Eurozone

The Greek crisis is often diminished to a simple story of Debt versus the People. Richard Braude moves between the symptomatic details of everyday life in Athens today and the deep history of the crisis to recover gleams of human possibility beyond the narrative of bad bankers and rad technocrats

With demands over the wage and welfare in austerity Greece deemed illegitimate because unaffordable, what shape can struggle take? Dimitra Kotouza sees the all out attack on living standards as producing a de facto opposition that can’t be cohered by ideologies of class