Thousands of protesters took part on Friday in the annual march in central Athens to commemorate the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising against the 1967-1974 junta in Greece.
Student unions, members of SYRIZA and its youth wing, workers union PAME, organizations and anti-establishment groups gathered on Klafthmonos and Omonia square on 17:00 and marched towards the American embassy while chanting anti-fascist slogans. The pavement outside the embassy was lined with police buses which prevented demonstrators from approaching the building.
The main body of the march was headed by the “Association of Prisoners and Exiled Resistance Fighters 1967-1974”.
“The messages of the Polytechnic are as timely as ever, after the Trump-Tsipras deal in the United States, which extends the [existence] of the bases of death in our country and the military armament for NATO’s needs rather than our own country’s defence,” Communist Party of Greece (KKE) leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas noted, as he marched.
The anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising is commemorated traditionally by this march but the historic ties between the the US and Greece remain extremely strong, keeping tourist traffic at the highest levels.
All Athens metro stations that had remained closed during the march have now reopened.
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