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Greece’s ‘potato movement’ grows in power

  A growing group of grassroots activists are cutting out agricultural middlemen and connecting farmers and shoppers. Athens, Greece – When an economy shrinks, prices are meant to go down in response to falling demand. This has not happened in … Continue reading

Greece Solidarity Campaign Update 3 – (9 JUNE 2012)

1.  ON GREECE’S ELECTION DAY SUNDAY 17 JUNE, 2.00 pm – STAND WITH THE GREEK PEOPLE AGAINST EU IMPOSED AUSTERITY – at European Union Commission, 32 Smith Square, SW1P 3EU, Just off Millbank, near Parliament Square.  Called by the Greek … Continue reading

How to save Europe for the many, not the few

This letter appeared in the Guardian on the 1st of June The Greek people’s democratic rejection of the policies of austerity on 6 May could not be clearer. Christine Lagarde told the Guardian that the Greeks must pay their taxes (It’s payback … Continue reading

In solidarity with the Greek people, against illegitimate debts and austerity measures, let us mobilise!

  For joint actions around the Greek elections, and for large Euro-Mediterranean’s mobilizations in autumn 2012! The response to the financial and economic crisis is the same everywhere: cuts in expenditure and austerity measures under the pretext of reducing deficits … Continue reading

Slavoj Zizek: The heart of the people of Europe beats in Greece

   

GREECE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN UPDATE 2

1.  COME TO HEAR JEREMY CORBYN SPEAKING ON HIS RECENT VISIT TO GREECE at 6.30 on Wednesday 6 June. Jeremy Corbyn MP has just returned from Greece where, amongst other engagements he spoke at a 2,000 strong election rally in … Continue reading

A vivid warning to us all

By Jeremy Corbyn   The first thing I noticed coming out of Syntagma station next to the Greek parliament was a man trying to raise money for an operation. On the pavement around him were scattered political leaflets and other … Continue reading

Tsipras sets out SYRIZA’s plan for rejecting memorandum

  SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has promised to repudiate Greece’s loan agreement with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund if his party comes to power and to reverse or halt some of the measures that have already been … Continue reading

Troubled Greece: fears of ‘first domino’ to fall as austerity is counted a failure

By Larry Elliott   Greek’s leftist party Syriza says recovery depends on a renegotiated bail-out and access to European structural funds The soup kitchen opens at noon but long before then the queues start to form in the hot Athens … Continue reading

GREECE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN UPDATE 1 (30 May 2012)

1.  This is the first of a new series of Updates on the situation in Greece and Greek Solidarity in the UK.  Please use the form attached and send it to us if you or others wish to join the … Continue reading