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Greece: Mass demonstrations protest assault on public education
Students and academic staff in Greece have mounted demonstrations, rallies and occupations of universities for the past four months against plans by the New Democracy government of Constantine Karamanlis to break up the state system of higher education and introduce private universities.
The struggle by students to defend basic education rights has won support from wide sections of the working class.
On June 1, university lecturers launched an indefinite strike against the proposals and students began protests outside the education ministry. Two days later, students organised sit-ins at nearly 400 university departments and 60 technical colleges nationwide.
On June 8, 20,000 students participated in the largest student march for 20 years in the centre of Athens. The demonstration was brutally attacked by police. An estimated 10,000 students demonstrated in Salonika.
The next day, 350 of Greece’s 456 faculties were under occupation by students, with more than 100,000 students participating in rallies and protests. On June 15, a further demonstration of several thousand students and their supporters was staged outside the parliament building.
The demonstrations culminated in a nationwide protest on June 22, joined by hundreds of thousands of students and workers in both the public and private sectors. Workers at subway, trolley and suburban rail lines held short work stoppages. Flights by state carrier Olympic Airlines were hit.
On June 27, students and political groups demonstrated outside a hotel in Lagonissi, a resort town 40 kilometres south of Athens, where Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) education ministers were holding a two-day conference on higher education.
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On June 1, university lecturers launched an indefinite strike against the proposals and students began protests outside the education ministry. Two days later, students organised sit-ins at nearly 400 university departments and 60 technical colleges nationwide.
On June 8, 20,000 students participated in the largest student march for 20 years in the centre of Athens. The demonstration was brutally attacked by police. An estimated 10,000 students demonstrated in Salonika.
The next day, 350 of Greece’s 456 faculties were under occupation by students, with more than 100,000 students participating in rallies and protests. On June 15, a further demonstration of several thousand students and their supporters was staged outside the parliament building.
The demonstrations culminated in a nationwide protest on June 22, joined by hundreds of thousands of students and workers in both the public and private sectors. Workers at subway, trolley and suburban rail lines held short work stoppages. Flights by state carrier Olympic Airlines were hit.
On June 27, students and political groups demonstrated outside a hotel in Lagonissi, a resort town 40 kilometres south of Athens, where Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) education ministers were holding a two-day conference on higher education.
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http://wsws.org/articles/2006/jul2006/gree-j05.shtml
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