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The Syriza wave : surging and crashing with the Greek left
- Title
- The Syriza wave : surging and crashing with the Greek left / by Helena Sheehan.
- Author
- Sheehan, Helena
- Publication
- New York : Monthly Review Press, [2016]
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- Description
- 247 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. 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. 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. 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. Along the way, she takes time to meet many Greeks in tavernas, on the street, and in government offices, engage in debates, and compare Greece to her own economically blighted country, Ireland. Beginning as a strong Syriza supporter, Sheehan sees Syriza transformed from a horizon of hope to a vortex of despair. But out of the dust of defeat, she draws questions radiating optimism. Just how did what was possibly the most intelligent, effective instrument of the Greek left self-destruct? And what are the consequences for the Greek people, for the international left, for all of us driven to work for a better world?
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-4947
- ISBN
- 9781583676264
- 1583676260
- 9781583676257
- 1583676252
- LCCN
- 2016046065
- 40026996366
- OCLC
- 992800802
- Author
- Sheehan, Helena, author.
- Title
- The Syriza wave : surging and crashing with the Greek left / by Helena Sheehan.
- Publisher
- New York : Monthly Review Press, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Sheehan, Helena, author. Syriza wave New York : Monthly Review Press, 2017 9781583676271
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40026996366
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-4947