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Abstract
With its 2015 electoral victory in Greece, Syriza became the first left
political party to lead a European government since the founding of the
European Union. As such, its eventual capitulation to the demands of the Troika
was a bitter development, and not only for the people of Greece. Because the
need for change remains as great as ever, and efforts at electoral-based
transformations continue, especially in Europe, this paper seeks to assess the
Greek experience, and in particular Syriza’s political options and choices, in
order to help activists more effectively respond to the challenges faced when
confronting capitalist power.
Section 1 examines how Greece’s membership in the euro area promoted an
increasingly fragile and unsustainable economic expansion over the period 2001
to 2007. Section 2 discusses the role of the Troika in Greece’s 2008 to 2014
downward spiral into depression. Section 3 discusses the ways in which popular
Greek resistance to their country’s crisis helped to shape and nourish Syriza
as a new type of left political organization, “a mass connective party.”
Section 4 critically analyzes the Syriza-led government’s political choices,
highlighting alternative policies not chosen that might have helped the
government break the Troika’s strangle hold over the Greek economy and further
radicalize the Greek population. Section 5 concludes with a presentation of
five lessons from the Greek experience of relevance for future struggles.
The article can be access for free at
http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol4/iss1/1/.
--Kevin
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