Author: Panagiotis Sotiris
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Challenging Authoritarian Rule: Turkish Elections 2023
The Turkish general election is to be held on May 14th, this includes elections to the Parliament as well as election of the President of Turkey in a two round … Keep reading »
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On the Current Crisis in Turkey-Greece Relations
Relations between Turkey and Greece are currently in a phase of escalating crisis. This development can be traced back to a number of reasons. Firstly, Turkey is in a phase … Keep reading »
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Is a Democratic Biopolitics Possible?
Giorgio Agamben’s recent intervention (“The Invention of an Epidemic”) which characterizes the measures implemented in response to the Covid-19 pandemic as an exercise in the biopolitics of the “state of … Keep reading »
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The Strategic Question Revisited: Ten Theses
In 2006 Daniel Bensaïd made a very important call to reopen the debate on the ‘politico-strategic’ question. This call was made amidst a series of discussions within the European anticapitalist … Keep reading »
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The Crisis of European Integration and the Challenges for the Left
The elephant in the room is now visible to everyone. All the developments of the past years, from the extreme violence and cynicism of the “memoranda of understanding” imposed upon … Keep reading »
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The Realism of Audacity
Rethinking Revolutionary Strategy Today In a certain way, I feel a certain unease since the entire Greek Left has some form of responsibility for the fact that Greece is not currently … Keep reading »
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How Can We Change the World, If We Can’t Change Ourselves?
The Challenges Facing the Anti-Capitalist Left in Europe The anti-capitalist Left in Europe is in crisis. From the crisis of the International Socialist Tendency, to the political implosion of the New … Keep reading »
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From Resistance to Hegemony
The Struggle Against Austerity and the Need for a New Historical Bloc Austerity has been the main battle cry on the part of the forces of capital. New cuts in public … Keep reading »
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The Left and the European Union
On the Need for an Anti-Euro and Anti-EU Position What has been happening in Greece, since the beginning of the austerity packages in 2010 can only be described in terms of … Keep reading »
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The Greek Crisis and the Left Response
Two Essays by Sotiris (1) Beyond ‘Realism’: Greece, the challenges for the Left and the need for a radical strategy For the past three years Greece has been at the same time an … Keep reading »
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The Greek Left and the Rise of the Neo-Fascist Golden Dawn
For the past months there has been an intense debate both in Greece but also in international media regarding the rise of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn in Greece. The reason … Keep reading »
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Political Crisis, the Left and the Possibility of a New Historical Bloc
The combination of economic crisis, social devastation and open political crisis in ‘weak links’ of the European Project such as Greece has raised the possibility of social and political change. … Keep reading »