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Interview: Cypriot Worker—a forgotten episode in the history of the SWP

Posted on 30th October 2024 by International Socialism

During the 1970s and 1980s, members of the International Socialists (IS), later the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), produced a number of publications with the purpose of politically organising different communities in Britain.1 These publications were either printed in the English… Continue Reading →

Interview Cyprus, Greece, SWP

Face to face with the minotaur

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

Kevin Ovenden, Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth (Pluto Press/Left Book Club, 2015), £11.50 I’m writing this review on the eve of a general strike (3 December) in Greece, the second against the Syriza government since it was re-elected in September. Alexis… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Greece, Syriza

Why did Syriza fail?

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

How has Syriza ended up this way? This is a question that is tormenting a big part of the left and that all the forces that situate themselves on the left must answer.1 The discussion had flared up even before… Continue Reading →

Analysis Antarsya, Greece, Syriza

Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras

Posted on 6th July 2015 by Camilla

Syriza’s electoral victory on 25 January 2015 was historic. It was the first time a party with its roots in the Communist tradition had succeeded in coming to office. It was a victory for the working class movement, which had… Continue Reading →

Article Greece

Syriza and Socialist Strategy- Debate video and transcript

Posted on 15th April 2015 by Camilla

The following is a video and transcript of a debate between Stathis Kouvelakis, Syriza central committee member, and Alex Callinicos, editor of International Socialism, Central London, 25 February 2015 Alex Callinicos opens I want to start off by thanking Stathis… Continue Reading →

Analysis, Online only Greece, Syriza

Syriza and the crisis

Posted on 10th April 2015 by ISJ

The election victory of Syriza (the Coalition of the Radical Left) in Greece has galvanised the radical left internationally. With parliamentary elections due in the Spanish state later this year, the prospect of a left front against austerity in Europe… Continue Reading →

Analysis Eurozone crisis, Greece, Syriza

Greece, politics and Marxist strategy

Posted on 10th April 2013 by ISJ

In International Socialism 136, Richard Seymour and Panos Garganas gave two different assessments of the political strategy the left should adopt in Greece.1 It is an important debate for revolutionaries in Greece and elsewhere. Panos puts forward an argument that… Continue Reading →

Feedback Greece

Interview – Greece: the struggle radicalises

Posted on 27th March 2012 by ISJ

Panos Garganas, editor of the Greek newspaper Workers Solidarity, spoke to International Socialism about the latest developments in the country. The kind of figures that we now have for the economic crisis in Greece are absolutely horrifying – 7 percent… Continue Reading →

Analysis Greece

Greece: striking back

Posted on 12th October 2010 by ISJ

Greece has been at the heart of the struggle over austerity in Europe. Panos Garganas is editor of the weekly paper Workers’ Solidarity and a leading member of the Sosialistiko Ergatiko Komma (SEK, Socialist Workers Party), Greek sister organisation of… Continue Reading →

Analysis Greece

Greece: the eye of the storm?

Posted on 16th December 2009 by ISJ

The social climate in Greece is charged with the electricity that you find in the air before a tropical storm.” That was the description by a leading columnist on Greece’s most popular daily newspaper. He is not alone in this… Continue Reading →

Analysis Greece

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