By Panagiotis Sotiris [1]
In the past three years Greek society has gone through a series of extremely aggressive austerity measures, under the terms dictated by the EU-IMF-ECB Troika that have led to a severe deterioration of living conditions. It has also been experiencing a constant erosion of democratic rights and basic civil liberties. Part of it is the attempt by the Greek government to practically abolish the right to strike in many sectors. Government representatives have repeatedly insisted that it is time to get rid of the “anomic” forms of protest and struggle that have been the main legacy of post-1974 radicalism.
In the past three years Greek society has gone through a series of extremely aggressive austerity measures, under the terms dictated by the EU-IMF-ECB Troika that have led to a severe deterioration of living conditions. It has also been experiencing a constant erosion of democratic rights and basic civil liberties. Part of it is the attempt by the Greek government to practically abolish the right to strike in many sectors. Government representatives have repeatedly insisted that it is time to get rid of the “anomic” forms of protest and struggle that have been the main legacy of post-1974 radicalism.
The latest such example is the decision of A. Samaras, the Greek Prime Minister, to issue “civil mobilization” orders for all secondary education teachers, because OLME,
the Secondary Education Teachers Confederation, has announced that it
proposes to its member unions to stage a strike during the University
Entry Exams beginning May 17. The order issued by the Prime Minister
includes references to a potential “important disruption of the social
and economic life of the country” and to “grave dangers for public order
and the health of candidates taking the university entry exams”, and
was issued as a preemptive measure before the strike is even decided by
the local secondary education unions on Tuesday May 14.
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