Bloodied but defiant: 10,000 Greek strikers and police battle as debt-ridden country starts a 24-hour walkout

Daily Mail
October 5, 2011

Greek riot police have fired teargas at petrol bomb throwing youths and charged them wielding batons as 10,000 public sector workers marched to protest against budget cuts and high taxes.

The country is today in the grip of a 24-hour national strike which has seen flights grounded, schools shut and people on the streets trying to storm the Athens parliament of its bankrupt government.

Violence broke out as anarchists mixed with the marchers and started attacking more than 1,000 police with any weapons they could find. This has been the first nationwide walkout in months and marked the start of what campaigners say is the culmination of two years of tax hikes and wage cuts.

In the chaos hospitals ran on emergency rotas and some state schools closed.

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  1. Get out of using the Euro and start printing your nations OWN currency again.

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