Greece
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Greece’s Former President of Parliament On Why Syriza Party Broke Its Pledge to the People
16 December 2015 - by Steve Rushton
“They are trying to bury us. But they forget when you bury a seed it is only going to flourish,” says the former President of the Hellenic Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou, who was a central figure in the Syriza party’s fight against austerity that (...) -
UN human rights expert calls for debt relief to boost inclusive growth in Greece
9 December 2015 - by Office of the United Nations Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and human rights
“After five years of adjustment policies, indicators tracking economic, social and cultural rights in Greece have not improved”, said the United Nations Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, concluding a (...) -
When Germany, which refuses to compensate the Greek victims of the Wehrmacht, is paying pensions to the Spanish fascists who fought alongside the same Wehrmacht!!!
7 December 2015 - by Yorgos Mitralias
It was the second week of October -
Letter to the President of the Hellenic Parliament
5 December 2015 - by Sofia Sakorafa
What follows is the English version of a letter Sofia Sakorafa (MEP) sent to the new president of the Greek Parliament, Nikos Voutsis, who has put an end to the works of the Truth Committee on the Greek public debt. As early as 2011, Sofia (...) -
Bernie Sanders, Mr. Voutsis and the Truth Commission on Greek Public Debt
24 November 2015 - by Yorgos Mitralias
At the very moment when the new President of the Greek Parliament, Mr. Voutsis, has decided to order the dissolution of the Truth Commission on Greek Public Debt, without even bothering to explain the reason for his act, on the other side of (...) -
Recipes of curbing the crisis
23 November 2015 - by Vitalyï Doudine, Denis Pilach
On the day of October Revolution, November 7, left-wing academics and activists in Kyiv proved their ability to carry out socially critical activities of international level. The renowned Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) has hosted researchers (...) -
Eric Toussaint: What can we learn from what has happened in Greece?
13 November 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Mimi Podkrižnik
Interview with Professor Eric Toussaint, invited to Ljubljana by Slovenian Trade Unions to take part in a panel entitled Public debt: who owes whom? By Mimi Podkrižnik, for the Slovenian daily Delo. Do you still believe in the “European (...) -
A call for support of the struggle of VIOME
11 November 2015 - by Vio.Me.
As you know, for four years now we have been fighting for our life and dignity. We, the workers, have chosen to create social alliances. We have rejected the proposals made by various political organizations to have an “exclusive” relationship (...) -
In Greece, the presidents, the austerity measures, and the resistance of women
9 November 2015 - by Brigitte Marti
While President Francois Hollande was visiting the Greek political elite in Athens and asking the Greek people, whom he would not meet, to make more efforts, the women of the Women’s Solidarity House. None of this is Mr. Hollande’s concern. He (...) -
When Tsipras is eliminating any trace of his opponents!
25 October 2015 - by Yorgos Mitralias
So now here we are: the new Tsipras government has just resolved two of its major problems: that of the public debt and the one represented by the ex-president of the Greek Parliament Zoe Konstantopoulou. How has it managed to bring off this (...) -
Éric Toussaint comments on election results, the various debt audit initiatives in Europe and the Third Memorandum that was signed by Alexis Tsipras.
Greece : “Ignoring the result of the referendum is an aggravating circumstance.”
21 October 2015 - by Eric Toussaint, Fátima Martín
The conclusion of the last meeting of the Greek Debt Truth Committee, held from 22 to 25 September, is quite clear: the 3rd Memorandum signed by Alexis Tsipras is as illegitimate, illegal, odious and as unsustainable as the previous two. In an (...) -
Greek Community Clinic of Elliniko rejects the European Citizen’s prize awarded by the European Parliament
20 October 2015 - by Fátima Martín
The self-managed Metropolitan Community clinic of Elliniko rejected the European Citizen’s Prize 2015 awarded by the European Parliament. The same Parliament whose president, the German Social Democrat Martin Schulz, threatened the Greeks with (...) -
What if the Greek government had heeded the Truth Committee’s recommendations?
