Costas Lapavitsas

Melbourne's Greek Orthodox Community is organizing a lecture titled "The Restoration of Domination in Greece"  in mid-April, with Costas Lapavitsas, SYRIZA's former MP and Economics professor as the basic speaker. Lapavitsas will visit Melbourne for a series of lectures, organized...

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and SYRIZA MP and economics professor Costas Lapavitsas continued with clever quotes on the Greek debt issue, even though the former is in favor of the euro zone while the latter insists on a...

Several key SYRIZA members are disgruntled over the presumed compromises Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis have made in the negotiations on the Greek debt so far. Some even talk of a referendum and general elections. Parliament...

SYRIZA MP Costas Lapavitsas wrote an article in The Guardian claiming that austerity in Greece will not end as long as the country remains in the euro zone. Lapavitsas is an economics professor at London's School of Oriental and African...

The prospect that Greece may be emerging from the darkness of a harsh economic and deep recession is seeing international investors putting money back into still-troubled Greek banks in expectations they will see profits, Piraeus Bank Chairman Michalis Sallas...

A recent survey conducted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation supported that the EU should allow countries in trouble to exit the Eurozone. The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, founded in Berlin in 1990, is a German think tank associated with the...

Der Spiegel’s front-page of April 15 had the provocative title, The poverty lie. How the countries in crisis cover up their riches, showing on its cover a man on a donkey carrying big sacks of money under an EU...