Only diehard communists now purchase to the streets in a nation where the Brussels bailout programme is showing limited signs of workingEight years into Greece’s ordeal to escape bankruptcy,thousands of Communist party sympathisers packed into Syntagma Square in Athens on Friday to protest at the latest concessions made by Alexis Tsipras’s leftist government to sustain the country afloat.
Massed before parliament in the fading light of day, they did what they had come to do: rail against the cuts that loom in return for further disbursement of the emergency aid now needed to avert economic collapse. The serial drama of Greece’s debt repayments will reach a climax again when loans of €7.5bn mature in July.
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Source: theguardian.com