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The victory of Syriza in Greece is a historic
turning point for Europe and the world, for better or
for worse. I fear it’s going to be the latter.
Syriza claims to be something more radical
than a social-democratic party. In a pre-election interview
in Jacobin, Stathis Kouvelakis, of Syriza’s
Central Committee and its Left Platform, calls Syriza
“an anti-capitalist coalition” that has “little to do
with any agenda of any European social-democratic
party today. It is an agenda of really breaking with
neoliberalism and austerity.” Syriza’s commitment
to a “dialectic” of electoral tactics with “struggle and
mobilizations from below” is an important sign of its
radicalism.
Syriza’s rise did correspond to …read more
Source: Canadian Dimension
