From Greek Group That Targeted Citigroup Warns of Plan for Revolt
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Greece's Revolutionary Struggle, the group that said it targeted two branches of Citigroup Inc. in Athens, warned it will use the global financial crisis to spur a revolt that will end capitalism.
The group targeted the branches because it wants to make Greece “hostile territory for the criminal agents of international capital, like Citibank,” according to an eight- page statement published in the weekly newspaper Pontiki today. Revolution is “our duty, here and now. This crisis should be the tomb of the system,” the group said.
The militants also threatened journalists and media groups and said it would continue “safe” attacks on random targets, “taking the appropriate measures for the safety of citizens.”
Revolutionary Struggle, which surfaced in 2003, claimed a spate of attacks on banks, international companies and police officers in the wake of riots sparked by the police shooting of Alexis Grigoropoulos, 15, in December. The only casualty in the attacks is a policeman who was hurt. There have been no arrests.
Greek press: Armoring Athens against attacks, Scotland Yard team to help
16 March 2009
FOCUS News Agency
Athens. The recent rise in crime rate in Greece is one of the major topics in Greek dailies on Monday. Last week masked youngsters raged in Athens and Thessaloniki, breaking shop windows and damaging bank offices and cars with bats and stones. In both cases the police arrived when the attackers had already disappeared.
The Ta Nea writes that police officers are discontented about the orders they received during last week's incidents because they were told not to get involved.
Eleftheros Typos says that in order to deal with the situation the police step up the security measures and armor the capital, setting up rapid reaction squads, which will be situated at key places in Athens.
Naftemporiki writes that Scotland Yard gives a helping hand in the fight against terrorism. A team of experts arrives in the Greek capital to help its colleagues.
From Russia: Anarchist professor dismissed for political views
In Russia, university teachers are dismissed for political reasons. Candidate of political sciences (Russian scientific degree equivalent to Ph.D - translator) D.E. Buchenkov, who was working for five years in the State Pedagogic University of Volga (http://www.vgipu.ru) as a docent (lecturer) in the chair of Philosophy for five years, was dismissed in five minutes. Here is his story.
On 5th of March 2009 director of the chair asked me to visit the pro-rector. This happened during a lecture. Only director of the chair of philosophy M.M. Prokhorov was in the room. He asked if I am a member of Autonomous Action and if I have something to do with paper of the organization "Situatsiya" (Situation). I said that I am a member and that I wrote to the paper.
Then Prokhorov started to count my shortcomings - that my scientific work is not active enough for a docent. That my seminar "Political system of Russian Federation in level of local self-governance", which he participated, is "not at the level of the university".
What he said, was indeed prejudiced and biased. If I am not at the level of the university, why I was kept there for several years? Why they had to invite me during my lecture? Why they could not do that after, or just invite me to the chair?
From the very beginning it became obvious, that accusations of incompetence were just a pretext. I said to Prokhorov, that real reasons of his criticism was just my political views. I was proposed to quit "voluntarily", or a special commission will be formed which would evaluate my work, after which I would be dismissed legally with a note in my working book (working book is a soviet invention to discipline workers, which is still in use - each worker must carry a book where each employers notes period of work and reason of dismissal – translator's note).
From Leftist nutcase: Informer who prevented deaths a traitor
Byron York wrote an enlightening column about Fithian in 2005, when she worked with Cindy Sheehan in the first months of her anti-Bush jeremiad and as it expanded to embrace Hugo Chavez and the radical Left. She helped organize the WTO riots in 1999, as well as several other notable demonstrations. Fithian gave her philosophy on political action in her own words:
And she was a tough-minded leader, not at all a peace-and-love type. Her specialty was action; she wanted to break in, cut through fences, and shut things down. “You don't go to Fithian when you want to carry a placard,” the Times profile said. “You go to her when you want to make sure there are enough bolt cutters to go around.” Asked for a fuller explanation of her role in the protests, Fithian said, “When people ask me, 'What do you do?' I say I create crisis, because crisis is that edge where change is possible.”
