On the 1st of May 2008 we organized the first independent (from parties/authorities) Mayday march. We gathered in Solomos square holding a banner which wrote "Paid Slavery is Terrorism. Auto-organize, Solidarity, Fight Back" and started marching towards Eleftheria square. Police (all in plain clothes) stopped us as Akel(the "communist" party that is in power) was having their usual Mayday parade and was going to go past the directing that we where heading. So in the end we went past Eleftheria square from the other side, continued through Ledra street, stopped at the end of Ledra street where the border is and turned around again towards Eleftheria square.
All the way we where giving out papers which mentioned why we where marching and shouted out slogans like "No slaves no masters, down with the capital and paid slavery", "We don't want unemployment, we don't want work, we want to live without masters", "In Cyprus, Greece and Turkey the enemy is in the banks and ministries", "Turkish workers are our brothers" etc.Again the police didn't let us go inside Akel's parade. People from Akel shouted fascist as well as stupid things against us like "we don't want you here"(in a public square), "dirty people" and some "bodyguards" of the party said to the policemen that if they don't take care of us they will do it. This is meant to be the "communist" party of Cyprus. Of course some people of Akel came to support us.
No comments:
Post a Comment