I wrote a small post on the r/anarchism thread about the riots here so I shall explain for you in short.

Basically in November 17th (tomorrow and Greek national holiday) 1973 anarchist pupils of Athens polytechnic were crushed by a tank that was ordered by the US backed Junta to drive into the gate that had pupils amd other protesters clinging to it killing i think about 60 people. This founded the modern greek anarchist movement. The are of Exarchia in athens (look at my name) is renoun in europe as the heart of greek anarchy and the police dont go into the area because every single person living there will be out within minutes with sticks, rocks and molotovs to remove the police. Ive been to Exarchia multiple times and becaus im an anarchist and all i do is look (not photograph) at the graffiti, drink coffee at the beautiful Parisian styled cafes and buy comics they are friendly towards me.

In reply as to why are we so 'in your face' to the police? Because they know how many greeks are anarchists, they know if the police cross a line too far - i.e. hit a child or kill a woman - they will not have a riot to deal with. They will have a revolution or possibly civil war. In the working classes of greeks (by this i mean the ones who are under 35) you are either an anarchist or communist - greek communism is so similar to anarchy i dont understand why they hate eachother if im honest with you). If there was an anarchist party it would probably get 20%-30% of the vote (in 2019) but there isnt and wont be.

Just so any americans reading this understand, greeks have a natural hatred of america because of your governments support for the Greek monarch in the civil war 1946-49 And then the Junta 1967-74, to us your country (not your people) represents imperialism in its true form, they supported the government that benefited them not the one the people of greece wanted.

We hate no people based off of nationality, we hate your governments and those who support it.