Thousands of people in Athens and dozens of other cities across Greece celebrated 1 May —a day symbolizing the struggle of workers worldwide to abolish the exploitation of man by man— with a mass strike, under the slogan of the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME): “We are marching on the path of the overthrow of the system against war and exploitation”.
Workers from dozens of industrial sectors and other fields, along with university students, the self-employed, and women took part in the strike rallies, expressing their opposition to the system of exploitation, poverty, barbarity and war.
At the mass strike rallies held in many cities across the country, demonstrators honoured the memory of those who gave their lives for the cause of the working class, the heroic workers’–people’s struggle, as well as the gains achieved by workers, won through bloodshed in the uncompromising struggle against the exploiters.
The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, attended the PAME strike rally in Athens and made the following statement:
“This 1 May, 140 years after the Chicago workers’ uprising for the eight-hour day, we are moving forwards toward new victories, towards a life free from capitalist exploitation, imperialist wars, and economic crises, for which the people always pay the price.”
