Greece: protests continue as country shattered by Nazi murderous impunity

Yesterday evening there were more large demos in Athens in protest against Nazi murderous impunity. 

Again police acted to protect the Nazi offices, although it seems that there were no overt clashes, unlike the previous night. 

Doctors have denounced police's ultra-violence. Communication:

19/09/13 Denouncement of the G.H. Tzanio five-member committee of the Union of Hospital Doctors of Athens and Piraeus.

As doctors of the Tzanio general hospital, we express our strong concern, as yesterday night 18/09/13, after the protests against the murder of the young Pavlos Fyssas by a member of Golden Dawn, 31 protesters were brought to the surgical department, all with blows on the head. The injured people reported blows by batons, helmets, shields and kicks from ”Delta” and ”Dias” teams (motorcycle police), whereas there were reports of rocks being thrown from the side of the police towards the protesters, aiming for the head, from members of Golden Dawn. One of the people who got injured, after being operated, is hospitalized at the ophthalmological department of the hospital, with a ruptured bulb from a stun canister. He reported being aimed directly on the head and is in danger of suffering a permanent loss of vision in one eye. We urge for a halt of the policy of intensification of the state and parastate repression in order not to mourn any more victims.

G.H. Tzanio five-member committee of the Union of Hospital Doctors of Athens and Piraeus.

There are solidarity demonstrations called for tomorrow in a number of European cities. At the very least in London and Bilbao. 

See also: photo-gallery and videos at FTGS.

Greece: huge demos and police-Nazi repression after murder of singer Killah P

Pavlos Fissas Killah P

Large demos and clashes shattered Greece in the aftermath of the murder, with full police collaboration, of hip-hop musician Pavlos Fissas "Killah P".

Chronological account by From the Greek Streets (2nd link):

19:00 (GMT+2) Thousands in the Antifascist demo in Panagi Tsaldari street near to the point of assassination.The direction is Golden Dawns’s offices in Nikaia. Right-wing politician P. Kammenos and corporate media journalists  who attempted to approach the demo were attacked and ousted by the demonstrators.

19:13 (GMT+2) Thousands have flooded the streets of Keratsini. The demo moves towards the town hall of Keratsini. Police attacked front of the police department and demonstrators attacked to the police department in Grigori Lambraki street.

19:22 (GTM+2) The demonstration has been attacked by police with tear gas and stun grenades.

19:40 (GTM+2) A large anarchist/antifascist block of 3000-4000 people is heading towards Golden Dawn’s offices in Nikaia. Pawn offices are being smashed. People are chanting  ‘the blood is running, it seeks revenge’.

19:45 (GTM+2) The antifascist/anarchist block is now clashing with the police. The people hold on.

19:58 (GTM+2) Widespread clashes with the police in Keratsini. Teargas and barricades in Grigoriou Lambraki street and Panagi Tsaldari Avenue.

20:20 (GTM+2) Small groups of ‘people’ next to riot police squads in Panagi Tsaldari in Athens are throwing stones against demonstrators.

20:36 (GMT+2) Clashes on various points in Keratsini. The air is full of chemicals so a lot of rubbish bins are on fire. Thousands of people walk around after the disperse. On small streets police officers detain people who suspect as demonstrators.

20:46 (GMT=2) Clashes close to the Kerasini police station, tear gases and Molotov cocktails the last 30 minutes.

20:53 (GMT+2) On the corner of Grigoriou Lambraki and Tsaldari at least 10 demonstrators have been stabilized on the street by the police and are being detained. Police still attacks and disperse groups of demonstrators wherever they find them.  In other areas stones are thrown to the police.

20:59 (GMT+2) On Grigoriou Lambraki avenue clash still goes on.

21:06 (GMT+2) People, possibly demonstrators, have been trapped on a block of flats on Tsaldari and Lambraki corner. Police requested attorney permission to raid the building, while the trapped ones have called lawyers to reach them. On the same corner police attacked and detained without reason demonstrators earlier.

21:22 (GMT+2) Police has detained more than 30 people so far in Athens. Four demonstrators injured.

21:30 (GMT+2) 2 police water cannons in Keratsini.

21:47 (GMT+2) 30 people detained in Thessaloniki.

22:04 (GMT+2) Police continue to detain people in Athens, so far the number has increased to 65.

22:32 (GMT+2) About 20 people who found refuge in a cafeteria in Panagi Tsaldari have been detained by police. More people still remain on the roof of a nearby building.

