Democratic Left

While banks are pressing austerity-crushed Greeks to pay back their loans in full despite big pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, prosecutors are probing why the New Democracy and PASOK Socialist parties who are partners in a coalition...

Greek farmers furious over government policies, including tax hikes, that have upped their cost of doing business said they will put their tractors on the roads on Jan. 28 in a symbolic blockade, but will move to stop traffic...

As Greece's major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras has been making a U.S. swing to pitch his cause, his party has slipped again in polls that show the New Democracy Conservatives of Prime Minister...

If the Greek government fails to collect from tax evaders it will be forced to again cut worker’s salaries and pension benefits despite Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ promise he wouldn’t impose more austerity, the International Monetary Fund’s man in...

That noise you heard when a bomb exploded at the Athens Mall was any chance that Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras ever had of becoming Greece’s leader, not that he had one anyway. With his party...

Greek riot police in the early morning of Jan. 25 stormed the Athens subway train depot, where striking workers had barricaded themselves in attempting to continue their 8-day strike. Police broke through the gates and removed dozens of strikers....

Striking Greek Metro workers said they would stay off the job for a ninth consecutive day on Jan. 25 and disobey a mobilization order from the government to return or be fired or jailed. The deadline for the strikers to...

The ruling New Democracy Conservatives are in a neck-and-neck battle with the major opposition Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party among Greeks, who also are split over whether the government has done enough to catch tax evaders and...

The wife of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn leader has been allowed to join the Council of Europe, a human rights organization, despite her denunciation of immigrants as “subhuman” and as the party is being blamed for rising incidents of...

With international aid beginning to pour in gradually, Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras said he’s worried that growing political and social unrest could undermine Greece’s slow recovery and even lead to bankruptcy unless the government resists. In an interview with...