[fse-esf] (correction) Huge mobilizations and general strike in Greece

[Yannis Almpanis]

The victims of the neoliberal reforms on the social security system are two millions (2.000.000) and not 500.000 as i wrote by mistake


From: yannisalmpanis at hotmail.comTo: fse-esf at lists.fse-esf.orgSubject: Huge mobilizations and general strike in GreeceDate: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:58:18 +0100



Huge mobilizations and general strike in Greece
Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in many Greek cities last Wednesday March 19. Only in Athens, it is estimated that more than 150.000 people participated in the demonstration organized by the trade unions and other social movements.
http://news.pathfinder.gr/photoscope/greece/news/798.html
http://syriza-ymittos.blogspot.com/2007/12/blog-post_6923.html
http://www.indy.gr/newswire/poreia-asfalistiko-athna-19-marti-2008
It was one of the most successful general strikes in the last decades. The workers are protesting against the neoliberal reform of the social security system. The conservative government is going to vote a new law that is violently limiting worker’s rights. People should work for more years (from 5-10 years) in order to get smaller pensions. It is estimated that more than 500.000 workers  (mainly women and youth) will be the victims of the new law.  
Before the general strike, workers in the electricity companies, in local authorities, in public transport and in the ports held for many days strikes against the government’s neoliberal reform. Chaotic situations occurred: black outs for many hours, streets full of garbage, enormous traffic jams…  Besides the strikes many actions were also held:  occupation of electricity stations by electricity workers
http://news.pathfinder.gr/photoscope/greece/news/2275.html
http://news.pathfinder.gr/photoscope/greece/news/2274.html
clashes between the police and the municipalities workers (in the video you can see them throwing garbage at the police)
http://www.in.gr/video/default.aspx?videoID=65149
clashes between  the police and  the electricity workers
http://news.pathfinder.gr/photoscope/greece/news/2140.html
Occupation of the Athens city hall by the local authorities’ workers
http://www.indy.gr/newswire/mpoykarise-kosmos-sto-dimar3c7eio/
 blockades to tracks that were breaking the strike,
and destruction of police surveillance camera by the Network of Political and Social Rights
http://www.indy.gr/newswire/meion-mia-kamera/
We should also underline that the government is trying to criminalize the movement by persecuting trade unionists for the black outs.
Although the government has no social legitimation, it has the parliamentarian majority (152 deputies in a total of 300). That’s why after an initiative of the party of  SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left) all the opposition parties and the trade unions are launching a campaign for a referendum on the social security reform.
 
Yannis Almpanis Network for Political and Social Rights-Greek Social Forum
 
 
 
 

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