01:17 (GMT+2) Demonstrator at risk of losing his eye from tear gas that was shot directly at him by cops. He is operated at the Tzaneio hospital.

02:26 (GMT+2) Riot Police attacks without any reason to the solidarity gathering in front of the police headquarters (GADA) in Athens.

At 2:25 (GMT+2) police attacks to the hundrends of people who have been gathered in front of the Athens police HQs. Over 100 detains and over 50 arrests so far from the march in Keratsini.

Video of Nazis throwing stones side by side with riot police (source: FTGS):

The Guardian reports that the government will use this murder to impose emergency legislation.  The emphasis of the article is that it will move to ban Golden Dawn but the details are less clear, especially considering that police forces are almost 100% penetrated by this Nazi organization.

I Can't Relax In Greece! echoes the cry of a senior consultant at the Nikaia hospital, where Fissas was declared dead: they have been training on the bodies of immigrants for three years!

Mr. Papanikolau attacked the mass media for promoting the Nazis, in his own words: inviting the fascists to lifestyle TV shows as if they were catwalk models. 

Protests are expected to continue today.

Zero tolerance to fascism! 


Update: Antifascist protester loses eye. As mentioned above a demonstrator was hit by a gas canister in the eye, according to FTGS:

Police was shooting directly to the people’s heads the tear gas canisters with the special tear gas weapon, among the dozens antifa demonstration who were injured yesterday was one who was hit with tear gas canister in the eye. The doctors of Tzaneio operated him for 2.5 hours but they could not save his  eye.

Update: Nazi acts canceled in panic for popular anger. Again from FTGS:

Golden Dawn leader Michaloliakos announced a few hours after the assassination of Pavlos Fyssas that next day he will give a speech in Nikaia (the local branch where the murdered Roupakias is member of)  he invited all the Nazis to join him for the event. At the same time that the vice leader Pappas and the press officer of GD Kassidiaris claimed that the murder has nothing to do with Golden Dawn. However in early hours of the morning after the big antifa demonstrations that took place all over the country and attacked GD local branches everywhere, the event was cancelled, and vanished from their webpages. Meanwhile antifa and the trade Unions of Peireus and Keratsini (the latter are affiliated with the Communist Party and its union PAME) announced a counter gathering close to the scheduled Nazi event that they will “cut the hand of the fascists”.

Greece: Nazis murder musician with full police complicity

Nazi terrorists murdered antifascist hip-hop musician Pavlos Fyssas (aka Killah P) in Piraeus. One of the criminals is Georgios Roupakias, 45, already arrested, but it was a well organized murder with many culprits, including the cops, who allowed it. 

According to the victim's father:

Pavlos’ friends made a remark against Golden Dawn inside a cafe where they were watching a football match. Somebody from a nearby table overheard them and made a phonecall to Golden Dawn members. Golden Dawn squads arrived almost simultaneously with DIAS motorbike police. Pavlos tried to help his friends evade the scene, but he was ambushed by another Golden Dawn squad and surrounded. Then another Golden Dawn associate drove with his car opposite in an one-way street, stopped and stabbed him to death, while the DIAS policemen did not intervene. One girl asked them to help but they didn’t. They only approached afterwards to arrest the man with the main suspect.

As reaction demonstrations have been called through the country for this evening. In some cities like Patras, morning protests of teachers (on strike) were joined by antifascists angry for the crime and its outrageous impunity. At least one Nazi see has been attacked.

Let's face it: Greece is already a Nazi state and Golden Dawn rules with the Samaras government being nothing but a transitional puppet, which does not want nor can oppose the Nazi terror, equally targeting immigrants, Roma, reds or the last honest judges. Police is completely in Nazi hands and that means that they control the state altogether. Democracy is not anymore for real at any meaningful sense but the situation is almost identical to Italy at the ascent of Mussolini: it popular self-defense is not urgently organized and exerted, the Nazis will soon march to Athens and take out the last pretense of freedom. 

This surely does not only apply to Greece but to much of Europe, as the fascists are growing everywhere in arrogance and boldness, usually with complicity of the bourgeois governments, police forces and secret services, as well as the upper bourgeois class, which sees in them the last line of defense of their privileges in societies that are quickly collapsing.

Source and more details: From the Greek Streets (link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4, link 5).

Greece: large anti-fascist demo

"Thousands" according to The Guardian took to the streets in Athens to protest the brutal attack by Nazis against KKE activists earlier this week.

