Over recent months, three revolutionary-left groups within Syriza, DEA, Kokkino, and Apo, have formed an alliance under the name "Rproject".
Rproject declares: "A 'government of the Left' which would bring the reversal of austerity, the memoranda, the Troika and debt, creating the conditions for the overthrow of neoliberal strategy across Europe, is a direct and realistic goal. However such a historical development depends on important conditions relating to the policies and organizational choices of the radical Left, in constant dialectical relation with the movement and society.
"Rproject aims to contribute to building up the necessary radical-left line and character for SYRIZA and the widest possible alliance of organised forces, trends, and individuals".
It has a website at http://rproject.gr, and, oddly, explains its name in English, not Greek: "The R project - resist, reclaim, revolt".
Syriza is due to convert fully from being a coalition into being a unified party at a congress on 10-14 July. In the run-up to the congress, Rproject and other Syriza leftists have flagged up several issues.
They argue for a clear-cut line against the IMF/ EU/ ECB memoranda, against the drift by the Syriza leadership into talking of "suspending" or "renegotiating" the memoranda, "delaying" the debt payments, etc.
They call for a slogan of "no sacrifice for the euro", against both the Syriza leaders' claim that the eurozone authorities will not attempt serious punishment against a left government in Greece, and the argument of some on the Syriza left for Greek readoption of its own currency (drachma) as a solution.
They call for full internal democracy in Syriza, against the Syriza leaders' line that the component groups of the old Syriza coalition must dissolve entirely, and that distinct factional lists should be banned in Syriza's internal elections.
They call for Syriza to emphasise organisation in the workplaces.
