Greece
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The Importance of Being Grecian Earnest By S. Artesian
15 February 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor The challenge to, and the predicament of struggle in Greece is not one of “good” or “bad;” nor of “electoralism” versus “anti-electoralism;” nor of parliamentary, or ministerial, cretinism vs. anti-parliamentary popular power (in this last case, not yet). The challenge is to identify Continue reading
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Study Guide For those applying to the School of Anti-Economics By S. Artesian
Varoufakis is playing a part in the recuperation, the re-composition of capitalism by the loyal pretend-opposition. He flaunts his ignorance of Marx as “Marxist economics” when in fact Marx’s work is the end of “economics,” as it was the end of “philosophy.” He thinks he, the minister to finance, embodies the prospects for an “enlightened… Continue reading
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Greece: GameBoy at the PlayStation By S. Artesian
All dressed up in his Roy Batty best, the new finance minister of Greece, Yanis “GameBoy” Varoufakis was on the road. Laptop, Ipad, and PlayStation all synched, linked, and tethered, he was a man in full in that great digital daisy chain of bankers, academics, politicians. and entertainers. Continue reading
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And For Everything Else…
2 February 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor …there’s Mastercard. The Telegraph is reporting that Greece’s Finance Ministry has hired the investment banking group Lazard to advise it on issues of debt and fiscal policy. Those of you who are old enough will remember Allende bringing into his cabinet three senior military Continue reading
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Syriza-Anel: An unholy Alliance?
When I read the comments of what passes for the left in this historical era about the “victory” of Syriza in Greece, I feel like I’m watching a game of “Concentration” as played by those suffering from short-term memory loss. They cards are always the same, and they’re always in the same place, but our… Continue reading
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Greece: Syriza’s Challenge. Combating Post-Democracy By Binoy Kampmark
Across Europe, and more specifically, the euro-zone, a spectre did not so much haunt as totally materialise in the form of Alex Tsipras and the Syriza party. Greece woke up to a new party that had never seen office, coming within a few seats of governing in its own right. Any European party would have… Continue reading
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Greece: The Dilemmas of Democratic Socialism By James Petras
Greece is experiencing a triple crisis which has a profound impact on the economy, society and political system. The economy has experienced a deep, prolonged depression lasting six years and continuing. Continue reading
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Greece in a Time of Madness and a Time of Badness By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones
Madness and badness are never far away in the world today. Greece provides many examples. The behaviour of the government forces many of us to wonder what drugs ministers are taking as they tell us that the future is looking brighter; that 2014 starts the beginning of the end to austerity; that the sacrifices of… Continue reading
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The Real Causes of the Catastrophic Crisis in Greece and the “Left” By Takis Fotopoulos
The almost complete destruction of the lower classes in Greece is not due to the causes usually attributed to it by the “Left”.[1] In fact, contrary to the misleading “explanations” provided by this Left and the Right alike, the actual cause is the full integration of the Greek economy into neoliberal globalization, through its accession… Continue reading
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Crucible of Resistance: Class Struggle Over Ways Out of the Crisis By Andreas Bieler
Having postponed the necessary restructuring for too long, austerity would be the only solution to enforce liberalization and deregulation from the outside. In their impressive book Crucible of Resistance: Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis (Pluto Press, 2013), Christos Laskos and Euclid Tsakalotos challenge these understandings and reveal the class dynamics underlying the… Continue reading
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European Left selects Tsipras as lead candidate in European elections By Christoph Dreier
The fourth congress of the European Left (EL) took place in Madrid last weekend. The alliance of parties discussed a joint programme for the European elections in May next year and elected Alexis Tsipras, chairman of the Greek Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), as its leading candidate. Continue reading
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The Debtor’s War: A Modern Greek Tragedy By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Early on Thursday, 7 November 2013, Greek riot police stormed the offices of Greece’s main public broadcaster, which had been under a five-month occupation by workers who opposed the government’s decision to shut down the broadcaster, firing thousands and destroying a major cultural institution. The broadcast seems to have come to an end. Continue reading
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Alter-Summit in Athens: A pseudo-left response to growing social opposition in Europe By Christoph Dreier
Last weekend, approximately 200 European trade unions, political NGOs (non-governmental organizations), charity groups, and feminist, environmentalist and pseudo-left groupings organized a so-called Alter-Summit in Athens. The meeting endorsed the institutions of the European Union (EU), with which union bureaucracies have worked closely in negotiating and approving austerity policies since the outbreak of the European debt… Continue reading
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Greek Lessons From Below By Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones
Life without papers has changed in the last five years. Earlier, before austerity and recession struck, most of the refugees could find work with wages. Without papers they were inevitably highly exploitable and many were. But now there is virtually no work with wages. On top of this terror of having no income to live,… Continue reading
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The Greek Crisis and the Left Response: Two Essays by Panagiotis Sotiris
For the past three years Greece has been at the same time an experiment in neoliberal social engineering and a laboratory of movements and collective struggles. For the first time in many decades we have the case of a country entering a phase of profound social and political crisis that has the potential to turn… Continue reading
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My Big Fat Greek Minister By Greg Palast
Fat Bastard – or Theodoros Pangalos, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Party (PASOK), Greece’s equivalent to UK’s Labour Party – thinks the little Greek kiddies should stop belly-aching. Pangalos, as you can see from the photo below, is not bent over with hunger pains. In fact, he looks more likely to be bent over with… Continue reading
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The Cyprus Eurocrisis: The Beginning of the End of the Eurozone? By Nicos Trimikliniotis
The Cyprus crisis is essentially a Eurozone crisis which threatens the very foundations of the European Union (EU). This small island economy, only 0.2 per cent of the Eurozone, is proving to be ‘systemic’ at the political, social and economic level. The Cyprus crisis is a manifestation of a deep crisis of democracy and equality… Continue reading
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Video: Eurozone Austerity Policies Will Spark New Crisis in 2013
Costas Lapavitsas: There is an impression that the crisis has been handled by ECB but economies are deteriorating quickly Continue reading
The New Dark Age 