Just two days after Greek voters rejected their creditors’ ultimatum, Tsipras is given another one. It’s time to follow the people’s lead and say NO
Jérôme Roos
As Greece prepares to celebrate democracy in the very place where it was born, there are strong signs that the fear is already changing sides
A victory for OXI would not just help restore a sense of dignity to Greece; it would strengthen the ground for anti-austerity struggles across Europe
Those who accuse the Greeks of “recklessness” are mistaken: the creditors’ utter contempt for democracy left them with no other choice but a rupture.
Only an intensification of the struggle from below and the reinvigoration of a project of the commons can save Greece — and turn it, once again, into a beacon of democracy
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“Barcelona has decided that for the next four years it will be governed not by a party, but by the legitimacy we built as a radical democratic movement”
History has shown that countries that refuse to pay their debts fall harder but recover faster than those that do not. So why does Greece’s left-led government not simply get it over with?
For five years now, financial markets, European policymakers and the international media have been obsessed with the risk of an impending Greek default
If we still believe in our own values, we must open our borders to those who yearn for life. Nothing less will do