Geboren am 17. November

Dimitris Koufontinas was born in 1958 in the tobacco village of Terpni near Nigrita in northern Greece. In 1972 his family moved to Athens and the farmers became industrial workers. Koufontinas attended high school in Exarchia and then studied law and economics at the University of Athens. His political consciousness awakened in the uprising of November 17, 1973, he became politically active in the class struggles of the Metapolitefsi, the period of transformation after the fall of the Greek dictatorship of the brigades. In 1977 he got in touch with illegal organizational structures and went underground in 1985 as a member of the Revolutionary Organization of November 17. In 2002, after the arrest of several members, he deliberately emerged from illegality to defend the history of his organization and its revolutionary goals. The silence and confessions of other organiz.