Kaisariani

• 1941: In July, the National Workers’ Liberation Front (EEAM) was established with the initiative of the communists and the collaboration of General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), Unitive General Confederation of Greek Workers (EGSEE) and the Independent Workers’ Unions (AES) against the German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation. After the formation of the National Liberation Front (EAM) in September, EEAM became the syndicalist branch of EAM. During this period the communists also founded the Central Civil Servant’s Commission (KPE).
• 1942: In March and April, the civil servants went on strike with the support of KPE.
• 1943: In February and March, EAM organized general strikes against the decree of drafting Greek workers in order to be sent to work in the German war industry.
• 1944: On International Workers’ Day, 200 political prisoners (mostly communists) were executed at the firing range of Kaisiariani in retribution for the killing of a German army general and three army officers. In August the same year, the Central Commission of EEAM declared itself as the leadership of GSEE.

Kamariza (Lavrio)

• 1896: In April, the third strike in the mining site of Lavrio (after those of 1883 and 1887) broke out. The workers demanded rise in wages and better working conditions. The strikers were confronted by the military and at least two of them got killed, while many of them were wounded.

Kileler

• 1910: In the midst of strikes in the tobacco industry in Thessaly, the croppers of the same region protested against the big landowners and demanded the completion of the agrarian reform. In March, the gendarmerie attacked a group of protesters in a train station near the village of Kileler resulting in four croppers getting killed, while several were wounded. In March and April, the engineers and the stokers of the merchant navy, who had been unionized in 1907 and 1908 respectively, went on strike demanding the expulsion of non-Greek workers from the navy, better living conditions on board and fewer hours of work. This was the first large-scale strike in the Greek merchant navy.

Piraeus

• 1923: In August, and after a series of strikes during the spring and the summer of this year, a nationwide general strike took place as a protest against the deterioration of wages and living conditions. The action climaxed in the port-city of Piraeus, where the strikers were confronted by the police and the military, resulting in eleven workers getting killed, while many were wounded, persecuted or exiled. In the aftermath of the strike, the labour movement got harshly repressed and all trade union bodies were dissolved and prohibited for some months.

Rethymno

Salonica

• 1936: In May, a general strike was declared in Salonica in support of the workers in the tobacco industry, who had gone on nationwide strike since April. The workers’ protest was confronted by the military, resulting in twelve workers getting killed, while many got injured, persecuted or exiled. On the 4th of August and one day before the general strike, which was declared by GSEE, EGSEE and AES, take place, Ioannis Metaxas established dictatorship in Greece, abolished the political and syndicalist rights, persecuted harshly the communists and the syndicalists and put GSEE, now renamed as National Confederation of Greek Workers (ESEE), under the control of the state.

Xanthi

• 1928: In June, the workers in the tobacco industries of Macedonia and Thrace went on strike demanding rise in wages, healthcare and greater political freedom. The strikers were confronted by the police and the military, resulting in four workers killed, while many others were injured, persecuted or exiled. The event is also commemorated as the “bloody Wednesday of 1928”. The memorial commemorates the four tobacco workers who were killed.