Repost from the “the border is the problem” blog: The sign reads: “Cemetery for illegal migrants, Moufteia, Evros” Full text and photos here. During the first seven months of the year 2010, 28 human beings dies while attempting to cross the heavily guarded Turkish-Greek border. The corpses of the dead are being transferred to the [...]

The lorry drivers’ strike in Greece ended a few days ago. The tragic news was published in a local newspaper of the city of Volos (original article in Greek here) on July 23d, a few days before the strike. According to the article the 67-year old, who had been working as a truck driver for [...]

UPDATE, 19.14 GMT+2 The strike has been suspended following a general assembly decision by the striking lorry drivers, taken with a thin majority. The strikers now “expect their civil conscription to be lifted” according to the first corporate media reports. Following the government’s civil conscription order and army vehicles roaming the country’s streets offering gas [...]