Is a socialist EU possible via left-wing populist parties such as Syriza, Podemos and the HDP? | openDemocracy. Filed under: Europe, Socialism Tagged: EU, Europe, Podemos, Socialism, Syriza
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Parchment in the Fire: Reading The Greek Deal Correctly
Reading The Greek Deal Correctly. James K. Galbraith On Friday as news of the Brussels deal came through, Germany claimed victory and it is no surprise that most of the working press bought the claim. They have high authorities to quote and to rely on. Thus from London The Independent
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How Greece Got Outmaneuvered – The New Yorker. By John Cassidy To the surprise of nobody except a few alarmists, the finance ministers of the European Union reached a deal with Greece on Friday, extending the country’s existing bailout until the early summer. Greece’s new left-wing Syriza government had been
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Greek Bailout Extension Deal Represents a “Significant Retreat” by the European Authorities, CEPR Co-Director Says | Press Releases
Greek Bailout Extension Deal Represents a “Significant Retreat” by the European Authorities, CEPR Co-Director Says | Press Releases. Washington, D.C.- A deal reached between the Greek government and European authorities represents a “significant retreat” by the so-called troika and “shows that their austerity program, which has failed miserably, is no
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Greece deal is first step on the road back to austerity | Business | The Guardian
Philip Inman – The Guardian The rightwing orthodoxy that dominates thinking in Brussels has asserted itself over the hapless Greeks. A deal that allows the eurozone policymakers, the International Monetary Fund and the government of Athens to keep talking next week is the first stage in a clampdown on anti-austerity
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: How Radical is Syriza?
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13088 Filed under: Europe, Eurozone crisis, Greece Tagged: Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Socialism, Syriza, the Left
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Is Syriza Retreating? | Jacobin. Stathis Kouvelakis To use a worn-out cliché, “the times are critical.” In fact, they are more than just that: we are at the edge of a crucial temporal sequence. The whole endeavor of a Syriza government will be judged by its reaction to the unprecedented
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Podcast: Leo Panitch on Syriza and Greece
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/podcast150220-leo-panitch.mp3 This week I’ve devoted the entire show to discussing the most recent developments in Greece. While there is a great deal of day-to-day drama at the level of the ongoing negotiations between Greece and European institutions, I wanted to take a broader strategic and political look at what the
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Syriza Holds Its Ground | Jacobin
Syriza Holds Its Ground | Jacobin. As the media and the Athens stock market (down 4 percent yesterday) had widely expected, yesterday’s finance ministers’ meeting ended in failure, perhaps even a momentous one. The tone of the Greek government’s official communiqué, which the whole media were quick to pick up
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: The pro-worker, pro-growth experiment in Greece is under threat | Senator Bernie Sanders | Comment is free | The Guardian
The pro-worker, pro-growth experiment in Greece is under threat | Senator Bernie Sanders | Comment is free | The Guardian. While the wealthiest 85 individuals on the planet own more wealth than the bottom half of the world’s population – and when the top 1% will soon own more wealth
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: ROCHON On Greece once More
LOUIS-PHILIPPE ROCHON Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon ________________________ As I have said before (see here) and will say again: any solution to Greek’s tragedy, which involves keeping the Euro as a currency is a second-best solution, unless the appropriate institutional changes
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Creditors forcing rapprochement within Syriza?
I’m starting to cautiously think that the Varoufakis and Lapavitsas “approaches” to the crisis might end up not too far away from each other even though the strategic direction they have advocated is very different. The situation, especially after today’s hardening of the creditors’ stance at the Eurogroup, may simply
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Germany faces impossible choice as Greek austerity revolt spreads – Telegraph
Germany faces impossible choice as Greek austerity revolt spreads – Telegraph. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard The political centre across southern Europe is disintegrating. Establishment parties of centre-left and centre-right – La Casta, as they say in Spain – have successively immolated themselves enforcing EMU debt-deflation. Spain’s neo-Bolivarian Podemos party refuses
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Head to Head with German Counterpart Wolfgang Schauble
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Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Syriza’s tremendous path to power
VersoBooks.com. The Associate Professor of Comparative Political Analysis at the Athens Panteion University’s Department of History and Political Science and author of In the Name of Social Democracy assesses Syriza’s journey to government. No European country has been plunged so deep into crisis as Greece, which has experienced a situation analogous
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Are Canada’s Disaffected the Raw Material for a Leftist Renaissance?
Europe is still reeling from the victory of the Syriza party in the recent Greek elections. It was a matter of days before that spread to austerity-wracked Spain’s Podemos movement that has gone from nothing to the country’s second largest political party in just six months. Now The Tyee’s Crawford Killian asks
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: 100,000 flock to Madrid for Podemos rally against austerity | World news | The Guardian
100,000 flock to Madrid for Podemos rally against austerity | World news | The Guardian. los indignados – an impromptu revolt of thousands, camping out for weeks and rallying against a political establishment felt to be out of sync with the people. On Saturday, up to 100,000 people again filled
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Historic Victory for Syriza in Greece
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Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: The Greek canary in the European coalmine: An interview with Yanis Varoufakis
Over at Ricochet, I’ve transcribed my podcast interview with Yanis Varoufakis, economist and Syriza candidate in tomorrow’s Greek elections. With Syriza looking to get the most votes and possibly an outright parliamentary majority, I asked Yanis about the Greek economy, Syriza’s economic plans, his views on what these mean for Europe and how we
Continue readingPolitical Eh-conomy: Political Eh-conomy Radio: the left in Greece and Poland
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/podcast-150123-poland-greece1.mp3 I’ve been visiting family in Poland for the past few weeks so, fittingly, this week’s podcast deals with the situation of the left at two opposite ends of the European periphery: Greece and Poland. My first guest is Yanis Varoufakis, professor of economics at the University of Athens and candidate for SYRIZA
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