The autonomous Community of the Occupied Prosfygika under threat by the Greek state

The Community of the Occupied Prosfygika is one of the most emblematic examples of an autonomous urban housing community in Greece and Europe. Read more about their history HERE. Today, it is once again facing the threat of the State. In the summer of 2025, a programmatic contract was signed between the Region of Attica, […]

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February 22, 2026
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Degrowing neo-Nazism – Reflections from the Greek 2023 elections and strategy against far-right politics

Written by Maria Dandoulaki. Holder of a BA in Education and currently a Master’s Student in Degrowth and Political Ecology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Maria is an ecological activist and academically is interested in the Political Ecology and Economy of food, Agroecology, Critical-Alternative Pedagogies, and anti-authoritarian perspectives towards radical socio-ecological transformations. June 25th […]

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September 19, 2023
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The flame of self-organization and solidarity burns in the Thessalian plain!

Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi writes about the popular responses to the floods that have caused death and destruction in the Thessaly region of Central Greece. The mayors and regional leaders need to listen carefully this time: Neither in Thessaly nor anywhere else, never again FOR us, WITHOUT us! Self-organization is blossoming on the wreckage left by the […]

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September 16, 2023
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Greek government evicts the self-governed Kurdish camp in Lavrio

Today in Greece the government of the hard-right New Democracy party evicted the self-organized Kurdish camp in the town of Lavrio. The inhabitants are being transfered to conventional government-run camps where there are severe restrictions. The self-managed Lavrio camp has functioned for years on the greeprinciples of democratic confederalism, providing shelter to political refugees from […]

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July 5, 2023
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Mass demos and strikes all over Greece in response to deadly train collision

Written by Theodoros Karyotis An update for English-speaking friends who want to make sense of what is happening in Greece: Late at night on February 28th, the collision of two trains in the recently privatised and chronically degraded railways left at least 57 dead, most of them students at Thessaloniki’s local universities. Since then, there […]

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March 10, 2023
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The history of Art is also a history of Autonomy

Written by Alexandros Schismenos “BERNANDA – Then why are we on strike? MOHAMET – Listen to her! Because they too are a step. LUCAS – Like a step after a strike, it’s a squat. CROWD – Go on then. Go get ’em, and we’ve got ’em!” Skourtis, “Strike or the struggle of the classes by […]

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February 15, 2023
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They want to kill VIO.ME. Don’t let them!

Announcemen by the recuperated self-managed VIO.ME factory in Thessaloniki, Greece. Today we are in the unfortunate position to inform you that VIO.ME is in more danger than ever. The judiciary and capital have quietly sold off the land on which the plant is located to a fund. We, the workers of VIO.ME, declare that we […]

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February 3, 2023
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Polytechnic Uprising of 1973: The beginning of the autonomous movement in Greece

An excerpt from Giorgos Oikonomou’s book “Polytechnic 1973: The beginning of the autonomous movement”. The Athens Polytechnic uprising began in November 1973 as a massive grassroots student demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. Oikonomou was participant in the uprising and was wounded by a gunshot from the forces of repression. […]

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November 17, 2022
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TRISE’s Self-managed Community Space in Athens

TRISE: Self-managed Community Center in Athens One of TRISE’s projects is a open social space in the heart of Athens, Greece. Located near Syntagma Square (31 Kolokotronis Street), it is an entirely self-organized/self-managed place. Its two-storey building has a rich radical tradition as it has housed various initiatives over the decades, such as the historical […]

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November 8, 2022
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“Asking questions with the Zapatistas” (e-book)

  We present to you the new publication from TRISE, entitled Asking questions with the Zapatistas: Reflections from Greece on our Civilizational Impasse, authored by TRISE members Theodoros Karyotis, Ioanna-Maria Maravelidi, and Yavor Tarinski. Editor: Matthew Little | Cover: Apollon Petropoulos | Design: George Chelebiev Publisher: Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) | Year: 2022 […]

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September 3, 2022
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