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Kasimis Team proclamations 1985-6
Krystallis's "Critical Dialogue with
17N"
ELA's Reply to Karambelas 1985
ELA's "Bibliography" and
backlash 1986
ELA Vents at EOCK 1988
Corpus of ELA Proclamations
Notes on SPF (Conspiracy of Fire
Cells)
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Deadly November
I began working on a book on "Revolutionary
Organization 17 November:" (17N) in 2006, not realizing how difficult
it would prove. Much of what the public learned in July/August 2002, after
the arrest of several 17N members, is inaccurate. I hope the book will
emerge in Greek (Livanis) and English (tbd) by the end of 2010.
One crucial piece of evidence for 17N's structure and
behavior is a set of financial
notebooks recovered in a 17N safe house in July 2002. For the period
September 1990 through May 1997 we have an almost day-by-day record of the
group's activities, in the form of payments to members and associates.
Deciphering those payments has been an interesting challenge. I encourage
you to check my results and suggest your own answers to multiple mysteries
those notebooks open.
I have also tracked down from old newspapers and other
sources (e.g., the Ios archive, G Karambelas, Ch. Halazias, eksegersi.gr)
hundreds of proclamations by various radical groups from 1975-2010. I have
scanned/photographed and digitized many of them as Unicode8 text files. To
spare future scholars the addictive thrill of discovery, I have placed 240+
of them in GoogleDocuments and hope they will prove useful. (17N,
ELA, October80, Revolutionary Nuclei - Επαναστατικοί
Πυρήνες, SPF, etc). With help from talented friends I have done
some interesting computer-aided stylistic analysis which will appear in
the book.
From its founding in 1975 until 1995, 17N engaged in a not
very amicable dialogue with Revolutionary Popular Struggle (ELA), its less
violent, more verbose rival. The internal jealousies of the armed
movement in Greece open a useful window into their mutual history. Readers
of Greek should read two documents written by ELA, in July
1985 (reply to Karambelas's book) and April 1986
(ELA's "Bibliography")
A fascinating microhistory is the emergence in March 1985
of a little group of bombers, who called themselves "Christos Kasimis
International Solidarity Revolutionary Team." Their use of Christos
Kasimis, a founding member of ELA and the armed movement's first martyr (Kasimis
was shot dead by police in a failed bombing in 1977), outraged ELA. The
result was an increasingly vitriolic exchange
of denunciations, gleefully reprinted without comment by Eleftherotypia.
The Kasimis Team has a fascinating link to Danos
Krystallis, a leftist journalist paid by the Greek intelligence
service KYP to infiltrate the Greek armed movement. How successful he was
remains a tantalizing mystery.
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