Greek revolt - marxist riots and terrorism

In June 2011 the revolt turned somewhat towards anarchism and a more general popular uprising

Never forget:
Anarchy is optimal order!
For anarchist action!
The anarchists call on the international newsmedia to report fairly
and objectively about anarchy, anarchism, anarchist and anarchists!

1. The authoritarian travesty of "anarchy" = ochlarchy, i.e. mob rule broadly defined, and "anarchists" = ochlarchists/ochlarchs is hard to stop... Authoritarians: Marxists, liberalists and populists/fascists all have an interest in calling ochlarchy "anarchy" and ochlarchists/ochlarchs "anarchists". And their authoritarian newsmedia/propaganda stations, say BBC marxist, CNN liberalist, etc. mostly postulate this travesty, i.e. authoritarian Orwellian "1984" newspeak. In these cases they deserve a Brown Card.

2. Anarchy is in reality and objectively seen a system significantly without archs, ochlarchs/ochlarchists included, i.e. a system with relatively small rank and income differences, orderly (optimal order, and not chaos) and efficient, also environmentally. Anarchy is real democracy - from the people and upwards, significantly. Anarchists are real democrats. The people, seen as a class, are the grassroots in contrast to the superiors in rank and/or income, the pyramid that in reality is the state/government, if significant i.e. top heavy, and it is probably always inefficent. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, as members of the people, not attacking persons or things... More and more... Until complete horizontal organization is achieved, as an ultimate aim.

3. The word anarchy origins from greek. The prefix "an" means "negation of" as in anaerobe versus aerobe and "arch" means "superior, i.e. in contrast to subordinates", as in archbishop, archangel, archduke, arch villain, etc. Thus anarchy, anarchism, anarchist, a.s.o., mean coordination on equal footing, without superiors and subordinates , i.e. horizontal organization and co-operation without coercion, ideally or practically. Anarchy, [an-arch]-y means [an = without, arch = ruler(s)]-y = system, management as in monarch-y. Thus anarchy and anarchism mean "system and management without ruler(s), i.e. co-operation without repression, tyranny and slavery". That is economic and political/administrative, societal, management from the people, grassroots, and upwards - significantly, without a top heavy pyramid in rank and/or income, i.e. without a top - down approach, without ochlarchy/ochlarchists/ochlarchs and other archs, significantly.

4. Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. The only violence anarchists accept is violence, proportionate, in self defense, i.e. not ochlarchist or other authoritarian actions. Anarchist actions are actions consistent with the here mentioned framework, i.e. non-authoritarian and non-ochlarchical, and not marxist, liberalist or populist/fascist, and nothing else.

5. When mislead youths and similar adopt this travesty and call themselves "anarchists" and do ochlarchy, and the main media reports more or less uncritical in the same way, the vicious circle is complete. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag! There is no panacea to break this circle, but it is not unbreakable. www.anarchy.no has about 15 000 visitors and 50 000 hits per month, and a lot of other websites have the same information. In the long run we will break the vicious circle, but it would certainly help if the main media sometimes let our objective information about anarchy vs ochlarchy and anarchists vs ochlarchists/ochlarchs pass on to their audience...

6. For objective information and updated news about anarchy, anarchism and anarchists, read www.anarchy.no and similar websites world wide! The first main newsstation that makes use of the word ochlarchy and reports objectively about this matter will receive a large Black Star '*' from IAT. But that will probably take some time. The IAT and anarchists in general are however patient. In the long run anarchy will be everywhere on Earth... The sooner the better... We are on party with the future...

7. To mix up opposites as a) anarchy and ochlarchy and b) anarchists with ochlarchists/ochlarchs, as outdated dictionaries and media often do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT in such cases hands out a Brown Card, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The Anarchist International, AI, and the International Anarchist Tribunal included the Anarchist Press Tribunal, IAT-APT, call on the international newsmedia and mandated persons to report fairly and objectively, and not with authoritarian newspeak, about anarchy, anarchism, anarchist and anarchists.

8. Chaos, disorder, mob rule (narrowly defined), lawlessness, the law of the jungle, criminality, riots, vandalism, arson, theft, corruption, drugs, mafia, terrorism, autocratic rule, the right to the strongest, antisocial tyrannic behavior, etc. i.e. different types of superiors and subordinates, a top - down approach. The Greek rooted word for mob rule is ochlarchy. Ochlarchy is also used as a common word for all the authoritarian evils mentioned above i.e. mob rule broadly defined.

9. People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian. They may be liberalists, fascists or marxists, practically certain not anarchists. If anti-capitalist, they are authoritarian socialists, i.e. marxists - leftists or leftwing extremists, not anarchists, although they may falsely try to pose as such, i.e. provocateurs, or wrongly be called so by the media. The media should call such ochlarchists marxists, leftists, leftist groups or leftwing extremists, because that is what they are, not anarchists! Anarchists are in the middle and upwards on the economic-political map, they are not leftists or rightists, not leftwing or rightwing extremists.

10. For more information about the Brown Card and anarchy vs chaos, see (click on) the Oslo Convention and search for anarchy vs chaos at the Anarchy debate/Anarkidebatt. For more information about provocateurs, see the footnote and more at External links.

1. An extremist, person or organization, is the same as totalitarian on the EP-map, i.e. with more than 666 per thousand, or about 67%, authoritarian degree. Leftwing extremists or just left extremists to the left of the middle of the map, and rightwing extremists or just right extremists to the right of the middle.

2. We see on the EP-map (click on System theory and economic-political map) that leftwing extremists are leftist ultra-fascists, most of left fascists, some leftist populists, a little more than half of the state-communists (leninists and maoists), and about 1/3 of left socialists. Rightwing extremists are rightist ultra-fascists, most of right fascists, some rightist populists, a little more than half of the conservative liberalists, and about 1/3 right liberalists. These figures refer to types of system, not number of persons. Anarchists are far from extremists , they are from the middlepoint and upwards on the map, not far left or far right, with 50% or less authoritarian degree. Extremists and totalitarians are practically certain either marxists, populists/fascists or liberalists, never anarchists.

3. Extremism typically also has social psychological roots. Keywords are mass hypnotic suggestion, totalitarian personality disorder, physical and psychical violence, a paranoid twisted travesty of reality, and ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) including criminality. Typically present is a form of charismatic leadership in the meaning a special quality of leadership that captures the popular imagination and inspires unswerving allegiance and devotion. Totalitarian personality disorder typically appears among both leadership and followers, rank and file, although sometimes in different forms. It may also appear at a single person or small sects, and in polyarchical networks. The main hallmark of totalitarian personality disorder is a significant will to cow, broadly defined, or support for such people or organizations. Typically is also complaining about hostility or mobbing, i.e. ochlarchy, when exposed to free, matter of fact criticism.

4. Political extremism is typically use of, or threat of use of, violence against persons and/or things, to achieve political aims. Political extremism is authoritarian, ochlarchist (ochlarchy = mob rule), the opposite of anarchist, according to the Oslo Convention. Persons doing political extremism are ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists, and are thus expelled from the anarchist movement, regardless of what they may claim to be. Such ochlarchist infiltrators to the anarchist movement, get an expelling Brown Card from the International Anarchist Tribunal, for breaking the Oslo Convention. The only violence accepted by anarchists is violence, proportionate, in self defense, i.e. not political extremism. Anarchism is neither pacifism, nor political extremism, terrorism included. The anarchists condemn all forms of extremism.

Updated news about the situation in Greece - marxist riots and terrorism

To international newsmedia, the Greek people and authorities regarding riots in Greece.

Introduction 06.12.2008...
07.12.2008. The Greek system seen all in all is mainly populist.
The violent riots in Greece are done by leftwingers, i.e. marxists.
A Greek newspaper reports "Chaos in Athens as tensions peak"! Chaos and mob rule, ochlarchy, are the right words...
Anarchist criticism of prime minister Costas Karamanlis, updated 27.12.2008.
21.01.2009. The International Workers of the World's resolution in solidarity with Konstantina Kuneva .
Actions for Konstantina Kuneva.
03.02.2009. Leftwing extremist gunmen attacked a police station.
04.02.2009. Leftwing extremist ochlarchy and police ochlarchy ..., compared to the Anarchies of Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, Greece is quite authoritarian, populist and ochlarchical.
05.02.2009. No demonstrations, but terrorist ochlarchy Thursday.
The anarchists take a clear stand against all forms of ochlarchy, also of course terrorist ochlarchy.
18.02.2009. New marxist leftwing extremist bomb attack.
12.03.2009. Revolutionary Struggle threatens to continue its bombing campaign. The anarchists condemn Revolutionary Struggle.
13.03.2009. The international anarchist movement condemns the ochlarchical riots and destruction.
19.03.2009. The international anarchist movement condemns the bomb attack.
23.03. The international anarchist movement condemns the arson attack and vandalism.
25.03. The international anarchist movement condemns the arson attacks.
28.03.2009. The anarchists condemn the vandalism.
30.03.2009. The anarchists condemn the rioters and the arson attacks.
31.03.2009. The anarchists condemn the rioters and bomb attacks.
01.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the vandalism, Voutsis-Vogiatzis and "Criminals of Thought and Action".
03.04.2009. The anarchists comdemn the shooting and bomb attacks.
07.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.
08.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the attack on the police and the theft, i.e. ochlarchy. The IAT hands out a Brown Card to Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis.
09.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.
10.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and shooting.
11.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.
13.04.2009 The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
14.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the robbery and arson attack.
15.04.2009.The anarchists condemn the vandalism and arson attacks.
16.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and arson attacks.
21.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.
25.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the armed attack and firebomb attack.
27.04.2009. The anarchists condemn Greek newspapers for falsely calling ochlarchists "anarchists". They get a Brown Card from IAT-APT.
28.04.2009. The anarchists condemn the armed robbery and shooting.
29.02.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack.
01.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and ochlarchy in general.
04.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the shooting and the company raid.
05.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the bank raid.
07.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
Also 08.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the armed robberies.
09.06.2009. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy, initiated by fascists.
10.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the robberies.
12.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb and arson attacks.
14.05.2009. IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to Epaminondas Korkoneas, the killer of Alexandros Grigoropoulos. The policeman Korkonas excuses his killing of Alexandros with that he was facing a "dangerous anarchist group", see the Introduction at the bottom of this file. This is a lie - no anarchist group is dangerous in the meaning of ochlarchical, the only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The group of Alexandros was however not anarchist, but it was by no means so dangerous and ochlarchical that it defends any shooting. The talk about "dangerous anarchist group" is Orwellian "1984" newspeak, and Korkonas gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo-Convention, see http://www.anarchy.no/iat.html and http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html . The International Anarchist Tribunal also urges the Greek courts to judge Korkoneas as soon as possible. He probably deserves a life sentence in jail.
15.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
16.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the rightwing extremist ochlarchy.
17.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.
18.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
19.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.
20.05.2009. The rightwing extreme liberalist paper Kathimerini gets a dark Brown Card.
21.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchists that threw rocks and and pieces of wood, and the vandals.
22.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the rioters.
23.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attack.
25.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the campus attack.
26.05.2009. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and vandalism.
31.05.2009. Vote for Drassi - the Action party, at the European Parliament election June 7.
01.06.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
02.06.2009. The anarchists condemn the nazi and hoodies attacks.
03.06.2009. The anarchists condemn the arson attacks.
04.06.2009. The anarchists condemn the Morning Sabotage Team, the attacks on banks and the hoodies attack.
05.06.2009. The anarchists declare: After 25 weeks of demonstrations, nothing is achieved, there is no change of the system in horizontal direction. Ochlarchy does not work! The Greek revolt is losing direction and is degenerated. From the start it was degenerated by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists. We call for mass organizations and demonstrations, gathering farmers, workers and students, against statism and capitalism and for socialism and autonomy, for a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The import thing is not what you are against, but what you are for , i.e. socialism and autonomy and a movement of the system in horizontal direction! The ochlarchical leftwing extremists, a lot "against", and in reality for the authoritarian, are a major obstacle for mass organizations and their demonstrations and should quit the revolt. Their real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions. Look to Iceland and the victorious mainly non-ochlarchical demonstrations there.
05.06.2009. The rightwing extremist liberalist paper Kathimerini gets a new dark Brown Card. The anarchists condemn the bomb attacks.
08.06.2009 and beyond. The anarchists condemn hoodies' attacks, vandalism, arson attacks and terrorism, i.e. ochlarchy, now and in the future.
12.06.2009. Korkoneas faces charges of murder.
23.06.2008. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini.
24.06.2009. Another new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini.
19.07.2009. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini. Marxist leftwing extremist group claims bombing. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack.
27.07.2009. Brown Card to Greek police.
07.08.2009. Another new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini.
12.08.2009. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini.
27.08.2009. A new dark Brown Card to Kathimerini.
02.09.2009. Brown Cards to Greek Police, Euronews, Reuters, etc.
05.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
07.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
10.09.2009. Brown Cards to PM Karamanlis and Kathimerini.
17.09.2009. Brown Cards to Panagis Vourloumis and Kathimerini.
21.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini
23.09.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis and the Canadian Press.
24.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
25.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
26.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
29.09.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
30.09.2009. Brown Card to the lie-machine Kathimerini.
01.10.2009. The lie-machine Kathimerini continues and gets another Brown Card. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is a militant marxist group - not anarchist.
03.10.2009. Brown Cards to Alfredo Bonanno, Christos Stratigopoulos and Kathimerini.
04.10.2009. Brown Card to Chinaview. No anarchists have been involved in terrorism in Greece.
05.10.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini. Also, ochlarchists based in Exarchia, falsely posing as anarchists, get expulsing Brown Cards...
09.10.2009. Brown Cards to 20 hooded youths and Kathimerini.
12.10.2009. About arson attacks by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs. Brown Card warning.
13.10.2009. More arson attacks by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs.
14.10.2009. A "litmus test" of whether marxists, fascists, anarchists or liberalists are behind vandalism, hooliganism and terrorism.
16.10.2009. Brown Cards to around 15 vandals and Kathimerini.
22.10.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists and the lie-machine Kathimerini.
23.10.2009. Brown Cards to vandals and the Orwellian Big Brother lie-machine Kathimerini.
24.10.2009. Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis on trial on December 15 2009.
25.10.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis and Reuters.
26.10.2009. Brown Cards to the ochlarchists and the Orwellian Big Brother lie-machine Kathimerini
27.10.2009. Brown Cards to ochlarchists falsely called "self-styled anarchists", they are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines, including Kathimerini.
28.10.2009. Brown Cards to Associated Press, Reuters, Phantis and more newsmedia, and ochlarchist gunmen/terrorists. The anarchists condemn the terrorism.
29.10.2009. The Exarchia district is an ochlarchist stronghold, not anarchist stronghold. Brown Card to Kathimerini.
31.10.2009. Anarchists are not nihilists. The anarchists condemn the 30.10. bomb attacks.
01.11.2009. Brown Cards to the so called Organization for the Proletarian Popular Self-Defense, it is not a self-defense group but an aggressive terrorist ochlarchy group, and M&C/Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Phantis.
02.11.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists. The anarchists condemn the arson attack. Gov't probes terror links.
03.11.2009. Teachers' action against violence, with anarchist support.
04.11.2009. Brown Cards to robbers, rightwing extremists, arsonists, criminal occupants and Kathimerini.
05.11.2009. Brown Card warning to Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis, and Brown Cards to Cell of Rebels and student ochlarchists.
06.11.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists and armed fugitives, suspected rightwing extremists.
07.11.2009. Brown Cards to arsonists, suspected leftwing extremists, i.e. marxists.
08.11.2009. Brown Cards to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and ERT - The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation, falsely mixing up anarchists with ochlarchists in Greek prisons.
09.11.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini, Greece in December 2008 was not on "the brink of anarchy".
10.11.2009. The killing police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas' and Vassilis Saraliotis' place of trial shifted again. The anarchists call on demonstrations without ochlarchy.
11.11.2009. Vandals get Brown Cards. Suspected leftwing extremist marxists, hooded youths smash bank, stockbrokerage and cafe. The anarchists condemn the vandals.
12.11.1009. Police officers' trial up in the air. The anarchists advocate trial on December 15 in Athens.
13.11.2009. Brown Card to Kathimerini, so called "anarchists" on the anti-terrorist squad's list of suspects are ochlarchists, not anarchists. Police officers in court. Mother of killed teen asks for change of venue to Athens.
14.11.2009. Bomb attack yesterday, probably done by the leftwing extremist marxist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Call for massdemonstration on November 17, without ochlarchy.
15.11.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis, and Foxnews that claims to be "fair and balanced", but is an Orwellian "1984" Big Brother newspeak liemachine "news"-agency. So called "anarchist militants" are in reality ochlarchists and leftwing extremist marxists, not anarchists.
16.11.2009. Police detain suspect allegedly linked to terror cell. The "self-styled", "anti-state" activists in Exarchia" are leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.
17.11.2009. Brown Card to Athens News Agency. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is ochlarchist and leftwing extremist marxist, not anarchist. Ochlarchist and anarchist are opposites.
18.11.2009. Brown Cards to Phantis & Taiwan News, and Kathimerini. Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire is leftwing extremist marxist similar to RAF (ml) and BR (ml), and not anarchist. Exarchia is not an "anarchist stronghold", but an ochlarchist stronghold.
19.11.2009. The Greek system, populism with a rivaling leftwing extremist marxist state within the state. The anarchists call for winding up of this marxist ochlarchy.
20.11.2009. Marxist-Exarchia attack. Missiles thrown at police unit. The anarchists condemn the attack.
21.11.2009. Bomb attack in Nea Ionia by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack.
23.11.2009. Firebomb attack in Thessaloniki by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack.
24.11.2009. Brown Cards to Greek police, Phantis, Taiwan News, marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" and suspected rightwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and arson attacks.
25.11.2009. Religious icons may have to go. The anarchists support the removal of religious icons. Brown Card to Kathimerini: Marxist ochlarchists - not anarchists attacked.
26.11.2009. Greek government in chaos. The anarchists call for optimal order. Strike by municipal street cleaners and landfill workers. The anarchists support the strike.
27.11.2009. Bomb attack by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack. The strike action continues. Farmers' direct action.
28.11.2009. Expulsing Brown Card to the so called "Revolutionary Anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist oclarchists, and not anarchists, and to Kathimerini.
30.11.2009. Doctors strike. Farmers' protests continue. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and Golden Dawn - rightwing extremist ochlarchists - and Phantis & Kathimerini.
01.12.20009. Bomb attacks by suspected marxists. Brown Cards to the attackers, Greek police, Phantis and IOL. Municipal strike Thursday.
02.12.2009. Acid, police and university ochlarchy condemned by the anarchists. For anarchy - not chaos, at the universities. Anarchy is optimal order!
03.12.2009. Continued strike. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
04.12.2009. Alexis demo Dec 6 without ochlarchy! More Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists", i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
05.12.2009. The anarchists will as always demonstrate with dignity, not ochlarchy, at the anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos 06.12.2009.
06.12.2009 Early morning. Brown Cards to more than hundred marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, some falsely called "anarchists", Greek police and Ananova, etc.
06.12.2009. Afternoon. Brown Cards to thousands of marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, some falsely called "anarchists", Mail Online UK and some other newsmedia.
06.12.2009. Evening. No new Brown Cards. Reports from Euronews and BBC.
07.12.2009. Athens police clash with youths. Brown Cards to marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, falsely posing as "anarchists" and misusing the black & red anarchist flag.
08.12.2009. The anarchists declare there is NO "vendetta against anarchists" in Greece. Brown Card to SYRIZA.
09.12.2009. The marxist leftwing extremist para-state showed an ugly ultra-authoritarian face 05-08.12.2009, but a Kristallnacht was avoided.
10.12.2009. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists" in "anarchists' hangout" , i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
12.12.2009. No anarchists abuse the asylum law. Brown Cards to so called "self-styled anarchists" i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
14.12.2009. Brown Cards to the so called "Anarchist Action" i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" - and not anarchists, and Kathimerini & Phantis.
15.12.2009. Chaos prevailes in Cabinet. Greece PM seeks support for cuts. Left-wing unions protest. Farmers protest. Media blackout. Anarchist comments.
16.12.2009. Leaders united on graft. Strike Thursday. Citizens push for cleanup. Anarchist comments.
17.12.2009. Greek unions protest against cuts. Greek markets hammered as strikers march. Landfill strike. Racist attack. The anarchists comdemn the attack.
18.12.2009. Attacks on Greek ruling party offices ahead of debt talks. Communists suspected. The anarchists condemn the attacks.
19.12.2009. Academics want safer campus. The anarchists agree. PASOK urges scandal probes.
20.12.2009. Fresh Brown Cards to Revolutionary Struggle and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Matthew Campbell and Times Online/The Sunday Times & Phantis.
21.12.2009. Pre-dawn blasts. Budget row in full flow. Greece and the Global Sixties.
22.12.2009. Police updated for crime-fighting. Anarchist comment. Immigrant rights on agenda. Piraeus garbage men end strike.
23.12.2009. Greek civil servants to strike on pensions, wages. Anarchist comment. University break-in. Cars smashed. Immigrants to get citizenship.
24.12.2009. Arsonists target bank in Galatsi, minor damage. The anarchists condemn the attack. Officer is suspended after brawl in shop. 2010 budget adopted - PM says 'things must change'.
27.12.2009. Bomb attack by suspected marxist leftwing extremists. The anarchists condemn the attack.
28.12.2009. Brown Cards to marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists and to Phantis and George Georgiopoulos/Reuters US.
29.12.2009. Blast 27.12. claimed by the Terrorist Guerrilla Group, a.k.a. Renegade Terrorists' Group, and Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.
30.12.2009. There are no anarchists in "Greek and foreign prisons". Brown Cards to the Terrorist Guerrilla Group and Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Fire Conspiracy Cell and ERT.
04.01.2020. Five officers accused of torture. Faith in state bodies waning.
07.01.2010. Terrorist suspect to appear in court.
08.01.2010. Police abuse. Officers accused of beating Chilean face magistrate. Terror suspect claims an alibi.
09.01.2010. Bomb attack. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists", i.e. terrorists, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA.
10.01.2010. More on the bomb attack. New Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists", i.e. terrorists, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - and not anarchists, and Athens New Agency, ANA-MPA.
12-13.01.2010. Message to the Greek people about the marxist terrorist group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire from IAT-APT.
14.01.2010. Two aides injured in attack on deputy justice minister's office.
15.01.2010. More about the attack on deputy minister's office. Brown Cards to hooded attackers, and Kathimerini.
16.01.2010. Bomb at Press Secretariat. The anarchists condemn the attack. Brown Card to Chinaview and Phantis.
18.01.2010. Conceptual chaos at ERT? More about the bomb at the Press Secretariat. Athens cyclists take protests to a new level. Farmers set to block borders.
19.01.2010. Farmers are out in force. Some of the demonstrating farmers use the anarchist black flag on their tractors. Bomb hoax. Synagogue attack condemned.
20.01.2010. Farmers' mobilizations continue. The farmers' direct actions have continued anarchist support. The government takes a soft approach in dispute with farmer. ND supports farmers' demands. Rash populism. Greek court postpones trial on teen killing.
21.01.2010. More on the delay in teen death trial. Ochlarchists falsely posing as anarchists scuffled with the police. The ochlarchists get expulsing Brown Cards. Farmers' actions continue.
22.01.2010. Malcolm Brabant BBC News, Athens, is a lier and gets a Brown Card. The farmers' actions continue... Marxist group assumes responsibility for bomb attack 15.01.2010. The anarchists condemn the terrorist group.
23.01.2010. Grigoropoulos trial under way. Brown Cards and condemnations. Bulgarian PM meets with protesting Greek farmers. Arrests in synagogue arson. Bomb scare.
24.01.2010. Farmers stand fast. Teachers demonstrate. The anarchists support the direct actions.
25.01.2010. Greek farmers march in Athens holding anarchist black flags. Attack on anti-racism protest. PASOK targeted with petrol bombs. The anarchists condemn the attacks.
26.01.2010. Farmers refuse to engage with PASOK. Bomb attack. Sudden boom in bomb hoaxes. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and the bomb hoaxes.
27.01.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue. Rallying for citizenship. Call for action in historic center. Synagogue fire. Train vandals. Minor trouble.
28.01.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue, but roadblocks abandoned. Arson attacks. Violent robbery.
29.01.2010. Minister seeks farmers deal. Bomb attack by the so called Revolutionary Liberation Action. The anarchists condemn RLA. Grigoropoulos trial delayed.
29.01.2010. Later... Brown Cards to ANA-MPA, Taiwan news and Phantis, that falsely report about "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.
30.01.2010. Blast, arson by suspected marxist leftwing terrorist ochlarchists, not anarchists as Kathimerini, getting a Brown Card, suggests. The farmers' anarchist actions continue.
31.01.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue.
01.02.2010. Farmers produce list of 9 demands. Firebomb attack. The anarchists condemn the attack.
02.02.2010. Situation unchanged at roadblocks. 'Cells' arrest. Teachers strike. The anarchist support the strike.
03.02.2010. Farmers stand firm as talks fail. Psych probe. Bomb hoax. The anarchists condemn the terrorist hoax. Links to anarchist comments outdated at ERT.
04.02.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continue. Farmers to retire from Strymonikos roadblock on Friday. Policemen's court case delayed after prosecutor withdraws.
05.02.2010. Farmers abandon roadblocks. Leaving the roadblocks does not equal to abandoning the demonstrations. The 10 February industrial actions.
06.02.2010. University unrest. Bomb hoax. The anarchists condemn the terrorist hoax. Farmers remove some blocks, raise others. Demonstrations by leftwing and rightwing extremists.
07.02.2010. The farmers' anarchist actions continues. Promachonas closed again.
08.02.2010. Farmers keep Promachonas closed. More strikes. The anarchists support these libertarian actions. Polls show Greeks back austerity measures.
09.02.2010. Farmers' actions. Grigoropoulos killing. Trial to restart on February 17.
10.02.2010. Greeks strike over austerity plan. The anarchists in general support the strike, but condemn the small tendencies of ochlarchy. Farmers' meeting with Agriculture minister unfruitful.
11.02.2010. Brown Cards to so called selfstyled "anarchists", Vangelis Chrysochoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and to Kathimerini.
11.02.2010 later... EU deal 'agreed' on Greece debts. Taxi strike. No cabs today as drivers stage protest at tax reforms. The anarchists support the strike. How to reduce Greece's unemployment to about 3.3%.
12.02.2010. Promachonas open for all vehicles. Mylonas abduction. Police attacked. EU offers help but no specific money pledge.
13.02.2010. Farmers again block Promachonas border post. The anarchists in general support the farmers' action.
15.02.2010. The Promachonas crossing in the border with Bulgaria is opened Monday.
16.02.2010. Workers in new round of strikes. The anarchists support the strikes, except the "tax evasion strike".
Blast at JP Morgan offices in Athens. The anarchists condemn the bomb attack and suspect marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists.
17.02.2010. Strikes!
18.02.2010. Vangelis Chrysochoidis and Polykarpos Georgiadis are not anarchists. Brown Card to Kathimerini for falsely postulating they are.
19.02.2010. Fuel shortage hits Greece as strikes grow.
20.02.2010. Lawyer debates path of bullet. Strike by customs officials continues. Anti-racism rally held in Athens. Up to 25 bln euros in aid mulled for Greece?
22.02.2010. GSEE-ADEDY general strike on Wednesday. The anarchists call on the people in general, as opposed to the superiors in rank and /or income, to participate in the demonstrations, and protest with dignity - not ochlarchy.
23.02.2010. Union blockades Athens exchange. The International Workers of the World backs the general strike tomorrow. Stricter rules to halt graft. Rector, protesters clash over university asylum.
24.02.2010. General strike backed by IWW. Also media workers strike. About two millions participated in the strike. Brown Cards to BBC and its ultra-authoritarian marxist reporter Malcolm Brabant.
25.02.2010. Brown Card to ERT - About 300 marxist ochlarchists caused damage and clashed with the police, not anarchists, as ERT falsely reports. Anarchist comment on ERT. Wednesday's nationwide strike. News from the Grigoropoulos trial.
26.02.2010. Blast claimed by suspected marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchy group "Popular will". The anarchists condemn the terrorist group. Link to anarchist comments 25.02.2010 outdated at ERT.
27.02.2010. Youths mark Cretan teacher with swastikas. The anarchists condemn the racist attack. Cabbies appear set for a 48-hour stoppage next week. The anarchists don't support this strike.
01.03.2010. Firebomb attacks by suspected marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, falsely called "suspected anarchists" by Kathimerini. Brown Cards to the ochlarchists and Kathimerini.
02.03.2010. Taxi owners strike on Tuesday, Wednesday. The anarchists don't support the strike. Civil servants union strike for March 16. PM seeks backing for more cuts.
03.03.2010. Survey finds graft is thriving. The anarchists condemn the corruption, a form of ochlarchy. Damage and theft at university sit-in. The anarchists comdemn the theft and the damage, i.e. other forms of ochlarchy.
04.03.2010. Labor unions have announced protests for Friday. The International Workers of the World and the anarchists in general support the protests.
05.03.2010. Strike! And Greek unions announce a new general strike on 11 March. The International Workers of the World and the anarchists in general support the strikes.
06.03.2010. More about the attacks on Glezos and the GSSE leader. Greeks divided over cuts, Sarkozy vows support. Police officers face sacking for planting firebomb.
07.03.2010. Sarkozy pledges to stand by Greece.
08.03.2010. Police question 45 people after four vehicles are torched. Tax strike - officials off the job for two days. Officer assault. Unionist attack investigated. Loverdos: "Bonuses won't be cut in private sector".
09.03.2010. Annual NSS study on poverty released. New strikes and demonstrations, backed by the International Workers of the World. Anti-racism rally.
10.03.2010. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists" doing theft , in reality ochlarchists - the opposite of anarchists, and Kathimerini. Industrial mobilizations, backed by IWW, continue.
11.03.2010. Brown Cards to marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", and the Orwellian "1984" Big Brother liemachines Kathimerini and BBC - especially BBC's Malcolm Brabant. General strike backed by IWW.
12.03.2010. Unemployment at 10.2%. IWW resolution. Greece debt: EU agrees bailout deal. Anti-terrorism squad probes fatal shoot-out. Manhunt to track down second suspect continues. Greece recovers from austerity protests.
13.03.2010. G. Papandreou: "People's sacrifices will bear fruit". EU 'nearing' Greece bail-out deal. Strike action. Eleven ochlarchists charged with violence, ADEDY calls
rally for Tuesday 16.03.2010. The IWW backs the rally. And more.
15.03.2010. DNA results of blood from Dafni shoutout released. Map of cameras fuels terror fears. Power cuts?
16.03.2010. Protests and strike, backed by IWW.
17.03.2010. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and Kathimerini. Strike wave grips Greece.
18.03.2010. Brown Cards to so called "anarchists"charged for brutal attacks on Yiannis Panagopoulos, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs, and not anarchists, and to Greek police and Kathimerini.
19.03.2010. Two bomb blasts by suspected marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists. Brown Card to BBC, etc. Ad doctors and nurses' strike. Health concessions.
20.03.2010. A new Brown Card to BBC. Bomb blasts by suspected rightwing and leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchs resepectively, plus arson attacks by the marxist group Revolutionary Memory Patrols.
21.03.2010. Brown Cards to a so called "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists, and to Nicole Itano and Global Post.
22.03.2010. With unenlightened plutarchy: Greek economy 'to worsen' in 2010. Rally tomorrow. The protest is backed by IWW and anarchists in general.
23.03.2010. Bombs claimed. The marxist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire behind three weekend attacks. Taiwan News falsely calls it "anarchist" and gets the Brown Card.
24.03.2010. Another day, another angry demonstration. Students' parade and teachers' demonstration.
25.03.2010. Deal reached over Greece's debts.
26.03.2010. Brown Cards to firebomb throwing hooded youths, falsely called "suspected anarchists" by Kathimerini, but in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
27.03.2010. Racist marchers. Coast guard suspends head of special forces over chants. Power strike. Ochlarchist youths vandalize offices.
29.03.2010. BBC reports: Bomb kills boy in Greek capital, and falsely links to so called "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and BBC gets a Brown Card.
30.03.2010. More about Sunday's bomb blast. Anarchist comment. Bombs neutralized. Grigoropoulos trial. Greek apology for racist chants.
31.03.2010. Brown Cards to Zhang Pengfei and CCTV - China, that falsely links Greek terrorism to so called "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.
08.04.2010. Brown Cards to Korkoneas's lawyer, Alexis Kougias, people behind the letter falsely claiming that Grigoropoulos and friends were members of "an extremist anarchist organization,"and Kathimerini.
09.04.2010. Grigoropoulos friend, falsely called anarchist, disappears. Hoaxer stopped. Workers' walkout.
10.04.2010. Officer lied to Grigoropoulos court. Brothers in arms held for arson attack. The anarchists condemn the arsonists.
11.04.2010. 6 arrests in terrorism sweep. The anarchists welcome the arrests.
12.04.2010. More about six suspected terrorists caught. Revolutionary Struggle is a typical example of a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist group.
13.04.2010. Police seek terrorists' arms cache. Protestors of terrorism arrests stage takeover of Athens Journalists' Union building. The protesters were practically certain marxist leftwing extremists.
The anarchists condemn the protest.
14.04.2010. Three terror suspects detained. More terror arrests due. Strikes.
15.04.2010. Brown Cards to Nicolas Mottas, Phantis and Neos Kosmos, etc., for falsely calling the terrorist Lambros Fountas and terrorists in general, "anarchists".
16.04.2010. Discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. Terrorists' data found, etc.
17.04.2010. Continued discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. Police find terror group's safehouse. Strikes.
18.04.2010. Even more discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. Police update on terror safehouse finds.
19.04.2010. Still discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. New terror finds examined. Hidden explosives discovered.
20.04.2010. Brown Card to Associated Press. The discussion about anarchists vs ochlarchists including terrorists at Phantis continues, a person calling himself "George Orwell" hits on a rightwing extremist.
21.04.2010. More about marxist terrorist group's weapons cache. Ballistics report on safehouse arms. Strikes and demonstrations. Unemployment at 11.3%.
22.04.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek Police, suspected so called "anarchists" stealing gun if this hypothesis is confirmed, if so, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists and not anarchists, and Kathimerini. Strikes. Debt.
23.04.2010. New anarchist comment at the debate at Phantis. Terrorist cache may yield even more clues. More unenlightened plutarchy? ADEDY-PAME demonstrations. Greece asks activation of EU support mechanism.
24.04.2010. Marxist terror suspect. More strikes. EU-IMF ready to act. Crisis. Fears in Greece that EU-IMF aid means more cuts.
25.04.2010. New austerity a precondition for Greek aid: Germany. Comment from the World Economic Council. Germany, France signal hard line with Greece. Kathimerini: Greece soon a 'failed state'? Anarchist comment.
26.04.2010. More strikes and protests, backed by IWW. Investors still nervous on Greece.
27.04.2010. Anger to Greek austerity grows. Strikes and protests. The IWW backs the strikes and protests. Car is link to terror suspect. Grigoropoulos trial. PM: Rebirth of Greece, now or never.
28.04.2010. New Brown Cards to the lawyer defending Epaminondas Korkoneas, Alexis Kougias, and Kathimerini. A. Grigoropoulos and N.R. were/are not anarchists, and they were not so dangerous that it legitimates pulling the gun.
29.04.2010. Three 'Revolutionary Struggle' marxist terrorist group suspects admit involvement in letter to newspaper. DNA matches found in terror probe. New measures suggested for EU-IMF loans. Radio silence.
30.04.2010. Brown Card to Nikos Maziotis, that falsely claims to be an anarchist, but is a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist, similar to RAF/Baader-Meinhof. Maziotis was expulsed from the anarchist movement 20.12.2009.
01.05.2010. The liers BBC and Malcolm Brabant etc. get Brown Cards. Strikes and demonstrations on May Day. IWW backs the strikes and demonstrations, as long as they are non-ochlarchical.
02.05.2010. Brown Cards to the lier Euronews and so called "anarchists" that "threw rocks and fired fireworks", in reality marxist leftwing extremist vandals, hooligans and terrorists, i.e. ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists.
03.05.2010. Brown Card to the lier Reuters. Banks torched by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the terrorist attacks. AP: Greeks and the state: an uncomfortable couple.
04.05.2010. Member of left fascist extremist ochlarchy gang 'Robbers in Black' arrested. Brown Cards in this connection. Strikes, backed by IWW.
05.05.2010. IWW: Implement the WEC's international libertarian economic plan to stop the unenlightened plutarchy with about 10% unemployment and increasing in Greece, the Euro-zone and USA!
05.05.2010. Later... Condolences. Three dead in Athens fire during protests. Marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists are suspected. Brown Card to CNN. The anarchists condemn the violent ochlarchy and deadly terrorist attack.
06.05.2010. Fresh Brown Cards to the left fascists "Robbers in black", their supporters, Greek Police and Kathimerini.
06.05.2010. Later... Fresh Brown Cards to the liers CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank: Banks torched etc. by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and terrorist attacks.
06.05.2010. Evening... Austerity measures decided by the Greek parliament amid major demonstrations, also with some ochlarchy. In the implementation: Let the rich, the economical plutarchists, pay - not the people! The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy.
07.05.2010. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists" doing criminal occupation of a building, thus in reality ochlarchists - not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
07.05.2010. Evening... Fresh Brown Card to the lier CNN, especially directed to Diana Magnay, falsely reporting: "... anarchists out to pick a fight" with pictures indicating vandals and terrorists, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and terrorist attacks.
08.05.2010. Call for anarchist economics! EU rescue fund. Euro-zone agrees on support mechanism for Greece. PASOK and ND pick up the pieces. Internal fallout from austerity vote. Strike on Monday and Tuesday.
10.05.2010. Peaceful sit-in protest outside Parliament etc. yesterday. The peaceful demonstrations were backed by the IWW and anarchists in general.
11.05.2010. The anarchists condemn the marxist vanguardism: "Parliament, you will burn" and "The hangman is waiting" i.e. even more ochlarchy and attacks on symbols of state and capitalism, futile and the opposite of anarchism.
11.05.2010. Later... Brown Cards to so called "Belgian anarchists", vandals, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and Kathimerini.
13.05.2010. Populism in Greece! No change of the Greek populist system in libertarian direction so far... Drassi against communists. Unemployment increasing. Protests and general strike. Bomb attack by suspected marxists.
14.05.2010. New bomb attack by suspected marxists. Brown Card to BBC. No anarchist terrorist group in Greece. 3 arrests in desecration of Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki. Rally in Buenos Aires backs Greek workers' strikes.
15.05.2010.The marxist terrorist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire prime suspect of recent bomb attacks in Greece. Gov't condemnation of Jewish cemetery vandalism. The anarchists also condemn the vandalism.
17.05.2010. Strikes, backed by IWW. Greek fiscal plan needs stimulus back-up. PM hints at action against US banks. Extreme unenlightened plutarchy. The best alternative, real democracy and horizontal organization.
18.05.2010. Anarchists against the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative - cut bureaucracy costs - increase the demand of the people - for full employment - against the unenlightend plutarchy of IMF, WB, euro and EU.
19.05.2010. Greek PM: 'New development models are required'. It's time for anarchist economics! General strike and new wave of strike action on the way. IWW backs the strikes.
20.05.2010. General strike - Anarchists: No to IMF and euro etc. policy = high profit = high bureaucracy costs in private and public sector, and poor people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income...
21.05.2010. More about yesterday's non-ochlarchical general strike and demonstrations. Lots of black, and black and red, anarchist flags were used at the demonstrations. Marxist terrorgroup responsible for bomb blasts.
22.05.2010. Brown Cards to 'koukouloforoi', 'hooded ones', Panagiotis, Kostas, etc., falsely posing as "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and New York Times/International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis.
24.05.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek fascist rightwing extremist lier Nikos Hidiroglou and the nazi-papers Hellenic Lines (Greek) and Chronicle (American). Populism, with chaos/ochlarchy, not anarchy in Greece!
28.05.2010. More populism: Kallikratis approved. Anarchist comment. Unions persist. GSEE rejects appeal for talks. Crisis. Parthenon protest at scaffolding removal.
31.05.2010. Peace march in memory of Lambrakis, assassinated by a rightwing-extremist. Handball victim of hooligans. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy. Suspects in Grigoropoulos case to be bailed on Sunday. Protest broken up outside Israeli embassy. The anarchists condemn the marxist ochlarchy, but have also criticized Israel.
02.06.2010. Strikes Thursday and Friday, backed by IWW. Street protest in Athens Thursday by marxist and pro-Hamas groups.
05.06.2010. Thousands rally against pension reform in Athens, backed by IWW.
07.06.2010. Teen killing. Two policemen freed on bail.
08.06.2010. Security boosted at police officers' trial. Coroner dismissed Korkoneas's claim that he had shot into the air.
16.06.2010. Irishtimes.com and Richard Pine plus Phantis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention.
22.06.2010. Bomb hoax. Call closes Corinth court. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax. General strike June 29, supported by IWW. Farmers protest.
24.06.2010. Brown Cards to Associated Press and Nicholas Paphitis etc. for falsely postulating 'radical anarchist groups' are behind terrorist attacks in Greece. The anarchists condemn today's bomb attack.
25.06.2010. More about yesterday's terrorist attack. The anarchists declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists.
26.06.2010. Even more about the letter bomb blast 24.06.2010, from 'Christos Karavelas, Ekali'. The anarchists as mentioned condemn the terrorist attack and declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists.
29.06.2010. General strike in Greece, backed by IWW. Neonazi and marxist extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists clashed with police. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchists/ochlarchs. Firebombs target unionists.
01.07.2010. Attack on mosque by suspected nazi-group Golden Dawn. The anarchist condemn the attack.
08.07.2010. General strike in Greece, backed by IWW.
12.07.2010. Unknown group, probably marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, claims deadly hit. The anarchists condemn the group, see report of 22.05.2010 for more information why. Poll highlights public discontent.
13.07.2010. Teen killer. Police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas changes testimony. Strike tomorrow, supported by IWW.
19.07.2010. Brown Cards to BBC and Reporters Without Borders. Greek journalist shot dead in Athens. The anarchists condemn the murder.
20.07.2010. More about the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias. Hit linked to terrorist group. Clues point to the marxist extremist group Sect of Revolutionaries.
21.07.2010. Police hit wall in terror probe regarding marxist extremist group Sect of Revolutionaries.
22.07.2010. Man shot dead in the ochlarchy para-state of Exarchia.
24.07.2010. Social justice challenge to austerity measures.
26.07.2010. Police profile 'Sect of Revolutionaries' as nihilists. Molotov assault by ochlarchist youths. The anarchists condemn the attack.
Flight disruptions. Workers' action causes delays, some cancellations. The IWW supports the action.
27.07.2010. Gas running out as truckers go on strike, supported by IWW. Air-traffic controllers delay flights. Armed raid by suspected rightwing extremists.
28.07.2010. Murder of journalist by claimed by Sect of Revolutionaries in statement. The anarchists repeat the condemnation of Sect of Revolutionaries, and once more call for respect for the freedom of speech. Anarchists and Amnesty International slams treatment of migrants and asylum seekers. Social justice challenge. The truck strike. Greek government has ordered striking truck drivers to go back to work.
29.07.2010. Government orders civil mobilisation to end truckers strike. The striking truck owners rejected the government's proposal to end their strike.
Greek truck drivers clash with riot police in Athens. The marxist terrorist group Sect of Revolutionaries examined.
30.07.2010. Striking truckers continue their protest in defiance on an emergency order to return to work. Greece turns to military to restore fuel supplies. Unemployment spike to around 12 percent.
31.07.2010. Truck drivers still defy order to end their strike, and will continue the strike in a dynamic way. The armed forces, with their own means, are already guaranteeing the supply of critical sectors.
Greek truck drivers clash with police as tensions rise over strikes.
01.08.2010. Suspension of truck drivers' strike. Greek truck drivers voted to return to work. Government pledging discussions on a law to open up their profession.
The IWW and anarchists in general supported the strike, but condemn the small tendencies of ochlarchy, also police ochlarchy, and call for continued direct actions for a solution based on efficiency and fairness.
02.08.2010.Gov't statement on truck owners' decision to end mobilisations. Gov't will talk...
03.08.2010. PPC workers threaten action. After strike: Truckers are hoping for more than just pension or tax concessions.
08.08.2010. Brown Cards to the liers Time/CNN, Joanna Kakissis, Mary Bossis, Thanassis Kokkalakis and the Greek police: Sect of Revolutionaries are marxist nihilists and has no connection to the anarchist movement.
09.08.2010. Brown Cards to Phantis and once more to Time/CNN and Joanna Kakissis, i.e. Orwellian "1984" Big Brother authoritarian liers.
13.08.2010. Firebomb attack at Turkish Consulate. The anarchists condemn the attack. Youth unemployment rate at 32.5 percent.
16.08.2010. Marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, not "anarchists ... take over parts of Athens and Thessaloniki".
20.08.2010. Los Angeles Times, USA, reports: As austerity bites, more Greeks feel the pain; more and more shops close in central Athens. Anarchist comment.
03.09.2010. Grigoropoulos trial nears end. Anarchist comment.
11.09.2010. Greek protesters confront government on economy. IWW backs the demonstrations. Anarchist comment.
12.09.2010. Brown Card to Kathimerini for publishing the lies of Europol about so called 'anarchist', in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchist, terrorism, and not anarchist.
13.09.2010. Greek truck drivers started a new wave of protests Monday...
29.09.2010. Protests in Greece and world wide. Direct action by IWW.
11.10.2010. Epaminondas Korkoneas has been sentenced to life in prison.
01.11.2010. The marxist far left group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire behind new terrorist attack. The anarchists condemn the atttack. Brown Cards to Greek police and France24.
02.11.2010. Brown Cards to David Lea and Reuters, France24 and AFP, Associated Press, CBC and many more.
We are living in the middle of a mainly Big Brother "1984" world. When will these and similar horrible lies stop?
More about yesterdays terrorist attack. New terrorist attack, against the embassy of the Anarchy of Switzerland etc.
03.11.2010. Proof that marxists, not anarchists, are behind the terrorism. The truth about the terrorism in Greece: The anarchists once more condemn these terrorist attacks.
They are practically certain done by marxist extremists, not anarchists. Greece halts mail, hunts for bombing suspects.
Brown Cards to the lier police-spokesman Maj. Thanassis Kokkalakis, CNN, and the marxist leftwing extremists Panagiotis Argyrou and Gerasimos Tsakalos.
04.11.2010. Newsmedia! Stop uncritical publishing of the lies of the Greek police!
05.11.2010. CNN reports: Greece resumes air shipments after bombings. Anarchists not blamed.
06.11.2010. Ad local election tomorrow: Boycott the most authoritarian parties, including Papandreo's PASOK. Vote for the most libertarian parties, the center. For a movement in libertarian direction...
07.11.2010. Local elections - anarchist point of view. Athens newspaper headlines. PM: Result of Sunday polls crucial. The first round of local government elections.
08.11.2010. Results - first round of local elections. Anarchist comment: Status quo. The system will probably continue to be semi-democratic populist, in the coming years.
15.11.2010. Final tally of local gov't elections. The unenlightened plutarchy and populist system continue...
17.11.2010. Demonstrate with dignity - not ochlarchy - at the annual protest march commemorating the bloody student uprising against the ultra-fascist junta on November 17, 1973. Brown Card to Sympatico.ca
19.11.2010. Unions plan walkout for Nov 25, general strike for Dec 15. The anarchosyndicalist labor confederation International Workers of the World backs the strikes.
23.11.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek police, AFP, France24 and more, for the lies that the marxist extremist group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei is anarchist, according to the Oslo Convention. Stop these lies!!!
06.12.2010. Six marxist terror suspects arrested. Police seize arms in Athens, other cities; say an attack was being planned.
07.12.2010. Minor clashes mar protest rally - Marxists clashed with police.
15.12.2010. General strike and marxist ochlarchy and ochlarchists in Greece - Brown Cards to John Psaropoulos and CNN-TV for falsely calling the marxist mob, i.e. ochlarchists, 'anarchists'.
30.12.2010. Bomb explodes near Athens courthouse. Marxist leftwing extremists are probably behind the attack.
31.12.2010. Bomb explodes outside closed night club in Athens. Rightwing extremist are probably behind the attack.
17.01.2011. Greek marxist terrorists, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, go on trial. Brown Cards to Associated Press, BBC and more.
23.02.2011. Greece general strike: Clashes erupt.
01.05.2011. May Day anti-government demonstration and strike. Populism with unenlightened plutarchy is ruling Greece!
11.05.2011. Violence has erupted in Athens during a protest at government austerity measures.
15.06.2011. General strike and running battles between riot police and marxist ochlarchist protesters.
18.06.2011. Anti-government and anti-austerity protests continue.
23.06.2011. Anti-government and anti-austerity protests continue.
24.06.2011. Anarchist comment to 1. new austerity measures in Greece, a.k.a. plan A, and 2. economic troubles in general, i.e. 3. plan B.
26.06.2011. The anarchists, Greek and and international, strongly recommend that Greece soon should take an 'Argentinian', i.e. plan B. This means a.o.t. leaving the euro.
28.06.2011. 48-hour general strike, supported by IWW. Marxist ochlarchists clash with riot police. Greek populist, moderate fascist, PM plays the nationalist card, says backing austerity plan is 'patriotic duty'.
29.06.2011. Second day of general strike and protests against austerity measures.
30.06.2011. Ad recent riots. Brown Card to the Greek police for falsely putting the blame of the riots done by marxist ochlarchist youths, i.e. provocateurs, on 'anarchists'.
02.07.2011. Greece crisis: Eurozone backs 12bn euros in aid.
19.07.2011. Greek marxist terrorists, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire: 6 jailed over militant marxist bombings. Brown Cards to Associated Press and 'Actforfreedomnow/boubouras'.
01.11.2011. Greek referendum planned for January 2012. The anarchists recommend 'an Argentinian'.
03.11.2011. Referendum already 04.12.2011? Later Papandreou says Greece may drop the referendum.
05.11. 20111. Papandreou backed off the referendum plan.
06.11.2011. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will resign.
10.11.2011. Lucas Papademos new PM.
16.11.20111. Anarchist reflections on the Papademos government. Technocratic populism.
17.11.2011. Protests in Greece. Marxist ochlarchists and provocateurs falsely posing as 'anarchists'.
01.12.2011. Big shift for Greece: Peaceful austerity protests.
06.12.2011. Greek students in clashes on shooting anniversary.
07.12.2011. More austerity measures and ochlarchical protests in Greece.

