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Greece: Syriza's historic European election result
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Eyewitness report: 'Things have gone very quiet in Greece, haven’t they?'
Syriza congress: Alexis Tsipras (left), Manolis Glezos.
Greece: Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras' call for a united left party (+ intro speech)
Alexis Tsipras addresses the congress.
Murray Smith: The real European left stands up
By Murray Smith
To the crucible: an Irish engagement with the Greek crisis and the Greek left
Syriza poster, Synaspismos office in Athens, Helena Sheehan on the streets with Syriza in Athens.
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By Helena Sheehan
January 21, 2013 -- Irish Left Review, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal at the author's suggestion and with her permission -- A monumental drama is playing out before our eyes. It is a true Greek tragedy. The plot: A society is being pushed to its limits. The denouement is not yet determined, but survival is at stake and prospects are precarious. Greece is at the sharp end of a radical and risky experiment in how far accumulation by dispossession can go, how much expropriation can be endured, how far the state can be subordinated to the market. It is a global narrative, but the story is a few episodes ahead here.
By Paul Kellogg
Europe: Greece, Spain, Portugal – the arc of resistance to austerity hardens
On September 25-26-27, 2012, up to 50,000 demonstrators tried to encircle the parliament, calling for the resignation of the government and d
Eyewitness account: SYRIZA and the Greek grassroots challenge to the politics of austerity