Every day the demos are getting bigger, pickets become gigantic and merge into marches and rioting.
It’s not just a case of changing Prime Minister, half the government are implicated in mass bribery. If Rajoy goes others and the maybe the whole government will fall.
Then the ‘Troika’ program of closing all public services, schools, hospitals, pensions.. plus 500 mortgage evictions a day and general unemployment.. may grind to an halt.
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Athens: more than 6,000 march in solidarity with Kostas Sakkas
On June 29 a solidarity demonstration with Kostas Sakkas, took place in Athen. Sakkas is an anarchist who has been imprisoned for 2,5 years without a trial (when the legal maximum is 18 months) and has been on hunger strike since June 4. The demonstration saw a participation of 6,000+, starting from Monastiraki and crossing through most of central Athens. Continue reading “6000 shout FREE KOSTAS SAKKAS, now 1 month on hungerstrike”
Thousands of people living in slums in Manila have fought fierce battles with police, who are trying to evict them from their homes in order to make way for a multi-billion dollar project to turn the area into a new business district.
As police moved in to the 72 acre site, residents erected barricades, and fought back the police using rocks, nail bombs, and bags of faeces. The police repeatedly charged the barricades with batons and teargas, but without success. Continue reading “Manila Squatters in anti-yuppy riots”
When it became clear that Luis Barcenas, ex money boss of the ruling ‘neo-fascist’ Partido Popular, could actually face jail for stealing nearly 50 million euros of public money, he decided to take down a whole lot of other politicians with him. Continue reading “Open the Box! Far right Politicos to face Jail?!”
Echoing the area’s inspiring history of autonomous self-organization, a community of migrant workers in Barcelona now risks being thrown onto the street. Continue reading “Autonomy in Barcelona: the Mount Zion community”
By @JFernandezLayos
[Greek translation here and in comments] Istanbul, June 23
Dear people,
It has been an extraordinary week of revolutionary assemblies in all parts of the city. But I have to admit, I kind of missed the tear gas.
Yesterday at last we were bound to have some. Continue reading “Taksim is everywhere..Back to Taksim”
The Free 