First Thoughts on the Greek Election

Panagiotis Sotiris — 2015-09-27T15:29:58Z

This was not a good election night. I am not talking mainly about the fact that Popular Unity failed to pass the 3 percent threshold necessary to gain parliamentary representation, but rather that the election results seem like a vindication of Syriza's capitulation to the European Union and the signing of the new memorandum. The new loan agreement will mean devastating cuts and neoliberal reforms, and we now have a parliament dominated by pro-memoranda forces to see it all through.

- IV488 - September 2015 / Greece, Greek discussion

The Other Greek Left

Panagiotis Sotiris, Sebastian Budgen — 2015-04-24T09:38:45Z

Perhaps aside from Argentina, Greece has the world's biggest and most diverse anticapitalist left â€” the product of decades of splits and rich anarchist and communist traditions. In contrast to the fragmentation and infighting predominant almost everywhere else, Greece is also one of the few countries in which most of these forces have succeeded in constructing a durable front of collaboration and activity, the Front of the Anticapitalist Left (Antarsya).

Although microscopic at an electoral level â€” and totally overshadowed in this domain by Syriza and the Communist Party (KKE) â€” Antarsya has real social roots and plays a crucial mobilizing and organizing role in a range of social movements. Here, Sebastian Budgen [for Jacobin online magazine] explores this complex and fascinating landscape with the scholar, activist, and leading figure of Antarsya, Panagiotis Sotiris.

- Building new parties of the left / Greece, New parties of the left, Greek discussion

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First Thoughts on the Greek Election

The Other Greek Left