******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. *****************************************************************
On 2/2/15 5:05 PM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote:
There seems to be relatively little going on compared to the situation in Chile during the Popular Unity government, or Portugal in 1974 or France in 1968.
In fact there has been a decline in street actions in recent years, mostly I suspect because they failed to put a dent in austerity. Meanwhile, a party has been elected that by all accounts owns its success to the street actions of preceding years. Once it takes office, it blocks privatizations, reinstitutes the minimum wage and declares war on austerity. There is a dialectical interrelationship between Syriza and the street actions and I suspect that people will mobilize when the need arises. The vote, like the vote for Labour in Britain after WWII, was a class vote. And as was the vote for Chavez and other Latin American leftist governments. I think it is best to see Syriza from that perspective, as its leaders certainly do.
_________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
