Far-right Golden Dawn party filling vacuum for those neglected by state after MPs elected to fight 'immigrant scum' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People hold sacks of potatoes during a food distribution organised by Golden Dawn, in Athens.Photograph: Yorgos Karahalis/Reuters ------------------ ...

On Sunday night people clashed with fascists and police during an anti-fascist patrol around Athens. In response to continuing attacks by fascist supporters groups of anti-fascists have been patrolling the streets at night. During September there were a number of these motorcycle patrols of around a few dozen people. September saw a number of incidents of racist violence across Athens. Last week suspected m ...

Instead of an analysis of what kind of "austerity measures" and in whose favor, the troika and its vassals in the Greek government have been preparing, I'll just show you a table of taxes before and after the new tax system, a part of the latest austerity package, is implemented, by income category. This is income tax only, it does not include social security taxes... The really fun part is at the bottom of ...

No wonder the protesters are back. They are angry at the backdoor rewriting of the social contract Ha-Joon Chang   Rioters beat a policeman during a rally against government austerity measures in Athens. Photograph: John Kolesidis/REUTERS Throughout the 1980s and 90s, when many developing countries were in crisis and borrowing money from the International Monetary Fund, waves of protests in those count ...

Police respond with tear gas to firebombs thrown from sidelines of demo against €12bn cuts. Violence erupted in the heart of Athens as mass protests against further austerity measures in crisis-hit Greece escalated on Wednesday. ...

The response of journalists and TV producers to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is at best muddled, at worst complicit By Aris Chatzistefanou Golden Dawn, the neo-Nazi party of Greece, made a rather strange proposal this week: let's create a new public holiday, they said, to commemorate victims of Communist guerrillas at the end of the second world war. By "victims", they mainly refer to the Nazi collaborato ...

  Dear friends and comrades,   We are organizing a big workers "CARAVAN of STRUGGLE & SOLIDARITY" which will take place from 12 Octomber until 15 Octomber in Greece. We would like to invite you to our first stop of our tour at THESSALONIKI, GREECE on FRIDAY 12 Octomber. If you are coming, we can arrange travel tickets and accomodation. You will show up at Ivanofio basketball arena. Thanks a lo ...

Mohammadi Younus grew up in Ghazni Province, in the east of Afghanistan, and studied medicine in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. He had “a problem with the Taliban… a political problem” during the dark days of their rule, and he landed in jail. He decided to leave the country and crossed into Iran. He bought a fake passport for a little more than two thousand dollars and made it to Turkey. He registere ...

The Deposit Flight Which Could Undermine the Euro By Yalman Onaran An accelerating flight of deposits from banks in four European countries is jeopardizing the renewal of economic growth and undermining a main tenet of the common currency: an integrated financial system. A total of 326 billion euros ($425 billion) was pulled from banks in Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece in the 12 months ended July 31, a ...

Nick Dearden reports from an activist conference on austerity and debt in Athens. It will come as no surprise to the hundreds of people gathered for a conference I have just returned from, that Greece’s ‘bailout’ package agreed 12 months ago has failed to provide a solution to the country’s debt problems. ...