Protests against high prices in Athens

[Ellinas]

The Communist Party of Greece-affiliated labour group PAME held a rally against high prices at Omonia Square in downtown Athens on Thursday evening, that was followed by a march to the Finance and Economy ministry.

The rally was also attended by the Communist Party's (KKE) Secretary General Aleka Papariga.

"The struggle against high prices that must be intensified will not produce results unless it is combined with the struggle to have all that is being said about healthy and unhealthy competition come to the surface. We must know that the enemy is not only dealing a blow at popular interests, he also knows very well how to deceive," Papariga said in a statement.

The General Confederation of Workers of Greece (GSEE), the Civil Servants Supreme Administrative Council (ADEDY), the PASEGES farmers union, the Athens-Piraeus supraprefecture, the municipality of Piraeus and consumer organisations held a rally in Syntagma Square in Athens on Thursday evening to protest high prices and profiteering and to demand a crackdown on such phenomena.

ANA