On the occasion of the scheduled meeting of the WFTU secretariat in Athens, Greece, a WFTU delegation headed by the General Secretary of WFTU, George Mavrikos and the Secretariat Members H.Mahadevan, Swadesh Dev Roye and Valentin Pacho visited the blockades of farmers in Greece, expressing their international solidarity to poor farmers and to the Greek people in struggle.
The delegation of WFTU Secretariat also visited the main center of struggle in Greece in Nicaea, Thessaly. Right now, in this point of roadblock are more than 3,500 tractors and thousands of peasant struggle against the policy of the Greek government.
The WFTU cadres met with Vangelis Butas, coordinator of farmers blockades. There was also present comrade Tasos Tsiaples president of Larisa unions and member of PAME Secretariat who expressed solidarity and common struggle of Greek unions peasant mobilizations. The WFTU delegation also met with comrade Kostas Avramopoulos member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) who was present to express the party’s support to the fight.