On this day, in 1957, Britain's colonial masters in Cyprus hanged Evagoras Pallikarides, a member of the EOKA resistance. MERA25 honours the memory of EOKA partisans at a time when the Greek government is sending frigates and F-16s to 'protect' not the Cypriot people but the British base at Akrotiri —the last remnants of British colonial territory in Cyprus.
Honoring Pallikarides means continuing the struggle against the British occupation of Cypriot territory, which the U.S. and Israel now use to murder Palestinians, Iranians, and anyone who does not submit to their will.