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At 02:00, Aristotelis Chantzis’ health condition deteriorated rapidly, including loss of consciousness and severe respiratory complications.

His condition is extremely critical. The next few hours are crucial, with a possibility that he may need to be intubated and admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

ATHENS, Greece: June 22, 2026

Aristotelis Chantzis, who has been on hunger strike for 138 days in defence of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika, was hospitalised yesterday following the onset of acute neurological symptoms. His condition has deteriorated rapidly in recent days.

Chantzis currently weighs 35 kg; a loss of 44% of his initial body weight, and presents with a BMI of 13.3. He is severely weakened, with oedema in both lower limbs and an inability to stand unaided, significantly limiting his mobility.

One day after his hospitalization, more than 5,000 people gathered in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens to demand the cancellation of the planned eviction of the Prosfygika Community and to call for all residents to remain in their homes and neighborhood : the place where they have built lasting social and communal ties.

About the Community of Squatted Prosfygika

Over the past 16 years, the Community of Squatted Prosfygika has established a self-organised and cooperative home for over 400 residents from more than 27 countries, operating on the principles of equality, horizontal governance, and direct democracy. The community sustains 22 autonomous structures serving both its residents and the surrounding districts, including a children’s structure, a collective kitchen and café, a bakery, a hosting facility for cancer patients and their relatives, a health structure and social pharmacy, and technical and logistics structures.

Disputed Decision and Threat of Eviction

Despite this established community, the Region of Attica approved Decision No. 864/2025, which describes the Prosfygika buildings as “vacant” and advances a redevelopment project funded through European resources. Residents and supporters reject this characterisation as factually false and legally unfounded, warning that if implemented it would result in the forced displacement of more than 400 people and the destruction of one of the largest self-organised communities in Europe.

In opposition to the planned eviction, two community members have declared hunger strikes until death: Aristotelis Chantzis, who began his strike on 5 February 2026, and Suzon Doppagne, who began hers on 1 May 2026.

Government Response

Despite the life-threatening condition of both hunger strikers, spokespeople for the Mitsotakis Government (Nea Demokratia) and the Region of Attica have announced the continuation of eviction plans. Both Chantzis and Doppagne have reiterated their resolve to continue.

Statements

Aristotelis Chantzis, speaking on his way to hospital, declared: “The struggle does not retreat — it has now begun. We will win until justice or death. We are responsible for 400 lives, we are responsible for our society, and we will win. Our struggle is just and I will not retreat until justice is done.”

Suzon Doppagne, upon visiting Chantzis in hospital, stated: “We’re right — we know it, you know it, society knows it. The truth is out there. We know who bears accountability for Aristos’ death, and that is the Government of Mitsotakis and the Region of Attica. Aristos will continue, I will continue, the community will continue. Either we will win — or we will win.”

After Aristotelis Chantzis was admitted to the Genimata General Hospital of Athens yesterday, thousands stand by his side on Syntagma square today.

MOBILIZE IN ATHENS AND EVERYWHERE! COME TO SYTAGMA SQUARE TO JOIN A LONGLASTING GATHERING AFTER THE DEMONSTRATION!

The struggle will continue until Justice or until death!
We will win!

Today on the 138th day of hunger strike Aristotelis Chantzis was transported to the “Georgios Genimatas“ Hospital with acute neurological symptoms.
His condition is extremely critical, he now weighs just 35 kg, and his life hangs by a thread.

We call on everyone to now take internationalist solidarity actions.
Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne are giving proof to their unyielding will and determination to defend the Community and to defend life itself.
Now it is our turn to intensify and to escalate our solidarity actions.
Take to the streets.
Take to the embassies and representations of the EU.
Let’s gather all our forces and lets claim this victory!

WE WILL WIN OR WE WILL WIN

At this moment, hunger striker Aristotelis Chantzis, who is on his 138th day of hunger strike, is being transported to the “Georgios Genimatas” Hospital with acute neurological symptoms.

His condition is extremely critical, he now weighs just 35 kg, and his life hangs by a thread.

Full responsibility lies with Nikos Chardalias, the Mitsotakis government, the Ministry of Culture, as well as other involved entities such as the Public Employment Service and the Municipality of Athens, which, despite having the solution in their hands, have failed to act; ultimately, they will all bear equal responsibility for the first death of a Hunger striker in Greece.

RAPID DETERIORATION OF HIS HEALTH

APPEAL TO ALL RELEVANT AUTHORITIES TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE HUNGER STRIKE

The hunger striker is on his 137th day of hunger strike and is severely emaciated, weighing 36.2 kg and having lost a total of 44% of his initial body weight, with a BMI of 13.3%. The hunger striker is now severely weakened, with edema in both lower limbs and an inability to stand, which significantly limit his mobility. He is also having difficulty speaking. His health has deteriorated rapidly during the last days.

The blood tests revealed low serum urea levels, hyperuricemia, symptomatic hypoglycemia and new-onset transaminasemia with rhabdomyolysis. From the neurological examination it was revealed absent tendon reflexes in the lower limbs, consistent with starvation, and daily lower limb numbness leading to gait disorders with difficulty moving.

The episodes of orthostatic hypotension, tachycardia upon standing and intense dizziness with fatigue have worsened and are now significantly affecting his ability to function, while serious sleep disorders also exist. At the same time, persistent electrocardiographic abnormalities predisposing to fatal arrhythmias are observed daily.

With every passing 24 hours, the hunger striker faces an ever-increasing cardiovascular and metabolic risk, with dangerous, life-threatening complications.

His demands reflect the collective demands of the Community:

• IMMEDIATE CANCELLATION OF THE CONTRACT BY THE REGION OF ATTICA.
• ALL RESIDENTS OF PROSFYGIKA TO REMAIN IN THEIR HOMES, IN THE PLACE AND AREA WHERE THEY LIVE AND HAVE ESTABLISHED SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND ORGANICAL TIES.
• CONCRETE GUARANTEES TO BE GIVEN FOR THE RESTORATION OF PROSFYGIKA BY THE NON-PROFIT COVIL LAW COMPANY KNOWN AS “RESIDENTS AND FRIENDS OF PROSFYGIKA ALEXANDRAS AV.” USING ITS OWN FUNDING! – NOT A SINGLE EURO OF PUBLIC MONEY FOR THE “RESTORATION” OF PROSFYGIKA!

The hunger has declared that he does not intend to end his hunger strike despite the health risks, until his demands are met.

After 137 days of hunger strike and given the steadily worsening health condition of Aristotelis Chantzis, everyone involved in the contract is to be held accountable for any complications or even a fatal outcome, especially the Regional Administration of Attica and all the relevant institutions. The systematic cover-up of the hunger strike by the majority of the media, as well as the criminal silence of the government and the relevant authorities, are contributing to driving the hunger striker to his death.

As healthcare professionals, we once again issue an urgent appeal to all relevant authorities to take a position and immediately meet the demands of the hunger strike.

George Vatidis, Specialist in Internal Medicine – Resident in Critical Care Medicine

Hakan Gürvit, MD, Professor of Neurology

Zeki Gül, MD, Specialist of Internal Medicine

Şebnem Korur Fincancı, MD, Professor of Forensic Medicine

Group of Solidarian Doctors

The Mayor of Athens, Haris Doukas, announced on friday, June 12th, that the Municipality of Athens is requesting a dialogue on the situation of the Prosfygika housing complex on Alexandras Avenue. He proposes an open and organized dialogue including the government and the regional department of Attika. The statement also calls on political parties to take a clear position so that the loss of further human rights and human lives can be avoided.

This development is certainly influenced by the formal question on the legitimacy of the EU funding that was submitted to the European Commission by 33 members of the European Parliament from the Socialists, the Greens and the Left.

A harsh and costly struggle of the Hunger Strikers Aristotelis Chantzis (Day 132) and Suzon Doppagne (Day 47) and a massive movement of solidarity across Greece and internationally led to this move.

