13.02.2012 - 11:34 [ OpEdnews.com ]

Greek Left‘s veterans Theodorakis and Glezos head up new resistance movement

This time the initiative belongs to prominent personalities of the Greek left who yesterday declared the creation of the ‚United Popular Democratic Resistance‘ — E.LA.DA. in Greek language, an acronym which literally means „Greece“. The idea belongs to two legendary figures of the country‘s modern history: the internationally renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis and Manolis Glezos, a second World War resistance hero. Speaking to an audience at Athens‘s Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, they both declared that the establishment of a nationwide resistance movement against the economic austerity and policies consists a „national need“, as long as Greece passes a „national tragedy“.