Posts tagged: eurozone

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  The Radical Left: The Time for its Re-founding

  After 4 years in power, SYRIZA were defeated in both recent elections, finishing behind the conservative New Democracy party in each. In this article written in the wake of the European election but before the results were announced of the legislative election, two leading members of the Greek left Costas Lapavitsas and Stathis Kouvelakis reflect on the reasons for SYRIZA's defeat and what it would take for the radical left to once more win power.

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  “Neither Left nor Right” Helps the Far Right

  Jacobin’s David Broder interviews Marco Revelli about the weakening of the traditional parties, the decline of democratic antibodies to the far right, and the possibility of reviving different forms of mass organization.

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Seven: The First Capitulation

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the seventh part of a series of articles analyzing this account, Eric Toussaint looks at the disastrous agreement Varoufakis signed with the Eurogroup in February 2015. 

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  Between the Scylla of "Pasokification" and the Charybdis of "Syrizification"

  Pasokification isn’t the only neologism to come out of the Greek experience of the recent years. What followed Pasokification was Syrizification, and this process proved at least equally devastating in terms of its consequences.

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Six: The Disastrous Agreement of February 2015

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the sixth part of a series of articles analyzing this account, Eric Toussaint looks at the negotiations preceding the extension of the Second Memorandum in February 2015.

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Five: The Varoufakis-Tsipras Line was Doomed from the Word "Go"

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the fifth part of a series of articles analyzing the book, Eric Toussaint looks at the earliest days of the Tsipras government. 

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  Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Condemnation — Part Four: Varoufakis Surrounded Himself with Defenders of the Establishment

  In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives us his version of the events that led to the Tsipras government’s shameful capitulation in July 2015. In the fourth part of a series of articles analyzing the book, Eric Toussaint traces how Varoufakis selected advisors more sympathetic to the financial establishment than the Syriza program. 

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  More Than One Idea

  A 2016 book reveals pro-European intellectuals of the 1930s who greeted Nazi invasion as a historic opportunity for their project. 

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  Sellouts in the Room: Éric Toussaint on the Greek Debt Crisis and Syriza Capitulation

  Éric Toussaint, the spokesman of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM) and scientific director of the Greek Debt Truth Audit Commission, describes the findings of the commission and the legal avenues available to Greece for the repudiation of a significant portion of its debt.

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  For a Radical Refoundation of Europe

  Étienne Balibar lays down the political conditions for a historic refoundation of the EU, based on a new type of federation.

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  Barrage to Catalonia

  The 1 October referendum and its aftermath has exposed the extent of the democratic crisis in Spain — and Europe generally — rather than provided an answer to it.

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  Thank God, It’s Over: Eight years of Wolfgang Schäuble

  Schäuble drove euro nations to the brink of collapse and allowed the German state to record an enormous current account surplus at exactly the wrong time.