GREECE TIGHTENING

Another 48 hour strike will begin on Wednesday (19th) in Greece, following on from last week’s general strike. Meanwhile the public continue rioting as only the Greeks know how, in response to the continuing barrage of political botch-ups and suffocating cuts.

In the space of one day, Friday (7th), the army demonstrated over wages, police officers held a demo outside a ministry (who policed that?), not to mention the 650 schools in occupation, another expose on MPs (who’d been claiming double pensions) whilst later on that evening the Greek orthodox archimandrite (kinda like a superior bishop) for the region of Attica went live to announce that “the church has been tied to the state for far too long at a fault, the state is stealing from the people and it is now time for the people to rise up and react”.

At the beginning of October another tax hit Greek households, apart from income tax they now have to pay a per head tax and there are more taxes to follow. Mainstream media reports 1 in 5 Greeks cannot pay their household bills next month, 13.5% cannot afford food shopping and as things stand at the moment by mid-November no one will receive a pension.

On a more positive note, within small communities residents have started exchanging goods and services to deal with the cash flow problem.

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