preparation, 18.00 Warning! Open meeting of marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" inside and outside schools and colleges in Athens. The criminal ochlarchical bosses of vandalism will be present, and should be stopped... They are planning more vandalism! The anarchists boycott this event and condemn these ochlarchs/ochlarchists! These marxist ochlarchs/ochlarchists and infiltrators falsely posing as "anarchists" are of course not members of the international anarchist movement. Update 22.00 local time - more vandalism is planned by the marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists...!!! The anarchists repeat: these ochlarchists are not anarchists!!!!! 18.00 Discussion on the case of Konstantina Kuneva, supported by anarchists, 20.30 Film: "Fast Food Nation", Thessaloniki.

A police officer was savagely beaten and was seriously injured in a fight taking place in a bar in Astakos area of Aitolokarnania prefecture. He is now being hospitalized in Messologi hospital and his state is considered stable. A young lady called Astakos police department and asked for help because a club customer was harassing her and took her bag. When the 40 years old police officer arrived at the bar, he tried to calm the customer down and tried to persuade him to return the bag. The 38 years old culprit returned the bag but beat the police officer savagely. Another friend of his got into the fight and tried to take the officers gun that went off. Fortunately no one was hurt. Police has launched a manhunt in order to trace the two criminals. According to information, the 38 year old who grabbed the gun is suspected for drug dealing. Thus, significant ochlarchy Sunday.

21.03.2009. Anti and against day, etc. But what are these mislead kids really for? the anarchists ask... a real constructive approach is lacking! 00.00 local timee, anti-racist event, 11.00 Meat out event - event for vegan diet (most anarchists are not vegans), 12.00 antiwar rally, 13.00 nationwide antiwar rally, concerts and resistance coordinating. Anti-racist demonstration and event of solidarity for Konstantina Kuneva, supported by anarchists, 14.00 ultra-authoritarian marxist concentration against NATO, 15.00 anti-racist demonstration and anti-demonstration Omonia House , 16.00 open meeting, 18.30 anti... international meeting, 20.00 view documents: Moments of 20 years of struggle, 1988-2008 (occupation Lela Karagianni 37), and discussion on the issue of solidarity to the arrested, 21.00 film "Monster" and concert, 22.00 party, with ethnic music, 22.30 concert with aid. No reports of significant ochlarchy Saturday.

Bomb blast near police HQ fuels concerns. The remote-controlled bomb that exploded outside the central Athens offices of a state property agency late on Thursday night and caused minor damage and no injuries, fueled serious concern amid the ranks of the police as the style of the attack is reminiscent of an established terrorist group. The 2-kilogram bomb had been placed in a plastic bag on the sidewalk outside the entrance to the Hellenic Public Real Estate Corporation (HPREC) which is some 250 yards from Attica's central police headquarters and close to the Supreme Court building. Detonating at about 9.30 p.m. on Thursday, the bomb as mentioned destroyed a nearby parked car and caused minor damage to the HPREC's entrance. The force of the blast shattered some windows of adjacent apartment blocks and startled residents. Police said there had been no warning call while, according to sources, a hoax call was made to police warning of a car bomb in Kolonaki. Forensics were examining the remains of the device yesterday in a bid to trace the perpetrators. Police sources noted that remote-controlled bombs have been used by Revolutionary Struggle, in an attack on former minister Giorgos Voulgarakis in May 2006, and by a group called Popular Will, on a Larissa court house in May 2004. By late yesterday there had been no claim of responsibility for Thursday night's blast. It was unclear whether the attack had been intended to target only the HPREC, which was implicated in the Vatopedi land exchange scandal, or to also serve as a warning to police whose headquarters are close by. Questioned about the Greek police's response to an upsurge in domestic terrorism, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said it would "take time and action" before an assessment can be made.

20.03.2009. The anarchists declare: After 15 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html ! Meanwhile: 08.30 trial Dimitrakis C., 18.30 Discussion of policies in Greece and EU, gathering and solidarity march for the arrested in December 2008, 19.00 solidarity tribute (Radio Revolt), open call for self-education, and event for creating an unregulated public convention, 20.00 open meeting against redundancies and precariuos work, event against nationalism and lecture-discussion on the arrest in December. 20.30 "Not one time in army", films and solidarity to Kuneva, 21.00 traveling with music, food, hookah ..., 22.30 party with financial support to the arrested in December.

Bank explosion. Unidentified arsonists caused serious damage to a branch of Citibank in the Cretan port of Iraklion early Friday after smashing the bank's facade and throwing in an improvised explosive device comprising three gas canisters. The ensuing fire totally destroyed the ground floor but caused no injuries. Thus, significant ochlarchy Friday. The international anarchist movement condemns the attack.

19.03.2009. Bomb blast damages Greek state agency, no injuries. A bomb blast in central Athens damaged a government real estate agency Thursday, police said. No injuries were reported. The blast occurred at 9.30 p.m. (19.30 GMT) near a busy road where police headquarters and the Supreme Court buildings are located, as well as several other government agencies. Greek authorities have faced an upsurge in violence by far-left terrorist groups in the wake of the major riots in Greek cities in December. Hellenic Public Real Estate Corp., which was targeted in the attack, handles government property assets and is supervised by the Finance Ministry. The explosion damaged the entrance of the building, several parked cars and a nearby store.Police cordoned off the area, while bomb disposal experts and anti-terrorism officers examined evidence at the scene. Thus, significant ochlarchy Thursday. The international anarchist movement condemns the bomb attack.

Meanwhile: 00.00. Towards the eleminiation of contractors in the AUTH, 13.00 performance prostest, 18.30 mobilizing against dismissal, 19.00 no to commercialism in Galatsi and event about Konstantina Kuneva, 19.30 discussion: conclusions from the race to Patakis, 21.00 video, 22.00 view documentaries.

Hoodies plan gets rapped. Opposition slams measures as cosmetic. Justice Minister Nikos Dendias yesterday defended the government's plans to introduce stricter penalties for hooded demonstrators caught vandalizing public property or disturbing the peace as opposition parties condemned the initiative as ill-thought-out and ineffective. Dendias, who heralded the new measures on Tuesday, yesterday stood up against a barrage of criticism, saying that "they provide a solution to a broad range of issues of concern to Greek society and the penitentiary system." The minister said that the measures did not violate the rights of Greek citizens who can protest freely, irrespective of whether they wear a hood. The stricter treatment would apply to those caught committing misdeeds while concealing their identity by wearing a hood. The plenary session of the country's bar associations yesterday opposed the move. "The problem in our country is not the absence of adequate legislation but the lack of enforcement of existing laws," the president of the Union of Greek Public Prosecutors, Sotiris Bayias, remarked.

The main opposition PASOK party was far more critical of the concept of doubling jail terms for those found guilty of vandalism or disturbing the peace. "There is no point in talking about lighter or heavier penalties when you cannot arrest the culprits," said PASOK spokesman Haris Kastanidis. He said the measures show the government's "lack of seriousness and total inability to draw up an effective plan." PASOK would radically change the training of police officers and the recruitment of staff to key positions, he said. Alekos Alavanos, the head of the parliamentary group of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), also slammed the proposed measures, dismissing them as an "attempt to create an impression and distract (citizens)" and noting that they could cause "significant legal complications." Meanwhile, attempts by the Interior Ministry to man rapid-reaction teams to curb outbreaks of violence in the city center have reportedly run into problems as 70 percent of officers are reluctant to transfer to the central district of Exarchia, a stronghold for marxist, ochlarchical, leftwing extremists (sometimes wrongly called "anarchists"), and the starting point of many protests.

18.03.2009. More anticapitalism, etc. Call for an anticapitalist convention by students, Thessaloniki, 18.00 mobilizing the Pentagon (department of defense), lecture and speech to City Council (Agia Paraskevi), 19.00 open meeting of rebel solidarity, Athens, and preparatory discussion, Thessaloniki, 20.30 show and 21.00 concert, Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

New laws target hoodies. Vandals, rioters offending while wearing hoods will have jail terms doubled. Justice Minister Nikos Dendias yesterday heralded the introduction of stricter penalties for hooded demonstrators caught vandalizing public property or disturbing the peace, proposing that jail terms be doubled for those found guilty of wreaking havoc while concealing their identity. "We envisage a series of provisions (to discourage) the use of hoods, the concealment of features," Dendias said after talks with Inner Cabinet officials. "Greek citizens should not be afraid to show their faces, particularly while protesting," he added. The new stricter penalties would range from two years for disturbing the peace – an offense that currently carries a one-year jail term – to 10 years or more for causing widespread damage to public property and injuring citizens or police officers. The new tougher measures come just a few days after a group of hooded youths ran amok in the upmarket Athens district of Kolonaki, smashing up store fronts and cars with crowbars and sledgehammers.

Witnesses described the youths as "crazed" and said that many appeared to be in their early teens. Police have heralded the creation of rapid-reaction teams to curb similar outbreaks of violence in the city center. But it is hoped that the heavier penalties will discourage youngsters from going on such sprees in the first place. On the same day as threatening to put more juvenile delinquents behind bars, Dendias heralded 10 measures aimed at decongesting Greek jails which are seriously overcrowded. Noting that Greece has one of the highest rates in Europe for inmates detained pending trial, the minister called for the release of those being detained for minor misdeeds who have the option to pay off their sentences but cannot afford to. Dendias also heralded the creation of a new type of prison to accommodate "particularly dangerous convicts serving life terms," an apparent reference to escaped serial robber Vassilis Palaiocostas and convicted murder Alket Rizai. The leftwing extremist, ochlarchical marxist youths have asked for it, the anarchists say: but dialogue with these mislead kids is also a part of the solution, not only new laws and law enforcement...

17.03.2009. Ethical finance, etc. Soldidarity event, 12.00 mobilization to leave mobile phone masts and concentration - microphones, 16.00 event, 17.00 leading from the park in TEE, Athens, 18.00 demonstration of solidarity with the arrested of December, Thessaloniki, and open democratic convention, Athens, 19.00 event-discussion with the leftwing extremist Bonanno, 20.30 ethical finance, 21.00 video-updated anti-technology park. No reports of significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

British police to help Greece with guerrilla attacks. British police will help Greek authorities investigate a wave of violent attacks against banks and businesses, on the rise since riots shook the government in December, officials said on Tuesday. Still reeling from the worst riots in decades following the police killing of the 15-year-old, Britain is being asked for help by a government that has seen its popularity fall sharply amid widespread criticism of the police. "British police officials are here to help Greek police deal with the bomb attacks. A meeting is expected to take place sometime this week," said a police official who requested anonymity. Greece as mentioned last turned to Britain for help before the 2004 Athens Olympics and that led to the capture of November 17, Greece's deadliest guerrilla group, in 2002. Government officials confirmed the cooperation with Britain but would give no further details. The British embassy in Athens declined to comment.

Greek police say they are now focussing on Revolutionary Struggle, which emerged as Greece's most militant group after the break-up of November 17. Last week, it claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks against Citibank branches in Athens. Revolutionary Struggle has staged seven bomb attacks in the last two years, including as mentioned a rocket-propelled grenade attack against the U.S. embassy in Athens in 2007. It shot and seriously wounded a 21-year-old policeman in December. The resurgence of urban guerrillas has prompted opposition parties to criticise the government, which clings to a one-seat parliamentary majority as the global economic crisis bites. "Greeks are afraid. They are afraid for their jobs, their finances, their families' prospects. Now they are also afraid for their life and property," main socialist opposition PASOK spokesman George Papaconstantinou said.

The government has promised reforms after a series of embarrassments, including the escape from prison of Greece's most notorious criminal by helicopter - for the second time. Reforms include better training for police and prison guards and the creation of a special body to deal with the explosive Athens centre, the area most hurt by the unrest. In the latest incident in what has become an almost daily outbreak of violence, a group of hooded youths smashed more than 40 shops and several cars in an upmarket shopping street, terrifying shopkeepers and passers-by on Friday. Justice Minister Nikos Dendias said stricter laws would be used against those rampaging covered with hoods. "Those caught (rampaging) and covering their faces with hoods, will face an additional prison time of 2-10 years," Dendias said on Tuesday.

Riots, downturn spur launch of new Greek party named Action. A former conservative finance minister in Greece launched a new political party Tuesday and pledged to help the country deal with the international financial crisis. Stephanos Manos, 69, said his centrist Drassi Party would participate in the European Parliament elections June 7. He launched Drassi — which means "action" in Greek — in the wake of massive riots in December, and as Greece's economic growth declines and its unemployment rates rise. "The financial crisis has added to all other crises — there is a feeling of insecurity and the general feeling that (crimes) are not brought to justice," Manos said. As the anarchists, Manos has criticized the current conservative government, as well as the opposition Socialists, who governed Greece for all by three years between 1981 and 2004. "The government does not want to respond. It's not even listening," he said. "The first step is to take part in the European elections — to get our foot in the door."

Manos, Harvard-educated, served as finance minister in 1992-93. He later formed a conservative splinter party that made little impact before he sided with the Socialists as an independent member of parliament. Drassi has won endorsements from among others several Greek academics and veteran politicians, and aims to target a growing number of undecided and dissatisfied voters — more than 10 percent of Greeks according to recent opinion polls. Manos said his party had not yet outlined its main policies or chosen its leadership. As anarchism is the progressive middle on the economic-political map, this is interesting, the anarchists say: Greece certainly need som action, i.e. a movement of the societal organization in horizontal direction! Manos should listen to the anarchists when outlining the policy! Greece does not need another populist, liberalist, or a marxist - state-socialist - party. Greece needs a social-individualist party, that can function as a voice of the people, seen as a class in contrast to the superiors in rank and/or income - in public and private sector, i.e. a party with strong democratic connection with the people, working from the people and upwards, significantly horizontally - and not vertically - organized! We call on Action/Drassi to make a policy similar to the mainly social-individualist parties, the centrist Left/Venstre and the significantly rural- and agrar-socialist Centerparty/Senterpartiet in Norway, that have anarchist support as the most libertarian parties.

16.03.2009. Meetings and Brown Cards, etc. 10.00 event against flexible work arrangements, 18.00 assembly, 19.00 open meeting on health and "nation, left and international developments", 23.00 film "Motorpsycho". No reports of significant ochlarchy Monday. Reuters newsagency reports: "The fatal police shooting of a 15-year old in December sparked the country's worst riots in decades, fueled by anger at economic hardships and youth unemployment. Anarchists and left wing guerrilla groups have followed up with a wave of attacks against banks and police." Associated Press reports: "On Friday, dozens of youths carrying sledgehammers and iron bars smashed cars, banks and storefronts in an upscale district of central Athens. Nearly 60 stores were damaged in the daylight attack by youths who identified themselves as anarchists." Reuters and Associated Press get Brown Cards for mixing up anarchists with ochlarchists, and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. No anarchists have been involved in attacks against banks and police, only leftwing extremist ochlarchists, marxists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag. A persons acting in this way, i.e. as an ochlarchical boss, is a form of superior, authority and authoritarian. Anticapitalist ochlarchs/ochlarchists are authoritarian socialists, i.e. marxists, not anarchists. Is it so difficult to report objectively about this?

Greece's government promised Monday to reorganize parts of its police force following major riots in December and a spate of attacks by far-left militant groups. Greek police will also be getting help from London's Metropolitan Police force, which confirmed the report but gave no further details. Greece's conservative government has been plagued by law enforcement problems since police fatally shot a teenage boy in December, sparking riots across Greece. The violence left hundreds of stores damaged and looted in Athens and other cities. Since the riots, far-left militant groups have also intensified bombings and shooting attacks, targeting police, banks and a television station. The spike in violence has embarrassed Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' government, which has been criticized for ineffective policing. Authorities also fear further potential unrest fueled by hardships created by the international financial crisis. "Police are reorganizing their response to deal with the new circumstances that exist," government spokesman Evangelos Antonaros said. "This includes the types of activity carried out by a very small minority - actions that are condemned by an overwhelming majority of the public." The anarchists also of course condemn the attacks. British police experts have helped their Greek colleagues in the past, ahead of the 2004 Olympics in Athens and with breaking up the domestic terror group November 17, which had evaded arrest for nearly 30 years.

15.03.2009. More anticapitalism, etc.10.00 preparatory forum 11.00 «Chelidonismata», Human Chess, school immigrants etc., 17.00 the idea of uncovering a speech in history, 18.00 anti event, anticapitalist meeting and open meeting of marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchist youths falsely posing as "anarchists" inside and outside shools and colleges, 19.00 show "The salt of the earth", debate, "crisis response and labor", and feast on international cuisine, 19.30 lecture on dictatorship etc., 20.00 viewing of the film "The wave" , 20.30 another film and update discussion, 21.30 show and film, 22.30 feast. No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

14.03.2009. Day of anticapitalism, etc. 00.00 events in the park, 11.00 preparatory meeting of the European Social Forum, 12.00 and 14.30 The insurgency is not arrested! Collection - solidarity with the arrested in the juvenile prison Avlona, 17.00 event-discussion with the leftwing extremist author Bonanno, 18.00 precariously employees are organized ..., and anticapitalist assemblies, 18.30 70 years since the establishment of the 4th International, trotskyist leftwing extremists, and people's assembly , 19.00 reform or revolution, 19.30 discussion, 20.00 concert, 21.00 live swing, 21.30 show, solidarity concert and film, 22.00 party. No reports of significant ochlarchy Saturday.

13.03.2009. The anarchists declare: "After 14 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there , see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html ."

Meanwhile: 15.00 local time preparatory meeting of the European Social Forum, 17.00 event and hits, conversation, food and live music, 18.00 event, discussion on gender identity, 18.00 film tribute to the Palestinian "resistance", i.e. terrorism, condemned by the anarchists, 19.00 discussion with the leftwing extremist author Bonanno, event for the creation of an open meeting of marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchist youths, falsely posing as "anarchists", 70 years years since the establishment of the 4th International, i.e. trotskyists, ultra-authoritarian communists, and open meeting in Thessaloniki. 20.30 film "Megara", 21.00 film "Working with our pass", 21.30 show in Athens.

