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The minister of Development locked in the ministry by the union of the Public Company of Electricity(DEI)

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

About 100 members of the GENOP-DEI: the union of the workers of the Public Company of Electricity entered this morning the Ministry of Development and occupied the corridors of the 6th floor of the building, where the office of the minister Papakonstantinou is. The minister was in his office where he remained blockaded for several [...]

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People take to the streets, Syntagma metro station re-opens after popular pressure: emergency General Strike underway, against 20% wage decreases and other shock doctrine measures

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

    As the troika ‘negotiates’ (read: reads out already agreed measures with the government ‘representatives’), people are taking to the streets for an emergency General Strike against new measures that will allegedly include a 20% decrease in the national minimum wage and a subsequent cut in the unemployment benefit, among many others. At approximately [...]

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Hospital goes under workers control

Monday, February 6, 2012

 From libcom Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers control. The general hospital of Kilkis in Greece is now under workers control. The workers at the hospital have declared that the long-lasting problems of the National Health System (ESY) cannot be resolved. The [...]

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Trade unions in Greece call for emergency general strike, Tuesday Feb 7

Monday, February 6, 2012

As announced hours ago, the mainstream trade unions in Greece have called for a 24-hour General Strike on Tuesday, February 7, in response to the latest pack of austerity measures planned out by the government of PASOK, ND and LAOS in co-ordination with the troika. Strike demonstration called for 11 am tomorrow at Syntagma square, [...]

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Call for Rally and March in Athens on Saturday 4/2/12

Friday, February 3, 2012

Several groups are calling for a rally and march against austerity and the  social crisis implemented by the government, IMF and EU. The rally takes place in Monastiraki Square in Athens on Saturday 4/2/12 at 12:00. Some of the posters calling for the demonstration.          

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London benefit night in solidarity with imprisoned anarchists in Greece

Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Homeless people arrested after squating an empty municipal buidling in Athens

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Since yesterday it is snowing in Athens,and the temperature is below zero. Today a couple of dozen out of the 20,000 homeless Athenians, together with a few activists, squatted an empty municipal coffee-house next to Athens Law School.  The mayor of Athens Kaminis sued them and riot police soon arrived and arrested 15 people who [...]

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Five migrants vaguely dead in a road accident in western Greece

Saturday, January 28, 2012

The news only appeared in the “inside pages” of corporate press. Five “migrants” (as simple as that: non-Greeks) died when the van carrying them to a remote beach of Western Greece ran off the road (destination unknown: their driver, the only person who knew the exact location where they were going, ran away after the [...]

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