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Alexis Tsipras, leader of Greece's Syriza, the Coalition of the Radical Left, has announced he is standing presidency of the European Commission on behalf of the European Left Party. This article appeared in the November 28, 2013, Guardian.

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More than 1000 young people a day are joining the ranks of Europe's unemployed. In the past four years the army of jobless people across the continent has grown by more than 10 million.

In Greece, despite the government's claim that austerity has been a success, the 2014 budget imposes new public spending cuts and more job losses. The economic and humanitarian catastrophe is unprecedented in peacetime: 27% unemployment, 60% youth unemployment, a 25% shrinking of GDP, 40% reduction in family income. And, even after relentless pain, the debt-to-GDP ratio is almost 180%. It was only 120% in 2010 when the first austerity measures were imposed.

Dear comrades,

Let us give you our sincere thanks for your congratulation to be sent us by you regarding to the result to be reached by us in last October's parliamentary election. 

We are both enjoyed and obliged by the trust of our citizens. Our party has won 14.91 % of votes, being the only party from current parliamentary ones to increase their total number by 150,000, or by 3.6 %, as ell as to increase the number of its mandates by 7 ones.  

We know a hard work is waiting us in favour of our citizens; we are ready for it. 

Once again, we give you our thanks, wishing you every success as well. We are looking forward to further mutual cooperation within the International Communist and Left-wing Movement. 

Comradely greetings

Syria is more than two years, under the ruthless and savage terrorist attack gangs financed and assisted by a dozen imperialist countries and their satellites.

Their goal is to destroy the Syrian state, which stands as an obstacle in the way of those who are trying to impose a plan of the "Great Middle East " , to break the country in the region and replace them with small entities that will fight against each other , to impose the absolute domination of the oil and gas resources , to eliminate the Palestinian problem in a way contrary to the interests of the Palestinian people .

These countries manipulate the faults and shortcomings of the current regime on the one hand, and pit them against the opposition, rival movements on the other. These movements are peaceful at first, later converted to militant armed formations which receive wide support from the United States and its...