Greece

Greece deepens role as Washington's Eastern Mediterranean bulwark

Thu, 28 May 2026 17:03:30 GMT

Greece’s integration into US imperialism’s war drive is the culmination of the country’s decades-long status as a client state for Washington.

Court proceedings begin in Greece over 2023 Tempi rail crash deaths

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:29:50 GMT

The crime at Tempi has discredited all the main bourgeois parties. One of the main chants at demonstrations is: “Syriza, PASOK, New Democracy, this crime has a history”.

Protesters speak out at global demonstrations marking three years since Greece’s Tempi rail crash deaths

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:43:51 GMT

On February 28, demonstrations took place throughout Greece and in cities around the world to mark three years since the Tempi rail disaster—a crime of capitalism, which took the lives of 57 people. WSWS reporters spoke to protesters in London, Manchester and Edinburgh in the UK and in Stuttgart, Germany.

Corruption scandal hits Greece’s GSEE trade union bureaucracy

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:00:07 GMT

At the centre of scandal is an investigation concerning €2.1 million government and European Union funding, out of a €73 million total, provided between 2020 and 2025 for professional education and training programmes.

Greek Coast Guard rams refugee boat, killing and injuring dozens

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:08:30 GMT

A boat carrying an estimated 35 people en route from the Turkish coast to the nearby island of Chios was rammed by the Greek Coast Guard. At least 15 people were killed.

Five workers killed because Greek biscuit factory was a death trap following years of safety violations

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:15:47 GMT

Five female workers died in a huge blast and fire in the early hours of January 26 at the Violanta biscuit factory near the city of Trikala in the Thessaly region of central Greece.

5 workers killed in massive biscuit factory explosion in Greece

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:09:54 GMT

According to figures compiled by the Federation of Technical Company Trade Unions, 630 workers lost their lives at work between 2022 and 2025.

Predator spying revelations rock Greek ruling elite

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:47:50 GMT

With the witness list exceeding 50 people, the trial is expected to continue well into next year.

The “Your Party” debacle, Socialism AI and the fight for a revolutionary party

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:10:36 GMT

The Socialist Equality Party fights to arm the working class with a revolutionary perspective. We not only reject entirely the demoralised argument that reformist consciousness cannot be challenged. We are preparing the most powerful means of doing so.

Bugonia: The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos—“All that’s been done to us … We’re setting that right again”

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:46:31 GMT

Two cousins, in an act of revenge, kidnap a successful, powerful corporate executive and hold her captive in their basement.

The north of Cyprus, a strategic island in the Eastern Mediterranean, holds presidential elections

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:42:06 GMT

The results of the elections held in Northern Cyprus amid regional power struggles and imperialist domination plans will certainly not bring any solution to the social and political issues facing the workers of Cyprus and the region.

Renewed general strike in Greece against the 13-hour day

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:09:42 GMT

Last week’s general strike in Greece against the onerous new labour laws is part of a growing strike and protest wave throughout Europe.

Israel attacks third humanitarian Freedom/Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:51:20 GMT

The Israeli military continues to fire on European citizens and parliamentarians in the Mediterranean, including within the sovereign waters of European countries, with impunity.

The fascists are needed: Leader of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn released from prison early

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:56:23 GMT

A little under two weeks ago, on 12 September, the Greek fascist Nikos Michaloliakos was released early from prison into home detention. The Holocaust denier and admirer of Hitler bears responsibility for numerous acts of violence against left-wingers and migrants.

Tougher asylum law in Greece criminalises refugees

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:38:17 GMT

Prison and leg-irons: Refugees will be treated like criminals in Greece in future. This is the essence of the tougher asylum law introduced by the Greek government a week ago.

Greece: Strike against tightened disciplinary law and 13-hour day

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:47:16 GMT

On Thursday, public sector employees in Greece held a one-day strike to protest against a new law allowing working hours of up to 13 hours a day and tightening disciplinary measures against public sector employees.

Corbyn’s new left party—What it is and what it isn’t

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:06:18 GMT

Millions of workers and youth see the need for a new party to challenge Labour. But this requires a revolutionary socialist and internationalist programme, not a Labour Party Mark II.

