While Dutch politicians are taking their summer holidays, human rights campaigners and activists are coming from all over Europe and elsewhere to Rotterdam to build a strong front against the government and its prison industrial complex engaged in discrimination, repression and detention of refugees coming to the Netherlands. Despite widespread condemnation, including from the UN and Amnesty International, ...

Today, 16th of June, a general strike is taking place in Greece. Demos have been organized in more than 60 cities in Greece. This is the fourth general strike in Greece this year (following walkouts on 20 February, 1 May and 13 June).  ...

Video of the brutal attack by the Greek Police against the solidarity to the hunger striker Kostas Sakkas demonstration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cj9PufVmW9I   ...

Anarchist hunger striker Kostas Sakkas shouts to the assembled crowd from the window of the Greek S.D. Hospital of Nikea: "To victory! Until the end!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4gunImLQKE&feature=player_detailpage   ...

Σε συνέχεια προηγούμενων εκδηλώσεων συμπαράστασης/διαμαρτυρίας και μετά από μια ανοιχτή συζήτηση στο Ντελφτ την Κυριακή 23 Ιουνίου αναδείχθηκε ως αναγκαιότητα η περαιτέρω ενίσχυση της αλληλεγγύης στον αγώνα των εργαζομένων της ΕΡΤ. Προς αυτό το σκοπό αποφασίστηκε να συνδιαμορφωθεί ένα κείμενο που θα καλεί τους Έλληνες και τις απανταχού Κοινότητες ανά την Ολλανδία να πάρουν θέση ως προς το σημαντικό αυτό ζήτ ...

Over the past few days, numerous acts of solidarity took place throughout Greece in solidarity with imprisoned anarchist Kostas Sakkas, who is on hunger strike since the 4th of June 2013 fighting for his immediate release. On the 11th of June, a treating physician reported that clinically he has profound weakness, fatigue after minimal exertion (e.g. walking from his cell to the prisons infirmary), discomfo ...

1) Self-run public radiotelevision, open to the major problems of the tortured society. 2) ERT is to become a real democratic means of expression of the popular desire for Democracy and Freedom. 3) There should be an elected Board of Directors, revocable, voted directly by the Greek people. This Board will undertake the safekeeping of polyphony and pluralism on the basis of Democracy and National Independan ...

The struggle of the workers of Vio.Me. has now a long history but at the same time it is a struggle that comes from the future.   Vio.Me: Self-Organization in Greece from brandon jourdan on Vimeo.   It is a story of a factory abandoned by the employers, forgotten by the state and the government and ignored by bureaucratic trade unionism. It is a story of a factory where, same as in many other plac ...

The grassroots organization of the Communist Party of Greece in the Netherlands call the immigrants and local workers in mobilization on Sunday, June 16 at 15:00 in Dam square in Amsterdam, against the unacceptable government's decision to shutdown the Greek Public Broadcasting (ERT). The shutdown will result to 2,700 job cuts and moreover it will deliver the public property, paid by the Greek people, to th ...

After the reactionary speech of PM Samaras for the closure of the public broadcaster ERT that produced fierce reaction in Greece and in all over the world, today Thursday June 13th, the unions and the coordination of the media workers decided unanimously to prolong our strike in all electronic and paper media. In this strike participate journalists, administrative personnel, technical-support employees in r ...