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How the world sees Greece
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Thousands march in Greece to mark 1973 student uprising
CTV NewsThousands march in Greece to mark 1973 student uprisingCTV NewsATHENS -- Tens of thousands joined peaceful marches through Greece's two biggest cities Sunday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of a bloody student uprising against the then dictatorship. Previous marches had been marked by riots and running ...Thousands in Greece march in memory of 1973 revoltU-T San DiegoThousands march for anniversary of Greece uprising against juntaUPI.comall 32 news articles »
Greek militants claim responsibility in Golden Dawn killings
It called the rapper's killing a “turning point.” “The armed attack-response ... is the starting point of the people's campaign to send the neo-Nazi scum of Golden Dawn where they belong, to the dustbin of history,” it said. The shooting of the two ...
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Thousands of Greeks take to the streets
TV footage showed petrol bombs exploding in the street. Golden Dawn has been subject to a government crackdown after the killing in September of an anti-fascism rapper by one of its supporters, which triggered protests across a country already riven by its ...
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Greece corporate bond issuance bounces back
Greek companies have raised a record €4bn in debt capital markets this year, amid a surge of corporate bond issuance across the eurozone’s most stressed economies. The flurry of activity highlights how companies are turning increasingly to markets for ...
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Leftist militants claim Golden Dawn killings as rally honours 1973 uprising
As demonstrators commemorate anniversary, anti-establishment leftists vow to move far-rightists to 'the dustbin of history'
Thousands of Greeks, marking the 40th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising – an event that would trigger the end of military rule in Greece – took to the streets on Sunday after socialist militants claimed responsibility for the murder of two members of the extremist Golden Dawn party.
As demonstrators prepared to commemorate the symbolic anniversary, a previously unknown group of anti-establishment leftists raised the political temperature by vowing to relocate the far-rightists to "the dustbin of history".
"The Militant People's Revolutionary Forces assumes responsibility for the political executions of … the neo-Nazis," said the gang in an 18-page proclamation sent to a local news portal.
"The armed attack-response … is the starting point of the people's campaign to send the neo-Nazi scum of Golden Dawn where they belong, the dustbin of history."
Amid heightened fears of escalating violence in the debt-stricken country, the assailants described the drive-by shootings as retribution for the fatal stabbing of Pavlos Fyssas, a leftwing rapper killed by a self-confessed Golden Dawn supporter in September. And, in chilling language, warned more attacks would follow.
"The revolutionary movement has to proceed with the material destruction of the infrastructure of Golden Dawn and in a coordinated [fashion] attack those who belong to it … their heads should be cracked open with a hammer, their hands cut off, by way of example, with a sickle."
Some 8,000 policemen were seconded to patrol the boulevards of Athens as a sea of Greeks paid tribute to those killed when the military junta sent a tank crashing through the polytechnic's gates to repress a student revolt.
At least 24 are believed to have died in the bloody suppression with most of the casualties among the 150,000 non-student civilians who had converged on the streets outside the campus in an unprecedented display of opposition to the regime.
For a nation that has become increasingly polarised in the midst of economic crisis, the event is a defining moment, hallowed in the minds of many as the catalyst of the collapse of seven years of military rule only decades after a brutal left-right civil war.
"The mood this year is very similar to 1973 when there was a feeling that the junta was disintegrating and people were full of expectation," said Panos Garganas, a prominent leftist and editor of the newspaper Workers Solidarity.
"After five years of worsening levels of austerity and poverty there is a sense that things are coming to an end, that the situation cannot continue," he told the Guardian as he marched through the streets. "We give the government six months at most."
Dissatisfaction with an administration called to enforce deeply unpopular spending cuts in return for international funds to prop up the country's moribund economy has been reflected in rising support for the radical left main opposition Syriza party.
A poll released on Saturday showed the neo-fascist Golden Dawn also gaining in strength in the aftermath of the November 16th attack, which saw two of its members gunned down outside a local party branch in Athens.
Despite accusations of being a criminal organisation – and a government crackdown that has seen its leader and two other deputies imprisoned pending trial – backing for the anti-immigrant group grew by 2.2 percentage points over the past month. With 8.8% of the vote, the far-rightists remained Greece's third biggest political force according to the survey conducted by Alcofor for the weekly Proto Thema newspaper.
