SYRIZA
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SYRIZA: The Great Social and Political Movement of Subversion
The Conference of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) is a continuity and a breakthrough in its course, which started in 2000, continued with its official founding in 2004, and was sealed when it took on the historic responsibility to deliver the Greek people from the catastrophic neoliberal memoranda policies that have turned our… 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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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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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
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Video: Most Greeks Look to Left for Solutions, but Far Right Gaining Strength
Costas Lapavitsas Pt.2: Left party Syriza leads polls but conditions for fascism also developing as crisis deepens Continue reading
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Video: SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras on political and social situation facing Greece and Europe
Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece’s left party SYRIZA, visited the European Parliament as a guest of the United Left Group/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL), the coalition of radical left parliamentarians in the European Parliament to which SYRIZA is affiliated. At a press conference, Tsipras discussed the current economic, political and social situation facing Greece and the… Continue reading
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Greek lessons By Dan Hind
Could political radicals learn a few lessons from how Syriza created a diverse coalition in Greece? By Dan Hind Continue reading
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The Greek affair: Symbol of the crisis of the European Union or paradigm of Europe’s salvation By Gaither Stewart
It is an ironic twist of history that Greece, the cradle of Western culture, today, 2500 years after the acme of Hellenic glory, appears on the stage of history in the best of cases as victim, and in the worst, as the symbol of the threat to the collapse of the West European society. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 