The Community published a statement on this (https://saveprosfygika.gr/index.php/en/2026/06/15/statement-by-the-community-of-squatted-prosfygika-of-alexandras-av-regarding-the-latest-statement-by-athens-mayor-charis-doukas/).
We regard the initiative of Doukas as a positive step, even though it is long overdue. The words have to be followed by actions as soon as possible.

We continue to struggle to ensure that the Prosfygika neighborhood remains a living community: a social project of social housing, solidarity, public benefit and collective memory.

To read more about Maja and the Budapest Case visit: https://www.basc.news/en/current/

A Greeting of Solidarity to Greece

Dear people of Prosfygika, dear ones who fight together.

A powerful person is said to have once said that our word is written on water, washed over and drowned by the next wave, lost in the next storm of violence and destruction. You hold no fear of this lie; you look the monster in the eye.

May there be places of strength for you, wherever your paths may lead, and let life dare to blur every trace of origin.

Shadowless you are not, no, in your shadows we rest, as at midday at the foot of the mulberry trees. The wind in the branches sings, carrying your word of pain and loss. There in the shade the leaves dance, passing onward your courage to live.

May your struggles bear new buds, steady your certainty, summon our conscience. So that you know: your struggle is neither lost nor lonely; it asks us when we will act.

Just now I lay on the floor, looked up, and saw white, the white of cotton. I looked to the sky, saw a cell ceiling, and rested, remembering the days a year ago when I went into hunger strike to rob the white walls of their silence, laying bare their shadows. Empty I never felt; I fought, fought at the side of so many, the unrelenting. I knew what for: so that the shadows of greed grow dangerous to the indifferent and the corruptible, so that they, alongside us, break free from fear.

Today you are there, I am here, and all I hold is the word of connection, of being bound as comrades, the urge to stand at your side, despite the distance, despite the walls painted white, despite the violence forcing its way into your gardens, your homes, your communities. May rage and grief sharpen our eyes to what we have created. Let them believe we wrote merely on water. So be it, for we have written ourselves into life, for the drop of water is never without the power to wake blossoms from buds, fruits and seeds, shadows and gardens, without ever passing away. So too the struggle for freedom.

May life stay with you, in deepest solidarity, Maja

After a harsh and costly struggle, marked by the hunger strikes of Aristotelis Chantzis (129 days) and Suzon Doppagne (44 days), and a massive solidarity movement across Greece and internationally—which, in fact, led 33 Members of the European Parliament (from the Left, Greens, Socialists, and Non-Affiliated) to submit a question to the European Commission, the Mayor of Athens now acknowledges that the consultation with those directly affected, which is required by law, has not taken place.

Contrary to the government’s official claims in Parliament (responses by Papathanasis and Spanakis to the topical questions posed by E. Tsakalotos, A. Kazamias, and Z. Konstantopoulou), on the one hand regarding an allegedly exhausted dialogue and on the other regarding fearmongering, as well as the threats of mass eviction by government spokesperson P. Marinakis in response to C. Avramidis’s question, emphasizing “that the law is above human rights,” it is clear that a closed-door dialogue—which excludes the Community that has lived in, cared for, and defended Prosfygika for nearly 20 years—is simply invalid.

The Mayor of Athens took the initiative to seek “the broadest possible social consensus,” recognizing the Community as the most natural partner in this process. He also calls on Regional Governor N. Chardalias, the government, all political parties, and the relevant institutions to take a positive stance in this dialogue.

We view this initiative positively and as a step in the right direction. Consequently, we accept the invitation and declare that we are here, open to a substantive dialogue, without preconceived decisions, with the Community as the natural dialogue partner and where every discussion will begin with the recognition of the existing reality: that Prosfygika is not an empty space, but a vibrant Community of people, with social structures and a historical presence spanning decades.

The Mayor of Athens, by virtue of his institutional role, has the power to prevent the continuation of the regional governor’s and the government’s plans for the reppression and destruction of the Community, as he is the official responsible for social housing and the licensing of any construction work.

For our part, we expect this initiative not to remain merely on paper; we expect words to be turned into action and the willingness to engage in dialogue to be immediately translated into formal invitations.

Pending further developments, we are suspending the entry of new hunger strikers, as we committed to doing during the press conference we held at on May 25, 2026. Hunger strikers Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne continue the struggle, awaiting—as we all do—a positive response from all parties as soon as possible to find a solution.

We continue to fight so that Prosfygika remain a vibrant Community, a social project of social housing, solidarity, of common benefit, and collective memory.

Community of Squatted Prosfygika
June 13, 2026, Athens

📆Wednesday 17.6. 21:00 pm CET
🔗https://lecture.senfcall.de/sav-loj-48f-nxo

Dear comrades,

After several months of hard and dedicated struggle marked by the hunger strikes of Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne and a massive solidarity movement across Greece and internationally – which, in fact, led 33 Members of the European Parliament to submit a question
to the European Commission – the Mayor of Athens announced a public consultation and negotiation process that includes and recognizes the community.

Especially in this new situation it is important that we come together to create a common understanding of the situation and to strengthen us even more to go all together towards victory!

Before, at 7 pm cet, we are organizing an event together with a delegation of Errekaleor Squat from Basque country that is currently visiting Prosfygika. The event will both happen in Prosfygika as also online.

As you may have heard every Wednesday evening we will have an update and planning call, where we analyze the political situation regarding Prosfygika, answer questions and speak about the strategical next steps of the internationalist campaign and internationalist action.

See you there!

COMMUNITIES OF STRUGGLE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD,
WE WILL WIN OR WE WILL WIN!
2:52 PM

On Wednesday, June 17th at 20:00, comrades from squatted Errekalor neighborhood in the Basque Country will screen the short film “Utopia and other species” and speak about their community, which is being built since 13 years. Let’s unite two of the biggest squatted neighborhoods in Europe to connect our struggles and to strengthen internationalist connections!
Online participation is possible, the live stream link is to be announced.

COMMUNITIES OF STRUGGLE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD

HANDS OFF PROSFYGIKA
HANDS OFF ERREKALEOR

The Community of Squatted Prosfygika in this period of time is facing the 5th and largest attack in its 16 years of existance.

The Regional Government of Attica, together with the Ministry of Culture and the Unemployment Service plan the „redevelopment“ of the Prosfygika Neighbourhood, which is in reality a full scale eviction plan of the first four blocks funded by the European Union (Link)

The community declared the defense of the Prosfygika neighborhood at any cost, even with its own lives – giving a bold resistance, with clear demands; at the forefront a hungerstrike until death for the defense of life, that was started on February 5th by Aristotelis Chantzis, joined on May 1st by Suzon Doppagne and will include further members and residents of the Community.

Now we enter the summer period, which is in Athens a time of repression. We call for internationalists to spend the summer in Prosfygika and support the ongoing resistance against the state plans of eviction of the Community.

We call on individuals and collectives to come in the summer for the amount of time that they are capable. As the strategy of the defense of the community happens in many different ways, we ask comrades to:

• actively defend the community: The constant presence of repression forces in the Neighborhood and the threat of attacks require constant presence in the Community from members and internationalist solidarians and support in guarding of the community.
• strengthen the 23 structures that function autonomously, inside a holistic model of autonomy; based on the collective needs of the Community f. ex. the collective bakery, the gardening structure, technical structure, food logistics.…
• participate in the restoration of the buildings : Since last autumn, the Community has announced a selforganized, self financed, full renovation of the facades of the buildings as a basic axis of social self-defense. Individuals and collectives with all levels of experience in all crafts can participate in this
• building barrications of the buildings, supporting with expanding the defensive barrication of buildings. Individuals with welding and metal work experience are especially welcome to join.
• support the organization of social kitchens and nutrition of the neighborhood. We call for collectives and individuals with experience in social kitchens to come and contribute with their initiative.
• contribute to the internationalist #saveprosfygika campaign for example through media works.

