- An Alternative for SYRIZA
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In order to regain sovereignty, a country has to exit not only the EZ, if a member, but the EU itself. Liberated from the noose of the EU treaties and regulations, Greek people will have the freedom to follow a sovereign monetary and fiscal policy and form trade and international alliances to the best of their interests.
- Analyzing the Failures of Syriza
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Examines the failture of Syriza, The Coalition of the Radical Left, since their election in Greece.
- Another day of violence against journalists covering protests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the fact that, although clearly identified, many journalists were attacked by police officers while covering yesterday’s anti-austerity protests and strikes in Athens.
- The Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides: An inconvenient truth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
It is the genocide deniers -- the rulers and lobbies of the U.S., Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan -- who are the ones impeding progress. Their denial, duplicity and audacity do not mean that the genocides# victims and their heirs have been defeated. Denying the truth does not invalidate it. Fictional Turkish #reconciliation# initiatives foisted upon Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks will never take the place of genuine atonement and restitution, which are necessary for true progress to be made.
- Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Popular Assembly at Syntagma has been able to go beyond democratic discussion to democratic decisions but the construction of real workers democracy is still under way. While thousands take part in the assembly, there are five million living in Athens and millions more in the rest of Greece. To democratically include all these millions requires a system of delegation, in which delegates from neighborhoods and workplaces attend city-wide assemblies and delegates from these attend a nationwide assembly.
- Auditing the Greek Debt: Unity of Place, Time, and Action
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The recent debt currently being claimed presents features that make it irregular, illegitimate, illegal, unsustainable, and even odious. Allegedly Greek debts that were accumulated before 2010 were already to a large extent illegitimate and/or illegal.
- Barter Networks: Lessons from Argentina for Greece
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
"How did Argentina survive their economic crisis?"; "Are they doing better now?"; "What happened to the factory takeovers?"; "Did millions of people really participate in the barter network? Did they actually invent new money?" These are some of the many questions I have been asked by Greeks, especially over the past few weeks, related to their economic crisis and the potential for self-organization and survival.
- Black bloc attack on massive trade union demo in October 2011
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
For most of the public, it is difficult to tell the black bloc from neo-nazi skins, and that is one of its problems.
- Burdened with Debt Reloaded: The Politics ofr Devaluation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A series of defensive and sectional struggles at workplaces in the private sector reveal that the Greek industrial capital has already taken advantage of the new institutional framework of the “state of emergency” now ruling in Greece to prop up its profitability or just transfer its own debts and losses onto the workers.
- The Catastrophic International Consequences of the Capitulation of Syriza and the Criminal Responsibility of Mr. Tsipras
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Syriza's betrayal comes at a very critical historical moment, when the racist extreme right is advancing almost everywhere in our continent, which already makes immediate and direct the threat that many of the citizens Europeans disappointed by Syriza will fall prey to this racist and neo-fascist self-proclaimed "anti-systemic" extreme right.
- Class, Party and the Challenge of State Transformation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
An essay examining the challenges of changing the state and status quo following major crises of capitalism, and how the current neoliberal status quo has persisted through the various crises it has presented.
- A comment on Greece and Syriza
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
This analysis is a rebuke to the notion that there is nothing between the far left and social democracy. That diagnosis may have been appropriate in the period of revolutionary growth beginning in 1968. This period, marked by the long-term decomposition of once dominant social democratic parties, is quite different.
- Connexions Library: Europe Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Europe.
- Conundrum - Syriza, Democracy And The Death Of A Saudi Tyrant
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
It's always a tricky moment for the corporate media when a foreign leader dies. The content and tone need to be appropriate, moulded to whether that leader fell into line with Western policies or not.
- Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism.
- Do the Greeks get it?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A word has to be said about the somewhat depressing character of the clash between reformism and ultraleftism in Greece. Radical youth might have a natural prejudice against the KKE and PAME because it is so compromised with class-collaborationist coalition building. But instead of trying to figure out a way to win the ranks of the CP to the revolutionary cause, it sees its membership as part of the problem and not part of the solution.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- An end to Balkan national states
Independence for Kosovo: The Domino Effect
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
If the Kosovo region declares indepence from Serbia, how will ethnic communities agitate to have the borders of Balkan countries redrawn to reflect and include their ethnic makeups? Will this only further the Balkan legacy of nationalist revenge and retaliation?
- Eros in Greece
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Reviewed in New York Review of Books, January 25, 1979
- Euro Banks vs. Greek Labor
Varoufakis is Proposing Austerity on the Banking Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Interview with Michael Hudson, professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City about the current economic situation of Greece.
