makes sense to me. if the “leftist” sirza is against the communist EUSSR, well they don’t sound very leftist to me; they actually sound conservative.
and if the greeks have the equivalent of the tea party there or UKIP in britain, it’d be completely rational for it to make immediate common cause with any foe of the EUSSR or the leftist republocrat party here.
it sounds like the new coalition in Greece simply wants to bring the underground greek free economy back into the sunlight under the banner of free enterprise. that’s fine with me. i wish we had a US independent conservative party here (5% would be amazing to start) doing the same thing for our underwater economy.
Tsipras said they don’t want to get out of the EU or the Euro. They want their debt forgiven or pushed out and they also want to hire more government workers and restore pension cuts - what got them in trouble in the first place.
Basically they’re amateur leftists living in fantasy land... but reality will be crashing their party soon enough.
What’s amazing is that Tsipras is a civil engineer - you would think he’d be more grounded in reality and logic.
Syriza is indeed Leftist, with 'nigh-communist/radical left' being a more apropos descriptor. It even has a Maoist component, which is quite an interesting thing for a Western country in the Twenty-first Century. As for it being against the EU(SSR), it is simply because it is a far-left party that is anti-establishment, and that they have used anti-austerity as a populist mechanism to get the support of the people (and the Greek people have a lot to complain about, which worked well for Syriza).
Syriza is nowhere close to Conservative - at least what is considered conservative in the US.