As in 1973, radio broadcasts were boomed from the campus on Sunday – only this time by fired employees from the former public broadcaster ERT denouncing the belt-tightening police of prime minister Antonis Samaras and his two-party coalition.
The protest march, which traditionally ends at the US embassy to denounce Washington's controversial support for the regime, followed two days of unusually poignant commemorations at the polytechnic, with politicians, unionists and ordinary Greeks laying wreaths at the site.
"With our country basically under foreign occupation, the slogans and lessons of the uprising are as relevant today as they were back then," said Christina Minassa, selling leftist literature at a stall outside the campus. "The battle against fascism goes on. In Greece those on the left have suffered greatly."
President Karolos Papoulias, who has become an increasingly vocal critic of the austerity meted out by the EU and IMF in exchange for aid, called the student rebellion "deeply didactic".
"The way in which they laid claim to the freedom of all of us … is deeply didactic," he said. "Their battle was decisive and dynamic but peaceful, they didn't promote violence, they suffered violence," he said in a clear reference to the resurgence of political violence now haunting the country.
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Thousands in Greece take to streets to commemorate 40th anniversary of student uprising
ATHENS, Greece — Thousands have joined marches through central Athens to commemorate the 40th anniversary of a bloody student uprising against the then dictatorship. Previous marches have been marked by riots, but as of early evening Saturday’s ...
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Greek group claims responsibility for drive by shooting of Golden Dawn members
Militant People's Revolutionary Forces, a little-known Greek anti-establishment group, said it was behind the killing two members of right-wing party Golden Dawn.
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Greek students march on US Embassy to mark 1973 uprising
Greek ReporterGreek students march on US Embassy to mark 1973 uprisingPress TVGreek students have started to march on US Embassy in Athens to mark the 40th anniversary of 1973 anti-military uprising. Tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in the rally outside the US political mission in the Geek capital on Sunday ...Students and workers to mark 1973 Greek uprisingThe Voice of Russia40th Anniversary of the Heroic UprisingGreek ReporterThe Polytechnic uprisingNeos Kosmosall 15 news articles »
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Romania-Greece: Second Leg Preview & Prediction
Rant SportsRomania-Greece: Second Leg Preview & PredictionRant SportsAfter the first leg, there is one thing that is very clear coming from this playoff series: Greece is really as good defensively as they looked during the group stages. On Friday night in Piraeus, Greece limited Romania to only one shot on target ...
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Thousands in Greece march in memory of 1973 revolt
Greek ReporterThousands in Greece march in memory of 1973 revoltU-T San DiegoATHENS, Greece (AP) — Thousands have joined marches through central Athens to commemorate the 40th anniversary of a bloody student uprising against the then dictatorship. Previous marches have been marked by riots, but as of early evening ...40th Anniversary of the Heroic UprisingGreek ReporterGreeks rally against austerity, mark 40 years since student revoltReuters IndiaThousands mark 40th anniversary of student uprising against junta in AthensKathimeriniall 15 news articles »
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Previously unknown Greek group claims responsibility for Golden Dawn shootings
The IndependentPreviously unknown Greek group claims responsibility for Golden Dawn shootingsThe IndependentThe Greek group, which calls itself the “Militant People's Revolutionary Forces”, said the attack was in retaliation for the fatal stabbing of anti-fascism rapper Pavlos Fissas, to which a Golden Dawn sympathiser has confessed. The shooting of the two ...Group Says It Shot Greek ExtremistsWall Street JournalEUROPE > Greek far-left group claims Golden Dawn killingsHurriyet Daily NewsGreek militant group claims Golden Dawn killingsReutersThe Times of Israel -Press TVall 47 news articles »
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Kostas Mitroglou fires Greece closer to 2014 World Cup
Kostas Mitroglou fires Greece closer to 2014 World CupGiveMeSportGreece faced a tough tie against Romania in the 2014 World Cup qualifying play-off round. Although Romania were the desired opponents from the Greeks' perspective, it would be a difficult nevertheless. Romania are a disciplined and well-organised team ...and more »
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Greece Remembers Anti-Junta Uprising, 40 Years Later
ATHENS - In the midst of an economic crisis, rising social unrest and political turmoil, Greece nonetheless will pause on Nov. 17 to recall the dramatic events that occurred in 1973 with the heroic uprising against the ruling military junta by students at the Polytechnic School of Athens.
