#pavlos fyssas

[antifainternational]

On moments exactly like these, Antifa rapper, Pavlos Fyssas, surrounded by approximately 30 fascists of Golden Dawn neonazi party in Keratsini, Athens (Greece) and while standing up against them, is being stabbed to death. 9 years later

WE DO NOT FORGET

WE DO NOT FORGIVE

#antifa #antifascist #hip hop #rapper #athens #greece #greek #pavlos fyssas #παυλος φυσσας #Youtube

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

⭕ On moments exactly like these, Antifa rapper, Pavlos Fyssas, surrounded by approximately 30 fascists of Golden Dawn neonazi party in Keratsini, Athens and while standing up against them, is being stabbed to death. 9 years later

WE DO NOT FORGET

WE DO NOT FORGIVE

#pavlos fyssas #παύλος φύσσας #ελλάδα #αθήνα #αντιφασισμός #αντιφασίστας #antifa #athens #greece #greek #antifascsim #antifascist #antifascismo #antifaschismus #antifaschistische aktion #Youtube

[nodataism]

greek rap united poster series

ΒΗΤΑΠΕΙΣ 03: Για Τους Οπαδούς

a project between Feb 19 and Οct 20 printing and pasting greek rap songs in a poster form around Athens.

the project was motivated and dedicated by and for greek antifa rapper Pavlos Fyssas and the trial of Golden Dawn -the neo nazi organization that assassinated him- . The project tried to unite all the greek rap songs through a common message - their social lyrics - raising awareness for the trial and giving a message to the streets what greek rap is all about.

The project ended at 7 October 2020 when Golden Dawn members found guilty.

ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΦΥΣΣΑΣ ΠΑΡΩΝ

#poster #typography #bitapeis #Pavlos Fyssas #antifa #Athens

[kropotkindersurprise]

November 1, 2023 - Antifascists in Greece attack riot police who were protecting a neonazi gathering in Athens. The nazis were commemorating two Golden Dawn pieces of shit who were shot dead by antifascists in 2013 in response to the murder of antifascist Pavlos Fyssas by Golden Dawn members. [video]

#antifa #antifascism #antifascist action #αντιφασιστική δράση #Ελλάδα #greece #athens #black bloc #molotov #riot police #riot #gif #2023 #acab #fire

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

On October 7–8, I'm in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest.

#20yrsago FCC releases number-portability guidelines https://www.zdnet.com/article/fcc-issues-cell-swapping-guidelines/

#15yrsago US Customs: Sketching an SUV makes you a copyright infringer https://www.pressrepublican.com/news/local_news/keene-artist-had-hard-time-getting-back-into-us/article_57fca386-b99e-5b24-92c1-4358eb4d74ff.html

#15yrsago Canadian Conservative Party pledge to reintroduce the DMCA if elected https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2008/10/conservatives-to-reintroduce-c-61/

#15yrsago Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China — amazing memoir by American-born Chinese journalist https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/07/factory-girls-from-village-to-city-in-a-changing-china-amazing-memoir-by-american-born-chinese-journalist/

#10yrsago NSA freedom of information requests up 1000% post-Snowden https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2013/oct/07/nsa-inundated-foia-requests-after-snowden-leaks/

#10yrsago Harvard Business Review to universities: your subscription doesn’t include classroom use https://digitopoly.org/2013/10/06/harvard-business-school-publishing-crosses-the-evil-academic-line/

#5yrsago Using “forensic architecture” to punch Greek Nazis…in court https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-murder-of-pavlos-fyssas

#5yrsago Texas cops seize lawn-sign depicting GOP elephant as sexual predator https://www.texastribune.org/2018/10/06/police-seize-texas-political-yard-sign-gop-elephant-girl-skirt/

#1yrago "Don't spy on a privacy lab" (and other career advice for university provosts) https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/07/sensory-deprivation/#sensorship

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

#pluralistic

[mariacallous]

Protests were held in Keratsini in the Piraeus area, Athens’ Attiki neighbourhood, Thessaloniki and other Greek towns on Monday to mark the tenth anniversary of the murder of Greek anti-fascist rap musician Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn member.

Union members, students and political party activists shouted slogans like “Paul lives on, defeat the Nazis” and “Neither in Piraeus nor anywhere else, block the fascists in every neighbourhood”. One person was arrested, Greek media reported.

Pavlos Fyssas, known as Killah P, was murdered at the age of 34 on September 18, 2013 in Keratsini by 45-year-old Giorgos Roupakias, a member of the neo-Nazi criminal organisation Golden Dawn. His killing was attributed to political motives.

