The protest we mentioned last week, there was a text written for it in the hope we could get a flyer together. This might not happen, but here’s the text. Let us inform you about this amazing TED speaker that has no dignityat all: after he spent two years selling out the social wealth...
Posts Tagged ‘ anti-austerity ’
11th June: Oppose Former Greek PM Papandreou and Austerity
Press release from some of our Greek friends. George Papandreou, the former Greek Prime Minister who led Greece into the arms of the IMF has been invited to the TEDGlobal 2013 conference on the 11th June. The ‘Scotland Against Austerity – Stop Papandreou’ coalition have called for a mass demonstration on the same day...
Boycott Workfare National Day of Action 3rd March
Edinburgh Anarchist Federation fully endorses the national day of action called by grassroots campaign Boycott Workfare. Join the protest in Edinburgh: Assemble 12 noon, Hunter Square, Saturday 3rd March, to visit some nearby businesses using unpaid workfare ‘volunteers’ to work for free. Workfare is a government scheme that makes people on benefits work for their...
Greek crisis, Eurozone crisis, or systemic crisis? Discussion with Dimitris Dalakoglou of Occupied London
Saturday 25th January, 4pm, Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh As international creditors & bailiffs circle Greece, its government has responded with austerity policies. The results include deepened unemployment, cut pensions and social provision. A permanent state of crisis is the new post-democratic way of government: in the name of the economy, the facade of democracy...
Over 100 attend Greece solidarity demonstration in Edinburgh
Despite the freezing weather, and an unexpected snow storm in the middle of the sunny afternoon, over 100 people gathered outside the City Chambers on Saturday 18th February to show solidarity with workers in Greece, who’s government has just voted to approve IMF and European Bank-approved austerity measures, which will have disastrous consequences for the working class....
Greece Solidarity Demonstration – Saturday 18th Feb
There will be a second demonstration, called by Greek workers in Edinburgh, on Saturday 18th February, 12-3pm, City Chambers, High Street. The demonstration is in solidarity with workers in Greece fighting the austerity measures imposed by their government at the request of the IMF and European Bank. The statement on the facebook event reads:...