(Report: Heike Schrader, jungevelt.de, 2/2/2015) Im anstehenden Prozess gegen die Chrysi Avgi (Goldene Morgendämmerung) werden lediglich vier von über 100 bekannt gewordenen Angriffen der neofaschistischen »Sturmabteilungen« behandelt: Im Dezember 2012 überfiel eine Gruppe Faschisten mit Brandbomben ein von Pakistanern bewohntes Haus in Ierapetra auf Kreta. Dieselben pakistanischen Arbeiter wurden im Februar 2013 erneut attackiert, dieses…
(Author: Antonis Diniakos, vice.com, 29/01/2015) It’s the night of January 25, and in front of Syriza’s cramped election kiosk on Klathmonos Square in the center of Athens, an elated crowd is anxiously waiting for the first exit poll results. Soon enough the crowd breaks in delirious celebration: Greece has elected the first ever radical left-wing…
(Report: Antonis Diniakos, vice.com, 29/01/2015) Es ist Sonntag Abend und wir schreiben den 25. Januar 2015. Vor dem engen Pavillon des Syriza-Linksbündnisses am Klafthmonos-Platz im Herzen von Athen hat sich eine freudig erregte Menschenmenge versammelt. Alle sind gekommen, um hier—und voller Spannung—auf die ersten Hochrechnungen zu warten. Der Optimismus ist fast greifbar und ist mit…
(Leonardo Bianchi, The Crisis Republic, 23/03/2013) Since the crisis began in Italy, the word “Greece” has progressively ceased to define a country and has become a menace, a bad omen, a political stick designed to bash opponents’ heads. I’ve heard countless times Italian politicians saying “we’re not Greece”, “we’re not going to end like Greece”…
(Interview of Dimitris Psarras by Stratis Bournazos, Enthemata, 14/09/2014. Translation made by Dimitris Ioannou for Analyze Greece). You have repeatedly argued that there is indisputable evidence against Golden Dawn leadership. Would you like to elaborate on that? The case against GD has been solid for years now. Contrary to the organization’s claims, the prosecution against…
(Έρευνα: Ο Ιός, Τάσος Κωστόπουλος, Αντα Ψαρρά, Δημήτρης Ψαρράς, ΕφΣυν, 13/12/2014) Αν παρακολουθεί κανείς τα γραπτά και τις ομιλίες των ηγετικών στελεχών της Χρυσής Αυγής θα πιστέψει ότι η οργάνωση συγκαταλέγει τη γερμανική κυβέρνηση -και ειδικά την καγκελάριο Ανγκελα Μέρκελ– στους μεγαλύτερους εχθρούς της. Αν όμως παρατηρήσει προσεκτικότερα τις αναφορές αυτές, θα διαπιστώσει ότι ο…
(Von der Parlamentsbank ins Gefängnis: Nikolaos Michaloliakos (re.), der Chef der Partei Goldene Morgenröte, und Christos Pappas (2. von li.). Die Fraktion zählt derzeit 16 Abgeordnete; acht von ihnen sind in Haft, zwei Parlamentarier traten aus). (Text: Markus Bernath, Der Standard, 27/11/2014) Vor einem Jahr wurden der Chef der griechischen Faschistenpartei und seine Anhänger verhaftet,…
(Author: Nikos Loudos, Irish Marxist Review, 2014, number 9) The meteoric electoral ascension of the Nazi party Golden Dawn in Greece sent shockwaves all over Europe. Up from the marginal 0.29% it polled in the elections of 2009, Golden Dawn gathered just under 7% in the national elections of May and June 2012 sending 18…
(Author: TheToc, 25/11/2014) Members of the legal team filing civil suits on behalf of those injured in attacks by Golden Dawn have stated that the trial must begin as soon as possible. The lawyers representing the victims of violent attacks allegedly perpetrated by members of the Golden Dawn party have stressed the importance of the…
(Αντιφασιστική αφίσα ενάντια στους ναζί του NSU και στον ρατσισμό) Αναδημοσιεύουμε δύο κείμενα, το ένα από την εφημερίδα Εργατική Αλληλεγγύη και το άλλο από την Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών, σχετικά με το συνέδριο που πραγματοποίησε το Ίδρυμα Ρόζα Λούξεμπουργκ στην Αθήνα. —————————————– (Κείμενο: Θανάσης Καμπαγιάννης, Εργατική Αλληλεγγύη, 26/11/2014) Ευρωπαϊκό συνέδριο ενάντια στην άνοδο της ακροδεξιάς πραγματοποιήθηκε…
