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Friday, January 30, 2015

How British universities helped mould Syriza’s political elite

New finance minister and deputy PM among the many Greek intellectuals who have studied or taught in the UKIt could easily have been a scene from one of this week’s post-election victory rallies in Greece, as supporters of the victorious Syriza party cheered, surrounded by posters and banners.Yet the setting was not Athens but central London, where hundreds of the party’s UK branch gathered at the TUC’s headquarters on Wednesday to celebrate Syriza’s election victory alongside peers from the British left and other Europeans energised by Syriza’s feat. Continue reading...


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