Greece: Why Capitulate?

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Greece: Why Capitulate?

Another Way is Possible

10 September 2015 by Eric Toussaint

Chapter titles:

The Citizen Audit Commission of 2011
The position of SYRIZA’s leadership regarding the citizen audit committee of 2011
SYRIZA’s program in the legislative elections of May-June 2012
Late 2012: SYRIZA’s leadership moderates its positions
October 2013: Alexis Tsipras calls for a European conference on public debt
SYRIZA becomes the leading party in Greece with the May 2014 European elections
The January 2015 victory5.
The fatal agreement of 20 February 2015 with the institutional creditors
A different policy was desirable and possible
The Truth Committee on the Greek Public Debt is launched
The Greek government refrains from making use of the audit
From the referendum on 5 July to the agreement of 13 July 2015
The lessons of the capitulation of 13 July 2015
A parallel currency as part of “Plan B”

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Author

Eric Toussaint

is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012 (see here), etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.