ATHENS: Alexis Tsipras on Thursday said he will step down as leader of Greece s left-wing Syriza opposition party following a crushing defeat at the polls.
While the center-right New Democracy Party won another four years in Greece's parliamentary elections, observers were stunned by the entry of three far-right parties, bringing the far-right back into parliament.
Based on an analysis of Syriza’s class character as representative of an upper middle class strata, advancing a pro-capitalist programme, the International Committee of the Fourth International warned that it would rapidly renege on its promises and impose the austerity offensive demanded by Greece’s creditors leading to the strengthening of right-wing and fascistic forces.
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