https://znetwork.org/category/place/europe/greece/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:32:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/europe/greece/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-in-over-20-mediterranean-ports-coordinate-action-on-6-february-to-oppose-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-in-over-20-mediterranean-ports-coordinate-action-on-6-february-to-oppose-war/#respond Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:12:45 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294357 Workers in more than 20 Mediterranean ports are preparing for an international day of action on 6 February to oppose the growing militarization of transport infrastructure, as well as port management’s and governments’ complicity in the genocide in Gaza. “If we don’t take this step, all our other demands will be crushed under war,” Francesco [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-in-over-20-mediterranean-ports-coordinate-action-on-6-february-to-oppose-war/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/despite-strong-opposition-greeks-keep-protesting-israels-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/despite-strong-opposition-greeks-keep-protesting-israels-genocide/#respond Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:38:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287242 On July 22 of this year, about 300 protestors prevented the Crown Iris, the only Israeli-owned cruise ship, from landing about 1,600 passengers in Ermoupoli on the Greek island of Syros.  Along the harbor, many protesters waved Palestinians flags, as a large group held up a colossal Palestinian flag. The crowd chanted “Free, Free Palestine” [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/despite-strong-opposition-greeks-keep-protesting-israels-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bulgarias-missing-euro-debate/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bulgarias-missing-euro-debate/#respond Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:37:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281041 While the world’s eyes are set on the dismantling of the Euro-Atlantic alliance, Bulgaria seems set to finalize its accession to the eurozone amid an atmosphere of peak anti-politics. The government declares that “membership in the most developed monetary union in the world brings significant political and reputational benefits” and that “Bulgaria will take a major step [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/bulgarias-missing-euro-debate/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-trains-no-planes-and-huge-protests-strike-brings-greece-to-a-halt/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-trains-no-planes-and-huge-protests-strike-brings-greece-to-a-halt/#respond Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:14:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280486 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/no-trains-no-planes-and-huge-protests-strike-brings-greece-to-a-halt/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greek-dockworkers-block-ammunition-shipment-to-israel/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greek-dockworkers-block-ammunition-shipment-to-israel/#respond Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:00:49 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273941 Dockworkers in Greece have blocked the shipment of an ammunition-filled container destined for Israel, refusing to load the cargo onto a vessel at the Port of Piraeus. The container, reportedly transported to Greece via North Macedonia, was meant to be shipped to Israel’s Haifa Port. However, in response to calls from local labor unions, dockworkers [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greek-dockworkers-block-ammunition-shipment-to-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-left-that-doesnt-take-the-lead-in-the-fight-against-the-climate-crisis-has-no-reason-to-exist/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-left-that-doesnt-take-the-lead-in-the-fight-against-the-climate-crisis-has-no-reason-to-exist/#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:08:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272220 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 well… Here’s what we wrote this time last year, just [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-left-that-doesnt-take-the-lead-in-the-fight-against-the-climate-crisis-has-no-reason-to-exist/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greece-just-became-the-first-european-country-to-impose-a-6-day-workweek/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greece-just-became-the-first-european-country-to-impose-a-6-day-workweek/#respond Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268693 Just when one thought that the neoliberal dystopia created in Greece since the eruption of its debt crisis could not get any darker, the current right-wing government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has replaced the nation’s five-day workweek with a six-day workweek and flexible working hours. The controversial new law kicks into effect July 1, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greece-just-became-the-first-european-country-to-impose-a-6-day-workweek/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/letter-from-the-farm-strong-roots-for-a-surer-future/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/letter-from-the-farm-strong-roots-for-a-surer-future/#respond Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:25:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1267698 Investing in a small family farm is much more than an economic consideration: it can help to revitalise an entire village. Rural communities are rooted in multi-generational family farms. In the Greek village of Trikorfo (Τρίκορφο), father and son Vasilis and Lukas Mylonas are two generations of olive farmers who are honouring their roots while looking to the future for their [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/letter-from-the-farm-strong-roots-for-a-surer-future/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/endgame-for-syriza-the-unbearable-lightness-of-the-greek-left/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/endgame-for-syriza-the-unbearable-lightness-of-the-greek-left/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1254981 The Third Way is a political term that gained currency in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is associated with the New Labour administration of Tony Blair, who served as UK’s prime minister from 1997 to 2007, but also with those of Bill Clinton in the US (1993-2001) and Gerhard Schroder in Germany (1998-2005), [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/endgame-for-syriza-the-unbearable-lightness-of-the-greek-left/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alexis-tsipras-leaves-the-greek-left-at-a-historic-low/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alexis-tsipras-leaves-the-greek-left-at-a-historic-low/#respond Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1252454 Alexis Tsipras’s resignation as leader of Syriza on June 29 symbolizes the end of an era. This era had begun in spring 2010 with the imposition of unprecedentedly brutal neoliberal shock therapy and imposition of European Union (EU) tutelage on Greece. Yet this was also the moment of an impressive wave of popular mobilization and, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alexis-tsipras-leaves-the-greek-left-at-a-historic-low/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greece-from-burning-to-a-green-future/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greece-from-burning-to-a-green-future/#respond Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:46:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1250272 (Image: Fires in Rhodes, Greece, July 19, 2023. Red depicts the fires at the edge of a gigantic cloud of smoke. NASA Earth Observatory. Lauren Dauphin using Landsat data from the US Geological Survey.) The enemies of Greece, local developers, and foreign agents, use fire as a weapon. Greece after the destructive fires of 2007 [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greece-from-burning-to-a-green-future/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beyond-the-mediterranean-graveyard/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beyond-the-mediterranean-graveyard/#respond Sat, 08 Jul 2023 13:50:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1249033 The recent wreckage of a ship in the cost of Greece has cost over 700 human lives. For the policymakers, this has a positive connotation because it conveys a message to people wanting to immigrate to Europe: keep out! The cycle in which liberalism comes out of the closet in the form of fascism is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beyond-the-mediterranean-graveyard/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greek-left-leaders-betrayed-the-working-class-conservatives-won-a-landslide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greek-left-leaders-betrayed-the-working-class-conservatives-won-a-landslide/#respond Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:09:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1248751 Greece’s conservative party New Democracy won another landslide victory in the country’s second election in just five weeks, trouncing Syriza, the so-called radical leftist party, by an even wider margin than in the first election. New Democracy finished by almost 23 points ahead of Syriza, a result that allows the conservatives to control 158 seats [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greek-left-leaders-betrayed-the-working-class-conservatives-won-a-landslide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/national-elections-in-greece-conservatism-and-the-far-right-win/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/national-elections-in-greece-conservatism-and-the-far-right-win/#respond Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1248632 In the second and final national election contest in Greece, the conservative and far-right forces have triumphed. The left suffered a crushing defeat, while abstention exceeded 47%. Only the conservative left, expressed by the KKE, emerged stronger, while MeRA25 was left out of parliament. In detail: New Democracy won 40.75% of the vote, which corresponds [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/national-elections-in-greece-conservatism-and-the-far-right-win/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greece-just-elected-the-most-right-wing-parliament-since-the-return-to-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greece-just-elected-the-most-right-wing-parliament-since-the-return-to-democracy/#respond Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:08:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1248592 The result was no surprise — but showed how much Greek politics has swung to the right. The conservative New Democracy clinched a definitive victory in the country’s second set of parliamentary elections on Sunday, winning 40.5 percent of the vote and 158 seats. The center-left Syriza and Pasok parties trailed with 17.8 and 12.1 [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greece-just-elected-the-most-right-wing-parliament-since-the-return-to-democracy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-rise-and-fall-of-greeces-radical-in-name-only-syriza-party/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-rise-and-fall-of-greeces-radical-in-name-only-syriza-party/#respond Sat, 27 May 2023 15:07:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246660 On January 25, 2015, Greece’s left-wing party Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left), which subscribed to no particular ideology but ran an election campaign that vowed to end the sadistic austerity measures that had been imposed on Greece by its international creditors, shred the bailout agreements into pieces, write off a big chuck of the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-rise-and-fall-of-greeces-radical-in-name-only-syriza-party/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-defeat-in-context-greeces-erdogan-isation-is-almost-complete/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-defeat-in-context-greeces-erdogan-isation-is-almost-complete/#respond Fri, 26 May 2023 15:15:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246635 The people spoke. Unlike in 2019, when MeRA25 won nine seats in Greece’s Parliament, in Sunday’s election we failed to clear the 3% hurdle, thus, electing no MPs. However, this freshly minted Parliament was condemned before it got a chance to convene. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the conservative party leader, who won handsomely, is about to dissolve it so as to secure [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/our-defeat-in-context-greeces-erdogan-isation-is-almost-complete/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greeces-debt-is-more-unsustainable-than-ever/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greeces-debt-is-more-unsustainable-than-ever/#respond Sun, 21 May 2023 14:02:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246337 Over a decade since the start of Greece’s sovereign debt crisis, claims that the country has got “back on its feet” seem rather out of step with reality. The February 28 rail disaster in Tempi, which killed fifty-seven people, provided a tragic reminder of how national infrastructure has been devastated by years of austerity and shock privatizations. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greeces-debt-is-more-unsustainable-than-ever/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greeces-radical-left-is-fighting-to-overcome-syrizas-legacy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greeces-radical-left-is-fighting-to-overcome-syrizas-legacy/#respond Sat, 20 May 2023 13:44:18 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1246307 As Greece heads for a general election on Sunday, its citizens surely have plenty of reason for discontent. The country is, after all, still reeling from years of neoliberal policies, whose sheer savagery is without comparison in Western Europe. The effects of austerity were dramatically illustrated at the end of February, when fifty-seven people died [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greeces-radical-left-is-fighting-to-overcome-syrizas-legacy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-mera25-demands-rupture-in-greece/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-mera25-demands-rupture-in-greece/#respond Thu, 18 May 2023 15:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1246202 On Sunday, May 21 2023, MERA25 will contest the upcoming general election in Greece. The situation in Greece, contrary to what the international media has been reporting lately, is well and truly awful. Nothing less than a rupture with this system designed to make the poor poorer and the ultra-rich, richer, is