Our experts on anarchy and anarchists say: Greek so called "anarchists" are ochlarchists - not anarchists. Ochlarchy is mob rule broadly defined. The Greek ochlarchists have got an expelling Brown Card from IAT, and are thus not members of the international anarchist movement. Stop calling them anarchists, because they are not! The Anarchist International and the IAT also urge the Greek people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income, to demonstrate with dignity - not ochlarchy, i.e. mob rule broadly defined. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag. Don't act as an ochlarchical boss!!! If you do act in this way, you are no longer a member of the people, but a form of superior, i.e. ochlarch/ochlarchist. Persons throwing stones and petrol bombs, burning buildings and cars, looting etc. are ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not members of the people, and of course not anarchists. Anticapitalist ochlarchs/ochlarchists are authoritarian socialists, i.e. marxists. Use of teargas, flash or stun grenades, beating, and shooting by the police are also often ochlarchical. Harassment by the police is ochlarchist. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense.

Anarchy means a system significantly without archs, ochlarchs/ochlarchists included, i.e. a system with relatively small rank and income differences, orderly and efficient. Anarchy is real democracy - from the people and upwards, significantly. Anarchists are real democrats. The Greek system is a form of archy, not anarchy. We see a lack of organizations that can be the voice of the people in Greece. It is time to organize... Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, as members of the people, not attacking persons or things... More and more... Until complete horizontal organization is achieved, as an ultimate aim. It is many anarchists in Greece, not only ochlarchs/ochlarchists posing as such, but the police-ochlarchy repress them. Thus it is difficult to make mass organizations open and publicly... But time is working for mass organizations... The demonstrations will continue... In June 2011 the revolt turned somewhat towards anarchism and a more general popular uprising.

07.12.2011. More austerity measures and ochlarchical protests in Greece. Greeks woke up on Wednesday morning faced with the news that next year's austerity budget has been approved by parliament. For months the country has been relying on billions of euros in rescue loans from other euro zone members and the International Monetary Fund. Pensions have been cut and salaries reduced. "I don't see anything good," said one man, “and I don't believe anything any more. They're all fairy tales. I'm utterly disappointed." Another added: "People don't have any money. People have no money. And when people don't have money nothing works and shops close." The budget was passed by parliament with 258 votes out of 300 – a large majority. It foresees a fourth year of recession but also predicts a small surplus if debt payments are excluded. Outside the building the news was greeted with the by-now-familiar response of protesters clashing with riot police. Youths hurled rocks and petrol bombs at police who responded with batons and tear gas. Source. Euronews.

06.12.2011. Greek students in clashes on shooting anniversary. Students hurled rocks and bottles during clashes with police Tuesday at a rally to mark the third anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager in central Athens. About 2,000 youths threw rocks, bottles, paving stones and oranges at police outside Parliament and smashed two nearby store fronts and three bus stops. Another group of teenagers attacked two suburban police stations with rocks and bottles. Police dispersed the youths with a small amount of tear gas after the protesters used at least two fire bombs. Police reported 14 officers were injured; nine people were arrested and six detained.

The shooting death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos on Dec. 6, 2008 sparked two weeks of the worst rioting the country has seen in decades. Some 5,000 police were on duty in the capital for Tuesday's rallies, set to continue throughout the day. Violence was also reported in Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki, where police detained two people after a crowd of youths threw rocks at a government building. Last year, a court sentenced a police officer to life in prison for Grigoropoulos' death, and a second officer to 10 years. Source: AP.

01.12.2011. Big shift for Greece: Peaceful austerity protests. The setting was familiar: White banners daubed with red-and-black anti-austerity slogans, crowds shouting outside Parliament, fists clenched. But as 20,000 Greeks marched Thursday in central Athens against government cutbacks, one key element of most Greek protests was lacking - violence. Apart from one thrown petrol bomb and a smashed car, calm reigned at two separate protests in the capital during the first general strike under Greece's new technocratic populist coalition government.

Riots during strikes have almost become the norm in the country that kicked off Europe's massive debt crisis. Greece is crippled by debt, facing record unemployment and heading into a fourth year of economic depression. Most of its people are outraged over repeated pay and pension cuts and tax hikes. Greece's fellow eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund demanded the austerity program in return for rescue loans that have shielded the country from bankruptcy since May 2010. In the last general strike in October, more than 100 police and demonstrators were injured in two days of riots, 20 people were arrested and one man died of heart failure after protesters were tear-gassed. Some of Thursday's protesters were communist-linked unionists, who seldom seek violent confrontation with police. And a relatively small turnout at the other demonstration, held by the country's two biggest labor unions, left-wing parties and anarchists, would deter marxist ochlarchist rioters who use large crowds to dodge police retribution.

17.11.2011. Protests in Greece. Marxist ochlarchists and provocateurs falsely posing as 'anarchists'. Some 7,000 police have been deployed in Athens as people gather for a large rally to mark the anniversary of the student uprising in 1973. Protesters angry at planned austerity measures which Greece will implement to tackle its public debt are also out in force. Marxist ochlarchists and provocateurs falsely posing as 'anarchists' are gathering to make violent riots. They have got expulsing Brown Cards from IAT long time ago and are of course not real anarchists and a part of the anarchist movement. BBC-TV falsely calls the marxist ochlarchists and provocateurs 'anarchists' and gets a Brown Card for breaking the Oslo Convention. There was a brief clash outside the parliament when police fired tear gas at marxist ochlarchist youths and provocateurs throwing petrol bombs, and some more ochlarchy later, but the march has been mainly peaceful. No anarchists participated in the ochlarchy. At least 50,000 persons marched in Athens with slogans as "EU and IMF: Out!".

16.11.2011. Anarchist reflections on the Papademos government. Technocratic populism. The word 'technocrat' has been plastered all over news articles describing the crisis in the eurozone in the last couple of days. It's being used to talk about the economist now installed as Prime Minister in Greece (Lucas Papademos), to replace a career politician in this time of crisis. However this will most likely not change the long run average coordinates of the Greek system on the economic-political map. Thus, the populist, moderate fascist, system in Greece, with unenlightened plutarchy, will probably continue, and may now be labeled 'technocratic populism'.

Papademos is not elected - but proponents say his expertise is much needed to rescue Greece from its perilous economic state. However the 'technocratic' solution is an erosion of democracy, although it may contribute somewhat to continued stability, in order to keep the semi-democracy afloat. Politicians are rather useless unless they have qualities that seriously help the morale and situation of the country. Economists and experts created and got us all into this mess; it is wrong to let them have much of the power. However 'the markets' are calling the shots. New technocrat era certainly shines a massive light on importance of relevant experience for top govt jobs. The protests should continue, of course without ochlarchy. The general strike, on 19-20 October, brought tens of thousands out on to the streets nationwide...

Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos easily won a confidence vote for his new government Wednesday, formed last week with politicians from the so called Socialists, the rival conservatives and a small right-wing party. He won 255-38 in the 300-member parliament. Papademos' government, which is only expected to be in power until elections in February, was created to push through a euro130 billion ($177 billion) new debt deal and get vital bailout funds immediately to fend off a default. He must also oversee the implementation of a raft of austerity measures already passed, including increased taxes and the suspension of about 30,000 civil servants on partial pay. His government is also negotiating with banks about a plan to forgive half of Greece's massive debt. The Papademos government is a part of the populist unenlightened plutarchy and will probably not create increased demand for the Greek GDP, economic growth and reduced unemployment.

10.11.2011. Lucas Papademos new PM. Senior banker Lucas Papademos was named Thursday 10.11.2011 as the prime minister of the new Greek interim government, charged with keeping the debt-strapped country out of bankruptcy and firmly in the 17-nation eurozone. After four days of intense political negotiations, the 64-year-old former vice president of the European Central Bank was chosen to lead a coalition backed by both the governing so called Socialists and opposition conservatives that will operate until early elections in February. He replaces outgoing Prime Minister George Papandreou midway through his four-year term. A statement from the president's office said Papademos would form an interim government that will secure and implement the decisions of a euro130 billion ($177 billion) European debt deal agreed upon during a summit in Brussels on Oct. 27.

The new cabinet will be sworn in Friday afternoon. His selection came on the fourth day of tortuous power-sharing talks between Greece's main political parties. The latest Greek crisis erupted last week, when Papandreou said he would put the hard-fought European debt deal, that involves private bondholders canceling 50 percent of their Greek debt holdings, to a referendum. The announcement horrified European leaders, sparked a rebellion in his own party and caused an uproar in financial markets. Papandreou withdrew the referendum plan and agreed to step aside for a unity government.

06.11.2011. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou will resign after the makeup of the nation's new coalition government is decided, officials said Sunday. Sunday's Cabinet meeting will be the last with Papandreou as prime minister, a government spokesman said in a statement. The meeting will focus on issues relating to Monday's Euro group meeting, at which Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos will represent Greece, the statement said. A spokesman for Papandreou's Socialist PASOK party said the prime minister will resign after the government is announced. Venizelos is likely to remain in his post as finance minister in a new government, sources told Greek television. Candidates for the prime minister's job include Petros Moliviatis and Loukas Papaimos, according to Greek television.

The new government will have a life of four months, according to Greek television, citing sources, and elections will be held in early spring. The announcement comes amid economic and political turmoil in Greece and the formation of a coalition government tasked with saving the nation from bankruptcy. A Greek default could drag down larger European economies, in particular those of Italy and Spain, as well as struggling Portugal and Ireland, analysts warn. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and the head of Greece's leading opposition party will meet Monday 07.11.2011 to discuss who will become the nation's next prime minister.

Papandreou will step down as his government's leader, the country's president announced Sunday night, agreeing to do so on the condition that the controversial 130 billion euro bailout deal is approved. The decision appears to close one chapter in Greece's tumultuous political and economic saga, as Papandreou had become a lightning rod for critics for his leadership of the south European nation as it tackles a prolonged financial crisis. It also paves the way for passage of the agreement that he negotiated October 26 with European leaders. That deal wipes out 100 billion euros in Greek debt (half of what it owes) and a promise of 30 billion euros to help the public sector pare its debts, making the whole package worth a total of 130 billion euros ($178 bi llion). Source: CNN.

05.11. 20111. Papandreou backed off the referendum plan. CNN reports: Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou survives a confidence vote after days of turmoil sparked by his proposal to hold a referendum on a bailout for his country. Having backed off the referendum plan, Papandreou announced just before the confidence vote he would seek a coalition government. Political instability in Greece has caused political and financial jitters throughout Europe and beyond, as world leaders met in France for the G-20 economic summit with concerns that Greece's woes could spread to major European economies. President Barack Obama told the summit that events in Greece underscore the importance of implementing a Greek economic bailout plan fully and quickly.

03.11.2011. Referendum already 04.12.2011? Later Papandreou says Greece may drop the referendum. According to Reuters Papandreou has said that the referendum could take place on December 4 and would be focused on "whether we want to remain in the euro zone." Later the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou says Greece may drop the referendum, according to NRK.

01.11.2011. Greek referendum planned for January 2012. The anarchists recommend 'an Argentinian'. CNN reports: Greek referendum: What happens next? Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's announcement of a referendum on the new eurozone debt deal has shocked European markets and thrown the future of the euro back into disarray. Papandreou's surprise pledge to Greek lawmakers on Monday night came less than a week after the landmark EU summit seemingly put the bricks in place for the economic salvation of the continent.

Greece's government has realized that it doesn't actually have the public support needed to implement the austerity measures required by the new EU bailout deal agreed last week, according to journalist Elinda Labropoulou. There has been public unrest, unions are threatening further strikes, and a weekend survey found 60% of Greeks do not approve of the terms of the new bailout. In the face of mounting opposition and further threats of nationwide strikes, the government is calling a referendum to be held as early as January to settle the matter publicly. "The new measures must be approved by parliament and the Greek people," Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said. "Citizens are confused ... that is why the referendum is necessary."

In addition to recapitalizing Europe's banks and bolstering the European Financial Stability Fund, the deal meant Greek bondholders would take a 50% "haircut" or write-down on Greek debt -- saving the country €100 billion and bringing their debt-to-GDP ratio to a manageable level by 2020. In order for bondholders to accept the deal, however, the Greek government agreed to implement harsh austerity measures that would involve cutting public benefits and tens of thousands of public sector jobs -- a decision that will now apparently be left in the hands of Greek voters. Papandreou also asked for a vote of confidence this week in his beleaguered [so called] socialist government -- a vote he is expected to win, said Labropoulou. "He has enough support within parliament to guarantee that the vote will go through, so this is not the one for him to worry about," Labropoulou told CNN.

While the wording of the vote has yet to be determined, the referendum may address several different questions. Will it be a simple yes or no vote on whether to accept the terms of the EU debt plan agreed last week? Or will it address the broader question of whether Greeks wish to remain part of the eurozone as a whole? While a weekend survey in Greece found nearly 60% opposed the debt deal reached in Brussels last week, another survey showed that 70% of Greeks want to stay in the euro, according to RBS European Economics -- a result that may not be possible if they vote no on the referendum. "The very wording of the referendum is likely to determine its result," said Labropoulou.

The surprise referendum is "a political gamble which adds further uncertainty to the European debt crisis," said analyst Gary Jenkins of Evolution Securities. "The prime minister will be hoping for a vote in favor to strengthen his mandate, but if the Greek population votes against, it will leave the IMF and Greece's European partners in a very difficult situation," said Jenkins. If the referendum passes, Papandreou's government will have the public backing needed to implement severe austerity measures necessary to fulfil the demands of its lenders. "A 'yes' vote would mean a chance of meeting these requirements and getting out of this death spiral," said Labropoulou.

The implications of a "no" vote on the referendum will be felt far beyond Greek borders, said Louise Cooper, markets analyst at BGC Partners in London. "Papandreou will give the future of the European Union to his 12 million Greek voters," she told CNN. If the referendum fails, Greece could be bankrupt and on its way out of the euro. "A 'no' vote would break the deal immediately between Greece and its lenders -- and without the aid, Greece would not be able to meet its expenses so it would immediately default," said Labropoulou. A "no" vote would also cause "catastrophic" uncertainty in the banking system, said CNN's Felicia Taylor. "This puts us back to where we were before all the negotiations that went on in Brussels last week," said Taylor. "It's as though EU leaders didn't arrive at any kind of a deal at all." The effect of the referendum could possibly be felt before the vote happens, as Greece is set to receive another tranche of bailout money in December, according to Labropoulou. "Greece needs more money to survive," said Labropoulou. "They're due to get another tranche of bailout money in December -- but with a referendum vote due in January, it's difficult to see how they'll get the money."

Markets worldwide tumbled on the news; Japan's Nikkei closed down nearly 2% and China's Hang Seng dropped 2.5%. European markets lost even more ground, and French and German banks exposed to Greek debt registered heavy losses in Tuesday trading. The Dow Jones industrial average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all dropped more than 2% in early US trading. "We're back to square one," said Taylor. "What this does is put uncertainty back into place, and that's exactly what the markets don't want to feel."

The announcement of the referendum rattled Papandreou's hold on power Tuesday, as a lawmaker defected from his party, leaving him with a majority of only two in parliament. Milena Apostolaki announced her resignation from Papandreou's party, saying the call for a referendum was "a deeply divisive procedure." Greece's opposition leader Antonis Samaras called for snap elections Tuesday, but it is unlikely he has the votes to force one.

The anarchists recommend 'an Argentinian', a "no" vote. But without the initial ochlarchy including chaos as happened in Argentina. This means first introduction of a new Greek national currency, say a new Drachma, and goodbye to euro. More information in the reports of 24-28.06.2011. (Updated)

19.07.2011. Greek marxist terrorists, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire: 6 jailed over militant marxist bombings. Brown Cards to Associated Press and 'Actforfreedomnow/boubouras'. A Greek court found six members of a militant marxist group guilty of terrorism charges and handed down stiff jail terms for their alleged involvement in a series of bombings targeting two Greek politicians and a ministry building. The five young men and a woman were found guilty of belonging to the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, a.k.a. the Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire group, and received sentences ranging from 11 to 25 years in prison. No one was injured in the 2009 bombings. The group has also claimed responsibility for sending mail bombs last year to foreign embassies and European officials, with one parcel reaching the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel before being destroyed. Judges acquitted another two defendants of all charges, while a ninth suspect was convicted of theft not linked with the group's activities. The sentences followed a six-month trial at a special courthouse in a maximum security Athens jail. The Associated Press and several other newsmedia falsely called the bombings and the group anarchist, and get Brown Cards from the IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention.

Also the Greek brown & red marxist provocateurs 'Actforfreedomnow/boubouras', ochlarchists falsely posing as 'anarchists', and supporting and calling the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire 'anarchist', has got a Brown Card, meaning the group and its associates are expulsed from the anarchist movement. More information about the expulsion, see the International Anarchist Tribunal - IAT-APT, and click on the International Branch.

See the reports of 03-04.11.2010 for proof that Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei is a marxist group, and thus not an anarchist group. See also the reports of 23.11.2010 and 17.01.2011. (Updated).

02.07.2011. Greece crisis: Eurozone backs 12bn euros in aid. BBC reports: Eurozone finance ministers have approved the latest tranche of emergency help for the Greek economy. They are to release about 12bn euros (£10.4bn, $17.4bn) in the next two weeks to help Greece meet payments on its huge debts and avoid bankruptcy. Earlier this week, the Greek parliament passed tough austerity measures demanded by the European Union and International Monetary Fund. MPs backed the measures despite angry protests on the streets of Athens. The EU and IMF have already agreed to provide Greece with a total of 110bn euros in emergency loans, with eurozone finance ministers discussing the details of a second bail-out designed to help Greece pay its debts until the end of 2014. Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos welcomed the eurozone move, saying it "strengthened the country's international credibility". He added: "What is crucial now is the timely and effective implementation of the decisions taken in parliament, so we can gradually emerge from the crisis in the interest of national economy and the Greek citizens."

'Breathtaking'. Earlier on Saturday, Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski criticised Europe's handling of the Greek debt crisis. He suggested that too much emphasis had been put on austerity measures and not enough on growth. And he accused opposition parties in some unnamed eurozone countries of showing "breathtaking short-sightedness" in their opposition to support for Greece. His comments come after Poland took over the six-month presidency of the European Union (EU) on Friday. Mr Rostowski will now chair meetings of EU finance ministers, and hopes to join talks among eurozone finance ministers - even though Poland has not adopted the euro as its currency.

30.06.2011. Ad recent riots. Brown Card to the Greek police for falsely putting the blame of the riots done by marxist ochlarchist youths, i.e. provocateurs, on 'anarchists'. IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to the Greek police for falsely putting the blame of the riots done by marxist ochlarchist youths, i.e. provocateurs, on 'anarchists', according to the Oslo Convention. De facto no anarchists participated in the riots. The Greek policemen are liers in this connection. Furthermore the anarchists suspect police provocateurs within the ranks of the marxist ochlarchist youths, i.e. provocateurs, some falsely posing as 'anarchists', as a part of an anti-anarchist policy and strategy by the Greek police. This may also be a reason why the few hundred marxist ochlarchist youths, i.e. provocateurs, some falsely posing as 'anarchists', and rioting again and again, are not at large arrested by the Greek police.

Clashes continued on Syntagma (Constitution) Square outside parliament overnight, as police fired tear gas at stone-throwing youths, i.e. marxist ochlarchists. Calm now appears to have returned. Greece's parliament has passed a second vote on its austerity programme. The vote approved putting into practice the tax hikes, pay cuts, privatizations and public sector redundancies approved in principle on Wednesday.

29.06.2011. Second day of general strike and protests against austerity measures. Greek deputies are to vote Wednesday on a deeply unpopular austerity bill that also has provoked rioting by marxist ochlarchist youths in the streets of Athens. Some of these rioting marxist ochlarchist youths were provocateurs, falsely posing as 'anarchists' in 'black blocs'. Euronews reports: There were even clashes between demonstrators; union members reported being attacked by what they described as groups of 'anarchists'. Ad Greece and other places: 'Black blocs' are fascistoid and/or commie-fascistoid, violent non-libertarian and ochlarchist paramilitary & militarist hierarchies, and are thus not anarchists and anarchist! The anarchists comdemn the attack on union members by the provocateurs.

Yesterday the clashes left at least 46 people injured, most of them police. Protesters have vowed to encircle Parliament to prevent deputies from entering and voting for the bill, and a massive security operation is under way to avert the blockade. Scuffles broke out early in the morning as demonstrators attempted to block a major avenue leading to the center of the city, and to Parliament. Riot police responded with pepper spray. Services across the country were disrupted by the second day of the general strike that left ferries tied up at port, forced dozens of flights to be canceled or rescheduled and saw hospitals functioning with emergency crews.

The euro28 billion austerity bill, and an additional bill to be voted on Thursday that details how it will be implemented, must both pass if the European Union and International Monetary Fund are to release the next euro12 billion slice of the country's euro110 billion bailout fund. Prime Minister George Papandreou's so called 'Socialists' have a slim majority of five seats in the 300-member parliament, and he has faced an internal party revolt over the new punishing four-year program of spending cuts and tax hikes on even those on minimum wages. At least two of his own deputies had indicated they might not vote in favor - but the bill should muster the 151 votes it needs to pass. Greece has said it has funds only until mid-July, after which it will be unable to pay salaries and pensions, or service its debts, without the next bailout installment. The country is also in talks for additional help in the form of a second bailout, which the prime minister has said will be roughly the size of the first

The austerity measures including the cuts and tax increases passed 155-138 in Parliament, with five voting "present" and backing neither side. During the vote, stun grenades echoed across a square outside Parliament. Acrid clouds of tear gas and orange and green smoke-bomb mist hung in the air. More protests could undermine the government's ability to implement the harsh austerity measures, which tax even the lowest-paid Greeks and raise prices during a recession. Violence continued throughout the afternoon, and smoke billowed from a post office beneath the finance ministry before a fire was put out. Rioters set up burning barricades along Syntagma Square, where demonstrators have staged a sit-in for the past month. Nearby streets were littered with chunks of smashed marble and ripped-up paving stones that had been thrown at police. No anarchists were involved in the riots.

28.06.2011. 48-hour general strike, supported by IWW. Marxist ochlarchists clash with riot police. Greek populist, moderate fascist, PM plays the nationalist card, says backing austerity plan is 'patriotic duty'. Trade unions in Greece have begun a 48-hour general strike, hours after PM George Papandreou urged parliament to back an austerity package. The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has falsely told MPs that his government's austerity plan is the only chance for the country to get back on its feet. Unless it is approved, the European Union and International Monetary Fund say they won't release the fifth instalment of an international bailout. Kicking off the parliamentary debate ahead of the vote, the so called 'socialist' prime minister called on all parties to back the latest austerity measures, i.e. austerity mainly for the people - not the bureaucracy in private and public sector.

"I'm not asking you to listen to outside pressures, I ask that you listen to your soul and your internal patriotic conscience," Papandreou said. The government will need its slim majority to get the package through. Opposition parties have rejected calls by EU leaders for "national unity". Large crowds of protesters are gathering on the streets of Athens, while public transport is grinding to a halt. Opinion polls suggest three quarters of Greeks oppose the tax rises, spending cuts and privatizations. Athens needs the 12 billion euros in the short run to pay its bills and stop the Euro-zone's first default. But the anarchists suggest an 'Argentinian'. The general strike is supported by IWW, International Workers of the World.

Marxist ochlarchists clash with riot police. A few hundred marxist ochlarchist provocateurs, some falsely posing as 'anarchists', clash with riot police. The marxist propaganda station BBC reports that 'anarchists' clash with police, and gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for this ultra-authoritarian Orwellian newspeak. Similar Brown Cards are handed out to other newsmedia acting similar to BBC in this case. The marxist ochlarchist provocateurs falsely posing as 'anarchists' also get Brown Cards and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. De facto no anarchists participated in the riots.

26.06.2011. The anarchists, Greek and and international, strongly recommend that Greece soon should take an 'Argentinian' , i.e. plan B. This means a.o.t. leaving the euro.

