“We organize our struggle to study without obstacles, to work on our profession with full rights, against governments – EU – IMF – big corporations”. This slogan dominated the work of the 8th National Congress of Students Militant Front (MAS) on Sunday, December 10.
The Congress was attended by 44 Students’ Unions, 70 Students’ Committees, and one students’ sports association from all over Greece.
At the end of its works, the congress elected a 52-member National Committee of MAS and a 15-member Executive Secretariat. For the immediate tasks was decided on December 14, to join forces with the workers, with PAME, organizing student rallies throughout Greece.
On behalf of PAME, Panayiotis Kataras, President of the National Federation of Workers in Press and Paper and a member of the Executive Secretariat of PAME, spoke at the Congress and highlighted: “It is important to find those among young people who do not surrender, who do not accept their dreams to be imprisoned within the narrow limits of the capital and their governments, the EU. Young people who take their life in their own hands and claim their modern needs for education, jobs, culture and entertainment. “
After referring to the particular difficulties faced by the young generation today, he stressed that “in these circumstances the success of the strike on December 14 is of particular importance. It is a battle against the government and the employers, which we must give with confidence to our forces, in order for new forces to enter the struggle, to take a step forward in the reconstruction of the workers’ movement. To create the conditions for a counter-attack, to claim what belongs to us. We strengthen the social alliance of the working class, the poor farmers, the self-employed. In this alliance an essential role is played by youth and women, whose exploitation is even greater.”
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