Greek general election

The next issue of the Socialist will analyse the results of the 20 September general election in Greece. The election was called after the governing Syriza party split and lost its parliamentary majority.

The crisis in Syriza resulted from the capitulation of its leadership under Alexis Tsipras to the austerity agenda of the European Union ministers, bankers and capitalists – despite a majority of Greek voters rejecting a new tranche of austerity measures in a referendum on 5 July.

Xekinima, the Socialist Party’s counterpart in Greece, is giving critical support to Popular Unity – a left wing breakaway faction of Syriza – in the election.

See the article ‘Greece 20 September elections – No to the Memorandum parties!’ on

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