Greeks - Overthrow Bankers' Dictatorship

In Greece, the date November 17, 1973, marks the student uprising against the Western-backed military junta that ruled Greece from 1967-1974. 

Since the overthrow of the Junta, November 17 is commemorated every year by Greek students with demonstrations and marches in Athens and Thessaloniki. 

This year the students will be joined by the trade unions and angry citizens, who want to protest against the new junta, which was not imposed by bayonets, but the deadly fountain pens of the heartless bureaucrats in the European Union who suck up to the global financial interests.
The Supreme Administrations of Civil Service Trade Unions (ADEDY) issued a statement calling for Greek citizens to join today's march of student youth, similar to the historic march that led to the overthrow of the seven-year junta government, with the slogan 'bread, education, freedom' which is exceptionally relevant today.

"In an era of now generalized economic crisis caused by a globalized and completely bank- and market-controlled system of governance, trapping governments and countries, the central slogan of the Polytechnic uprising is the start for new struggles by workers and our people with the aim of overthrowing the neo-liberal policies in Greece and Europe," the statement said, according to the English-language {Athens News}.

The students traditionally begin their march from the university, then continue past the Parliament, and then march past the U.S. Embassy. There is good reason to protest at the U.S. Embassy, since President Barack Obama telephoned outgoing Prime Minister Papandreou today, congratulating him for turning the government over to the bankers.

The new "bankers' junta" will be deploying 7,000 police officers. Thanks to EU-mandated "education reforms," the law forbidding police to enter university campuses, which has existed since the 19th Century, was overturned by the government. The only time the old law had been violated was under the military junta, and now it is being violated under orders from the EU junta.

The Greek Parliament passed a confidence vote today in support of the new government headed by former European Central Bank Vice President Lucas Papademos. While it passed easily, one New Democracy member, Panos Kammenos, voted against it declaring, "I will not vote for a junta." He was suspended from the party's parliamentarian faction, but will remain as an independent.