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Golden Dawn Supporters Attack Passengers on Athens Metro

On Tuesday night, supporters of Golden Dawn attacked an immigrant who was in the metro en route to/from Piraeus - Kifisia. At 11pm, a man from Pakistan was attacked by a gang of almost 30 people while the train...

Poll: Anti-bailout Left Has Four-Point Lead

Greece's radical-left Syriza party is leading in the race to win the country's elections next month, a public-opinion poll showed Thursday, outpacing the rival conservative New Democracy party by a four-point margin. According to the poll for the privately owned...

Situation Still Tense in Patras, Alleged Golden Dawn Involvement

The situation in the western Greek port city of Patras is still tense after incidents on Tuesday evening in the port area, where a 29-year-old Greek man was murdered by three undocumented Afghan illegal immigrants. Yesterday evening just after...

Extreme Rightists Fight Police Over Migrants

Greek authorities say supporters of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn group have clashed with police during an anti-immigrant protest in the western port of Patras. Police say the clashes followed a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of local residents outside an...

Paris Match: ‘Alexis Tsipras, The Man Who Scares Europe’

Two weeks after the May 6 elections, leader of left-wing SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras continues to be the favorite personality of international press. That doesn’t mean that the remarks are always positive; most of the time, they are negative. ”The man...

Golden Dawn Targets Greek Homosexual Community

Greek nationalist group Golden Dawn has stirred up controversy and turmoil once again by publicly taking a rigid stance against the “sick and abnormal” homosexuals. Despite the international medical associations declaring homosexuality a personal and free choice of sexual behavior,...

Golden Dawn's Leader Has Warped Sense of History, Says There Were 'No Gas Chambers' in Nazi Concentration Camps

Nikos Michaloliakos is the leader of the Greek political party Golden Dawn, now representing 6.97% of the Greek citizens in Parliament. Michaloliakos gave an interview to journalist Stavros Theodorakis, whose show broadcasts social and humanitarian subjects, in a bid to...

SYRIZA Surges in Polls, Sun Setting on Golden Dawn

ATHENS – Greece’s rising political leader of the left, 37-year-old Alexis Tsipras, whose refusal to back a coalition government in favor of more austerity measures, has taken his SYRIZA party into the lead for prospective new elections, a poll...

More Than Half of Police Officers Voted For Neo-nazi Party

More than half of all police officers in Greece voted for pro-Nazi party Golden Dawn in the elections of May 6. This is the disconcerting result of an analysis carried out by authoritative newspaper To Vima in several constituencies...

ADL Urges Greek President Not to Appoint Minister From Neo-Nazi Party

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed alarm that Greece’s neo-Nazi party garnered enough votes in this week’s election to earn seats in Parliament, and urged the president of Greece to refuse to appoint any neo-Nazi party members to the cabinet. The...