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November 2024

  • Stefanos Kasselakis

    Greece’s Syriza could lose status as main opposition as Kasselakis launches new party

    Expected departure of at least five deputies means party set to be replaced as main opposition

September 2024

  • The classical model … Public Enemy.

    Public Enemy review – anatomy of Greece’s economic crisis framed as epic tragedy

    Elisa Mantin’s film shows Greeks as the economic victims of ideologically motivated EU forces, imposing punishment-via-austerity

November 2023

  • Syriza members waving flags

    Leftwing faction splits from Greece’s main opposition party, Syriza

    Recently elected leader Stefanos Kasselakis accused of ‘Trumpian practices’ and ‘rightwing populism’

September 2023

  • Syriza leader Stefanos Kasselakis.

    Stefanos Kasselakis: new leader of Greek opposition party to do military service

  • Stefanos Kasselakis

    Stefanos Kasselakis: ex-banker who lit up Greek politics to lead Syriza

  • Stefanos Kasselakis waves to supporters outside the party's headquarters

    Political outsider Stefanos Kasselakis wins race to lead Greece’s Syriza

  • Polls open for election of new SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance party leadership<br>epa10880371 Stefanos Kasselakis (C), the candidate for the presidency of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance party, casts his vote at a polling station in Athens, Greece, 24 September 2023. The second and final round of elections for the new leader of the main Greek opposition party, the SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, began earlier the same day. The vote is only open to party members, who are called to choose between the two top candidates in the last round, Effie Achtsioglou and Stefanos Kasselakis. EPA/ALEXANDROS VLACHOS

    Quest for new leader of Greek opposition Syriza intensifies as runoff begins

  • Stefanos Kasselakis: the political outsider hoping to revive the Greek left

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Golden Dawn: the rise and fall of Greece’s neo-Nazis – podcast

June 2023

  • Worried-looking Tsipras with wrinkled forehead in chair

    Alexis Tsipras steps down as Syriza leader after Greek election rout

    Leftwing opposition leader who was PM during eurozone crisis says party needs ‘profound renewal’
  • Kyriakos Mitsotakis with wife and children

    New Greek PM vows to press ahead with ambitious reforms

    Kyriakos Mitsotakis of centre-right New Democracy party says he now has ‘strong mandate’ to modernise nation
  • Kyriakos Mitsotakis waves to supporters. He is surrounded by blue-and-white flags

    ‘An even bigger margin’: Mitsotakis set to win majority in Greek election

    Centre-right New Democracy party appears to be heading for landslide victory in Sunday’s repeat poll

May 2023

  • Stefanos Tsiandis

    ‘Our vote counts’: Greek politicians court teenagers in tight election race

    Voters as young as 16 will play a pivotal role as country goes to the polls on Sunday

July 2021

  • Zoe Williams

    What 22 years of terrible gum disease has taught me about pain, shame and politics

    Zoe Williams
    When a dentist is holding something sharp in your mouth, you need them to be infinitely accepting of you and your behaviour. A person like that is hard to find, writes the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

March 2021

  • Protests against police brutality in Athens

    Greek PM appeals for peace after police brutality ignites riots

    Protests sparked by video clips of police officer beating man with iron baton for breaking Covid restrictions

March 2020

  • Manolis Glezos

    Former anti-Nazi Greek resistance fighter and MEP Manolis Glezos dies aged 97

  • A Golden Dawn rally in Athens in 2014.

    The long read
    Golden Dawn: the rise and fall of Greece’s neo-Nazis

January 2020

  • Katerina Sakellaropoulou

    Progressive judge to become Greece's first female president

    Katerina Sakellaropoulou nominated for top post as PM says ‘time has come for Greece to open up to the future’

July 2019

  • Outgoing Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras addressing the media in Athens on 7 July after Syriza’s defeat to the conservatives

    Leftwing parties must grapple with victory as well as defeat

  • Gary Younge

    Syriza’s defeat shows the left needs a plan to hold on to power, not just win it

    Gary Younge
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