Showing posts with label anti-European Unionism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-European Unionism. Show all posts

SYRIZA: FRIEND OR FOE

The flattery begins: Tsipras gets the Simpsons treatment.

by Jan Stadler

The election of Syriza marks a watershed moment for Europe. For the first time in modern European history, a crypto-Communist and explicitly anti-capitalist party has won a national election. A feat not even seen during the Cold War at the height of global Marxist-Leninist power.

At initial glance, most right-wingers are dismayed at the fact that Greece, which was becoming the poster child for a right-wing/nationalist re-emergence via Golden Dawn, has suffered what could be a setback.