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Wed 02 Feb 2010Greek tradition of acrimony revived as austerity bites
Workers are taking to the streets and political consensus is fading, writes John Psaropoulosin Athens
THE POLITICAL atmosphere in Greece is turning acrimonious. A strike being declared today by Greece’s largest umbrella unions intends to send the socialist government a message that its austerity plan is putting too much pain on labour.
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