Anarchism

Members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas on Monday morning targeted the building housing the municipal authorities of Alimos, southern Athens, smashing windows and splashing red paint on its facade, to protest the death of municipal garbage collector on November 16.

The anarchist group Rouvikonas on Wednesday went ahead with a party 'inaugurating' a room at Athens University's School of Philosophy that it has been occupying for several weeks despite a decision by academic authorities to close the institution to avert the event, after breaking into the faculty through a side door.

With the anarchist group Rouvikonas said to be planning a party on Wednesday to "inaugurate" a room it has been occupying at Athens University's School of Philosophy for the past few weeks, Kathimerini understands that the faculty will shut to stop the event going ahead.

The anarchist group Rouvikonas targeted the Embassy of Argentina in central Athens on Friday.

Reports were not clear concerning the number of people who breached security and entered the building on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue in order to scatter fliers at around 10.15 a.m.

The group also erected a banner on the front of a nearby building.

The anarchist group Rouvikonas, whose members smashed the windows of the guard's booth outside the Iranian Embassy last month and threw paint at the building's facade, has reached out to students, advertising meetings with its members at Athens University's philosophy faculty in a post on Facebook.

Members of the Rouvikonas anarchist group threw paint at the Greek Foreign Ministry in downtown Athens on Sunday afternoon, just over 12 hours after smashing windows at a tax office in a northern suburb.

In a web post, the group claimed the action against the Foreign Ministry was in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in opposition to Greece's warming ties with Israel.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Friday expressed concern about a recent spike in illegal activities by self-styled anarchists and hit out at the government for failing to curb the phenomenon, accusing it of "surrendering Athens to a wretched minority who aim to become a state within a state."

The Rouvikonas anti-establishment group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for an attempted attack on the office of an MP with Independent Greeks, the right-wing party in Greece's left led-coalition.

Members of anarchist group Rouvikonas marched into the headquarters of a supermarket chain in Gerakas, eastern Attica, on Thursday afternoon to protest over the death of an employee during cleaning work on the roof of a room used to preserve products.

Members of the self-styled anarchist group Rouvikonas on Sunday threw flyers outside the house of the Austrian Ambassador to Greece, Andrea Ikic-Bohm, in the northern suburb of Paleo Psychico.

In a text published on an anti-establishment website, the group said the action was a response to Austria's anti-migrant policies and measures.