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Reactions On First Sunday Opening of Stores

The first “experiment” of Sunday shops opening that took place on Sunday the 3rd of November was proven successful, as the movement in many chain stores and supermarkets in Athens and Piraeus show consumers responded well to the opening...

KKE Leader: Reorganisation of Working Classes Movement our Only Hope

PAME (labour union affiliated to Communist Party) organised on Saturday an anti-memorandum and anti-fascist rally in downtown Athens Omonia square. Greek Communist party (KKE) leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas in his address said that "our only hope and prospect is the reorganisation...

Thessalonki Trade Fair Faces Protests

Police in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, are bracing for protests against austerity measures and the firing of public workers during the International Trade Fair from Sept. 6-7. Authorities said they would deploy 3,500 police and re-arrange traffic patterns and that...

ERT Solidarity Demonstrations Throughout Greece

Despite the 24-hour strike of the Greek media, which has spread throughout Greece to protest against the  government’s decision to shut down the state public broadcaster, radio and TV stations will be able to cover the solidarity demonstrations and...

Sluggish May Day Protests In Athens

Only about 8,000 protesters took part in Greece's May 1 general strike in Athens, a far cry from the nearly 100,000 that showed up last year, with many Greeks having already fled the city for their villages for the...

Golden Dawn Blood Donation Draws Ire

The neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party's ongoing blood drives with donations earmarked only for Greeks pitted it against protesters outside a hospital in Tripoli in which a man who was photographing the event said he was attacked by the extremists. Tensions...

More Greek Strikes On Jan. 31

Despite the breaking of a Metro strike that quelled unrest for a time, the Greek government is bracing for a 24-hour strike of transport and health care workers on Jan. 31 to protest government plans to reform the sectors. The...

Public Sector Workers Walk Off Jobs

Greek public sector workers held a 24-hour strike on Dec. 19 to protest the country's new $17.45 billion austerity program and the prospect of looming job cuts. The walkout was the latest attempt to derail Athens' fiscal reforms and...

Greece Trying to Keep Halyvourgia Steelworks From Shutting

ATHENS – Desperately trying to find ways to keep open the Hellenic Halyvourgia steelworks where employees have been striking for nine months over 40 percent pay cuts, Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis was talking to union leaders and management trying...

Public Transport 4-Hour Strike Nov. 22 In Athens

According to a Public Transport Workers’ Union announcement, the Athens metro, ISAP electric railway and tram service will be on a 4-hour strike on Tuesday the 22th of November, approximately from noon until 4 p.m. The workers are protesting against...