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Left & strategy of rupture: what comes after 1981 and 2015?
Discussion on the occasion of the publication of the Greek edited volume
"The 1981 Elections" (TOPOS Books & mέta).
Wednesday 5 April at 7 p.m. at the "Museum Garden"
(Archaeological Museum, 44 28th October, Athens 106 82)
Discussants:
Nadia Valavani (Economist and author)
Sissy Velissariou (Professor at the University of Athens, mέta's vice-chair)
Seraphim Seferiades (Professor at Panteion University)
Alexis Smyrlis (Director of the Parliamentary Group and Policy Planning for MeRA25)
Video statement by Yanis Varoufakis.
Do we need a leftist rupture or "progressive substitutes" within the systemic horizon? What strategy could ensure that the next possibilities for real change are not thwarted as well? What do the "moments" of 1981 and 2015 teach us, and how can we guarantee a political transcendence?
On the occasion of the publication of the edited volume "Elections 1981", mέta and Topos Books invite you at the "Museum Garden" (Archaeological Museum, 44 28th October, Athens 106 82) for a public discussion with the participation of Nadia Valavani, Sissy Velissariou, Seraphim Seferiadis and Alexis Smyrlis, hosted by the journalist Kostas Raptis, mέta's press officer.
The book that initiates the discussion was recently published as part of the mέta's publishing series at TOPOS Books on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of PASOK's first election victory, with chapters by Vassilis Asimakopoulos, Sissy Velissariou, Yannis Mavris and Chrysanthos Tassis, an intervention by Yanis Varoufakis and a testimony by Mimis Livieratos. The volume was edited by Kostas Raptis and Sotiris Mitralexis.
The occasion was an anniversary one and the approach was analytical. However, the questions raised by this retrospective are topical and politically crucial. The limits, the contradictions, the integration and subsequent degeneration of PASOK (a journey that was less short than that of SYRIZA) and ultimately its actual death in the era of the memoranda do not negate the need to reflect on Greece's modern period as a whole, to reflect on the timeliness of the aspirations for national independence, popular sovereignty and social justice and, of course, to confront, in today's very different circumstances, the question of the socialist transformation, which was posed at the beginning of the post-metapolitefsi period by an ever-widening section of Greek society. Against the backdrop of subsequent denials and defeats, today's Greece needs to pick up the thread of rupture again. | |
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