- Local Name: Επαναστατική Μνήμη
- Transliteration: Epanastatikí Mními
- Alternatives: N/a
- Status: 2017 – Active
- Conflicts: Greek Anarchist Militancy
The Revolutionary Memory [EM; Epanastatikí Mními] was a shadowy left-wing extremist entity based in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens. On Feb. 04, 2022, a group of about twenty people seemingly affiliated with the EM hurled at least two homemade firebombs at the Exarchia police station.1 Officers arrested sixteen of the assailants immediately afterwards. On Feb. 10, the EM released a lengthy statement in which it asserted responsibility for the attack.2
In its communiqué, the EM denounced the Greek state for its repressive management of the coronavirus pandemic which it interpreted as “preventative counter-insurgency”. The outfit also lamented the allegedly poor state of Greece’s health services and compulsory vaccination. Most of its invective was reserved for the authorities’ policies towards Exarchia. The EM accused rulers of allowing drugs trade in the neighborhood in the hope of extinguishing the anarchist resistance brewing there. It also rejected schemes to change Exarchia through gentrification and redevelopment financed by “Chinese, Israelis and other bastards of the local and international elite”.
Although the February 2022 incident was the EM’s first attack, it had been issuing occasional statements commemorating past left-wing extremist activism and militancy since the summer of 2017. In one of these messages, the EM detailed the response of Greek anarchists to the October 1977 suicides of three terrorists of the Red Army Faction [RAF; Rote Armee Fraktion].
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