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ER Editor: Some tweets from this day of a massive general strike across Greece —
THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE
NOW
Athens
ENORMOUS #strike rally
February 28 Greece General #strikeMainstream media are staying silent. pic.twitter.com/cha32Pp1FO
— Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 安德龙 (@angeloinchina) February 28, 2025
🔴 Athens, #Greece 🇬🇷 – A significant wave of solidarity is sweeping through #Syntagma Square as thousands gather for one of the largest demonstrations in decades. Trade Unions have declared a 24-hour national #strike to mark the 2nd anniversary of the tragic #Tempi train crash… pic.twitter.com/lrRtJ6iLoP
— Greek City Times (@greekcitytimes) February 28, 2025
Clashes broke out in Athens: Greece is experiencing one of the largest general strike mobilizations in years. Hundreds of thousands of workers have filled the streets of Athens. Workers are clashing with the police in front of the Greek parliament. https://t.co/jRIxxuZcOT pic.twitter.com/dn9yLkJcqo
— H D (@hussedogru) February 28, 2025
Huge mobilisations taking place right across Greece today, as workers bring capitalism to a standstill in a breathtaking general strike. Only workers have the power to stop the bosses. This is what solidarity looks like.pic.twitter.com/bVVVHrBcEH
— GhostofDurruti (@DurrutiRiot) February 28, 2025
🇬🇷✊ In #Greece, traffic is complicated or paralyzed due to a 24-hour strike by transport workers.
Commuter train service in #Athens has been completely suspended, and Athenian taxi drivers have also joined the strike. However, the metro and trams are operating in the #Greek… pic.twitter.com/wJbTyRcvql
— News.Az (@news_az) February 28, 2025
You’re watching Greek workers standing strong against the cops in Athens right now as state thugs try to smash today’s general strike. Their profits versus our lives. The workers united will never be defeated.pic.twitter.com/aQ1Pgo4Oew
— GhostofDurruti (@DurrutiRiot) February 28, 2025
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Greece gripped by massive strikes as suspicion and anger boil over
On the two-year anniversary of a train crash that killed 57 people, national protests reflect despair over its handling.
NEKTARIA STAMOULI for POLITICO.EU
ATHENS ― Greece will come almost entirely to a standstill Friday as grief, anger and accusations of high-level political corruption reach a head.
Public transport, airplanes, schools and courts ― even supermarkets, shops, cafés, theaters, bars and clubs ― will close their doors, while huge demonstrations are expected to paralyze the country.
The national strike is unprecedented in its breadth in this country of 10 million. While on their surface the protests merely mark the two-year anniversary of the country’s worst rail tragedy ― an accident that killed 57 people ― at its core are the emotions and unsettling questions the crash provoked. Those go far beyond the disaster itself.
“Serious information went missing because the site of the accident was not sealed,” said Christos Papadimitriou, the head of Greece’s National Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Organization, which was created after the crash.
Papadimitriou hailed the families of the victims, who had taken on the “titanic task” of investigating the accident scene themselves and had commissioned private experts in the absence of a coordinated state response. “Everyone owes them an apology,” he said.
The government also failed to heed a call from the European public prosecutor to take action regarding the potential criminal liability of two former transport ministers following the crash.
“Those who delayed [the implementation of the railway contract] have contributed decisively to the death of these children,” Papadimitriou said.
The main opposition, the center-left Pasok party, said it would file a no-confidence motion in parliament against the government.
However, government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis ruled out the possibility of early elections and accused Pasok of opportunism and attempting to exploit the tragedy for electoral gain.
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