Alexis Tsipras and Pabloe Iglesias at an election rally in Athens. Flickr/X-Andra. Some rights reserved.
Syriza, a union of ‘radical’ left parties, has achieved state power in Greece as a result of the failure of the market economy in a post-Fordist era. This in turn may open up a space for new opportunities to develop robust responses to the political predicament of EU liberal democracy, after the resounding failure of social democracy in a ‘post-politics’ era.
This political success is based on Syriza’s victory in the last general election of June 2012, inspiring the far-left or radical left parties in the EU with renewed hope. This democratic victory (with 36.5% of the vote) in the January 2015 election was enthusiastically welcomed by its Spanish radical counterpart, Podemos, along with Turkey’s radical democrat party Halkların Demokrasi Partisi (HDP), in Turkey’s capacity as a candidate country for the EU.
