IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Repression in Greece

· Socialist Challenge No. 157, 25 July 1980 · p. 11 of the scan · 548 words

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THE Greek Government is conducting a campaign of repression aramist tac revoluuonary Ici. d group of five, independent far left militants have been arrested at Hamia. Crete. They include the journalist George Economeas, and Alexandra and G Lagadinos.

Others arrested recently include:

*Leonidas Christakis, 52, editor of the review Ideodromio, accusca or sellng up icirorisi groups;

*Nikos Ntalos, 20, Alex Triandariou. zu. t serans, 10, A Palilou, 20, accused of having set up an anarchist group at Iste:

possession of anarchist books, and of having participated in minoe crates wacc ticy sus ported libertarian positions;

*John Miras, 18, Constantin Stamatiou, 19, Dimitrios Mourikas, 21, accused of having. formed an anarchist group in Chalkida (Isle of cuboea). being in possession of such books as Listen, Little Man by Reich;

*John. Mpouketsides, 24, accused of having set fire to the fiscal archive at Nicea The only proo onerea was tnat ne nad long hair like the person seen running away from the fire. He was Sava cly torturcu by tulce policemen under the direction of John Gianoulis, a torturer who operated under the Colonels' In the prisons, Kyriakos Kassaliades and several other ondes are suler arca deprivations. In Corfu prison recently the autonomist Scandalis PARn eCRo mayorotesico against prison conditions; his health is now definitely ruined.

Palte ame sora avrus were entenced to nine and five years for possession of Molotor •* er cy WELC planted on them, Sofia is ill after cing given massive doses of drugs on the psychiatrist Malatoes, while Philip very ill after a hunger strike LEC MALMOS COLC GALIS m oco re oc o tion, while Philip Kgziksis and Bouketsides, anarchist militants, have been tortured.

The trial will begin soon of 14. without a shred of evidence of having killed the debutv chief of the riot police. A striking contrast, this, to the trial going on at •resen oriwo porcenen accuser of killing Spzidou Spyzopoulos in 1978: the policemen fell in the path of their bullets. sc it was his own tauf!

Please send letters of protest to the Greek Embassy, la Holland Place, London W1l. Say you were going to take a holiday in Greece this year but will no longer do so Please inform the prisoners that you have sent a letter by conTORREN KOS KROls Democritou, 21, Metamorfosis, Athens, Greece.

RON ALLEN, International Secretary, Libertarian Communist Group, London. and of claim that he mcIL lo osvosr luc danonr Front is not a luxury in the fight against the Tories. It is absolutely uccosa. IL SIcur adere this point needs to be made at all.

CLIVE GILSON and bodies.

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Kensington provement in the work of these If you don't, then stop PAUL CRAWFORD, North HEY COULI START a trifling exercise, but I hasten to point out that the event - the biggest Lobby of the Trousers of Parliament for ten vears. it wa trull rumoured, and an important part of one of the biggest defeats of a ¡ory bonc so fal - was ortono • HEL! NG CF THUL THAT THIS COUNTRY! of any type But it is also the duty of revolutionaries to always tell the • in this case. as was widely reported in the bourgeois press, the fact that a high percentage of • relusccs are gay

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