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Syriza’s dilemma, and ours

Do the “agreements” reached on July 13 mark the end of an era? Yes, but certainly not in the sense suggested by the press release of the “summit”. Italiano. Français.

By Etienne Balibar, Sandro Mezzadra and Frieder Otto Wolf
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Alexis Tsipras, February 2015. Demotix/indiPHOTOpress. All rights reserved.

The following is the abridged version of the longer article, The Brussels diktat: and what followed, originally published on July 20 here.

Syriza's dilemma, and ours

Do the “agreements” reached on July 13 mark the end of an era? Yes, but certainly not in the sense suggested by the press release of the “summit”. They are, in fact, fundamentally impracticable – but they will be enforced as violently and with a much higher potential for disunity than what has preceded them during the last 5 years. The word “diktat” was used and this dramatization is based indeed on substantial facts.

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