Despina Markopoulou

– 12 February, 2025

From Athens Indymedia
February 13, 2025

The cremation of our comrade will take place this Saturday, 2/15, at 12:00, in Ritsona. Beforehand, we will gather in her beloved Square, so that we can all go together, just as she would have wanted. Pre-meeting: Saturday 2/15 09:00 AUSTIRA Stournari 4 and Tsamadou corner

On Wednesday, 2/12/25, our Sister, Comrade and Friend, Despina, left us. Despina found herself on the streets of Fire and Struggle from a young age. She defended Anarchy and its ideals until the end. Always close to working women, prisoners, persecuted women, refugees and immigrants. She was a pillar from the beginning of the creation of the Squatting Refugee and Immigrant Home, Notara 26, and was part of the Anarchist Collective “Apopeira”. She hated the image of Exarcheia Square (the Square of her heart) full of cops and metal bars and she never stopped fighting for its liberation. Despina, without any exaggeration, gave her all to the Struggle for Life and Dignity. Even in her most difficult times, she remained on the Front Line, led by the Smile and Passion, which permanently possessed her. Comrade Despina was always there for me, for you, for all of us. A rock that you could stand on, knowing that it would remain unshakable in its place. We will miss you Despina, but your fire will burn forever within us. In the Square, in the Struggles, in the Fire of the next uprisings, you will always be there with us.

The fire of February 12, 2012, burned all of Athens. Your fire, of February 12, 2025, lit the hearts of all of us.

– from comrades and friends

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We say goodbye to comrade Despina
Athens Indymedia
February 14, 2025

We bid farewell to comrade Despina, with whom our marches on the roads of struggle met for years. Despina was an example of a fighter to the end who left as she lived: with perseverance, strength, dignity and inexhaustible spirit, with her jokes and laughter in every difficult moment, fighting for the small and the big and standing with dignity and solidarity always.

We hold onto her passion, her honesty, and her big smile. It is our honor to have walked on common paths, and we promise her and all those who left early that we will not take a single step back in our common journey.

Comrade Despina, you will live forever in our hearts and in our struggles.

Assembly of Occupied Refugees (SY.KA.PRO.)