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Niall Mulholland spoke to Andros Payiatsos, from Xekinima (CWI in Greece) Posted 19th Feb 2012
 Sunday February 12th, the Greek parliament voted to make new austerity cuts that are demanded by the EU and IMF in return for a huge bailout, to prevent Greece defaulting on its massive debts. The savage austerity measures were demanded by the European Union as a precondition for releasing the funds. But the cuts provoked a massive response by the Greek workers, with a 24 hour strike on Tuesday 7th February and another 48 hour general strike on Friday and Saturday 10th and 11 of February. This is unprecedented in the post war history of the country.
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Editorial from the Socialist. Paper of the Socialist Party England and Wales. Posted 7th Feb 2012
 The capitalist classes of Europe are all adopting the same policy of attempting to make the working class pay for the capitalist economic crisis. As the capitalist politicians arrived in Brussels for the 30 January EU summit they were met with a clear and determined message from the Belgian working class - a magnificent 24 hour general strike (see photo) - the first in the country for nearly 20 years - in defiance of the summit’s austerity agenda.
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Article by Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI Greece), Athens. Posted 1st November 2011
 Greece was paralysed on Wednesday and Thursday the 19th and 20th of October by a 48 hour general strike called by the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) and the public sector Civil Servants’ Confederation (ADEDY). Up to half a million workers and youth took to the streets of Athens on Wednesday and around 100,000 on Thursday. Wednesday’s demo was the largest union demonstration in Greece since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974 and with the exception of a popular uprising in 1965, the largest since the end of World War II!
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Article by Robert Bechert, CWI. Posted 27th October 2011
 As the eurozone crisis develops, its political and institutional leaders are becoming increasingly desperate as they look for a way out. The latest postponement, amid increasing friction between the French and German governments, of a decision on the eurozone’s next steps is an indication of the crisis’s seriousness. Here, in an analysis written for Socialism Today (November 2011 issue), monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales), Robert Bechert examines both the crisis and the test it poses for the left.
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From the Socialist newspaper 27th September 2011
How can the cuts tsunami be halted?
 As the ‘troika’ – the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – arrive in Athens, this week, to review the Greek government’s “progress” in its vicious austerity cuts in return for the latest tranche of bailout funds, the people of Greece are suffering beyond endurance.
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