Thousands of pensioners, in rallies and mobilizations in over 20 cities demonstrated yesterday and demanded the payment of the Easter bonus to everyone, the restoration of pensions and rights to pre-crisis levels and the abolition of the anti-people laws. At the meeting the delegation of the pensioners had at the Ministry of Labour, the deputy minister of Social Security, Dimitris Stratoulis, merely repeated the position of the government regarding the return of the Christmas bonus to the poorest pensioners without answering the demand for the immediate return of the Easter bonus. He also repeated that the government will not further reduce the pensions. Dimos Koumpouris, president of the Pensioners' Federation and member of the CC of the KKE, speaking to the demonstrators, stressed that the issue is not merely for the pensions not to be further reduced, as the pensioners today can no longer deal with their problems. --Excerpts. Full article at http://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/The-pensioners-on-the-path-of-struggle/
Instead of Syriza finding a way to mobilize people against Euro-austerity, it makes itself the target of mass protest. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