There are growing fears that the Nazi party, with full support of the weak bourgeois government and the European (EU) and Imperial (NATO) authorities, are trying to stir up a civil war type of conflict, conflict in which they have the upper hand because they have already taken effective control of the police and are influential in the Army's officialdom (not among the soldiers however, who are recruits). 

Much as in Italy in the 1920s, the only way out of this situation is active popular self-defense, because the government is not willing nor probably able anymore to control the Nazis, which are going out of control and may well stage a coup of some sort unless the Working Class is ready to fight them.

An electoral exit to the Greek impasse may well be out of reach because, even if there are elections and the Radical Left wins, how are they going to keep control of a state apparatus so deeply penetrated by Nazi terrorists? There is urgent need, and not just in Greece but also elsewhere in Europe, to get ready to fight against fascism by all means necessary. 

Source: I can't relax in Greece.

Chile: violent repression against memorial march

The Chilean military police (carabineros) brutally repressed a march in homage to the victims of the fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. 

When the march, which transited peacefully through Santiago de Chile, arrived to the cemetery, police attacked them with tear gas for no apparent reason. 

"We will destroy the legacy of Pinochet"

Source: Webguerrillero[es].


Update (Sep 11): Video of the march and the brutal unprovoked repression (this last begins at min. 7:00) 

England: thousands confront tiny Nazi march, police protected the Nazis as usual

Thousands of antifascists gathered in the East End London to confront a particularly outrageous Nazi march organized by the EDL and which, in spite of buses bringing fascists from all the country, only gathered a few hundred. 

The march was a total provocation not just for being organized in a largely immigrant district but because it originally attempted to march to Altab Ali Park, named in honor of a Bengali-English worker murdered in 1978 in cold blood by a Nazi just for being different. The attack sparked such outrage that the Nazis were completely expelled from the neighborhood forever. 

Some 3000 police agents were deployed to protect the Nazi march from popular hostility. Police interference with popular anger caused incidents resulting in many arrests (Sare Antifaxista[es] claims 150 arrested). 

Sources: London 24, Anti-Fascist Network.

Greece: police raid in Patras in support of the Nazis - trotures reported while under arrest

From From the Greek Streets:

Patras: anti-fascists clash with the fascists of Golden Dawn; police detain 25 anti-fascists in retaliation

On the evening of July 24, local Golden Dawn members had called for and attempted to hold a gathering at the square outside stadium of Panahaiki (a local football team). Just prior to the gathering, approximately 50 anti-fascists were pushed back by the riot police guarding the square on behalf of the Golden Dawn nazis.

Later on, at approximately 11pm, car with GD members drove past Olgas square, a popular anarchist/anti-fascist hang-out. It was swiftly attacked by the anti-fascists and members of the police’s DELTA squad attacked them in retaliation. 

Approximately 25 anti-fascists were detained by the police and some were subsequently tortured at the police HQ. At least two anti-fascists who had been seriously injured had request to see a doctor rejected for hours.

At approximately 02:40, all 25 anti-fascists were finally released.

Greece: popular counter-attack at Nazi see in Corinth

From From the Greek Streets:

Corinth: anarchists attack local Golden Dawn office, smash MP’s car

Last week, ten members of the Golden Dawn attacked two anti-fascists with chains and brass knuckles. An anti-fascist demonstration was called in response  on Friday. Yesterday, approximately 35 anarchists attacked the local GD office while there was a meeting inside, with the local member of parliament, Boukouras, speaking inside. The MP’s luxury car was trashed (photo above) while he shot four times in the air, in panic.

Zero tolerance against Fascism!

Antifascist demo in Paris: clashes in the aftermath, 14 arrested

A very large antifascist demonstration marched yesterday through Paris in memory of assassinated Anarchist, antifascist and gay-rights activist Clément Méric, who was murdered weeks ago by a Nazi gang. 

The demonstration, which began at the Place de l'Opéra, was participated by antifascist groups, anti-globalization groups, anarchist organizations, labor unions, the Left Party, the Anticapitalist Party, SOS Racism and ATTAC. 

There were some violent incidents in the aftermath, with attacks against shops and banks. Police intervened resulting in 14 people arrested. 

Source: Sare Antifaxista[es] (incl. videos).

Basque Country: homophobic mayor warned by the authorities

The notoriously homophobic mayor of Arrangoitze (Northern Basque Country), Jean-Michel Colo (UPM), was warned by the French authorities of dire consequences if he did not abide by the law marrying a local gay couple, as he must (or alternatively a lieutenant-mayor can as well). 

