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'Left-wing and anarchist groups who organized the protest'
Posted on: November 15, 2016 at 16:56:13 CT
JeffB MU
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"About 5,000 Communist party supporters took part in a separate, peaceful protest in central Athens"
So the left wingers and anarchists are more violent than the communists, eh?
"Communist party leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas described Obama's visit as a provocation.
"(The U.S.) is a state that causes military coups, interventions and imperialist wars from Ukraine to the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Latin America," he told supporters."
I sympathize with them, though. We do bring on much of that hatred:
"There's a strong anti-American tradition among Greek left-wingers, who still resent U.S. support for Greece's 1967-74 military dictatorship.
Obama's visit comes just two days before the country's main annual anti-American demonstrations, which commemorate the bloody suppression, by military authorities, of the Polytechnic pro-democracy uprising.
The small Popular Unity party, which took part in the main protest Tuesday, described Obama's visit as "a provocation" due to that timing. Party leader Panayiotis Lafazanis also blamed the U.S. for Greece's economic woes.
The debt-crippled country depends on international bailout loans, and has been forced by creditors to implement deep income cuts, tax hikes, welfare cuts and economic reforms.
"American imperialism has not changed," Lafazanis said Tuesday. "The U.S. presidents and administrations have played — and still play — a leading part in the bailout-linked plundering of our country ... and their interventions are drowning our part of the world in blood and creating refugee waves."
The last visit to Greece by a U.S. president was by Bill Clinton in 1999, which was also marred by clashes between anarchists and riot police."
So the left wingers and anarchists are more violent than the communists, eh?
"Communist party leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas described Obama's visit as a provocation.
"(The U.S.) is a state that causes military coups, interventions and imperialist wars from Ukraine to the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Latin America," he told supporters."
I sympathize with them, though. We do bring on much of that hatred:
"There's a strong anti-American tradition among Greek left-wingers, who still resent U.S. support for Greece's 1967-74 military dictatorship.
Obama's visit comes just two days before the country's main annual anti-American demonstrations, which commemorate the bloody suppression, by military authorities, of the Polytechnic pro-democracy uprising.
The small Popular Unity party, which took part in the main protest Tuesday, described Obama's visit as "a provocation" due to that timing. Party leader Panayiotis Lafazanis also blamed the U.S. for Greece's economic woes.
The debt-crippled country depends on international bailout loans, and has been forced by creditors to implement deep income cuts, tax hikes, welfare cuts and economic reforms.
"American imperialism has not changed," Lafazanis said Tuesday. "The U.S. presidents and administrations have played — and still play — a leading part in the bailout-linked plundering of our country ... and their interventions are drowning our part of the world in blood and creating refugee waves."
The last visit to Greece by a U.S. president was by Bill Clinton in 1999, which was also marred by clashes between anarchists and riot police."
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'Left-wing and anarchist groups who organized the protest' - JeffB MU - 11/15 16:56:13