Greece: A brutal experiment on people's lives

If you think things are bad here, the Greek people are suffering far worse--in fact, they are fighting for their lives. If they lose, you can expect the same neoliberal treatment in one country after another until they reach our shores.

But the brave Greeks are fighting back. We most show solidarity with them and support their resistance in any way we can. We are all Greeks now!

Below are three excellent articles to show what is going on there.

• A Brutal Experiment on People's Lives from Green Left.
• Greece's Wartime Resistance Hero Denounces EU-backed Cuts from The Guardian.
• Greece Shows Us How to Protest Against a Failed System from The Guardian.

Love and rage, rage and love. Love has been an important theme in the struggles that have redefined the meaning of politics over the last year, a constant theme of the Occupy movements, a profound feeling even at the heart of the violent clashes in many parts of the world. Yet love walks hand in hand with rage, the rage of "how dare they take our lives away from us, how dare they treat us like objects". The rage of a different world forcing its way through the obscenity of the world that surrounds us.