{"id":1476,"date":"2015-09-22T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldendawnwatch.org\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2015-09-22T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T14:51:25","slug":"the-murder-of-pavlos-fyssas-a-political-anatomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldendawnwatch.org\/en\/media-en\/the-murder-of-pavlos-fyssas-a-political-anatomy\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MURDER OF PAVLOS FYSSAS: A POLITICAL ANATOMY"},"content":{"rendered":"
Two years after the murder of the antifascist Pavlos Fyssas by Golden Dawn<\/strong><\/div>\n
\nThanassis Kampagiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the occasion of the second anniversary of the murder of Greek antifascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, we are re-publishing from Left Flank<\/a> the analysis of the crime and the neo-Nazi organisation behind it, Golden Dawn, written by Thanassis Kampagiannis, one of the lawyers involved in the trial, member of the
\n\u00a0anti-fascist civil action movement<\/a>.<\/div>\n

18 September 2015 marks the second anniversary of the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by a Golden Dawn battalion squad in Keratsini. The antifascist explosion that followed the assassination was a catalyst for political developments, and Antonis\u00a0Samaras\u2019s government was forced to give the judiciary the signal to prosecute Golden Dawn as a criminal organisation. The austerity government of New Democracy (ND) and Pasok sacrificed its valuable \u2014 though repulsive \u2014 \u201cblack crutch\u201d of fascism, just a few months after its \u201cpink crutch\u201d (the centre-left Dimar party) withdrew from the coalition after the closure of national broadcaster ERT. It was a political precursor to the collapse of Samaras-Venizelos government just over a year later, and the rise of Syriza to power.<\/p>\n

But what was the reaction to the murder of Pavlos Fyssas? This question has been given many answers, from the Right and the Left. The mainstream media initially made a desperate attempt to present the murder as a random \u201cargument over football\u201d. However very quickly, and under the weight of testimonies and revelations, the involvement of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party could not be covered up.<\/p>\n

The fascists themselves tried to present the murder as an \u201cisolated incident\u201d while pushing a conspiracy story that it was a \u201cprovocation\u201d. Michalis Arvanitis, the Golden Dawn MP for Patras and a former advocate for I. Kalampokas (the right-wing ND thug who murdered teacher Nikos Temponeras during the school occupations of 1990-1991) called the Golden Dawn member Giorgos Roupakias \u2014 who stabbed Pavlos Fyssas \u2014 an \u201cagent of the Communist Party\u201d who was trying to incriminate Golden Dawn.<\/p>\n

Theories of provocation found an unexpected ally in certain Left and anti-authoritarian circles. The murder of Fyssas was, for them, a state-led plan to smash the \u201ctwo extremes\u201d \u2014 first Golden Dawn (which \u201ctook votes from New Democracy\u201d) and then the social movement and the radical Left. These theories tried to link the Greek political system and the state machine with the murder of Fyssas, but ended up absolving the leadership of Golden Dawn. The fascists grabbed those theories and used them to their advantage.<\/p>\n

What was the murder of Fyssas, then? A random event? A plan by the leadership of Golden Dawn? Maybe something which went beyond a plan? Is there a link between the murder and the political system and state institutions, and \u2014 if so \u2014 what kind of link?<\/p>\n

The crucial role of the battalion squads<\/strong>
\nThe murder was part of the activity of the \u201cbattalion squads\u201d of Golden Dawn, a phrase commonly used for the security bodies of the local organisations of the neo-Nazi organisation. Unlike the claims made in retrospect by its accused leaders, battalion squads were not \u201chot-blooded fans\u201d of Golden Dawn or some isolated initiative of a local organisation. For a neo-Nazi group like Golden Dawn, building battalion squads on the model of the archetypal German Nazi party is central to its political project \u2014 something that differentiates it from other political parties, even extremely conservative ones.<\/p>\n