- Europe's Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The start of Greece's six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned and there was no in-depth talk about the raging controversy over the bloc's handling of the Greek debt crisis and the renewed concerns about the vitality of the Eurozone.
- Europe's Moment of Truth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras' acceptance of an "austerity package" on July 13, which contained measures rejected by the Greek people in a referendum barely a week before, represents not just an abject surrender by the Syriza government, or a sign of contempt on the part of German finance capital for the Greek electorate; it marks a decisive turning point for Europe (and indeed for the rest of the world), and the end of the road for a whole way of thinking on the Left, especially the European Left.
- EuroZone Profiteers: How German and French Banks Helped Bankrupt Greece
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
We should be clear: almost none of the huge amount of money loaned to Greece has actually gone there, says Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and a Nobel Prize winner in economics. It has gone to pay out private-sector creditors – including German and French banks.
- Every Cook Can Govern
A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece: Its Meaning for Today
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1956
Modern parliamentary democracy elects representatives and these representatives constitute the government. Before the democracy came into power, the Greeks had been governed by various forms of government, including government by representatives. The democracy knew representative government and rejected it. It refused to believe that the ordinary citizen was not able to perform practically all the business of government.
- The Failed Strategy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The failure of Syriza in Greece, and the timidness of other left-social-democratic parties and formations tells us that we must learn the dangers of political shortcut and focus on building radical movements outside of government.
- The Fascist Threat
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Deep economic crisis, savage austerity, and social upheaval have polarised Greek society. One result has been the rise of Golden Dawn, responsible for brutal attacks on immigrants and left-wing activists. Christina Ziakka reports on the response of the political establishment – and why the left and workers’ movement must provide a genuine alternative.
- Finance as Warfare: the IMF Lent to Greece Knowing It Could Never Pay Back Debt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
An interview with economist Michael Hudson, who argues that the International Monetary Fund provided loans to Greece with the deliberate intention that the country be forced to go into default and be forced to sell public assets and land.
- The Financial Invasion of Greece
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Greece's economic crisis has perhaps been eclipsed by Europe's refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, and by the forthcoming Brexit referendum. But it has not gone away. Greece's Syriza coalition faced violence on the streets and a 3-day general strike last week that brought much of the country to a halt. In spite of the protests the government of Alexis Tsipras pushed through legislation to amend the country's tax and pension system with the backing of 153 MPs, a measure required by the lenders in order to continue the debt negotiations.
- For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
- Fourteen organizations of the Greek Left call for mobilizations around the country against the new memorandum
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The full text of the call signed by the leading figures of the 14 organizations of the Greek radical Left.
- Fury Mounts Among Greek People
"Do you think we are the parasites of Europe?"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Nobody trusts the government or the opposition because people blame them for starting the crisis in the first place.
- Germany made over 1bn out of Greek debt crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Since the beginning of Greece’s crisis in 2009 Germany’s Finance Ministry has cashed in to the tune of 1.3 billion as a result of its loans to Athens and its debt buying programs reports Euractiv.
- Glezos, Manolis
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Greek left wing politician and writer, known especially for his participation in the World War II resistance. (Born 1922).
- Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
- Golden Dawn close to being added to 'predators' list
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Reporters Without Borders, which last visited Greece in September 2011 to investigate the collapse in the media environment and the future of journalism, is alarmed by the steady decline in respect for media freedom and firmly condemns the neo-Nazi
- Greece: A no vote against blackmail
Now is not the time for academic debates. It is time for struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Our response to the blackmail of the lenders is that the struggle against austerity will not be governed by concerns about the euro system or by the consent of the rulers of Europe. the response should include stopping debt repayments to the lenders, with the goal of cancelling a majority of the debt; carrying out measures to improve the life of workers and poor; and financing all of this with heavy taxes on corporations and the rich, renationalizing large public enterprises and putting the banks under social control.
- Greece again Can Save the West
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The 'Greek crisis' is not about debt. Debt is the propaganda that the Empire is using to subdue sovereignty throughout the Western world.
- Greece and the Future of European Democracy
Disfunction in the Eurozone
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Interview with Tariq Ali, author of "The Extreme Center: A Warning". Discussion addresses the current economic situation in Greece and the European Union's role in it.
- Greece mourns slain anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A self-professed Golden Dawn member stabbed leftist rapper Killah P to death in Piraeus on September 18, 2013.
- Greece: postmodernism in power
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Yanis Varoufakis, the Finance Minister in Greece’s Syriza government, shows where postmodernist attacks on Marx lead politically. This self-declared "erratic Marxist" states forthrightly that the task of today's Left is to save capitalism from itself, which requires "forging alliances with reactionary forces."
