From left to right on the screenshot: Ilias Kasidiaris (Golden Dawn’s henchman), another spokesman of the workers’ union, Ilias Panagiotaros (Golden Dawn’s henchman) and Giorgos Sifonios (president of the workers’ union, completely friendly as it seems with both the Stalinists and the neo-Nazis) An official article on the webpage of […]
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This is the 8th day of the occupation of the building of prefectural administration in Chania, Crete. We just translated our main communiqué in English and we send it to you, to inform and spread the message of the occupations worldwide. There is also a French translation available here. We […]
According to a statement (4-2/2012) released by the workers’ general assembly in the General Hospital of Kilkis, the doctors, nurses and other staff declare that the long-lasting problems of the National Health System (ESY) in the country cannot be solved through limited claims of the health services sector. Thus, workers […]
Polykarpos (Polys) Georgiadis and Vaggelis Chrysochoidis are two comrades imprisoned since August 2008, accused of accomplice in the kidnapping for ransom of the president (at the time) of northern Greece’s industrialist union Giorgos Mylonas in Thessaloniki by Vassilis Palaiokostas, a prison escapee and widely popular bandit, since “he has never […]
Solidarity to the steelworkers strikers We are one fist. Ready for the hardest class confrontation! Your participation to the struggle is not a matter of solidarity; it is a matter of life and death for the working class as a whole. Hands off our rights achieved with blood. We won’t […]
On Tuesday, December 13th, workers call for 24hour strike in the entire Thriassio Field (the biggest industrial area in Greece, located in western Attica, 25 kilometres northwest of Athens), in solidarity with the steelworkers’ struggle. On Saturday, December 10th, a number of solidarity groups spent the day outside the factory […]
The contract staff of the Municipal Computerization (DAEM, a City of Athens corporation) is threatened with mass layoff. As they mentioned in an earlier press release, “The Greek government, which for years refused to accept the change of the designation of our contracts so that they would represent the true […]
The comrades of the Sindicato de Artes e Ofícios Vários de Araxá (Syndicate of Various Arts and Crafts of Araxá), Minas Gerais, Brazil, affiliated to the Confederação Operária Brasileira (Brazilian Workers’ Confederation), Brazilian section of the International Workers Association, are under pressure from FF Commercial (Lotto and Finta brands) with […]
The Greek working class is angry, and with good reason, with the attempt to load responsibility for the bankruptcy of the Greek State onto their shoulders. We maintain instead that it is the international financial institutions and the European Union who are responsible. The financial institutions have plunged the world, […]
Unrest is prevalent among the workers of the Metropolis store chain, after the notification from the new administration, (Andreas Kouris of MAD group – son of Makis Kouris, owner of the “Paron” newspaper), of his intention to unilaterally establish an obligatory 4-day work schedule with a corresponding reduction in wages, […]
The brutal beating of Carmen M., a worker of a café at Stadiou St., by henchmen outside her home, on March 27th late in the evening , cause she “dared” to claim compensation for her dismissal from her employer, inevitably brings to our mind the”Case of Kouneva“. The attack was […]
The collective rage triggered by the cold-blooded murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos, on the night of 6 December 2008, mainly targeted symbols of global capitalism and State terrorism. Young immigrants were among the people arrested during riots in the streets. Hundreds of those detained have suffered police torture. The university asylum […]