The present leadership of the party is continuing its efforts to unite the left centre space before the radical left party SYRIZA and the Democratic Left divide even larger portions from PASOK.
After Thessaloniki the protests will continue in Athens where they will intensify. The trade unions of the public and private sector employees ADEDI and GSEE have announced a 48-hour strike against the cuts of public workers on 17 and 18 September.
In practice, the supervisory Troika suggests that the companies LARKO, ELBO and EAC should go bankrupt and that their employees should be dismissed without any compensation.