그리스 봉기 #2

Right now thousands of people are attending the funeral for Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Athens.

Meanwhile the Greek (and int'l) ruling (capitalist) class is "fearing another night of excessive violent riots", according to the Greek bourgeois media.

At the same time the int'l (bourgeois) media is "trying to find out" what's the main reason behind the "sudden" explosion of the riots..

Like today's Guardian (UK):

The shooting of the schoolboy on Saturday quickly laid bare the simmering tensions between the police and members of alleged anarchist groups, who retaliated by going on the rampage. But the teenager's death has given vent to a deeper anger that has also been mounting in Greece.

With many struggling to make ends meet, and one in five living below the poverty line, there is growing anger at the tough fiscal policies of a government determined to reach the prescriptive benchmarks set out by Brussels and rein in budget deficits. The disaffection has been exacerbated by allegations of corruption and a series of scandals implicating members of Karamanlis's inner circle.

High school students have rushed to join the protests, throwing stones at police in clashes in front of the Athens parliament yesterday, and on islands and mainland towns nationwide.

"A lot of teenagers identify with Grigoropoulos," said Christos Mazanitis, an Athenian journalist. "There's a whole generation out there who see their parents in debt and feel they have nothing to look forward to in the future. Fear and despair are what these riots are about."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/09/greece-riots

But already two days ago (and not for the first time!!!) some of the reasons were explained for example in the "Communique by the Polytechnic School Occupation in Athens":

Lethal violence against the people in the social and class struggle is aiming at everybody’s submission, serving as exemplary punishment, meant to spread fear.
   It is part of the wider attack of the state and the bosses against the entire society, in order to impose more rigid conditions of exploitation and oppression, to consolidate control and repression.
   From school and universities to the dungeons of waged slavery with the hundreds of dead workers in the so-called “working accidents” and the poverty embracing large numbers of the population…
   From the minefields in the borders, the pogroms and the murders of immigrants and refugees to the numerous “suicides” in prisons and police stations… from the “accindental shootings” in police blockades to violent repression of local resistances, Democracy is showing its teeth!

Related:
☞ THE STATE MURDERS - communique from Athens
☞ 15 years old anarchist killed by Cops.. (balkan decentralized network)
☞ Greece tense for boy's funeral (al-Jazeera, 12.9)