Latest Greece

• Herald: China, Russia, France, Israel Pay Tribute to Mikis Theodorakis’ Work, Life

  A giant in the fields of music and human rights, the late Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, who died at 96 after a legacy of genius and decency, was honored with accolades coming in
• Collective: Wildfires: Looking at Greece, deciding about Europe

  A Prime Minister who tries to blame Climate Change for his own failures, which are a result of the austerity-serving policies, has no right to remain Prime Minister
• : Greece: Unions launch general strike against labor reforms

  Workers' organizations have called for rejection of a controversial bill that they fear will dismantle the eight-hour work day. Demonstrations are planned across the country
• Giovanopoulos: Resistance and aid

  Inclusive and participatory forms of self-organising rendered solidarity a gesture of personal and collective empowerment in Greece
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  D’Errico: Resisting Greece’s rapid descent into authoritarianism

  The heavily militarized response to the pandemic and endemic police violence has exacerbated old conflicts within Greek society — and many have had enough
• 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