About 150 left wing extremist hoded youths, some carrying sledgehammers and iron bars, smashed cars, banks and storefronts in an upscale district of central Athens in an outbreak of violence. Several dozen stores and cars were damaged in the daytime attack, which sent shoppers and bystanders in the city's Kolonaki area fleeing in panic. A similar attack also occurred Friday in the northern city of Thessaloniki, leaving three banks damaged. The rioters were leftwing extremist marxists, although some of them falsely posing as "anarchists". Violence involving ochlarchist youths, some falsely posing as self-styled "anarchists", has escalated following riots last December that were sparked by the fatal police shooting of the teenage boy. These ochlarchist youths are breaking the Oslo Convention and get a Brown Card. They are of course not members of the international anarchist movement. The international anarchist movement takes a clear stand against the ochlarchical riots and destruction in Greece 13.03.2009. The newsmedia falsely reporting about "anarchists" in this connection, mixing up anarchists with ochlarchists, and thus breaking the Oslo Convention, also get a Brown Card.

Police dispatched to restore order in both cities were too late to make any arrests. Police spokesman Panayiotis Stathis said that the force was dealing with more than mere vandals. "Setting fire to a car is one thing but here we are dealing with something more worrying – preplanned operations by organized groups," he said. After the riots, the youths scattered leaflets calling for the release from prison of Giorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis, the son of a prominent left-wing MP jailed after a 2007 robbery in Athens. The rioters used the premises of the Athens Law School, whose entrance is on Sina Street near Kolonaki, to prepare for their spree of vandalism. The venue had been used for the same purpose by those who attacked leading criminologist Yiannis Panousis with iron bars last month while he was giving a lecture. Witnesses to the spree in Kolonaki said the attackers were brazen. "They went berserk, they were jumping onto the roofs of cars and smashing them up," the owner of a vandalized vehicle said.

University students briefly clashed with riot police outside a hotel in Patras as Education Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos addressed a meeting of the heads of Greece's technical colleges (TEI). The students had demanded to speak to Spiliotopoulos. Thus, significant ochlarchy Friday. The international anarchist movement condemns the ochlarchical riots and destruction.

12.03.2009. Revolutionary Struggle threatens to continue its bombing campaign. The anarchists condemn Revolutionary Struggle. The Greek militant group threatened in a statement published Thursday to continue its bombing campaign, saying recent attacks against Citibank were in response to the international financial crisis. The Pontiki weekly newspaper published a statement from the Revolutionary Struggle group, which claimed responsibility for a failed car-bomb attack Feb. 18 on Citibank offices in Athens and a bomb attack Monday on a suburban Citibank branch that caused damage but no injuries. Authorities did not immediately comment on the statement but they have not questioned its authenticity. The newspaper has been used by the militant group in the past to publish proclamations. In the Feb. 18 attack, a stolen car was found packed with explosives outside Citibank offices north of the Greek capital. But the time-bomb - considered powerful enough to destroy the four-story building - failed to detonate. In the statement, the militant group argued the American bank is part of a "criminal network of international capital" responsible for the financial crisis. It said the bomb contained 125 kilograms (276 pounds) of explosives.

The group said it had tried to warn authorities to avoid casualties by telephoning a newspaper. Police did not say they had received a warning. Revolutionary Struggle has as mentioned carried out more than a dozen bomb and shooting attacks since 2003, including the firing of a rocket-propelled grenade into the U.S. Embassy in Athens in 2007. The anarchists as well as Greeks in general consider this leftwing extremist group a terrorist organization. The militant group vowed to continue to carry out time-bomb attacks against the country's "political and economic elite and the apparatus of capitalism and the state," and would issue warnings to the media. Greece has as mentioned faced attacks by domestic terrorists for decades, but major groups were broken up before the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens. But new groups have appeared in recent years and attacks have increased this year following major riots in December. On Wednesday, a daily newspaper published a leaked police document detailing heightened security measures for possible terrorist targets, including many prominent journalists. Four senior officers at the police's anti-terrorism division were suspended over the leak pending an investigation, authorities said. The anarchists condemn Revolutionary Struggle and their futile attacks on symbols of state and capitalism. Anarchists do direct actions with the purpose of real change of the societal organization in horizontal direction, and practically never do futile attacks on symbols. Symbolic actions do not work. Revolutionary Struggle is a leftwing extremist marxist group, far from anarchist on the economic-political map.

Meanwhile: 10.00 trial of 7 partners, 18.00 film tribute to the Palestinian "resistance", i.e. terrorism, condemned by the anarchists , show, solidarity event for immigrants and open meeting of the hill Strefi, 18.30 70 years since the establishment of the 4th International, i.e. trotskyists, ultra-authoritarian communists, 19.00 women and work, 19.30 state repression, legal doctrine and social resistance, 20.30 call for action against "Homophobia of Lyric", 21.00 solidarity for Konstantina Kuneva and viewing the documentary Oaxaxa, the time of insurrection, 21.30 show and concert... Threats of violence mean significant ochlarchy Thursday.

11.03.2009. Strike, open meetings, etc. 09.00 local time "trial companion" contribution to development, 14.00 general meeting, 16.30 interview with the leftwing extremist author Alfredo Bonanno in 98fm, 18.00 self-education, 19.00 December 2008: Results and prospects of the popular uprising, and open meetings, 21.30 show. Culture Ministry workers due to shut Acropolis again from today. Culture Minister Antonis Samaras said yesterday that an amendment would be tabled in Parliament in the next few days to settle the problem that has seen some 700 contract workers go unpaid for several months but the move is unlikely to prevent more strikes at the Acropolis. The issue is only one of several matters that has led to employees of the Culture Ministry forcing the closure of the Acropolis in recent weeks. Their main demand is that they be made permanent employees. Despite Samaras's announcement, the contract workers said that they are planning to hold rolling 24-hour strikes from today, which will lead to the Acropolis being shut. No reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

10.03.2009. Arson attack on bank. Discussions on actions, etc. 18.00 local time solidarity event, and discussion on action, 18.30 event debate, 19.00 discussion and routing information of solidarity movements and 7th open meeting, Athens, 20.00 assembly and 21.30 show. A branch of Aspis Bank in the southern Athens neighborhood of Neo Faliron was firebombed early in the morning. Assailants left an incendiary device at the entrance to the bank at about 1.45 a.m., according to police. The explosion caused minor damage to the branch but no injuries. Thus, significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

Public servants face trial. Widespread anti-corruption investigation leads to almost 400 referrals to prosecutor. More than 350 employees at tax and town-planning offices as well as other public sector employees could face trial, it was revealed yesterday, after a state inspector discovered evidence suggesting that they have failed to adequately explain their incomes.

Terror group suspected in yesterday's blast. The explosion at Citibank in Filothei that caused damage but no injuries bore hallmarks of Revolutionary Struggle. Police are basing their investigation into a strong explosion outside a branch of Citibank in northern Athens yesterday on the likelihood that it was carried out by the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group, sources said. Officers had feared that the group, or the recently emerged Sect of Revolutionaries, would strike soon. Although yesterday's blast caused only minor damage and no injuries, police are treating it as a possible sign of things to come. The homemade device, which was placed outside Citibank in the suburb of Filothei in the early hours of the morning, was set off manually rather than with a timer, according to officers. The terrorists set off the bomb by running a 35-meter cable from the explosives, which they then connected to a car battery, triggering the blast. Officers said that Revolutionary Struggle had used a similar device in an attack against a riot police bus in October 2004. Also, as mentioned last month a 60-kilo car bomb that was left outside Citibank offices in Kifissia failed to go off. This botched attack was also attributed to Revolutionary Struggle even though nobody has claimed responsibility for it. "After the failed attack in Kifissia, they used a simpler and safer mechanism so that they would not have a second consecutive failure on their hands," a high-ranking police officer who wished to remain anonymous said. "The fact that it is an attack against what is essentially the same target and in a nearby area raises suspicions that it was the work of Revolutionary Struggle." Yesterday's explosion caused damage to the windows and facade of the building as well as to two parked cars.

09.03.2009. Bomb blast outside bank. Protest and meetings, etc. A bomb has exploded behind a bank in Athens, damaging two cars but causing no injuries, Greek police have said. The explosion happened outside a branch of Citibank at 03.00 (01.00 GMT) in the Nea Ionia district of the capital. Police said the bomb was detonated from close by using electric cables. There has been no claim of responsibility so far. Last month, a car bomb was defused outside another Citibank branch. No arrests have yet been made, but police suspect a leftwing extremist group. A police spokeswoman said that a medium-sized improvised device had been used in Monday's attack. The bombing came amid a campaign of violence by leftwing extremists, such as Revolutionary Struggle and the previously unknown Sect of Revolutionaries, who have mounted several attacks on police and government officials in recent months. Vandals smashed windows of a branch of National Bank on the corner of Patission and Sarantaporou streets near central Athens. A group of some 20 hooded youths smashed the bank's windows using rocks and pieces of wood. At virtually the same time, another group attacked a branch of Proton Bank in the central district of Neos Cosmos, also causing minor damage to the exterior. Meanwhile 06.00 local time open meeting, 11.00 protest, 17.00 event discussion with the leftwing extremist author Bonanno, 18.00 open meeting, 18.30 celebration and local assemblies, 20.30 meeting, 21.00 open meeting park. Thus, significant ochlarchy Monday.

08.03.2009. International Women's Day... 00.00 solidarity for Konstantina Kuneva, 07.00 concert of solidarity with the arrested in December, 11.00 conference Greece, and consentration against new roads in Ymittos, 12.00 bicycle forward, 12.30 solidarity and financial support for Konstantina Kuneva, 18.00 event for the moderen slave trade and "black" work, and call in an open meeting, 19.00 solidarity concert, 20.00 discussion: digital surveillance, 20.30 film "Bread & Roses", 21.00 show, and view: "The Watermelon Woman", and event on welfare for immigrants. The anarchafeminists present the parole, NO TO STATE-FEMINISM, see http://www.anarchy.no/iaf.html . No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

07.03.2009. Arsonists burn state power company cars. Women's rights, etc. 00.00 local time world day honor the women's rights, Konstantina Kuneva. 11.00 calling cycling area, 12.00 all-day events, intervention, and discussion of Konstantina Kuneva, 17.00 event discussion with the leftwing extremist author Bonnano, 18.00 event: free software movement, 19.00 December 2008: results and prospects of the popular uprising, and support for Zapatistas and Konstantina Kuneva, 19.30 collection of protest of racist homophobic attitude, 20.00 a year without Gkouinto Tsiofi, 21.00 people's kitchen and welfare for immigrants, 22. 00 sound system, party. Arsonists burn state power company cars. Leftwing extremist arsonists have firebombed a main state power corporation office in Thessaloniki, burning 8 cars parked outside. No injuries or arrests have been reported. Police say 5 corporation cars were destroyed and another three badly damaged in the attack early Saturday in the center of the northern city. The building was intact. Police said a group of hooded and masked youths threw at least 15 incendiary devices made of camping gas canisters, as well as several petrol bombs. Small leftwing extremist groups, wrongly called "anarchist groups" by Greek authorities, frequently carry out arson attacks on symbols of state authority, banks and foreign diplomats' cars. Arrests are very rare. The attacks have escalated after the fatal police shooting of the teenager in Athens in December. Anarchists do direct actions with the purpose of real change of the societal organization in horizontal direction, and practically never do futile attacks on symbols. Symbolic actions do not work. The IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to the Greek authorities for mixing up anarchists with authoritarian leftwing extremists. Thus, significant ochlarchy Saturday.

06.03.2009. The anarchists declare: "After 13 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html ." Meanwhile, 10.00 welfare concert, 18.00 lecture: "Free software movement", 19.30 event in solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva, 20.00 viewing of the film "ID - without identity", 21.00 No ticket cinema "slumdog millionaire", 22.00 view documentary: The fire in the Triangle Waist. The marxist propaganda station BBC reports about one month of "anarchy" in Greece, mixing up anarchy with ochlarchy and chaos, and thus gets a new Brown Card from IAT-APT.

Railway sabotage. Police in Thessaloniki Friday were questioning three people believed to have removed pieces of railway track from a line crossing the grounds of military barracks in the district of Ionia. The three suspects were seen leaving the scene in a car without license plates. Earlier this week police in Kalamata were investigating the removal of a 10-centimeter piece of track that had been removed from a local line. The discovery was made after an anonymous caller reportedly demanded 1.5 million euros from local station authorities. A bomb exploded in a car in a southern Athens suburb Friday, severely wounding a 62-year-old businessman, police said. The explosion occurred near an elementary school in the seaside suburb of Voula, but the school's principal and the local mayor said no children or other bystanders were injured. Police said the bombing was not believed to be related to terrorism. Local media said the man had been targeted in the past, with his car reportedly booby-trapped in 2004 in a failed hit. Bombings and mob-style assassination attempts related to business differences and protection rackets occur fairly frequently in Greece. In the past, cafeterias and nightclubs have been bombed, usually when they are empty late at night, and there have been several shootings, attributed to criminal gangs, which are considered as rightwing extremists, ultra-authoritarian, very capitalist and statist, on the economic-political map.

ND firebombing. A New Democracy office in the southern Athens suburb of Ano Petralona was firebombed early Friday, leftwing extremists are suspected. The assailants smashed a window and poured a flammable liquid inside before setting it on fire, authorities said. The fire caused only minor damage and no injuries as it was soon put out by the fire service. Thus, significant ochlarchy Friday.

05.03.2009. Day of leftwing extremists, etc. 09.00 local time about Periander again, 10.00 to prevent custody of P. Vichou. 17.00 Concentration against "para-state", 18.00 progress on the attack of the place of immigrants, and leading the attack for the network, 18.30 lecture-discussion, 19.00 event-discussion with the leftwing extremist Bonanno, 20.30 open meeting of the Strefi, 22.00 film "war of fire". Greek riot police have briefly clashed with stone-throwing youths during an Athens march to protest a grenade attack on the offices of a left-wing human rights group. No injuries or arrests were immediately reported. Officers fired tear gas and stun grenades at hooded youths who broke out of the estimated 2,000 demonstrators and threw stones and a petrol bomb at police. Earlier in the march, vandals set fire to a car and two bank ATMs, and smashed three shop windows. Thursday's demonstration was held to protest last week's hand grenade attack on the Athens offices of the Network for Political and Social Rights, which has campaigned for the rights of inmates and illegal immigrants. As mentioned the blast damaged a wall but caused no injuries. There have been no arrests. Thus, significant ochlarchy Thursday.

04.03.2009. Day of open meetings and strike, etc. 07.00 concentration and strike, 13.00 film, 18.00 open call for self-education and public convention of residents, 18.30 antifiesta, 19.00 meeting, open meeting in respect of health; architecture and society - free public places, and open meeting in solidarity with the persecuted, 19.30 leftist pro Hamas meeting on the events in Gaza, 20.00 open meeting about the peasant problem and open discussion. Arsonists threw gas canisters and firebombs at a bank branch office in Athens on Wednesday, causing serious damage to the building but no injuries, Greek police said. "The devices exploded, causing a fire, which seriously damaged the Piraeus Bank branch in the northern Athens suburb of New Psychico," a police official said on condition of anonymity. Police said they had received no warning for the attack. Thus, significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

03.03.2009. Day of meetings, etc. 18.00 local time open public meeting. 19.00 discussion on solidarity movements. 20.00 call of the arts at a meeting and open meeting of workers in SMEs, 22.00 view documentary "Fed Up!" No reports of significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

01-02.03.2009. Ochlarchy gets you nowhere. Every and any use of violence within any given society – for whatever reason – is a threat to the very principles of democracy and the libertarian. Moreover, the repeated attacks and boorish statements by extremist and terrorist groups against media organizations that we are now having to face in Greece is something more – they are nothing less than armed stupidity. If the goal of these organizations is to silence certain opposing or uncomfortable points of view, they should know that that is a goal which is entirely unfeasible. Even bad ideas cannot be fought with the use of Molotov cocktails, bombs or bullets. They can only be defeated by better ideas. Any attacks on representatives of the press, television, radio or other media have always been condemned by anarchists. Free speech and expression is fundamental to anarchism and any society. Terrorism and violence have to be stamped out, no matter what the objects of their rage may be. The anarchists call on all Greeks to respect the freedom of expression. Ochlarchy gets you nowhere. - Late on Monday more than 10 people wearing masks attacked a train in a northern Athens suburb, dousing six carriages with gasoline and then throwing firebombs. Thus, significant ochlarchy Monday.

28.09.2009. Antifascism, etc. 00.00 and 09.00 different events, 14.00 antifacist and antiracist event 17.00 collection of solidarity with the arrested in December, 19.00 three events about Albanian emigrants, 21,00 film, 21.30 theater, 22.00 mask party in red. No reports of significant ochlarchy Saturday.

27.02.2009. The anarchists declare: "After 12 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html ." Meanwhile, 00.00 local time party at the Technical University, 09.00 and 18.30 events, 19.00 event of Albanian emigrants and leftist event with support for Hamas, 21.30 theater, 23.00 annual dinner and mask party. No reports of significant ochlarchy Friday.

26.02.2009. Meetings and discussions of actions, strike and leftist demonstration, etc. 08.00 discussion on 04.03.2009, 18.00 course collection and open meeting of the hill Strefi, 19.00 December 2008: Results and prospect of the popular uprising, open discussion and progress, organization of resistance in the workplace, 20.00 meeting and debate for action 04.03.2009, 21.00 weekly meeting upper city, 21.30 theater, 22.00 film and 23.00 carnival party.

Acropolis workers strike, shuts down monument. Tourists who came to Athens on Thursday to see the Acropolis — one of Europe's most famous cultural sites — found themselves met at the gate by striking guards explaining why they had shut the place down. The antiquities sites guards, who are temporary contract workers, are demanding permanent positions and the payment of wages they say are past due. Thursday was the first day of a strike the guards say will last three days, meaning Athens' signature tourist site will remain closed into the weekend. The Acropolis, a flat-topped hill rising 150 meters above sea level in the middle of Athens, holds the ruins of the Parthenon, an ancient temple built between 447 and 432 B.C. in honor of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, from whom the city took its name. On Thursday, about 30 strikers picketed at the entrance, handing out flyers explaining the closure in Greek, English, French, German and Italian. In the flyer, the workers accuse the Culture Ministry of failing to live up to its financial obligations, and say they are owed several months' worth of wages. "They want to impose temporary forms of work with no benefits and low pay," said Yannis Nakos, an archaeologist who came to support the guards. "We're not happy about closing the Acropolis," he said. "We respect culture and for this reason we want to work as employees, not as slaves."

