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ATM Bank Arson Barrage in Thessaloniki, Greece

Posted on 2026/02/25 by darknights

We take responsibility for the 6 following arsons:

• The arson at the Alpha Bank ATM in the early hours of December 31st on Artakis Street
• The arson at an Alpha Bank ATM in the early hours of January 7 on Siniosoglou Street
• The ATM arson in the early hours of January 13 on Antigonidon Street

In a world where everything is programmed to work like clockwork for the benefit of the system, there will always be pockets of rebellion. As anarchists in action, we do not want to limit ourselves to clashes with cops on marches (which we obviously consider necessary) but choose to open new dialectics on the street. We refuse to wait for social conditions to mature in order to attack and we propose direct action as a perspective for attacking in the here and now. Continue reading “ATM Bank Arson Barrage in Thessaloniki, Greece” →

Athens, Greece: Intervention at the offices of “Efimerida ton Syntakton” (EFSYN)

Posted on 2026/02/22 by darknights

This text was published in the course of an intervention at EFSYN in Athens, Greece and translated by the Berlin Assembly in memory of Kyriakos Xymitiris and in solidarity with the persecuted in the Ambelokipi-case.

We are intervening at EFSYN’ in order to publicize the following texts. This intervention follows our presence and the distribution of these texts in the area of Ampelokipi and on Arkadias Street in order to show our solidarity with the residents of the apartment building.

At the same time, we went to the spot where our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris lost his life.

TEXT FOR THE APARTMENT BUILDING ON ARKADIAS STREET

On 31/10/24, my comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris and I were in the apartment at 4-8 Arkadias Street. During the processing of explosive materials, an explosion occurred that took the life of my 36-year-old comrade, caused my own very serious injury, and resulted in damage to the apartment building. Since then, I have been detained in Korydallos women’s prison under horrendous conditions, having to confront the loss of the person closest to me, my own injury, and very serious accusations.

This explosion obviously was not part of any plan, nor did it happen due to carelessness. This tragic development was the consequence of defective material, something that unfortunately could not be foreseen.

The anarchist political space to which we both belong fights for a world of equality, solidarity, and self-organization. For a world where monthly survival does not cause anxiety, where interpersonal relationships are not based on competition, and where a life in dignity is not a matter of luck. And when this anarchist political space chooses to attack those who impose poverty, exclusion, and insecurity with such means, it takes all necessary measures, often putting the acting subjects themselves at risk, in order to ensure the safety of unrelated people.

Beyond protecting people’s physical integrity, our political spectrum targets those who oppress and exploit us. It sets its sights on the powerful of this world. Those who eat with golden spoons while we make do with the absolute necessities, those who live off rents while we beg that there not be yet another increase, those who reap profit while we work twelve-hour a day. Those who spread death through wars, misery through high prices, fear through racism, extermination through long and uninsured labor. Those who impose uncertainty, insecurity, danger even when you simply take the night train to Thessaloniki or try to cross the border for a life with dignity.

We struggle so that all of this does not remain unanswered. To win back the right to live. To put a stop to injustice, exploitation, oppression, cover-ups. Within this struggle we risk much, we are targeted, we receive violence and repression, we endanger our safety, our freedom, and sometimes even our lives. Not because we are indifferent to life, but because we care about the life of our struggle and then we feel responsible for many people. Thus, we consciously set social solidarity as a priority.

My comrade adopted this stance in life, and that is why he decided to struggle with all means. And if he was still here, he would be the first to try to help the residents of the apartment building, not because he would regret the means he chose to struggle with, but because for him, as for all of us, solidarity and mutual aid are a deeply human feeling, a driving force that pushes us to action.

“We are not terrorists, nor criminals. It is precisely because of our love for life, because we rejoice in the human spirit, that we became fighters for freedom against this racist and deadly imperialist system.”

