From: wolfgang mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 17:32:20 +0200 (CEST) To: Wolfgang Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [pttp] Massive General Strike Shakes Greek Government... On Wednesday 26th April 2001, the biggest general strike for fifteen years took place in Greece. Both public and private sectors came out on strike with very big percentages of success, with many factories striking 100%. And, of course, the strike was nearly 100% in the public sector. The demonstration in Athens was huge: 150,000-200,000 workers participated in the rally and then marched through the centre of Athens to the Parliament. It was really an impressive demonstration - almost two miles long. In recent years, the Greek working class had succeeded in making big gains which, in a number of areas, meant a better deal for the Greek workers: the age of retirement for Greek men was lowered to 60 (less for workers involved in heavy labour), and 55-58 for women. Now, at a stroke, the right-wing "socialist" administration of Simitis wants to cancel many of these gains. To read more, please look at: http://www.marxist.com/Europe/greek_general_strike_401.html _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
