We are never going to ask you to subsidise our state, our wages, our pensions, our public expenditure. The Greek state lives within its means.
A red line is crossed when you start thieving from refugees in order to survive or feed your addiction. ‘We can only survive as human beings through our solidarity.’ There is nothing else.
The inside story of ERT - the Greek public broadcaster shut down by the former government, which kept broadcasting in a show of defiance, and was finally re-launched by Syriza last week.
The negotiations between the Troika and Greece are a sham. Greek submission to the neoliberal EU project or forced exit was the Troika game plan from the moment Syriza formed a government.
Syriza's approach to both European and domestic issues has shown the party more interested in power and self-preservation than in reform.
The populist discourse of Podemos and Syriza is the attempt to cope with a post-industrial and crisis-ridden economy in which traditional class identifications fail to mobilise the electorate.
Greece needs a radical overhaul of its corrupt University system. The creation of autonomous University Councils, such as those in the UK where I teach, would be a good step towards this.
Syriza cannot and will not default on its people by stopping paying wages and pensions. If matters come to a head, it will default on its creditors because democratic principles are not negotiable.
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In Greece for the first time the EU authorities demand a government complete a programme that it has neither designed nor has a democratic mandate to implement.
Alain Supiot et Emilios Christodoulidis discutent des questions de la solidarité et de la protection du travail en Grèce. English.
Alain Supiot and Emilios Christodoulidis discuss the questions of solidarity and the protection of work in Greece. Français.
