Mass protests over Tempi train crash deepen political crisis in Greece

The mass movement of young people and workers that broke out two years after the Tempi train crash is shaking the ruling class in Greece. In the face of the biggest protests in the country’s history, the government is hanging on by a thread.

The anti-refugee policies of Germany’s Greens

It is particularly clear In North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, how the Greens are mirroring the xenophobic policies of the far-right Alternative for Germany.

Germany’s Greens on course for the far-right AfD

If you want the policies of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), you can also vote Green. That is essentially the core message of Robert Habeck’s 10-point plan “Security offensive for Germany.”

Threats of deportation and agitation against Syrian refugees in Germany and across Europe

No sooner had the Islamist militias reached Damascus and overthrown the Assad regime than the propaganda barrage against Syrian refugees began.

Greek court acquits nine survivors of the Pylos ship disaster

It was the survivors of the tragedy, not those in the Greek Coast Guard and EU Frontex border agency responsible for a crime that cost the lives of more than 600, who were put before the Greek courts.

German Chancellor Scholz visits Athens and seals tank deal with Greece

The latest “backfill arrangements” with Athens have not only intensified the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, but also the danger of another devastating war between Greece and Turkey.

Social attacks continue in Greece despite end of enhanced EU financial surveillance

For the Greek population, what is being presented as a chapter that has been closed and celebrated means the continuation of austerity and an intensification of the social crisis for decades to come.

The Greek government’s responsibility for violent attacks on Russians in Athens

During the Orthodox Easter festival in Greece, Ukrainian nationalists beat up Oksana Maryakhina, who has lived in Greece for 20 years. Right-wing radicals feel emboldened by the nationalist warmongering.

“Get COVID out of schools!”: Hundreds of school occupations in Greece

Students in Greece have occupied more than 250 schools in protest against the unsafe reopening of schools following the winter holidays.

Greek police attack strikers at Kavala Oil

On December 21, hundreds of police stormed an occupied oil refinery in Kavala, Greece, arresting workers protesting layoffs and safety violations.

“We cannot possibly drown in our own schools!”

Floods in Greece expose the fatal consequences of climate change and austerity policies

In recent decades, there have been repeated flood disasters in Greece, which have had a disastrous impact on the lives of the working class due to the governments’ austerity policies under the dictates of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

Greek teachers and students strike against attacks on education and lack of protection from the coronavirus

Under conditions of enormous anger and opposition among teachers and students, the aims of the teachers’ unions and those of the strikers are diametrically opposed.

Greek government appoints right-wing extremist Athanasios Plevris as health minister

The Greek government under the right-wing New Democracy party is reacting to the social tensions escalated by the pandemic with a further shift to the right and is bracing itself for a confrontation with the working class.

“Why are no firefighting planes coming?

Wildfires rage across Greece as austerity hobbles firefighting effort

A dangerous heat wave with temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius is threatening lives as numerous fires sweep the country.

“Worldwide socialism is the only possible way out”

IYSSE election campaign at Humboldt University finds support among students

The International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) ran three candidates in the student parliament election at Berlin’s Humboldt University (HU) in June.

Auschwitz survivor and fighter against fascism Esther Bejarano has died

With her inexhaustible verve, determination, and joie de vivre, Esther Bejarano is and will remain an inspiration in the struggles to come.

Greek government reopens economy amid COVID intensive care “nightmare”

Like all of Europe, Greece is experiencing a fierce third wave of the pandemic. With more than 4,000 new infections daily, a new high was reached at the beginning of April.

Increasing police violence in Greece as coronavirus crisis escalates

Protests against police violence broke out after the police brutally attacked a young man in the Athens district of Nea Smyrni.

Greek state charges pregnant refugee on Lesbos who attempted suicide with arson

The hellish situation in the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos is increasingly driving refugee children and adults to commit suicide.