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Reacting to ‘Austerity Politics’: The Tactic of Collective Expropriation in Greece

Pautz, H., Kominou, M.
Social Movement Studies, 12 (1), pp. 103-110, 2013

Masked activists, self-identifying as anarchists, taking from supermarkets and handing goods to passers-by are the topic of this profile. Over 50 such acts have occurred across Greece since the onset of the financial, political and social crisis in 2008. We present a snapshot of the phenomenon of collective expropriation and position it within a context of further market-oriented forms of resistance to ‘austerity politics’.