A leftist youths' demonstration against "state terrorism" - sounds a bit paranoid - a few hundred demonstrators waving red flags, ended up in mob rule, thus significant ochlarchy Thursday. About 30 youths clashed with police in central Athens damaging cars and shops, hours after a march to parliament, police said. As mentioned since the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old in December, a wave of protests fuelled by anger at economic hardships and scandals has rocked Greece's ruling conservatives clinging to a one-seat parliamentary majority. Hundreds of protesters on Thursday, chanting "state terrorism won't pass" and waving red flags, walked to parliament from the central Exarchia district, where police shot dead a teenager three months ago triggering the worst riots in decades. After the protest, youths set garbage bins on fire and threw stones and firebombs at police causing damages to more than 20 cars and four shops in the centre of Athens. Riot police responded with tear gas. "They threw stones and firebombs at police, who replied with ... tear gas," said a police official who declined to be named. "Shops and cars have been damaged". Greece's public workers who staged a 24-hour nationwide strike this week protesting against low salaries and pension reforms have said the government's economic policy amid the global crisis only burdens the poor.

25.02.2009 Day of strike, discussions, etc. Public sector workers in Greece have been swept up in a 24 hour strike, protesting against pension reforms, privatizations and job cuts. Battered by the global financial crisis, the strikers accuse the conservative government of only helping the rich. Ilias Venetakos, the vice president of the Adedy Union, which called the strike, said: "We want a change of economic policy both by the European Union and the Greek government because we believe the workers have been the ones who paid for the profits of businesses so they should not be the ones who pay for their losses too." Protests caused airports, schools and tax offices to be closed, and services at ministries were suspended. One teacher said: "The government gave the banks 28 billion euros because of the crisis. Shouldn't it support workers' losses with the same amount?" The ruling conservatives have been hit by a series of heavy protests recently, say riots against the police in December, demonstrations by farmers in January, and by truckers last week. Meanwhile 17.00 local time event, discussion on F. Basaglia. 18.00 meetings, 19.00 policy discussion event, 20.00 open discussion, 21.00 view of the "Century of the Self." No reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

24.02.2009. Grenade attack on rights group. Open meetings, etc. 08.30 local time, about Periander (continued), 11.00 welfare consentration, 18.30 towards the creation of the Metropolitan Park in Goudi, 19.00 Open meeting: subject free, 19.30 open meeting for further operation of the site, 20.00 open meeting of the rebels in December and open meeting of workers, 20.30 event equipment, 21.00 an open meeting of residents. Grenade attack on rights group. A grenade attack happened on the premises of a left-wing human rights group and immigrant support network in the central Athens district of Exarchia, which caused no injuries and only limited damage after the grenade bounced off a window and detonated on the sidewalk. The attack took place late on Tuesday night when some 25 people were holding a meeting in the premises of the Network for Political and Social Rights, which has the same address as the so-called Immigrants Hangout. An unidentified assailant hurled a hand grenade that bounced off a ground-floor window and exploded on the ground, causing minor damage to the building and an adjacent bar. Witnesses in the street reported seeing a man with a shaven head fleeing the scene in a blue car, possibly a neonazi skinhead. Thus, significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

23.02.2009. No demonstrations, open meetings, etc. 17.00 local time, call on those expressing themselves through art, 18.00 open meeting and open call for self-education, 19.00, 60 years of NATO, war and terrorism (sounds a bit like leftwing extremist paranoia, for the main anarchist point of you see Antimilitarism - an anarchist approach: http://www.anarchy.no/ija238.html and The International Conference on Terrorism 2001-9, http://www.anarchy.no/ija431.html ), 20.00 celebration and open meeting, 21.00 meeting about the trip. No reports of significant ochlarchy Monday.

22.02.2009. Actions and discussions, etc. 10.00 day of action and solidarity in Kaisariani. 11.00 day of action for the victory in Eleonas, 17.00 open meeting, 16.00 call - open discussion and debate on Ymittos, 19.00 show documentary, 20.30 view and screening of films. No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

21.02.2009 Solidarity for Konstantina Kuneva and parties, etc. 00.00 local time college blowout and feast, and broadcast of 1421 am for Konstantina Kuneva. 11.20 statement in solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva, 17.00 mask party, 18.00 two-days books & comics report, 18.30 event involving the association of Kuneva, 19.00 event Kuneva, 20.00 concert and film 21.20 concert and 23.00 party, immigration hangout. No reports of significant ochlarchy Saturday.

The Greek marxist terrorist group that opened fire outside a television station in Athens last week issued a statement published Saturday in which it threatens to kill journalists. The group, Sect of Revolutionaries, as mentioned first appeared earlier this month when it opened fire with a submachine gun on an Athens police station, spraying the precinct with bullets but injuring nobody. It claimed that the attack was to avenge the death of the teenager killed by police in December. On Tuesday, the group as mentioned carried out a similar attack in the parking lot of the private Alter television station, again causing no injuries. In a statement published by the daily Ta Nea, the group says its latest attack was a message to journalists that "the time that you were 'untouchable' is over." It accuses the media of manufacturing news and attempting to ensure the public remains obedient to the state. "They manipulate our minds daily so that we fill the reserves of our disciplined time with values and functions that feed the system," the group says, adding: "Let the slugs of media journalism know that apart from the mucus they leave behind them ... soon they will also leave blood."

During the TV shooting, the gunmen warned a television technician who was in the parking lot to leave before they opened fire. In the group's statement, it said the gunmen would not have spared him if they had recognized him as a journalist, in which case "be sure that one of our bullets would have found his head." "Mister journalists, this time we came to your door, but next time you will find us in your homes," it said. Greek marxusr far-left terrorist groups have become increasingly aggressive following the December police shooting of the teenager and the riots that followed. Nobody has been killed so far, but authorities are alarmed that the terror tactics appear to demonstrate a desire to carry out indiscriminate killing. Sect of Revolutionaries said its first two attacks were "low intensity moves, a prelude of what will follow."

The anarchists comdemn the leftwing extremist marxist group Sect of Revolutionaries, and their ultra-authoritarian actions, although it is right that "Big Brothers" often appear in the main media with Orwellian "1984", authoritarian, newspeak. To do capital punishment for this, as the Sect of Revolutionaries aims at, is however even more authoritarian. Anarchists are against all forms of capital punishment.

On Wednesday, as mentioned, police destroyed a car bomb planted outside Citibank offices in northern Athens which they said contained enough explosives to crumble a four-story building. There has so far been no claim of responsibility. Police received no warning call about the car bomb — a break with extremists' usual practice in Greece. Last month, as mentioned, the far-left marxist group called Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for a Jan. 5 shooting that seriously wounded a 21-year-old riot policeman in central Athens. This group is as mentioned best known for firing a rocket-propelled grenade into the U.S. Embassy in Athens in 2007. The anarchists comdemn the leftwing extremist marxist group Revolutionary Struggle, and their ultra-authoritarian actions.

20.02.2009. The anarchists declare: "After 11 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there." Meanwhile: 07.00 local time event, 18.00 anarchist events and two-day books & comics report, 19.00 event - solidarity debate, for Gaza to resist, and the experience of December and the objective of the revolutionary left, 19.30 event in solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva and open discussion of open spaces and city moevments, 20.00 view and rebels open meeting, 21.00 assembly to create an area free society, 21.30 travel..., 23.00 Left party intervention and party. No reports of significant ochlarchy Friday.

Truckers standing ground at borders. Hundreds of truck drivers Friday blocked border crossings in northern Greece for a second day, calling on authorities to intensify inspections on unlicensed transport companies and crack down on illegal immigrants sneaking onto their vehicles. Drivers kept their trucks parked at the crossings of Evzones and Promachonas, at the borders with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria respectively, hindering the movement of commercial goods. A Serres prosecutor tried to intervene to stop the blockade at Evzones, but truckers refused to budge. Meanwhile hundreds of truckers continued with a blockade at the northwestern port of Igoumenitsa. The union representing the protesters said it wanted authorities to step up checks on trucks crossing into Greece, particularly from Balkan states like Moldova. It also demands the implementation of measures to ensure that Greek truckers are not penalized when would-be migrants are found hiding in their vehicles.

Truckers protesting at the central port of Patras lifted their blockade Friday but have threatened to reimpose it Saturdau. They claim to have a particular problem with would-be migrants sneaking onto their trucks in a bid to be smuggled onto ferries heading to Western Europe. The ongoing action prompted exporters to write a letter to Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, and to the Transport, Interior and Macedonia-Thrace ministries, complaining that the blockades would seriously hurt the country's exporting firms. Similar grievances had been aired last month when protesting farmers also blocked border crossings. The Transport Ministry said that it had already taken steps to curb unlicensed trucking and was evaluating ways to prevent migrants sneaking onto trucks.

Wiring fault foiled car bomb. The 60-kilo car bomb left outside the offices of Citibank in Kifissia on Wednesday was intended to explode but did not because of a mistake in its wiring, police sources said Friday. Forensic tests indicate that the bomb failed to explode despite the fact that most of the detonators were activated, which appears to dispel speculation that the device was not meant to go off. Although Revolutionary Struggle is suspected, no group has yet claimed responsibility for planting the bomb, which consisted of explosives that were packed in five propane gas canisters attached to two mechanical clocks, batteries and detonators. The explosives were made from a mixture of ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO), which is a common explosive used in mining and quarrying. But sources said that tests have revealed that the substance was made by the terrorists and did not come from an industrial source. Anti-terrorist squad officers had investigated the possibility that the ANFO was part of a batch stolen from a construction company in Grevena. But the tests carried out by forensic experts indicate the explosive was made with agricultural-grade ammonium nitrate, which is a widely used fertilizer that the terrorists purchased through regular channels. ANFO bombs have been used by various terrorist organizations in the past. This prompted PASOK MP Michalis Chrysochoidis, a former public order minister, to say that Athens was beginning to resemble the Afghan capital, Kabul. Government spokesman Evangelos Antonaros reacted by accusing the Socialist deputy of "danger-mongering" and trying to make political gain from the botched attack. Chrysochoidis responded to accusations he was damaging Greece's image abroad by saying that the foreign media was already covering the story.

"Sect of Revolutionaries" claim attack on Alter TV Station. The small militant group has claimed responsibility for the gunfire attack this week on a private television station in Athens, a police official said Friday. He said the far-left "Sect of Revolutionaries" claimed it carried out Tuesday's attack outside the Alter TV offices, which caused no injuries. The police official, who was speaking on customary condition of anonymity, would not disclose the text of the claim or say where it was found. Earlier, Ta Nea newspaper reported it had received the document and would print it Saturday. Greece's far-left militant groups have become increasingly aggressive following the police shooting of the 15-year-old boy in December - an incident that as mentioned sparked the country's worst riots in decades. Earlier the government asked for all parties to unite their efforts against terrorism, repeating that top members of PASOK opposition party have the tendency to discredit the country abroad in order to gain party benefits. "What we need is the same social and political alliance that was created in order to fight 17N terrorist organization and did not allow petty politics to cancel our big mutual goal", minister of Foreign Affairs Dora Bakoyiannis stressed in "IMERISIA" newspaper. Deputy minister of agricultural development Kostantinos Kilitidis speaking to NET 105,8 Radio station expressed similar views. "The issue of security is a national issue that requires a complete plan, that does not exist", PASOK PM Michalis Chrosochoidis said, adding "if it is not tackled directly, it will grow and spread to other European countries too". US Ambassador in Athens Daniel Speckhard stressed the need for international cooperation for the tackling of terrorism underlying that the problem does not only exist only in Greece but in many other countries too.

19.02.2009. Anti-pancake and pancake day... 18.00 concentrationa-course, joint action against the contract to AUTH, Thessaloniki, 18.30 leading solidarity, 19.00 Anti-pancake day, Athens, and solidarity for Konstantina Kuneva, Volos. 21.00 and 23.00 pancake day party in Thessalonki and other places. No reports of significant ochlarchy Thursday.

18.02.2009. New marxist leftwing extremist bomb attack. Antifascism, meetings and discussions, etc. Greek police destroyed a powerful car bomb left outside the offices of Citibank in a northern Athens suburb early Wednesday in an escalation of marxist leftwing extremist militant attacks. The bomb - 50-60 kilograms - of an ammonium nitrate fuel oil explosive mixture attached to a timer - was found after a guard at the bank's offices saw a car being abandoned and called police. Police said at least three people were seen leaving the car with their faces covered. The bomb squad destroyed the device shortly before 7 a.m. local time (05.00 GMT), police spokesman Panagiotis Stathis said. The explosives had been packed in five 12-liter propane gas canisters attached to two mechanical clocks, batteries and detonators. No warning call was made, authorities said. It was not immediately known what time the bomb had been set to go off.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but authorities suspect the device was the work of the leftwing Revolutionary Struggle. In past proclamations, Revolutionary Struggle has sought to portray itself as a champion of the poor and oppressed, and has espoused anticapitalist, anti-American and anti-European Union views. In its most recent statement, it called for a widespread armed uprising against the state and said it aimed to avenge the death of the teenager killed in December by a policeman. Wednesday's car bomb was found hours after gunmen opened fire and threw an explosive device that failed to explode in the parking lot of the private Alter television station. Nobody was hurt but the attack shows that terrorist militants may be expanding their range of targets. Previous attacks have focused mainly on police. Ballistics tests showed the weapons used in the TV station attack were used in a similar attack against an Athens police station two weeks ago, police announced. That attack, which also caused no injuries, was claimed by a previously unknown group calling itself "Sect of Revolutionaries", which has vowed to expand their targets to include journalists and politicians, among others. That group's statement, issued earlier this monthly lacked any clear political aims, with the group declaring: "We don't do politics, we do guerrilla warfare," but it has probably a marxist leftwing extremist tendency. Athens has seen a spate of attacks by domestic far-left marxist extremists in the past two months, in the wake of the December riots. Thus, significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

Meanwhile... 08.30 local time, about Periander, 09.00 "trial of the fascist Periander", Athens. 9.30 performance protest, 18.00 self-education, 18.00 open meeting of solidarity with the persecuted of the insurgency, Athens, and discussion, Thessaloniki. 19.00 Lecture on the uprising of December, Volos, 20.00 discussion about the environment and city furniture, Athens, 21.00 view of the century of the self, Thessalonoki.

17.02.2009 Open meetings and conventions, etc. 17.00 solidarity concentration, 19.00 4th meeting with the thematic: space, Athens, 20.00 open convention of rebels, Heraklion, Crete, and speech to the City Council, Athens, 20.30 open meeting on law. No reports of significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

16.02.2009. Meetings and assemblies, etc.14.00 local time, 17.00, - 19.00 and 20.00 about the uprising of December, 20.30 and 21.00 a.o.t. about anti-ecological intervention of humans in the forest. No reports of significant ochlarchy Monday.

15.02.2009. Day of protests, workshops, assemblies and Indymedia, etc.11.30 local time workshop and exhibition stencil, 12.00 people's assembly of residents, 17.00 collection of protests for Konstantina Kuneva, and meeting about the prospects of the popular uprising in December 2008, 18.00 show-debate, and assembly. 19.30 update and collegiality meeting - Indymedia, Athens, 20.00 open meeting. No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

14.00 Day of leftism and Halloween, etc. 10.00 local time "World day against the information fur", 12.00 forward-operation solidarity, protest for the victims of the power of machines, etc. 13.00 leading solidarity to the arrested in December and the arrested in the uprising. 14.00 three events, 18.00 event discussion and Y. Moulier Boutang: "The intangible capitalism and economic crisis", 19.00 open meeting of solidarity with prosecuted rebels. 20.00 show, 21.00 open meeting on creation of a free social space, 22.00 party of economic aid to the arrested. 22.30 Halloween party, 23.00 make war not only love ... A march with hundreds of mainly marxist protesters in support for the arrested in the December uprising, to the parliament, was met with a lot of riot police, however no reports of significant ochlarchy Saturday. The anarchists see no reason to support marxist leftwing exstremist ochlarchists in jail. They deserve it.

Also this week: The newly opened Municipal Cultural Centre at Touba, Thessaloniki, has been occupied by local radicals, announcing a programme of public discussions on the insurgency and its repression, as well as screenings on labor struggles since the collapse of the junta. A few days before a large protest march in the centre of the city in solidarity to the arrested insurgents had escalated in serious clashes when marxist leftwing extremists attacked the central police station of Greece's second biggest city. Barricades were erected in the main boulevard and the riot police made extended use of tear gas. The renewed tension comes at a time of more general social upheaval on labor issues which this week saw a 48 hour strike of hospital doctors leaving the country's health system on the brink of collapse. The doctors demand the implementation of their legal working shifts and have refused to work a single extra shift arguing that the greek NHS should rather employ more doctors rather than overexploiting the existing ones. During the strike a group of doctors occupied the cashier office of AHEPA, Salonica's main hospital, thus allowing all patients to free care. The doctors' initiative called "workers in the health industry" condemned police interference in the treatment of injured insurgents during the December uprising, and urged that hospitals accept immigrants and non-insured patients for free, an end to the commodification of health-care, and for a "society with no bosses and slaves". A similar action had taken place in one of Athens' central hospital ten days before.

13.02.2009. The anarchists declare: "After 10 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there." - 14.00 poster-way-text-event-action, 18.00 open call of self-education, 19.00 lecture on Palestine and lecture-discussion on Konstantina Kuneva, 19.30 discussion and viewing documentary on the uprising in December, 20.00 Show and discussion on December 2008: the messages of rebellion, meeting on the economic crisis and freedom, and open meeting about rebels. 21.00 view documentary/film, 22.00 collegiate dinner. Arsonists strike targets again. A group of arsonists, probably marxist leftwing extremist youths, targeted a sentry box outside the Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki early Friday but caused minimal damage and no injuries. Shortly after the attack, several garbage dumpsters were torched in two different parts of the northern city and a Molotov cocktail bomb was hurled at the entrance to a nightclub that was closed. Thus, significant ochlarchy Friday.

12.02.2009. Demonstrations and discussions, etc. 14.30 Discussion. 18.00 Demonstration, course and new open democratic convention. 22.00 Raising money for Konstantina Kuneva and film. Greek workers protest against job cuts. Thousands of metal workers and shipbuilders took to the streets in Athens as the impact of the global financial crisis hit home. More than five thousand shipping industry staff face unemployment out of a 7,000 strong workforce. President of the Pireaeus Metalworkers' Union, Sotiris Poulikoyiannis said: "Nothing like this has ever happened before, there have been periods where there has not been a lot of work, but nothing like this, not in the last 30-40 years that this union has existed has something like this happened. This is a massive problem, and we have the unemployment figures to prove it." Jobless figures in Greece, currently around 7.8 per cent, are set to rise to at least eight per cent in 2009 according to the government, while the EU says nine per cent is a more realistic figure. The shipping industry is the second largest contributor to the Greek economy. No reports of significant ochlarchy Thursday.

