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Crisis Movement Strategy The Greek Experience Sotiris Panagiotis by Sotiris, Panagiotis 9789004280892, 9004280898 instant download after payment.
In 2010 Greece entered a period of extreme austerity measures, but also of intense struggles and protests. Social and political crisis led to tectonic shifts in the political landscape and the rise to power of SYRIZA. However, despite the impressive expression of resistance in the 2015 referendum, the EU-IMF-ECB ‘Troika’ managed to impose the continuation of the same politics of austerity, privatisations, and neoliberal reforms.
This social and political sequence poses important theoretical and analytical questions regarding capitalist crisis, public debt, European integration, political crisis, the new forms of protest and social movements, and the rise of neo-fascist parties. It also brings forward all the open questions regarding radical left-wing strategy today. The contributions in this volume attempt from different perspectives to deal with some of these theoretical and strategic questions using the Greek experience as a case study.
Contributors include: George Economakis, Stavros Mavroudeas, Ioannis Zisimopoulos, Alexios Anastasiadis, Maria Markaki, George Androulakis, Despina Paraskeva-Veloudogianni, Eirini Gaitanou, Alexandros Chrysis, Euclid Tsakalotos, Spyros Sakellaropoulos, Panagiotis Sotiris, Giannis Kouzis, Yiorgos Vassalos, Christos Laskos, Angelos Kontogiannis-Mandros.
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction (Sotiris)......Page 14
Chapter 1. The Greek Crisis: Causes and Alternative Strategies (Mavroudeas)......Page 26
Chapter 2. Imperialist Exploitation and Crisis of the Greek Economy: a Study (Economakis, Markaki, Androulakis and Anastasiadis)......Page 53
Chapter 3. The Class Dimension of the Greek Public Debt Crisis (Zisimopoulos and Economakis)......Page 80
Chapter 4. Consolidation of Authoritarian Rule in the EU: the Parallel Processes of the Troika’s Emergence and the Economic Governance Reforms (Vassalos)......Page 100
Chapter 5. Labour under Attack during the Period of Crisis and Austerity (Kouzis)......Page 132
Chapter 6. ‘First Comes Indignation, Then Rebellion, Then We Shall See’: Political Crisis, Popular Perception of Politics and Transformation of Consciousness amid the Rebellious Cycle of 2010–11 in Greece (Gaitanou)......Page 144
Chapter 7. Reshaping Political Cultures: the ‘Squares Movement’ and Its Impact (Kontogiannis-Mandros)......Page 168
Chapter 8. Political Crisis, Crisis of Hegemony and the Rise of Golden Dawn (Paraskeva-Veloudogianni)......Page 190
Chapter 9. The Crisis and the Strategy of the Greek Ruling Class (Sakellaropoulos)......Page 216
Chapter 10. From Resistance to Transitional Programme: the Strange Rise of the Radical Left in Greece (Laskos and Tsakalotos)......Page 242
Chapter 11. In Search of the Modern Prince: a Critical Absence Reconfirmed through the Greek Experience (Chrysis)......Page 257
Chapter 12. From Resistance to Hegemony: the Struggle against Austerity and the Need for a New Historical Bloc (Sotiris)......Page 280
Index......Page 312
