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Europe's mutual suicide pact
19 Jan 2012
Austerity plans pursued by European governments are proving to be self-defeating, writes Eddie Ford
Take it or leave it
18 Jun 2015
Syriza’s options are rapidly running out, says Eddie Ford. Whether inside or outside the euro, austerity will not go away
Smacking of desperation
11 Jun 2015
Will Athens submit to the ‘institutions’ or get booted out of the euro zone? Eddie Ford looks at the latest negotiations
Who will fill the vacuum?
04 Jun 2015
There is no viable radical left alternative, writes Toby Abse
Crunch time approaches
30 Apr 2015
Does Syriza have a plan B, wonders Eddie Ford, and is it viable?
Robbing Peter to pay Alexis
23 Apr 2015
Athens is running out of money fast, writes Eddie Ford. But will Alexis Tsipras capitulate?
Against coalitionism
09 Apr 2015
Jos Alembic reflects on the progress of the Socialist Party during the recent provincial elections and looks ahead to the party’s congress in November
A model and its limits
19 Mar 2015
Mickey Coulter took part in a debate on ‘Syriza and the European left’, hosted by Sheffield Left Unity
Lega Nord and neo-fascism
05 Mar 2015
The economic crisis is leaving an opening for the neo-fascist right in Italy, reports Toby Abse
Austerity in the colours of Syriza
26 Feb 2015
Athens inevitably blinked first, writes Eddie Ford - and Greece will continue to suffer ever more poverty as a debt colony
Crackdown must be resisted
19 Feb 2015
Anne McShane reports on the Irish struggle against the water tax
Spanish steps to oblivion
19 Feb 2015
Paul Preston The last Stalinist: the life of Santiago Carrillo William Collins, 2014, pp448, £12.99
The debt is illegitimate
19 Feb 2015
Yassamine Mather looks at the background to the Greek crisis
Making a beginning
12 Feb 2015
The left should campaign for a Europe-wide constituent assembly, argues Chris Gray
Aftermath of Syriza’s election
12 Feb 2015
Azhdar Ashkan can see no long-term solution to the crisis within the current order
No more Herr Nice Guy
12 Feb 2015
Only the presence of strong international solidarity can be the basis for opposing capitalism, writes Paul Demarty