19/05/2026
On Friday, 22 May at 12:30, members of the Community Action Tenants Union, Teach Torthai and Slí Eile will come together in front of the Greek Embassy on Pembroke St. in Dublin 2 in solidarity with the residents of the Community of Squatted Prosfigyka who are resisting destruction at the hands of the Greek state.
Housing a neighbourhood of 400 people for the last 16 years, Prosfigyka is the largest initiative of radical self-organisation in Greece, and one of the biggest squats in Europe. They have established 22 autonomous social structures to meet the needs of the neighbourhood and wider area, including a daycare centre, communal pharmacy, bakery, autonomous women’s structure and much more. The neighbourhood has also acted as a vital base for the development of an international movement against the global violence of capital, state and patriarchy.
Since 2025, the Greek state is seeking once again to destroy the community and to hand over the historic neighbourhood to political and business interests. Local authorities, along with the Greek Ministry of Culture, have signed a gentrification plan which will completely transform the area and displace 400 people in the process.
The residents are currently fighting collectively on multiple levels against the violent implementation of the plan. At the forefront of this struggle are Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagnes’s hunger strikes until death, putting their lives on the line for the defence of the community and its political proposal.
This Friday, shortly after the anniversary of Bobby Sands’s death as a result of his own hunger strike in 1981, we will gather at the Greek Embassy and express our solidarity with our Greek comrades, a solidarity that is deepened by the resonances of this fight with our island’s ongoing struggle for freedom.
We will raise our voices in tandem with other solidarity actions across the world, all a part of mounting global dissent with the violence of capital and its interests against human autonomy and the right to housing.
Resistance is our common language! Save Prosfigyka!
