And in this strike, the sad role of the employers’ and government controlled trade unionism, the leaderships of the GSEE and ADEDY who support the policy of capital and the illusions of curing “the pathologies of the state” was confirmed. The unjust and rotten state that cannot guarantee even the most basic rights of our people. It is no coincidence that the workers have once again turned their backs on them, participating en masse with the class oriented trade union strike actions.

Today’s strike is a continuation of the struggle for collective agreements and wage increases, for health and education not to be an expensive commodity, for the people’s homes to be saved from the banks , for workers not to be crippled in the workplace for the employers’ profits.

We are organizing the struggle against one of the most dangerous decisions of the EU in recent years, to allocate 800 billion euros for war preparation and armaments. The flag bearers of this decision are the government of the New Democracy and all the bourgeois parties in our country. But they will get a decisive response. No sacrifice for the plutocracy and the hawks of imperialist war.

The next stage of the struggle is the May Day strike and the trade unions’ strike rallies, which take on special importance in an environment of frantic war preparations of the imperialists, trade wars, the genocide of the Palestinian people that continues.

All on strike on May 1. All in the unions, all in the struggle!