Word: revolted
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...Athenians, demonstrating against the fascist regime in support of the student demands. Prominent among them were numerous workers, with construction workers at their head. Meanwhile in the outlying municipalities and working-class districts of Athens, church bells were ringing, calling on the people to join the students in their revolt. As the evening of the 16th of November wore on, there were already calls for a general strike in the air, and the following morning even greater crowds of workers and others were expected in the streets...
...army stormed the building. The students, their hands on their heads, emerged to face thousands of police, who proceeded to indulge in a sadistic orgy of shootings and beatings. When all was over, around 100 were left dead and 1500 wounded in the school and surrounding areas. The revolt was over...
...next morning martial law, which had been lifted with the promise of elections, was re-imposed. And thousands of students and young workers were arrested, dealing a tremendous blow to student anti-junta organizations. Within a week of the revolt, Papadopolous himself was overthrown by the most extreme, uncompromising faction of the fascist clique, headed by Brigadier General Dimitri Ioannides. The last and most repressive phase of the dictatorship began. The prisons and concentration camps were again full...
...Brigadier General Ioannides to transfer his power to civilian politicians, who in turn called on former prime minister Constantine Karamanlis to end his self-imposed exile in Paris and form a new government. This change occurred against a background of general dissolution to all resistance organizations following the Polytechnic revolt. The Karamanlis regime adopted some minimal positive measures, such as the release of all political prisoners, legalization of all political parties and free elections. It also withdrew from the military branch of NATO, though more in words than in fact...
...occasion of the third anniversary of the Polytechnic revolt, we thought it useful to assess its significance for the benefit of our fellow students in the U.S. Their own courageous struggles of the '60s and early '70s were a factor in ending the criminal war against the people of Vietnam. As a new administration is preparing to take over in Washington next January, we hope that American students will continue their efforts to ensure that promises of non-intervention and respect for the rights of foreign peoples are kept...