Greek revolt - marxist riots and terrorism

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!

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. 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.

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.

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.

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... 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...

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.

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. 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 - leftwingers, not anarchists, although they may falsely try to pose as such or wrongly be called so by the media. The media should call such ochlarchists marxists, leftwingers, because that is what they are, not anarchists! Anarchists are in the middle and upwards on the economic-political map, not leftwingers or rightwingers.

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.

We see on the EP-map (click on http://www.anarchy.no/a_e_p_m.html ) 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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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/ochlachists.

"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.

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.

The Brown Cards are directed to CNN in general, and especially the 'CNN Wire Staff' and Diana Magnay.

06.05.2010. Fresh Brown Cards to the left fascists "Robbers in black", their supporters, Greek Police and Kathimerini, that reports:

'Robber in black' out of luck. One of the two people arrested following a bloody robbery at a hardware store in Athens late on Monday is Symeon Seisidis, a suspected member of the so-called "robbers in black" who has been at large for more than four years, police said yesterday. The 34-year-old has been on the police's wanted list since January 2006, along with his brother Marios and Grigoris Tsironis after they allegedly took part in an armed robbery of a bank in central Athens which led to another robber, Yiannis Dimitrakis, being shot and arrested. Last October, Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis offered a reward of 600,000 euros for their arrest. All four suspects are alleged to have carried out several bank robberies and to have links to anarchist groups. Police have also been examining their possible participation in terrorist attacks too.

Seisidis was arrested in Votanikos, near central Athens, at 9.15 p.m. on Monday. He tried to evade police but officers shot him in the leg during an exchange of fire. A Glock pistol, three bullets and a stun grenade were found in his possession. Another suspect, identified as A.S., was also arrested. He too had a handgun on him. Although he was not on the wanted list for the January 2006 robbery, police suspect that he may have been involved. Sources said forensic tests indicated that neither of the guns has been used in any terrorist attack.

The two men are not thought to have carried out the robbery at the Praktiker store on Pireos Street, in which another two men threatened staff with guns and took 50,000 euros in cash before shooting an employee in the chest. The two men arrested are suspected of providing backup. The police have long suspected that there are direct links between common criminals and terrorist groups. Sources said yesterday that these suspicions have grown after it emerged that a car used by the alleged leader of Revolutionary Struggle, Nikos Maziotis, was stolen at the same time from the same place as a vehicle used in the abduction of Thessaloniki industrialist Giorgos Mylonas in June 2008. (Wednesday May 5, 2010)

The IAT-APT repeats the resolution of 04.05.2010: "Member[s] of left fascist extremist ochlarchy gang 'Robbers in Black' arrested. Brown Cards in this connection. The left fascist extremist ochlarchy gang 'Robbers in Black' has sometimes falsely tried to pose as "anarchists" to get support from libertarians - on false premises, but the 'Robbers in Black' and their supporters have got Brown Cards, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, see the report of 16.12.2009 in this file, and, say, IJA 6 (31) , the report of 27.04-03.05.2010. The 'Robbers in Black' and supporters are thus not anarchists."

"Supporters" include all associates and people linked to the left fascist ochlarchists 'Robbers in black'. There are thus no "links to anarchist groups" as the Greek police alleges, and the IAT-APT hands out fresh Brown Cards a) to the left fascist ochlarchists "Robbers in black" and their supporters, to underline that they are not anarchists, and b) to the Greek Police, and Kathimerini for mixing up these ochlarchists with the opposite, anarchists, and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. The anarchists welcome the arrests of members in "Robbers in black" and hope all of their supporters also will be arrested.

Arrested for playing police. Two policemen are to stand trial after being caught allowing two of their friends to pose as officers and to make their car look like a patrol vehicle. It is alleged that the two officers gave their friends a portable wireless set used for communication between headquarters and patrol cars. The men used a white Citroen Xsara – which is the same make, model and color as some police patrol vehicles – to follow the two officers. The civilian vehicle was also fitted with a flashing light and siren. The two men were allegedly allowed to take part in four stop-and-search operations on suspects. The incident was only discovered when members of the motorcycle-riding Dias squad stopped the Citroen and found the flashing light inside. The police officers are to face charges of dereliction of duty and illegal use of police property. The two civilians will stand trial for impersonating police officers.

Athens Mayor: Grief and rage. "The City of Athens expresses its grief for the three dead people and its rage for the new destruction in the city by the 'known-unknowns', who definitely are not the working people who demonstrated en masse over the repercussions of the economic measures on their daily lives," Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis said Wednesday night. He wondered "how many dead must we griefe, how much destruction to the city must we witness, for a democratically-elected government to be found that will say the big 'no' to this situation and wipe out, tonight, all these terrorists of our city".

City of Athens crews took up work Wednesday night to restore the extensive damage caused. An initial inventory of the damage listed vandalism of Syntagma Square's main fountain and all its marble benches, and extensive damage to sidewalks, marble fixtures and road signs in the city center, as well as the destruction of 650 garbage and recycling bins, 400 small trash bins, 10 bus stops, 20 trees, and other damage. Extensive damage was also done to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the parliament building, which hooded rioters threw rocks at. The anarchists agree with Nikitas Kaklamanis, and say a big NO the ochlarchists, including terrorists.

IAT-APT also hands out a Brown Card to ERT for yesterday reporting: "The clashes started around 1pm when a group of anarchists commenced hurling rocks and pieces of marble outside the building housing the Greek Parliament. Police responded with tear gas and stun grenades." These so called "anarchists", were practically certain marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, and not anarchists, and ERT is thus breaking the Oslo Convention. See also the reports of 05.05.2010.

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.

Three dead in Athens fire during protests. Three people died in a fire set by Greek protesters in central Athens on Wednesday during a protest march against government austerity measures, the fire brigade said. "We have found three dead people in the building that is on fire," it said in a statement. Marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists are suspected for the firebomb/petrolbomb attack. The police blamed what were called "hooded youths" for setting fire to the building. The victims, two women and a man, were bank employees. Unions immediately called off their general strike after news came through that a small crowd had broken away from the main march and firebombed several banks. The three workers were trapped inside one, and burned to death before the fire services could reach them.

Tens of thousands of people converged on the city center as part of a general strike that paralyzed flights, ferries, schools and hospitals. Many Greeks are angry and complain that they are paying the price for the profligacy of others. Police sirens and the smell of tear gas filled the streets around Greece's parliament building after protests against government spending cuts turned violent for a part, then as mentioned deadly. Petrol bombs were thrown at police who responded with pepper spray, tear gas and stun grenades. Practically certain marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists were behind the violence. No anarchists were involved in the ochlarchy.

The CNN-TV falsely put the blame on anarchists, and gets a Brown Card from the IAT-APT for breaking the Oslo Convention. The demonstrations seen all in all have been largely peaceful and modest, many anarchists participated in the peaceful, non-ochlarchical protests. About 30-50 000 persons participated in the demonstrations. The anarchists condemn the violent ochlarchy and the deadly terrorist attack. Demonstrate with dignity - not ochlarchy! The anarchists express the deepest condolences with the relatives of the three victims of the deadly firebomb and terrorist attack.

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!

Global markets hit by continuing debt concerns... The International Workers of the World, IWW, backs the general strike in Greece. In general, the IWW and the anarchists at large support the strikes and demonstrations against the unenlightened plutarchy world wide, as long as they are direct actions, i.e. without ochlarchy. This is an international fight and IWW declares: Implement the World Economic Council, WEC's international libertarian economic plan outlined in the WEC resolutions to stop the unenlightened plutarchy with about 10% unemployment and increasing in Greece, the Euro-zone and USA! Mandated persons! Do it now!

04.05.2010. Member of left fascist extremist ochlarchy gang 'Robbers in Black' arrested. Brown Cards in this connection. Strikes, backed by IWW.

The left fascist extremist ochlarchy gang 'Robbers in Black' has sometimes falsely tried to pose as "anarchists" to get support from libertarians - on false premises, but the 'Robbers in Black' and their supporters have got Brown Cards, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement, see the report of 16.12.2009 in this file, and, say, IJA 6 (31) , the report of 27.04-03.05.2010. The 'Robbers in Black' and supporters are thus not anarchists.

ANA-MPA reports: Gunman arrested in cash & carry holdup a wanted member of 'Robbers in Black' gang, employee shot. Two hooded gunmen shot and seriously injured a supermarket employee during an armed robbery in a cash-and-carry in the Tavros district of Athens on Monday night, and two suspects were arrested later, one of whom is wanted for belonging to the 'Robbers in Black' gang. The gunmen fled with 50,000 euros from a Praktiker store in a stolen car, which was found abandoned a short distance away a few minutes later. The employee was rushed to hospital with chest wounds.The police counter-terrorism squad is investigating whether the detainees are members of a terrorist group.

The investigation so far has revealed that one of the two detainees, who was injured in the legs by police bullets, is not one of the suspects wanted in the "Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire" terrorist group case, as the suspect had initially said himself, but is one of the "Robbers in Black" for whom a 600,000 euros rewards has been offered for information leading to their location and arrest. The injured robber has also been hospitalised in serious condition. Police also believe that other accomplices were involved in the Praktiker hold-up, given that the stolen 50,000 euros were not found on the two suspects arrested. Announcements are expected by the Greek Police (ELAS) headquarters.

ERT reports: Armed robbers could be associated with terrorism. The police manhunt that followed an armed robbery and the arrest of wanted outlaw Simeon Seisides, who was member of a gang called "robbers in black" is backed by the anti-terrorist squad, as there is information he could be involved with terrorism. Seisides was injured while clashing with police. His accomplice was seized and taken to the police headquarters for questioning. The two men had two guns and a grenade in their possession. Initial information said that Seisides was implicated with a guerrilla group, but the investigation showed he was a member of a robber gang. The anti-terrorist squad is investigating whether the two arrestees are members of another terrorist group. They also believe that at the armed robbery in Praktiker, where the two gunmen opened fire injuring an employee, they did not act alone, because police did not find the money they had stolen.

PAME protestors' takeover of Acropolis. A group of approximately 200 members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) affiliated PAME trade union movement staged a takeover of the Acropolis at dawn Tuesday, in protest of the government's austerity measures. The protestors hung a huge banner with the slogan "Peoples of Europe, rise up" in Greek and English.

Seamen's union declares strike for Wed. The seamen's union (PNO) on Monday declared a strike for Wednesday, May 5, applicable to all Greek-flagged vessels, including ferry boats. The vote by the union's board was 8-7 in favor of the industrial action. The union, properly known as the Panhellenic Seamen's Federation, said it was joining a nationwide strike declared by Greece's largest umbrella trade group, GSEE. The union said the strike will begin at midnight, Tuesday, and continue until midnight on Wednesday.

Series of strikes. The civil servants' union ADEDY executive committee has declared a 48-hour strike in the public sector on May 4-5 and will hold a protest rally in central Athens at noon to coincide with strike action by teachers. A 48-hour strike has also been declared by primary school teachers. Trade unionists say the measures loot the incomes and seriously undermine labour and insurance rights. On Wednesday, the General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE) has declared a 24-hour strike that combined with that of ADEDY is converted into a general strike. There will be a strike rally in Athens that will begin from Pedion tou Areos park at 11.00 in the morning.

On the same day, the GSEBEE and ESEE employer associations representing traders, freelance professionals and small business owners have decided to close their shops and businesses from 09.00 until 03.00 in the afternoon. Also as mentioned on Wednesday, the Panhellenic Seamen's Union (PNO) will hold a 24-hour strike that will keep ships docked in port throughout the day. The strikers will be joined by journalists in the mass media, who have declared a 24-hour strike from 06.00 on Wednesday morning until 06.00 on Thursday, based on a decision by the Panhellenic Federations of Journalists' Unions and other press-sector unions. There will be no TV or radio coverage of the protests because broadcast journalists will not be working and newspapers will not be published on Thursday as print journalists will also take part in the action. The strikes are backed by IWW.

BBC reports: Greek strikers hit Athens streets. Greek public sector workers have stormed the Acropolis and scuffled with riot police after launching a 48-hour strike against austerity measures. Their action comes ahead of a nationwide general strike on Wednesday. The austerity measures were outlined in a draft bill submitted to the Greek parliament and will be voted on by the end of the week. They have been introduced in return for a 110bn euro (£95bn) international rescue package agreed for the country. The measures include wage freezes, pension cuts and tax rises. They aim to achieve fresh budget cuts of 30bn euros over three years, with the goal of cutting Greece's public deficit to less than 3% of GDP by 2014. It currently stands at 13.6%.

Union leaders say the cuts target low-income Greeks. "There are other things the [government] can do, before taking money from a pensioner who earns 500 euros (£430) a month," Spyros Papaspyros, leader of the public servants' union ADEDY, told Greek private television. Dozens of Communist protesters broke into the ancient Acropolis at dawn, draping giant banners on the Parthenon temple reading: "Peoples of Europe Rise Up." "We want to send a message to the farthest reaches of Greece and Europe," Communist MP Nikos Papaconstantinou said. "Similar measures that eliminate social security are taken across Europe. But popular anger will rattle imperialist organisations."

Silent parade. Several thousand teachers and students marched to parliament, carrying [anarchist] black flags and banners. The demonstration was largely peaceful. Some protesters handed red roses to riot policemen. But some scuffles broke out near the parliament building, with demonstrators throwing stones at riot police, who responded with pepper spray. [The anarchists condemn the ochlarchy!] In other signs of discontent, on Monday a group of teachers forced their way into the main state broadcaster's studios in Athens to protest about education cuts. Also in Athens, some 150 members of the armed forces staged a silent parade to protest at having their bonuses cut.

The EU has agreed to provide 80bn euros (£69bn) in funding, while the rest will come from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The deal is designed to prevent Greece from defaulting on its massive debt. However, it must first be approved by some parliaments in the 15 other Euro-zone countries. Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said private banks were willing to chip in to to Germany's part of the deal, which is expected to be the largest individual contribution, at about 22m euros. In return for the loans, Greece will make major austerity cuts which Prime Minister George Papandreou said involved "great sacrifices".

