Over 50 Yorkshire and Humber Labour Party delegates packed into Saturday’s fringe meeting in Leeds to hear from the front line in what has been labelled ‘A Very European Coup‘. Professor Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law at Birkbeck College in London told a packed audience that there was a parallel between Chris Mullin’s classic story A Very British Coup and recent […]
Posts Tagged ‘Syriza’
TUC expresses solidarity with Greece; Labour remains silent
Mar 1st, 2015 by Jon Lansman.The TUC General Council this week expressed its solidarity with the people and trade unions of Greece in no uncertain terms. If only the political wing of the Labour movement would follow suit! Some Labour MPs have individually signed a supportive early day motion but even they are surprisingly few. We’d urge readers to do […]
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The money exists for investment in Greece
Feb 28th, 2015 by Michael Burke.The fraught negotiations between the new Greek government and representatives of the EU institutions are likely to be prolonged. They have centred to date on Syriza’s efforts to find room to alleviate some of the worst effects of austerity and address what is called the ‘humanitarian crisis’. This is entirely justifiable given the depth of […]
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Five questions from Costas Lapavitsas to Syriza’s leadership on their Euroland deal
Feb 25th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.This is a translation of a blog by Costas Lapavitsas who was Professor of Economics at London’s SOAS until he was elected as a Syriza MP this year. He is known as a Eurosceptic critic of the more Europhile stance of the Syriza leadership, though his criticisms are more reserved than those of Syriza’s 92-old […]
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The costs and benefits of Grexit
Feb 24th, 2015 by Tom Gill.by Emiliano Brancaccio and Gennaro Zezza – translated from Italian by Tom Gill You cannot say that between 2010 and 2014, Greece has not “done their homework” assigned by the Troika. The tax burden has grown by five percentage points of GDP, public spending has fallen by a quarter and wages have fallen by twenty […]
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On the folly of yearning for the Pasokification of Labour
Feb 23rd, 2015 by David Osland.Not a few superannuated Bennites, and indeed anybody who prefers their social democracy served straight no chaser, will be entirely entranced by Greek politics right now. Here, for the first time in three decades, is a leftwing European government locked into a collision course with neoliberalism. Circumstances specific to that country have enabled Syriza to win […]
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Explaining the Euroland-Greece agreement
Feb 23rd, 2015 by Tom Gill.by Jacques Sapir (translated from the French by Tom Gill) The agreement reached on Friday 20 February between Greece and the Eurogroup has led to conflicting commentary. It is necessary, in order to understand this agreement, and to analyze it, to put it into context, both in the short and in the long term. This agreement […]
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Euroland’s Utopian foundations shaken by its central bank shirking its duties
Feb 12th, 2015 by Ann Pettifor.The late-night decision on 4 February by the European Central Bank to reject Greek bank collateral for monetary policy operations will, I confidently predict, precipitate not just a run on Greek banks; not just greater price instability across the Eurozone – but ultimately, the collapse of the fantastic machinery that is the ‘self-regulating’ economy of the Eurozone. […]
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Democracy versus capitalism – how Greece should survive
Feb 2nd, 2015 by Michael Meacher.It is difficult for us to comprehend what the Greek people have been subjected to. After the 2008 crash UK unemployment rose to 8%; in Greece it is still 26% with youth unemployment at over 50%. UK GDP fell by 9%; Greek GDP collapsed by 25%. What is remarkable is not the momentous Syriza victory […]
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Syriza has interesting allies: Vladimir Putin and Mark Carney
Jan 29th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.By their friends shall ye know them? This old adage has got some folks feeling a bit uncomfortable as the new Syriza government apparently cosies up to Mother Russia. This is by no means a new thing. Last year Alexis Tsipras provided Putin’s interventions in Ukraine with some political cover. Interesting friends of Syriza are […]
