Athens: Student Protests Against Education Reform Face Police Brutality. Students around the world unite! Its time to break from the previous generation in which banks have taken over the University, forced students into massive debt and only teach how to reproduce the present conditions of capitalist brutality ----------------------------------------------- November 17 or why this day is so important for Greeks A date haunts Greece, the date of November 17. It’s the date when the uprising of several hundred of students, who stood up against the military dictatorship by occupying the Athens Polytechnic, was brutally crushed. The iconic photo of a tank driving through the Polytechnic’s gate is a symbol of freedom for (probably) all Greeks... It was back in 1973. The student uprising was crushed but the beggining of the end for the military junta begun that day. The colonels fell from power a year later, in the summer of 1974.
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