11.02.2009. Open meetings and the communists again, etc. 14.00 meeting about Konstantina Kuneva and against the contract, Thessaloniki and general meeting in Athens, 18.00 and 18.30 weekly open meetings. 18.00 "18th Congress of the KKE and Marxism", Athens. 20.00 event - discussion and promotion, 20.30 open discussion about the uprising in December. No reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

10.02.2009. Day of open meetings, etc. 12.00 Collection microphones, Athens, 18.30 meeting, Athens, 18.30 protest outside Maroussi the town hall for Tsirko Masimo, 19.00 Open meeting with info-cafe, open meeeting Athens, 20.00 open meeting of workers, SME, and open meeting Athens, 21.00 to view the race in Parnitha, Athens and open people's meeting, N. Philadelphia. No reports of significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

09.02.2009. No demonstrations. 09.00 local time, "Mr Own, immigrant small", 17.00 premises that can addomodate us, 19.00 meeting to organize in solidarity with the arrested, 19.00 the "kown-unkown" cause of Petrou Rally,- all events in Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy Monday.

08.02.2009 Day of the immigrants, etc. 00.00 local time meeting day and Greek immigrants in Athens. 11.30 show event for the rebellion of December, Thessaloniki. 12.00 to meet and celebrate together with Greek immigrants, Athens. 18.00 people's assemblies and 19.00 concert in solidarity with economic aid for the arrested. 20.00 film, Thessaloniki. No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

07.02.2009. Day of the communists, etc. 11.00 local time solidarity and financial support, Athens, 11.30 protest march to the landfill, Sparta, 12.00 open meeting-event, Athens, and solidarity with three arrested in the rebellion, Peristeri. 13.00 democratic convention for residents in Upper Petralona, Athens, 16.00 open polymorphic operations on the road, Athens. 17.00 solidarity march Athens, 18.00 open meeting of solidarity with persecuted rebels, and the 7th conference of KKE (ml) [Greek communist party] dialogue event, 19.30 debate event about the rebellion in December. 19.30 event Gaza, Athens, 20.00 event for discussion of the rebellion, Thessaloniki, 21.00 parties and concerts. The anarchists take a clear stand against communism and KKE (ml) and its attempts to take over the Greek revolt. Communism is clearly authoritarian, with a.o.t. its attack on freedom of expression, and communists either being leftwing extremists themselves or often supporting such groups and persons. However communist anarchism is libertarian. No reports of significant ochlarchy Saturday.

Disturbed police officer remanded. The 37-year-old policeman who on Wednesday shot a private security guard outside the home of the US ambassador in Athens, was yesterday transferred to the psychiatric unit of Korydallos jail after appearing before an investigating magistrate on charges of attempted murder. Meanwhile police revealed that US Embassy officials had made three requests to the head of their local police station to replace the 37-year-old. Citing concern at the policeman's "unusual behavior," the officials had asked the chief of Ambelokipi police station to provide a replacement to guard the residence of Ambassador Daniel Speckhard, police sources said.

During his 30-minute deposition before a magistrate yesterday, the 37-year-old allegedly claimed to have fired his gun in the air after being startled at the sight of the armed security guard walking toward him. The lawyer representing the policeman said that his client's mental health had deteriorated in the past 24 hours. The policeman's mother, who also testified yesterday, confirmed that her son had seen a psychiatrist a few days before the shooting and had been taking medication, but she did not clarify what kind. In her deposition, she allegedly said that her son had been suffering from anxiety since 1996 when the now disbanded November 17 carried out a rocket attack against the US Embassy. "He was scared that he would be targeted," she was cited as saying. "He would say, "Mother, they're going to kill me,"" she added. The mother expressed her regret to the relatives of the 29-year-old security guard shot in Wednesday's attack who yesterday underwent an operation for the removal of a bullet from his jaw.

06.02.2009. The anarchists declare: "After 9 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations against statism and capitalism, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html ."

Confused nonsens. 00.00 local time occupation program, Athens, 18.00 concert, 19.00 talk show, 20.30 "not changed anything, so a great deal of change" (Volos), i.e. confused nonsense the anarchists say, 21.00 party and "to the place of the murder of Alexander Grigoropoulos" (Athens) 22.00 and 23.00 parties, hip hop etc.

Workers protest. Workers involved in the construction of Thessaloniki's first metro system staged a rally in protest at the death of a 50-year-old metro worker on site on Thursday. The worker was fatally injured when a section of an earth-moving machine at the site broke off and hit him. Protesters, who included labor unionists, submitted a petition to the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace calling for an investigation into the exact circumstances of the incident. A local prosecutor called on the state labor inspectorate to conduct preventive checks on work sites to ensure minimum safety standards are being adhered to.

Arson attacks. Two arson attacks on vehicles in Thessaloniki caused damage but no injuries. In the first attack unidentified assailants doused a car and a truck with flammable liquid before torching them. Five minutes later a car parked nearby was targeted with a homemade explosive device comprising gas canisters. It is unclear whether the arsonists, believed to be the same people in both cases, had a motive. The arson attacks mean significant ochlarchy Friday.

05.02.2009. No demonstrations, but terrorist ochlarchy Thursday. The anarchists take a clear stand against all forms of ochlarchy, also of course terrorist ochlarchy. The Sect of Revolutionaries, a previously unknown group that has claimed responsibility for a shooting and grenade attack against an Athens police station is vowing to kill police officers and expand its targets to prominent Greeks. The group as mentioned issued a statement on a computer disk left on the grave of the teenager whose shooting by police in December sparked Greece's worst riots in decades. An anonymous caller tipped off the local daily Ta Nea to the disk's location, and the paper published the statement Thursday.

The group claimed it had been "unlucky" not to kill a police officer during the pre-dawn attack Tuesday. "Our aim was to execute them," the statement said of the police officers, adding: "They were lucky, we were unlucky, next time they will not have luck on their side." "Our aim was to execute them," the statement said. "Next time they will not have luck on their side." From now on, the group warned, the life of a police officer would be worth as much as a bullet. "The cops are like doughnuts - they're no good unless they have a hole in the middle," it said. "Start handing in your resignations, otherwise we will start measuring graves."

The group also vowed to target other prominent Greeks. "To those who are already wondering why we chose some random cops and not a high-ranking official, a prominent journalist, a state functionary or at least a capitalist, we answer that their turn will come," the statement said. Although the mainly leftwing extremist, marxist, rioting sparked by the teenager's death subsided a bit before Christmas, attacks on police targets have increased.

Terrorist small improvised explosive device comprising gas canisters exploded outside the office of a minister in charge of police in central Athens early Thursday, causing minor damage and no injuries. Last month, Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for a Jan. 5 shooting that seriously wounded a 21-year-old riot policeman in central Athens. The group is as mentioned best known for firing a rocket-propelled grenade into the U.S. Embassy in Athens in 2007, and the U.S. is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of a group member.

Greece had faced a domestic terrorist threat for decades, but authorities cracked down on violent extreme left-wing groups before the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The country's deadliest terrorist group, November 17, killed 23 people in targeted shootings and bombings between 1975 and 2002 before a botched bombing led police to capture key group members. In its annual report on terrorism last year, the U.S. State Department said it believed Revolutionary Struggle and November 17 could be linked. Revolutionary Struggle has carried out at least six bombings since 2003, targeting police stations, government ministries, a bank and a courthouse.

The desire for vengeance on behalf of the Sect of Revolutionaries and Revolutionary Struggle is worrying the police unions. They have held demonstrations protesting against the violence, saying there are human beings behind the uniforms who are just as poorly paid as the average Greek. The terrorist groups appear to be modelling themselves on European urban guerrilla organizations from the 1970s, such as the German Red Army Faction, RAF.

Meanwhile: 14.00 local time initiative for contract works against AUTH, Thessaloniki, 18.00 open discussion, Athens, 18.00 concert, 20.00 view, Thessaloniki, 21.00 open public IA discussing assessment in Athens.

04.02.2009. No demonstrations. 12.00 local time extraordinary meeting, Thessaloniki, 18.00 meeting of medicines for Gaza, 19.00 discussion on the racetrack, the beach and plans, 20.00 discussion on uprising, sexism and leftism.

Greek authorities said Wednesday a previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for a gunfire and grenade attack on an Athens precinct. The statement was found in a computer disk left on the grave of the teenager whose shooting by police sparked massive riots last year. A police statement said a group calling itself Sect of Revolutionaries claimed it carried out Tuesday's pre-dawn attack, which caused no injuries. Police spokesman Panayiotis Stathis said the disk was found on Alexandros Grigoropoulos's grave in Athens. Officers found it after an anonymous call to an Athens newspaper. Stathis said police were taking the claim seriously, and the group seemed linked to the Revolutionary Struggle extremists who shot a riot policeman last month. "It seems to be genuine; it's a group that has not appeared before but the methodology seems to be the same as that of Revolutionary Struggle," he said. Attacks on police targets have increased. Last month, the Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for a Jan. 5 shooting that seriously wounded a 21-year-old riot policeman in central Athens. Stathis said the Sect of Revolutionaries proclamation was "aggressive" against the police."It gives the impression that they have declared war on the police, that is their term," he said.

A Greek police officer shot and seriously wounded a private security guard outside the U.S. Embassy in central Athens Wednesday, authorities said. The Brinks Security employee, hired by the embassy, was shot outside the U.S. ambassador's residence next to the embassy building in central Athens. The 31-year-old Greek national suffered a gunshot wound to the neck, police said. Police and U.S. embassy officials ruled out terrorism but Greek authorities said the shooting did not appear to have been accidental, as initially believed. Police spokesman Panagiotis Stathis said the shooting suspect was a 38-year-old police officers with no prior history of misconduct. He was taken into custody for questioning and has not been charged. "This is not any other kind of attack. A policeman on duty fired two shots at a security guard. One of the shots hit him in the front of the neck," police spokesman Panagiotis Stathis said. "Whether this was an accident is being investigated, but he fired two shots ... and his explanations which he has given so far are unconvincing." Stathis said the policeman used a .32-caliber service revolver. U.S. embassy officials said they were working with Greek authorities to investigate the shooting. The victim was in serious condition at a nearby hospital. The U.S. embassy is one of the most heavily guarded sites in the Greek capital. Leftwing extremist ochlarchy and police ochlarchy ..., compared to the Anarchies of Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, Greece is quite authoritarian, populist and ochlarchical.

03.02.2009. Leftwing extremist gunmen attacked a police station in Greece's capital early Tuesday, firing weapons and throwing a hand grenade in an attack that authorities suspect is the work of a domestic terrorist group. No injuries were reported. Anti-terrorist police were investigating the pre-dawn shooting in the Korydallos district of western Athens, in which three attackers wearing hoods and helmets opened fire on the station, police spokesman Panagiotis Stathis said. They also threw a hand grenade that did not explode. Last month, domestic terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle shot and seriously wounded a riot policeman in central Athens in an attack against a police unit guarding the Culture Ministry. Stathis said a local newspaper had received a claim of responsibility after Tuesday's attack and police were investigating. He did not say which group the caller claimed to represent, but Greek media said the phone call was made in the name of Revolutionary Struggle an hour after the attack. The group, which first appeared in 2003, issued a statement after the Jan. 4 wounding of the police officer vowing to continue attacks. It said its actions were a response to the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Athens on Dec. 6 that sparked the worst riots Greece had seen in decades. "The December riots were a good message for what will follow," the group had said in its nine-page statement.

The group also claimed responsibility for shooting at a riot police bus Dec. 23, in which nobody was injured, and for an Oct. 24 attempted bombing of the Greek offices of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC in Athens. In Tuesday's attack, Stathis said the gunmen aimed at the sentry's guard post outside the police station. At least 10 shots were fired, but the officer on duty fell to the floor as soon as he saw flashes from the attackers' weapons and was not wounded, Stathis said. He said authorities were conducting ballistics tests on the 9mm bullet casings found at the scene to determine whether they were a match for any of the automatic rifles that Revolutionary Struggle is known to use. Police cordoned off the area, and forensics investigators collected evidence. Stavros Mavroidakos, deputy head of a police officers' association, said the attack was troubling. "Clearly, there is an effort to take the life of policemen - I don't think anyone can doubt that," he said. Greece has been troubled by terrorist violence in recent decades, but cracked down on violent groups before the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. The country's deadliest terrorist group, the leftwing extremist November 17, killed 23 people in shootings and bombings between 1975 and 2002 before a botched bombing led police to capture key group members. In its annual report on terrorism last year, the U.S. State Department said it believed Revolutionary Struggle and November 17 could be linked. Revolutionary Struggle has carried out at least six bombings since 2003, targeting police stations, government ministries, a bank and a courthouse. Severe ochlarchy Tuesday...

Meanwhile 00.00 local time an occupation program, 07.00 self-education, 10.00 all day open events, 19.00 an internationalist open meeting, 19.00 open meeting, 19.30 open meeting of a municipal traffic movement, 20.00 open meetings of workers, and 20.30 a night meeting.

02.02.2009. Calling artists. 14.00 local time collection of protest in Athens, 17.00 open meeting calling all artists, all those expressed through art. 18.00 "critical mass", open meeting and new open democartic convention in Athens. 18.30 Viewing of documentary film and discussion about the events of December. 19.00 Event on Palestine etc.

Riot police fired tear gas at farmers Monday to prevent them from driving their tractors to the Greek capital as part of a protest demanding government financial help. At least two people, including an opposition socialist PASOK party deputy, were hurt in the scuffles at the port of Piraeus outside Athens. Greek farmers have been protesting for weeks over low prices for their products, using tractors to block border crossings and highways across the country for days to demand financial help from the government. About 1,000 farmers, local mayors and members of parliament arrived in Piraeus on overnight ferries from the island of Crete with dozens of tractors, pickup trucks and other agricultural vehicles they intended to drive through Athens to the Agriculture Ministry. Authorities said they would only be allowed to carry out a demonstration on foot.

"I am awaiting the farmers at the ministry. We consider the ministry to be the home of all farmers and our door is always open," said Deputy Agriculture Minister Michalis Papadopoulos. A group of farmers, black flags fluttering from their tractors, attempted to break through the police lines inside the port, and riot police fired tear gas to push them back. "This was action taken to stop people who were intent on stopping (traffic) in an entire city," government spokesman Evangelos Antonaros said. Two people were detained during the clashes, in which farmers pelted riot police with potatoes and tomatoes and hit them with shepherd's crooks. "The choice of violently suppressing protests and the criminalizing of social struggles is unacceptable and doesn't solve any problems," said Vasilis Exarhos, PASOK party representative for agricultural affairs. The anarchists agree. The farmers also blockaded the section of the port from where ferries sail for Crete, and vowed not to allow anybody through unless they were allowed to drive their tractors to the Agriculture Ministry. The recent farmers' roadblocks cut road transport across the country for days and prevented imports and exports across many of the country's northern borders. Most of the blockades were removed last week, although one remains on the border with Bulgaria. The government last month promised euro 500 million ($645 million) in financial assistance for agriculture, but many farmers have complained the amount is too small.

In separate violence, riot police fired tear gas at demonstrators trying to force their way into the Athens City Hall to protest the felling of trees in a park by municipal officials. Some 200 people took part in the demonstration. Police intervened after protesters broke a back door and tried to enter the building during a city council meeting over a development project for the park. One demonstrator was hurt by a police stun grenade. No arrests were immediately reported. Residents in the capital's densely built-up Kypseli district are protesting the municipality's plans to build an underground parking lot under a dilapidated park. Municipal officials have already felled or removed dozens of trees, which Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis claims can be replanted above the lot. Mostly police ochlarchy today... Compared to the Anarchies of Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, Greece is quite authoritarian, populist and ochlarchical.

01.02.2009. The anarchists declare: "After 8 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations against statism and capitalism, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there, see http://www.anarchy.no/iceland1.html ."

Children, people's feast and environmental resistance. 04.00 local time a children's workshop, 07.00, regional event in Athens, 12.00 people's feast, 18.00 a.o.t an open meeting about an "anti-info cafe" and call/open meeting for action, 21.00 video for resistance against the destruction of Parnitha in Athens.No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

31.01.2009. Solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva. Leftism and anticapitalism. 12.00 local time progress in Piraeus in solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva, leading solidarity and towards welfare. 15.00 "anti collection", Athens, 16.00 meeting for solidarity with the arrested of the uprising, Salonika, 17.00 anticapitalism, the leftists in front of the crisis and rebellion, and a concert, Athens, 18.00 and 19.30 discussions, 20.00 event: debate on the revolt of December, Athens, and 21.00 concert of economic aid: prisoners of the insurgency. No reports of significant ochlarchy Saturday.

30.01.2009. Celebration for the uprising in December? After 8 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. 06.00 local time - safeguarding, Athens. 19.00 Open meeting of solidarity with the persecuted in the uprising, 23.00 lecture-discussion, 20.30 about strike, 21.00 concert assistance and live aid for the persecuted, open meeting of free citizens, celebration for the uprising in December and liberalized opera. No reports of significant ochlarchy Friday.

29.01.2009. Action against the state and its crimes. 08.00 local time, film, 18.00 discussion on Gaza , and an action against the state and its crimes, 20.00 and event in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and 21.00 an assembly about intervention of "autonomous western neighborhoods" of Thessaloniki. No reports of significant ochlarchy Thursday.

28.01.2009. Day of self inspection? 18.00-20.00 local time open meeting, convention, and discussion "What it means to live..." Events on Israel, Hamas, Palestine and objectors. No reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

27.01.2009. Call for united assemblies of workers and students, supported by anarchists. 11.30 local time protests in Athens, 15.30 funeral of George Gkountouna, 18.00 call for creation of united assemblies of workers and students, supported by anarchists; later events of solidarity with the Palestinian people and an assembly of workers etc. No reports of significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

26.01.2009. Debates on the direction and next steps of the revolt. 11.00 local time declarations of sympathy. 18.00 debate on violence, discussion on the next movement, and a new democratic convention, and 19.00 talk about the next steps in Athens, solidarity meetings for Konstantina Kuneva and a leftist support for Hamas. 19.30 protest against layoffs in 2009, 20.00 discussion of a film and consumption ideology. No reports of significant ochlarchy Monday.

