The summers of 2022 and 2023 were marked by two major struggles waged from inside the prison by our anarchist comrade Yannis Michailidis. With his primary demand being his release, which the state vindictively denied despite the years he had already served, G.M. escalated his protest to a hunger strike, reaching a critical health condition on both occasions. On the 30th day of his second hunger strike, he decided to further escalate his protest with a thirst strike, which ultimately resulted in the victory of his struggle and his subsequent release.

In this battle, the anarchist movement supported the strikers’ fight by convening central assemblies several times a week, writing texts and organizing actions on a nationwide scale. In Athens, the solidarity movement, drawing from various strands of struggle, did everything in its power to demonstrate its solidarity with the struggle of our comrade. It was within this framework that the “Assembly of Solidarity with the Anarchist Hunger Striker Yiannis Michailidis” sought to bring the issue to the forefront, raise public awareness, highlight the state’s vindictiveness toward political prisoners and to pressure the state to prevent the comrade’s murder. Continue reading Regarding the appeal trial for an act of solidarity during the last hunger strike of our anarchist comrade G. Michailidis (Greece) →

At dawn on May 22, 17 years after the death of anarcho-nihilist comrade Mauricio Morales from a premature explosion of a bomb targeting a police academy that he was carrying in his bag, on his bicycle, we hung a giant banner in the castles [of Thessaloniki] honouring the memory of both the comrade himself and other comrades fallen in a similar way in the field of struggle.

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