While the meeting of the mayor with the sub-prefect of Baiona took place, opposing groups of demonstrators concentrated nearby, almost clashing. Police intervened arresting one of the equal rights demonstrators (as usual the fascists have impunity).

After the meeting finished the fascist mayor declared his intention to continue with his unilateral homophobic attitude. He has a week to comply.

Source: Sare Antifaxista[es].


The arrested victim of police caprice is Arrangoitze neighbor and antifascist militant Joel Sistiaga:

Arrest of Sistiaga

Free Joel Sistiaga!! IPEK ANTIFAXISTA

 Source: SA[es].

Spain: 'White Tide' for quality public healthcare brings crowds to the streets

In Madrid, as well as in other Castilian, Aragonese and Canarian cities, the White Tide brought many thousands to the streets, demonstrating once again the extreme unpopularity of the anti-social measures of the reactionary Rajoy government. 

There has been applause for the charges brought against the whole leadership of Madrid's regional Health Department. 

An attempt of Fascist groups to infiltrate the demonstration of Madrid was successfully avoided, as the crowds kicked them out without hesitation (→ video).

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Spain: new Nazi attack in Valladolid

For the third time in few months Nazis attacked with impunity the a young activist, 22. The two masked attackers brutally beat and stabbed the victim, who was for 30 minutes laying on the ground unconscious. 

The same person was already subject to a Nazi persecution weeks ago, although in that occasion he managed to flee. It is believed that the attackers are the same people because they told him: did you think you could get away, fucking red?

The increase in fascist attacks in Valladolid is directly related to the opening, some months ago, of an office of the Nazi party Democracia Nacional, located in Peña de Francia street. 

Neighborhoods Against Racism has declared that they won't tolerate the Nazis anymore.

It is clear that tolerance to Fascism must always be exactly zero, otherwise...

Source: Último Cero[es].

Basque Country: thousands march against the impunity of Fascist crimes

Thousands marched through Bilbao yesterday in demand "truth, justice and reparation" for the many crimes against Humankind committed by the Fascist regime in Spain, which remain unpunished and almost totally not investigated. 

Source: Naiz Info[eu]

 

A million people were killed in the Spanish civil alone, most of them behind the fascist lines, in a murderous campaign of ideological cleansing which has never been sufficiently investigated. Many others were killed in prisoner camps for those opposed to the regime. After the war, the Fascist regime ruled with iron fist, arbitrarily arresting, torturing, imprisoning and murdering whoever stood in their way, inflicting panic to whole generations. 

Thousands marched in Paris in memory of Clément Méric

Thousands have marched today in Paris in memory of Clément Méric, the young Anarchist murdered by French Nazis of the JNR. The march was opened by a banner with the legend: Clément forever in our memory, in our hearts".

Demonstrators chanted slogans like "not a fascist in our streets", " we don't forget, we don't forgive" and "no pasarán!"

Speakers from France, Turkey and Spain praised the determination of the antifascist militant, who at his young age (18) was not just active in many movements (CNT, antifascist movement, anti-homophobic movement) but had also overcome a leukemia. 

There have been protests and memorials also in many other cities of France and the rest of Europe.

Source: Madriz Rebelde[es].

The media treats Nazi violence much worse than individual or "terrorist" attacks

An interesting remark by Yesca (Castilian revolutionary youth movement) upon the murder of Clément Méric:

It is very curious how the mass media give these issues very low profile and priority in comparison to the coverage provided to attacks of "lone wolves" or Muslim fundamentalists. The far right has demonstrated once and again its dangerousness for the working people, attacking especially the most conscious and combative individuals on social and labor rights. We are not talking of isolated cases, but of a continuous trickle of aggressions, attacks and murders by well organized groups, which are widely ignored or even protected by the resorts of the State. That is maybe the reason why the deaths of antifascists are dispatched with such a minimal media repercussion.

Source: Madriz Rebelde[es].

France: seven arrested for the murder of Meric: the technical murderer is a Spanish Nazi

Seven people have been arrested for the murder last night of Breton Anarchist Clément Méric. They are all members of the Nationalist Revolutionary Youth (JNR), even if some are as old as 37. 

Among them there is a Spanish Nazi, named as Esteban M., who was the person directly causing the death of Clément, as he punched him with his brass knuckles causing his fall and hitting of some sort of metal object with the back of his head. 

