On this day, 15 February 2012, the first issue of The Workers of Eleftherotypia self-managed newspaper was published by striking workers at the bankrupt Greek daily paper, Eleftherotypia.
Workers at the the country’s second most popular paper had walked out on strike the previous December in protest at non-payment of wages since August. The strikers began self publishing their own newspaper to help fund their strike, and to give a voice to other workers in Greece fighting against austerity.
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