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• Lavelle: The New “University Police” Shows Greece’s Authoritarian Turn

  On Thursday, parliament voted to create a special police force to patrol universities, as the right-wing government mounts a troubling crackdown on supposedly “dangerous” student groups
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  Raptis: Nazis, ‘Commies’, etc (Part 1)

  So, on the basis of my experience on Nazis and on assorted dictators, my guesstimate as to the number of Nazis and crypto-Nazis in any given population is: around 30 %
• Martin: Whistleblower Maria Efimova fears for her safety amid threats and new arrest warrants

  DiEM25, the pan-European movement and MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis’ political party in Greece, are calling on the Greek government to grant Maria Efimova asylum and protection
• Zenakos: Golden Dawn is defeated: the damage to democracy is harder to repair

  In an historic verdict, an Athens Court convicted Golden Dawn leaders of running a criminal organisation, bringing its campaign of racist murders to an end. But the political climate that legitimised this is ever present.
• Smith: Golden Dawn Guilty Verdicts Celebrated Across Greece

  Ex-leader and MPs found guilty after biggest trial of fascists since Nuremberg
• Lee: U.S. Expands Military Bases in the Eastern Mediterranean

  Lures Debt-Weary Greece into Provocative Military Partnership for Geopolitical Control of Region
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  Raptis: Tragically Comic Humanity (Part 1 of 2)

  Comic stuff of humanity? Yes! Tragic history for the human race? Definitely yes!
• and Greens of Greece: Joint Statement by the Greens of Turkey and Greens of Greece on recent tension in Eastern Mediterranean Sea

  “We, Greek and Turkish Greens, are both deeply concerned about the current build-up of tension in the Eastern Mediterranean.”
• 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