National General Strike in Greece

A sea of people flooded the streets of Athens and other cities in Greece on 20 November, 2024.

Thousands of strikers, who took part in the 24-hour national strike of the trade unions of the private and public sectors of the economy, put forward their just demands. They demanded wage increases, money for the public health and education systems and for Greece to get out of the war slaughterhouses.

The strike demonstration in Athens was huge.

The street in front of the Propylaea of the University of Athens, where the rally took place, was packed with people. Immediately afterwards, this human river marched to the Greek Parliament.

The GS of the CC of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, took part in the strike rally at the Propylaea and stressed in the media that “Today the workers all over the country are sending a strong and clear message in all directions: give money for wages, for education, for health and not for the slaughterhouses of war. The effectiveness of this struggle requires continuity, more mass participation of all workers in their unions, organization in an anti-capitalist direction and in an alliance of private and public sector wage earners with the urban and rural middle strata, youth, pensioners, and women”.

“Today’s strike is a message of hope, determination and optimism, and this is how we will continue in the workplaces, in all sectors,” said Giorgos Perros, member of the Secretariat of the All Workers’ MIlitant Front (PAME), in which dozens of sectoral federations and Labour Centres, i.e. local trade union associations from all over the country, that support the class struggle are rallied.

“This is the strength of the organized working class,” he said. “This is the strength of the unions, the new unions that we are establishing day by day. This is the power of the working class. We continue. We will not stop. The path of struggle, of organizing, of fighting for our daily needs is the one that breathes life into us and provides us with a way out,” he pointed out.