Guardian journalist Owen Jones has asked if it is time for the left to abandon the European Union. Greece’s leftist party Syriza appears to answer with a resounding “No”.
The fierce negotiations between the Greek government and its eurozone partners go beyond the question of debt to different visions of Europe’s future. The refusal of the Greek government to prepare serious plans for a return to the drachma, and its determination to persist in eurozone negotiations, highlights the belief that the level of progressive struggle is, in this part of the world, the European level.
