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May 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The talk is of the rise of an alternative Left in Europe and the decline of
neoliberal capitalism.
It is an atmosphere that Mr Tsipras, a former Communist youth activist, has
spent much of his life in, mingled with work as a civil engineer in the
construction industry.
A skilled communicator, he rose quickly after leaving the Communists and
joining Synaspismos, a Left-wing ecological party. That party is the largest
in the Radical Left Coalition formed in 2004 called Syriza, which is fast
becoming a familiar name across Europe.
Mr Tsipras entered parliament in 2009 and became leader of the parliamentary
group. From the onset of Greek financial crisis in May 2010, when the then
Prime Minister George Papandreou of Pasok begged the IMF for help, he has
attacked international recovery plans, especially the second, 130 billion
euro bail-out, known in Greece as the ‘memorandum’.
He successfully tapped into a deep vein of outrage, and for two years, rarely
pulled his punches in parliament as he criticised the austerity reforms
demanded by international institutions and creditors.
He accused the government of denying reality, argued they were dogmatically
adhering to a failed austerity recipe that had already exacerbated a biting
recession that has cost thousands of jobs.
“I’ve lost count how many times you’ve revised your forecasts,” he
told ministers during a heated parliamentary debate on the budget in
December, pointing to previous estimates of growth in 2012 that had proved
inaccurate.
Two months later, in response to pressure from Greece’s international
creditors for swifter privatisations and more civil service layoffs, he
warned: “Soon they will tell us to abolish democracy in return for new
loans.”
He was born in 1974, a fateful year for Greece which marked the collapse of a
seven-year army dictatorship that mercilessly persecuted Leftists and
Communists, culminating in a bloody crackdown against a student uprising.
With his strong anti-austerity stance, Mr Tsipras has made few friends in
Germany, Europe’s paymaster.
Syriza in March sued Germany’s Bild newspaper for a million euros after it
allegedly portrayed Mr Tsipras as a “half-criminal” who “openly
supports violent anarchists”.
“Will these radicals soon be governing Greece?”, the newspaper
wondered at the time.
That remains to be seen.
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