March 5 updates (all times GMT+2)
13.41 Employees of the ministry of interior are occupying the headquarters of the government gazette. Every law that is voted in parliament must be printed in the gazette to come into effect. The employees are occupying to stop the law introducing the austerity measures from being printed!
12.43 In Thessaloniki, the regional ministry of Macedonia and Thrace was briefly occupied by protesters; they were attacked by riot police and tear-gassed – they have just evacuated the building.
12.16 Employees at the hospital of Nikaia applied their general assembly’s decision by occupying the office of the vice-minister of Health, in Athens.
11.30 Strike protests are underway in Athens and Thessaloniki; reports will come in later.
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Third day of demonstrations, after the announcement of the plan that takes back everything that class struggle has won the last 4 decades.
Demonstrations turn violent.
In Athens, clashes with the police forces outside the parliament and elsewhere. The president of ADEDY (sold out umbrella union) was attacked by many groups of demonstrators. Ministry of Labor evacuated under the fear of riots as the demonstration was heading towards it. Clashes with the police in many areas, as the situation turn uncontrollable. The number of the demonstrators is very difficult to estimate. They go on, at the time of writing.
In many cities, demos, in some clashes erupted and smashing of banks mostly.
more news in english from athens IMC http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1139295
photos and info in greek http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=1139394
class hatred’s first link gets updated here:
http://de.indymedia.org/2010/03/274858.shtml
11 MARCH – GENERAL STRIKE IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY
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