the results are starting to seem the same.

Greeks are not blockaded but occupied by Troika and banksters and their "own" government. The article was good news, in Greece police, army and judges are starting to switch side from occupying force to resistance.

There are lots of good news from Greece (that corporate media is not paying much attention to), people are rebuilding their society from bottom and abandoning the "government", there is immense amount of solidarity, responsible activism and creativity bursting. Like in Argentina.

Shifting the judges.

it appears to be reporting facts w/o trying to make some winger point:

But the Greek government, in order to cut public expenses and to bring the nation’s fiscal situation back to order, plans to cut the salary of those magistrates and prosecutors by 25 percent. Stournaras met with the association and tried to persuade the members to accept pay cuts. But after already seeing their salaries reduced by almost 38 percent since the beginning of Greece's recent financial woes, the Association of Magistrates and Prosecutors voted unanimously to reject the government’s proposal and instead the members voted to begin a partial strike beginning on September 17 and lasting five days.

Already these officials work only five hours a day — from 10:00 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon — but under the partial strike the magistrates and prosecutors will work only one hour a day, and only cases nearing the statute of limitations will be heard. This slowdown hits a Greek judicial system in which it sometimes takes 10 years for a case to come to trial.

The Association of Magistrates and Prosecutors will meet again on September 22 to determine whether or not to continue this partial strike...

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/12890-greek-judges-and-prosecutors-strike


so accepting the 25% cut would mean their salaries have been cut in half since the fiscal crisis began. that's big for the upper middle classes. i don't see how they could hold support together if even the top 20% are getting hit so hard.

Little wonder they're in a fighting mood. I think there is a line in the manifesto about the petty bourgeois sometimes acting in a revolutionary way...a draconian haircut like that would probably do it.

All smoke and mirrors lies and deceipt.

What else is money but smoke and mirrors lies and deceipt?

The bankers told them how to rig the books so's they could get in the Euro. It was being in the Euro which allowed them such large loans in the form of bonds ans subsequent bailouts. So - the bankers had helped themselves. Over the years Greece has obviously benefited but now they're paying the price for money spent earlier.

ooOOOoooOOOOoooOO

No revolution has ever succeeded without support of the military, or at least the lower level military, the EMs and NCOs and lower ranking officers.

This IS an extremely volitile situation though. Just because there's growing sentiment among the general population for revolution doesn't mean that that revolution will be socialist. There are two other options, the fascists and some sort of military strongman coup. Or even a junta of higher ranking military officers. But things are coming to a head and it does bear watching.

the military has to turn and there is too much interest in fascism.

by looking at who creates surplus value and who *appropriates* it . at the end of the day, i don't think judges and cops are going side with revolutionaries.

i think whether or not the military will be sympathetic to communist revolution depends on whether they are conscripted forces (because they're more democratic than volunteer ones) and on how successful communists have been at reaching out to them.

I haven't looked at the KKE piece to see if there has been reaching out to the judges and cops. I did find this article, which suggests indirectly (to me at least) that the reaction of the judges might be from the racist overstepping of the Golden Dawn: