Defiance: Greece and Europe
Roger Silverman
This socialist history of modern Greece tells the story of its rebirth in struggle, the heroic resistance to Nazi occupation, the civil war and its aftermath, the colonels' dictatorship and its overthrow, the rise and fall of PASOK, the debt crisis, the popular uprising of 2010-12, the election of SYRIZA, the referendum and the subsequent capitulation. What lessons can Greece's experience teach those campaigning against austerity throughout Europe?
This book includes an Appendix by Eric Toussaint.
Author Bio
Roger Silverman is a teacher and former full-time political activist who has had connections with Greece since the 1970s.
Endorsements
If Europe gets torn apart, it will start at the bottom corner. Greece, the first country in modern times to elect a radical leftwing government, faces economic war from Brussels and a tide of refugees from collapsing states to its east. At this critical moment Roger Silverman’s book views the origins of the Greek crisis using the lens missing from most media coverage: class, class conflict and the problems of a democratic system balanced on deep corruption and oligarchic power.
Paul Mason, Economics Editor of Channel 4 News, author of Postcapitalism: A Guide To Our Future and Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere
Promotional Plans
Author has wide contacts within left activist circles in Britain and internationally.
USP
This is the only up-to-date and accessible account of the most intense crisis in Europe of the last five years.
Competing Books
SYRIZA - Inside the Labyrinth (9780745336862), by Kevin Ovenden
Left Book Club (Pluto Press), 2015
Categories
HISTORY(HIS054000) -> Social History(HIS054000)
HISTORY(HIS042000) -> Europe(HIS042000) -> Greece (see also Ancient(HIS042000)
POLITICAL SCIENCE(POL005000) -> Political Ideologies(POL005000) -> Communism & Socialism(POL005000)
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Publication Date
September 2016
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78535-398-7
$25.95 | £15.99
8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm
272PP
e-book
ISBN: 978-1-78535-399-4
$12.99 | £7.99
Library of Congress
2015960865
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