An interview with Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, director of To a Land Unknown: “Do we want to actually respect and embrace our humanity?”

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:43:43 GMT

The WSWS spoke last year to filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, the director of To a Land Unknown, in a video call.

Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown: Palestinian refugees search for the land of milk and honey

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:42:37 GMT

Fleifel’s fiction film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, Reda and Chatila, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.

Greek government bans asylum applications from North Africa in collaboration with the EU

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:03:10 GMT

The measure is a death sentence on many desperate people who are trying to flee economic hardship, political persecution or escape war, risking their lives in the process.

10 years since the Greek referendum: The lessons of Syriza’s betrayal

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 02:36:14 GMT

The referendum was a critical experience for the international working class, with enormous political lessons that are of burning relevance in the present political situation.

Corbyn’s new party and the lessons of Syriza

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:40:36 GMT

“Marxism 2025” gave clear warning of the type of pro-capitalist party the SWP is preparing to build, platforming Yanis Varoufakis, betrayer of the Greek working class, as a keynote speaker.

Greek coast guard officials face prosecution over deaths of hundreds of migrants in Pylos boat disaster

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:02:00 GMT

The sinking of the Adriana was the largest loss of life in the Mediterranean in a single event in recent decades. It added more than 600 deaths to the 20,000-plus who have drowned in the sea over the last two decades.

General strike in Greece to demand higher pay, end to austerity, and justice for Tempi rail crash victims

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:04:18 GMT

Despite the efforts of the union bureaucracy, Tempi remained very much in the air during Wednesday’s general strike, with workers and youth bringing homemade placards to demand justice.

General strike shuts down much of Belgium as ruling elite demands more military spending

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:46:03 GMT

The growing movement of the working class in Belgium is developing under conditions of rising opposition to militarism continent-wide.

Greek fascist MP given kid gloves treatments after attack on art exhibition

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:13:17 GMT

Not a single member of the ND government—Culture Minister Lina Mendoni included—came out to publicly support the museum’s stand. Four days later the artworks were withdrawn, with the museum citing security concerns amid protests outside by far-right religious figures.

Mass protests over Tempi train crash deepen political crisis in Greece

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 03:38:15 GMT

The mass movement of young people and workers that broke out two years after the Tempi train crash is shaking the ruling class in Greece. In the face of the biggest protests in the country’s history, the government is hanging on by a thread.

The political significance of Greece’s massive protests and general strike for Tempi rail crash justice

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:09:22 GMT

The mass movement over Tempi developed in direct opposition to all the major parties, with demonstrations featuring banners reading “Syriza, PASOK, ND [New Democracy]—Tempi has a history”, and largely outside of the structures of the trade unions.

Protesters speak out at global demonstrations for justice over Greek Tempi rail crash

Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:10:49 GMT

At least 112 demonstrations were held internationally to mark the second anniversary of the Tempi rail crash deaths in Greece.

Greece’s largest ever protests and general strike demand justice for Tempi rail crash victims

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:04:11 GMT

The protests were supported by demonstrations at more than 100 Greek embassies and consulates internationally, across all six inhabited continents.

Wave of protests in Greece over Tempi rail crash deaths and cover-up

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:20:27 GMT

Thousands of students took to the streets nationwide last Friday, with protests held in the capital Athens, the second city Thessaloniki as well as in Larissa, Patras, Serres, Volos, Chania and Heraklion.

Mass protests in Greece and globally demand end to Tempi rail crash cover-up

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:15:46 GMT

The demonstrations recalled the mass protests of the working class which filled up city centres during the movement against austerity in Greece from 2010.

Maria fails to capture the complex life and vocal tragedy of soprano Maria Callas

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 02:08:18 GMT

The film attempts to depict the famous diva’s final days in 1977.

Threats of deportation and agitation against Syrian refugees in Germany and across Europe

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:58:40 GMT

No sooner had the Islamist militias reached Damascus and overthrown the Assad regime than the propaganda barrage against Syrian refugees began.

