Syriza Wave Sheehan Helena
Syriza Wave Sheehan Helena Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. Finally, in response to dire "austerity" measures, the people of Greece stood up, forming,…
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Syriza Wave Sheehan Helena
Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. Finally, in response to dire "austerity" measures, the people of Greece stood up, forming, from their own historic roots of resistance, Syriza--the Coalition of the Radical Left. First, by profligate deficit spending benefitting only themselves; second, by agreeing to an IMF "bailout" of the Greek economy, devastating ordinary Greek citizens who were already enduring government-induced poverty, unemployment, and hunger.
Along the way, she takes For those who caught the Syriza wave, there was, writes Helena Sheehan, a minute of "precarious hope."A seasoned activist and participant-observer, Helena Sheehan adroitly places us at the center of the whirlwind beginnings of Syriza, its jubilant victory at the polls, and finally at Syriza's surrender to the very austerity measures it once vowed to annihilate.