Remember 20.05.2010. General strike - Anarchists: No to IMF and euro etc. policy = high profit = high bureaucracy costs in private and public sector, and poor people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income... Public anger has grown at deep pension and salary cuts, as well as steep tax hikes, imposed in an attempt to pull Greece out of an unprecedented debt crisis. The measures were decided as a de facto support to the bureaucracy for Greece to receive a euro110 billion ($134.97 billion) three-year 'rescue loan package' from other EU countries and the International Monetary Fund that staved off a default. It must be mentioned that Argentina did well economically after a default... Demonstrator Giorgos Koukaridis said he hoped the rally would counter the perception that salary and pension cuts are inevitable. "There is the [false] notion that whatever is meant to pass [in parliament] will pass. And that's the bad thing," he said.

Remember also 14.05.2010. Rally in Buenos Aires backs Greek workers' strikes. Kathimerini reports: "A woman makes the victory sign as she holds up a banner reading 'Greece is not for sale, long live Greece' during a demonstration outside the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, yesterday in support of Greek trade unions. The unions have called a 24-hour strike for next Thursday to protest the austerity measures and plans for pension reform." The IWW and anarchists in general back the general strike. See also "Argentina: Greek financial rescue doomed to fail.", at (click on:) IJA 6 (31).

The anarchists, Greek and and international, strongly recommend that Greece soon should take the 'Argentinian', read all about it at (click on:) IJA 6 (31). This means a.o.t. leaving the euro, i.e. plan B mentioned 24.06.2011.

24.06.2011. Anarchist comment to 1. new austerity measures in Greece, a.k.a. plan A, and 2. economic troubles in general, i.e. 3. plan B: The Greek government is mostly on the wrong track. The anarchists are against, and do and support direct actions against the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative -- cut bureaucracy costs -- increase the demand of the people -- the people seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income -- for full employment -- against the unenlightend plutarchy of the populist center-left Greek government, IMF, WB, euro and EU. Greece should leave the euro and the Euro-zone, this will make proper demand management more easy.

Meanwhile EU leaders put on a united front for the cameras in Brussels. But behind the scenes, this is one of the most testing times the bloc has ever known. Leaders urged Greece to back more cuts in a vote next week in order to get the next instalment of its EU- IMF bailout. Everything hinges on the austerity vote in the Greek parliament, which is due on June 29 and 30. If this results in a yes – then Greece gets its next instalment from the EU and IMF. If no – then the country will default on its debt.

23.06.2011. Anti-government and anti-austerity protests continue. EU heads of government are in Brussels for a summit that is likely to be overshadowed by Greece's economic troubles. Having survived a vote of confidence, leaders will be pushing Greek prime minister George Papandreou for a commitment to painful economic reforms. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said that Greece can expect help from the EU if it tackles its financial problems. But there are fresh doubts that Germany, the bloc's biggest paymaster, will support a second bailout. Athens needs a further injection of funds by mid-July to stave off bankrupcy. Mass actions with anti-government and anti-austerity protests continue. In June 2011 the Greek revolt turned somewhat towards anarchism and a more general popular uprising.

18.06.2011. Anti-government and anti-austerity protests continue. Union members are marching through central Athens to protest the government's latest austerity measures and plans to sell off state enterprises to appease international creditors. Greece has seen near-daily protests against the belt-tightening that has slashed salaries and pensions in an attempt to stem its ballooning debt. Greece was roiled by political and market turmoil in the last week over new spending cuts and tax hikes. Prime Minister George Papandreou ousted his finance minister and appointed his main party rival, Evangelos Venizelos, to the post. Germany, fearing that Greece would soon default, calmed market fears Friday by retreating from its stance that banks and other private lenders should share the pain of a second bailout for Greece. Venizelos will face his European colleagues for the first time Sunday at an EU ministers meeting.

15.06.2011. General strike and running battles between riot police and marxist ochlarchist protesters. Attempting to calm the waters after a day of fierce protest and a national strike, the Prime Minister has announced a cabinet reshuffle and says he will seek a vote of confidence on Thursday from his parliamentary group. George Papandreou spoke to the nation after a day that saw running battles between riot police and marxist ochlarchist protesters. The demonstrations were in front of the parliament, where deputies met to debate a plan to widen austerity measures. Earlier, government sources said the prime minister had made a surprise offer to the opposition conservatives. He said he would resign and form a unity government if they gave their backing to the country's EU/IMF bailout plan. To continue receiving bailout money, the government is being told it must introduce yet more reforms. These include tax rises, spending cuts and sell-offs of state property. The conservatives rejected the PM's proposal.

11.05.2011. Violence has erupted in Athens during a protest at government austerity measures. Hooded youths, ochlarchists, attacked police with stones and Molotov cocktails. Security forces responded with tear gas. Peaceful demonstrators had turned out in their thousands to denounce the latest moves to cut the giant Greek budget deficit. "They are destroying our lives. They are really destroying our lives with these measures," said pensioner Helen Hollidou, taking part in the rally. "The only thing that changes is that people are getting poorer," said a fellow protester, a student who gave his name as Nikos. "Whatever has been accomplished in the past for workers' rights is now being taken away, little by little." The protests coincided with a nationwide 24-hour strike which brought much of Greece to a halt, with major disruption to ferries, flights, hospitals, schools and other public services.

01.05.2011. May Day anti-government demonstration and strike. Populism with unenlightened plutarchy is ruling Greece! Public and private sectors unions ADEDY and GSEE held a protest rally on May Day, at Klathmonos square. An estimated 15,000 protesters marched in Athens to condemn the populist rulers' budget cuts related to the Greek debt crisis. Labor Day in Greece has also been marked by a transport strike to protest against austerity measures the government has introduced. Train and ferry services were cancelled as workers downed tools. They feel the low paid are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks that were demanded as part of an EU and IMF emergency financial rescue. Greece was forced to ask for help to avoid going bankrupt. One protester at a rally in Athens said: "They are telling us that we should pay for this crisis. Well no! Workers don't owe a single euro because it is not them who made this crisis." Another added: "The final battle has not been won. We won some fights but not the final battle over these measures they are imposing on us." It has been more than a year since the austerity measures were brought in. Jobs have been lost and workers in several sectors have had their pay cut. But the government is still facing a big budget deficit. Populism with unenlightened plutarchy is ruling Greece!

23.02.2011. Greece general strike: Clashes erupt. Police have fired tear gas to disperse dozens of stone-throwing ochlarchist marxist leftwing extremists in Athens as a 24-hour general strike grips Greece. The violence erupted during a rally by more than 30,000 angry workers near the Greek parliament. They object to the government's far-reaching budget cuts. The strike reduced public transport effectively. More than 100 flights were cancelled. Many schools are closed and hospitals have reduced services. Small businesses have joined in, closing many shops. It is Greece's first major labor protest this year, as the government sticks to austerity cuts demanded under the terms of the country's international bail-out. The so called socialist government of Prime Minister George Papandreou is cutting spending and raising taxes to reduce its debt mountain. Last year Greece secured a 110bn-euro (£84bn) bail-out from the European Union and International Monetary Fund.

17.01.2011. Greek marxist terrorists, Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, go on trial. Brown Cards to Associated Press, BBC and more.

Nine suspected members of a Greek armed marxist group went on trial Monday over a series of bomb attacks, in a heavily policed Athens court set up inside a maximum security prison. The group, mostly in their early 20s, are suspected members of the group Revolutionary Nuclei of Fire a.k.a Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei and Conspiracy of Cells of Fire. Four other wanted suspects will be tried in absentia. The suspects are on trial over bombings that targeted a government building and the office and home of two politicians - in each case causing no injuries and limited damage. They face a maximum of 25 years in prison. Dozens of riot police stood guard outside Athens' Korydallos prison, amid fears of violent protests by supporters of the armed group. About 30 protesters chanted 'anti-government' slogans near the court. Terrorism is a form of ochlarchy, in itself a form of archy/government...

The marxist group claimed responsibility for a spate of parcel bombings in November and the bombing of a court building last month - reflecting a surge in recent years in violence by marxist militant groups. Revolutionary Nuclei of Fire is accused of carrying out numerous arson attacks and bombings since it first appeared in early 2008. Greece has been plagued by armed radical marxist groups for decades, but the violence was typically limited to organizations with a small number of members. "This is a decade that has seen change in organization. In some ways it is more dangerous because the suspects are very young," criminologist Angelos Tsigris told private Skai television. "It is a much more generalized phenomenon now, and no longer involves a very small number of people," he said. "Of course their actions are condemned by society ... but there are lasting and underlying factors that encourage violence: State corruption, the lack of opportunities for young people, and the feeling among these people that they have no prospects."

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the Associated Press, BBC and more newsmedia for falsely calling this marxist terrorist group 'anarchist', according to the Oslo Convention. More information, see the report of 23.11.2010.

31.12.2010. Bomb explodes outside closed night club in Athens. Rightwing extremist are probably behind the attack. Police in Greece say a powerful bomb has exploded outside a closed night club in Athens, causing no injuries, in an attack linked with criminal extortion groups. A police statement says the pre-dawn blast occurred just before 4 a.m.(0200 GMT) Friday near the city center. The explosion was heard across southern Athens and severely damaged the club's facade. The investigation is being handled by the police department responsible for extortionists, who have carried out several similar attacks in recent years. The bomb attack seems to have the hallmarks of rightwing extemist terrorism and ochlarchy.

30.12.2010. Bomb explodes near Athens courthouse. Marxist leftwing extremists are probably behind the attack. A strong bomb blast shook one of the main courthouse buildings in central Athens on Thursday morning, Greek police said. The explosion occurred about 40 minutes after an unidentified person placed warning calls to a local TV station and newspaper, saying a bomb would explode outside the "administrative first instance courthouse." The advance notice gave police enough time to evacuate the building. Police said the blast came from a motorbike rigged with explosives that was parked in the median across from the courthouse in the Ambelokipi district. The caller provided the place number on the bike. A cloud of smoke was visible in the area and there was some damage to the front of the building and nearby cars from the explosion. The bomb attack seems to have the hallmarks of marxist leftwing extremist terrorism and ochlarchy.

15.12.2010. General strike and marxist ochlarchy and ochlarchists in Greece - Brown Cards to John Psaropoulos and CNN-TV for falsely calling the marxist mob, i.e. ochlarchists, 'anarchists'.

Euronews reports: Demonstration - Violence erupts in latest Greek strike. Anger at austerity cuts has exploded on the streets of Athens as Greece marks its seventh general strike this year. Protesters clashed with police, throwing petrol bombs near parliament. Officers in riot gear fired tear gas in return. Cars and a luxury hotel were set alight. The ugly scenes erupted as thousands marched in the capital, protesting harsh reforms aimed at tackling the Greek debt crisis. A mob of leftists [marxist ochlarchists] attacked a former conservative minister with fists, sticks and stones."Thieves! Shame on you!" they shouted at Kostis Hatzidakis. Just hours earlier, parliament had voted through steps including reducing public sector pay and giving businesses more leeway in collective bargaining. This is part of the price to be paid for Greece's EU-IMF bailout. "We have to stop this law because it destroys our children's future," said private sector worker Kostas in Athens. "It is an outrage." From grounded flights, to closed schools and ferries stuck in their port, the strike has caused major disruption. It is part of a European day of anti-austerity protests ahead of this week's EU summit.

BBC reports: Former conservative minister Kostis Hatzidakis was surrounded and beaten by a crowd. The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says the scenes are some of the ugliest in a year of protests marking the country's economic crisis. He says a lynch mob atmosphere developed as former conservative minister Kostis Hatzidakis emerged from parliament and was chased by dozens of protesters. The opposition MP was pictured surrounded by a mob and with blood pourig from a head wound. Mr Hatzidakis's office said he was unable to reach hospital because of the crowds. Witnesses said demonstrators shouted at him: "Thieves! Shame on you!" Police said at least 10 people had been detained and three had been injured.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to John Psaropoulos and CNN-TV for falsely calling the marxist mob, i.e. ochlarchists, 'anarchists', and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. Anarchy and ochlarchy are opposites - anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites... The mob rule, i.e. ochlarchy, against Kostis Hatzidakis was done by leftists, i.e. marxist ochlarchists, NOT anarchists! Stop the lies NOW!

07.12.2010. Minor clashes mar protest rally - Marxists clashed with police. Demonstrations commemorating the second anniversary of the fatal shooting of a teenager by a policeman brought Athens and several other major cities to a standstill for several hours yesterday and were marred by outbreaks of violence. In Athens, where thousands of police officers were mobilized to avert a repeat of unprecedented rioting two years ago, around 6,000 schoolchildren, members of leftist organizations and labor unionists took to the streets in separate marches that were mostly peaceful. Some of the protesters chanted "Greece is not a protectorate" and held up banners saying "IMF out," in reference to the International Monetary Fund, one of the debt-ridden government's three creditors.

In the early afternoon a few dozen marxist ochlarchist youths hurled stones and chairs from street cafes at riot police officers who pushed them back. Some protesters threw red paint over bank facades and at policemen. Later in the day, a larger crowd of marxist hooded youths threw firebombs and chunks of marble and paving stones at officers, who responded by firing tear gas. Police said at least three people were injured. These included a middle-aged man who was hit on the head by a rock, a younger man who was beaten up by a group of protesters that mistook him for an undercover police officer, and a woman who went into shock after a stun grenade went off next to her. Several store facades were smashed and garbage dumpsters set alight but the damage was not extensive. Small-scale outbreaks of violence were also reported during similar demonstrations in other major cities including Thessaloniki and the Cretan port of Hania. Police said they had detained 40 people for questioning.

06.12.2010. Six marxist terror suspects arrested. Police seize arms in Athens, other cities; say an attack was being planned. The police yesterday arrested six people on terrorism charges, including two suspected members of the marxist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, and seized heavy weaponry and explosives in raids in Athens and several other cities. Greek Police Chief Lefteris Oikonomou told reporters that the force had carried out the arrests over the weekend amid "serious indications" that a new terrorist attack was being planned. He gave no details about when the attack had been expected or what the target might be. The force published on its website the names and photographs of all the detainees including Alexandros Mitrousias, 21, and Georgios Karayiannidis, 30, who are believed to be members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. The group has claimed responsibility for a spate of letter bombs sent to embassies in Athens and foreign leaders last month.

Police conducted several raids over the weekend on apartments in Athens – including a suspected hideout in the southern suburb of Nea Smyrni – in Piraeus, in the western city Agrinio and on Crete. The raids turned up three Scorpion sub-machine guns, three Kalashnikov assault rifles and seven handguns, as well as 50 kilograms of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (ANFO), 200 grams of TNT, ammunition and four hand grenades. Police also discovered a rucksack containing a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a Scorpion sub-machine gun and ammunition on farmland near Halkidiki, northern Greece.

A first round of ballistics tests had not revealed any connection between the weapons and any domestic terrorist organization by late last night. A second round of tests was under way on the remaining weapons. Earlier yesterday, police sources had indicated that the arms cache might belong to the Sect of Revolutionaries, which has claimed responsibility for the murder of a journalist and a police officer in the past two years. A connection to the Sect was not confirmed later yesterday. Authorities are on alert ahead of the second anniversary today of the killing of a teenager by a police officer, an incident that led to nearly two weeks of rioting.

23.11.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek police, AFP, France24 and more, for the lies that the marxist extremist group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei is anarchist, according to the Oslo Convention. Stop these lies!!!

AFP and France24 report: Greek extremist group claims parcel bomb campaign. A Greek anarchist group claimed responsibility Tuesday for posting more than a dozen parcel bombs to European leaders and embassies, police said, in a campaign that caused alarm but no major injuries. Two members of the radical Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei who were arrested as the rigged parcels were sent out early this month confirmed their involvement in a letter sent to the Indymedia website, police said. They claimed "the dispatch of parcel bombs to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the headquarters of the World Court in The Hague and the embassies of Belgium and Mexico in Athens," according to the letter.

"We are very proud of our action ... ," said the letter signed by chemistry student Panayotis Argyriou, 22, and Gerassimos Tsakalos, 24, who were arrested in Athens on November 1. It added that "even in the difficult conditions of our imprisonment, we are not going to stop publicising our positions in favour of armed violence and revolution". The men were detained hours after the first booby-trapped parcel, addressed for the Mexican embassy in Athens, exploded in a postal office. Police then discovered two more, one addressed to Sarkozy and the other for the Belgian embassy in the Greek capital.

In total 14 parcels containing books or folders apparently filled with an explosive powder were sent from Greece in the first week of November, including one that reached the offices of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and another intercepted in Italy and meant for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The far-left Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, labelled a "terrorist" group by Greek authorities, emerged in 2008 with the first of its arson and bomb attacks on government buildings and the offices and homes of Greek politicians that have never caused serious injury. The rigged parcels from Greece and two bombs posted from Yemen were discovered on planes headed to the United States in attempted attacks claimed by Al-Qaeda. This led to a meeting between European and US aviation security experts to identity weaknesses in air cargo and post within the European Union.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the Greek police, AFP, France24 and more newsmedia with similar false reports, for the lies that the marxist extremist group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a.k.a. Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire, is anarchist, according to the Oslo Convention. Stop these lies!!! See the reports of 03-04.11.2010 for proof that Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei is a marxist group, and thus not an anarchist group.

19.11.2010. Unions plan walkout for Nov 25, general strike for Dec 15. The anarchosyndicalist labor confederation International Workers of the World backs the strikes. The country's two main unions, the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) and the civil servants' union ADEDY, yesterday called a three-hour work stoppage for November 25 and called on their members, who number more than 2 million, to join a general strike on December 15 in protest at the debt-ridden government's ongoing austerity drive. The work stoppage next Thursday may result in public transport disruptions between noon and 3 p.m. The strike for December 15 was announced by GSEE last month and is now being joined by ADEDY amid speculation of severe cuts to spending in the public sector. ADEDY president Spyros Papaspyros described the government's austerity drive as "a marathon whose finishing line keeps moving." The anarchosyndicalist labor confederation International Workers of the World backs the strikes.

17.11.2010. Demonstrate with dignity - not ochlarchy - at the annual protest march commemorating the bloody student uprising against the ultra-fascist junta on November 17, 1973. Brown Card to Sympatico.ca

Organizers of the annual protest march commemorating the bloody student uprising against the junta on November 17, 1973, are expecting a much higher turnout this week than in previous years, largely due to the economic crisis, which has prompted police to draft an extensive security plan in an attempt to prevent violence. Events to mark the crushing of the student revolt at the Athens Polytechnic, now the National Technical University of Athens, began Monday, and there was already a strong student presence within the institution's grounds. Organizers are anticipating a big turnout for the traditional rally, to be held today and which ends with a march on the US Embassy, as many people are expected to use the march as an opportunity to voice their opposition to the austerity measures and the presence of the International Monetary Fund. There is concern that small groups of marxist extemists intent on causing violent ochlarchy might hijack the proceedings.

Later: More than 20,000 demonstrators marched through central Athens to the US Embassy on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of a 1973 student uprising against the military dictatorship then ruling Greece. Minor clashes broke out when stone-throwing youths attacked riot police, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. No injuries or arrests were immediately reported. With Greece in the midst of a severe financial crisis that has seen the government impose strict cost-cutting measures, this year's demonstration was taking on an anti-austerity plan flavour, with protesters holding banners bearing slogans against the International Monetary Fund and European Union. Another 12,000 protesters joined a rally in Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki. Police also reported clashes in the southern city of Patras.

Sympatico.ca reports: More than 6,000 police were deployed in the capital, and roads along the demonstration route were blocked off, as anarchists often take advantage of Nov. 17 marches to attack police and damage shops and banks. In fact no anarchists "attack police and damage shops and banks" in Greece, not now and not before, and the IAT-APT hands out a Brown Card to Sympatico.ca, for spreading this lie, according to the Oslo Convention. Sympatico.ca has no public e-mail-address, but the Brown Card message is posted on their feedback form, with a link to www.anarchy.no added.

15.11.2010. Final tally of local gov't elections. The unenlightened plutarchy and populist system continue... The debt-ridden Greece raised its projected budget deficit figure for 2010, after the European Union's statistics agency said Monday that the country's deficit and debt levels last year were much higher than previously estimated. But the country, which has been struggling with a severe financial crisis for the past year and is receiving a euro110 billion ($150 billion) in rescue loans to keep it from defaulting on its debts, insisted it was still on track for an "unprecedented" 6 percentage point deficit reduction. "We have been able to cut our deficits even more that the target was. From 5.5 (percent), we have cut by 6 (percent) this year," Prime Minister George Papandreou said after meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. Eurostat said Greece's 2009 budget deficit reached 15.4 percent of gross domestic product, significantly above its previous figure of 13.6 percent. That means Greece will not achieve the initial target of lowering the deficit to 8.1 percent of GDP in 2010. The Finance Ministry said this year's deficit was now estimated at 9.4 percent. The ministry added that it still aims to reduce the deficit to below 3 percent of GDP in 2014.

"The new starting point for the 2009 deficit reveals the magnitude of the unprecedented fiscal effort made by the Greek government in 2010," it said in a statement. Public debt stood at 126.8 percent of GDP in 2009 - or euro298.03 billion - higher than that of any other EU state, Eurostat said. In April, it had estimated it at 115.1 percent. The ministry said the deficit revision came after data was expanded to include debts from public corporations, the downward revision of 2009 GDP, and adjusted local government and social security fund accounts. The debt figure also was revised to account for off-market swaps. Eurostat said all previous issues have been addressed and it no longer had any reservations. "Greece is on track," said Amadeu Altafaj Tardio, spokesman for European Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn. "That is the first time in five or six years that the figures are not accompanied by a footnote or an asterisk."

But some analysts saw a bleaker picture. "The revised figures make it very difficult to achieve the 2010 targets and the upward revised debt means that the interest payment will be higher," said Nicholaos Skourias, head of investment management services at Merit Securities in Athens. In a weekend newspaper interview, Papandreou conceded the long expected deficit revision would add pressure to cut costs, and he said Greece could seek an extension for repaying its rescue loans. He has pledged not to take any more measures such as increasing taxes this year. "We have a budget coming soon. We are going to be reorganizing our whole public sector in a way which won't put the burden on people," Papandreou said in Paris. "It will put the burden on cutting down the waste and making things much more transparent."

The government imposed stringent austerity measures, including cutting civil servants' salaries, increasing taxes and freezing pensions, earlier this year. The measures led to a backlash from labor unions, which have organized strikes and protests, some of which have turned violent. Hundreds of students and left-wing protesters gathered for two separate demonstrations in central Athens Monday evening. The revised data came as the finance minister was meeting with officials from the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, who were in Athens on a regular inspection visit to review Greece's implementation of the EU/IMF rescue loan agreement that saved it from default in May. Greece has struggled to raise revenue, with figures showing it is lagging behind its targets, although it has generally performed better in spending cuts. Last week, the Finance Ministry said it had narrowly missed its deficit reduction target for the January-October period this year. The 10-month shortfall stood at euro17.4 billion ($24 billion), down 30 percent from a year earlier instead of the targeted 32 percent. Without the loans, Greece would have already defaulted. It is effectively locked out of the international bond market by the massively high interest rates it would have to pay if it were to issue bonds - a reflection of low trust in the country's prospects.

Final tally of local gov't elections. The biggest "winner" was abstention, which reached an all-time high of 53.23 percent, sharply up from 39.01 percent in the first round the preceding Sunday, while blank and spoiled votes reached 11.67 percent from 5.49 percent in the first round. A major factor in yesterday's election was the low voter participation. Earlier in the day, President Karolos Papoulias had urged Greeks to get out and vote. "Democracy was established thanks to great struggles and widespread participation," he said. "Today, democracy needs new struggles. You can't sit on your sofa and speak of struggles." However, the president's words had little effect as the abstention rate reached record levels. The second round was also characterized by surprise upsets in the country's three largest cities, with a "change of guard" in Athens, Thessaloniki and Piraeus.

With the final count completed from Sunday's second-round local government elections, ruling PASOK-backed candidates were elected as regional heads in eight of the country's 13 regions, the new geographical administrations created under the Kallikratis local administration merge plan, with the remaining five regions won by main opposition New Democracy (ND) backed candidates. PASOK-backed candidates also won 73 of the country's 325 municipalities, while ND-backed candidates won in 41 municipalities. Outgoing Athens prefect Yianns Sgouros, who was backed by PASOK, will be the Attica region's first elected regional head or governor, with a percentage of 52.87 percent and 61 seats on the regional council, against 47.13 percent and 12 seats for ND-backed Vassilis Kikilias.

Despite PASOK's success on a regional level, the most notable victory of the night came in Athens where Giorgos Kaminis, the former Ombudsman and a newcomer to politics, defeated the previous, ND-backed Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis. Kaminis, was supported by PASOK and Democratic Left. Giorgos Kaminis carried the vote with 51.94 percent against incumbent mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis with 48.06 percent. In Thessaloniki PASOK-backed Yiannis Boutaris prevailed with 50.20 percent over ND-backed Costas Gioulekas with 49.80 percent. Conversely, ND-backed Vassilis Mihaloliakos won the mayoral race in Piraeus with 51.76 percent against PASOK-backed local government veteran Yiannis Mihas with 48.24 percent. Another surprise was recorded in the western port city of Patras, where Ioannis Dimaras, the candidate jointly backed by leftist parties, carried the vote with 53.63 percent against 46.37 percent for the PASOK-backed Constantine Katsikopoulos.

Premier George Papandreou said the results were a vote of support for his government. "Citizens have asked for political and social stability," he said. "They rejected the sirens of destabilization." The premier called on all parties to "assume responsibility" as Greece tries to overcome its economic problems. He pledged the government would adopt "major reforms that will help Greece breathe" following this year's austerity measures. The unenlightened plutarchy and populist system continue..., see the report of 08.11.2010.

08.11.2010. Results - first round of local elections. Anarchist comment: Status quo. The system will probably continue to be semi-democratic populist, in the coming years.

Legions of voters showed their displeasure for the populist system and the PASOK government - whose austerity policies have included cutting civil servants' salaries, hiking taxes and freezing pensions - by staying away from the ballot box. In a country where voting is compulsory and elections generally well-attended, the abstention rate ran at nearly 40 percent. A lack of Greek significant progressive, social-individualist relatively libertarian, center-parties, as are present in the Anarchies of Norway, the Swiss Confederation and Iceland, contributed to the large abstention rate, which also may be seen as a protest against the authoritarian two main parties, the conservative ND, and the so called 'socialist' PASOK. The results probably mean status quo regarding the Greek system's place on the economic-political map, see the report of 06.11.2010. The system will probably continue to be semi-democratic populist, in the coming years.

Greece's prime minister vowed to press ahead with painful austerity measures, dropping a threat to call snap elections after his party retained a slim lead in local government polls."We know that change is not easy. But it was for this change that the Greek people brought us to power a year ago. And today it again confirmed that it wants this change," George Papandreou said in a live televised speech late Sunday night. Papandreou had threatened to call snap general elections if his governing 'socialist' PASOK party fared badly in Sunday's vote for 13 regional governors and 325 mayors, billed as a referendum on the government's austerity measures.

With nearly all returns counted Monday, i.e. more than 95 percent, Papandreou's PASOK led a key race for regional governor in greater Athens Sunday but lost significant ground elsewhere to the main opposition conservative party ND, while the turn-out plunged. PASOK-backed candidates were ahead in seven of the regional governor races, as mentioned including in Athens, the country's largest administrative region. A runoff vote will be held next Sunday. Conservative incumbent Nikitas Kaklamanis was leading the race for the capital's major with 35 percent to 28 percent for the center-left populist challenger Yiannis Kaminis, and the two will face off in the runoff next Sunday.

07.11.2010. Local elections - anarchist point of view. Athens newspaper headlines. PM: Result of Sunday polls crucial. The first round of local government elections.

Voters in the crisis-hit Greek mainly populist economic-political system cast ballots in local polls Sunday, in a major test of public support for austerity measures that could trigger a snap general election. The vote pits Prime Minister George Papandreou's 13-month-old so called 'socialist' government against opposition parties all campaigning against the rescue-loan deal with the European Union and the IMF, and his austerity measures, in short the 'Memorandum'. Papandreou was elected for four years and another election is normally not due until the second half of 2013. If he does decide to call a snap election, it would have to be held within 30 days of the dissolution of parliament. Some Greek media have speculated it could be held on Dec. 12.

Athens newspaper headlines. Sunday's first round of municipal and regional elections -- with the spectre of snap elections now hanging over the result -- expectedly dominated the headlines in Athens' Sunday papers: AVGHI: "Landmark vote for future". AVRIANI: "Negative vote to George (Papandreou, the premier) and to (EU-ECB-IMF) troika". CHORA: "No to occupation. Vote against government representatives of the memorandum". ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "We can do without the IMF. Vote NO to memorandum". ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "We're in elections now". ETHNOS: The newspaper banners a front-page election-day interview by PM George Papandreou, with the headline "We're not playing with the country's future". FREE SUNDAY: "This is how they're (EU Commission) preparing (Greece's) 'controlled bankruptcy'." KATHIMERINI: "What Mr. Papandreou is afraid of; the 'troika's' concerns". PARON (weekly): "Election (bombs) to explode (today)". PROTO THEMA (weekly): "They're chasing off 10 percent (of civil servants) via early retirement". REALNEWS (weekly): "George's (Papandreou) dilemma". RIZOSPASTIS: The communist party-affiliated paper banners a headline calling for votes of the candidates it backs. TO VIMA: "They're (two major parties) afraid of (election-day) surprises, shunning snap election". VETO (weekly): "Ballot boxes sending explosive message". VRADYNI: "All of the new, painful (austerity) measures. How our lives will change with cut-backs".

PM: Result of Sunday polls crucial. Stability for the country or further adventures was the wager at stake in Sunday's local government elections, Prime Minister George Papandreou repeated in an interview published by the newspaper "Ta Nea" on Saturday. Papandreou strongly criticized the opposition parties and especially main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras for adopting anti-Memorandum rhetoric, accusing them of populism and sacrificing the country's best interests to the final tally in the ballot box. "Without a trace of compunction, for months now, they have considered that the local government elections would be a good opportunity to wound our national struggle. To outbid each other in populism, contend in demagoguery, with the exclusive goal of 'scalding' the government," Papandreou noted. "All they care about is to be able to say on the night of the elections that PASOK was defeated and that, therefore, the effort we are making to extricate the country from the great impasse has been defeated. That the government has lost the legitimacy to continue its policies," he added.

Papandreou emphasised that his statements about holding early general elections if PASOK was defeated were not a bluff. Noting that this was not his preferred course, he nevertheless stressed that his decisions would be guided by what he considered best for the country and that the results of the first Sunday would be crucial in making his decision. "On November 7 the citizens have an opportunity to give a clear answer concerning the country's course: forward to stability and self-evident changes or backward to adventures," he stressed. Papandreou also denied that he was considering "flight" from the prime minister's office - such as by taking up a post in the United Nations - underlining that "my duty is here, to my country, with the mandate given to me by the Greek people". He repeated, however, that his only criterion for making decisions was whether the country's course toward stability was threatened, in which case the "sovereign people will have to make their decisions". "The message from the ballot boxes will be of definitive importance, especially that in the first Sunday for the regional authorities," he said.

The first round of local government elections using the new 'Kallikratis' is due in Greece on Sunday, November 7, between the hours of 7.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. This election introduces a number of new elements following the sweeping changes to the boundaries of local authorities under the Kallikratis plan, which greatly reduced the number of municipalities but also made them much larger, while abolishing the second-tier local authorities governing prefectures and introducing 13 elected regional authority governors. The recent announcement by Prime Minister George Papandreou that a poor result for PASOK may lead him to consider the prospect of early general elections has also raised the stakes a great deal higher than is usual for a local government election. In areas where there is no clear winner during the first round of elections, there will be a second round on November 14 at the same times and using the same procedure.

If the vote fails to take place in a municipality or in one or more polling stations for any reason, another election will be held on Wednesday, November 10. Those eligible to vote for municipal councils and mayors are Greek nationals resident in the municipality that are over 18 and registered in their municipality or community electoral roll, as well as nationals of any of the 26 European Union member-states that are over 18, permanent residents of Greece and registered in the special electoral rolls of the municipality where they reside (up until August 31, 2010). Those eligible to vote for regional authority officials do not include EU member-state citizens, Greek expatriates without Greek nationality and legal residents from third countries.

Those deprived of their rights to vote cannot vote in these elections. Those that have no obligation to vote in the elections are foreign nationals, those aged over 70 and those that are more than 200 kilometres from the polling station where they vote (this must be certified by the municipality in the location they are in). Those wanting to vote must display either a police ID card or temporary replacement issued by a proper authority, or a valid passport, or a driving licence, or social insurance fund booklet. Voters not included in the electoral roll that have not been deprived of their voting rights can apply to the municipality or community where they are registered in order to request a certificate that they are registered in the municipal register in order to exercise their voting rights.

PS. Greece's prime minister dropped his threat to call an early election Sunday, saying [based on preliminary results, that] Greeks had shown in crucial local elections they wanted his government to continue with the austerity measures aimed at pulling the debt-ridden country out of a severe financial crisis. But George Papandreou's governing so called 'socialists' lost significant ground.

06.11.2010. Ad local election tomorrow: Boycott the most authoritarian parties, including Papandreo's PASOK. Vote for the most libertarian parties, the center. For a movement in libertarian direction...

The local election is mainly a referendum about the policy of Prime Minister George Papandreou and his so called "socialist" party PASOK. Vote NO to this policy, boycott Papandreo's PASOK. Also boycott the other most authoritarian parties. Vote for the most libertarian parties, the center. For a movement in libertarian direction, as soon as possible do away with the present top-heavy social pyramid, i.e. a populist regime with ochlarchy. 1. For higher degree of socialism, less degree of capitalism, i.e. economical plutarchy. 2. For a higher degree of autonomy, less degree of statism. 3. For a movement of the societal system in horizontal direction, i.e. more efficiency and fairness.

The Greek system seen all in all is mainly populist. Despite the so called "socialist" government, the system seen all in all is mainly populist, a moderate, parliamentarian form of fascism, with about 58% authoritarian degree and about 42% libertarian degree, ranked as no 25 of the countries in the world according to libertarian degree. The degree of capitalism is estimated to about 52,1% and the degree of statism to about 63,4%, i.e. both significant. A third of Greeks live close to the poverty line or under. The poverty limit is drawn at an income of 470 euros a month per adult (2008). Slowly but steadily a 'third world' is being created inside Greece, an EU member state with a population of 11 million.

05.11.2010. CNN reports: Greece resumes air shipments after bombings. Anarchists not blamed. Greece has resumed air delivery of packages outside the country after a 48-hour suspension, a spokesman for the prime minister's office said Friday. The country imposed the suspension amid a wave of attempted bombings against international targets this week. Police have discovered 14 parcel bombs emanating from Greece, most of which were sent to various embassies in Athens. Police intercepted and destroyed most of them in controlled explosions, but a woman at a courier office was wounded by one of the devices and another exploded in the courtyard of the Swiss Embassy.

Other parcel bombs were addressed to European targets including the leaders of Germany and Italy. Two men accused of participating in the bombings were remanded into custody Thursday. They were arrested in Athens on Monday in possession of two parcel bombs, Glock pistols, a bulletproof vest, and a wig. Panagiotis Argyrou, 22, and Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24 were also in possession of a delivery slip for another parcel containing an explosive device which had been delivered to a courier service and was addressed to the Dutch Embassy, police said.

Hellenic Police spokesman Maj. Athanasios Kokkalakis called the two suspects "important members of a terrorist group." Before this week's attacks, Argyrou already faced an arrest warrant for his alleged membership in an illegal organization called the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Greek authorities have stressed that they believe the wave of letter bombs is the work of a home-grown Greek terrorist group that does not have ties to international organizations like al-Qaeda.

CNN and some other main newsmedia are reporting more balanced also today, but 'marxist' seems to be a 'holy cow' in this connection, see yesterday's rhetorical question. However the case is mostly going out of the headlines.

By the way, Greece's prime minister said he would have no choice but to call an early national election if voters rejected his austerity policy in local polls on Sunday, according to an interview with Italian magazine Panorama.

04.11.2010. Newsmedia! Stop uncritical publishing of the lies of the Greek police! This message is mainly directed to domestic and international newsmedia. Usually newsmedia are asking critical questions, and presenting different views. Why not in this case? Why not tell the truth Big Brothers? Big Brothers here mean similar to Orwellian '1984' newspeak Big Brother liemachine newsmedia...

Take a look at the lies of the spokesperson of the Greek police, Kokkalakis, falsely calling one of the terrorists "anarchist", and the proof that the terrorists are marxist leftwing extremist, and not anarchists, in the report of 03.11.2010, and make up your own opinion... The lies of Kokkalakis are at the bottom of the report of 03.11.2010 below...

See also the AIIS-indexpage www.anarchy.no, today declaring: The terrorism in Greece is done by marxist leftwing extremists. No anarchists involved. Proof and more information: Click here!

NB! 'Extreme left anarchist groups' do not exist, not on the economic-political map - and not in reality...

The Greek authorities, the marxist government, falsely postulates the opposite, to among others Reuters: "All evidence shows this is a clear domestic case, with no connection with international terrorism," Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas said on Wednesday. "The evidence so far shows we are dealing with extreme left, anarchist groups." Droutsas, for the Greek government, and Reuters and other newsmedia publishing this lie, get Brown Cards from the IAT-APT.