That sometimes involves breaking things. In an July 2001 interview with The International Socialist Review, Fithian — who told NRO she's been arrested “probably at least 30 times” — spoke of moving beyond the tradition of civil disobedience as practiced by Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr.; her inspiration, she explained, was not so much those leaders as the anarchist movement in Spain in the late 19th and early 20th century. And that meant different ways of doing things. “Nonviolence is a strategy. Civil disobedience is a tactic,” Fithian said. “Direct action is a strategy. Throwing rocks is a tactic.”
“I guess my biggest thing is that as people who are trying to create a new world, I do believe we have to dismantle or transform the old order to do that,” Fithian continued. “I just fundamentally don't believe it will ever serve our interests as it's currently constructed.”
From Anarchist brings home the class war for his biopic
A notorious anarchist is returning to his Kentish roots to help produce a film based on his autobiography.
Class War founder Ian Bone, who became a tabloid hate figure after the Trafalgar Square poll tax riot 1990, grew up as the son of a butler in Goudhurst, near Maidstone.
Early sections of his book Bash the Rich are set in the tiny village, which Mr Bone says was where “a lifetime of shit-stirring” began.
He told Kent on Sunday: “I'd have to put the way I turned out down to how I spent my early years.
“I lived in the servants' quarters at Ladham House because my mum was a housemaid and my dad a butler.
“They had to be deferential at all times, so it wasn't as if they could swear at their employers if they saw them outside of working hours.
“My dad was always called 'Bone', even by the children, and I always found that gravely insulting.”
Part of the Goudhurst filming for Bash the Rich will be set in the 1950s, when visiting fruit-pickers were given a less than warm welcome.
From Reason Online
Anarchist Philosopher Does Not Consent to be Governed!
Crispin Sartwell on Against the State: An introduction to anarchist political theory
30 Dec, 2008
"Growing up in D.C. will turn you into an anarchist," jokes Against the State: An introduction To Anarchist Political Theory author Crispin Sartwell. "I'm expecting the revolution to emerge from Wheaton (Maryland), high schoolers in the D.C. area who are embroiled in the bureaucracy of the American state." This five-and-a-half-minute-long interview was conducted by Nick Gillespie and shot and edited by Dan Hayes.
Widely published in both popular outlets and academic journals, Sartwell teaches at Dickinson College. For more information on him, go to his website.
For a video version of this interview, go here.
And check out his October 30, 2008 appearance on the Reason.tv Talk Show, where he discussed anarchy, Darfur, and hip hop with the journalist Eli Lake and hosts Michael C. Moynihan and Nick Gillespie.
Meanwhile, authorities in the U.K. want jittery citizens to relax.
From Law-abiding citizens need to know the police are on their side - not with the thugs
People tackling anti-social behaviour should not have to worry that they will be the ones who end up being prosecuted - and the Conservatives have promised to remove this fear within days of coming to power.
Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve has pledged to rewrite the guidelines issued to police officers and prosecutors to safeguard those tackling unruly youngsters from themselves being targeted by the police.
He has called for a return to "common sense" policing by restoring discretion.
'History shows that if you go out and tell 10 and 11-year-olds who are misbehaving to stop misbehaving or you will call the police, they will stop,' says Grieve.
'There is also the need for police back-up, but the public have also come round to seeing the police as more likely to bite them than do something about the problems in the community around them. They also say: 'Oh well, if I try to stop that, someone will come round to arrest me.' '
A defunct anarchist group called Reclaim the Streets used to hold disruptive lawless protests which would spill over into violence and vandalism. But the irony is that the aspiration to Reclaim the Streets is really one that the decent law abiding majority yearn to achieve.
In parts of London where knife wielding gangs proprietorially claim their turf by postcode it seems a distant prospect.
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