Marianna Manoura
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Athens, Greece: Responsibility claim for coordinated attack in Ano Patissia

Posted on 2026/02/16 by darknights

The daily grind of medieval working conditions, class humiliation and extermination of the proletariat, employer impunity and terrorism, austerity measures that strangle the social base, torture in the hellhole police stations, the hundreds of murders at the borders of Fortress Europe, the destitution in detention centers, the permanent panoptic surveillance and mapping of every movement, the upgrading of repression and the legal arsenal of the state, demands the intensification of social resistance, the breaking of the omnipotence of the state through the spread of polymorphous aggressive actions of social violence directed against this insatiable system that annihilates human life and treats us as expendable, as numbers.

Even more so when this daily routine is stained with the blood of people from our class, with state-capitalist murders committed in the name of profit and greed, as was recently the case with the mass murder of workers at the “Violanta” in Trikala, where five female workers were buried under tons of rubble after an explosion caused by a propane leak, as well as the murder of 15 migrants by port police off the coast of Chios during a violent push-back.

Similarly, the anarchist urban guerrilla Kyriakos Xymitiris, who was killed prematurely while handling explosives in an apartment on Arkadias Street in Ambelokipi, on October 31, 2024, chose to arm himself to fight “this rotten world that feeds on its own flesh,” chose to hold fast to the thread of revolutionary history and devote himself entirely to the Revolutionary Struggle, against complacency and compromise, with steely determination, humility, and optimism.

We, in turn, on the evening of Sunday, 1st February, carried out a raid on targets on Patission Street in Ano Patissia, striking and causing material damage to the windows and ATMs of three banks (Eurobank, Alpha Bank, and Optima Bank), as well as the window of Nova Bank. We dedicate this action to our comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris and to our persecuted comrades in the Ampelokipi case, who have been imprisoned for 15 months. We call for the spread and multiplication of aggressive actions, in view of the upcoming trial for the case.

PS. Solidarity and strength to the comrades in Thessaloniki who have recently been targeted by increased state repression and police arbitrariness, the latest example being the unprecedented number of detentions (over 300) from a concert at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki following attacks on police forces that took place outside the venue.

FREEDOM FOR THE COMRADES IN THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT

Source: athens.indymedia

Greece: Two texts in memory of anarchist comrade Georgia K. EN/GR

Posted on 2026/01/10 by darknights

Two texts in memory of anarchist comrade Georgia K.

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The star of chaos illuminates our rebellious and restless souls in the gloom of civilised society. Each of its endless rays is a path to the uncharted and turbulent waters of freedom. Black memory is the sextant that helps us navigate those paths that were traced by our comrades who passed away, where their voices still echo like battle cries. Every memory of their struggles is a call for us to advance even further, to push the attack even harder.

In December 2025 we once again drank the bitter cup of mourning. This time for our iconoclast comrade, Georgia K., from Thessaloniki.

We place her memory in the great arsenal of the anarchist war against society. We will never forget the youthful flame that burned defiantly in her eyes until her last breath; this is how those who have conquered life and inviduality look at the world.

We weren’t lucky enough to know her from years ago, but that’s how we felt from the beginning through our long conversations. She gave us so much, and inspired us so much.

Georgia, we never said goodbye to you, we only said “see you”, because in the streets we will see you again and again.

…Our dead – as it seems – look so alive compared to the haunted mute puppets who walk daily among us with bowed heads.

***

I will always remember that look on your face when we first met.

A look full of fire and passion!

It was the fire I dream of.

The passion that I have inside me, that never fades.

My rage that, instead of calming down, is fueled more and more in the hated prison-society.

You told me so much that night, just with that look of yours…

That look that will always remind me that I must never give up, that I must not resign.

And, by putting fear aside, to embrace passion and yearning for desctruction in every moment, always smiling…

***

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Thessaloniki, Greece: Farewell to our comrade Georgia K.

Posted on 2026/01/03 by darknights

Something difficult

If anything keeps us alive and eager to wake up every day, it is our stubborn determination to fight until we see our dreams come true. Over the years of this constant inner flame, we change and try to adopt practices compatible with how we want to live, away from gods and masters. The flame never goes out, even if it flickers sometimes. As we wander through the real dystopian world, the people we meet make sure to keep us alive in the struggle simply by their presence. They are the figures around us who remind us to never stop, never back down. And when, unfortunately, we say goodbye to these figures, life stops for a moment before we remember that even then they inspire us to never back down.

