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.
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From Necessity Comes Hope: How Athenians Have Begun Solving Greece's Refugee Housing Crisis
Collectivist undertakings like the Elpída Home Project – which has welcomed in hundreds of refugees in Thessaloniki – repurposed an abandoned space by equipping the common areas with electricity, running water, plumbing and kitchens.
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"Thank God for the Fascists": A Dispatch from Weimar Greece
The "revolutionary infrastructure" of Athens's volatile neighborhood Exarcheia appears now to be gearing itself towards resisting, if not literally fighting, fascist violence and providing refuge for its victims.
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Dispatch from Greece: Meeting the "Antagonist" Movements
A visitor encounters Exarcheia, a hotbed of political activity, a bulwark against state power - and now an entire zone of Athens where police and those of the "wrong political persuasion" just don’t go.
