Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Over 2,000 people marched in Athens, Greece on Sunday in the second organized demonstration in support of the historic Prosfygika squatted community. The community houses over 400 residents from over 20 different countries and is under the threat of eviction due to the goverment's plans to take over and repurpose the buildings.

Meanwhile, community member Aristotelis Chantzis is on hunger strike since February 5 and has lost 25% of his body weight and is facing starvation, weakened cardiovascular function and a growing threat of cardiac arrest.

Prosfygika has never been a politically neutral place. Its 228 apartments — arranged in eight rows of buildings stretching along Alexandras Avenue — hold a collective memory that, over time, has shaped the community now sustaining the occupation.

In modern Greek, “Prosfygika” literally means “refugee settlement.” The complex was built in the early 20th century as a public housing project to accommodate Greek refugees from Asia Minor fleeing violence and mass expulsions following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922. Two decades later, during the December 1944 uprising — when left-wing militias confronted the national army and British forces — Prosfygika became a strategic stronghold for resistance fighters.

Beginning in 2010, after years of gradual neglect and in response to the economic crisis, residents of Prosfygika launched a process of internal reorganization aimed at building a fully developed community structure.

The collectivization process reached its peak in 2012 with the formal establishment of the Community of Squatted Prosfygika (SY.KA.PRO). Today, the eight buildings are home to more than 400 people from 27 different countries. The community operates through a horizontal organizational model that, over the past 16 years, has developed 22 self-organized structures designed to meet material needs not only within the occupation itself, but also in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Prosfygika stands as a model of self-organized mutual aid, offering concrete support to a population that has become increasingly precarious and economically strained.

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