As internationalist solidarity has always been a pillar of the struggle in Prosfygika, it showed its strength again in the last months, with a great participation of solidarians from around the world. We call internationalists to come based on the idea of internationalism to connect our struggle, to practice solidarity and to learn from the spaces we are visiting.

In this phase of struggle every move of solidarity, every person that will come to support will be essential for our victory in the communal fight of life and death.

HANDS OFF PROSFYGIKA !

THE WORLD ONLY EXISTS WHEN WE SHARE IT !

Internationalists Save Prosfygika

Mail: press-saveprosfygika@systemli.org

Blog: https://saveprosfygika.gr

Instagram: @int.saveprosfygika

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/saveprosfygikainternationalist

Material’s: https://saveprosfygika.gr/index.php/en/materials/

Why? Because the Community is under a concrete threat of eviction, funded with ESPA/NSRF funds from the EU.

Goal of this delegation is,

• to make the struggle of the Community known towards members of the European Parliament and in this way increase the pressure on the greek state,
• to ask for statements of solidarity
• to show the serious gaps of the contract such as various unanswered legal questions:
• Unresolved issues regarding the legality of the ownership status of the buildings.
• Substantial, unauthorized changes to the original agreement and funding structure.
• Alleged irregularities concerning Regional NSRF funding procedures.
• Blatant incompatibilities between the approved project and the officially approved restoration study of 2018.
• The absolute necessity to protect the historical and architectural character of the Prosfygika complex, officially recognized as a protected modern monument due to its Bauhaus architecture and its role in the modern history of Greece.
  Programme
• On the 03/06 there will be a meeting with Members of the European Parliament, from 4-6pm a demonstration in front of the European Parliament and in the evening a community event.
• On the 04/06 at 4pm we will have a press conference.

For the time in between and on the 5th there will be time to meet with NGOs and other organizations, politicians, groups and people, who are willing to listen and support the community.

We ask our internationalist network to

• Reach out to those who might know Members of the European Parliament and invite them for the meeting with us on the 3. of June
• Contacts to human rights organizations / activists / groups / public figures who are based in Brussels or willing to come to meet there
• Call for journalists that are based in Brussels or willing to come to join for the press conference
• For everyone who can: COME TO BRUSSELS!

Another week full of events, cultural happenings, meetings, and all-day activities at the Community of Squatted Prosfygika!

Monday, 1/6:

• 7:00 PM: Open Assembly for the murder of K. Manioudakis, at the Square of Prosfygika

Tuesday, 2/6:

• 6:30 PM: Solidarity Assembly for imprisoned, fugitive, and persecuted militants in the Social Centre of Prosfygika, 1st block
• 6:30 PM: Open Assembly for the case of torture of V. Maggos, at Steki of Prosfygika, 6th block

Wednesday, 3/6:

• 6:00 PM: Open class of contemporary dance and improvisation, at Kioski of Prosfygika

Thursday, 4/6:

• 7:00 PM: Collective Café
• 8:30–10:30 PM: Acoustic live concert | ΜΕΘΥΣΜΕΝΑ ΞΩΤΙΚΑ at Kioski of Prosfygika

Friday, 5/6:

• 8:30 PM: DJ set | Giannis (TNT) & GZAS, at Kioski of Prosfygika

Saturday, 6/6:

• 7:00 PM: Children’s Cinema, at Steki of Prosfygika
• 7:30 PM: MOTORCYCLE DEMO | Starting point: Prosfygika
• 9:30 PM–11:30 PM: Latin AfroBeats, Funk Grooves and dance | Kugaya & Tseria, at the 1st block on Alexandras Av.

Sunday, 7/6:

• 10:00: Collective breakfast from the bakery structure, at Kioski of Prosfygika
• 10:00-16:00: Collective carpenting works at the Square of Prosfygika
• 13:00-15:00: Collective plumbing works, at the Square of Prosfygika
• 4:00 PM: Collective kitchen & open collective café at the Kioski of Prosfygika
• 5:00 PM: Open Solidarity Assembly with the Community of Squatted Prosfygika
• 9:30 PM: Live Rebetiko at the Kioski of Prosfygika

CHILDREN’S PROGRAM:

• 6:00–7:00 PM: Welcoming and short tour by the children of the Children’s Structure & Children’s Workshop
• 7:00 PM: Event by the Network of Solidarity Schools at the Square of Prosfygika

ASSEMBLY OF SQUATTED PROSFYGIKA (SY.KA.PRO.)

Mail: sykapro_squat@riseup.net

Blog: sykaprosquat.noblogs.org

Instagram: @sykapro_

Twitter: @Prosfygika

4 June – La Fleur en Papier Doré
Rue des Alexiens 55, Brussels
Time: 16.00

We invite members of the press, independent journalists, and international media to attend a public press conference on 4 June in Brussels concerning the ongoing struggle of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in Athens, Greece.

In the heart of Athens, a living community of people is under attack today. The Prosfygika neighborhood consists of 8 housing blocks with 228 apartments, situated on a central plot of land in Athens, Greece. More than 400 residents currently live in these buildings and are collectively organized as the self-organized “Community of Squatted Prosfygika”. Among them are more than 50 minors, people with severe health issues, refugees, and politically engaged individuals. The community takes care of itself through 22 self-organized social welfare structures that have been running for 16 years and are open to the public. These include healthcare structures, accommodation for cancer patients and their companions, a social pharmacy, childcare facilities, a library, workshops, and solidarity kitchens.

Despite this reality, the Region of Attica approved Decision No. 864/2025, describing the buildings as “vacant” and advancing a redevelopment project funded through European resources. Residents and supporters denounce this decision as false and lacking any legal framework, warning it could lead to the forced eviction and displacement of more than 400 people, and the destruction of one of the largest self-organized communities in Europe.

At the same time, two members of the community, Aristotelis Chantzis (since 5 February) and Suzon Doppagne (since 1 May), are on hunger strike until death. Their health conditions are reported as crucial, especially Aristotelis, who has already exceeded 110 days of hunger strike, placing both lives in extreme danger.

Residents, supported by organisations, have challenged the redevelopment through legal complaints, public interventions, parliamentary questions, and solidarity actions. Also, the amnesty international is calling for cancelling of the plan of Region of Attica (*) Despite broad mobilisation from residents, experts, municipalities, artists, academics, lawyers, and international bodies, the Region of Attica continues to refuse dialogue, consultation, or discussion, declaring the matter resolved.

During the press conference, representatives of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika and the Committee for the Promotion and Defense of the Community of Prosfygika and its Collective Memory will speak about the ongoing struggle to protect residents’ lives, the violation of human rights and the rule of law by the Greek government, as well as the hunger strike and procedures followed at European and international level.

Press releases

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No EU-Funds for the Eviction of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika
No EU-Funds to kill the Hunger Strikers Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne

For almost 120 days, Aristotelis Chantzis has carried out a hunger strike until death in defense of the Squatted Community of Prosfygika in Athens. Since May 1st, Suzon Doppagne has joined him on this path for the defense of life. A struggle for a society built on solidarity, dignity, resistance, and the conviction that we will win.

Their decision is grounded in collective determination: the refusal to accept the eviction of a living community, the destruction of collective care, and the displacement of more than 400 residents. For more than 16 years, Prosfygika has built relationships, culture, and a model of self-organization, self-sufficiency, and direct democracy that continues to sustain hundreds of people from the oppressed class and from over 27 nationalities unified in the center of Athens.

And still, the Mitsotakis government has made clear that it is prepared to let the hunger strikers die in order to attack and destroy one of the largest self-organized communities in Europe — through a violent eviction carried out in the name of the planned “Regeneration Project,” financed through several millions from the european ESPA funds.

At a time when every aspect of life is being privatized, commodified, and placed under attack, more and more people are being pushed into poverty, exclusion, and social death. We see it in the collapse of public healthcare, the privatization of education, the eviction of people from their homes, the destruction of labor rights, and the unbearable rise in the cost of rent, food, and energy. We see it in the criminalization of resistance, the repression of communities, the destruction of public and natural spaces, and in governments investing in war, genocide, and militarization while society itselfisforced into precarity.

