Greek anti-Memorandum alliance to contest election
On 20 August Alexis Tsipras announced the resignation of the Gree government, triggering fresh elections. Tsipras has ruled out having a Syriza party congress before the elections, and looks set to exclude the left from party lists. The Left Platform released a statement declaring it will stand in elections against Syriza as part of a “broad anti-memorandum alliance” under the name “Popular Unity”. Sotiris Martalis from DEA (Internationalist Workers Left) gave an interview to Socialist Worker (USA) about the project. We publish an extract here. The main forces [in Popular Unity] are from...