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Banning Golden Dawn Hasn't Stopped Greece's Slide to the Far Right

George Souvlis, Rosa Vasilaki — 2022-02-21T09:25:33Z

The banning of neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn was hailed as proof of Greece's return to normality after the painful crisis years. Yet far-right ideas are now firmly established in the mainstream, including within the ruling conservative party.

- IV565 - February 2022 / Greece, Far Right

Feminist Organising and the Women's Strike: An Interview with Cinzia Arruzza

Cinzia Arruzza, George Souvlis — 2017-05-05T21:15:53Z

George Souvlis and Ankica Čakardić of Salvage spoke to Cinzia Arruzza, one of the organizers of the call for the International Women's Strike in the US, about why she came to be an activists, her views on the women's strike, and more broadly her political views.

- Feminism / Women, Sexual politics

Materialism and Feminism

George Souvlis, Johanna Brenner — 2017-04-18T06:45:03Z

Johanna Brenner: I grew up in a staunchly liberal family and remained politically liberal until I joined the movement against the Vietnam war, where I was introduced to anti-imperialist politics and then Marxism and “third-camp” socialism. In the late 60's I was part of the student left that turned toward organizing the working-class. I was a student at UCLA. We organized student support for a teamster wildcat strike and we had a group called the Student Worker Action Committee that published a newspaper, Picket Line, where we covered different worker and community struggles in Los Angeles. I was rather slow to embrace feminism, but in the 1970's I got involved with a socialist-feminist group called CARASA (Coalition for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse) which began in New York City. Some friends and comrades formed a Los Angeles branch of CARASA and we were able to connect to radical women of color doing community organizing around sterilization abuse in LA. From that point on, I have been deeply immersed in Marxist-feminist theory and politics.

- Feminism / Women, Sexual politics

Greece Was the Prologue

Elias Ioakimoglou, George Souvlis — 2016-09-03T14:41:59Z

By now, the story of Syriza's capitulation to the European creditor institutions is well-known.

Syriza came to power in January 2015 with a mandate to resist the imposition of austerity. Instead, Syriza folded under the pressure of the troika, accepting intensified austerity measures and dashing the hopes of its supporters.

In this interview with George Souvlis, economist Elias Ioakimoglou describes the resultant crisis that continues to wreak havoc on Greece a full year after. According to his figures, the Greek depression is now deeper and more severe than the American Great Depression of the 1930s. The following transcript has been edited for style and clarity. [Jacobin]

- IV500 - September 2016 / Greece, European Union

The European Challenge

George Souvlis, Josep María Antentas — 2016-08-24T07:06:52Z

For all of its success, Podemos has refused to deal seriously with the European Union and what it would take to truly transform Spain.

- IV499 - August 2016 / Spanish state, New parties of the left, European Union, National question

An Open Letter to Yanis Varoufakis

George Souvlis, Samuele Mazzolini — 2016-05-15T10:28:30Z

In the following open letter, George Souvlis and Samuele Mazzolini respond to the launch of DiEM launch in Rome in March

- European Union / European Union