The imminent victory of Panspoudastiki KS comes just 18 days before the European Parliament Elections that are due to take place on June 9.
The imminent victory of Panspoudastiki KS comes just 18 days before the European Parliament Elections that are due to take place on June 9.
For another year, thousands of students supported the lists of Panspoudastiki thus giving a significant boost for the regroupment of the students movement, especially during a period when the conservative New Democracy (ND) government tries to implement reactionary reforms in Education.
The strikers demand the revocation of 15 dismissals and the signing of a Collective Labour Agreement.
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Celebration for the electoral victory in Athens. |
"No to the school of capitalists", reads the banner. |
The demonstrations, in which the Front of Communist Youth (Fronte dela Gioventú Comunista) has a leading role, were triggered after a student, 16-year-old Giuseppe Lenoci, died in a road accident on Monday while he was on board a truck for a school-work internship.
Over 80 schools across Swaziland have been indefinitely shut down since the protests intensified in the last three weeks.
The students were protesting for their right to free education and against the new law which aims to permit police presence in university campuses.
On the orders of Aristotle University's rector, riot police forces intervened by using chemicals and other crowd dispersal methods, while more than 30 students were arrested. In a video published on YouTube, police officers appear violently dragging a student with his head being on the pavement.
Melih Bulu has held various managerial positions within the AKP since 2002. He was a mayoral candidate in 2009 as well as a candidate for parliamentary deputy position from the AKP in the 2015 elections.
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A toddler lays flowers to the Polytechnic monument. Photo source: 902.gr. |
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Students demonstrate in Athens demanding better Public Education and schools (archive photo). |