“Victory for the French strikers” was the slogan of the rally held outside the French embassy, ​​where PAME, trade unions and mass organizations demonstrated on Thursday afternoon their solidarity with the workers of France and their new nationwide strike “against the labor pension reform of the Macron government”.

“Life is stolen in Greece and France, people’s anger will drown in the river”, “Insurance – health – pension – work, we will not give them to the authorities” – slogans sounded at the meeting.

French students who are in our country, who also lay down, symbolically, on the street, gave their presence with pickets, slogans and songs in their own language. The audience lit smoke bombs in the three colors of the French flag and united their votes under the slogan “From Athens to Paris, right and life will win in the end.”

A delegation of the Central Committee of the KKE took part in the mobilization.

“For the capitalists, profit is worth more than our lives,” said a French student from the University of Lyon in her greeting. “On behalf of all the French in Athens, we thank you,” he stressed and assured that the struggle of the workers is common.

“We say to our brothers in France: your struggle is already history,” said Marcos Bekris, President of the Piraeus Labor Center and the ENEDEP trade union. “We are the class that produces wealth. We are the class that moves society forward. And the struggle of the workers of France today is pulling forward the entire working class. The working class of Greece was, is and will be on your side,” he stressed.

“Today, students could not help participating in this mobilization,” said Asimina Yanneyou, president of the Association of Architectural Students, and spoke about the participation of youth, schoolchildren and students in the strike struggle, promising her parents and grandparents that their labor rights, for which they will fight. The atmosphere of the strike uprising was conveyed outside the embassy as dozens of young men and women students joined their voices in the Internationale, first in French, the language that was written and sung for the first time, and then in Greek from the workers from Greece to join their voice with corresponding verses in our language. “United in the fight”…

MONKEY BEE