Greek People Face New Blows, Spain-Inspired Protests Break Out
Submitted on June 23, 2011
By Afrodity Giannakis - Green Left Weekly
...[T]he impact on Greek people of the austerity measures demanded by the IMF has been devastating...Official unemployment has reached about 16% — an all-time high...Health and social services have been brutally slashed...Many people cannot meet their most basic needs...Despite this...[the] Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) government persists on the same disastrous course...The onslaught on Greek people’s lives is going to be even more ferocious.
