As the next Greek elections loom, Paul Demarty takes a look at the lines being taken by the left and the current controversy in the SWP On Sunday June 17, the Greek population will march once again to the polls - this time in even more dramatic circumstances. The polarisation of support between the rightwing New ...
The crisis in Greece is bound up with the global capitalist downturn. Instead of a nationalist response there could be an international fightback, writes James Turley After eight months of increasingly fervid speculation, the European Union has finalised a bail-out package for struggling Eurozone economies. And for all the strenuous denials from Berlin and Brussels that such ...
Withdrawal calls reveal lack of strategy, writes James Turley In times of severe economic crisis, the basic living conditions of masses of people are thrown into disarray. Entire states go bankrupt, leaving millions vulnerable to redundancy, poverty and worse. In these conditions, people inevitably fight back - in however disorganised, however haphazard a fashion. In the present ...
Callum Williamson looks at the re-emergence of the struggle in Greece On Saturday 6th of December 2008 15 year old anarchist, Alexander Grigoropoulos, was shot dead by police in the Exarhia district of Athens. This was to spark weeks of rioting and the ascendance of a new movement in Greece. With this new movement came a ...
Ted North explores the background to unrest against a state regarded as endemically corrupt Recent explosive events in Greece were not a revolution. Nor were they a half-revolution. But they were in their own way a quarter-revolution. And all sparked by a single bullet. On December 6 2008 a police ‘special guard’ shot and killed ...