Later: We have seen several more balanced reports in the evening, but no newsmedia have mentioned the word 'marxist' in this connection except the AIIS. Is 'marxist' a holy cow of the newsmedia? That is in connection with this terrorism, that de facto is done by extreme leftwing marxists! ... And the so called 'anarchist terrorists' around the beginning of the 20th century/late 19th century, have all been expulsed from the anarchist movement post mortem, and are thus not real anarchists.

03.11.2010. Proof that marxists, not anarchists, are behind the terrorism. The truth about the terrorism in Greece: The anarchists once more condemn these terrorist attacks. They are practically certain done by marxist extremists, not anarchists. Greece halts mail, hunts for bombing suspects. Brown Cards to the lier police-spokesman Maj. Thanassis Kokkalakis, CNN, and the marxist leftwing extremists Panagiotis Argyrou and Gerasimos Tsakalos.

A "litmus test" of whether marxists, fascists, anarchists or liberalists are behind terrorism

1. Terrorism is extremist, ultra-authoritarian acts, de facto very much a top down approach, se notes on extremism and anarchy at IAT-APT International Branch. Extremism is either marxist, fascist or liberalist, practically certain not anarchist, because an anarchist acting ultra-authoritarian/extremist stops to be an anarchist, and will be expulsed from the anarchist movement. All terrorists falsely called anarchists historically are expulsed from the anarchist movement post mortem, because they were not real anarchists. And all terrorists falsely called anarchists, of our time, are in general also expulsed from the anarchist movement via Brown Cards by IAT-APT. NB! Terrorists are thus not anarchists! The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense, a bottom up approach, and that excludes terrorism, a top down approach.

To be an anarchist or not is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia or others. It is not the outspoken aim - agenda, if any, that counts. The real aim is the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Anarchists actions are actions that in consequence move (or keep) the social organization in horizontal direction, and that excludes terrorism because this is actions that in consequence have a top down approach, vertical organization.

2. Terrorist actions are extremist/ultra-authoritarian and if capitalist/economical plutarchist, typically profit-motivated, the action is either fascist or liberalist, not anarchist or marxist. Ultra-authoritarian fascists in consequence also act for a "strong man", extremist liberalists not. Fascist terrorists often also have nationalist motives. Liberalist and fascist terrorism are rightwing extremism (with the rare exception of left-fascist/populist/nazi etc. terrorism which is a form of leftwing extremism).

3. If extremist acts are anti-capitalist, they are socialist, and thus ultra-authoritarian socialism, i.e. a form of marxism, not liberalist or fascist, and not anarchist. What is a hallmark of marxist extremism? Violent attacks on symbols of capitalism and/or the (capitalist - according to marxism) state is a marxist strategy of vanguardism, similar to the marxist-leninist terrorist organizations the Italian Red Brigades (BR) and German RAF (Baader Meinhof), etc. Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions on capitalism and statism as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, see also 1 and 2. So if there are extremist attacks on symbols of capitalism and state, it is marxist leftwing extremists, not anarchists behind. Thus terrorism that attacks symbols of capitalism and state, are done by marxist extremists, leftwingers, and not anarchists.

4. Using this "litmus test", 1-3 we find that most terrorism world wide is done by marxist, leftwing, extremists, or rightwing extremists, practically certain never anarchists. In the future the people, police, authorities and newsmedia should use this "litmus test" when reporting about who is behind terrorism.

5. To mix up opposites as anarchists with terrorists, a form of ochlarchists, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Such Big Brother notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists and terrorists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency - according to the Oslo Convention, - to newsmedia and others that are spreading such disinformation.

Orwellian "1984" newspeak Big Brother lie-report from Europol about so called "anarchist" terrorists in Europe, in reality ochlarchists and not anarchists

In the "TE-SAT 2010 EU TERRORISM SITUATION AND TREND REPORT", see Europol - European Police - TE-SAT 2010, Europol declares: "The agenda of anarchist terrorist groups is usually revolutionary, anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian. Not all Member States distinguish between activities of left-wing and anarchist terrorist groups in their contributions. For this reason, both categories are discussed in the same chapter of this report. Greece, Italy and Spain reported 40 attacks by leftwing and anarchist terrorists. Actions by anarchist groups are becoming more violent and sometimes well planned. After a quiet period of two years, the FAI (Federazione Anarchica Informale) claimed two attacks in Italy which targeted the director of the CIE (Centro di Identifi cazione ed Espulsione), and the Bocconi University in Milan."

The so called "anarchist terrorists" mentioned, in Greece, Italy and Spain, the Italian "FAI (Federazione Anarchica Informale)" being the only such group mentioned by name in Europol's report, are in reality terrorist ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists, and have got Brown Cards from IAT-APT, and are thus expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not members of the anarchist movement. Using the "litmustest" above on the mentioned cases, it is clear that the so called "anarchist terrorists" mentioned by Europol, in reality are marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists - NOT anarchists..

Europol's terrorist accusations against anarchists are completely false. The truth is that no anarchists in Greece, Italy and Spain or other places on Earth have participated in terrorist attacks, i.e. ochlarchical actions, not now and not before. Ochlarchy is mob rule broadly defined including terrorism. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense, see, say, direct action. The mentioned violence including terrorism is not of this kind, and are done by extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, practically certain marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not by anarchists.

Anarchists should in general not be mixed up with left-wingers. Anarchists are not extremists and have less than 50% authoritarian degree, and are found in the middle and upwards on the economic-political map, while the extreme left have more than 666 per thousand authoritarian degree, are totalitarian, see System theory and economic political map. Anarchists are real democrats, not the opposite, i.e. extremists and totalitarian.

To mix up opposites as anarchists with terrorists, a form of ochlarchists, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. Such Big Brother notes in the media broadly defined, including Europol's report, also produce copycat ochlarchists and terrorists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency - according to the Oslo Convention, - this time to Europol and director Rob Wainwright and newsmedia spreading their disinformation. The trial and Brown Card verdict against Europol by IAT-APT, happened 22.07.2010. Europol has no public e-mail address, but the IAT-APT has posted a message to Europol on their "Media Request" mail-form with a link to this resolution.

I. The terrorism, bomb and arson attacks etc. in Greece, are clearly done by a) anticapitalists, i.e. socialists, and b) according to 1. in the "litmus test" ultra-authoritarians.

III. Thus, the terrorism, in Greece, is practically certain done by marxists - not anarchists! I and II logically implicate III. Q.E.D.
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The truth about the terrorism in Greece: The anarchists once more condemn these terrorist attacks. They are practically certain done by marxist extremists, not anarchists. Greece halts mail, hunts for bombing suspects.

Greece stopped all airborne parcels headed overseas and screened thousands of packages Wednesday in an attempt to stop a spate of bombings blamed on Greek militants, especially the marxist far left group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, targeting diplomatic missions and European leaders. A 48-hour ban on all outgoing parcel deliveries abroad took effect after mail bombs reached the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and halted flights for hours at Italy's Bologna airport, where a package addressed to Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi caught fire. The attacks, which followed an unsuccessful Yemen-based mail bomb plot, highlighted the difficulty of keeping bombs out of the international delivery system. Several European governments urged vigilance but didn't say they were increasing measures already in place at leaders' offices.

Merkel, however, called for improved checks on cargo deliveries. "This incident and the problem that we had at the chancellery with a suspect package must give cause to better coordinate checks on cargo inside Europe ... and then as far as possible worldwide," Merkel told the daily Passauer Neue Presse. Three of the bombs exploded or caught fire in Athens, causing minor damage and leaving one delivery service employee burned. Police investigators said none of the devices examined so far contained lethal amounts of explosives - unlike those used by the Yemeni militants. Government spokesman George Petalotis said that the Greek mail bombs had no link to Islamist groups.

Authorities are questioning two suspects arrested Monday in connection with the bombings, and released the photographs of five other suspects believed to be associated with them. The suspects, most in their early 20s, have been linked to the marxist militant group Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire. Greece has suffered a spike in militant attacks - including a deadly letter bombing earlier this year - since massive riots in 2008 triggered by a police shooting of a teenage boy. The country was plagued by far-left terrorism in the 1980s and 1990s, with more than 20 people killed in gunfire and bombing attacks. Although the deadliest of these organizations were eradicated over the past decade, their attacks have inspired several small radical marxist or nihilist groups violently opposed to capitalism and all forms of state authority.

Believed to recruit from students who often clash with police in Greece's frequent protests, these groups have come to dominate domestic political violence in recent years. But they are seen as lacking the sophistication and tight organization of the older far-left groups. "Clearly we are dealing with amateurs but those are amateurs who got worldwide attention," said Greek terrorism expert Mary Bossi. "The suspects are all young but I have some reservations on who might be guiding them." Prime Minister George Papandreou said the government would be "unyielding" in its pursuit of the bombers, whose attacks he linked with the debt-ridden country's financial woes. "Democracies cannot be terrorized," Papandreou said. "These irresponsible and mindless acts were intended to harm the Greek people's huge effort to set the country to rights, to set the economy on its feet and for the country to regain its credibility. They will not succeed. We will not succumb."

But terrorism experts say Greek police face a difficult task in trying to shut down the mail bombing campaign. "It's very difficult to prevent the initiation of this kind of attack ... The initiative lies with the people who want to mount the attack, not with the authorities," said Michael McKinley, a senior lecturer in International Relations at the Australian National University in Canberra. McKinley said fully screening all mail would "bring the Greek postal system to a halt" while catching the five remaining suspects might not stop the problem. "It depends how many committed people are following them," he said. "I most cases of homemade explosives, the people involved are not very expert. So effectively this problem when you have an open society: If people are determined to cause a problem they can do." Also Wednesday, police said 11 cars were burned in overnight arson attacks, most using small cooking gas canisters, including eight vehicles owned by the state electricity company. This is also a form of terrorism.

In the evening CNN reports that all in all 13 parcel bombs have been discovered by the Greek police so far.

The truth about the terrorism in Greece: The anarchists once more condemn these terrorist attacks. They are practically certain done by marxist extremists, not anarchists.

Euronews reports: A manhunt is on for members of the Greek far-left anti-capitalist group Conspiracy of [Cells of] Fire. Athens has linked a two-day international mail bomb campaign aimed at government and institutional targets in Greece and abroad with militant youths with no proven links to other extremist organisations... Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has threatened to call a snap parliamentary election if voters do not back his austerity policies in local polls to be held this Sunday. Postal service to outside Greece has been suspended until Thursday evening.

France24 and AFP reports: A "Greek organisation belonging to the anti-establishment movement is very likely" behind the attempted attacks, Athens police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis told AFP. Police arrested two men, aged 22 and 24, suspected of links to a far-left group on Monday after the discovery of the first booby-trapped packages. The 22-year-old was a suspected member of Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a far-left group that appeared in 2008 and has carried out a wave of arson and minor bomb attacks on the offices and homes of politicians.

Brown Cards to the lier police-spokesman Maj. Thanassis Kokkalakis, and CNN, that reported: A series of parcel bombs targeting embassies in Greece and officials across Europe "are not related to international terrorism and groups like al-Qaeda," Greek government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis said Wednesday. Police spokesman Maj. Thanassis Kokkalakis added that two suspects arrested in the case are "domestic terrorists without international connections." Two men arrested after the explosion at the courier office have been charged in connection to terrorism. The Citizens Protection Ministry named them as Panagiotis Argyrou, 22, and Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24. Both are Greek nationals, police said, and one of them is a suspected member of the Greek leftist militant group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. "Now we have a good start to continue our efforts to disarm these terrorists," said Kokkalakis, who said there was a warrant on one of the arrested men, saying he was a member of the militant group. "The other one is an anarchist," he said. "We just know he is an anarchist. ... They want to disturb the daily life of Greek society. They try to disturb everything we have built as a country." Police said they are looking for five other men in their 20s who seem to have links to the same group, but they have not yet linked the group to the spate of bombings.

The fact is that both the two mentioned arrested, Panagiotis Argyrou, 22, and Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24, are marxist leftwing extremists, not anarchists, see proof above. They also get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, and in case one or both of the arrested claim to be anarchists, they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and are thus not anarchists - according to the Oslo Convention. NB! Panagiotis Argyrou, 22, and Gerasimos Tsakalos, 24, are thus not anarchists!

PS. 04.11.2010. Bomb disposal experts destroyed a suspicious package returned by the French embassy Thursday, i.e. the 14th. Greek police are investigating links to Italian marxist leftwing extremists, falsely called 'anarchists' by the police, thus they continue with more lies! The two arrested suspects were both formally remanded in pretrial prison custody Thursday. They have been charged with membership in a terrorist group and multiple terrorism-related offenses.

02.11.2010. Brown Cards to David Lea and Reuters, France24 and AFP, Associated Press, CBC and many more. We are living in the middle of a mainly Big Brother "1984" world. When will these and similar horrible lies stop? More about yesterdays terrorist attack. New terrorist attack, against the embassy of the Anarchy of Switzerland etc.

Katimerini reports: Two terrorist suspects held for letter bombs. One hurt in blast; 3 devices intercepted.

Officers of the police's counter-terrorism unit yesterday were questioning two suspected members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire who are believed to be responsible for a letter bomb that exploded at a courier firm east of central Athens and another three similar devices – addressed to two embassies in Athens and to French President Nicolas Sarkozy – which police managed to intercept. Police were dispatched to the courier firm in Pangrati at around noon, after a package addressed to the Mexican Embassy in Athens exploded in the hands of a female employee who suffered minor burns to her hands. Using physical descriptions given by witnesses at the courier company, police caught up with the assailants shortly after the blast. Later yesterday, police released photographs of the suspects – both Greeks, aged 22 and 24.

The suspects had both been wearing bullet-proof vests and carrying Glock 9 mm pistols as well as a bag that was found to contain two more letter bombs – one addressed to the French President, the other to the Belgian Embassy in Athens. One of the suspects was found to be carrying a receipt from another courier company, located close to the first one. Police rushed to the second courier firm and collected the package – another letter bomb addressed to the Netherlands Embassy. Bomb disposal experts destroyed the three letter bombs in controlled explosions.

Police did not determine the composition of the bombs yesterday but they are each believed to have comprised small quantities of gunpowder and a battery. According to sources, the package that had been addressed to Sarkozy bore the name of Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos as the purported sender. As for the package addressed to the Belgian Embassy, that had ostensibly been sent by criminologist Yiannis Panousis. A similar tactic was used in June with a bomb that detonated inside the Citizens' Protection Ministry, killing the aide to the then minister, Michalis Chrysochoidis. The name written as the sender of the package was Christos Karavellas, a key suspect in the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal. For anarchist point of view see the report of 01.11.2010.

New terrorist attack, against the embassy of the Anarchy of Switzerland etc. Parcel bombs target Swiss, Bulgarian embassies in Athens. A bomb exploded at the embassy of the Anarchy of Switzerland, the Swiss Confederation, in Athens on Tuesday but there were no reports of injuries. Police later carried out a controlled explosion on a separate parcel bomb located at the Bulgarian embassy.

Greek police carried out a controlled explosion of a package sent to the Bulgarian embassy Tuesday and a small device exploded outside the Swiss embassy, a day after the discovery of a parcel-bombing campaign in Athens. A police source said a passerby threw a device at the Swiss embassy, causing a small explosion. Nobody was hurt. A bomb disposal unit detonated a suspect package that had been mailed to the Bulgarian embassy elsewhere in the capital. On Monday, several booby-trapped packages addressed to other embassies and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were defused and police arrested two men suspected of links to a far-left group.

Later, German police disarmed a potentially harmful package from Greece at German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office, hours after similar small mail bombs exploded outside the Russian and Swiss embassies in Athens in attacks blamed on Greek far-left extremists. Police late Tuesday named the suspects as 22-year-old Panagiotis Argyros, and 24-year-old Gerasimos Tsakalos. They are both ultra-authoritarian marxists, not anarchists.

The anarchists strongly condemn this direct terrorist attack on anarchy and anarchism, probably done by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire and Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a marxist red & brown ultra-authoritarian far left extremist ochlarchy and terrorist group. For more information about the Anarchy of Switzerland, see (click on:) IJA 1 (37).

Reuters reports: "The prime suspects would have to be the anarchists or far left as usual. If this is it, the story will fade but if there's another flurry tomorrow it's a different matter," said Control Risks Western Europe analyst, David Lea. NB! In fact no anarchists have been involved in terrorism in Greece, not now and not before, and thus David Lea and Reuters get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, for this false insinuation and accusation. France24 and AFP also get Brown Cards for a similar remark: "Cars with diplomatic licence plates are also regularly targeted in late-night arson attacks blamed on anarchists." Arson attacks are also terrorism.

Associated Press continues the lies: "Greece has a vocal anarchist political fringe that opposes most forms of state authority - particularly the police and party democracy - as well as capitalism and globalization. In recent decades, small radical anarchist or nihilist groups have staged attacks ranging from nighttime car burnings to bomb and gunfire attacks on symbols of state power and wealth - including the U.S. embassy in Athens," and gets another Brown Card. CBC (Canada) also gets a Brown Card, falsely declaring: "One of the men was wanted in connection with an investigation into a radical anarchist group known as Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire, which has claimed responsibility for a spate of small bomb and arson attacks over the past two years."

And all the Orwellian "1984" Big Brother newspeak liemachine newsmedia world wide with similar remarks, many quoting Reuters and Associated Press, get Brown Cards. We are living in the middle of a mainly Big Brother "1984" world. See the report of 11-12.09.2010 for a similar case. When will these and similar horrible lies stop?

Later BBC reports: Bombs target embassies in Greek capital Athens. Bombs have exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens and several other suspicious packages have been destroyed, police say. A suspected bomb was destroyed at the Bulgarian embassy and another, posted to the Chilean embassy, in a van. No-one was hurt in the explosions, which came a day after four parcel bombs were found in the city. The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says it appears to be a co-ordinated attack by an extreme left-wing group. First reports said the device at the Swiss embassy had been thrown into a courtyard, but police later said it had been left at the entrance. "When the external packaging was removed, the contents burst into flames," a police spokesman said.

The Bulgarian embassy was sealed off as experts carried out a controlled explosion on a suspected parcel bomb. Another suspected device addressed to the Chilean embassy was found in a delivery van outside the Greek parliament and destroyed, police said. Officials said another was intercepted at the offices of a courier company addressed to the German embassy.

Sarkozy parcel. "It seems this is a continuation of yesterday's attacks and that Greek guerrillas are behind it, but we are still investigating," police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis told Reuters. On Monday a parcel bomb addressed to the Mexican embassy in Athens blew up at a courier office, slightly injuring an employee. Police later arrested two suspects and found two more bombs, one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the other to the Belgian embassy. A fourth bomb was found at a delivery company addressed to the Dutch embassy.

Terrorism experts suspect the co-ordinated campaign is the work of a group called the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, which is trying to spark revolution in Greece during the current period of austerity. The parcel bombs have raised anxiety levels in Greece in the run up to this weekend's vital local elections, our correspondent says. The elections are seen as a referendum on the socialist government's handling of the economic crisis and Prime Minister George Papandreou has warned he may call a general election if his party is soundly defeated.

CNN reports: Explosions outside Swiss, Russian Embassies in Greece. No one was injured Tuesday in separate explosions outside the Swiss and Russian Embassies here, police said, a day after a parcel bomb addressed to another embassy exploded and wounded one person. The object at the Swiss Embassy was a small bomb that was thrown into the building's courtyard, police said. A separate explosion happened outside the Russian Embassy, police said. It wasn't immediately known what type of device caused that explosion. Police carried out controlled explosions Tuesday of three other suspicious parcels, all addressed to different embassies. Authorities said they detonated a package at the Bulgarian Embassy and a suspicious package addressed to the Chilean Embassy, after a courier carrying the latter parcel thought it might contain an explosive device.

The third parcel was addressed to the German Embassy, but it was detonated near a courier office because embassy officials thought it might be a parcel bomb and sent it back, police said. Monday, a parcel bomb addressed to the Mexican Embassy exploded at the same private courier company and wounded a woman there. Two suspects were arrested after police cordoned off the surrounding area, the ministry said. Both were wearing wigs and one of them was wearing a bulletproof vest. Both also were carrying Glock 9mm pistols and were in possession of two other explosive parcels, including one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the ministry and police said. The other was addressed to the Belgian Embassy. The packages were detonated by police. The arrested men are in their early 20s and are both Greek nationals, police said. One of them is a suspected member of the Greek leftist militant group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire. Another parcel bomb was found nearby Monday at another courier company in the same area. It was addressed to the Dutch Embassy.

In the evening AIIS reports: Greek parcel bomb plot targets Merkel and Athens embassies. A parcel bomb plot in Greece Tuesday targeted foreign embassies, an airport in Athens and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with two devices exploding at the Russian embassy and the embassy of the Anarchy of Switzerland. Parcel bombs exploded at the Russian and Swiss embassies in Athens and devices sent to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and three other embassies were intercepted Tuesday in concerted attacks linked to left-wing extremists, i.e. ultra-authoritarian marxists.Two parcels containing explosives hidden inside hollowed-out books were destroyed in controlled explosions at Athens airport late Tuesday as Greek police struggled to contain the attacks, first uncovered on Monday.

But it remained unclear if similar packages had already left the country aboard planes. The device addressed to Merkel reached her offices in Berlin before being intercepted, the chancellery said. It was delivered by courier company UPS. Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the parcel contained explosives and had been mailed from Greece on Sunday. The device was built in the same way as the bomb that burst into flames at the Swiss embassy in Athens earlier Tuesday, he said. That parcel was left at the entrance to the Swiss embassy and ignited into flames when it was being examined by staff, the Swiss foreign ministry said. "The burst of flame occurred when employees were removing the external wrapping of the package," the ministry said.

Police said in a statement that a second booby-trapped package exploded at the Russian embassy without causing injury, adding the package was already being treated with suspicion by staff. "A Greek organisation belonging to the [so called] anti-establishment movement is very likely" behind the attacks, Athens police spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis told AFP. The explosions in both cases were reported to be small, and there were no injuries. Police said a total of five parcel bombs had been discovered in the capital on Tuesday before the two were found at the airport. Controlled explosions were carried out by police on suspect packages addressed to the German, Chilean and Bulgarian embassies. Those packages were similar to four devices sent to embassies in the Greek capital that were intercepted on Monday, including one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

The campaign comes ahead of local elections on Sunday and during a period of social malaise after deep austerity measures adopted by the so called "socialist" government to battle an "unprecedented debt crisis". A Greek foreign ministry official said on Tuesday that embassy security had been strengthened and missions were warned to take extra vigilance when handling their correspondence. "We have taken additional security measures and all embassies have been notified since Monday to be vigilant over their correspondence," foreign ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras told AFP. "Things are under control."

On Monday, a package addressed to the Mexican embassy ignited, burning the hand of a female worker in a courier company. The package intended for the Chilean embassy was destroyed outside the Greek parliament after the courier carrying it asked police stationed nearby to check it and explosives were detected inside, the police said. The parcel for the German embassy was destroyed by controlled explosion outside a courier company where the embassy had returned it as suspect. Police arrested two men suspected of links to a far-left marxist group on Monday after the discovery of the first booby-trapped packages. The two men arrested on Monday, aged 22 and 24, were armed with handguns. One of them was also wearing a bulletproof jacket and a wig. According to investigators, they had refused to identify themselves or to cooperate with the authorities. Police late Tuesday named the suspects as 22-year-old Panagiotis Argyros, and 24-year-old Gerasimos Tsakalos. They are both ultra-authoritarian marxists, not anarchists.

The 22-year-old had been wanted by police as a suspected member of Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, a far-left marxist group that appeared in 2008 and has carried out a wave of arson and minor bomb attacks on the offices and homes of politicians. Attacks on government and police targets are commonplace in Greece and are usually attributed to left-wing extremists, i.e. ultra-authoritarian marxists. Parcel bombs are rare but a similar device fatally injured the then police minister's security chief in June after being smuggled into the heavily-guarded ministry building.

According to Euronews two bomb packages have been intercepted at the city's airport – bound for Europol and the European Court of Justice. By Tuesday evening, at least 11 mail bombs had been detected in the Greek capital - one addressed to French President Nicolas Sarkozy and eight to the embassies of Bulgaria, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Mexico, Chile, the Netherlands and Belgium. Two more were destroyed in controlled explosions at the Athens airport - one as mentioned addressed to the European Union's highest court in Luxembourg and the other to law enforcement agency Europol in the Netherlands.

Later, according to Greek police: Suspicious package examined in Italy. Greek police say a suspicious package addressed to Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and found on board a private mail courier company plane is being examined at Bologna airport. The package comes after a wave of mail bombs were sent to a.o.t foreign embassies in Greece and to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office. Police spokesman Athanassios Kokalakis says the plane took off from Athens airport at about 9.45 p.m. Tuesday (19.00 GMT, 3 p.m. EDT) Tuesday and was to head to Paris and Liege. He said the suspicious package was detected and the plane landed in Bologna in Italy, where experts were examining it.

Greek terrorist groups, especially the marxist far left group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, are suspected of mounting the attacks targeting embassies in Athens and international organizations and foreign leaders abroad. If that is confirmed, it would mark a dramatic escalation for organizations that have never before attempted to strike targets abroad. The campaign used small devices that only caused one injury and minimal damage. But it highlights the difficulty of keeping bombs out of the international delivery system - also a target of Yemen-based militants armed with more powerful and potentially deadly explosives. Security at all embassies in Athens has been increased and authorities on Tuesday suspended all international mail deliveries from Greece for 48 hours for further checks.

01.11.2010. The marxist far left group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire behind new terrorist attack. The anarchists condemn the attack. Brown Cards to Greek police and France24. A woman was wounded after a package exploded at a private delivery company in Athens on Monday, while two other suspected bombs were destroyed by controlled blasts in the capital, police officials said. A parcel bomb exploded at 12.40 p.m. in the hands of a courier company employee in Pangrati as she picked up a package destined for Mexico that had been left by unidentified persons at the Swift Mail courier office a few minutes earlier. The female employee suffered injuries to her fingers from the explosion, which was described as being of mild, and was rushed to hospital.

Police immediately launched an investigation and, based on descriptions provided by eyewitnesses, quickly spotted another booby-trapped parcel that had been left at another nearby courier service office in Pangrati. The second parcel bomb, left at the offices of ACS couriers, was destined for The Netherlands. Police shortly afterwards spotted two people fitting the eyewitnesses' descriptions in a nearby street, who were arrested at Rizari Street by the police unit "Dias". They were carrying handguns, wigs, and one of them was also wearing a bulletproof vest, they said. One of the two men arrested is a suspected member of the Greek leftist militant group Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire and Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei.

State-run NET television reported that two of the parcels had been addressed to the embassies of Mexico and the Netherlands in Athens, but authorities did not immediately confirm the report. The Dutch Foreign Ministry confirmed that a parcel intercepted at the delivery firm was addressed to the Dutch embassy, but declined to comment on the type of explosives or why the Netherlands embassy was targeted. Details of the two male suspects, described as being Greek by police, were not given. Greek far-left and militant groups have used mail bombs in the past against government ministries and businesses. Earlier this year a senior official at the country's public order ministry was killed in a letter bomb blast which was addressed to the minister. Police in Athens also said they had arrested four people on Monday after uncovering a plot to send parcel bombs to French president Nicolas Sarkozy and three foreign embassies in the Greek capital. Police said one of the four people arrested was a suspected member of an obscure group that specialises in arson attacks on offices and homes of politicians, Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei.

One of the packages, addressed to Mexico's embassy in Athens, as mentioned, ignited as it was being sorted in the headquarters of the courier company, slightly injuring a female employee. "There was no explosion but we saw smoke coming out and heard a woman shouting," a neighbour told state television NET. "I took a fire extinguisher into the room. It was full of smoke and smelled of gunpowder, you needed a mask to go in there." The two men, aged 22 and 24, were arrested in the central district of Pangrati.Police said in a statement that they were intending to mail a total of four parcel bombs, adding that they were both armed with Glock handguns. One of the men wore a bullet-proof vest and a wig. From a postal slip found on the suspects, the police tracked down and exploded a second parcel at a neighbouring courier company, addressed to the Dutch embassy.

Two more devices found on the detainees were intended for French president Nicolas Sarkozy and the Belgian embassy, the police said. The Dutch foreign ministry said it had been informed by the Greek authorities "and remain in close contact with them." Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei had also planted a small explosive device in a garbage bin outside the Greek parliament in January, after police claimed to have arrested several of the group's members in raids around the capital. Attacks on government and police targets are relatively frequent in Greece and are commonly attributed to left-wing extremists, though they are usually designed to avoid causing injury. Parcel bombs are rare, but a similar device fatally injured the then police minister's security chief in June after being smuggled into the heavily-guarded ministry building. Police have not linked any known group to that attack. Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei appeared in early 2008, and has continued operating despite the arrest of nine of its purported members last year. [Sources: Phantis and ABC-news.] The anarchists condemn the attack.

Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, a.k.a. Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire and Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, is a marxist red & brown ultra-authoritarian far left extremist ochlarchy and terrorist group - not anarchist.

The Greek police falsely postulates that Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire is an anarchist group, a lie that France24 also publishes, quoting: "Police said both suspects arrested Monday were Greek, and one was suspected of belonging to Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire, a domestic anarchist group that has carried out dozens of crude bomb and arson attacks."... and both the Greek police and France24 get Brown Cards from IAT-APT. See the report of 11-12.09.2010 for a similar case. PS. Also the Associated Press published the same lie, and gets a Brown Card.

11.10.2010. Epaminondas Korkoneas has been sentenced to life in prison. A Greek policeman has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a schoolboy in 2008, an incident that sparked mass unrest. A court in the town of Amfissa convicted Epaminondas Korkoneas, 38, of intentionally killing 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. He was shot dead on 6 December 2008 in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarchia. Korkoneas's patrol partner, Vassilios Saraliotis, 32, was given a 10-year jail sentence for complicity. Source: BBC.

Greek bus and trolley drivers walked off the job for several hours, and Athens' metro and tram systems shut down. National railway workers also walked out, disrupting rail connections across the country, while doctors at state hospitals went on a 24-hour strike. Greece has already been suffering from two weeks of protests by truck drivers who have made it difficult for businesses to get supplies. Many supermarkets are seeing shortages.

The anarchosyndicalist labor confederation International Workers of the World participated in the protests - against the unenlightened plutarchy, and also condemned the tendencies of ochlarchy (i.e. mob rule broadly defined). The IWW's direct action was world wide. No anarchists, including anarchosyndicalists, were involved in the ochlarchy.

13.09.2010. Greek truck drivers started a new wave of protests Monday, declaring a work stoppage and parking hundreds of vehicles along major highways in opposition to government plans to liberalize their profession. Opening up so-called closed professions, including notaries, pharmacists, architects and truck drivers is among the government's top priorities. But unions have been fiercely opposed to those plans and the strict austerity measures introduced earlier this year, and have held six general strikes so far this year.

Motorists formed long lines at gas stations on Sunday and Monday, fearing a repetition of a weeklong strike in July that left pumps across the country dry for days. The government requisitioned fuel trucks to end that protest, and as truckers are still under the requisition order they cannot declare a strike. Instead, their union said they would organize daily protests. State railway unions also called a 24-hour strike Tuesday to protest planned salary and personnel cuts as part of efforts to reform and partially privatize the money-losing rail network.

12.09.2010. Brown Card to Kathimerini for publishing the lies of Europol about so called 'anarchist', in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchist, terrorism, and not anarchist.

11.09.2010 update. Kathimerini reports: Left-wing, anarchist terror on rise. Left-wing and anarchist terrorist attacks in the European Union increased by 43 percent in 2009 compared to 2008 and have more than doubled since 2007, the European Police Office, or Europol, has noted in its annual report on terrorism. The phenomenon is most evident in Greece, Spain and Italy, where 40 such attacks were recorded last year, the Hague-based force said. EU member states continue to be exposed to the threat of Islamic terrorism, it noted, though there was only one such incident (a bomb in Italy) last year. The overall number of terrorist attacks in the EU decreased by 33 percent compared to 2008 and was almost half that reported in 2007. (Europol does not include data from Britain due to different criteria applied to record terrorist incidents, the report said.)

In Greece, there were 15 attacks by six different left-wing or anarchist groups. A Greek "speciality" noted by Europol is the use of improvised explosive devices as well as firearms. It said that Revolutionary Struggle continued its attacks, claiming responsibility for a hit on police officers that left one officer seriously injured. Sect of Revolutionaries claimed another attack which killed a police officer. A group called OPLA claimed an attack on a police station in the Athens suburb of Aghia Paraskevi, which injured several police officers in October 2009.

The authorities in six EU member states arrested 29 people for alleged involvement in left-wing and anarchist terrorism. About 40 percent of them were aged under 30. In Greece, five alleged members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire were arrested. The report notes that attacks by left-wing and anarchist groups are becoming more violent, suggest international links and are becoming a serious problem for Europe's security forces. The report said separatist terrorism continues to affect the EU, citing attacks by Basque and Corsican groups in Spain and France. In 2009, though the total number of separatist attacks fell 40 percent year-on-year, the number of fatalities increased from four to six.

A "litmus test" of whether marxists, fascists, anarchists or liberalists are behind terrorism

Orwellian "1984" newspeak Big Brother lie-report from Europol about so called "anarchist" terrorists in Europe, in reality ochlarchists and not anarchists

Kathimerini gets a Brown Card from IAT-APT for publishing the lies of Europol, according to the Oslo Convention.

11.09.2010. Greek protesters confront government on economy. IWW backs the demonstrations. Anarchist comment.

Greece's prime minister promised Saturday to lower corporate taxes to help revive the debt-plagued country's shrinking economy, while thousands of protesters marched - mostly peacefully - against the government's harsh austerity measures. Greece narrowly avoided bankruptcy in May when European countries and the International Monetary Fund gave it euro110 billion ($140 billion) through 2012 in emergency loans. The money came on condition Athens make deep cutbacks - moves that have angered unions. Prime Minister George Papandreou said the tax rate on companies' retained profits would be cut from 24 to 20 percent next year, providing what he called "a strong incentive for investments and competitiveness." He also pledged to open up restricted professions - including truck drivers, notaries, taxi drivers and pharmacists - deregulate the energy market, settle on privatization targets, facilitate major investments and simplify business licensing procedures by the end of this year.

Some 20,000 people gathered in three separate protests in the northern port city of Thessaloniki ahead of Papandreou's speech. They were accompanied by some 4,500 police on security duty. Minor clashes broke out as scores of ochlarchist youths attacked riot police with sticks, and were repelled with tear gas. No arrests or injuries were immediately reported. Police pre-emptively detained 20 people, including 13 from Spain, Italy, Britain and Portugal, most likely marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists. Previous protests have turned violent, and in May as mentioned three people died in a bank torched by hooded ochlarchist youths who infiltrated a large demonstration in Athens - an action that shocked Greeks and deflated the protest movement.

Earlier Saturday, an elderly man threw a shoe at Papandreou, who had just inaugurated an annual trade fair. The projectile landed wide of its target, and the alleged shoe-thrower was arrested but later freed as Papandreou declined to press charges. The populist center-left government says its daunting task of reducing the budget deficit from 13.6 percent of annual output in 2009 to 8.1 percent this year is on track, and has pledged to maintain the pace. The transport ministry announced plans Friday to overhaul the state-run rail company - with debts of euro10.7 billion ($13.62 billion)- by cutting payrolls and rail services. About 40 percent of its 6,300 workers will leave and be offered other public sector jobs, while the company faces private competition. This did not work out efficiently in UK, and will probably not work good in Greece, the IWW declares.

Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said Friday that reforms would extend to other state corporations. "As a society, we have shown that we understand the problem," he said. But amid a deepening recession and high unemployment, unions are angry at this year's deep spending cuts and consumer tax hikes, and fear new cutbacks. Heralding a new round of unrest, railway workers are planning strikes against payroll cuts, and some unionists have threatened to burn privately operated trains. State revenues are increasing at a lower-than-projected rate, and the government has said it may have to increase sales tax rates on a broad range of goods, or raise heating fuel costs.

Papandreou vowed to crack down on rampant tax evasion, but at the same time said he would offer businesses the opportunity to settle tax disputes with the state out of court - and accelerate judicial procedures. Out of the estimated 400,000 cases pending in Greek courts, some 150,000 concern tax disputes. Greek officials insist that together with the pain, the country's worst postwar economic crisis will allow key reforms to the bloated, inefficient public sector and encourage a healthier development model. "We can change the course of history and make an opportunity out of the crisis," Papandreou said, adding that Greece would seek to draw investments worth euro44 billion ($56 billion) in environmentally friendly projects by 2015. "Our choice to go from an economy that for years was based on consumption and credit to a productive model based on green development is of strategic importance," he said

Inspectors from the EU and IMF next week will review the progress of austerity measures required for the bailout loans, as well as on efforts to cut the budget deficit. The country is due to receive euro9 billion ($11.45 billion) over the next few days in the second installment of the loans. Greece remains off the market for government bonds - with interest rates at 9.6 percentage points higher than those for the benchmark German 10-year issue. Instead, Athens is seeking shorter-term loans, and is due to auction euro900 million ($1.14 billion) worth of 26-week treasury bills on Tuesday.

Anarchist comment: The Greek government is mostly on the wrong track. The anarchists are against, and do and support direct actions against the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative -- cut bureaucracy costs -- increase the demand of the people -- the people seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income -- for full employment -- against the unenlightend plutarchy of the populist center-left Greek government, IMF, WB, euro and EU. Greece should leave the euro and the Euro-zone, this will make proper demand management more easy.