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.

Banks torched by marxist leftwing terrorist arsonists. Two banks in the southern Athens suburb of Aghios Dimitrios were attacked by arsonists early yesterday. A branch of Geniki Bank and one of Emporiki Bank were severely damaged when assailants attacked them with petrol bombs. Nobody was injured in the attacks. The anarchists condemn the terrorist attacks.

Brown Card to the lier Reuters. Banks torched by marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists - not anarchists.

Reuters reports 02.05.2010: Explosion damages HSBC branch in Athens, no injuries. A bomb exploded at a branch of HSBC bank in Athens on Sunday, damaging the entrance but causing no injuries, police said. "It appears a home-made bomb comprised of gas canisters and fuel caused small damage to the bank's facade," a police official said. Gas canister bomb attacks are common in Athens and are usually staged by leftist and anarchist groups against business and political targets. Sunday's bombing against the U.K.-based banking group was the first since the Socialist government announced tough new austerity measures in exchange for international aid to cope with a debt crisis. Opinion polls show the public opposes the measures and more than half of those asked in a recent survey said they would join protests against them.

Ad "gas canister bomb attacks are common in Athens and are usually staged by leftist and anarchist groups against business and political targets". It is true that "leftist groups", i.e. marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists, often are behind arsonist terrorist attacks in Greece, but not anarchists. Also rightwing extremists or fascist leftwing extremists may be behind arsonist terrorist attacks, but not likely in this case.

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 Reuters, 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 Reuters, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs - mentioned by Reuters, 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.

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! 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 this case.

It is practically certain that "leftist groups", i.e. marxist leftwing extremist arsonist terrorist ochlarchists, were behind the above mentioned arsonist terrorist attacks, and not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the terrorist attacks.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Reuters 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 Reuters get a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Deal agreed, tough steps announced. More tax hikes, spending cuts to hit home. In return for receiving emergency loans of 110 billion euros from the International Monetary Fund and the Euro-zone over the next three years, Greece yesterday announced that it was adopting the most stringent austerity measures the country has seen in its modern history. Prime Minister George Papandreou said the agreement would result in "an unprecedented support package for an unprecedented effort by the Greek people." "These sacrifices will give us breathing space and the time we need to make great changes," he said in a televised address following an emergency Cabinet meeting.

Shortly after, Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou unveiled the measures agreed by the government in order to save 36.4 billion euros by 2014 and reduce Greece's public deficit from 13.6 percent of gross domestic product in 2009 to 2.6 percent in 2014. Under the plans, it is projected that Greece will not experience any growth until 2012. Under the key measures in the public sector, public servants will lose their 13th and 14th monthly salaries and their supplemental pay packages will be cut by a further 8 percent after a 30 percent reduction earlier this year. They will receive a maximum of 1,000 euros combined for Easter, summer vacation and Christmas bonuses.

The second installment of a handout to low-income workers, which PASOK set up when it came to power, will be frozen. Also, the Public Investment Program will be reduced by 1.5 billion over the next year. The government decided not to impose a salary cut in the private sector but is introducing legislation that will make it easier and cheaper to fire employees. Each of the three value-added tax rates will rise, from 23 to 25 percent, from 10 to 11 percent and from 5 to 5.5 percent, bringing in 1.8 billion euros by the end of next year. Private and public sector pensioners will receive only 12 monthly payments, as their 13th and 14th installments will also be cut. Changes to the pension system will require people to work longer before they retire.

Main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras criticized the government's handling of the crisis and reiterated he would not have appealed to the IMF for help. He stopped short of saying whether he would vote against the measures. The Communist Party (KKE) and the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) both encouraged citizens to voice their opposition.

The ADEDY civil servants' union vowed to block the measures, which it claimed "make the rich richer and the poor poorer." The union backlash against the measures is due to begin today, when workers at all the country's municipalities will go on strike to protest reforms in local government that will lead to job cuts. The protesters will gather at Karaiskaki Square at noon before marching to Parliament. There will be a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, which will ground airplanes and disrupt public transport, while teachers are staging a 48-hour-strike from tomorrow.

Euro-zone and IMF preparing to release funds. The Euro-zone nations agreed yesterday to provide the bulk of 110 billion euros for Greece's support package, with the possibility that some European commercial banks may provide the necessary funds. "We have decided to activate the support plan for Greece," the head of the Eurogroup, Jean-Claude Juncker, said after a meeting of Euro-zone finance ministers in Brussels. It now remains for the leaders of the 16 Euro-zone members to meet in the Belgian capital on Friday to sign off on the transfer of the funds.

Juncker said the 16 Euro-zone ministers agreed to, where necessary, present the plans to their national parliaments and stressed there was "no question" of the EU leaders reversing the much-awaited decision when they meet. The Luxembourg prime minister also said that each country would examine whether local banks would want to contribute to the rescue package. "All the ministers agreed to see, together with banking sector representatives of their respective countries, what voluntary contributions the banks could make."

Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund, which will cover roughly a third of the support package, is expected to approve the deal "within the week," IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said in a statement. "Our collective effort will contribute to the stability of the euro, will benefit all of Europe and will help promote global financial stability and a secure recovery in the global economy," Strauss-Kahn said. Prime Minister George Papandreou also spoke to US President Barack Obama last night to discuss the agreement reached with the IMF and the Euro-zone members, according to a statement from the premier's office.

Associated Press reports: Greeks and the state: an uncomfortable couple. A pony-tailed Greek on a motorcycle pulled up onto the sidewalk, hunting for a better parking spot, and an elderly tourist with a crutch shuffled out of the way. The good-natured driver explained his illegal maneuver with a smile. One word was enough. "Greece," he told her in English. So it goes in Greece, a historical patchwork of Balkan, Mediterranean, and even Middle Eastern influences that failed to follow the European rule book. Scratch the veneer of slick highways and gleaming euro coins, and there's also a broad culture of cutting corners that helped push it into financial crisis.

With a May 19 deadline looming for Greek to repay its massive debt, European governments and the International Monetary Fund on Sunday agreed on euro110 billion in emergency loans on the condition Athens make painful budget cuts and tax increases. The talk is technical. Contagion and credit downgrades, junk status and bond spreads. But go to the root, and you find this: Greeks, though fiercely patriotic, have a problem with being told what to do by the government. That could have profound consequences for the course of the crisis: Greeks often strike when told to tighten their belts.

"Greek people don't like authority. This is good and bad at the same time," said Georgios Koutsoukos, who works in the tax collection section of the Ministry of Finance and joined a protest against government steps to blunt the crisis. The good part, Koutsoukos elaborated, is that it's OK to disobey when an injustice is in plain sight. The bad part, he said, is that things get out of hand when people ignore rules all the time. Who decides when it's good or bad? That's the hard part. As for how they got this way, Koutsoukos has no doubt: "It's a matter of history."

Short on cash, Greece has no shortage of history. Its ancestors are superstars of the ancient world. Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristotle and Sophocles are a few. But Greeks think to more recent times, the centuries under Ottoman rule that ended in independence in 1829, long after other European countries were refining democratic institutions. It was a time, they say, when Greeks became allergic to state authority. Some historians agree to a trend. "The capriciousness of Ottoman rule and the weakness of the idea of the rule of law helped to shape the underlying values of Greek society and to determine attitudes to the state and to authority that have persisted into the present," wrote Richard Clogg in "A Concise History of Greece."

In modern Greece, patronage and extended families have rivaled the state for authority at the local level, and personalities dominated charisma-driven politics in the last century. Greece is not alone, though. Mediterranean culture tends to be easygoing; Italians have a reputation for brazenly ignoring rules they consider too trivial to obey. Greece's Harvard-educated prime minister, George Papandreou, whose father and grandfather held the same job, wants to undo the habits of the past, and present. Yet he has tailored rhetoric to his compatriots' taste for defiance, asking Parliament to support reforms that he said will deliver a "genuine revolution" in Greek history.

Despite a sneering attitude to central authority, Greeks love state jobs and the security they provide, hence the bloated public sector and labor unrest that have dragged down the economy. Greeks had seemed content with the status quo for years, unwilling to deal with their debt or strip away early retirement and other cushy benefits of a state grown soft. At the micro level, Greek intransigence is petty and personal, a matter of running a red light without much fear of a slap on the wrist. But add it all up, and it's a threat to society. Tax evasion drains the state of well over $20 billion a year, and off-the-books transactions happen all the time. Having trouble getting a doctor's appointment? Parting with a few hundred extra euros, bank notes slipped discreetly across a desk at a clinic, traditionally ensures good treatment.

Unlike their philosophical ancestors, many Greeks don't wrestle much with their conscience. Salaries are low, they reason, so they have to make up the shortfall. And they find heroes in unlikely places. Last year, bank robber Vassilis Paleokostas, hailed by some Greeks as a modern Robin Hood, and an Albanian cohort escaped from prison by helicopter for the second time since 2006. Facebook fan sites mushroomed, fueled by reports that he offered loot to the poor. Never mind that his accomplice, Alket Rizaj, was a convicted murderer.

The riots that broke out in December 2008 after a teenager was killed by police, engulfing urban neighborhoods in violence, have become an iconic symbol of Greek distaste, or even contempt, for state authority. The fact that nobody died in the street clashes, however, suggested a certain leniency and accommodation on the part of protesters and police alike. The term "anarchy" comes from the Greek for "without authority," and the anarchist symbol - an "A" in a circle, or "O" for "order" - is a staple of graffiti at Athens protests, even if it seems an anachronism (another word from Greek).

More often than not, Greeks who have a problem with authority also have a problem with each other. Splinter groups abound. At one protest, a computer science teacher, Andreas Mougolias, said he doesn't side with activists who get violent because they are "demonstrating against the demonstration" as much as government policies. Fallout from Greece's National Schism between the king and prime minister hurt the country in the early 20th century, and the Western-backed government fought a civil war with the communists in the late 1940s.

Even Lord Byron, the British poet who assisted Greek forces in their 1820s fight against Ottoman rule, grew vexed at their bickering. "I do not like to speak ill of them, though they do of one another," he wrote to an Italian lover, the Countess Guiccioli. He succumbed to fever and died in Greece. Last week, in Syntagma (Constitution) Square, protesters converged on the Ministry of Finance to protest salary and pension cuts by the government. They vented briefly on police bunched in the entrance, shouting, pushing, lobbing debris and scattering when officers blasted them with pepper spray. Content with their outdoor drama, the protesters went home.

AIIS reports: As mentioned there are many anarchists in Greece, not only ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists". Many in Greece are anarchists and opposed a) to the significant pyramid that is the state/government, i.e. top heavy and inefficent, vertical organization, with significant superiors in rank and/or income, a top - down approach with relatively large rank and/or income differences, and are for b) horizontal organization, anarchy, i.e. significant, with small rank and income differences and efficient, a bottom - up approach, also the opposite of ochlarchy.

Anarchists are against ochlarchy, mob rule broadly defined, i.e. 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 IAT-APT repeats that the Circle-A symbol of anarchist youths, is only for non-ochlarchical, non-authoritarian use, not for illegal tagging.

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.

Euronews reports: Crisis. Greece agrees bail-out deal to save economy. The Greek government has agreed a deal with the EU and the IMF to save the country's economy. The agreement, aimed at freeing up billions of euros in aid, paves the way for more austerity measures. After holding a cabinet meeting, The Prime Minister George Papandreou said the country would have to make great sacrifices but that avoiding bankruptcy was the priority. Thousands of Greeks took to the streets yesterday for the May Day rallies. Many are strongly opposed to the pay cuts, pension reforms and tax rises that are anticipated. They argue that ordinary people should not be made to pay for a crisis they didn't cause.

The protests also brought running battles in Athens between riot police and anarchists who threw rocks and fired fireworks. Police responded with tear gas. There are fears that the third austerity package in four months could bring further violence. Later today the Greek finance minister is to head to Brussels for an extraordinary meeting of his counterparts from other Euro-zone countries. They could then sign a deal which may be worth as much as 120 billion euros over three years. The bail-out is designed to stop Greece from defaulting on its debt and prevent the crisis from spreading.

Brown Cards to the lier Euronews and so called "anarchists" that "threw rocks and fired fireworks" on May Day, in reality marxist leftwing extremist vandals, hooligans and terrorists, i.e. ochlarchists, the opposite of anarchists.

Ad so called "anarchists" that "fired fireworks", i.e. used firebombs 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 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 Euronews, 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 Euronews, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebombs - mentioned by Euronews, 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.

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! 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 this case.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as Euronews 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 Euronews gets a Brown Card according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation.

Ad so called "anarchists" that "threw rocks", doing vandalism and hooliganism, 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 Euronews 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. Euronews gets a Brown Card 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! 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. 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!

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.

Strikes and demonstrations on May Day. Two separate demonstrations will be held in central Athens to mark the May Day. Greece's two major umbrella unions, GSEE and ADEDY, have invited employees to join in the demonstration scheduled for 11am on Saturday at Klafthmonos Square. PAME (All Workers Militant Front) will stage a separate demonstration at Syntagma Square. There will be changes in public transport services. Ships will remain docked, while there will be no train services. The IWW backs the strikes and demonstrations, as long as they are non-ochlarchical.

Euronews reports: Crisis. Mass protest planned for May Day in Greece: The largest labour unions in Greece are planning a mass protest for May Day, against austerity measures proposed by the government. More than half the Greeks surveyed in a poll, that's just been released, have said they'll take to the streets if the measures are imposed. But Prime Minister George Papandreou says cuts are essential if the country is to keep afloat. They're the pre-conditions for a loan package, likely to be announced on Sunday. Union officials said Greece had been asked to cut its deficit by more than 10 percent of GDP by next year, by raising sales tax, freezing civil servant's wages, and scrapping public sector bonuses that add two months pay to salaries.

"I'm frightened for the future," one woman, an archaeologist, said. "I'll probably leave Greece, because there's nothing available for me in my field." "I'm an economist," another woman said. "I've been out of work for a year and a half and I have to live with my parents." May Day won't see the last of the turmoil. Unions have vowed to step up action, with a four-hour stoppage planned for Tuesday and a nationwide strike set for Wednesday next week.

