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Greek police fired teargas to disperse protesters throwing rocks and firebombs outside parliament today as more than 20,000 people marched through Athens to protest against new austerity measures to tackle the country's debt.

A strike by public and private sector workers brought the country to halt, grounding all flights and stopping public transport. State hospitals were left with only emergency staff, and news broadcasts were suspended.

Strikers and protesters banged drums and chanted slogans such as "no sacrifice for plutocracy" and "real jobs, higher pay". People draped banners from apartment buildings reading: "No more sacrifices, war against war."

The demonstrators included a group of about 100 youths wearing black, faces hidden by crash helmets and ski masks, some of whom smashed windows of a department store and bank, and sprayed riot police with brown paint.

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While the anti-Olympics convergence and the militant actions in Vancouver have been celebrated as successes by local anarchist organizers and their comrades around the world, two so-called anarchists from Ontario's 'Common Cause' have joined the corporate media, police, and IOC in publicly condemning the black bloc. The traitors names are Mick Sweetman and Alex Dicenau, and they have a history of publicly insulting other anarchists, dominating Common Cause's discourse with their own opinions, and even kicking people out of Common Cause for not adhering to their 'party line'.

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Coming from us, that headline doesn't have much of an impact. You would expect such a sentiment from us. But it's not our headline. No, that is from Canadian journalist Peter Worthington, a guy who is by no means a leftie. Worthington used to rail against former Prime Minister, the late Pierre Trudeau back in the day, almost went to jail for identifying 16 Canadians allegedly recruited by the KGB, threatened back in the still-very-homophobic eighties to out anyone who was arrested in police raids of gay bathouses, and is the father-in-law of former George W. Bush special assistant and speechwriter David Frum. It is on Frum's blog that Worthington's op-ed about Leonard Peltier appears, and it is as if we written it ourselves. He also sees a frame-up, not to mention a concentrated effort to treat him far worse than anyone else convicted of his crimes. The fact that a conservative is picking up on this is a good sign, a damn good sign, and after 35 years in prison, most definitely a welcome one.

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Let's face it. Tom Metzger has nothing else to do with his time. A generation ago, he was good for making some noise here and there with his White Aryan Resistance, and idiots looking to throw their lives away went to him in droves. Democrats in the San Diego area gave him a congressional primary win back in 1980, proving that both major parties have issues. Boneheads even killed for him, and although a crew of his associates killing an Ethiopian immigrant didn't get him any jail time, it is costing him $12 million after the Southern Poverty Law Center came down on him with a lawsuit making him liable for the murder. Today, he is a shell of what he once was. His white power contemporaries have either died, went to jail, on their way there or just gone on with their lives. His son John, once upon a time a prominent figure along with Tom, hasn't been heard from in years. And he moved out of his longtime home in Fallbrook, CA to Warsaw, Indiana where he is originally from. So now that he is in the twilight of his years, he is now looking at a run for the congressional seat of Mark Souder, who is already has a few teabaggers pushing for his seat. Now it is not likely Metzger will win, although given the results when he did this before, we aren't ready to say that definitively. Still given all the calamities of what he calls his life, which culminated a few years ago with a documentary showing him drunk off his ass and singing blues in karoke bars, this shot at a congressional seat promises to be more entertaining than a concern.

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The Aryan Guard, the group that thinks it is still alive, along with a splinter group called White European Bloodlines (WEB) has something to prove after the year they had. The Aryan Guard founder Kyle McKee is sitting in a jail cell on attempted murder charges, and another member, John Marleau, is in another jail cell for attacking a C-Train (Canada's Amtrak) operator. A mother with ties to the Aryan Guard lost her kids to the state since she and her husband thought it would be cool to scrawl racist crap on their 7-year-old daugher's arm and tell her how to kill black people. and then there's the fact that they said they were breaking up, only to come back bigger and stronger than e-- no wait, that's didn't happen. They only came back sort of after announcing they disbanded. Anyway, they want to rally at Calgary, Alberta's City Hall on March 21, and given the trouncing the Nazis got at last year's rally, no doubt antifa are feeling their oats right about now. Now this is the same day that some Nazis have declared "White Pride World Wide Day" or something, and some group called the National Socialist Front out of Chicago also pulled itself out of the mothballs to declare a march on that weekend.

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LOS ANGELES, CA--The National Socialist Movement (NSM) are apparently mad that no one cared about their San Diego outing last month, and now they are making plans for a rally at LA's City Hall. This is no doubt going to be fun for a lot of the West Coast antifa who are used to seeing some of the members of this crowd at anti-immigration rallies around the state. They have already started mobilizing and produced flyers calling for folks to oppose this upcoming rally. This may be a little hotter than your average NSM rally.

Downoad flyer:

http://onepeoplesproject.com/media/pdfs/nsmla2.pdf

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On March 21st, 2010 the Illinois National Socialist Front is planning to march in Chicago for what they call “White Pride World Wide”. South Side Anti-Racist Action is making plans to confront the march to let them know that they are not welcome in our city.

March 21st is recognized as International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination because of the massacre of demonstrators demanding an end to apartheid in Sharpesville, South Africa in 1960. However in 2000, neo-nazi and white nationalist organizations came together to attempt to reclaim March 21st as “White Pride World Wide” day against “multi-racial supremacy”.

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This year - 2010 - the CNT celebrates 100 years since it was founded, in a context very different from today's. For this reason, we want to analyze and reflect on the path that this class-struggle union has followed throughout its history and examine its role today. There is no doubt that the people who have been members of the CNT have mostly been women and men with a capacity for critical thought, sometimes well ahead of their time, and there have been times when the CNT has played a vital role, as in the social revolution of 1936.

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