The events are perhaps lost on today?s younger generations but images being broadcast on Greek television and the words of those who were there to stare down a tank and soldiers, sparking a revolution that brought down the government of dictators in 1974 still abounded.
But ceremonies marking the moment, including the placing of flowers on the spot where a tank broke through a metal gate at the school, setting off resistance that led to a still-uncertain number of deaths, were to take place against the backdrop of workers angry over austerity measures and the government trying to dismantle the extremist Golden Dawn political party.
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Mosque Contract Set, Golden Dawn Vows Protests
ATHENS - The awarding of a contract to construct a state-paid official mosque for the city's Muslims has led the ultra-right extremist Golden Dawn party to promise a mass protest against its building.
Golden Dawn, whose leaders are in jail pending trial on charges of a running a criminal gang, said the contract was an 'unprecedented provocation' and that it would use its position ?within Parliament and mainly through mass, powerful demonstrations? to prevent the mosque being built.
They were joined in their opposition to the mosque by the right-wing Independent Greeks party which has a marginal group in the Parliament, where Golden Dawn has 18 lawmakers, although six of them were arrested after the killing of an anti-fascist for which one of its members was arrested.
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Residency Permits Lure Rich Chinese to Greece
Buying properties in Greece became more popular earlier this year in China after it was highly recommended by immigration agents, because the financially troubled Greek government has introduced a policy to give permanent residency to any foreign buyer purchasing a Greek property worth more than ?250,000 (US$340,000), Guangzhou Daily, the official newspaper of the Guangzhou municipal party committee, reports.
As Greece is one of the 27 European Union member states, and also one of the Schengen countries, permanent residency there applies to both the EU and the Schengen region.
The good weather and beautiful landscape there, as well as the comparatively cheap properties prices, has spurred many wealthy Chinese nationals from places like Shanxi and Jiangsu to emigrate to Greece.
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It?s Not 1973 in Greece Anymore
The exploitation of the history and heroism of the Polytechnic uprising in 1973 continues. The evidence is the ?fiery? statements of politicians bent on proving their devotion to democracy.
How sad!
I remember the thrill and pride with which we followed the events of the Polytechnic in The National Herald and in the American press. And I recall also our grief over the bloody crackdown of the junta.
Without a doubt, those youth - who were seeking ?Bread, Education, Freedom,' were heroes and heroines.
Through the decades, however, various demagogues have appropriated the symbolism of the Polytechnic and the purity of the motives of the youth to alter the principles and morals that have led the country to the current impasse.
It is clear in retrospect that if the generation of the Polytechnic - our generation - had continued on the basis which guided its actions in 1973, they would have become the greatest generation of Greeks
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Soccer- Romania face extraordinary task against Greece
BUCHAREST, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Romania must attempt the 'extraordinary' if they are to overturn a 3-1 deficit against Greece in the second leg of their World Cup playoff in Bucharest on Tuesday and end a 16-year absence from the tournament finals.
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Unknown Group Says It Killed 2 Activists in Greece
The Star OnlineUnknown Group Says It Killed 2 Activists in GreeceABC NewsUnknown Group Says It Killed 2 Activists in Greece. ATHENS, Greece November 16, 2013 (AP). Associated Press. Greek police are investigating a statement by an unknown group claiming responsibility for the killing of two members of the far-right Golden ...Greece's Golden Dawn gains support after members killed-pollReutersall 42 news articles »
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Greek leftists claim rightist ‘executions’
ATHENS – A previously unknown Greek far-left group claimed responsibility Saturday for the killings of two neo-Nazi Golden Dawn members, saying it was in retaliation for an anti-fascist rapper’s murder. “We, the People’s Struggling ...
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Greece and Bulgaria emerge from Group 6
Greece and Bulgaria will feature in the UEFA European Under-19 Championship elite round after both teams emerged from qualifying Group 6. The mini-tournament kicked off in Bulgaria on Tuesday with Reyan Daskalov and Kiril Despodov registering either side ...