Lawyers in the trial of the two police special guards accused of being involved in the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia in December 2008 began summing up yesterday and judges are expected to deliver their verdicts by the end of the month. Eight months after the trial began, Zoe Konstantopoulou, the lawyer representing the Grigoropoulos family, called for both Epaminondas Korkoneas, the policeman who pulled the trigger, and Vassilis Saraliotis, who was on duty with him, to be found guilty of murder. Konstantopoulou argued that neither man had shown the necessary remorse for their part in the teenager's death, which sparked days of protests and rioting in Athens. She said that, instead, they had displayed "cynicism" about their roles on the night of December 6, 2008.

Saraliotis insists that he has no regrets about his actions on the night of the shooting but Konstantopoulou claimed that he had provided "moral support" to Korkoneas, who fired the shot that killed the boy. The lawyer also accused Korkoneas of shooting directly at the group of people among whom the 15-year-old was standing. Korkoneas says that he fired after coming under attack from several thrown objects and had not aimed at Grigoropoulos or anyone else. Ballistic tests have shown that the bullet that killed the schoolboy ricocheted off a cement bollard. Witnesses have suggested the Korkoneas shot at the crowd rather than into the air or down at the ground. The victim's lawyer also insisted that the teenager was a normal 15-year-old who had no intention of playing the rebel, nor was he the member of any anarchist group. Anarchist comment: It is true that Alexis Grigoropoulos was not an anarchist. But if he had been, would the killing be more legitimate - less illegal???

20.08.2010. Los Angeles Times, USA, reports: As austerity bites, more Greeks feel the pain; more and more shops close in central Athens. Anarchist comment.

LA-Times/AP: The plan to rescue Greece from bankruptcy has kicked in, and with a vengeance. As the government slashes spending and hikes taxes, the deficit is way down — but jobs are vanishing, shops are closing, and on the streets gloom is prevailing. The European Union likes the swift action on the deficit. But few Greeks are in a mood to celebrate. Many predict a fall of strikes and demonstrations as those who could afford a summer holiday return to a grim reality. On paper, the turnaround is working. The Finance Ministry said Friday the budget deficit has narrowed by a whopping 39.7 percent on the year, slightly better than the original target. The European Union, which demanded the cuts in return for bailout loans, is positively purring.

On Thursday, the EU said Greece's efforts to slash spending were "impressive." Less impressed are shop owners, who say consumers have tightened their purse strings, cutting down on the nonessentials. Higher taxes and cuts in civil servant pay are removing the boost of government spending from the economy."Civil servants used to come in and buy a double espresso and something to eat. Now they get a single espresso, and a cheaper sandwich," said Constantinos Garyfallou, who spends about 15 hours a day running a coffee shop just off Athens' central Syntagma Square and near several ministries and state-run services. Even small changes in consumer spending — 50 cents less per customer each day — could translate to a fall in revenue for his coffee shop of about euro4,000 ($5,000) a month."Nobody can withstand a fall like that," Garyfallou said. Struggling under a mountain of debt, Greece was forced this year to ask for rescue loans from the International Monetary Fund and other European Union countries that use the euro as their currency in order to avoid defaulting on its loans.

In return, the center-left [populist] government is having to implement a strict austerity program that has seen it cut the pay of Greece's more than 700,000 civil servants, trim pensions, hike taxes and overhaul pension and employment rules. The main target is to slash the budget deficit to 8.1 percent of gross domestic product [GDP] by the end of the year, from the current 13.6 percent — more than four times the limit for eurozone countries. The first batch of loans under the three year, euro110 billion package arrived in May, a day before Athens faced default when it had to reservice maturing bond debt. The EU has recommended approval of a second batch in September. By then, there will probably be more shuttered shopfronts on the main streets of Athens.

In addition to the drop in turnover, banks are increasingly reluctant to hand out loans. For many businesses, the combined pinch has just been too much. "Have you seen all the 'for rent' signs in the center? I've never seen anything like it in the past 30 years," said Georgia Brezati, owner of a clothes shop just off the popular pedestrian shopping street of Ermou in central Athens, where a report this month by the National Confederation of Hellenic Commerce, or ESEE, said 15 percent of shops had shut down. A recent survey by the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry revealed that 86 percent of the 523 businesses questioned said they were suffering cash flow problems, while a staggering 93 percent had suffered a fall in turnover due to the financial crisis.

The chamber's head, Constantinos Mihalos, criticized the government for implementing policies "restricted only to serving the interests of our lenders, ignoring the serious problems of the market and of society in general." Some economists [including the WEC] think the emphasis on austerity could be misplaced, and in the end could make repaying Greece's debts harder by choking off growth. Businesses in the center of Athens have also suffered from the frequent strikes and sometimes-violent demonstrations last spring, when angry Greeks took to the streets to protest the austerity program, blocking traffic from the city center for hours. Shop owners often have to close and board up their windows to protect them from youths hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails, and customers stay away.

Last May, three people died trapped in a burning bank torched by protesters [marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists] on Stadiou Street, along a demonstration route. It is that street — one of the capital's main thoroughfares — that has been the worst hit by store closures, with about 25 percent rolling down their shutters and moving out, according to ESEE figures. Brezati, who couldn't afford to go on a summer vacation for the first time in years, said she kept her store open all summer but was barely seeing a couple of customers a day. Her business would survive, she explained, because she owned the store, but many around her who were renting just couldn't make ends meet and have thrown in the towel.

Panagis Karelas, head of the of Athens Traders Association, expects closures to continue."There is a climate of insecurity which has hit turnover and means that Greek business owners, big or small, will not dare to invest in the future. So more businesses are closing and more people are losing their jobs," he said. Unemployment hit 12 percent in May, slightly up from 11.9 percent the previous month, while the country's GDP fell by 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2010, compared to the first three months of the year. And the fall is set to be tough, with the government planning to loosen state control of power generation, privatize loss-making state enterprises and liberalize tightly regulated professions that are sapping productivity.
Unions have promised more strikes and demonstrations. Which will only increase the pain.

16.08.2010. Marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, not "anarchists ... take over parts of Athens and Thessaloniki".

Kathimerini reports: Strangely enough, selfish behavior (whether by groups or individuals) has been tolerated for many years as a manifestation of freedom, as if liberty is no more than license. When any group with a grievance is allowed to block city streets or highways at will; when self-proclaimed anarchists can take over parts of Athens and Thessaloniki whenever the spirit moves them; when each special interest group is able to exert as much pressure as it can on the rest of society for its own benefit, then it is perfectly natural that professional groups should believe that their privileges should be paid for by everyone else. Like every other distortion that has cost Greek society and the economy so dearly, the issue here is one of justice. When the Constitution decrees that all citizens of this country are equal, when everyone claims to be a devoted slave of the Constitution, is it not the ultimate absurdity to fight tooth and nail to preserve inequality and injustice?

The so called "self-proclaimed anarchists" mentioned by Kathimerini are not anarchists, but marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, AIIS reports.

13.08.2010. Firebomb attack at Turkish Consulate. The anarchists condemn the attack. Youth unemployment rate at 32.5 percent.

Firebomb attack at Turkish Consulate. A predawn firebomb attack on the Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki yesterday prompted contact between diplomats in Athens and Ankara, although authorities in the northern Greek city insisted that the Molotov cocktails were thrown at the police guards rather than at the building itself. Police sources said that three men wearing motorcycle helmets approached the consulate, located on Aghiou Dimitriou Street in the city center, at about 4 a.m. From a distance, they started swearing at the two policemen who were standing guard outside the building. One of the three assailants allegedly shouted: "Pigs, we are going to burn you," before two firebombs were thrown. One Molotov cocktail landed a few meters from the guards' sentry post and set fire to a climbing ivy on the outer wall of the consulate; the other exploded in midair. Nobody was injured and no arrests were made.

Authorities are treating it as just another of the many firebomb attacks that take place in the northern city. Nevertheless, due to the sensitive nature of the matter, the Greek government was quick to condemn the incident "absolutely and categorically." "Acts like these, regardless of the motives involved, are unacceptable and are directed against Greece itself," said government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis. "Our society has zero tolerance for such acts. Those responsible will be arrested and brought to justice. "We express our sorrow to the Turkish government," he added. Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu discussed the matter over the telephone. The Foreign Ministry said that Droutsas assured Davutoglu the matter was being investigated and everything was being done to catch the attackers. The anarchists condmen the attack.

Youth unemployment rate at 32.5 percent. The unemployment rate for the country's youth is a chronic Greek problem that could lead to very explosive situations. There is a brewing feeling of injustice among the country's young people, which could have a devastating impact if it were unleashed. According to official data released yesterday, one in three, or 32.5 percent, of Greeks aged 15 to 25, are out of work, compared to 25 percent in May last year.

09.08.2010. Brown Cards to Phantis and once more to Time/CNN and Joanna Kakissis, i.e. Orwellian "1984" Big Brother authoritarian liers.

The Greek Internet newspaper Phantis promotes the 08.08. 2010 article by Time/CNN and Joanna Kakissis, now under the headline "Who is the new guerilla group", and they all get Brown Cards fron IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. Same shit in new wrapping, see the report of 08.08.2010.

08.08.2010. Brown Cards to the liers Time/CNN, Joanna Kakissis, Mary Bossis, Thanassis Kokkalakis and the Greek police: Sect of Revolutionaries are marxist nihilists and has no connection to the anarchist movement.

Time, in partnership with CNN, and Joanna Kakissis report 08.08.2010: The New Guerrilla Group Threatening Greece. It's the height of tourist season in Greece and the country needs all the visitors it can get. Struggling under massive debt and squeezed by sweeping spending cuts, Greeks are relying on the tourist trade to help give its economy a much-needed bump. So the last thing they need right now is a terrorist group threatening to turn Greece into a "war zone." But when the Sect of Revolutionaries recently warned that "tourists should learn that Greece is no longer a safe haven of capitalism," keeping the country crippled was clearly one of their goals.

In a CD containing a proclamation sent to the center-left newspaper Ta Nea on July 27, the group promised "arson, sabotage, violent demonstrations, bombings and assassinations." Greece is painfully familiar with militant extremists, its modern history scarred by the violent acts of groups like the Revolutionary Organization 17 November and the People's Revolutionary Struggle. But the threats made by the Sect of Revolutionaries — also known as the Rebel Sect — are on a whole new level of malice.

"This is the first time we have ever had a terror organization in Greece saying they plan to target innocent bystanders and even tourists," says Mary Bossis, a security expert and professor at the University of Piraeus. "It's a change in mentality that's very troubling."

In its July 27 proclamation, Sect of Revolutionaries said Giolias was the first of several prominent journalists and publishers it plans to attack for, they claim, promoting corrupt interests. The group says it will also target police, public prosecutors and prison staff. The police have received many requests for protection, says spokesman Thanassis Kokkalakis, adding that authorities are still investigating leads on the group and aren't yet ready to make any arrests.

Using what they can garner from the group's communications and m.o., experts are attempting to build a profile of Greece's newest batch of domestic terrorists. Kokkalakis and security expert Bossis agree that Sect of the Revolutionaries' mob-style hits and threats to "cut the faces" of those who oppose them suggest that its members may be hardened criminals who have spent long stretches in prison. Police have also theorized that the group's members are relatively young — in their twenties and thirties — and may have connections to very extreme anarchist cells in Exarcheia, the activist but mostly peaceful neighborhood that has produced Greece's most potent rebels. And the group's weapons stash, which can be seen in a photograph sent with the group's statement to Ta Nea , includes handguns, Kalashnikov rifles, and a semi-automatic weapon resembling a Scorpion sub-machine gun — an arsenal that likely came from the criminal underworld of the Balkans, says political violence expert Kiesling.

But unlike other guerrilla groups in Greece, Sect of Revolutionaries appears to have no clear ideology or goals, says Bossis. "If you read their proclamations explaining their motives, they're all over the place," she says. "They say things, like they want to be close to nature and run free in the fields, but they want to achieve this fanciful vision by killing. They want to overthrow someone, or something, but they have no idea what to do beyond that."

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the liers Time/CNN, Joanna Kakissis, Mary Bossis, Thanassis Kokkalakis and the Greek police according to the Oslo Convention: Sect of Revolutionaries, a.k.a. the Rebel Sect, are marxist nihilists and the group has practically certain no connection to the anarchist movement. Anarchists are practically certain not nihilists or extremists. The anarchists repeat the condemnation of the Sect of Revolutionaries, and once more declare the fact that they are not members of the anarchist movement or have anarchist connections.

The only violence even the most radical anarchist groups accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The violence, terrorism and bomb attacks in Greece are not of this kind, and are done by extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, usually marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not by anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites! In general authoritarian anti-capitalists, i.e. socialists, are marxists, not anarchists. The anti-capitalist policy of the Sect of Revolutionaries, combined with ultra-authoritarian ochlarchy (mob rule broadly defined) tactics, clearly proves they are marxists, and far from anarchists, see, say, the report of 22.05.2010 for a similar case and more information.

03.08.2010. PPC workers threaten action. After strike: Truckers are hoping for more than just pension or tax concessions.

Kathimerini reports: PPC workers threaten action. Gas stations were able to start serving customers yesterday as truck drivers returned to work but there was no letup in the pressure on the government as Public Power Corporation (PPC) unionists said that they are prepared to "go to extremes" in their opposition to plans to sell off 40 percent of PPC's power plants. The government is being pressed by European Union and International Monetary Fund officials to privatize some of its electricity production units in order to increase competition in the market. However, the GENOP union, which is a federation of the groups representing PPC workers, has said that it will oppose any move to sell off power plants. The extent to which the unionists are prepared to take their opposition was made clear yesterday in a statement issued by GENOP's president Nikos Fotopoulos, which was also sent by text message to MPs.

"Our struggle is not for us, it is for the consumer, and that is why we will go to extremes. We will bleed," he said. "This represents the view of all workers, who were until recently your comrades," Fotopoulos added in a barbed comment aimed at PASOK deputies. The Socialist party has traditionally had close ties with GENOP. Asked to comment on the future of PPC, Deputy Defense Minister Panos Beglitis adopted a conciliatory approach. "Of course we have to make changes, but I think we should not get carried away and make them quickly," he told Skai TV. "PPC is not just any public utility."

The government expects GENOP's protests to become more forceful as of September, when privatization plans will be fleshed out. This will be when the bill liberalizing the road freight sector will also be submitted to Parliament and PASOK hopes to have reached an agreement with the truckers by then. Despite returning to work, the drivers are hoping that they can convince Transport Minister Dimitris Reppas to give them more than just pension or tax concessions in the final draft of the bill.

02.08.2010. Gov't statement on truck owners' decision to end mobilisations. Gov't will talk...

ANA-MPA reports: Gov't statement on truck owners' decision to end mobilisations. The government commenting late Sunday afternoon on the decision by the truck owners earlier in the day to end their strike said it would withdraw an order for civil mobilisation when market is normalised. "It is clear that, on condition that transporters return to their duties and the market's functioning is absolutely normalised, civil mobilisation has no sense," a statement by the government said. "As everybody assertains, the market is becoming normal, yesterday (Saturday) and today (Sunday). The transports market will open. This reform is necessary for the economy and the citizens and for this reason the draft bill will go ahead," the statement added.

Karhinerini reports: ... The government has made it clear to the drivers that it will not negotiate a 2013 deadline for opening up their profession so that the number of licenses issued is no longer restricted. But [Transport Minister Dimitris] Reppas also informed them that he would be willing to talk about the possibility of tax breaks, adjustments to their social security benefits and the possibility of drivers being able to get business development loans at special rates. The draft law on liberalizing the road freight sector is due to be submitted next month and Reppas said that he is willing to hold talks with the truckers regarding these changes prior to their submission, on the condition that they do not call another strike.

01.08.2010. Suspension of truck drivers' strike. Greek truck drivers voted to return to work. Government pledging discussions on a law to open up their profession. The IWW and anarchists in general supported the strike, but condemn the small tendencies of ochlarchy, also police ochlarchy, and call for continued direct actions for a solution based on efficiency and fairness.

Greek truck drivers voted to return to work, ending a six-day strike that caused nationwide fuel shortages. "With a sense of responsibility and by a marginal majority we have decided on the suspension of the strike," George Tzortzatos, president of the Truck Owners Confederation, said in comments broadcast on Alter TV channel in Athens today. "From tomorrow, we will be back behind the wheel." The government last week deployed the military to ensure the delivery of fuel and other vital goods after truck drivers defied a government order to return to work. Truckers who contravened the ruling faced possible criminal charges and withdrawal of their licenses. The strike has caused fuel shortages amid the country's key summer tourism season.

Tzortzatos said the decision was taken in return for the government lifting the civil mobilization order and pledging discussions on a government law to open up their profession. About 33,000 truckers, including tanker owners, are protesting government plans to open up the freight industry and issue licenses. The IWW and anarchists in general supported the strike, but condemn the small tendencies of ochlarchy, also police ochlarchy, and call for continued direct actions for a solution based on efficiency and fairness.

31.07.2010. Truck drivers still defy order to end their strike, and will continue the strike in a dynamic way. The armed forces, with their own means, are already guaranteeing the supply of critical sectors. Greek truck drivers clash with police as tensions rise over strikes.

Kathimerini reports: Truck drivers defy order to end their strike. Gov't enlists army to ease fuel shortages. The government yesterday enlisted the help of the army in a bid to tackle the fallout from a five-day strike by truck drivers, dispatching military trucks to help alleviate nationwide fuel shortages. "The armed forces, with their own means, are already guaranteeing the supply of critical sectors such as airports, electricity plants and hospitals," said a statement issued after an emergency Cabinet meeting. The statement added that navy landing craft "will also contribute if necessary." Earlier, representatives of truck drivers' unions from around the country decided to press on with their strike action, which entered its fifth day yesterday, following a long and tense meeting.

According to sources, the president of the Confederation of Greek Truck Drivers, Giorgos Tzortzatos, called on protesters to show understanding to fellow citizens. "They must consider the difficulties their actions have caused for society at large and the difficult economic conditions that are currently prevailing in Greece," Tzortzatos was quoted as saying. Nevertheless, the truckers ultimately decided not to back down. "We will continue our strike in a dynamic way," Tzortzatos told reporters. In the early evening, hundreds of protesters staged a peaceful march to Parliament where they delivered a petition with their demands. The truckers want the government to revoke reforms to liberalize their sector by reducing license charges which, they say, is unfair to existing operators.

Transport Minister Dimitris Reppas, emerging from an emergency Cabinet meeting yesterday, appeared just as intransigent, insisting that the government would follow through with a mobilization order announced on Wednesday and force the truckers back to work. "The reform plan will go ahead," said Reppas, whose talks with unionists collapsed on Thursday. "Those who have a responsibility to society should assume it or they will be the ones to blame for whatever follows," Reppas said. "We exhausted every limit of good faith," he added. The impact of the truckers' action on Greeks and tourists was evident yesterday. Motorists experienced problems as many gas stations remained without fuel. The problems were most acute in northern Greece. In Thessaloniki yesterday evening, riot police clashed with truck drivers outside a refinery. The protesters had been trying to stop a truck from leaving the establishment.

Later Euronews reports: The Greek government's efforts to break the lorry drivers' strike have been beginning to make a difference. The military has been called in to restore essential fuel supplies; private tankers have been delivering petrol to service stations. Tens of thousands of tourists have been affected. But truckers' union leaders say they're determined to maintain their action.

Even later Telegraph.uk reports: Greek truck drivers clash with police as tensions rise over strikes. Greek police have clashed with striking truck drivers outside an oil refinery after unions defied a government order to go back to work. Truckers in the northern city of Thessaloniki said they would extend a five-day strike which has caused petrol shortages across Greece, harming tourism, imports and exports. Petrol stations on several Greek islands have been dry for days, and shortages of fruits and vegetables have begun. The clashes with the police have escalated a stand-off over plans to open up their profession and cut the price of licences to own and operate trucks.

Police in full riot gear hit truck drivers with batons to stop them from blocking a truck from leaving the refinery. Two protesters were injured, a police official said. "The reform plan will go ahead. Those who have a big responsibility before society should assume it ... Otherwise, they will be the ones to blame for whatever follows," said Dimitris Reppas, Greek transport minister. The country's 33,000 truck drivers have been lining their vehicles on the side of roads across Greece since Monday. Unions said they would not back down. "We continue the strike," said George Tzortzatos, truckers' union leader. "We will not hold a funeral for our licences, we will fight with all our might to protect our property."

30.07.2010. Striking truckers continue their protest in defiance on an emergency order to return to work. Greece turns to military to restore fuel supplies. Unemployment spike to around 12 percent.

Greece said Friday it will use military trucks, navy vessels and commandeered fuel tankers to restore gasoline supplies cut by a strike that has hurt the country's industry and vital tourism trade at the height of vacation season. Government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis told the Associated Press that the emergency plan would take effect "as quickly as possible" to insure that vital public services were not affected by the protest, which is in its fifth day. Earlier, striking truckers vowed to continue their protest in defiance on an emergency order to return to work. Clashes broke out at an oil refinery in northern Greece leaving two people hurt, police said, after strikers clashed with riot police while trying to block a government-seized truck from leaving. Greece is racing to push through austerity measures which the so called "socialist" government means is needed to secure continued international rescue loans to prop up its debt-strapped economy, with the next loan installment due in mid-September.

Inspectors from the European Union and International Monetary Fund are currently in Athens to review progress of cost-cutting reforms. "The law will be upheld," Petalotis said. "Our information is that most mobilization notices have now been handed out. Those who do not comply are violating the law and can lose their operating license and face the consequences of criminal prosecution." The truckers have rejected a compromise offer by the government to offset the financial impact of liberalizing their closed-shop profession. Sweeping labor reforms targeting previously protected professional groups follow months of strikes and protests over other belt-tightening measures that included sale tax hikes, and cuts in pensions and civil service pay — all in the midst of recession that has seen unemployment spike to around 12 percent. The fuel strike has hurt Greek industry and tourism, with shortages likely to affect travel this weekend.

29.07.2010. Government orders civil mobilisation to end truckers strike. The striking truck owners rejected the government's proposal to end their strike. Greek truck drivers clash with riot police in Athens. The marxist terrorist group Sect of Revolutionaries examined.

ANA-MPA reports: Government orders civil mobilisation to end truckers strike. The striking truck owners rejected the government's proposal to end their strike.

The government on Wednesday decided to order a civil mobilisation to end a strike by truck owners that has starved Greece of fuel, by order of Prime Minister George Papandreou. The decision was made after a Wednesday meeting between transport ministry officials and striking freight truck owners, including tanker trucks that transport fuels, ended in deadlock. Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Minister Dimitris Reppas had earlier left open the possibility of a civil mobilisation order (requisition of labour) if the strikes continued. Asked whether this was a possibility as he emerged from a meeting with EU-IMF inspectors, Reppas said the ministry was "looking into" this option and stressed that "the state is not defenceless, society is not unprotected".

The minister also emphasised that he would not make amendments to the draft bill opening the road freight market tabled in Parliament, which truck owners object to. Transport ministry general secretary Haris Tsiokas, who had participated in the negotiations with truck owners earlier on Wednesday, said the government continued to be in favour of dialogue but would not allow the country to become paralysed. During the meeting, the striking truck owners rejected the government's proposal to end their strike and then begin dialogue on the measures, as well as a second proposal offering them a second free licence as compensation. The strikers are asking that the draft bill should not be tabled until the end of August, an option that has been ruled out by the government since it is bound by the EU-IMF memorandum for the financial support package to Greece.

Truck owners are also demanding compensation equal to the value of the licences they now hold and security for the pension rights. After the outcome of the meeting, the owners' representatives said that they will recommend the continuation of the sector's mobilisations. Tsiokas said the ministry had presented proposals for further measures that would help truck owners cover their investment during the transitional period. He urged truckers to consider continuing dialogue in a calmer atmosphere and "not in a regime of blackmailing Greek society".

Greek truck drivers clash with riot police in Athens. Hopes of a return to normal were quickly dashed when riot police fired tear gas at thousands of truckers gathered outside the transport ministry this morning. "The order is coming through to [drivers] but I have no idea how they are going to react to it," said Giorgos Stamos, a member of the truck drivers' union. "It is highly unusual that after just three days of going on strike we should be mobilised in this way." The ruling "socialists" called for the mobilisation – the fourth time since the collapse of military rule in 1974 that such an order has been issued – as it became clear that Greece was facing a public health crisis because of the strike.

Bottles were hurled outside the transport ministry as drivers tried to climb the gates and get inside. The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says the drivers are very angry, demanding compensation for reforms that aim to liberalise the freight sector. BBC's correspondent says police are supposed to hand out papers to the drivers telling them that their lorries are being requisitioned. But many drivers have abandoned their lorries so the papers cannot be served. There are queues outside the few garages that are still open, and shortages of supplies mean some workers are being laid off at factories. The Greek government has used a rare emergency order to force the lorry drivers back to work. The measure is usually reserved for times of war or natural disaster.

The marxist terrorist group Sect of Revolutionaries examined. ANA-MPA reports: 'Sect of Revolutionaries' proclamation examined. Counter-terrorism squad experts are carefully examining the "Sect of Revolutionaries" proclamation claiming responsibility for the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias, Greek police said on Wednesday. The proclamation was sent to the newspaper "Ta Nea" on Tuesday and published in full by the paper on Wednesday. Concerning a reference within the proclamation that Giolias had in recent months had a two-man police guard, police headquarters confirmed that two men on motorbikes had been accompanying the journalist recently but said that only one was a police officer. They clarified that the police officer in question was serving as a guard for the Supreme Court president but was not acting on the orders of his superiors, while neither the police nor the president of the Supreme Court had been informed of his activities.

The man involved told his superiors that he was helping out Giolias because they were old friends who met through their involvement in sports. The proclamation itself is seen by experts as a "show of strength" on the part of the terror organisation, since the seven-page written text was accompanied by a photograph of their equipment that included three Kalashnikov automatic rifles, 12 guns, a revolver, and a semi-automatic thought to be a "Scorpion". The guns are also arranged in such as way as to be reminiscent of the way the now dismantled "November 17" presented its own arms cache. A large part of the proclamation was devoted to the group's inactivity over the last 13 months, which it said was a stage of preparation for taking its action onto another level, when it would emerge "more capable, more meaningful and more dangerous". "During this time several of us trained in weapons, learned new techniques, read and were informed on unknown until then fighting situations, exchanged experiences and thoughts with other fighters and restocked in the supplies/equipment sector."

It also refers in detail to the operation to kill Giolias, from the initial surveillance to his final execution, saying the journalist "had made his choices". "He chose to live as a rodent in the kingdom of mud, his sordid circle, and we as wolves outside of the herd". As the main reason for targeting Giolias, the group gave the journalist's "dominant position in the electronic form of new journalism". Aside from Giolias, the proclamation contained heavy-handed criticism of other well-known television journalists and high-profile publishers, such as Makis Triantafyllopoulos, Petros Kostopoulos, Themos Anastasiadis, Nikos Hatzinikolaou, George Kouris and Dimitris Kontominas.

The group stressed, however, that it is not imposed with the blogs that made Giolias its target and was in favour of anonymity as a "necessary shield of protection for enemies of the establishment and a healthy condition for truly alternative, self-managing mass media." The group claimed that it took pains to ensure that Giolias' execution would not take place within his home with his wife and child but warned eye-witnesses not to cooperate with police in any way, saying that anything else would be "unacceptable". The proclamation went on to say that the execution of the specific journalist and the urban guerrilla attacks of the last year had created a negative image of security in Greece abroad and were a direct blow to the Greek tourism industry. "The ultimate planning and duty of an urban guerrilla is to disorganise the interior of his country, to strike the national economy and stain the public image abroad," it said. This section was also in the proclamation sent on the murder of police officer Nektarios Savvas in June
2009.

As its next targets, the group turned its fire on the DIAS police units and threatened public prosecutors and prison system staff, warning them to"change their stance" in their treatment of prisoners. Police are taking the organisation's threats seriously and have instructed police officers on patrol to exercise exceptional caution. They are also carefully analysing the phrases used in the proclamation, whose author they believe is the same as the one who wrote the "Sect's" first proclamation after the attack on a police station in Korydallos and on Alter television station. They hope this will help them gain clues concerning the identity of the culprits and their background

28.07.2010. Murder of journalist by claimed by Sect of Revolutionaries in statement. The anarchists repeat the condemnation of Sect of Revolutionaries, and once more call for respect for the freedom of speech. Anarchists and Amnesty International slams treatment of migrants and asylum seekers. Social justice challenge. The truck strike. Greek government has ordered striking truck drivers to go back to work.

Murder of journalist by claimed by Sect of Revolutionaries in statement. A far-left marxist extremist group that claimed responsibility for the murder of a Greek investigative journalist said it will target police, prison officials and more journalists in a proclamation made public on Wednesday. The group, which calls itself the Sect of Revolutionaries, had sent a message claiming responsibility for the shooting of 37-year-old Socratis Giolas to the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea on Tuesday.

Officers of the police's counterterrorism unit were yesterday examining the seven-page document sent to Ta Nea which appears to be a claim of responsibility for the fatal shooting last week of 37-year-old journalist and blogger Sokratis Giolias. On its website, Ta Nea said it had been sent a CD containing a seven-page proclamation from the group claiming responsibility for the gangland-style shooting of Giolias outside his home in the southeastern Athens suburb of Ilioupoli last Monday. According to Ta Nea the statement criticized several prominent Greek journalists. The text also included threats against police officers, public prosecutors, prison wardens and staff as well as social workers who visit jails.

A police spokesman said the force could not yet confirm the authenticity of the claim. According to sources, officers in the counterterrorism unit believe that one or two members of Sect of Revolutionaries emerged from the ranks of Revolutionary Struggle, a more established guerrilla group, which police claimed to have broken in April following the arrest of six suspected members. A police source told Kathimerini yesterday that the force lacked evidence to link specific individuals to the Sect of Revolutionaries. Last week, police forensic officers confirmed that the 16 cartridge casings found at the scene of Giolias's shooting had been fired from two 9-millimeter pistols used in previous attacks claimed by Sect of Revolutionaries: the murder of a witness protection officer in June 2009 and two attacks in February of that year, on a police station and on private television channel Alter. The anarchists repeat the condemnation of the Sect of Revolutionaries and once more call for respect for the freedom of speech.

Anarchists and Amnesty International slam treatment of migrants and asylum seekers. The Anarchist International and Amnesty International have urged Greek authorities to stop treating asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants as criminals and improve substandard detention conditions. In a report published yesterday, by Amnesty, the human rights group condemned authorities for detaining migrants in dirty, overcrowded centers and often confining unaccompanied minors in poor conditions together with adults. "Asylum seekers and irregular migrants are not criminals. Yet the Greek authorities treat them as such, disregarding their rights under international law," said Nicola Duckworth, Amnesty's Europe and Central Asia program director. The Anarchist International agrees with Amnesty in this case.

Social justice challenge. Lawyers appeal crisis measures. The Athens Bar Association (ABA) confirmed yesterday that tomorrow it will submit the first legal challenge to the contents of the agreement between the government and the European Union and International Monetary Fund, which requires Greece to slash public spending and carry out a series of economic reforms. The ABA, civil servants' union ADEDY and several other organizations have argued that the measures are unconstitutional and would not stand up in court. ABA said in a statement yesterday that"social rights" could not be challenged, "regardless of how unfavorable the economic circumstances are."

The truck strike. Eight in 10 Athens gas stations run dry, fresh produce shortages also expected. There seemed no hope yesterday of an imminent breakthrough in the standoff between the government and thousands of striking truck drivers over the liberalization of the road haulage sector, which has led to gas stations around Greece running out of fuel. The Transport Ministry showed no signs of giving in to pressure from the truck drivers, whose main objection is the government's plan to allow anyone who wants to enter their sector to be able to do so for virtually no charge as of 2013. Truckers say that because they operate in a closed profession, they have paid thousands of euros for their licenses, which will be worthless when the sector is liberalized. Hundreds of trucks remained parked yesterday at the sides of national and country roads as well as outside oil refineries.

The impact of the strike became evident in most parts of Greece, as few gas stations had any fuel to sell to drivers and traders warned that there would soon be a shortage of fresh produce if the action continues. Drivers formed queues of 30 to 40 cars at the few gas stations in Athens that still had fuel. It is estimated that only two in 10 were in a position to fill up customers' tanks. In Thessaloniki, 70 percent of stations reported that they had completely run out of gasoline. In Halkidiki, where some 100,000 tourists are currently on vacation, there was no fuel available at all. The shortages prompted the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) to warn of the damaging impact that the strike is having on the tourism sector.

There are concerns that prospective visitors from neighboring Balkan countries who were planning to use their cars to come to Greece will cancel their trips. It is expected that private coaches carrying tourists already in the country to various destinations will start to run out of fuel from tomorrow. KTEL intercity buses are thought to have enough fuel to last them until next week. Athens's central fruit and vegetable market, from where many of the city's grocers get their produce, is expected to experience shortages as of tomorrow. "Business usually picks up a lot on Thursdays and it is clear that we will experience problems with supplies," said Yiannis Sideris, one of the market traders.

Greek government has ordered striking truck drivers to go back to work with fuel shortages starting to hurt the country. The government says the third day of the nationwide stoppage has caused serious disruption and they have accused the truckers of endangering public health by threatening supplies of food and medicine. The truck drivers now must return to work within 24-hours or face arrest and risk losing their licences. Thousands have been lining the highways since Monday to protest against plans to open the sector to competition, a key reform in a multi-billion euro EU/IMF debt rescue package.

The so called "socialist" government has managed to pass through some controversial reforms but not without a fight that has left many industries on the ropes. Tourism, a key pillar of Greece's 240-billion euro economy has been severely affected. Last month also saw Greek seamen block ports and cruise ships from docking and there are no signs of an end to widespread industrial action.

27.07.2010. Gas running out as truckers go on strike, supported by IWW. Air-traffic controllers delay flights. Armed raid by suspected rightwing extremists.

Gas running out as truckers go on strike. Draft law seeks to open up closed shop. Dozens of gas stations in Athens ran out of fuel yesterday as worried drivers snapped up all the gasoline they could on the first day of a strike by truck drivers protesting the government's attempt to open up their profession. Some 35,000 drivers of regular trucks that carry fuel are taking part in the protest. They have all been issued with licenses by the state to carry goods for third parties and are responsible for transporting the vast majority of fuel from the country's refineries to gas stations. The drivers were upset at the government's failure to consult with them over the details of a draft law that seeks to liberalize their sector. The details of the bill, which further angered the truckers, were presented by Transport Minister Dimitris Reppas.

The prospective law foresees the cost of obtaining a trucker's license decreasing rapidly over the next three years, so that by 2013, applicants will only have to pay administrative fees. Greece began issuing such licenses in 1967, stopped in 1976 and then gave out permits for the last time in 1986. This has created a closed shop in the trucking sector, meaning that licenses are either handed down from relative to relative or are sold for large sums. The permits have been known to fetch between 30,000 and 350,000 euros. As a result, truckers are now furious that permits will soon be available for free and that they will not be able to recoup their initial outlay by selling on their licenses. "Some people had to sell their houses to get one of these licenses," said unionist Charalambos Daditsios:"We want justice."

Reppas, however, was adamant that the contents of the bill were the product of negotiations with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, from whom Greece is borrowing 110 billion euros in emergency loans. The EU and the IMF want Greece to liberalize a number of closed professions, including those of taxi drivers, architects and lawyers, and Reppas indicated that Athens had no room for maneuver on the issue. "There is no alternative," he said: "This is the final bill. "The news of the strike sent Athenians and Greeks in other parts of the country scurrying for fuel and long queues formed at many gas stations. Concerned that the strike may drag on for days, some drivers pumped more gas than they would normally, which left some stations without petrol. If the strike continues, it is expected that few gas stations in Attica or Thessaloniki will be able to serve customers by tomorrow. The IWW supports the strike.

Air-traffic controllers delay flights. Dozens of flights were delayed and several more canceled yesterday as air-traffic controllers entered the second day of a "work-to-rule" protest. The workers also called a 24-hour strike for Saturday, after the Civil Aviation Authority said all their summer vacations would be suspended to minimize the impact of their action on flights during the peak season for tourism in Greece. The workers, who are demanding better wages and the recruitment of more staff, launched their work-to-rule action early on Sunday, after an Athens court deemed their original plans to stage rolling 24-hour strikes illegal and abusive.

The air-traffic controllers have been observing strict limits on the number of aircraft allowed into Greek air space at any given time. Their action yesterday delayed more than 70 flights – chiefly domestic routes – by up to 30 minutes, sources at Athens International Airport said. The situation was worse on Sunday, when delays had stretched to four hours and passengers had been forced to camp out on the floor at Athens airport, waiting for news on their departures. Of the 294 scheduled departures from Athens airport on Sunday, three flights were canceled and around 180 delayed, the sources said. There were similar delays reported at Thessaloniki's international airport. Representatives of Greece's tourism sector, which has been badly hit by a series of strikes by workers protesting the government's austerity measures, yesterday reiterated their criticism of the air-traffic controllers, noting that it was aggravating their problems.

Armed raid by suspected rightwing extremists. Four armed men, one of whom was brandishing a hand grenade, raided the AHEPA hospital in Thessaloniki yesterday, according to police. The robbers threatened the hospital's cashiers and ordered them to hand over any available cash. The four men made off with 9,000 euros.

