Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance

2025-09-22T14:50:21Z

146.255.74.12: Made it more accurate and up to date and showed that it's de facto neoliberal and centre-right

{{Infobox political party|name=Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance|native_name=Συνασπισμός Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς – Προοδευτική Συμμαχία|founded=15 January 2004|president=Sokratis Famellos|political_orientation=[[Social Democracy]] (De jure) [[Neoliberalism]] (De Facto)<br>[[Imperialism]]|position=[[Left–right political spectrum#Centrism|Center-left]] (De jure)
[[Left–right political spectrum#Centrism|Center-right]] (De facto)}}

The '''Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance''', abbreviated as '''SYRIZA''', is a de jure social-democratic but de facto neoliberal party (since September 2023) in [[Hellenic Republic|Greece]]. Despite being nominally left-wing, it provided military bases to [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization|NATO]] during its invasions of [[Republic of Iraq|Iraq]], [[Syrian Arab Republic|Syria]], and [[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011)|Libya]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Nikos Mottas]]|newspaper=[[In Defense of Communism]]|title=SYRIZA: The "left" servants of NATO|date=2017-06-22|url=https://www.idcommunism.com/2017/06/syriza-left-servants-of-nato.html?m=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130050611/https://www.idcommunism.com/2017/06/syriza-left-servants-of-nato.html?m=1|archive-date=2021-11-30|retrieved=2023-04-30}}</ref>

== History ==
The party was originally named Coalition of the Left, Progress and Ecology and came from a coalition of different parties, including the [[Communist Party of Greece]], named Coalition of the Left and Progress, also known as Synaspismos. in 1991, during the [[Overthrow of the Soviet Union|overthrow of the USSR]], KKE left the coalition, but its reformist faction split from the party and chose to stay in Synaspismos.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Communist Party of Greece|title=Parliamentary politics and the communist party: the electoral arena, experience and lessons from Greece and the KKE|url=https://inter.kke.gr/en/articles/Parliamentary-politics-and-the-communist-party-the-electoral-arena-experience-and-lessons-from-Greece-and-the-KKE/#_ftnref1}}</ref>

Syriza was formed as a coalition of Synaspismos and other parties in 2004 and took its final form in 2013. [[Alexis Tsipras]] got elected as President in 2009.

Syriza rose to prominence in 2012, during the height of the anti-austerity movement. It won the January 2015 elections, but many of its MPs resigned during the time a referendum was made about whether Greece should sign a third memorandum, which got rejected, but another memorandum was signed instead. Syriza won the September 2015 elections again, though, but got defeated in the 2019 ones.

=== Kasselakis and breakup of Syriza ===
In September 2023, the party elected [[Stefanos Kasselakis]] as the leader of the party, to replace Alexis Tsípras. Kasselakis is a former shipping executive and [[Goldman Sachs]] trader, has worked for the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and volunteered for [[Joe Biden]]'s 2008 presidential primary campaign.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Thomas Scripps|newspaper=World Socialist Web Site|title=Syriza elects Goldman Sachs banker Stefanos Kasselakis as party leader|date=2023-09-27|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/27/frzy-s27.html|archive-url=https://archive.ph/W9tVT|archive-date=2023-09-28|retrieved=2023-10-01}}</ref> He has openly stated he wants Syriza to emulate the neoliberal [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] in the US.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Helena Smith|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Stefanos Kasselakis: ex-banker who lit up Greek politics to lead Syriza|date=2023-09-25|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/25/stefanos-kasselakis-ex-banker-who-lit-up-greek-politics-to-lead-syriza|retrieved=2023-09-25}}</ref>
Since September 2023, purges have taken place in the party, most of which are directed against the social-democratic faction of the party.

Since September 2023, purges have taken place in the party, most of which are directed against the social-democratic faction of the party. From 47 MPs in June, the party has fallen to 36 in November, as many members have left due to the purges.

37 out of 51 members of the Youth Wing's Central Committee left the party in November 2023. <ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Newsbomb|title=ΣΥΡΙΖΑ: Συνεδριάζει η ομάδα των 11 - To νέο κόμμα και τα πρόσωπα «κλειδιά»|url=https://www.msn.com/el-gr/news/politics/%CF%83%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B6%CE%B1-%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%B4%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%B6%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CE%B7-%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-11-to-%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%BF-%CE%BA%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CF%84%CE%B1-%CF%80%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%83%CF%89%CF%80%CE%B1-%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%AC/ar-AA1kx82e?ocid=emmx-mmx-feeds&pc=EMMX01&cvid=99091fbb99a2422cb1d1e3169396f44b&ei=14}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Imperialist political parties]]

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