November 6, 2015 GREECE March to commemorate the 7th anniversary of the assassination of Alexis Grigoropulos The evening was beginning in Athens and the March was already starting to mark 7 years from the murder of Alexis Grigoropulos at the hands of the murderous Greek police. High numbers of young people began to concentrate on Syntagma Square, opposite Parliament. No flag of any political party was in sight, not even of those who claim to be on the left. The protesters are young people of the Greek revolution, who are fighting against successive Governments of the Troika - from 'rightist' one of Karamanlis in 2008 to the "left" one of Tsipras of today - and against the retrenchment plans these seek to apply, which is nothing else but plans of hunger and misery to the workers. These youth are the same ones that sympathize with and defend the Syrian refugees that have come to Greece. As a correspondent I at once went to the march against the murderous police and in commemoration of comrade Alexis, which is part of the fight against repression, imprisonment and persecution that these young people are suffering – also many of their comrades are imprisoned as political prisoners- like the workers in the world who fight for their rights. The oil workers from of Las Heras sentenced for life for fighting for a living wage for all equal to the family shopping basket; fighters for the Palestinian cause as George Abdallah who is imprisoned in France; imprisoned striking miners in Asturias; the Palestinians imprisoned in the dungeons of Zionism, and the Syrian workers or the miners in Marikana (South Africa) murdered by just fighting for bread and a dignified life, are just a few examples of this. The concentration outside Parliament sang slogans against the police, the repression, and the powers that command it, and for Alexis Grigoropoulos; the attendants started their March towards the District of Exarcheia, where Alexis was murdered and which is known for the combativeness of its inhabitants. When coming to the march, the repression began. Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse it. But young people faced repression in barricades. They clashed hard against the police until late at night in the Exarcheia district and its surroundings. That’s how the youth comes fighting for years against the regime of the Troika, and its murderous police... today managed by a "left" Government (Syriza). And it is this same "left" Government that keeps prisoners comrade Nikos Romanos, Panagiotis Argirou, Maria Thefilou and Savas Xiros, among others for fighting the police and defending the refugees from the fascist gangs of Golden Dawn. But at the same time this same Government has let those fascist gangs that attacked Syrian refugees and killed young rebel Pavlos Fyssas, stay at large. Rebel youth clashes against the police of the Government of Syriza, the lefts of the Troika. Parties who claim to be on the left are looking the other way. And the police is repressing harshly. After covering the counterrevolution and war against the Syrian masses by the Grand Coalition of the Vienna Conference; after living with the rebellious youth fighting in the resistance against the murderous regime of Bashar, I could see now in the fire of the barricades in Athens that here are the same forces fighting in the Palestinian intifada, the Syrian resistance, the hardened workers who fight against the murderous regime of Erdogan. Here in Athens, I could see the siege on the heroic struggle of the masses by the treacherous leaderships. Neither Antarsya, nor the EEK nor the bureaucracy of the trade unions have come out fighting on the anniversary of the assassination of Alexis by counter-revolutionary Governments of Greece. Their plan is to encircle rebel youth so that the repressive Government -a partner to Merkel- can jail the best fighters. Correspondent
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