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Greek teachers lead off week of public sector strikes

A week of planned strikes against public spending cuts started on Monday 16th September. Teacher unions reported a 90% turnout. Civil servants are on strike from Wednesday 18th September . See 2 short film items here  http://www.euronews.com/2013/09/16/greek-teachers-lead-off-a-week-of-public-sector-strikes/ http://www.euronews.com/2013/09/18/greek-workers-walk-out-in-protest-against-sackings-ahead-of-troika-visit

Universities of Athens on Strike against austerity measures

The rector of the Greece’s largest university said that it has no choice but to strike against the government’s plans to remove hundreds of its administrative staff. Theodoros Pelegrinis, the head of the University of Athens, said the government’s so-called mobility … Continue reading

Education motions passed at this year’s UCU Congress

56        Greece                       PASSED                                              Congress notes: 1.      the continuing resistance by many trade unions in Greece to attempts by the government to implement further austerity measures amounting to £10.8 billion since November 2012 despite rapidly rising levels of poverty and … Continue reading

SYRIZA leader tells congress ‘party ready to govern’

ANA-MPA — Main opposition Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday evening declared his party’s “readiness and faith in taking the responsibility of overturning the memorandums’ tyranny and the old-fashioned party corruption… to govern the country at the … Continue reading

GSC – Special Update March ’13

Public Meeting with ALEXIS TSIPRAS, Head of Syriza Parliamentary Group and Leader of the Opposition to the current pro-austerity Greek coalition government, London Fri 16 Mar 2013! “The London branch of SYRIZA is proudly hosting c. Alexis Tsipras – the … Continue reading

GSC update 15 (18 Feb 2013)

GSC UPDATE 15  (18 February 2013) ~ please forward to friends and comrades ~   This newsletter describes the effects of austerity measures that Greek people are enduring and resisting. You may be able to help by affiliating yourself or … Continue reading

LGBT history month – solidarity with Greece

The South East Regional TUC LGBT network and the UNITE London & Eastern Region LGBT Committee organised an event to celebrate LGBT History month on February 4 against austerity and focused on the contribution that LGBT migrants from countries such as … Continue reading

GSC Supports European Antifascist Manifesto  

Below is the European anti-fascist manifesto that the Greece Solidarity Campaign is supporting, Paul Mackney co-chair of GSC said, “The Greece Solidarity Campaign (UK), seeing anti-austerity and anti-fascism as inextricably linked, has endorsed the Manifesto.” Sixty eight years after the … Continue reading

Factory in Greece starts production under workers’ control

With unemployment climbing to 30%, workers’ income reaching zero, sick and tired of big words, promises and more taxes, unpaid since May 2011 and currently withholding their labour, with the factory abandoned by the employers, the workers of Vio.Me. by … Continue reading

GSC update 14 – (5 Feb 2013)

GSC UPDATE 14  (5 February 2013) ~ please forward to friends and comrades ~   N.B. the next Greece Solidarity Campaign  organising committeemeeting is at 6.30pm on Wednesday 20 February, ground floor suite, UNITE the Union Offices, 128 Theobalds Rd, … Continue reading