According to the Greek police, Fyssas died after being stabbed three times by Roupakias in an attack that had been directed and approved by the Golden Dawn hierarchy.

The murder of Fyssas sparked protests in Greece and abroad and led to a judicial investigation into Golden Dawn’s criminal activity.

In October 2021, eight years after the murder, the Tripartite Court of Criminal Appeals of Athens declared Golden Dawn a criminal organisation and convicted 50 of the 65 defendants of participating in the killing.

The case is now in the appeal process.

Despite the outlawing of Golden Dawn, three far-right parties that competed in parliamentary elections in Greece in June managed to win seats in the legislature.

The far-right party National Party – Greeks of Ilias Kasidiaris, who was sentenced to prison for his leadership role in Golden Dawn, was banned from participating in the June elections.

But a new far-right party, the Spartans, supported in Twitter posts by Kasidiaris, was elected as the fifth party in the Greek parliament.

Kasidiaris is also a candidate to become mayor of Athens in the upcoming local elections in October.

[beardedmrbean]

Athens — The imprisoned leaders of Greece’s once-powerful neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party are seeking to overturn long prison terms in an appeals court trial that began this week in Athens.

Justice officials suggest it is unlikely that the court will show any leniency to the defendants. But while the neo-Nazi grouping, among the most dangerous in Europe, has been dismantled, far-right extremism still stains the birthplace of democracy.

The appeal comes 18 months after Golden Dawn leader Nikos Mihaloliakos and six other senior lawmakers from the party faced sweeping convictions for operating what the Greek Supreme Court then called a criminal organization masquerading as a political organization.

Mihaloliakos and the other convicted lawmakers are serving 13-year jail terms, but the appeals trial now gives them the chance to rechallenge the charges, potentially cutting years off their sentences or even overturning their convictions.

That prospect alone has activists here concerned.

Hundreds of anti-fascist demonstrators spilled onto the streets of Athens this week demanding judges hearing the Golden Dawn appeal to “keep the Nazis in jail,” as they chanted ….

Fascism must be eradicated once and for all from our society, says this demonstrator.

Mihaloliakos did not attend the opening of the appeal, citing health reasons. Several other defendants followed suit, a sign political commentators in Athens said showed Golden Dawn’s waning appeal on Greek society.

On the margins for decades, the group took Greece – and Europe -- by storm as a debt crisis and brutal 10-year economic recession gripped the country, enabling it to emerge as a potent political force.

Analysts say that not since the restoration of democracy here, with the collapse of military rule in 1974, had a party as brazenly thuggish or ideologically extreme been catapulted into the country’s Parliament, becoming the third-strongest political grouping, threatening democracy in the birthplace of democracy.

A bloody reign of terror existed in Athens for nearly a decade, with Golden Dawn regularly targeting migrants, trade unionists and left-wing sympathizers.

It took the 2013 assassination of Pavlos Fyssas, an anti-fascist rapper, to trigger national outrage, setting in motion the group’s decline.

On Wednesday, Fyssa’s grieving mother, Magda Fyssa, was the first to return to the courtroom.

Conviction, she said, that is all that they deserve.

Since the conviction of Golden Dawn’s leaders, the extremist group has all but dismantled amid defections, feuds and infighting.

Far-right extremism, though, is far from finished here.

Kostas Papadakis, a leading lawyer of the prosecution explains.

He says the trial is important because it comes amid a rise in far-right extremism and soaring numbers of attacks reported against migrants and far-left sympathizers.

Activists and judicial officials expect Golden Dawn’s leaders to receive little if any leniency in their appeal.

But with a new recession looming, an inflation rate hovering at over 10% and tensions with Turkey stoking nationalist sentiments, analysts fear the conditions are ripe for an extremist upsurge here.

#nunyas news

[fromgreecetoanarchy]

🛑 [Video] Lighting up the night in memory of 16 years old fallen antifascist Carlos Palomino (Madrid, Spain)

Remembering Carlos Javier Palomino Muñoz, a 16 years old anti-fascist, who was murdered in Madrid, Spain on 11 November 2007, while he was travelling to a counter-protest against a spanish neo-nazi group holding an anti-immigration rally. His murder took place at Legazpi Metro Station, where Carlos Palomino was stabbed to death by a fascist army soldier.

At the time, and as they always do like in the case of the murder of antifa rapper Pavlos Fyssas killed in Greece, the mass media tried to 'whitewash' the murder, portraying it as a fight between Ultras football fans, when in reality a neo-Nazi murdered a 16-year-old anti-fascist for ideological reasons with an accurate knife stab to the heart.

