Strikers in Athens -- image via the KKE
The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) reports that on Wednesday October 23, thousands of strikers from a number of different sectors including dockers, hospitality workers and primary and secondary school teachers took to the streets of Athens, Piraeus and other major cities across the country escalating the strike wave that started last week led by health workers and delivery platform workers. This is in the lead up to a national general strike in November.
The KKE says that the "trade unions and the thousands of strikers have foiled the attempt of the government and the bourgeois state to terrorize the workers with court decisions declaring the strikes "illegal and abusive". The workers' demands are centred on wage increases, the signing of Collective Labour Agreements and opposition to the country's involvement in the US-NATO-EU imperialist interventions in the wider region.
In the next period the wave of strikes will increase, with a strike of construction workers and once again of the delivery platform workers. The mass militant processes and the General Assemblies of the trade unions as well as the informational campaigns in the workplaces will be intensified to bring the country to a standstill on 20 November with the national general strike, under the slogan “Greece out of the slaughterhouses of war, give money for wages, health and education”."
For more images see: Communist Party of Greece - Escalation of strikes - National general strike on 20 November (kke.gr)
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