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Rouvikonas disrupts minister Ahtsioglou's speech

Members of the anarchist collective Rouvikonas proceeded to "intervene" in a scheduled speech by the Minister of Labor, Social Security and Social Solidarity, Efi Ahtsioglou, in Pagrati, Athens.

Prior to the opening of the Minister's speech at a SYRIZA event, at a cafeteria in the area, they threw leaflets, shouted slogans and left.

The police did not proceed with arrests or detentions.

In a post on the site of the anti-authoritarian space, Rubikon states, inter alia, that "our wages remain as we left them three years ago. Black (ie unregistered), uninsured work is the rule. Elastic or partial work is the main exception. The houses of the workers and the low middle classes are at the mercy of the banks. Hospitals do not have doctors, beds, equipment. Thousands of young people become immigrants and leave, lowering unemployment below 20% to 19%. The elderly continue to barely survive with hunger pensions having to feed their unemployed children, while like some beggar, she pleads not to make another reduction in pensions ... ".

"Now that elections are coming, the political figures of SYRIZA go out on the street with gifts. Only the expiration date of these gifts has ran out long ago. Specifically, three years ago.

Let us congratulate Mrs Ahtsioglou on the successful conclusion of the last memorandum. Nothing has convinced us that the right could do any better.

But who can we congratulate on the fact that a suspension of the reduction of pensions, those left over from the previous reductions, has resulted in the bait for a new mandate in the elections?" is the questions of the anarchist collective, arguing that "the social base we are addressing, must realize that the encroachment on the dilemmas posed by the government, with either a right or left wing costume every few years is already humiliating. And it is time to send a strong signal of denial and dignity ... "