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Greece after the bailout: lessons for the left
KEVIN OVENDEN looks at the legacy of Tsipras's Odyssey
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announces an 'end to the Odyssey of austerity' from Ithaca, home of Odysseus
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A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
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It had been planned to be a lavish celebration on the Pnyx hill next to the Acropolis in Athens where the citizenry would hold popular assemblies in the ancient democratic period.
The angry aftermath of the forest fires last month put paid to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hosting EU and other luminaries in such a way to mark the formal end of the country’s subordination to the austerity memorandums.
Instead, he made a more low key broadcast to the nation from the island of Ithaka on Monday.
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