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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-05-01
CONTENTS
[01] Scuffles between demonstrators and police in Athens
[02] Labour Day rallies
[03] Time for radical reversal
[01] Scuffles between demonstrators and police in Athens
ANA-MPA/Ninteen individuals were arrested on Saturday during scuffles
with riot police in the framework of Labour Day rallies, in downtown
Athens
Ten of them were sent before a prosecutor.
Former parliament president Apostolos Kaklamanis was targetted by
individuals who surrounded him and shouted abuses at him. Riot police
repelled them and Kaklamanis asked to be taken to hospital for
precautionary reasons.
[02] Labour Day rallies
Labour unions staged several rallies on Saturday, Labour Day, in Athens
under the shadow of the government's expected new austerity measures.
Athens Labour Center and the country's two main umbrella labour
federations' rally was staged in Klathmonos square, downtown Athens.
PAME labour union which is affiliated to Communist Party of Greece held
a rally at Syndagma square and SYRIZA parliamentary alliance and other
leftist parties held their own protest outside the Athens Archaelogical
Museum.
The rallies were concluded peacefully although scuffles were reported
after the end of the demonstations.
[03] Time for radical reversal
ANA-MPa/Communist Party (KKE) leader Aleka Papariga addressing on
Saturday the demonstrators participating in PAME (Labour union
affiliated to Communist party of Greece) rally for the Labour Day
stressed "Whatever billions of euros they will give to the Greek state
means nothing to the people, because the capital will continue to
manipulate the workers and the rotten political system will continue
to trod over and intimidate the labourers and to want workers without
any dignity".
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