Today we say goodbye to our comrade Georgia K.

Georgia, a long-time member of the station, was always there with all her strength to inspire us, to encourage us, and above all to take care of us. At meetings, discussions, and gatherings, she was there to listen and speak in her own way and with her own thoughts. She was always there to listen to our problems and generously offer help, advice, or a hug. Through the frequencies of 1431AM and the programs “Resistance Against Authority” and “Cry of the Butterfly,” she made sure to regularly convey events and opinions and to be the voice of the oppressed inside and outside the prison cells.

Georgia, we will miss you, thank you for everything. You inspired us throughout the journey. We will stay behind to make sure that the Cry of the Butterfly is heard loud and clear.

ALL OR NOTHING

LONG LIVE ANARCHY RE TSOKONTES

Free Social Radio

1431AM

To remember the feeling of freedom
the wild desires of a child the momentum of a vigorous will that does not resist
does not hesitate in the face of negotiation or dilemma
to destroy the Existent
that’s why before I go to sleep I want to hear the cry of the butterfly
to remember, not to forget.

Georgia, our friend, our comrade, was a free person. She spent her whole life outside social norms. She fought injustice in all its forms. An anarchist and a rebel, far from notions of guilt or innocence, she always stood by those who struggled, those whom society had marginalized.

An integral part of the rebellious anarchist scene for the last two decades, she participated in anti-repression struggles, nature protection (such as in Skouries), alongside impoverished immigrants, drug addicts, and prisoners. She became politicized after running away from home as a child, living on the streets of Germany, Turkey, and Athens, and then returning to her hometown of Thessaloniki.

Always unifying, she put the movement and the Cause above any egoism. Despite her age and experience, she never claimed infallibility or absolute truth, and sought to connect and collaborate with much younger comrades. Her political journey took her through the Immigrants’ Hangout, the 111 squat, the Solidarity Fund, the anarchist group Khanjali, the anarchist assembly for the insurrectionary perspective, the Athens Indymedia Management Team, and of course her beloved self-organized radio station 1431, would only be interrupted by death.

From today, every December 22 will dawn a little emptier. Her memory will light up the paths we walk, our joys, our sorrows, our defeats, and our victories.

We stood side by side with her in the face of the enemy. Together we celebrated our journey through this life.

325 #13: De vuelta a lo básico (Edición en español de la revista insurreccional 325)

Posted on 2025/12/29 - 2025/12/29 by darknights

DESCARGA LA EDICIÓN EN ESPAÑOL DE 325 #13 “De vuelta a lo básico”: https://archive.org/details/325-13-espanol + La portada

Hemos traducido el último número de la revista 325, un interesante y necesario proyecto insurreccional de contrainformación y análisis antiautoritario que merece seguir siendo difundido y discutido en más de un idioma y territorio. Alentamos su impresión, circulación y el debate que pueda generar sobre el curso actual de la realidad. La policía neerlandesa no pudo ponerle un fin definitivo en noviembre de 2020 a la revista 325, aún allanando los servidores noestate.net -que sostuvieron por años el sitio web- y de haber encarcelado por cuatro años a uno de sus colaboradores (el anarquista Toby Shone), el proyecto volvió hace algunos meses con la propuesta «De vuelta a lo básico», escribiendo una declaración de intenciones sobre la continuidad y urgencia de profundizar y revitalizar el análisis contra la maquinaria tecnológica.

