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Daily Archives: November 30th, 2011

Athens braces for December 1st General Strike

Tomorrow, December 1st is the date of the General Strike called by the two mainstream trade unions in Greece, GSEE and ADEDY. In Athens, buses will run from 9 am to 9pm; trolleys will run from 8 am to 8pm; the metro will run as normal. There will be no national trains (OSE) and no [...]

Little stories from IMF-run Greece: pawnshop (loan shark) trashed in Athens

Greek original On Monday 28.11 a pawnshop in the Athens neighbourhood of Petralona, on Keiriadon Street, had its storefront trashed and leaflets with the following slogans were thrown out: “Black marketeers out of our neighbourhoods, not an inch of land to the loan sharks”. “All those who see our poverty and impoverishment as an opportunity [...]