In this reality, Prosfygika affirms that another way of life is possible: a life rooted not in isolation and the logic of “everyone for themselves,” but in solidarity, collective care, and shared resistance. The attack against the Squatted Community of Prosfygika is therefore far more than an attack on a neighborhood. It is an attack against the possibility of self-organization beyond state control, exploitation, and abandonment; an attack against the right to live with dignity; and an attack against a life built on shared responsibility, humanity, and collective struggle.

After months full of local and internationalist mobilization, interventions at the municipality of Athens and the Attica Region and Invitations with local politicians for a dialogue, we will not wait any longer for any positive response from representative of the Greek state. 

We call on every person with conscience, every organized force of the movement, every social organization, to come from the 2nd – 4th of June to Brussels to spread our message all together. 

WE ARE HERE, WE WILL NOT TAKE A STEP BACK – UNTIL WE WIN OR WE WIN. 

PROGRAM  

2nd of June – Gathering in Liège, the home town of community member and hunger striker Suzon Doppagne   

3rd of June – Internationalist mass mobilisation in front of the European Parliament 

4th of June – Press Conference and Participation in the HOUS COMMITTE …       

CONTACT & APPLICATION 

Please inform us, whether from your organization people will participate for the whole time or also only for the big demonstration (3rd of June) 

Organise in your local contexts mobilizations for 3rd of June 

Write us, if you have any specific needs for beds

mail: save-prosfygika-internationalist@systemli.org

website: https://saveprosfygika.gr

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@intsaveprosfygika

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/int.saveprosfygika/

On May 24, hunger striker Aristotelis Chantzis was transported by ambulance to Aiginiteio Hospital after experiencing numbness in the head and blurred vision.

From the neurological examination it was revealed absent tendon reflexes in the lower limbs, consistent with malnutrition. A brain CT scan was performed, revealing no acute pathology.

On the doctors’ orders, he was admitted to Elpis Hospital for further medical evaluation.

The pathological examination revealed a viral infection of the upper respiratory system, which is accelerating the deterioration of his condition and increasing the risk.

The blood tests revealed low serum urea levels, hyperuricemia, and symptomatic hypoglycemia, findings consistent with starvation. At the same time, new-onset transaminasemia indicative of liver dysfunction was observed in the context of prolonged starvation.

After the integration of the exams he returned to the neighborhood of Prosfygika.

We repeat that from the first weeks of the hunger strike, he has been experiencing progressively worsening episodes of orthostatic hypotension, dizziness with fatigue and tachycardia upon standing. Those episodes have worsened and are now significantly affecting his ability to function, in addition with sleep disorders that have been established.

At the same time, persistent electrocardiographic abnormalities predisposing to fatal arrhythmias are observed daily.

He already had on 3/04//2026 a fainting episode and he experiences hypoglycemic episodes on a daily basis, while on Wednesday, April 15, medical intervention was required to treat a severe hypoglycemic episode.

The hunger striker is now very exhausted, suffering from swelling in both lower limbs and an inability to stand for long periods, which significantly limits his mobility and ability to move.

He is already on his 110th day of hunger strike and is emaciated, weighing 43.7 Kg and having lost a total of 32.76% % of his initial body weight. Given the duration of the hunger strike, we warn of the risk of imminent irreversible damage to vital organs.

With every passing 24 hours, the hunger striker faces an ever-increasing cardiovascular and metabolic risk, with dangerous, life-threatening complications.

In addition to all of the above, since Wednesday, May 20, he has been suffering from a viral upper respiratory infection, which is accelerating the deterioration of his condition and increasing the risk.

His demands reflect the collective demands of the Community:

• IMMEDIATE CANCELLATION OF THE CONTRACT BY THE REGION OF ATTICA.
• ALL RESIDENTS OF PROSFYGIKA TO REMAIN IN THEIR HOMES, IN THE PLACE AND AREA WHERE THEY LIVE AND HAVE ESTABLISHED SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND ORGANICAL TIES.
• CONCRETE GUARANTEES TO BE GIVEN FOR THE RESTORATION OF PROSFYGIKA BY THE NON-PROFIT COVIL LAW COMPANY KNOWN AS “RESIDENTS AND FRIENDS OF PROSFYGIKA ALEXANDRAS AV.” USING ITS OWN FUNDING! – NOT A SINGLE EURO OF PUBLIC MONEY FOR THE “RESTORATION” OF PROSFYGIKA!

The hunger has declared that he does not intend to end his hunger strike despite the health risks, until his demands are met.

After 110 days of a hunger strike and given the progressively worsening condition of his health, everyone involved is to be held accountable for the imminent complications or even a fatal outcome, especially the Regional Administration of Attica. The cover-up of the hunger strike by the majority of the media, as well as the criminal silence of the government, parliamentary political forces, and the relevant authorities, are all complicit in driving the hunger striker to his death.

On May 14, Mitsotakis government clearly stated its decision regarding the death of the hunger strikers from the Community of Squatted Prosfygika. Specifically, government spokesperson P.Marinakis, in response to a question from journalist Christos Avramidis about whether the government intends, based on Amnesty International’s appeal* to comply with international human rights standards and urgently review the demands of hunger strikers Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne and the Community, he explicitly states the decision to evict the Community of Squatted Prosfygika and condems to death the the two hunger strikers.

* The statment of Amnesty International on 27/04/2026 which is calling out the Region of Attica for violating fundamental and constitutionally protected human rights through plans concerning the Community of Squatted Prosfygika, as expressed in Decision No. 864/16-6-2025 regarding the conclusion of a programmatic agreement.

https://www.amnesty.gr/news/press/article/30730/i-diethnis-amnistia-kalei-na-pagosoyn-ta-shedia-anagkastikis-exosis-tis

Group of Solidarian Doctors

Healh Structure of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika, Alexandras Av.

Another week full of events, cultural happenings, meetings, and all-day activities at the Community of Squatted Prosfygika!

Tuesday, May 19:

• 18:30: Assembly in solidarity with the imprisoned and persecuted millitants
• 18:30: Open Assembly on the case of the torture of Vasileios Maggos

Wednesday, May 20:

• 18:00: Open contemporary dance and improvisation lessons at Kioski
• 19:00: Open anti-Zionist Assembly

Thursday, May 21:

• 18:00: Salsa and Bachata lesson
• 18:30: Review assembly in solidarity to the squatters of the Community of Koukaki Squats 
• 19:00: Collective Café
• 20:30: Documentary screening: Resistance is Life

Friday, May 22:

• 17:00 Open contemporary dance and improvisation lessons at the Kiosk

Saturday, May 23:

• 13:00 – 14:30: Art workshop for children
• 13:00 Yoga at Kioski
• 15:00: Blueprinting workshop for children
• 17:00: Ftanei project:  The first art project against police violence, with 100+ artists
• 17:00 Film the police workshop, from Copwatch
• 19:00 Stand-up gallery and after party
• 19:00: Film screening for children
• 19:00: Collective Café

Sunday, May 24:

• 08:00-02:00: The Crater: continuous art performance in front of the 1st block
• 10:00-14:00: Open carpentry works
• 11:00: Sensory game for children
• 13:00-16:00: Open plumbing works 
• 16:00: Collective kitchen & open Collective Café
• 17:00: Open Solidarity Assembly with the Community of Squatted Prosfygika
• 18:00: Initiative for action for Gavdos
• 19:00: Open Assembly of the Children Structure
• 19:00: Live Chaonia – polyphonic group

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Let’s build a common front to stop the eviction of Prosfygika. Victory to the hunger strikers Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne. Victory to the Community of Squatted Prosfygika.

WE WILL OR WE WILL WIN

ATHENS, Greece — May 16, 2026

A massive demonstration took place in the city centre on May 16, to fight the eviction of 400 people from the self-managed squatted community of Prosfygika in Ambelokipi on 101st day of unlimited hungerstrike of Aristoteles Chantzis.