According to the last accounts, Méric and some other antifascists had a heated argument with the Nazis in an apartment where there was a sale of clothes. Both groups exited the apartment separately but it seems that the Nazis ambushed the anti-authoritarians, forcing a short fight that resulted in the death of the young Breton. 

The background of the murder is clearly related to the Nazi and Fundamentalist Christian mobilizations against homosexual rights in France in the recent months. Clément was very active in the campaign for the rights of homosexuals and had therefore confronted the fascists in several occasions. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

France: fascist murder in Paris

Clément Méric, 19, was attacked by three Nazis near the Saint-Lazaire station of Paris, resulting in his clinical death after being beaten with steel knuckles.

Clement, born in Brittany, studied Political Sciences and was known for his antifascist compromise. 

Jean-Luc Melénchon, co-president of the Left Front, demanded the immediate dissolution of fascist gangs, which have been outragingly at large in the last weeks, often attacking gay ambient areas and even directly fighting against a strangely tolerant police. 

Source: Sare Antifaxista[es].


Update: a communication in memory of Clément Méric, calling for demonstrations in France and Spain, has been issued → Politis[fr].

England: Nazis exploit the false flag Woolworth staged "attack", antifascists confront them. Right-wing government plans police state on the Internet

The information I have is still patchy but it seems evident that the Nazi organization EDL, with ties to the Zionist-Nazi Utöya butcher A. Breivik, has been organizing rallies and racist manhunts across England. Antifascists have responded in great numbers. 

The most reported confrontation took place in Newcastle, where at least 1000 antifascist citizens called by city councilors, labor unionists and anti-discrimination movements actively opposed the Nazi rally. However some of the leadership (with special mention for the SWP) decided to exclude the most militant antifascists of the Revolutionary Communist Group (FRFI) and led police against them, resulting in 14 arrests, after apparent set-up. 

Sources: Socialist Worker, Revolutionary Communist Group. 

Internet freedoms will be the first victims of the Goebbelsian staged attack

Reactionary Interior Minister Theresa May has outlined her plans to exploit the false-flag "attack" to push forward fascist measures of ideological control on the Internet. 

Initially at least these plans are being opposed by the Liberals, who support the government. Former minister Menzies Campbell said:

It would be the first time such powers could be given to monitor people at risk of being radicalised. We would be using electronic listening and other devices, as I understand it, for the first time for people who were not suspected of indulging in criminal behaviour.

What is being argued for by some is that all of us should be subject to scrutiny of every telephone call we make, every text we send and every internet site we visit. That is a very, very substantial intrusion into people's lives.

(Source: The Guardian).

So that is another key aspect of what they actually seem to intend with these scandalous false-flag attacks: the 21st century version of Fascism destroying Internet freedom by a dramatic escalation of censorship and persecution of freedom of speech or even of thought.

Beware!

See also:

• London "terrorist attack" clearly a farce.
• London "attack": where's the blood? A substandard farce!
• Boston massacre: another false flag attack.
• Terror scare provides pretext for militarization of police and exceptional legislation, just one step short of outright Fascism.

France: FEMEN action in Notre Dame: "May Fascism rest in Hell"

After an elderly fascist offered himself as human sacrifice in the weirdest homophobic action ever (and a totally anti-Christian stunt, it must be said), a member of the direct action feminist movement FEMEN has expressed what we all, people of good will, feel about that Nazi: may he be tortured in Hell forever and ever (sadly I do not believe in Hell, but it's a true pity that there's no such a place to make some justice for class A mass criminals like Hitler, Pinochet, Franco or Thatcher, just to cite a few).

The daring nonviolent activist, whose name is not yet known to me, in the usual topless style of this organization, carrying on her torso the legend "May Fascism rest in Hell", parodied the suicidal stunt of the fascist homophobe Venner.

FEMEN explained in their Facebook page that they "call for the death of Fascism in the same spot where far right activist Dominique Venner killed himself yesterday evening".

The daring activist, who was brutally arrested by police, also wore on her back the legend: "In Gay we trust". 

Source and more photos: Webguerrillero[es].

France: Femen sabotages Nazi concentration in Paris

A group of four brave women displayed a huge red banner with the legend: "Sextermination for Nazism" (which I read as "castration to all Nazis", a bit unsure) from a hotel balcony at the Place des Pyramids of Paris, where the National Front were holding a large demonstration in alleged homage to Joan d'Arc.

Video by Xavier Frere (EBRA):