See the guy in the photo there, dangling an ax from his left hand? That’s Greece’s new “Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks” Makis Voridis captured back in the 1980s, when he led a fascist student group called “Student Alternative” at the University of Athens law school. It’s 1985, and Minister Voridis, dressed like some Kajagoogoo Nazi, is caught on camera patrolling the campus with his fellow fascists, hunting for suspected leftist students to bash.
Austerity & Fascism In Greece: The Real 1% Doctrine from The Exiled, former paper of Matt Taibbi and in the same business of ruthlessly exposing the truth, no matter who it embarrasses (in fact, the more embarrassment, the better).
This article should be a good introduction to the events which will be starting in Greece in, oh, a few hours.