Greek junta Non-centralized leadership Georgios Papadopoulos Spyros Markezinis Panagiotis Sifnaios Panagiotis Therapos Nikolaos Dertilis The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred in November 1973 as a massive student demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974.

[3] An anti-dictatorial student movement was growing among the youth, and the police utilised brutal methods and torture towards them, in order to confront the threat.

[4] On 14 November 1973, students at the Athens Polytechnic (Polytechneion), radicalized by the nascent Greek anarchist circles[2] went on strike and started protesting against the military junta (Regime of the Colonels).

The minimum program of the workers' councils is the destruction of wage labor, the state, capitalism, and politics.The anarchist group leading the uprising quickly tagged the university and placed their banner at the entrance, until it was removed by communist militants who did not support the movement.

[15] Anarchists were labeled as provocateurs by the Communist Youth of Greece because they voiced slogans that were not directly tied to the students' demands (such as advocating for sexual freedom, social revolution, and the dismantling of the State).

These included 19-year-old Michael Mirogiannis, reportedly shot to death by officer Nikolaos Dertilis, high-school students Diomedes Komnenos and Alexandros Spartidis of Lycée Léonin, and a five-year-old boy caught in the crossfire in the suburb of Zografou.

The records of the trials held following the collapse of the junta document the deaths of many civilians during the uprising, and although the number of dead has not been contested by historical research, it remains a subject of political controversy.

[26] In 1980, the police killed two people in an attempt to prevent marchers from passing by the American embassy in Athens, the traditional end point of the march in protest to the CIA's role in supporting the coup.

After the transition to democracy, the group's chief hitman, Dimitris Koufontinas, attempted to assassinate figures associated with the junta, also titling his memoir-manifesto "I Was Born November 17th" (Γεννήθηκα 17 Νοέμβρη).