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Pretenders to radicalism: How Syriza betrayed Greece.

Jul 18 2015
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It was elected with a clear mandate - to get rid of the dreadful imposition of indebtedness. And it became a pleading supplicant to the big power brokers in Europe, and agreed to more indebtedness. And then it got worse.

Journalist John Pilger surveys the aftermath of the Greek referendum / bailout agreement and finds a supplicant government that lost sight of class war, a global left mesmerized by the prospect of power, and a lesson for the future - reclaim sovereignty or live under imposed poverty.

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John Pilger is a journalist and filmmaker.

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