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Dear Comrades and Friends

Support the 595 women cleaners at the Ministry of Finance in Athens who are in the front line against austerity in Europe

Every so often a dispute arises which symbolises the mood of the time.

The resistance by 595 sacked cleaners is such a dispute - arising directly from the austerity measures imposed on Greece by the so-called Troika (of the International Monetary Fund, the European Union, and the European Central Bank).

The women refuse to give up and have continued a very public struggle of international significance for almost a year. Further information is on our website http://greecesolidarity.org/?p=1866.

We need to give them our support now and would ask you to:

Send a message of support to the Cleaners� Co-ordinating Committee, via sonia.mitralia@gmail.com or put a comment on their website    http://595katharistries.wordpress.com/international-solidarity.

Send a donation made out to the Greece Solidarity Campaign which we will transfer to Athens � by cheque to the above address or by bank transfer to Unity Trust Bank plc, Nine Brindley Place, Birmingham B1 2HB; a/c in name of Greece Solidarity Campaign; Sort code: 08 60 01; a/c Number: 20288734.

Support the International Day of Solidarity by joining us (with your buckets, mops and banners) when we Stand in Solidarity with the 595 Cleaners - from 0930 to 1100 hours on Saturday 20 September - outside the Hellenic Centre, 16 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS.

The Greece Solidarity Campaign, established by the late Tony Benn and endorsed by TUC Congress in 2013, is in regular contact with the cleaners� Co-ordinating Committee.  GSC is organising a delegation to meet the trade union, political and social movement anti-austerity resistance, including the cleaners, early in October. If you wish to affiliate to the Greece Solidarity Campaign, contact us or go to: http://greecesolidarity.org/?page_id=469.