Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 September 2012

Protests against the Vietnam War. London, 1967.


Protests against the Vietnam War.
Trafalgar Square. 
Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, May of 1967 





Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Young Socialists. London. 1967.




 Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis. 1967

Monday, 10 September 2012

Greeks protesting against greek military regime. Paris, 1968


All Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1967
Copyright Manolis Daloukas
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On April 21, 1968, at Parisian streets, hundreds of Greeks, protested against greek military regime (Junta). Most of them were students (and a part members of  Rigas Ferraios organization). They were carrying Greek flags,and protest banners with written slogans like "Vive la Resistance du peuple Grec" .




Andreas Papandreou. Press Conference after his arrival in Paris. 1968

























  


When the Greek Colonels led by Georgios Papadopoulos seized power in April 1967, Andreas Papandreou was incarcerated.
 Under heavy pressure from American academics and intellectuals, such as John Kenneth Galbraith, a friend of Andreas since their Harvard days, the military regime released Andreas on condition that he leave the country.

All photographs by Simos Tsapnidis

Saturday, 8 September 2012

Gregoris Lambrakis, Leonidas Kirkos,Manolis Glezos. Aldermaston march. April of 1963

(Left to Right) Leonidas Kirkos, Monk leader of Hiroshima group, Manolis Glezos and Gregoris Lambrakis, Aldermaston march, 1963.

The group of Hiroshima was at the head of the march,because Hiroshima is the first city in history  destroyed by atomic bomb (August 6, 1945).
The monk was hitting the drum mourning with the words...