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What Ancient Greek Physicians Knew About Cancer
What Ancient Greek Physicians Knew About CancerGreek ReporterA 2010 extensive study on Egyptian mummies' tissues showed that only one case among hundreds has been verified as related to cancer and that the ancient Greeks were the first to identify it as a distinct illness, with Hippocrates (410-360 BC) “the ...
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Greece's NBG nears deal to sell property unit: sources
Greece's NBG nears deal to sell property unit: sourcesReutersATHENS (Reuters) - National Bank of Greece (NBGr.AT), the country's largest lender, is close to clinching a deal to sell a majority stake in its fully-owned real estate arm Pangaia to private equity firm Invel Real Estate, two bankers close to the deal ...and more »
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GREECE: Group claims murders of Greek right-wing members
An unknown leftist group claimed responsibility Saturday for the drive-by shootings of two members of Greece's right-wing Golden Dawn party, saying their deaths were retaliation for the murder of an anti-racism rapper by a Golden Dawn member.
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AUC’s Greek campus to be transformed Into Egypt’s first technology park
To do that, Hill House and the Science Building were constructed in 1953 ... and the Egyptian authorities did not object to the sale.” “On the day of the sale,” Bartlett said, “Mr. Fayek Wissa, the accountant, and I had to carry several ...
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“A Green Story” DVD Hits Stores in Greece
“A Green Story,” the movie about a Greek who comes to America as a poor immigrant and creates a green empire will hit stores in Greece next week. The movie will initially only be available for rent, and available for purchase in 2014. “A Green Story” is based on Dr. Van Vlahakis’ life who left Greece […]
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A Double Crocs Summer in Greece
Many of those who saw me in Greece this summer know that I spent the virtually entire time there ? almost eight weeks ? with only one pair of shoes: Crocs, to be exact.
My determination not to overpack was rooted in lessons learned from previous trips ? such as in 2005, when I foolishly packed a suit because of a wedding that I was to attend. Turns out, the only other people wearing suits were the groom, and the bride?s father. Also in past years, I packed pairs of shoes that I wedged in nooks and crannies of my suitcase and wound up not even touching until I returned home!
Typically, I travel to Greece in the summertime, and for pleasure. On a cool day, the temperature is in the 90s (Fahrenheit). Why on earth would I want to be clad in shoes, socks, and long pants? Even the judges in Greek courtrooms, who are more ?dressed up? than the lawyers, typically wear short-sleeve shirts (almost always royal blue, for some reason) with the collars unbuttoned and ties loosely draped around their necks.
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Greek new guerilla group claims responsibility for killings of ultra-right party members
A newly appearing guerilla group claimed on Saturday evening the responsibility for the killings of two ultra-right Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) party members and the serious injury of a third one on Nov. 1, warning with "more attacks against neo-Nazis."
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Greece in control, France face uphill task
Fifa.comGreece in control, France face uphill taskFifa.comUkraine and Greece secured solid home victories in the first legs of the European play-offs for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™, seeing off France (2-0) and Romania (3-1) respectively. Both will now fancy their chances of defending their two-goal ...
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Deflation could drag Ireland back into the eurozone crisis
Just as Enda Kenny announces his nation's break with its creditors, the threat of another meltdown rears its ugly head
For Ireland, it reads like a happy ending. Enda Kenny announced on Thursday that Dublin would make a clean break with its creditors next month, after a gruelling three-year economic fitness programme of tax rises, spending cuts and reforms.
Instead of requesting a precautionary credit line from the International Monetary Fund, to be triggered in the event of a future crisis – as most investors had expected – Ireland will kick out the hated "troika" of the IMF, the ECB and Brussels, and go it alone.
With Spain, too, signalling last week that it wouldn't need any more money from its eurozone partners to bail out its crippled banks, and Cyprus pledging to lift restrictions on cross-border capital flows that have been in place since its fumbled bailout last March, it would be tempting to think that the worst of the turmoil that has gripped the eurozone over recent years had come to a neat and tidy close, and that "normalcy", as Irish finance minister Michael Noonan calls it, had been restored.
Yet while Noonan was right to say that the eurozone currently looks quite tranquil – making it a good moment for Ireland to dip its toe back into the public debt markets, instead of relying on the troika to fund its deficits – last week brought a host of reminders that there may still be trouble ahead.
