47th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising
Solidarity with the students repressed by the Greek government
Every year in Greece, on November 17th, the youth and students of the country take to the streets to commemorate the Uprising of the Polytechnic University that in 1973 challenged the military junta that governed the country. This year, the New Democracy government headed by Mitsotakis launched a ban on any demonstration in the framework of the new quarantine imposed in view of the so-called second wave of the pandemic. As in all countries, this reactionary measure, far from protecting the health of the people, serves to defend the health systems of the bourgeoisie from collapse, systems that started to be dismantled by the adjustment policies applied by imperialism in view of the crisis of 2008 and even before. In the case of Greece, the adjustment was imposed by the Troika (EU, IMF, ECB) through a series of memorandums, the last of which was guaranteed by the government of Syriza and Tsipras.