Interview: Greece after the explosion
Panos Garganas, editor of the Greek newspaper Workers Solidarity, spoke to International Socialism about the latest developments in a country that has witnessed the emergence of powerful movements from...
View ArticleGreece: the eye of the storm?
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....
View ArticleGreece: striking back
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,...
View ArticleInterview – Greece: the struggle radicalises
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...
View ArticleGreece, politics and Marxist strategy
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...
View ArticleSyriza and the crisis
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...
View ArticleSyriza and Socialist Strategy- Debate video and transcript
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...
View ArticleManoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras
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...
View ArticleWhy did Syriza fail?
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...
View ArticleFace to face with the minotaur
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...
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