Greece: Riot Police Called Amid Major Strike

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Source: Sky News

Riot police have fired tear gas grenades as thousands of Greek civil servants staged a walk-out over the country's austerity measures.

Scuffles broke out between police and protesters as they marched with orange flags and placards through the streets of Athens in a demonstration that has left flights grounded and trains idle as state services shut down.

Organised by the country's two biggest labour unions, the 24-hour strike is the first since the government in Athens announced plans to further slash pensions and wages, and close scores of state organisations.

They will ultimately axe 30,000 public sector jobs by the end of the year.

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1. This is how the Wold Bank and IMF kept South America in unrelenting poverty.

They wave their little rescue loans in front of struggling federal governments, as if taking more loans out would help an indebted nation. This merely adds more interest charges to the current loans and never is the loan renegotiated to actual value like banksters do for each other.

Then the federal governments jump at the chance of an easy way out, with no disruption to the corporations and idle rich who caused the problems to begin with. But, the federal governments must find a way to pay for the extra loans and extra interests that are due to the banksters. So, the working class must carry the weight of the costs of the bailouts and they are crushed by it.

Then the working class revolts. Then the federal government takes out their police forces and armies and brutalizes the working class who dare to protest against the unfairness of the crushing debt. Protests eventually escalate to a constant scream.

Sometimes the federal government wins and crushes the life out of their working class. But given enough time the working class protesters always win.