Industrial Workers of the World

"Mr Mavridis, lawyer and anti-dictatorship veteran, has gone public saying that "if this situation continues, the government will be facing not just the youth but an older generation, ready for war and with a good knowledge of it".

Chief of police resigns over book presentation raid in Athens taxikipali Oct 22 2009

The Chief of Police of Greece, Mr Tsiatouras, has resigned after the demand of the Minister of Public Order over the book presentation police raid in Athens, while thousands march against the police-state imposed in the last 15 days in Exarcheia. http://libcom.org/news/chief-police-resigns-over-book-presentation-raid-athens-22102009

Background: http://libcom.org/news/police-raids-book-presentation-athens-scores-detained-21102009

more detail: On Thursday 22/10 morning the Minister of Public Order Mr Chrisochoidis has demanded and got the resignation of the Chief of Police of Greece, Mr Tsiatouras, over the police raid of a book presentation the previous night that led to scores of detentions of unsuspecting citizens, amongst which Mitsos Papachristou, a leading figure of the resistance against the Colonels' Junta and the 1973 Uprising.

Mr Chrisochoidis has apologised once more about the incident but his attitude has been received with mixed feelings as many see it as just a chance for him to get rid of a high ranking officer of the last government, and not a sincere move against police arbitrariness which if anything has skyrocketed since the new, Socialist, government was placed in charge of the country 15 days ago.

Mr Chrisochoidis is widely considered to be in a personal battle with the revolutionary and social antagonistic movement that has swept the country since the December Uprising in 2008. Having gone public in the last week claiming, on the one hand, that he is friends with anarchists and shares many of their ideas, and on the other hand that anarchists are simply "economic criminals hiding behind a quasi-ideological veil", his reliability is in serious doubt.

His latest delusional statement is that "the police will remain in Exarcheia till the last hooligan is routed", the word hooligan referring to anarchists, leftists and other radical groups which have made the particular city quarter a most vibrant center of cultural, political and social creativity and critique in the last half century.

At the same time that the government is parading in TV channels trying to keep its propaganda machine oiled, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Athens against the police-state. The dynamic march which started from Exarcheia square made the circle of the historical centre of the capital past the Parliament and ended at Propylaea in front of the occupied University's Rector Headquarters.

During the march police presence was particularly discreet. Lawyers of the Legal Support Association have strongly condemned the government of installing a police-state in Exarcheia, bringing back not just memories but concrete practices of collective punishment of the 1960s dictatorship. The Association has publicly called for the resignation of the Minister who, it claimed, was out-of-the-law

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Saturday 24th October Films at the 2009 london @narchist bookfair http://www.anarchistbookfair.org/film.html

10.15 am

A Place in the City - the ever growing rift between South Africa’s economically marginalised and its government focussing on Abahlali baseMjondolo, a shack dwellers’ movement.

http://www.abahlali.org/node/4869

TUBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr7h6aTQp5A

10.45 am

This Black Soil the inspiring struggle of Bayview, Virginia, USA, a small and impoverished rural African-American community, which successfully defeated a state plan to build a maximum-security prison in their backyard and instead pursued a new vision of economic justice.

http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/this.html

TUBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz47jOZEeAw

12 noon

Reel News Factory occupations in Argentina + Visteon and Vestas.

http://www.reelnews.co.uk/

TUBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elBj7W0AxxY

1.30pm

The Angry Brigade - The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain’s First Urban Guerilla Group

http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/angrybrigadedvd

3-5.30pm

Living on your feet: The Struggles of Cipriano Mera Introduced by Stuart Christie Cipriano Mera was a bricklayer who became a key figure in the Spanish revolution, a free man who refused to die on his feet or live on his knees.

http://www.vivirdepie.net/index.htm

TUBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDNDnIIKW_M

5.30- 6.30

To Gaza With Love – Introduced by Aki Nawaz The story of some forty campaigners from twelve different countries who went on boats to break the Gaza siege from the sea. Drama, courage, seasickness, storms and storm outs.

http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/56-news/874-tv-documentary-to-gaza-with-love

see also: http://whitechapelanarchistgroup.wordpress.com/video/

TUBE http://www.youtube.com/user/Whitechapelanarchist

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The Workers Song (by Ed Pickford, cover by ) Drop Kick Murphys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTafZRecy2k&feature=player_embedded

see EP's site also:

http://www.youtube.com/user/folksinger43