In the case of the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the perpetrators received an order by SMS from the head of Golden\u00a0Dawn\u2019s\u00a0local organisation in Nikea, Giorgos Patelis, who used one of the organisation\u2019s\u00a0mobile phones. They received the message at 23:28 on 17 September 2013, a Tuesday evening\u00a0[1]<\/strong>. The recipients of the message were not random \u2014 they were all members of the \u201cSecurity\u201d of the local organisation. The Security was a permanent paramilitary structure with a given composition, uniforms, hierarchy, weapons, training, wireless, reports and rules of secrecy. The Security of Nikea was the best organised battalion of Golden Dawn, which is why it was used as a \u201cwildcard\u201d (a name given to it by the party\u2019s MP Ilias Panagiotaros) in missions throughout Greece (e.g. openings\u00a0of offices, training excursions, attacks, etc.).<\/p>\n

Nikea Security Battalion had\u00a0formed up within 20 minutes (by 23:50) at the organisation\u2019s offices on Kesarias Road. They were equipped with batons, knuckle-dusters and knives. Battalion members learned of the intended target of the attack after being informed by members of Security who were already in the Coralli caf\u00e9 in Keratsini, and they headed in a procession of cars and motorbikes to their destination.<\/p>\n

Within 15 minutes, by 00:05 Wednesday morning, Fyssas was lying dead \u2014 stabbed three times by Roupakias, who was also a member of the five-member coordinating body of the local GD organisation in\u00a0Nikea.<\/p>\n

The battalion squad that night also included\u00a0at least two paid Golden Dawn officials, the head of the local organisation (Patelis), and the head of the Security battalion (Yannis Kazatzoglou). The murder took place inside a circle of dozens of Golden Dawn members backing up Roupakias, some of them holding Fyssas down, and in the presence of at least eight armed police officers who never intervened. Dozens of terrified people watched the murder from the neighbouring streets or from their balconies\u00a0[2]. In a tragic rendering of a verse written by Fyssas, his death occurred \u201cin public view\u201d\u00a0[3]. <\/strong>The goal of the attack was to sow terror.
\nThe picture of these events is now clear (and firmly established by the documents of the investigation) and we can ask some basic questions: how was the murder of Pavlos Fyssas made possible? And who is responsible for it, apart from those we know were directly involved?<\/p>\n

The props of Golden Dawn in the state, capital and the political system<\/strong>
\nThe relationship between fascists, the state machine and the overall system of economic and political power are historically well documented in Greece\u00a0[4]<\/strong>. We will not detail here the history of these relations, for either Golden Dawn or previous Greek fascist parties. It is well known that Golden Dawn is an organisation with close ties to the machinery of state and the secret service. It enjoyed the favour of powerful business interests (just one example: the conferences of Golden Dawn in Caravel Hotel were always an in-kind \u201csponsorship\u201d by the Theodorakopoulos shipping family), and the political support of the traditional Right (two former deputy chiefs of the organisation, Haris Kousoumvris and Dimitris Zafiropoulos, have never denied the claim that organisational materials were printed with New Democracy\u2019s expenses).
\nHowever, in considering 2012-2013, the period in which Golden Dawn built the battalion squads including that which killed Pavlos Fyssas, things are even more concrete.<\/p>\n

Regarding the state:\u00a0The battalion squads of Golden Dawn acted under the wing of state protection by ELAS, the Greek Police\u00a0[5]. <\/strong>The experiment began in central Athens after 2008, in Agios Panteleimonas, where the local police decided that the policing needs of the area would mean the action of Golden Dawn patrols as a supplementary force to that of the local department\u00a0[6].<\/strong> But the generalisation of this experience came with the escalation of state racism against immigrants, and particularly with the launch of the \u201cXenios Zeus\u201d project by Minister of the Interior Nikos Dendias in August 2012. The ELAS national headquarters\u2019 specific aim was \u201cto make life for immigrants hell\u201d so that they would leave Greek territory, and the battalion squads of Golden Dawn were a friendly force allied to the police. This policy, expressed most clearly in the open cooperation of the heads of the police departments of Agios Panteleimonas and Nikea \u2014\u00a0Skaras and Giovanidis \u2014 with the respective local organizations of Golden Dawn, has a long history within the Greek state. Such cooperation goes back to the post Civil War period, with parastate bodies of \u201ccivilians\u201d functioning to help the Gendarmerie in emergency situations.<\/p>\n

One such body was the \u201cAssociation\u201d (known as the \u201cPin\u201d) of former Nazi collaborator \u201cVon Giosmas\u201d in Thessaloniki. It was the organisation responsible for the assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis, an MP of the United Democratic Left, in 1963\u00a0[7].<\/strong> It is not accidental that Roupakias addressed the policemen who led him to the Keratsini police station, shortly after the murder of Fyssas, with the phrase: \u201cI am one of yours, I am in Golden Dawn\u201d.<\/p>\n

