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Dockers’ fate entwined with Syriza’s
JOANA RAMIRO reports from Athens on the port workers stripped of their rights and praying for renationalisation

AT THE heart of the Greek elections this weekend lay the fates of thousands of dockers and port workers — especially those employed by Chinese shipping company Cosco, which runs Piraeus port Pier 3. 

Left parties have long promised to renationalise Pier 3, which was practically given away to Cosco by Piraeus’s neoliberal New Democracy government in 2009.

An impending left-wing government could finally make it a reality. 

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