In 1877 in Patras a People’s School was founded by a number of local progressive intellectuals, a form of secular university, which, however, waned after a while.
In 1879, socialist Vlassis Tselios, published the newspaper “Synthima” ("Password"). On January 24, 1882, he published another weekly newspaper under the name “Ergatis” ("Worker") which circulated until 1884.
In 1880 Panagiotis Eymorfopoulos (one of the participants in Democratic Association of Patras during 1870s) published the weekly newspaper “Fanos” (“Lamp”), with editor in chief Konstantinos Iliopoulos, who allegedly was an anarchist sympathiser. Local marxist historian V. Lazaris says that Iliopoulos was the editor of this newspaper and it was neither satirical nor anarchist, but carried general socialist principles. Nikos Politis in his "Chronicle of Patras’ Press 1840-1940”, writes that Iliopoulos was not an anarchist, but only a socialist, while famous Greek Marxist historian Yanis Kordatos in the first two editions of his book "History of Greek Workers Movement" wrote that when “Fanos” closed Iliopoulos disappeared and went abroad. Kordatos also says that “Iliopoulos pretended to be a socialist secretly. According to Kordatos, “he became a pownbroker afterwards. He spend the money inherited by an uncle of his and ended up a bum. He died in 1910 in Volos. He even managed to fool the local socialists pretending himself as a great old activist. So when he died his funeral was magnificent ... The only true thing is that Iliopoulos had relations with Italian anarchists with whom he formed some secret groupings which they named circles (each circle had 9 members and the members of one circle did not know the members of the others). But he was an adventurer and had no reputation. So his actions left no sign”.
But Kordatos in the third edition of his work has not included these allegations and, obviously, the responsibility for this rests with anarchist Dimitris Karampilias, who in the last years of his life sent letters to Kordatos challenging the inaccuracies of the latter as well as new historical stuff for the anarchist, socialist and labor movement of Patras during 19th century. We must note that Kordatos in order to support his claims that Iliopoulos opened a pawnshop and became a lender in Athens used only a brief and questionable comment of the farmer M. Georgakopoulos published in the magazine “Ethniko Imerologio” ("National Diary") published by K.F.Skokos in 1899. But from our research we conclude the relevance of Politis and Lazaris opinion about the political orientation of newspaper "Fanos" headed by Iliopoulos and we therefore believe that he was a serious connoisseur of anarchist ideas as kindly disposed to them.
Meanwhile, from the issue 81 of “Fanos” (1882), the publisher changed and the newspaper took by George Stavropoulos - who allegedly was also a sympathizer with the anarchist ideas - and later by P. Karnatsos, when the political line of the newspaper changed and started support Deligiannis and other conservative politicians. In 1891 K. Iliopoulos left Patras. In 1901 he moved to Athens and published a newspaper...
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Επί προτεκτοράτου τα κατώτερα κοινωνικά στρώματα ή «πλέμπα κανάγια» (: σκυλολόι), εξοστρακίζονται: βάσει περιουσίας τα «τιμοκρατικά» πολιτικά δικαιώματα εκτείνονται (1863) σε 3.260 εκλογείς και 350 εκλόγιμους.[2] Η μάζα των Κερκυραίων αγροτών που υπερθεματίζει την Ένωση, αποζητά τη δικαιοσύνη.[3]
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