Perhaps, although no link provided, but we've heard that phrase to justify threats somewhere more recently nearer to home, too. Varoufakis's record of opposing the Stalinists and throughout… (View Post)

Britain, ofcourse, made an important contribution to ensuring it stayed there. Greek independence was a massive blow to Ottoman ambitions to return to central/eastern Europe, and the beginning of the… (View Post)

I suppose HYUFD has a point in one respect - the UK did seem to be more interested in Greece, and during Disraeli's time southern parts of the Balkans nearer to it, than central-eastern Europe. … (View Post)

I wouldn't compare eurocommunism to fascism, speaking personally. Despite the name, eurocommunism was a strongly anti-dictatorial and decentralising movement popular in France and Germany that p… (View Post)

But crucially, that's because Miliband and then Corbyn had moved the Labour centre to the left. Starmer is clearly further to the left than Blair. (View Post)