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Degrowing neo-Nazism – Reflections from the Greek 2023 elections and strategy against far-right politics

Written by Maria Dandoulaki. Holder of a BA in Education and currently a Master’s Student in Degrowth and Political Ecology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Maria is an ecological activist and academically is interested in the Political Ecology and Economy of food, Agroecology, Critical-Alternative Pedagogies, and anti-authoritarian perspectives towards radical socio-ecological transformations. June 25th […]

September 19, 2023
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: degrowth, Greece

Greek government evicts the self-governed Kurdish camp in Lavrio

Today in Greece the government of the hard-right New Democracy party evicted the self-organized Kurdish camp in the town of Lavrio. The inhabitants are being transfered to conventional government-run camps where there are severe restrictions. The self-managed Lavrio camp has functioned for years on the greeprinciples of democratic confederalism, providing shelter to political refugees from […]

July 5, 2023
Posted in Announcements, Articles / Analyses
Tags: Greece, Kurdish quest

Mass demos and strikes all over Greece in response to deadly train collision

Written by Theodoros Karyotis An update for English-speaking friends who want to make sense of what is happening in Greece: Late at night on February 28th, the collision of two trains in the recently privatised and chronically degraded railways left at least 57 dead, most of them students at Thessaloniki’s local universities. Since then, there […]

March 10, 2023
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Capitalism, Greece, Theodoros Karyotis

The history of Art is also a history of Autonomy

Written by Alexandros Schismenos “BERNANDA – Then why are we on strike? MOHAMET – Listen to her! Because they too are a step. LUCAS – Like a step after a strike, it’s a squat. CROWD – Go on then. Go get ’em, and we’ve got ’em!” Skourtis, “Strike or the struggle of the classes by […]

February 15, 2023
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Autonomous movement, Greece

They want to kill VIO.ME. Don’t let them!

Announcemen by the recuperated self-managed VIO.ME factory in Thessaloniki, Greece. Today we are in the unfortunate position to inform you that VIO.ME is in more danger than ever. The judiciary and capital have quietly sold off the land on which the plant is located to a fund. We, the workers of VIO.ME, declare that we […]

February 3, 2023
Posted in Announcements
Tags: Greece

Polytechnic Uprising of 1973: The beginning of the autonomous movement in Greece

An excerpt from Giorgos Oikonomou’s book “Polytechnic 1973: The beginning of the autonomous movement”. The Athens Polytechnic uprising began in November 1973 as a massive grassroots student demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. Oikonomou was participant in the uprising and was wounded by a gunshot from the forces of repression. […]

November 17, 2022
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Autonomous movement, Greece

New book: “Asking questions with the Zapatistas” (free e-book)

We present to you the new publication from TRISE, entitled Asking questions with the Zapatistas: Reflections from Greece on our Civilizational Impasse, authored by TRISE members Theodoros Karyotis, Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi, and Yavor Tarinski. Editor: Matthew Little | Cover: Apollon Petropoulos | Design: George Chelebiev Publisher: Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) | Year: 2022 […]

September 3, 2022
Posted in Publications/Reviews
Tags: Autonomous movement, Direct democracy, Greece, social movements, Theodoros Karyotis, Yavor Tarinski, Zapatistas

Communıty of Squatted Prosfygıka – an autonomous neighborhood at the heart of Athens

The so called Prosfygika, located at the heart of the city of Athens, is a complex of buildings that was built in the mid-1930s to house refugees from Asia Minor. Since 2011 the area has been functioning as a self-organized urban community with the creation of Assembly of the Occupied Prosfygika, from which many grassroots […]

December 20, 2021
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Greece, The Right to the City 2 Comments

A Big Part of the Human Whole is Still Treated as Property: Femicides in Greece

by Nikos Vrantsis According to the European Institute for Gender Equality, femicide is recognized as ”the murder of women and girls because of their gender.” Gender based violence and murders are not new, but they remain undisclosed. Greece is no exception to that. According to Greek Police data, 69 women were murdered in the years […]

October 29, 2021
Posted in Articles / Analyses
Tags: Feminism, Greece One Comment