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Greece Solidarity Campaign AGM Saturday 1st March 2014

Tony Benn, President of the Greece Solidarity Campaign, will welcome members, delegates and supporters to the Annual General Meeting. Speakers will include Marina Prentoulis  who will speak on the current situation in Greece. We will be discussing the campaign’s work for … Continue reading →

GSC Update 12 December 2013

Chanting during a general strike in Greece last November. Photograph: Menelaos Mich/Demotix/Corbis Please put these dates in your diary for 2014: GSC Organising Meetings will be held every 3rd Wednesday of the month 1830 – 2000 hours in Meeting Room … Continue reading →

Doctors on Strike across Greece

90% of doctors across Greece belonging to the national health agency EOPYY have been on strike since November 25th in protest at the decision of the Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis to suspend a large number of doctors as part of the … Continue reading →

Picket to support three Greek socialists in court for defamation December 11th 1pm

‘On 12 December three members of SEK are to appear in court accused of “defamation” by a lawyer who is in the payroll of a Nazi Golden Dawn MP’, the on-line appeal for solidarity states.  ‘Katerina Thoidou, journalist, Tasos Anastasiades, publisher … Continue reading →

Ruins: Story of an HIV Witch Hunt

This ground breaking documentary by Greek film director, Zoe Mavroudi, on a witch hunt of HIV and women in Greece last year  can now be watched online. The film tells the story of the cynical political campaign to use HIV as … Continue reading →

Austerity is wreaking havoc, but the left can unite to build a better Europe

Zealots for neoliberalism have created a humanitarian tragedy across the continent. It is our destiny to fight back.      ALEXIS TSIPRAS                                                          The Guardian November 27, 2013 More than 1,000 young people a day are joining the ranks of Europe‘s unemployed. In … Continue reading →

Call for Thanasis Kourkoulas, of “Expel Racism” Greece, to be aquitted.

We demand that Thanasis Kourkoulas, member of “Expel Racism” Organization – Greece, be aquitted. The criminalization of antiracist and antifascist action must not be allowed to happen. On 16th December 2013, Thanasis Kourkoulas, member of “Expel Racism” movement and militant … Continue reading →

The struggle in Greek Universities needs all the support and solidarity it can get!

At this moment, we are at a crucial stage of the struggle. It is not only a struggle against lay-offs. It is a struggle to defend Public Higher Education as a social right against privatization and commodification. It is a … Continue reading →

GSC UPDATE 20 (12 November 2013)

     THE CONTINUING SAGA OF THE ERT CLOSURE The sudden (and almost certainly unconstitutional) closure of Greece’s national broadcaster ERT (equivalent of our BBC) a few months ago and the sacking of thousands of its workers, had drawn worldwide condemnation, … Continue reading →

“I strongly believe that the people and the working class of Europe have to build a broad front against the economic war that neo-liberalism has launched”

Speech of Syriza Member of the Greek Parliament Theano Fotiou at the GSC and FBU fringe meeting at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Bournemouth, UK Monday 9 September 2013. Theano, a former University Professor, was an official guest of … Continue reading →