“Demonstration for Victory and Dignity – Hunger Strike Until Death, For The Defense of Life”

On February 5, Aristotelis Chantzis, a resident and member of the Prosfygika Community, began a hunger strike which, he has stated, will continue if necessary to the point of death. May 15 marked the 100 day of his hunger strike. According to medical reports issued by his treating doctors, his health has severely deteriorated and his life is now at serious risk. On May 1st, a second resident and member of the Prosfygika community, Suzon Doppagne, also entered a hunger strike until death, standing side by side and in solidarity with Aristotelis Chantzis. Other community members have already declared their intention to participate in the hunger strike until death, for the defense of life, if the eviction plans are not cancelled.

As the situation reaches a critical phase, masses of people from all social classes and ages in Athens took the streets on May 16 in support of Chantzis and in defense of the Community. 3.000 people gathered at 12:00 on syntagma square in Athens and walked through the city centre, to demonstrate loudly and visible the power, vitality and support of the struggle. This marks a temporary climax after months of protests, which will still go on. Support has spread across Greece and internationally, with actions in over 29 cities in countries including Mexico, Columbia, Turkey, the US, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Serbia, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Ireland. Under the hashtag #saveprosfygika, people are announcing weekly their intent to join solidarity hunger strikes in support of Chantzis’ demands in defense of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika.

Summary/Top Lines

The hunger strike and related protests come in response to a plan by the regional government of Attica to evacuate and renovate the buildings of the neighborhood. The project implies the imminent eviction of the approximately four hundred residents of the Community who have lived there for decades with their families. The three main demands of the hungerstrike are:

• The immediate cancellation of the programmatic contract be ensured by the Regional Government of Attica, along with a formal declaration stating that it will not proceed with the implementation of the current redevelopment and exploitation plan.
• All residents of Prosfygika to remain in their homes, in the place and area where they live and have established social, cultural and organical ties.
• Concrete guarantees to be given for the restoration of Prosfygika by the Non-Profit Civil Law Company “Katoikoi kai Filoi Prosfygikon L. Alexandras Non-Profit Civil Law Company” with its own self-financing.

In June 2025, the Regional Government of Attica, to which the city of Athens belongs, approved a programmatic contract for the “renovation” and evacuation of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika. The planned renovation is to be funded by the European Commission at an estimated total cost of 15 million euros. Concrete proposals for the housing of hundreds of members of the Community, including children, patients and relatives from the adjacent oncology hospital and other highly vulnerable groups, have not followed.

Despite being branded as a social housing project, the contract has been widely criticized over this lack of proposal, raising increasing doubts over the wider gentrification process of the wider neighbourhood, and Greece’s capital as a whole.

Venetia, a resident from the neighborhood says that the community has no other chance than taking these steps to defend the lives of the 400 people living there. The demonstration shows that the society stands behind the community and the demands of the hungerstrike.

Chantzis says that he is aware of the serious health risks of the hunger strike, including the possibility of sudden cardiac arrest from the beginning. He also acknowledges that even if the strike succeeds, prolonged starvation can cause permanent damage to his body, especially to his nervous system, including during recovery.

Doppagne states that she proceeds to this hunger strike until death based on the collective decision as a Community to carry this struggle through to the end. With respect for life, and in defense of the Community, of its structures, its people, its relationships, of justice, and of our broader social proposal.

Quotes

“Of course, I am aware that I may experience health complications from the first days and throughout the strike, not so much from starvation but from cardiac arrest. I also know that even if the outcome is successful, chronic starvation can cause irreparable damage, mainly to my nervous system, even during the recovery period.” (Aristotelis Chantzis)

“I proceed to this hunger strike until death based on our collective decision as a Community to carry this struggle through to the end. With respect for life, and in defense of the Community, of its structures, its people, its relationships, of justice, and of our broader social proposal.” (Suzon Doppagne)

“We have no other Chance than taking these steps to defend the lives of the 400 people living here. The demonstration shows that society stands behind us and the demands of the hungerstrike” (Venetia, resident)

We call all Journalists and Reporters to

• Come to the Community of Squatted Prosfygika
• Publish our press relases or further calls on your platforms
• keep informed about the development regarding possible attacks or calls for the defense

If you have questions or other ideas for common work please reach out to save-prosfygika-internationalist@systemli.org

After 3 months of ignorance towards the demands of the hunger strikers Aristotelis Chantzis and Suzon Doppagne.

From now on, we will flood all the embassies and Consuls of the Greek State globally, to increase the pressure on the greek state by the force of internationalist solidarity to cancel their plans to evict the community.

💥 Follow the link : https://saveprosfygika.gr/index.php/en/e-mail-flood-decentralized-action/

💥click once on each button

💥log in to your E-Mail client, type in your name or pseudonym and
send it

The situation is critical:
The issued concrete eviction and gentrification plans from the regional government with the aim to extinguish the self-organized community that is struggling in this liberated ground since 16 years, are still not cancelled!

The answer of the community remains clear: no inch of land for the criminal state and capital, we will struggle until victory!
As a counterattack, two community members have entered a hunger strike until death — Aristotelis Chantzis since 5th of February (now 93 days) and Suzon Doppagne since 1st of May (now 8 days).

The three central demands are:
– Immediate cancellation of the contract by the Region of Attica
– All residents of Prosfygika to remain in their homes, in the place and area where they live and have established social, cultural, and organical ties
– Concrete guarantees to be given for the restoration of Prosfygika by the non-profit civil law company „Residents and friends of Prosfygika L. Alexandras non profit civil law company“ with its own self-financing – no public funds for the „redevelopment“ of Prosfygika

On May 16, the 101st day of the hungerstrike of Aristotelis Chantzis, we call for a central demonstration of victory and resilience in Athens.

Leading to this day, we need to increase the pressure and make every effort to make Prosfygika a topic in the European level, as the Greek Authorities still deny to answer the demands of the community and the hunger strikers.

We urge all of you to take action and support the struggle of Prosfygika on an international level! Just as the struggle for community is a unifying struggle across diverse societies, victory will not only be the communities, but connected to all our struggles, both local and international.

Therefore we need everybody to organize and participate in:
– interventions at the Europe Day 2026, taking place 9th of May in different countries (https://europeday.eu/agenda/)
– Gatherings in front of Greek missions in every possible locality (embassies and consulates)
– Solidarity hungerstrikes
– Digital and postcard spamming action
– To hand over memorandums to ambassadors
– Collecting signatures for the support of the demands
– Inviting public figures, journalists, artists in their local context to the gatherings

For 16 years, Prosfygika – the largest squat in Greece and most probably in Europe, spanning eight apartment blocks with more than 14 hectares – has brought together around 27 nationalities in a unique model of horizontal self-administration, self-sufficiency and communality. Through structures¹ like a communal bakery, a children’s structure, a women’s structure, a health structure and open assemblies, the residents of Prosfygika have built a community based on solidarity, mutual aid and collective care.

Today the community stands in direkt opposition to the Greek state’s “redevelopment” plan, which seeks to displace its inhabitants and repurpose the prime urban space in central Athens as part of their broader gentrification effort in collaboration with the Region of Attica, DYPA (Public Employment Service).

To protect their rights, their community and their living space, as well as the historical and collective memory of the buildings (which are listed as a monument of modern history), the community has proposed its own phased renovation plan. This would be carried out by the Community, its legal entity (Non-Profit Civil Law Company), the Committee for the promotion and defense of Prosfygika and its collective memory, and an already collaborating group of architects, civil engineers, archaeologists and researchers. This would allow all residents to remain on site and the historic building to be safely preserved and renovated.

This is the 5th, and major political offence against of the existence of the community in the last decades by the state. This time it is the most serious one due to the specific details of the plan and the confirmed funding. In the plans for the “redevelopment” of the area the people living there are mentioned solely as “mobile items”, and in state-media that supports the right-wing government of New Democracy, it becomes clear that they target the Community of Squatted Profygika as their Opposition.