- Greece: Syriza Shines a Light
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Like a swan moving forward with relaxed confidence while paddling furiously beneath the surface, Syriza, the radical left coalition that could become the next government of Greece, is facing enormous challenges calmly but with intensifed activity.
- Greece and Tsipras' policy: Provoking a split with the working class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
An interview with Panagiotis Lafazanis.
- Greece: Was, and Is There, an Alternative?
The Left confronts Greece's financial crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Addresses three major aspects of the Greek crisis of 2015: the debate over strategy and program within and around Syriza and how that was reflected in the months since the January election; the prospects for a recovery and revitalization of the Greek left in the coming period; and some promising initial reactions to the Greek events in the European left.
- Greece's Fascist Threat
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The increasingly bold Golden Dawn party has precipitated a political crisis in Athens whose resolution is far from certain. Golden Dawn, the largest fascist party in Europe and the third largest party in Greece, has grown rapidly during the economic crisis both by scapegoating immigrants, ethnic minorities and queer people, and offering basic necessities like food to Greek citizens impoverished by the country’s austerity program.
- Greece's Golden Dawn: Fascists at the Gate
The party is deeply rooted in the political culture of Greece.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
While Golden Dawn -- with its Holocaust denial, its swastikas and its Hitler salutes—looks like it might inhabit the fringe, in fact the organization has roots deep in the heart of Greece's political culture.
- Greece's solidarity movement: 'it's a whole new model - and it's working'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Citizen-run health clinics, food centres, kitchens and legal aid hubs have sprung up to fill the gaps left by austerity – and now look set to play a bigger role under a Syriza government.
- The Greek Debt Crisis and Crashing Markets
A New Mode of Warfare
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Greece has indeed become an example. But it is an example of the horror that the eurozone's monetarists seek to impose on one economy after another, using debt as a lever to force privatization selloffs at distress prices. In short, finance has shown itself to be the new mode of warfare. Resisting debt leverage andfinancial conquest is as legal as is resisting military invasion.
- Greek Debt and the New Financial Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Describes how the Greek goverment is forced to extract income and wealth from its workers and small businesses resulting in a new form of financial imperialism that smaller states and economies, planning to join larger free trade zones and 'currency unions' should avoid at all cost.
- Greek lesson: let's show some initiative on the Left
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Kevin Ovenden provides some suggestions on initiatives that the European Left can take to deliver practical solidarity to the people of Greece.
- The Greek Myths
Volume I
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- The Greek Myths
Volume II
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Greek Resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941-1944 during the Second World War.
- Greek War of Independence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
War of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1829.
- The Greeks Get It
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Here's to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. They know what to do when Goldman Sachs and international bankers collude with their power elite to falsify economic data and then make billions betting that the Greek economy will collapse. They know what to do when they are told their pensions, benefits and jobs have to be cut to pay corporate banks, which screwed them in the first place. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfare: the rich versus the poor, the oligarchs versus the citizens, the capitalists versus the proletariat. The Greeks, unlike most of us, get it.
- IFJ/EFJ Condemn Latest Attack on Greek Journalist by 'Golden Dawn' Members
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have condemned the latest brutal attack against a Greek journalist by members of the Golden Dawn party, while also expressing concern that police did not stop the incident.
- IFJ/EFJ Call for Greek Government to Revoke Closure of Public Broadcaster
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Journalists' organizations call on the Greek government to immediately revoke their unprecedented decision to close down its public broadcasting station ERT.
- International backing for Greek journalist in IMF row
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Threats by a senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Greece to cut off a newspaper's access to information after one of its journalists refused to reveal his sources have been condemned by the European Federation of Journalists.
- Journalist arrested, authorities urged to respect his rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Kostas Vaxevanis, the editor of the Greek weekly Hot Doc and producer of the national TV programme Koutis Tis Pandoras (Pandora’s Box), after he published a list of around 2,000 suspected tax evaders.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Killing Hope
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
- Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
- Krisis
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2012
By 2010, Greece was in an economic crisis and the society and people were shown to be deeply affected by the country's state.
- The Left and the EU
Why Cling to This Reactionary Institution?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Why is it that many people who consider themselves left-wing have such difficulty grasping that the EU is a deeply reactionary institution? The mere fact that those running the EU present it as an internationalist venture dedicated to the creation of a world free of nationalist enmities does not make it so. If we want to examine the EU in its proper light, then we should ignore the high-flown rhetoric in which its supporters indulge, and consider its actual record. And what is the record of the EU, once we penetrate the obfuscatory rhetoric about ‘internationalism’ that surrounds EU policy? Without a doubt, that record is one that should cause those on the left now defending it acute embarrassment, as it starkly contradicts the ideals that the left has always claimed to uphold.
- Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Syriza left is at a crossroads. For all the belief that Syriza is a different kind of party, one that transcends the division between reform and revolution and therefore should be the home for the entire left, its left faces exactly the same problem as the reformist left in social democracy -- the trap of impotence. This article is written in the spirit of offering an alternative, around which the left as a whole can unite.
- Media unions oppose closure of Greek public broadcaster ERT
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
UNI MEI calls for resistance to support Greek public service broadcasting, its workers and their union POSPERT
- Multiculturalism or World Culture?
On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
- The Myth of Greek Profligacy
Destroying the Livelihoods of Thirteen Million People
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The top 20 per cent of the income distribution in Greece pay virtually no taxes at all, the product of a corrupt bargain reached during the days of the junta between the military and Greece’s wealthiest plutocrats. No wonder there is a fiscal crisis.
- The new colonialism: Greece and Ukraine
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
According to Jack Rasmus, aA new form of colonialism is emerging in Europe. Not colonialism imposed by military conquest and occupation, as in the 19th century. Not even the more efficient form of economic colonialism pioneered by the U.S. in the post-1945 period, where the costs of direct administration and military occupation were replaced with compliant local elites allowed to share in the wealth extracted in exchange for being allowed to rule on behalf of the colonizers. In the 21st century, it is 'colonialism by means of financial asset transfer.' It is colony wealth extraction by colonizing country managers, assigned to directly administer the processes in the colony by which financial assets are to be transferred. This new form of colonialism by direct management plus financial wealth transfer is now emerging in Greece and Ukraine.
- No surrender in Greece
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A member of International Workers Left (DEA), reports from Athens on the May 20 general strike and workers' growing radicalization.
- One Europe - 100 Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
Land seizures and land take-overs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
SYRIZA
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
Greece and thd debt crisis
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Bogg’s 100th birthday.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
Labour Day issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
Elections
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016
Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appearance of democratic legitimacy for the profoundly undemocratic structures of the EU. The gambit turned out to be a spectacular miscalculation, as millions of people turned out to express their opposition to a state of affairs that is leaving the majority worse off while enriching a small minority. This issue of Other Voices looks at the Brexit referendum, elite loathing for democracy, and the related attempt to get rid of Labour's leftwing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017
Left Parties
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of the neoliberal capitalist mainstream. Left parties have emerged out of mass movements in countries like Spain (Podemos), Germany (Die Linke), and Greece (Syriza). In Latin America, in the last two decades, left movements or parties have formed governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Uruguay. What these new left parties/movements have in common is a strategy of engaging in grassroots organizing and also running in elections. They all describe themselves as socialist, though in many cases their programs are more reminiscent of what social democrats used to advocate decades ago: reforms that would tame and manage capitalism rather than abolish it. Their ultimate vision may be a world without capitalism, but their immediate proposals are more modest and incremental, though still significantly to the left of the neo-liberal consensus.
- Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Poisoned Fruits of Austerity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The most dramatic advance of the far right is that of the National Front in France. It is not unusual that such forces prosper, with some working-class support, in the absence of well-articulated progressive alternatives.
- The Postmodern Left and the success of neoliberalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The international Left promotes its own image rather than engaging in the bitter reality of resistance against neoliberalism. It does not need to believe in postmodernism because it is postmodernism.
- Press for Conversion #43
December 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2000
- The problem of Greece is not only a tragedy. It is a lie.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
According to John Pilger, the leaders of Syriza are revolutionaries of a kind - but their revolution is the perverse, familiar appropriation of social democratic and parliamentary movements by liberals groomed to comply with neo-liberal drivel. Like the Labour Party in Britain and its equivalents among former social democratic parties such as the Labor Party in Australia, still describing themselves as “liberal” or even “left”, Syriza is the product of an affluent, highly privileged, educated middle class, schooled in postmodernism.
- Revolutionary Greece
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The small town of Distomo is just 150 kilometers from Athens, positioned in the heart of Greece, literally squeezed between two great world heritage sites: Delphi, the cradle of the European democracy, and a stunning Byzantine monastery of Hossios Luckas. But Distomo is much more than some picturesque village surrounded by mountains and history.
- Riot police deliberately attack journalists covering street demonstrations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns a new wave of deliberate attacks on reporters and photographers in Athens and calls on the security forces to immediately identify those persons within their ranks who were responsible.
