Posts tagged: greece

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  The Death of the Greek Left: A Political Tragedy

  Stefanos Kasselakis's victory in the SYRIZA leadership contest marks a traumatic break from the party's political traditions, raising the question: where goes the Greek left go from here?

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  Beyond left-wing melancholia. Reflections on a militant trajectory

  Even in times of defeat, the class struggle continues. Everything is not possible at all times, but there are always forks in the road and opportunities – all too often missed – for the forces of popular emancipation. Reflecting on the lessons of the student movement of 1986 and the shattered 'Greek Spring',  Stathis Kouvelakis sketches a way forward for the left in 2022. 

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  ‘We Have to Break Bourgeois Right’

  In an interview Alain Badiou considers the possibilities of a politics outside the state and the problem of power

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  Coronavirus and the refugees crisis in Greece

  Thousands of refugees still remain in camps in Greece, like Moria on Lesbos. They now face the coronavirus crisis with no protection or help. Teresa Thornhill, author of Hara Hotel: A Tale of Syrian Refugees in Greece, tells their story of desperation in the face of the pandemic.

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  The Radical Left: The Time for its Re-founding

  After 4 years in power, SYRIZA were defeated in both recent elections, finishing behind the conservative New Democracy party in each. In this article written in the wake of the European election but before the results were announced of the legislative election, two leading members of the Greek left Costas Lapavitsas and Stathis Kouvelakis reflect on the reasons for SYRIZA's defeat and what it would take for the radical left to once more win power.

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  Syriza’s Repressive Turn

  Alexis Tsipras’s government promised to end austerity. Now it’s defending the banks against people evicted from their homes — and persecuting those who protest.

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  The Deadly Forest Fires in Greece’s Attica Region: A Predictable Tragedy

  The tragic fires in Greece are the result of anarchic real estate speculation, climate change, and austerity. 

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  New Forms of Struggle: Selections from Intercontinental Press July 1968

  Articles from a July 1968 edition of Intercontinental Press — on the French May, the Prague Spring, and repression in Greece — register the immediate response of the Fourth International to some of the political upheavals that defined that year.  

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  Trapped In Between: 1968 in Greece and Turkey

  The 1960s explosions in Greece and Turkey were neither of the First or Third Worlds, the core or the periphery: they combined elements of both.

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Seven: The First Capitulation

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the seventh part of a series of articles analyzing this account, Eric Toussaint looks at the disastrous agreement Varoufakis signed with the Eurogroup in February 2015. 

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  Between the Scylla of "Pasokification" and the Charybdis of "Syrizification"

  Pasokification isn’t the only neologism to come out of the Greek experience of the recent years. What followed Pasokification was Syrizification, and this process proved at least equally devastating in terms of its consequences.

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Six: The Disastrous Agreement of February 2015

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the sixth part of a series of articles analyzing this account, Eric Toussaint looks at the negotiations preceding the extension of the Second Memorandum in February 2015.