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Athens Polytechnic Uprising: 50 Years Ago Greeks Rebelled Against the Junta
The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred on November 17, 1973, as a massive student demonstration of the popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967 to 1974.
The uprising that began on November 14, 1973, escalated to an open, anti-junta...
Greece
Greek Police Bans Public Gatherings Ahead of Polytechnic Uprising Anniversary
The Greek Police issued a statement late on Saturday night announcing that all public gatherings of more than four people in Greece's public places will be banned from Sunday, November 15, to Wednesday, November 18.
This comes as Greece prepares...
Greece
Greece Pulls Plug on Rally for Anniversary of Polytechnic Uprising
On Friday, Michalis Chrisochoidis, the country's Minister of Citizen Protection, announced that the annual rally commemorating the Polytechnic Uprising on November 17, 1973 would not occur this year.
The yearly demonstration marks the day that Greece's right-wing military Junta sent...
Greece
Greece Announces Polytechnic Uprising Will Not Be Celebrated in 2020
Adding to the long list of events, celebrations and commemorations which never saw the light of day this year, it appears that 1973's Athens Polytechnic Uprising, the anniversary of which is remembered annually in the city, will also not...
Greece
Thousands March in Athens to Commemorate Polytechnic Uprising
Thousands marched on the streets of Athens toward the US Embassy on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising and the victims of the deadly 1973 crackdown by the police and the army of a student uprising...
Greece
Former PM Tsipras to Join Demo on Polytechnic Uprising Anniversary
Former PM Alexis Tsipras announced that he will join demonstrators on Sunday for the yearly march to the U.S. Embassy marking the 1973 Polytechnic uprising.
The leader of leftist SYRIZA is thought to be the first former Greek PM to...
Greece
Athens Polytechnic Uprising: How Greek Students Overthrew a Coup
As of November 1973, it had been six and a half years since Greece had been placed under strict military rule. Opponents of the junta which took over in the April 21, 1967 coup had been tortured, jailed, exiled, or put...
Greece
Greek Police on Alert Over Polytechnic Uprising Anniversary
More than 5,000 officers are on duty to police the march that will take place Sunday afternoon in Athens, commemorating the anniversary of the student uprising against the Greek junta in 1973.
The march will start at 3 pm local time...
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Athens: Violent Clashes Followed the March for Polytechnic Uprising Anniversary (video)
Violent clashes erupted on the streets of central Athens right after the conclusion of the annual march commemorating the 1973 Polytechnic uprising against the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 until 1974.
Despite more than 5,000 police officers being...
Greece
November 17 Anniversary: Thousands March to Commemorate the Polytechnic Uprising
Thousands of people marched on the streets of Athens on Saturday afternoon to commemorate the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising and the victims of the 1973 deadly crackdown by the police and the Army of a student uprising against...
Cyprus
Cyprus Football Club Fans Raise Banner Denying Polytechnic Uprising
A group of Cyprus' Apoel football club fans hoisted a banner with the slogan, ‘’Polytechnio 1973-2017, 44 years of lies,” during their club’s match against Omonia on Friday, November 17, the day on which the anniversary of the student...
Greece
Violent Clashes in Athens Mark Polytechnic Uprising Anniversary (video)
Dozens of anarchists launched a barrage of petrol bomb attacks against the police at the infamous Exarhia area of Athens.
Police responded with tear gas and a number of properties have been damaged.
A woman was hospitalized with burns after being...
Greece
Thousands Join Polytechnic Uprising Commemoration March at US Embassy
Thousands of protesters marched on Friday to the US Embassy in Athens to mark the anniversary of the 1973 crackdown on a student uprising against the military dictatorship ruling Greece between 1967 and 1974.
Shouting anti-American slogans, protesters from various...
Greece
Polytechnic Uprising: Destitute Greek Republic's Last Remaining Memorial
The Polytechnic School uprising against the military dictatorship 44 years ago; an overflow of resistance by the Greek people against the junta, is the last remaining memorial of a republic sunk into destitute - both financial and political.
In the...
Greece
Thousands of Participants in 41st Anniversary Rally of Athens Polytechnic Uprising [Video]
Some 20,000 to 25,000 Greeks participated in the annual protest rally to the US Embassy on Monday evening, marking the 41st anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising of November 17, 1973. The demonstration was policed by more than 7,000 officers, who...