In July 2015, after Greek voters overwhelmingly rejected austerity in an historic referendum, the ‘radically left’ Syriza party, led by Alexis Tsipras, agreed to impose upon the Greek [...]
When Syriza first took power in Greece in January 2015, it vowed to ‘crush’ the Greek oligarchy. Yet under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, the oligarchy has arguably strengthened its [...]
On September 17, 2013, Greek anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas went out with his partner and friends to watch a football match. Later that night, two members of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden [...]
Since first coming to power in January 2015, the ‘radically left’ government of Syriza’s Alexis Tsipras has deepened Greece’s ties to the apartheid regime of Benjamin [...]
This is my first report for The Real News on my current trip to Greece. At the gates of the Athens Polytechnic, site of the November 1973 uprising against a U.S.-backed military junta, we ask [...]
This is the third and final part of Dimitri’s interview of Costas Lapavitsas, a Professor of Economics and former member of Greece’s Parliament who defected from the governing Syriza [...]
In Part 2 of Dimitri’s interview with Costas Lapavitsas, Costas explains why so many Greeks continue to cling to the Euro, and why Greece must exit the Eurozone in order to rehabilitate its [...]
In July 2015, Greece’s newly elected Syriza government, which had come to power six months earlier with an anti-austerity platform, held a referendum in which a large majority of Greeks [...]