10 October 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
During a press conference held by the Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt at the Greek Parliament on 25 September 2015, Éric Toussaint, the Committee’s scientific coordinator, provided a detailed answer to a question from a journalist who (...) -
Britain Needs a Truth Committee on Debt
7 October 2015 - by Caroline Lucas
While the debt of states is widely used as an instrument of submission to neoliberal policies, Caroline Lucas points out, reflected by the recent experience of Greece, the need to set up a truth commission on debt . Over the last few days I’ve (...) -
Illegitimacy, Illegality, Odiousness and Unsustainability of the August 2015 MoU and Loan Agreements
4 October 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
In August 2015, the Tsipras (SYRIZA/ANEL) government agreed to a new MoU and a Financial Assistance Facility Agreement [loan agreement]. The terms of the August 2015 MoU [Third MoU) and loan agreement entered into by the Tsipras government (...) -
The Third Memorandum is Unsustainable just like the previous two
1 October 2015 - by Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt
We observe again the same assumption which underlay the two previous MoU and which has been proven wrong: a strong fiscal restraint is compatible with a recovery in growth. 1. The political economy of the third MoU The main scenario of the (...) -
Some Reflections on the UN Guiding Principles on Foreign Debt and Human Rights and the UN Basic Principles on Sovereign Debt Restructuring Processes
24 September 2015 - by Cephas Lumina
Speech pronounced in the Hellenic Parliament on 23rd September 2015 during a public session of the Debt Truth Committee Madam President, I have decided to depart slightly from my script because I was struck by what you said a short while ago (...) -
Debt and austerity measures imposed on Greece violate the human rights of the Greek people and international law
20 September 2015 - by CETIM
Written statement submitted by Centre Europe - Tiers Monde at the 30th session of the Council for Human Rights, A / HRC / 30 / NGO / 18, September 2, 2015. This statement was prepared in collaboration with the Committee for the Abolition of (...) -
GREECE: Sexist rampage against resistance to memoranda
18 September 2015 - by Sonia Mitralias
In the paroxysmal crisis that Greece is going through, we are witnessing an unleashing of an extremely violent sexist campaign against women. What is more, this is happening on the main political scene in full public view. We believe that this (...) -
Greece: A capitulation bearer of deadly threats
15 September 2015 - by Yorgos Mitralias
What is most frightening in the current Greek situation is that the entire leadership of the Greek left seem to have grasped neither the scope nor the depth of the disaster already brought about by the Tsipras government’s capitulation before the (...) -
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Greece: Why Capitulate?
10 September 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
Chapter titles: The Citizen Audit Commission of 2011 The position of SYRIZA’s leadership regarding the citizen audit committee of 2011 SYRIZA’s program in the legislative elections of May-June 2012 Late 2012: SYRIZA’s leadership moderates its (...) -
Greek debt crises: The European Stability Mechanism money started flowing – to creditors, not to Greece
8 September 2015 - by Bodo Ellmers
The Greek bailout saga entered a new round as the first tranches of the new loan package were disbursed. The €86 billion programme will be funded by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The International Monetary Fund (IMF) refused to (...) -
Zoe Konstantopoulou’s speech at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
3 September 2015 - by Zoe Konstantopoulou
Zoe Konstantopoulou’s speech was given during the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament on 2nd September in New York -
Greece is for sale – and everything must go
31 August 2015 - by Nick Dearden
I’ve just had sight of thelatest privatisation plan for Greece. It’s been issued by something called the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund – the vehicle supervised by the European institutions, which has been tasked with selling off an (...) -
Varoufakis : « Our state apparatus had been contaminated by the Troika »
31 August 2015 - by Yanis Varoufakis, Christos Tsiolkas
The interview between writer Christos Tsiolkas and Yanis Varoufakis was published in The Monthly journal. The former Greek minister discusses the position of the European Financial Stability Facility EFSF), which should more correctly be called (...)
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