The Left

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wants to wipe the slate clean after his string of broken promises and terrifying negotiations with Greece’s EU creditors.

The powerful “Left Platform” of the Radical Left Coalition met on Monday night in what looked like an election campaign (but wasn’t) following the faction’s rift with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras after he signed a deal with harsh austerity measures at the Euro Summit on July 13.

By Theophilos Argitis & Marcus Bensasson

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras turned Tuesday to shoring up support at home for his plan to end a five-month standoff with creditors that has brought his nation to the edge of default.

Dissent within SYRIZA over the prospect of a compromise with creditors bringing more austerity measures surfaced over the weekend with the party?s radical Left Platform proposing that Greece stop paying its creditors if they continue with ?blackmailing tactics,? and seek an ?alternative plan.?

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faced his biggest challenge from within the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) on Sunday after weeks of simmering dissent among his group’s Left Platform, the more radical faction of the government.

Minister of Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Panagiotis Lafazanis stated that he will not approve of a deal which will mire Greece, and that the country will not surrender to its lenders, thus throwing himself in between the deal that the Government is trying to achieve with lenders.

"NATO opened Pandora's box in Kosovo"

BERLIN -- German MP Gregor Gysi said in the country's parliament on Thursday that "NATO and the EU are partially responsible for the current situation in Ukraine."

This is because of the policy they pursued in previous years, the leader of the left-wing political party The Left noted.

BERLIN - Gregor Gysi, leader of the socialist left-wing political party The Left, said in the Bundestag on Thursday that NATO and the EU are partially responsible for the current situation in Ukraine because of the policy they pursued in previous years.