17th November 1973, 2007

I've posted an account of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising of the 17th of November 1973 (along with a very brief history of the Greek junta of 1967-1974) on human rights archaeology.

As I noted at the end of it, '[t]he Athens Polytechnic Uprising was one point in a massive struggle between people and the Great Powers and between the Great Powers themselves, a struggle that also produced the Greek coup against and Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974'.

(There is now a paired post on 'democracy, coup, invasion', discussing the Greek coup against and Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.)