Latest Greece

• Blanc: Why the Left Keeps Losing — and How We Can Win

  If we want to start winning, socialists need to study the recent defeats of Syriza in Greece, Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, and Bernie Sanders in the US, along with the failures of twentieth-century social democracy and the declining relevance of Leninism
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  Varoufakis: “Syriza Was a Bigger Blow to the Left Than Thatcher”

  Interview on why the Left around Europe is struggling to overcome Syriza’s disastrous legacy
• Karyotis: Repression, eviction and dispossession in New Democracy’s Greece

  The latest attack on the squatting movement in Greece is the preamble for a massive operation of housing dispossession by the right-wing government
• Malamatinas: First they take Exarcheia

  Recent evictions of several squats, some housing refugees and migrants, mark the beginning of a new chapter of repression and dissent in Greece
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  Varoufakis: Syriza’s capitulations

  The left-wing party’s embrace of austerity created the conditions for a parasitic and cruel oligarchy to return
• Leo Panitch, and Hilary Wainwright: The right’s looming challenge to democracy in Greece

  In 2019, the capacity of its left to successfully confront the far right’s continuing political ascent will be severely tested
• Kay: The true cost of austerity: lessons from Greece

  The real lessons from Greece’s economic crisis can be learned not from the toxic legacy of austerity, but from movements for social justice and food sovereignty
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  Rasmus: What is Financial Imperialism?

  If one were to believe the European and US press, Greece has now recovered and emerged from the bailout and its nearly decade-long debt crisis, and the depression it created. But that conclusion couldn’t be further from the truth
• 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
• 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
• 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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  Baroud: Greece’s Dangerous Alliance with Israel

  Foreign Policy for Sale
• 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
• 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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  Rasmus: Greek Debt Crisis

  Why Syriza Continues to Lose
• Dolack: Analyzing the failures of Syriza

  So many put their puts hopes into Syriza; so many...
• Shallice: Greece’s heavy load

  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