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The once “radical” left out of office
The “extreme” right out of parliament
But “Greek Solution”, anti-migrant party, steps in to the “right” vacuum
New Democracy gaining 40 percent of the vote in Sunday’s snap election, compared with 31.5 for Syriza
centre-left Movement for Change (KINAL), at 8.10 percent (22 seats);
the Greek Communist Party, at 5.3 percent (15 seats);
Greek Solution, a far-right party, at 3.7 percent (10 seats);
and MeRa 25, another recently formed party that is led by Yanis Varoufakis, a former Syriza finance minister, at 3.44 percent (nine seats).
The editorial in next month’s Socialist Standard is going to be on this entitled “Syriza : A Textbook Failure” ie a leftwing government is elected to reverse austerity, is forced to recognise capitalist reality, and is booted out at the next election. As we know will happen to a Corbyn government (if one is ever elected). When will they ever learn?
I just read a progressive website article that claims MeRa 25’s 3.4% was “far exceeding expectations” and a “strong performance” despite that its vote was less than the Greek Solution and the Communist Party.
Clutching at left-wing straws.
No, I don’t think they do learn. They set themselves up for failure, often as a self-fulfilling prediction
Peoples continue electing, selecting and placing in power their own enemies, and like a pendulum oscillating between right and left. They do not learn from past history
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