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If the left wants to build a mass movement that appeals to millions, we first have to address the tiny, vocal minority in our ranks holding all of us back.
Theodoros Karyotis
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part IV: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
The ordeal of the Greek left has demonstrated the limits of the state-centric approach to social change – and the dream of a return to a fair and inclusive capitalism lies in tatters.
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part III: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
From the ERT broadcaster shutdown, to the failure to support the Vio.Me factory cooperative, to the privatization of Thessaloniki's water, the Syriza government has broken promises and missed opportunities.
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part II: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
The Greek grassroots movements have molded themselves into a genuine constituent power – using radical imagination to birth new institutions, new social relations and new approaches to organizing social life.
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Chronicles of a Defeat Foretold, Part I: Syriza's Greek Crash Landing
The relationship of the Syriza party with the Greek grassroots movements resisting austerity was a marriage of convenience that has ended in broken promises, lost opportunities and a bitter divorce.
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A Pyrrhic Victory In Greece: Why Tsipras's Re-Election Means "Austerity With a Human Face"
Skyrocketing abstention from voting, social demobilization and an impending wave of harsh austerity measures call for critical reflection after Syriza’s "pragmatic" win at the polls.
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Syriza Surrenders: Time for Renewed Popular Resistance
Now that Syriza has caved in to the creditors, the need for grassroots mobilization is more urgent than ever – a new cycle of struggles is ahead of us.
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The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
The current wave of food recalls is a direct byproduct of President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately removing the safeguards put in place aimed at protecting American consumers more than a century ago.
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From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
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If the left wants to build a mass movement that appeals to millions, we first have to address the tiny, vocal minority in our ranks holding all of us back.
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