General strike in Greece to demand higher pay and end to austerity

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:51:18 GMT

Whenever the trade union bureaucracy call a general strike in Greece, it is a sure sign that they fear an escalation of the class struggle which could spiral out of their control.

Collapsing Syriza set to be replaced as main Greek opposition party

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:15:37 GMT

Syriza’s popular support has collapsed. One survey conducted by Real Polls last week has it polling in eighth place, at 3.6 percent.

Protests against trade with Israel grow in Turkish ports

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:22:35 GMT

The harsh condemnation of Netanyahu by Erdogan who heads the second largest army of NATO, cannot hide the complicity of the Turkish bourgeoisie in the Gaza genocide.

Greek strike wave against brutal austerity attacks

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 18:31:18 GMT

Millions in various sectors are angered at stagnating wages and attacks on conditions amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis, expressed in the wave of strikes this month by many thousands of workers across different industries.

Greek dockworkers block shipment of 21 tonnes of ammunition to Israel

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:20:17 GMT

As they stopped the truck, the dockers chanted slogans including, “Freedom for Palestine”; and “No land or water to the murderers of the world’s people.” On the container were sprayed the words: “Murderers, get out of the port”.

Kinds of Kindness: People are awful, it seems—Yorgos Lanthimos up to his old tricks, unfortunately

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 01:27:03 GMT

Having shown some humanity and elemental sympathy for suffering in Poor Things, Lanthimos cannot simply revert to his previous coldness and cynicism. He has to actively defend those qualities.

Record temperatures spread wildfires in Greece and southern Europe

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:50:55 GMT

Fires in Greece are part of a wider trend across the continent, which is sweltering under a heatwave that has led to blazes in Albania, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Sardinia and North Macedonia.

Greece’s COVID surge in holiday season fuels global spread

Sun, 28 Jul 2024 17:02:37 GMT

Deaths from COVID have been steadily increasing with the latest report recording 35 new fatalities, up from the average of 23 over the previous four weeks and twice the same time last year.

Mahdi Fleifel’s To a Land Unknown: Palestinian refugees, escaped from “prison,” search for the land of milk and honey

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 02:10:28 GMT

The film follows two undocumented Palestinian refugees and cousins, who find themselves in Athens and make desperate efforts to reach Germany.

An interview with Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, director of To a Land Unknown: “Do we want to actually respect and embrace our humanity?”

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:49:58 GMT

The WSWS spoke recently to filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel, the director of To a Land Unknown, in a video call.

50,000 foreclosures expected to be enforced in Greece this year

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:02:17 GMT

The most high-profile eviction case was that of Ioanna Kolovou, a retired journalist. She was evicted from her home along with her 28-year-old disabled son at the end of January this year. According to reports a large crowd gathered outside her home which was attacked with tear gas by the riot police who then arrested Kolovou and her son.

Greek government introduces six-day working week in stepped up offensive

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:31:00 GMT

The New Democracy government’s attacks on the working class have earned it widespread praise from the global financial elite Standard and Poor’s has updated its outlook on Greece from “stable” to “positive”, while German business interests speak of Greece as a new model.

Greek court acquits nine survivors of the Pylos ship disaster

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:32:22 GMT

It was the survivors of the tragedy, not those in the Greek Coast Guard and EU Frontex border agency responsible for a crime that cost the lives of more than 600, who were put before the Greek courts.

Yanis Varoufakis tours Australia: A pseudo-left representative of European capitalism in search of political allies

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 01:03:47 GMT

While fawned on by upper middle class layers, Varoufakis, a political scoundrel and opportunist of the first order, was culpable for one of the most significant betrayals of the working class this century.

Greek government enacts private university laws, facing down mass protests with police repression

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:02:38 GMT

Greece’s ruling elite, with many ties to those in power during the junta era, wants to quell an area of society that has long been a bastion of left-wing ideology and activity.

Amnesty International/Human Rights Watch expose Greece’s lies over drowning of 600 migrants on the Adriana

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:57:10 GMT

The mass murder of refugees was the result of brutal “pushback” policies designed to prevent desperate refugees and asylum seekers from entering “Fortress Europe.”