Posts Tagged ‘Greece’
Greek anti-antifa
A third Greek/fascism post in a row. This story has been chronically underreported: A Holocaust memorial in Rhodes was spray-painted with swastikas. The Holocaust Memorial to the Jews of Rhodes in the Jewish Martyrs Square — the old Jewish Quarter — was defaced Saturday on its six sides. The initials AME also were spray-painted on […]
Filed under: Fascism and antisemitism, Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, Greece, Left-right convergence, national anarchism and autonomous nationalism | 2 Comments
Tags: Greece, Greek Helsinki Monitor, Ανένταχτοι Μαιάνδριοι Εθνικιστές, Rhodes
Greek Neo-Nazi punks
Continuing the Greece/fascism theme, here’s Max Fischer on “Pogrom Punk: The Greek neo-Nazi rock bands boosting Golden Dawn’s rise“. Golden Dawn members sing the national anthem in Thessaloniki (SAKIS MITROLIDIS/AFP/Getty) The Guardian’s Marla Margaronis begins her deep, and deeply disturbing, article on the rise of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn with an interesting detail. The movement’s favorite […]
Filed under: Fascism and antisemitism, Greece, music, national anarchism and autonomous nationalism | 1 Comment
Tags: Golden Dawn, Greece, Hellenic nationalist music, Hellenic skinhead, Pogrom, punk, skinhead, white power punk
An interesting critique of Paul Mason’s reports on Greek fascism, by Benedict Seymour at Metamute, drawing on Alfred Sohn-Rethel. The following is a commentary on Paul Mason’s important but flawed article on the situation in Greece: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20105881 Paul Mason’s recent reports on the rise of the Golden Dawn have been very interesting. The latest ends […]
Filed under: Antifa, critique and theory, Greece, The right | 1 Comment
Tags: Alfred-Sohn-Rethel, fascism, Golden Dawn, Greece, Paul Mason, Weimar
We Are All Greek Jews
An open letter The neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn entered the Greek parliament this month. With its swastika-inspired emblem, Hitlerian salute, reference to Mein Kampf, antisemitic and racist ideology, Holocaust denial, violence against migrants, threats against journalists and personality cult, the party is the lineal heir of the German national-socialist party that led Europe and the world into chaos […]
Filed under: Antifa, Fascism and antisemitism, Greece | 1 Comment
Tags: Golden Dawn, Greece
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Filed under: Autonomous politics, germany, Greece | Leave a Comment
Tags: Greece, Greek debt crisis, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
The best of the Sunday papers
“Radical critique is not about exchanging compliments, but about looking at the limitations of movements which claim to be anti-capitalist and trying to contribute to their development. The task of over-emphasising the ’sexy and inspiring’ sides is better left to the various direct action conferences and gatherings, whose only purpose seems to be exactly that: […]
Filed under: Autonomous politics, critique and theory | Leave a Comment
Tags: Anselm Jappe, climate justice, Exit, Greece, insurrectionary anarchism, Krisis, marxism, Moishe Postone, Naomi Klein, pirate radio, Summer of Rage, value critique, Wu Ming
Continuing an occassional series… ///Greece Libcom report: A local antiracist demo in Ampelokipoi, Athens, came under attack by fascist thugs, leading to the hospitalisation of one woman. More than 40 fascists have been detained. The attack marks a climax of fascist violence which has also led to the torching of Chania’s Synagogue. On Saturday 23 […]
Filed under: Antifa, Fascism and antisemitism, Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, Left-right convergence, national anarchism and autonomous nationalism | 4 Comments
Tags: Ampelokipoi, antisemitism, Athens, autonomous nationalists, Chania, Crete, fascism, Greece, Hania, national anarchism, national anarchists, russia, Russky obraz, Tomas Babka, Tomas Vandas, Workers Party
Jews – Pigs – Murderers
Abravanel, a Greek Jewish blog, reports on the antisemitic rantings of left-wing “anti-racist” Greek radio anti-hero Tzimis Panousis. [via Land & Autonomy] ADDED LINKS 30 JUNE: Two from The Deliverators Notes: Glavin, Hezbollah, Greek Anarchists and Xenophobes No True Leftist Previous Greece: Terminal 119 against antisemitism; Confusion about Greek violence. Previous “controversial” comedians: Dieudonné 1 […]
Filed under: Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, Greece, Left-right convergence, the anti-Zionism of idiots | 1 Comment
Tags: Greece, Jimmy Panousis, Theodore and Yiannna Angelopoulos
Terminal 119
Contested Terrain: Greek Leftists Oppose Left Antisemitism From the Greek “Terminal 119 collective” in Thessaloniki, Greece: Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism A week ago we wrote a text with the title “Is Anti-Semitism going to achieve what truncheons did not?”, noting that an evident anti-Semitism had started being manifested in various places within the country, hidden behind […]
Filed under: Anti-anti-Zionism, Greece | 2 Comments
Tags: anti-zionism, antisemitism, Gaza, Greece, Larisa, Terminal 119
Depressing and confusing
Karl Pfeifer on the attack on concentration camp survivors at Ebensee. Leftist knife attack on Jews in Buenos Aires. [More here.] …and lots more. Meanwhile, the news from Greece is confusing. We have seen young people rioting, Greek fascists co-operating with the police to attacks the youth, racist attacks on Muslim and other migrant targets, […]
Filed under: Fascism and antisemitism | 4 Comments
Tags: anarchists, Antifa, Argentina, Austria, Autonomous Antifa of Moravia, Czech Republic, Ebensee, Greece, Quebracho, Starbucks, Union of Young Communists of Czechoslovakia
Anti-National Translation 