GUARDIAN / A. Chrisafis
In the month since a general strike over austerity measures shut-down Greece...after battles between police and protesters in Athens, crippling taxi strikes and refusals to pay road tolls...the "civil disobedience" movement has not died...even during the scorching summer holidays.
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