This is Popular Front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

For this episode we're speaking to researcher and analyst Tom Lord.

He's going to be talking to us about what is basically a perfect storm of conflict right now occurring in Greece.

There has been a hunger strike by a former communist militant.

There has been clashes because of that.

There's very, very vicious anti-police violence

clashes and there's also been clashes because the government are trying to put

security forces into universities where they previously committed massacres.

There's a lot going on.

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There's been this situation with the I know the kind of right-wing media in Greece is trying to say that the

both protests are the same thing but I understand there's a little bit difference

and then there's also a lot of convergence as well I guess let let's just start, you know, the recent

wave of clashes in Greece which have been particularly bad this time around.

Maybe let's just start with the end 17 stuff, like why do they happen?

And it all ties into itself.

So for those who aren't familiar, the revolutionary organization, 17 November is categorized as a

red terrace organization, they're a Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla outfit that started in

1975.

Greece was under a military dictatorship called the junta from 1967 until 1974 and then after the return to democracy a

a segment of the student you know like, like radical youth movement, student movement that had

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