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If you want to know what the new Greek leadership really thinks (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Jan 2015 OP
It would be great if you could give us excerpts from each. Thanks. leveymg Jan 2015 #1
I'm on an iPad Ichingcarpenter Jan 2015 #2
From the first link: Starry Messenger Jan 2015 #3
Thanks to both you & ICC for this. Jackpine Radical Jan 2015 #4
The leadership are intellectual academic marxist Ichingcarpenter Jan 2015 #5

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
2. I'm on an iPad
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 09:13 AM
Jan 2015

I borrowed and I am way too slow with it to copy and paste
And type


Maybe someone could help with the thread?


My iMac died

Starry Messenger

(32,375 posts)
3. From the first link:
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 10:23 AM
Jan 2015

<snip>

"We already have more than 130,000 members, and we will leave our constituent assembly next month with our organizational muscle ready. It will be hard, but it’s entirely possible that Podemos in Spain, like Syriza in Greece and Sinn Fein in Ireland, will lead a political change. But it is essential that we understand that winning an election does not mean winning power.

To speak of fiscal reform, an audit of the national debt, of collective control over the strategic sectors of the economy, of defense and improvement of public services, of the recovery of sovereign powers and our industrial fabric, of employment policies through investment, of favoring consumption, and of ensuring that public financial entities protect small and medium enterprises and families is what any social democrat in Western Europe would have talked about thirty or forty years ago.

But today, a program like this means a threat to the global financial powers. There is a worldwide party that is much stronger than the Third International was. It’s the party of Wall Street, which has functionaries everywhere. These functionaries have many ID cards. Some have cards from New Democracy, others from Pasok, others from Merkel’s CDU, others from the Socialist Party in Spain or France. Juncker, Merkel, Rajoy, Samaras, Hollande, and Renzi are all members of the same party — the party of Wall Street. They are the Finance International.

This is why, no matter how modest our objectives are, no matter how wide the consensus in our societies regarding them is, we must not lose sight that we are confronting a minority with a lot of power, with very few scruples, and fearful of the electoral results when their parties don’t win. Don’t forget that the powerful almost never accept the results of elections when they don’t like them."

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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/pablo-iglesias-speech-syriza/


Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
5. The leadership are intellectual academic marxist
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 01:27 PM
Jan 2015

Many teach or taught at some of the top universities in England, Europe and Greece, I found politically savy and not navie on what is what

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