A team of labour journalists, in Greece for a special media project of the global union federation Public Services International – held the last interviews with reporters and technicians who’ve been occupying and running Greece’s public broadcast station for  five months – before police raided their A

Under forced austerity measures, the Greek government is cutting education funding by almost half, laying off staff and privatising remaining services.

There were 18,000 tax administration staff members in Greece before the economic crisis. Austerity measures have forced a 50% cut in staff – at the end of 2013 just 9,000 workers remained. Which may partly explain why the Greek state has failed to recover €60 billion in taxes this year.

Greece, known as the birthplace of democracy, has been reeling under the impact of punishing austerity measures imposed by the ‘Troika’ (IMF, European Commission and European Central Bank) over the past five years. Deep cuts to the public sector have left wages low and unemployment high for all working people.