Nationwide strike in Greece as President of the Socialist International dismantles welfare state

international | anti-capitalism | other press Friday March 12, 2010 01:56 by Con Lee

SERIOUS street clashes erupted between rioting youths and police in Athens yesterday as some 30,000 people demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government’s austerity measures.

While their colleagues clashed with groups of protesters, some police joined the demonstration
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The Greek Prime Minister, Papandreou, is also President of the Socialist International. His imposition of Lenihan-style neo-liberal austerity has provoked street clashes, but little real, political opposition. That the President of the Socialist International finds himself in such a predicament raises serious questions about the entire European social democratic project.