Para lxs anarquistas y todxs aquellxs que se rehúsan a vivir en un mundo de relaciones algorítmicas y guerras automatizadas, de sensibilidades digitalizadas y horrores en nombre de la ciencia y el progreso, 325 reúne diversos materiales para comprender los elementos, capacidades y significados del entramado tecnológico e ideológico en sus múltiples dimensiones cognitivas y represivas (una lucha contra la singularidad de la IA, la totalización de la vigilancia, el control sobre la información, la apertura a nuevas lógicas de guerras… etc), una herramienta analítica considerada un peligro para el Estado y una plataforma que que pretende ser más información sediciosa: en sus páginas se busca comunicación, debate, redes que puedan transcender fronteras frente a un enemigo común que se perfecciona hacia el abismo del tecnomundo.

Alentamos su propagación,
saludxs compañerxs!

Anarquica Editora

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Back to Basics | De vuelta a lo básico

“Bienvenidxs a 325, un proyecto anárquico de contrainformación y acción directa. Esta publicación se ha producido desde la clandestinidad en varios países desde 2004. Son más de 20 años de crimen, antiprisionismo, anarquía, ritmos rebeldes, guerra social… En esas dos décadas hemos informado sobre la insurgencia urbana anarquista contra el capitalismo y el Estado; movilizaciones contra las cumbres, okupaciones autónomas, protestas ruidosas, campañas sociales y ecológicas; críticas al control tecnocrático, la gobernanza de los sistemas sociales y la civilización misma; informamos sobre la lucha contra la policía, las luchas de lxs presxs y la represión antipenitenciaria; efímeros caóticos clandestinos… Continue reading “325 #13: De vuelta a lo básico (Edición en español de la revista insurreccional 325)” →

Athens, Greece: Attack on Kypseli Police Station – Claim of responsibility and video

Posted on 2025/12/14 - 2025/12/14 by darknights

Justice is resistance

On the afternoon of December 7, 2025, we attacked the torture chamber of the Kypseli Police Station on Thiras Street.

The cowards of the police station, so “brave” towards chained people, so “courageous” in sweeping migrants in Amerikis Square, realistically assessed their situation and locked themselves inside. It took them five whole minutes to come out…

Seventeen years and one day after December, we struck at the heart of Athens, in a center that they have turned into a fortress. Seventeen years in which violence, torture, and murders have not stopped for a moment. Seventeen years later, the same murderers with different faces. Sampanis, Fragoulis, Zackie, Lambros Fountas, Kamran, Maggos…

The combatants who go on the counterattack, who respond to the blows of the state, are neither superhuman nor unaware of the danger. They are your colleague at work, your fellow student in the next seat, the neighbor you greeted yesterday. You may have seen them yelling at their boss during some shitty season, demanding lower rent and humane neighborhoods, fighting against femicide, against the cops who murder. You’ve probably been caught up in a strike at some point. These are the people who, when enraged by injustice and violence, turn their anger into determination and a plan. They lay out maps, plot routes, and look for cameras. They fill bottles with gasoline, approach calmly, and set fire to police stations. This is how December 2008 was born, and November 1973 before it. With stubbornness and organization. With collective struggle against injustice.

Our attack was a direct response to the crescendo of police violence during the march on December 6, 17 years after the murder of student Alexandros Grigoropoulos by cops Korkoneas and Saraliotis.

“[…] At the end of the afternoon protest, at around 8:05 p.m., a group of approximately 400 individuals, carrying sticks and anti-gas masks, violently attacked riot police squads at the intersection of Panepistimiou and Emmanouil Benaki streets. […] ”

This was announced by the police and reproduced without a trace of skepticism by 90% of the media, from the center-left (news247.gr) to the far-right (Proto Thema). So what if dozens of videos show exactly the opposite, namely the violent attack by riot police on the march, the chemical warfare, the brutal beating of even protesters who had already been arrested.

To the media: Reproducing the police’s announcements verbatim in the current climate and circumstances is not simply poor journalism. It is a conscious choice to support and be complicit in barbarism. Every era has its Nuremberg, and every Nuremberg has its Streicher.

The police’s decision to ban the December 6 march, with heavy injuries and arrests, did not come as a bolt from the blue. It is a path that began with the pandemic and the handling of demonstrations at that time, culminating in the dissolution, under extreme conditions, of the march in memory of anarchist comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris.