required. In this [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/why-mera25-demands-rupture-in-greece/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/furious-over-railway-disaster-greeks-take-to-the-streets-in-nationwide-general-strike/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/furious-over-railway-disaster-greeks-take-to-the-streets-in-nationwide-general-strike/#respond Sat, 18 Mar 2023 16:51:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1241647 At least tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of cities and towns across Greece Thursday to protest the government’s handling of last month’s Tempi railway disaster and the capitalist system that puts profits before people. The general strike—which was called by the General Confederation of Greek Workers and public sector workers umbrella [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/furious-over-railway-disaster-greeks-take-to-the-streets-in-nationwide-general-strike/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-austerity-train-wreck/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-austerity-train-wreck/#respond Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:23:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1241407 If human error is to blame for the deadly train collision in Greece on February 28, the responsibility ultimately lies with those who devised, defended, and promoted the economic doctrines underpinning the austerity policies that were imposed on the country in the 2010s. Without those polices, this tragedy never would have happened. AUSTIN – In [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-austerity-train-wreck/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/inside-vio-me-greeces-only-worker-managed-factory-thats-operated-for-over-10-years/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/inside-vio-me-greeces-only-worker-managed-factory-thats-operated-for-over-10-years/#respond Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:55:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1241286 TRANSCRIPT Reporter: This is the only occupied factory in Europe to still produce. In February 2013, more than 70 factory workers occupied the construction materials factory of VIOME in Thessaloniki, Greece and took the wealth they produced for themselves. Dimitris Koumatsioulis: The bosses chose to leave. To leave us alone. Τhey took the money and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/inside-vio-me-greeces-only-worker-managed-factory-thats-operated-for-over-10-years/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/deadly-train-collision-in-greece-reveals-the-dysfunctionality-of-state-and-capitalism-time-for-self-management/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/deadly-train-collision-in-greece-reveals-the-dysfunctionality-of-state-and-capitalism-time-for-self-management/#respond Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:14:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1241243 On 28th of February 2023, a head-on collision occurred between two trains in the Thessaly region of Greece, killing at least 57 people, making it the deadliest rail disaster in Greek history. And from the very beginning a wave of outrage was felt all over the country. Protests and demonstrations are held on a daily [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/deadly-train-collision-in-greece-reveals-the-dysfunctionality-of-state-and-capitalism-time-for-self-management/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yanis-varoufakis-brutally-attacked-by-group-of-thugs-in-athens/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yanis-varoufakis-brutally-attacked-by-group-of-thugs-in-athens/#respond Sun, 12 Mar 2023 13:30:21 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1241170 Last night [March 11, 2023] Yanis Varoufakis, secretary of MeRA25 Greek party and founder of DiEM25, was attacked in Exarchia, Athens and was taken to hospital with injuries. The condemnation of the violence towards the Greek MP came from (almost) everywhere, as he says, while investigations continue to identify the perpetrators of the attack in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yanis-varoufakis-brutally-attacked-by-group-of-thugs-in-athens/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greeces-left-needs-to-unite-behind-an-alternative-to-syriza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greeces-left-needs-to-unite-behind-an-alternative-to-syriza/#respond Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:18:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1237683 Greece’s political trajectory since 2010 has been highly distinctive — and in many ways paradoxical. The country’s various governments have included parties across nearly the entire political spectrum, ranging from the far-right LAOS to the supposedly “radical-left” Syriza. Despite this diversity, successive governments have rigorously implemented one same set of policies, dictated by three Memoranda [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/greeces-left-needs-to-unite-behind-an-alternative-to-syriza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/exarcheia-the-subway-station-and-public-space/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/exarcheia-the-subway-station-and-public-space/#respond Sat, 14 Jan 2023 16:45:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1236984 First of all, it is important to underline that public transport (tram, subway, bus) is immensely important as it allows for ecological and inclusive movement throughout the city. With the usage of all the different types of public transport, a vast and comfortable transportation network can be developed to challenge the domination of the private [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/exarcheia-the-subway-station-and-public-space/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/golden-dawn-is-back-on-trial/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/golden-dawn-is-back-on-trial/#respond Sat, 26 Nov 2022 14:48:37 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1232900 On October 2020, the news that a Greek court had convicted leading members of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party of running a criminal organization travelled around the world. The trial that ultimately disbanded Greece’s premier neo-Nazi organization, which until 2019 had 18 members seated in the Hellenic Parliament, was initiated in 2014 and lasted five-and-a-half [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/golden-dawn-is-back-on-trial/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-young-and-radical-feminist-movement-at-the-forefront-of-resistance-in-greece/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-young-and-radical-feminist-movement-at-the-forefront-of-resistance-in-greece/#respond Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:02:03 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1052858 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-new-young-and-radical-feminist-movement-at-the-forefront-of-resistance-in-greece/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-russia-france-israel-pay-tribute-to-mikis-theodorakis-work-life/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-russia-france-israel-pay-tribute-to-mikis-theodorakis-work-life/#respond Sun, 05 Sep 2021 09:00:54 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1049898 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/china-russia-france-israel-pay-tribute-to-mikis-theodorakis-work-life/feed/ 0