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The financial crisis reveals profound contradictions at the heart of Greek society
‘You know, I think the Greeks want the Germans to come down hard on them’, Duncan remarks. We’re in Exarchia Square, the semi-autonomous zone near the Athens Polytechnic, long a centre of the Left, now filling up with chic cafes. It’s late afternoon on one of the three general strikes that occupied the country during March, and the city has only just started to settle down. Earlier, after 50,000 workers had marched down the main boulevard to Syntagma square, the ‘black block’ anarchist contingent had marched back the other way, smashing shop windows and invading the Finance Ministry. When the police charged, the protesters had scattered sideways down Themistocles Street, back to Exarchia where the police won’t come.
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