The insurrection in Greece continues to evolve. The occupation of the City Hall of Ag. Dimitrios ended with a march of over 200 people last night after 6 days, an unprecedented time period for Greece. The last assembly of the liberated city hall called for another popular assembly meeting for next Monday evening on the grounds of the City Hall. One of the last actions of the Ag. Dimitrios assembly was to attack and destroy the ticket machines at the nearby metro station in protest of the upcoming fare increase scheduled for Jan 1. The fare currently is 80 euro cents and is scheduled to be increased to 1 euro. From the statement about the action:

"Going to work to produce wealth that makes them richer, we must now pay an even costlier fare. Going to buy products that will fill their pockets, we must now pay an even costlier fare. Going to "entertain" ourselves under the conditions of their commercialized "entertainment", we must now pay an even costlier fare. …

We found ourselves united in our small and large REFUSALS against the world of exploitation and oppression. In one such small action we proceed today to place out of order the ticket validation machines at the Dafni metro station, demanding FREE POPULAR TRANSPORTATION."

Since much of the Greek mainstream media has been focusing on disinformation there has been a series of short term occupations of radio stations. Just yesterday there were occupations at 3 radio stations as well as a unprecedented occupation of the state TV station (ET). At 3pm, during a live news broadcast, a group walked into the studio and dropped a banner in front of the cameras. The stunned producers first cut the sound and then the video feed until the protesters were removed. The news broadcast continued after a few minutes without any explanation of what had just happened. This gives you an idea of how the greek media have been handling the insurrection! Of course, no comment was really necessary as the banner drop and even the initial chants and statements were broadcast all over Greece!

The occupation at the City Hall in Sykies, Thessaloniki, was held for a day since it succeeded in opening the space for a popular assembly. A second popular assembly was held last night at Ano Poli, another area of Thesaloniki.

Today there was a banner drop at the Acropolis and this morning, in one of the most interesting and telling actions so far in my opinion, the building of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (ΓΣΕΕ, GSEE, the Greek AFL-CIO for lack of a better analogy) was taken over, proclaimed into a liberated workers space and renamed the General Assembly of Insurrected Workers (in Greek the initials are the same as the official name of the union).
[ Statement on the occupation of the GSEE ]

What is particularly interesting about this occupation is that the insurrection is evolving towards not only the government, the police and the banks but also towards all entities which believe in mediated, as opposed to direct, social relationships. The syndicalist organizations in Greece are almost entirely controlled by the political parties and many people feel that the unions are more concerned with advancing the interests of their parties and factions than the real interests and concerns of the workers. The last several days have also seen the firebombing of multiple offices of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE, the 3rd largest political party in Greece) around the country. The position of the KKE leadership during the insurrection has been in my opinion truly despicable. They have dismissed the insurrection as American-directed provocation, and have accused the Left Coalition, the only political party (no. 4 in Greece) which has not outrightly condemned the insurrection and the street tactics, even though they have called for peaceful protests themselves, of "caressing the ears" (eg sweet talking to) the "hooded ones." KKE members have also taken over some university buildings with the explicit goal of preventing their occupation by other groups and opposing the free and open popular assemblies that the anarchists have been organizing.

For ongoing updates:

Original Call for Popular Assembly in Agios Dimitrios (English)

Blog of the occupied town hall of Agios Dimitrios (Greek)

Occupied Universities: Polytechnic (Greek) | ASOEE (Greek)

Exarchia Residents' Committee (Greek)

Direct Action News from Greece (English)

On the Greek Riots - Irregular updates on the situtation in Greece (English)

Athens IMC (Greek, English)

Patras IMC (Greek, English)

Greek Unrest - updates from libcom.org (English)