from the Guardian, includes report in addition to video.
In the video George Papendreou, the President of Greece makes a brief appearance to offer reassurance to the US administration and, no doubt, to all the capitalist ruling classes that Greece (the working people of Greece) will make the necessary sacrifices while Greek workers shut down Greece in a general strike. Despite some "socialist" credentials, Papendreou and his family have long had very close ties to the US. Many political figures in Europe make pretenses of being socialists because of the historical appeal that socialist ideas have held for working people in Europe. Hence even the Nazi party (commonly known in English as the Nazi Party from the German pronunciation of Nationalsozialist) was called the National Socialist German Workers Party.