Today marks the beginning of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the student uprising at the Polytechnic University of Athens against the then military government, which ended on the 17th of November when tanks invaded the university grounds. True to form, the Greek Police is commemorating one of the more pivotal demands for democracy in modern Greece by warning the Chancellor of the Polytechnic University that if they host ERT (the greek public broadcast company which has been shut down by the government and whose offices were invaded by riot cops last week evicting the staff that had remained and continued to broadcast without pay) at the university grounds during the commemoration they should expect a large scale attack by the police. Ah, the sweet smell of democracy in the air… oh wait, that’s tear gas. My bad. I can’t tell them apart lately.
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