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Transatlantic Left Voices

Energy Democracy in Greece: SYRIZA’s Program and the Transition to Renewable Power

January 25, 2015 was a historic day: the people of Greece chose to break with austerity policies. They elected SYRIZA—the Coalition of the Radical Left—as the largest party in parliament, Alexis Tsipras will become prime minister. The importance of this victory for the left in Greece, Europe, and indeed the world should not be underestimated. […]

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The Rise of the Radical Left in Greece

One hundred leaders of the left from North America and Europe gathered August 1-4, 2014 in upstate New York for “Mapping Socialist Strategies” (organized by RLS-NYC). Ioannis Bournous and Giorgos Karatsioubanis (both from SYRIZA) discuss the organizing work of the coalition of the Greek Left.

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Racism Within the Greek State Apparatus

This study does not cover ultra-right political culture in Greece in a general way, nor even Golden Dawn per se, but poses a simpler question: How is to be explained that Golden Dawn is being treated by the State as another organization in the mold of the “17 November” group, despite the obvious fact that […]

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