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8,000 TAKE MILITANT ANTI-WAR ACTION AT EU SUMMIT

AYNer | 17.04.2003 10:23

8,000 people take on 20,000 cops in a militant anti-war demonstration in Athens, Greece yesterday pelting police with stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails.

8,000 TAKE MILITANT ANTI-WAR ACTION AT EU SUMMIT

Only a few hundred metres from the EU summit a pitched battle raged between police and anti-war demonstrators. The Italian, British and French embassies were attacked, and banks and stores were trashed and burned.

106 people were arrested, some were severely beaten.

Athens IMC article with lots of pics and links to corporate media articles:

AYNer
Homepage: http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=92735

Comments

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Poetic justice for the frogs

19.04.2003 08:38

Quite amusing to read that the Froggies got it up the arse from this extremist rabble as well, despite their cynical posturings over the past few months.

O'Chirac!

lazy

19.04.2003 13:21

come on, no need for the casual homophobia & racism - just undermines a valid point.

alex

Video

20.04.2003 13:02

a very nice videi from the athens riots

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21.04.2003 13:42

huh?

22.04.2003 03:00

how do we know these were antiwar protestors? i've never demonstrated with these types of people. most wouldn't hurt a flea.

peacenik

where is the proof

22.04.2003 03:01

how do we know these were antiwar protestors? i've never demonstrated with these types of people. most wouldn't hurt a flea.

peacenik

What?

23.04.2003 11:15

What do you mean "how do we know they were antiwar protestors"?

You cretin most of them were anarchists, on an anti-war demonstration. That's not the first anti-war riot in Greece either recently.

People in Greece it seems actually care about doing something to stop the war, instead of walking waving a fucking placard once a month...

blacknred

Rioting and violence is counter-productive

25.04.2003 18:32

It's the molotov cocktail brigade that gets the anti war movement in the press, for all the wrong reasons. There have also been clamims of 'undercover police' being viciously attacked - you guys have a real nerve to call yourselves peace protesters when you are being far from peaceful. I certinly would not like to live in the kind of world these people would create if they were in charge.

Peaceful, direct action is OK. Violence - even against the capitialistofascist pigs, is NOT.

Thomas J

important distinction

26.04.2003 12:34

no, they didn't claim to be pacifists

they claim to be antiwar!

how oppressive does the state need to get before
YOU would be prepared to throw a molotov?

green_tube

Greeks lived under US dictatorship for years

28.04.2003 16:35

No wonder people in Greece take to the streets with Molotov cocktails. For years they lived under a violent military dictatorship that took its orders from Washington. None of the institutions of capitalist world order have credibility in Greece: NATO; EU; WTO, etc. How many people are aware that NATO membership authorises the use of force by the US in any NATO country where Americas 'strategic interests' are threatened? Given the historical background its hardly surprising that demonstrations unfold the way they do. The Greek state still lacks real legitimacy.

Austin
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Antiwar doesn´t mean peaceful..

30.04.2003 13:23

To oppose yourself against a war for oil doesn´t mean that you want to achieve inner class peace.Also i would really like to reply to the pal that says:"I certinly would not like to live in the kind of world these people would create if they were in charge." that anarchism or antiauthoritarian has nothing to do with "be in charge" but rather to have responsibilities over your own actions and to selforganise with other people apart from any authority.
I am really not in fond of throwing molotov´s because usually the people that do that don´t evovle in the collition ,it´s a hit and run (and hide) policy that i don´t agree with.But i can´t critisize it since i wasn´t taking part in that collition.

Greek guy

Anti-war doesn't mean being warlike either

01.05.2003 09:25

And 'warlike' is how i would describe the ppl who throw petrol bombs, and beat people up for no reason whatsoever. It's people like that who put people off going to rallies and expressing their views, they don't want to appear as being sympathic with that lot. 99.9% of protesters do not engage in violent, counter-productive activity, but it's the small majority who give us bad press and tarnish our reputation amongst the all-important general public. And as i said previously, a world based on the ideas of such people is not a world I would choose to live in.