BBC reports: Tear gas fired at Greek protest. Greek riot police have fired tear gas at youths protesting in Athens as a trade union march passed in front of the finance ministry. There were reports of similar scenes in the northern city of Thessaloniki as youths attacked business premises. Thousands of Greeks are taking part in May Day rallies called by trade unions and left-wing parties in protest against government austerity measures. The planned cuts are in exchange for a huge international financial bail-out. There is huge public resistance to the wage cuts, tax rises and pension reductions that are expected to be implemented. The measures are being demanded by the European Union in return for a rescue package, which is expected to total between 100-120bn euros (£87-100bn; $133-160bn) over three years. The full details of the bail-out are expected to be revealed this weekend if the Euro-zone leaders finally sign off the deal, which is designed to prevent Greece from defaulting on its enormous debt obligations.

'Unpopular measures'. The BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens says the mood has become serious as thousands of demonstrators march through the city towards parliament. The unions hope that the rally will demonstrate to the government, the Euro-zone, the IMF and the international markets, that they can mobilise enough "troops" to defeat the new austerity programme, our correspondent says. The value of the euro dropped on Friday after publication of a new poll suggested more than 50% of Greeks would take to the streets to try to stop the government's plans. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou is expected to announce details of the cuts once the rescue package is approved. He says the package is essential to save the country and protect its future, and has warned citizens to brace themselves for a period of hardship. He has said he will not weaken despite opposition and the political cost of the unpopular measures.

Later BBC's Malcolm Brabant falsely reports: "I'm outside the University of Athens where a Greek state television truck is on fire. Anarchists who were marching past saw that it was standing there and it is a symbol of the state and so they smashed the windows and somebody put a petrol bomb inside and set it on fire. The fire brigade is now here and has put out the flames, the riot police have chased off the anarchists and there is a terrible searing taste of tear gas in the air."

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 firebomb, so called "anarchists", falsely called so by BBC and Malcolm Brabant, 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 firebomb, 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 and Malcolm Brabant, the IAT-APT and AIIS report the truth: These so called "anarchists", terrorists using firebomb - mentioned by BBC and Malcolm Brabant, 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.

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! 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 this case.

As mentioned anarchists and ochlarchists are opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with marxist ochlarchists, as BBC and Malcolm Brabant 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 BBC and Malcolm Brabant get Brown Cards according to the Oslo Convention for spreading the above quoted disinformation. This is not the first time BBC and Malcolm Brabant get Brown Cards.

Also BBC reports: Greek protests: Eyewitnesses. "Having been in Greece for four months of study, the most sensational aspect of these protests is how normal everyone seems to think they are. 50 feet from rock-throwing anarchists, I saw a family enjoying May Day by strolling with a child in a baby carriage. Greece is far from widespread chaos. The protesters turn a two block radius into a war zone while allowing their great uncle to still enjoy his black coffee at a cafe a block away!" signed by Jimmy Hagan, Youngstown, Ohio, USA.

IAT-APT reports: "Persons throwing stones and petrol bombs, burning buildings and cars, looting etc. are ochlarchs/ochlarchists, ... of course not anarchists," and hands out a Brown Card to Jimmy Hagan, according to the Oslo Convention. Also the paper Telegraph.co.uk, reporting: ... "there were fears that violent anarchist and hard-left factions were intent on wreaking as much havoc as possible," falsely indicating "anarchists=ochlarchists", an Orwellian "1984" newspeak oxymoron, gets a Brown Card.

Euronews reports: May Day. Greek austerity plans spark mass May Day protest. Angry Greeks have marched against planned austerity they say will hurt the poor. Thousands gathered outside Greece's parliament in Athens, only metres away from where EU and IMF officials have been hammering out a multi-billion euro rescue deal for the debt-riddled country. The 'Biggest Social Battle' is how unions have described the effort to stop the measures and it did not take long for that battle to commence. Clashes erupted when a small group of protesters tried to march on the Finance Ministry.

Police were eventually able to drive them back, but not before feeling the protester's wrath. Molotov cocktails were thrown at a line of police officers, setting one alight. Two TV trucks and scores of garbage cans also went up in smoke and a tense stand-off is reported in the Greek capital.

Prime Minister George Papandreou has warned the deal is a matter of national survival following a torrid week on the world's financial markets, which raised serious questions over the single currency's stability. Shops, ships and other transport hubs were all shut because of a nationwide 24-hour walkout with unions describing the cutbacks as 'the biggest attack on workers rights for centuries.' The EU is demanding severe austerity in exchange for a massive 120 billion-euro bailout over the next 3 years.

These protesters were marxist extremist ochlarchists, using red flags, and they were thus not anarchists. The anarchists condemn the violent ochlarchy and especially the use of Molotov coctails against the police, setting one policeman on fire. Demonstrate with dignity - NOT OCHLARCHY!!!

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.

Kathimerini, that also gets a Brown Card, reports: Revolutionary trio claim terror hits. Three of the six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle have publicly accepted what they called "political responsibility" for a string of shootings and bombings since 2003 that caused widespread damage but no deaths. In a letter to the Pontiki weekly, Nikos Maziotis, the group's alleged ringleader, his partner Panayiota Roupa and Costas Gournas, who is alleged to have managed the organization's money, admitted to their role in the attacks and vowed to continue opposing the establishment.

"As long as we are alive, as long as we live and breathe, we will do whatever we can to scupper criminal plans that harm common people," they said in a letter that was littered with references to Greece's economic woes and its appeal for help to the International Monetary Fund. In the letter, Maziotis, a self-proclaimed anarchist, Roupa and Gournas confirm that Lambros Fountas, the microbiologist whose death led to their arrests, was a member of the group. Fountas was shot dead by police as he attempted to steal a car on March 10 and subsequent searches of his property led police to the six suspects.

The fact that the three other alleged Revolutionary Struggle members arrested – Sarantos Nikitopoulos, Vangelis Stathopoulos and Christoforos Kortesis – did not sign the letter suggests that they intend to deny any role in the group when their cases go to trial. A prosecutor yesterday ordered all six suspects to allow DNA samples to be taken as police attempt to match them with evidence taken from the properties rented by the group. It was also decided that the judicial investigation would be handed to magistrates Dimitris Mokkas and Constantinos Baltas, who are also probing the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire.

The IAT-APT handed out fresh Brown Cards to Revolutionary Struggle and its members 20.12.2009, meaning they are expulsed from the anarchist movement. This also means that Nikos Maziotis was expulsed from the anarchist movement 20.12.2010, see the resolution from IAT-APT that day. The IAT-APT hands out a new Brown Card to Nikos Maziotis, to underline the expulsion, and to underline that falsely claiming to be an anarchist, while in reality being a marxist leftwing extremist terrorist ochlarchist similar to RAF/Baader-Meinhof, is not tolerated. The difference between ochlarchs/ochlarchists and anarchists is per definition dependent on what you do, not what you say you are or flag! Nikos Maziotis is acting ultra-authoritarian, and is far from being an anarchist.

Nikos Maziotis is a marxist leftwing terrorist ochlarchist extremist. To falsely postulate that anarchists are extremists, logically means a severe break of the Oslo Convention. Anarchists are not extremists, see the resolutions "Anarchy is optimal order! For anarchist action!" and "What is an extremist, person or organization, really?" above. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. That is not extremists, or extremism.

Extremists and extremism have more than 666 per thousand authoritarian degree, while anarchists and anarchism have equal to or less than 50% authoritarian degree. Anarchists and extremists are thus opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with extremists 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 produce copycat ochlarchist extremists - 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, both to Nikos Maziotis and his collaborationist Kathimerini.

'Flower power' drives May Day celebration. Several floral displays created by the City of Athens to mark May Day is seen in the center of the capital. Greeks traditionally make wreaths on May Day as a way of celebrating spring. May Day also marks International Workers' Day, or Labor Day, and some professions do not work or hold stoppages to mark the occasion.

Public transport. Morning stoppage on May Day. There will be no metro, tram, bus, trolley bus or electric railway services between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m. tomorrow due to a work stoppage being staged by public transport employees to mark May Day. There will be no trains running on the Hellenic Railways Organization network as employees will be staging a 24-hour strike.

Ochlarchist vandals' attack in Exarchia. Vandals broke into the political office of Deputy Environment Minister Thanos Moraitis in Exarchia, central Athens, yesterday. The five assailants wore hoods and used hammers to cause extensive damage. The deputy minister was not in the office at the time of the attack.

Ochlarchist police abuse in Patmos? Police confirmed yesterday that they are investigating allegations police officers on the island of Patmos abused several high school students who were taken in for questioning in connection to a vandalized motorcycle. The force denied claims by the boys' lawyer that the allegations had been ignored.

Grigoropoulos trial. A court in Amfissa hearing the trial of two policemen implicated in the fatal shooting of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008 is unlikely to reach a verdict by June 6, by which date the officers will be eligible for release, as they will have reached the 18-month limit on being held in custody. Sources said that the court still has to hear from 15 witnesses, including forensic experts.

Elliniko mayor goes on hunger strike again. The mayor of the southern Athens suburb of Elliniko, Christos Kortzidis, who went on a lengthy hunger strike in 2007 to protect free access to the area's beaches, yesterday launched a new fasting protest, this time at the government's plans to overhaul local administration. Kortzidis, who went more than three weeks without food three years ago, said that he was opposed to the "Kallikratis" plan, which would lead to hundreds of municipalities around Greece being merged as part of an effort to slash red tape and costs. "I think that Kallikratis will impoverish local government, distancing it from citizens and leading to employees losing their livelihoods," said Kortzidis, whose municipality would be merged with nearby Argyroupoli under the government's plans. A number of mayors are unhappy at not being consulted about the plans.

BBC Reports: Athens clash over austerity cuts. Protesters in Athens clashed with police as a group tried to force its way into the Greek finance ministry. Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd as the unrest flared over austerity measures that may be taken in return for a massive bailout deal. The European Union (EU) has said it is close to approving the details of an emergency plan to help tackle Greece crippling debt. EU commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said "rapid progress" was being made.

Deal deadline. "I'm confident that the talks will be concluded soon, meaning in the next days," Mr Barroso told a news conference following the clashes. "We believe that these solutions will be conducive to our actions and will prevent further possible effects of the contagion." Officials from the EU, the International Monetary Fund, and European Central Bank are in Athens to negotiate the bailout. The Greek government says it needs a deal by 19 May to avoid a devastating debt default.

ANALYSIS by Malcolm Brabant, BBC News correspondent in Athens: On Planet Greece, some civil servants get a bonus for turning up to work on time. Foresters get a bonus for working outdoors. At least they show up. There are civil servants called ghost workers, because they never go into the office, head to a second job and still claim a state salary. They can't get sacked, because a civil service post is for life. Unless the incumbent decides to retire in his or her forties, WITH a pension. And the government can continuing paying for the afterlife. Unmarried and divorced daughters of civil servants are entitled to collect their dead parents' pensions. Another lucrative sinecure is to belong to a state committee. The government has no idea how many there are. It's been estimated that they have 10,000 employees and cost nearly £200m a year, and that includes the committee to manage a lake that dried up 80 years ago.

Police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators, after some tried to break through a police cordon guarding the Greek finance ministry. The outbreaks came after Greece began talks over extra budget cuts as conditions for the bailout loans. These cuts would be in addition to an already mooted austerity drive aimed at reducing the nation's public deficit, which is more than four times bigger than the EU limit. Union officials say the IMF wants Athens to raise sales taxes, scrap bonuses amounting to two extra months of pay in the public sector and accept a three-year pay freeze. The union officials also claim that by next year, the IMF and the EU want Greece to shed 10 percentage points from the public deficit that reached 13.6% of output in 2009.

In addition, they say Athens has been asked to get rid of 13th and 14th month bonuses for public sector workers and pensioners. It was also reported in the Financial Times in London on Friday that another measure would include raising the retirement age from an average of 53 to 67. "Have you understood that these measures that are being recommended to you are measures of destruction?" the head of the Left Coalition Syriza, a small left-wing party, Alexis Tsipras, told Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and fellow lawmakers. "There is no other choice, ask for the verdict of the Greek people, call a referendum," he added.

In the face of mounting opposition to the budget cuts, Mr Papandreou insisted that the poor must not suffer disproportionately because of the austerity drive. "We are holding tough negotiations to protect what we can for the weak and the middle class in our country," he said. He said spending on healthcare would continue, but that corruption in the sector would be tackled.

'Harsh package'. Negotiations about the terms of the Greek loan come as the country prepares for annual 1 May celebrations, with three demonstrations expected against the measures. Meanwhile, there were also reports of further clashes outside the parliament building in Athens on Thursday night. The latest protests followed a meeting between Prime Minister George Papandreou and trade union leaders, who reacted angrily to his planned austerity measures. "We got a flavour of a very harsh package of measures, measures that will lead to recession," Yiannis Panagopoulos, head of the powerful GSEE umbrella trade union, was quoted by AP news agency as saying. The unions have now called a general strike for 5 May. The BBC's Gavin Hewitt in Athens says the mood is increasingly against any bailout and the Greek prime minister has said the country is in a battle for survival.

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.

Three 'Revolutionary Struggle' marxist terrorist group suspects admit involvement in letter to newspaper. Three of the six people arrested and charged with involvement in the Revolutionary Struggle marxist terrorist group in a coordinated police swoop on April 11 have admitted participation in the group in a letter to the weekly newspaper "Pontiki" appearing on Thursday. The letter, signed by Panagiota (Pola) Roupa, her husband Nikos Maziotis and Constantine Gournas, also says that Lambros Fountas, a 35-year-old biologist who was killed in a shootout with police in the Dafni district of Athens, was one of their "comrades" in the group. In the letter, the three suspects -- who together with the other three detainees have been jailed pending trial -- say they are "proud" of their group, adding that "the struggle will continue". The anarchists condemn this marxist leftwing extremist communist group.

