October 18, 2011
Greek unions have promised to flood Athens with protesters in the biggest demonstrations the capital has so far seen, as politicians prepared for Thursday's vote on potentially make-or-break reforms demanded by the EU and IMF in return for further cash aid.
As one Greek daily warned of "the mother of all strikes" and the country appeared to edge closer to chaos with rubbish piling up in the street and ministers locked out of their offices, 5,000 riot police were rushed to the capital in preparation for the protests.
"All of Athens will be flooded with protestors. These will be the biggest protests that Greece has ever seen," said Ilias Illiopoulos, who heads the union of public sector employees, Adedy.
"The ability of the people to tolerate policies that have only yielded poverty and despair has come to an end."
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