To protect his community and the life oft its people, the inhabitant and member of the Community, Aristotelis Chantzis, decided on February 5 to start a hungerstrike until death for the defense of life. Today he is on hungerstrike for over 90 days. Since May 1, Suzon Doppagne stands alongside with him in the hunger strike until death. We now need the urgent support of large parts of the international society, to help us protecting the Community of Squatted Prosfygika, the life of the people living there and the vision of a united and self-determined society that Prosfygika is standing for.

Why Prosfygika Matters

Prosfygika is more than a local struggle: It embodies the power of marginalized communities to create resilient, self-sufficient spaces against all kinds of discrimination and oppression – even in face of the forces of gentrification and state repression. We believe that Prosfygika demonstrates the transformative potential of collective action and self-organisation, to find solutions to individual and societal problems in a moment of global polycrisis.

Through the building of permanent structures that respond to the existential needs of the people, proposals for all of society are being created. Communal life and collective ownership bring people across nationalities, religions, class and gender together, establishing ways to communicate, to support each other in challenging life and personal growth.

It’s exemplary of the necessity to protect self-determined ways of living against neoliberal urban policies – not just in Athens, but wherever people face displacement.

How You Can Support

As academics, your voice and resources can amplify Prosfygika’s fight for survival. We invite you to:

• Incorporate Prosfygika into your teaching—discuss its model of self-organization and resistance in lectures, seminars, or workshops.
• Consider research or fieldwork in Prosfygika, documenting its history, structures, or the broader context of urban resistance in Athens. You are warmly invited to visit Prosfygika in person to experience the community and its challenges firsthand.

• Express solidarity by mentioning Prosfygika in newsletters, mailing lists, or public statements, and by raising the issue in university committees and with colleagues, helping to build broader awareness and support for the community’s perspective. As a first step, you can sign the signatures list to support the demands of the hungerstrike.
• Please sign also the additional petition for academics

• Participate in the circular hungerstrike with your own statements, write letters to the EU-Commission or Greek embassies, or come to the Community of Squatted Prosfygika!

With respect to the specific fields of academia, we have some examples in mind, listed on the next page, that may be of interest to you.

The time to act is now – before another world is erased by profit and repression.

In solidarity,

Internationalist Committee for the Defense of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika

Resources & Contact

Learn more at www.saveprosfygika.gr or contact us at saveprosfygika@protonmail.com. Follow the campaign at #saveprosfygika.

Architecture / urban planning: The buildings of the neighbourhood were build in the Bauhaus style in 1923, as a fast solution for the 3 million refugees from minor asia beeing displaced after the Greco-Ottoman war. At the time, these buildings were designed to facilitate a communal way of living, which is preserved 100 years on by the contemporary community. For the real rescue of Prosfygika both as buildings and as a community, a self-managed plan to restore the neighbourhood is beeing implemented which will, along with preserving the historical memory that the authorities have so blatantly distorted and distortively vilified over the years, open more communal spaces for the Athenian society as a whole such as an interactive museum about the Greek civil war, an art-, and culture space and guest houses for the nearby Cancer Hospital.

Social work / psychology: The Community aims to give a holistic answer to the issues of each individual. Personal problems and problematic behaviours will be addressed collectively and solutions will be found. At the same time, the inhabitants are able to develop skills, practically and socially. The legal structure, health structure and children’s structure are actively involved in struggles for the acceptance of refugee children in schools and access to health insurance for refugees. As such, the community is an interesting and unique example of self-organised and community led initiatives for psychological and social support.

Geography: Geographic academics should engage with Prosfygika because it offers a rare empirical site where questions of urban commons, autonomous spatial production, migration, territoriality, and resistance to state-led redevelopment intersect. It allows researchers to study how alternative forms of governance, care, and political belonging are materially produced in everyday urban space. As a living archive of displacement, conflict, and self-organization, Prosfygika also provides a unique lens for examining the relationship between memory, infrastructure, and insurgent urban futures.

Political sciences: Prosfygika offers a rare site to study grassroots governance, autonomous political organization, and forms of citizenship enacted beyond or against the state. It provides insight into how power, sovereignty, and political legitimacy are negotiated, particularly in contexts of displacement, repression, and resistance. As such, Prosfygika challenges conventional understandings of governance and opens up alternative perspectives on democracy, autonomy, and political community.

Sociology: The Community provides a rich empirical setting to study collective life, solidarity, social reproduction, and community formation under conditions of precarity and conflict. It offers insight into how social relations, mutual aid, and collective identities are produced and maintained through everyday practices. As a space where marginalization and resistance intersect, Prosfygika also speaks to broader sociological debates on inequality, social movements, and alternative forms of living together.

Urban Studies / Urban planning: Urban scholars and planners should engage with Prosfygika because it offers a rare example of self-managed urbanism that challenges dominant models of state-led planning and market-driven redevelopment. It provides insight into housing struggles, informal governance, and alternative ways of organizing urban space. As a site of resistance to displacement and urban restructuring, Prosfygika opens critical perspectives on planning, justice, and the right to the city.

Socio-legal: Prosfygika provides a site for examining how legality, property, rights, and political authority are contested and negotiated in practice. It offers insight into the tensions between formal law and lived claims to space, shelter, and collective autonomy. As a space where law is both challenged and reworked from below, Prosfygika contributes to broader debates on informal rights, state power, and legal pluralism

Gender studies: The Community, especially the women’s structure, which emerged in response to the specific needs and interests of women in the community, offers important insight into how care, social reproduction, solidarity, and political struggle are shaped by gendered relations and practices. It provides a lens for examining how everyday forms of feminist resistance and community-making often rely on labor that is overlooked or unevenly distributed. As a site of collective life under precarity, Prosfygika also contributes to debates on feminist politics, intersectionality, and alternative forms of living together.

Communication studies: “Prosfygika brings struggles over meaning-making into sharp focus. State and media narratives frame “redevelopment” as progress while erasing residents as political subjects, foreclosing alternative ways of life rooted in collective care and self-organization, and manufacturing consent for gentrification and repression. At the same time, Prosfygika highlights an often overlooked dimension of discourse studies: resistance. Through societal outreach, digital communication, solidarity networks, prefiguration and embodied actions like hunger strikes, the community actively produces counter-discourses and challenges dominant representations. It shows how marginalized groups not only contest imposed meanings but also create and sustain alternative communicative worlds.

Economics: Economic scholars should engage with Prosfygika because it offers a valuable site for studying non-market exchange, collective provisioning, and alternative economic practices beyond capitalist logics. It provides insight into how solidarity economies, shared resources, and informal systems of support can sustain everyday life. As a space where economic survival is tied to collective organization, Prosfygika contributes to broader debates on alternative economies, precarity, and economic justice.

Communication studies: “Prosfygika brings struggles over meaning-making into sharp focus. State and media narratives frame “redevelopment” as progress while erasing residents as political subjects, foreclosing alternative ways of life rooted in collective care and self-organization, and manufacturing consent for gentrification and repression. At the same time, Prosfygika highlights an often overlooked dimension of discourse studies: resistance. Through societal outreach, digital communication, solidarity networks, prefiguration and embodied actions like hunger strikes, the community actively produces counter-discourses and challenges dominant representations. It shows how marginalized groups not only contest imposed meanings but also create and sustain alternative communicative worlds.

1 Structures are an attempt to find solutions for collectively identified needs, and are in this way proposals for societies how to organize themselves based on their needs.

Letter to society, my family, my friends

My name is Suzon Doppagne. I am a resident and member of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika, and today, May 1st, I begin a hunger strike until death, in defense of life.

I have decided to stand alongside my comrade Aristotelis Chantzis, who today completes 86 days on hunger strike.

I chose this day of struggle in honor of the martyrs of Chicago in 1886 and the 200 fighters of Kaisariani.

