April 2017
This weekend, members of the Prosfygika community travelled to Hamburg, Germany, to attend the 3rd conference on Challenging Capitalist Modernity. The conference is a bi/annual event that brings together communities and organizations from four continents to discuss and learn from each other on the topics of Democratic Modernity, Women’s Empowerment, Confederalism, and the ideology of the Apoist/Kurdish revolution taking place in Rojava as we speak. Continue reading
May 2017
In Prosfygika, we strongly believe in treating weeds like they are fascists, and fascists like they are weeds! They both have to go!!
To that end, we’ve started combining our antifascist presence in the neighborhood with weekly “guardening” sessions. Not only does this mean that we’re out and the neighborhood when Golden Dawn members (with heavy police protection) are passing by, but that we are using our time to improve the space that we live in and love. People who would only be comfortable in one space or the other also get the chance to interact in common work,meaning that the fiercest warriors are hanging out with the littlest kids! Continue reading
On 13/03/2017, the regime’s assault battalions stormed into two occupied areas, the Villa Zografos and a squat housing refugees and immigrants in Alkiveiadou Street. To law enforcement mechanisms and their political superiors, squatters are not separated. Both the social squats, such as Villa Zografos, and immigrant housing squats, as in Alkiveiadou Street and political squats are to be eradicated from the new urban environment. Continue reading
April 2017
The Assembly of Anarchists and Migrants Against the War in Syria staged an intervention in Syntagma Square to protest the escalation of violence in the Syrian Civil War. Protesters gave texts and played music to inform the public about large scale attacks in Syria by the Assad Regime and by US Forces. Continue reading
April 2017
Members of the Prosfygika community picked up the call of local antifascist collectives to join a demonstration against Golden Dawn and autonomous fascists in the Ambelokipi neighborhood on April 12. Over 100 people, including people from other neighborhoods who came in solidarity marched outside local fascist hangouts and headquarters. The fascists were nowhere to be seen, but locals greeted the march with enthusiasm. Continue reading
On 06/12/2008 the occupying police forces murdered 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. This murder was not an isolated incident, as noted in popular opinion, strengthened by state run media; but the expected result of political and economic power imposed on the weaker classes. The murder of the young fighter that stood against society and the state that created it, show openly that there is no tolerance for those who make the decision to self-organize, and to fight back for social liberation.
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On November 15, comrade J. Kouvedakis went to court for the incident with DI.AS group in Victoria Square on the day of Imia (01/30/2016). The same day, several comrades were also on trial, after they were arrested on 31/10 for their actions to protect Prosfygika, Av. Alexandra, from fascists and state repression. Their trial has been postponed before. Comrades in solidarity gathered early in the morning and filled the halls of the court. Continue reading
Two more years have passed since the first police operation, which launched a barrage of repression and eviction in occupied self-organized areas and communities. Today, one can no longer deny the obvious, all-out and organized attack of the state against a large part of the struggling world, against its structures but mainly against its infrastructure. Continue reading
Since early summer, due to the the action of paramilitary murderers Golden Dawn in the Athens appeals court, the neighborhood of Prosfygika, Alexandras Av., has been in a constant state of siege, which has pushed to the limits all the people in and around it, as opposed to the state projects, law enforcement mechanisms, and fascists. The deciding factor of this situation was the decision of the head judges not to accept the political nature of the trial, playing with the balance of power, as anti-fascists and refugees were isolated on one side and fascists were supported on the other. Continue reading