New Citizenship Bill Proposed
A new bill foreseeing the granting of Greek citizenship to tens of thousands of second-generation immigrants was put up for public consultation on Thursday. The bill, which is to remain open for...
View ArticleRefugees Marked With Numbers
This may be common practice but it must stop! It’s degrading and dehumanising. Refugees are people. Always. No matter what the circumstances are or how they arrived. Human beings have names. Use them....
View ArticleGolden Dawn Trial Resumes
The Golden Dawn trial is scheduled to continue on Thursday at the purpose-built court house in the Korydallos prison facility, amid demonstrations and protests by anti-fascist groups. Anti-racism group...
View ArticleAnger Over Racist Blood Drive
For some unknown strange reason, a hospital in Katerini had bestowed a commendation on Golden Dawn’s so called “Green Division” for its efforts in a blood drive. The “party” is well-known for...
View ArticleOpen Files: Golden Dawn
“Persecuting Enemies” looks at the rise of Golden Dawn, Greece’s extreme-right, fascist party, which thanks to the impact of the economic crisis, has seen its support mushroom. In the European...
View ArticleA Mosque in Athens
It was first announced 70 years ago but finally, Athens is to get a mosque. It is the only European capital without one. All of us who support the plan are expecting a huge backlash against it...
View ArticleGreece: Migrants Helping Migrants
People who have come here from other places understand better than most what it is like and are offering a helping hand to other more recent arrivals. This is a story you don’t read every day… The...
View ArticleRefugees Imprisoned Without Facilities
The title of the article from Kathimerini is Ship, more police being sent to Kos to assist refugees To assist refugees? Riot police? No, they are being sent to assist the police on the island to...
View ArticleTragic Chaos on Greek Islands
Article from To Vima Editorial: Refugee chaos and responsibilities The tragic scenes played out everyday on Kos and other Aegean islands, with the wave of migration growing each day, is a shame not...
View ArticleNew Migration Service
A new migration service is to be set up (finally) which will mean that Greece will be able to receive the almost 500 million euros already designated from European funds to deal with immigration....
View Article60 Case Files of Golden Dawn
April 20, 2015 Published in FAR RIGHT D. Psarras: The 60 case files of the criminal organisation Golden Dawn Dimitris Psarras As we’ve repeatedly said, prosecuting Golden Dawn is about prosecuting...
View ArticleSafe Zone for Refugee Children
UNICEF announced that it would set up a child-friendly zone in the area near the Greek-FYROM border for underage refugee and migrant children seeking asylum. Over the last weeks, thousands of asylum...
View ArticleFrustration at Handling of Refugee Crisis in Greece
Veteran aid worker Stathis Kyrousis is appalled by Greece’s handling of the refugee crisis engulfing its holiday islands, decrying worsening conditions as the world reeled from images of a 3-year-old...
View ArticleRoom for all of us
The photograph of Syrian school teacher Laith Majid arriving in Kos, crying and clinging to his family, was one of the first in this current refugee crisis to touch people's hearts around the world.
View ArticleResignation Over Offensive Tweets
Dimitris Kammenos, a politician for the Independent Greeks, has resigned his new position as a deputy minister after just 12 hours. His appointment had been met with utter dismay on Twitter where he...
View ArticleRacist Murder of Shehzad Luqman
A racist motive for a crime has been recognized for the first time in Greece, setting a new legal precedent.
View ArticleGolden Dawn Trial Update
After five months of pretrial motions, the trial of Golden Dawn is expected to get under way on Tuesday with the commencement of witness testimonies, starting with that of the father of anti-fascist...
View ArticleSimplified Religious Studies Exemption
There has been a significant argument over the recent announcement from the Alternate Minister of Education Sia Anagnostopoulou that the exemption from religious studies is to be simplified.
View ArticleFyssas Testifies in Golden Dawn Trial
Far from being an argument over a football match as those who defend Golden dawn say, Pavlos Fyssas was murdered by an organised gang with Roupakias, who dealt the fatal blow, turning up after a series...
View ArticleMagda Fysass Testifies
The mother of murdered rapper Pavlos Fyssas on Tuesday told a court hearing the criminal trial of the neo-Nazi party’s leadership that the order for the hit had come from Piraeus MP Yiannis Lagos as a...
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