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Against the Repression in Greece

Costas Lapavitsas, Stathis Kouvelakis — 2019-02-03T06:43:16Z

In 2015 the international left invested its hopes in Syriza and its promise of a break with austerity. Today, it must call out the repression of social movements in Greece by Alexis Tsipras's government.

- IV529 - February 2019 / Greece

The Future of Greece

Costas Lapavitsas, Jacobin — 2017-08-07T06:36:41Z

Syriza continues to oversee the implementation of austerity. But all is not hopeless in Greece.

- IV511 - August 2017 / Europe, Germany, Greece, Economy, European Union

Awakening the European Left

Costas Lapavitsas, Sebastian Budgen — 2015-09-17T17:19:19Z

Costas Lapavitsas has been vindicated â€” not that there's much comfort in that. From the beginning he argued that Greece leaving the eurozone was the only way Syriza could carry out its election program. The Syriza leadership instead stuck to their “good euro” policy, with disastrous results. The party recently split, with Lapavitsas and other members of Syriza's parliamentary group, along with a coalition from across the Greek left forming Popular Unity to contest in the elections later this month.

- Perspectives in Greece

The Syriza strategy has come to an end

Costas Lapavitsas — 2015-05-04T18:09:29Z

In a joint interview with German daily Der Tagesspiegel and ThePressProject International, Syriza MP and economist Costas Lapavitsas says that the time has come for Greece and its partners to understand that “they are flogging a dead horse”.

- Perspectives in Greece / Greece, Greek discussion

Phase Two

Costas Lapavitsas, Sebastian Budgen — 2015-04-09T15:52:22Z

Greek MP Costas Lapavitsas spoke to Sebastian Budgen on the economic barriers ahead for Syriza and the challenges of Eurozone exit.

- Perspectives in Greece / Greece, Debt, Greek discussion

A left strategy for Europe

Costas Lapavitsas — 2011-04-13T06:34:56Z

Michel Husson's article, A European strategy for the left was published by International Viewpoint on January 2011. In the article Husson argues that “the radical left must not get locked into the impossible choice and start the risky adventure of leaving the euro and a utopian idea of currency harmonisation.” In this response Costas Lapavitsas argues that the euro is irreformable and advances an alternative strategy. A fuller version of this article will appear in Socialist Register,
2012, The Crisis and the Left, in a forum discussion with Elmar
Altvater and Michel Husson.

- IV435 - April 2011 / Economy, European Union