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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 04/03/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/4171">David McNally</a></span></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>It is a truism to say that democracy began with the Greeks ― less so to say that it originated in popular rebellion against debt and debt-bondage. </p>
<p>Yet, with the Greek people ensnared once more in the vice-like grip of rich debt-holders, it may be useful to recall that fact. For the only hope today of reclaiming democracy in Greece (and elsewhere) resides in the prospect of a mass uprising against modern debt-bondage that extends the rule of the people into the economic sphere.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/50247" target="_blank">read more</a></p>