In Germany an appeal was started by Jürgen Link (editor of the magazine kultuRRevolution), because the media-coverage of the Greek elections has been extremly distorted:
http://appell-hellas.de/?page_id=105 The appeal is directed towards "German Greeks and Greek Germans", but now it is also translated into English, so I guess the spectrum it adresses has broadened. Very interesting to see, how "Europe" begins to be a point of reference also for the far left, for example in the mobilization to come to the opening of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt/M. on March 18th: http://www.thecommuneofeurope.org/ 2015-01-28 11:10 GMT+01:00 Pavlos Hatzopoulos <phatzopou...@gmail.com>: > On 01/28/2015 02:44 AM, Flick Harrison wrote: >> The militant nationalism that Tsipras displayed by visiting the >> Resistance memorial makes me think Syriza is stupid, or talking to >> the stupid. The fascist threat isn't rolling into Greece in >> panzers; it's a few inches to the right of their coalition partners >> ANEL. Maybe this theatrical bow to violence was actually intended >> for a far right audience, either to attract them, or threaten them, >> or both? Surely the Germans are inured to WWII references by now? This is really too perverse a reading of this event. Syriza is becoming the first truly European political party that has emerged in the context of this freaky organisation we call the European Union. One needs only to see how Syriza's political agenda is always-already European. Its electoral success is inherently linked to the analysis of the problem of Greek debt and of Troika austerity policies in Greece as a European problem and to the imagining of building a European movement against them. More so, it's proposed solution to this problem is again inherently European: asking for a European conference on debt to deal with the writing off of state debt in several countries, demanding a new architecture for the Eurozone, proposing some type of European new deal, etc. The worst case scenario in the ongoing negotiations with the EU is that Syriza will be offered some kind of compromise within the "national horizon" on easing the Greek debt and the existing austerity policies, so that the larger European problems can remain under the carpet. If Syriza takes this possible deal, then it will be transformed to a regular national political party. <...>
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