“Rivers of demonstrators” flooded the streets of the cities of Greece again on Sunday, expressing their outrage and demanding justice for those who died in the disastrous Feb. 28 train crash, being termed “the crime of Tempi.” Students and young people again played a leading role. In Athens, tens of thousands (the police say 20,000) demonstrated in front of the Hellenic Parliament. The railway workers continued their strike. Unions and collectives announced they would build for a national general strike for March 16, to again be spearheaded by the ADEDY public sector union federation and the GSEE private sector union federation.
New invitations are going out to labor centers, federations, unions, mass organizations, student associations, and to the left-wing MeRA25 party, with the slogan: “This fight must continue until the final vindication.”
The Athens rally began with a greeting from one of the organizers, Panagiotis Bouros, who said the protests must “break the government’s narrative about ‘human error'” and emphasizing, “We owe it to our dead that sadness and anger become a river and to drown them.”
