'Our rage will be relentless': Syriza faces mass strike in Greece
Prime minister Alexis Tsipras under pressure as services including schools, hospitals, and banks are hit by 24-hour walkout
Greece's leftist-led government will get a taste of people power on Thursday when workers participate in a general strike that will be the first display of mass resistance to the neoliberal policies it has elected to pursue.
The country is expected to be brought to a halt when employees in both the public and private sector down tools to protest against yet more spending cuts and tax rises. "The winter is going to be explosive and this will mark the beginning," said Grigoris Kalomoiris, a leading member of the civil servants' union Adedy.
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