THE indefinite strike of Greek state nursery and primary school teachers, who are demanding higher salaries, is continuing.
The leader of their umbrella organisation, Dimitris Brattis, complained of the lack of respect for these workers which the low level of their income proclaims.
The centre of Athens was however brought to a standstill on Wednesday, as thousands of teachers and students demonstrated to support their indefinite strike.
In Salonica, there was also a 24-hour stoppage by university administration workers.
In Athens, demonstrators braved not only rain but tear gas fired at them by riot police as they approached the Greek Parliament buildings and the Prime Minister’s residence en route from the Ministry of Education.
The Athens demonstrators raised, in addition, the revolutionary demand that the education system as a whole should be free to all and properly funded.
The craven Greek bourgeoisie cannot possibly accede to this, trapped as they are, not only in the cul-de-sac of universal privatisation and the ‘free market’, but also in a state system riddled with economic crisis and corruption.
The teachers and students had the full backing of both the Greek TUC and the massive public sector workers’ union ADEDY, which had called a 24 hour sympathy strike of its own members.
