Activists called for protests across Europe on Dec. 18 in solidarity with the uprising in Greece, unfurling banners at the base of Athens’ landmark Acropolis urging international demonstrations and declaring “Resistance” in several languages. In the northwestern Greek city of… Read moreYouth protests, strikes keep rocking Greece, spread to France
Masked youths attacked the riot police headquarters in Athens Dec. 16, throwing petrol bombs and stones, damaging police vehicles parked outside. Elsewhere in the city, schoolchildren blocked streets, and scores of teenagers halted traffic outside the main court complex. (AP,… Read moreGreece: headed towards revolution?
Italy’s Interior Minister Roberto Maroni of the anti-immigrant Northern League met with protests after proposing a moratorium on the building of mosques in the wake of arrests on Dec. 2 of two Moroccans suspected of plotting terrorist attacks—one of whom… Read moreItaly: Muslims protest mosque moratorium
Greek protesters Dec. 13 attacked a police station and ministry building as well as shops and banks in Athens with petrol bombs in an eighth day of protests following the killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by police. Several hundred protesters… Read moreGreek uprising enters second week
Protests against the killing of a youth by police in Athens spread across Europe Dec. 11, as street-fighting in Greece entered its sixth day. At least 30 were arrested in Copenhagen, as masked youth hurled bottles and paint bombs at… Read moreGreek uprising spreads across Europe
Critical Mass scores a win over Scotland Yard. From The Telegraph, Dec. 2: Critical mass can carry on cycling There is no need for the organisers of a mass cycle ride to give the police notice of their planned destination… Read moreLondon Critical Mass wins a round
Last weekend, presumed neo-Nazis firebombed the Cyclops autonomous social center in the Stockholm district of Högdalen, burning the building down. Two days later, on Dec. 1, presumed right-wing militants poured in gasoline through the mail slot into the apartment of… Read moreNeo-Nazis in arson attacks on Swedish anarchists
AA youth uprising spread in Greece for a second day Dec. 7, with thousands battling police in Athens and Thessaloniki, despite the arrest of two officers over the killing of a 15-year-old boy. At least 34 have been injured and… Read moreYouth uprising rocks Greece
Several thousand protesters took to the streets of Pristina, Kosova’s capital, Dec. 2 to oppose the planned deployment of a European Union judicial mission that many Albanians fear will partition the country. The 2,000-strong mission would be deployed under a… Read morePartition fears in Kosova
Czech Green Party MP Olga Zubová wrote an open letter to US President-elect Barack Obama, asking him to review the US commitment to the planned military radar base on Czech soil for the proposed “missile shield.” “For the Czech Republic… Read moreCzech Green Party MP asks Obama to reconsider missile shield
On Nov. 11, Poland’s Independence Day, the extreme right group National Radical Camp (Oboz Narodowo-Radykalny-ONR) marched in Warsaw, in its second public show of strength this year. ONR also marched in June to commemorate the 1936 anti-Jewish pogrom in Myslenic…. Read moreNeo-Nazis, anti-fas clash in Warsaw
On the morning of Nov. 11, some 150 French police—including elite anti-terrorist forces—raided a farm at Tarnac in the Millevaches plateau and arrested nine young people, who ran the local grocery store. Four days later, the nine were sent before… Read moreFrance: autonomist youth targeted in Tarnac Nine case
