From our Diary of Struggle
New Year’s Eve
Perhaps we did not succeeded to burn again the hated Christmas tree of the right wing Mayor of Athens as it was done before Christmas, but we successfully organized a major intervention in Syntagma Square, in Athens in front of the Greek parliament, where thousands of people, mainly very poor immigrant workers were assembled having no other opportunity to enjoy any New Year Eve: a strong group of comrades of EEK assisted by NAR comrades of the Antiwar Internationalist Movement have raise banners in Arabic and in Greek in defense of the heroic Palestinian people of Gaza, for the immediate stopping of the massacre, for Freedom to Palestine and for the Right to return of all Palestinian refugees in their homeland. Our slogans attracted many Arab immigrant workers, and thus the rally of solidarity had a hard core of 300-400 people while our slogans were echoed by thousands in the Square. The Mayor’s speech of announcement of the New Year 2009 was greatly disturbed and he was obviously annoyed, so he had to declare his hypocritical “support” to the Gaza people. The police tried to intimidate us unsuccessfully, but no clashes took place.
