Well-Known Proletarians and the Children of the Gallery : It's Not Books Or High Marks. What We Lack Is Life: 2 Documents from the 1998 Student-Teacher Tumult in Greece
In the 1997-98 school year, a third of Greek high schools were occupied, some for months. Students and teachers, along with fellow workers and the unemployed, set up road-blocks and defended their occupations from the police, the state, the ruling socialist party, and (for the students) their parents. Written by participants in the struggle, this pamphlet contains a chronology and analysis of the vibrant (though inarticulate) schools occupation movement that
rocked Greece. Contradictory images of rebel adolescents shooting flares and throwing stones at cops while at the same time they were chanting boring slogans like we want a 12-year compulsory state education were a usual phenomenon in the demos.
