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questioning of the current economic and political system by significant numbers of Greeks. As the fabled neo-liberal prosperity or even economic recovery failed to materialise there have been dramatic shifts in the political landscape. From a parliamentary perspective, the January 2015 election of the left- wing SYRIZA marked a paradigm shift in Greek politics. In December 2014, after three failed attempts to elect a president, the Hellenic Parliament was dissolved and elections set for 25 January 2015. Built on the back of success in the 2014 European parliamentary
The Athenian anarchist and anti-authoritarian movement has been reinvigorated in recent years. Its public protests and battles against the Greek state, police and other capitalist institutions are prolific and highly visible, replete with rioting, barricades and Molotov cocktails. This book is concerned not so much with anarchist theory, as with examining the forces that give the Athenian anarchist and anti-authoritarian movement its specific shape. The author draws on Alberto Melucci's (1995a) work on collective identity, while offering a first-hand, ethnographic account of Athenian anarchists and anti-authoritarians in action, based on his time there in 2011 and 2013, living, squatting and protesting within this milieu. In the course of the chapters of the book, the author argues that varying shades of anarchic tendencies, and ensuing ideological and practical disagreements, are overcome for the most part in (often violent) street-protests. Athenian anarchists and antiauthoritarians are a pertinent area of research because of both their politics and their geographical location. There is the whole 'rise of anarchism throughout the activist world' phenomenon, visible from Seattle to Genoa, Quebec City to São Paulo. Anarchist and anti-authoritarian social movements are prominent actors in resistance to the current phase of capitalism in multiple, global locations. Throughout Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and the Antipodes, radical resistance to neo-liberalism often has an anarchist and/ or anti-authoritarian cast.
provisions of domestic legislation. The dispassionate analysis of the new legislation introduced in 2005 leads to the conclusion that (in their draft form) these provisions breached key legal requirements regarding the single European market (Hellenic Parliament 2005, 17). At the same time though, both the jurisprudence of the ECJ and the Treaty allow exemptions to the extent that they are either dictated by considerations regarding public order, public safety or public health or are in the public interest. Indeed, the ECJ has accepted the notion that limitations may be
ratified the Treaty of Accession (Law 945/1979) stipulates that the government ought to submit to Parliament annual reports on developments in the process of integration. However, the first report was submitted eight years after Greece’s accession. This was a clear indication of the pattern that followed. Indeed, until 1990 the Greek Parliament did not have an ECspecific mechanism for scrutiny. The establishment of the Greek Parliament’s European Community Affairs Committee in June 1990 (Hellenic Parliament 1990) – almost ten years after the Greek accession – was primarily