Terrorism in Greece

TERRORISM IN GREECE: WILL IT EVER END?

Tuesday 8 April, 7.15pm – Great Hall, Hellenic Centre

"A talk by Dr George Kassimeris, placing Greek extremist violence in a broader political and cultural perspective and explaining why it has become a permanent fixture of national public life.

Greece has one of the most sustained problems of political terrorism anywhere in the world. From the mid-1970s to the present, the country’s political and socio-economic institutions have been confronted by systematic terrorist violence mainly at the hands of revolutionary guerrilla groups. The long story of Greek terrorism was thought to have ended in the summer of 2002 with the collapse of the country’s premier terrorist group and one of Europe’s longest-running gangs, the notorious Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N). 17N’s dismantling and imprisonment, rather than demoralizing and emasculating the country’s armed struggle movement, led instead to the emergence of new urban guerrilla groups and an increase and intensification of revolutionary violence.

This talk will place Greek extremist violence in a broader political and cultural perspective and will explain why it has become a permanent fixture of national public life. George Kassimeris, Reader in Terrorism Studies at Wolverhampton University, is the author/editor of six books including Europe's Last Red Terrorists: The Revolutionary Organization 17 November, Playing Politics with Terrorism: A User's Guide and most recently Inside Greek Terrorism".

Organised by the Hellenic Centre.

Update: Brady Kiesling, a new book on the subject December 2014, from A Gael in Greece

Update, The Guardian

Update, Ethnos, 7 November 2016 - «Ασύλληπτος πυρήνας της 17Ν»

Update, eKathimerin, 10/11.2016 - Security Slipping