25.01.2009. The anarchists say the ochlarchical leftwing extremists are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations, they scare away anarchists and workers, and should quit the revolt. 10.00 local time expression of solidarity and financial support, 11.00 demonstration against mobile phone antennas, and people's assembly, also for Konstantina Kuneva, 18.00 meeting on the raid in the Gaza Strip, 19.00 solidarity event for Konstantina Kuneva, 20.00 testemonies from Gaza, 22.00 a hip hop concert. No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

24.01.2009. 11.00 local time a "consentration forward", and an open convention on education, 12.00 forward in solidarity with arrested rebellers and a solidarity march, 13.00 and 21.00 gatherings, music and economic aid in solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva, 19.00 solidarity with the Palestinian people. The anarchists say the revolt is losing direction and call for mass organizations and demonstrations against statism and capitalism, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction!!! The "forward in solidarity with arrested rebellers" turned violent. Greek police battled with rioters. Hundreds of leftwing extremist protesters in Greece fought running battles with police through the centre of the capital, Athens. The demonstrators were demanding the release of people arrested during rioting last month. Rioters smashed shop windows and threw stones and petrol bombs. Police officers responded with baton charges, tear gas and pepper spray and eventually dispersed the crowd. Compared to the riots that swept Greece last month, Saturday's violence was on a relatively small scale, but it showed that anger against the system and the police are still simmering,. The street fighters, mostly leftwing extremists, are trying hard to keep alive what they regard as December's insurrection and demonstrations covering a wide range of grievances taking place on a daily basis. But the nature of the clashes may soon change. The futility of firing tear gas at rioters who wear gas masks has dawned on the authorities and it is reported that Greece is taking delivery of water cannon, which should be ready for action within a fortnight. There was no mass demonstration, but significant ochlarchy Saturday.

23.01.2009. After 7 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! A rally in Athens at 12.00 local time, 18.00 consentration and progress in Palestine solidarity, 19.00 new meeting to continue actions for Konstantina Kuneva, and several other meetings in the evening. A march through Athens in support of Kuneva has been marred by violence. The march itself had been peaceful, but afterwards some of the demonstrators launched an assault on riot police who were guarding the labor ministry. Also this week, around ten thousand farmers have been blocking major highways and border crossings with tractors over prices, after government talks broke down. Protests at Greece's third largest airport in Crete finished earlier this week, after the runway was blockaded by tractors and burning tires on Tuesday. Thus, significant ochlarchy Friday.

22.01.2009. Demonstrations for Konstantina Kuneva. 01.00 General assembly at a university in Athens, 12.00 local time protest, 18.00 meetings and demonstrations for Konstantina Kuneva forward to the Ministry of Employment in Athens, and other places. Several thousand people participated in the demonstration, anarchists, leftists, workers associations and many immigrants.18.30-19.00 solidarity with the Palestinian people, 20.00-21.00 open meetings and assembly. Some ochlarchy Thursday.

21.01.2009. The International Workers of the World's resolution in solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva: "The anarchist International Workers of the World is deeply shocked by the inadequate investigation into the particularly barbarous attack on Konstantina Kuneva, General Secretary of the trade union covering the cleaning sector in the Athens region, PEKOP. The IWW/AI fully supports the complaint of the Greek General Confederation of Labor (GSEE) which "strongly protests the unacceptable delay and most deficient investigation procedure into the murderous attack". On 22 December Konstantina Kuneva, a Bulgarian migrant worker and union activist, was the victim of an attack using sulphuric acid while returning home from her workplace. She was seriously wounded, losing the use of one eye and of her vocal chords and she is still in a hospital intensive care unit.

Almost one month after that scandalous attack, the Greek unions complain that the "investigations to locate the perpetrators are effectively at point zero, in stark contrast to the dazzling speed of the authorities in cases against workers and strike action!" Neither eye witness reports nor laboratory tests have been used in this case. The victim's statement has not yet been recorded, despite the fact that she can now communicate in writing. The IWW/AI joins the GSEE in reaffirming the urgent demand that the police and judicial authorities conduct a serious investigation to ensure that the perpetrators are arrested and punished. The IWW also calls on the Ministry of Labor and the Labor Inspectorate to take immediate measures to end the serious and blatant abuse by employers in the cleaning and domestic service sectors. A few weeks before this awful attack, Konstantina Kuneva had warned that she felt in grave danger as a result of her union activities. At the end of November she had also denounced the poverty wages and harsh working conditions in this sector, where 80% of the employees are migrants and the vast majority are women."

There are a general assembly, solidarity meeting for Christina Tonidou, school assembly, debate regarding support to Hamas?, meetings on selforganization, a.o.t. in education, meeting on occupation and 19.00 local time solidarity and economic aid to K. Kuneva. Greek farmers maintained highway blockades in several parts of the country after the agriculture minister on Wednesday failed to meet their demands for stronger government support. No reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

20.01.2009. 02.00 Call for end of the Israeli occupation. 12.30 Microphone-in, Solidarity with the persecuted rebels.13.00 Press event, 15.00 Sowh dedicated to Konstantina Kuneva. 15 00 General meeting. 17.00 Events for solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva.19.00 Gathering about Palestine to the US consulate. 20.00 Decisions of the Assembly of the former occupied ESIEA, Athens, 21.00 Open meeting of pupils, students, workers and unemployed, supported by anarchists. No reports of significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

19.01.2009. No demonstrations. At 01.00 a general assembly in Athens, 13.00 discussion: The murderous attack against Konstantina Kuneva, several meetings and an "open new democratic convention" 18.00 in Athens, and 19.00 call to prepare the open base assembly, also on education.19.00 an open meeting about the occupation, and 20.00 debate: Palestine-Israel - The international political context, and a discussion on setting up a commitee of solidarity. Anarchists say: What about a call for mass organizations. No reports of significant ochlarchy Monday.

18.01.2009. 11.30 local time actions in memorial of Alexis Grigoropoulos in Athens and several other places. 16.00 Children workshop, 17.00 open general assembly coordinator, 18.00 solidariy for Konstantina Kuneva and gatehrings on racist and police violence against immigrants, open meeting at 18.00. No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

17.01.2009. After 6 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! 11.00 local time Greece day of action in Larissa with a demonstration at 13.00 called "consentration and forward against terrorists", sounds a bit paranoid. The communist party KKE (ml) is strongly present. Several similar other events in Larissa and Athens later. Pro Hamas actions by leftists, and solidarity events in the afternoon and evening. Lawyers sue: Anger over police behavior! More than 20 lawyers filed suits yesterday against police officers in connection to events at the end of last Friday's education protest. Riot police took a number of lawyers into custody during a standoff between protesters and authorities in Exarchia that resulted in some lawyers being taken into custody. The 22 lawyers claim the officers were guilty of breach of duty, attempted bodily harm and unnecessarily exposing people to tear gas and swearing. Representatives of the Athens Bar Association said that they would meet with Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos to discuss the matter. No reports of significant ochlarchy Saturday.

16.01.2009. In the morning 08.30 local time "collection of protest", general assembly of student society at 12.00 and 13.00, demonstration against "government and state violence" 17.00, sounds a bit paranoid. 17.30, pro Hamas "collection" by leftists posing as "anarchists" in Athens. The anarchists call on boycott of this "collection". 18.00 "Forward" in solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva, 19.00 an "event debate" and 20.00 action for the prisoners of December, Thessaloniki. The police is also demonstrating, calling for an end to the riots and better education, so they can be servants of the people, not batsos (uniformed thugs). This will however probably take long time... No reports of significant ochlarchy Friday.

15.01.2009. Early an "anti-information" event, 11.00 local time action for the arrested, 15.00 a general gathering in Athens, 18.00 a celebration for Nikos Temponera in Thessaloniki, 21.00 "night sympathy" for Konstantina Kuneva in Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy Thursday.

14.01.2009. General gatherings on telecommunications and information in the morning, a meeting on self-organization at 18.00 local time in Athens, a lecture-discussion on Konstantina Kuneva 18.30, an open meeting about rebels at 19.00, and an open meeting on refugees and migrants 21.00 in Athens. No reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

13.01.2009. There have been general gatherings, and a solidarity action for arrested early this day. At 19.00 local time a support consert for Hamas by leftists, and at the same time a meeting with support for Konstantina Kuneva, supported by anarchists. Later in the evenig there were general gatherings. No reports of significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

12.01.2009. Firebomb. Police in the Cretan port of Hania were seeking the perpetrators of a firebomb attack on the main local post office in the early hours that caused serious damage to the building but no injuries. Support actions for Hamas by leftists. 20.00 local time a "meeting for further actions", no reports of significant ochlarchy connected to these events. Poll shows most Greeks concerned about terrorism and fear a new attack. As the government emphasized over the weekend its determination to boost public order in the wake of an armed attack on a policeman, a new poll revealed that nine in 10 Greeks are worried about domestic terrorism and that 80 percent think a new hit is likely. Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos, who discussed public order on Saturday with his new deputy, Christos Markoyiannakis, and Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, said public security was a top priority. "In a democratic country, safeguarding human rights is paramount but the law must be enforced, as what is most important is social calm," Pavlopoulos said. The reference to human rights, reiterated by his deputy, was seen as a reaction to allegations of heavy-handed police tactics after last Friday's student rally in Athens.

Lawyers detained after scuffles on Asclepiou Street are reportedly planning to sue the state over police tactics. An 18-year-old man arrested during Friday's unrest and charged with weapons possession received a suspended three-year jail sentence. A second youth, also 18, is to defend himself before a magistrate tomorrow on similar charges. A poll carried out for Kathimerini by Public Issue indicated that four in 10 Greeks fear that the police force is unable to tackle urban violence. Six in 10 respondents said they believed new armed groups would start operating in the near future. A former senior police officer told Kathimerini that the force had been "very close" to breaking up the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group, suspected of being behind last Monday's shooting of a 21-year-old policeman in Exarchia. But he expressed skepticism about the handling of the investigation over the past two years. "We had come very close to the organization, but it is unclear how the case has been handled by our successors," he said. In an interview published over the weekend, Pavlopoulos did not rule out the possibility of Revolutionary Struggle members cooperating with members of the disbanded November 17 who may still be at large. "Faced with such phenomena, we cannot afford to rule anything out," he told Eleftheros Typos. Policeman gunned down in Exarchia breathing unaided. The 21-year-old police officer seriously injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Exarchia last week was breathing unassisted and showing gradual signs of recovery, doctors said. Diamantis Mantzounis, who last week underwent a second operation to stop a stomach hemorrhage, was "stable but improving," according to Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, who visited him.

11.01.2009. Gathering against repression 00.00 and 12.00 in Athens. Meeting about "employer terrorism", sounds a bit paranoid, at 12.00. 18.00 Support action for Hamas by leftists. Solidarity actions for Konstantina Kuneva 20.30 in Athens, supported by anarchists. No reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday.

10.01.2009. After 5 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! Leftist pro Hamas demonstrations several places after noon, local time. Some ochlarchy, say, burning Israeli flags. Solidarity actions for Konstantina Kuneva, supportd by anarchists, in Thessaloniki 14.00 and 19.00 local time.

09.01.2009. There were rallies in Athens in connection with the day of killing of Nikos Temponera, at 12.00 local time (10.00 GMT). There were several meetings, a solidarity action, and 18.00 local time (16.00 GMT) a gathering in Thessaloniki about ways against the state and terrorism prevention. Sounds a bit paranoid. A students, teachers and public sector workers rally lead by leftists, against a.o.t a school reform, ended in significant riots and ochlarchy.

08.01.2009. Meetings and a People's Congress in Athens at 18.00 local time (16.00 GMT). A leftist support rally for Hamas at 19.00 local time (17.00 GMT). No reports of significant ochlarchy Thursday.

About the totalitarian marxist, extreme leftist Revolutionary Struggle. Greece's worst civil unrest in more than 30 years has taken its most dangerous turn yet. The domestic militant group called Revolutionary Struggle has entered the fray. The proof, according to Greek officials, comes in the form of bullets fired during an attack on a riot police unit guarding the culture ministry in central Athens on Monday. Ballistics tests revealed that one of the bullets came from the same weapon used in an attack on an Athens police station in April 2007. Revolutionary Struggle, described as "a radical leftist group", in a recent US state department report on terrorism, said it had carried out that attack. The anarchists register Revolutionary Struggle as totalitarian marxists, at the extreme left on the economic-political map, with more than 67% authoritarian degree. Previously, the group also claimed a rocket attack on the US embassy in Athens the same year. A 21-year-old member of the riot police unit, Diamandis Mantzounis, is in a critical condition after the attack. He was shot in the body and leg - though the bullets that struck him were fired from a second weapon.

Greece's national police chief, Lt Gen Vassilis Tsiatouras, said that was a Kalashnikov, that tests showed was also used in an attack last month on a bus carrying 22 riot police. However, the general attempted to play down a resurgence of domestic terrorism. He said he thought the attacks were the work of a group of people who had "lost their senses" following the death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos on 6 December 2008. The shooting, by a 37-year-old policeman, triggered weeks of riots across the country. An impromptu public memorial has been set up for Alexis Grigoropoulos. Monday's developments are regarded as highly significant by anti-terrorist specialists at the US embassy in Athens, who are analysing the "format, the fashion, and the weapons" used in the attack. The embassy is still offering a $1m (£690,000) reward for information leading to the successful prosecution of the Revolutionary Struggle operatives, who fired a rocket-propelled grenade into the building in January 2007. The state department said it believed the Revolutionary Struggle was also responsible for "nine violent terrorist attacks since 2003, including the 2004 murder of a Greek guard outside the British defense attache's residence". It said that in 2006, the group claimed responsibility for triggering a remote-controlled explosive device targeting the Greek culture minister.

The big question troubling Greece is whether there is going to be a revival of domestic terrorism along the lines of November 17 (N17), another totalitarian marxist left-wing anti-capitalist group, responsible for two dozen assassinations and scores of bomb attacks during a three-decade campaign. The Greek authorities disbanded N17 after Savvas Xeros, a painter and son of an Orthodox priest, was caught in 2002 when the bomb he was planting exploded prematurely. The involvement of British detectives, following N17's murder of the UK's defense attache, Stephen Saunders, in 2000, also helped the Greek police bring the case to trial. Fifteen members of N17 were given lengthy jail sentences. The US state department says the Revolutionary Struggle has "aligned itself with the ideology of N17" and may have incorporated some of its former members. However, Brady Kiesling, a former US embassy diplomat in Athens has said: "Revolutionary Struggle are people inspired by N17, but the organization is not a successor except vaguely psychologically. The death of Alexis Grigoropoulos triggered riots across Greece. "What you have are spontaneous, arbitrary attacks. When there is a political window, they will mount an attack - without the level of preparation that N17 used." He said: "They are dangerous, but not nearly as dangerous as N17 were. N17 was massively security conscious. They lived off the land. They never indebted themselves to anybody. It sounds as though Revolutionary Struggle is buying from the illegal arms market, such as the Albanian dealers. N17 would never do that." Mr Kiesling said advances in DNA analysis, security surveillance and mobile phone analysis made it much harder to do what N17 used to. "My gut tells me this is a flash in the pan," said Mr Kiesling, who is writing a book about N17.

Kiesling said: "Most of the far-left groups out there prefer a live-and-let-live approach with the police. This kind of shooting destabilises the status quo. There will not be a lot of social support for the shooting." That will not come as much relief to the average policeman on the street, who has become a hate figure for much of the population. Last month, a young police officer called Jimmy contacted me because he was weary of the Greek media demonising the force, and wanted to "put the record straight". "Not every Greek policeman is a batsos!" Jimmy implored. "Batsos" forms the first word of the derogatory chant directed at the police at every opportunity by Greek demonstrators. The media interprets the phrase as "cops, pigs, murderers". But batsos is much more derogatory than just "cop". The word comes from the verb to slap and, to use a euphemistic translation, it means "uniformed thug". The insult was particularly popular from 1967-1974, when Greece was ruled by a harsh military junta, and police violence was commonplace. Jimmy says he and his colleagues have been advised not to wear their uniforms when travelling to and from work. "We are afraid that one of us will be murdered soon," he says. As Monday's shooting outside the culture ministry proved, the young officer's fears had a solid foundation. "I don't believe this hatred of the police is justified. I always try not to use violence and use respect when I arrest someone," Jimmy said. "But at the moment, my colleagues and I are tired of adopting a defensive posture." The latest shooting may change all that. Says Brady Kiesling: "This licenses police to arrest people again. They are angry enough to take more risks."... Five marxist rioters with weapons were arrested earlier this week, confirming Kiesling's hypothesis.

07.01.2009. There were some meetings. No reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday. Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis carried out a sweeping reshuffle of his Cabinet Wednesday as his party struggles to retain its razor-thin control of parliament amid a string of scandals and the worst civil unrest the country has seen in decades. The shakeup, which comes barely a year after the prime minister's re-election in 2007, was not a surprise. Karamanlis replaced nine of 16 ministers, including Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis. Alogoskoufis is credited with maintaining Greece's growth in a slumping global economy. But his prescription for unpopular economic reforms swelled public discontent against the populist center-right government in recent months. The prime minister, however, kept in place the Interior Minister, despite criticism of the ministry's handling of the police during a month of riots in Greece. Students have led demonstrations against what they call police brutality, while labor unions have joined in to protest wage freezes, the rising cost of living, pension cuts and the fear of mass layoffs. Hundreds have been arrested and shops and banks in Athens have been damaged. Karamanlis has also come under scathing criticism for his government's controversial land deals in which prime plots of state-owned real estate were swapped for lower-value tracts of land owned by a monastery in northern Greece. The government was forced to revoke the deals, but the public and political outcry that followed has affected its credibility and soured the prime minister's political fortunes. A flurry of opinion polls released in recent months show conservatives trailing behind rival socialists for the first time since rising to power in March 2004. Karamanlis' party controls 151 seats in the 300-seat Greek parliament, a majority of one. Whether this can result in a movement towards less rank and income differences and efficiency, i.e. in libertarian direction, status quo, or a more authoritarian system, is too early to say. But it is a response to the revolt.

