After spending the last few days at the squatted Aristotle University (which apparently is not particulary out of the ordinary for Greek anarchists), we all woke up in the morning and in usual anarchist fashion left about an hour late. We arrived without incident at Marmasa, and a fairly large Black Bloc formed beneath the Salonika Resistance 2003 banner. Some strange "Ya Basta" or possibly "Wombliesque" people gathered at the very front, however, it was hard to tell if they actually did anything. The Black Bloc marched straight into the police. After the Black Bloc threw stones, the police attacked with a truly tremendous amount of teargas. I've been at most anti-globalization protests in the last few years, and this grade of tear-gas was far more dangerous than the usual.

I was blinded. The police launched volley after volley of tear-gas at the Bloc, and the Bloc responded by throwing rocks back and using sling-shots. However, while the Bloc threw stones the police threw giant fucking rocks and managed to injure a few members of the Bloc. The front of the Bloc, being overly tear-gassed, within minutes broke and was separated from everyone else. The police continued to pelt everyone with tear-gas, and tried to surround folks once or twice. One poor anarchist got separated, and throwing stones at the cops, didn't even notice he was surrouned on all sides until it was too late! I believe 3-10 folks got arrested, and overall the Bloc managed to put up an attack, but the police response was too over the top to counter effectively.
Today stones,
tomorrow REVENGE!

Your friendly local Black Bloc'er