Anti-capitalism

A member of Rouvikonas (Greek for Rubicon) has warned that the anti-establishment group will not be intimidated by New Democracy's pledges to crack down on anarchist-related violence if the conservatives come to power after elections next month.

The sole member of Rouvikonas who was arrested after the anarchist group vandalised the Parliament's facade yesterday faces felony charges, as do the others of the group of approximately 30 who comfortably fled the scene and are at large.

The 36-year-old has been charged with causing damage to an historic monument.

The PM's office and opposition parties condemned the attack.

Police announced the arrest of an unnamed leader of the self-described "anarchist collective" Rouvikonas on Saturday.

The 53-year-old self-styled anarchist was arrested late on Friday after the group raided a law office that also serves as a debt collection agency on behalf of a bank.

Europe's latest "renaissance" was supposed to have started with the collapse of the communist regimes in the East, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Despite the magnitude of this development as a political event, however, it did not have a major cultural impact for the simple reason that the experiment of "real socialism" had run its course and was already considered over.

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.

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. 

Greek Police are examining the remnants of a bomb which detonated on Saturday in a sentry-box near the Athens Evelpidon court complex after learning about it from an online claim of responsibility by new guerrilla group.

Members of the increasingly active anarchist group Rouvikonas (Rubicon) on Friday occupied the premises of the Athens Bar Association, calling for the release of an anarchist currently under house arrest. 

Tensions flared in the center of Athens on Friday as members of the anti-capitalist ANTARSYA party tried to enter the vicinity of Parliament during a protest against new reforms, including restrictions on the right to strike.

Police responded with teargas.

Parliament is set to approve the measures on January 15 in return for bailout funds.