Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn is increasingly influential among members of the country's political mainstream. Student Konstantinos Georgousis filmed party members on the streets of Athens.  Warning: this video contains highly offensive and racist language Golden Dawn, the extreme right-wing party in Greece, won 18 seats in the country's last election. Since then support for the party has doubled as it push ...

Tijd voor protest!   Demonstratie ‘Geen vluchteling op straat of in de cel’ – 23 maart – Amsterdam Mars vertrekt 13:00 vanaf Vluchtkerk Amsterdam Erik de Roodestraat 16 – goed bereikbaar via tram en metro. Manifestatie op het Museumplein vanaf 14:30 Sprekers, actie en een ééndaags tentenkamp. ...

Yesterday,  Saturday March 2nd, the latest Reclaim the Streets (RTS) took place in Zurich. It was only in September 2011, when the youth of Zurich gathered the streets to claim their right for non commercial spaces and parties (which is called Reclaim the Streets here, a demonstration concept invented somewhere in the 90ies) as they met on central places in the city with sound systems to make a big party, w ...

Many thousands of demonstrators have held marches in more than 20 cities in Portugal to protest against government-imposed austerity measures aimed at lifting the ailing country out of recession. Tens of thousands of people filled a Lisbon boulevard during Saturday's protests and headed to the finance ministry carrying placards saying "Screw the troika, we want our lives back". The troika is a reference to ...

'Bedroom tax' will force people out of their homes   Tory ‘under-occupancy’ rules will force people to move when no affordable alternative is available, writes Dave Sewell The government’s attack on benefits could see thousands of people lose their homes. One attack in particular, popularly known as the “bedroom tax”, is set to push almost 100,000 social housing tenants into arrears on their rent from ...

Europese Meeting op 9 Maart Event facebook De crisis en de schoktherapie die men ons oplegt zorgt voor grote protestbewegingen in Europa. Sommige landen zoals in het zuiden van Europa, zitten zelf de rand van de sociale explosie. In andere landen is de strijd pas begonnen. Kom luisteren en discussiëren met militanten die met hun beide voeten in deze bewegingen staan. Zij zorgen voor een overzicht van de wee ...

Alexandropoulis does not want goldmine, Ambassador Robert Peck told Photo: Perama locals protest against the Eldorado mine at Perama, November 2012 (AMNA) The mayor of a area in the northern region of Thrace where a Canadian company is planning a controversial goldmine project has told the Canadian ambassador to Greece that his people want to be left in peace. "We want to be left alone to develop our fisher ...

Local committee of the Association of Hospital Doctors of Athens and Piraeus General Hospital of Nikaia-Pireus 27-3-2013 The doctors of the hospital have demanded their names to be removed from the schedule of the on-call duties of March as they are unpaid for 5 consecutive months. According to the decision of a massive general assembly, the doctors of the General Hospital of Nikaia-Piraeus “A. Panteleimon” ...

ATHENS — The former mayor of Greece’s second city, Salonika, and two of his top aides were sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after being found guilty of embezzling almost 18 million euros, or $23.5 million, in public money — a rare conviction in a case involving the political corruption that has contributed to the country’s dysfunction and economic decline.   A court in Salonika, a northern port ...

Courses of “national awakening” in children aged 6 to 10 years, in the presence of their parents, are being run by the far-right party of the Golden Dawn in Greece. According to an official party announcement, on Saturday, Feb. 23, at the offices of the Golden Dawn in Artemis Attica the first “Conformation of Children” was held. About 20 children with their parents attended the meeting. The children watched ...