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Protesters take part in a rally during the 14th anniversary of 15-year old Alexis Grigoropoulos' fatal shooting by the police, in Athens, on Tuesday, December 6, 2022
THOUSANDS of people took to the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities in Greece on Tuesday night to protest at police violence following the shooting of a Roma teenager.
Police in Thessaloniki, the country’s second city, shot Kostas Frangoulis, 16, in the head on Monday morning.
Kostas, who was still fighting for his life this afternoon, is accused of leaving a petrol station without paying for fuel worth €20 (£17.20).
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets
