This from The Greek Streets:
Friday July, 2012, 18.50 GMT+2
More than 2,000
people gathered in solidarity outside the factory gates already.
However, members of PAME (the stalinist trade union) decide to leave,
using the pretext of their solidarity demonstration in central Athens
on Monday.
The workers of “Greek
Steelworks” (Elliniki Halivourgia) in Aspropyrgos, near Athens, had
been on a strike since early November 2011 (see our steelworkers
tag for background to their struggle). At dawn today, at least
five riot police vans arrived at the factory and riot police raided
the building soon thereafter. At least six strikers have been
detained. A small number (approximately 30) of scabs have entered the
factory since. There is a call for a solidarity demonstration at the
factory at 5.30 this evening, while people in solidarity are already
gathering at the gates.
