Athens, November 18 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands of people marched to oppose austerity and commemorate the 41st anniversary of the student uprising against Greece’s military dictatorship.

The demonstrators, policed by some 7,000 officers, marched on the U.S. Embassy to protest U.S. backing for the dictatorship, which lasted from 1967 to 1974.

Protester Dimitris Papoulias said that four decades later, the legacy of the student protests continues. He said: "Some 40 years later, the message from the polytechnic is still alive, because then there was a junta, and today we are imprisoned by the Euro, the European Union, the IMF and all these unpopular measures that have degraded the middle class and the youth. They have made us poor."