Revolutionary Liberation Action Group (Anarchist Entity, Greece)

• Local Name: Επαναστατική Απελευθερωτική Δράση
• Transliteration: Epanastatikí Apeleftherotiki Drasi
• Alternatives: N/a
• Status: 2002 – 2011 (Disbanded)
• Conflicts: Greek Anarchist Militancy

The Revolutionary Liberation Action Group [EAD; Epanastatikí Apeleftherotiki Drasi] was an anarchist terrorist organization from Greece. The group was never given much coverage in the press. Observers failed to link the outfit’s operations due to its low-key communication style and long periods of inaction between attacks. The EAD usually claimed responsibility for its operations through telephone calls to press outlets.

The EAD first emerged in October 2002 when it bombed and destroyed the car of the mayor in the Halandri suburb of Athens.¹ On Dec. 21, 2003, the group was behind an incendiary bomb attack on the offices of a construction company.² The firm was targeted because it was building a special courtroom for the trial of communist terrorists. Following these attacks, the EAD went quite for more than two years.

In 2006, the EAD reemerged. On Jan. 19, the group carried out three separate incendiary bomb attacks across Athens.³ A bank and an office of the conservative ND party were among the targets. In July 2006, the EAD bombed an office of the social-democratic PASOK party in the city center.⁴ On Dec. 21, the group launched four incendiary bomb attacks in the Greek capital city.⁵ The EAD again launched a series of simultaneous attacks in Athens on Jan. 11, 2007.⁶ In a statement released after the last bombings, the outfit demanded the release of several imprisoned anarchists on a hunger strike.⁷ The EAD subsequently suspended operations for more than two years.

The EAD reappeared in March 2009, when it firebombed the offices of a conservative member of parliament who had denounced a recent bout of rioting by anarchists.⁸ Later that year, the group also bombed an office of the nationalist LAOS party.⁹ On Jan. 28, 2010, an EAD bomb attack on the office of former prime minister Costas Simitas caused major damage.¹⁰ In March 2010, the group was behind two arson attacks on a bank and a PASOK party office.¹¹ It launched its final operation in March 2011 when members detonated an incendiary bomb at the offices of Greek health minister Andreas Loverdos.¹² Following this incident, the EAD disappeared. The group has likely been disbanded.