Aug 24, 2015
The SYRIZA rebels who will challenge Tsipras from the Left - now the third largest political formation in Greece
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The SYRIZA rebels who will challenge Tsipras from the Left - now the third largest political formation in Greece
The post-referendum political turmoil has reset the political situation in Greece.
Reconfiguring the Greek Left after the government’s capitulation: The Red Network pledges to fight for SYRIZA’s soul
The left wing of Greece’s SYRIZA government has gained ground as Europe’s ruling classes continue to strangle the country and inflict devastation on the Greek working class.
Under agreements signed by former governments and a current arrangement – negotiated by the current parliamentary leadership led by prime minister Alexis Tsipras and finance minister Yanis Varoufakis – SYRIZA, which was elected on an anti-austerity platform, is being directed to run primary fiscal surpluses despite an unending economic depression.
SYRIZA’s central committee met on 23 and 24 May to discuss a way forward. Forty-four percent voted in favour of a Left Platform motion calling for an end to austerity and an alternative economic plan to alleviate the suffering of the working class. Left Platform member of the central committee Stathis Kouvelakis explains.
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