Fifty-two years have passed since the Polytechnic University uprising, the leading anti-dictatorship event and the beginning of the fall of the colonels' junta.
Greece is preparing to commemorate the anniversary with events in Athens and other cities, while in Nicosia, PSEM is organizing a march of remembrance and honor ending at the American embassy.
The uprising, which began in November 1973, by students who gathered for days inside the Technical University in Athens, with slogans against the junta and the role of the US in the country, took on dimensions with crowds expressing support for the students.
At dawn on November 17, 1973, one of the army tanks that was on the road outside the Polytechnic moved towards the iron door of the Polytechnic, demolishing the entrance to the institution and falling on the students standing behind the door.
The occupation of the Polytechnic University in November 1973 and its bloody end became a symbol of the struggle for Freedom and the resistance to the Dictatorship, which in July 1974, after the tragedy of Cyprus, led to its fall.
In Greece, three days of honor and remembrance events culminate today, Monday, as part of the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the uprising.
The gates of the Polytechnic University in Athens, where a wreath-laying ceremony was held yesterday at the monument dedicated to the uprising, will open again at 09:00 in the morning and are scheduled to close at 13:00, the time when the demonstration will begin with a march towards the American embassy in Athens.
Similar actions of honor and remembrance, as well as demonstrations, are taking place today in other cities in Greece.
In Nicosia, at 10:30 in the morning, an anti-occupation march of remembrance and honor is scheduled, organized by PSEM. The march will start from PASYDY and will move towards the American Embassy. Subsequently, at 11:00, an event will be held outside the American Embassy.
Source: KYPE
