No, SYRIZA has not surrendered

Tom Walker writes that No, SYRIZA has not surrendered.

Insofar as the Syriza government is having to compromise — and clearly it is making compromises short of surrender — that represents not so much their failure as our own. Syriza has always been clear that we cannot expect Greece to defeat austerity alone.

The various European ministers on the other end of the continuing negotiation with the Greek government need to be feeling the pressure. We need a huge movement across Europe in solidarity with Greece, and we need to be throwing ourselves into building that movement, not reclining in our armchairs ready to say "I told you so".

We must put everything we can muster into shifting the political balance of forces across Europe. We now have four months of space in which to do so: we need to make them count.

There is clearly a division among the elite now over the issue of austerity, with the US government, the Adam Smith Institute and various prominent economists not usually associated with the left backing Greece's proposals. That crack is waiting to be forced open.

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SYRIZA has the difficult task of keeping the Greek economy functioning in a Capitalist world. Its political support is deeply dependent on its ability to deliver key election promises—some of which it has done so already.

That SYRIZA has survived a month in government, in itself, is a miracle.