Category Archives: News

Tony Benn – President of the Greece Solidarity Campaign

Tony Benn, our President and constant source of encouragement has died. We will miss him terribly but will continue his fight for world peace and social justice. Tony was following events in Greece and there were plans for him to … Continue reading

Greek Health Workers Fighting Austerity – Meeting Thursday 20 March 2014

A fantastic opportunity to hear from Vivi Paschali, secretary of the joint unions at Evangelismos, the biggest Athens public hospital and member of the General Council of the public sector union ADEDY, who will speak at this meeting jointly organised … Continue reading

Riot Police attack Teachers in Greece

Teachers, school cleaners and other public servants in the teacher union OLME and public service union ADEDY were protesting against the sackings of their colleagues outside a meeting of the TROIKA and government on Friday 28th February 2014. The government responded … Continue reading

IMF Chief Christine Lagarde thinks the troika got it wrong on Greece?

    Alex Andreou writes in The Guardian 24.2.2014: On Thursday, Christine Lagarde made some comments in an interview for Australia’s ABC which have passed largely unreported, Greece no longer being the crisis en vogue. She admitted that the troika – … Continue reading

Austerity measures have inflicted “shocking” harm on the health of the Greek population

In a damning article published in The Lancet (pdf), academics from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have reported evidence of rising infant mortality rates, soaring levels of HIV infection among … Continue reading

Greek teachers issue international appeal for support to stop dismissals

  Greek teachers strike to stop dismissals Athens, 29/01/2014     To EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL, ETUCE and Teacher Trade Unions across the world STOP TEACHER DISMISSALS Dear colleagues, As you have already been informed on 23 July 2013 the Greek government, within the … Continue reading

Golden Dawn photos show its Nazi face

A hoard of 14000 photos and 900 video clips discovered on the confiscated computers and mobile phones of 2 Golden Dawn MPs and a leader of a local Golden Dawn branch have been handed by police to the public prosecutor, … 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

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