Wednesday, May 11, 2011

General strike in Greece: Athens is not only the workers take to the streets

The homepage Apergies. gr ATHENS - They have even created a website to Athens to extricate himself from the succession of strikes that since Greece has accepted the EU and the IMF prescription. A recipe for spending cuts and tax increases. Today, the pages of the site Apergies. grams are more clicks than ever before.

E 'must be updated when you deal daily with the strikes. In the streets for the general mobilization are not only the main trade unions in the country, but also groups of workers reluctant to protest as teachers and journalists. There are plenty to Omonia, one of the main squares of Athens, where this morning has begun one of the main principals, that of Pame, a movement close to the greek communist party.

In the square there are already thousands of people. From here, start and feed into Syntagma Square with the other pre protest rallies outside parliament Jorgos Ontikos, head of the International Pame, explains the reasons for the mobilization: "It 'a stage of a long journey. Workers in Greece have been hit hard by the crisis and are still somewhat in shock.

Some believe that the measures taken by the Government are necessary, but almost everyone sees the choices have an impact on their lives and their salaries, while the unemployment rate has reached 16% of the policies of the government in Athens. What is wrong are the passive policies of the government, even if the protest today against an entire system.

" The strike today is the tenth of March 2010, but it is a particular mobilization, because it comes a year after the clashes that killed three people. And just when you follow the rumors about a new aid package of € 60 billion to Greece. Aid that many fear will not be Greek to them, but international banks which have stomach much of the debt of Athens.

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