Info from 902.gr / Translation: In Defense of Communism.
With a massive gathering at Syntagma square and a march towards the U.S. Embassy, thousands of people participated in PAME's May Day rally in Athens. Under the slogan "With the Workers of all Countries for a World without exploitation, wars, refugees", the protesters expressed their commitment to continue the class struggle against the new antipeople measures of the SYRIZA coalition government and the EU.
The 1st of May rallies by PAME consist a step towards the escalation of struggle against the policy of government-EU-capital which will be expressed with a nationwide strike on May 17th.
Attending the May Day rally in Syntagma square, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) Dimitris Koutsoumbas made the following statement:
"The 2017 May Day must consist a real beginning of new big dynamic working-popular struggles for the movement's regroupment, in order to take back everything they stole from us during the crisis period, to cancel all the antiworker antipeople laws, to unilaterally disengage our country from the EU and NATO wolves-alliances, to unilaterally delete this debt and of course to pave the way for the socialization of the mode of production, of the services, of the whole economy with a centrally elaborated plan. So that our people's prosperity really exists, against wars, with peace, with the working class, the people in power. This way can- and must- open from today on, every day, every hour. This is the invitation of the KKE to the people".
The major speech at the PAME May Day rally in Athens was delivered by Giorgos Perros, member of the PAME executive committee, while greeting messages were read by the Ambassador of Palestine Marwan Emile Toubassi and the representative of the striking workers at "Coca-Cola Thessaloniki" Anestis Metaxas.
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