Remember the dead, fight for the living.

We do not Forget We do not Forgive

Carlos Vive Lucha Sigue

Aquí estan los antifascistas!

#antifa #antifascist #antifascism #antifascists #antifascista #spain #espana #madrid #pyro #carlos #carlos palomino #carlos vive #lucha sigue #antifascistas #αντιφα #Youtube

[elladastinkardiamou]

This week’s newsletter from AthensLive is out:

*   Nazi salute in courtroom goes unpunished      

*   Two deadly shipwrecks    

*   The good news of the week    

- are the main headlines to be found inside this highly informative weekly must-read from and about Greece.

The Golden Dawn trial at second degree has resumed after a summer break. This week’s hearings were marked by the testimony of the murdered antifascist Pavlos Fyssas’s mother, Magda, and the nazi salute of a Golden Dawn defense lawyer. On the same day, neonazis attacked leftists and pupils in an Athenian suburb.

Two boats carrying migrants sank off the shores of two Greek islands on Wednesday night. Dozens were left dead, with bodies floating at sea even two days after the shipwreck.

At Kythira island, though, a rescue operation set up by citizens and local authorities, who literally improvised, managed to save some 80 lives. The contribution of one citizen, in particular, proved most critical.    

By reading the newsletter - and even better by subscribing or becoming a supporting member - you will also find a lot of links to other sources and to events and developments that you will not otherwise come across. And even if some of them are in Greek only, by using a Translator in your browser, it will be easy to read no matter how familiar you are with the Greek language.

It cannot be recommended strongly enough to read and share this week’s updates on the events and developments in Greece here:

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For anyone with a wish or need to follow and to gain an insight into recent events in Greece and to read and support independent and investigative journalism in English, the weekly newsletter from AthensLive should be a core element in the reading flow.

If you want the best overview of the events and developments in Greece right now, this is the place to go. Not the mainstream Greek news, but independent journalism with sharp analysis and links to interesting and important topics from a variety of sources.

Become a member and get the newsletter in your inbox every week here:

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#Greece #AthensLive #Newsletter #Golden Dawn #Fyssas #Fyssa #Plevris #Nazi #Refugees #Migrants #Kythera #Drowning #Kythira #Protopsaltis

[eleanoragrayalien]

This Playlist Kills Fascists

This is a playlist I made of music written for historical anti-fascist movements, music that is symbolic of anti-fascist movements, and music that showcases anti-fascist values and ideas.  I made this and am posting it here as part of the final project for one of my classes this quarter.  The playlist is 21 minutes long and contains folk, punk, and rap in several languages.

Under the cut is an annotated track list, and some additional context for the playlist.  If you decide to read it please let me know what you thought!

Fascism is a complex right-wing ideology that can’t be explained without a lot of nuance.  Roger Griffin‘s “palingenetic ultranationalism“ and Umberto Eco‘s Ur-Fascismare are two frequently cited explanations.  Regardless, fascistic societies are always highly oppressive, unstable, and bigoted.

Anti-fascism is the belief that the formation of a fascist society should be opposed at all costs.  Most anti-fascists are leftists, and may be involved in a wide variety of other social movements.

-1 Modena City Ramblers “Fischia Il Vento” (2015)

Starting off the playlist is “Fischia Il Vento” (The Wind Blows), an Italian anti-fascist resistance song originally written in 1944 (I chose to use the Modena City Ramblers version, it’s a bop).  I chose to play this song first because Italian resistance to Mussolini was the first organized anti-fascist movement (1920s).  These partisans were largely communists and anarchists.

to conquer the red spring where rises the sun of the future

The lyrics use “the conquering of the red spring” as a metaphor for establishing a communist society, which directly opposes the aims of fascists.  This is why leftists are the most opposed to fascists taking power.

-2 Frente Popular “A las Barricadas” (1936)

“A las Barricadas” (To the Barricades), was a song popular among National Confederation of Labor (CNT) members during the Spanish civil war. 

Though pain and death may await us, Against the enemy by duty we are called.

“A las Barricadas” shows the way anti-fascists oppose fascism at all costs, even if it means percinal harm.  “Fischia Il Vento“ also mirors this sentiment.