DNA matches found in terror probe. Police forensic experts yesterday found a match between DNA evidence and fingerprints found in a house in the Kalyvia, southeastern Attica, that had been rented by the suspected leader of Revolutionary Struggle and similar evidence found at the terrorist group's suspected hideout in the district of Kypseli, near central Athens. The test results indicate that the same people had frequented the home of 39-year-old Nikos Maziotis – currently in detention along with his girlfriend, Panayiota Roupa, 41, and another four suspects – as well as the Kypseli hideout, where police earlier this month discovered large quantities of explosives and guns.

More DNA evidence discovered in the car of Constantinos Gournas, 30, one of the suspects currently in detention, has been matched to evidence found at the Kypseli hideout. Police have yet to determine whether the evidence matches that of any of the detained suspects, as all six of them have refused to give police DNA samples. Police sources said that it remained unclear yesterday whether the evidence might produce leads to other suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle. The same sources said that the evidence collected from the Kypseli hideout and the Kalyvia house did not tally with DNA samples gathered from other sites of terrorist attacks over the years that have yet to be matched to individuals. A police source told Kathimerini that forensic experts had inspected much of the huge weapons haul discovered at the Kypseli hideout but that there was still a long way to go before any reliable conclusions could be drawn. "We're about 5 percent of the way through the process," the source said.

New measures suggested for EU-IMF loans. Change in private, not just public, sector. Greece is close to agreeing to a new set of austerity measures, which will affect both the public and private sectors, that would unlock the emergency loans from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund that the country needs to keep its economy afloat, it emerged yesterday. Sources said that the government has accepted the proposals put forward by IMF officials that would lead to further tax rises and public spending cuts and would make it easier for employers in the private sector to hire and fire people.

In the private sector, employers who have more than 200 people in their work force would be able to sack 4 percent of them at once rather than the 2 percent in place now. There will also be a gradual phasing out of the 13th and 14th monthly salaries that employees receive as Easter, summer and Christmas bonuses, possibly over the next five years. Employers will have the option of adjusting the remaining 12 monthly wages so that workers do not experience any sudden drop in income. Steps will also be taken to end collective contracts in certain professions.

In the public sector, civil servants will lose their 13th and 14th monthly salaries and their supplementary pay, which has already been cut by 30 percent, will be reduced by another 5 percent. This would present savings of 1.7 billion euros, or 0.6 percent of Greece's gross domestic product. If the government refuses to take these steps, it will have to increase indirect taxes, including a rise in the lower-end VAT charges. Also, there will be a freeze on hirings in the public sector for several years and contracts will not be renewed when they run out. Lastly, the government will have to sell off or shut down public organizations that lose money.

With Greece unable to borrow money on the financial markets and the crisis spreading to other European countries such as Portugal and Spain, German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday called on Athens and the IMF to speed up their discussions so that the emergency loans could be released. Merkel met in Berlin yesterday with the IMF's managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet to discuss the financial package. Merkel said it was vital that the EU and the IMF do not allow Greece to collapse like US investment bank Lehman Brothers.

World markets have started showing signs of recovery amid hopes that the bailout package of Greece will come into play in good time. The Greek stock market has been stabilized, while the spreads spiraling has been eased. It was Berlin's decision for the immediate activation of the support mechanism that triggered the above change. EU officials reiterated that the activation of the bailout package is a matter of days. The European Central Bank chief highlighted yet again the need for immediate actions lest Greece's borrowing crisis should spread to other Euro-zone nations.

Radio silence. Radio programs will be disrupted throughout today due to a 48-hour strike by technicians which began yesterday. They are protesting the firing of one of their colleagues and the failure by employers to sign a collective wage contract.

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.

Kathimerini reports: Policeman's lawyer hits out. The lawyer defending Epaminondas Korkoneas, the policeman accused of shooting dead 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008, accused the teenager yesterday of being an anarchist. In a stormy court session, Alexis Kougias insisted that Grigoropoulos and his friend, who has gone into hiding after refusing to testify, were part of a group that threw objects at Korkoneas on the night of the shooting. "Alexandros Grigoropoulos was an anarchist," he said. "His friend [known only as N.R. for legal reasons] is a dangerous anti-establishment activist." Kougias's claim came after one of Korkoneas's colleagues revised his testimony. Policeman Costas Kaitsiotis had suggested Korkoneas failed to follow procedure on December 6, 2008, but yesterday told the court that the special guard "did what he could under the circumstances" and said that his actions on the night were totally out of character.

The IAT-APT handed out a Brown Card to Korkoneas 14.05.2009 for falsely postulating that he was facing a "dangerous anarchist group", i.e. Grigoropoulos and friends. In a similar case 08.04.2010 IAT-APT handed out Brown Cards to Korkoneas's lawyer, Alexis Kougias, people behind a letter falsely claiming that Grigoropoulos and friends are/were members of "an extremist anarchist organization,"and Kathimerini. This new case 28.04.2010 is also a similar case, and the IAT-APT hands out new Brown Cards to the lawyer defending Epaminondas Korkoneas, Alexis Kougias, and Kathimerini.

1. Grigoropoulos and friends, including 'N.R.', were and are not anarchists, and they were not so dangerous that any shooting from the police can be defended. Especially N.R. is practically certain not 'a dangerous anti-establishment activist', i.e. a political extremist;

2. Anarchist are not 'dangerous anti-establishment activists', i.e. extremists, see the resolutions "Anarchy is optimal order! For anarchist action!" and "What is an extremist, person or organization, really?" above. The only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate, in self defense. That is not extremists, i.e. 'dangerous anti-establishment activists'.

To falsely postulate that anarchists are 'dangerous anti-establishment activists', i.e. extremists, logically means a severe break of the Oslo Convention. Extremists and extremism have more than 666 per thousand authoritarian degree, while anarchists and anarchism have equal to or less than 50% authoritarian degree. Anarchists and extremists are thus opposites. To mix up opposites as anarchists with extremists 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 hands out Brown Cards, as free criticism of this authoritarian tendency, according to the Oslo Convention.

Bank firebombed. A homemade explosive device comprising gas canisters caused damage but no injuries when it detonated outside a branch of Emporiki Bank in the Cretan port of Hania early yesterday. The explosion started a fire which the local fire service quickly extinguished. The anarchists condemn this terrorist extremism.

General strike called for May 5. The civil servants' union ADEDY and the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE), yesterday called a general strike for May 5 to protest the government's austerity measures as well as increasing pressure from the European Union and International Monetary Fund for additional cuts. The head of GSEE, Yiannis Panagopoulos, said the strike action was a protest at the government's plans to raise the minimum retirement age by several years and against the possibility of salary cuts being introduced to the private sector. "The 13th and 14th salaries in the private sector are non-negotiable," Panagopoulos said, referring to the two additional wages received by employees at Christmas and Easter.

ADEDY's president, Spyros Papaspyros, whose union organized a protest rally in central Athens yesterday, said civil servants will continue to oppose the cuts in holiday pay and benefits introduced in March. ADEDY's aim, Papaspyros said, is "the revocation of these measures that harm the people." The demonstration, which started outside Athens University and ended at Parliament, was relatively small, attracting about 2,000 participants.

In a related development, teachers' unions called on their members to stage strike action next week to protest a raft of proposed reforms ranging from changes to the way that teachers are hired to the abolition of a law setting a minimal grade for university entrance. The Primary School Teachers' Federation (DOE) said it would stage daily four-hour work stoppages from today through May 3 before launching a 48-hour strike on May 4 and 5. The Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OLME), which is calling for full-time jobs to be granted to substitute teachers and their unemployed counterparts, called on its members to join a 24-hour strike on May 4. The IWW backs the general strike and the other strikes and protests.

Greek debt 'junk'. Greece and its debt-ridden economy have yet again topped world media, after ratings agency Standard & Poor's slashed Greece's sovereign debt to junk status. Media coverage and press reports have focused on the immediate impact the said move had on the world markets and the fear that more EU nations will be struck by similar crises. "Global shares have tumbled after the credit rating agency Standard and Poor's downgraded Greek debt to "junk" on Tuesday. The concern among investors now is that the loss of confidence in Greece could spread to other weak Euro-zone economies," said BBC.

The Washington Post read that Greece's debt was given junk status. The paper also hosted an interview given by a Morgan Keegan analyst who stressed that it is too late to install a fire alarm while the house is already on fire. The International Monetary Fund is planning to raise its contribution to the bailout for Greece, said Britain's Financial Times , amid fears that the 45 billion euros of the bailout won't be enough. Greece is feared to default before its EU partners raise the money for its bailout, reported CNN, further commenting that the junk status given to a Euro-zone economy could trigger a domino reaction, with Portugal being the first in line.

French paper Le Monde's article read that Greece and Portugal are spooking the markets. The Greeks resist to the austerity measures, holding street protests in public transport, reducing everything in the country to a crawl, underlined Le Figaro paper, focusing on the problems tourists in Greece have come up against. Trying to ease tensions, La Reppublica paper read that the EU says negotiations are on good track.

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.

Euronews reports: Anger to Greek austerity grows. The mood against austerity in Greece is becoming increasingly bitter. Transport workers called a six-hour walkout, bringing buses, trains and trams to halt. Many oppose the government's strict economic measures. The hostility towards the unpleasant fiscal medicine emerged in a new poll. That shows 61 percent of Greeks are against going cap in hand to the EU and IMF for a 45 billion euro loan. But, Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou insisted the reforms will give the country new life.

"We're going through one of the most difficult moments that Greece has had for decades. The challenges our country faces are unprecedented – not only for Greece, but also for the global economy and for Europe. The responsibilities we have undertaken are historic. We're making decisive political decisions – decisive for the future of Greeks and the future of Europe," said Papandreou.

Such words, however, look set to fall on deaf ears, with many people preparing to protest. "For many years in Greece there has been this practice, it's not easy to change. What can we do? Sit on the couch and protest on Facebook? Maybe young people can do that but workers don't have any other way," one man in Athens said. "The protests should take place. We all have to do something, everyone has to act, because from what I can see, they're leading us to the edge of a cliff," another man said. The public outcry is also unnerving investors. Many remain jittery that reform may take a hit if anger grows into large-scale unrest.

Crisis. Greece teeters on the brink pending bailout. Greek dockers have protested against one of their government's first measures to liberalise the country's restrictive labour market and make it more competitive. Athens is asking the Euro-zone and the International Monetary Fund for a bailout while Greece's Finance Minister, George Papaconstantinou has tried to quell Greek fears that the financial future is bleak. "On May 19 we must repay a maturing bond of about nine billion euros. Until then our borrowing needs are covered but conditions in markets today are totally prohibitive for borrowing," said Papaconstantinou.

It was investor jitters over Greece's debt repayment programme that drove its borrowing costs up to a 12-year peak. The government has already announced billions of euros in budget cuts, including tax increases and public sector wage freezes. But to get Europe's biggest economy, Germany, to back the bailout, it needs to do more. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will help if the requirements are fulfilled. "Because only if this programme is sustainable will we have a chance to ensure the stability of the Euro permanently." Time is of the essence; there are concerns that Greece could be the first of several Euro-zone countries to slide into bankruptcy – the consequences of that will be untold damage to the euro and the rest of the bloc's economic health.

Markets. Greek debt insurance hits record high. The cost of insurance against Greece missing its debt repayments hit a record high, after political murmurings in Berlin that cast doubt over Germany's role in any financial rescue. Greece has to make debt repayments on May 19th, but the coffers are bare. The country formally asked for help last week, and is currently negotiating terms for a 45-billion euro bailout with the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank. Vice-President of the ECB Lucas Papademos said: "It is essential that the economic programme currently being prepared (by the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF , together with the Greek authorities) specifies comprehensive fiscal measures and structural reforms that will address the root causes of Greece's fiscal imbalances and structural weaknesses."

The prospect of Greece becoming the first Euro-zone country to default on its debt has also sparked fears of a domino effect among other shaky Euro-zone economies. The cost of insuring Portugal's debt also hit a record high. And the euro weakened against the dollar. German analyst Klaus Wübbenhorst said: "A weaker euro is good for exports to outside the euro area. On balance, we should see that Greece is a problem that can be dealt with and that has no impact on consumers' willingness to spend." Greek banking shares tumbled after comments from Germany that it could still deny financial aid unless Athens does more to cut its budget deficit. Those remarks prompted the head of the Greek Central Bank to call for deeper cuts than those already in the government's austerity plan.

Striking seamen bar tourists from port. A group of nearly 1,000 tourists were obliged to spend the night in hotels in the capital yesterday after striking seamen blockading the port of Piraeus prevented them from boarding a Malta-flagged cruise liner that had been due to set sail late last night. The seamen, whose 24-hour nationwide strike kept ferries moored in ports across the country, were due to end their action at 6 a.m. today. They are planning another 24-hour strike for May 1, this Saturday. Seamen also participated in a 48-hour strike at the end of last week, organized by the Communist Party-affiliated labor union PAME, causing similar disruption.

As mentioned the seamen are protesting the government's plans to lift cabotage rules in order to permit non-EU-flagged vessels to moor at Greek ports and open up the market to thousands of tourists at a time that additional revenues are desperately needed. Yesterday's strike caused the biggest problems at the country's main port of Piraeus. More than 950 tourists remained trapped in their coaches for several hours after about 400 sailors and members of PAME blocked both entrances to the port. According to witnesses, several tourists got out of the coaches and blocked the road outside the port entrance in an apparent protest at the blockade. Meanwhile, a group of around 50 people, also believed to be tourists, approached protesting seamen and attempted to reason with them, to no avail. Late last night the coaches retreated, transferring the tourists to hotels in central Athens for the night. The IWW backs the strike.

Glyfada closure. The Municipality of Glyfada in southern Athens will be closed due to a protest by employees at the nonrenewal of some workers' contracts. The IWW backs the strike.

Public transport work stoppage. There will be no public transport in Attica today between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. - except for the Proastiakos suburban railway and taxis - as employees stage a work stoppage to protest the government's austerity measures. Service on city buses, the metro, tram, Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP) and trolley buses will run as usual before 11 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Protesting workers are due to stage a rally in Kotzia Square in the morning. Later in the day members of the civil servants' union ADEDY are to start a protest march at 6.30 p.m. outside Athens University. Commuters should be aware that the public transport means will start withdrawing from service at least one hour before the stoppage kicks in on Tuesday morning, while full restoration of service should be expected one hour after the end of the stoppage. The IWW backs the strike and protests.