26.07.2010. Police profile 'Sect of Revolutionaries' as nihilists. Molotov assault by ochlarchist youths. The anarchists condemn the attack. Flight disruptions. Workers' action causes delays, some cancellations. The IWW supports the action.

Police profile 'Sect of Revolutionaries' as nihilists. As police continued to search for leads to the killers of journalist Sokratis Giolias, believed to be the Sect of Revolutionaries, a report by the force's counterterrorism unit notes that the group's inspiration is a dead Russian nihilist revolutionary and that its goals are not to make a political statement but to fuel insurrection. According to the report, compiled last summer and seen by Kathimerini, Sect of Revolutionaries is "the first Greek organization that is completely nihilist, its key aims being chaos and destruction." This stance is believed to have been inspired by Sergey Nechayev a.k.a. Sergei Nechaev, a Russian revolutionary associated with the Nihilist movement and known for his support of revolution by all means, including violence. The author of the group's proclamations is believed to be aged over 40 and to hail from an upper-middle-class background.

An extract of the report reads: "This person adopted terrorism as a way of reacting to society which, in his view, has hit rock bottom." As for the other members of the group, police believe they fall into two camps: radicalized criminals and extremist anti-establishment protesters. Police have been comparing evidence taken from the scene of Giolias's shooting – including the cartridge casings of 16 bullets that have been linked to weapons used by Sect of Revolutionaries – with clues from the scenes of other attacks claimed by the organization. The group emerged in February last year with two bloodless attacks – one on a police station and one on a private television station – followed by the slaying of a policeman in June of that year. In a related development, the managers of the news blog Troktiko, to which Giolias had contributed, said they had suspended the operation of the online journal. Anarchists are not nihilists... See IJA 4(31): The International Conference on Terrorism and IAT-APT International branch and search for Nechaev.

Molotov assault by ochlarchist youths. The anarchists condemn the attack. A group of youths yesterday hurled five Molotov-cocktail bombs at a unit of riot police officers in the marxist ochlarchist para-state of Exarchia. The attack, which occurred at around 3 a.m., did not result in any injuries or damage. Immediately after the incident, police detained two people but released them shortly afterward as no incriminating evidence was found. The anarchists condemn the molotov attack.

Flight disruptions. Workers' action causes delays, some cancellations. Air-traffic controllers on Saturday called off plans to stage rolling 24-hour strikes after a court ruled the scheduled action as illegal. But the workers, who are demanding better wages and the recruitment of more staff, launched a "work-to-rule protest" early yesterday. The action, set to continue this week, caused a few flight cancellations and delays as the controllers observed strict limits on the number of aircraft allowed into Greek air space at any given time. Representatives of the tourism sector, reeling from the impact of a series of strikes by workers protesting the government's austerity measures, have condemned air-traffic controllers for aggravating their problems. The IWW supports the action.

24.07.2010. Social justice challenge to austerity measures. First of legal cases against government's agreement with EU and IMF due to be brought next week. A series of legal challenges against the austerity measures adopted by the government in the wake of an emergency loan agreement it signed with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund are due to begin next week, sources told Kathimerini. The first appeals are expected to be made over the next few days by the Athens Bar Association (ABA), the civil servants' union ADEDY and a union representing retired public servants. ABA, which often provides legal advice to the government and public bodies, is expected to be the first to submit its case to the Council of State, probably on Tuesday. The president of the ABA, Dimitris Paxinos, said recently that the aim of the legal action was "to protect the fundamental rights of citizens and of social groups affected by the proposed reforms."

Sources said that the ABA's appeal is not only going to challenge the legality of the government's decision to cut wages and pensions but will also argue that the law which rubber-stamped the memorandum that Greece signed with the EU and IMF was unconstitutional. The provisions of the memorandum were approved by a simple majority vote in Parliament but the ABA will argue that a qualified majority of 180 of the 300 MPs was needed, as the agreement was what the Constitution refers to as an "international treaty." The lawyers claim that any austerity measures based on this memorandum, such as the slashing of public servants' wages as well as reductions in pension payments, are not legal.

The association will also challenge the legality of the agreement for Greece to borrow 110 billion euros, as it was not approved by Parliament. The government has been bracing for legal challenges to the measures it was forced to take in order to qualify for the emergency loan. Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis is due to submit next month a bill that will allow any challenges to the measures or the EU-IMF memorandum itself to be fast-tracked through the courts so that the judicial system is not swamped by cases. Kastanidis has pledged that verdicts would be delivered within four months of the appeals being lodged.

President stern at celebration for democracy. In a speech filled with scathing criticism of Greece's political class, which he blamed squarely for the country's present decline, President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias on Saturday blasted all those that he said had prevented Greece from becoming a modern, European democracy. "The disapproval that is today levelled against the political system is often crude in its generalisation but justified at its core," Papoulias underlined. The president was speaking at a reception held at the presidential mansion on Saturday morning to mark the 36th anniversary since the restoration of democracy, after the fall of the military junta that then ruled Greece in July 1974.

22.072010. Man shot dead in the ochlarchy para-state of Exarchia. Police in Athens yesterday were seeking the perpetrators behind the fatal shooting of a man, believed to be a Polish national in his mid-30s, in the central district of Exarchia. The victim, who was shot by unidentified assailants at the junction of Ippocratous and Eresou streets, died in the ambulance while being transported to the hospital. Initially, police had gone to the district of Acharnon after a woman calling the police's rapid-response unit reported a shooting at Aghios Nikolaos. The woman had been calling from Aghios Nikolaos Church on Asclepeio Street in Exarchia, it emerged later. Arriving at the actual scene of the shooting, police found drops of blood leading from the scene of the attack to church from where the woman is believed to have reported the shooting. Officers were not able to find any witness however. Police did not find any form of identification on the victim but said they believe he was Polish. Officers gave no indication of leads regarding the perpetrators or any possible motive.

21.07.2010. Police hit wall in terror probe regarding marxist extremist group Sect of Revolutionaries.

Kathimerini reports: Police sources admitted yesterday that they have very little evidence related to the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias on which to base an investigation. The 37-year-old was shot on Monday morning as he came out of his apartment building in Ilioupoli. Police say tests have shown that the bullets were fired from guns used in previous attacks by the Sect of Revolutionaries terrorist group. Police were hoping to obtain some more clues from the scene of the shooting and from speaking to neighbors but sources said that nothing significant was discovered. They have also failed to obtain any useful CCTV footage.

Officers have yet to question Giolias's wife as she is in still a state of shock and was attending the journalist's funeral yesterday. It is believed that she may have seen one of the two gunmen who were lying in wait for her husband. One of the two, apparently dressed as a security guard, rang the couple's buzzer and told Giolias that someone was trying to steal his car in order to convince him to come downstairs. Police believe that the journalist's wife may have seen the face of one of the killers via the video entry system.

A coroner confirmed yesterday that Giolias had been shot 16 times, mostly in the back, which suggests that he tried to escape his attackers. Giolias was also shot in the head three times but these bullets came from a different gun, suggesting the presence of two shooters. It is thought that a third man waited in a getaway car which was later found burned. Police sources admitted yesterday that no great progress has been made in identifying members of the Sect of Revolutionaries since they carried out several armed attacks and shot dead a witness protection officer last year.

20.07.2010. More about the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias. Hit linked to terrorist group. Clues point to the marxist extremist group Sect of Revolutionaries.

Kathimerini reports: Police officers and forensic experts examine[d] the scene of the murder of journalist Sokratis Giolias in Ilioupoli early yesterday. The gangland-style execution drew the condemnation of Greek and foreign media bodies. A 37-year-old investigative reporter was gunned down outside his home in southeastern Athens early yesterday by unidentified assailants using weapons that police ballistics experts later linked to the Sect of Revolutionaries [marxist] terrorist group. Sokratis Giolias, head of news at Thema 98.9 radio station and one of the journalists behind the popular dirt-digging news blog Troktiko, was shot 16 times by gunmen outside his home in Ilioupoli at around 5.30 a.m. in an attack that police initially attributed to a Mafia-style contract killing.

According to a witness, the perpetrators were dressed in uniforms reminiscent of private security firm outfits and bulletproof vests. One of the group buzzed the intercom to Giolias's apartment and told him thieves were trying to break into his car, police said. The journalist took the bait, came down and was showered with bullets as he opened the main door to the building. Neighbors said they saw Giolias's wife, who is pregnant with their second child, emerge onto the balcony screaming. About an hour later, police found a burned car not far from Giolias's home. A search revealed the car had been stolen in the coastal suburb of Alimos two days before.

Tests on the 16 cartridge casings found on the scene showed they had been fired from two 9-millimeter pistols used in attacks claimed by the Sect of Revolutionaries. One of the pistols had been used in the fatal shooting in June last year of Nektarios Savvas, a witness protection officer. The second gun had been used in the attack on Savvas and two other bloodless hits claimed by the group earlier last year: a bomb blast at the premises of Alter television channel and a machine gun attack on a police station in Korydallos, near Piraeus. In a proclamation claiming responsibility for the Alter hit in February 2009, the group had accused the media of manufacturing news and had warned that journalists were also targets. "Journalists, this time we came to your door, but next time you will find us in your homes," it had said. Giolias's murder was condemned by politicians and journalists. "Democracy and freedom of speech cannot be gagged, terrorized or intimidated," said government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis.

19.07.2010. Brown Cards to BBC and Reporters Without Borders. Greek journalist shot dead in Athens. The anarchists condemn the murder.

Reuters reports: Three unknown assailants gunned down a reporter in Athens on Monday, the first murder of a journalist in Greece in more than 20 years, police said. Greek political parties and journalist unions expressed outrage at the killing of 37-year old Sokratis Giolias outside his home in the Athens suburb of Ilioupoli. "Somebody wanted to silence a very good investigative reporter who had stepped on a lot of toes with his stories," said Panos Sobolos, president of the Athens journalists' union. Giolias was assassinated on his doorstep, succumbing to multiple wounds from pistol bullets fired at close range, police said.

Giolias, news chief at radio station Thema 98.9 and father of one child, died instantly. Police were investigating possible motives behind the murder. His murder was the first killing of a journalist in Greece since the mid-1980s, when left-wing [marxist] urban guerrilla group November 17 assassinated a conservative newspaper publisher. However, Greek newspapers and television stations have been subject to several violent attacks. Last year, an extremist group opened fire on the headquarters of private television station Alter, without causing any injury.

The Anarchist International and the IAT-APT have signed up to UDHR, also of course Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according to which everyone has "the right to freedom of opinion and expression" and also the right to "seek, receive and impart" information and ideas "regardless of frontiers." Anarchists are defenders of free speech, not the opposite.

BBC in their country report of Greece, declares: "The [Greek] media enjoy considerable freedom. However, Reporters Without Borders in 2009 warned of a growing trend of violence against the media and death threats against journalists. It said these were often claimed by anarchists and extreme leftists."

These accusations against anarchists are completely false. The truth is that no anarchists in Greece or other places on Earth have attacked journalists or newsmedia with ochlarchical actions. Ochlarchy is mob rule broadly defined including murder. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The violence, shooting, terrorism and bomb attacks in Greece are not of this kind, and are done by extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, usually marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not by anarchists. BBC and Reporters Without Borders get Brown Cards from the International Anarchist Tribunal, IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. See, say, the report of 22.05.2010 for a similar case and more information.

13.07.2010. Teen killer. Police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas changes testimony. Strike tomorrow, supported by IWW.

Teen killer. Police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas changes testimony. Epaminondas Korkoneas, the policeman charged with the murder of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008, yesterday told a court in Amfissa, central Greece, that he fired his service gun while looking at a crowd of youths that had earlier attacked him and his partner – a contradiction of previous testimony. "I fired while looking at the crowd – it was as if my mind went blank," Korkoneas said. In earlier testimony, he claimed to have fired his gun while running away.

Strike tomorrow. A strike by the civil servants' union ADEDY, planned for Thursday, when legislative provisions affecting the pensions of civil servants are to be voted on in Parliament, will disrupt public services. Flights will be suspended between 8 a.m. and noon as air-traffic controllers walk off the job. Tax offices and schools will be closed and hospitals will be operating on emergency staff. The IWW and anarchists in general supports the strike.

12.07.2010. Unknown group, probably marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, claims deadly hit. The anarchists condemn the group, see report of 22.05.2010 for more information why. Poll highlights public discontent.

Unknown group, probably marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, claims deadly hit. The anarchists condemn the terrorist group.

An unknown group claimed responsibility over the weekend for a fatal bomb attack last month that killed the 52-year-old assistant of Citizens Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis. In a letter published over the weekend in Eleftherotypia, the mystery group said that the device, which detonated on June 24 on the seventh floor of the ministry, killing Giorgos Vassilakis, had been intended for the minister. The four-page document described the explosive device in detail and said the group had targeted Chrysochoidis for taking "repressive" action against "those resisting the offensive against the people," an apparent reference to the austerity measures being passed by the debt-ridden government. The first paragraph of the document reads, "When the government violates the rights of the people, armed insurgency – either by the whole of society or a section of it – is its most sacred and crucial duty." The letter said the group behind the ministry hit had been "newly formed" and would reveal its name after a subsequent attack. The anarchists condemn the terrorist group, see, say, the report of 22.05.2010 for more information why.

Separately, police on Saturday arrested a 32-year-old suspect in connection with an unexploded bomb found on the site of the old Xenia Hotel near Mount Parnitha, north of Athens. The suspected terrorist was in 2007 charged with the attempted murder of an Athens nightclub owner.

Seven in 10 fed up with two main parties; a third would cast blank ballots in or boycott early elections. Seven in 10 Greeks are dissatisfied with their lives and feel let down by the country's two main political parties while a third would not vote for any of the five parties in Greece's Parliament, a new poll carried out on behalf of Kathimerini has found. According to the survey carried by polling firm Public Issue on a sample of 1,006 citizens in the first week of July, 65 percent of respondents said they trusted neither ruling PASOK nor the main conservative opposition New Democracy to run the country. Another 25 percent said they think PASOK is the best party to lead the country while only 4 percent said they would want ND in power. Still, eight out of 10 respondents said they were unhappy with the work of the PASOK administration, which has focused on pushing through a raft of austerity measures since it came to power last October.

Nine out of 10 said they were unhappy with ND, which has been riven with internal disputes since last November when Antonis Samaras was elected party leader. A third of respondents said they would prefer a coalition government while another 17 percent wants a government representing all the parties in Parliament. As regards the popularity of political leaders, Prime Minister George Papandreou has seen his support decline by three percentage points, to 40 percent, while Antonis Samaras has dropped 4 percentage points to 19 percent. A third of respondents said they would want neither of the two in the role of premier.

In one of the most shocking findings, a third (35.5 percent) of the poll's respondents said that if elections were held today, they would either boycott the vote or cast a blank ballot. In a related development, several Cabinet members sought to douse speculation about early elections being called this fall after Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis suggested the government should seek a new mandate. "Parliamentary elections are not on the government's agenda," said Agricultural Development and Food Minister Katerina Batzeli. Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Minister Dimitris Reppas also told reporters that early polls were out of the question.

08.07.2010. General strike in Greece, backed by IWW. The two largest labor unions GSEE and ADEDY are staging a 24-hour strike on Thursday, July 8, the day the Parliament will pass the draft-bill on social security reforms. GSEE and ADEDY have organized a demonstration at Klathmonos Square, at 10.00 and next a march to the Parliament while PAME has organized a separate demonstration at Omonoia Square, at 11.00. Participating on Thursday's general strike are civil servants, journalists, employees in taxation department, Social Security Funds and local administration, customs officers. State Hospitals will operate with skeleton personnel as doctors and hospital staff are also participating in the strike as well as employees in DEKO, banks and the private sector.

No mass transport. There will be no mass transport services on Thursday as buses, trolley buses, metro, tram and electric train employees are participating in the 24-hour nationwide strike. Also there will be no suburban railway services on Thursday while Hellenic Railway Company will operate only social need services. For this reason, POS-OSE has recalled the 4-hour work stoppage announced for Wednesday. Air traffic controllers have announced work stoppage from 10.00 to 14.00. Lawyers have extended their strike for one more day, till July, 8 to keep courts closed on the day the social security draft-bill will be passed by the Parliament. The Hellenic Confederation of Hellenic Commerce (ESEE) has expressed its support to the GSEE-ADEDY strike. Ships will remain anchored at Piraeus port from 24.00 on Wednesday till 24.00, on Thursday. The strike is the sixth general strike so far in 2010. The IWWW and anarchists in general back the general strike. Reuters had a report with a picture of a protester with a red and black anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist flag. NRK showed several anarchist black flags at the demonstration. No reports about significant ochlarchy.

01.07.2010. Attack on mosque by suspected nazi-group Golden Dawn. The anarchist condemn the attack.

Kathimerini reports about "A Muslim man [that] enters a makeshift mosque in Aghios Panteleimonas, near central Athens, which was attacked by vandals yesterday. The building's windows were smashed but nobody was injured in the raid, thought to have been carried out by far-right extremists. A nearby cafe where immigrants gather was also attacked and the name of the extreme nationalist party Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn) was spray-painted on the shutters of a shop. Aghios Panteleimonas has become a point of conflict over the last few years as residents and extremists react to the area's growing migrant population." The anarchist condemn the attack.

29.06.2010. General strike in Greece, backed by IWW. Neonazi and marxist extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists clashed with police. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchists/ochlarchs. Firebombs target unionists.

General strike in Greece, backed by IWW. Neonazi and marxist extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists clashed with police. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchists/ochlarchs.

About 10,000 people took part in marches across Athens during a nationwide strike -- well down from the 50,000 in the biggest demonstration against austerity measures planned and partly introduced by the government to secure a 110 billion euro ($134.2 billion) bailout from the European Union and the IMF. "Burn parliament! Burn parliament!" a group of about 150 black-hooded youths, mainly marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, shouted as they threw sticks, stones, bottles and petrol bombs at police guarding the building in central Athens. Euronews said there were some reports about "neonazis being involved in the unrest" i.e. ochlarchy. Police fired teargas to disperse most of the crowd protesting during the fifth general strike called by public and private sector unions this year. Banks and local media were shut, hospitals operated with emergency staff and public offices were mostly closed. Businesses in central Athens rolled down their metal shutters but many elsewhere were open as usual. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy and the ochlarchs/ochlarchists.

"We have again taken to the streets, we are striking we are resisting the slaughtering of our rights," said Ilias Vrettakos, a vice president of the main public sector union. Some tourists were exasperated by the cancellation of some ferries to islands. About 60 domestic flights were also canceled but international flights were unaffected. The Acropolis in Athens was open for visitors. The so called 'socialist' government, which has 157 seats of 300 in parliament, was to begin preliminary consideration of an overhaul of pensions later on Tuesday. It will raise women's retirement age from 60 to match men on 65 and demand more years at work to qualify for a pension.

The government says the reforms of the creaking system are essential to stave off bankruptcy for Greece, where debt has reached 133 percent of GDP in 2010. Participation in protests has waned, partly as Athenians escape to the islands for summer holidays. Unions representing about 2.5 million workers, half the workforce, back the strike. On the big May 5 protest, three people were killed in the fire-bombing of an Athens bank. About 25,000 people turned out for the similar strike on May 20. The repeated strikes, protests that have sometimes turned violent and a rise in small bomb attacks since riots in 2008 have hurt tourism, which accounts for nearly a fifth of Greece's billion euro ($297 billion) economy. A senior official was killed last week by a booby-trapped bomb. But economists said the strike was far from shutting down the economy and that it was hard to estimate the drain on GDP. The IWW and anarchists in general back the strike.

Firebombs target unionists, policeman in Thessaloniki. The anarchists condemn the attacks.

Police in Thessaloniki yesterday were seeking the perpetrators behind three bomb attacks, two on unionists and one on the home of a policeman, none of which caused injuries. A homemade explosive device planted outside the eighth-floor apartment of Sotiris Zarianopoulos, the general secretary of a local labor union, near the city center, detonated shortly before 2 a.m. At around the same time, a similar device went off outside the home of a policeman in the district of Ambelokipi. Shortly after 11 a.m. another homemade bomb went off outside the home of a former unionist in central Thessaloniki. The target of the attack was Dimitris Gousidis, the former head of the union representing journalists in Macedonia and Thrace. All three attacks caused limited damage but led to no injuries. The anarchists condemn the attacks.

26.06.2010. Even more about the letter bomb blast 24.06.2010, from 'Christos Karavelas, Ekali'. The anarchists as mentioned condemn the terrorist attack and declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists.

Kathimerini reports: Bombers fooled security staff of marked minister. Device was brought from political office. A damaged window [was] seen on the seventh floor of the Citizens' Protection Ministry yesterday. Police were examining fragments of the bomb that detonated there on Thursday, killing an official, for leads to the perpetrators.

A parcel bomb that detonated on Thursday night next to the office of Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis, killing the minister's 52-year-old aide, had not been sent directly to the ministry building but mailed to Chrysochoidis's political office and transferred from there to the ministry two days later, police sources told Kathimerini yesterday. According to the same sources, the package had been marked with a name and address, ostensibly of the sender. But the signature, "Christos Karavelas, Ekali," appears to have been a stab at dark humor by the terrorists as Karavelas is a former Siemens Hellas executive who has been implicated in the cash-for-contracts scandal embroiling the electronics and engineering firm and who continues to elude arrest.

Sources told Kathimerini that the package sat in Chrysochoidis's political office for two days before its transfer on Thursday to the ministry building in Katehaki, east of the city center, one of the best-guarded addresses in Greece. Ironically, it was probably close aides of the minister or even members of his security detail who brought the package into the ministry building. There the package was opened by Giorgos Vassilakis, who sorted all the minister's mail. The bomb, which had been wrapped up and resembled a gift, exploded in Vassilakis's hands, killing him instantly.

According to police, the device consisted of half a kilogram of gunpowder and ammonium nitrate and had been packed into a cardboard box. Counterterrorism officers yesterday were seeking to determine how the bomb made its way past an airport-style X-ray machine at the main entrance to the ministry building and all the way up to the seventh floor where the adjacent offices of Chrysochoidis and Vassilakis are located.

Police officials admitted yesterday that the X-ray machine does not contain a bomb detector so it is possible that security staff at the ministry saw the package pass through machine without realizing what it was. In Parliament yesterday all the party leaders condemned the attack. Prime Minister George Papandreou said Greek society would not be terrorized. "The murderers should know that they will fail because they have the entire state and society against them," he said.

The anarchists as mentioned condemn the terrorist attack and declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists. Ochlarchy however is a form of ruling, government, State, in this case a para-state within the Greek State. Anarchists will do away with the State, practically toward ideally, including para-states.

Salonika blasts. Unidentified arsonists used homemade explosive devices comprising gas canisters to hit two union and one government targets in Thessaloniki early yesterday afternoon, causing damage but no injuries. Two of the bombs detonated almost simultaneously at the offices of the local doctors' union and the home of a senior regional official for the health service. The third device, which had been planted outside the local offices of the Health Ministry, did not detonate. Earlier yesterday a similar explosive device, also made of gas canisters, detonated outside a bank in Kalamaria, near Thessaloniki, causing damage but no injuries. The anarchists condemn the terrorist arson attacks.

25.06.2010. More about yesterday's terrorist attack. The anarchists declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists.

Kathimerini reports: One dead in ministry bomb attack. Aide to Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis killed when parcel explodes in his office. In one of the most brazen terrorist attacks to ever take place in Greece, a device exploded last night next to the office of Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis in the ministry building near central Athens, killing his assistant. Initial reports suggest that the explosion was caused by a parcel bomb that the minister's assistant, 52-year-old Giorgos Vassilakis, a married father of two, opened at around 8.30 p.m., triggering a blast that brought down the wall between his and Chrysochoidis's office. The minister was not in his office at the time. "We will not cease in the effort to keep our citizens and neighborhoods safe and to bring these cowardly murderers to justice," said Chrysochoidis shortly before 10 p.m. "Personally, I lost a valuable and beloved colleague."

It was not immediately clear how the explosive device found its way into one of the most heavily guarded buildings in Greece. Initial reports that the airport-style X-ray machine, through which packages going into the building are passed, was not working were denied. No group had claimed responsibility for the attack by late last night. The ministry building houses the offices of some of Greece's top policemen as well as the anti-terrorist squad. The intelligence services also use the building, located off Katehaki Avenue. There were no reports of any other serious injuries as a result of the blast.

Chrysochoidis has earned plaudits recently as, under his leadership, there have been significant breakthroughs in the fight against domestic terrorism.In April, six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle, the most active domestic terrorist group in Greece in recent years, were arrested after police raided an apartment in Kypseli, near central Athens, and discovered a large haul of weapons. Last week, police confirmed that a rocket-propelled grenade launcher found in the suspected hideout was the one used in a bloodless hit on the US Embassy in January 2007 – an attack claimed by Revolutionary Struggle. The anarchists declare: Arrest the criminal terrorist ochlarchists.

24.06.2010. Brown Cards to Associated Press and Nicholas Paphitis etc. for falsely postulating 'radical anarchist groups' are behind terrorist attacks in Greece. The anarchists condemn today's bomb attack.

Associated Press and Nicholas Paphitis report: Blast rocks Greek public order minister's office. A bomb disguised as a gift exploded inside the Greek public order ministry in Athens Thursday night, killing a police officer who was a close ministerial aide, in Greece's highest profile attack in years. "It was a terrorist act," government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis told the Associated Press. A number of small extreme left wing and radical anarchist groups operate in Greece, and have carried out bomb attacks and shooting in the capital. But the vast majority are small devices planted outside banks, foreign companies or car dealerships late at night and do not cause any injuries. It is very rare for bombings in Athens to cause fatalities.

Police said the package exploded about 25 meters (yards) away from Public Order Minister Michalis Chryssohoidis' office on the seventh floor of the heavily guarded ministry, which is located just outside the capital's center. Chryssohoidis, who was unharmed despite being in his office at the time of the blast, said he had "lost a valuable and beloved associate." The police officer who was killed, Giorgos Vassilakis, was a 50-year-old father of two. Authorities said there were no other injuries, but that the powerful explosion had caused extensive damage inside the ministry.

"The cowardly murderers will be brought to justice, to be tried in accordance with the constitution and our laws," a visibly shaken Chryssohoidis told media outside the ministry shortly after the explosion. "We will continue our struggle to keep our citizens, neighborhoods, and cities safe." The minister said the package had been meant for him. "We say one more time that we are not afraid and we will not be terrorized," he said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing. Authorities sealed the ministry building, barring anyone from entering or leaving. Officials said it was not immediately clear how the package had been delivered - whether it had been hand delivered or sent by a courier or in the mail.

Attacks in Greece increased after the fatal police shooting in December 2008 of an Athens teenager, which sparked Greece's worst riots in decades. Over the past nine months, police have arrested more than a dozen people accused of belonging to two small militant groups that claimed responsibility for a string of bombings. In March, a 15-year-old Afghan boy was killed when he opened a bag containing a bomb that had been planted outside a management institute in an Athens neighborhood. The boy's 10-year-old sister suffered serious facial injuries that damaged her sight. The boy was the first person to be killed in a bomb attack in Athens since 1999, when a blast outside a hotel killed a conference worker.

Brown Cards to Associated Press and Nicholas Paphitis for falsely postulating radical anarchist groups are behind terrorist attacks in Greece. The only violence radical anarchist groups accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The violence, terrorism and bomb attacks in Greece are not of this kind, and are done by extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, usually marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not by anarchists. Associated Press and Nicholas Paphitis get Brown Cards from the International Anarchist Tribunal, IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. See, say, the report of 22.05.2010 for a similar case and more information.

The anarchists condemn today's bomb attack. IAT-APT also hands out Brown Cards to all newsmedia publishing similar lie-reports as the Associated Press.

22.06.2010. Bomb hoax. Call closes Corinth court. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax. General strike June 29, supported by IWW. Farmers protest.

Bomb hoax. Call closes Corinth court. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax. Police in Corinth evacuated the city's courthouses yesterday morning after being briefed by a local newspaper that had received a warning from an anonymous caller saying that a bomb had been planted on the premises. Officers cleared the court complex just after 8 a.m. immediately after the call, causing some concern among those in attendance but no panic. The courtrooms were reopened about an hour later, after a search failed to turned up any suspect devices. The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax.

General strike June 29. The country's two main unions, the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) and civil servants' union ADEDY, have called a general strike for June 29 to protest pension and labor relations reforms. The IWW and anarchists in general support the general strike. Stop the unenlightened plutarchy in Greece! As usual the anarchists are against, and do and support direct actions against - the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative - cut bureaucracy costs - increase the demand of the people - the people seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income - for full employment - against the unenlightend plutarchy of IMF, WB, euro and the Euro-zone, and EU in general. Greece should leave the euro and the Euro-zone, this will make proper demand management more easy. In general it must pay to work, for the people. More information about the fight against the unenlightened plutarchy in Greece - and in general - and for full employment, see No to euro - Full employment - Anarchist vs bureaucracy economics - IJA 1 (32), the WEC resolutions, The unenlightened plutarchy, The general theory of anarchist economics and International Workers of the World. More information about the best alternative to the unenlightened plutarchy, i.e. real democracy and horizontal organization, see (click on) System theory, Real democracy, Industrial organization and Horizontal organization - a brief survey.

Farmers protest. Representatives of farmers' unions said yesterday that they might stage strike action next month after talks with Agricultural Development and Food Minister Katerina Batzeli failed to yield a compromise. The unionists want to be paid outstanding compensation immediately but the minister said it could not be dispensed before the end of August.

16.06.2010. Irishtimes.com and Richard Pine plus Phantis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention.

Irishtimes.com and Richard Pine plus Phantis 16.06.2010 falsely postulate: "Peaceful protests [in Greece] have been used by anti-state anarchists to provoke violence."

The only violence anti-state anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. The violence in Greece is not of this kind, and is done by marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchs/ochlarchists, not by anarchists. Irishtimes.com and Richard Pine plus Phantis get Brown Cards from the International Anarchist Tribunal, IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. See, say, the report of 22.05.2010 for a similar case and more information.

08.06.2010. Security boosted at police officers' trial. Coroner dismissed Korkoneas's claim that he had shot into the air.

The two police officers on trial for the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 arrived at a court in Amfissa, central Greece, amid high security yesterday, a day after getting conditional release from custody. Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis, freed on Sunday after 18 months in custody, arrived at the courts in a van escorted by three counterterrorism officers. The block around the court building has been cordoned off and police are guarding the apartments where the two defendants are staying. A coroner testifying as a witness for the Grigoropoulos family dismissed Korkoneas's claim that he had shot into the air as a warning and not directly at the 15-year-old. According to Symeon Mesogitis, the wound left by the bullet in the teenager's body and the deformities of the bullet itself rule out such a scenario.

The two police officers on trial for the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 received conditional release from custody yesterday. The judge in the Amfissa court where the trial of Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis is being held has ruled that the two suspects should be freed on bail as they have completed 18 months in custody. Both men have been barred from leaving the central Greek town and will have to report to the local police station regularly until a verdict is delivered. They have been on trial – Korkoneas for shooting Grigoropoulos, Saraliotis for being an accomplice – since February.

05.06.2010. Thousands rally against pension reform in Athens, backed by IWW.

Two Greek labor unions representing more than 2.5 million workers staged a protest in central Athens Saturday against a planned pension system reform. About 500 people out of an original 2,000 that attended a rally marched toward the Greek parliament and dispersed without incident. Soaked in heavy rain, the demonstrators marched in front of the parliament building, holding banners and chanting slogans against the reform and other austerity measures the government has introduced to overcome the country's debt crisis. Representatives of ADEDY and GSEE, the unions of public and private sector employees that organized the rally, warned of more protests if the government insists on the reform. The unions are planning another general strike, the fifth this year, on the day that the pension reform bill will be voted on in the parliament.

Protesters oppose raising the minimum age for retirement to 65 and other changes in the pension system. But the government said that there is no other way to avoid a collapse of the system due to huge debts. Greece has plunged into a debt crisis for seven months, sparking fears of a larger crisis across the eurozone. Under the pressure from European partners, the government implemented a series of austerity measures and announced a package of structural reforms that were strongly rejected by unions and the general public. Most Greeks, according to opinion polls, agree something has to be done so that Greece will not default, but demand that only those who caused the crisis should pay for it.

However, after an EU-IMF financial aid plan was activated in May, the Greek government has little room to maneuver. Under the plan, Athens will receive 110 billion euros (131.6 billion U.S. dollars) over next three years, during which drastic reforms will be implemented to cut the deficit from the current level of 13.6 percent of the GDP to less than 3 percent of the GDP and put the Greek economy back on track. But Stathis Anestis, undersecretary of the GSEE, said Greeks "will not succumb to the provocative and unfair demands of our lenders from the EU and the IMF."

02.06.2010. Strikes Thursday and Friday, backed by IWW. Street protest in Athens Thursday by marxist and pro-Hamas groups.

A nationwide media strike has been called for Thursday, in protest to the changes to the social security system being advanced by the government and in demand of the safeguarding of labor rights and the signing of "dignified" collective labor agreements. The strike begins at 6.00 a.m. Thursday and lasts to 6.00 a.m. Friday, during which no news or other items will be broadcast or dispatched by newsmedia parcticipating in the the strike. Journalists in Athens will hold a demonstration outside the Athens Journalists Union (ESIEA) building in downtown Athens, followed by a march to parliament. Public transport workers will hold a 24-hour strike on Thursday. The commuter strike includes urban buses, trolleys, trams, the ISAP electric trains and the Athens Metro. The only transport means that will be running is the Proastiakos suburban railway. IWW backs the strikes.

Street protest in Athens Thursday by marxist and pro-Hamas groups. A demonstration against the Israeli raid has been scheduled for 3 June in central Athens, arranged by marxist and pro-Hamas groups. Similar demonstrations will take place in other Greek cities, as well. More marxist extremist ochlarchy? The anarchist point of view and criticism are presented at IJA 4 (31).

31.05.2010. Peace march in memory of Lambrakis, assassinated by a rightwing-extremist. Handball victim of hooligans. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy. Suspects in Grigoropoulos case to be bailed on Sunday. Protest broken up outside Israeli embassy. The anarchists condemn the marxist ochlarchy, but have also criticized Israel.

Peace march in memory of Lambrakis, assassinated by a rightwing-extremist. Dozens of people took part yesterday in a walk for peace from Marathon, northeast of Athens, to the city center in memory of the assassinated left-wing MP and activist Grigoris Lambrakis, who organized Greece's first pacifist march. Campaigners gather each year to remember Lambrakis, who was assassinated by far-right extremists in May 1963.

Handball victim of hooligans. Ten people were injured during ugly clashes between hooligans in Lamia, central Greece, on Saturday ahead of a handball tournament. Supporters of two of the four teams taking part in the competition, AEK and PAOK, fought in the city center before continuing their brawl in the indoor arena where the matches were due to be held. Dozens of seats were ripped up and thrown by the fans, who also hurled flares at each other before riot police restored order. The tournament was called off and General Secretary for Sport Panayiotis Bitsaxis has called members of the handball federation to his office for talks today.

The worst violence took place in the center of Lamia, where more than 100 PAOK fans attacked an AEK supporters' club, throwing petrol bombs and stabbing two rival fans. Some 250 AEK fans then fought running battles with the hooligans from Thessaloniki, resulting in several shops and cars being seriously damaged. Organizers blamed the police for not being properly prepared but officers said that they were caught off guard by PAOK fans traveling through the night in private cars to stage their morning attack. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy.

Suspects in Grigoropoulos case to be bailed on Sunday. The two police officers being tried in connection to the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 are due to be released from custody on Sunday, June 6. The judge in the Amfissa court where the trial of Epaminondas Korkoneas and Vassilis Saraliotis is being held has ruled that the two suspects should be freed on bail because they have completed 18 months in custody. Both men have been barred from leaving the central Greek town and will have to report to the local police station every morning and evening until a verdict is delivered. They have been on trial (Korkoneas for shooting Grigoropoulos, Saraliotis for being an accomplice) since February but it is still not clear when the case will be wrapped up.

Protest broken up outside Israeli embassy. Disturbances broke out outside the Israeli embassy in Athens early Monday evening when demonstrators hurled bottles and stones at police forces on guard outside the embassy. Police responded by using teargas, resulting in the protest dispersing. According to reports, demonstrators then headed for central Athens, with scattered "cat-&-mouse" skirmishes with police forces reported. The rally was held to press for the release of the activists and vessels by Israeli authorities. The protest was called by marxist leftist groups and pro-Hamas activists. Earlier, another protest rally was held outside the Israeli embassy by the Communist Party (KKE)-affiliated youth organization KNE. The anarchists condemn the marxist ochlarchy, but have also criticized Israel.

28.05.2010. More populism: Kallikratis approved. Anarchist comment. Unions persist. GSEE rejects appeal for talks. Crisis. Parthenon protest at scaffolding removal.

More populism: Kallikratis approved. Controversial local authority bill passes through Parliament. Kallikratis, a government plan to reorganize local authorities that has provoked widespread protests, was approved in principle in Parliament yesterday with 160 votes for and 124 against. Of the 268 deputies present in the House, 160 cast a positive ballot to the bill. The Kallikratis bill envisaging mergers between local authorities was passed by the Greek Parliament during a vote on the individual articles on Friday. The bill as mentioned had been passed in principle during a session on Thursday. Protests against the reforms continued unabated yesterday, with a group of mayors staging a small rally outside Parliament and residents of Ileia, in the Peloponnese, blockading the national highway linking Patra and Pyrgos. Elsewhere, residents in Velvento, a small town in the northern prefecture of Kozani, occupied a local power station for several hours to express their opposition to the changes.

