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# What is happening in Greece?
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/greece-in-turmoil-ii/
- Published: 2008-12-12T15:12:12.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:59:52.000Z
- Author: Open democracy
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:57

- Editor [Nikos Konstandaras](https://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/2008/12/12/sources-of-rage-nikos-konstandaras) points to the State's double humiliation: it killed an innocent; it failed to contain street violence.
- [Malcolm Brabant](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7771628.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net) at the BBC describes the culture of protest that has grown up in the Greek polytechnics since 1973.
- [Kostas Gemenis](https://www.opendemocracy.net/article/greece-in-turmoil-riots-and-politics) asks why a romanticisation of self-styled anarchist political violence has survived in Greece longer than anywhere else in Europe: there ought to have been reform of both education and police.
- The AP reports spreading [anarchist-style violence](http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hOJuFJaHKzesQ2L6lRnfBKvHouiAD950J0VG0?ref=opendemocracy.net) in Spain, France and Denmark.
- [Giorgos Markakis](https://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/admin/2008/12/11/under-the-lid-corruption-media-manipulation-and-protest) offers an angry, tactical interpretation of events from the perspective of an opposition activist.
- London-based journalist [Teo Kermeliotis](https://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/teo-kermeliotis/2008/12/12/when-pessimism-turns-to-protest) echoes Gemenis in emphasising the frustration felt by highly qualified young Greeks in the face of nepotism and corruption.
- Alexis, [a young protester](https://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/alexis-s/2008/12/12/eyewitness-from-thessaloniki) from Thessaloniki watches the take-over of peaceful protests by violent extremists.