meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Revolutionary Left Radio

17N: Marxist Guerrilla Warfare in Greece

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Gabriel Palcic, a writer and organizer with the Marxist Center, joins Breht to discuss the Marxist urban guerrilla warfare organization 17N (Revolutionary Organization 17 November), which operated in Greece from 1975 to 2002.

Find Gabe and his work here:

https://regenerationmag.org/author/gabriel-palcic/

and here:

https://cosmonaut.blog/tag/gabriel-palcic/

and here:

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/gabriel-palcic

Outro Music: "Revolution" by Derek Minor

Support his music here: www.derekminor.com

-------

LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO: https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/

SUPPORT REV LEFT RADIO: www.patreon.com/revleftradio

Our logo was made by BARB, a communist graphic design collective: @Barbaradical

Intro music by DJ Captain Planet.

---------------
This podcast is affiliated with: The Nebraska Left Coalition, Omaha Tenants United, Socialist Rifle Association (SRA), Feed The People - Omaha, and the Marxist Center.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

My name is Gabriel Palsic and I'm a local political organizer, I was a stubborn

0:22.6

Mason boxer and writer. I've been into radical political organizing for about

0:28.4

four years now. I was the main organizer behind the last Marxist Center

0:32.4

Conference in color Springs of December last year and I have a lot of interest

0:37.3

in terrorism related studies as a political science major. Well awesome, it's

0:42.4

very awesome to have you back on the show. You were on a previous episode so it's

0:46.6

good to have you back. So let's just go ahead and dive into the questions I

0:49.5

want to make sure that we cover as much as we can. It's a lot of history as

0:52.7

always so it's always a problem to try to condense this stuff. So just a

0:56.2

basic first question what initially got you interested in left-wing terrorism

0:59.9

or guerilla warfare broadly and what about 17 and specifically interest you?

1:05.0

Yeah so in regards to 17 and I wanted to see first of all if it was effective

1:11.5

or I guess more broadly, if left-wing terrorism was it any point in history

1:16.3

effective because as far as I know you know it's never succeeded in its

1:20.0

ultimate goal which is to see state power and so I wanted to see to what degree

1:24.7

they accomplished any sort of change in their society. 17 and specifically

1:29.9

interests me because they were one of the most sophisticated organizations of

1:36.0

the 20th century if not the most sophisticated organization. Their targets

1:40.7

were very high profile individuals in the CIA, the Navy, the Greek intelligence

1:46.0

community and you know the heads of like right police squad, big capitalists and

1:51.6

they were really I don't know they were difficult to capture. Not a single

1:57.2

number was like injured or or died even you know during their 27-year

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Breht O'Shea, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Breht O'Shea and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.