GREECE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN (Glasgow) public meeting

GREECE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN (Glasgow) public meeting

Wednesday 25 February -7pm- Room 3

John Smith house 
145/165 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 4RZ

Austerity in Europe and Greece- is there a way out?   Speakers Hillel Ticktin

all welcome !

Kostas Vlachopoulos

(Hillel Ticktin has written many articles on  Political Economy over a thirty five year period and is the editor of the journal Critique).

Syriza's election victory on an explicitly anti-austerity platform has the potential to transform not just Greek politics but the political situation throughout Europe. The meeting will look at how the post-2008 capitalist crisis has impacted on Greece, and at the challenges facing Syriza in attempting to implement its anti-austerity policies. We will also be discussing ideas about how to build support for the anti-austerity struggle in Greece.

 

Unite, FBU, UCATT, ASLEF, ATL, CSP, NUT, TSSA, Labour Representation Committee, Searchlight magazine are affiliates of the UK Greek solidarity Campaign.

The Listening Post - Greece: Syriza, austerity and the media

Protest Feb 14th

https://www.facebook.com/events/1531637707115235

Aims

The aims of the Glasgow Greek Solidarity Campaign are to demonstrate practical International Solidarity with the working class of Greece at a time when protracted savage cuts have forced many into absolute poverty and destitution. We believe International Solidarity can play a key role in raising awareness of the dire situation the Greek working class has been forced into and help raise the morale of the Greek working class to fight-back and resist the on-going onslaught by the Troika .We welcome the election of a radical Syriza Government but our main focus will be on providing practical solidarity with the working class of Greece.

The Glasgow campaign has started to have organising meetings and is planning two public meetings - one at the end of February and another in April. We hope to have speakers from Greece for both these meetings.

Future plans include a Solidarity Appeal to the press in Glasgow and support for  Medical Aid for Greece. We are supportive of the UK Greek Solidarity Campaign and like them wish to encourage the support of trade union organisations including branches and Trades Union Councils.

There is a  Facebook page for news and debate:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1532244090362425/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

If you would like to get involved in this vital campaign please get in touch via email:

glasgowgreeksolidarity@hotmail.com

Links

 
Greek Political Parties

Syriza

Antarsya

Analyze Greece (Syriza sponsored website)

Solidarity for All
Solidarity4All

Organisations, Campaigns

TUC

People’s Assembly

Alliance for Jobs and Climate

Jubilee Debt Campaign

Global Justice Now

 

Media

Sto Kokkino (Red radio) platform in English

Athens News (Weekly English language newspaper in Greece)
In Greece
Inside Greece (weekly articles by Nick Malkoutzis, deputy editor of Kathimerini)
Kathimerini English Edition (Greece’s only English language daily newspaper, published in partnership with the International Herald Tribune)
London Greek Radio

International

Australia Greece Solidarity Campaign

Attac France
ETUC (European TUC) website
Campaign for Peace and Democracy (USA) – US organisation building solidarity with the Greek People

Sinn Fein

Greece Solidarity Campaign

http://greecesolidarity.org/

Aims

About us

Our purpose

Greece is at the cutting edge of the austerity measures that are being introduced across Europe. All the evidence shows that while these measures may protect the interests of the rich, they just make matters worse for the majority of the population.

What happens in Greece today will be repeated in Portugal tomorrow, and in Ireland and Italy the day after. In Britain, the Coalition government is pursuing similar measures which will see workers’ earnings cut, working longer for a smaller pension, the marketisation of education and the dismantling of the NHS along with other public services.
The Greek people have shown mass resistance to these outrages and we commit to build a movement of solidarity with them.