The wind is changing, the signs are warning of a storm

We could be tempted to see this intensification of repression as typical right-wing state management. It would not be difficult. Even before its current complete dismantling, the crippled Hellenic Republic was not renowned for its “robust institutional checks and balances” or its “healthy democratic institutions.” The Greek regime is perfectly suited to a capitalist formation where the upper echelons are made up of smuggling shipowners and the mafia, while the lower echelons are staffed by anti-Lombard figures such as Frapes, Magierias, and Semertzidou.

However, the political and economic crisis is permeating the “liberal” West vertically and horizontally.

In the US, France, Germany, and the UK, governments change but policies remain the same. Profits for the few, poverty for the many, support for genocide in Palestine at any cost. Hand in hand with poverty goes the violence of the bosses, the violence of the police. The post-WWII redistributive model is dead, the possibility of exporting internal contradictions to the Third World has been limited. The capitalist “flight forward,” the future they are preparing for us is to go and fight—in truth, to die—for our country.

We must confront this darkness, politically and practically, because if the enemy wins, there will be no safe rear. Along with our stubbornness and will to fight, we must reintroduce organization, strategy, and tactics into our vocabulary. We must strike at the bosses and their henchmen, protect social/class struggles from repression.

BLOOD IS FLOWING, REVOLT IS CALLED FOR

SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE PERSECUTED FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

THE ARMED REBEL KYRIAKOS XYMITIRIS ALWAYS PRESENT IN OUR STRUGGLES

– Anarchists

Source: athens.indymedia

Thessaloniki, Greece: Responsibility claim for incendiary barrage by ‘Incendiary Anarchist Nous’

Posted on 2025/12/12 by darknights

The new global economic crisis is approaching

The new economic crash in the West is closer than they would have us believe. Western imperialist states are trying to redivide the earth and drain economically weak states of raw materials, labor, and anything else that can bring them profit. However, in countries that are not in the West, they must also contend with indigenous forces that either resist for their land, such as Palestine, or are ruled by theocratic regimes that they themselves had installed there to avoid the “communist threat.” The imperialist states of the East, Russia and China, are also entering the game, trying to emerge victorious from the coming crash. Intra-imperialist rivalries once again fall on the backs of the peoples of the earth with devastating results.

The Palestinian struggle

The Palestinians, with their struggle, like a modern Vietnam, show us the way and the necessity to fight wherever we are. Since October 2023, the Palestinians have been rebelling against the Zionist fascists, the American imperialists, and Western capital. All of them aim to rebuild the whole of Gaza and turn it into a tourist resort. The vultures (construction and real estate companies) have started selling off pieces of land in Palestine. The recent ceasefire agreement and the joke with Trump and the Nobel Peace Prize are not enough to stop what is happening in Palestine. What is happening is genocide, occupation, and the uprooting of an entire people, justified by the most ridiculous arguments.

There is nothing more despicable than using one of the darkest chapters in human history to justify genocide. Anyone who does so must be met with fierce anger and overwhelming force.

The puppet of the fascist state of America and Western capital is trying to convince us that he will resolve every conflict by telling blatant lies repeatedly in public (such as Armenia-Azerbaijan). At the same time, he is sending the army onto the streets to maintain order within his country and to deport all immigrants within America to private prisons in Ecuador. The so-called “democracy” of the United States could be better described as a junta and a military dictatorship.

GREECE—an accomplice state

The Greek state is an accomplice to the genocide of the Palestinians. As such, it should be treated and punished accordingly. As a member of NATO, an ally of the United States, albeit of negligible value, and a member of the tripartite family alliance of Greece, Cyprus, and Israel. It has surrendered land and water to the needs of Israel and the United States. The base in Larissa is used openly, and the base in Souda became the starting point for the war against the Houthis and the American bombing of Iran. At the same time that an arrest warrant is being issued for war crimes and crimes against humanity against Netanyahu, one of the best and biggest lackeys (OUR GREECE!) is covering for him and protecting him in the most vulgar way. Appealing to sentiment, government scum talk about the persecution of Jews. At the same time, they are increasingly strengthening the economy of the Zionist state by signing investment and agreements. It is no coincidence that the ELVO railway industry has been bought out or that thousands of Israeli funds have flooded the metropolises.