The Greek state and all its institutions have not responded to our demands. They have chosen silence and they let Aristotelis Chatzis to walk the path toward death. From now, they will also bear responsibility for my own death. Today, after 86 days of hunger strike, no one can claim they did not know.

The Community of Squatted Prosfygika is a living example that another way of life is possible — in rupture with the dominant capitalist and patriarchal system. In a time of global crisis and a world war, the only way for our societies to survive and create a different paradigm is through building the world of the Community, of self-organization and solidarity. This is why Prosfygika is under attack.

Throughout all these years, the Community has given answers both to people’s social needs and to the repression it has faced. In this way, our collective strength and our bonds have been built.

I share our words as women’s structure of Prosfygika, with the responsibility and the commitment that I have as a member of it:

“This comradeship that is being built, shapes a whole system of values and attitudes, expressed in everything, from how you speak with your neighbor to how you stand in the street, refusing to leave anyone behind. In essence, these bonds are our collective strength — the tool of our self-defense.”

I proceed to this hunger strike until death based on our collective decision as a Community to carry this struggle through to the end. With respect for life, and in defense of the Community, of its structures, its people, its relationships, of justice, and of our broader social proposal.

My intake includes:

Water, tea, 10–25 grams of sugar daily, 1.5 teaspoons of salt daily, vitamins B1, B6, B12, magnesium, and potassium.

The demands of this hunger strike are:

• IMMEDIATE CANCELLATION OF THE CONTRACT BY THE REGION OF ATTICA
• ALL RESIDENTS OF PROSFYGIKA TO REMAIN IN THEIR HOMES, IN THE PLACE AND AREA WHERE THEY LIVE AND HAVE FORMED SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ORGANIC TIES
• CONCRETE GUARANTEES FOR THE RESTORATION OF PROSFYGIKA BY THE NON-PROFIT CIVIL LAW COMPANY “RESIDENTS AND FRIENDS OF PROSFYGIKA ALEXANDRAS AVENUE N.P.C.C.” WITH ITS OWN FUNDING! – NOT A SINGLE EURO OF PUBLIC MONEY FOR THE “REDEVELOPMENT” OF PROSFYGIKA!

Suzon Doppagne

Member and resident of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika, Alexandras Avenue

01/05/2026

The 1st of May has always been a day to defy the ruling system that wages a war on the people. It has always been a day to fight against class injustice, and murderous conditions. History shows that throughout the struggle of the oppressed, lives have always been sacrificed to defend life itself. Though we should not be so naive as to believe the false promise that if we do not dedicate our lives to struggle, to an alternate way of life, we can somehow escape danger of death. Conformity and submission can also make us the next victim: deadly injuries at work, being shot by the cops with your “Hands Up”, or displaced and murdered in the mill of imperial forces. This false promise of safety is an attempt to oppress us, and only reinforces gender, race, religion and age divisions within the oppressed class.

If we believe in social justice, in communities and their strength to take back power from the oppressors who seek to exploit us for the benefit of the few, then we must continue the struggle of those who were martyred fighting the destruction caused by state, capital and patriarchy. We owe them an answer.

The Community of Squatted Prosfygika proposes to build collectivity and social justice in its purest form. Our struggle becomes to strive for everyone’s freedom and equality, any place and any time. This makes sure we will never take a step back from our belief and trust in humanity.

The hungerstrike until death for the defense of life is a means for the Community of Squatted Prosfygika to demonstrate collective commitment to a fight until the very end. A hungerstrike to the death, representing a multitude of lives and possible deaths, as long as those “in power” refuse to take responsibility.

Therefore, on this historic day, the Community will announce a second member to go on a hungerstrike until death for the defense of life.

We call on everyone to take the struggle of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika onto the streets today in any way possible. Sparks of resistance have fed the flame of Prosfygika, and now we give the fire of our battle to ignite every inch of ground, every land to be liberated.

From the martyrs of Chicago, peasants fighting oppressors in Ukraine, Internationalists defending revolution from 1936 until now, to the Guerillas in the Jungles of Mexico and Myanmar, our siblings in Sudan, Palestine and Rojava, within the souls of the 200 of Kaisariani: remember that what we are fighting for is always a fight for life or death.

The histories of struggle for liberation and justice are woven into the fabric of the flags of resistance we carry in the streets today.

THE OPPRESSED OF THE WORLD WILL ONLY WIN UNITED

HANDS OFF PROSFYGIKA – VICTORY TO THE HUNGERSTRIKE

EITHER WE WILL WIN OR WE WILL WIN

“In a local and international environment where states, institutions, and people are transforming to cope with a dystopian landscape of crises and globalized conflict, can our societies truly succeed? And if so, how? With which social imaginaries and which social examples?” (Sykapro, 2026).

Right now, as Prosfygika faces another existential threat from the state, the Community resists by any means necessary. Our comrade Aristotelis Chantzis has been on hunger strike – until death – for 75 days now, for the defense of life. A second comrade will begin a hunger strike on May 1st.

There is an urgent need to unify our forces and act now for the defense of the community, locally and globally!

To open the issue to broader society, including perspectives from representatives of the Greek movement, the Community of Squatted Prosfygika will hold an event in Athens on Tuesday, April 21st.

In the invitation is stated:

“The struggle currently being waged by the Community of Squatted Prosfygika, including the hunger strike since 5/2/26 by Aristotelis Chantzis, does not concern only the survival of the community itself and its people. It raises crucial questions about our contemporary world.”

As internationalists who align with the vision the Community of Squatted Prosfygika creates, and who were already prepared to organize its defense in the past weeks, months, and years, we need to escalate our resistance towards the next level.

But why do we need to defend the Community of Squatted Prosfygika?

What does the Community mean for our social struggle locally, and what perspectives can we gain from it?

How can we foster strong movements that form a counter-force to the dominant culture of oppression?

On the event on April 26th, we, as the Internationalist Committee to Save Prosfygika, invite you to discuss these questions and to help define the next steps for how we move forward for the defense of the Community.

The Community of Squatted Prosfygika will present the current situation of the planned attack and the progress of its social self-defense.

The Internationalist Committee will be briefly presented, and we will hear from different organizations around the world about the mutual bonds and visions which already exist.

The link for participation is: https://lecture.senfcall.de/sav-loj-48f-nxo

We encourage all organizations to organize public streaming in their localities.
For the first part of the event, press is invited.

We invite you, whether organizations and individuals, to join our event, mobilize in your localities, and participate in the discussion on how to connect the struggle, strengthen our mutual bonds, and defend Prosfygika.

The world only continues to exist if we share it!
Either we will win or we will win!

Solidarity is our weapon !

For the mobilization of the 5th of April we called our internationalist comrades to participate in solidarity hungerstrikes, organize actions and mobilize for the 5th of April, which supposedly should be both and internationally and panhellenic day of action for the defense of the community oft squatted Prosfygika.

The 5th of April 2026 marked the day where our comrade Aristotelis Chantzis is since 60 days in a hunger strike until death for the defense of life. With this, the necessity becomes bigger to escalate and increase the pressure on the Greek state and the region of Attica and the EU-Commission but it is also a call for us to transform ourselves towards a serious opening to the internationalist and locals spheres, to include everyone who wants to be included and to find the organisation tools and the strength, to put what we wish for into practice.

On that day, the 5th oft April over 2000 people, families, revolutionaries, elderly, teenagers and various internationalist organizations from Turkey, Kurdistan, Sudan and Europe took the streets of Athens center for the defense of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika.

On the internationalist sphere we received solidarity actions in over 30 localities from 4 different continents, some of them were old friends we worked a lot together or had here and there intensivied discussions with each other. Many of the responses though were new connections that found us in the time that is the most challenging for all of us.

