Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by CADTM Europe
In the recent elections on May 6, Greek voters sanctioned the coalition forces which had applied austerity plans and surrendered to the dictates of the Troika (the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission). New Democracy and the PASOK (Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement) have thus paid the price of (…)
, by VIVAS Esther
Untimely and unexpected. That’s what the emergence of this movement of collective outrage at the Spanish state was. If we had been told on M14 (May 14th, 2011) the next day thousands of people would start taking to the streets week by week and occupy squares, organized meetings, challenge the (…)
, by ANASTASSIADIS Tassos, SARTZEKIS Andreas
This article, written before the latest elections, give a picture of the effects of the austerity plans, against which the Greek people protested in their votes on May 6.
At first sight it might seem absurd, but for Greece’s National Day on March 25, the objective of the PASOK/New Democracy (…)
, by GARÍ Manuel
The first general strike against the adjustment measures of the Partido Popular government, 100 days after its constitution and the day before the presentation of the 2012 state budget containing spending cuts without precedent in the European Unión, was a success.
In the first place because (…)
, by PANAYOTOV Stanimir, Xaspel
Хаспел [has’pel] – from Bulgarian – winder, windlass, a device for raising or hauling objects, usually upon which a cable, rope, or chain winds, the outer end of the cable being attached directly or indirectly to the weight to be raised or the thing to be hauled or pulled; winch. (source: (…)
, by MITRALIAS Yorgos
Athens, March 13, 2012 - Why does European public opinion find the misfortunes of the Greek people so moving? And why, day by day, does this feeling grow more broad and deep and transform itself into the will to act, to do something to show solidarity with the Greek population? The answer is not (…)
Add your signature to the statement of solidarity with the people of Greece backed by trade union leaders, members of Parliament and campaigners published in the Guardian .
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The people of Greece face an unprecedented economic and political crisis. They are being driven to (…)
, by Fiom-Ferrari, LabourStart
A LabourStart campaign in partnership with the shop stewards at Ferrari Auto, members of FIOM CGIL, Italy’s largest metal workers union.
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Matteo Parlati, a shop steward for the FIOM-CGIL union at Ferrari Auto was denounced because he took part in a demonstration in (…)
, by MITRALIA / MITRALIAS Sonia
This speech by Sonia Mitralia, member of the Greek Committee Against Debt and the Women’s Initiative against Debt and Austerity Measures, was delivered at the meeting organised in Marseille on 17 February, by the French campaign for “a citizens’ audit of the public debt”. (…)
, by LITSIS Moisis
Moisis Litsis is an economic editor, a member of the Editorial Committee of “Worker’s Eleftherotypia”, and a substitute member of the Board of Directors of the Greek Press Workers’ Union (ESIEA).
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Here it is ! Done ! The workers at Eleftherotypia, one of the biggest and (…)
, by FIOM
STANDING ORDER APPROVED BY FIOM-CGIL CENTRAL COMMITTEE SUPPORT TO THE GREEK PEOPLE
The Fiom-Cgil Central Committee express its total solidarity to the greek workers struggling against the austerity measures imposed by the Troika and accepted by the greek parliament.
No economic situation (…)
, by SOTIRIS Panagiotis
On Sunday 12 February 2012 the people of Greece, in demonstrations and street fights all over the country expressed in a massive, collective and heroic way their anger against the terms of the new loan agreement dictated by the EU-ECB-IMF Troika. Workers, youths, students filled the streets with (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
The people of Greece face an unprecedented economic and political crisis (Violence grips Athens, 13 February). They are being driven to poverty and mass unemployment by the demands of the so-called Troika. Hospitals in Greece are running out of medicines, nearly half of all young people are (…)
, by Libcom.org
Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers control.
The general hospital of Kilkis in Greece is now under workers control. The workers at the hospital have declared that the long-lasting problems of the (…)
, by ANASTASSIADIS Tassos
“Kali phtochia chronia!” (“happy new year of poverty!”) instead of “Kali proto chronia!” (“happy new year!”): that was the ironic wish that the workers on the big daily newspaper “Eleftherotypia”, unpaid since the summer and on a rolling strike for a week, published during a message requesting (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
General solidarity strike in Attica district on January 17
The regional trade union centers in Attica district (to which the city of Athens belongs) declared, or rather were forced, due to pressure from bellow, to declare a general strike in Attica district on the 17th of January in solidarity (…)
, by VASSALOS Yiorgos
The real news in Greece is not about riots, but of a growing number of people who have broken away from fear and decided to fight back against the austerity imposed by the ’Troika’ of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF.
’The streets of Athens erupted with some of (…)
, by LabourStart
Fiat, the biggest transnational company based in Italy, has excluded Fiom-Cgil, the largest Italian metalworkers union, from the whole group (80.000 employees) because this union did not sign an agreement which worsened working conditions, violated workers’ rights (including the right to (…)
, by LEPLAT Fred
The strike on Wednesday 30th November in Britain in defence of pensions for public sector workers was the largest seen for a generation. Over 29 unions were involved including the three biggest, UNISON, UNITE, and the GMB. All together, over 2.5 million workers were on strike across the National (…)
, by Socialist Resistance (Britain)
On November 30 up to three million workers in Britain will be taking strike action in defence of pension rights under brutal assault by the Tory-led Coalition government, following overwhelming yes votes in ballots by thirty unions.
Public opinion is strongly in support of the strikes despite (…)
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