- The Rise of Fascism in Greece
Waiting is Not an Option
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In Germany, Spain and Italy (and elsewhere) in the early 1930s during those troubled times, unemployment was high, Left alternatives were weak, resentment against others oozed in the streets, and terrible insecurities pushed nominally good people, the middle classes, into supporting the forces of hatred and nationalistic fervour.
- Santas, Apostolos
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Greek veteran of the Resistance against the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II. (Born 1922).
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Slavoj Zizek: Apologist for the social democratic turn of SYRIZA
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The authors argue that Zizek's radical posturing is at odds with his reformist political stance.
- Social Democracy or Revolutionary Democracy: Syriza and Us
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Lebowitz discusses the construction of Syriza, its Thessaloniki Programme, and the potential for revolutionary democracy in Greece.
- The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Socialist Register 2013
Volume 49: The Question of Strategy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2013
This, the 49th volume of the Socialist Register examines the choices faced by the left today, the models of strategy available to it, and the innovations that are being made by groups as they organize in diverse settings.
- Syriza and the crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Interview with Garganas Panos about the election victory of Syriza (the Coalition of the Radical Left) in Greece.
- The Syriza Dilemma
What would constructive pressure on the Syriza government look like?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The radical Syriza government was elected in January 2015 based on its promise to try to bargain a better deal than the severe neoliberal austerity imposed through the memoranda signed by previous governments. At the same time, it promised to remain in the eurozone monetary system, in which Greece’s financial system is embedded, as well as within the framework of the European Union, into which its economy has been integrated.
- The Syriza Wave
Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
An account of the rise and fall of the Greek left party Syriza.
- The Syriza Wave: The Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist Review
The Discussion Continues via Irish Marxist Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The article is review of Helena Sheehan's book "The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left". Her book is an account of her polital activity and personal reflections during the surge of Syrzia from 2012 through 2015.
- The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left - Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A book review of The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left by author Helena Sheehan.
- SYRIZA's Betrayal of Greece is a Spectre haunting the Left
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Regardless of whether he beats the odds, no one can deny the significance of Sanders's movement in taking the relatively progressive first step of returning "socialism" from exile to everyday U.S. politics which was once an inconceivable prospect. Unfortunately, a consequence is that now his idea of an 'alternative' to capitalism has been made synonymous with the word in the minds of Americans, regardless of its qualifications.
- SYRIZA's 40-point program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Here is the official program of the Greek coalition of the radical left, SYRIZA, which won the elections of January 2015.
- The blockade of Gaza reaches the shores of Greece!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
As it attempts to sail, the Canadian Boat to Gaza, the Tahrir, blockaded in Greece. Greek coast guard are now on board the Tahrir attempting to arrest Sandra Ruch, Jewish Canadian member of the Canada boat to Gaza Steering Committee.
- Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
- Transport Policy and the Environment
Six Case Studies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Unacceptable police violence against journalists covering demonstrations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders calls on the Greek authorities to publicly condemn cases of police violence against journalists during the demonstrations of the past few weeks and to give the police clear instructions not to use violence against media.
- Wall Street and the Greek Financial Crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Michael Hudson and Bill Black zero in on some of the key elements of the crisis. They point out that it is not really 'Greece', let alone the Greek people, who have contracted this debt and who have been bailed out until now.
- What austerity has done to Greek healthcare
"What I witnessed appalled me - and brought tears to my eyes"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The shocking 'austerity'-imposed destruction of Greece's once proud healthcare system is a key reason Greeks have turned to Syriza, finds London GP Louise Irvine in an eye witness account.
- Where Syriza stands
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Syriza leads the leftwing coalition in Greece, and the opposition to the external financial occupation of the country by the states and organisations that are at present keeping it from bankruptcy.
- Why Greece Doesn't Matter
We have to stop talking about Greece. What must emerge from the calamity of SYRIZA-ANEL is a renewed call for democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Change in Greece will not come from short-term strategies and tactics of seeking power, but from a long process of coordinated and planned immanent critiques. This political organization will not aim to represent itself in the machinery of parliament -- where the watchful eyes of the IMF and ECB will determine policy -- but will emerge from an organized movement comprising the disenfranchised, the working class, and the intellectual vanguard. It will not compromise. It will instead operate under an ideology for an emancipatory alliance of humanity removed from the spreadsheet, removed from the NATO, and removed from free-market directives. It will not seek to claim power in an election, it will be given it by the people themselves when the movement is ripe.
- Will the Greek elections strengthen the hands of the Global South?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The endorsement of a leftist party is a vote against global lenders imposing governance prescriptions on countries in crisis. If Greece successfully pushes back against its lenders, it will open the door to countries of the Global South to restructure their relationships with lenders such as the World Bank and IMF.
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