Greece

NOVANEWS Photo: AFP The suspected killer of an anti-fascist musician, whose stabbing sparked nationwide protests and raised social tensions in the debt-wracked country, appeared in court on Saturday under heavy security. Truck driver George Roupakias, 45, who has allegedly confessed his affiliation to neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, arrived at the court in Piraeus, near Athens, wearing a purple t-shirt and a bullet-proof vest. His appearance before an investigating judge took place under a heavy blanket of security, with police and special forces surrounding the court. Roupakias is suspected of the fatal stabbing of 34-year-old hip hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, also known as Killah P, in the working-class Athens district of Keratsini early on Wednesday. Police say he admitted to the c...

NOVANEWS Greek police searched the Athens offices of the Golden Dawn party on Wednesday after a 35-year-old anti-racism rapper was stabbed to death by a man who sympathizes with the far-right group. A 45-year-old man was arrested and admitted to the killing, police said. Greece's citizen protection minister the suspect was a Golden Dawn sympathizer. The police said the offices of a political party were being searched for evidence linking it to the attack, but stopped short of naming Golden Dawn. Pavlos Fissas, who went by the stage name Killah P, was stabbed twice in the heart and chest on Tuesday night in a brawl after a soccer match shown in a cafe in Keratsini, a working-class suburb of Athens. The killing immediately touched a nerve in Greece, with government officials, political par...

NOVANEWS Thousands attend funeral of rapper, stabbed to death by man sympathizing with far-right Golden Dawn party; PM condemns violence by ‘descendants of Nazis.’ Haaretz In a tense atmosphere in an Athens cemetery, more than 2,000 mourners bid farewell on Thursday to an anti-racism rapper who was stabbed to death by a man sympathising with the far-right Golden Dawn party. The killing of 34-year-old Pavlos Fissas touched a nerve in Greece, where economic hardship has divided society, and rallies in several cities to mark his death turned violent on Wednesday. “Pigs! Fascists! Murderers!” mourners chanted as relatives carried Fissas’s white coffin into a graveyard on a hill overlooking the working-class Keratsini suburb were he was stabbed. As others sang his songs, one man shouted: “Imm...

NOVANEWS ed note–remember as you read this that these ‘supporters’ could be anyone, including people working for the other side who are there to make GD look bad. On the other hand however, given the fact that there are documented cases of GD members engaging in this kind of behavior in the past means that they have set themselves up for being framed in such a way, which is why for us here at TUT there is a huge question mark surrounding GD and what is really going on with them behind the scenes. Ynet Is Greece on the brink of civil war due to the severe economic crisis, political tensions and increasing xenophobia? Thousands participated in rallies in Athens on Friday after members of the country’s communist party (KKE) were attacked by supporters of the Golden Dawn neo-Nazi party. The ...

NOVANEWS ed note–One of the reasons that those with even a modicum of critical thinking skills have questions about these various ‘nationalist’ groups who carry a disproportionate amount of Nazi baggage with them. They may say the right things dealing with organized Jewish power, but if at the same time they are behaving like members of a cult that worships Adolph Hitler, at the end of the day they are serving Zionist interests, given the fact that the anti-Hitler propaganda is something that has penetrated the western mind down to the cellular level. Certainly any successful movement working against organized Jewish interests needs to tell the truth concerning Hitler, the Holocaust and to debunk the lies propagated about both, but to create a cult around these issues that will get NO TR...

NOVANEWS According to Reuters on the partnership between the Greek bank rescue fund and the corrupt banking tag team Goldman and Rothschild in an article that has received virtually zero attention. Photo: Story Leak By Anthony Gucciardi According to an official statement as reported by Reuters, Greece’s bank rescue fund has turned to the banking mafia duo in order to sell off two Greek banks (Proton and Hellenic Postbank) that were all but decimated by the economic turmoil in the nation. And who better to help sell these banks and help Greece to get back to a stable economic than Goldman Sachs, who actually was very helpful in helping to wage financial warfare on the Greek people through hiding Greece’s slimy debt. But that, of course, is just seasoning on top of the ironic yet horrific d...

NOVANEWS Ilias Kasidiaris says ‘there are Holocaust deniers’ on a parliamentary committee in which he is the only Golden Dawn lawmaker. Haaretz A prominent lawmaker from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party implied that he is a Holocaust denier during a stormy debate in the Greek Parliament. Speaking to parliament on Thursday, Golden Dawn MP Ilias Kasidiaris said that a Greek-Israeli businessman caught up in a massive tax evasion scandal refuses to testify before an investigative committee because of the presence of Holocaust deniers. “The Jew Sabby Mionis is key to this case,” Kasidiaris said. “He won’t come to this committee because there are Holocaust deniers on it. And indeed there are Holocaust deniers on it.” Kasidiaris was apparently referring to himself, the only Golden Dawn lawmaker o...

NOVANEWS Proletarian What is needed is a united working-class struggle against imperialism. The killing of the young soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London, on 22 May has exposed once again one of the big lies of contemporary bourgeois politics – namely, that imperialism’s bestial wars of aggression (be they in Iraq, Afghanistan, Mali or wherever) are somehow necessary to keep us ‘safe from terrorism’ here in Britain. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, it is almost a surreal exercise in doublespeak to hear the weasel words that are currently being delivered up for public consumption by the likes of David Cameron and Boris Johnson today, just as they were by the likes of Tony Blair before them, and to contrast their hysteria and hyperbole with the so...

NOVANEWS Proletarian Once again, the masses are in want because they have produced too much. Cyprus is furnishing yet more evidence that the capitalists are unable to control their system or to direct their misbegotten gains in a useful way. As the economic crisis spirals us ever deeper into poverty and war, the world’s workers are increasingly being faced with a clear choice: socialism or barbarism.   As we have explained previously, a crisis of overproduction such as the present one tends to express itself in the financial sphere because when the glut of commodities cannot be sold, the producers very often find themselves unable to pay their debts, and in particular their bank loans. Banks therefore suffer severe losses due to bad debt. While these losses are born...