Strike canceled. A scheduled strike today by employees of the Culture Ministry was called off yesterday.

Car is link to terror suspect. A car found burned in Lambrini, near central Athens, on Sunday had been used by suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle, including the gang's assumed ringleader Nikos Maziotis, currently in custody along with five other suspects, and is believed to have been stolen from Thessaloniki by another suspected member of the terror group still at large, police said. Counterterrorism officers are reportedly moving in on this seventh suspect, believed to be linked to the theft of the vehicle in the northern city in August 2007. Examination of the remains of the blue Renault found in Lambrini, north of central Athens, turned up a wealth of evidence: a sledgehammer, a bottle of flammable yellow liquid, several clocks with the remains of duct tape and the license plate of a stolen motorcycle. The license plate on the car itself also had been stolen from another car, police said.

Grigoropoulos trial. Two policemen who trained with the two special guards implicated in the death of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos in December 2008, told a court yesterday that the first thing they were taught in training was to only use their gun as a last resort if they were under threat. The policeman charged with shooting dead Grigoropoulos, Epaminondas Korkoneas, insists that he and his colleague, Vassilis Saraliotis, came under attack by a group of youths and that he fired warning shots into the air.

PM: Rebirth of Greece, now or never. Prime minister George Papandreou said the time has come for the rebirth of Greece, "it is now or never", addressing a meeting of his ruling PASOK party's parliamentary group on Tuesday. Papandreou outlined the difficult situation the country is in, but expressed optimism that, with a joint effort, the country will succeed, and called all the citizens, regardless of their political leanings, to take part in that effort. The premier said that he is personally determined to do everything necessary, in the time required and that imposed by the circumstances, for the country's recovery and so that the Greek people may once again feel pride.

"Greece has a government with the volition to not back down a single step," Papandreou said, and called on everyone to stop occupying themselves with the spreads and deal instead with the changes and reversals that are necessary. The EU support mechanism that Greece has resorted to will give the country the necessary time and calm to proceed to those changes, he said, giving assurances that his government does not fear the political cost because, above and beyond that cost is the contribution to the country.

26.04.2010. More strikes and protests, backed by IWW. Investors still nervous on Greece.

24-hour strike at Piraeus port. All Greek-flag ships remained at port in Piraeus on Monday due to a 24-hour strike by the Panhellenic Seamen's Federation (PNO) in protest of the government's plan to lift cabotage restrictions. A repeated strike will be staged on Friday, April 30. Greek seamen are protesting the imminent lifting of cabotage (regulations restricting coastal shipping to domestic vessels) announced by prime minister George Papandreou, which will allow foreign cruiseships to use the Greek sea routes and ports. Monday's strike means that 20 ships will not carry out scheduled routes to the islands of the Aegean, Crete and the Dodecanese Islands complex, while strikers will gather at the port of Piraeus for the arrival of the Malta-flag cruiseship 'Zenith'. The seamen's union described the planned cabotage lifting "a full-frontal assault on their rights." IWW backs the seamen's strike.

Commuter woes. There will be no public transport in Attica tomorrow between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. – except for the suburban railway and taxis – as employees stage a work stoppage to protest the government's austerity measures. Service on city buses, the metro, the tram, the Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP) and trolley buses will run normally before 11 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Workers are due to stage a rally in Kotzia Square in the morning. Later in the day, members of the civil servants' union ADEDY are to start a protest march at 6.30 p.m. outside Athens University. IWW backs the strikes and protests.

Union warns of more strikes. Umbrella trade union GSEE president Yiannis Panagopoulos on Monday warned of more strikes in the immediate future. The trade union's executive committee will convene on Tuesday, Panagopoulos said, adding that he will recommend the staging of industrial actions in the immediate future. Social security and labour rights' issues are non negotiable, he said, particularly those referring to collective bargaining agreements and the role of the mediation and arbitration organization, which was established to settle employee-employer disputes. IWW backs the strikes and protests.

As Greek workers continue to protest austerity measures and the involvement of the IMF in a joint rescue plan with Euro-zone countries worth some 45 billion euros, the IMF's Strauss-Kahn stressed that his organization had Greece's interests at heart. "Greek citizens shouldn't fear the IMF – we are there to try and help them," said Strauss-Kahn, a former Socialist finance minister of France.

Prime Minister George Papandreou said the EU-IMF rescue plan was "not pleasant" but crucial. "Because of our problems, the EU [officials] arrived and now the IMF is here too and they are in control, in a kind of guardianship," Papandreou told villagers at Kremasti on the Dodecanese island of Rhodes, noting that the ultimate aim was to "restore our autonomy." The premier said he understood the anger of protesters holding banners reading "IMF go home." "They will not leave in a hail of stones," but rather when Greece has regained its "credibility" and restored its reeling economy, he said. Papandreou added that his government would struggle to ensure that "those who are not to blame [for the crisis] will not pay" and again blamed the previous conservative administration for the current situation.

Opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, for his part, accused the government of making "massive mistakes" and lying about being forced to resort to IMF aid. "It was not forced, it chose to do so," Samaras charged in a speech in his native Kalamata. "The IMF is going to force new measures upon us that neither our economy nor our society will be able to bear," Samaras added.

BBC reports: Investors still nervous on Greece. Investors are still nervous over plans to rescue the Greek economy, despite indications of progress on bail-out talks over the weekend. Interest rates demanded by investors lending money to Greece are close to record highs - a sign that fears remain over Greece's ability to repay loans. Greece has been forced to request 40bn euros from the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF). But the details of the bail-out deal have not yet been finalised. There is also concern that European partners in the deal - particularly Germany - are reluctant to participate in the bail-out.

Time running out. On Monday, Greek bond yields - the interest rate that Greece must pay to borrow money on the international markets - were just below the 9.15% record seen last week. The interest rate is 6.14 percentage points higher than that charged to Germany - seen as the safest investment in Europe. That is the largest spread in bond yields for 12 years. Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said talks with the IMF over the weekend had progressed well, with the head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, saying that a deal would be agreed "in time to meet Greece's needs". Negotiations must stick to a series of deadlines, with 8.5bn euros needed before 19 May, when Greece faces its next bond repayment.

Austerity demands. The IMF is expected to provide 10bn euros of support this year, with Euro-zone nations providing a further 30bn euros. But the scale of assistance after this year remains unclear. That could affect the willingness of European countries to commit to a bailout - another source of uncertainty for investors. The Netherlands has already said it will wait to hear full details of the plan before putting the necessary legislation before its parliament. It is among those European countries looking for further austerity measures from Greece before they commit to bailout money. Senior officials in Germany's governing coalition have indicated that they are willing to help Greece as long as "strict conditions" are met, despite describing financial help as a "last resort". French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has also pledged to "hold Greece accountable" for any financial help.

However, demands for even harsher cuts in Greece would almost certainly be met with domestic opposition. There have already been public demonstrations against proposed cuts to public spending that the government says are necessary to bring down the country's massive debt mountain. Greece's budget deficit was equivalent to 13.6% of GDP last year - more than was estimated by finance ministers. Currently, ambitious government plans are to bring this down to 3% by the end of 2012. Despite the uncertainty, Mr Papaconstantinou has sought to reassure investors by denying that Greece is in danger of defaulting on its debts, pointing out that short-term bridging loans could be used should the IMF deal falter. He also warned speculators betting on a Greek default. "All I can say is that they will lose their shirts," he told reporters over the weekend.

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.

New austerity a precondition for Greek aid: Germany. Greece must agree to tough new austerity measures before it receives any financial aid from the European Union and failure to do so would endanger such support, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a newspaper, according to Reuters. "The fact that neither the EU nor the German government have taken a decision (on providing aid) means that the response can be positive as well as negative," Schaeuble told the Sunday edition of Bild. "This depends entirely on whether Greece continues in the coming years with the strict savings course it has launched.

I have made this clear to the Greek finance minister." Greece bowed to pressure from financial markets on Friday, making a formal request for the activation of a joint aid package from the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that is valued at up to 45 billion euros ($60.49 billion). The debt-saddled euro zone member has already announced billions of euros in austerity measures, including tax hikes and public sector wage cuts, but is talking with the EU and IMF about additional steps. Opposition to aid for Greece runs deep in Germany and Chancellor Angela Merkel, who faces a crucial regional election on May 9, has been at pains to stress that aid will only flow if Athens takes further steps to cut a budget deficit which soared to 13.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) last year.

Schaeuble said a "tough restructuring program" for the next years was "unavoidable and an absolute prerequisite" if Germany and the EU were to approve the aid Greece has requested. But he also made clear that Germany had to be ready to support Greece to ensure the stability of the common currency. "We are defending the stability of the euro, because Germany benefits [from the currency] at least as much as all the others. Help for Greece is therefore not a waste of taxpayer money, but a move based on fundamental German interests. "Euro? Currency? Unenlightened plutarchy! The EU should do proper demand management to do away with the unemployment, and thus make a higher GDP, real income, not be so focused on the currency euro, i.e. having money illusions," a spokesperson for WEC told AIIS.

Germany, France signal hard line with Greece. European heavyweights Germany and France vowed on Sunday to take a hard line with Greece in exchange for financial support as doubts emerged over whether a 45 billion euro ($60.2 billion) aid package was sufficient to prevent a default. Greece bowed to intense pressure from financial markets on Friday, requesting funds from the European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in what would be the first bailout of a member of the 11-year-old single currency bloc. The debt-saddled country has announced billions of euros in austerity measures, including tax hikes and public sector wage cuts, but must now agree additional steps to satisfy the EU and IMF, and ensure the aid flows.

As mentioned German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned Greece that a tough restructuring of its economy was "unavoidable and an absolute prerequisite" if Berlin and the EU were to approve the aid Greece has requested. "The fact that neither the EU nor the German government have taken a decision [on providing aid] means the response can be positive as well as negative," Schaeuble told the Sunday edition of German daily Bild. "This depends entirely on whether Greece continues in the coming years with the strict savings course it has launched. I have made this clear to the Greek finance minister."

Schaeuble's French counterpart Christine Lagarde promised to hold Greece accountable for "unsuitable economic policies" that pushed its 2009 budget deficit to 13.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and its debt to 115 percent of economic output. She described the aid package as a "cocktail of indulgence and great strictness," telling the Journal du Dimanche weekly that Greece's partners would closely monitor its progress in restoring order to its creaking finances. "We will [release the aid] according to their needs and in the case of default on repayment, we will immediately put the foot on the brake," Lagarde said. Germany and France are due to provide about half of the 30 billion euros in aid the EU has tentatively pledged for Greece. The IMF is expected to put up the remaining 15 billion.

Doubts on aid package. Only days after Greece requested the aid, however, doubts were emerging over whether the package was large enough to calm market fears of a debt default. Those fears have pushed the yield on Greek 10-year bonds above 8.7 percent, a whopping 567 basis points over the rates on benchmark German Bunds. This has made it prohibitively expensive for Athens to service its mountain of debt. Greece's formal request for aid on Friday did little to ease market pressures. Speaking to reporters in Washington at the weekend, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty acknowledged that some European and G20 countries believed the aid was inadequate. "There is concern about making sure that the package is enough so that it's a one-time event," he said.

There are also worries about public opposition to further austerity steps in Greece. Greek riot police fired teargas at protesters who held an impromptu march through central Athens on Friday to protest austerity. A poll released on Saturday showed that roughly two-thirds of Greeks believe Prime Minister George Papandreou's socialist government was either too slow to react or handled the economy poorly as the country's fiscal crisis deepened. Marxist leftwing newspaper Eleftherotypia said the "specter of Hungary" was haunting Papandreou's government. Voters in Hungary booted out the socialist government this month after it tried to push through painful IMF-ordered budget cuts. Kathimerini, a rightwing liberalist extremist newspaper, said Greece was entering a tough and unpredictable period. "It may turn out for the better, or it may turn us into what the Anglo-Saxons call 'a failed state'," it said in an editorial. The anarchists say Kathimerini is exaggerating the problems, Greece will practically certain not be similar to Somalia, with about 80% authoritarian degree - a failed state, the country most far from anarchy in the world.

24.04.2010. Marxist terror suspect. More strikes. EU-IMF ready to act. Crisis. Fears in Greece that EU-IMF aid means more cuts.

Marxist terror suspect. A 19-year-old woman arrested on Thursday evening was remanded in custody yesterday on suspicion of being involved in the marxist terrorist Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire group which carried out a series of bloodless attacks with homemade explosive devices. The woman, who was not named, is the 10th suspected member of the group to be arrested. Three of those suspects remain in custody.

More strikes. No public transport between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesday. There will be no public transport in Attica on Tuesday between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. – except for the suburban railway and taxis – as employees stage a work stoppage to protest the government’s austerity measures. Services on city buses, the metro, the tram, the Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway and trolley buses will run as normal before 11 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Protesting workers are due to stage a rally at Kotzia Square that morning. Later in the day members of the civil servants’ union ADEDY are to start a protest march at 6.30 p.m. outside Athens University.

ERT reports: EU-IMF ready to act. In an immediate response to Greece's call for activation of the EU rescue mechanism, the European Commission spokesman, Amadeu Altafaj said Europe would take rapid action to assist Greece, stressing that Euro-zone Finance Ministers would take a formal decision to allocate emergency loans to Greece following European Commission and European Central Bank decision that the request was valid. The ECB has not made any comment yet while German Finance Ministry spokesman said "German government ready to act". "The IMF stands ready to act" said its managing director Dominique Straus Khan.

EU Commission: "Activation of rescue mechanism only matter of days". Both EU Commission and IMF are ready to act while EU Commission spokesman said activation of rescue mechanism is a matter of few days. EU spokesman Amadeu Altafaj expressed belief that there would not be any delay in activation of rescue mechanism as EU member states and IMF have already worked together. He underlined that Euro-group would unanimously take the final formal decision after the European Commission and European Central Bank decide whether the request was valid. In reference to the interest rate , Mr. Altafaj said that it depended on the market circumstances, however, reminding, that Euro-zone leaders had made a commitment for a 5% interest rate.

