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Supporters of the far-left “Left Platform”, the anti-memorandum and virulently anti-capitalist grouping within ruling SYRIZA up until recently, will reportedly launch a new party with the initials “EAM”.

Greek Labor Minister George Katrougalos met with a delegation of the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME), the Communist Party of Greece (KKE)-affiliated trade union.

The All-Workers Militant Front (PAME), the Communist Party of Greece (KKE)-affiliated trade union, is protesting outside the Labor Ministry against the increase to pensioners’ health contributions by 4-6%. A PAME delegation is meeting with Labor Minister George Katrougalos to discuss EU-imposed changes to labor law.

Daily Mail spotted a 26-year-old Alexis Tsipras way back in 2001 clad in a … Che Guevara T-shirt and Cuba baseball cap trying to exit a ferry boat in Italy. He was accompanied by a few hundred other Greek political activists, of the far left variety, that arrived in Ancona in a bid to disrupt a G8 Summit.

With a leftist-based government in power since January, the results of last Sunday's general elections in Turkey were seen in Greece largely as a victory for democracy and a defeat of autocracy. 

Two percent fewer respondents said they would vote for ruling SYRIZA in the event of general elections compared to mid-May, a public opinion poll conducted by University of Macedonia for Skai has revealed, with the leftist party polling at 34.5 percent compared to 36.5 percent less than a month earlier.

The majority of Greeks want the country to stay in the eurozone should ongoing negotiations with foreign creditors fail, even if that means signing a new bailout deal, a new survey has found.

The unofficial head of ruling SYRIZA’s “internal opposition”, a high-ranking minister in his own right, on Wednesday expressed his view that “Greece can withstand (the effects) of Grexit, whereas the EU will sustain a mortal wound.”

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Saturday promised that his leftist government will soon overturn a bill, which was ratified on Friday, ordering the transfer of public entities' cash reserves to the Bank of Greece, essentially an effort to keep the general state funded in the short term.

Greek Communist Party (KKE) Secretary General Dimitris Koutsoumbas said that the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) party and its junior partner, the Independent Greeks (ANEL), are together finalizing the last details of measures to accompany the February 20 agreement reached at Eurogroup.