The Greek election result is a historic watershed – and it’s middle-aged working-class women who have organised it• Syriza forms coalition with Independent Greeks – live updatesTo go from a country like Britain where politics is a source of profound cynicism to one where it is a cause for hope: well, it is chastening. Outside the Greek finance ministry are cleaners who used to work there, until 16 months ago – like so many Greeks – they lost their jobs. “We were just numbers, not human beings,” one tells me. Ever since, they’ve camped outside, battled riot police, and become iconic figureheads of the struggle against austerity. Plastered around their camp are defiant posters: a clenched fist in a kitchen glove, a cleaner sweeping away Greece’s discredited, despised political elite. “We hope to take back our lives, our jobs,” I’m told. “After so many years, to be happy again.” Continue reading...
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