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Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left
Sheehan
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Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; GTB; JPFC; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 286.
Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. First, by profligate deficit spending benefitting only themselves; second, by agreeing to an IMF bailout of the Greek economy, devastating ordinary Greek citizens who were already enduring government-induced poverty, unemployment, and hunger. Finally, in response to dire austerity measures, the people of Greece stood up, forming, from their own historic roots of resistance, Syriza the Coalition of the Radical Left. For those who caught the Syriza wave, there was, writes Helena Sheehan, a minute of precarious hope. A seasoned activist and participant-observer, Helena Sheehan adroitly places us at the center ... Read more
Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. First, by profligate deficit spending benefitting only themselves; second, by agreeing to an IMF bailout of the Greek economy, devastating ordinary Greek citizens who were already enduring government-induced poverty, unemployment, and hunger. Finally, in response to dire austerity measures, the people of Greece stood up, forming, from their own historic roots of resistance, Syriza the Coalition of the Radical Left. For those who caught the Syriza wave, there was, writes Helena Sheehan, a minute of precarious hope. A seasoned activist and participant-observer, Helena Sheehan adroitly places us at the center ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781583676257
SKU
V9781583676257
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About Sheehan
Helena Sheehan is professor emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She is also the author of several books, including Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History and Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories, as well as magazine articles on politics, culture, and philosophy.
Reviews for Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left
Deeply grounded in philosophy and Marxist theory, Sheehan shows in plain language that the leadership of SYRIZA proved vacuous in theory and opportunist in practice. Her intellectual and political honesty will be a benchmark in the debate in the coming years. -Costas Lapavitsas, Professor of Economics at University of London, Syriza MP from January to August 2015