The Committee of National Memory organized annual rallies on 17 June in Thessalonica, in memory of Alexander the Great. [127] Police confronted the participants of the rally of 2006, forcing Golden Dawn and Patriotic Alliance members to leave the area after conflicts with leftist groups. [127] [128] Later that day, Golden Dawn members gathered in the building of state-owned television channel ERT3 and held a protest as they tried to stop the channel from broadcasting. [128] Police surrounded the building and arrested 48 Golden Dawn members. [127] [128] Kopytowska, Monika; Sotiris, Panagiotis (2017). "Political crisis and the rise of the far right in Greece: Racism, nationalism, authoritarianism and conservatism in the discourse of Golden Dawn". Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. p.218. ISBN 978-90-272-4281-5. On the Road with Golden Dawn, Greece's Ultra-Nationalist Party. Time. Published 31 October 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2017. a b c Antonis Galanopoulos: Greek right-wing populist parties and Euroscepticism(PDF), p.2 "Golden Dawn is also Eurosceptical and it is opposing Greece's participation in the European Union and the Eurozone"

Piano, Aili; Puddington, Arch (2006). Freedom in the World 2006: The Annual Survey of Political Rights & Civil Liberties. Rowman & Littlefield. p.284. ISBN 9780742558038. Cicero, Chic; Cicero, Sandra Tabatha (10 May 2002). "Golden Dawn Time Line". Llewellyn Encyclopedia. The result of this formula is that the rituals engaged in by members of the Golden Dawn reflected the same symbolism that had been used when they became members, unifying all ritual activities into one symbolic whole using the same formula. This is one of the unique features of the Golden Dawn and its system of ritual practice. While there were other groups that engaged in initiation ceremonies and even a few that taught practical mysticism or occultism, no other group unified the symbolism used in both the initiatory rituals and personal rituals into a single, unified system of practice. Heywood, Andrew (2021). "7: Fascism". Political Ideologies: An Introduction (7thed.). London WC1B3DP, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. p.151. ISBN 978-1-352-01194-4. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location ( link) a b "A guide to Greece's political parties". Al Jazeera. 1 May 2012. video appears to show party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos giving a Nazi salute in the Athens city council. He claims, however, that it was merely "the salute of the national youth organisation of [Greek dictator] Ioannis Metaxas", reports the Athens News.

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In June 2011, Foreign Policy reported that in the midst of the 2010–2011 Greek protests, gangs of Golden Dawn members were increasingly being seen in some of the higher-crime areas of Athens. [132] In May 2012, the BBC reported on how Golden Dawn had become sort of a local ' Robin Hood' in some high-immigration areas of Athens, [133] since the party was developing a social program which included the delivery of food at minimal or no cost to the most unfavored strata of ethnic Greeks. [134] [135] It was reported in 2012, at a time of acute social problems, that the party offered help to victims of crime, which gained it support; police even sometimes referred people who had issues with immigrants to Golden Dawn. Allegiance to the party was expected from those helped. [136]

Detailed update of the Saturday events, in Athens, during the AntiFascistic Demonstration". Indymedia. 3 February 2008. By the mid-2000s, Golden Dawn had redirected its attention to opposing non-European, and particularly Muslim, immigration into southern Greece and Athens. Golden Dawn temporarily ceased political operations in 2005 and was absorbed by the Patriotic Alliance. The Alliance, in turn, ceased operations after Michaloliakos withdrew support in the spring of 2007. Golden Dawn held its sixth congress in March 2007, where party officials announced the resumption of political activities. At local elections in November 2010, Golden Dawn got 5.3% of the vote in the municipality of Athens, winning a seat on the Athens City Council. In some neighbourhoods with large immigrant communities, its vote reached 20%. [80] Antisemitism in Greece today - Executive Summary | Heinrich Böll Stiftung - Thessaloniki Office". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.Explosion at Greek neo-Nazi office, CNN, 19 March 2010, archived from the original on 8 March 2012 , retrieved 2 February 2012 Trilling, Daniel (3 March 2020). "Golden Dawn: the rise and fall of Greece's neo-Nazis". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Greek Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party Blasts Holocaust Remembrance as 'Unacceptable' ". The Jewish Daily Forward. 18 February 2014 . Retrieved 15 December 2014.

Dalakoglou, Dimitris (2012), "Beyond Spontaneity: Crisis, Violence and Collective Action in Athens" (PDF), CITY, 16 (5): 535–545, doi: 10.1080/13604813.2012.720760, hdl: 1871.1/a5f5f3bf-372b-4e1f-8d76-cbe25382a4d0, S2CID 143686910, The use of the terms extreme-Right, neo-Nazi, and fascist as synonymous is on purpose. Historically in Greece, the terms have been used alternatively in reference to the para-state apparatuses, but not only. (pg: 542) a b Donadio, Rachel; Kitsantonis, Niki (6 May 2012), "Greek Voters Punish 2 Main Parties for Economic Collapse", The New York Times In addition to being the first translator of the Corpus Hermeticum into Latin, Ficino also studied and translated the work of the late Neoplatonic philosophers, specifically Plotinus, Proclus, and Iamblichus (Yates 56-57, 65-68). Iamblichus’ De Mysteriis, which was translated by Ficino, was originally written by Iamblichus as a philosophical defense of theurgy (magia) and associated ritual practices in the face of criticism by his peer and fellow philosopher, Porphyry (Shaw 5-7). Later, this text served as the basis and justification for theurgy in multiple communities from the fourth century through to the 10th century and Ficino revived the practice of theurgy with his translation of this text (Shaw 6). Use of this Neoplatonic thought to justify a spiritualized ritual activity combined with the specifically Christian work of Pseudo-Dionysius allowed Ficino to merge non-Christian and Christian Neoplatonism with other Christian thought into the active system of magia that he developed and practiced (Yates 68).Golden Dawn: finally it is dissolving - the Headquarters at Mesogeia are shutting down (original: "Χρυσή Αυγή: Διαλύεται επιτέλους – Κλείνουν τα κεντρικά γραφεία της στη Μεσογείων" ". In.gr. 14 September 2019 . Retrieved 14 September 2019. Armstrong, Allan; Gilbert, R. A., eds. (1997). Golden Dawn: The Proceedings of the Golden Dawn Conference, London – 1997. Hermetic Research Trust. a b c Μιχαλολιάκος: Του χρόνου στην Κωνσταντινούπολη, στην Σμύρνη, στην Τραπεζούντα.... Stochos (in Greek). 31 December 2012 . Retrieved 3 November 2013.