Athens, October 1st: Anti-fascists march through Agios Panteleimonas and by the Villa Amalias building

Approximately 700 anti-fascists marched through central Athens today, down Acharnon Street, through Agios Panteleimonas and by the Villa Amalias building. The demonstration had been called by the “anti-fascists in neighbourhoods of central Athens”. The demonstration ended at Victoria square; people distributed texts and put up posters. The multicultural neighbourhoods of central Athens were vibrated by the slogans against fascists, the state and the bosses. Many neighbours, locals and migrants cheered on the demonstrators; the fascists were nowhere to be seen; all the well-known fascist hangouts in the area had shut. The police presence was discreet, but in big numbers.

Slogans chanted:

Fascism means death; death to fascism

Pavlos lives – trash the Nazis

Rage and furiousness for Pavlos Fyssas

Fascists and bosses in the bottom of the well; long live the global proletariat

We are together with the migrants – deport the cops and the Nazis

Fascism is trashed in the streets, not in the parliament with judges and laws

We live together, we work together, locals and migrants, we trash the Nazis