Regarding capital: In 2013 Golden Dawn was able to take cooperation with business circles to a new level. Beyond the hiring of battalion squads by merchants and shopkeepers for \u201ccleansing\u201d an area of immigrants, or controlling the labour market in terms of national preference (raids in markets, attacks against immigrants\u2019 shops, etc.), Golden Dawn achieved the most important contract in its history \u2014 the creation on behalf of shipowners of a \u201cyellow\u201d pro-employers union at the Ship-building Zone in order to break collective agreements, reduce labour costs, and achieve \u201cindustrial peace\u201d. The hurdle to this project was obvious: the existing unions in the Zone belonging to the PAME trade union front. Tellingly, a few days after the attack on members of PAME and the KKE (Greek Communist Party) in Perama on 12 September 2013, and one day after the murder of Fyssas in Keratsini, the majority of Golden Dawn \u201cunion\u201d members were hired by a company owned by the president of the association of ship-builders of Piraeus\u00a0[8].<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regarding the political system: These connections with state institutions and employers were condensed in the political relationship that Golden Dawn enjoyed with the highest levels of the Samaras government, within the prime minister\u2019s Maximos Mansion, in the person of the General Secretary of Government (similar to a\u00a0cabinet secretary) Takis Baltakos. An old far-right-winger himself, Baltakos offered Golden Dawn first class political protection and functioned as a bulwark against members of the leading circle of New Democracy who sought a more aggressive policy against Golden Dawn.\u00a0[9] <\/strong>This relationship had to be \u201csecret\u201d if it was to be in the interests of both parties \u2014 Golden Dawn had to display itself as anti-systemic, and therefore in opposition to New Democracy, at the same time as its actions gave the government the legitimacy of the \u201ccentre\u201d against \u201cboth extremes\u201d (i.e. Golden Dawn and Syriza). However, the relationship could not be denied. Former Dimar ministers have made public the threats from Maximos that if they withdrew from the coalition government, they would allow a government in cooperation with Golden Dawn (or maybe a \u201cserious\u201d version of it) to become possible.
\nWithout the relationships that Golden Dawn had with the state, powerful business circles and the dominant political system, battalion squads could not have acted, let alone killed Pavlos Fyssas. However, the murder of Fyssas was not merely the expression of the subaltern position of the neo-Nazis to their patrons. In September 2013 the leadership of Golden Dawn unrolled its own, independent, political strategy.<\/p>\n

The political project of the \u2018Greek September\u2019<\/strong>
\nUnlike ideological analyses that treat fascism only as \u201cthe long arm of the state and capital\u201d, the fascist party is not just a \u201cdeep state\u201d. It has its own political project, beyond the will of the politically and economically powerful. This is exactly what emerged in September 2013. During a lengthy period of economic, social and political crisis, with the government of ND-Pasok weakened and facing a new wave of discontent and workers\u2019 struggles, Golden Dawn decided to seek an enhanced political role \u2014 an objective that would be achieved through the escalation of the violent actions of the organisation. The project of a \u201cGreek September\u201d (as it was baptised by an old member of the Greek far Right), part of which was the terrorising the neighbourhoods of Piraeus, was centrally\u00a0organised and guided, like all of Golden Dawn\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n

The plan included widening the circle of victims of fascist violence. Instead of just foreign immigrants like the Egyptian Abouzid Embarak and the Pakistani Shahzad Luqman, the attacks would now have as their victims local trade unionists and antifascists, like Sotiris Poulikogiannis and Pavlos Fyssas. In terms of symbolism, Golden Dawn chose even to challenge the hegemony of the traditional Right in the annual \u201chate celebrations\u201d at Vitsi and Meligala, at which the Right commemorates the victims of \u201cred terror\u201d and revels in its victory in the Civil War. The sequence of events and their orchestration by leaders of the organisation leave no doubt about the central planning.<\/p>\n

