Tens of Thousands Strike in Greece as Military Threatens to Intervene Against Anti-Austerity Protests
Submitted on October 6, 2011
By Robert Stevens - 6 October 2011
Tens of thousands of workers, pensioners and youth protested throughout Greece Wednesday in a 24-hour public sector strike...The intervention of the army into the political life of Greece...must serve as a warning to the working class. Brigadier Stylianos Pattakos, the last surviving officer of the [1967-1974 military] junta, said last year, “In our time, there was no debt...The Greeks are not disciplined like the Germans or the British. They need authority.”
