Since 2017, Unicorn Riot has published dozens of articles and videos from Greece spotlighting a myriad of underreported stories from anti-authoritarian self-organized spaces to refugee squats, women’s assemblies, alternative economies, neighborhood defense, police repression, deadly shipwrecks and train crashes, community uprisings, free healthcare clinics, occupied factories, gentrification and arts and culture. This coverage provides a glimpse into life in Greece over the last decade.
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Catch up on all Unicorn Riot articles on Greece below.
Hands Off Prosfygika: Eviction Threat Sparks Hunger Strike and Mass Mobilization
Tempi Trial Starts After Three Years of Anger and Unanswered Questions
Exarcheia: Political Life Suffocated by State Surveillance
Tractors and Tensions: Greek Farmers Rush to Athens Demanding Urgent Reforms
Glyfada Floods Reveal Greece’s Deep-Rooted Infrastructure Failures and Social Inequality
Deadly Aegean Sea Collision Raises Questions About Greek Coast Guard Operations
Parallel Crimes: Novi Sad, Tempi and the Architecture of Neglect in the Balkans
Tractors on the Highways, Survival on the Line: Greece’s Farmers Rise Up
Get Inside, the Cops are Coming: Roma Families in Greece are Under Threat
Demonstrators Protest in Front of the Israeli Embassy in Greece, Police Violently Attack Crowd
Global Sumud Flotilla Sails to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats
Greek Parliament Approves Harsh Migration Bill: Prison Sentences, Fines and Ankle-Monitors
Amidst Tourist Season, a Pro-Palestinian Initiative Holds Daily Protests Outside the Greek Parliament
Greek Dockworkers and Solidarity Activists Block Military Cargo Bound for Israel
‘I have no oxygen’ – Train Crash Leads to Greece’s Biggest Post-War Social Movement
Racism Rises in Greece a Year After Police Kill Another Roma Teen
Pakistani Immigrant With Signs of Torture Found Dead in a Greek Police Station
Sport-washing, Militarization and Financial Scandals: A Brief Analysis of the Past Five Summer Olympics
‘We Want Justice’: One Year Since the Pylos Shipwreck
Greece: Students in Solidarity with Gaza – Universities in Ties with Israel
Altering Exarcheia From the Square to Strefi Hill: A Timeline and Film
Greece Marks 50th Anniversary of Polytechnic University Uprising Against Military Dictatorship
Greek Anarchist Collective Targeted by the State
A Decade After the Murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the Battle Against Fascism Remains Urgent in Greece
Distress Hotline Volunteer Speaks on 500+ Dead from Pylos Shipwreck
Travels of Hate: An American Far-Right Extremist in Greece
Greek Seas: Europe’s Largest Migrant Cemetery
Thousands Attend Vio.Me.’s Celebration of 10 Years of Factory Occupation in Greece
‘It was a crime, not an accident!’ – Deadly Greek Train Crash Sparks Justice Movement
‘Don’t Let Them Kill Vio.Me.’ Decade-Long Greek Factory Occupation Threatened
Prisoners in Greece: Hunger Strike as a Weapon
Neo-Nazi Group Golden Dawn Makes Resurgence in Greece
Tensions Explode in Greece After Police Kill Roma Teen One Day Before 14th Anniversary of Past Police Killing
Mundo Nuevo Squat Evicted in Thessaloniki
Greek Students Riot on November 17, Commemorate Those Killed by the Junta
The Different Facets of Gentrification in Greece and Beyond
Calls for Justice for Nikos Sampanis Renewed
Greece: Migrant Dies Amid Inhumane Conditions in Eleonas Refugee Camp
Gentrification Endangers Historic Exarcheia Square
Movement Spawns from Greek Government Plans to Close Eleonas Refugee Camp
Grassroots Assembly of Motorbike Workers Mass Mobilize in Athens, Greece
Greek Police Shoot Student Protesting Their Installment on Campus, Demo & Clashes Follow
Athens Police Acquitted in Death of Queer Activist Zak Kostopoulos/Zackie Oh
Roma in Greece Face a History of Exclusion, Exploitation and Racism
Greek Police Kill Teenager as Racism, Violence Against Roma People Spikes
One Year After George Floyd in Europe: Afro-Greeks and African Migrants Speak Out [Videos]
Greece: New Education Bill Brings a New Students Movement
Greek Police Occupy and Desecrate Memorial Site of Teen They Killed
Historic Squats, Rosa Nera and Terra Incognita, Raided by Greek Police
Shots Fired at Squatted Social Center in Exarcheia, Athens
Mutual Aid to Detained Refugee Women Grows — Coronavirus in Greece Part 3
Worker-Occupied Factory Sends Soap to Refugee Camp – Coronavirus in Greece, Part 2
A Country Quarantined: Coronavirus in Greece, Part 1
Greek Government Cuts Power to Worker-Run Factory in Midst of Pandemic
Passing the Point of No Return: Interview with Rouvikonas Anarchist Collective
Attacks on Capitalist Targets on the Rise as Greek Police Increase Violence
Government Deadline of Greek Squat Evictions Draws Near
Greek Police Raid Squats and Evacuate 269 Refugees, Community Symbolically Reoccupies Spirou Trikoupi 17
143 Refugees Arrested as Greek Police Begin Exarcheia Raids
OmniaTV, Grassroots Independent Media in Greece
Life Sentence Overturned for Greek Police Officer that Killed Teenager
Occupy, Resist, Produce: Inside the Self-Managed Factory of Vio.Me.
Workers Healthcare Center of Vio.Me., Created by the Workers for the Community
Greece: Political Prisoners Pt. 3 – Criminalized by Association
Major Clashes Mark 10 Years Since Greek Police Killing of 15 Year Old Alexis
Athens Prepares for 10th Anniversary of Teenager’s Death by Police
Heraklion’s Autonomous Open Market Generates Solidarity Economy
Occupied Urban Gardens Grow Community, Stunt French Gentrification
Greek Police Attack Anarchists After Demo for Victims of 1973 Student Uprising
Greece’s First Housing Squat for Refugees & Migrants, Notara 26
Social Center Burned Down by Nazis & Nationalists in Thessaloniki, Greece
Reports From Greece – 13 Part Series – 2017
Greece: The House of Women for Empowerment and Emancipation
Greece: Alternative Economies & Community Currencies Pt. 3 – FairCoop
Greece: Alternative Economies & Community Currencies Pt. 2 – Kenya’s Sarafu-Credit
Greece: Alternative Economies & Community Currencies Pt. 1 – Athens Integral Cooperative
Greece: Networks of Resistance Pt. 2 – Infrastructure; ExarcheiaNet & Cooperativa Integral
Greece: Networks of Resistance Pt. 1 – ZAD, Bure, Hambach Forest
Greece: Political Prisoners Pt. 2 – Targeting of Anarchists & Autonomous Groups
Greece: Political Prisoners Pt. 1 – Tasos Freed & Irianna Jailed (Τάσος & Ηριάννα)
Greece: ADYE, Exarcheia’s Free Self-Organized Healthcare Clinic
Greece: Anarchists Defend Exarcheia’s Autonomous Zone From Police
Greece: Action of Solidarity With Squats and Against Evictions
Greece: Alternatives to Neoliberal Capitalism – Introduction
Deprogram: Episode 27
Deprogram: Episode 18
Deprogram: Episode 17
Deprogram: Episode 15
Masses of Refugees Arriving in Greece Faced With Abuse – Deprogram Ep. 15
