In Athens the collective Sabbat urged supporters to gather at Klafthmonos Square at 18:30, calling for resistance ‘against patriarchal violence, the violence of war, capitalism, for a world where we will all be free’. The March 8 Assembly used the slogan ‘Life without patriarchy, war and violence’, linking the fight against gendered violence to broader struggles against militarism and exploitation and explicitly expressing solidarity with Palestinian women and girls.
‘November 25 … is an occasion for vigilance and awareness, reminding us that gender-based violence is not a private matter,’ the March 8 Assembly said in its call. The group emphasised that femicides, everyday harassment, discrimination and the unpaid burden of care are shaped by patriarchal and class structures, and argued that the feminist movement must align with labour struggles and international anti-colonial solidarity.
The political organisation Anametras joined the calls for demonstrations in Athens and Thessaloniki, demanding the legal recognition of the term ‘femicide’ and insisting on safer social spaces free from abusive behaviour. In Thessaloniki the Women’s Assembly March 8 called a demonstration at the Venizelos statue at 19:00, urging a mass turnout and framing the mobilisation as part of a wider anti-war stance.
Rouvikonas’s feminist sector staged an intervention in central Thessaloniki, distributing leaflets that argued the institutional commemoration of 25 November often strips the day of its radical, class-based origins. The group criticised state and corporate responses as hypocritical and said meaningful change requires organised, grassroots struggle rather than institutional window-dressing.
Calls published by feminist groups pointed to a wider political frame: they linked gender-based violence to austerity, the erosion of public services and the diversion of resources into military spending, and they cited solidarity with international movements, from Palestine to Sudan and Iran, as central to contemporary feminist politics. Several groups explicitly denounced the rising influence of far-right, anti-gender rhetoric across Europe and urged unions and civil society to coordinate resistance.
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