06.01.2009. Leftist gathering of protest against the police presence in Athens, 13.00 local time, 11.00 GMT. The policeman, Diamantis Mantzounis, remained in a critical condition at the Red Cross Hospital after being shot twice, as dozens of police officers protested outside, during which politicians and the media were criticized for their treatment of the police force. No reports of significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

05.01.2009. Solidarity actions for Konstantina Kuneva, supported by anarchists. Leftist support actions for Hamas, with significant ochlarchy. Gunmen fired automatic weapons at Greek riot police in Athens Monday, seriously injuring a policeman in an attack police said looked like the work of one of the country's leading marxist militant groups. Police issued statements saying the attack bore the hallmarks of Revolutionary Struggle, a marxist group that claimed responsibility for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Greece in 2007.

04.01.2009. Solidarity actions for Konstantina Kuneva, supported by anarchists. Leftist support actions for Hamas. No reports of significant ochlarchy.

03.01.2009. Solidarity actions for Konstantina Kuneva, supported by anarchists. Leftist support actions for Hamas. No reports about significant ochlarchy.

02.01.2009. A gathering in solidarity 00.00 local time in Athens. No reports about significant ochlarchy.

01.01.2009. New demonstrations: A sit in protest was arranged from 00.00 in Athens and another 00.30 in Thessaloniki. We have no reports of significant ochlarchy Thursday.

31.12. 2008. New protests, perhaps without ochlarchy? A sit-in protest was arranged in Athens at 12.00 local time. A support action for Hamas by leftists, i.e. authoritarian marxists, will be arranged 23.00 local time. Other sit-in protests will be arranged in Athens 23.30 today and 00.00 - 01.01.2009 local time.

Large university damage by leftist rioters: Despite efforts to clean up the mess left behind by the groups that took over the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), or Polytechnic, for more than two weeks, it was clear that one of the school's main buildings, on Patission Street, has been completely ransacked. "The Gini building is not operational and has suffered some serious damage," the head of the NTUA's Civil Engineering Department, Mary Mimikou has said. The marble fixtures throughout the building have been completely destroyed, smashed by rioters looking for objects to throw at police. Doors have been broken down, windows shattered and sinks and toilets smashed. Stools are also missing from the building. Slogans in various languages, including Albanian, Russian, Romanian, French and English, as well as Greek have been daubed on the walls. The NTUA's other buildings appear to have been spared such widespread damage. The Athens Law School, however, has not escaped lightly from the recent unrest. The rector of Athens University, Christos Kittas, has said that the damage to the building, including its library, would cost approximately 500,000 euros to repair. We have no reports of significant ochlarchy Wednesday.

30.12.2008. New leftist support actions for Hamas: In Volos 18.00 local time, 16.00 GMT, "To stop the Zionist murderers" and 20.30 local time, 18.30 GMT, "Meeting for the slaughter in Gaza" in New Philadelphia. We have no reports of significant ochlarchy Tuesday.

29.12.2008. Leftist demonstrations with ochlarchy. The fight against the ultra-authoritarian fascist Hamas-regime. Stop killing innocent civilians! UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate ceasefire. There can be no cease fire agreement before the criminal Hamas rulers are arrested, or if they do not surrender, but keep on killing - killed! The Israeli people probably need much more than about 7000 soldiers to make Hamas surrender. They need to outnumber Hamas about 3 to 1 to avoid a blood bath, even with the air support. For more and updated information about the anarchist point of view on the the fight against Hamas and terrorism in general, click on http://www.anarchy.no/ija431.html .

A demonstration started in Athens at 16.00 local time, 14.00 GMT. It was a support action for the terrorist Hamas, typically leftist, and not anarchist. The demonstration, outside the Embassy of Israel, ended in ochlarchy and three people were arrested.

The fight against the ultra-authoritarian fascist Hamas-regime. For a third day running, Israel has pursued what it is calling its "war to the bitter end" with the ultra-authoritarian fascist Hamas-regime. As Gaza took a further pounding, sources in the territory said around 350 people have now died. According to the UN, at least 57 of the dead are civilians. Israel says the offensive, launched weeks before a national election, is aimed at halting Palestinian rocket attacks that intensified after a truce with Hamas expired. But even as Israeli ground forces gathered, heightening speculation about a possible invasion of Gaza, the Islamist group remained defiant. Against a backdrop of mounting international criticism and demonstrations with ochlarchy, Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak has attempted to justify what he called a "war without mercy" against Hamas. This afternoon he told a stormy session of the Knesset that Israel was not targeting the people of Gaza, rather its rulers, Hamas, which it blamed for the current situation. Meanwhile, one of the homemade Palestinian rockets regularly launched from Gaza killed an Israeli in the city of Ashkelon this morning. He and more than a dozen other Israeli Arabs had been working on a building site in the city centre. The man was the second Israeli to have been killed over recent days. Two rockets hit the city on Sunday and more than 20 landed in the surrounding area. So far the Israeli soldiers don't hit the people of Gaza, but its rulers Hamas, proportionate in self defense, they have anarchist support. Stop killing innocent civilians! UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for an immediate ceasefire. There can be no cease fire agreement before the criminal Hamas rulers are arrested, or if they do not surrender, but keep on killing - killed! The Israeli people probably need more than about 7000 soldiers to make Hamas surrender. They need to outnumber Hamas about 3 to 1 to avoid a blood bath, even with the air support.

28.12.2008. A protest by leftists against stores starting at 09.30-10.00 Greek time in Athens, 07.30-08.00 GMT flopped. We have no reports of significant ochlarchy Sunday. However a New Democracy office in the Ano Poli neighborhood of Thessaloniki suffered an attack by arsonists at about 5 a.m. Assailants smashed the office's windows and threw incendiary devices inside comprising cooking gas canisters. The devices exploded, causing some minor damage to the interior of the building. Nobody was injured. The symbolic actions we have seen in Greece since 06.12.2008 are leftist, not anarchist. Anarchist actions are actions changing the societal organization in horizontal direction, not attacking symbols of capitalism and statism.

27.12.2008. We have no reports of significant ochlarchy Saturday. At 20.00 local time, 18.00 GMT, a "Talk: The streets of the uprising and its follow-up" started in Exarchia, Athens. The anarchists have updated their criticism of prime minister Costas Karamanlis, see the report of 22.12.2008. There was an occupation of the headquarters of ISAP (Athens Piraeus Electric Railway) as a first response to the murderous attack against Konstantina Kuneva, general secretary of the Panattic Union of Cleaners and Domestic Personnel, 23.12.2008. Sulphuric acid was thrown at her face as she was returning home from work. The anarchists call for solidarity actions by all labor confederations.

26.12.2008. After 3 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. A concentration of protesting is planned at 00.00 Greek time Saturday (Gkyzi), i.e. 22.00 Friday GMT. More ochlarchy? ... and still totally impotent with respect to change of the system? At present, the demonstrations across Greece are mainly attracting leftist students, high-school pupils, veteran leftist campaigners, say, the old-fashioned, marxist-leninist Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and the trotskyites, the hard left Socialist Workers' Party, and members of the so called 700-euro generation - disenchanted graduates who are unable to break through the ceiling of this nation's minimum wage. The working and middle classes, including most of the anarchists, are mainly staying away, probably because of the petrol bombs and tear gas, the ochlarchy. But Greek trades unions and university students are now trying to mobilize sympathisers who are watching the troubles on television rather than participating. There have been assault on the symbols of wealth, prosperity and unbridled capitalism, i.e. the revolt is so far mainly authoritarian socialist, anti-capitalist, the demand for more autonomy and less statism is almost not present. There have been a few symbolic actions against the present government, but symbolic actions against government are not anarchist, but leftist. Thus it is not an anarchist or libertarian revolt som far. Anarchists do not attack symbols, but change the societal organization in horizontal direction.

Leftist arsonists torch politician’s car in Christmas Day hit. Arsonists targeted the car of Deputy Environment and Public Works Minister Stavros Kaloyiannis outside his home in the northwestern town of Ioannina early Friday, destroying the vehicle. The assailants doused the wheels of the parked car with a flammable liquid before setting it alight, the fire service said. Meanwhile in central Athens and the coastal suburb of Palaio Faliron leftists staged a string of arson attacks against banks and car dealerships, causing widespread damage but no injuries. There was also an attack against the offices of the Development Ministry in the city center. After 3 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction.

25.12.2008. We have no reports about demonstrations Thursday. See also the report from 24.12.2008.

More about the shooting on a police bus and another shooting: Tests suggest terrorist link. Extreme "anarchist" theory losing strength. Anarchists are in the middle on the economic-political map, they are not extremists. The shots fired at a bus carrying policemen earlier this week came from two rifles, tests have revealed, prompting authorities to consider the possibility that an existing or new domestic terrorist organization was behind the attack rather than an extreme anti-establishment group. Ballistic tests on the seven cartridge cases found by members of the anti-terrorist squad revealed on Thursday that the bullets, two of which hit the bus, had been fired from two different rifles, most likely Kalashnikovs. The shots were fired from a building on an abandoned firing range where the University of Athens's residence halls, known as Panepistimioupolis, are located. One bullet blew out two tires on the bus while another struck the engine. No police officers were injured. Authorities now believe that at least two people were involved in the attack and that a third person was probably acting as a lookout for the gunmen. A source who wished to remain anonymous told a Greek newspaper that the incident is unlikely to have been the work of extreme anarchists or anti-establishment figures. Anti-terrorist officers are disregarding a claim of responsibility by a group calling itself Popular Action and are instead expecting those behind the shooting to issue a proclamation. Police are now focusing on the theory that the shots were fired by members of an existing terror group, such as Revolutionary Struggle, which fired a grenade at the US Embassy last year, or experienced urban guerrillas that have formed a new organization.

Officers were presented with another unusual shooting to investigate yesterday after a Proastiakos suburban railway train carrying passengers through the southern suburb of Tavros was fired upon late on Thursday. One bullet smashed through a window but no passengers were hurt. It was not clear if a second shot had been fired at the train, which was traveling from Athens to Kiato, west of the capital. Police had not made any statements Thursday linking the shooting with Tuesday's attack on the police bus or any other incidents since the death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos on December 6.

24.12.2008. No reports about significant ochlarchy Wednesday. A demonstration in Athens, "Forward for solidarity", was planned at 16.00 local time (14.00 GMT). We have received no reports about significant ochlarchy during the daytime. "Christmas is off this year, the Virgin had an abortion," read a slogan painted on a central Athens wall. On Christmas Eve Wednesday, about 700 mainly young protesters marched peacefully through Athens' main shopping district to demand the release of those arrested during the rioting. Demonstrators sang carols with protest lyrics and scattered fliers, as dozens of riot police looked on. Chanting "Priests, thieves, pedophiles," protesters sprayed slogans on metal boardings outside Athens Cathedral, painted anarchist logos on the 19th century building's marble columns and tore down a Greek flag. The country's Orthodox Church has come under strong criticism after a real estate scandal over a land swap between the government and a monastery, which allegedly cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of euros. Cathedral officials said they were canceling a scheduled Christmas Eve service after the vandalism. Riot police cordoned off central Syntagma Square to protect the capital's main Christmas tree, which replaces one burnt by rioters two weeks ago. But the protest ended without further incident. However a bank, a few offices belonging to the ministry of agriculture, and some cars in Athens were set on fire late at night.

Ballistics tests show two military-type automatic rifles were used in the attack on a riot-police bus in Athens, authorities said Wednesday. While street violence sparked by the police shooting of a teenager has eased, the discovery raised fears that far-left extremist groups may be taking advantage of the unrest to renew attacks on the police. None of the 19 officers using the bus was hurt in Tuesday's pre-dawn attack, in which at least seven shots were fired at the bus as it passed a university campus. Authorities are investigating a claim of responsibility for Tuesday's attack on the riot-police bus. In an anonymous call to a news Web site, a previously unknown group calling itself Popular Action reportedly said it carried out the shooting. A public prosecutor who handles terrorism offenses was heading an investigation into the shooting. But police spokesman Panayiotis Stathis said it was too soon to call the shooting a terrorist attack. At least six serious attacks have been carried out by little-known radical groups in the past five years, including two bombings and the murder of a policeman by gunmen who stole his automatic weapon. Most of these attacks were claimed by a group called Revolutionary Struggle.

23.12.2008. Our Christmas wish to the main newsmedia: Objective in depth analysis of the situation in Greece consistent with the anarchist reports. Demonstration by leftist students ended in ochlarchy. Anarchists were not involved. Brown Cards. Shots fired at police bus. Tests point to direct shot at Alexis Grigoropoulos by policeman. Two shots were fired at a police bus outside Athens university early on Tuesday, ahead of a planned protest by leftist high school and university students in a third week of anti-government demonstrations in Greece. No-one was wounded in the shooting which took place around 03.00 GMT outside the university, which students have occupied. One of the shots burst a tire aboard the bus, which a police official said was empty at the time except for the driver. Authorities are investigating the incident, which followed a two-day lull in disturbances. The shots at police heighten fears. The gunman used university grounds to fire at bus carrying riot squad, prompting concerns about further violence. There are speculations about whether it was an action of an "anarchist" or anti-establishment group or whether the gun was fired by a member of an existing domestic or international terrorist organization. It was certainly not an anarchist group. Ballistic experts suggested that the shots may have been fired from a Kalashnikov rifle. There was speculation that a marksman had aimed low to convey a message rather than actually injure or kill anyone on the bus. The fact that a Kalashnikov rifle was involved suggests, according to police sources, a possible Albanian connection as these guns find their way into Greece from the neighboring country. A number of Albanians are also thought to have been involved and in some case were at the forefront of recent rioting in Athens. The response from the government and the police was noticeably low-key as they hope the incident will not lead to any further violence.

The demonstration by leftist students starting at 14.00 local time (12.00 GMT) ended in ochlarchy. Some 500 leftist students, including dozens who are occupying the Athens law school, marched through central Athens, some of them chanting "cops, pigs, murderers". There were also a few waving red and black flags. The students burnt an effigy of a pig's head wearing a police hat outside parliament. Anarchists were not involved in the ochlarchy. The newsmedia, including Euronews, wrongly reporting that anarchists, and even "leftist anarchists", were involved in the ochlarchy, get a Brown Card. There is no such thing as "leftist anarchists". Anarchists are in the middle and upwards on the economic-political map, not leftist or rightist, see http://www.anarchy.no/a_e_p_m.html . A report at Euronews' website published later, titled "Gunfire and protests in Athens" was however more objective, and did not mention "anarchists". Seen all in all Euronews so far has been the best of the bad lot of main newsmedia reporting about the Greek revolt.

Tests comparing the substances found on the bullet that killed 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos on December 6 and materials taken from the scene of the shooting in Exarchia, which sparked this month's riots, suggest that the policeman charged with the boy's murder shot at him and not in the air, as he has claimed. The results of the laboratory tests, due to be made public next week, reportedly suggest that the bullet hit a surface less than 40 centimeters above the ground before entering the boy's body. There is no evidence that a shot was fired in the air. The Greek authoritarian conservative liberalist propaganda machine Kathimerini spreads the following lie: "Yesterday saw a lull in protests after a weekend in which anarchists clashed with police and tried to torch a Christmas tree in Syntagma Square." The truth is that leftwingers, and not anarchists, clashed with the police. Kathimerini gets an updated Brown Card. Our Christmas wish to the main newsmedia: Objective in depth analysis of the situation in Greece consistent with the anarchist reports.

22.12.2008. Anarchist criticism of prime minister Costas Karamanlis, updated 27.12.2008. New demonstration by leftist students tomorrow. More ochlarchy? As mentioned below, the Greek system is populist, with relatively large rank and income differences and inefficient, despite a conservative liberalist party, New Democracy, in power. Conservative prime minister Costas Karamanlis has rejected calls to step down, despite growing public pressure. The marxist PASOK is however not better, but probably more authoritarian than ND, with its state-socialism, corruption and nepotism. The communists and the nazis are even more authoritarian and of course no alternative. Karamanlis Tuesday 16.12.2008 acknowledged that "long-unresolved problems, such as the lack of meritocracy, corruption in everyday life and a sense of social injustice" are fuelling the anger of young people. And he continued: "The fight against them is hard and constant and we are committed to it." Karamanlis said also helping Greeks -- a fifth of whom live in poverty -- was a priority but his options were restricted by the country's onerous debt, made worse by the riots that quickly spread across Greece and to some other European countries.

First, Karamanlis is under-estimating the Greek poverty problem, and there is room for a more expansive fiscal and monetary policy. The minimum wage should be increased and the top salaries in private and public sector should be cut together with cut in the top heavy rank hierarchy. To do away with corruption, a form of ochlarchy, is a must, but is easier said than done. And social justice, a basic anarchist principle, is not compatible with meritocracy, i.e. in reality merito-archy. Meritocracy is probably also a system with relatively large rank and income differences, top heavy and inefficient, i.e. populism. The Greek problem is not a student problem, it is wider. Thus, Karamanlis has not got the message, i.e. a change of the system in libertarian direction, towards real democracy, from the people and upwards: Towards a system with relatively small rank and income differences, plus efficiency. This is the real new democracy that the Greek people demand. We will see results, not talk... But a libertarian policy will of course decrease the electoral base of Karamanlis, i.e. mainly the relatively rich and superiors in general. So it is not very likely to happen, unless a wider popular revolt, including the working and middle classes, occurs.

Violence has dropped over the two past days, and the situation Monday was relatively calm. A continuing strike by Olympic Airlines ground crews continued to wreak havoc with the carrier's schedule over the weekend. Maintenance staff started their action on Wednesday by refusing to work overtime over wage demands and to express their opposition to plans to privatize the airline. A government committee is due to meet this week to discuss the tenders submitted for Olympic. Parliament early Monday approved Greece's 2009 budget, which aims to keep the fiscal deficit within the limits prescribed by the European Union, even as the economy is slowing down. An Aeroflot Airbus A-319 flight from Athens to Moscow turned back after an anonymous bomb warning. The plane returned and landed safely, all the passengers were disembarked, and the plane was checked . No bomb was found. A solidarity concert is arranged at the Athens Polytechnic University 18.00 Greek time (16.00 GMT). A leftist demonstration, a "merger forward", is planned in Athens tomorrow at 14.00 local time (12.00 GMT). Che Guevara, the marxist-leninist, is popular among the rioters...

