ShareTweet By NYtimes Greece’s Parliament did what it had to do on Thursday. Despite some defections from the ruling centrist coalition, lawmakers narrowly approved a $23 billion package of new austerity measures, including further spending cuts to social services, pensions and public salaries, as well as tax increases demanded by Greece’s European…
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ShareTweet GSC UPDATE 11 (9th November 2012) Wednesday 7th November was US election day so there was very little coverage of an immensely important day in the history of Greece. Just after midnight on the 8th, the Greek Parliament adopted the Troika’s 3rd Memorandum of extreme austerity measures. Do follow some of the links…
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ShareTweet By Portuguese American Journal Public and private sector labor unions in Portugal are joining a general strike scheduled for November 14, with the slogan “Against Exploitation and Impoverishment.” Similar work stoppages are being planned for the same day in Spain and Greece to protest government-imposed austerity measures and labor reforms. Action…
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ShareTweet GSC UPDATE 10 (5 November 2012)~ please forward to friends and comrades ~ 1. Wednesday 14 November – European TUC Day of Action Against Austerity – General Strikes will take place in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta, with other action taken by trade unions in Italy, Belgium, France and Germany. In the UK ,…
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ShareTweet By Helena Smith Greek journalist Vaxevanis, who published names of 2,000 suspected tax evaders, cleared of privacy breach Kostas Vaxevanis hates being the centre of attention. On Thursday moments before taking the stand in one of the most sensational trials to grip Greece in modern times, the journalist said he was not in…
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ShareTweet By Rajeev Syal and David Hencke More cuts will see Equality and Human Rights Commission lose financial autonomy, and so its A-list rating, UN warns The UN could strip Britain’s statutory human rights body of its “A-list” status because of deep cuts by the coalition government, leaked documents disclose. Letters between…
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ShareTweet By Al Jazeera Rates of suicide and depression are on the rise in Spain as the unemployment figures there hit a record hig The number of people out of work in Spain has hit a record high as Europe struggles to contain its debt crisis. New figures show that one-in-four Spanish workers…
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ShareTweet By Avaaz.org *Update 10/28/12* Police have now arrested Vaxevanis after he deliberately tweeted his location. He has been released and is set to appear in court tomorrow Monday 10/29/12 at noon local time. Sign the petition here Tell the Athens District Attorney to drop all charges against Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis….
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ShareTweet By Paul Mason Of all the operas written during Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919-33), probably the most haunting is the last. Kurt Weill’s The Silver Lake, written with playwright Georg Kaiser, tells the story of two losers – a good-hearted provincial cop and the thief he has shot and wounded – as…
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