The following report was published on the BBC website on 20 May. The mayor of Greece’s second-largest city Thessaloniki has been treated in hospital after being beaten up by about a dozen people, officials say. Yiannis Boutaris, 75, was kicked in the head and legs and beaten with bottles by a group of nationalists angry over […]
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Never Again! 50 years since the Greek military coup
The Greek Solidarity Campaign has sent us this report of its commemorative event. On Friday 28 April almost 100 activists and veterans gathered at the Unite the Union London headquarters to remember the events 50 years ago when Greek democracy was again overturned by a ruthless military junta. The colonels brought tanks on to the […]
Remembering the Greek military coup 50 years on
Diana Shelley writes: On the evening of 28 April 1967 a removal van pulled up outside the Greek Embassy in London’s Upper Brook Street. Two women carrying daffodils knocked; the door opened. From the back of the van 50 demonstrators jumped out and ran inside. We were mainly supporters of the Committee of 100, the […]
For a Europe without fences and neo-Nazis
International meeting against racism and fascism, Athens, 15-16 October 2016 The annual Nationwide Assembly of KEERFA (Movement against Racism and Fascist Threat) held over a warm October weekend in Athens ended by adopting a raft of agreed actions and priorities for the coming year by the many Greek Anti-Racist and Anti- Fascist activists, networks and […]
The Greek debt, a European tragedy
This video (which is subtitled in English) was sent to us by the Greek Solidarity Campaign to which Searchlight is affiliated. The GSC is an independent, non-party political campaign established to organise solidarity with the people resisting “austerity” in Greece. It is supported by the TUC and has a number of affiliated groups and individual […]