Roger Silverman author of Defiance: Greece and Europe, comments on the general election results in Greece, announced earlier this week. Roger says... they have been reported as a victory for the “conservative” party New Democracy. True enough, New Democracy won the contest with 39.9% of the votes cast, to the outgoing governing left party SYRIZA’s 31.5% - a result which at first sight appears, if … [Read more...]
IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
ADULTS IN THE ROOM: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis A review by Roger Silverman In the last few years, Greece has witnessed the most dramatic conceivable eruptions of popular outrage; an assertion of human solidarity stretching across the entire mass of the oppressed and deprived. For months on end, tens of thousands occupied Athens' Syntagma Square and city … [Read more...]