The streets of Greece were full of protesters yesterday. Two million people from the public sector went on strike.

The country's airspace was blocked to all flights, trains and ferries were also cancelled, schools were shut and public services were paralyzed to protest against government sever measures to reduce public debt and that are supposed to save the country from economical crisis. Journalists also hold a 24-hour strike.

This was the second general strike in two weeks and matched with the rising exasperation due to the EU's response to the crisis. The action was considered the biggest since Greece's socialist government announced cuts to bring the country's deficit under Eurozone rules – Greece has now 12.7% public deficit, more than four times higher than is allowed.

The Socialists proclaimed that the solution would pass by freezing public sector salaries, raising the average retirement age to 63 by 2015, and increasing taxes on petrol, alcohol and tobacco.

Demonstrations were held in Athens and Thessaloniki. The march was considered nonviolent but three people were detained.

The union's main message was that Greece's rich should pay for the crisis, not the working and middle classes.

"From all the country, a strong message of unity, struggle and protest was sent," Yiannis Panagopoulos, the head of the GSEE, said.

"The working people will take society out of the crisis and respond to the domino of speculation with a domino of protests. These protests are a message of solidarity to all the peoples of Europe.  As they occurred in Spain yesterday, in Greece today,Portugal tomorrow, these protests bring a growing wind of resistance and overthrow. A wind that opens a different path for our country, another route for Europe: a route of solidarity and social cohesion instead of that of the catastrophic Stability Pact", Alexis Tsipras, from Synaspismos declared.

“The government should adopt a mix of economic and social policies that would not lead to recession, but create jobs”, the unions added.