The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left
248 pp, $26 pbk, ISN: 9781583676257
By Helena Sheehan
Reviewed by Aaron Amaral
“…For activists in solidarity with the struggles in Greece over the last decade, the initial chapters of The Syriza Wave read like the diary of a fellow-traveler, in the best sense of the word. U.S.-born Sheehan is an intellectual, academic, and longtime activist of the Irish left. Incorporating these identities, her account of the dynamics of the now famous Democracy Rising conference in Athens provides an example of Sheehan’s incisiveness. The conference took place in July of 2015 and opened mere days after the announcement that an agreement had been reached for a third austerity memorandum between the Troika and the Syriza government….”
Read the review (along with a review of Looting Greece: A New Financial Imperialism Emerges by Jack Rasmus) in New Politics
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