John Milios is Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens. Until March 2015 he was the chief economic advisor to SYRIZA.

The crisis of neoliberalism

 May 3, 2017  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

On February 18th, 2017, as part of its third European Conference, the Platypus Affiliated Society organized a panel discussion, “The Crisis of Neoliberalism,” at the University of Vienna. The event brought together the following speakers: Chris Cutrone, President of Platypus; John Milios, former chief economic advisor of SYRIZA; Emmanuel Tomaselli, of the International Marxist Tendency; and Boris Kagarlitsky, of the Institute for Globalization Studies and Social Movements in Moscow. What follows is an edited transcript of their discussion. [Read More]
Bernie Sanders  Jeremy Corbyn  neoliberalism  SYRIZA 

The Greek left tradition and the SYRIZA phenomenon

The Greek left tradition and the SYRIZA phenomenon

 May 3, 2016  |  The Platypus Affiliated Society

AFTER THE OUTBREAK of the global economic crisis in 2008, Greece was actually the first Euro-area country where the neoliberal “shock doctrine” was imposed. (I thank Professor Vassilis Droucopoulos for his comments on an earlier version of this article.) This was an attempt to place the fallout of the systemic capitalist crisis on the shoulders of working people. These extreme austerity policies were disputed. A series of mass demonstrations and strikes ensued. [Read More]
Greece  SYRIZA  The European Union