For one thing, the economic weather across the 17-member single currency bloc is deteriorating. While the 18-month eurozone recession came to an end in the second quarter of 2013, the latest data, published last week, showed GDP expanding by a paltry 0.1% in the third quarter, with the French economy recording a contraction.
Alongside that sluggish growth performance, there is an increasingly credible threat that the eurozone could slip into deflation: indeed, some of the hardest-hit peripheral economies are already there.
Across the eurozone as a whole, prices rose by a negligible 0.7% in the year to October. In Greece, they fell by almost 2%.
It was undoubtedly the fear of deflation that prompted Mario Draghi to cut European Central Bank interest rates to a record low earlier this month: it is most central bankers' worst nightmare.
If falling prices become entrenched, it can be extremely difficult to escape from a vicious cycle of declining profits, wages and growth – and unlike US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, Draghi won't just be able to turn on the money taps and implement quantitative easing, as it's not clear the ECB even has the authority to do so – QE is certainly taboo in Germany, still haunted by memories of Weimar-era hyperinflation.
For debtors, of which there are many across the eurozone – households, companies and governments – deflation is particularly pernicious, as liabilities tend to be fixed, unlike the incomes from which they must somehow be paid. And when debtors get into trouble, so do banks – still the weakest link in the eurozone recovery story.
Meanwhile, the ECB is preparing to shine a light on banks' balance sheets through its asset quality review – and with negotiations about a eurozone-wide banking union still ongoing, no one quite knows what will happen if they find a black hole. Oh, and with the Federal Reserve contemplating withdrawing the $85bn-a-month of cheap money it has been pumping into world markets through QE, government bond yields worldwide – and thus their borrowing costs – are expected to drift higher over the next 12 months.
And just in case all that wasn't enough to fret about, Friday saw Brussels deliver its sinisterly named "fiscal surveillance package", part of the new co-ordination regime put in place in the wake of the crisis, which doled out homework to a whole list of countries. Spain and Italy were urged to revise their budgets or risk missing stringent debt targets; France was told to get its act together on structural reforms; and even Germany, which likes to see itself as a shining example to its eurozone neighbours, was criticised for ignoring the commission's calls for reform.
In other words, even if Dublin's politicians have made the right judgment and Ireland is fit enough to stand on its own, it could yet be sucked back into the mire by a eurozone-wide crisis not of its own making.
From On the Buses to on your bikeForty-five years have passed since Reg Varney – aka Stan Butler in On the Buses – became the first person to withdraw cash from a hole-in-the-wall machine. It heralded a revolution in banking. No longer was cash accessible only from a teller sporting a rubber thimble between 9am and 3pm on weekdays and for a couple of hours on a Saturday morning. It was available 24/7. There have been other revolutions since – debit cards, telephone banking, call centres, which have all resulted in fewer high street banks and tellers. And now another is under way.
The proliferation and popularity of online banking means that an average customer now visits a branch just twice a month, while mobile banking services are used more than once every two days. A survey out on Friday showed that one in six of 18-to-30-year-olds had never stepped inside a bank branch.
So it is not exactly a shock that last week Barclays said it wanted 1,700 of its 33,600 branch staff to put their hands up for voluntary redundancy. That is just over one job going from every branch in the Barclays network. People are being replaced by iPads and smartphones: customers can sort out their bills and standing orders from their sofas. And even those who still venture inside branches are being encouraged to think digital, with iPads available for use there too. The labour and other costs of offering a retail banking service are, basically, being transferred to the customer.
There are other huge changes under way: customers can transfer cash directly to their friends in bars and restaurants with the Pingit app. The UK's three largest mobile phone networks, EE, Vodafone and O2, have joined forces to turn smartphones into virtual wallets. Shoppers will walk into a store, pick out a purchase, scan the barcode, and pay by tapping their phone on an Oyster-card-style reader, rather than at the till. There are even safety deposit boxes in the cloud.
Antony Jenkins, the Barclays boss, has been talking about automation ever since he took the top job a little over a year ago. Analysts believe he could slice 40,000 off the 140,000 workforce. It will be brutal. And it will be universal. Tellers could soon be history.
