Can a left the policy of tsipras still defend?
Photo: wassilis aswestopoulos
The neoliberal policy of the greek government ensures a dispute in the european left
The call of gregor gysi was as simple as vague. "To all left and progressive power. Make unit to defeat neoliberal policy", he was.
But now the european left, a merger of different left parties and organizations has destroyed the policy of the greek syriza government. Finally, the mabglian ruling party of greece is part of this european left. A few years ago, alexis tsipras from syriza was the undisputed star of european left.
Finally, in 2015, he won the elections in greece with a party to the left of social democracy. The few weeks of a political departure began in europe. Because the syriza government seemed to seriously take her election program. They referred a representative of the troika, which execorded the substantially organized by germany austerity dictation, from the country and initiated some reforms.
In many european countries, people for one end or at least for a relaxation of the austerity policy. For a few weeks, tsipras became the hopeful carrier of many people who hoped in greece will prove that another policy is possible.
But it was due to the government merkel schauble, who implemented the austerity policy by all means. In the current merkelbranung to parts of the left and the green one should remember it again.
Tsipras and the majority of his party leaned out the dictation and relied pretty no-tired the politics that she spoke in the opposition (see: alexis tsipras: from the revolutionary to the conservative). How many left parties at power had to forget tsipras why syriza had been chastened. The defense of the own power position was more important. Nevertheless, syriza existed to continue to be part of the european left.
Not all agreed. Now the french left party has left the european left after she failed with her demand to extinguish syriza.
Tsipras revealed his ideals?
The spokeswoman of the french left party sophie rauszer has accused in an ND interview tsipras betrayal.
Nd: why is your party from the european left party? Sophie rauszer: it was clear to creating clarity about our attitude towards the EU’s austrian policy. Because the greek head of government alexis tsipras has betrayed his commitments took over years ago, we have demanded to extinguish his party syriza from the european left party – which has stated in the UBLIGE in the greek question. Since this was rejected, we have now drawn the consequences on our part. One year before the next european election, it was time for such clarification. Nd: what do you throw syriza and thus tsipras? Sophie rauszer: they are synonymous with oysterity. The greek government coalition has braced the right to strike, the pensions have turmed, has privatized whole areas of the economy and ceded under value to china and germany.
Interview, new germany
Support receives syriza from the keynesian okonomen and politician of the left party, axel troost, which thus makes itself the most uncurrendent of the tsipras government.
Protective screen over tsipras and not the victims of his policy
Correctly, he reminds that syriza first implemented the austerity policy on the massive prere. Troost points out in its explanation on the conditions dictated by creders of greece and the still persistent factual dependence of the government in athens. But then he becomes the apologete of the greek government and their transformation of left to right social democrats.
Troost stated, it succeeded by the syriza-guided government to put some things towards the future. Thus, athens has worked on the construction of a modern state, which was overlapped from linkers and from the right point of view. And with the growth strategy developed in the reign of alexis tsipras, syriza will draw in the next election campaign, troost shows optimistic.
The leeway for a social policy will grow slowly. The use was not free.
Axel troost
Where troost takes this optimistic conclusion, is not visible. In greece, the survey values for syriza are low and the rights are trying to use the chance to bring themselves back to power. The neofaschists of the golden morgenrote also trying to benefit from that tsipras and his party are no longer perceived as an alternative.
For the gland, there are still alternatives like a syriza cleavage in the left spectrum and the communist party of greece. But there are also homemade foundations that prevent these parties from becoming stronger. Instead of dealing more intensively with the grounds of the failure of tsipras, is held by troost and others in the left a protective screen over him and his party and not the victims of his policy.
With the reference to the prere of the troika and the european governments, the homemade mistakes are simply dropped under the table. In addition, the fact will be concealed that tsipras is today the policy of the right social democracy.
In the publication ied by various social initiatives, the balance of the syriza years, the balance sheet of syriza years is brought to the point – but also the syriza government is entirely the responsibility: "balance sheet of troika politics in greece: krasse debt, crasign, crass reduction of democratic and union rights. In addition to social detection, it is also concrete to reduce strike and enforcement of foreclayers."
