The UK Will Be Next Greece

A Greek journalist came to speak of the revolutionary takeover of his employer’s paper at the University of East London on Friday.

Mosissis Litsis is one of a group of journalists and other workers who received funding from the Athens trade union of journalists to print the paper they work for themselves. The daily which is one of the biggest in Greece – ‘Elefthrotypia’ became ‘the workers of Elefthrotypia’ after 3 months of strikes and non-payment of wages, due to austerity cuts. The first copy sold 31,000 copies – more than the original paper. The second edition selling 33,000, he told the student socialist worker meeting at UEL.

Describing the unpaid and unemployed in Greece as a humanitarian crisis, where 48% of 16-24 year olds are out of work, 250,000 ordinary people have to go to the church for basic food, and daily stereotyped arrests are made – Moissis said it won’t be long until the UK is the same. Although other countries are, or will be in the same economic crisis – the UK shares the debt of the Olympics with Greece.
Lastly Moissis called the students to ‘fight for your rights, organise worker and student solidarity, this is a real opportunity to show the governments of Europe we are united.’

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