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Dispatch from Athens #8: Shahzad Luqman zindabad! A joyful gathering in Athens. Warm and funny. Also insightful and serious about the political developments we had met to discuss and organise around. A few hours raced by. Then the awful, heartbreaking news. It was two years ago today that two supporters of the fascist, criminal conspiracy […]
17 Jan
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The strategic question is posed, whether the Left asks it or not On the eve of the last campaigning weekend before the historic Greek general election you would be forgiven for thinking that the public mood must be febrile to the point of convulsion. A friend from Beirut PMed me to ask, “It must be […]
13 Jan
Comments Off on Dispatch from Athens #5: Bread, education, freedom…and roses
Bread, education, freedom…and roses too The impotence of the old political order in Athens found perfect expression this week in an eccentric intervention by the centre-left mayor of Athens, Giorgos Kaminis. The decline of other social democratic figures more firmly associated with the parties of disrepute has made him a fairly prominent figure. So was […]
12 Jan
The ruins of the centre Left With Syriza still firmly ahead in the opinion polls (there are a lot of them) some attention is falling on the parties of the centre and centre Left (there are a lot of them, too). It’s not because they are important in themselves. They are significant only insofar as Syriza falls […]
11 Jan
Comments Off on Dispatch from Athens #3: Fear meets a movement of hope
When fear meets a movement of hope The Sunday papers still matter in Greece. More so, in fact, than before the crisis. A vicious circle of declining readerships, falling advertising revenue and disinvestment in journalism has left the daily papers as poorly produced and read as they are paginated. The once world-class Eleftherotypia has bitten […]
10 Jan
The Right: cornered, but fighting for its life There are a lot of significant elections in Europe this year — including Britain’s general election in May. Tomorrow’s “Republican march” of national unity in Paris has morphed into a display of “European solidarity” — or, spelling it out more accurately, of solidarity between European political leaders facing angry […]
09 Jan
Athens 2015 – the party is not over Greece has been the European country hardest hit by the global crisis unleashed following the financial crash of 2008. It is also the Eurozone state upon which the most devastating austerity measures have been imposed by the troika of the European Union, the European Central Bank and […]
09 Jan
Comments Off on Left Flank exclusive: Daily reports on Greece’s election
In a imaginative venture of practical solidarity Philosophy Football are funding Left Flank’s KEVIN OVENDEN to go to Greece and report on Syriza’s campaign exclusively for us in Australia — alongside other radical media outlets in the USA and Great Britain. Here Kevin explains the significance of the 25.01.2014 General Election. For the first time in more […]
08 Jun
KEVIN OVENDEN looks at the implications of the European Parliament elections. *** Q. The recent elections across Europe for the European Parliament have been described as a “political earthquake”. What happened and what does it mean for the Left? The results indicated a very significant fall in support for the traditional parties of government across […]
17 Mar
LUKE STOBART with the first instalment of a special three-part analysis of the radicalisation that has swept Spain since the 15-M protests of 2011. *** Anti-politics and the 15-M movement On 15 May 2011 the new collectives Juventud Sin Futuro (Youth Without Future) and ¡Democracia Real Ya! (Real Democracy Now!), demonstrated in Madrid using […]
17 Jan
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