The Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow (Greek: Αντικαπιταλιστική Αριστερή Συνεργασία για την Ανατροπή, romanized: Antikapitalistiki Aristeri Synergasia gia tin Anatropi), better known domestically by the acronymΑΝΤ.ΑΡ.ΣΥ.Α.[n 1] (transliterated to English: ANT.AR.SY.A), is a coalition of radical-left political organisations in Greece.
The Organisation of Internationalist Communists of Greece (Greek: Οργάνωση Κομμουνιστών Διεθνιστών Ελλάδας, romanized: Organosi Kommouniston Diethniston Elladas), a Trotskyist party, participated in the foundation but left after a few weeks, on 18 May 2009,[12] citing objections to what it perceived as the coalition "reformist" focus on parliamentary politics and to the invocation in the foundational document of historical events on which Trotskyists have a very different view.[12][n 2]
The coalition describes itself as a "front of the anticapitalist,[1] revolutionary, communist left, and of radical ecology" in Greece. Its major positions are[14]
Nationalization without compensation of all major industries in the country.
Τhe formation of ANTARSYA is understood to have been in explicit opposition to what the radical left in Greece assessed as the "social reformism" of Syriza and its leadership, which ultimately stood in support of austerity policies.[15]
The coalition also supports a comprehensive banning of layoffs; a minimum salary, currently determined to the amount of 1,400 euros per month; a reduction of working time to 35 hours per week, without reduction in wages; complete disarmament of the Greek police; the granting of full political and social rights to all immigrants; and an eco-socialist response to the ecological crisis.[14]
Election results
ANTARSYA's participation in the electoral, parliamentary process commenced with the European Parliament elections in June 2009, where the coalition took in 21,951 votes or 0.43% of the total. It participated in the October 4, 2009 general elections, listing candidates in every constituency and obtaining 24,737 votes, or 0.36% of the total.[16]
^Papanikolaou, Panos (4 November 2012). "Τα επτά θανάσιμα αμαρτήματα της Αριστεράς" [The Left's seven deadly sins]. ΑNTARSYA website (in Greek). Archived from the original on 15 August 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023. We are for the socialism that has no yet existed
^"Greek retiree's suicide prompts new protest plans". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 5 April 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2020. It was clearly a political act," said Petros Constantinou, organizer for the left wing Antarsya group that participated in Wednesday's protests. "The fact that a person reached the point of giving his life to change the situation shows ... where the policies of austerity and poverty have brought people.
^Kouvelakis, Stathis (11 June 2019). "Syriza's Failure Has Hurt Us All". Jacobin. Retrieved 13 June 2020. Varoufakis's success and the relatively honorable score for Kostantopoulou only make the defeats for Popular Unity (a political front created in the summer of 2015 by Syriza's Left Platform after it left the party) and Antarsya (the far-left coalition founded in 2009) more painful, especially for the former, not least in a contest in which the pressure to vote tactically for bigger parties is much lesser than in a national-level general election.
^Baboulias, Yiannis; Seth-Smith, Niki (3 July 2015). "Letter from Athens: Greece divided over exit as anarchists and neo-Nazis wait in the wings". International Business Times. Athens. Retrieved 13 June 2020. In February, the far-left Antarsya group called on the wider left to "co-ordinate their forces and to invite workers, the people and youth and put up a large movement against the agreement".
^Kouvelakis, Stathis (February 2016). "Syriza's Rise and Fall". New Left Review (97): 45–70. Retrieved 13 June 2020. The far-left Antarsya coalition has some potentially very interesting activists and could have contributed, but they were too sectarian.
^Georgiopoulou, Tania (10 May 2017). "More than 2,500 refugees live in Athens squats". Kathimerini. Retrieved 13 June 2020. At the same time, the municipal council spokesman for the far-left ANTARSYA party, Petros Constantinou, said the money raised from the squat's one-year anniversary events will be used to pay the "former owner's" workers money that is owed to them.
^"Ποιοί είμαστε" [Who we are]. ANTARSYA website (in Greek). Archived from the original on 13 August 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
^ ab"Το πολιτικό πλαίσιο της ΑΝΤΑΡΣΥΑ" [The political platform of ANTARSYA]. ANTARSYA website (in Greek). 22 March 2009. Archived from the original on 13 August 2023. Retrieved 13 August 2023.
^Hardy, Simon; Cooper, Luke (2013). Beyond Capitalism?: The Future of Radical Politics. Zero Books. ISBN978-1780998329.
