Notice of NAR for today’s grand strike mobilization in over 70 cities nationwide, the need to escalate the struggle and the provocative attack by the MAT to the protesters.
Once once more, the streets throughout Greece were filled with demonstrators, strikers, young men and women. Rivers of protests flooded the centers of major cities, while rallies were held in over 70 cities nationwide! There was also a large turnout in the strike today, the second in a few days. Mass independent class gathering at the statue of Kolokotronis (old Parliament) in Athens, militant blocs of the primary unions, as well as ANTARSYA. The working-class uprising following the crime in Tempe is not only not deflating, as the government would have hoped, but is continuing and intensifying.
The ND government, seeing its influence collapsing and the movement overturning its plans, proceeded today to unprovoked as well as provocative attack by the MAT once morest the strike march, in a way that was irrefutably recorded on video and photographs. As soon as the government signal was given, the hordes of MAT appeared to break up the march and terrorize the demonstrators. There are injuries from the attacks, while they have been brought to the AT. Omonia and in GADA. We demand their immediate release.
The responsibility for the barbaric police attack rests squarely on the prime minister and the PROPO minister and shows how bogus their apology is.
The continuation from here on can only be the escalation of the struggle, to wipe out the government and the politics they are murdering. With workers and youth taking matters into their own hands, with meetings in all unions and clubs, with struggle committees and assemblies, with a subversive framework of struggle and development of mobilizations beyond the fire-fighting planning of the trade union bureaucracy, to impose the workers’ popular demands, once morest privatization and the logic of profit.
Strike river throughout Greece-Rampage of violence by the MAT (photo-video)
Unprovoked brutal attack by the MAT to break up the march, by government order