Communist Tendency of SYRIZA: Stand firm - No concessions to Troika! Last Sunday's government programme announcement by the Prime Minister did not contain the sort of backtracking that the ruling class and the Troika are seeking. The government and SYRIZA should maintain a dignified and firm position. A confrontation with the Troika and capital is inevitable given that they have no desire to negotiate with the government. Rather they seek to humiliate it, have no qualms about undermining its commitments to the Greek people and even about expelling Greece from the Euro. Therefore, the important measures contained in the government's programme cannot be implemented unless these are supported by a socialist programme.
The ruling class is terrified of "the virus" of SYRIZA - Time to move forward! Read the statement of the on the latest developments in Greece. The new government should stay true to its commitments and keep away from any new agreement - which would be a trap to keep Greece in the terms of the Memorandum.
SYRIZA in power, the crisis and the Greek revolution The election victory of Syriza in Greece marked a fundamental shift not only in the situation in Greece, but throughout Europe. A week after the elections we interviewed Ilias Kirousis, a member of the Communist Tendency of SYRIZA as well as the leadership of SYRIZA’s youth wing. Here Ilias gives us his analysis of the elections and the perspectives for the SYRIZA government.
Greece: Syriza must adopt radical socialist policies! The retreats of the Syriza leadership have not forestalled German ultimatums - The solution lies in radical policies; not in diplomacy. Denounce the debt - nationalise the banks - expropriate the oligarchy!
The Greek Revolution and Civil War: 70 years since the Battle of Athens – Part One On the December 3, 1944, British snipers, the Athens police, and fascist paramilitaries opened fire on a demonstration of communist sympathisers in Athens’ Syntagma Square, leaving 28 dead. They were protesting against the provocations of the Greek bourgeois parties and the British imperialists, who were trying to derail and crush the mass revolutionary movement that had defeated the Nazis. Thus began the Battle of Athens.
Podemos human tide in Madrid against austerity Hundreds of thousands marched in Madrid on 31 January, in a demonstration called by Podemos to mark the beginning of their campaign to win the general election this year in Spain. The huge march came just after Syriza’s victory in Greece and reflected the deep anger of millions of working people against capitalist austerity, as well as the hope that it can be ended.
Successful two hour general strike in Norway 1.5 million workers went on strike yesterday in the biggest political strike in Norwegian history. Trade unions struck against the right-wing government’s attempts to reform labour laws.
Greece: Does SYRIZA have to govern with the Independent Greeks? Or is there an alternative? What could SYRIZA's leadership have done to achieve a Left government that doesn’t have to lean on a right-wing party? Read the position of the Communist Tendency of SYRIZA as to what the leadership should have done to achieve an independent Left government.
No to coalition of Syriza with Independent Greeks - Declaration of The Communist Tendency of Syriza It is a grave mistake on the part of SYRIZA to cooperate with the Independent Greeks! Do not waste this historic opportunity! There must be a coalition between SYRIZA - KKE!
Greece: Historic victory of left - First time in history a party with roots in Communist movement wins elections Read here the initial analysis of the Communist Tendency on the outcome of today's election results and this historic victory of the Left.
Perspectives and tasks for Marxist students in 2015 On Saturday 14 February delegates from all over Britain will be joined in London by international visitors for the 2nd Marxist Student Federation conference at SOAS. As well as discussing the international student movement across the world, students will be discussing on the perspectives and tasks for the Marxist students in Britain (See below the agenda).
The Greek elections and the crisis in Europe On January 25th Greece will vote in a general election. Syriza is likely to be the party voted to power. This poses a dilemma for the European capitalists as one part of their machine, bourgeois democracy, risks colliding with another, their programme of austerity, which has been visited upon the Greek people for the past five years. This is seen as a serious threat to the plans of the rulers of Europe to solve the economic crisis by an all-out attack on the living standards of the working class.
“SYRIZA needs a Programme for Socialism” - Speech at the Central Committee of SYRIZA Read a short account of the position of the Communist Tendency of SYRIZA at the recent SYRIZA CC meeting, along with the speech by our comrade, Stamatis Karayannopoulos.
Britain - The Prince and the Paedophile: it's time to overthrow this rotten Establishment The scandal enveloping Prince Andrew - following allegations in a US law court that he may have been gifted an underage girl for sex by his paedophile friend, Jeffrey Epstein - has shone an unwelcome spotlight on the festering corners of Britain’s rotten Establishment.
Berlin: Tens of thousands commemorate the murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht 96 years ago, on January 15, 1919, the famous German revolutionaries and Marxists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered by reactionary "Freikorps" forces who had formed a counter-revolutionary conspiracy with right-wing social democratic (SPD) leaders to drown the revolution in blood. (See the book Germany from Revolution to Counter-Revolution by Rob Sewell, available here)