In Ankara, revolutionary youth organizations gathered in front of the Greek embassy.
Saturday night our comrades in Berlin took with bengalo and fireworks the streets, while comrades from Leipzig organized a solidarity event. The Kurdish social center in Düren, comrades from Cologne, Freiburg, Copenhagen, Marseilles, Liege, Brussels, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Ljubljana and from the squatted community spazio popolare in Torino sent their declarations of solidarity. In Vienna and Belarus the Greek embassy got attacked with colourbombs.

In the weeks emerging into the the 60-days hungerstrike, comrades from Rome, Scotland, Serbia, Augsburg, the US and Berlin participated in symbolic hunger strikes. Multiple statements of solidarity reached the community from the US, the polish-belarussian border and Rojava and many more places.

We want to share also parts of the statement Subcommandante Marcos from the Zapatistas put in a speech from (date) in which he is referring to the Community of Squatted Prosfygika.

“Comrades, don ´t worry about your size, your numbers, your mediatic impact, but about your convictions (…). Because there are a lot of ones who are just passing by and only the ones that have very clear the why (meaning there history), the what for (meaning their objective and the how (meaning their organizational way) are the are the ones that (…) don’t give up (…) and abandon their ideals (…). And the struggle will continue, and in Palestine they will continue resisting, and in the rebel Greece in the community of Prosfygika defending their struggle for life; and they will do the same in Israel, and in Kurdistan (…) and they will keep struggling in the Europe that don ´t have black outs, and in the forgotten Africa, and in the Oceania from down and to the left, and in the Asian continent with all its differences, and the Mapuche people will also do, and all the Native Peoples in the world, and with them we will shout MARICHIWEYU (Mapuche word that means TEN TIMES WE WILL WIN), because ten, hundred, thousand times we will win, because we will rebel, we will resist, we will not give up, we will organise, and the life would be our horizon, our step and our warm destiny.”

And everyone would call themselves however they want to, and would have their own word, their own ways, their calendars, their geography, and would celebrate their differences dancing and singing on top of the ashes of a system that brought nothing but death and destruction, because the biggest Gods, the ones from first, the ones that created the worlds, they planted the hearts of men and women, and the ones that are not this not that, one seed that must be worked upon to give fruit and that is called freedom.”

-Capitan Insurgente Marcos (San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, 04/04/2026

Those statements, letters, actions and events from the internationalist commune proved the existence of the broad and determined network of solidarity committed to defending the Community of Squatted Prosfygika. It shows that this network is based on a common struggle, a common struggle in which an attack on one part will be an attack to all of us.

It stands for a commitment for a liberated life and society, for an alliance among opressed people internationally and comradeship, as a trusting bond that organizes our internationalist solidarity no matter how and from where we are fighting ✊✊✊

EITHER WE WIN OR WE WILL WIN

We are in another week full of events, protest, assemblies and festivities. On sunday will also happen a big easter celbration.

Come to visit and get to know the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in Alexandras Avenue.
You can also find us daily in the hungerstrike support tent between 9.00-14.30 as well as 5.30-8.30!

• Tuesday 07.04.:
  • 18:30: Solidarity Assembly for Prisoners, Fugitives and persecuted Comrades
• Wednesday 08.04.:
  • 16:00: Collective care and cleaning of the space of the Children and Self-education structure
  • 18:00-19:00: Open contemporary dance lesson for women and femininities
  • 19:00: Open anti-zionist Assembly
  • 19:00: Open Assembly against educational restructuring and the repression in univerities
• Thursday 09.04.:
  • 18:30: Solidarity Assembly for the squatters of the koukaki community
  • 19:00: Open collective Cafe
  • 20:30: Documentary screening: “Caesar must die”
• Friday 10.04:
  • 18:00-19:00: Open contemporary dance lesson for women and femininities
• Saturday 11.04.:
  • 19:00: Open collective Cafe
  • Children Programm: 19:00: Kids Cinema: Nikostratos, le pelican
• Sunday 12.04:
  • 17:00: Glenti at Kioski for the Easter festivity

#saveprosfygika

International solidarity actions took place in defense of the self-managed Prosfygika neighborhood.

ATHENS, Greece — April 5, 2026

An unlimited hunger strike in Athens has ended its second month as protesters oppose plans to evict around 400 people from the self-managed Squatted Community of Prosfygika in the city center.

“Hunger Strike Until Death, For The Defense of Life”

On February 5, Aristotelis Chantzis, a resident and member of the Prosfygika Community, began a hunger strike which, he has stated, will continue if necessary to the point of death. April 5th marks the 60th day of his strike. As the situation reaches a critical phase, which culminated on Friday by his fainting outside of the Ampelokipi police station, masses of people from all social classes and ages in Athens took the streets in a planned demonstration this afternoon in support of Chantzis and in defense of the Community. Followed by months of protests different actions emerged panhellenically and internationally in over 29 cities in Mexico, Columbia, Rojava, Turkey, the US, Italy, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Serbia, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Ireland. Under the hashtag #saveprosfygika, people are announcing weekly their intent to join solidarity hunger strikes in support of Chantzis’ demands in defense of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika.

Summary/Top Lines

The hunger strike and related protests come in response to a plan by the regional government of Attica to evacuate and renovate the buildings of the neighborhood. The project implies the imminent eviction of the approximately four hundred residents of the Community who have lived there for decades with their families.

In June 2025, the Regional Government of Attica, which the city of Athens belongs, approved a programmatic contract for the “renovation” and evacuation of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika. The planned renovation is to be funded by the European Commission at an estimated total cost of 15 million euros. Concrete proposals for the housing of hundreds of members of the Community, including children, patients and relatives from the adjacent oncology hospital and other highly vulnerable groups, have not followed.

Despite being branded as a social housing project, the contract has been widely criticized over this lack of proposal, raising increasing doubts over the wider gentrification process of the wider neighbourhood, and Greece’s capital as a whole.

Key Demands

Chantzis has put forward three key demands in his hunger strike:

• Immediate cancellation of the contract by the region of Attica

• The right of all residents of Prosfygika to remain in their homes

• The right to carry out restoration of the Community in a self-organized way

The Community states that it has maintained the buildings for years and announced a self- organized restoration plan last summer to be financed by its own resources rather than public funds.

Deteriorating Health Conditions

Aristotelis Chantzis is being monitored daily by a Team of Solidarian Doctors and the Health Structure of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika. In a collective statement published on 29.03.2026, they report that his condition is now critical after nearly 60 days without food. He is experiencing severe weakness, dizziness when standing, and heart-related issues, with medical tests showing abnormalities that could lead to dangerous or even fatal heart rhythm problems. Each day that his hunger strike continues, the risks to his heart and overall health increase, with potentially life-threatening implications.

On April 3 and on his 58th day of hunger strike, Aristotelis fainted outside of the Ampelokipi police station, where he needed to go for his monthly signature, a penalty he got for attending a demonstration in solidarity with Palestine. His senses returned and he was taken by ambulance to Gennimatas Hospital, before returning to the Community.

Chantzis says that he is aware of the serious health risks of the hunger strike, including the possibility of sudden cardiac arrest from the beginning. He also acknowledges that even if the strike succeeds, prolonged starvation can cause permanent damage to his body, especially to his nervous system, including during recovery.

Quotes

“Of course, I am aware that I may experience health complications from the first days and throughout the strike, not so much from starvation but from cardiac arrest. I also know that even if the outcome is successful, chronic starvation can cause irreparable damage, mainly to my nervous system, even during the recovery period.”
-Aristotelis Chantzis, on Hunger Strike since 5 February

“On the verge of its sixtieth day, his health has reached a critical phase. He has been experiencing progressively worsening episodes of orthostatic hypotension, weakness with fatigue and tachycardia upon standing, while daily electrocardiograms reveal persistent abnormalities that predispose to potentially fatal arrhythmia’s. Every day the hunger striker faces an ever-increasing cardiovascular and metabolic risk with potentially life-threatening complications.”
-Team of Solidarian Doctors for Aristotelis Chantzis

“We know that if Prosfygika is evacuated, a lot of us will end up on the streets”
-Aristotelis Chantzis