Door Herbert Ploegman (Herbert Ploegman is als cultureel-antropoloog afgestudeerd aan de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam. Momenteel bereidt hij een onderzoek voor naar nieuwe vormen van samenleven in de crisis in Griekenland.) In Athene is de hongerstaking van anarchist en wegens een bankoverval gedetineerde Nikos Romanos een gebeurtenis van belang geworden in de strijd die regering en protesterende burgers ...

On 6 December 2008 the Greek government armed the mind and hand of the policeman who murdered the 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos, sending the message that the State will do anything to prevent the youth from questioning its policies. Alexandros' friend, Nikos Romanos, watched him dying right in front of him. In February 2013, at the age of 20, Nikos Romanos was arrested together with five other young ...

ReINFORM invites European Trade Unions to condemn the following two incidents of employers' arbitrariness in Greece. We strongly believe that solidarity among European workers is a vital ingredient of the struggle for decent working conditions and a decent life. We hope that you share this belief and ask you to sign the following two declarations of support by the Trade Union of Salaried Engineers in Greece ...

On Thursday 6th of November, a company of 4 Greeks got attacked by a Neonazi gang inside a tram which was heading towards Bahnofstrasse from Rennweg. The attack continued in the area of the Bahnofstrasse tram station. Once they were identified as Greeks, they got provoked by the gang who started yelling “Golden Dawn” at them. When the Greeks expressed their disagreement with the ideology of “Golden Dawn”, t ...

"Our dreams, their nightmares", "Money for the education, not the bankers", "When injustice becomes a law, resistance becomes a duty", "Assemblies, sit-ins to overthrow the 'New High School'" - read the banners of the high school students in Greece, who massively took the streets yesterday protesting against the 'New High School', the law voted by the Greek government aiming at the structural transformation ...

Herdenk de Kristallnacht 2014 - Stop racisme en fascisme in Europa! Zoals elk jaar sinds 1992 herdenken we ook dit jaar op 9 november de Kristallnacht die in 1938 in Duitsland plaatsvond. Honderden synagogen en winkels van joden werden vernield en in één nacht werden bijna honderd joden vermoord. Er waren jaren van discriminatie, intimidatie en uitsluiting van joden aan vooraf gegaan. Waarom herdenken wij d ...

Deputy prosecutor decides there are no legal grounds to review the decision by a Patras court in July which acquitted the farmers and had sparked outrage at home and abroad. Greece’s supreme court has upheld a decision by a jury court of appeals in the city of Patras to acquit the farmers who opened fire, last year, on 28 unpaid Bangladeshi strawberry pickers, seriously wounding four of them. Deputy public ...

There have been clashes in several French cities after a man protesting against a controversial dam project was killed in a confrontation with police. A prosecutor said that Remi Fraisse, 21, died of wounds caused by "an explosion". His body was discovered in the early hours of Sunday morning after rioting in Albi in southern France. There was violence in Albi, Nantes and Rennes as hundreds of people protes ...

'Dat óók Shell niet 'schoon en veilig' kan fracken blijkt uit onderzoek van Milieudefensie in Oekraïne en Argentinië, dat daar stuitte op een flink aantal dubieuze praktijken' Door Ike Teuling, Campaigner Energie bij Milieudefensie Een delegatie van Tweede Kamerleden bracht begin deze week een bezoek aan schaliegasboorlocaties van Shell in de Verenigde Staten, om meer te weten te komen over de impact van sc ...

The fundamentalist extremists of the so-called "Islamic State" have massacred thousands. The government of Iraq has been unable and unwilling to stop them. The Syrian Kurdish PYD has put up strong resistance. They have helped Ezidi's to escape and to organize self-defence groups against IS. They have proven to be the most effective resistance against the fundamentalist terror. For weeks, IS has been attacki ...