Strikes and protests mount against austerity in Greece

[blindpig]

Strikes and protests mount against austerity in Greece

“Today, it is no longer safe for us to go onto the streets,” a politician of the Greek ruling party PASOK told the Frankfurter Rundschau. “We are the government and we are alone.”

Widespread popular anger against the government in Greece has only intensified following the latest round of austerity measures. Incidents abound of politicians of both the social democratic PASOK and the conservative opposition New Democracy (ND) being pelted with eggs and on occasion stones when they show themselves in public. Angry crowds have repeatedly besieged the homes of politicians and chanted “thieves, thieves” and “Give the money back!”

According to surveys conducted by Eurobarometer, 82 percent of Greeks have lost confidence in the government and 83 percent distrust the parliament. Sixty-seven percent no longer trust the European Union. Other polls show that PASOK would today win just 15.5 percent of the vote in a new election.

The huge gulf between the working population on the one hand and the government on the other was clearly evident at a demonstration in Syntagma Square in Athens on Sunday. According to the daily newspaper Eleftherotypia, thousands of homeless people, young couples with children and pensioners demonstrated peacefully against the austerity measures of the government. Referring to the “memorandum” drawn up by the “troika”—the International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Central Bank (ECB) and European Commission—they shouted, “Take the memorandum and get out of here!”

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/gree-s27.shtml

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Lexington and Concord

Maybe

[DJ13]

2. “We are the government and we are alone.”

Thats usually what happens when you sell out your citizens to keep the banksters happy.

[blindpig]

3. Coming soon...

We're next.

[Dreamer Tatum]

5. Except those citizens are overwhelmingly tax dodgers themselves.nt

[leftstreet]

6. This has been debunked so many times here. Makes DU an embarrassment

:eyes:

If you don't support the Greek working class just say so

[Dreamer Tatum]

7. Oh brother

Greek tax evasion is a matter of historical record. I'm not arguing this ridiculous point.

[leftstreet]

11. lol If they're such tax deadbeats of 'historical record,' why'd the banks loan them money?

lol

[girl gone mad]

12. German, British and American tax evasion and tax avoidance are also matters of record.

And equally irrelevant to this discussion.

[blindpig]

9. So...

the poor, the working class, the majority, should be punished? The Greek working class can scarcely make ends meet, these additional 'austerities' will drive them to despair.

Do you side with the banks?

[Dreamer Tatum]

10. Who in Greece is going to pay taxes? Just asking. nt

[blindpig]

4. kick

[Starry Messenger]

8. k&r