On Wednesday 26.05.2010, about 150 residents from the small coastal town if Kymi blocked traffic for about two hours in a noisy protest against Kallikratis outside parliament. "We're here for the third time. All the stores are closed in our town so that we could come here to protest," Kymi mayor Dimitris Thomas said, barely audible over the noise drums and aerosol horns. "They want to merge our municipality into a giant area 100 kilometers (60 mile) wide, with 110 villages, many of them in mountainous terrain. How will people get access to services?"

As mentioned the plan aspires to reduce the existing 1,034 municipalities to 325, hoping to 'earn' about 1.2 billion euros ($1.5 billion). Under the new plan, also prefects are to be replaced by 12 Regions. The anarchists are as mentioned clearly against this massive centralization plan. If implemented it will probably increase, not reduce, bureaucracy costs. Longer way to civil services, more top heavy public hierarchy, and in general higher costs for the people seen as a class, as opposed to the superiors in rank/and or income, will most likely be the result.

Unions persist. GSEE rejects appeal for talks. The General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) yesterday rejected an appeal by Labor and Social and Insurance Minister Andreas Loverdos for a discussion on labor relations and pending reforms to the pension system, dismissing the measures being proposed by the government as "extreme and against the workers." ADEDY and GSEE are both planning strike action in June though no date had been set by late yesterday. The civil servants' union ADEDY on Friday announced that it had finalized plans for protest action against the austerity measures, pension reforms and the changes to labour law being pushed through by the government. The union said that nationwide rallies in Athens, Thessaloniki and Iraklio that were originally envisaged for this Saturday have been postponed for the following week, on June 5. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the public-sector staff union federations and prefectural sections will hold general meetings and regional meetings linked to forms of action, it added.

Euronews 25.05.2010 reported: Crisis. Parthenon protest at scaffolding removal. It was meant to be a day for Greeks to unite. But the unveiling of the newly restored Acropolis instead turned into another day of protest over the country's cash crisis. As the Culture Minister unveiled the recently reassembled Parthenon, one of Greece's most popular attractions, around a 100 short-term construction workers demonstrated over alleged unpaid wages. Used by successive governments since the 70s, some labourers complain they have not received any money for up to a year. "The Culture Ministry has a huge need in terms of personnel and it's been easy for all governments to use us as it's a vote winner. But they've changed personnel here like people change their shirts," said Nikos Hazomeris, President of the Culture Ministry's short-term contract workers' organisation. Thousand of archaeological site workers stand to lose their jobs because of Greece's financial woes. The government, however, has pledged to continue the restoration work which is likely to continue for another decade.

24.05.2010. Brown Cards to the Greek fascist rightwing extremist lier Nikos Hidiroglou and the nazi-papers Hellenic Lines (Greek) and Chronicle (American). Populism, with chaos/ochlarchy, not anarchy in Greece!

The fascist rightwing extremist (see the note "What is an extremist..." above) Nikos Hidiroglou wrote the following lies in the December 2009 issue of the American nazi-magazine Chronicles and also published in the Greek nazi-paper Hellenic Lines: "Left turn in Greece. Security has always been a key issue for conservatives and nationalists worldwide. But that's not the case in Greece. So voters in the homeland of democracy, displeased by riots and anarchy, the inability of the government to put down the protests, and the effects of the financial crisis, have reacted angrily against the "conservatives" on whose watch the chaos took place."

The truth is that there is no significant left turn in Greece, and the system is far from anarchy, but with clear tendencies of chaos/ochlarchy, the opposite of anarchy, see the note on "Anarchy is optimal order" above with links about a.o.t. anarchy vs chaos.

The system in Greece has been, is, and will probably for a long time be populism , as explained in the reports of

b) 19.11.2009. The Greek system, populism with a rivaling leftwing extremist marxist state within the state. The anarchists call for winding up of this marxist ochlarchy.

The long term average, structural, coordinates of the Greek system on the economic-political map, have not changed significantly. The system seen all in all is mainly populist, a moderate, parliamentarian form of fascism, with about 58% authoritarian degree and about 42% libertarian degree, ranked as no 25 of the countries in the world according to libertarian degree. The degree of capitalism is estimated to about 52,1% and the degree of statism to about 63,4%, i.e. both significant.

The change of cabinet to a so called 'socialist' party, and the strikes and demonstrations, etc. have not changed the Greek populist system in libertarian direction so far... Populism with a rivaling leftwing extremist ochlarchist marxist para-state within the state, prevails. This marxist para-state consists mainly of rioters, hooligans, vandals and terrorists, including all the present Molotov-coctail-throwing and other bomb attackers in Greece, i.e. an ochlarchy. No anarchists are a part of this para-state and it is not an anarchy.

The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism etc., i.e. extremism and ochlarchy. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and not anarchistic and not done by anarchists. People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian, and not anarchistic and anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called in the media or by others!

There is so far no momentum, a clear aim with sufficient popular support, for a change of the societal organization in horizontal direction, toward real democracy, anarchy - order included. But the anarchists call for (click on:) direct actions , i.e. actions without chaos/ochlarchy, for a change of the Greek system in horizontal direction, toward anarchy.

The concept para-state, briefly defined, means "beside; near; alongside; similar to; resembling; by;" - state, usually a rivaling state within the state of the country, as in this case.

The anarchists have called for winding up of this rivaling leftwing extremist ochlarchist marxist para-state within the state, in Exarchia and other places, as an important part of the general fight against statism.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the Greek fascist rightwing extremist lier Nikos Hidiroglou and the nazi-papers Hellenic Lines (Greek) and Chronicle (American), according to the (click on:) Oslo Convention. As mentioned anarchy and ochlarchy/chaos are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchy with ochlarchy/chaos, as the Greek fascist rightwing extremist lier Nikos Hidiroglou and the nazi-papers Hellenic Lines (Greek) and Chronicle (American) do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak.

22.05.2010. Brown Cards to 'koukouloforoi', 'hooded ones', Panagiotis, Kostas, etc., falsely posing as "anarchists", in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and New York Times/International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis.

New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis 19.05.2010 reported the following lie-story:

Urban guerrillas in Greece face scrutiny. Panagiotis became an anarchist at 15, a middle-class Athenian kid attracted to anti-authoritarianism and the gritty central Exarcheia [a.k.a. Exarchia and Exarhia] neighborhood, where Greece's activists came of age. Over the last 26 years, he says he has thrown stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails during hundreds of anti-government demonstrations. His identity is often hidden behind a mask and hood and layers of black clothing, the dress code of koukouloforoi, the "hooded ones" that Greek police say regularly turn peaceful protests here violent. Three people died during the last big demonstration on May 5, when a band of koukouloforoi broke away from the largely peaceful crowd of 100,000 and firebombed Marfin Egnatia bank, killing three young workers. Many Greeks call the dead martyrs of the financial crisis, and their hooded attackers murderers.

Panagiotis, now a burly 41-year-old, says he understands. He, like virtually all the anarchists, would not give his full name for fear of reprisals, but says he and other Exarcheia activists are appalled and saddened at the deaths. "We are not against violence," he said, over a shot of raki at a popular Exarcheia anarchist hangout. "But when we decide to use it, we will think a hundred times about how and why. These kids on May 5 didn't even think for a minute. They only destroyed, only for the sake of destroying." In a country where taking to the streets is part of national culture, the koukouloforoi have long been tolerated as urban guerrillas splintered from anarchists, far-left activists and anti-globalization campaigners, who articulate deep frustrations about Greek cronyism and corruption. On the eve of Greece's fourth general strike and another planned demonstration against austerity measures, they have become a leading force in what many here fear is the beginning of a long, hot summer of social unrest that could hurt the country's economic recovery.

But the koukouloforoi are by no means a unified force. In recent years, they have grown to include vigilantes and petty criminals who are not tied to any ideology, according to police and security experts. "They are not a disciplined group that's easy to profile," said Mary Bossis, a professor and security expert at the University of Piraeus. "Many are hooligans or robbers or just very angry young people who want to damage anything. These days, it's hard to know how many are activists." Wearing black clothing, helmets and masks and carrying clubs, the koukouloforoi hijack some of the hundreds of peaceful demonstrations that take place in Greece annually. Their favored targets are banks, government buildings and other symbols of wealth and power. In Greece, anti-state protest has its roots in the civil war of 1946-49 and especially the military dictatorship of 1967-74, when tens of thousands of students helped overthrow the junta.

Most anti-authoritarians in Greece are not violent, though experts note that the movements tend to attract some disaffected teenagers and twentysomethings from comfortable Athenian suburbs. They rail against authority on Facebook groups like "I want to blow up Parliament (when everyone's in there)." Like protest movements from Ukraine to China, they communicate and organize themselves using the Internet and cell phone text messages. Many anarchists approached since the May 5 demonstrations declined to be interviewed, saying they felt unfairly targeted by the Greek police and mistreated by the news media. Only a few, like Panagiotis would go so far as to provide their first names.

In an interview last month, Kostas, a 21-year-old university student and anarchist who declined to give his full name because he feared police reprisal, said that he sympathized with koukouloforoi, even if he had never donned their garb. Kostas said he lived with his parents in the upper middle-class suburb of Halandri. He was outraged that the Greek government applied for billions in loans from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, which he likened to "two faceless, soulless bosses." Greek politicians "are the criminals, not the koukouloforoi," he said, after an anti-IMF. protest on April 23 where he had broken shop windows in central Athens with pieces of broken marble.

A spokesperson for Public Order Minister, Michalis Chrysohoidis, said the minister, who in 2002 led the arrest of the long-elusive 17 November terrorist group, wanted to protect Greeks' "sacred right" to protest peacefully. But because of what the ministry called a "zero tolerance" policy toward violence, the police have also stepped up patrols in Exarcheia — often unfairly, activists say. On the evening of May 5, police officers raided the center of a prominent leftist and anti-authoritarian group called Diktio, or the Network of Political and Social Rights, injuring several people, said Yianna Kourtovik, a lawyer and longtime Diktio member. "They called us murderers," she said.

In December 2008, Athens was shaken by weeks of rioting after a police officer shot and killed 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos after a standoff in Exarcheia. The teenager, who lived in a wealthy Athens neighborhood, is considered a victim of police brutality by many Exarcheia activists. Though the activists have widely denounced the May 5 violence, they acknowledge that their call to revolution is often misunderstood by young people. Some anarchists say the movement has created a "monster." Vassilis Chajiakovou, the 44-year-old manager of the Ianos bookstore in central Athens, faced down one of the koukouloforoi who bombed Marfin Egnatia bank and his own bookstore on May 5.

The bookstore was already in flames when a wiry young man in the hood and mask threatened Mr. Chajiakovou with a gasoline bomb. "I'll burn you alive," Mr. Chajiakovou recalled the young man yelling in a shrill, boyish voice. But when Mr. Chajiakovou charged him, the young man ran away. Across the street at the bank, employees trapped inside were screaming for help. Soon, two women and a man in their 30s were dead from smoke inhalation. That day's protests had a particular resonance to Mr. Chajiakovou. A former anarchist and anti-authoritarian himself, he recalled how, at 19, he had thrown rocks at the French nationalist politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was visiting Athens in 1985, while his friends lobbed Molotov cocktails.

Years later, his bookstore, which suffered €100,000, or $126,000, in damages during the recent attack, became a popular hangout for counterculture intellectuals. Yet now he fears that a legitimate protest movement that once was motivated by social justice has become consumed by hate. "I don't want to believe the people who threw bombs at us and murdered three people across the street belong to any legitimate ideology," he said. "The people who stormed into our store wanted to kill for the thrill of it. There's nothing revolutionary about that."

1. The anarchists condemn marxist vanguardism, hallmarked by symbolic violent attacks on state and capitalism, say, "targets are banks, government buildings and other symbols of wealth and power" and "I want to blow up Parliament (when everyone's in there)," and similar, i.e. ochlarchy and ochlarchist, futile from anarchist point of view, and the opposite of anarchism and anarchist. Such symbolic violent actions are typically marxist vanguardism, similar to RAF-ml (Baader-Meinhof), etc. and the opposite of anarchism and anarchist. Say, a burnt down parliament and killed MPs, will most likely be replaced by a new parliament and new MPs, and no change of the system in anarchist direction, or, less likely, be replaced with an ultra-authoritarian "strong man", and an even more authoritarian system than the present populist system in Greece. Arrest the marxist 'vanguard', the marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, i.e. terrorists, vandals and hooligans. The anarchists have a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 and the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, in this analysis. Se also point 2. for more information.

2. Ad so called "anarchists" that use/used firebombs (Molotov coctails) and similar.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and (click on:) direct action. The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using firebombs, so called "anarchists", falsely called so by New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

As indicated above, these so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs, are in reality not anarchists, they are extremists and ochlarchists. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism, i.e. extremism and ochlarchy. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and not anarchistic.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs - mentioned by New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, to 'koukouloforoi', 'hooded ones', Panagiotis, Kostas, etc., falsely posing as "anarchists", so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the (click on:) Oslo Convention.

People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian, and not anarchistic and anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called in the media or by others! Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, not attacking persons or things... Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions on capitalism and statism as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, and not in the mentioned and similar cases. 'Koukouloforoi', 'hooded ones', Panagiotis, Kostas, etc., falsely posing as "anarchists", are as mentioned in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis do is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The liers New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

3. Ad so called "anarchists" that do/did vandalism and hooliganism, vigilantes and petty criminals and robbers (theft, see the Oslo Convention), storming banks and similar, i.e. throwing stones at police etc.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at the police etc, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. New York Times - International Herald Tribune and Joanna Kakissis get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at police etc, and falsely posing as "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia and others! Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, to 'koukouloforoi', 'hooded ones', Panagiotis, Kostas, etc., falsely posing as "anarchists", so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the (click on:) Oslo Convention .

Such violent attacks on police etc. are ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn these violent attacks on police etc., and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

4. The IAT-APT has commented on the so called "anarchists", in reality marxist ochlarchists, in Exarchia, in general before, say, see report of 11.03.2010 and the list of contents above. The ochlarchists of Exarchia have in general long time ago got Brown Cards meaning they are expulsed from the anarchists movement. Exarchia is a marxist-ochlarchist hangout and stronghold, not an "anarchist hangout". The anarchists have several times called for a winding up of this marxist and authoritarian para-state, i.e. an ochlarchy. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

21.05.2010. More about yesterday's non-ochlarchical general strike and demonstrations. Lots of black, and black and red, anarchist flags were used at the demonstrations. Marxist terrorgroup responsible for bomb blasts.

Kathimerini reports: Greeks protest more reforms, peacefully. Turnout smaller than fatal May 5 rally. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Athens yesterday for a peaceful demonstration as public and private sector workers joined the latest 24-hour strike against the government's austerity measures. The strike brought most public transport to a halt, shut down schools and left hospitals with only emergency staff. International flights were not affected as air-traffic controllers did not join the action to avoid aggravating disruption in air space over Europe caused by volcanic ash. But ferries remained moored in port as the strike was joined by seamen who prevented three cruise liners, carrying some 7,000 tourists, from docking at Piraeus.

The police were out in force yesterday, with orders to quell violence of the kind that led to three deaths during the last strike on May 5 when rioters firebombed a bank. Officers detained nearly 100 people for questioning following pre-emptive checks in the central Athens neighborhood of Exarchia [a marxist-ochlarchy stronghold]. There were no reports of skirmishes between protesters and riot police and the three rallies, organized by separate unions, concluded peacefully.

The demonstration attracted tens of thousands of protesters – estimates ranged between 20,000 and 35,000 – but was much smaller than the May 5 rally that had drawn around 100,000 people. Yesterday's protest also seemed less emotionally charged. Demonstrators chanted slogans such as "Thieves, thieves" outside Parliament – where a bill to reform the country's creaking pension system is to be tabled next week. Unionists issued rallying calls to demonstrators to "rise up" against the reforms which they condemned as "outrageous." But there were no tense standoffs or clashes. Officers closely tailed a crowd of demonstrators carrying flags in the red and black colors associated with anarchism but there were no scuffles.

The pension system overhaul is part of a raft of reforms the government has committed to push through in exchange for a 110-billion-euro aid package from the European Union and International Monetary Fund. An IMF [bureaucracy] spokesperson, Caroline Atkinson, said yesterday that the Fund is not waiting to see wage cuts in the private sector. "We agree with the government that there is no need to mandate cuts in private sector wages," she said. "Of course, there is an issue of competitiveness that the government is addressing through a number of measures in its program," she added.

The general strike and demonstrations were non-ochlarchical. Lots of black, and black and red, anarchist flags were used at the demonstrations. See also the report of 20.05.2010 updated. 'Cut in private and public bureaucracy, and its costs', the anarchists underline!

ERT reports: Support mechanism sparks wrangling in House. "We want to turn the crisis into a real opportunity," said the Greek Prime Minister from the House podium, while answering to a question posed by SYN President Alexis Tsipras on the deterioration of social indexes. George Papandreou stressed that the recovery of the country's economy and social state is a double bet that has to be won. "The choice had been between collapse and survival. We opted for survival," underlined George Papandreou, further noting that the government managed to guarantee development for the country. Alexis Tsipras, on the other hand, blasted the government for lacking the people's consent to implement the austerity measures he took along with the EU and the IMF.

ANA-MPA reports: Terrorist group assumes responsibility for Korydallos and Thessaloniki bomb blasts. "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire" terrorist group assumed on Wednesday responsibility for the two powerful explosions at the Korydallos prison last Thursday night and at the Thessaloniki courthouses at noon last Friday, in a proclamation uploaded on an Internet blogspot. In the announcement the group criticises the judicial and penitentiary system, while expressing solidarity for defendants for "participation in the revolutionary struggle". The announcement is accompanied by a second text on the tragic incident regarding the arson attack on the Marfin bank in which three employees lost their lives.

20.05.2010. General strike - Anarchists: No to IMF and euro etc. policy = high profit = high bureaucracy costs in private and public sector, and poor people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income...

General strike in Greece - Anarchists: No to IMF, WB, EU and euro etc. policy = a) high profit = high bureaucracy costs in private and public sector, and low costs = poor people, seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income = the bureaucracy; and b) unenlightened plutarchy with relatively low real income, low GDP per capita, high Gini-index, and high unemployment, crisis, recession and depression, in general unless special cases. Against this the libertarians call for ANARCHIST ECONOMICS, environmental included, in Greece and world wide. Implement the anarchists' PLAN!!!

More than 20,000 protesters marched through Athens to parliament Thursday as unions challenged Greece's harsh austerity measures and the unenlightened plutarchy with their fourth general strike this year - and the first since three people died when a bank was torched. Two separate rallies ended peacefully, but city officials and shopkeepers had taken extensive precautions in case the protests turned violent, like the one two weeks ago. Store owners closed up and lowered protective shutters before the march got under way, and police deployed 1,700 officers and detained 36 people in an early show of strength. Demonstrators outside the parliament building banged pots and pans and shouted "Thieves, thieves!" but did not attempt to breach a cordon of riot police holding them back.

The strike closed schools, halted ferries and trains, and kept hospitals running with only emergency staff. The Acropolis and other ancient sites in Athens were also shut. Premier George Papandreou, visiting Lebanon, said he 'sympathized' with many of the protesters, but he did not promise policy a) against the unenlightened plutarchy and the bureaucracy, and b) for anarchist economics and the people. "The Greek people are understandably voicing their views about the economic crisis, and it is painful," Papandreou said. "We understand this and I understand this myself. We also know that we must move ahead with these changes in order to make the country with a viable economy, a competitive economy." This means a.o.t. "low costs" = poor people and, high unemployment... and high profit = bureaucracy costs...

As mentioned during Greece's last general strike May 5, three workers - including a pregnant woman - died when a bank was torched by rioters. Protesters observed a minute of silence for the three victims before the march, which ended peacefully. The only tension came after the march was over, when a group of about 20 mainly young protesters sat in the middle of a major avenue in front of Parliament. Outnumbered by TV cameras, photographers and curious onlookers, the group refused to budge for about an hour, forcing dozens of cars - including an open-top double-decker tour bus with irate tourists giving them thumbs-down signs - to maneuver away and use other streets. Police in riot gear later pushed the protesters off the road.

Public anger has grown at deep pension and salary cuts, as well as steep tax hikes, imposed in an attempt to pull Greece out of an unprecedented debt crisis. The measures were decided as a de facto support to the bureaucracy for Greece to receive a euro110 billion ($134.97 billion) three-year 'rescue loan package' from other EU countries and the International Monetary Fund that staved off a default. It must be mentioned that Argentina did well economically after a default... Demonstrator Giorgos Koukaridis said he hoped the rally would counter the perception that salary and pension cuts are inevitable. "There is the [false] notion that whatever is meant to pass [in parliament] will pass. And that's the bad thing," he said.

Ilias Iliopoulos, general secretary of Greece's public servants' union, ADEDY, said low-income workers were being burdened unfairly. "Let the government hear this message very clearly: We are not retreating from our demands, and we will continue our struggle until we have won," Iliopoulos said. Earlier, members of a communist-backed labor union occupied the Labor Ministry and held a separate peaceful rally. About 5,000 protesters also marched in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city.

Thursday's major strike - the fourth this year - affected all public and many private employers. However, unlike other general walkouts, most flights were unaffected as air traffic controllers stayed on the job. Some small regional airports closed, and Greece's Olympic Air carrier said it was canceling 30 domestic flights. Greece's largest traders association urged the government to take appropriate police measures to prevent damage to stores which are frequently vandalized during protest marches. The country's debt crisis has sent shock waves through global markets. That, combined with fears for Europe's struggling economy and German warnings that the future of the euro is at stake, sent the common currency to a four-year low against the dollar Wednesday.

PS. A lot of anarchists participated in the main demonstration, some of them using anarchist black flags, also shown internationally by BBC-TV.

19.05.2010. Greek PM: 'New development models are required'. It's time for anarchist economics! General strike and new wave of strike action on the way. IWW backs the strikes.

Greek PM: 'New development models are required'. It's time for anarchist economics!

The fight against the financial and environmental crises requires a new development model, said the Greek Prime Minister while addressing an annual Euro-Mediterranean Energy Forum. It's time for anarchist economics! See the report of 18.05.2010.

General strike and new wave of strike action on the way. IWW backs the strikes. Another general strike tomorrow, called by the countries' two main unions, will disrupt public services and transport although flights will run as scheduled. The 24-hour strike, the first since May 5 when the firebombing of a bank led to the deaths of three employees, will halt services on the Athens metro, buses, trolley buses, the tram and the suburban railway and regular railway. The Piraeus-Kifissia urban electric railway (ISAP) will run a limited service between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Flights will be unaffected as air-traffic controllers announced that they would not join the walkout. But ferries will remain moored at Piraeus and other ports around the country as seamen are striking. Taxis will run as normal.

Motorists are advised to avoid the city center as rallies planned by the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) and the main civil servants' union (ADEDY) are expected to block most major roads. As usual, the strike action will close down schools and government services and oblige state hospitals to operate on emergency staff. Journalists will not join the strike and as a result there will be coverage of the protest rallies and other news on television and radio and newspapers will circulate on Friday. Labor unions, which are staging their action to emphasize their opposition to austerity measures already passed by the government and to pension reforms due to be submitted in Parliament next week, said yesterday that they are already planning a new strike for June. In a joint statement, ADEDY and GSEE condemned looming pension reform which they said would "negate and undermine the rights of insured citizens."

The 24-hour nationwide general strike heralded by Greece's two umbrella unions for the private and public sector, GSEE and ADEDY respectively, will reduce everything to a crawl on Thursday. Transport will be seriously disrupted. Reacting to the changes in the pension system, GSEE and ADEDY have urged workers to take part in a street protest in central Athens on Thursday morning. It remains to be seen what will happen with the national level exams scheduled to take place on the strike day, since OLME (Federation of Secondary School Teachers) has urged teachers to abstain from their duties. The Education Minister refused to reschedule the exams, as proposed by OLME, and called on teachers to not go out on a strike.

We cannot break the strike lest there should be problems in the exams, OLME head Dimitris Peppes said, further adding that Thursday's strike concerns all the workers and not certain groups. Lawyers will also join the strike, while services in public hospitals will be cut to a bare minimum. Transport will be seriously disrupted in the Attica basin, since there will be no bus, trolley and metro services. Ships will remain grounded in the ports. Flights as mentioned won't be affected, though, since air traffic controllers decided to abstain from the strike. IWW backs the strikes.

More about reform 'Kallikratis' protests hitting roads and borders. Opposition to Kallikratis, a government plan to redraw local government boundaries, grew yesterday with residents of a small town in northern Greece blocking the Egnatia Highway for the fifth day while protesters in Crete tried to occupy Iraklio Airport and communities close to the Bulgarian and Turkish borders prepared to block two crossings tomorrow. Residents of the small town of Siatista, near Kozani in northern Greece, continued to disrupt the flow of traffic on the Egnatia Highway yesterday by blocking the Bara junction for the fifth day. The protesters are upset that their town has not been made the capital of Voios Municipality.

Locals in the municipalities of Trigono, Kyprino and Vyssa are also angry with the Kallikratis plan. They want their three municipalities to be merged, as has been the case in other parts of the country. They are threatening to block the crossings of Ormenio and Kipoi, on the Bulgarian and Turkish borders respectively, all day tomorrow, to press their demands. "Our three municipalities fulfill all the preconditions set out in Kallikratis to be unified into one," said Trigono Mayor Manolis Hatzipanayiotou. Police on Crete yesterday afternoon removed a group of protesters who had cut through the wire fence surrounding Iraklio Airport which they had planned to occupy in a symbolic protest against the Kallikratis plan.

In Halkidiki, residents of the municipalities of Triglia, Moudania and Kallikrateia are also up in arms over the reforms. In their case, they oppose plans to merge their communities into one. In Athens, street market traders joined the protests against the reforms which, they say, would give local authorities control over the operation of the markets. "We will not allow street markets to become a vehicle for the serving of party political interests," said a statement by the union, which has called on members to join a blockade of the Economy, Competitiveness and Merchant Marine Ministry on Mesogeion Avenue this afternoon. As mentioned the anarchists are clearly against this massive centralization plan. If implemented it will probably increase, not reduce, bureaucracy costs.

Greek public debt surpasses 300 bln euros in Q1. Greece's public debt surpassed the 300-bln-euro mark in the first quarter of 2010, totaling 310.384 billion euros on March 31, 2010, up from 298.524 billion euros at the end of 2009, the General Accounting Office announced on Wednesday. In a statement, the Accounting Office said the Greek state's cash reserves totaled 7.519 billion euros at the end of the first quarter of 2010, sharply up from 1.1 billion euros at the end of 2009. Greek inflation jumped to 4.7 pct in April, up from 3.9 pct in March, Eurostat said on Tuesday.

PM appoints new Deputy Tourism and Culture Minister. Dodecanese MP George Nikitiadis was appointed by Prime Minister George Papandreou as Deputy Tourism and Culture Minister, government spokesman George Petalotis announced on Thursday. Nikitiadis replaces Angela Gerekou, who resigned from the post on Monday.

18.05.2010. Anarchists against the top heavy Greek societal pyramid, economical and political/administrative - cut bureaucracy costs - increase the demand of the people - for full employment - against the unenlightend plutarchy of IMF, WB, euro and EU.

Reuters reports: Greek unions warn of more strikes, protests in June. Greece's main labor unions said on Tuesday they would carry out more strikes in June to protest against a pension reform bill they say will further burden the poor who have been hit by government austerity measures. The [so called] Socialist government says the draft pension reform bill is aimed at saving the social security system from bankruptcy. It raises the retirement age and discourages workers from taking their pension early. The private and public sector unions which represent about 2.5 million workers, around half of the Greek workforce, have already called a one-day general strike for May 20, the first since three people died in a petrol bomb attack during a march by 50,000 protesters this month.

"We are calling workers, pensioners, young people, who expect the government policies to change, to join Thursday's strike, which will not be the last one," said Ilias Iliopoulos, public sector union's ADEDY General Secretary. "The government hasn't realized yet the size of the explosion." Parliament is expected to vote on the pension reform bill, drawn up after consultations with the EU and the IMF, early in June. The government has a comfortable parliamentary majority. Unions are to meet after the strike on Thursday and decide on further labor action.

"If the pension bill is left unchanged, we will certainly protest in June. And if the government takes more harmful measures the summer will also be a period of labor action," Iliopoulos said. Despite the growing size of the protests, opinion polls show that most Greeks agree the austerity measures are necessary, but are angry because they believe the burden is being unfairly shouldered by the general population while the rich evade taxes. Political analysts and pollsters have said that once this week's strike is over, the government could face a three-to-four month period of relative calm as Athenians flee the intense heat of the capital for the breeze and beaches of nearby islands.

Lawyers strike. Lawyers are to join a general strike due to take place on Thursday, the coordinating committee representing all the country's bar associations said yesterday. The action has been called to protest the impact of new tax measures and imminent changes to the pension system. The anarchists don't support tax-evasion and similar by the economical plutarchists.

Mass transit stike on Thursday, air traffic controllers to work. Unions representing mass transit employees in Athens, with the exception of the ISAP electric railway, have called a strike on Thursday, part of a nationwide 24-hour mobilization called by the two largest labour unions in the public and private sectors, ADEDY and GSEE, respectively. ISAP services will run from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Thursday. Hellenic Railways (OSE) employees will also participate in the 24-hour strike. Meanwhile, the air traffic controllers announced that they will not to participate in the strike, meaning that all commercial flights will be held according to schedule. Problems are likely in domestic flights mainly in small airports in case the union representing civil aviation authority employees (OSYPA) decides to strike.

KEPs closed. State Citizen Service Centers (KEP) will be closed today as employees continue a 48-hour strike launched yesterday to protest the government's austerity measures.

Bomb hoax. The Athens Appeals Court was evacuated yesterday after an anonymous caller claimed a bomb had been planted in the building but the threat was a hoax. Last week, a large bomb went off at the main court building in Thessaloniki, causing substantial damage and one injury. It was revealed yesterday that the building will remain closed until repairs have been carried out, as there are concerns that the blast severely damaged the structure. The bomb created a two-meter wide crater.Terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism, bomb hoax, and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and direct action . The anarchists condemn the bomb hoax.

Minister out over taxes. Angela Gerekou resigns after singer husband is revealed to owe 5.5 million euros. Deputy Culture and Tourism Minister Angela Gerekou resigned yesterday after allegations that her husband, a popular singer, owed 5.5 million euros in taxes, a revelation that threatened to undermine the government's efforts to tackle tax evasion. Gerekou, a former actress, tendered her resignation yesterday evening to ensure the government would not be tarnished, according to a statement issued by Government Spokesman Giorgos Petalotis. He added that the MP for Corfu insisted she had nothing to do with the tax issue of her husband, Tolis Voskopoulos.

Earlier in the day, when confronted with a report in the Eleftherotypia daily about Voskopoulos failing to settle a tax bill over the last 17 years, Petalotis said it was a personal matter. Following the publication of the allegations, Voskopoulos, who had a glittering singing and acting career in Greece spanning several decades, issued a statement denying he enjoyed special treatment by tax authorities. He said the outstanding amounts date back to a legal dispute with his previous wife (Gerekou and Voskopoulos married in 1996), which had yet to be settled. The singer said his properties had already been seized by the state and he had attempted to negotiate for the interest on the initial amount he owed to be written off.

He also denied living a life of luxury, saying that he owned only one car, which was registered in 1977 and is no longer roadworthy. A little later, the Finance Ministry issued a statement confirming that five of Voskopoulos's properties had been seized and that he is the subject of two criminal procedures. However, the ministry added that it deemed the measures taken so far to recover the debt as "not being enough," although it blamed this on the "collapse" of the tax collecting mechanism under the previous New Democracy government. PASOK has staked much of its reputation on tackling tax evasion, which could be worth as much as 15 billion euros a year, and the fact that one of its ministers was embroiled in such a case is likely to be a cause for much embarrassment. "The government is determined to restore respect for the law and to treat all citizens equally both in respect to their rights and their obligations," the Finance Ministry said.

No to "Kallikratis" centralization plan. Interior Minister Giannis Raggousis submitted Friday government's ambitious plan to redraw administrative boundaries at a local level known as "Kallikratis." The plan is expected to be voted before the end of May. The plan aspires to reduce the existing 1,034 municipalities to 325, hoping to earn about 1.2 billion euros. Under the new plan, also prefects are to be replaced by 12 Regions. The anarchists are clearly against this massive centralization plan. If implemented it will probably increase, not reduce, bureaucracy costs.

Opposition to Kallikratis grows. Protests by local authority officials against Kallikratis, an ambitious government plan to redraw administrative boundaries and overhaul local government, continued yesterday with the resignation of the entire council of a municipality in the Peloponnese. Meanwhile, residents of the small town of Siatista, near Kozani in northern Greece, blocked the Egnatia Highway for the fourth day in a row, complaining that their town has not been made the capital of Voios municipality. The leader of the main opposition conservative New Democracy party, Antonis Samaras, appeared to take advantage of the mood, calling on local government officials affiliated to ND to encourage residents in their areas to oppose the bill, due to be submitted in Parliament soon. "If the government persists with this choice, it will incur a heavy cost," Samaras said.

Although the main aim of Kallikratis is not to cut costs, it is estimated that it will save up to 2 billion euros and the merging of some local authorities will inevitably lead to job losses. Yesterday's protests, though, were not protests at planned mergers of local authorities, but the opposite. The mayor of Gargalianoi, Stavros Kalofolias, and members of his municipal council said they had decided to tender their resignations to the region's general secretary because their proposal for the merger of their municipality with that of adjacent Filiatra has not been approved by the Interior Ministry.

The municipal authorities of Corinth were also up in arms yesterday, demanding that the borders of their municipality be extended to reach the Isthmus of Corinth, while authorities in Tropaia, in the prefecture of Arcadia, want to be unified with two municipalities in the neighboring province of Gortynia and have threatened protests if their demand is not satisfied. Earlier this month, the mayor of Elliniko in southern Athens, Christos Kortzidis, went on a hunger strike to protest the changes foreseen by Kallikratis.

Local residents announce roadblocks of NE border crossings on Thursday. Local residents from the municipalities of Trigono, Kyprinos and Vissa in the northeast prefecture of Evros have warned that they will block the Ormenio post on the frontier with Bulgaria on Thursday morning. Residents said they will block the crossing until 4 p.m. in protest over their townships' proposed merger with the larger municipality of Orestiada. All stores and services will also be closed in a show of protest. The merger will take place within the framework of Kallikratis local administration reform plan. Meanwhile, the Kipi border post with Turkey will also be targetted by local residents on Thursday morning angered over the proposed merger of the Ferres and Tychero municipalities.

Greece received a 14.5-billion euro ($17.9 billion) emergency loan from the European Union on Tuesday and will use some of the money to fully repay an 8.5-billion euro bond maturing the next day, officials said. It was Greece's presumed inability to redeem this euro bond, which matures on Wednesday, that prompted the EU and IMF to intervene and eventually agree to a 110-billion euro aid package this month. The IMF has already lent Greece 5.5 billion euros. "The 14.5 billion euros was transferred to Greece a short while ago, through the ECB," said a Greek bank official close the deal, speaking on condition of anonymity. Greece will now use some of the funds to fully repay the 10-year bond, a government official said.

"Repayment to bondholders will proceed normally on May 19," the official, who declined to be named, told Reuters. The 6 percent fixed-coupon bond was a major refunding hurdle for Greece this year along with a 5-year, 8.2 billion euro bond that was repaid on April 20. According to a standard convention for Greek bonds, Greece would not technically default on its payments as long as it paid the principle within seven days and the interest within 30 days, but the markets might well have viewed any delay differently. Greece has embarked on the huge task of cutting its deficit from nearly 14 percent of GDP to 3 percent by 2014 to meet the conditions of the EU/IMF aid, but faces a series of large protests against the government's wage cuts and tax hikes.

17.05.2010. Strikes, backed by IWW. Greek fiscal plan needs stimulus back-up. PM hints at action against US banks. Extreme unenlightened plutarchy. The best alternative, real democracy and horizontal organization.

KEP strike. State Citizen Service Centers (KEP) will be closed today and tomorrow as employees stage a 48-hour strike to protest the government's austerity measures. Unionists spoke of "a violent attack on workers' rights." The strike is backed by IWW and anarchists in general, although use of the phrase "violent attack" here is an exaggeration.

General strike 20.05.2010. Greece's major umbrella unions, GSEE for the private sector and ADEDY for the public one, are getting ready for the 24-hour strike they have scheduled for 20 May. In a press conference the two unions will give on Tuesday, they will outline their positions on a socially effective and financial viable pension system. "Since the bill promoted by the government runs contradictory, GSEE and ADEDY have scheduled a 24-hour strike for 20 May and a demonstration in central Athens," said a statement issued by the two unions. The general strike is backed by IWW and anarchists in general.

