Call for a Syriza Tendency

We believe that the left does garner support in Britain, but remember this is Left Unity. We believe that the left must unite electorally and see past its few conflicting views in order to end austerity in our country and across Europe. We take inspiration from the Greek election success of Syriza, initially ‘the Coalition of the Radical Left’.

By Syriza seeing past their differences, they achieved success in having a chance to right the wrongs austerity has caused in Greece. We appreciate it will be a hard task, but one that we all must face; the left can no longer be so splintered. At the core of our hearts, we all want the same thing. Please visit and support our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/leftunitysyrizatendency

George Clark


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5 comments

5 responses to “Call for a Syriza Tendency”

  1. John Tummon says:

    According to pundits on the Sunday Politics programme, Syriza is about to have to ditch some of its policies in order to secure a fiscal agreement with the Troika. If so, then it will be more like Hollande’s government than LU. Let’s wait and see.

  2. Bob Walker says:

    I agree 100 per cent. unfortunately a lot of people find this very difficult. They talk the talk but don,t walk the walk

  3. John Tummon says:

    Just read this – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31055069 – so Greece has not junked its elected promises.

  4. Rob Peutrell says:

    Isn’t Left Unity itself the Syriza Tendency? By this I mean that LU itself is an attempt to draw together the fragments of the left into an organised democratic coalition that recognizes the different political backgrounds of its members whilst brokering a working consensus among its various factions. At least, that’s my understanding. I do wonder whether in adopting names like the Syriza Platform or the Podemos Platform we indulge in a slightly romantic idea of these parties, glossing over the tensions that must inhere in any political project of that kind and the particular circumstances that enabled them to get elected – in Greece, the sheer depth of austerity and the collapse of legitimacy of the political elite, and Pasok in particular. Surely time will tell whether Syriza have ‘seen past their differences’ and whether the organisation will survive the current negotiations with the Troika with its various bits still in place. I imagine – as in any ‘live’ political situation – differences might well become sharper. Not dismissing your idea, simply thinking aloud in response. Cheers

  5. Syriza look to have fallen at the first fence. I hope I’m wrong in saying that, but their failure is due to their making it clear, much too clear, that they weren’t prepared to leave the euro.

    Once the Germans knew that the Greeks weren’t going to play their ace, they were able to just toy with Syriza’s negotiation team and in the end have humiliated them. Their war hero anti-fascist MEP, Manolis Glezos has denounced the Greek loan “agreement” as an ‘illusion’ . Incidentally, I’ve only just heard of his remarkably life story! He, together with another comrade during the occupation, tore down the Nazi flag from the heights of the Acropolis and replaced in with the Greek flag. That’s not the end of it. He’s well worth looking up, and looking up to!

    The present day German flag (figuratively if not literally) needs to be torn down from above the Bank of Greece. Unlike Manolis Glezos, the Syriza leadership won’t face the death penalty for that. It has to be done now, otherwise there will be one humiliation after another for Syriza and the Greek people.


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