Anyone who does not oppose their country’s participation in an imperialist war has no right to complain about any reprisals. Continue reading “Thessaloniki, Greece: Responsibility claim for incendiary barrage by ‘Incendiary Anarchist Nous’” →

Athens, Greece: Claim for the commando attack on the OPKE team at Strefi Hill in Exarcheia on 1/11/2025

Posted on 2025/11/25 - 2025/11/25 by darknights

<<MIND THE STAIRS>>

A year and a day after comrade and armed anarchist fighter Kyriakos Xymitiris was killed in an apartment on Arcadia Street, following a premature bomb explosion, he was destined to remind everyone that social peace is nothing more than empty words in an empty space.

Along with the explosion, a promise was made. That the comrade would not be forgotten. The comrade has not been forgotten. His name became a slogan on the lips of thousands. Then it adorned walls, was written in texts and was the subject of events. However, it was not long before this name became a signature. The name of the fallen anarchist guerrilla Kyriakos ceased to belong exclusively to him. Conspirators met and nuclei were formed with his name. Commandos slipped away in the night and in the shadows in order to give light and noise to the quiet monotony of the metropolis. Going along this path, we decided to carry out a raid on the cops who have taken up camp on Strefi Hill.

We struck in broad daylight, reminding the uniformed bastards that they will never be in peace amid us even for a moment. In recent years, there has been an effort to turn the Exarcheia neighbourhood into a well-guarded alternative resort, where tourists enjoy the aesthetics of the “subculture” and the unconventional character of the neighbourhood without actually contributing in the slightest to the Cause and the goals for which we are fighting. Seeing what is happening before our eyes, we choose not to stand by as observers. We choose direct action, militantly defending our projects and ideas in the here and now. The Exarcheia you dream of will turn into your worst nightmares.

PS: We were saddened about the absence of the riot police as we really wanted to see them running after what happened the previous night, during the memorial march and more generally in the neighbourhood. On the other hand, their colleagues from the OPKE (Special Police Teams for Crime Prevention and Suppression) team proved to be satisfactorily efficient in the game of hide and seek.

PS2: We also dedicate this action to comrade Christos Spilios, who died recently, but will always be in our struggles.

HONOUR FOREVER TO THE ANARCHIST GUERRILLA KYRIAKOS XIMITIRIS.

SOLIDARITY TO COMRADE MARIANNA AND ALL THE COMRADES IN PRISON FOR THE AMPELOKIPI CASE

AGAINST THE TIMES OF SUBORDINATION – CONTINUOUS PROCESS UNTIL THE COMPLETE OVERTHROW OF THE EXISTING

Conspirators of Immediate Reaction (Συνωμότες/ισσες Άμεσης Αντίδρασης)

Source: athens.indymedia

Via & translated by Act for freedom now!

Thessaloniki, Greece: Hooded youth attack riot cops with molotovs after Lex hip hop concert

Posted on 2025/11/13 - 2025/11/13 by darknights

Following excerpt from capitalist scum media:

Violent clashes erupted between hooded youths and police forces in Thessaloniki after a massive anti-system rap concert by artist Lex, attended by more than 40,000 people — one of the largest rap events ever held in Greece.

In the early hours of Sunday, November 2, hundreds of young people with covered faces moved against MAT riot police units, launching a barrage of Molotov cocktails. Police responded with an extensive use of tear gas, turning the area into an asphyxiating battlefield, several cars caught fire amid running clashes through the city streets.

According to the authorities, 18 people were detained, but only one was arrested on drug-related charges. The arrests followed the violent incidents that erupted shortly after midnight, at the conclusion of Lex’s concert.

The events in Thessaloniki highlight growing social tensions and the risk that large cultural gatherings may turn into flashpoints for clashes.