On May 20th, the fifth General Strike in five months took place in Greece against the IMF/EU draconian measures and the new bill destroying the pension rights introduced by the Papandreou government Participation in the strike was 80 to 100 per cent, greater than in the previous General Strike
of May the 5th.
The enemies of the people embrace!
Build solidarity between the working classes of Greece and Turkey!
Greece is in flames. The world economic crisis of the capitalist system has descended upon the country in extremely intensified form and left the economy face to face with bankruptcy.
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Toukokuun 5. päivänä Kreikassa ja Euroopassa luokkataistelu on tullut uuteen vaiheeseen. Satojatuhansia ihmisiä koko maassa ja pelkästään Ateenassa yli 200 000 kapinoi hallitusta ja kapitalismia vastaan. Mielenosoitukset olivat historian mahtavimmat sitten diktatuurin kaatumisen jälkeen vuonna 1974. Kreikan parlamentti hyväksyi ns. troikan (EU, EKP ja IMF) ehdot nälkäkurista. Palkkoja ja eläkkeitä leikataan kovalla kädellä, työehtosopimuksia huononnetaan, ja minimipalkkajärjestelmä romutetaan. Kuten eduskunnan keskustelusta paljastui, jopa äänestettäväksi tuodun tekstin kirjoittajana oli troikka.
Comments OffAs the Greek Parliament is ready to vote for the IMF/EU imposed program of draconian measures to save capitalism in its bankruptcy, the Greek working class and popular masses are mobilized to fight back. The General Strike of May the 5th was a great success- and just a beginning.
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Despite the divisions within the workers’ movement in Greece (in Athens 5 different rallies and marches were called by different trade unions, left organizations and the anarchists…) tens of thousands turn to the streets in Mayday 2010 in a powerful demonstration of popular anger for the IMF/EU/ PASOK government’s draconian measures of austerity( in the picture, from the demonstration in Athens, a part of the contingent of EEK; the second banner writes “Out with the IMF, the EU and the government of their lackeys- All the power to the workers!” ; the banner in front says “ Forward for the world socialist revolution!”). In Syntagma Square, in front of the Parliament, in front of the Athens University, and in Omonia square, the riot police attacked with chemical gas the demonstrators, particularly, from the contingents of class struggle trade unions, extra-parliamentary left( including EEK) and anarchists. Dozens of young people were arrested and savagely beaten. Popular anger was targeting bourgeois politicians and parliamentarians as during the revolt in Argentina in December 2001. The former Chairman of the Greek parliament Apostolos Kaklamanis (PASOK) was recognized by the crowd during the Athens Mayday demonstration, and he had to hide himself in the toilets of a coffee shop near by, and to remain there for some time until the riot police comes to “liberate” him from the people who were shouting “Liars! Thieves! Go home!”.
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