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Support the Ukrainian people in their resistance against the war!

Tassos Anastassiadis — 2022-06-01T19:20:06Z

“Positions on Ukraine” submitted for discussion and vote to the Political Council of “Anametrisi”, on 19 May 2022.

- 2022 - Ukraine / Greece, Ukraine, Ukraine debate

The troika leaves, its misdeeds remain

Tassos Anastassiadis — 2018-08-07T08:09:07Z

In a few days (August 20, 2018), after more than eight years of direct European management of the country, Greece will celebrate the official end of the troika. And the enthusiastic statements of the European elites (European Commission, Tsipras, Merkel and others) resonate, despite the terrible damage caused by the Troika, as applause! Recall that the invention of the troika in Europe was made in early 2010, supposedly to fight against Greece's huge public debt.

- IV523 - August 2018 / Greece, European Union

2/3 of people who still have a job are paid several months late

Tassos Anastassiadis — 2016-08-23T05:31:23Z

Greek employment law was weakened from 2010 to 2013, with the reversal of the hierarchy of agreements, the suppression of their automatic application and easier dismissal. And unemployment figures and poverty do not tell the whole story. There is also unpaid work: the great majority (two-thirds) of people who still have a job are paid several months late.

- IV499 - August 2016 / Greece

The Third National Conference of Antarsya

Tassos Anastassiadis — 2016-03-28T08:16:40Z

The Third National Conference of the Greek anti-capitalist left, organized three years after the previous one, was a gamble and a challenge, for reasons that were at once fundamental, strategic and organizational.

- IV494 - March 2016 / Greece, New parties of the left

The effects of the crisis on daily life

Andreas Sartzekis , Tassos Anastassiadis — 2012-05-13T21:47:28Z

This article, written obviously before the latest elections, give a picture of the effects of the austerity plans, against which the Greek people protested in their votes on May 6.

- IV448 - May 2012 / Greece

Social explosion, a question of months?

Andreas Sartzekis , Tassos Anastassiadis — 2012-02-04T17:09:50Z

“Kali phtochia chronia!” (“happy new year of poverty!”) instead of “Kali proto chronia!” (“happy new year!”): that was the ironic wish that the workers on the big daily newspaper “Eleftherotypia”, unpaid since the summer and on a rolling strike for a week, published during a message requesting support for their struggle. This humour is today indispensable, partly not to fall into despair before the situation of poverty which grows daily, and partly to maintain the flame of resistance, which in appearance has not weakened for a year and a half, but which obviously flickers from seeing a considerable, but disunited force held back by the union of the bourgeoisie and its international bodies.

- IV445 - February 2012 / Greece, Economy, European Union

Build to the left, quickly!

Andreas Sartzekis , Tassos Anastassiadis — 2010-12-29T15:50:20Z

Not so long ago the defeat of the right wing candidates in the municipal elections in the two major cities in Greece, Athens and Thessaloniki, would have been followed by scenes of popular enthusiasm in the streets throughout the night. There was nothing like that this time, when the right was defeated in cities where it had ruled for decades!

- IV431- December 2010 / Greece, Economy

“When injustice becomes the law, resistance is a duty!”

Andreas Sartzekis , Tassos Anastassiadis — 2010-06-30T12:30:03Z

The above sentence, inscribed on the common banner of DOE and OLME, the two trade unions of primary and secondary education, in a demonstration on May 12, summarizes very well both the analysis of the situation and the only road which is left to workers faced with the social catastrophe inflicted by the PASOK government.

- IV425 - June 2010 / Greece, Economy

Workers against the so-called stability programme

Andreas Sartzekis , Tassos Anastassiadis — 2010-04-07T20:09:11Z

As we write this article, every effort is being made in the Greek media to turn people's attention not to the urgency of a massive and ongoing mobilization, but to the tense atmosphere of the discussions within the European Union about whether Greece “deserves” or not to be helped, and to what extent recourse to the IMF can be acceptable.

- IV423 - April 2010 / Greece, Economy

A defeat for the right, but now its policies have to be defeated!

Andreas Sartzekis , Tassos Anastassiadis — 2009-10-30T12:29:30Z

The campaign for the Greek parliamentary elections of October 4, 2009 was without great interest: as always, it was based on a sea of money (the right and far right spent a fortune on advertising posters) and on the monopolisation of the media by the parliamentary parties alone, from LAOS (far right) to Syriza (radical left) and the environmentalists. The first result to note is that on the basis of a rampant crisis, with distrust for the institutional parties offset by relation to the great challenges of the period, abstention is growing in a country where voting remains mandatory in theory

- IV417 - October 2009 / Greece