On 1 September uniformed Golden Dawn members under the guidance of Panagiotaros ejected a New Democracy MP from the podium of the \u201cmemorial\u201d in Vitsi. On 12 September, battalion squads of Golden Dawn were ordered by Lagos to attack the members of PAME and the KKE in Perama with murderous fury, smashing the head of the leader of the trade unions in the Ship-building Zone, Sotiris Poulikogiannis. On 15 September Golden Dawn, in full military array and dress, ejected leaders of the Right from the \u201cmemorial\u201d of Meligala, taking it over themselves, and under the guidance of Kasidiaris, Lagos and Germenis, beat up other far-right organisations\u2019 members (the president of the youth of LAOS and the president of the Patriotic Association of Larissa). On 17 September, the Security of Nikea attacked Pavlos Fyssas and his friends with murderous fury: he was known throughout the area for the antifascist lyrics of his songs.<\/p>\n

The perpetrators of the murder of Pavlos Fyssas had been trained to carry out attacks like that of 17-18 September. They were fully aware of the immunity they enjoyed from law enforcement authorities. The experience of the \u201cGreek September\u201d itself offered them proof that the violent actions of Golden Dawn, either against the trade unionists of PAME or cadres of the Right, remained unpunished. Moreover, Nikea\u2019s Security was present when MPs of the organisation were beating their rivals in Meligala. However, the decisive factor in the murder of Fyssas was the order coming from the offices of the organization, given by Patelis and Kazatzoglou under the direction of Lagos.<\/p>\n

In an organisation that operates on the basis of the \u201cF\u00fchrerprinzip\u201d (the \u201cLeader Principle\u201d), violation of a command given by a superior body constitutes disobedience to the \u201cChief\u201d of the organisation himself.\u00a0[10] <\/strong>For this reason, the battalion squad members of Nikea absolutely understood, while heading to Coralli, that what they were carrying out was the order of the F\u00fchrer of the organisation, Nikos Michaloliakos. And this command they executed, murdering Pavlos Fyssas.<\/p>\n

A plan that stumbled because of\u00a0personal and collective resistance<\/strong>
\nBut Golden Dawn\u2019s plan of at once escalating violence and enhancing its political role failed. Instead of getting a step closer to power, the leaders of Golden Dawn found themselves behind prison bars. Michaloliakos had in the past been faced with criminal acts by GD members that \u201cexposed\u201d him (the greatest such moment was in 1998, after the attempted murder of the left-wing student Dimitris Koussouris by a battalion squad of the organisation led by its deputy leader, Periandros Androutsopoulos). So he used a tried and tested method: he \u201ccondemned\u201d the murder; he professed ignorance about Roupakias, whom he characterized as had been a \u201cpasser-by\u201d of the organisation; and he denounced the prosecution of GD as a criminal organization as \u201cpolitical persecution of a legal political party\u201d.
\nBut this time his method failed.<\/p>\n

We need to be clear that it was resistance from below that defeated the Neo-Nazis\u2019 project. First and foremost, we can never ignore the resistance of Pavlos Fyssas himself to the fascist raid. Although unarmed, Fyssas resisted the battalion squad that attacked him in order to protect his friends, but also to keep the territory of the neighborhood in which he grew up free. He refused to run away. This is not a matter of clich\u00e9d antifascist heroism. His personal and political stance, as it is described by his friends and comes out in the lyrics of his songs, was more that of social solidarity to fellow human beings than of an encompassing Leftist or anarchist ideology.\u00a0[11]<\/strong> It was this attitude that determined that the killing didn\u2019t take place in some dark alley, but in public view on Panagi Tsaldari Street. And it was he who succeeded, just before he died, in forcing the arrest of Roupakias by the otherwise apathetic police officers, when the offender attempted to flee and get into his car.<\/p>\n

The goal of the fascist raid at Keratsini was to sow terror in the working class neighborhoods of Piraeus and to establish the reign of Golden Dawn. But the murder boomeranged on its perpetrators. Instead of terror, what was unleashed was an astonishing antifascist uprising in Keratsini the following day, and also throughout Greece. This majority antifascist tide built on the experiences of the antifascist movement that had confronted Golden Dawn in the previous 15 months during which it was in Parliament. The battalion squads had failed to control the neighborhoods and streets even before the assassination of Fyssas because of hundreds of antifascist rallies and activities that developed rapidly during 2012-2013. It is also noteworthy that the antifascist uprising after the murder also built upon the industrial action and workers\u2019 strikes that were taking place, with the teachers\u2019 indefinite strike being the most important one.
\nThe antifascist explosion after Fyssas\u2019s death created an acute dilemma for the government, which was faced with the risk of a new December 2008, when there was a nationwide youth uprising following the police murder of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos. If the cover provided by the state and the political system for Golden Dawn was not lifted (at least temporarily), New Democracy would jeopardise the stability of its government. Hence, Dendias was forced to send a list of \u201c32 cases\u201d to the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, who ordered a preliminary investigation into the existence of GD as a criminal organisation.<\/p>\n

