On New Year's Eve a fascist gang cowardly made a fire bomb attack against the central office of the Organization of Revolutionary Youth, the youth section of the EEK (Revolutionary Workers Party) in the center of Athens. The front door was burnt, as was a car parked in front of the office; fortunately, there were no victims. The police did not come to investigate the attack, in spite of there being a police station a few blocks away.
That night, the EEK youth had organized a New Year's Eve dance. The attack took place just before it was planned to begin. In spite of the attack, the dance was held, guarded by a group of comrades, showing that the youth refuse to allow themselves to be intimidated by the fascists.
This attack was one more in a series of attacks that have been carried out, over the last period, by extreme right-wing groups, linked to the state apparatus of repression, against a series of independent youth centers springing up in the working class neighborhoods, in Athens as well as in the interior. The violence is prepared politically by the main fascist periodical, Stohos (Objective), which in a series of editorials called on "healthy nationalist forces" to attack and destroy "the red centers of terrorists and orphans of Marx and Trotsky".
On January 6, an assembly of independent Athens youth centers was held, convened by the EEK youth, in order to discuss a common position and a united front to confront the fascists. The attack shows the growing political tension in the country and the fears of sections of the dominant class and the state in the face of the development of revolutionary tendencies among the youth.