According to an analysis by journalist Christos Avramidis, published by Jacobin Greece, the Greek edition of the US socialist magazine Jacobin, which operates with support from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Ilias Kasidiaris's bid to return as an anti-establishment outsider is contradicted by Golden Dawn's record of serving shipowners and contractors. The former Golden Dawn MP and spokesman left Domokos prison that day after completing his sentence and announced plans to found a new nationalist party.
Avramidis cites figures from the Hellenic Parliament's Directorate of Parliamentary Control, made public in 2013, showing that Golden Dawn MPs filed more than 140 questions, reports and document requests to the Ministry of Shipping in just over a year, on shipping companies, ferry services, ports and privatisations. In November 2012, MP Giorgos Germenis opposed the taxation of ships from the floor of Parliament, warning that shipowners would abandon the Greek flag if the measure passed.
The link was most direct in the Perama ship-repair zone near Piraeus, where an organised metalworkers' union faced employers seeking lower labour costs. The article recalls an investigation by Unfollow magazine alleging that Golden Dawn members received hundreds of thousands of euros in cash to serve large contractors and weaken the union. Sotiris Poulikogiannis, president of the Attica Metalworkers' Union, testified at the Golden Dawn trial that contractors' interests lay behind the 12 September 2013 assault on PAME trade unionists. Six days later, anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas was murdered in Keratsini.
Avramidis also points to the role of television. On 11 September 2013, journalist Babis Papadimitriou discussed on SKAI's news bulletin the prospect of "a more serious Golden Dawn" supporting a conservative coalition. The author notes that the advantage for the far right was greater when a channel belonged to a shipowner.
The article lists further channels to state power: the 2014 recording of Kasidiaris with Takis Baltakos, then Secretary General of the Samaras government; the 32 case files on Golden Dawn violence that Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias sent to the Supreme Court prosecutor only on 19 September 2013; and a Forensic Architecture reconstruction placing two police motorcycle units at the scene of the Fyssas murder.
The pattern continues today, Avramidis argues. In July, Elon Musk reposted a post presenting Kasidiaris's imprisonment as a free-speech issue, and Kasidiaris welcomed the backing. The author stresses that he alleges no single conspiracy, but a system of signals between capital, media, police and government. The analysis draws on a public discussion organised by the Rouvikonas collective at the K-Vox venue in Athens.