The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Analyzing the Failures of Syriza
So many put their puts hopes into Syriza; so many were bitterly disappointed.
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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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Witchhunt In Greece As Yanis Varafoukis Becomes First, and Biggest, Scapegoat
"Politicians and parties whom the electorate condemned for their efforts to turn Greece into a protectorate are now persecuting me. I wear their accusations as badges of honor."
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Greece, the Sacrificial Lamb
Having spent the last week in Athens talking to ordinary citizens, young and old, as well as current and past officials, I’ve come to the view that this is about far more than just Greece and the euro.
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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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With "Mental Waterboarding" Germany Tells Greece: Surrender Fiscal Sovereignty In Return for Bailout
A weekend of high tension that threatened to break Europe in two climaxed on Sunday night when the leaders of Germany and France presented Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with the ultimatum.
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Greeks Vote "No" To Austerity In a Resounding Defeat to Troika and Banks
More than three out of five Greeks on Sunday decisively rejected a bailout deal proposed by the country's international creditors, which demanded new austerity measures in return for emergency funds.
