memorandum
Memorandum–steamroller for the Greek people
By Leonidas Vatikiotis
The prerequisites passed by a tiny majority 153 MPs (in an overall number of 300) of the Greek government on May 18th, equivalents to a new super-memorandum, as the new measures which further...
Greece: Getting Out of the Recession
The Greek government has agreed to a new round of fiscal austerity measures consisting of a sharp increase in taxes on income and property and further reductions in pension and other welfare-related expenditures. Based on our model of the Greek economy, policies aimed at reducing the government deficit will cause a recession, unless other components of
Keep Destroying Greece
The loss of a quarter of economic output and the increase in the unemployment rate close to 28 percent at one point have been widely and repeatedly reported as Greece has struggled through a state of perma-crisis in recent years
Destroy Greece: ΙMF and Europe agree now on the method
ΙMF-EU-Greece: Small crimes among friends
Who is with whom and against whom in the final episode of Greek thriller
Yannis Kibouropoulos, journalist
Another episode of the six-year...
THE GREEK TRAGEDY AND THE ONE-WAY CATHARSIS
By Maria Negreponti-Delivanis*
Introduction
The situation of the Greek economy and society, six years after the enforcement of the Memoranda appears hopeless. It was clear...
The Greek Left Tradition and SYRIZA: From “Subversion” to the new...
In July 2015, the SYRIZA leadership signed the Third Memorandum with Creditors. By doing it, it violated the legally bounding verdict of the referendum...
Three years after the financial coup in Cyprus
Stavros Tombazos, Associate Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus
tombazos@ucy.ac.cy
Abstract
The Cyprus’s model of accumulation was not only structurally unbalanced but also very sensitive...
Greece and Its Creditors
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos and Peter Koenig
Introduced by Peter Koenig
“It is a triumph of the empire to have the victims elect their executioners.”
These are the words of Dimitris Konstantakopoulos this...
The NO Front
How to build a Front of Resistance (some remarks on moral and national aspects of politics, on left and right, on left and nationalism,...