He added that EU services are in permanent contact and cooperation with Greek authorities and reminded that the EU believes Greece has taken all necessary measures to drastically cut down state deficit. He characteristically said that all Euro-zone member states have committed to participate in Greece's rescue mechanism. Concluding, spokesman for EU Commissioner Olhi Rehn assured that EU services would act rapidly , taking into consideration that the largest part of EU-IMF preparations have already been completed. Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today on Greece: "We have received Greece's request for a Stand-By Arrangement. We have been working closely with the Greek authorities for some weeks on technical assistance, and have had a mission on the ground in Athens for a few days working with the authorities and the European Union. We are prepared to move expeditiously on this request."

Euronews reports: Crisis. Fears in Greece that EU-IMF aid means more cuts. There is uncertainty on the streets of Athens today, after debt-laden Greece finally activated financial aid from the EU and IMF . The fear for many is that access to the 45 billion euro package will be granted only if tougher austerity measures are imposed. Despite this, one man in the Greek capital said asking for help seemed like the only way out."I want to be positive that, with the participation of all Greeks, things will get better." "With the wage reductions, my income is going down," a woman added. "I am suffocating. My children are helping me make ends meet."

While not formally on the agenda, Greece was a hot topic at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington. Rallying behind the bailout, they said they would not allow such debt problems to threaten the European or world economy. But outside, protesters supported a measure which divided ministers. Among their demands, demonstrators called for banks around the world to be hit with new taxes, to help pay for any future rescues of troubled financial firms.

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.

"Riots and terrorism are a ochlarchy, not anarchy, i.e. real democracy. Thus, Greece needs more, not less democracy, i.e. a higher libertarian degree, as in the anarchies of Norway and the Swiss Confederation, see http://www.anarchy.no/ija137.html .

Dictatorship means more ochlarchy - not less - and is no solution to Greece's problems.

Anarchists are not interested in long discussions with confused rightwing extremists, out of touch with the practical certain realities. We have our secrets and plans."

Kathimerini reports: Terrorist cache may yield even more clues. Police believe that the discovery of what appears to be Revolutionary Struggle's main hideout in Kypseli, near central Athens, earlier this week may also give authorities more information about another group, Sect of Revolutionaries, which claimed responsibility for the murder of a policeman last year. Sources said the date on which the fifth-floor apartment was rented could provide a link between the two groups. Revolutionary Struggle first appeared in 2003 and Sect of Revolutionaries carried out their first attack, on a police station in Korydallos, early in 2009. However, police believe the fact that the Kypseli property was rented in July 2008 may point to a falling out among members of Revolutionary Struggle with some splintering off to form Sect of Revolutionaries.

Officers are basing this theory on the fact that Revolutionary Struggle's arms and explosives were moved into the apartment more than a year after the group's previous attack, at a time when there was no indication that authorities were close to finding the cache. "Fourteen months had passed since their last hit and they had no reason to transfer their weapons to a new hideout unless they wanted to keep some of their members from getting their hands on them," an anti-terrorism squad officer who wished to remain anonymous told Kathimerini. This interpretation supports the theory that the Sect of Revolutionaries, which murdered a witness protection officer in Athens last summer, was formed by members of Revolutionary Struggle that wanted the group to be more active and more aggressive. Meanwhile, a 19-year-old woman, whose fingerprints were allegedly found at property where bombs were made by another group, the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, was arrested in central Athens yesterday, police said.

ERT reports: New arrest warrants in the next days. Five more arrest warrants are to be issued in the next days as Antiterrorist Agency continues investigations. Policemen are examining 4.000 pieces of evidence they have gathered from hide-outs and houses where they carried investigations while the three guns found in Kypseli hide-out had not been used in terrorist attacks. Evidence so far indicates that there are more weapons that have not been found yet. Police circles fear new terrorist attack from members of terrorist organizations that have not been arrested. Investigations continue in Kypseli while the region around 8 Aiginis St. remains cordoned off.

More unenlightened plutarchy? Gov't options dwindling. IMF reportedly seeking further austerity measures as workers take to the streets. Prime Minister George Papandreou chaired a gloomy Cabinet meeting yesterday, examining the debt-ridden government's dwindling options as visiting officials of the International Monetary Fund reportedly increased pressure for additional austerity measures and thousands of Greeks took to the streets. According to sources, Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou, who has been in back-to-back meetings with officials from the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, told his peers that pressure was building on the government to herald new measures.

Papaconstantinou said the officials were expecting to see changes in labor relations. It is thought that these changes would lead to a reduction of salaries in the private sector, mirroring cuts that have already been introduced to the public sector. More unenlightened plutarchy? A general reduction of salaries in the private sector will probably reduce total demand even more, reduce the real income and GDP, and increase unemployment. This is not the right medicine for Greece, a spokesperson for WEC says to AIIS.

Opinion in the government is said to be divided about the prudence of more austerity. Several top-ranking members of the Cabinet including Agriculture Minister Katerina Batzeli, Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and Defense Minister Evangelos Venizelos reportedly oppose more cuts. Batzeli and Venizelos, as well as Labor Minister Andreas Loverdos, Interior Minister Yiannis Ragousis and Economy Minister Louka Katseli reportedly called for the immediate activation of the EU-IMF loans for Greece. Papaconstantinou, however, wants any additional measures to be agreed first before the rescue plan is activated, sources said. Anger at two waves of salary cuts and tax hikes and fears over the prospect of a new raft of measures brought thousands of protesters out onto the streets of Athens yesterday.

A strike by civil servants, whose union ADEDY wants the measures introduced so far to be revoked, shut down public services, schools and left hospitals operating on emergency staff. Members of the Communist Party-affiliated labor union PAME joined a second day of strike action with protesters blockading the port of Piraeus for a second day. Participation in yesterday's rallies did not exceed 10,000, smaller than some previous gatherings, but there are fears that anger is growing and that the introduction of additional measures will fuel unrest. ADEDY spokesman Ilias Iliopoulos warned that further demands by the IMF could trigger a "social explosion."

ERT reports: ADEDY-PAME demonstrations. Industrial mobilizations culminated on Thursday with two demonstrations , ADEDY at Klathmonos Sq. and PAME at Syntagma Sq. However some minor incidents occurred during ADEDY march. ADEDY reacts to cuts in holiday benefits and equalization of men-women retirement age. Grammar and high school teachers as well as university professors participated in ADEDY demonstration in protest against the Education Ministry draft-bill. Dock workers continued their strike for a second day despite court ruling declaring it illegal and abusive. There wer no sea services from Piraeus port on Thursday.

Sectors Staging Strikes. Hospital doctors started mobilizations on Wednesday in protest against 20% cut in budget for night shifts. Judicial clerks continue mobilizations in protest against governments' refusal to meet their demands. Workers in mill , construction , pharmaceutical and paper industries are also staging a 48-hour strike demanding recall of social security bill, and rises in unemployment benefit and rise in salaries.

Union Reactions. ADEDY president Sp. Papaspyrou in his speech said: "We do not negotiate the future of our children"and called on all workers to form a broad social resistance front. Mr. Papaspyrou asked for an end to lies about one-way roads in economic policy, block free fall of labour rights and return of whatever workers have lost. ADEDY president committed himself to continue mobilizations, speaking of alternative actions but with depth and content.

ANA-MPA reports: Greece asks activation of EU support mechanism. Prime minister George Papandreou on Friday announced that Greece is formally asking for activation of the EU support mechanism for the Greek economy. "The time has come for the decision the leaders of the European member countries to support Greece to give us the time that the markets are not giving us. It is a national and pressing need to formally ask of our EU partners the activation of the support mechanism that we jointly created, Papandreou said in a televised statement from the southeastern island of Kastelorizo, where he is on a visit. Papandreou added that he has instructed finance minister George Papaconstantinou to make the necessary actions.

The premier said that the revised figures of the true size of the Greek fiscal deficit for 2009 released on Thursday (by Eurostat) "reminded all of us of the unfathomable mistakes, omissions and criminal choices and the storm of problems legated to us by the previous government". "We all -- the present government and the Greek people -- inherited a boat ready to sink, a country without prestige and credibility that had lost the respect of even its friends and partners, an economy exposed to the mercy of doubt and the appetites of speculation," he said. From the very first day the PASOK government rolled up its sleeves and went to work to reverse this negative climate, set out a plan, took tough measures that many times hurt, but regained the country's credibility and created new alliances, Papandreou continued.

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.

Kathimerini reports. Terrorist evidence being gathered. Police believe they have collected enough fingerprints and DNA evidence from the five hideouts used by Revolutionary Struggle to build a case against the six suspects already arrested. Sources said yesterday that officers have enough evidence to prove that the suspects had all visited the apartments and houses, some of which contained arms and explosives. Prime Minister George Papandreou said that the arrest of six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle was evidence that the public sector could work effectively and that the government was beginning to put the country "in order." Papandreou made the comments after meeting with Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and Police Chief Lefteris Economou.

"The police force had lost its way until a few months ago but now we are sorting things out and sending a message to everyone here and abroad," said the prime minister, who added that proving the country was safe was also important for Greece's economic growth. Meanwhile, police are investigating how an MP5 submachine gun that was stolen during a bank robbery in Thessaloniki in August 2004 ended up in the hands of Revolutionary Struggle. The gun, later used in an armed raid on a police station in Athens, was one of several weapons found in an apartment in Kypseli, in downtown Athens, on Monday night. Officers are looking into the possibility that a group of self-styled anarchists in the northern port city stole the gun and then passed it onto the terrorist group. Police want to find out if there is any link between the August 2004 incident and another bank raid in the city in July 2006 when another gun was stolen. That firearm ended being used by the gang that kidnapped industrialist Giorgos Mylonas.

The IAT-APT hands out Brown Cards to the Greek Police, suspected so called "self styled anarchists" stealing a gun if this hypothesis is confirmed, if so, they are in reality marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists and not anarchists, and Kathimerini, according to the Oslo Convention.

Let us assume that the police's hypothesis about the stealing of the gun is correct. Then, the so called "self-styled anarchists", stealing the gun, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists and not anarchists. They are not self-styled, but styled by Orwellian Big Brother lie-machines as Kathimerini, outdated dictionaries, etc. Ochlarchists and anarchists are opposites. 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 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.

The so called "self-styled anarchists", stealing a gun, are in reality leftwing extremist marxist ochlarchists - and not anarchists. They also get Brown Cards from IAT-APT, according to the Oslo Convention. These Brown Cards mean the marxist ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists", the so called "self-styled anarchists", are expulsed from the anarchist movement. Stealing of guns 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. The anarchists condemn stealing of guns, and theft in general, and are strongly opposed to all forms of extremism. The so called "self-styled 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!

The IAT-APT however very much doubts the Greek police's hypothesis about so called "self styled anarchists" stealing a gun and handing it over to the marxist terrorist group Revolutionary Struggle, is correct. It sounds more like a smear-campaign against anarchists in Greece from rightwing extremists in the police, and a false attempt to connect anarchists to terrorism.

P.S. Theft including robbery and similar, is in itself a capitalist tendency, but the profit motive and capitalism are not the significant in such cases, anti-capitalism and socialism are the dominant tendency.

ANA-MPA reports. Ballistics examination concluded. The first stage of the ballistics examination of firearms found in a Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group safehouse in the central Athens district of Kypseli earlier in the week was completed late Wednesday night, police said. Three guns -- two Yugoslav-made Zastava 9mm pistols and a Browning 22mm pistol of unknown origin -- have not been used in terrorist attacks, the ballistics report showed, while the investigation is continuing to find whether the three pistols have been used in common crimes.

Strike action set to peak today. The latest wave of strike action against the government's austerity measures is set to peak today as civil servants join a 24-hour strike called by their union ADEDY with thousands expected to take to the streets. Once again government services, tax offices and schools will remain closed. Hospitals will be operating on emergency staff for a second day as doctors join the action. There are no anticipated disruptions to public transport services. But motorists are advised to steer clear of central Athens due to two scheduled protest rallies – by ADEDY at 11 a.m. in Klafthmonos Square and another being organized by the Communist-affiliated labor union PAME at noon in Syntagma Square. Hundreds of PAME members yesterday launched the union's 48-hour strike with a demonstration at the port of Piraeus, preventing passenger ferries destined for the Cycladic Islands from setting sail.

PAME and ADEDY are both protesting tax reforms voted through Parliament last week and are opposed to imminent pension reforms that will see the average retirement age rise by several years. "It shouldn't be the workers who pay for the crisis but those who have the money," ADEDY said in a statement. A chief concern of PAME, and other labor unions, is that the government's austerity program will lead to job losses. Hotel employees blocked the entrances to three major hotels in central Athens yesterday, calling for job security. Meanwhile in Piraeus, unionists expressed skepticism after Prime Minister George Papandreou announced, following talks with representatives of the tourism sector, that cabotage rules would be lifted. The measures would allow non-EU-flagged vessels to moor at Greek ports, opening up the market to thousands of tourists. Labor unionists said opening up ports to foreign vessels would pose a threat to Greek dock workers' jobs.

ERT reports: 48-hour industrial mobilizations. Two-days industrial mobilizations begin on Wednesday in protest against reforms in social security system and labour relations. Staging 2-day strikes are PAME, the federation of hospital doctors, judicial clerks and the union of Greek actors. ADEDY with the participation of teachers and state hospital employees are stating a 24-hour strike on Thursday in protest against cuts in salaries and bonuses and equal retirement age for men and women. Piraeus Court has ruled dock workers 48-hour strike as illegal and abusive, but PAME supporters create problems to ship set to sail from Piraeus port.

Reactions against new social security bill. Workers in mill, construction, pharmaceutical and paper industries are also staging a 48-hour strike demanding recall of social security bill, and rises in unemployment benefit and rise in salaries. Hospital doctors started mobilizations in protest against 20% cut in budget for night shifts. Students supporting leftists movements gathered in the city center and marched to the Parliament at noon, on Wednesday.

