"1. The Syriza government should have resigned and gone back into opposition to
continue the struggle against austerity, rather than itself imposing a new round of austerity on the Greek people in concert with its enemies. There are people who regard themselves as “revolutionaries” who never considered this as an alternative and get very agitated when it is presented to them." I agree with this but I also think they should explicitly say that they are resigning because they have failed and need to regroup and acknowledge the difficulty they've put the opposition in by handing over the reigns in the last minute. ". Nathan and others would not for an instant tolerate such an act by a trade union leadership, even one self-described and regarded by others as “militant’ or “progressive”. When a membership roundly rejects a final offer from an employer and demonstrates it is prepared to continue the struggle even in the face of great risk, it is considered an act of betrayal for the leadership to then turn around in short order and sign an agreement which is even worse than the one the members rejected. Unfortunately in such cases, open rebellion by a majority of the membership does not necessarily follow; it more typically result in discouragement and continued loyalty to a leadership “which must know better”, characteristic of large organizations." the difference is the balance of forces between the two parties negotiating. we want unions because they give workers negotiating strength and leaving the table will not cause mass death and in many cases not even job losses. If a high percentage of the union members will starve to death as well as all their families you're damn right i would want the union leadership to take the deal. The point of the union is to distribute and lessen the costs of resisting your employer. Remember that in the heady days of early Union organizing they would have a central fund and raise money from sympathetic people to help support those out on strike. In other words, they had a plan. "t’s doubtful the eurozone leaders would have followed through on the threat even if Syriza declined to capitulate to their demands. The Schauble tendency in the eurozone is still very much in a minority; German exporters and banks have benefited enormously from the currency union; there are legal impediments to expelling a member; and the eurozone majority doesn’t want a Grexit to set an example down the road for Spain, Italy, France, and the smaller indebted countries." This completely misunderstands the structure of the eurozone. you need all the different governments to agree to have a deal and they would definitely hold out. cutting off ELA is essentially cutting them off from the Eurozone. What's being negotiated right now is not them staying in the Eurozone but them returning to it. De facto and de jure are often different. they could essentially permanently force them out of the Euro by just refusing a bailout deal and thus Draghi refusing to extend ELA -- -Nathan Tankus -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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