Greece’s social democratic PASOK government is preparing to use the
army against striking Athens refuse workers and threatening mass
arrests. The attack on the refuse workers is a pre-emptive move against
the entire Greek working class ahead of today’s 48-hour general strike.
Late
on Friday, the government of Prime Minister George Papandreou stepped
up its efforts to break the refuse strike by commissioning private
vehicles to begin collecting thousands of tons of trash in the capital.
Workers seeking to block the scab operation were threatened with
three-month prison sentences and fines.
On Sunday evening, riot
police engaged in pitched battles with workers who had been occupying
Athens’s main landfill site northwest of the city since the beginning of
the dispute. Having violently taken over the site, riot police were
guarding the area on Monday.
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