Samaras might have afterwards attempted to portray himself as a \u201cpersecutor\u201d of Nazism, but the reality is that the government and the state gave the leadership of Golden Dawn 10 precious days, from September 18 to 28, to destroy all incriminating evidence and to organise its defence. During these days, Secretary General of the Government Baltakos unsuccessfully attempted to sabotage the prosecution. According to an article in Kathimerini \u2014 always well-informed in such matters \u2014 on the one-year anniversary of the arrests: \u201ca lawyer \u2014 a close associate of Baltakos \u2014 was day and night in the Courts trying to elicit information on the progress of the investigation\u201d.\u00a0[12]<\/strong> The contradictory messages sent to the judiciary by government ministers and from Maximos were not unrelated to the decision to releasethree Golden Dawn MPs, Kasidiaris, Panayiotaros and Michos.<\/p>\n

However the persistence of the antifascist explosion, expressed in the huge demonstration of 25 September 2013 to the offices of the \u201cCentral Command\u201d of Golden Dawn (especially as the Syriza leadership failed to reduce it into a \u201charmless\u201d concert in Syntagma Square) determined that criminal proceedings would go ahead. On 28 September the leadership of Golden Dawn was arrested, while the next day the members of the Security of Nikea who participated in the murder of Fyssas were arrested as well. At the same time, the perpetrators of the attack against PAME were arrested (they had remained free up to that point!). Other cases on file were correlated, such as the attack on Egyptian fishermen in June 2012, which was now redefined as an attempted murder.<\/p>\n

Justice for the victims of Golden Dawn<\/strong>
\n20 April 2015 marked the beginning of the trial of Golden Dawn before the Three-Member Court of Felonies in Athens. In addition to the murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the attempted murder of the Egyptian fishermen and trade unionists of PAME are being co-tried, along with charges of belonging to a criminal organisation, the direction of which is attributed to the 18 MPs of the previous parliamentary group of Golden Dawn (essentially its entire core leadership).<\/p>\n

Whether the 69 defendants sitting in the dock of the court will be convicted will not depend solely on what is happening inside the courtroom. Admittedly, the investigative material is overwhelming and, to the extent that it will be the sole factor of the formation of the judicial verdict, the conviction of the defendants will be heavy. However, as we know from similar trials in the past, state procedures can favour parastate and fascist criminals, usually condemning some perpetrators, giving instigators \u201csoft\u201d sentences and always concealing the ties between the criminals and state functionaries who covered up their action.<\/p>\n

Having this historical experience the antifascist movement must develop its activity both in the trial and beyond. The trial of the fascists passes through the constant presence of the antifascist movement in the court, the support of victims and their lawyers (the \u201ccivil action\u201d as it is legally called), ensuring the publicity of the trial through the transfer of the venue from the women\u2019s prison of Korydallos to the Court of Appeal\u2019s complex, widening the front of social and political forces demanding the conviction of the neo-Nazis. The nationwide campaign conducted by the KEERFA antifascist and antiracist coalition has already paved the way in this direction.
\nPrecisely because the fascists sense the overwhelming weight of the evidence of their criminal activity, they have transferred all hope for their acquittal outside the courtroom. The intended re-legitimisation of Golden Dawn involves specific tactics: utilisation of their parliamentary presence and its acceptance by the parties of the \u201cconstitutional arc\u201d, \u201canti-memorandum\u201d rhetoric after the signing of a new agreement by the Syriza-ANEL government, echoing institutional racism on the occasion of the new refugee flow, and pursuing the widening of its voting base.<\/p>\n

