Insurrectionary anarchism

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.

A spate of lawlessness in central Athens by self-styled anarchists, including acts of vandalism and arson, is being coordinated by jailed members of the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire guerrilla group, Kathimerini understands. 

A group calling itself Armed Revolutionary Struggles has claimed responsibility for a grenade attack a police station in the Athens suburb of Kaisariani in the early hours of Monday, in which a bystander was lightly injured.

Nikos Maziotis, the self-professed leader of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, was attacked in Attica's Korydallos Prison with a knife by fellow inmates, according to a post on an anti-establishment website on Friday.

The post claimed that Maziotis sustained a stab wound to the stomach while "around 10 prisoners" repeatedly punched him in the head and ribs.

The Athens University of Economics senate has reiterated its call to the Greek state to ensure the necessary conditions that will enable the institution's unhindered operation after members of anti-establishment groups stormed its lecture halls and workshops on Friday, forcing out teaching staff and students.

Doctors at the Geniko Kratiko state hospital in Nikaia, near Piraeus, where two convicted members of the Revolutionary Struggle guerrilla group were transferred earlier this week following a protracted hunger strike, on Wednesday issued a statement accusing authorities of violating the right of patients to refuse treatment and illegally using a hospital as a place of detention.

The self-professed leader of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, Nikos Maziotis, was in the hospital unit of Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison on Tuesday after starting a fire in his cell late on Monday in protest at penitentiary authorities' refusal to grant the demands of him and his partner Pola Roupa, who are both serving time for terrorist acts.

Hunger-striking convicted ringleaders of the Revolutionary Struggle urban guerrilla group, Nikos Maziotis and Pola Roupa, have refused hospital treatment, it emerged on Monday, the 23rd day they refused food.

The pair are protesting the alleged violation of an agreement that they be allowed to communicate with their child and their lawyers without hindrance.

Groups of anarchists have occupied the main building of Athens Polytechnic, two days before the anniversary of the 1973 student uprising against the dictatorship.

According to a statement published on a leftist web site, the occupiers are calling for “rebellion here and now”.

A group calling itself Organization for Revolutionary Self-Defense appears to be behind an armed attack on Monday night against riot police in the Athens neighborhood of Exarchia.