Latest Greece
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Davanellos: A necktie for Tsipras and a noose for workers
The “sacrifices” required will be increasingly barbaric, and the results will be even more uncertain than compared to the first Memorandum — which promised an end to the crisis in...2012
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Konstantopoulou: If you love Greece, help us get rid of Alexis Tsipras
The Greek prime minister and Syriza have betrayed their people and their principles. They have to go
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Polychroniou: EU’s Debt Deal Is “Kiss of Death” for Greece
The debt deal for Greece is indeed a turning point: It marks the death of any prospect or hope for economic recovery and a return to normalcy. Only more difficult times lie ahead
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Lapavitsas: Is Greece on the Road to Recovery?
Interview on how it is ludicrous on the part of a former left party to speak of a neoliberal success story for a country mired in poverty and debt
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Chakrabortty: A Lesson in Life after Capitalism
A brave group have become an example for Britain, and all of Europe, in taking back workplace control
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Karyotis: The Right to the City
The importance of grassroots urban struggles
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Polychroniou: Greece and economic recovery
The Greek 'economic success' story advanced by Tsipras et al would have been funny if it wasn't such a serious matter
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Dolack: Analyzing the failures of Syriza
So many put their puts hopes into Syriza; so many...
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While the UK left is divided over how to respond to Brexit, the people of Greece continue to groan under the burden of EU-backed austerity
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Polychroniou: The Effects of Greece’s Loss of Sovereignty
For the last several months, Greece's international creditors -- the European Union and the International Monetary Fund -- had been at a standoff over debt relief
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Panitch: Greece’s Debt Relief Conundrum
SYRIZA has failed to a develop the political capacities within its base that would provide room for the party to maneuver in case of a shift in the international balance of forces
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Polychroniou: Greece Under Continuous Siege: Syriza’s Disastrous Political Stance
The Greek crisis has its actual origins in two directly related developments: first, in the internal dynamics of Greek political culture; and second, in the fact that Greece was ill-equipped to join the euro when it did
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Barrington-Bush: The solidarity ecosystems of occupied factories
The workers of the recuperated VIO.ME factory in Greece are building towards more supportive communities and a stronger, less-fractured society
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Molina: A call center run by refugees fills a void in Greece
Refugees arriving in Greece have found themselves forced to organize in order to survive
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Lambropoulos: The destructive course of Greece
This text was pronounced at the conference with the generic title NO EURO, to the...
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Ioakimoglou: Greece Was the Prologue
Austerity experiments in Greece set the stage for a radical restructuring of Europe by elites
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Rasmus: Who Profited From the $440 Billion Greek Bailout? Not Greeks
Hundreds of billions of dollars in loans haven't helped the Greek economy or its people
ZMag Greece
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Visram: Greek Austerity & African Patronage
The current situation in Greece resembles the debt peonage that many African countries have been subjected to for decades. They suffered the consequences of the so-called structural adjustment under the supervision of the international finance institutions and the result was economic and social devastation.
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Rasmus: The Greek Debt Interim Agreement
Greece and Syriza have not sold out. To declare such is premature at best and counterproductive politically at worst. Yes, Greece blinked at the February 28 deadline. If it hadn’t what would have been the consequences?
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Lawler: The Politics of Austerity and the Ikarian Dream
As a long-time fan of the leisurely aspect of European...
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Rasmus: The Greek Debt Crisis As Harbinger of Things to Come
The crisis in Greece is not a sovereign (government) debt...
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Bix: What the Past Teaches About U.S. Democracy
This article examines how American elites have expanded an empire...
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Panayotakis: Greece and the Global Capitalist Crisis
As the global capitalist crisis continues to unfold into 2010,...
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Petras: Greece: The Curse of Three Generations of Papandreous
In each of the three decisive moments of recent history,...
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Esther: Costas Gavras Talks About Z, 40 Years Later
A riveting action thriller about political assassination at the highest...
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Panayotakis: Making Sense of the Greek Uprising
On the evening of Saturday, December 6, 2008, a police...
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Varoufakis: Massive IMF Bailouts are “Ponzi Austerity” Scheme
Negotiations between Greece and international creditors hit an impasse over the bankers’ demands for extra austerity measures
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Varoufakis: How The Greek People’s Magnificent “No” Against Austerity Became “Yes”
This program that was agreed to in August was designed to fail
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Sanders: From Greece to Puerto Rico, the Financial Rules Are Rigged to Favor the 1%
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders recently convened a panel of economists in Washington to discuss the debt crisis in Greece and throughout the world
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Alternate views on recent developments in the fight against austerity waged by Syriza and the Greek people
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Lapavitsas: Exit as the Only Strategy for Greek People
In a speech in Athens, Costas Lapavitsas says the Syriza plan was to achieve radical change within the Eurozone - and that's impossible
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The humiliating offer presented by Eurozone finance ministers to the Greek government is designed to bring down Syriza
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Lapavitsas: Syriza MP: It’s Time to Take Over the Banks
Interview on what the Greek people are willing to say yes to
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Chomsky: Greece Faces “Savage Response” For Taking on Austerity “Class War”
Interview on Europe’s "savage response" to the pushback against austerity demands
Greece Blogs
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: Why? Why? Why? Wasim’s Tragedy is Our Tragedy
These past few months have been deeply affecting. For us...
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: Samos is Bleeding: Tourism, Migration and Survival
Samos is Bleeding: Tourism, Migration and Survival Sofiane...
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: Political Lessons From Greece; Summits, Refugees and Protest.
Political Lessons From Greece; Summits, Refugees and Protest. ...
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: A Contribution to the Alter Summit Athens June 2013
Alter Summit: Athens, June 2013 A Contribution on Thinking...
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: Greek Lessons from Below: Learning from the Refugees and Questions for the Left
Sofiane Ait Chalalet and Chris Jones June 2nd...
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: Listen to the Voices of Algerian Refugees in Central Athens
Listen to the voices of refugees in the centre of...