EU leaders blackmail Greece
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The push for new cuts in Greece is backed up by ever-increasing “carefully” leaked scenarios of a disorderly Greek bankruptcy as early as March and the expulsion of Greece from the eurozone.
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Greek ultra-cuts spark new strikes
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A 24-hour general strike of Greek workers has been called for Tuesday 7 February by the GSEE (private sector) and ADEDY (public sector) unions in response to the three-party coalition government’s agreement to make yet further cuts as demanded by the EU/ ECB/ IMF Troika as conditions for the second bailout fund and “private sector involvement” (PSI) in reorganising Greece’s debt.
Four million refuse to pay in Greece
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As the German government proposes that the EU and ECB should insist on an external “commissioner” running Greece’s budget, it has been revealed that four million bills for the new regressive property
Let's turn all Greece into Chalivourgia!
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The massive participation of private and public sector workers in the 17 January srtrike called by the Greek union federation PANATIKI showed the working class is willing to resist the most barbaric attacks on their working and living conditions in 50 years.
Tasks of the Greek left
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Class struggle is cutting through the whole of Greek society.
Greece: rank-and-file strike call for 17 January
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A strike has been called for 17 January across the Athens region by all the rank-and-file “ergatika kentra” (workers' centres) of the region.
Protest in solidarity with Greek trade unionists facing jail!
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Date:
9 January, 2012 - 18:00 - 19:00
Location:
The Greek embassy, 1a Holland Park, London W11 3TP
Description:
More than a dozen Greek trade unionists face prison on Tuesday. JOIN OUR PROTEST IN SOLIDARITY!
On Thursday 24 November 2011, the Greek police arrested Nikos Photopoulos, President of the power workers' union GENOP/DEI, along with more than a dozen of his fellow trade unionists. They will appear in court on Tuesday 10 January 2012 to face charges that could see them jailed for up to five years.
They were protesting against part of the Greek austerity measures - the cutting off of power to people unable to pay a new property tax, levied regardless of income or wealth and added to all electricity bills. The new tax is just the most recent d'austerity' action by the Greek government. The abolition of the national minimum wage and the lowering of employer-paid taxes are next.
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The Greek embassy is at 1A Holland Park, London W11 3TP (Holland Park tube).
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Whether you can make the protest or not, please take a moment to send a message of solidarity via the LabourStart website. You can do it easily here.
Greece, the Eurozone and the crisis: What is the political alternative?
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Date:
3 November, 2011 - 19:30 - 21:00
Location:
International Community Centre, Mansfield Road, Nottingham
Description:
Public meeting with Theodora Polenta (Greek socialist and writer for Solidarity).
Organised by Workers' Liberty Nottingham
AWL London forum. Greece: can the working class take power? Greek socialist speaks in London
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Date:
17 November, 2011 - 19:30
Location:
Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8JR
Description:
As Greece's bourgeois parties prepare to form a national unity government, the country is being rocked by huge working-class struggles. As more and more workers mobilise and the popularity of the political mainstream plummets, is there a revolutionary alternative on the cards? In the absence of a strong revolutionary party, can the Greek working class take power?
Unless the Greek government pushes through the EU-sponsored cuts package, Greece cannot stay in the Eurozone. So should we advocate Greek withdrawal? Are we in favour of the break up of the EU?
What impact will the Greek struggles have on our fightback against cuts and what can we do to help our comrades in Greece?
Speakers:
Greek socialist activist Theodora Polenta
Martin Thomas
Facebook event http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136367546467114#!/groups/2220371534/>here.
AWL London forum: Greece - is workers' power on the agenda?
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Date:
20 May, 2010 - 21:30 - 23:00
Location:
Lucas Arms, 245a Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8QZ (5 mins walk from King's Cross station)
Description:
Faced with a massive financial crisis, Greece's Labour-equivalent PASOK government responded by attempting to force through savage cuts and austerity measures aimed to make the working class pay for the capitalist crisis. Greek workers have responded with massive general strikes, accompanied by huge social upheaval on the streets.
How can we support Greece's workers? What are the economics behind the crisis? And is workers’ power a real possibility?
Martin Thomas will speak for the AWL and Greek Marxist economist Costas Lapavitsas has also been invited.