The antifascist movement must wage a lasting and targeted campaign at all levels, in order to prevent the re-legitimisation of the neo-Nazis: initiatives to reveal the criminal character of the Nazi gang behind the institutional facade of the \u201clegal political party\u201d; unmasking its false anti-systemic rhetoric; antiracist initiatives that will restore the unity of the working class; and exclusion of Golden Dawn from every public space (particularly on the occasion of the elections) through mass antifascist rallies. Only through such a campaign can we exclude any possibility of Golden Dawn playing a role in the subsequent phases of the economic and political crisis and relaunching its battalion squads, which have retreated since September 2013.<\/p>\n

The victims of Golden Dawn, the family of Pavlos Fyssas (called finally this week to testify in court), the Egyptian fishermen, the trade unionists of PAME and hundreds of others who were attacked by battalion squads are entitled to get justice for the attacks they suffered and for the people they lost. Justice, however, will not be easy for them. This is because the perpetrators of these attacks were not just isolated individuals, but a Nazi criminal organisation with strong support in the machinery of state and in the system of economic and political power. It will be a rough road to achieve justice.<\/p>\n

Let us try to walk it with the determination and the courage of Pavlos Fyssas on the night of 17-18 September 2013, as he stood up against a pack of neo-Nazi murderers.<\/p>\n

NOTES<\/strong>
\n[1] <\/strong>The SMS read: \u201cEveryone in Local offices now. Those of you who are nearby. We will not expect far away. Now\u201d. Referred to in: Memo of the civil action of the anti-fascist movement in the trial of Golden Dawn, Marxist Bookshop, Athens 2015, p. 87.
\n[2]<\/strong> For more details on the murder of Fyssas see: Memo, ibid, pp. 84-94.
\n[3]<\/strong> \u201cSuch a day is good for dying\/ nice and standing up in public view\u201d, in: Killah P, Zoria, tinyurl.com\/oxnnzts.
\n[4] <\/strong>A good starting point is: Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism, Kedros, Athens 2006.
\n[5] <\/strong>For ELAS-Golden Dawn relations and efforts to conceal them, see: Initiative for the Civil Action of the Antifascist Movement, The Nazi criminal organisation Golden Dawn, JailGoldenDawn, Athens 2015, pp. 215-226.
\n[6] <\/strong>See: Tasos Kostopoulos, \u201cNeo-Nazism as a counterinsurgency project: the \u2018deep state\u2019 and the rise of Golden Dawn\u201d Archeiotaxio, issue 16, November 2014.
\n[7] <\/strong>For the murder of Lambrakis see: Stratos Dordanas, German uniforms in mothballs, Survivals of Collaborationism in Macedonia, 1945-1974, Estia, Athens 2011, pp. 285-351.
\n[8]<\/strong> For further details regarding the attack on PAME see: Memo, ibid, pp. 80-84.
\n[9] <\/strong>See: Dimitris Psaras, \u201cHotline between Maximus and Golden Dawn\u201d, EfSyn, 18\/09\/2014, tinyurl.com\/olk7p3d.
\n[10] <\/strong>For the \u201cLeader Principle\u201d and the original Statute of the Golden Dawn, see: The Nazi criminal organisation Golden Dawn, ibid, pp. 5-25.
\n[11] <\/strong>As he said himself: \u201cfuck revolutions at last \/ we just talk about personal resistances\u201d, in: Killah P, For my own good, tinyurl.com\/nf4uvll.
\n[12]<\/strong> Marianna Kakaounaki, \u201cThe Night of the Long Golden Dawn arrests\u201d, Kathimerini, 21\/09\/2014, tinyurl.com\/ng7nwnl.- See more at: http:\/\/left-flank.org\/2015\/09\/17\/the-murder-of-pavlos-fyssas-a-political-anatomy\/#sthash.LGY5U6hb.dpuf<\/p>\n

Left Flank strongly encourages all our readers to make a contribution to the Financial Appeal from the lawyers\u2019 initiative for the Civil Action of the anti-fascist movement in the trial of Golden Dawn. The details of how you can donate can be found HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanassis Kampagiannis is a lawyer, and \u00a0member of the anti-fascist civil action movement<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

First published in Greek in the magazine Socialism From Below, <\/em><\/a>4.9.2013. First published in English in Left Flank,<\/em><\/a> 17.9.2015<\/p>\n

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