SYRIZA
Greece: SYRIZA, the Communist Party and the desperate need for a united front
A united front of the left and sustained mass mobilisation are desperately needed in Greece.
Grecia: las perspectivas de un gobierno de SYRIZA
Alexis Tsipras.
(Updated May 13) Greece: What prospects for a SYRIZA-led left government?
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras.
Το αποτέλεσμα των ελληνικών εκλογών και οι πολιτικές προοπτικές στην Ελλάδα
[English at Greece: What prospects for a SYRIZA-led left government?]
του Χρήστου Κεφαλή*
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- Οι ελληνικές εκλογές της 6ης Μάη παρήγαγαν ένα συγκλονιστικό, εντυπωσιακό αποτέλεσμα που σίγουρα ανοίγει ένα νέο κεφάλαιο στην πολιτική ιστορία της Ελλάδας και θα έχει σημαντικές επίσης επιπτώσεις στην ευρωπαϊκή κατάσταση. Το αποτέλεσμα δείχνει μια σαφή πόλωση μεταξύ αριστεράς και δεξιάς και τη διάλυση των μέχρι σήμερα κυρίαρχων πολιτικών δυνάμεων του δικομματισμού.
(Updated May 8) Greece: Austerity parties smashed, radical left makes big gains
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras is calling on the non-PASOK left to unite to form government a
Greece: Independent left MP – ‘The rulers are scared'
Sofia Sakorafa interviewed by the Greek journal Marxist Thought, translated by Christos Kefalis and Afrodity Giannakis for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
January 18, 2012 -- At the October 26, 2011, European summit it was agreed to slash Greece’s debt on the condition that a new, draconian austerity package and “memorandum”be carried out by the Greek government. After the agreement and a mass wave of protests on October 28, a referendum was announced by Prime Minister George Papandreou, only to be revoked a few days later. There then followed an endless series of negotiations, which led to the formation of a new coalition government headed by Loukas Papadimos. The new government was backed by right-wing capitalist party New Democracy, Papandreou’s social-democratic Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and LAOS, the ultra-right party.
Greece: PASOK, right wing in deep crisis; support for anti-capitalist left grows
By Tassos Anastassiadis and Andreas Sartzekis
December 2010 -- International Viewpoint -- Not so long ago the defeat of the right-wing candidates in the municipal elections in the two major cities in Greece, Athens and Thessaloniki, would have been followed by scenes of popular enthusiasm in the streets throughout the night. There was nothing like that this time, when the right was defeated in cities where it had ruled for decades!
Greece: At the forefront of Europe's class struggle
By Dimitris Fasfalis
June 7, 2010 -- Socialist Voice -- Workers in Greece today stand in the forefront of the converging European class struggles against big capital’s attempt to make working people pay the costs of its crisis.
Europe: Solidarity with the resistance of the Greek workers (updated May 9)
April 30, 2010