SYRIZA-PS backs the protests by teachers and students, which begin today and escalate tomorrow, Wednesday 21 October, with a 24-hour teachers’ strike.
All of Europe is being rocked by mass youth protests against the destructive policies of neoliberal austerity. The Mitsotakis government is systematically undermining public education, with all levels suffering from staff and resource shortages. At the same time, this year has seen the grim situation of hundreds of students being unable to enrol at the universities to which they were admitted because of exorbitant housing and living costs. And all this as Mitsotakis’s plan for private universities is under way.
Peaceful protests are vital to democracy. A mass turnout by society as a whole on the streets is needed to overcome the impasse in which the country finds itself as a result of the Mitsotakis government.