The sound of the street

"The cause for the anger that has poured forth during the protests throughout Greece must be sought in the country's political culture", writes the Finnish paper Helsingin Sanomat on the riots currently shaking Greece. "The current blind vandalism and provocation of the police cannot be qualified as heroic resistance. The sound of the street is not the voice of the people. The Communist Party and the radical Coalition of the Left together received over ten percent of the vote in last year's parliamentary elections. ... More than 80 percent of Greeks voted either for the conservatives or the Socialists, who have more or less shared power since the end of the military dictatorship. Both parties' terms in office were overshadowed by corruption and did nothing to tackle the root of the problem."

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