21.12.2008. Rioting in Greece entered its third week with more running battles between hundreds of marxist youths and police in Athens. There had been a vigil to remember the 15 year old boy, whose death from a police gunshot on December 6th triggered the confrontations. After the gathering, violence erupted again, with stones and petrol-bombs raining down on riot-police. Security officials say more than 600 students sheltered in university buildings, which police are banned from entering, only running out to lob their missiles. For most of Saturday, the capital city had been quiet. But as night fell, the scenes which have become so familiar in Greece played out once more in several areas of Athens and Thessaloniki in the north of the country. Two banks and a car dealership were attacked in Iraklion, Crete. Police said that assailants threw petrol bombs at a branch of the Pancretan Cooperative Bank at about 3 a.m. The branch was destroyed in the ensuing blaze. A branch of Alpha Bank was then attacked before the arsonists moved onto the car dealership. Nobody was injured in the attacks. The protests might have been sparked by the death of the teenager, but since then, they have become a vehicle of protest against low-wages, unemployment and fears about pensions, etc.. Analysts believe this, the worst unrest Greece has seen in decades, could force an early election. However PASOK is no better than the present ND government. The situation calmed later on Sunday all over Greece. The day offered a rare respite from the daily spectacle of demonstrators clashing with police forces, with only a couple of minor marches taking place in Athens suburbs. In the northern city of Thessaloniki a church was briefly occupied. The APT-IAT and the Anarchist International wish our readers in Greece and elsewhere a merry winter solstice.

20.12.2008. New demonstrations and more ochlarchy. Brown Card to Greek nazipaper. Apart from the attack on the French Institute, the streets of central Athens were quieter yesterday, despite protests by unionists and hundreds of students attending a free concert in front of Athens University. Leftist students are due to protest in this spot from 15.00 today local time, 13.00 GMT, and have also organized a rally for Tuesday next week. Plans have also been made for a protest in early January. The call by Greek marxist youths for "Fire in Paris" flopped. However in the northern German port city of Hamburg, scattered violence erupted at a demonstration by about 1,000 people late on Saturday in support of the Greek protests. Four police officers were slightly injured and 10 people arrested. - A ring of police protected Athens's grand Christmas tree, after the first spruce was reduced to ashes in the ongoing student protests. Young people are still furious with the police, throwing rubbish at the tree and officers guarding it. Marxist youths later attacked the police. The police responded with tear gas. Several cars were also destroyed by the angry mob. They also attacked a building belonging to the government. "Every revolution which brings social changes brings catastrophes, too. But they had dreams and ideals," said a shopper. "Whatever happens, it was not necessary for all this destruction to happen...," was another opinion expressed on Saturday. Immigrants are also taking to the streets this weekend, along with anti-racist groups, to protest at the EU's asylum and immigration pact. They met at Athens university, which has been busy removing graffiti after the recent protests.

In an article headlined "Why Athens is burning" by Stathis N. Kalyvas (a professor of political science at Yale, the author of "The Logic of Violence in Civil War"), in the Greek nazipaper "Hellenic Lines", the Hellenic Fronts newspaper, he postulates that " All governments since the 1970s have stood by while an anarchist subculture grew... anarchists engage in violent demonstrations and widespread destruction. These are led by a hard core of 500 to 1,000 individuals..." There are many anarchists in Greece, but they are not engaged in ochlarchy, riots and terrorism. The ochlarchy is made by leftwingers, marxists. Stathis Kalyvas and "Hellenic Lines" get a Brown Card for spreading this authoritarian disinformation...

19.12.2008. Early in the morning the authoritarian conservative liberalist propaganda station NY-Times reports: "The clashes on Thursday followed several days of relative calm in the capital and a peaceful protest against the police. Youth rebels, including self-declared anarchists, who had been following about 7,000 marchers began pelting the police outside the Parliament building with rocks." These so called "self-declared anarchists", unknown to the Anarchist International, are not anarchists, but ochlarchists/ochlarchs. And Reuters reported "Youths waving red flags scuffled with riot police, who formed a cordon around parliament... Police fired teargas to disperse the crowd." NY-Times thus gets a Brown Card for reporting wrong in an authoritarian way. The Brown Card is also valid for the paper's subsidiary, the International Herald Tribune and their associate Kathimerini. We guess "anarchists"= ochlarchists sells better than just youths, rioters or the objective term ochlarchists/ochlarchs... No other break of the Oslo Convention is reported so far. Daily protests, including riots, have thrown the country into turmoil and have become an outlet for simmering anger about the conservative government's handling of the economy, education and jobs. This month's demonstrations originally sought to protest the killing of the teenager, but they have since taken on a political character. Youth groups and labor unions have taken aim at everything from the conservative government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis to the capitalist and statist system. Most of the protesters are however left wingers on the economic-political map, not anarchists. The violent riots are about 100% done by leftwingers, i.e. marxists on the economic-political map. New protests are planned today by a.o. the largest labor union GSEE, with a marxist tendency, at 15.00 local time, i.e. 13.00 GMT. A Greek newspaper reports "Chaos in Athens as tensions peak"! Chaos and mob rule, ochlarchy, are the right words...

About 20 masked youths, marxists, attacked the French Institute in Athens with firebombs, while Greek union members and university professors geared up for new anti-government rallies outside Parliament. Some windows of the French Institute, a cultural and educational center, were smashed. A nearby bank ATM was also damaged, but nobody was injured. "Spark in Athens. Fire in Paris. Insurrection is coming," read one slogan spray-painted onto the building's walls in French. Another, written in Greek, read "France, Greece, uprising everywhere." Athens has seen near daily hit-and-run attacks by marxist youths throwing firebombs in the past two weeks. In western Athens, some 1,500 people held a peaceful protest. "This is an answer to state repression," said one demonstrator, university student Dimitris Andriotis. "We will not stop coming out into the streets until our demands are met." In contrast to Thursday's riots, downtown Athens was calm Friday. Students also planned a mass concert Friday in central Athens to support the youthful uprising against "state repression." Student unions were also gathering across the country to determine their course of action for the next weeks. At least 800 high schools and 200 universities remain shut as thousands of youths have seized the grounds and campuses in protest. Athens police say more than 300 have been arrested in the violence so far. After two weeks of riots, a slogan spray-painted outside the Bank of Greece summed up the mood: "Merry crisis and a happy new fear." Sitting on a bomb: Firebombs and breaking glass, tear gas and burning cars. The images from Greece this month were enough to put the fear of marxist youths into the hearts of European leaders. CNN story highlights: "Thousands of protesters throw petrol bombs near country's parliament building." Objectively? Responsibility? After the demonstrations the main labor confederation declared: "Friday 19.12.08 was held today outside the Parliament a competitive mass rally of the GSEE - ADEDY against the budget 2009. The organized trade union movement continues and intensifies the action and the fight against antisocial and anti-labor policies, against the ongoing violence and arbitrariness that gets most alarming proportions." But what about the statism? ... the anarchists say!

A Swedish city, Malmø, has been hit by violent youth riots, but the trouble was linked to the closure of an Islamic centre, and has no connection to the Greek riots. The Greek police admitted that they had made a mistake in their initial statement that the boy in the second shooting was hit by an air-gun pellet. Tests revealed it was a bullet from a 38 mm gun. The bullet was probably fired from a distance of some 80 meters. Officers are investigating the incident, anxious to disprove rumors that an off-duty or undercover policeman fired the shot.

18.12.2008. More strikes, more protests and more violence in Greece... Despite torrential rain, protesters have taken to the streets of Athens once again to demonstrate over the shooting of a teenager by police earlier this month, and a wider resentment over the government's economic reforms. Trade unions have taken to the streets as the government plans more austerity measures in the face of the global downturn. "Students Against the System" and other students demonstrated. A student protest started outside the gates of Athens University at noon. A rally started in Athens-in Propylaian with the participation of Labor union GSEE and another started at Omonia Square. In addition, primary and secondary school teachers had 3 hours working stoppage. Academics did also go on working stoppage, from 12.00 to 15.00, Greek time is GMT + 2 hours. ADEDY trade union staged a strike from 11.30 to 15.00. ADEDY participated in a rally announced by the Pan Hellenic Federation of Public Hospital Employees (POEDIN) - that goes on 24 hours strike protesting for public health - out of ministry of Health in Aristotelous St. Air traffic controllers also participated in the strike, a three-hour work stoppage, coinciding with the protest action by the civil servants' union (ADEDY). Due to their mobilizations, 24 Olympic Airways flights and 8 Aegean flights are cancelled while departure time has been changed in 61 flights in total.

The pressure on the Greek government is increasing. Even the president of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Dimitris Daskalopoulos, has stressed that the message sent by youths can not be ignored. Riot police clashed with rock-throwing demonstrators in central Athens in the afternoon. These protesters, youths, broke away from a peaceful rally and hurled rocks and firebombs at police and buildings near parliament, overturned a car and set fire to trash bins. They also splashed police with red paint. Police responded with tear gas. Firefighters and police also rushed to stop protesters from burning down the city's main Christmas tree, which was just replaced earlier this week after the first was torched in riots. The rioters later retreated to the grounds of the Athens University Law School, about a mile away. The police are forbidden to enter universities here since the military put down a student uprising in 1973, killing at least 22 civilians. Before the violence broke out, some 7,000 students and other protesters marched in a rally, chanting "We are the law, we'll stay on the streets." As they passed, fearful shop owners shuttered their store fronts. Some demonstrators painted white crime-scene-style body outlines on the streets. Some 300 people were also marching in heavy rain in Greece's second largest city of Thessaloniki in the north. Another teenager was shot in the hand late Wednesday near his school. It was unclear who shot him. Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos promised a quick and thorough investigation. The boy underwent surgery Thursday. Greek youth demonstrators have been calling for mass demonstrations Thursday, "resistance" i.e. ochlarchy, across the rest of Europe, also promoted by some of the main international newsmedia, but it flopped. The vultures, i.e. the main newsmedia, are en masse gormandizing on the Greek ochlarchy, but there is no "anarchy"= ochlarchy or "anarchists"= ochlarchists, so far this evening...

Dozens arrested in French student protest. Police arrested 38 people in the French city of Lyon on Thursday when a student protest against education reform turned violent, authorities said. About 150,000 demonstrators across France hit the streets to protest the reforms, which include proposals to cut classroom hours and divide the school year into two semesters, the National Union of Secondary Schools (UNL) said. Police estimated the nationwide turnout at 127,000. The majority of marchers were peaceful. In Lyon, however, five police officers were injured in scuffles with about 150 demonstrators who threw rocks, damaged cars, torched garbage cans and smashed bus shelters, the local prefecture said in a statement. Darcos announced earlier this week that he would postpone his reforms. On Thursday, he went a step further, saying he was ready to re-examine the proposed changes in their entirety. "We are going to start all over again, we are going to re-examine the entire proposal together," Darcos announced during question time in the upper house of parliament. Several thousand students marched nearby waving banners reading: "Priority to education." Students have promised to continue their protests until the proposal is scrapped. "The winter will be turbulent if the minister does not listen to us," the National Union of Secondary Schools said in a statement. Its president, Antoine Evennou, said that the union had yet to be contacted by Education Ministry officials for consultations on the reform. The demonstrations in France had no connection to the Greek call for "resistance".

17.12.2008. Youth protesters hung two giant banners off the Acropolis, with slogans calling for mass demonstrations across Europe and "resistance" after days of violent, ochlarchical, protests. About a dozen protesters held pink banners over the walls of the ancient citadel, Greece's most famous monument, one bearing the word "Resistance" written in large letters in four languages: Greek, English, Italian and German. The other called for mass demonstrations across Europe on Thursday. "Resistance"? It as about time the paroles get a constructive libertarian approach. More "resistance", ochlarchy, is not the way to do it. Student demonstrations were arranged in Athens and Greece's second largest city of Thessaloniki, a.o.t. outside the courthouse in Athens where the policemen involved in the shooting were testifying. About 5 000 participated in a protest march in central Athens. The anarchist influence is probably increasing. The www.anarchy.no webstatistics for December show about a 100% increase of hits from Greece and the APT-file. There was no Greek "anarchy"=ochlarchy and "anarchists"= ochlarchists in the main international newsmedia today...

16.12.2008. About demonstrations 16-19.12.2008 and anarchists. Students have planned daily protests this week, calling for roads to be blocked on Tuesday, a demonstration Wednesday outside the courthouse where the police involved in the shooting will be testifying, and a nationwide protest on Thursday. The General Labor Confederation of Greece (GSEE) will hold a protest gathering Friday 19.12.2008 at 15.00 local time, called "Budget 2009 - Action". The unrest is threatening the government's hold on power. Some groups, mostly left-wing students, have vowed to keep up the protests until the government addresses their concerns. Greeks have a deep well of tolerance for those who rebel against authority, and generally accept the occasional low-level violence that can break out during demonstrations, such as smashing store windows or torching the occasional car. But the destructive fury unleashed by the fatal police shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos on Dec. 6 has deeply shocked many Greeks. People are fed up with ochlarchists/ochlarchs, also of course the ones posing as "anarchists". The Anarchist International (AI) and the IAT have zero tolerance for ochlarchy. The AI and IAT advocate non-ochlarchical, direct actions, i.e. rallies, sit-ins, boycotts, strikes, blockades, etc. Greek anarchists are urged to participate in this way in the above mentioned direct actions, let us see many black and red flags and libertarian paroles in the midst of the demonstrations, so real anarchism, not ochlarchy, can be significantly on the agenda.

The mediafocus of the protests is now shifting to high school students. Lessons have stopped at more than 100 secondary schools that are under occupation by students, according to the Education Ministry. Scores of university buildings across Greece are also under occupation. The International Herald Tribune 14.12. 2008 had a headline postulating "In Athens, the university of anarchy" about the occupied Athens Polytechnic University. There may be a few old anarchists at this university, but the place is in reality more of an ochlarchy than anarchy. Tuesday authorities say masked youths have attacked the Greek riot police headquarters in Athens, causing damage but no injuries. Police say a group of 30 youths threw petrol bombs and stones at the building, damaging police vehicles parked outside. In other parts of Athens, schoolchildren were blocking streets. Dozens of teenagers gathered outside the capital's main court complex and a maximum security prison, stopping traffic but causing no other disturbance. In the northern port of Thessaloniki, riot police fired tear gas to disperse some 300 youths throwing fruit and stones outside the city's main court complex. The disturbance followed a court decision that found eight police officers, ochlarchs, guilty of abusing a student following riots two years ago. The policemen received suspended sentences ranging from three years and three months for grievous bodily harm to 15 months for being an accessory to the abuse. Overnight, unknown arsonists attacked three Athens banks with petrol bombs, causing extensive damage. There were no injuries or arrests. Greek youths broke into a state TV center and two radios, and took over for a short while, forcing broadcasters to put out anti-government messages. Students blocked streets in Athens as planned. There is no Greek "anarchy"=ochlarchy and "anarchists"= ochlarchists in the main international newsmedia today, but they report less...

Also, for a second day farmers protesting at low prices cut off the main highway to northern Greece for several hours.

15.12.2008. In the morning protesters hurled eggs at police outside an Athens court and rallies were planned later in the day in a second week of anti-government protests in Greece. About 50 demonstrators confronted police outside the main Athens court, where a hearing took place for dozens of people arrested during Greece's worst riots in decades. Later in the morning hundreds of people were staging fresh protest rallies. They gathered near the capital's police headquarters and the mentioned court. The new street protests are being held amid a heavy police presence. Demonstrators are chanting anti-government slogans, but no major incidents have been reported until mid-day. Greek police however fired teargas at small groups of protesters who threw stones and firebombs. Acts of vandalism against shops were reported in two northern cities. Students, unions, leftist and anarchist groups have called demonstrations this week. One demonstration is planned outside parliament at 16.00 GMT on Monday. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis's ruling New Democracy party has denounced the riots as the work of a small group of "hardcore anarchists", but at their peak early last week thousands of youths ran riot through 10 Greek cities, wrecking hundreds of cars, banks and businesses.

New Democracy is mixing up "anarchists" with ochlarchists and gets a Brown Card. There are many anarchists in Greece, and they are of course not ochlarchists. In all, some 70 people are said to have been injured in violent protests across Greece during the unrest sparked by the shooting on 6 December. Stores and international businesses have been attacked, and at least 280 people have been detained by police. Of that total, 176 were arrested, 130 of them over looting. People have also thrown money at the police, indicating it is corrupt, and that the whole state is corrupt. Protesters are angry not just at police but at a government already on the defensive over a series of financial scandals, and over economic issues. The demonstration 16.00 GMT called by among others a diffuse, unknown so called anarchist group, also unknown to the Anarchist International and IAT, was a flop. People with a libertarian tendency did not show up because they were afraid it was ochlarchists posing as "anarchists". The Greek anarchist movement has not been clear enough taking a stand against ochlarchists posing as "anarchists". Real anarchist ideas will however continue to be an important part of the Greek revolt. Protesters have called for riot police to be pulled off the streets, for police to be disarmed and for growing social inequality to be resolved. Rallies have been called for Thursday and Friday against education and pension reforms, privatizations and tax rises as the budget goes to parliament.

14.12.2008. Saturday seen all in all had less ochlarchy than earlier in the week. Early on Sunday it is relatively calm in Greece. Students have planned further demonstrations on Monday 15.12.2008. Alternative scenarios for the further development in Greece: 1. Overthrow of the government? This is unhealthy revolutionary romantics, and should be forgotten by all demonstrators at once. 2. The opposition PASOK back in power? This will not change anything significantly. No option. 3. The government introduces a state of emergency and a more authoritarain, ochlarchical and repressive regime than the present system at about 58% authoritarian degree. This may happen if the ochlarchy continues and becomes worse, say, if the demonstrators introduce fascistoid so called "Black Blocs/Blocks" or similar hierarchical and ochlarchical organizations. 4. The demonstrators/people introduce non-hierarchical and non-ochlarchical mass organizations, and via these go into negotiations with the superiors/government, from the people and upwards, to get their demands through, with the purpose to achieve a less authoritarian regime. This is the only realistic anarchist/libertarian alternative. And the demonstrations should continue in a non-ochlarchical way to keep up the pressure on the superiors/government until this aim is achieved. 5. The prime minister Costas Karamanlis' whisful thinking that the demonstrations will "burn out by itself", is probably not realistic. Opinion polls: An opinion poll published by Ethnos newspaper on Sunday said 83,3% of Greeks were unhappy with the government's response to the violence. Discontent was high, 65,6%, even among supporters of Karamanlis' New Democracy party, which has a one-seat majority in parliament. Another survey, in Kathimerini daily, put disapproval of the government at 68% with 60% of those polled saying the riots were a social uprising rather than an isolated outburst by a small fringe of violent protesters. This indicates scenario 4., the most anarchist/libertarian, is a realistic scenario. In the evening Sunday we can note a day of relatively calm.