(Traduzione: Attenecalling, 18/10/2014) Alcuni primi elementi: a) L’intero gruppo parlamentare di Alba Dorata (presente e passato) verrà processato con l’accusa di essere al comando di un’organizzazione criminale. Viene così accolta l’ipotesi espressa molte volte dai GIP secondo cui Alba Dorata è un’organizzazione criminale travestita da partito politico, visto che i quadri dirigenti dell’organizzazione e del…
(NSU κράτος και ναζί χέρι-χέρι. Να πολεμήσουμε τον ρατσισμό). (Συνέντευξη του Ούλι Γέντς στην Ιωάννα Μεϊτανη, Ενθέματα Αυγής, 16/11/2014) Τα τελευταία δύο χρόνια εξελίσσεται στο Μόναχο η δίκη του Εθνικοσοσιαλιστικού Υπόγειου Δικτύου (NSU), μιας τρομοκρατικής νεοναζιστικής οργάνωσης που διέπραξε σειρά εγκλημάτων, με πιο αποτρόπαια τις κατά σειρά δολοφονίες μεταναστών τουρκικής και ελληνικής καταγωγής. Για την…
(Republished by The Press Project, 13/11/2014). An investigation into the party’s finances by a group of lawyers reveals that Golden Dawn had behaved like a criminal organisation even before it entered parliament with the tolerance of authorities. The extreme-right Golden Dawn party finances itself by running protection rackets, blackmailing shop owners, selling weaponry used by…
(Author: Manfred Ertel, Spiegel, 04/11/2014) Greece’s public prosecutor claims the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party bears all the characteristics of a ‘criminal organization’. Party members stand accused of murder and other acts of violence. Will Greek officials soon move to ban Chrysi Avgi? The 697-page report from the public prosecutor’s office reads like a thriller. But it…
The videos of a meeting that took place on 15/09/2014 in Athens by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation are now available with english subtitles. You can watch here the intervention by Thanassis Kampagiannis, a lawyer from the JailGoldenDawn initiative. All the presentations are available here.
Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris (L) and former cabinet secretary and close Samaras aide Takis Baltakos. (Author: Damian Mac Con Uladh, 19/09/2014) Takis Baltakos, former cabinet secretary and right-hand man of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, maintained direct lines of communication with Golden Dawn, even to the point of instructing the neonazi party on how to vote…
(Author: Damian Mac Con Uladh, 23/09/2014) An Athens court on Monday handed a former member of Golden Dawn’s central committee and local election candidate for the neonazi party a 11½-year prison sentence after it found him and an accomplice guilty of attempted murder and the possession and use of weapons. The Athens mixed jury court…
(Author: Damian Mac Con Uladh, Enet, 01/09/2014) Lawyers from the JailGoldenDawn initiative present fresh evidence for the involvement of Golden Dawn leaders in attacks in central Athens that resulted in at least 120 people being injured, 20 of them seriously, in May 2011. Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris on the streets in central Athens on…
(This is a text first published on 10 July 2014. You can find the greek version here). As we’ve repeatedly said, prosecuting Golden Dawn is about prosecuting criminal activity. Any interest in the national-socialist (nazi) ideology arising from the investigation only concerns the perpetrators’ motives and does not involve any kind of prosecution of individual…
In this post, we provide the translated transcript of the oath-taking ceremony of candidate members of Golden Dawn (“reception cell”), which took place at its offices on 23 July 2011. It is taken from a video, which is included in the Golden Dawn prosecution case file. Following the transcript of the ceremony is an excerpt…