Greek workers and youth have occupied the Greek TUC and are demanding it recalls a general strike.
Hundreds of young workers and students stormed the GSEE (Greek TUC) building on Wednesday morning in protest against the reactionary position of the trade union bureaucracy in the current uprising of the school students and youth against the right-wing Karamanlis government.
The building is now under occupation for the second day and a huge banner has been placed in front of the building stating ‘state, capital murder’, ‘release all arrested’, ‘general strike’, ‘the self-organisation of workers must become the grave of the bosses’.
The President of GSEE, Yiannis Panagopoulos, said that ‘these people who occupied the building are not workers because workers would have been at work’(!).
The GSEE leaders have cancelled the 24-hour general strike that was called for December 22 and have refused to even issue a statement supporting the youth’s uprising.
Thousands of school and university students staged a militant rally outside the Athens Courts complex demanding the release of all students arrested by the police and charged with criminal offenses.
Students were furious as they learnt that in Salonica, northern Greece, the Court found six police guilty of beating up a Cypriot university student last year but sentenced them to a fine of 4,000 euros.
In Athens hundreds of university students occupied the archaeological site of the Acropolis where they put up two huge banners.
The President of the Greek Industrialist Association Dimitris Daskolopoulos called for a ‘strong government’ which can be formed as a coalition of the two main bourgeois parties, the right-wing New Democracy party currently in power, and the social-democrats of the PASOK party.
Otherwise, Daskalopoulos indicated, there should be a general election.
Throughout Greece school and university students continued their mobilisations with road blockades, local rallies and demonstrations and occupations of town halls and radio and television stations.
Yesterday students were holding a mass Athens rally along with teachers and other public sector workers.
