Savas Matsas
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Savas Mihail Matsas (or Savas Michael Matsas or Savas Michael-Matsas;[1] Greek: Σάββας Μιχαήλ Μάτσας; born Sabetai Benaki Matsas (Σαμπετάι Μπενάκη Μάτσας),[2] 1947, Athens) is a Greek Jewish intellectual, leader of the Workers Revolutionary Party (Greece). He is an antizionist and internationalist author of a considerable work of culture about literature, philosophy, religion and class struggle.
Political prosecution
In 2009, the far-right Golden Dawn party filed, before the Greek justice, many documents against several left-wing Greek authors. The police wanted to interrogate all of them, but they jointly agreed not to appear in court and jointly signed a document stating they legally rejected the accusations. After reviewing the documentation, two of them were brought to justice by the Attorney General: Savas Matsas and Constantin Motzouri, the former rector of the National Technical University of Athens. There was an international petition in his defence.[3][4] His party (EEK) called for the "smashing of fascism" which could be interpreted as a calling for an attack on nationalist demonstrators or more specifically, Golden Dawn. He admitted it himself that "The Greek left organized a number of antifascist demonstrations in which our party also participated in" https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/91006/)
On 4 September 2013, an Athens court acquitted Matsas and Moutzouris of all charges.
Works
- Figures du Messianique (1999) (a compilation of essays published in that year)
- Golem: A propos du sujet et d'autres fantômes (2010)