On Wednesday, March 8 thousands of people flooded the streets of the cities all over Greece during the National Strike that was organized demanding NO COVER UP to the crime, the deadly train crash that took place a week before at Tempe, Larissa.
Thousands of workers, young people, students, pupils, men and women gave a voice to our 57 dead, to our brothers, to our friends, to our children.
In Athens, where the demonstration lasted for hours, the Government and the police tried to stop the river of people by shutting down all central metro stations, trying to make access to the city center impossible.
Metro workers were also on strike, but they opened the routes during the demonstrations in an act of support to the thousands of people who wanted to participate in the demonstrations.
As a last effort, police with the assistance of known groups of provocateurs attempted to break the huge demonstration of the workers, but their attempts failed.
In spite the difficulties and the obstacles Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Larissa, Larissa, Ioannina, Crete were flooded with enormous demonstrations, with size that many of them witnessed for first time. Whole cities where everything was “dead” and the streets were “alive”.
The voice of the people sent a message, loudly “It is not the fault of bad timing nor a human error. It is the fault of your profits that are soaked in blood”.
The only one, NOT on Strike yesterday, was the Greek General Confederation of Labor, GSEE (member of ITUC-CSI in Greece), which stated that they were …too busy to participate in the strike. This way, once again taking the side of the Government and the employers against the people.
Photos Athens https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAuX5Y
Photos other cities https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAuYCg
PAME Stated: PEOPLE’s WRATH
The sea of people who flooded the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Larissa and every other city in the country shouted “IT WAS A PREDICTED CRIME”.
The working people and the youth, the pupils and students with their pulse, turned the grief and anger into a struggle, into a voice, became the voice of the dead and sent the government propaganda to the trash.
The images of today’s magnificent demonstrations can neither be hidden nor overshadowed by the organized government provocative plan to break up the Athens demonstration.
The strike took place against the organised attempt to cover up the murderous crime in Tempe, against the employer’s intimidation tactics in the workplaces, against the measures of repression and intimidation of the people and despite the absence of the pitiful leadership of the GSEE, which the trade unions have long since overcome.
OUR LIVES ARE NOT A COST – OUR LIVES HAVE VALUE
We demand the life we deserve, a life with modern rights, a better future for ourselves and our children.
This crime will not be covered up.
The current government, the previous government, the parties that ruled and are implementing policies that leave behind hundreds of dead, have already been condemned in the minds of the people and the youth. They are guilty! Their hypocritical fake tears move no one.
We move forward, with more determination
This is not the time of silence, it is the time of voice and demand!
We continue with a new, big rally of the Unions on Sunday 12 March in front of the Parliament
Videos
Athens
Thessaloniki
Highlights from the morning demonstration https://youtu.be/QMte-_VfG08
Evening demonstration
Larissa https://youtu.be/0fUtrxfog6M
Patras https://youtu.be/P4G-w-0k-dA
Corfu https://youtu.be/DD910NTv4aA
Chios https://youtu.be/6phywoqKpVg
Lamia https://youtu.be/I62YxndIMog