Strikes
- July 8th General strike in response to the new measures by the government. The number of people who joined the central demo (about 10000) was much lower than the previous strike marches. The main cause was the provocative attitude of public transports because their union decided not to operate during the demonstration as usually. Another reason was that many people were tired of the hard winter and the repression and postponed their reaction to September.
Throughout the month and until now, there are many verbal assaults from citizens to members of the government and other parties of the Parliament. The extra security for politicians is obvious.
- July 26 – August 1 truck/tanker drivers have gone on strike in response to the “opening up” the closed occupation and against the creation of truck/tanker companies.
On July 28 and while many petrol stations had run out of fuel, the government threatened the strikers with army mobilization, which means that they requested the assistance of the army for fuels transportation. In many places around the country, there have been clashes between the strikers and the riot police (MAT). On August 1 due to the mobilization that virtually disabled the strike and because of the weak unionists of the strikers, the strike ended.
Actions – Attacks
- 3.4 Julius Like every year since 2007 when part of Mount Parnes was burned with the responsibility of the casino located on the top, a two-day trek for resistance and action against the
destruction and looting of the mountain held in nearby casino space. A few days later on Saturday, July 10, police announced that after research in the area of the action, a high-power bomb was found. In the next day, after misinformation of the media about the bomb, Christos Loukopoulos, a former army serviceman and “night mafia godfather” associated with the neonazi group “Golden Dawn”, surrendered himself to police. The fact that a bomb was put by a para-state mafioso near dozens of people during a political event, was covered-up by the police and the media.
- On June 24, a bomb was exploded in the Ministry of Civil Protection (Police Headquarters also) which killed a close associate of the minister and police chief. A newly created group claimed responsibility for it on July 10.
- July 9 Series of arsons in security guard vehicles.
- July 12 Arson of two vehicles of the diplomatic corps.
- July 17 Arson of a Marfin Egnatia bank.
- July 19 Socrates Giolias who was editor of a popular blog and a popular newspaper, radio station manager and maybe associated with the Greek Secret Services, was executed. The group “Revolutionary Sect” claimed the responsibility.
Prisons
- July 14-28 Prisons are a boiling cauldron because of the inhumane conditions of detention, especially for people who need medicines and treatment. As a result of the lack of medicines and hospitalization, dozens of prisoners are dying (being murdered) in greek prisons. Indicatively, within 10 days of July, 6 prisoners died inside prison, four of them in Grevena prisons.
On 14th of July, 200 prisoners in Trikala prison were abstaining from prison’s food for two weeks and then they went on a hunger strike. On July 15, the hospitalized prisoners of Korydallos prison started abstaining prison’s food protesting against the detention of people with chronic and incurable diseases. After nine days, about 500 prisoners were in hunger strike.
- Police continues arresting hundreds of immigrants every day and then with the help of FRONTEX, they put them in jails and refugee camps or they just deport them.
- There was a try to create a solidarity fund for financial support of imprisoned fighters. More news to come.
