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Greece: another chapter

22 May 2023 - by Michael Roberts

The Greek election results validate Michael Roberts’ analysis and projections. Unfortunately, the right has triumphed because Syriza is not a real alternative [ed.]. Greece has a general election today. The conservative New Democracy party (...)
Greece: The infamy of a predicted terrible rail disaster

6 March 2023 - by Yorgos Mitralias

The following could be a dark humor joke, but it is a very real story and, above all, emblematic of this neoliberal and dilapidated Greece of the first half of the 21st century. Only a few hours before the terrible rail disaster of 28 (...)
The new, young and radical feminist movement, at the forefront of popular resistance in Greece!

15 December 2021 - by Sonia Mitralias

What has happened in Greece over the last two years is worthy of attention: never before in the history of the country has the issue of women’s rights had so much attention in the press, been the subject of such passionate public debate and (...)
The “Hot Spring” Showed That Greeks Were Willing to Fight

9 September 2021 - by Stathis Kouvelakis

Ten years ago, Greece was gripped by square occupations expressing mass opposition to EU austerity policies. The movement’s strength was its ability to rally Greeks from outside the organized left — yet it was ultimately defeated by its lack of a (...)
How Austerity Helped to Ignite Greece’s Historic Wildfires

22 August 2021 - by Stelios Foteinopoulos

If Ferdinand Lassalle lived today, he would be able to watch his ideas age badly. In 1862, Lassalle, speaking to a socialist gathering in Berlin, outlined his theory of the night-watchman state – a neoliberal concept whereby the state transfers (...)
Whose Home Is This? At Least 55,625 Properties Under the Hammer in Real Estate Auctions — and Counting

9 August 2021 - by Sotiris Sideris

A data-driven research into housing financialization in Greece and the restructuring of the country by the markets, accompanied by an open dataset. The home of a six-member family in Marathonas was to be auctioned off online on September 18 (...)
Greece: Information Note of the “Committee on Family Law and Consensus Joint Custody”

27 May 2021 - by Committee on Family Law and Consensus Joint Custody

Since November 2020, 24 women’s organizations and collectives have set up the “Committee on Family Law and Consensus Joint Custody”, expressing our strong concern about the Greek government’s initiative to introduce a bill entitled “Reforms (...)
Greece: Broad response to the neoliberal authoritarianism of the right-wing government

6 April 2021 - by Panos Petrou

In Greece, the year 2021 began with an offensive by the government led by prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. A new law aims to accelerate neoliberal reform in higher education and establish a permanent police presence on the campuses. The right (...)
Greece: A Lost Democracy

22 March 2021 - by Eva Betavatzi

The authoritarianism of the Greek government is increasing every day, and so is protest against it. For several weeks now, angry voices have been heard in the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and several other cities in Greece, decrying the (...)
CADTM rejoices the united anti-fascist mobilization in Athens on 7 October 2020 and the judgement against the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party

7 October 2020 - by CADTM International

The CADTM congratulates demonstrators for the success of the united antifascist mobilisation in Athens this Wednesday 7 October, as well the Athens penal court for its decision to label the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party as a ‘criminal (...)
Golden Dawn Τrial: They are not innocent!

29 September 2020 - by Collective

The public prosecutor in the trial of Golden Dawn, Adamantia Oikonomou, has provocatively asked for all members of the neo-Nazi party to be acquitted of any involvement in the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by a self-professed party member. She argues (...)
Solidarity to Refugees of Moria

11 September 2020 - by Collective

From the beginning of the pandemic, Moria, a camp with a capacity of about 2,700 people, stored almost 20,000 souls. In conditions of traffic ban, without protection measures and with complete indifference to basic health protection. (...)
Lessons in what not to do

30 July 2020 - by Costas Lapavitsas

In 2017, Yanis Varoufakis published “Adults in the room”, a thick volume that became a huge global success and was even turned into a film by Costas Gavras two years later. The author was one of the protagonists of the Greek events of that decade (...)
Olivier Bonfond : Eric Toussaint’s latest publication, Capitulation entre adultes, Grèce 2015: une alternative était possible is a “must read” for everybody

30 June 2020 - by Olivier Bonfond

Eric Toussaint has accomplished a remarkable piece of work with this book. It is short, well written, easy to read, enlightening and convincing. Some elements of the book must be known by all. The book’s starting point; Yanis Varoufakis’ Adults (...)
Capitulating to adults

31 May 2020 - by Michael Roberts

During the pandemic lockdown, I have been able to read a range of new economics books, some Marxist but most not. It seems that many leading economists have published new stuff in the last two months. Over the next few weeks, I shall post some (...)
A book that reads almost like a thriller

11 May 2020 - by Philippe Poutou

Originally published in French and in Greek in March 2020 under the title Capitulation entre Adultes https://www.cadtm.org/Capitulation-entre-adultes-Grece-2015-une-alternative-etait-possible, the book will be available in English before the end (...)
The Greek tragedy: Act Three

27 April 2020 - by Michael Roberts

On Thursday night, EU leaders again failed to agree on how to provide proper fiscal support for hard-hit member states to cope with the health costs of the coronavirus pandemic and collapse of their economies from the lockdowns. The EU leaders (...)
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 8)

Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries

27 March 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

In 2020, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF are 76 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that run counter the (...)
Crisis on the Greece-Turkish Border : let’s have done with Fortress Europe

7 March 2020 - by CADTM

Press release of the CADTM International network Once again, European policies have proved to be murderous. For several days now tensions have increased at various cross-border points between Greece and Turkey. Attempts by migrants to cross (...)
Greece: Chronology from 25 January 2015 to 2019

25 January 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

Five years ago, on 25 January 2015, the Greek people sent a great signal of hope to the rest of the world. The purpose of this timeline is to review the main events of 2015. The chronology ends with the results of the May-June-July 2019 (...)
Repression, eviction and dispossession in New Democracy’s Greece

9 January 2020 - by Theodoros Karyotis

The latest attack on the squatting movement in Greece is the preamble for a massive operation of housing dispossession by the right-wing government. Dimitris Indares was still in his pyjamas when the police knocked on his door in the (...)
The Varoufakis-Tsipras line was doomed to fail from the word ’Go’

2 January 2020 - by Eric Toussaint

Abstract This article on Varoufakis’s book, Adults in The Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment (2017) and about what happened in Greece in 2015 is a guide for left-leaning readers who are not happy with the dominant narrative meted (...)
Regarding the “Hercules” plan, housing dispossession and squat evictions in Greece

20 December 2019 - by Theodoros Karyotis

The “Hercules” plan to sell €30 billion worth of non-performing (“red”) loans to funds, with the state acting as the guarantor, was approved a few days ago by the Greek parliament. Of course the loans will be sold at a fraction of the nominal price, (...)
A critical review of Costa-Gavras’ Adults in the Room

26 November 2019 - by Eric Toussaint

In his latest work film director Costa-Gavras seeks to denounce the brutality with which European politicians treated the 2015 Greek crisis. Very commendable, but it is also regrettable that so much more is ignored. Costa-Gavras is one of the (...)
Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay

24 October 2019 - by Jerome Roos, George Souvlis

Debt-stricken countries like Greece have continued repaying their creditors even though it’s hammering workers’ living standards. They should stick it to the banks and default instead. The European debt crisis that began a decade ago has offered (...)