For general discussion, positive / negative critiques etc.
At first reading this looks to me as pertinent an analysis and set of proposals as exists.
http://leftunity.org/the-political-...ical-resolution-of-the-1st-congress-of-syriza
It's a long and rambling document, but well worth a read - if only to get a good look at a fundamentally reformist but very radical Left political movement profoundly out of its depth in the face of the overwhelming severity of the Greek socio/political crisis today .
This rambling panoramic series of snapshots of different aspects of the European capitalist crisis as they impact on Greece is quite effective in summarising just what deep doo doo, and few easy options face the Greek working classes, and their political formations, as they try to map a path through the tactical minefield that lies ahead. This "political resolution" reminds me of the vague "Statement" of the (Syriza admiring) "Left Platform" of the UK's new Left Unity Project - long on describing the problem - remarkably short on offering concrete solutions. Now this is forgivable in the Left Unity UK context. We aren't yet facing anything like economic meltdown. The Greeks are however, and rather than hardening their "policy offer" to meet the crisis, the Leadership of Syriza are actually busy retreating from the required hard commitment to tear up the impoverishing austerity/ cuts deal done with the Troika - in favour of the fantasy of "renegotiation" - and "holding an international debt restructuring Conference". Sadly , for Greece this is all too late. "Renegotiation" attempts will simply get "the finger" from the Troika on behalf of international Capital. If Syriza gains governmental office this year or next, it will either fall apart as the temptations of office draw the Syriza ministers (and their no doubt ramshackle coalition partners) into ever greater attempts to "sensibly manage" the Greek crisis , ie, collaborate in managing continuing Austerity with the Troika in return for minor concessions -- OR (the unlikely option) the ramshackle Syriza coalition/party and its government coalition partners (Democratic Left and ?) is drawn into ever greater conflict with the Greek Big Capitalists, and the Troika, as they refuse to continue with the economic rape of Greece.
In the first scenario, the outcome is the demobilisation of Syriza's only recently won mass support - leading to the political demoralisation of their supporters, and a Big opening for the Radical Nazi politics of Golden Dawn. The second - growing radicalisation scenario- (cancellation of the Debt - wholesale nationalisation - creation of network of popular power structures - "soviets" across Greece , etc ) opens up the prospect of the eventual emergence of a "Dual Power" situation in Greece - with the Far Left (and the extremely well organised olde Stalinists of the KKE) belatedly coming to play a bigger role to continue the radicalisation process - when the "Kerenskyite" reformers of Syriza inevitably loose their bottle at the prospect of real social revolution. In both situations , short of spreading the struggle significantly to surrounding states, Portugal and Spain being at the next highest level of political radicalisation, the probably terminal threat to the Greeks (with their tiny economy and relatively tiny population) achieving an anti capitalist breakthrough that looms next is that of "the man on horseback" appearing yet again to "restore order" , ie, the Greek military -backed by the significant forces of the Far Right. Sadly Syriza is a cobbled together radical party, fine for a medium strength politico/economic crisis requiring just radical reformist policies and measures - but "unfit for purpose" in the fundamental crisis conditions of contemporary Greece.
