December 6 Revolutionary Organization (Anarchist Entity, Greece)

• Local Name: Επαναστατικής Οργάνωσης 6η Δεκέμβρη
• Transliteration: Epanastatikís Orgánosis Éxi Dekémvri
• Alternatives: N/a
• Status: 2008 – 2011 (Disbanded)
• Conflicts: Greek Anarchist Militancy

The December 6 Revolutionary Organization [EOED; Epanastatikís Orgánosis Éxi Dekémvri] was a militant group made up of anarchist activists based in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens.¹ Due to operational similarities and comparable messaging, the EOED was thought to be linked to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire [SPF; Synomosía ton Pyrínon tis Fotiás] and the Revolutionary Struggle [EA; Epanastatikos Agonas].² The outfit’s name referred to the day on which a young anarchist activist was killed in confrontations with police in 2008.³

The EOED first appeared on Dec. 21, 2008 when it sent letters containing bullets to a journalist and a lawyer in Athens.⁴ On Jan. 15, 2010, members of the outfit bombed the offices of a press association in the Greek capital.⁵ The EOED asserted responsibility in a message left in an abandoned building in Exarchia.⁶ The group reemerged on Mar. 23, 2011 when one of its operatives called a newspaper to warn of a bomb planted outside a state revenue office in the Neos Kosmos suburb.⁷ Police safely control-detonated the device. The EOED later claimed to have planted the bomb in a lengthy statement left on a memory drive on a street in Exarchia.⁸ Following this incident, the outfit was not heard from again.