Alexandros Orphanides is a New York City-based freelance journalist, researcher and teacher of Greek-Cypriot and Honduran descent. He writes on political, social and cultural issues with an emphasis on marginalized communities. Follow him on Twitter: @subsentences.
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The Greek Crisis Shows the Fundamentally Undemocratic Nature of the Eurozone
To the Troika, the election of Syriza, the referendum vote and the basic principles of democracy are meaningless.
Alexandros Orphanides
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Now That Greece Has Defaulted, Tsipras and Syriza Can’t Blink: It’s Time To Push For a Grexit
If the Greek people don't vote “no” on their upcoming referendum, they face perpetual austerity and misery from unelected creditors.
Alexandros Orphanides
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Syriza Has No Choice: Greece Must Prepare to Leave the Eurozone
To break from the program of brutal austerity that has been imposed on Greece, its leaders have no choice but to take radical action.
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Frances Fox Piven on Syriza and Greece’s Prospects for Fighting Austerity
The longtime social movements scholar discusses Greece's uprising in the eurozone.
Alexandros Orphanides
Labor
Joseph Stiglitz on the Trans Pacific Partnership: “This Is A Big Deal”
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As Germany Stands Firm Against Attempts to Scale Back Austerity in Greece, What’s Next for Syriza?
Germany's unwillingness to budge on the strict cuts demanded of Greece are bad news for rolling back austerity throughout the rest of Europe.
Alexandros Orphanides
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Pablo Iglesias Takes Podemos’s Bottom-Up, Anti-Austerity Politics to New York
The general secretary of the leftist Spanish party paid homage to American radicals while denouncing "the party of Wall Street."
Alexandros Orphanides
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Why Syriza Hasn’t Threatened to Leave the European Union—Yet
Greece's newly elected radical left coalition is playing the long game.
Alexandros Orphanides