Greece
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Series: Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens (Part 13)
A critical review of the critical reviews of the book ’Adults in the Room’ by Yanis Varoufakis (Part 13)
25 July 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
We continue our series on Greece ten years after the first Syriza government took office in 2015. Below is an article by Éric Toussaint on different interpretations of the left-wing government’s failure, based on the account presented by Yanis (…) -
Series: Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
Greece: Political and social timeline from 2015 to 2025 (Part 12)
4 July 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
2015: From Hope in Syriza to Surrender • 25 January 2015: Electoral victory of the radical left coalition (Syriza). For more information: CADTM press release See also: Greece needs a real cancellation of a big part of its debt and (…) -
Series: Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
Greece 2015: There was a viable alternative [Part 11]
24 June 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
In the first half of 2015, a wave of hope swept across Europe and resonated strongly in other parts of the world: for the first time in the 21st century, a radical left-wing party had been elected to government on a radical platform. The leader (…) -
Greece: April to June 2015, towards the final capitulation
20 June 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
It is very important to take the time to analyze the policies put in place by Yanis Varoufakis and the Syriza government because, for the first time in the 21st century, a radical left-wing party was elected in Europe to form a government. Less (…) -
Series: Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
Secret negotiations and dashed hopes [Part 9]
29 April 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
At the end of January 2025, the main leader of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, became Prime Minister and appointed Yanis Varoufakis, a left-wing economist close to his party, as Finance Minister. It is very important to take the time to analyse the (…) -
Series: Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
The first capitulation of Tsipras and Varoufakis (Part 8)
19 April 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
At the end of January 2025, the main leader of Syriza, Alexis Tsipras, became Prime Minister and appointed Yanis Varoufakis, a left-wing economist close to his party, as Finance Minister. It is very important to take the time to analyse the (…) -
Series: Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
Towards the first capitulation and the disastrous 20 February 2015 agreement with the Eurogroup [Part 7]
14 April 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
In the days and weeks following the ECB’s attack on Greece on 4 February 2015, intense negotiations took place, culminating in the disastrous agreement of 20 February, confirmed on 24 February. The agreement extended the second Memorandum, which (…) -
Series : Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
A Negotiation Strategy Doomed to Fail [Part 6]
28 March 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
In this chapter we shall discuss the initial days of the Tsipras government, during which Yanis Varoufakis pursued his negotiation tactics with the European creditors. We shall see that this strategy was ill-fated because Varoufakis had decided (…) -
Series Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
Greece 2015: Varoufakis’s Advisers [Part 5]
18 March 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
It is instructive to look at the advisers Varoufakis surrounded himself with in 2015 as a member of Prime Minister Tsipras’ government. It’s no understatement to say that from the time he selected his principal advisers, Varoufakis called on (…) -
Series : Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
How Tsipras and Varoufakis’s turned their backs on Syriza’s platform [Part 4]
14 March 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
Yanis Varoufakis traces his collaboration with Alexis Tsipras and his alter ego, Nikos Pappas, back to 2011. That collaboration gradually broadened, starting with 2013, to include Yannis Dragasakis. There is a constant in the relations between (…) -
Series : Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
A questionable account by Varoufakis of the origins of the Greek crisis [Part 3]
10 March 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
In the previous article entitled ‘Greece 2015: Varoufakis’ proposals were doomed to fail’, I critically analysed the proposals made by Varoufakis before joining Tsipras’ government in January 2015, showing that they led to failure. This article (…) -
Series Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
Greece 2015: Varoufakis’ proposals were doomed to fail [Part 2]
24 February 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
In his book Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis gives his version of the events that led to the shameful capitulation of the government of Alexis Tsipras in July 2015. Essentially it analyses the period 2009–2015, though it makes incursions into (…) -
A great text by Nadia Valavani* on the first Tsipras government
12 February 2025 - by Yorgos Mitralias
There’s no doubt that Nadia Valavani’s text, which we publish below, is both an unexpected and extremely welcome surprise. There are many reasons for this. Firstly, it stands out because it does exactly what none of the protagonists in the (…) -
Series Understanding what happened in Greece in 2015 when hope came from Athens
Greece 2015 | From hope to capitulation | Lessons for the future [Part 1]
25 January 2025 - by Eric Toussaint
25 January 2015, at a time when Greece had been suffering since 2010 under the burden of a severe austerity regime forced on the country by its creditors and by the social-democrat (Pasok) and conservative (New Democracy) parties who have taken (…) -
CADTM and the experience of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt
9 January 2025 - by Christoph Sorg
2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the capitulation of a government that had promised to put an end to the ordeal of the Greek people by obtaining, among other things, the cancellation of most of the Greek debt. Throughout the year, the CADTM (…) -
A left that does not take the lead in the fight against climate catastrophe has no reason to exist!
11 September 2024 - by Yorgos Mitralias
What follows is not addressed to the right and its supporters (economic, social and other) who - unfortunately - are doing their job very well. What follows is addressed above all to the left, which - unfortunately - is not doing its job at all (…) -
From South Africa to Israel, the Greek state has always had a soft spot for apartheid
When Mr. Mitsotakis criminalizes, threatens and represses students who defend international legality!
21 May 2024 - by Yorgos Mitralias
“If some people think they can repeat what they’ve seen in other countries and occupy universities, pitch tents and make a mess, they’re deeply mistaken”. This - so eminently delicate - statement by the Greek Prime Minister, which followed the (…) -
Series: 1944-2024, 80 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF, that’s enough !
Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries
14 February 2024 - by Eric Toussaint
In July 2024, the World Bank and the IMF will be 80 years old. 80 years of financial neo-colonialism and the imposition of austerity policies in the name of debt repayment. 80 years is enough! The Bretton Woods institutions must be abolished and (…) -
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 (…)
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