The plans of the EU leadership for an engineered ‘soft coup’ are in tatters given the likely size of the OXI victory. They won’t be able to pretend its a society ‘divided down the middle’. The opposition leaders they hoped would head up a caretaker government are instead now under pressure to resign as it appears every district in Greece is voting NO.
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The images show two examples where the Media in Greece has been caught lying ahead of Sunday’s referendum. One of our readers tell us that what the media are saying is "If you vote No, zombies will rise, nuttella will turn bitter, a comet will strike Greece, etc etc etc etc. That’s how ALL Greek TV channels are these days! They all make FOX NEWS look like a kindergarden.
A couple of our Greek readers had commented asking us to highlight the outrageous abuse of press freedom going on in the Greek media ahead of Sunday’s referendum vote.
Turkey goes to the polls June 7th and for the first time it looks like a radical left party, the HDP may get enough votes to claim seats in parliament. In the last couple of weeks of the campaign at least two HDP officers have been bombed, the driver of a HDP election vehicle was shot dead and unknown numbers of its activists have been arrested by the Turkish state.
Why is the Turkish state and the ruling AKP party so threatened by the HDP? The HDP presents itself as anti-capitalist and aspires to end religious, gender and racial discrimination. It has a 50% quota for women and a 10% quota for the LGBT community when fielding candidates. It’s an expression of the movement coming out of Gezi park but also of the new ideology of the PKK and despite the peace process any manifestation related to the PKK continues to be repressed by the Turkish state.
Video report from the attempt to evict the new squatted emergency family accommodation center in Bolton street in Dublin on July 3rd. The building is now being referred to as The Bolt.
On the 4th of July there was a march in Dublin in solidarity with those resisting austerity in Greece and against the soft coup intentions of the EU & the Irish Labour Party.
Right in the centre of Dublin city a new squatted anarchist social centre is up and running and open to all. It’s in a reclaimed building at 77 Parnell St that was formerly Nearys hotel, which had been left unused for many years, abandoned and left to slowly fall to ruin.
Thousands of people marched through Dublin June 20th to protest the continuing attempt to impose water charges on the ‘Burn your Bills’ protest.
Thousands of people paraded through the streets of Dublin Saturday June 27th for LQBTQ Pride 2015.
Pride followed shortly after the overwhelming victory in the Marriage Equality referendum and some of the blocs and banners referenced that including a controveral ‘Fuck Marriage; We want revenge" one.
First things first, I’ve posted a new article on Kropotkin entitled “Kropotkin, Woodcock and Les Temps Nouveaux” which is due to be published (in a slightly revised form) in the new Anarchist Studies.
The Irish Times has decided to give loads of space today (2 June) for Denis O’Brien to publish an unchallenged self pity but am I not great piece. Denis trots out the now old line about him only being an ordinary private citizen without perhaps even being aware the rest of us ordinary private citizens lack both the power to demand our own IT column or the wealth & power to intimidate almost every media outlet into silence. He even says the decision to do so was made by him in a nanosecond!