There took place an impressive demonstration in Athens and large rallies in Thessalonica and 58 other cities on 11 June. The mobilizations were organized by the All-workers’ Militant Front (PAME) and supported by 700 trade unions and other popular organizations.
Trade unionists entered the Finance Ministry in a surprise move at daybreak and hung a giant banner from the building’s terrace, which is located in Syntagma Square (the country’s central square) opposite Parliament, that covered its façade. "We have bled enough, we have paid enough! People, take matters into your own hands! Block the new measures and the permanent memoranda." Tens of thousands of workers took part in demonstrations of PAME in Athens and all over the country on the same evening. Thousands of workers, unemployed, pensioners and youth gathered in Syntagma square in Athens, outside the Finance Ministry under PAME’s giant banner. The main speaker at the rally was Yiannis Tasioulas, President of the Construction Workers’ Federation of Greece. "The government has no 'red lines'. It baptizes meat as fish in order to foster illusions. It is doing now what it did before the elections. There is no honourable compromise for the people in the framework of the predatory alliance of the EU and capital’s power. There is a solution and we will provide it through our struggles. We must reinforce the prospect which we need and which will satisfy our needs, by taking control of the wealth we produce and utilizing it for our benefit." The General Secretary of Communist Party of Greece, Dimitris Koutsoumpas, participated in PAME’s demonstration in Syntagma square. "The government has already forgotten about the abolition of the memoranda and their 400 application laws. It has also even forgotten about the crumbs of the Thessalonica programme. It is readying a new preparatory agreement for a new memorandum., with many new anti-people measures. The solution is to be found in the organization of the workers’-people’s struggle today, right now, the development of a great social alliance of the people against all these measures, and the reinforcement of the KKE." Excerpts. Article and photos at http://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/The-dynamic-response-of-the-people-to-the-anti-people-plans-of-the-government-lenders/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
