Revolutionary Organization 17 November (RO-N17)

Anti-State Action -- Suspected Alias/Ally
Children of Fire -- Supported Cause
DHKP/C -- Ally (Suspected)
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) -- Ally (Suspected)
Revolutionary Brigades -- Supported Cause
Revolutionary People's Struggle -- Shared Members
Revolutionary Struggle -- Ally (Suspected)
Social Resistance -- Suspected Alias/Ally
Thus Far and No Further -- Supported Cause

17 November takes its name from the date of a 1973 student protest against the military dictatorship of Greece.  17N's campaign of bombing and assassinations did not, however, begin during the military dictatorship, but rather during the metapolitefsi, the founding of Greece's democratic Third Republic.  17N believes the democratic government of Greece to be nothing more than a placebo designed to pacify the Greek people and delay the inevitable communist revolution.  17N has declared itself to be Marxist-Leninist as well as anti-American, anti-Turkey, anti-NATO, anti-EU, anti-Greek establishment, anti-colonial, and anti-capitalist.  They seek the expulsion of the Turkish military from Cyprus and the closure of American bases in Greece, as well as the withdrawal of Greece from NATO and the EU.  They are fanatically nationalist, and they believe all of the groups they target to be responsible for the underdevelopment or exploitation of Greece.

A failed bombing attempt in June of 2002 led police to the first ever arrest of an 17N member, Savvas Xyros (Xiros).  Documents in Xyros's apartment led police to the arrest of 18 other suspects.  Greek police say all core members of 17N are now in custody.    Xyros, however, has claimed that 10 members of 17N remain at large.  An unknown individual or group claiming to be 17N has issued a communique insisting that the group is still active and threatening to take hostages with which to bargain for the release of its imprisoned members.  Their trial began in March of 2003.  Some suspects have confessed to participating in assassinations, others have confessed to limited participation, and many, including the group's alleged leader Alexandros Giotopoulos, have insisted that they are innocent of all charges.  In December of 2003, all but 4 of the 19 defendents were convicted.  Several, including Giotopoulos, were sentenced to life in prison.  17N has been inactive since the arrest of its only known members, but some believe that the new group Revolutionary Struggle is composed of unapprehended members of 17N.