Moira Lavelle

  • Greece’s Nazi Golden Dawn Has Finally Been Ruled a Criminal Organization

    Jacobin– After decades of murderous attacks on migrants and leftists, on Wednesday, a Greek court ruled that Golden Dawn is a criminal organization. The verdict is a triumph for victims, and for the minorities targeted by the neo-Nazi party — and it will embolden the resistance against still-active far-right forces.

  • The New “University Police” Shows Greece’s Authoritarian Turn

    The New “University Police” Shows Greece’s Authoritarian Turn

    Jacobin– After the bloody suppression of the Polytechnic students’ uprising in 1973, universities became a symbol of Greek democracy — and for decades, police were banned from even entering campuses. But on Thursday, parliament voted to create a special police force to patrol universities, as the right-wing government mounts a troubling crackdown on supposedly “dangerous”…

  • Greece Is Weaponizing the Coronavirus Against Refugees

    VICE–The government blames refugees, who cannot leave their camps, for the spread of the virus.

  • Lesbos’s fearful migrants move into New Moria

    The Times of London–Ten days after the squalid former encampment was reduced to ashes, leaving about 12,700 adults and children to sleep in the open, the authorities said about 9,000 people had registered in the new tented quarters that had been hurriedly set up in a former shooting range on the island.

  • After Moria fire, ‘I don’t have hope for myself or my baby’

    After Moria fire, ‘I don’t have hope for myself or my baby’

    Al Jazeera–Homaira, heavily pregnant, feels increasingly trapped on Lesbos as she sleeps hungry in a supermarket car park.