-3 Los Pinochet Boys “La Música del General” (1984)

Los Pinochet Boy’s story is exhilarating.  They were a clandestine punk rock band that formed during Pinochet’s fascist dictatorship of Chile.  Every show they played was a revolutionary act that would end in a police raid.  “La Música del General” is one of the two surviving recordings of the band’s music and shows the need for expression under oppression.  (Naomi Larsson Piñeda. “A fascist tried to electrocute us on stage” 2023)

Musical Dictatorship Nobody can stop dancing The music of the general The music of the general

-4 National Wake “International News” (2013) [The original release is from 1979]

National Wake was the only multi racial punk band in apartheid South Africa.  Like Los Pinochet Boys, their music was illegal to make.  Under apartheid white and black South Africans were not allowed to live and work together.  “International News” showcases the way international (American, and British) media failed to adequately cover the violent response to the Soweto uprising, where student’s protesting the forced use of Afrikaans in schools were met with extreme violence from the police.  (Alexis Petridis “National Wake: the South African punk band who defied apartheid” 2013)

'put a blanket over Soweto They put a blanket, nowhere to go, no They put a blanket over the news They put a blanket, nothing to choose

-5 Killah P “I won’t cry, I won’t fear” (2012)

Pavlos Fyssas, who went by the stage name Killah P (killer of the past) was a Greek anti-fascist rapper.  In 2013 he was murdered by a group of Golden Dawn members (the Golden Dawn is a fascist Greek political party).  His death sparked a weeks long protest in Athens that garnered 10,000 people and put pressure on the Greek parliament to investigate the Golden Dawn as a criminal organization.  Pavlos is remembered as a martyr, and his music remains a symbol of anti-fascism in Greece.  (Patrick Strickland. “Greece mourns slain anti-fascist...” 2017)

-6 Dead Kennedys “Nazi Punks Fuck Off!” (1981)

I would be remiss not to include this song.  The early punk scene had a Nazi problem.  Some punks wore fascist symbols for the sake of offending people, fascists came to shows not realizing the music was mocking them, and Neo-Nazi gangs would violently disrupt shows.  (Steve Knopper. “Nazi Punks F**k Off... “ 2018)  Making it clear to fascists that they are unwelcome, and that there are consequences if they don’t stop being a fascist is a tactic effectively used by groups like Anti Racist Action.  (Mark Bray. Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook 2017)

-7 Rainbow Coalition Death Cult “Blue MAGA” (2022)

“Blue MAGA” begins with a sample from Leroi Jones’s “Young Spirit House Movers and Players”.

WHAT HAS AMERICA DONE FOR ME?  NOTHING BUT MADE ME A ZOMBIE!  

The use of the word zombie (think Haitian Vodou, not The Living Dead) aligns perfectly with how Iris Young describes powerlessness in “Five Faces of Oppression” as an “inhibition to develop one’s capacities, lack of decision making power, and exposure to disrespectful treatment because of the lowered status”.  RCDC then compares this social powerlessness to political powerlessness.

"Pipe down and tow the line, you got no room to whine Censor those who don't comply, we're the best that you got." Some say they'll put up a fight, they really don't have the spine Just an image they hide behind, to make you feel like we won

They then end the song

The truth is they're all full of shit

Suggesting that the status quo isn’t the best that we can get, and that action can be taken to make our lives better.

-8 G.L.O.S.S. “Give Violence A Chance” (2016)

Despite the majority of antifa activism being nonviolent, anti-fascists take a systemic view of violent self defense and act on it accordingly. 

KILLER COPS AREN'T CROOKED SOLDIERS FOR BASTARDS, THEY DO AS THEY'RE TOLD THE COURTS AREN'T CORRUPT MALICIOUS, VIOLENT, THEY MAINTAIN CONTROL

Even when the cops kill and the courts falsely convict it’s not seen as violence because they have the approval of the state to do that violence.  The same would apply to borders, and immigration bans which can only be enforced with a threat of violence that an anti-fascist would say justifies self defense, violent or otherwise. (Philosophy Tube "The Philosophy of Antifa" 2017)

-9 Noname “Song 33″ (2020)

I struggled to find a single song that could symbolize my thoughts on the protests following George Floyd’s murder at the hands of the Minneapolis police.  For many people in my generation 2020 was an awakening.  Even if you were aware of the racism inherent to policing and America broadly (if you were white) it might not have seemed as totalising, and urgent as it is.  Song 33 embodies this feeling.  Noname asks 

He really 'bout to write about me when the world is in smokes? When it's people in trees? When George was beggin' for his mother, saying he couldn't breathe You thought to write about me?

and

Distracting from the convo with organizers They talkin' abolishin' the police And this the new world order We democratizin' Amazon, we burn down borders

Textually, She’s asking rapper J. Cole why he wrote a rap about her tone when he could be rapping about what matters.  Subtextually, she is asking the listener the same question. 

She also highlights the intersectional solidarity of the anti-fascist movement, drawing parallels between BLM’s goal of abolishing the police, labor rights, and abolishing borders.

-10 Woody Guthrie “All You Fascists Bound To Lose“ (1942)

Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger were both well known anti-fascist musicians in America during their lives.  Both of them made anti-nazi music durring the war and continued to make music that espoused anti-fascist values afterward.  Guthrie’s iconic “This Machine Kills Fascists” sticker is still a common anti-fascist slogan. 

I wanted to end on this song because of how hopeful it is. 

The people in this world Are getting organized You’re bound to lose You fascists bound to lose

Fascism is bound to loose in the end.  But only because people are fighting back against it, organizing, and standing in solidarity with one another.

Thank you for reading this, I hope you got something out of it.

#it's 9am #i hope this is coherent #good night #punk #dead kennedys #folk music #g.l.o.s.s. #gloss #woody guthrie #pete seeger #anti facist #antifascism

[korh-ths-thalassas]

Σήμερα είναι μέρα χαράς.

Σήμερα όλη η Ελλάδα γιορτάζει.

Σήμερα ο Παύλος δικαιώθηκε.

Σήμερα και κάθε σήμερα ο Παύλος ζει.

Σήμερα, αύριο, τώρα και για πάντα τσακίζουμε τους ναζί.!

Σήμερα η Μάγδα τα κατάφερε.

Σήμερα τα καταφέραμε.

Σήμερα έγινε η αρχή.

Γιατί αυτό είναι μόνο η αρχή..

#μαγδα φυσσα #killah p #pavlos fyssas #για παντα #γρεεκζ #γρεεκ τεχτ #γρεεκς #γρεεκ quotes #γκρικς #γρεεκ κουοτς #γρικ ταμπλρ #γρεεκ ραπ #greekquotes #greek hip hop #greek rap #greek quotes #greeks

[antifainternational]

September 18, Keratsini, Pavlos Fyssas Street

#antifa #antifascist action #antifascism #αντιφασιστική δράση #greece #Ελλάδα #keratsini #pavlos fyssas

[athens-burns]

Ο Παύλος ζει, τσακίστε τους ναζί.

#greek #greek quotes #greek posts #greece #athensburns #athens burns #killah p #antifascism #antifa #pavlos fyssas

[nodataism]

Rationalistas - Ο φόβος των νεκρών, 2016

a project between Feb 19 and Οct 20 printing and pasting greek rap songs in a poster form around Athens.

the project was motivated and dedicated by and for greek antifa rapper Pavlos Fyssas and the trial of Golden Dawn -the neo nazi organization that assassinated him- . The project tried to unite all the greek rap songs through a common message - their social lyrics - raising awareness for the trial and giving a message to the streets what greek rap is all about.

The project ended at 7 October 2020 when Golden Dawn members found guilty.

ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΦΥΣΣΑΣ ΠΑΡΩΝ

#greekrapunited #poster

[kropotkindersurprise]

October 7 2020 - Riot police in Athens attacked the tens of thousands of antifascists who had gathered outside of the court house to await the results of the trial against the neonazi Golden Dawn party. (Coincidentally; it is estimated that in the 2012 elections 50% of police in Athens voted for the neonazis.) Antifascists fought back with molotovs, bottles and bricks. The judges declared Golden Dawn a criminal organisation and found the far-right group guilty of operating a gang of hit squads bent on eliminating their enemies, like immigrants, minorities and leftists.

The leader of the Golden Dawn and seven other MP’s for the party were sentenced to 13 years of prison. 57 other neonazis were convicted of murder, assault, weapons possession and either running or participating in a criminal organisation, and a total of more than 500 years behind bars was handed down by the court. The high-ranking Golden Dawn member who murdered antifascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, a murder that ultimately led to this court case, was sentenced to life in prison.

The hearing was the biggest trial of fascists since the prosecution of the Nazis at Nuremberg after the second world war. [video]/[video]/[article]

#antifa #antifascist action #antifascism #αντιφασιστική δράση #greece #Ελλάδα #golden dawn #acab #riot #riot police #police #resistance #pavlos fyssas #molotov #anarchy #anarchism #fire #flames #throw back #tear gas

[epiviwsh]

"Τα κατάφερες γιε μου "

-Μάγδα Φύσσα 07.10.20, Εφετείο

#φυσσας #παυλος φυσσας #ναζί #γκρεκζ #γρεεκ ποστς #γρικ ποστ #ελληνικα κειμενα #killah p #μαγδα φυσσα #pavlos fyssas