Share By Charlotte Mcdonald-Gibson Prostitutes have been rounded up and jailed as new cases soar The women glare into the camera, their humiliated, pale faces smeared with make-up and tears. Glazed eyes stare out under lurid headlines warning of “the nightmare of Aids” with “infected prostitutes” posing a “death trap for hundreds…
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Share Clashes broke out early Friday morning between police and protesting Hellenic Steel Industry (Elliniki Halyvourgia) workers at the industry’s Aspropyrgos plant. The gate of the unit reopened at 5.30am, after nine months of workers’ strike, on orders of the prosecutor and the intervention of a strong police contingent. Nine people were taken in…
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Share By Medhi Hasan The sense of powerlessness, of being bossed around by bigger and richer neighbours has emboldened Greece’s far right. “Insanity,” Albert Einstein is said to have once remarked, “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” In debt-ridden Greece, government after government has tried…
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Share 1. Cameron plans to keep out Greeks – not in our name! According to The Guardian (4.7.12), “David Cameron is prepared to over-ride Britain’s historic obligations under EU treaties and impose stringent border controls that would block Greek citizens from entering the UK, if Greece is forced out of the Euro.” He claims…
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Share By Nick Malkoutzis British Prime Minister David Cameron is a worried man these days. He has every right to be. An opinion poll earlier this month gave the Labour Party a 14-point lead over the Conservatives, the largest for Cameron’s rivals since 2002. The strains in his coalition with the Liberal…
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Share 18 JUNE 2012 1. A CLOSE FINISH: New Democracy 29.66%; SYRIZA 26.89%. Yes, the election result is a disappointment; but it should be noted that Syriza’s vote rose from 4.6% in 2009 to 26.89% on Sunday 17 June 2012. In contrast, New Democracy’s fell from 33.5% in 2009 to 29.66% this time and PASOK’s…
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Share 1. ON GREECE’S ELECTION DAY SUNDAY 17 JUNE, 2.00 pm – STAND WITH THE GREEK PEOPLE AGAINST EU IMPOSED AUSTERITY – at European Union Commission, 32 Smith Square, SW1P 3EU, Just off Millbank, near Parliament Square. Called by the Greek Solidarity Campaign (GSC). p- THE PEOPLE OF GREECE face an unprecedented economic…
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Share This letter appeared in the Guardian on the 1st of June The Greek people’s democratic rejection of the policies of austerity on 6 May could not be clearer. Christine Lagarde told the Guardian that the Greeks must pay their taxes (It’s payback time: don’t expect sympathy, 22 May; Christine Lagarde’s Greek comments provoke fury, 28 May)….
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Share For joint actions around the Greek elections, and for large Euro-Mediterranean’s mobilizations in autumn 2012! The response to the financial and economic crisis is the same everywhere: cuts in expenditure and austerity measures under the pretext of reducing deficits and the repayment of a public debt which is the direct…
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In Athens – Richard Clogg
Share By Richard Clogg On 26 April 1941, the day before the German army raised the swastika over the Acropolis, Homer Davis, president of Athens College, was entrusted by the Greek War Relief Association with changing two million dollars into drachmas – money raised by his fellow Greek-Americans. Warned that the money…
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