Today marks fifty-two years since the Polytechnic uprising, the leading anti-dictatorship event and the beginning of the fall of the junta of colonels.
Greece is preparing to commemorate the anniversary with events in Athens and other cities, while in Nicosia PSEM is organizing a march of memory and honor ending at the American embassy.
The uprising, which began in November 1973, by students who gathered for days inside the Polytechnic in Athens, with slogans against the junta and the role of the USA in the country, took dimensions with a large number of people expressing support for the students.
In the early hours of November 17, 1973, one of the army tanks on the road outside the Polytechnic moved towards the iron door of the Polytechnic, knocking down the entrance of the institution and crashing into the students standing behind the door.
The occupation of the Polytechnic in November 1973 and its bloody end, was 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, the three-day events of honor and memory as part of the celebration of the 52nd anniversary of the uprising culminate today, Monday.
The gates of the Polytechnic in Athens, where wreaths were laid 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 to the American embassy in Athens.
Similar actions of honor and memory, as well as demonstrations, are taking place today in other cities of Greece.
In Nicosia, at 10:30 in the morning, an anti-occupation march of memory and honor organized by PSEM is planned. The march will start from PASYDY and will move towards the American Embassy. Then, at 11:00, an event will take place outside the American Embassy.
