Public transport and media workers have opened a week of strikes in Greece, contesting fresh austerity measures needed for a lifeline from creditors which the government is due to introduce to parliament.
The Athens metro was shut, and only one tram line was running on Monday, while Athens' 14.000 taxi drivers halted services, severely disrupting traffic in the capital.
The country was also hit by a media blackout as print, broadcast and electronic media journalists staged a 24-hour strike. Service at hospitals was slow as only some employees turned up to work.
The union of the public electricity company DEI meanwhile announced renewable 48-hour strikes from Monday evening, although it did not say whether this would lead to power cuts.
The walkout is expected to intensify throughout the country on Tuesday and Wednesday as public union GSEE and private union Adedy have both called general strikes.
Bus workers are expected to join the stoppage from Tuesday, completing the public transport shutdown in Athens, while ferry lines to surrounding islands will be cut for 48 hours.
A three-hour work stoppage on Tuesday has also been announced by air traffic controllers.
In addition, unions have planned demonstrations from Tuesday in the centre of Athens against the package of $23bn (18 billion euros) in cuts and other reforms to be put to a vote in parliament on Wednesday.
-- Wojtek
"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."