Skip to main content
Work with the NEU
The Greek election – Syriza goes down, but so do the nazis
Syriza has been punished for abandoning its insurgent politics to become another managerial centre-left party. KEVIN OVENDEN analyses what the result means for working people
In great news for the anti-fascist movement everywhere, the neonazis of Golden Dawn are out of parliament, losing all the seats they first won seven years ago

THE conservative right are back in government in Greece following Sunday’s general election.

But in great news for the anti-fascist movement everywhere, the neonazis of Golden Dawn are out of parliament, losing all the seats they first won seven years ago.

The centre-right New Democracy party took just under 40 per cent of the vote against nearly 32 per cent for Syriza, once the party of the radical left.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
IN YOUTH WE TRUST: Supporters of the
Features / 26 March 2026
26 March 2026

Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT

Tom Mooney Company from the Lincoln Battalion, during the Spanish Civil War, Jarama, Spain, 1937
History / 24 February 2026
24 February 2026

CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history

ELECTORAL TURBULENCE: View from the tower of Old Town Hall in Prague. Photo: A Savin/Creative Commons
Praxis / 22 November 2025
22 November 2025

JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism

Rise
Features / 16 August 2025
16 August 2025

LAURA PIDCOCK and PAUL O’CONNELL introduces Rise, a political platform for working-class activism