Unrest at Piraeus port. Morning sea services to Argosaronikos islands were cancelled as well as "Blue Star Ithaki" and "Blue Star Paros" services to Cyclades although the 48-hour dock workers strike was ruled illegal and abusive. Members of two dock workers unions, which support GCP, blocked the ships from early morning preventing sailing in the mid of strong passenger complaints who wanted to travel. Some 300 PAME members are in Piraeus port protesting against social security reforms and the government's measures for recovery and said that they would not allow any ship to sail off during GSEE and ADEDY mobilizations. The IWW and anarchists in general support the industrial mobilizations.

Reuters reports: Greece deficit worse than feared, markets tumble. Greece's budget gap last year was worse than feared, the European Union's statistics office revealed on Thursday, triggering a fresh slide of asset prices in Greece and other debt-choked European countries.

The news hurt financial markets' waning hopes for Greece to bring its swelling national debt under control, and increased pressure on Athens to seek billions of euros of emergency loans from the EU and the International Monetary Fund. "It looks like a terrible situation just got worse," said Nick Kounis, economist at Fortis. The budget figures were announced as tens of thousands of Greek nurses, teachers and other public workers staged a one-day strike to protest against the government's austerity measures. They demanded that Athens reject any pressure for further spending cuts in crisis talks that it launched this week with the EU and the IMF.

The Greek government posted a budget deficit of 32.34 billion euros or 13.6 percent of gross domestic product in 2009, not the 12.7 percent which it had reported earlier, Eurostat said in a review of countries' deficits throughout the region. It added that the Greek deficit might be revised again, by between 0.3 and 0.5 percentage points of GDP, because of uncertainty about the quality of Greece's data and accounting procedures. In a brief statement, the Greek Finance Ministry insisted the new numbers would not change its intention to shrink the deficit by four percentage points this year. It said measures already taken would be enough to cut the deficit by six points.

Backing away. But both Athens and EU officials appeared to be backing away from a previously announced target for Greece to slash the deficit to 8.7 percent of GDP this year. "The target for 2010 is a four percentage point reduction of the deficit. We did not refer to the starting point or the arrival figure, only the reduction effort," European Commission spokesman Amadeu Altafaj said in Brussels. "Greece is on track to meet the target for 2010; that is what counts." Some revision to the 2009 budget gap had been expected, and several analysts said Athens might still succeed in cutting its deficit sharply this year.

But the financial markets were worried by the revision because inaccuracies in Greek data -- some of them apparently deliberate and politically motivated -- have fueled its debt crisis by angering investors and Greece's EU partners. Last October, the incoming socialist government said Greece's 2009 budget deficit would be twice as big as a previous estimates -- and four times the EU ceiling. "What concerns me is the general uncertainty about the Greek official figures. This affects market perception about Greece ...that one can't rely on the Greek statistics and that the deficit is revised up and up and up," Giada Giani, economist at Citigroup, said on Thursday. The Greek Finance Ministry attributed the latest revision to a deep recession, which reduced GDP more than expected, and a reassessment of the financial accounts of pension funds.

Markets. In response to the deficit news, Greece's two-year government bond yield soared to 9.81 percent, from 8.26 percent on Tuesday and just 1.38 percent before the crisis last November. The 10-year bond yield also jumped but by a smaller amount to 8.79 percent, increasing the inversion of the Greek yield curve -- a classic sign that investors fear Greece may have trouble servicing its debt. The cost of insuring five-year Greek government debt against a default shot up to the highest level in Europe, surpassing Ukraine. Greek credit default swaps hit 565 basis points, or 565,000 euros per 10 million of bonds, against 485 on Wednesday. Investors fear other weak euro zone states could become the next "dominos" if Greece defaults; bond yields and CDS for Spain, Portugal and Ireland rose on Thursday. The euro fell back near 10-month lows against the dollar, as investors worried about the long-term cohesion of the euro zone.

Greece will need to refinance 8.5 billion euros of bonds maturing on May 19, and the markets think it will almost certainly have to apply for a 40-45 billion euro aid package from euro zone states and the IMF -- though the German public's opposition to helping Greece could delay the disbursal of funds. Austrian Finance Minister Josef Proell said Athens was apparently unwilling to accept conditions that would be attached to the aid, and was therefore hesitating about applying for funds. But he added that "the time for action is now." "The Greeks must put their cards on the table now and say how much exactly (they need) and when," Proell told Austrian broadcaster ORF. "The unenlightened plutarchy continues and is becoming worse," WEC repeats.

21.04.2010. More about marxist terrorist group's weapons cache. Ballistics report on safehouse arms. Strikes and demonstrations. Unemployment at 11.3%.

More about marxist terrorist group's weapons cache. Katimerini reports: Police link rocket launcher, submachine gun to Revolutionary Struggle; bank raids thought to have funded hits. Police forensic staff yesterday were examining large quantities of guns and explosives confiscated from a fifth-floor apartment in the district of Kypseli, near central Athens, that was raided by counterterrorism officers on Monday night and is believed to have operated as the central weapons cache of Revolutionary Struggle. Among the weapons seized by officers was an RPG-7 anti-tank grenade launcher believed to have been used in January 2007 in a bloodless attack on the US Embassy in Athens.

Another weapon removed from the apartment – an MP5 submachine gun – bears the same serial number as the gun stolen from a guard during a raid on a Thessaloniki bank in August 2004, police said. This contradicts the police's original theory that a submachine gun used in an armed attack on a police station in Nea Ionia in April 2007 was the weapon stolen from a guard outside the home of a former supreme court president earlier that month. Police sources said yesterday that this development also consolidates their suspicions that Revolutionary Struggle had funded its attacks from the proceeds of bank robberies. The discovery of 119,000 euros in cash in the trunk of a car belonging to Constantinos Gournas, one of six suspected members of the terror group currently in custody, had fueled this theory.

In addition to the grenade launcher and the submachine gun, police confiscated several hand grenades and pistols as well as dynamite and other explosives from the apartment on Aiginis Street. Emptying the apartment took several hours as police first had to evacuate residents, who were put up in a hotel overnight, and to check that the cache was not booby-trapped. According to sources, police traced the arms cache using one of three forged identity cards used by Gournas. The name on the forged card, Anastassios Grivocostopoulos, had been used by Gournas to rent the Aiginis Street apartment. Forensic experts yesterday examined other weapons for DNA evidence that might match the six suspects in custody or lead to new suspects.

Ballistics report on safehouse arms. ANA-MPA reports: A ballistics study has conclusively linked three firearms found in a Revolutionary Struggle terrorist group safehouse in the central Athens district of Kypseli earlier in the week to several terrorist attacks by the group, police announced late Tuesday night. According to police, the two Kalshnikovs and MP5 machine gun had been used in the attacks against a riot police (MAT) bus in the Athens district of Goudi on December 23, 2008 and also in the January 5, 2009, attack outside the Culture Ministry in Exarhia in which a riot police officer was seriously wounded. Moreover, the MP5 had been used in the attack against the Nea Ionia police station on April 30, 2007.

Kiosk protest brief but noticeable. Some 40,000 kiosks around the country did not open for business yesterday. The kiosk owners held a 24-hour strike to protest changes in the tobacco tax which, they say, threaten their livelihoods. Kiosks are also among the businesses that have to issue receipts as part of new tax rules. The protest was not supported by the IWW.

Next wave of strike action. State hospitals will be operating on emergency staff today as doctors launch a new wave of protests at the government's austerity measures with a 48-hour strike. Proceedings at the country's courts will be disrupted too as staff walk off the job for two days. The Communist-affiliated labor union PAME also starts a 48-hour strike today. The serious disruptions will begin tomorrow though, when hundreds of thousands of civil servants are expected to stay home as their union ADEDY stages the latest in a series of 24-hour strikes in protests at salary cuts and tax increases introduced over the past few months as well as a tax law voted through Parliament last week. Government offices and schools will remain closed as will tax offices and state banks. The union has called a protest rally, due to begin at 11 a.m. in Klafthmonos Square. The rally is expected to cause congestion in central Athens, although strike action is not expected to affect public transport. The IWW mainly backs these strikes and calls for protests without ochlarchy.

Farming cuts. The government plans to reduce the 15.5 million euros it spends on the wages of employees at 55 nationwide centers that promote rural development and the state-run Agrogi SA company, which is responsible for improving agricultural productivity, by shutting all of them down. In a decision signed yesterday by Agricultural Development Minister Katerina Batzeli, some 700 employees will be moved to other parts of the public sector and their wages adjusted accordingly.

Cleaning drive. The capital's municipal street-cleaning department has taken delivery of 303 new vehicles to be used in a drive to clean up the city center, Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis said yesterday. Kaklamanis highlighted the large number of homeless migrants, burgeoning illegal street trade, illegal billboards and frequent public protests as the key reasons for squalid conditions in many parts of central Athens.

Landfill appeal. The Environment and Interior ministries yesterday sent a joint letter to regional and local authorities, asking them to shut down all illegal landfills and replace them with sanitary waste-processing units by July 16.

Explosives haul. Police in Halkidiki, northern Greece, yesterday detained a 45-year-old man after confiscating nearly 400 grams of dynamite from his home in the small town of Sykia. Officers also confiscated 32 cannabis plants from the suspect's home.

Unemployment at 11.3%. The unemployment rate in January 2010 rose to 11.3% compared to 9,4% in January 2009 and 10.2% in December 2009, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). "The unenlightened plutarchy continues and is becoming worse," says WEC.

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.

A person calling himself "George Orwell" hits on a comment by the rightwing extremist Dion F. at the mentioned debate at Phantis:

You've been coming here and you either want to provoke or demonstrate your idiotic approach to serious issues. You've made your point: the salvation of Greece is a dictatorship that pursues ultra-nationalist goals. We heard you. Now just leave. You're not adding value to the conversation.

Unfortunately, it's people like you (and those you support) that have inflicted the greatest damage to Greece over the years. But, in predictable fashion, all simpletons are only interested in a selective use of history to justify their views that suit them."

We doubt the real George Orwell if he was still alive would have used an invective as "idiotic", but besides this, it is a nice supplement to the IAT's reply to the comment by the rightwing extremist Dion F..

As mentioned the debate at Phantis is moderated by the Phantis-editors, and this takes time. The IAT's post Monday, the reply to the rightwing extremist Dion F., see the report of 19.04.2010, was not published before Tuesday at Phantis. The IAT-APT has not posted any new comment today, but is well represented in the debate with 10 out of 21 comments per this evening.

Brown Card to Associated Press, that 19.10.2010 reports: "The surge in far-left and radical anarchist violence followed the police shooting of a teenager in December 2008, which triggered riots in Greece's largest cities". Associated Press gets a Brown Card for falsely calling violent ochlarchists "radical anarchists", and thus breaking the Oslo Convention. AP also is insulting anarchists in general, because anarchists at large are radical, but not ochlarchists, including terrorists and rioters, etc.

ANA-MPA reports: Terror group arms cache found. Weapons and explosives have been found in a safehouse of the "Revolutionary Struggle" group in the Athens district of Kypseli. According to police sources, it is the group's main safehouse and the greatest part of weapons, if not all, has been found. Due to the materials found in the apartment, the police were evacuating the tenants from the apartment building as a precaution, until the materials are removed.

Terrorist suspects freed. Four people arrested last week over suspected links to the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire urban guerrilla group, after a police raid on an apartment in southern Athens turned up explosives, received conditional release yesterday following their testimonies to an investigating magistrate. The three young men reportedly claimed that the firecrackers found in the home of the fourth suspect – the mother of one of three – had been destined for use at soccer games.

Air-traffic controllers suspend strike for Thursday, Friday. The union representing the country’s air-traffic controllers yesterday called off a 48-hour strike it had called for Thursday and Friday to avoid aggravating flight disruptions provoked by a cloud of volcanic ash hanging over much of Europe. The union, which had called the action to protest austerity measures introduced by the debt-ridden government, said it would hold its strike at a later date without providing any details about when this might be.

Strikes. Owners protest tobacco tax. Street kiosks will be closed today as the union representing kiosk owners stages a 24-hour strike in protest at the government's decision to raise tobacco duties. The reform was voted through Parliament last week along with dozens of other provisions in a new tax law. The kiosk owners claim that the new tax reduces their profit margins. The IWW does not support this strike.

Judicial workers will go out on a 48-hour strike as of Wednesday. ADEDY (Civil Servants' Confederation) has scheduled a nationwide strike for Thursday, while PAME (All Militants' Front) has called for a 48-hour strike for Wednesday and Thursday. University and school teachers' associations are also considering going out on a strike. The IWW and anarchists in general support these strikes.

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.

As mentioned the debate at Phantis is moderated by the Phantis-editors, and this takes time, and they can of course also stop publishing a comment. The IAT's last post Sunday, a reply to the rightwing extremist Sotiris, see the report of 18.04.2010, was not published before Monday at Phantis.

The discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Phantis continues, see http://www.phantis.com/cosmos/spip.php?article731 , and our reports of 15.04.2010, 16.04.2010, 17.04.2010 and 18.04.2010. IAT-APT's comment to the rightwing extremist Dion F.'s note, posted late on Monday, is the following:

"The anarchists see Greece as a stable democracy, although more of a semi-democracy and not real-democracy, i.e. anarchy, yet, see http://www.anarchy.no/realdemocracy.html . But the tendency is slowly going our way.

Rightwing extremists, that use invectives instead of real arguments, say, Sotiris: "the opinions of the IAT-APT are invalid and naive.", and Dion F.: "foolish movements like yours", will never get a critical mass of people to support their rightwing extremist ideas, dictatorship, etc.

The Greek and international anarchist movement will never "be desolved by law", as Dion F. suggests."

