‘This is their time’: post-Golden Dawn, is far-right reviving in Greece?

Extremist party's demise has left a gap that it is being filled by far-right groups in north of the country

They were big and brawny and struck like a thunderbolt," says Aphrodite Frangou, an activist and leftwing journalist recalling the moment a group of far-right Golden Dawn sympathisers went on the attack. They kicked us and punched us and broke everything, tables, chairs, even the loudspeakers we had set up. Four of us spent the night in hospital."

October was meant to be a month of celebration for Frangou and other members of Keerfa, Greece's pre-eminent anti-fascist movement.