Sebastian Budgen and Stathis Kouvelakis — Greece: The Struggle Continues

Mike Norman Economics 2015-07-15

Key Points

The government was overtaken by the referendum's momentum.

The ideology of left-Europeanism was crippling.

Remaining unprepared for Grexit was deliberate.

The government has two main camps.

The "No" campaign was driven by class.

After the vote, Tsipras revived a discredited opposition.

The Left Platform plans to stay and fight to reclaim Syriza.

Syriza's leadership want to purge the party.

The new agreement is the worst yet.

It's unknown what resistance will follow.

Syriza's left made some errors.

But working within the party wasn't a mistake.

Jacobin Greece: The Struggle Continues Sebastian Budgen, an editor for Verso Books and member on the editorial board of Historical Materialism, and Stathis Kouvelakis, reader in political theory at King’s College London and member of the central committee of Syriza ht/ Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism