Syriza – reality is forcing us to forget the old ways of working "..What's interesting is that within it we have all the possible branches of the historical left in Greece and internationally: we have Trotskyists and we have Stalinists - Maoists and Eurocommunists - and sections from the left of social democracy, and eco-socialists as well: it's really a big spectrum of the left.
Of course there is another important part of the left which is missing, which is the Communist Party (KKE), an older pro-Soviet Communist Party which still uses the same old rhetoric and still has the same attitude towards politics. There is also another missing component which is a section of the extraparliamentary left formed mainly of a split from the Communist Party: they are collaborating with us, and I know a number of them recognize that they have to come with us and work with us. The crisis is becoming deeper and deeper, Syriza is becoming bigger and bigger, and we have to become much more serious as we look at the reality and the need for unity perspective. A union of the left is a real possibility: and we need to make it happen. How do you see the tensions between the different currents within Syriza? Are they becoming sharper, or are people beginning to see the need to work together? Of course there are problems: in last three years we have come very close to a split. Part of the organization - and it's interesting that is actually a Trotskyist element within Syriza, along with the Communist Organization, which is Maoist - tried to form another front in opposition to the main party - without actually leaving Syriza. We call that opportunism. A couple of years ago the social democratic minority faction of Synaspismos (the biggest party of our coalition) abandoned both party and coalition and founded a new party called Democratic Left, which is now participating in the tripartite neoliberal government (both with the Conservative-New Democracy and Socialist-PASOK parties). In SYRIZA meanwhile there was a lot of friction and a lot of the older organizations wanted to keep their organizational integrity, but the reality is that because of the crisis in the last two years we are all getting more serious.." http://socialistresistance.org/3863/syriza-reality-is-forcing-us-to-forget-the-old-ways-of-working -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
