Geroge Zangalis (left) at a protest for pensioner rights in 2019. Photo: Joe Montero / The Pen
Communist, trade unionist and class-struggle fighter for migrant rights George Zangalis died on March 25. Radicalised during the Greek civil war at the end of World War II, Zangalis remained a fighter until the end.
Despite the Communist Party of Greece leading substantial sections of the anti-Nazi Resistance movement during World War II, after the Nazi occupation of Greece ended in 1944, the British and United States military forces, with the support of pro-Nazi elements in Greece, defeated the communist government and handed back power to the right-wing royalists.