On Friday the 15th of March Alexis Tsipras, leader of the opposition in the Greek Parliament and leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), made a speech to a packed Friends’ Meeting House in London regarding the austerity programme in his country and the resistance against it. The text of his speech is below and you can hear a full recording of the meeting here. Continue reading
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Tsipras confronts neo-liberal blackmail – vote on austerity, not euro
At the weekend, Europe’s neo-liberals stepped up their attempts to blackmail the Greek people into accepting the painful terms of austerity by creating a false debate on Euro membership being the decisive issue in the election. David Cameron, speaking in Chicago, said to them, “you can either vote to stay in the euro, with all the commitments you’ve made, or if you vote another way, you’re effectively voting to leave.”
Cameron’s statement goes hand in glove with a huge right-wing offensive in Greece to depress support for Syriza, where its opponents assert that a vote for Syriza is a vote to leave the single currency. Continue reading
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New poll points way to Syriza-led Greek government after new election
A new poll by Marc for Alpha TV in Greece puts left coalition Syriza in first place with 23%, up 6% from the result last Sunday. The poll asked how respondents would have voted had they known the result. Syriza gained support from across the board, 18% of those who voted at the weekend for the Greek Communist Party (KKE) and 16% from neo-fascist New Dawn, according to the poll (although these precise figures will be subject to fairly wide margins of error). If this result were to be repeated in the new election which is bound to happen within a few months, Syriza would win 120 seats and be in a much stronger position to form a government. Continue reading