Greek fiscal plan needs stimulus back-up - Papandreou. Says govt has to protect weakest in Greek society. Reuters reports: Greece's drive to cut its deficit will only work if combined with measures to stimulate growth and investment, the prime minister said on Monday, as Athens was poised to receive funds to cover a major debt refinancing due this week. Fears that deficit-cutting in Greece and elsewhere in the Euro-zone will hurt growth were at the forefront of investor concerns on Monday, sending the single currency to a four-year low and fuelling fears it may face freefall. Greece is seen by many economists as a bellwether for other vulnerable Euro-zone economies, being the first to tap an EU-IMF aid mechanism to service a 300 billion euro debt.

Athens has already received 5.5 billion euros in aid from the IMF and is due to get more from the EU on Tuesday to pay an 8.5-billion euro bond maturing on Wednesday. "The money has been secured, everything is in place," said a government official who declined to be named. Greece was obliged to impose drastic pay cuts and tax hikes in return for the 110 billion euro ($140 billion) EU/IMF bailout. Having staved off imminent default, it must now make sure revenues spur growth, Papandreou said. "This savings programme was the only way to avert the threat of a state bankruptcy," Prime Minister George Papandreou told Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper. "The programme can be sustainable only if we stimulate investment and growth."

Austerity measures are expected to further hurt the economy, which plunged into its first recession in 16 years last year and is forecast to contract by 4 percent in 2010. Investors are now watching the reaction of a restive Greek public and whether the [so called] Socialist government can withstand the pressure. Large, sometimes violent protests against the government have rocked the Greek capital and labour unions have called a general strike and major demonstration for May 20. For now though, opinion polls show most Greeks think the EU/IMF package was necessary, but are angry because they believe ordinary people will bear the brunt of the suffering while politicians and the rich continue to be pampered. While the government has pledged action against corrupt politicians, many Greeks are now hungry to see heads roll.

Safety net. As the austerity measures begin to bite, anger could rise more with the poor suffering most from cuts in public spending. "I believe we can implement our programme. But we must ensure the weakest in our society don't fall into the abyss," Papandreou said. "We can't push people below the poverty line." "Part of our savings programme is therefore a safety net. That will cost money but we have to do it." According to newspaper reports, the German government is to press other Euro-zone countries to adopt tighter fiscal rules to match Berlin's balanced budget law, which prohibits the federal government from running a deficit of more than 0.35 per cent of GDP by 2016. A finance ministry spokesman declined to comment, but said the government was drawing up plans to boost the euro and avert future debt crises, to be presented to a euro zone working group on Friday.

Asked to comment on market concerns over implementation risks and whether the belt-tightening would be too much to bear for the economy and the government, Papandreou said: "We now have the chance to prove that we can achieve it. If everyone says the Greeks can't achieve it, then they will condemn us to fail." "We're not begging for gifts of money, but asking for loans which will be paid back with high interest rates. I'm sure Greece is a good investment." Papandreou also criticised financial markets for overreacting to Greece's debt crisis and accused speculators of helping to provoke panic reactions. "Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jean-Claude Juncker and I have suggested in a joint letter to Barack Obama whether the markets for credit default swaps ... should not be closed. The G20 countries want to discuss this," he said. On Sunday, Papandreou told CNN that Greece may investigate US investment banks and their role in the run-up to the Greek debt crisis which has shaken faith in euro zone economies.

PM hints at action against US banks. Prime Minister George Papandreou indicated yesterday that Greece might take legal action against certain US banks which, he said, bear "great responsibility" for the debt crisis engulfing his country. Asked during an interview with CNN whether Greece had been a victim of US investment banks, Papandreou said: "I hear the words fraud and lack of transparency. So yes, yes, there is great responsibility here." Questioned further about the possibility of Greece taking legal action against these banks, Papandreou responded: "I wouldn't rule out that this may be a recourse." Papandreou also referred to an investigation by Greece's Parliament into deals struck by Greek authorities in 2000, with help from Goldman Sachs, that allowed them to mask the extent of the country's debts through the use of complex financial instruments. "We are looking into the past – how things went in the wrong direction and what kind of practices were negative practices," Papandreou told CNN.

The role of global investment banks in a debt crisis that has undermined the euro has been criticized by several European politicians, most prominently German Chancellor Angela Merkel who has urged European governments to crack down on speculators seeking to profit by gambling on the risk of countries defaulting on their debt. In a related development over the weekend, Germany's economics and technology minister lashed out at the head of Deutsche Bank for questioning Greece's ability to repay emergency EU loans. "I find the declarations strange, surprising and annoying," Rainer Bruderle said in comments published on the website of the financial weekly WirtschaftsWoche. "At a time when the debate is being carried out so publicly, such a strong statement on the television is not helpful," he added.

15.05.2010.The marxist terrorist group Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire prime suspect of recent bomb attacks in Greece. Gov't condemnation of Jewish cemetery vandalism. The anarchists also condemn the vandalism.

Kathimerini reports: Conspiracy group suspected in blasts. As forensic experts of the police's counterterrorism unit yesterday examined the remnants of two bombs that targeted Attica's Korydallos Prison and Thessaloniki's main court complex within 24 hours of each other, police sources said they believe members of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire to be behind both of the attacks. Yesterday's blast occurred shortly before 1.30 p.m. when a large bomb that had been planted in the basement men's rest rooms at Thessaloniki's main court complex detonated, injuring one court employee in the leg. An anonymous caller had phoned in a warning to the Eleftherotypia daily 20 minutes beforehand.

According to sources, the caller had asked that the court complex be evacuated immediately, emphasizing several times that "this is not a hoax." Police started ushering people out of the courtrooms but the bomb went off before everyone had left the premises. Televised images at the time of the bombing showed frightened citizens and policemen streaming out the entrance. Police had not made any official statement regarding the suspected perpetrators behind the bombing by late yesterday but sources said they believed it – and Thursday night's bombing outside Korydallos jail – had been the work of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire and had been intended to remind police that the urban guerrilla group is still active.

Ten suspected members of the group have been arrested over the past year. Of these, three are still in custody. According to sources, the modus operandi of the perpetrators behind the court complex bombing and the blast outside the prison resembles that of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, whose recent hits include bombings at the Athens headquarters of Ethniki Insurance, the Aliens Bureau on Petrou Ralli Street and the central Athens offices of Chryssi Avgi (Golden Dawn), a far-right organization. The bomb used at the court complex is believed to have comprised 10 kilograms of high-impact explosives, according to police sources. The bomb used in the Korydallos hit was very powerful, with reverberations felt as far away as central Athens, but no details about its composition were revealed. It caused significant damage and minor injuries to the 22-year-old resident of an adjacent apartment block. By late last night, there had been no claim of responsibility for either attack.

Gov't condemnation of Jewish cemetery vandalism. The Greek government on Saturday issued a stern condemnation of the incidents of vandalism and desecration at Thessaloniki's Jewish cemetery, which occurred in the early morning hours of Friday or late Thursday evening. Three suspects, two men and a woman, 21, 18 and 17, were arrested as suspects in the incident northern port city. "The government unequivocally condemns the vandalisms at the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki. Such instances of racism and hate have no place whatever in Greek society, which stands opposed to such acts of violence and chauvinism. The responsible authorities will do whatever is necessary so that the perpetrators of these acts are led, as soon as possible, before justice," government spokesman George Petalotis underlined. The anarchists also condemn the vandalism.

Some 12,000 Communist Party supporters marched through central Athens on Saturday waving red flags and chanting slogans condemning the government and capitalism. While much smaller than the 50,000-strong protest in which three people were killed a week ago, the peaceful march illustrated the strength of feeling among just one faction of the many opposed to the government's austerity measures.

14.05.2010. New bomb attack by suspected marxists. Brown Card to BBC. No anarchist terrorist group in Greece. 3 arrests in desecration of Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki. Rally in Buenos Aires backs Greek workers' strikes.

ANA-MPA reports: Explosion outside courthouse in Thessaloniki. An explosion occurred outside the Appeals Court in Thessaloniki on Friday, but no injuries were immediately reported. The building had been evacuated after warning calls to a newspaper and television station. Police have cordoned off the area.

ERT reports: The unknown perpetrators who planted a bomb at the basement of a court building in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki wanted to leave victims behind. A man was injured and extensive damage was caused. Sustaining leg injuries, the wounded man was rushed to the hospitals. Shortly after the blast, anti-terrorist squad officials and bomb technicians entered the building to collect the remains of the explosive device and to search for evidence that could shed some light to the bomb hit.

An anonymous phone call to Eleftherotypia daily had preceded the hit. Immediately after the tip-off, police cordoned off the area and started evacuating the building. However, the bomb went off before all the people inside managed to evacuate it. This makes police to believe that the perpetrators wanted to leave victims behind, as well as that the hit is associated with the explosion at the top security prison in Athens. Practically certain marxist, leftwing extremist, ochlarchist terrorists are behind the bomb attack.

BBC reports: Second bomb explosion in Greece. A bomb has exploded outside a courthouse in Thessaloniki, hours after an earlier blast at a prison near the Greek capital Athens. Two people were reported to have been injured - one in each of the blasts. Both bombs came after warning calls to local newspapers. The bomb near Athens caused extensive damage to buildings. There were no immediate claims of responsibility, but police linked the first explosion to left-wing Greek militant groups. Several members of the left-wing groups are being held at the maximum-security prison that was targeted in Korydallos, near Athens, on Thursday evening. In Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, police said most people had been evacuated from the courthouse when the bomb there exploded. One man was reported to have sustained minor injuries.

Austerity protests. Greek media reported that the device that exploded near Athens had been hidden in a travel bag. The powerful blast shattered windows of nearby homes and was heard in the centre of Athens several kilometres away. One woman was injured. Police launched an investigation and sealed off a street next to the prison.Athens has seen recent violent protests as the government unveiled tough austerity measures in return for a huge rescue package for its debt-ridden economy. It has also seen a number of bomb attacks blamed on leftist militants. In March a bomb outside a public building in the Patissia area of Athens killed a 15-year-old boy. Earlier attacks targeted banks and government buildings and were attributed to far-left or anarchist groups.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and direct action . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using bombs, so called "anarchists", falsely called so, i.e. "attributed to ... anarchist groups", by BBC, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

These so called "anarchists", terrorists using bombs, are in reality not anarchists, they are extremists and ochlarchists. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism, i.e. extremism and ochlarchy. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and not anarchistic.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of BBC the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using bombs - indicated by BBC, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention Oslo Convention.

People doing ochlarchy, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs, are clearly authoritarian, and not anarchistic and anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called in the media or by others! Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Terrorists are clearly authoritarian, not anarchistic or anarchists. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, not attacking persons or things... Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions against capitalism and statism, including terrorism, as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, and not in this case.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as BBC does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The lier BBC gets a Brown Card, according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

3 arrests in desecration of Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki. Three suspects , two men and a woman, 21, 18 and 17, were arrested in the early morning hours on Friday as suspects in the desecration of a Jewish cemetery in the northern port city of Thessaloniki , hours earlier on Thursday evening. The trio was picked up by a police patrol after being spotted acting suspiciously outside the cemetery. A knife was found in the possession of one of the suspects , and according to police, the likelihood of their being associated with extremist groups is being investigated. Anti-Semitic graffiti was sprayed on gravestones and on the cemetery's wall , while a can with flammable liquid was found inside the cemetery but there were no signs of arson, police said.

Earlier, the Central Jewish Council of Greece (KIS) and the Jewish community of Thessaloniki condemned the desecration of the northern port city's Jewish cemetery. "Three suspects have been questioned by police, and we are convinced that the state will condemn this heinous act and take all necessary measures to bring the culprits to justice. Phenomena of anti-Semitism and similar views must be eradicated, guaranteeing the people's right to exercise their religious beliefs," according to a statement issued by the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki.

Rally in Buenos Aires backs Greek workers' strikes. Kathimerini reports: "A woman makes the victory sign as she holds up a banner reading 'Greece is not for sale, long live Greece' during a demonstration outside the Greek Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, yesterday in support of Greek trade unions. The unions have called a 24-hour strike for next Thursday to protest the austerity measures and plans for pension reform." The IWW and anarchists in general back the general strike. See also "Argentina: Greek financial rescue doomed to fail.", at (click on:) IJA 6 (31).

13.05.2010. Populism in Greece! No change of the Greek populist system in libertarian direction so far... Drassi against communists. Unemployment increasing. Protests and general strike. Bomb attack by suspected marxists.

The system in Greece has been, is, and will probably for a long time be populism, as explained in the reports of

b) 19.11.2009. The Greek system, populism with a rivaling leftwing extremist marxist state within the state. The anarchists call for winding up of this marxist ochlarchy.

The long term average coordinates of the Greek system on the economic-political map, have not changed significantly. The system seen all in all is mainly populist, a moderate, parliamentarian form of fascism, with about 58% authoritarian degree and about 42% libertarian degree, ranked as no 25 of the countries in the world according to libertarian degree. The degree of capitalism is estimated to about 52,1% and the degree of statism to about 63,4%, i.e. both significant.

The change of cabinet to a so called 'socialist' party, and the strikes and demonstrations, etc. have not changed the Greek populist system in libertarian direction so far... Populism with unenlightened plutarchy and with a rivaling leftwing extremist ochlarchist marxist para-state within the state, prevails. There is so far no momentum, a clear aim with sufficient popular support, for a change of the societal organization in horizontal direction, toward real democracy. But the anarchists call for (click on:) direct actions , i.e. actions without ochlarchy, for a change of the Greek system in horizontal direction, i.e. toward anarchy.

Unity the key, says Papandreou. PM continues to look for common ground as part of crisis exit strategy but fails to convince ND leader. Prime Minister George Papandreou said 11.05.2010 that hard work and unity would see Greece through the economic crisis, as the leader of the New Democracy opposition, Antonis Samaras, said that there would be no recovery unless taxes are slashed. Speaking at an event organized by the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Papandreou repeated his call for political consensus just 24 hours after there appeared to be only the most basic understanding between him, Samaras and the leader of the right-wing Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), Giorgos Karatzaferis, when they met for talks.

The meeting was boycotted by the Communist Party (KKE) and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) but Papandreou insisted that common ground has to be found for Greece to progress. "A basic precondition for Greece to exit the crisis is for all of us to work together," he told the audience of industrialists. "We all have the opportunity to leave behind the Greece of yesterday, of parasitism, underdevelopment and of social injustice." Samaras seemed to aim his criticism mostly at the failings of previous PASOK governments. "A political system of unchecked populism and unprecedented statism is now bankrupt," he said.

The ND leader also suggested that a conservative government would make it a priority to reverse a series of tax hikes that have been introduced by the government this year. "I want us to exit the crisis as soon as possible so that we can cut taxes," he said. "We will never achieve growth with this taxation system." Samaras went on to clarify that he does not oppose the support mechanism put together by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund but that he is against the austerity measures the government has agreed to adopt. ND voted against the spending cuts last week.

This prompted a response from government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis, who effectively labeled ND's stance irresponsible. The dispute came as Greece requested the first tranche of its 110-billion-euro bailout package, which IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said would help see the country through the crisis. "I have no doubt the program built by the Europeans without support is one that would help Greece out of trouble," he said.

Politicians lash out at critics - defending the populist system. Business leader's comments about political system failures prompt deputies and ministers to defend themselves. Greek lawmakers yesterday hit back at criticism from the media, unions, businessmen and voters about Parliament's failure to stop the country from descending into economic crisis. There was a furious response from some MPs after comments by the head of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Dimitris Daskalopoulos, in which he placed the blame for Greece's problems firmly at the feet of the country's politicians and suggested that it would be the business sector that would provide solutions in the future, not the political system.

"There is an unwillingness among politicians to saw off the branch they are sitting on," Daskalopoulos said on Tuesday during an event organized by SEV, at which both Prime Minister George Papandreou and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras spoke. Daskalopoulos was repeating a theme that has been heard repeatedly over the last few weeks, namely that the political system is desperately in need of reform in order for the country's lawmakers to be more accountable to the people. This negative mood has prompted PASOK and ND to react by competing with each other to come up with proposals about how the system could become more transparent and responsive. Samaras has proposed a reduction in the number of MPs from 300 to 200, while the government is looking at ways to ensure that ministers are not immune from prosecution for any crimes they have committed while in office.

However, the politicians hit back in force yesterday, with Papandreou leading the way when he accused some people of trying to "flatten everything." He did not mention Daskalopoulos by name but Justice Minister Haris Kastanidis was even more direct in his attack. "Politics cannot be changed by businessmen who for years have wasted public money while being protected by the state," he said. "Have they only just realized that the free market can provide solutions to the problem." Parliament Speaker Filippos Petsalnikos was also robust in his defense of Parliament, saying that accusations of waste in the House were exaggerated, as its expenditures only make up 0.0035 percent of the national budget. He also said he was against the idea of reducing the number of deputies. In response to the crisis, the high wages of parliamentary assistants are being cut, while deputies' monthly salaries are being trimmed from 6,500 to 4,000 euros.

Nikos Konstandaras 10.05.2010 expressed in Kathimerini: The government and the people are called upon to face the difficulties of an economic and social adjustment that is unprecedented in its scale and the violence of the speed with which it is coming about. And this at a time when New Democracy, the conservative opposition party, voted against the legislation and the two left-wing parties in Parliament are investing in street protests. Even within ruling PASOK, there is great tension, as the rescue mechanism goes against the very DNA of a party that established itself on foundations of populism and handouts. This is what makes Prime Minister George Papandreou's struggle that much more difficult and that much more crucial. Whether we voted for him or not, and even as we disagree with some of his choices and his mistakes, we have to support him. At the same time, we will demand that his government be serious and alert. This is what we must demand of our fellow citizens and ourselves as well.

Unemployment increasing. Unemployment in February 2010 rose to 12.1%, up from 11.3% a month ago. The unemployed climbed to 154,280 people. Unemployment has mainly hit women and people aged between 15 and 24.

Protests and general strike. Protesters shout during a rally against pension reforms in central Athens yesterday. The protest was organized by Greece's two largest unions, GSEE and ADEDY, which have decided to hold a general strike on May 20 in opposition to the government's austerity measures.

Drasi against communists. The centrist party, Drasi [a.k.a. Drassi], which failed to win a parliamentary seat in last year's general election yesterday took legal action against the Communist Party-affiliated union, PAME. Drasi wants prosecutors to ascertain whether any laws were broken when PAME members recently blocked tourists' return to a cruise ship, a number of central Athens hotels and draped banners from the Acropolis.

Suspect held. Aris Seirinidis, the man arrested with suspected "robber in black" Symeon Seisidis following a holdup near central Athens earlier this month, was remanded in custody yesterday on suspicion of armed robbery and shooting at a bus carrying riot police in July 2009.

Bomb attack by suspected marxists. A bomb exploded Thursday night near a prison in Athens, Greece, police said. Only one slight injury was reported. The bomb was placed outside the Zalaxias supermarket about 660 feet (200 meters) from the Korydallos prison, authorities said. Warning calls had been made around 09.50 p.m. - 27 minutes before the explosion - to the Eleftherotypia daily newspaper and Alter television station, police said, and authorities evacuated the area. A 22-year-old woman was injured slightly by broken glass from the door of her first-floor home, police said. Practically certain marxist, leftwing extremist, ochlarchist terrorists are behind the bomb attack.

11.05.2010. Later... Brown Cards to so called "Belgian anarchists", vandals, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and Kathimerini, that reports:

Belgian anarchists. Brussels GNTO office attacked. A Greek National Tourism Organization office in Brussels was attacked by vandals yesterday. An employee, who was not hurt, said that three masked men and one woman threw paint at the office and shouted slogans in support of Greek anarchists. They also left behind leaflets claiming their group was called the "Belgian Anarchists." Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos happened to be in Brussels for a meeting of his European Union counterparts and visited the office after the attack. He said the damage would be repaired. Discussions are also taking place about the possibility of guarding the office.

Ad so called "Belgian anarchists" that did vandalism against a Greek National Tourism Organization office in Brussels, in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, falsely posing as "anarchists", and not anarchists.

Vandalism is ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and (click on:) Direct actions. The anarchists condemn the vandalism, and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "Belgian anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

As mentioned the so called "Belgian anarchists", vandals falsely posing as "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia and others! This Belgian group has clearly an ochlarchist behavior, the opposite of being anarchists. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists, and not a part of the anarchist movement! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "Belgian anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

Anarchism means anarchist, i.e. non-authoritarian, non-ochlarchical means and methods, as well as anarchist ends and aims. There must be consistency between means and ends. This is the only strategy that works. The real aim is in general the consequences of the use of the means involved, not some ideological manifesto with good intentions, if any. Anarchism and anarchist strategy are to change the societal organization in horizontal direction, not attacking persons or things... Anarchists see extremist symbolic actions on capitalism and statism, as this vandalism against a Greek National Tourism Organization office in Brussels, as futile vis-a-vis changing the social organization in horizontal direction - the anarchist aim and strategy, and thus such actions are practically certain not done by anarchists, and not in this case.

To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

11.05.2010. The anarchists condemn the marxist vanguardism: "Parliament, you will burn" and "The hangman is waiting" i.e. even more ochlarchy and attacks on symbols of state and capitalism, futile and the opposite of anarchism.

Resolution from IAT-APT and AI: Greece and Athens have heard loud cries with slogans in the recent large demonstrations such as "Parliament, you will burn" and "The hangman is waiting." These slogans are typically marxist vanguardism, similar to RAF-ml (Baader-Meinhof), etc., and mean even more ochlarchy and ochlarchist attacks on the symbols of the state and capitalism, futile regarding change of the societal organization in horizontal direction, and the opposite of anarchistic and anarchism. A burnt down parliament and hanged MPs, will most likely be replaced by a new parliament and new MPs, and no change of the system in anarchist direction, or, less likely, be replaced with an ultra-authoritarian "strong man", and an even more authoritarian system than the present populist system in Greece.

The anarchists condemn the marxist vanguardism, the slogans such as "Parliament, you will burn" and "The hangman is waiting", and call for (click on:) Direct actions , i.e. actions without ochlarchy, for a change of the Greek system in horizontal direction, i.e. toward anarchy. Arrest the marxist 'vanguard', the marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, i.e. terrorists, vandals and hooligans. The IAT-APT and the Anarchist International, AI, have a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 and the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, in this analysis.

10.05.2010. Peaceful sit-in protest outside Parliament etc. yesterday. The peaceful demonstrations were backed by the IWW and anarchists in general.

Peaceful sit-in protest outside Parliament etc. yesterday. Several groups gathered in Syntagma Square yesterday to protest the austerity measures. Most protests, such as one organized by citizens via the Internet to protest the deaths of three bank employees in a firebombing last week, had no political affiliation. Some 200 people marched from Syntagma to Marfin Egnatia Bank on Stadiou Street to pay tribute. The peaceful demonstrations were backed by the IWW and anarchists in general.

Regarding the EU rescue fund, decided late this weekend, see the WEC resolutions updated.

08.05.2010. Call for anarchist economics! EU rescue fund. Euro-zone agrees on support mechanism for Greece. PASOK and ND pick up the pieces. Internal fallout from austerity vote. Strike on Monday and Tuesday.

Call for anarchists economics! The International Workers of the World, IWW, declares: Implement the World Economic Council, WEC's international libertarian economic plan outlined in the WEC resolutions to do away with the unenlightened plutarchy with about 10% unemployment and increasing in Greece, the Euro-zone and USA! Proper demand management now! For the about 3% unemployment scenarios and economic growth. Mandated persons! Do it now!

EU rescue fund. The 16 Euro-zone countries have agreed to create a 70-billion-euro rescue fund to avert a Greek-style crisis from spreading to other countries. The respective leaders have asked the European Commission to draw up the details of how it would work over the weekend, the expectation being that the fund would be operational by Monday. The idea would be assist Euro-zone countries who are unable to borrow because they are being asked to pay high interest rates. Hernan van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, told reporters that increased regulation of credit ratings agency would be among the reforms. Investors are worried about a sovereign default in the EU with the most concern centred on Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. Since Euro-zone nations already represent a majority of the 27 EU states, the rescue fund is expected to be approved by finance ministers on Sunday.

Euro-zone agrees on support mechanism for Greece. The leaders of the Euro-zone countries decided in the early hours of Saturday to activate a support mechanism for Greece, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announced at the end of a special summit in Brussels. A three year joint programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) makes available 110 billion euro to help Greece meet its financing needs, with euro area member-states ready to contribute for their part 80 billion euro.
Addressing reporters, Papandreou said that with the decision the Euro-zone countries "have shown that they stand with determination by our side," adding that the disbursement of the lown will begin in the coming days.

These funds, he added, will "help us to implement without everyday's uncertainty in the international markets, the stabilisation and growth programme for our economy." "But the summit has shown something more, that the need to shield the Euro-zone relates not only to Greece's problems, but that the issue is a broader one and concerns the Euro-zone as a whole," Papandreou also said. "These decisions show that we are going to work all together not to let international speculation acting without control in the markets, to take Europe out of the crisis and contribute substantially to the world economy's recovery," the Greek premier said.

PASOK and ND pick up the pieces. Internal fallout from austerity vote. The ruling PASOK party and main opposition New Democracy yesterday began to assess the damage done by internal opposition to the austerity measures passed through Parliament on Thursday, with sources saying that Prime Minister George Papandreou may even carry out a reshuffle soon. Papandreou expelled three Socialist deputies for failing to vote for the measures, which Greece has agreed to adopt to qualify for 110 billion euros in loans from its Euro-zone partners and the International Monetary Fund. If the deputies refuse to give up their parliamentary seats and remain in the House as independent MPs, the government's majority will be reduced to seven.

One of the objectors, Vassilis Economou, said he was concerned about the impact the measures would have on the middle class, insisting that it was his right to express his opinion and indicating he was in no mood to surrender his seat. Many PASOK members seem to share these feelings as Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou and Labor Minister Andreas Loverdos found out on Thursday night when they met with 200 of the party's regional coordinators. Sources said it was a stormy session, during which the regional officials lambasted the ministers for the steps the government had taken. There is some speculation that following the passing of the measures, Papandreou may seek to reshuffle his Cabinet in a bid to create a team capable of seeing through the stringent agenda of cuts.

In the New Democracy camp, all eyes are on whether Dora Bakoyannis, who was the only conservative MP who voted for the austerity package, will create her own party after being ousted by ND leader Antonis Samaras. Bakoyannis said yesterday that it was too early to say what she would do. There was further controversy in Parliament yesterday when the government submitted a last-minute amendment to the austerity bill, which gave Papaconstantinou the right to sign binding agreements with the EU and IMF without the deals first being submitted to the House for approval. The opposition parties said that this was an affront to Parliament but PASOK said that it had been asked to make the amendment after the European Commission's legal advisers had seen the original text of the draft law approved on Thursday.

Meanwhile, during a meeting with government officials yesterday, the Association of Greek Tourist Enterprises (SETE) revealed that 5,800 overnight stays at Athens hotels were canceled as a result of the firebomb attack on a bank on Wednesday, which left three employees dead, - according to Kathimerini. Also, 21 conferences and events due to be held at the city's hotels were called off. The funerals of the two women killed in the fire, Paraskevi Zoulia and Angeliki Papathanasopoulou, took place yesterday. Epaminondas Tsakalis is due to be buried today. Papathanasopoulou's husband yesterday wrote to the media asking journalists to give his family privacy.

Germany approved its 22.4-bln-euro share of Greek bailout. Germany's parliament yesterday approved the country's sizable share of the bailout package for Greece and Chancellor Angela Merkel immediately called on fellow European leaders to tighten budgetary discipline within the Euro-zone. Both houses of parliament approved the bill that will see Germany provide 22.4 billion euros in loans to Greece over three years. "This was a very important decision that makes clear we will protect the single currency for our citizens," said Merkel. "But it will only be effective in combination with the ambitious austerity program approved by the Greek Parliament," she added in a note of warning to Athens. The German Finance Ministry said that a group of local banks and other financial institutions had agreed to provide 8.1 billion euros of financing to Greece.

Spain also approved its 9.7-billion-euro contribution to Greece's bailout yesterday. Dutch MPs gave the green light for their country's 4.7-billion-euro share and the Portuguese parliament agreed to release 2.06 billion euros in funding, despite the country's own economic difficulties. Leaders from the 16 Euro-zone countries gathered for a meeting in Brussels yesterday, ahead of which Merkel called for a "sharpening" of the rules to keep members of the single currency in check. The German chancellor said that changes should be made to EU treaties if necessary. "Otherwise, it will not work, in my opinion," she said.

One of the German proposals is for countries to lose their voting rights if they break Euro-zone rules but Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, who believes it is too soon to be talking about treaty changes, suggested this might be too harsh. "I cannot imagine withdrawing voting rights entirely," he said. He also said that there was no consensus yet on the creation of a European credit rating agency.

Strike on Monday and Tuesday. Pharmacies yesterday announced a 48-hour strike scheduled for next Monday and Tuesday in protest at government plans to liberalize their sector, one of many closed-shop professions in Greece. Information on pharmacies that will be operating on emergency duty is posted in the window of all pharmacies or is available online at www.yyka.gov.gr.

Peaceful sit-in. In a petition for more transparent governance and in protest at the government's austerity measures, the Greek chapter of the marxist France-based Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens (ATTAC) is organizing a peaceful sit-in in front of Parliament in Syntagma Square on Sunday at 6 p.m.

07.05.2010. Evening... Fresh Brown Card to the lier CNN, especially directed to Diana Magnay, falsely reporting: "... anarchists out to pick a fight" with pictures indicating vandals and terrorists, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and terrorist attacks.

IAT-APT hands out a fresh Brown Card to the lier CNN, falsely reporting: "... anarchists out to pick a fight" with pictures indicating vandals and terrorists, i.e. marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists - not anarchists, - especially directed to the programs "Quest means business", and "The situation in Greece - The human factor" with Diana Magnay reporting.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using firebombs, so called "anarchists", falsely called so by CNN, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs, are in reality not anarchists, they are extremists and ochlarchists. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, not terrorism, i.e. extremism and ochlarchy. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, and not anarchistic.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of CNN, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs - indicated by CNN, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as CNN does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The lier CNN gets a Brown Card, especially directed to Diana Magnay, according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Ad so called "anarchists" that did/do vandalism and hooliganism, storming banks and similar, i.e. throwing stones at police etc.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at the police etc, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as CNN and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. CNN gets a Brown Card, especially directed to Diana Magnay, according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at police etc, and falsely posing as "anarchists", are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag or be called by the newsmedia and others! Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. NB! They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

Such violent attacks on police etc., vandalism and hooliganism, storming banks and similar, are ochlarchist, very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above. The anarchists condemn these violent attacks on police etc., vandalism and hooliganism, storming banks and similar, and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "anarchists" are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis. Arrest the criminal marxist ochlarchists!

07.05.2010. Brown Cards to so called "self styled anarchists" doing criminal occupation of a building, thus in reality ochlarchists - not anarchists, and Kathimerini, that reports:

"A total of 25 people who were arrested on Wednesday during the protests and also at an empty building in Exarchia that had been taken over by self-styled anarchists faced a prosecutor yesterday."

The IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards the so called "self styled anarchists" doing criminal occupation, [i.e. a form of theft and thus a break of the Oslo Convention], of a building in Exarchia, thus in reality ochlarchists - not anarchists. These so called "anarchists", in reality ochlarchists, are thus expulsed form the anarchist movement, and are not anarchists. Kathimerini gets a Brown Card for falsely calling the ochlarchists "anarchists", and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites! Furthermore the ochlarchists are not "self styled" but styled by the newsmedia, etc. including Kathimerini, falsely calling ochlarchists - "anarchists", and giving them a lot of publisity.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Kathimerini does is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The anarchists welcome the arrest of the ochlarchists doing criminal occupation. The IAT-APT has commented on the so called "anarchists", in reality marxist ochlarchists, in Exarchia, in general before, say, see report of 11.03.2010. The ochlarchists of Exarchia have in general long time ago been expulsed from the anarchists movement. The fresh Brown Cards are issued to underline the general message.

Robber's DNA provides links. Police said that they have matched the DNA of Symeon Seisidis, the alleged "robber in black" who was arrested on Monday, with evidence from two other crime scenes. Officers said his DNA matched that found on a ski mask that was discarded after an armed robbery at a branch of National Bank in January 2006, during which another member of the alleged gang, Yiannis Dimitrakis, was shot and arrested. Seisidis's DNA was also found on a black hat that was thrown in a ditch in Palaio Faliro after a 2007 raid on the home of then Supreme Court President Romylos Kedikoglou, when a weapon was stolen from a police guard. Until recently, police had thought that this raid was carried out by the Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group. Police are still looking for Seisisdis's younger brother, Marios, and another suspected member of the gang, Grigoris Tsironis.

Grigoropoulos trial. The trial of two policemen accused in connection with the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 is in danger of descending into farce after Alexis Kougias, the lawyer defending one of the special guards, filed yet another suit against prosecution lawyer Nikos Konstantopoulos. Kougias, who has already sued his rival several times, objected to Konstantopoulos producing documents showing that the defense attorney had been banned from practicing law at the time when the case was in its preliminary stages.

06.05.2010. Evening... Austerity measures decided by the Greek parliament amid major demonstrations, also with some ochlarchy. In the implementation: Let the rich, the economical plutarchists, pay - not the people! The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy.

Greek lawmakers Thursday approved a controversial package of cost-cutting measures which international funders demanded, despite public anger about the move, state television reported. The vote was 172 in favor, 121 against, and three abstentions, all from Prime Minister George Papandreou's governing party, PASOK. The austerity plan includes cuts in the salaries of public-sector workers, including lawmakers; higher taxes on cigarettes, fuel, gambling and luxuries; an increase in the value-added tax consumers pay on purchases; and an increase in the retirement age for women in the public sector, Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said.

Two unions called on workers to meet Thursday at 6 p.m. in front of Parliament to protest the package of measures. Thousands of demonstrators were out on the streets Thursday as the vote was taking place, the protest was largely peaceful, however in the evening for a part it turned violent and ochlarchical. The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy.

Greeks have been demonstrating against the measures for days. The International Workers of the World and anarchists in general have condemned yesterday's murder of three Greek bank workers and the injuries caused to several others as a sickening atrocity, which is the opposite of legitimate protest. "We trust that those responsible for this and the other acts of appalling violence will be brought to justice without delay," said L. Jakobsen, secretary general of IWW to AIIS.

The trade union GSEE has also condemned the "the fires, blind violence and vandalism" which took place, and deplored the fact that the tragic events overshadowed the largest demonstration in Greece in over 50 years, yesterday. The GSEE organized a mourning and protest march today, jointly with the public sector trade union confederation ADEDY, backed by IWW.

IWW declares: In the implementation: Let the rich, the economical plutarchists, pay - not the people! The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy.

06.05.2010. Later... Fresh Brown Cards to the liers CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank: Banks torched etc. by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the vandalism and terrorist attacks.

CNN reports 05-06.05.2010: Violence-hit Greece votes on austerity measures. Greece's parliament is to vote Thursday on austerity measures that have sparked deadly protests on the streets of Athens as the country struggles to pull itself out of a financial crisis. The intense debate over the belt-tightening, a condition of an international bailout package, has sent thousands of public sector workers and others onto the streets to protest the plan, which includes wage freezes and higher taxes. Two unions called on workers to meet Thursday at 6 p.m. in front of Parliament to protest the package of measures. On Wednesday protest turned deadly as three employees died when a fire bomb hit a bank in central Athens. Marfin Egnatia Bank posted a statement on its Web site condemning the attack and lashing out at the country's leaders for what it said was poor handling of the situation. "We also express outrage for the hollow words of politicians and the unjust intentions of some politicians in parliament during the time that the corpses of our colleagues had not been removed from the branch, while it was still being stormed by protesters and anarchists," the statement said. Also on CNN-TV the blame of the vandalism and terrorist attack is put on a small group of "anarchists".

Fresh Brown Cards to the liers CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank: Banks torched etc. by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the and terrorist attacks.

The thruth is that terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including threats of terrorism and calls for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy, and very much a top down approach, ultra-authoritarian and extremist, and not anarchist, see the notes on "Anarchy is optimal order" and "What is an extremist..." above, and http://www.anarchy.no/directaction.html . The anarchists condemn terrorism and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. These terrorists using firebombs, so called "anarchists", falsely called so by CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank, are anti-capitalist, i.e. socialist, and ultra-authoritarian. Authoritarian socialists are marxists - not anarchists, and should not be called so by the media. IAT-APT has a.o.t. used the "litmus test" of 14.10.2009 in this analysis.

No anarchist groups have been involved in the terrorism, including bomb, firebomb and arson attacks and similar, in Greece, not now and not before. Against the lies of CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs - mentioned by CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank, are in reality marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchists, and thus not anarchists. Anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. Such marxist, extremist ochlarchists, including copycats, have already long time ago got Brown Cards from the IAT-APT, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. They are thus not anarchists! IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards to these ochlarchists, so called "anarchists", to underline that they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, and thus are not anarchists, according to the Oslo Convention http://www.anarchy.no/oslo.html.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank do is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. The liers CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Ad so called "anarchists" that did vandalism and hooliganism, storming banks and similar, i.e. throwing stones at police etc.

The so called "anarchists", throwing stones at the police etc, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank and others do, is equally authoritarian as mixing up opposites as peace and war, as Big Brother did in Orwell's "1984" newspeak. Such notes in the media also produce copycat ochlarchists - mainly mislead youths, falsely posing as "anarchists". It should be stopped, and the IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency. CNN and Marfin Egnatia Bank get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.