Crisis, Movement, Strategy : the Greek Experience
Subtitle: The Greek Experience
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9789004291348
Subjects: Greece, economic conditions; Debts, public, europe; Financial crises; Recessions
Description: 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.00This 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.