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jean lievens
February 1, 2015 5:42 AM
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Inspired by what has happened in Greece, eager to repeat in Spain, they came in their tens of thousands from all over Spain, to demonstrate their solidarity with their Greek brothers and sisters, to demand an end to austerity, and to show their willingness to overthrow the corrupt political elites.
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jean lievens
January 31, 2015 4:34 AM
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Running on an uncompromising anti-austerity platform, Greece’s Syriza party, the Coalition of the Radical Left, won a decisive victory over the conservative New Democracy party in the economically battered nation’s Jan. 25 election. Syriza fell only two seats short of winning an absolute majority in Greece’s 300-seat Parliament, prompting party leader Alexis Tsipras to form an alliance with the small, center right Independent Greeks party to form a governing coalition.
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jean lievens
January 31, 2015 4:31 AM
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Markets have woken up to Greek nuclear risk. Bank stocks in Athens have crashed 44pc since Alexis Tsipras swept into power this week with a mandate to defy the European power structure.
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jean lievens
January 29, 2015 1:39 PM
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Here's the translation of the official SYRIZA new Greek government programme as it was announced by Alexis Tsipras at the Thessaloniki International Fair.
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jean lievens
January 28, 2015 4:35 PM
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About three years ago, popular game development and digital distribution company Valve hired lesser-known economist Yanis Varoufakis to analyse and improve the Steam Market.
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jean lievens
January 28, 2015 11:55 AM
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The Greek people must be thanked for putting the need for changing the course of economic policies firmly on the European agenda. The stakes are high. A failure in Greece will be seen as vindication of austerity as the only option. It will have negative repercussions for any progressive alternative throughout Europe. Those convinced that Europe needs to change cannot sit on the fence, but need to engage in support of the new winds of reform.”
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jean lievens
January 27, 2015 3:45 PM
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Sunday evening BBC reporting hard left. Once the count was in, this had softened to radical left. Left-Right is meaningless. The mainstream media do not get it. That we are dealing with something d...
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jean lievens
January 27, 2015 3:40 PM
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It’s difficult to overestimate the importance of the Greek election last Sunday. It is the first time in decades that a government has come to power in Europe which is both hostile to neoliberal economics and grounded in social movements. The people who have suffered most from the financial crisis have created a spark of hope for all of us.
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jean lievens
January 26, 2015 5:50 PM
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Radical parties rise when mainstream parties tolerate stagnation, says an editorial in The Wall Street Journal.
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jean lievens
January 26, 2015 5:45 PM
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After years of failed austerity policies, Greeks saw no improvement. Enter Syriza
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jean lievens
January 26, 2015 5:22 PM
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Alexis Tsipras, leader of the left-wing Syriza coalition, is about to become prime minister of Greece. He will be the first European leader elected on an explicit promise to challenge the austerity policies that have prevailed since 2010. And there will, of course, be many people warning him to abandon that promise, to behave “responsibly.”
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jean lievens
January 24, 2015 2:43 PM
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Citizen-run health clinics, food centres, kitchens and legal aid hubs have sprung up to fill the gaps left by austerity – and now look set to play a bigger role under a Syriza government
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jean lievens
January 22, 2015 3:52 PM
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As anti-austerity Syriza rises in the polls, threatening a crisis, experts are starting to believe default might be best for everyone, writes Heather Stewart
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jean lievens
February 1, 2015 5:34 AM
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I first met Yanis Varoufakis when he was a senior lecturer (the 3rd step in the 5-tiered Australian system, equivalent to a Professor in the USA) at Sydney University in the late 1980s, and I was a tutor (the 1st step) at the University of New South Wales. We’ve been friends ever since, and now he has become globally prominent as the Finance Minister of the most troubled and high profile economy on the planet, Greece.
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jean lievens
January 31, 2015 4:34 AM
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I have spent twice ten days in Greece, in close connection with the young cadre of Syriza and have been rather impressed by both their open-mindedness and their integrity. — Michel Bauwens
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jean lievens
January 29, 2015 3:14 PM
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We publish a long interview with Christos Giovanopoulos, an activist of Solidarity for All, a group which facilitate the development of grassroots solidarity structures and of the solidarity movement as a whole in Greece. The interview was realized during the last international meeting of the Blockupy coalition, whose aim now is to organize the European demonstration of March 18, when the new building of the European Central Bank will be officially opened in Frankfurt. This occasion was not a coincidence.
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jean lievens
January 28, 2015 4:37 PM
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"The first affect that comes into mind is relief. People who did not live in Greece, or even visit it occasionally, the past years, cannot imagine how unbearable the Samaras administration had become, from a political, but also an ethical and even an esthetic point of view. It is hard to explain the feeling of suffocation produced by this domination based on fear, hatred, self-underestimation, and almost all other negative passions, compensated on the imaginary level by an overdose of nationalistic self-glorification and vanity."
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jean lievens
January 28, 2015 4:33 PM
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Yanis Varoufakis is widely expected to become Greece’s new finance minister after Syriza, an upstart left-wing party made up of marxists, greens, communists, and everything in between, won elections there. As you might expect, he’s no ordinary financier—his preparations for leading Greece out of austerity included a year as the chief economist for a bustling virtual economy.
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jean lievens
January 28, 2015 11:54 AM
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What do the Greeks know about democracy anyway?
— Russell Brand
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jean lievens
January 27, 2015 3:41 PM
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yriza’s expected victory in tomorrow’s Greek elections is part of a crescendo of anti-austerity movements across Europe. Throughout the upsurge, many formations have connected with one another, secure in the knowledge that they’re fighting the same enemy.
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jean lievens
January 27, 2015 3:29 PM
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The Greek people must be thanked for putting the need for changing the course of economic policies firmly on the European agenda. The stakes are high. A failure in Greece will be seen as vindication of austerity as the only option. It will have negative repercussions for any progressive alternative throughout Europe. Those convinced that Europe needs to change cannot sit on the fence, but need to engage in support of the new winds of reform.
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jean lievens
January 26, 2015 5:49 PM
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The Greeks have voted for SYRIZA in order to be able to breathe, but deeper aspirations for freedom, social justice and radical democracy are very high.Welcome to Greece.This is the first time since the Spanish revolution of 1936 that a left party...
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jean lievens
January 26, 2015 5:44 PM
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Follow live updates on elections in Greece as the the anti austerity party Syriza is on course to form the next Greek government
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jean lievens
January 26, 2015 4:44 AM
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The rise of Syriza can’t just be explained by the crisis in the eurozone: a youthful generation of professionals has had enough of tax-evading oligarchs, says Paul Mason
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jean lievens
January 23, 2015 3:42 PM
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With the chance of the oncoming Greek elections EEL/LAK, an Athens-based NGO focused on the promotion of FLOSS and the Commons, has recently asked the political parties about their agenda in relation to Open Governance and the Commons. In total, four political parties replied -according to the polls three of them will succeed in electing MPs- proving that there has been a growing interest over the Commons discourse in Greece.
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