PPI scourge could do with a bank jobThere was a bit of moaning when Natalie Ceeney was named chief financial ombudsman four years ago. What does this former director of the British Library know about the financial services industry, was the cry. She went on to treble the size of the Financial Ombudsman Service so it could tackle 500,000 cases a year – up from 150,000 – as it was swamped by complaints about mis-sold payment protection insurance. "The biggest clean-up in financial services history," is how she has described the scandal, refusing to heed the banks' whines that claims management firms are to blame for the high level of complaints. The banks are still cleaning up the PPI mess – and, knowing how the industry operates, we are no doubt not far away from another scandal. Now Ceeney has quit, those same banks might consider giving her a job sorting out their customer service operations.
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Golden Dawn shootings: group claims responsibility
Militant People's Revolutionary Forces says killing of far-right Greek party's supporters was retaliation for stabbing of rapper
A Greek anti-establishment group has claimed responsibility for a drive-by shooting this month that killed two supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party and raised fears of an escalation of political violence.
The previously unknown group, the Militant People's Revolutionary Forces, said the attack had been carried out in retaliation for the fatal stabbing of anti-fascism rapper Pavlos Fissas, to which a Golden Dawn sympathiser has confessed.
Police could not confirm the authenticity of the claim, which came on the eve of rallies to commemorate the 40th anniversary of a bloody student uprising against the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.
"The brazen murder of Pavlos Fissas was the drop of blood that made the glass overflow," the group wrote in an 18-page letter filled with anti-establishment invective published on a news website. It called the rapper's killing a turning point.
"The armed attack-response ... is the starting point of the people's campaign to send the neo-Nazi scum of Golden Dawn where they belong, to the dustbin of history," it said.
The shooting of the two young Golden Dawn supporters outside the party's offices in Athens on 1 November came at a time of growing public anger against a party widely regarded as neo-Nazi and accused of attacks against migrants and leftists.
Golden Dawn denies accusations of violence, rejects the neo-Nazi label and says it had no involvement in Fissas's killing.
An opinion poll released on Saturday indicated that support for Golden Dawn had grown since the two men were gunned down.
The party, Greece's third most popular in recent surveys, shed almost a third of its support after Fissas's death in September. A poll by Alcofor Sunday's Proto Thema newspaper, conducted on 12-15 November, put support for Golden Dawn at 8.8%, up 2.2 points in a month but still below the 10.8% it enjoyed in June.
A government crackdown on Golden Dawn after evidence linking it to Fissas's killing has led to party leader Nikolaos Mihaloliakos and five more of its politicians being charged with belonging to a criminal group. Mihaloliakos and two of the politicians have been remanded in custody until their trial.
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Previously Unknown Group Says It Shot Greek Extremists
The GuardianPreviously Unknown Group Says It Shot Greek ExtremistsWall Street JournalATHENS—A previously unknown urban guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for the shooting of three alleged members of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party earlier this month outside local party offices in a suburb north of Athens. The group, the ...Unknown group says it killed 2 activists in GreeceBoston.comall 52 news articles »
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Greek theatre at Kelaniya Campus
‘The Greek Theatre Festival at the University of Kelaniya -2013’ will present ‘Ada Wage Dawasaka Antigone’ based on Sophocle’s ‘Antigone’ on November 21, ‘Visekariyo’ based on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata on November 22 at the Lionel Wendt ...
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Greece arrest two smugglers after boat capsizes off island of Lefkada
The GuardianGreece arrest two smugglers after boat capsizes off island of LefkadaNEWS.com.au"The 58-year-old appears to have set up a criminal organisation for the illegal smuggling of migrants from Greece to Italy, along with four Greeks (three men and a woman) and another foreign national," the coastguard said. Authorities are still ...Greece: 12 migrants dead after boat capsizesUSA TODAYMigrants found dead after boat capsizes off GreeceThe Guardian12 dead after boat overturns off GreeceThe AustralianTIMEall 66 news articles »
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Unknown group claims it killed 2 extreme-right activists in Greece, threatens to kill more
Greek police are investigating a statement by an unknown group claiming responsibility for the killing of two members of the far-right Golden Dawn party.
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