The Marxist economist Michael Roberts has an interesting and important piece on the economic plans of the present leadership in Greece and also the criticisms of the main left opposition there. The […]
Greece and the revolutionary movement in the US
On Sunday, January 24, national elections were held in Greece. Many young revolutionaries in the United States, caught up in the struggle here, may not have followed those events so closely. They […]
Greece: Revolutionary traditions
We reprint here some comments of Roger Silverman on the political traditions of Greece) Reformism never acquired the stable mass base in Greece that it had achieved historically in the rest of […]
Murder in Greece
Two members of the Greek fascist group “Golden Dawn” have been shot dead on the street. There should be no mistake about who Golden Dawn is. We do not use the term […]
Update from Greece
Update 14.06.13 Demos continued all day outside ERT in Athens. 75 cadres of PASOK led by Skandalidis want Venizelos (party Leader) to drop out of the governing coalition. There are severe frictions in […]
Report From Greece
Note: It was just a few months ago that the crisis in Greece was at the top of the news. The fact that the struggle in Turkey has overtaken it is a […]
The left and climate catastrophe: a mere “alibi” for the rulers?
by Yorgos Mitralias As Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis invokes – for the umpteenth time – the climate crisis as an alibi to mask his responsibility for the successive natural disasters that have […]
“Go along to get along” – a cautionary tale
I was (unofficially) expelled from a small socialist group I helped found over 15 years ago and was very active in for many years. How that happened is a cautionary tale. The […]
Yesterday as today, the policy of appeasement has only led to disaster!
by Yorgos Mitralias Introduction by Oaklandsocialist: On November 19, a variety of US “peace groups”, plus speakers like former British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and former Green Party candidate for president […]
Italian post-fascists in power
The old demons of the interwar period are back in Europe! By Yorgos Mitralias “Days of 1922? Not yet, but Italy is on track to “celebrate” in four years the centenary of […]