ERT reports: New terror finds examined. The evidence collected from the hideout located in Kareas district last Saturday are being examined by the anti-terror squad. The evidence, including several fingerprints, is plenty, while police is sorting out the DNA samples taken from the houses searched so far. The 180 kilos of the explosive material found in the hideout of the guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle were taken to police's offices in Elliniko district. The garage was leased in November 2007 to the name "Dimosthenis Mandalozis," a name used by arrestee Konstantinos Gournas. The explosive material is similar to the one used in two hits of the guerrilla group

Kathimerini reports: Hidden explosives discovered. Police seize significant amount of ANFO from garage in Athens suburb rented by Revolutionary Struggle suspect. Police have found what appears to be one of Revolutionary Struggle's main storage facilities after seizing 195 kilograms of a powerful explosive in a garage in eastern Athens. Spokesman Athanassios Kokkalakis revealed yesterday that police raided a garage underneath a five-story apartment block in the Kareas suburb after discovering it had been rented by a man claiming to be Dimosthenis Mandalozis – one of the aliases used by Constantinos Gournas, one of the six suspected members of the terrorist group arrested last Sunday. Police identified the explosive as being a mixture of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil (ANFO), which is a common explosive used in mining and quarrying.

"It is quite a big quantity," Kokkalakis told Reuters. "It could have brought down a six-story apartment block." ANFO first came to the police's attention in February 2009 when a car containing 60 kilos of the explosive was left outside Citibank's offices in Nea Kifissia. The device failed to explode, probably due to faulty wiring. Tests at the time revealed that the substance had been made by the terrorists and did not come from an industrial source. Police confirmed yesterday that the ANFO they found in the garage in Kareas had also been prepared by the terrorists and had not been stolen.

There were also three high-powered motorcycles in the garage and officers found several license plates, which the terrorists presumably used to avoid detection. Officers did not say whether any of the motorbikes were connected to specific strikes by Revolutionary Struggle. Police also asked anyone who had information about other properties rented under the alias of Dimosthenis Mandalozis or Anastasios Grivokostopoulos to come forward. Kokkalakis said that the home in which Revolutionary Struggle's alleged mastermind Nikos Maziotis and fellow suspect Panayiota Roupa had been living was also rented using a forged identification card.

Car bomb. Police believe that an explosion in Metaxourgeio, central Athens, early on Saturday was an attempt to settle scores. The bomb exploded as a sports utility vehicle drove through the neighborhood. The man and woman in the car, both Albanians, were not injured. The man indicated that the explosion occurred as he drove over a plastic bag but police found that the device had actually been attached to the car. The windows of a cafe and a veterinarian's office shattered during the blast but there were no injuries.

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.

The debate at Phantis is moderated by the Phantis-editors, and this takes time, and they can of course also stop publishing a comment. Furthermore the space is very limited in each post, so you must often use more than one post to get the message through. The IAT's last post Saturday, see the report of 17.04.2010, was not published before Sunday at Phantis.

The discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Phantis continues, see http://www.phantis.com/cosmos/spip.php?article731 , and our reports of 15.04.2010, 16.04.2010 and 17.04.2010. Comments from IAT-APT to the second comment of George Picoulas:

"Anarchist are in general, unless special cases, not pacifists, but the only violence anarchists accept is defensive violence, proportionate in pure self defense, a bottom up approach. Other violent actions are ochlarchy and ochlarchist, a top down approach, and thus not anarchistic. Terrorism is always ochlarchy, and a top down approach, not anarchistic.

Loss of dignity is thus not a valid excuse for war and terrorism, killing, as the two extremist, ochlarchist, non-anarchist women suggest, in Mottas' article."

Ochlarchy is also used as a common word for all the authoritarian evils mentioned above i.e. mob rule broadly defined. Ochlarchy is clearly authoritarian, a top down approach - the opposite of anarchy, a bottom up approach - optimal order included. Thus, anarchists have no problems with following laws, see http://www.anarchy.no/anrights.html for more information."

"The opinions of the IAT-APT are not invalid and not naive. We don't spread fear and pessimism, but promote anarchism and anarchy, i.e. real democracy, see http://www.anarchy.no/realdemocracy.html .

Furthermore, the PEOPLE, i.e. seen as a class as opposed to the superiors in rank and/or income, is mainly not responsible for Greece's problems.

These problems should however not be exaggerated, Greece is among the 25 countries in the world with highest libertarian degree, very far from as authoritarian as, say, Somalia, a country with rivaling oligarchy/polyarchy and much ochlarchy, very far from anarchy."

ANA-MPA reports: Police update on terror safehouse finds. In an update on the explosives discovered inside a safehouse used by the terrorist group "Revolutionary Struggle" in Kareas, the Greek Police on Sunday announced further details regarding the composition of the substances found, based on the findings of police laboratories. The announcement said that the solid substances in the three gas canisters were derived from agricultural fertiliser composed mainly of ammonium nitrate, impregnated with lamp oil.

The substance in the two metallic cans were also made of agricultural fertiliser composed mainly of ammonium nitrate, with fuel oil added. Police said the substance thus formed was similar to the explosive ANFO and not a standardised factory product. "A similar type explosive with that found in the gas canisters (ammonium nitrate with lamp oil) was found in the makeshift time bomb that was neutralised on 18 February 2009, in a car parked outside the building housing the Citibank administrative services in Nea Kifissia," police said. The substance found in the plastic bin liner was mainly agricultural fertiliser with ammonium nitrate as its main component.

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.

The discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Phantis continues, see http://www.phantis.com/cosmos/spip.php?article731 , and our reports of 15.04.2010 and 16.04.2010. Comments from IAT-APT, to a comment from Nicolas Mottas:

"Anarchists have a whole variety of viewpoints. However as far as the IAT knows, anarchists at large today agree to the following basic principles:

1. People doing ochlarchy - mob rule broadly defined, including terrorism, i.e. ochlarchists/ochlarchs are clearly authoritarian - a top down approach, and not anarchistic and anarchists - that have a bottom up approach.

2. Terrorism, including bomb, arson attacks and firebomb attacks and similar - including logistics, threats of terrorism and calls and support for terrorism, is a form of ochlarchy,

3. 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 or others!

4. Thus anarchists are practically certain not terrorists. And terrorists calling themselves anarchists or be called so by newsmedia or others are practically certain not anarchists. They are ochlarchists - the opposite of anarchists!"

"The article of Nicolas Mottas is somewhat unclear, and opens for different interpretations, of which the IAT-APT has a valid one. The comment by Mottas clearifies some points, but does not rebuff the main points of IAT-APT, see http://www.anarchy.no/greek.html .

For more information about the mandate and tasks of the IAT, se the IAT-homepage http://www.anarchy.no/iat.html with links."

"To mix up opposites as a) anarchy and ochlarchy and b) anarchists with ochlarchists/ochlarchs, as outdated dictionaries, newsmedia including Phantis, and mislead youths 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 is mandated to expuls ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" from the anarchist movement, by giving them Brown Cards.

Greek ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" have been expulsed from the anarchist movement, more than usual in other countries. The Greek newsmedia produce copycat ochlarchists falsely posing as anarchists, by giving these false "anarchists" a lot of publisity. But also in Greece the vast majority are real anarchists but they are not so big in the newsmedia."

"Ochlarchists falsely posing as "anarchists" throw shit on the anarchist policy of freedom etc. and the anarchist movement and IAT work actively to expuls, isolate, and stop them. Anti-capitalist ochlarchists are authoritarian socialists, i.e. in reality marxist leftwing extremists, and not anarchists. The anarchist movement work actively against marxist leftwing extremists, especially they who try to profit on the anarchist policy of freedom etc.

The anarchist movement is not only against ochlarchy, but also monarchy, oligarchy, polyarchy, plutarchy, matriarchy, patriarchy, hierarchy, etc, i.e. in real terms, economic and/or political/administrative. All forms of archies should be done away with, practically toward ideally, and should be replaced with anarchy, i.e. "system and management without ruler(s), i.e. co-operation without repression, tyranny and slavery". In short an-arch-y = (an = without - arch = ruler(s)) - y = system and management, as, say, in monarch-y."

ANA-MPA reports: Police find terror group's safehouse. The Greek police counter-terrorism squad on Saturday announced the discovery of an apartment and a basement garage used by the terrorist group 'Revolutionary Struggle' in Athens' Kareas district. Police sources said the apartment was found on Saturday afternoon and contained a cache of gas canisters laced with the explosive ANFO, while stolen motorbikes were stored in the garage. Investigating officers believe the apartment was used as an intermediate safehouse. It had been rented two years earlier by one of the people arrested as suspected members of the group, using a fake ID found in a car that was located in Nea Philadelphia two days ago. Further announcements concerning the find are due to be made later on Saturday at the headquarters of the Greek Police (ELAS).

ERT reports: Anti-terror probe continues. The anti-terrorist squad is waiting for the forensic results on suspects believed to be involved in the guerrilla group Revolutionary Army. In the meantime, police is still searching for the group's hideout and weaponry. Another two suspected members of the guerrilla group, Christoforos Kortesis and Evangelos Stathopoulos, were detained Friday after their depositions before the magistrate. Stathopoulos blamed his being implication in the case to his political activities, arguing that he had been unable to move for large periods of time due to serious car crashes he had, while Kortesis just made a typical statement.

Kathimerini reports: All six terrorist suspects held for trial. The final two of the six suspected members of Revolutionary Struggle arrested on Sunday were remanded in custody yesterday, as the police gathered more information about how the terrorist group rented apartments in Athens they used as safe houses. A magistrate decided that authorities had gathered enough evidence to warrant Evangelos Stathopoulos and Christoforos Kortesis being held in custody. Stathopoulos denied playing any part in the organization and argued that an injury suffered in a car crash several years ago had left him with serious health problems. He added that between 2000 and 2007 he had to appear at his local police station twice a month after being released on bail following a conviction for another offense. Stathopoulos claimed that he was being persecuted for his political beliefs. Kortesis's lawyers argued that the charges against him were not specific enough for him to answer. They said that this confirmed there was no evidence to link him to the terrorist group, which had been active since 2003. The magistrate rejected both arguments.

Meanwhile, police confirmed that the gang used forged identification cards, found in the car of another suspect, Constantinos Gournas, to rent two apartments in Kypseli, near central Athens. The fifth-story apartments were next to each other. Police only found balaclavas, handcuffs and gloves in one of the apartments. The other property had been emptied four to six months ago, officers believe. They think the gang rented the second apartment so they would not have to worry about neighbors becoming suspicious of their activities. Police continued to search for a property where the group may have hidden their arms and explosives.

Teachers' strikes. The executive committee of the Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OLME) yesterday called a 24-hour strike for May 4 and confirmed that its members would be participating in next Thursday's 24-hour strike by the main civil servants' union ADEDY. The committee also proposed further strike action as of May 14, the first day of university entrance examinations for senior high school pupils. Unionists said they had failed to find common ground in talks with Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou on Thursday. The IWW and anarchists in general back the strikes.

Meanwhile: Greece will decide within weeks on whether to activate an Euro-zone aid package, Prime Minister George Papandreou said, as a poll showed austerity measures had begun hitting Athenians' pocket books....

16.04.2010. Discussion about anarchism and anarchists vs ochlarchy and ochlarchists including terrorists at Greek news-site Phantis. Terrorists' data found, etc.

"The terrorists in Greek, except for a few rightwing terrorists, are marxist leftwing extremist ochlarchists, the quite opposite of anarchists, as proven beyond doubt at http://www.anarchy.no/greek.html . You cannot have read this file properly, since you still insist that there are anarchist terrorists in Greece.

There are many anarchists in Greece, but anarchists are practically certain not ochlarchists, including terrorists.

Kathimerini reports: Terrorists' data found. Police discover bomb manual and hit list on Revolutionary Struggle's computer. Police believe that they have found the main computer used by Revolutionary Struggle to plan its terrorist attacks. A search on a car parked in Nea Philadelphia, northern Athens, turned up two Zastava handguns that do not appear to have been used in any attack, 119,000 euros in cash and a computer. Officers are most interested in the information they discovered on the computer's hard drive. This included all of Revolutionary Struggle's proclamations, including that issued after their first attack in 2003, information on making explosives and a list of possible targets, including politicians, businessmen and journalists. Next to each potential target, there was detailed information about their security arrangements, including the number of guards they have and what kind of protection their vehicles have against bullets or bombs. There was also a list of companies that use explosives in their business.

The vehicle belongs to 30-year-old Constantinos Gournas, one of the six people who have been arrested on suspicion of being members of Revolutionary Struggle. Gournas appeared before a judge yesterday and, like the group's alleged mastermind Nikos Maziotis, refused to recognize the court and suggested that the "real terrorists" were the policemen who arrested him. He also claimed that officers had beaten him and threatened the lives of his children to extract information from him. The other two suspects arrested on Sunday, Christoforos Kortesis and Evangelos Stathopoulos, are due appear in court today.

Meanwhile, an Athens prosecutor yesterday deemed that there was not enough evidence to charge three men and the mother of one of them with terrorism offenses. The four suspects were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of being members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, which has carried out several bomb attacks. The prosecutor referred the case to a magistrate after rejecting the police's claim that the suspects' possession of 25 large firecrackers was evidence of their involvement in the terrorist group. Officers insist the firecrackers are vital in the construction of explosive devices. Also, one of the suspected members of the group, Manolis Giospas, who had been in custody since last year, was released yesterday pending trial.

ANA-MPA reports: Police finds on terrorist group. A car whose luggage compartment contained weapons, hard electronic computer discs, forged identity cards and many thousands of euros in cash, as well as two apartments that were possibly safehouses of the terrorist organisation "Revolutionary Struggle" are the new findings of the Greek police in investigations being carried out on the specific case. Police chief Eleftherios Economou made relevant announcements on the findings on Thursday evening, beginning his briefing by referring to the vehicle found and which belongs to one of the defendants.

ERT reports: Two terror suspects referred to magistrate. Two suspected members of guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle Christoforos Kortesis and Evangelos Stathopoulos were referred Friday to the magistrate. In the meantime, police are still searching door to door to track down the group's hideout. All evidence collected from Konstantinos Gournas' car is being examined at forensic labs.

Politicians, businessmen and journalists targeted. High-profile politicians, businessmen and journalists had be