The demonstrations 13.12.2008 were mainly peaceful, non-ochlarchical. Banners read "The state kills" and "Down with the government of murderers," but the atmosphere was calm. "The murder of Alexis [Alexandros Grigoropoulos] was the last straw. Being a young man in Greece today is a crime ... They are stealing our dreams," read one leaflet on Saturday. The unrest has caused 200 million euros ($265.3 million) of damage in Athens alone. Police have detained 432 people. The boy's shooting on Dec. 6 unleashed a wave of demonstrations with a lot of anarchists involved, also with some ochlarchy/violence done by ochlarchs/ochlarchists consisting of leftwingers including communists, and some ochlarchists posing as "anarchists", mainly mislead kids. Several anarchist black and read flags have waved in the middle of non-ochlarchical parts of the massdemonstrations. Later on Saturday however some ochlarchy broke out again...

11.12.2008. A demonstration was called by the School of Drama at 5pm at Kamara Sq. 2000 people, mainly university students and anarchists and few high school students, marched peacefully towards the eastern heavily inhabited districts of the city.

10.12.2998. This was a day of general strike, called much earlier by the General Labor Confederation of Greece (GSEE) and the Civil Servants' Confederation, against the economic policy of the government. CNN reports: "Much of the violence have been blamed on self-styled anarchists - although opposition parties have been quick to blame the Greek government for the crisis." No reason to blame the ochlarchy on anarchists, anarchists are not ochlarchists/ochlarchs.

BBC 07.12.2008 reports about riots made by an "anarchist fringe" in Greece, and thus gets a Brown Card. Our experts on anarchy and anarchists say: Greek so called "anarchists" are ochlarchists - not anarchists! The Greek ochlarchists have got an expelling Brown Card from IAT, and are thus not members of the international anarchist movement. Stop calling them anarchists, because they are not! Anarchists demonstrate with dignity - not ochlarchy! But we of course condemn the Greek police's killing of a youth. This is not the first time the marxist propagandastation BBC presents Orwellian "1984" newspeak and disinformation on "anarchists" (= ochlarchists) and gets the Brown Card. The marxist propaganda station NRK reports about the same 09.11.2008 and gets a Brown Card. Similar reports are found in the liberalist Aftenposten, TV2 and Dagbladet 08-9.12.2008, and they all get a Brown Card. 11.12.2008 the marxist propaganda station NRK indicates that the opposition party PASOK may be a solution to the Greek problem, but it is not.

Later on BBC has improved a bit. They were pretty lonely with their spreading of myths. Hello Peter D.! It is true that the riots were made by leftwingers as BBC now reports . Anarchists are in the middle and upwards, not far left or right on the economic-political map. However anarchism has principally nothing to do with the bohemian... But you will probably get a Black Star if this improvement continues...

The webreport at BBC in itself this evening is very good. However we don't agree with the protester saying: "I think [the violence] is justified. Peaceful demonstrations cannot get a solution to the problem... They can feel the pressure from the people and not do it again." We know from experience a.o.t. from demonstrations in Norway, see http://www.anarchy.no/abcde.html , that orderly and peaceful massdemonstrations work best. Ochlarchy is not the way to do it... The massdemonstration must have guards... selfmanagement. At the ABCDE action in Norway there were many guards, protecting against ochlarchists.

Brown Card to the student Jonathan Recaldin. The video "Student speaks of Greece 'carnage'" at the website of BBC only confirms that Recaldin does not know the difference between anarchists and ochlarchist, and he thus joins in the Brown Card to BBC.
At the same time we give a Black Star * to Euronews for excellent and objective reporting about the event. All media should learn from Euronews in this connection. But also this report could be improved. Later it was improved... 11.12.2008 Euronews reports about "change of tactics" among Greek protesters, i.e. in non-ochlarchical direction. Euronews also reports about Italian solidarity actions, where a.o. "anarchist parties" were protesting against the cowardly and ochlarchical actions of the Greek police.
We also give Black Stars * to NTB, referring to AP, followed by a.o. Aftenposten, for excellent and objective reporting about the event 07.12.2008. All the media reporting in the same way get a Black Star.

We also give a Brown Card to the conservative liberalist Greek government for calling the ochlarchy "anarchy". This is authoritarian newspeak and propaganda...

07.12.2008. The Greek system seen all in all is mainly populist. Despite the conservative liberalist government, the system seen all in all is mainly populist, a moderate, parliamentarian form of fascism, with about 58% authoritarian degree and about 42% libertarian degree, ranked as no 25 of the countries in the world according to libertarian degree. The degree of capitalism is estimated to about 52,1% and the degree of statism to about 63,4%, i.e. both significant. A third of Greeks live close to the poverty line or under. The poverty limit is drawn at an income of 470 euros a month per adult. Slowly but steadily a 'third world' is being created inside Greece, an EU member state with a population of 11 million. And with youth unemployment at about 20% and overall joblessness at about 7%, there is plenty of anger on the streets.

PS. The shift to PASOK-government in 2009 has not changed the system's coordinates on Economic-Political Map significantly...

It is not "a mix of anarchy and weak government" as BBC suggests 08.12.2008. Populism typically have a lot of ochlarchy, and the government/police harass and kills people. Neonazis are collaborating with the police, doing ochlarchy... There is no such thing in the Anarchy of Norway, with about 54% anarchy degree and about 46% authoritarian degree. The Greeks in the present situation should try to come closer to a Norwegian type system, with small rank and income differences, orderly and efficient, i.e. anarchy, instead of continuing the present system with large rank and income differences, and inefficient, plus a lot of ochlarchy, i.e. populism.

CNN, an authoritarian conservative liberalist propaganda station 09.12.2008 calls the ochlarchy in Greece "anarchy", and gets a Brown Card. Later on CNN has improved a bit, saying it "may not be anarchy"... BBC's Paul Wood 10.12.2008 however still calls the ochlarchy "Greek anarchy" in a video at their website, and joins in the Brown Card. 13.12.2008 BBC TV however has improved a lot, reporting quite objectively, mainly consistent with the IAT reports. The BBC website however reports: "Many have identified themselves as anarchists happy to use violence in what they say are legitimate protests against the government." Thus, BBC still shows a slight tendency to mix up anarchists with ochlarchists/ochlarchs... The Brown Card is still valid. BBC can still improve more... they are not in for a Black Star yet. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. 14.12.2008 BBC's marxist hardliner Paul Wood continues on the wrong path, still talking about "Greek anarchy" and even calling the ochlarchists/ochlarchs "anarchist" youths. My, my, ... what language... Also other reports on BBC TV 14.12.2008 show that BBC mainly is the old authoritarian marxist propaganda machine, wrongly mixing up ochlarchy/ochlarchists with anarchy/anarchists... The Brown Card is well deserved.

The authoritarian travesty of "anarchy" = ochlarchy is hard to stop... marxists, liberalists and populists/fascists all have an interest in calling ochlarchy "anarchy". And when mislead youths adopt this travesty and call themselves "anarchists" and do ochlarchy, and the main media reports more or less uncritical in the same way, the vicious circle is complete. There is no panacea to break this circle, but it is not unbreakable. www.anarchy.no has about 15 000 visitors and 50 000 hits per month, and a lot of other websites have the same information. In the long run we will break the vicious circle, but it would certainly help if the main media sometimes let our objective information about anarchy vs ochlarchy pass on to their audience.

The Greek riots started on Saturday 6 December 2008, when Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old student, was fatally shot by Epaminondas Korkoneas, a policeman. The shooting occurred after an altercation between a police patrol and a small group of youths in the Exarchia district of central Athens. The fatal shooting that triggered the riots and protests took place in the evening of Saturday 6 December 2008, shortly after 9 p.m. in the Exarchia district of central Athens.

According to press reports, two Special Guards (a special category of the Greek police personnel, originally meant for guard duties on public property) had been engaged in a minor verbal clash with a small group of teenagers in a main street of Exarchia, outside a shop. On driving away in their police car, they were then confronted by another small group at a nearby street crossing. The two guards were ordered by the Greek police center of operations to disengage immediately and withdraw from the confrontation site. However, the two guards did not oblige and are therefore accused of not following explicit orders. Instead, the two special guards chose to station the police vehicle outside the PASOK headquarters, left their car and went to Tzavella Street on foot in order to confront the youngsters.

Following some exchange of verbal abuse that, according to several witnesses, was initiated by the guards, one of them, Epaminondas Korkoneas, fired his gun. The initial police's report on the incident claims that the special guard shot in response to a renewed attack by the youths that involved throwing stones and bottles. Eyewitnesses speaking to the Greek mass media, however, reported that the special guards were not attacked by the youths nor was their physical safety put in danger at any time. Instead, the special guards approached the group and verbally assaulted them in order to provoke them. The special guard said he fired three rounds, two warning shots in the air and a third aimed on the ground. Several eyewitnesses said they believed the policeman had targeted the youngsters directly. The victim, Alexandros - Andreas Grigoropoulos was a 15-year-old student, who lived in the affluent northern Athens suburb of Palaio Psychiko and attended a private school (the Moraitis School). Immediately following the shooting, he was transported to the nearby Evangelismos Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

A criminal investigation was initiated against the police officer who fired the shot on a charge of murder ("intentional homicide" according to Greek law), while his partner was charged as an accomplice. Both were suspended from duty and were kept in detention. The defense counsel that was initially hired resigned shortly after accepting the case, citing personal reasons.On December 10, Alexis Kougias, counsel for the defendants, said that preliminary results of the ballistic tests apparently show that it was indeed a ricochet and that the two policemen will only appear before the Public Prosecutor after the forensic, toxicological, and ballistic examinations have been completed. However, the results of forensic tests indicate that the bullet that killed Grigoropoulos had entered the youth's body directly. This casts doubt on claims by the 37-year-old policeman charged with the boy's murder that the bullet had been fired as a warning and ricocheted. On the morning of 11 December, Dimitris Tsovolas, former MP and Economic Minister under previous government formed by PASOK agreed to serve as the counsel for Grigoropoulos' family. On the same day, counsel for the two police involved in the shooting released an explanatory statement that described the deceased as demonstrating "deviant behaviour". According to the memorandum, Grigoropoulos was a teenager from a wealthy family, he frequented the Exarchia district, and he had allegedly taken part in riotous activities that took place following the end of a basketball game two hours before he was shot, and that, in general "the victim did not show the expected behaviour and personality of a 15-year old adolescent".

Grigoropoulos' family, friends, schoolmates and high school teachers immediately condemned those statements and declared in public that the allegations in the defendants' memorandum are "completely inaccurate" and "insulting"; the private school Grigoropoulos attended also issued a public statement that denies all the allegations. Alexis Kougias's stance, as well as his comments in the explanatory memorandum have forced the Athens bar association to initiate disciplinary proceedings against him. On December 15, Alexis Kougias, counsel for the defendants, appealed that the two defendants be released from custody, on grounds that neither of them ever had any previous criminal convictions, that their names and addresses are known, that they have considerable ties with their community, and that the charges are based on the testimony of witnesses that defendants' object to. Specifically, the defendants' counsel took issue with the testimony of four eyewitnesses who had testified for the Public Prosecutor, and appeared to refute almost all the claims made by the defendants and their counsel. On 17 December, Dimitris Tsovolas, counsel for Grigoropoulos' family, publicly requested that defendants and defendants' counsel stop provoking the Greek people and the victim's family, by making degrading comments, unsubstantiated accusations, and smearing the memory of Alexis. The ballistics report was also released on 17 December and stated that the bullet that killed Grigoropoulos had in fact ricocheted. However, forensic reports conducted on 21 December concluded that the bullet was not fired in the air, but towards the group of teenagers, though there may have been no intention to kill the boy.

The policeman, accused of murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos, Epaminondas Korkoneas comes from Kalamata, from a ultra right wing family tradition. As per Indymedia Athens, his family environment and family members, were participating in the right wing pro nazi gangs during the German occupation in Greece (WWII), collaborating with the NAZI. (Tagmatasfalites). According to Indymedia Athens, his family members after the war and during the Greek civil war joined criminal gangs of "Maganas" and "Katsarea" that massacred the region of Kalamata after the period of the Várkiza agreement. The killer Epaminondas Korkoneas was a member of the Core action group of the pro nazi Golden Dawn ( Hrysi Avgi) in Kalamata in the late 80s and early 90s (without cutting his ties since). Then he joined the Special army Forces (LOK) and in 1999 was one of the first that was recruited to the newly established body of "Special Guards" a special body within the Greek Police. He served in Exarchia and was of those who had the most provocative behavior for years. The police and especially the MAT and Special Guards have close relations with fascist organizations and pro nazis, according to Indymedia Athens.

Summary of court pleadings of Epaminondas Korkoneas, published Thursday December 11 2008. Summary of the main points from the pleadings of Epaminondas Korkoneas, the police officer charged with intentional homicide in the case of Alexandros Grigoropoulos. Here is his version of the events:

Korkoneas said that he and his partner were in the patrol car at the intersection of Charilaos Trikoupis and Navarinou Streets when they were attacked by a group of 30 youths who yelled vulgarities at them and threw rocks, sticks, bottles, metal ashtrays, and firecrackers at them. According to his account the two police officers were disturbed and afraid, so they called the Rapid Response Center and got instructions to extricate themselves from the situation. They then drove up the street to the new offices of PASOK, parked the car, and informed the riot police on duty that there was a dangerous anarchist group in the area. In order to get more information they went back on foot. The crowd, now bigger, moved towards them, according to Korkoneas, throwing the above items as well as molotov cocktails. Korkoneas' partner threw a flash-bang grenade to try to get them to break off with no effect. When they were 10 to 15 meters away, Korkoneas said they were afraid for their lives, so they turned their backs to the crowd and then he fired two warning shots into the air, maybe a third, he wasn't aware of this but his partner who was also charged in the murder reminded him of it later.

They had no idea someone was injured and couldn't even imagine it, given that all the shots were warning shots fired into the air, so they left and returned to the police department, apparently without any idea that they had fatally wounded the 15 year old youth, according to the pleadings. Here is Korkoneas' argument that he couldn't have shot Alexandros directly in the chest: He said that he couldn't have fired the three shots into the crowd because there would have been at least 6 people wounded, not just one, from that distance. Another reason he gave to support his innocence was the following: "In any case, I never would proceed to such an extreme action, that is the use of the weapon against any person, let alone a youth, given that I am myself the father of three underage children but also a conscientious policeman, as is proven by my until now honorable service."

He said that the medical coroner report, which still has not been officially submitted, describes the bullet as entering the body from the angle of the left chest wall, above and to the left, ending its trajectory at the spinal cord, below and a little to the right, and that the bullet was deformed in a way that means it must have ricocheted and not been shot directly at the victim. He appears to try to justify his action in any case by describing Alexandros as a delinquent: In his pleadings he said that the youth and "his company" used to go on Saturdays to attack the offices of PASOK (the center-left political party), and that they once went to a polo game where they participated in disturbances, at which game there were injuries caused to polo players and to the one of the team coaches. He also said: "Note also that the deceased had been expelled from Moraitis School and he changed schools often, a fact which demonstrates deviant behavior." The remainder of the pleadings are devoted to a description of his family circumstances, his service in the Greek special forces and his service as a police officer. He concluded by asking to be released on his own recognizance, since he is not a flight risk or a previous offender, and has strong community and family ties.

Within the hour following the shooting of Grigoropouls, angry demonstrators took to the streets in and around Exarchia, and violent confrontations with the police erupted. Meanwhile, similar demonstrations were reported in other Greek cities as well, including Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Komotini, Kastoria, Patras, Tripoli, Volos, Trikala, Mytilene, Agrinio, Kavala, Corfu, Piraeus, Chania, Heraklion, Rhodes, Karditsa, Lamia, Stylida, Drama, Xanthi, Lagkadas, Kozani, Alexandroupoli, Larisa and Corinth. After midnight, the demonstrations in Athens turned into violent rioting in some central streets of the city. By dawn on Sunday, 24 police officers had been injured, one seriously (with facial burns and his little finger mutilated) and 31 shops (particularly across Ermou Street), 9 banks, and 25 cars had been either seriously damaged, burned, or destroyed within the downtown area.

By Sunday 7 December, 2008, 38 vehicles were damaged, 13 police officers were injured, and 22 rioters were arrested. Monday 8 December, 2008 saw police assess damage as daily schedules resumed and rioting subsided. However, all was not quiet, as all over Greece, several thousands of high school students marched on local police stations, throwing eggs, paint bombs, and water bottles. Protesters continued to occupy university campuses around the nation, while organizations such as the Communist Party of Greece announced plans for protests later that day. The massive demonstrations of that evening were confronted by police using tear gas; during the demonstrations, some 11 public buildings around the central plaza of Athens, Syntagma Square, were set on fire. Students around Greece proceeded to occupy their school buildings, in protest, including in Serres, Imathia, Chalkidiki, Pieria, and Thessaloniki. The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the National Technical University of Athens, as well as the Athens University of Economics and Business remained under student occupation. Rioters also set fire to the Kostis Palamas building that led to the total destruction of the European Law Library situated at the corner of Akadimias and Sina street.

After the fire, the rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Christos Kittas, resigned, but some days later withdrew his resignation. A police report released Tuesday, 9 December, 2008 in the morning put the numbers of injured police officers at 12, arrested rioters at 87, and persons who had been brought before a public prosecutor at 176. In Thessaloniki, 16 rioters were arrested for theft, 3 of whom were under 18 years old. After four days of rioting, some citizens began to act against the rioters, and some rioters fired on police officers. Citizens attacked people that were found looting and were seen throwing stones to protect their belongings. In the city of Patras, according to the city's mayor, members of far-right organizations took part in the violence. In Athens, seven police officers were injured, four rioters were arrested for violence against the police, 12 were arrested for theft and 55 were arrested for rioting with another 25 people of non-Greek nationality arrested for the same reason. In a report on Tuesday, Amnesty International accused the Greek Police of brutality in handling the riots. The Greek department of Amnesty International canceled the scheduled celebrations on 10 December for the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in response to the police violence in Greece. (Sources: Wikipedia, AIIS, IAT-APT)

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